Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 79, Decatur, Adams County, 2 April 1928 — Page 5

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CLUB calender Monday Reaewch Club, Mrs. Charity Hoop I- cr 2:30 P. MTuesday Tri Kappa, Mrs. Harry Knapp, 8-00 i P. M. • „ . Pleasant Mills 11. 8. Lyceum Number i 3*oo P. M. ■ Otterbein Guild, Clara Ellen Mumma, 7:30 P. M ■ Hebekah Benefit Party, 1. O. O. F. Hall, after lodge. Psi lota Xi Sorority, Pot-luck Sup per Mrs. Leigh Bowen, 5:30 pm. Carpe Diem Club, Mrs. Robert Krick 1 . 7:30 P. M. Wednesday Bobo Epworth League Play,' 8:00 P. M. Pot-luck Supper, Presbyterian Church, 6:30 P- M. Needle and Thimble Club, Mrs. Gregg McFarland, 2:00 P. M. Salem Ladies Aid Society, Mrs. Agnes Carver. Chakespeare Club, Mrs. J. L. Kocher 2:30 P. M. Thursday Calvary Ladies Aid, Calvary Church. 1:00 P. M. Methodist W. H. M. S., Mrs. Al Burdg, 2:30 P. M. Dutiful Daughters, Mrs. Harry Coffelt. 7:30 P. M. C. L. of C., K; of C. Hall, after church W. M. S. Reformed Church, 2:30 P. M. Presbyterian Missionary Society, Mrs. C. C. Pumphrey, 2:30 P. M. Everready S. S. Class Mrs Harl Hollingsworth, pot-luck supper, 6:30 P. MSaturday Easter Egg Sale, Mutschler Meat Market. Sunday Pleasant Mills Alumni, School house 2:00 I’. M. Miss Frances Dugan has returned to Huston to resume her work, having visited for the past week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Dugan in this city. The latter accompanied her as far as Kendalville by automobile. -biMiss Fan Hite was a guest over Sunday of relatives in Chicago. She was accompanied home by her neice. Mary Jo Hoffman, who will visit here for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Ora France and Mr. T< nt Peterson, of Gary, visited over Sunday with Mrs. Ftutny Peterson. North Second street. Mis. C. A. Dugan and daughters Mis. Pierre Goodrick and Miss Frances Dugan, were Saturday afternoon callers in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. France Conter and daughter Gloria Louann were guests over the week-end of Mr. and Mrs. Michaels in Huntington. ATTEND SHOW AT SHRINE AUDITORIUM Among those from tins city who attended the production of “She Stoops to Conquer" at the Shrine Auditorium in Fort Wayne. Sunday evening, were: Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Myers. Miss Josephine Myers. Miss Mildred Liddy, Miss Helen Kocher, Miss Margaret Mylott. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Knapp, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Myers, and Mr. and Mrs. J R. Blair. FRESHMAN.CLASS ENTERTAINS SENIORS The Freshman class of the Pleasant -Mills high ’school, entertained in honor of the Seniots, Friday evening al •be O, E. Shifferly home. The evening was spent in music and games. Those present were: Neva and Maxine Dellinger, Juanita Evans, Mary Steele, his Hilton, Francis ant! Louisa Johns, Kosa. Murry, Gertrude Hawkins, Mar■■<iet Daniels. Doris bhifferly, Wilhelmina Schnitz,-Samantha Mason, Pearl Hay, Mary Gulick. Marjorie Hodgland Amy Schenck, Albert Davison, Rich:i ‘d Evans, Doyle Johnson. Marton Foor, Winson Riley. Herbert Hawkins, Irvin Maneller,' Glen Ray, Bryce I ’aniels, John Fat lino, Frank Fortney, Gifford Shipley, Marlin Johnson, AusMen Iman. Jim Halberstadt, Dewight Green. Eldred Shifferly, Cijar- ■' Dague, Clyde Trouttier, Herman I’atteison, Clifford Whitridge. Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Shifferly and children, -'nil, Dale and Mildred. Refreshments w «re served by the Freshmen. A meeting of the Pleasant Mills Alumni will be held next Sunday at' tm-noon April 8, at 2:00 o'clock at th-hool-house. Arrangements are to be made for the banquet which will be " Id April 21. All members are urged to be present. ENTERTAINED SATURDAY WITH DINNER BRIDGE Haney and daughter ss !• loreece eulertnined with a din--1 Bridge, Saturday evetiiug. for six " ( u guests, who were seated at four small tables which were centered with

