Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 182, Decatur, Adams County, 2 August 1928 — Page 7

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.> i'cuvin touches bottom at ■B'..;, on .homing .lance Mi'/L tlow. tv! mousseline with ■»..„ girdle of plain red and a care for trimming. Mu iMuioiig p“ ts i,u 11,11 ou jig ? ■ geo, cotte. The tunic ■ X, are cut oblnmely to give V |he front decollette as well. < ■Mulder there is a large white Hihetnum. Down m the back ■ramus idea tor a printed musltn tumes on the hips. ■lotlKr delightful dame dress in Mr tulle is decked with gold and |W w„ large fb.times. om of them ■Kp,,, t„ the floor it! the back. Anin Japan green silk has the nK]ie tied in front. It holds the IMitiug wscaiii! iu ii,u I,atk ' ■ m.G. GIRLS AT MAGLEY members of the Girls Mis|Kgjr v Guild of the Zion Reformed were entertained, last evenK by tile Magley Guild Girls at the of their president. Miss AmFrtiei lite. 'Pile affair was in the |K,re „f a larfn party, with colored with the brilliance of the furnish'd an almost daylight mi. ' and social events ■ the evening. At the . lose of a - wry delicious refreshments. t'.irb Mi"ioiiarv Guild of the Reformed . Iron h will meet Tuesevening, at 7:lfo o'clock, in the parlors. |Hec c .ives degree WISCONSIN UNIVERSITY V-.m.i Er. m. daughter of Mr. Mid Mrs. Charles Ervin. 716 Elm ■ vp- 1 ’•■! t" arrive home the of the present week, from Mad-Wi.-e>nsm. where she just re■r, was sradu.i'.it trom tlie Ini- .: W:-' -:n. with a Master's Miss Ervin majored in and English. She is a of tie Io caiur high school. KdS! Marys of the Lake, at South also. ■.T. T. ALUMNI BIANS BENEFIT BRIDGE BThe Delta Theta Tan Alumni were W. di;, -da. ~ '• moon, by Hubert Schmitt, at her aparton Second street. Bridge was (luring th. afternoon and Mrs. Bowers and Mrs. Joe Laurent in winning high score while Mrs. Herbert Kern was consolation. 1 luring a short session, the Alumni made Benefit Bridge, which they five on Tuesday August It, at Elks Home. Anyone desiring to ■ttend are requested to call one of Alumni members ami tickets will B 8 Slivered. At the close of the. Mrs. Schmitt served dainty ■ o ■Berne Man To Study I Music At Dayton. Ohio Aug. 2 (Special)-Harold Mr" Wr ' loeal yottnu man, who for the ■f* 1 two years has held a position as W»«lype operator for German copy, 1 e Berne Witness Company, has etl hls Position, to enter the ■ bon Westminster Choir School, at. ■»Mr° D ' Ohl °' He WiU take “ three ‘ ■ course. Mr. Reusser was graduthe Bluft!on Conservatory i s’ ™ O , in 1925, the san,) 5 n lfe " aS graduat cd from Reu«ei- e C °. Bge ’ the same year- Mrs. Alle Ked Shyer Evades ufneers Near Kokomo '"'‘ iana '' AUBUSt hl “ »«her at f ° r slaying of pais ago >' ~ n )er y ' Indlana . two font by offf 8 ' at ia,ge des P ite a ttveien’n » C a s Vv,,dnes(la y which machine L ar4 County - Armed with officer 311 aide<) by Ci,izens P° s ‘ Arched woo ( i= W!ltC;iCd highwa ys and ’Met a g|imn/ nd thickets but did ? at ha, i v 0 * Cal3on af,Pr h!s le,|, tom a ehimn f » Um hiS head as he ®f here, 11 hushes southwest i Au C g h 2 Ur ?« Bei " 9 Pab,ted ° r ° f the tun ISpe cial)—The exter-

