Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 16 April 1928 — Page 3

I NEWS FROM BERNE —by— Miss Helen Burkhalter Mr., Frank Wagoner. of Decatur, 1 a'visitor here. Friday. M, and Mrs. Albert Nussbaum.: Betty and son Hobby were at IS, business Wednesday after-! '"sitn Valentine, of Bluffton was a 1 business ealler here Friday. Herbert Keller, of Monroe was a vis Itor here Wednesday. The Misses Lucille Lelchty and Venus Mazelin were business visitors at Fort Wayne, Wednesday. Palmer Moser of the A. .1. Moser Garage made a business trip to Detroit. Wednesday. Dr Ernest Franz was called to the bedside of his sister-in-law Mrs, Emil Ftanz at Middlebury. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Ray spent Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Habegger and daughters Arvada, Clara and Florine., Mr and Mrs. Wilfred Habegger, Clarence Reynolds and Evelyn Luginbill were at Tort Wayne Wednesday evening to attend the recital given by the students of the Fort Wayne Bible Traning school. Edward E. Lelchty. editor of the Berne Review, at|d Edwin Gilliom, were business callers at Decatur, Wednesday. Mrs. Melvin Johnson returned to her home at Fort Wayne, after spending a few days at the homes of her sisters | Mrs. Elam Steiner, Mrs. Homer Steiner and Mrs. John C. Soldner. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Sprunger, of Goshen, where both are instructors jn the higs schools arrived here Thursday to spend a week’s vacation at the homes of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Riesen and sister Surilda and Phillip Sprunger and sister Mary Ann Sprunger. Amos Hirschy and Henry Winteregg were business callers at Decatur, Wed-| nesday. Martin W. Baumgartner, of Chicago visited with his mother, Mrs. C. W. Baumgartner here. Thursday. He w is accompanied to Berne by Mr. and Mrs. Joel Habegger and son Bobby, of Fort Wayne, who visited relatives here. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Arndt and family were business callers at Fort Wayne, Friday afternoon. Herman Dro, who is very ill with after affects of the flu, was slightly improved, Friday. Howard Sprunger, cf Monroe, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Sprunger and Mr. and Mrs. Herman Sprunger left Friday afternoon for Bluffton, Ohio, to attend the recital given by their sister. Mist Agnes, who will be graduated this spring from the Bluffton College Conservatory of Music. Mr. and Mrs. Christian E. StuckyMrs. Calvin Sprunger and daughters' Jeanette and Marcella and Miss Estelle Stucky visited relatives at Celina, Ohio Thursday. Charles Heare, of Decatur, was a business caller here. Thursday. Ben Sprunger. C. C. Sprunger, Phil lip Sprunger, Mrs. Daniel Stucky and Mrs. Emanuel Lelchty, all of whom are brothers and sisters attended the fun- 1 eral of Amos Amstutz at Bluffton, O hio, Friday afternoon. Mr. Elmer Studer, of Sugar Creek, Ohio, spent Thursday afternoon and evening at the home of his great aunt. Mrs. Marie Balsiger here. Mrs. C. E. Stucky son Carl and daughters, the Misses Ruth and Estelle i Stucky, are visitors at Fort Wayne, Friday. Ezra Dantz was at Kalamazoo, Michigan, on business. Thursday and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Amstutz and family and Mrs. Edison Sprunger were visitors at the John E. Amstutz home at bort Wayne, Thursday evening and Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Amstutz and family visited relatives and friends at rort Mayne, Sautrday afternoon. Mr. Benjamin Sprunger and slster-’ti-law, Miss Mary Burkhalter motored t > Fort Wayne Friday evening to visat the home of their sister, Mrs. George aumgartner and family. Mrs. Ben Sprunger, who spent several days at the Baumgartner home, returned home with them. o Purdue Honor Students Receive Reduction Os $25 In Their Fees Lafayette, Ind., April 16—(U.PJ—Each honor student at Purdue University "ill receive a $25 reduction in fees for the semester following that in which 'onors were won, the university board 01 trustees announced in adopting a Plan submitted by President E. C. Elliott, The board also ordered plans for a new chemical and a new pharmacy building. o| .' Edgewater Park At Celina Opens Season Edgewater Park, one of the most I Popular summer resorts in northwes- I ern Ohio, situated on the north shore of the reservoir at Celina, Ohio, which was opened Thursday night for the season, proved a popular haven for hundreds of pleasure seekers from Felina and surrounding territory. r ommencing this week, dancing will be held In the newly decorated dance Pavillion every Thursday and Sunday P-ight. itx

