Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 9 December 1927 — Page 3

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■ CLUB CALENDER I Friday | K, n11 .. Matron's Club. Mrs. D.iil.i . 4m r. 7:30 P. M. iIH ('.unity Medical Society, |i<> | fJS s:ito I*. M. | K lhl 1,,.<0i Bridge Club, Mrs. Dick 7:1 K' H M. S. .Methodist church. Mr Dah Sprang. 2:30 I’. M. K rl >li<D:H Lodge. Initiation, 7;3n I’. k Saturday K, Sale. Camp Fire Girls, Control Gt ~,y - i. 'i.i Supper. Reformed <'aarCi Himim.iae Sale, M. E. Church ba<em, ht, Afternoon. Monday Theta Tan. Margaret My'.ott. K I*. Club, Mrs. Nellie Haney, iS" >’■ Tuesday Mtcb.-kah Christmas Exchange. I. '). 0 F Hall. ■ (',.<■ Diem Club. Mrs. Guy Brown. Mu i*. Bio Cha Bae Christmas Party, CounClub. 6:30 P. M. Wednesday Club. Mrs. Martin .Jaberg EE. f>. Hchakespeare Club. Mrs. John TynBKII. 2:30 P. M. Thursday ■Moose Legionnaires, Mrs. Ralid ■p. 7:oo (L S. MARINE WSITING HERE. Class Private Cletis Bailing, States Marine Corps, son of Nora Railing of North Fifth is home on a thirty day furlough Railing is stationed at Paris IsS. C., having enlisted in the Corps in July 1926. He states flat he is well satisfied with life in Marine Corps and that there are to be gained by good men. is offered to f How a in the Marine Corps Institute.

■ LECT 1928 OFFICERS ■ lEC T 1928 OFFICERS order of Eastern Stars enjoyed six o'clock pot-luck supper Thursday in the dining rooms of 'he gMhisonic Home. After the dinner, the repaired to the Lodge Hall Chapter was opened and the in degrees canfeired upon tw< Mrs. Hail Hulling-worth Mis. Al Burdg. Mrs. Burdg then some very interesting renrlfrkappreciation of the work. Mrs. John a visitipg Star fiom Milford also gave a short talk. The elee of the officers for the year 1928. then held with the following re Worthy Matron, Mrs-. M. A re-elected ; Associate MatMrs. J. R. Blair, re-elecied; Wor Patron, J. T. Bink, re-elected; Con Mrs. Lettie Annen; Assoeioli Mrs. EaM-Covel dale. Sec Mrs. Ruby Durkin; Treasurer, ■trs. Martin Gilson, re-elected other Stars officers are appointive the Worthy Matron. The installation will be held the-first meeting in January, which will be JanKlttry 12. ■special program ■for senior league I At six o’clock Sunday evening at Methodist church, the Seni r EpLeague will have a “Tine and Test", under the lesson head Test of World .Mindedness". Miss Baughman will entertain with piano solo while little Patsy Moset ■"ill sing a vocal solo. Christmas Car■<>ls will also be sung during the pro All are invited to attend as the promises to be an entertaining ■one. | The Harpe Diem Club will meet ■Tuesday evening with Mrs. Guy Br wn ■at her home on Line street at 7:30 ■l’ | The Moose Legionnaires will hold ■ ” Christmas Exchange and Chicken ■dinner, Thursday evening at seven o'■clock at the home of Mrs. Ralph Bur ■nett, 215 South Fifth street. ! The Christian Ladies Aid Society ■has decided to postpone the pastry - ■and bake sale which was to have been ■hold Saturday mottling at the White ■ -Meat Market. The W. C. T. U. will meet Tuesday ■ afternoon at two o’clock in the Library ■Auditoi him. I EVER READY CLASS ■ CHRISTMAS PARTY ■ The Ever Ready class ol the MethoB'list Sunday school held a most deBlightful Christmas party, Thursday ■ evening at the home of Mrs. M. E. ■ Hower cn North Fourth street. The ■ home was gaily’ decorated for the ocIB casion in Christmas streamers, bolls, and a large lighted Christmas tree. ' Eortylflve'members were present. The 1 Program for the evening was in the 1

