Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 26, Number 186, Decatur, Adams County, 7 August 1928 — Page 5

IW WK I v at <W' 4jJ |'\ MRS. JAMES R. BLAIR fIK ffl I|C /|. | I Society Editor K Phone 1000. (J;i)

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91 miilar fabric tins year. It is tar Bfre extmforta -le H >-"> ■ ”.,n and «h - . '■ - t or try fits ■ La better tlm» anything else. ■ suns J painty tatMa H guaranteed aga.i.>' disaster after a ■ Ln Sait water are a bit more elB irate ami 1-' rubber caps that ■ decorated in I.lv -nne taslnon. ■ Th(iy are elu ! practical at thee ■BH wnin time. ■ Beach wrap.- lS simple as the WB Ulis Towelling IS mostly used and ■ lhl . re an ai.-i nine extremely smart ■ to at> very mm a like mens' bath91 rM for wear ' " I,eactl - A u4e ' ■9 ...,■■ reeemly seen at Deauville MB . I>f th. I: rd. ■! variety, it made a ■ chaemne me-mid with . pale Idue ■| bathing suit bei.eatli made with one ■| strap ai ~ ■- du odder, the other HB kart' ■9 Bath relies of pongee ill sea-green 9B |t ,. i ( ,.me- ri i.d and are especially ■ jttractive n-r Brunettes. It is very smart I- «c.if .. rather masculine ■9 bathing suit . M| The pho. i" Bible class of the Zion hHO jefninied ' ■■■i. will meet Thursday ■9 timing .u 7 | l'» k. with Mrs. Till|M i ;. rin r \ -•■•■ ,| attendance of the MB lenibership is requested. ■ local people |9 REGISTER AT GENEVA 9| \:i. oil- T. i- i persons who regisHB -.-.il Similar, .i' the former home of Gh:- Str.i” m I'n-r in Geneva, w re MB th- following I'H.d people; Luther ■9 ringlet n, \l:- Iva Fuhrman, Doris MB Belle Jm.i - li'id Fuhrman, Martha h 9 1 tm.iii. I '.e. i- Fuhrman, Martha bBM .1-. \\ il ~1 :ie> and Letitia Sing--91 leton Otln : Sunday visitors at the BjM : -1. red from Mnn■9 :■ F: We. ii'sian. Bluffton, Red--91 »•:■. ?.n. . Ohio. Michigan. 11149B tt"'- '’-di: - Kansas, Florida and ■M Missouri. ■ JUNE WEDDING B ANNOUNCED TODAY , ■B Announcement of the wedding of 9 Mt" Helen i>. te rsem and Mr. Eugene ■B Thum,-is. wlmh was solemnized June ■B 22. I?2S. via.- made public today. The ■H Cfi'iiiuiiy to k place at the Zion ReH| iirmeil parsonage in this city, the Rev, ■B Ali. Fleilib lohanu officiating, using HH the impres-iv, single ring service. The ■ couple weie attended by Mr. and Mrs. ■B B. Fay Roller, of this city. 9 The bride is a daughter of Mr. and ■ Mrs. Ezra Pc terson, of Ada. Ohio, and ■■ taught sc h m near Berne last ewinter. ■ where she resided with an aunt. 9 Eugene Thomas is a son of Mr. and Hl Mrs. John Thomas, of Ada, Ohio, and ■ just recently passed the Ohio Bar at ■ Columbus, Ohio. H B°'b Mr. Ind Mrs. Thomas are gradM uates of Ohio Northern University at M m* 4 ’ Ohi ° ' ,r ' Tllornas antl ®*r. and I or 8 ' Fa> Ruller were classmates at M °“ 10 -N'nrthc m, where both of the men M were mernb. i s of the Sigma Pi FraterB nity. I w" r an< * ‘^ rs ‘ Thojnas have gone to | Martins Ferry, Ohio, where Mr. B mas will practice law. I The Baptist Womans Society will I ”' ee ’ Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’I the honie o£ Mrs - Hilyard. on ■ j " rs ' Winness will have ■ ar 8 e of the Missionary program. I Wilhelm reunion I H ELD at sun set I urns 6 . fo " rth annual reunion of the I Pa u fandly was held at Sun Set I southeast of Decatur, Sunday, I «a! USt J At noou > a basket dinner I vari enjoyed ’ a,ter which games and arious contests were engaged in durOnt , remaln der of the afternoon. > Mr- °L- tOWn guests were: and ! Ken'a ii ra ' lk Jordan a “d family, of < Mr. and Mrs. George Mr.f n’iL Clevelaud - Ohio, Mr. and Bent- L P . * ® en£z ’ Theodore and Louis Ohio-’ w * BS Vlolet Barnes - of Akron, nr ' and Mrs. Frank Wilhelm, Chien l " a ’ Agnes Hermann, of bel In ' Mr ' and Mrß ' John Nei ’ John t' S > LUCy Jordan ' Frank and belaiH da “’ Mr ' and Mrß ' Roe Nei ’ NeiL| d 8011 D ° nald ’ Mr - and Mrs - Ge° Jordan 7i f “ m T ‘ ly ' Joe Jord an, Agnes Mr un'/’ Joi ' dan ' Walter Jordan, Uy Ch. » S Hear> Jordan and fam'VllhelL\] ordan - M r. and Mrs. John Mrs Ma alld rs ' J * )hu Tiernan, Schwiet y DeWald > Mr and Mrs. C. 1! >e MinL’ r Carl Schwiet « rs ' GatherErwin w ° rg6 WUhelm ’ Mr ' and Lash m Weßner , Mr- and Mrs. Earl daughter' Frank Kocks and daughter' m F ' and Mrs ' Joe Elert ftnd and {dm .; M , r , and Mrs - O«o Gunkel and DeWald y> all of Fort Wayne; Mr.

