Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 29, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1931 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDAR Thursday W. O M. L., Moose Home 8 p. in. M. E. Ladies Aid .Meeting and i’iciiie. Legion Memorial Park, 2:3J Friday St. Marys Township Home Economics Club, .Mrs. Ben Colter, ' p, tn. Cnited Brethren V. I. S. Class, Miss Mabie Hurst, 8 p. ni. Monroe M. E. Willing Workeis Class, Rev. Dunbar. M. E. Ladies Aid Doughnut and Cookie sale, church basement, ah - day. ' « T uesday Psi lota Xi Business Meeting Mrs. Virgil Krick, 8 p. tn. Evangelical Donass Class Picnic. Legion Memoiial Park. home mission quota of Chris'mas gifts to be sent to Porto Rico M ; - sion station. DOLORES WERTEMEERGER hOKOREL WITH SHOWER Mrs. M E. Hower, 309 North Fourth street, entertained v ith a party in the form of a linen shower honoring Miss Dolotes We t nn.i ger of Laketon, former tea: her ol the Decatur High School, Wednes- ' day evening. Miss Werten’ erger will become the biide of John F. , Kavuua t-h of New York C ty in Septei.-.be.. The color note of pink and blue [ was carried out in the appoint ments of the summer affair, and smal tables were arranged about the intert lining rooms for b idge. Miss Mary Suttles received the high score prize in bridge, and Miss Fern 1 asswater was awarded the : eonsc'.t. ion p ize. Mis. Hower presented the honored guest with a ! guest prize. i Followng the games, the ta des ' were laid with dainty pink and blue luncheon cloths and centered with I bouquets of asters of the prevailing color an angement. A luncheon of i one course was served by the hasj esses ass sted by the Misses Mar eella, Ge a’dine and Isabel! Hower. i Miss Wertenberger was then in- ! vited to the dining room, whe.e the - dining table was arranged with a number of pretty linen shower gifts 1 h ■ guests at the affair included • 'ii- , Fl-wine Michaud. y i Suttles. Feia Passwater, Eloise Lewton; Miiriant Parrish and Mrs. Robert Mills of this city; Maxine | We.tenberger ami the honored | guest. Miss Dolores Wertenberger lof Laketon. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER CELEBRATE BIRTHDAYS Mrs. Emma Mauller celebrated ! her eighty-third birthday anniversary, and her daughtei, Mrs. A. E. ■ McMichael celebrated her forty i first birthday anniversary at a pari y which was held at the home ol Mr. and M. :. McMichaels, east of ■ Decatur, Wednesday. i Ice c.eam and cake were served , during the evening, and a large ani gel food cake, bearing eighty thiee I candles, which was baked by Mrs. ! Doyt Stricker , formed a centerpiece I for the table. Those present were U. E. Cramer I of Decatur, Mr. and Mrs. John Manlier, Mr. and Mis. William Mauller. ■ Mr. an’l Mrs. Doyt Striker. Joe Hun | ter, Vde Dull and sons Robert and | Eular. Mr. and Mrs C. C. Harmant | and son H trry. Mr and Mrs. Grace • op - and children Robert and Mary M.. and M.s. 1 aul Gould and child--on Agn-s and Earl. M.s. Nora Kelly aul son Edward. Harry Krick and Aus. in Krick, and the honored guests. The Psi lota Xi So: ority wll meet at th-> home of M s. V rgil Krick, Tuesday evening at e'ght o'clock for a business meeting. 'COUNTRY CLUB WOMEN -HAVE PRETTY SUMMER PARTY 1 he women members of the coun try clubs at Bluffton. Orchard Ridge, Fort Waj tie. Van Wert, an 1 Celina, Ohio, were guests of the women of the Decatur Country Club, Wednisday. who entertained with 4 bridge, bunco and golf party. Seasonal decorations of bright summer garden flowers were used about the spacious entertaining rooms of the country club, where small tables were arranged for games of bridge and bunco. The women golfers teed off at i eleven o'clock Wednesday morning, due to the inclement weather, and nine holes of golf were played during the morning and nine in the afternoon. At one-thirty o’clock a delicious. .luncheon was served in the large I bell room of the clubhouse, where | two long tables were arranged for ithe guests. Centerpieces of large! dahlias decorated the tables which ' were laid with linens, and bud vases ot black eyed Susans and cosmos also formed a pretty decoration.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1931.