I <* Mrs. R. w. Stoakes, Mrs. Han T'ndall and Mis. Carrie Hanbold. The jic gram opened with a song by the class, "Silent Night". Mrs. Tyndall then sang a vocal solo "Hark the Herald Angels Sing". The Scripture ’’ "’as given In two chapters, the last chapter being the Bible Christmas story, by Mis. Slonkcs. Prayer followed, and Mts. Tyndall then sang i Joy to the World". Mrs. Nelson president of the <lass, then opened the business session. Aftei the reading of the minutes, the annual election of officers was held with the f Rowing results: president, Mrs. Fred Handler; vicepresident, Mis. Wilson Beery; secretary. Mrs. Miles Roop; treasurer. Mrs. Harve Kltson. Other officers are appointive by the president. The nominating committee for the election was composed of Mu. Leigh Bowen. Mrs. \V. F. Beery ami Mrs. Foiest Elzey. A filial report i f the year from the outgoing treasurer showed over fourteen dollars in the treasury of the class. A vote was enacted to give $5 to the White Christmas. The class also decided to cooperate with the Junior Epworth League in a plan presented by them for supplying Christmas cheer for shut-ins. The class will provide candy and handkerchiefs for each shutin, and the League members will supply a decmated Christmas tree. The tree and gifts wil be taken to one shutin each day, for several days pricr to Christmas, and each one will be allowed to retain the tree for a certain peri :d of time. The regular visit to the County Farm will be held by the class where treats will be distributed to the inmates, which consist of 20 men and 10 women, and Christmas carols will be sung. Following the business, Mrs. W. F. Beery, Mrs. Dr. Eichorn, Mrs. Janies Fletcher, Mrs. Clyde Butler, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, Mrs. Christena Vail and Mrs. J. E. Nelson, served a delicious one-ccurse lunch. During the serving, Mrs. Dr. Allen Miller entertained with a vocal solo. Following the lunch, the capsule friend verges were read, and the exchange of Christmas Gifts held.

MRS AHR HAS SIX O'CLOCK DINNER Mrs. Ed Ahr entertained at a six '’clock dinner. Thursday evening, at the National Hotel for Mr. and Mrs. | !>-w Dickinson, of Van Wert. Ohio, Mr. Dave Crystal, of Baltimore Maryland. \lr. and Mrs. Fred Ahr and sons, Bobby and Buster, Perth Mitch, Fay Knigh, LI. vd Ahr and Ed Ahr. C. L. OF C’s ELECT NEW OFFICERS 1 At their tegular business meeting Tuesday evening, in the K. of C. hall, ( the Catholic Ladies of Columbia elect-1 >d a new corps of officers to serve for the ensuing year. The election re-, suits were as follows: president. Mrs. I Wm. Koller; vice-president. Mis. Andrew Foos; treasurer. Miss Bertha Johns; recording secretary, Miss Eihel Ervin; financial secietary. Miss Margaret Blee; monitor, Mrs. Joe L se; inner guard. Mrs. Wm. Shumacher: and trustees Mis. John Nearing. Frank Schmitz, and Mrs. Mm. Lose. Plans wete made for the annual Christmas party ami Exchange which will be held Tuesday evening. December 20th. All C. L. of C. members who have any old clothing they desire to dispose of, arc requested to send it to the home of Mrs L. (’. Perry. 11l N. Fifth street, to be sent to the sch ol in New Mexico which the organization sponsors. The Rebekahs will hold their annual 25 cent Christmas Exchange and pot 1 luck supper Tuesday evening, December 13 at the I. O. (). F Hall. Il 1 MEETING OF ST. PAUL AID. The Ladies Aid Society of the St. j Paul church met at the home of Mrs. j Israel Pander, Thursday. All enjoy- ■ d a delicious pot luck dinner at noon, E Mis. Guy Parkison. vice-president, led | he meeting and read a chapter from j the Bible, followed by prayer by Mrs. j Frank Martin Dues were then col- J acted wli 1 h amour t d to $7.85. Mr. 0 and Mrs. Bender added to the amount | >y giving the society a check lor five ■ lollars. Those present were Mrs. T. t. Noll and son Richard, Mrs. L. W. I ,Tague, Mrs. John Hirschey and j daughter Lena, Mrs. (). T. Johnson, j Mrs. Frank Martin, Mrs. William . Mocschberger, Mrs. Guy Parkison. L The next -meeting wil Ibe held the last | rhursday In January with Mrs. L. W. j| Tague. | ELECTED PRESIDENT B FOR NINETEEN TIMES | For eighteen years, Mrs. Fred Linn g has served as president ot the Ladies e Aid Society, of the Evangelical Church ■ and at an election of office:s held yes- Q terday at the church pallors, Mrs. Linn j was re-elected for her nineteenth term. • To state that Mrs. Linn has served the organization efficiently would be use- I less, for proof of her popularity as a [i dies with whom site wotks, when time = leader is expressed yearly by the la- J