CLUB CALENDER Thursday Work and Win class, U. 8.5.5,, Dick Schaffer, 7:30 p.m. Woman's Relief Corps, Yoeman Hall, 1:30 ip.m. (Thursday) — t W. O. M. L. Moose Home, 8:00 p.m. W.O.M.L. Moose Home, 8 p.m. Mt. Pleasant Ladies Aid society, Mrs. Francis Fuhrman, 2 pm. W. M. S. and Ladies Aid, Christian church, 2:30 P. M. Ladies Aid society of Calvary church church rooms, 1:30 P. M. Civic section Womens’ Club Library, 7 p.m.* Ice-eream Social, Clark Chapel. W. M. S. Evangelical church, at church parlors, 2 P. M. Everready Class. M. E. S. S., Mrs Charles Fletcher, T:3O P. M. Friday Kings Herald of Mt. Pleasant church Harley Roop, 1:30 pm. M. E. King Heralds Picnic. Meet at church 2 P. M. W. H. M. S. of M. E. Church, Mrs. T. W. Holsapple, 2:30 P. M. Saturday Cafeteria supper U. B. Church. 5 to 7 pm. Tuesday ’ Girls Missionary Guild, Zion Refoimed Church, 7:30 p. m. Parold Convict Confesses To Series Os Robberies Indianapolis, 1 Auk. 2. —TINS) —Ixtslie Homer, 36, a paroled convict living on a farm near Lebanon, Ind., today confessed to a large number of robberies here which had baffled police for months. While reporting regularly to John H .Hoy, of Lebanon, president of the | trustees of the Indiana state reformatory, Homer according to his story ; carried on a sideline of banditry. Police records show Homer was i sentenced to 20 years in the state re-1 formatory for burglary but was transferred to the state prison at Michigan City. Dr. H. O. Jones Heads Berne School Board Berne, Aug. 2. — (Special) — Dr. Harry O. Jones was elected president of the Berne Board of Education, at j a meeting of the board, which was I held yesterday morning. Dr. Jones will succeed Dr. Amos Reusser. who served during four consecutive three- , year terms. Vilas Schindler was elected secretary of the board and the Rev. E. H. Baumgartner, new member of the board, was chosen treasurer. -— o “Limpy” Cleaver Found Guilty Os Mail Robbery Chicago Aug. 2. — (U.R) —Charh s | “Limpy” Cleaver today was found guilty on seven counts in connection with the $133,000 Evergreen park mail robbery here last February and Charles Wharton, former assistant state's attorney was found guilty of one 7 charge in the indictments by a jury here today. The jury in the case deliberated unt'l shortly after 10 p in., yesterday when it announced a sealed veiflict and retired. The verdict was opened today. The charges against the two, ac-1 cused them of robbery, robbery with a firearm and conspiracy to rob the mails. Cleaver was found guilty of all, while Wharton was found guilty only of the conspiracy charge. The maximum penalty for Cleaver woufld be 47 years in the state penitenl'ary and SIO,OOO fine and for Wharton would be 2 years and $lO,-1 000. Argument for a new trial was bo-1 gun immediately. o — Detective Kills Wife; Shoots Son And Himself — Cleveland. August 2—(INS)— Thomas Lear, 49, a railroad detective, early today shot and killed his wife in their home here, piobably fatally wounded his stepson, and and then turned the , gun on himself. He is reported near death in a hospital. The tragedy is said to have resulted when the stepson, Frank Meyers. 25, asked Lear for money, the latter refusing. Mrs. Lear took her son's part In I the argument according to the repsrt. I and the husband, enraged whipped out a pistol and shot them both.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1928.

