Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 177, Decatur, Adams County, 27 July 1928 — Page 3

fWilocinx '■.; $kW € ll£. ' /f/ 1 i A /# MRS. JAMES R - BLAIR fPICf 'til 1 <V Jr Society Editor -M M Phone 1000. ' ~ evening *<>*"" wIU be “ f vplvot My ,h, ‘ FM>nCh couturior » Many Wintri c )lg ?. ve | VKt season.*’ and with all the lovely new printed who are predict ”* a > pU(n colors an(l )n the new ghadea of ones coming <”"• a* cvery indication that the prophecy will uome tw. olue, P**® and >«. se , ptnf) softer all(1 lllore lußtroug than eV er before Th o new ve " P inost pracefu i draping. New printed velvets are following , nd len-ia it«»elt georgetteß of the summer season and are tue lines of the ~. _ nd little conventional designs rather than ’* n in . .. „„t»erns which

7; viarger patterns which' the favor last winter season. TiS evening ensemble is betn shown in deep .nidnight-hlue veb with a f«»> so,le ' *“ °“ e front of the coat which is trimrn*in hands of chinchilla. It is worn r a frock Os the same shade of % with specie of silver, lothe material which was revivXt winter and bids fair to.hold 1,8 o *l f "Xa , *'> r used "principally rrx - ...... i lv it is crisp and supple at “he same time and lends itself to draperies, due to the fat t that its K° lden ” lirrace or its ,)lack one can be made to appear in turn. Black evening frocks are sure to he worn during the coming winter for there, is nothing which quite takes their place tot; informal wear Point desprit is used a great derd •ml net with chenille dots used a | on e or combined with plain net or tulle Winter dinner gowns of kee are made with long transparent gl eeves. although often cut in a very long V or V shape at the back of the bodice. One designer uses a frill of lice or net like the old fashioned bretalles over the shoulders of a sleeveless black lace frock. A short lace jacket is often worn over these frocks for the cocktail hour or restaurant dinner. Troop. No. 61 will meet tonight at I:ts o'clock. He prepared for hike, and (heck up must be made op ail Who wish to go to Camp Kekionga. Meet at Christian church. Everybody Mt. ENTERTAINS CLUB WITH DINNER BRIDGE Mrs. France Center was hostess to the members of the Thursday Night ftidge Crflty Thursday evening, at her home on North Second street. At 6:30 o’clock. Mrs. Confer served a most delicious two-course dinner, the appontments of which were earned out in a yellow color scheme. Tallies were also in yellow. The'home was attractively decorated in a profusion of garden flowers. Following the dinner, Bridge was played and Miss Madge Hite was awarded the prize for high score. Mr. Glen Neptune was a guest other than the club members. The next meeting of the club will be held in two weeks with Mrs. Herman Ehinger.

SCHUG HONE SCENE OF GARDEN PARTY With Mrs. (’ E. Bell and Mrs. John Schug as hostesses, sixty guests were entertained Thursday afternoon from three-thirty until six-thirty o'clock, at a most delighti il Harden Party, held in the gardens at the rear of the Schug home, 330 South Third street. Mrs. Bell and Mrs. Schug •received their i nests at a parlor entrance, arranged under the porte cochere at the with side of the Schug home, and directed thetu tn the flower bedecked Wilens in the rear. Fourteen dozen Wiolas, arranged in large wicker baskets, added a touch of loveliness “ the shady lawn, and here and t er,; . bright colored parrots perched 011 ‘ l,an( lards, seemed almost real "ni'igh to talk. The appointments of j ' ** af'wnoon were carried out ini 5 * rf "’ n aad yellow, and with the can't' °f green trees overhead, the r, u grass carpet below, and the ! “ ra " s . ft a »rt yellow’ gladolias forming ilrnuil| l the outer edge of the J ■ the setting for the pretty affair Ziem ' nspiring - A ’arse Ortho tor ti rtro!a furnished music dursm»u 7 * fternoon hours. Fifteen SrJive a* * ere arranged for P™Buk ' an, l this game prevail Cf muc h merriment for Bryce th Were awarded to Mrs. sml Mr?°w aR- Mrß- Roy Arc hbold the largest? * chrock for drawin « '•he afu ' nutnber of bu «« during Mrs - "arve Shrol), a, of lnsee ° n Prize * ,- eeeived a box then The tables were followed t, " le ' hnner which ' Breen bud v y Were cen tered by centered L. < r>nUi 'Hng yel\ow tent aJ. > ’ and green lc « c «hes tablets. Tt> "* colcr to the water in three m ® d * nnev was served ®“d delict eB, and was both dainty khug w? 8 - r Mrs ' Bell and Mrs. Marv in Berving by e " Chafer L?? ryn Sch,lg ’ Gretch«tow n guest 6len Ha,rt>old - OutAIU 0 B n i . n 1 c ! k uded: Mrs - -«t Oklahoma City; Mrs.