Huge baskets and bowls of the ! summer flowers were arrartfeed in ] Profusion about the hull room, and I Hl the center of the hall, between 1 the two tables was a very large! basket of Black Eyed Susans. At one end of the hall stood a table, j laid with linen and centered with ; a pewter vase of cosmos, and ar-i ranged with the prizes to be award- i '■d in the golf and card games. | j Following the delicious luncheon which was served in three courses. | the women resumed their ninal holes of golf and their card games, i Five games of bridge and bunco! ■ were played in the morning, and! five during the afternoon. As tlie foursomes in golf return-1, ed later in the afternoon, they were! i served punch and wafers, and a i ■ social time was enjoyed in the par-1 1 lors of the clubhouse. 1 Ihe women then were invited to! the ball room where the prizes were awarded. 1- irst prizes in golf, bridge and bunco were awarded to Mrs. Skiles ’ of I.luffton; Mrs. Charles Knapp of Decatur, and Mis. El Engeler, De 1 catur, respectively. Tlie remaining prizes were award I ed as follows: Mrs. Bruebaker ot - Orchard Ridge Country club, second in golf; Mrs. Brittson of Dallas, Texas, second in bridge. Mrs. \V. A. Kunkle, .Jr., of Bluffton. received the third golf prize; ■ Mrs. Colson, Bluffton, third bridge prize. Mrs. Owens. Van Wert. 0.. fourth -tolf "prixe. . nd Mrs. Arnold Gjrberding. of Decatur, fourth bridge prize, ■’itth prizes in golf and bridge were awarded to Mrs. Dine of Celina. 0.. nd to Mrs. Joe Simmons of Bluffon. respectively. 1 During the luncheon, Wednesday : ‘ fterncon, Paul Edwards, local 'i tographer, called at the County Club, and photographed the omen as they were seated at the uncheon table in the clubhouse. Out of town guests who attended ■ j the open invitation il were the 1 I Mesdames W. A. Kunkle, Jr.. ReinI ar, Skiles. Williamson, Cline, Setd tergreen, Ed Wicking, H. Wicking. : I. Colson, Joe Simmons, William I Hess, and P. R. Sparks, and Miss : Mary Curtis, of Bluffton; the Meslames Brainard. Fuelling. Kohler. Prince, Bruebaker, Morton. Wood 1 ward, Horn, Mertz, and Nicodemus >f Orchard Kid: e; Mesdames Rob- ■ ert Feustal. Citrschall. Robert Koeri ber, and Miss Emmanuel of Fort Wayne; Mesdames Mounts, Leslie. Jr., Good. Rucklas, and Owens of Van Wert. Ohio; Mesdames Mersi man. Otis. Dine, Baker, and Hines >f Celina. Ohio; and Mrs. Brittson of Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Herman Ehinger was general chairman in charge of the ar■angements for the affair, and she was assisted by the committee -hairmen and their committee mem--1 bers. 1 Mrs. E. W. Lankenvu was chair ■ man of the social committee. Mrs. Ehinger had charge of the golf committee. Mrs. G. H. Wehmeyer ■ and Miss Helena Wehmeyer were ‘ chairmen of the committee on dec 1 orations. . I TO ENTERTAIN OUT OF TOWN GUESTS Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison will i entertain a number of out of town ' j guests at her home on Jefferson i I street, Friday. The guests who ■ will spend the day with her are I : Mrs. William Goldthwait. Miss ! Minnie Day. and Mrs. Baldwin of Marion; Miss Lillian Baldwin, who is supervisor of music in th- 1 public schools at Detroit. Michigan; Mrs. Ernest Wiecking, Mrs.' Herminie Colson of Bluffton. Mrs. John Niblick, Mrs. H. H. Stoner of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Hattie Oljenauer, Mrs. A. D. Suttles and Miss Mary Suttles will call at the Morrison home during the afternoon for tea. BETTER HCMES crONOMies CLUB MEETS The members of the Better Homos Home Economics Club and their families enjoyed a picnic snnper at the Lehman Park in Berne, Tuesdayevening. About eighty members and guests attended the aiTiir. A basket supper w-as enjoyed anil the tables