dark red roses. The place cards were quaint little nut cups which harmonized with the Bridge tallies. Mrs. James Westveld and Mrs. 1. A. Kalver carried off the high scores of the evening, and were awarded with lovely prizes. The following guests enjoyed the delightful evening. Mesdames John Peterson, George Flanders, L. A. Graham. Avon Burk, Fred Patterson. James Westveld, Wm. Schrock, lA*e Vance, 1. A. Kalver, Allen Miller. John Tyndall, John Heller, and the Missea Dessolee Chester and Madge Hite. Mrs. I. W. Macy, of Galion, was an out-of town guest. Miss Nettie Moses also ui joyed the dinner hour with the guests. ENTERTAINS FOR GUEST FROM TOLEDO Complimentary to her guest. Miss Catherine Sens, of Toledo, Ohio, Miss Josephine Archbold entertained with four tables of Bridge, Saturday evening, at hqr home on West Monroe street. After five games of Bridge, Miss Miriam Parish and Miss Catherine Fritzinger were rewarded for high score. Miss Sens was presented with a lovely guest prize. At the close of the games, Mrs. Archbold, assisted by Mrs. Earl Coverdale, served a delicious two-course luncheon. The guest list comprised: Misses Isabel Hower, Helen Shroll, Geraldine Hower, Helen Haubold, Kathryn Kauffman, Virginia Hite, Betty Macklin. Ruth Macklin. Mary Madeline Coverdale, Erna Lankenau, Miriam Parish, Josephine .Ja berg, Charlotte Elzey, Catherine FYitzinger, Catherine Sens and tl*e hostess. TO ADDRESS HARTFORD CITY ROTARIANS Mr. C. E. Bell will go to Hartford City, tonight, where he has been invited to deliver the address at the meeting of the Hartford City Rotary Club. Mr. Bell wil base his talk on the subject, “The Rotarian's Responsibility to his Vocation". The Ladies Aid Society of the Calvary Evangelical Church will meet at the church Thursday afternoon at one o'clock. T-he afternoon will be speut in knotting comforts. Mrs. lona Shifferly and Mrs. Virgie Hammon will be the hostesses fqr the afternoon. The Dutiful Daughters class will meet Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o'clock at the home of Mrs. Harry Cos felt. A pot-luck supper wil be held at sixthirty o'clock Wednesday evening at the Presbyterian church and will be followed by a congregational meeting. All members are urged to attend. The Needle and Thimble club will meet Wednesday afternoon at two o'clock at the home of Mrs. Gregg McFarland. The C. L. of C. will meet at the K. of C. Hall Tuesday evening, after church services. The W. M. S. of the Reformed church will meet at 2:30 o’clock Tuesday afternoon. A full attendance of the membership is urged. The Woman's Missionary Society of the Reformed Church will hold an Easter Egg sale next Saturday ;it Mutschler's Meat Market. Orders may be telephoned in to telephones number 5423 or 1074. The Tri Kappa Sorority will meet Tuesday evening with Mrs. Harry Knapp on West Munroe street. ENTERTAINS ■DINNER GUESTS Mr. and Mrs. Al Burdg lias as their guests at dinner, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs A. A. Kist of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Burdg, Mr. aqd Mrs Wm. Burdg and daughter Violet, and Miss Alma Williams, of Marion. 8080 LEAGUE TO PRESENT PLAY "Aaron Slick from Puukin Crick" is the name of a farce which will be presented, Wednesday evening, by the Epworth League of the Bobo Methodist church. Tin; play will lie given at the school house and will begin promptly al eight o’clock. MEREDITH STEWART • TO APPEAR HERE SOON Meredith Stewart, prominent in Dayton, Ohio, mlisical circle:., and a former Decatur boy, i planning to present a progrim of music iu this city on April 17. at the Decatur high schorl Auditorium. The program will be dedicated to the merory of Ralph Moser, to whom Mr. Stewart attributes much of liis present day success as a violinist. The local Woman's Club organization lias voted to support the young violinist in his appearance here and will assist in every jHis-ible way to make the concert a success financially. Willi the money derived therefrom, Meredith Stewart expects to go to Paris for a year's study abroad. Commenting on his appearance in a concert

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progrum given iu the ball-rocm of the Miami Hotel at Dayton, the Dayton Herald, of March 1, had the following to say: “Mr. Stewart played his violin with freedom of tone and with a roundness of tone eliciting guenine and much appreciative applause for his work. Mr. Stewart made a new place for himself by his playing on this program.** The W H. M. 8. of the Methodist church will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Al Burdg, Mercer Avenue. The assisting hostesses will be Mrs. Horace Callow, Mrs. A. J. Smith, Mrs. Martin Beery, and Mrs. Henry Krick Mrs. R. D Myers will have charge of the lesson for the afternoon and Mrs. Sara Case will have the Devotians. Members are kindly asked to note the change in date. DRAMATIC CLUB TO PRESENT READER Mrs. Elizabeth Ballard Long, of Indianapolis, prominent teacher of expression and directress of plays in that city, will be presented Monday evening, April 9, before the members of the Decatur Woman's Club, by the Dramatic Department of the Club, at the IJbrary Auditorium. The program to be presented by Mrs. Long will be “An Evening on the Old Plantation ", and will consist of readings and negro impersonations. Mrs. Long is a native of Kentucky and from her life among the southern plantations, has won unparalelled success as an interpreter of plantation folk-lore, and holds a unique positio non the platform, with her speciality of planta tion “Folk Lore". Tickets are being sold by members of the Dramatic Department at 50 cents each, an danyone desirious of attending who is not a member of the Club, may obtain a ticket or pay admission at the door. o