CLUB CALENDER Thursday Women of Mooseheart Legion. Thursday Night Bridge Club, Mrs. France Center, 6:30 P. M. Antioch Missionary society. Mrs. Hemer Ginters. Root Twp. Home Economics Club. Monmouth School, 1:00 P. M. Friday St. Marys Twp. Home Economics. Club, Mrs. Ben Teeple, 12:30 P. M. M. E. Ladies Aid, church parlors, 2:30 P. M. V. I. S. Class, United Brethren S. S E. A. Crider. 7:S® I’ M. Herbert Jenny, of Norton. Massachusetts; Mrs. Wesley Huffman, Mrs. Albert Sellemeyer, and Mrs. A. L. Frame, of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Earl Parker, of Toledo, Ohio; and Mrs Jennie Fuhrman, of Marion. Ohio, LOCAL BUSINESS MAN WEDS CLEVELAND TEACHER Mr. Carl Fisher, of the Carl Fisher Greenhouse company, of this city, and Miss Goldie Sprain, a teacher in the high school of Cleveland, Ohio, were quietly married Thursday afternoon, in Kendalville. Following the ceremony, the couple went to Rome City where they will spend a few days before returning to this city to establish their home. They will re s'de. for the time being, in the Jesse Magley home on Monroe street. Mr. Fisher is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Fisher, of this city. His bride is a cousin of Mrs. Roy Miller, of North Sixth street. During the winter, she is employed as a teacher in Cleveland and during the summer months, she sojourns at the Miller home in this city.

MRS. LINN KERN ENTERTAINS AT BRIDGE Mrs. IJnn Kern, of Fort Wayne, enteitained with four tables of Bridge, ' last evening, at the home of her parents. Mr. and Mrs J. L. Kocher, on West Adams street. Six games of Bridge were played with Mrs. Janies R. Blair and Mrs. Byrl Masterson, the ' latter of Bluffton, receiving prizes for high score. Following the games, the hostess, assisted by her mother, Mrs. J. L. Kocher, served dainty refreshments. The guest list for the evening comprised: Misses Mildred Liddy. Mary Suttles, Marcella Hower, Veronica Anker, Josephine Suttles, Helen Dugan, Alta Teeple and Mesdames Funk Rowley, Wm. Lenhart, Herman Myers. Bryce Thomas. James Blair. Harry Knapp, of this city, and Mrs. Charles Keller, of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Byrl Masterson, of Bluffton. The Women of the Mooseheart Legion have postponed their meeting un til Thursday. August 2. -■— ■ o

Sen. LaFollette Invited To Speak In Indiana Greenfield, Ind., July 27.—(INS)— An invitation has been extended to Senator Robert M. LaFollette of Wisconsin to be the principal speaker at the centennial celebration of the founding of Hancock county, to be held here in October. It is planned to have the climax of the celebration held on the ■ birthday anniversary of Indiana's greatest poet, James Whitcomb Riley, October 8, 1928. Grover C. Van Duyn is chairman of the committee on arrangements, composed of representatives of the schools, tdiurches, civic organizations of the various townships, towns and cities. The centennial display will portray