were deckorated with beautiful bouquets of garden flowers. F dlowing the supper, contests and games were enjoyed, which were in the charge of Mrs. Roy Price. William Stucky and Roy Price were winners in the paper plate walking contest. A contest carrying beans at'tlie end of a straw was won by Mrs. Noah Rich for the , women, and C. W. R. Schwartz for | the men. Races were also held, | and the winners were Roy Price. Vera Schwartz and Ruth Schwartz. The members of the Busy Bee 4-H club were additional guests at the picnic, and ten girls were present. Mrs. Z. O. Lewellen. Ira Wag oner, and Mr. Barnard were invited guests. Those who attended were Mr. land Mrs. John'FloJd. Mr. and Mrs. Jim A. Hendricks, Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Busche and daughter Miss Louise, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Coyne and i family, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Schultz and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer Raudebush and family, Mr. and Mrs. Loren Burkhead and family, Mr. and Mrs. William Stucky and son ! Weldon, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price, j Mr. and Mrs. Noah Rich and famj , ily. Mrs. Blanche Graham, Mrs. Les--sie Ray and family, Mrs. Homer i Winteregg and son, C. W. R.'

Schwartz and family, Mrs. Della, , George, Marguerite Lewellen, Betty | i Bauserrnan. Mrs. Emil Reinhard ! and daughters. Rev. and Mrs. Dunbar. -Mr. and Mrs. John Crist, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Crist and sons. Plan Handicap Tourney The annual Decatur Country I Club handicap tourney will start next Saturday. All players must qualify before that time. The) tourney will end a week from next ! Sunday. i 0 L__ Wants Interest Stopped Gary, Aug. 27 —(UP) —A morator- | ium on interest payments fur per- ! ; sons attempting to buy homes war j urged in an address here by Otto I G. Fifield, former secretary of state | He foresaw a ‘ serious situation” I if persons who had put life savings in real estate lost their funds through failure to meet interest payments. Fifield offered a plan whereby bond holders would cut th? L'terest rates, permitting them to save their | interest, and home buyers to retain ' their prope.-y. 0 LOCALS Frank Johnston and Doyle Bowserman of Monroe called on friends in this city last evening. Miss Patsy Egley returned to Decatur this morning after visiting with friends in Fort Wayne for the j last several days. Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Rice and f.i-j mily of Fort Wayne visited with Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Callow and Mrs. | Phoebe Rice. Wednesday afternoon.! They were accompanied to their! home by Mrs. Rice who will spend I several weeks visiting her two! sons, S. E. Rice and family, and L. I M. Rice and family at Fort Wayne.! Mr. and M.s. Paul Myers and I children and Mrs. Cla.-a Myers are spending the week-end visiting Mr.' and Mrs. Lewis Myers and daughter Betty Lou at Detroit, Michigan M.s. Elmer Kumpe of Fort Wayne and Miss Margate! Vesey of Okla-j bona City, Oklahoma, called on I Mrs. Hattie Obenauer and Mrs EL-1 zabeth Morrison in this city. Mon-, day. Miss Vesey has returned to! Oklahoma. The Misses Bernice Nelson and j Helen Eady will attend a sub-dis-trict tally of the Epwot.h League Societies at tlie Bluffton M. E. church tonight. o Oiean Levels The mean level of the Pacific at ! the I tlumis of Panama has been I found to be about eight inches 1 higher than the mean level of the Atlantic. In the month of Febru- | ary tlie levels are the same, but I I throughout the rest of the year. ! I on account of current, tidal and 'lnd iqllueme, the mean level of ihe Paeilic ri.mms above that of i the Atlantic It is ns much as one j loot higher In < tetobor Hospitable Indians Handbook ot American Indian* says: "Hospitality, distinguished I from, charity, was a ardinal prin , ciple of every Indian trine The J narratives of many pioneer explor ; ers and settlers, from De Soto and Coronado, A midas and Barlow John Smith and llm Pilgrims down to the most recent period, are full of instances of wholesale hospital ily toward the white strangers sometimes al considerable cost |.