Personal* Dr. and Mrs, W. E. Smith will leave Saturday morning tor a week's vacaj tion. They will visit their daughter, , Mrs, Lucille Eicher and family, at Cleveland. From there, they will motor to Columbus, Ohio, to visit their son, Lowell Smith, and family. After a short visit there, Dr. and Mrs. Smith will visit several cities In Southern Ohio and southern Indiana before returning i to Decatur on Saturday, August 11. | "Only twenty minutes trom th' i ban, is th' way Jake Bentley adver- | Uses hls farm ter sale. Mebbe Amelia Earhart is waitin' t' give her heart t’ some feller that's got th' ( price of a 'plane, jest th’ same as most girls marry ter a roadster.—Abe Martin, Indianapolis News. Norbert Holthouse attended to businc*ss at Indianapolis yesterday. L. G. Elliugham, ot Fort Wayne, visited here last evening. A. A. Mendel, of Palestine Lake, Indiana, motored to this city, Tuesday, and joined Mrs. Mendel in a visit with their daughter, Mis. Charles Maynard and family. Returning home ou Weunesday, Mr. and Mrs. Menuei >. .e I accompanied by Mrs. Maynaid and I sons, Chalies Gordon and Everett Lee, i who will be their guests during the re- ! inainder ot the week. Mr. Maynard will motor to Palestine Lake on siuijjjay, to bring his family home. ’ - I Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Berber and I son Billy left this afternoon for Indianapolis where they will be guests o! the H. L. Craig family, and attend the annual picnic of the Ohio State Auto Insurance Company to be held tomorrow at Broad Ripplfe Park, Indianapolis. L. H. Kleinhenz is confined to his home today on account of illness. The regular meeting of the county commissioners will be held next week. Budgets as filed by the different county officers will be taken up by the board. Raymond Harting, well known restaurant man of this city, is suffering from an attack ot kidney trouble. He is confined to his home and under the care of a physician. • Miss Mildred Akey will leave tomorrow morning for Blissfield. Michigan, where she wil visit for several days with Mr. and Mrs. William Simpson, former Decatur residents. Mrs. Phoebe Shum'aker has been entertaining her relatives, Mr. and Mis. Ted itamsey and children of Toledo, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brown of Chicago, Illinois, at her home on South Fifth street. —— —o —* Negotiations Opened In Indiana Coal Strike Terre Haute, Ind., August 2—(U.R) . Represeantatives of district 11, United Xine Workers of America, and of Ini diana coal mine owners opened negotiations here today with the object of fixing a new wage scale for Indiana miners. The negotiations here will be guided i largely by results of a mine wage | parley for Illinois now in progress at I Chicago. Hope prevails in the Indiana j mining region that a settlement will be made affording relief to .cominuniI ties which have felt the pinch cf want I during the long shut-down < f the i mines. 0 Funeral For Jaberg Infant Friday Afternoon Funeral services for Lowell Edward Jabdrg, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Jaberg, of Magley, who died yesterday, will be held at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Chris Borne, at 1:30 o’clock and at the Magley Reformed church at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon, with file Rev. A. R. Fledderpohann, pastor of Zion Re- | formed church of Decatur, officiating. 1 | Burial will be made in the Magley cemetery.

t] Hlore Charm— |i no blemishes now ■ UNDERNEATH a clear, smooth' [ skin, healthy tissues— full of rich, red blood— thrive. jp||ij|^ No worry about pimples now. gjs - Instead there is a certain satisfaction that gives confidence. v |B f All this because rich, red blood iS “ Nature’s way of building and sus- WEWSBL- JHKP® ’Jjss taining the body. L Without plenty of rich, red blood, JtS there can be no strong, sturdy, > B | powerful men, or beautiful, healthy / jg . women. * " ; ; .4i : You know a clear skin cornea jjjf ’ * 5 from within. Correct the cause—through the blood—and pimples, 'W , boils, eczema and that sallow com- B^E^H?®ss«^sSi2g plexion will disappear. . IS.S.S. If cleared my face and S Thousands have regained. their back. I think S.S.S. is wonderful. U strength and charm by taking a I have told my friends about S.S.S., gj few bottles of S.S.S.—Nature’s own and they are getting as much bene- 3 tonic for restoring the appetite— fit as I did.”—Miss Ruth Gahm, JJ building strength—and clearing 1134 Elden Ave., Lo Angeles, Calif. nj the body of so-called skin trouble#. A] , drug . stores gell ggg - n twQ g “I was troubled with pimples and sizes. Get the larger size. It is 3 blackheads. I took a, course of more economical. C* Ct > /owldtK / P e P | V I strength] j, [ajopefitel 1 rst h e 3 the great tonic \t SINCE 1826 < U a clear skin comes from within ?