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the growth of tlio county from pioneer i days to the present and many InterI estlng articles of pioneer make will |be displayed, a parade of tloats depicting various steps in the progress i of the county will lie shown and all will finally center around Riley Memorial Park. Historical essays will be written and read during the centenial us well as posters drawn. Prizes will be given for the best floats and contributed essays and posters. Efforts are being made to have every man, woman and child in the county contribute something toward making the centenial celebration ofie of the greatest j events in the history of Hancock county. —— o _— Penonah Frank Leslie and son Gaylor, of Van Weit, Ohio bct’.i connected with the I People’s bank of that city, visited here. | James Edwards, of Leipsic, Ohio,! motored here yesterday to play a round I at the Decatur Country Club golf links] He did it easily in forty three and c< nvinced those who enjoyed watch I ing him do it that he could turn the | trick in par with a lit»le practise. Phil Macklin is attending to busin-1 ness at Indianapolis. Frank Sehumacker is attending the : races at Montpelier. He tepoits that they have two hundred head of horses and the races are fast. Mrs. Jenny Fuhrman, of Marion, Ohio, arrived in this city. Thursday, for a visit with Mrs. Carrie Haubold and family. Mrs. J. M. Ralston and two children. John Junior and Adaline, of Savannah, Geotgia. have arrived in this city for a two months visit with the former's sister, Mrs. Charles Knapp and family, Mercer avenue. Miss Kathryn Dorwin is expected to arrive home today from Muncie, where she has completed a summer course of study at the Ball Brothers College. Braham Simmons. Al Farr, Ray Brown and Hairy Starr, of Bluffton, were visitors here last evening, attending the luncheon meeting of the Rotary Club. "Widow Confesses." “Widow Missin'," "Widow Admits." "Widow Found in Lonely Spot Identified," "WidowLast Seen.” "Widow Questioned.” There's giftin' t' be somethin' spooky about widows. “Yes, I've won three times in succession lately," said Mrs. Ike Lark, t'day, whe na guest admired her cantaloupe.—Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. o •— •‘Thrashing Dinners” Pass Mt. Vernon, Ind., July 27. — (INS) — Posey county farmers have sounded the death knell of the greatest of the harvest institutions when they started bringing their lune lies to the fields . in baskets, thereby dispensing with

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REUNION CALENDAR I Sunday, July 29 Annual Neuenachwander reunion, I Bellmont Park, Decatur. Ninth annual Davison reunion, at home of Davison brothers, one mile west < f Tocsin. Annual Somers reunion, at Park Somers home, one mile south and one miles east of Ossian. Fifth annual Osborn-Ramsey reunion Henry Barkley home. Annual Osbcrn-Ransyer reunion. Henry Barkley, Decatur. Fourteenth annual reunion ct Fuhrman family, near Francis Fuhrman home, 4 miles northwest of Decatur. Annual Venia Reunion, Memorial Park, Huntington. Annual Brunner Reunion Sun Set Park. Decatur. Annual Archbold Reunion, Harold’s Landing, Blue Lake. Sunday, August 12 Annual Venis-Hower Reunion, Washington Park, Bluffton. Sixth annual reunion of Durbin fa ■ mlly Bellmont Park Decatur. Thursday, August 16, 1928 Eighteenth annual Mumma family retin’on will be held at Weisser park. Fort Wayne, Ind., Thursday, Aug. 16. Sunday, August 19 Fifth Annual Reunion Egley-Von i ' Gunten families, Washington Park. ' Bluffton. Sunday August 26 Twenty-first annual reunion BarkI ley family, Henry Barkley home. Sunday, September 9 . ... Annual Reunion Bernard Holthouse I Family. L. A. Holthouse Farm. the famous “thrashing dinners" which made the tallies and tile wives of the : farmer’s groan. t Because of the small yield of wheat | this year, and the growing cost of i food and labor, serving the old time i dinners, they have been abandoned i by mutual consent, much to the relief J of the farm women.