< the hosts.” Uncover Ancient Combs The skeleton ot a woman be - ieved to lie n prophetess of Pan nonla. or Hungary .rflmhed to the I suite of Emperor Septimus Sever i us. was found near ( Imlons stir Saone. Frame. I taring the plowing i of a lieUl. five ancient tombs I formed of rough lava, were umov ered. One of them contained the : bonesofa tert tall woman wearing i a crowi of iron lite-eil with silver J Grand Canyon a Marvel The i..'a.,u 1.1,,y0n ot tiie Colorado river, in Grand Canyon Nlttiomil park, Arlz.. offers wlmt has been described by many as nature’s greatest sight. Il is a marvel of natural processes, a deep abyss cut. through the ages by tlie river, and its tremendous sides sculptured in u panorama of color mid aweinspiring fantasy by centuries of wind mid rain On the Rhine Steamer A lr<p on „u e ~f tm- Rhine steamers, whether tut the long picI turesque Journey from Mainz to Co 1 logtie or on the short trip from Dusseldorf to Koetiigs-wlnter. Is always memorable. Over the rail we watch the shores, castle crowned, somotlmes sliatlowed by dark memories, often stirred by thoughts of the great wlio have known these passing towns. Beetlio ven at Bonn, also .Schumann; , Heine at Dusseldorf. Byron nt the DrachenfeJs Gutenberg at Mainz | ez <z> We Owe —it to this esteemed community and ourselves to be at our best in service. W. H. Zwick & Son FUNERAL DIRECTORS Mrs. Zwick. Lady Attendant I Funeral Home Ambulance Service '514 N. Second Tel. 303 and fit I i

ffrTown Talk

Mrs. Jennie Rainier of this city, ami Mrs. Roger Swaim and daughters of Bluffton, are visiting at Lake | Tippecanoe with Mis. Walter Rosen winkel. I Mrs. John Niblick lias returned 1 ! home from a visit witli her daughter. Mis. H. H. Stoner in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Niblick was accompanied home by Mrs. Stoner and her son John, who is recovering from a i inllar bone injury which he sufferj ed in an automobile accident-sever-al weeks age. Lester i.'int of Wren, Ohio was a ; visitor heie this morning. The condition of Emil Wilder, aged Washington township farmer, ! who fa nted in front of tlie Suttles ! Edwards office on North Second street, Wednesday afternoon, is itn i proved today. Mr. Wilder was taken , to his hottie two miles south and one-half mile west of this city by

I "TOASTING" expels I I SHEEP-DIP BASE naturally I (Black, biting, harsh irritant chemicals) I present in every tobacco leaf I ORhc W /, Tftey’re out-1 ■ so they can’t ■ IKI ' ,-F 1 bein'." 1.. Rb; /■. ■■ u. c. <- ; ■ j Every LUCKY STRIKE is made of the finest tobacco leaves the world can offer — the finest from Turkey —the finest from Kentucky, ' Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and the Carolinas - —the Cream of many Crops throughout the world. But all tobacco leaves, regardless of price and kind, as nature produces them, contain harsh The finest to- irritants.LUCKY STRIKE’S exclusive’’TOAST* bacco quality ING” Process—a process that mellows, that ptpi» Pi.., ‘ fies, that includes the use of the modern Ultra ■USTnrOQr Violet Ray—expels certain harsh irritants natu* protection. rally present in every’ tobacco leaf. We sell these expelled irritants to manufacturers of chemical compounds, who use them as a base in making A sheep-dip*, as well as a powerful spraying solu* \ tion for