MORE REVEALED BY STEPHENSON Michigan City, Ind., April 2.-HNS) — A tale of crime ranging from Hoggings to murder aud political corruption, committed or sanctioned by the ky klux klan, was revealed here today by D. C. Stephenson, once Indiana klan dragon, and second in command of the national klan. Stephenson’s story was told In his cell in a formal, sworn deposition, given under order of Judge W. H. S. Thomson, of the United States district court of Pennsylvania. The deposition was taken under direction of Van C. Barrickman. Pittsburgh attorney, who is counsel in a federal suit seeking to oust the klan from Pennsylvania. Men were flogged, lynched and burned at the stake for opposing the klan, while those higher placed were ruined socially and political when the organization could not bend them to its will, Stephenson revealed. Catholic churches were burned aud pillaged, riots were incited and political officials beut to corrupt ways through orders of the klan chiefs. Parts of the deposition, dealing with murders and political crimes charged to the klan, are withheld pendiug court action on the deposition. SISTERS DROWN SELVES IN RIVER Logansport. Ind... April 2. — (U.R) — Rather than face together the shame of one who was to become a mother, two sisters, Esta and Seega Hoover, inseparable in !Jfc, walked hand-in-hand to tlieir deaths in Eel river here, in what police believe was a suicide paot. A coroner's autopsy, police said, revealed that Secna, in another month would have beionie a mother, and the officers concluded that Esta's love for her sister was too strong for the girl to face life without Seena. The girls disappeared last Wednesday. A search was started Friday. Esta's body was recovered late Saturday and Seena's was taken from the river, Sunday morning. The search led to the river when posses found two sets of footprints from high beel shoes, leading from the bank into the deeper recesses of the water. John and Edgar Eskew, with whom the girls were said to have been keeping comirany were to lie re'eased today. Seena met Edgar only in December and police believed that her trouble resulted from another courtship with a man named Felker, who was sentertced to the penitentiary for automobile stealing, recently. Esta was to have married John Eskew* Sunday. o— Airplane Wings Stolen Hammond, Ind.. April 2 (U.R) Spring flying plans of Zeke O'Connell have been frustrated by a thief who stele the wings from a plane which lie had stored during the winter. Lebanon Is Growing Lehanuu, Ind., April 2—(U.R)—A postoffice survey just completed shows the poptilatioH here is 9.000. The 1920 census w;A 6,800. ■ - - -——»>»■ ' —— Martz Barber Shop. 165 So. 2nd st. Hair cut 30c; Shave 15c. W-E-T

JUDGE AND SENATOR, BOTH VICTIMS * HR* » • b * Sb/ - " •* I BL /"J Judge John A. Swanson (left) and United States Senator Chas. S. Deneen were victims of outrages the same night when their homes in Chicago were bombed. Both officials issued public statements laying the blame on political enemies, who. they say, arc seeking to intimidate them. Senator Deneen, in Washington, hurled defiance at his unknown assailants.