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT FRIDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1927.

tot the election of ot’leers draws near. Other officers elected at Thursday’s mei ting were Mrs. John Forman, viceI>:esident: Mrs. Tom Cook, secretary; Mis, Fred Engle, assistant secretary, amlMrs. c. e. Hocker treasurer. Be Hdt's the business meeting, yesterday, the Society menthors also enjoyed a pot-lnck dlnnei at the noon hour, and an exchange of Christmas gifts and party In the afternoon. the Ladies Aid Society of the .Methodist chinch will hold a rummage sale. Satin day afternoon beginning at twelve o’clock and continuing throughout the afternoon and evening. The sale will he held in the basement of the Methodist church, North Flf'h street. The Tri Kapp i Sorority will bo on tertained Tuesday evening nt eight o' clock by Mrs. H. 1., Curtis. ENTERTAINED GIDEON S. S. CLASS lite members of the Gideon Sunday sch <>l class of the Evangelical church, were entertained last evening at an oyster stew by their teacher. Eugene Runyon. John Nelson gave an interesting talk to the young men. The supper was held In the basement of the church and about fifteen were present to enjoy it. - o Personals "Women kin certainly git a let done when the.' sot ther minds t' it. A young I’eiry, ()., wife beat her husband t’ death with a table leg. drove t’ Cleveland, found a parkin' place, attended a bridge party, got a sticker, remained over night with friends, an' done her Christ mils shoppin' all in somethin lessn’ ten hours. It must have been haul t' bo put out o' house an’ home bef.:ro we all bad (dosed cars. Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. Orion Stopher. farmer living south west of Monroe in Adams county, who sustained broken ribs, a punctured lung and bowels, when his Ford car collided with a coco-cola truck, Tuesday. is improving. His condition is considerably better today than yesterday. Mr. Stopher is a patient at the Adams County Memorial hospital. Mrs. Owen Davis and Mrs. E. D. McNeal. of Fort Wayne, were Thursday and Friday guests of the former's par outs, Mr. and Mts. D 11. Hunsicker in I this city and attended the Ever Ready Sunday school (lass meeting, Thurs day evening. —o Mackintosh Enters Politics Crawfordsville. Ind., lliec. 9 —(VP) — Dr. Ge rge Lewis Mackintosh, former i president of Wabash college will make ' an active campaign for election as , Ninth district representative in congress if he is nominated by the Democ’.atic patty, he announced yesterday. o— Two Schools Closed The schools at Petl oleum and Chester Center in Wells county were closed Thursday on account of the electric | line between Hartford City and Mont- | pelier being blown down during the storm, Wednesday night. — - i ■■ ■ i