trees, flowers and shrubs — enough to A permit the daily dipping of over 50,000 sheep or l^e daily spraying of many thousands of trees. A Thus, you are sure these irritants, naturally pres* lx \ a ent * n tobacco leaves, are not in your LUCKY \ STRIKE. “They’re out —so they can’t be in!” f CA \ WX No wonder LUCKIES are always kind : ~ to your throat. U. S. Dept, of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry, Order No. 210 Zft’s toasteci" Including the use of Ultra Violet Rays tra —N. B. C. networks Sunshine Mellows —Heat Purifies every Tuesday, Thursday Your Throat Protection-QgQtr.st irritation-against cough 111 sth Aw., N. Y. C ———— i ■” —

the attending physician after the ■ attack. Wednesday. He lias rallte I nicely today but is still confined to I his bed. ; Miss Sara June Kauffman las rc- ! turned from Hammond where she has spent the past month visiting with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Henry D. Fuller. Madeline and Billy Joe Spainarc spending several days in Markle w ill their uncle an 1 aunt, Mr. and M.s. Rif Ik Spall Mr. and Mrs. 11. A. Thomas liav-pe-eived word that their son, MelI ' In "‘hoinas of Ann Arbor, Michigan ! underwent an emergency appendix loperation at the Ann Arbor i'ospi- , tai, Wednesday afternoon. Members of the Berne Community Chorus who won the first place in tlie Chicagoland Mus e F stival at Chicago last Saturday were entertained with a picnic at the A. A.

I Lehman home near Berne, Wed- : I nesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wolff and Mrs. Paul Kirschenbar of this city and Miss Mabel Wolff of east of Berne' are spending the -week at Detroit, ! Michigan and Niagara Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Chris I.eliman and i daughter Rachel and son Bobby,! '| Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kirsch and son 1 . Frederick of this city visited with 1 j Mr. and Mrs. John Lehman and - family at Berne, Tuesday evening. Miss Maliel Hill, who underwent 1 ' a mastoid operation at the Van - Wert, Ohio hospital was removes? 1 to her home in this city today. She was accompanied to this city by ’lie Mesdames George Hill. Rhoda ‘ Hill and Vernon Hill. I Miss Ireta Fisher will return to Fort. Wayne to resume b er stud! -s at the Ini < rna'iopal Bt:.,in"ss Col- ■ lege Monday, after a two week’s i vacation spent with relatives in this : city. Ed. Henderson, and daughter! Miss Harr: t of Indianapolis spent i ■i Tuesday in this city visiting w-ith I I Mrs. A. D. Suttles and family. ] 11 Mrs. Elizabeth Morrison and -j Mis. Hattie Obenauer. . * Judge and Mrs. Dore B. Erwin re-

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: turned last night a "t**rtie week's vacation spent at. Oden, Michigan. * Judge J. T. Merryman of tUi? city « and i. . K. 'tell of Fort Wa 1 n»-r<--* turned Wednesday from a. 'yl raj i day's fishing- trip at Oden, Michi- ! gan. s • * ■ Miss Ida Ma tz who has ber-n ill * lin Muncie, was remove ! to tier l hotti'- in Monroe this niofnind in tlie : Lobenstain and Doan ambulance// Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Ogg and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrem-e Potts amjj.,,. daughter Shiiley Co rine returned - > to this city Tuesday' from a ten days trip through southern Indiana. - and Kentucky Mr. and Mrs. Joel E. Durbin -rvf—near Pleansat Mills cnti rtoiae’f ’’ with a t hicken supper 3 uCstlav--evening for the following eueatst " " Mrs. E. M. Ray of Berne: Mr. and < Mrs. Orval Lozier and little daiiglp''" lets Dorothy Jean and Betty of Warwick, Rhode Island; an<T Mr. : and Mrs. T. .1. Heal and daughter ,' ' Roma of Gary. Mr. and Mrs. Chris Boknecht re- “I ‘urned to this city after a week's •• | visit at Akron, Ohio with Mr. and ! Mrs. Frank Schultz.