| THE ADAMS Theatre 1 “Always Cool and Comfortable” | TONIGHT ONLY 1 RANGER the Wonder Dog—in “FANGS OF THE WILD” JR . The Dog that understands like a man and fights like a demon, in U 2 ir* a drama of the Kentucky hills, where life and love are 31 still the foils of nature’s whims! gS ALSO—STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY in LE • Fjr “THEIR PURPLE MOMENT." SB Si ADDED—AL COOKE in “OUR HUSBAND'S PEOPLE.” SR • 10c —2sc | SATURDAY—BUZZ BARTON in “THE PINTO KID" I cLRi The Boy sensation of the Mounted West! S . JJC SUNDAY, MONDAY & TUESDAY—EMIL JANNINGS in Wc “THE STREETS OF SlN"—with Fay Wray. At 15c and 35c. yi

MODERN LIVING SUGGESTED AS CANCER CAUSE (By J. Macgregor-Mrrrison) U. P. Staff Cot respondent Paris. ((J.R) Civilization lias its advantages but it is also responsible for cancer, according to an eminent i French physician. Dr. Lowenthal, after several years of effort to find the source of the malady which is costir..; thousands of lives each year in countries which are able to combat succe-s---fully a score of ether plagues. Dr Lowenthal in an article In 'lie Mevue Mondiale, ascribes the disease to either toxic influences or emotional changes. The first, he says, may include anything from setting too I ng at a wellladen table to an excessive use of tobacco, alcholic drinks and even coffee. The second source is even wider in its scope. A man with t;O noble ambitions may become so. excited that cancerous lesions forms in his system. Another who plays heavily at gantb-

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i ling tables or speculates on fae Rour • | Is e nfronted with the same dan-.i-. ! political conflicts also provide a melt i lace of cancer. Even the. newspapers lure to blame, he adds, with their eon. I stunt repertolie of scandals, murders. I suicides and divorces all calculated ■ to excite tile passions es •Mankind. Sport Dangerous “It is not that the savages have a sexual mol ality inferior to our own.” ' he explains, "but they make it a secou-l dary part of their existence, while In civilized nati us we are nourfshe.il

I 'wecort'"! ; ® Last Time Tonight g S MONTE BLUE and Wonder Cast ® in a bi|r air picture qj • ® “ ACROSS THE ATLANTIC ’ ’ ® ffk Over the sea, flying alene! Paris bound, to save his beloved fir 31 from disgrace and compromise! A fitting climax to the career Tp of a world war ace. The kind of a drama that is long to be. l UE remembered. z LZ COMEDY. NEWS. ADDED—The 4th chapter of (he serial “THE HAUNTED ISLAND.” g $ 10c —25 c m ■ an] SATURDAY—FRED .HUMES in "QUICK TRIGGERS.” fi3 , SUNDAY & MONDAY—“WHY SAILORS GO WRONG” 31 j with Sally Phipps. If i =□ Always in 1 the Lead with Red Crown Ethyl! Up steep hills, some cars climb easily without change of gears. They are the cars fed with Red Crown Ethyl —fuel famous for the power it gives! On the open road, some cars seem to be alive —like spirited horses, they will not be passed! They are the cars fed with Red Crown Ethyl —famous fuel that gives any car greater speed! \\ hen the traffic signal changes, some cars shoot ahead out of the wailing line. They are the ears fed with Red Crown Ethyl — fuel famous for lightning pick up, swift acceleration, ever-eager, ever-ready response! Cars with high compression engines use Red Crown Ethyl. This liigh compression gasoline made • them possible! Other cars use Red Crown Ethyl to give them the advantages of high compression. TO BE ALWAYS IN THE LEAD WITH RED CROWN ETHYL COSTS ONLY A FEW CENTS MORE! At Any Standard Oil Service Station and al Most Garages Standard Oil. Company {lndiana} DECATUR, INDIANA 4928 illflflrTiniW

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! from a tender age with literature which becomes u delirious Dimension " No loss adveaptageous from the 1 standpoint of developing (■.nicer — he suys. Is tie’ Incrousing ttend towards utliletlcs. Rational ports are meritorious, but he considers that a ban should be phiced upon ull brutal, violent sports nad cites the large number of accidents In football matches as a new souir • of cancer. Teo much | naming, tn irathon contests, acrobatics are all likely to give origin I j the dead|*ly disease.