ii ij I wunr - -linin t r~ r- - -tn —tn~TT —irnmn bi ■» .«■ I— - -» - i THE ADAMS Theatre | -ft On The Screen On The Stage Last Time Tonight Tonight and Saturday | “THE COWARD” Ebony S £ naders | with Warner Baxter and "ft j?™ Sharon Lynn. in a return engagement. All ■fl Snapping back at his persecu- Colored Musical Troupe. Don't ' PJ6 tors in a Glorious Awakening miss this wonderful entertainjnU —Righting all the wrongs he nient! QJc 31 had suffered! Saturday—TOM TYLER in "THE FLYING U RANCH." Also—“THE CALL OF THE Also—“ The Better Role" with QJE ' 31 CUKOO" with Max Davidson. A l Cooke and Kit Guard. ,jp 15c 35c , g! ! ' '■■ ■ le i | THE ADAMS Theatre | ! ffi SUNDAY AND MONDAY St ! SUNDAY Matinee at 2 P. M. Jfi b ri" 1 1 r \howgooda sleuth i 5’ ME you? I Hon I ! * I? *1 MIDNIGHT IT* - —ii ......■- 1 :Uc i with .Marceline Day, Conrad Nagel & Henry B. Walthall Jfi Jfj The Man of a Thousand Faces in a Great Detective Thriller! [LR LON ('HANEY’S performance as the hypnotist-detective in this n* 1 Rfl amazing thriller will never be forgotten! An unusual crime is 3D j 31 committed its so'ution seems impossible and then CHANEY bn I. 1 tids the answer in a climax packed with power and surprises! | . LE* Also—BEN TURPIN in "DADDY’S BOY" A Mack Sennett Comedy yell 15c- 35c nF 1

Tuberculosis Death 1 Rate Cut In Sweden I Stockholm, Doc. 9. (VP) Tuberlosin Is on the wane In Sweden accord Ing to recently compiled statistics which show that in 1926 the number * of fatal cases amounted to 8,922, the 1 lowest figure in ten years. In 1925, 1 8,612 persons died from the white 1 plague and in 1922 the figure was99- 1 037. ' From 1917 to 1927 there were In all ’ 34.051 casualties. The average number of (baths between 1917 and 1920 was t 10,501 per year. Whereas the annual 1 average figure for the years 1921 1925 j t sank to 8,805. | t The greatest number of deaths oc-t curred in the country and not In the < cities. < —— ——o- i Marooned Fishermen t Battle With Pirates < Moscow, Dec. 9. — (INS) — Pitched • battles between hundreds of fisher- ‘ men marooned on ice-tloes in the Caspian Sea and bands of marauding pir- ( ates seeking to plunder the helpless, ( half-starved fishermen were reported t today. i One pirate was 1 eported killed and | several others wounded. < Seven hundred fishing smacks have | been stranded amid the ice following < the storm of November 29. Rescuers attempting to aid the < marooned men are in constant peril ' from the pirate activities. i o— . ———- — Bluffton Man Gets Diverse A divorce was gianted to Elton E. Cloud from Edith J. Cloud, following a healing in the Wells Circuit court at Bluffton Thursday. j Five Above at Bliffton • The government thermometer at ‘ Bluffton registered five degrees above I zero at 7 o’clock yesterday morning. [ Installing Electric Singals The Ntt'kel Plate railroad company ; is installing electric warning signals I ' at the crossing on state road No 3, [ just north of Bluffton. Several fatal j accidents have occurred at that cross- , 'I 1 !— _ _ j How to Avoid High Blood Pressure, Paralysis and Nerve Trouble in Advanced Years j PHYSICIANS INDORSE SAN YAK Dr. Tj. P. Bailey, of Mcßride, Mich, says of San Yak: "It will do all you claim. It is tine medicine for the ' blood and has cured rheumatism ot ’ - long standing. When one trea'.s the j i kidneys with San Yak he is renew < . ing the whole body. One can always ; depend on San Yak.” High Blood Pressure Mrs. W. E. Brandson, ot Robinson ; Ind., writes: “I took San Yak for I high blood pressure and it worked j like a charm, I am not now' troubled < anv more." S. F. Marring, of Ohio Gd Co., Mar '■ shall, 111., says; “San Yak is a wand . ' erfui medicine for stomach and ] ’ bowels.” I Sold at Smith, Yager & Folk,

