Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1929 — Page 3

f tle remains fro BRING BACK fCHAUMONT DAYS Inner A. E. F. Capital is ■Lain A Calm ProvinF* cial City (ty Ralph lleinzetl press Staff Correspondent) Kjaurnorit. France, May 28—(UP)— ■told city, once capital of the a. E. «^IJ ha! , wrapped itself again in the I of ,hp provincial city of France I will never forget its glorious days l n General Pershing made the ■quarters of his army in an old K tnr y barracks and brought here Ei nf the grand figures of that day llsmenceau, Wilson, King Alhe -t of I Belgians, Haig and many others. Ihanniont lives in the past, but the | r j st coming here would have to |rr!i hard for any trace of the AmU n occupation. There is a little rble plaque on the townhall walls, | you have to be really curious to ■iplier the script which Informs you t General Pershing was received re in September 1917. If the many hastily built'structures Ich housed the brains of the A. E. and the staff officers where the erican battle plans were drawn up all their careful detail, but little mains. Only one of the many ternary barracks Is in place tfAd It is ed as an office by the roads superlendenf. When General Pershing came to te over Ohnumont for the American my, he resided in a palatial house, a Gloriette,'’ which faced on the >at open square, the Champ de Mars, at place is now a home for aged, li no trace can be found of General ratling’s occupation.

| The Rouvre Chateau II Later he moved to a beautiful chnon the Langies road and it was that he received many notable President Wilson and Mrs. spent several nights there. It Bs given rent free to the Americans owner, M. Rouvre, who still lives

■ ■The bookkeepers of the A. K. F.. the I Bneral staff itself and all its branches in the army barracks Damn which were rather unattrac -t iv 'iif American occupation. Arnij painters and carpenter to work and within a week a metamorphosis took place. IB The troops of tile French army imp in Chaumont have the most lodgings of the whole army. Hhev live amid the comfort that the put there for themselves. barracks are lighted by elect nthere are bath-rooms and shower ■aths, a movie theatre, library and Heal mes tables to sit down to. Alb were gifts of the Americans they left. |l The municipality sought to venerate Hhe memory of the A. E. F., and changHl the name of one of the principal ■thoroughfares to the avenue des EtatsUnis, (avenue of the United States), kut the name is rather long to proiounee, so many of the older citizens :all it by its previous name, “rue de Pont.’’ General Pershing has come back to Chaumont several times, and he is itill the greatest figure of the war in the eyes of the population. Elswhere in Prance, the glory of the A. E. F. mayhave been dimmed by time and the victories belittled, but not in Cliaumont. Keep Up Correspondence Every family keeps its memory of some American boy, and many of these French people keep up an intermittent correspondence with the hoys they billeted ten years ago. Some of the proudest citizens in town are those who called upon Cental Pershing just before his departure ten years ago to offer him as the town's gifts gloves for himself and nis son, Warren, and a gold knife with the coat of arms of Chaumont finely chiseled. ' In keeping with a French tradition, General Pershing gave each of the visiting delegation a 25-cent piece of American money. Tradition has it that you must not accept as a gift a cutting instrument, and General Pershing new this, so he “paid” for his gift with quarters. These quarters are cherttshed family heirloms now and happy is the merchant or doctor who can pull a Pershing quarter from his pocket. the town hall, the town clerk will

WOMAN DIVORCED SEVEN TIMES, HUT HAS HAD ONLY TWO SPOUSES

Seattle Wash., May 25 — (UP) — Everyone concedes woman the right to change her mind. Even judges. Mrs. Betty Lecos, 33, is a woman and has exercised her prerogative to siich an extent that she divorced one husband six times and has just been awarded her seventh divorce in 15 years from a second spouse. Court records indicate this is a very Profitable business, as they show Mrs. "® os has gained between $60,000 and *75,000 from her first husband in the six divorces granted her. 1,1 1914 Mrs. Leos began her varied m atrimonial adventures in Nebraska at the age of 18. She married Stearn and divorced him in 1918. In the same >ear she remarried him and again dijuiced him. The next yea'r the Stearns ~who according to their own 10118 battled continually—remarried

Mary Frances I.ininger, 10-year-old Gary high school student, who competed with forty Indiana girls and won title of “Miss Indiana,” will represent this state in the Galveston beauty tournament June 7.

voluntarily show you the municipal douments which created Pershing an honorary citizen in July 191K,' and it was in that capacity that the general later distributed the prizes to school children at graduation time. A sort of reverence surrounds the person of old Marthe, now a toothless old woman hut who ,ten years ago, baked the croissants which General Pershing took with his coffee every morning. Pershing pronounced her croissants the finest he had ever tasted, and Marthe lose in the esteem of the town while her lmkery attracted such crowds to taste her croissants that she could not bake them fast enough, obliging her to sell out for a small fortune.