CLUB CALENDER r — . Tuesday 1 Baptist Womans Society, Mrs. 1111yard, Rugg street. Tri Kappa, Gid Adams County 1 Bank, 8:00 p. m. Dutiful Daughters class, Evangcl1 leal S. S., Mrs. Homer Meyers, 7:30 p. m. ‘ Girls Missionary Guild, Zion Reformed Church, 7:30 p. m. ' W. M. S. Zion Reformed church parlors 2:30 P. M. 1 C. L. of CKof C. Hall 7:30 P. M. Wednesday Mt. Tabor Ladies Aid, Mrs. John Helm. Thursday Antioch Missionary Society, Mrs. ' Charles Andrews, all day. Friday lce-(Team soc ial. Bobo U. B. church. and Mrs. Joe Bentz, of Bobo; Mr. and . Mrs. Theodore Lengerich and family, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Heimann and family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bentz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Harve Schell and ' family, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Heimann an dsons, Walter and Luke, Joe Heimann, Sam Bentz, Miss Florence Sheets, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Lengerich and son Bill, Mr. and Mrs. John Heimann, and family, of Decatur. ■ An ice-cream social and bazar will be given Friday eevning at the Bobo ! U. B. church. The public is invited to attend. The United Brethren Ladies Aid Society wil hold an ice cream and ■ home made cake social on the United ! Brethren church lawn, Friday evening, ‘ at 7:30 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Macy returned I this afternoon from a two weeks’ honeymoon, spent at Chicago and Oden, Michigan. Mrs. Macy, liefore her marriage on July 20. was Miss Angie Fiirks. o . Mr. and Mrs. Harry Raber are planning to move from their present residence, 245 West Monroe street, to Bluffton. I Mr. and Mrs. F. E. France, Miss , Rose Christen and Mrs. Durkin and daughter, Miss Doroty rethurned this morning from James Lake. Mrs. J. R. Blair and Mrs. F. M. . schirmeyer motored to St. Marys Ohio, today, the former to attend a luncheon Bridge given by Mrs. A. J. Weber and Mrs. R. C. Black, and the latter to visit with Mrs. Charles Rout. Mr. and Mrs. Herb L. Curtis return to their home in this city Monday afternon, after spending several weeks in Indianapolis and vicinity, with rela- ' lives and friends. Mary Jane and Charles, Jr., children of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Merrymajr, have arrived from Demapolis, Ala., tor a month’s visit with their grandparents, Judge and Mrs. J. T. Merry- , man and other relatives. Th' Republican party didn' git t' handle th' world war, but it has full charge o’ prohibition enforcement which saems t’ be even richer pickin’ Children should be had, but not heard. —Abe Martin, Indianapolis News Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hollmann left this morning for Lake James, where they will be joined tomorrow by Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Harkless and daughter Naomi, who will temain tor about ten days. Charles Snyder of Wren, Ohio, attended to business nere this morrung. Miss Gladys Thompson is assisting her father, Rev. H. W. Thompson, who is in charge of the secretary Work of 01*1 Home Week. They have headquarters In the Industrial Association rooms, over the J. i Jgrocery, where Miss Gladys is busy answering the telephone waiting on those who come for signs and other advertising. Miss Ruth Hammond is spending the week at Lake Wawasee, attending the i Evangelical church meetings as a delegate fiom the local church. Fred Schafer, veteran hardware merchant of this city is a patient at St. Joseph hospital, Fort Wayne, where he is resting mere than taking treatment. For several years he has been suffering fiom a hip ailment and decided to take a complete rest for a short time in hopes of improvement. Miss Sally Gerber. Miss Luetta Reffy and Messrs. Bob Cole and Dick Myers attended a show in Fort Wayne last