Lindbergh And Ford Most Important Men In News, Students Agree Evanston, 111., Dec. 9 (VP) - <’ 1 Charles Lindbergh and Henry Fori] ,ir<> most importnnt men in the nows of 1 the world, while Queen Marie i f Romania occupies the .uno podtion among the women, according to a survey of journalist students at the North western Vniverslty here. The students w, re asked to list (ho ton men and five women whom they believed to In l the most important in the news of the world and (he lie between the Atlantic lone-aco and the automobile magmitc resulted. Tin 1 olh- ( er eight in the order of their classification, are, President Coolidge, Pro i inier Mussolini, tile Pi Ince of Wab , Mayor Thompson. Thai.-s Edl. hi. , Gene Tuiiney, Al,Smilh and Babe Ruth I The other four women were Mrs. j Coolidge, Ruth Elder, Helen Will and j Jane Addanis.

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* Savings That Spell V alue | I Great Reductions 31 MK On Entire Stock of Fine i Coats and Dresses I -m. I & * I kW IO I i SISIwW! /Wx Bw « Ws iM wsf J raw WMT m s J m .’''-Mi' 1 i r Mo H IHdthll w ! .Aftil I 9 1 / <■' -1 .fer 1 \\ \o I in AU’i J ' \\ I , s I The COATS = The DRESSES | f I Ifi _ Beautiful and Attractive Coats, the 5 Stunning Dress Creations that will cap- Hj latest styles, richly trimmed in the 2 ture the eye of everyone who sees them. . ip wanted furs. Popular fabrics and col- Beautiful in every way, the colors, lab- ffi! itc j ors and a real group from which to > ’ic. . and style combinations are quite LE choose, | attractive. 'j M” LE $65 and $fi9.75 Coats tt/iQ 7K i $29.50 Dresses QI 7 ue reduced to tp • ?.) a reduced to 1 I •**’/ HOl « sQ ill $59.50 Coats Q/IKfIA ? $25.00 Dresses QI 7 Kfl reduced to f reduced to Vll •MV LfJ S $49.75 Coats QQ/17K 5 $1«.75 & $t9.75 Dresses QI 9 7J* g reduced to / fJ S 1 educed to I V 31 ■G l Ul$25 and $29.50 Coats P $12.50 Dresses QQ 7K IK j- reduced to tP 1 <J reduced to tpO. IV - n Jfi Owing: to the Extreme Cut In Prices, This Sale is for CASH. § i NIBLICK & CO. j jii tfi

To Decorate City Bluffton, Ind., Dec. 9—With Christiniia trees already on the way to Bluffton, members of the Chamber of Commerce committee ure making plans to have each merchant place a tree In the

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| THE CORT | Ton iffht—Tomorrow i “G U N GOSP EL ” S A First National Attraction with KEN MAYNARD and Rood cast. in ue i here was only one law in Loma (irantlr. the law ol jfu IjPI (he six-sliooh r' But Ken showed the licll-bcndcrs a Sy S ft \v tricks in fighting that made the hark of their aft aS' guns sound like the whine of a cur! W “HUSHINt; BUSINESS" Comedy NEWS 10c 25c Sunday and Momlav Charlie Murray in pj “THE tiOIULLA.” g

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flag pole socket along the curb in front of each store. This will help make the business district take on more of a • Christmas spirit.

Dizziness A common symptom of kidney trouble. Men and women everywhere use and recommend Foley Pills diuretic for reliei from dizziness. Foley Pills A diuretic atlmulant lor the se/«/ £eervuA<r«