Personal; Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Peterson visited Sunday at the David Smith residence in Fort Wayne, and attended the sessions of the Methodist Conference. Miss Marcelal Hower left Saturday, for a visit with friends in Indianapolis and Crawfordsville. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Myers were in attendance, Sunday, at the sessions of the M. E. Conference, in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Vandegriff. cf Wabash were guests of Mr and Mrs. C. E. Bell in this city. Mrs. Vandegriff is a sister of Mrs. Bell. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wicks were in attendance, Sunday, at the Methodist conference in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Frame, of Fort Wayne, were Sunday guests, at the C. E. Bell home in this city. Miss Dessolee Chester is spending her Easter vacation witli friends and relatives in Van Were and Antwerp Ohio. Miss Alma Williams, of Marion, is a house guest of Mrs. Wm. Burdg, Mercer avenue, k Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garard and daughter Patsy, were Sunday visitors tn Fort Wayne. Mrs. Wm. Burdg. Mrs. B. K. Farr, Mrs. Leo Kirsch and Miss Alma Williams, the latter of Marion, motored to Fort Wayne, Monday. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Butler and Mr. and Mrs. Amos Fisher motored to Eaton. Indiana, and spent Sunnday with Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Fisher and fa mily. Mr. Oiver Opdycke, of Waterloo, was a week-end guest of Miss Cleora Baker in this city. Mr. and Mis. John Schug and son Richard and .Mrs. Sehug's mother. Mrs. Mary Woodard, returned Saturday, from a several months visit through the south and Florida. "I'm glad my daughter lias a college career fer me t' look back on, fer it wuz th' happiest an' most restful period o' my life," said Mrs. Lili Pash, t' day. Telford Moots' nephew, who served throughout th world war, has gone t' Chicago t' enlist in th' April primary. —Abe Martin. Indianapofis News. Mr. and Mrs. R. Earl Peters, of ' Fort Wayne, visited here several hours Sunday afternoon. Mr. Peters, i who is the Democratic state chairman of Indiana, has just completed a tour of the state and reports the meetings as being very enthusiastic and the outlook splendid for a victory in the state next November. W. S. Mercer, president of the Indiana organization of the Benjamin Franklin Highway Association, has called a meeting to be held at Wabash on Hie evening of Thursday. April 5, to discuss matters of importance. He asks (Ijat a delegation from this county attend file meeting. Charles St tidier, of Linn Grove, a candidate for recorder of Adams county, was looking up friends here today. Matt Briener was busy today cleaning up the debris and trimming the. trees on the court, house grounds. The storm wrecked the trees around that building, hut. when the men axe through with their work, they will be in fine condition again. o Report Os Engagement Os John Coolidge And Miss Trumbull Revived Northampton, Mass.. April 2.—(INS) —Reports of the engagement of Miss Florence Trumbull, daughter of the governor of Connecticut, and John Coolidge, sou of the president, were revived today as the result of a visit to the Trumbull home by Mrs. Coolidge. There 'was no confw mation, however. Mrs. Coolidge visited her mother, Mrs. Lomira Good-hue as the CooleyDickinson hospital, spent Iwo hours with her. aud then returned lo the Coolidge home here. John Coolidge, who has been a week-end guest al the home of Governor Trumbull at Plainville, Conn., drove up to the Coolidge home hi a large sedan. He was accompanied by Floreucu Trumbull.

EVANGELISTIC SERVICES END The evangelistic services at the Fh-st Evangelical church came to a close last evening with the largest attendance of the entire series. Prof. Gerber and his son, Virgil, of Fort Wayne, rendered some very inspiring songs at the services of the day. This is the third year Prof Geriter has helped the local church in its evangelistic services and still his work is appreciated as much and even more than when he was new in the congregation. A fine spirit prevailed throughout the services and it is believed much good has been accomplished. This evening, the Brotherhood will meet at the church. Tuesday evening. the official board will meet at the church and on Wednesday evening will be the usual service for prayer and praise, commencing at 7:30 o'clock. On the evening of April 11, there will lie the election of five trustees for the churcfh. AU members of legal age are entitled to vote. Special services ahe being planned for Easter. There will be reception of members and .the baptism of children o Brags Rotary troop 61 will meet on Wednesday instead of Tuesday night. The meeting will be lield in the American Legion Hall at the usual time 6:45 o'clock. Members of the St. Joseph troop are requested to attend a meeting held at the St. Joseph school building at 7 o'clock this evening. Bring along a six foot piece of cotton rope. o Dawes Or Lowden Likely To Get Willis’ Support Columbus, ()., April 2—(U.R)—Either vice-President Charles G. Dawes or former Governor Frank O. Jatden of Illinois, appealed today to be the likely successor to the lato Senator Frank B. Willis, in the Ohio Republican Presidential campaign. Although the course to be pursued by the Willis supi>orters will not be known until after the senior Oliio Senator's funeral tomorrow. The Willis campaign will he carried on. with either Dawes or Lowden as the beneficiary, it was believed. A determined drive,has been started by friends of Diwes to consolidate the sentiment cf the Willis forces for him and it was understood the vice President has been asked not to disavow the move. Mr. ami Mra. C. O. France aud Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Peterson, of Gary, were week-end visitors al the Mrs. Fannis Peterson home.

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CHICKEN THIEF BLAMES LIQUOR Bloomington, Ind., April 2—(U.R) — When arrested here for stealing chickmule made me do it. ens, Clint Turner declared “white The chickens, 19 in number, were stolen from a Lawrence county farmer and taken to Ireleans poultry house and sold by Turner, whose father lives in Monroe county, according to police.

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The purchHaer of the chickena said his suspicion was aroused when “young Turner acted nervous" while making I the sale. The purchaser, according to police, copied the license' number of I young Turner's automobile. It was found that the car belonged to Turner's father, who said it was In possession of ills son near Avoca. • When Officer Bert Chambers and State Policeman C. A. Hrown went to 1 Clint Turner's home, he confessed to s taking the fouls but declared he was r “drunk at the time." He was placed 5 iu jail at Bedford. jo — - Get the Habit —Trade at Home, it Payi-

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