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evening. Mrs. A. R. Hidthouse and son Jimmy and Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Smith, of Detroit, motored to Indianapolis, this I morning, where they will visit a few days with relatives, and Dan Holthouse who has been visiting with his aunt Fred Rohrer, editor of the Berne 1 Witness. Carl Habegger, Jeff Lehman Fred Mettler and Rudolph Schng and several other men from Berne were in the city this morning. The delegation appeared before the board of review und objected to the 30 per cent increase in assessments on real estate improvements. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Colter und Mr. and Mrs. Howard Storm of Chicago. left yesterday for Detroit, after ( speeding a few days in this city’ as | the guests of Mr. Colter's parents. Mr. , and Mrs. Charles Colter, of East AdI ams street. They will visit friends ' and relatives in Detroit for a few days, after which they will visit Ni- ' agara Falls and points in Canada bebore returning to their homes in Chi- . cago. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Brentlinger of , this city, Mr. Lionel Brentlinger, of Fort Wayne an Mr. Tillman Diehl. Kirkland township visited at Columbus, 0., over the week end. Miss Virginia Hite and Mr. Randolph Brandyberry attended the show at the Emboyd last evening. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Davis, of Day--1 ton, Ohio, and Miss Rose Brown, of Monroeville, were the guests of Miss ’ Clara Brown, of Mcßarnes street, all day Monday. Miss Bertha Heatli and Joseph Ehrsman have returned from a ten days visit with Mrs. Dena Smith, at Columbus, Ohio. They were accompanied i home by Mrs. Smith. Mr and Mrs. Elmer Hornoff and son, Edwin, and Mrs. Charles Hornoff, of Wadsworth, Ohio, and Mr. and Mrs. Eber Heath and daughter. Florence, of Barberton, Ohio, are visiting with Mrs. Lavina Heath, at Bobo. They also attended the Shaffer reunion. I Donald Hornoff is returning with his parents to Wadsworth, Ohio, after ’ spending his summer vacation here with his grandmother, Mrs. Lavina 1 Heath. I Q—REUNION CALENDAR Sunday, August 12 Fourth Annual Reunion Hitchcock ' family. Watt, Ohio. Fourteenth annual Rotlr-Bittner reunion, Herman Bieberich, live miles , west of Decatur., Dailey family reunion, Albany, Ohio.' Fourth Annual Reunion Kistler Fa-, mily. Triers Park. Fort Wayne. I Rohem and Rilliz Family Reunion ( SuuSet Park. I Butler Family Reunion, Sun Set Park. Annual Venis-Hower Reunion, Wash- ’ ington Park, Bluffton. Sixth annuat' reunion of Durbin fa I mily Bellmont Park Decatur. Thursday, August 16, 1928 Eighteenth annual Mumma family reunion will be held at Weisser park, instead of Foster Park, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday, August 16. Sunday, August 19 Annual Bienz reunion at Sun Set Park. Steele Family Reunion, Bellmont park. Seventh Annual Blossom Reunion. Mrs. Hattie Blossom Home near Rock- • ford. Fifth Annual Reunion Egley-Von 1 Guuteu families, Washington Park. Bluffton. Sunday August 26 I Twenty-first annual reunion Barki ley family, Henry Barkley home. Sunday September 2 Roop Family Reunion, Sun Set Park. Sunday September 9 i Bosse Family Reunion, Sun Set Park. I Second Annual Uhrick Reunion, George Uhrick grove, 2 miles south of Monroe. i Annual Reunion Bernard Holthouse - Family, L. A. Holthouse Farm. ; o— Indiana League Os Home , Dailies Holds Election Indianapolis, August 7 —(lNS)—Sam I Boyd, publisher of the Washington. I Indiana, Democrat, was elected presi- I dent of the Indiana League of Home. • Dailies at the League's annual dinner I I /heie today. Al Smith, of Crawfordsville, was '■ elected vice-president. H. E. Sheerer, i cf Chicago, was re elected pel maneni secretary and treasurer. Boyd succeeded George L. Saunders, publisher ’ of the Bluffton Banner, as president of the league. The Daily Democrat is a member of, the Indiana League of Home Dailies. I 0 Field Corn Roasting Ears Gathered Monday Eight large field corn roasting ears were sent to the Daily Democrat of-! five Monday afternoon by James E. Ward, who opeiates a farm at the 1 north edge of Monroe. Sa far as known this is the earliest field corn in this [ . part of the county. .—1 o j Aged Lawyer Drops Dead; Neighbor Stricken With Paralysis When Informed Warsaw, Ind., Aug. 7. — (INS) John D. Widaman, 76, dean of the Koscius- j ko county bar, dropped dead at his , home today. When Mrs. T. A. Goodman, a neigh-, bor, heard of the death, she was strick-1 en with paralysis. o Swimmer Has Cramps; Drowns Greensburg, Ind., Aug. 6. —(INS) — , 1