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The bravo crew of the Junkers plane, “Bremen" will soon reach the goal they were deprived of by Atlantic storms, as rescue plans proceed, lithe upper left the Baron Van Hueneft-ld and Captain Hermann Kochi, backel and pilot of the flight; lower left, the Canadian Government icebreaker

GATHERED MATERIAL \ y ■'. t V X \ ta ' -C \ ... - / J Lindbergh, Ford. Edison and Rockefeller are being carried oft to Germany 8 in the mind ot the noted writer, Emil Ludwig (right), autobiographer of B the world's great personages. Ludwig Is shown here aboard the steam- 3 ship for Germany bidding “au revolt-” to J. V. Connolly, editor, who ■ persuaded Ludwig to undertake these biographies. Mrs. Ludwig who toured the U. S. with her distinguished husband, appears in the insert (International Newsreel) • DEATH ENDS BRILLIANT CAREER / * b i i Nora Bayes, star of the vaudeville and musical comedy stage for more than 25 years, died In a Brooklyn hospital following an operation, bhe had been ill only a week. . * i (International Newsreel)

American Girl Married To Kin Os Belgian King London, April 16—(INS) Despite parental objections which halted a religious ceremony, Prince Charles Philippe, Duke de Nemours, a relative of King Albert, of Belgium, was married by civil ceremony today to Miss Margaret (“Peggy”) Watson, of Paris and Washington, D. C. The marriage

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was performed shortly after noon at the Henrietta street registry office. Miss Watson, a beautiful blonde haired American girl, is recovering from a recent operation for acute appendicitis. —:— Save a Dime on your hair cut every day except Saturday. Hill & Young, new location, Madison st. 192tf

I Mcntcalm, sent to rescue the stranded trio; upper right, the bleak Labrador coast where the Bremer, came down; center inset. Colonel James Fitzuiaurice, daring Irish member of the crew; right inset. Fraulein Herta, daughter of Junker, builder of the "Bremen,’ who is awaiting fliers; at New York.

VETERAN PITCHER FLU VICTIM ‘ R - !;./ a / • / ■ ’ ® / • jm / J j / * ): x V X if ” P Sr. \yi I ' Walter Johnson, former pitcher for the Washington baseball club, was forced to leave camp at St. Augustine, Fla., and return to Washington, suffering a severe attack of influenza. Although en route to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he remained in Washington to be under the personal care of Dr. Kaufmann, physician for the baseball club. (International Illustrated News) MOTHER DID NOT SPARE THE ROD J • - X ■ i- V > L t 1 ® ? K <1 : Mr . r.. a i rtather than pay a tine for whipping her 16-yenr-old daughter. Mrs. Charles Woodside (left), of.Kansas City, said she would prefer a jail sentence. The daughter Lorraine Jones (right), left home alter the last whipping and preferred charges against her parent. (Interna/lonal Newsreel)

Hard Work And Prayer Best Formulas For Old Age, Says Nonagenarian Valparaiso, Ind., April 16— (INS) — 1 Hard work and prayer are the best s formula for living to the century ; mark according to Mrs. Wilhelmina - Fehrman cf this city who has just passed her 92nd milestone. Os course, Mrs. Fehrman said, moderate habits and a clear conscience t also are essential. As Mrs. Fehrman nears the 100- , year ihark she retains all her faculf ties with the exception of a slight

impairment of hearing. Mrs. Fehrman was born in Germany in 1824 and emigrated to America with heir parents in 1848. She came to this country in a sailing vessel which took 30 days for the . ocean crossing. o Farmer Killed By Tractor Osgood, Ind., April 16—(U.R)—John Westerman, 51, farmer, Hvo ■ southeast ot here, was killed when i run over by a tractor from whirli he fell while plowing on a farm of a ■ neighbor, Harry Dressier. o USE Limberlost Washing Powder

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I I * I I Adams County : > Dollars I 1 1 L Spend them here, and let them B, keep on building prosperity for ||L Adams county people. That i®, Lway your dollars have a chance of coming back to you and to B your neighbors. Money banked here helps our own people. I I ffA B G Capital and Surplus <Xcqtur, Indiqn.it ’ ~ .. . w / -Vv' ■ - w | Buy Decatur Quality BABY CHICKS AT OUR VERY LOW PRICES. RIGHT IN THE BEST CHICK SEASON. Hatching Monday and Thursday every week from our pure-bred, healthy parent stock. Place your order today for May Chicks to get them on your preferred date. J Have several hundred heavy mixed chicks a week old. and 500 S. C. Reds for Monday, April 16. Come and see these chicks. A Real Bargain. k The Decatur Hatchery 1 Phone 197. Decatur, Indiana. 1 e i See us for Fresh Rulk and Package Seeds. Also Chick Feeds and Brooder Stoves.

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