REUNION CALENDAR 1 Sunday, August 5 Annual Orjnim reunion, Bellmont Park. Stevens family reunion. Huntertown. Indiana. Annual Elberson reunion at Sun Set! 1 Park. Neadstine Family Reunion, Sun Set 1 ’Park. ; 1 Wilhelm Family Reunion, Sun Set 1 Park. Annual Reunion of Schafer family, 1 ' Sun Set Park. Sunday, August 12 Fourth Annual Reunion Kistler Fa-1 mily, Triers Park, Fort Wayne. Rohem and Rllliz Family Reunion Sun Set Park. Butler Family Reunion. Sun Set Park. Annual Venis-Hower Reunion, Wash-; Ington Park, Bluffton. Sixth annual reunion of Durbin fa- j mily Bellmont Park Decatur. . Thursday, August 16, 1928 Eighteenth annual Munima family reunion will be held at Welaser park, Instead of Foster Park, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday, August 16. Sunday, August 19 S< ventli Annual Blossom Reunion, Mrs. Hattie Bloss tn Home near Rockford. v Fi h Annual Reunion Egley-Von Gunten families, Washington Park. Bluffton. Sunday August 26 Annual Bienz reunion, at Sun Set Park. Twenty-first annual reunion Bark-1 te.v-dsai)y 4 Henry Barkley home. V Sunday September 2 Roop Family Reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday September 9 Bosse Family Reunion, Sun Set Park. Second Annual Uhrick Reunion, George Uhrick grov’e, 2 miles south cf Monroe. Annual Reunion Bernard Holthouse ' Family, L A. Holthouse Farm. The general committee for Old Home Week will hold tin i: regular session at 7:30 o'clock this evening at the city hail.

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W. S. Taylor, Former Kentucky Governor, Dies Indianapolis, August 2 (U.R) Former g veruor William S. Taylor, 76, Kentucky, died here early today. Taylor was elected republican Governor of Kentucky In 1899 but his election was declared fraudulent by the Legislature. He was sought in connection with the death of William Goebel after Goebel bad been declared to have been legally elected governor. Goebel wa* shot from ambush. Indiana governors, stnee Taylor fled to this state In 1900, have refused to recognize extradition for Taylor. Taylor was vice-president of the Empire Life and Accident Insurance Company here. Q_ American Tourists In Berlin Outnumber All Other Foreign Visitors By International News Service Berlin American!} again led all the other foreign visitors to Berlin during June, increasing their May record by mote than 52 per cent. The total figure was 4.729. Similar reports of great increases in the numbi r of American tourists come from all other points in Germany. — o Slot Machines Taken In Huntington County Raid Huntington, August 2—Two sff.t machines that were “throwing nickles and quarters,” according to authorities were seized by Sheriff Carl R. Rudicel and Deputy Sheriff V. F. Kohr in communities of the southern part of Huntington county. No arrests had been g Coted Tung? I The bile l> not tlowinceaoucb I to keep the intestines clean. I Ton need a good liver medicine to put you in shape again—take Sold by Zimmerman Drug Shop

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I THE CORT | qS Keep Cool and Comfy. New Cooling System Installed. 1 S Tonight—Tomorrow •jp “RINTY OF THE DESERT” S 1 1 Warner Bros. Attraction With—fl RIN-TIN-TIN, The Wonder Dog tfi A story of a dog’s devotion based on the wilds and ST Jfi perils of the early west. It will pull at your heart strings and leave a memory that acclaims it a truly j£ great picture. Added—Good Comedy—News : £ 10c—25c jfi Sunday and Monday—BlLLlE DOVE in “THE Ifj YELLOW LILY.” • UE TUNNEY-HEENEY Fight Pictures Tuesday and Wednesday njp : 281 gn) THE ADAMS Theatre s Hi "Always Cool and Comfortable” gg Last Time Tonight ® ; ifi “THE CROWD” S i [ug w ith James Murray. Eleanor Boardman, and Bert Roach mt De A GREAT DRAMA OF EVERY-DAY LIFE! S 3 ' Pcr,l aps in your own heme this problem exists. The husband, i bnl who starts with promise o’ greatness . . . beaten down in the Uu ! IE struggle of life .. . the wife who tries to life him up from the njc’ nra crowd! Here is the true stcry of the millions of average men and Snl women, told as only the director of “THE BIG PARADE” could te'l Hi IE it! DON'T MISS IT! Eg AIso—"CRAZY HOUSE”— And “OUR GANG” Comedy Jfi 10c—25c — EE FRIDAY ONLY—"DEAD MAN’S CURVE”—with Douglass Fair- nr np. banks, Jr., Kit Guard and Sally Blane. Jjl Jyi SUNDA/ AND MONDAY —RICHARD DIX in "SPORTING E2 GOODS.” ,jJ

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once. The list of towns visited by the u thorltleH Saturday night included Brown’s Cornera, Plum Tree, Lancaster, Waireu ami Rock Creek Center.