' Harry Cunningham, 50, of Beach ■ Grove, Ind., was drowned in the Hllbt dale Park, lake five miles cast of hero when he was seized • with cramps while Hwtinmiug. Tne tragedy occurred on Cunnintthani's first vaca- • tion in five years. The body was re- | covered several hours after drown- ' (ng. o “Promoter” Committed To Hospital For Insane Portsmouth, Ind , Aug. 7.--(U.R)-J. 11. Biggs who fletl a few weeks ago after proposing to establish big industries at North Vernon. Seymour, ami New Albany, Ind., andßanchester, (>., Ipis been committed to a hospital for the insane fallowing a hearing here where he was arrested for operating in | Blanchester. Young Friends End Gathering Richmond, Ind., August 7. (U.R) — Nearly four hundred youths today were on their way back to their homes following the close of the Young Friends' Annual conference at Earlham college late yesterday, it was the nineteenth annual conference and delegates from throughout the United States attended. o — - Vare Believed On Road To Recovery Atlantic City, N. J., Aug. 7. —(INS) — Attending physicians believe that Sen-ator-elect William S. Vare. of Pennsyi-1

01 G Jfcimtal r ’ Auction Sale Sat., Aug. 11th 2:30 P. M. in Bellmont Park 1 new 5-rooni cottage just completed—easy terms, small cash payment, balance same as rent. 51-2 acre tracts in east side of park. I 15 Building Lots, several on cement road; easy terms. Smail cash payment, long time on balance. Beautiful Shetland pony and Fll ■ ■ valuable prizes will be a given away at this sale. FRED REPPERT, (owner) Auctioneers- Students and faculty of the Reppert Auction School

vania, who has been critically ill here | following a atroke <>f imrulyain last, Wednesday, la on the road to recovery. He hue recovered consciousneHS. o— Must Complete Circuit The fact that bird* enn sit on nn electric wire Is because tiiere Is not a complete circuit. If a bird were to alight on a wire mid one of Its wings touch another wire, ft would be apt to cause death. Legal Instrument In a legal eense nn net of honor Is an instrument drawn up by a notary public, after protest of a bill of exchange, when n third party Is desirous of paying or accepting the bill for the honor of tiny or nil pnrtles to It -- o Be sure to attend the Auction Sale, Court House square every evening. Plenty of fun, entertainment and bargains, ts. SPEC I A L S For 2 Weeks Only Aug. 6—Aug. 20. Shampoo and \\ aterwave or > Finger wave, 50c Mrs. Teeter's Beauty Shop Phone 667 Le Mur Permanent Wave, $6.00

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