BERNE NEWS Mrs. Mary Neaderhauser, of Fort Wayne, is visiting relatives and friends in Berne, since Sunday. Theodore Mason, Walter Amstutz and Jeff Leichty were business callers at Detroit, Thursday. William and Miss Kathryn Liechtv and their niece. Miss Eva Leichty, spent Tuesday evening at Portland, visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. Jesse Stookey, who underwent a major operation at the hospital there. The Misses Lillian and Florence Kirchhofer were week-end guests at the homes of the former’s sisters, the Jess Voder and Joel Stucky, at Woodburn. Mrs. William Boyce, of Fort Wayne who is doing the house work for her father Jacob Flory here, during the absence of Mrs. Flory, spent Sunday with her family at Fort Wayne. Gerhart Franz, of Cleveland, Ohio, spent Saturday and Sunday at the home of his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Franz. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Burdge and two sons spent Sunday at tli£ home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nate Burdge at Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Stuckf and daughters Gretchen and Garnet have moved their household goods to Geneva, where Mr. Stucky is head of the Eastern Indiana Oil and Supply Co. Miss Louise Sprunger accompanied her uncle Victor Sprunger to Union City, Wednesday morning, where she will spend the remainder of the week at the home of her aunt, Mr. and Mrs.

in San Francisco. The same year she filed another suit for divorce which wasn't finished, but before the year had ended, she had divorced him again for the third time. Three mom.is later, they remarried in Vancouver, B c' and four months later, Stearn himself filed suit for divorce which was dismissed. Three months later Mrs. Stearn again brought divorce proceedings and obtained her fourth divorce. In each instance Mrs. Stearn was awarded large alimony. The fifth decree came in 1923 and the final one in 1925. Less than a jsear later she married Leos at Mont Vernon, Skagit county. She was then receiving $350 a month alimony from Stearn. Her first husband died in Seattle last March and is said to have left her slo,oo'' in insurance.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1929.

“Miss Indiana”

Auburn Thomas and family. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Michaud, Lores Michaud and Miss Margaret Kern, all of Fort Wayne, were dinner guests of thp former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jess Michaud and daughter Anseola, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. E. M. ltay returned home Thursday from West Warwick, Rhode island, where they visited at the home of their daughter, Rev. and Mrs. O. O. Lozier. Robert and Harold Venis and nephew of Bluffton were visitors with friends in Berne, Tuesday afternoon Robert Venis was formerly manager of the local Bell’s Five and Ten Cent Store. The Misses Mable and Dorothy Smith, of Goshen, were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Edison Sprunger Wednesday evening.

Eli Bierie attended the Undertakers' Convention at Indianapolis, Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Robert Carson of Union City spent Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Yoder and family. She returned Sunday evening, accompanied by Mrs. Yoder and son, where they will spend the weekRev. C. W. H. Sauerwein and Clifton Stiiker, of this place, and Ralph John, of Bluffton, motored to Indianapolis Thursday to attend the General Synod of the Reformed church. Mrs. James Berber and family, of Portland,»were visitors in Berne, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Cleo Rienger, of Greensburg, Ohio, spent the week-end with her sister Mr. and Mis. Edgar Voder and family. John Gottschalk left Thursday morning for Flint Mich., and was to return in the evening with a new Chevrolet. Paul Swope, of Youngstown, Ohio, who is a student at Goshen College, Goshen, called on friends here, Wednesday evening.

GENEVA NEWS Herbert Pontius, of Los Angeles, California is visiting his mother, Mrs. Susan Pontius. Kenneth Whiteman and family, of Elkhart, spent Thursday in Geneva with relatives. Mrs. Earl Duff, of Florida, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Kerr. Mrs. Dr. McKean is spending Thursday and Friday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, George Staley, of Fort Wayne.. Merle Love, of Muskegon, Michigan is spending a few days here with relatives. Mrs. Herman Brenner is ill with heart trouble. Mrs. Mary Macklin went to Decatur, where she will attend the grdatiation exercises of her grand daughter Miss Elizabeth Macklin. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kinkobe have moved to Crawfordsville. Mrs. Lewis Mason, who has been ill for the past week is slowly improving. o Get the Habit—Trade at Home. It Pay*

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