Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 30, Number 188, Decatur, Adams County, 9 August 1932 — Page 3

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CLUB CALENDAR Tuesday Rebekah Lodge, I. O. O F. Hall. 7:30 p. m. Wednesday Zion Lutheran Missionary Society i ] Mrs. Frank Braun, 2 p. tn. R?ot Township 4-H Club, Mon mouth high school, 1:30 p. m. Thursday Mount Pleasant ladies aid society M s. A. M. Fisher 2 p. tn. M. E. Epworth League treasurer i hunt, church. 2:30 I‘. M. Hotter Homes Home Economics I Club. Mrs. E. J. Frick , postponed until August 18. Girl Scouts Tro p No. 1. Central ! Sch 01, 4 p. tn. Christian Ladies Aid. church par-| lors, 2:30 p. ni. Friday Tirzah Club. Hen 'Hur Hall, to!-' lowing lodge. Zion Reformed AV. M. S. and Mission Band Social, church lawn. 4-10 p. m. Saturday Christian Corinthian Class, Rep- ' pert Auction sale. Monday Adams County Choral Society, court room 7:30 p. ni. i This will ibe the regular monthlvj meeting of the class. Miss Abbott was formerly a member of the class when she resided in Van AVert, and last Sunday ‘ morning visited the class. — The Indies Aid Society of thI Christian church will rnee: Thursday afternoon at two-thirty o’clock in the church parlors. Mrs. Manley Foreman and Mrs. Fied King will! ] be the hostesses. A goed attendance] i is desired. The St. Marys Township Hom 1 Economics Club picnic which was] scheduled to D- held on Friday.: August 26. has been changed to ! Friday, August 19. It will be held; at the home of Mrs. Harry Crown-! : over. All members are requested ■ to note this change. ’ T’e' name of Mrs. Parthena Porter of Pleasant Mills was uninten- : ti nally omitted from the li-t of rel- i atives from here who attended the: Porter reunion held at Pokagon Park. Sund y. PHI DELTS ENTERTAIN OUT-OF-TOWN GUESTS Fifteen members of the Celina 'Ohio chapter of Phi Delta Kappa! ' were guests of the local fraternity] at a meeting held Monday evening.! During the busine-s session initii-j ‘ to:y services wer held for Harold I . Strickler. AVilliam Irvin, a member of the: social c mmittee, was appointed chairman in th? place of Glen] Beavers, who is out of the city.' Severin Schurger was appointedl ; to take Irvin's i; lace on the com ' ■ mittee. Other appointment in- lu.lcd ' i Carl Lose, as a member of the, : membership committee. Plans were mad 1 for a fail danc |to be held Thursday. September I first, at Sun Set Dance Pavili •’ The ]

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j dunce will be for all member* of the fraternity who are leaving in Sep- | tetnbei for colleges, CHORAL SOCIETY I HOLOS REHEARSAL I'he Adams County Choral Society, under Lie dlrectiin of Mrs. ' L. A. Holthouse held a r hearaai in the Adams County Court ro,m, I Monday evening. The members began practicing for a Christmas proj gram to be pr rented during the i holidays. There are about thirty-five mem- ’ bers of the society and anyone In- ' ti rested in becoming a member may I J in at any time. The chorus' is , for b-;th men and women. The re- | hearsals are held ev< ry Monday I evening at seven-thirty o'clock. ! MRS JOHN NIBLICK SURPRISED WITH DINNER Mrs. A. D. Suttles of this city, ] Mrs. O. P. Edwards of Leipsic, and Mrs H. H. Stoner of Cleveland | Ohio united in entertaining with a i surprise party, honoring their i mother. Mrs. John Niblick. Saturj day evening. The occasion was the -eventy seventh birthday c£ Mrs. ] Niblick. Covers were laid for Mrs. Niblick ] Mr. and Mrs. Suttles and family, I Mrs. P.iilip Obenauer, Mrs. Elizh- . both M rrison, of this city, Mrs. : James Beatty of Indianapolis, Mrs. Edwards and Mrs. Stoner. ROCKFORD COUPLE MARRIED HERE MONDAY Miss Catherine Mae Sickles and , Herbert Oder McAdams, both of i U ckford, Ohio were united in m >trlage Monday afternoon at f ur o'- | clock at the home of Rev. Harry I Thompson on North Third street, i It V. Thompson received the marI riage vows. Max Filber and Miss Ruth Burris I j were witness s The bride wore a tailored white ] I suit. Mr. McAdams is employed as 1 a baker at R ckford, Ohio. TOLEDO COUPLE ARE MARRIED TODAY Miss Lucille Tallin n of Toledo 1 Ohio and Thomas R. Crowder also of Toledo were united in marriage i at three o’clock this afternoon in this city. The llride has been em ployed as a sten grapher and the ’ groom is a bookkeeper. The marriage was performed at i th? home < f Rev. Harry Thompson ! on North Third street. Rev. Thompson received th vows, using the • - ingle ring ceremony. Miss Gladys , Thompson was a witness. 0 Regular meeting of the Blue ! Lodge at 7:30 o’clock tonight. AV. M. o Carries Civil War Bullet j Brockton. Mass.—(U.R)—Command- | or Andrew C. Gibbs of the Fletcher i Webster Post. G. A. R.. always carj ties in his pocket the bullet that i wounded him in the leg in the battle of Cold Harbor. A’a.. June 1. ! 1564. It was only in recent years that the lead was removed from his j leg. o Rust Spores Blow 700 Miles Amherst, Mass. — (U.K) -Spores of ’ white pine blister rust are known ! to have flown 700 miles to infect | current bushes, according to Maslichusetts State College research] .workers. But spores which develop | !on currants can travel only a few ] ' hundred feet to infect pines. Leap Broke Her Leg San Jose. Cal. —(U.R) —Irene John ' Ison declned life wasn't worth lfv-1 ling. She climber.to the eighth floor] of a hotel and jumped. She crashed i through the roof of a parked car] and onto the cushions. Police who] rushed to get her body found her' suffejing only a broken leg. ~— Californians Aid Jobless AVa’nut Creek, Cal. — (U.R) —ln-! augnrating a "back to the soil”| movement as an aid to unemployment relief, a group of AValnut Creek citizens has provided a large tract of land near here for truck farming. Persons employed in the work are paid $2 daily and will share in the harvest. _o Same House—Different States Fall River. Muss.— (U.R) — Mrs. Elmer B. Young was born in Massachusetts and her mother was horn in Rhode Island, yet both were born in the same house, located on South Main street. Alteration of the interstate border gave them different native states. Wrestling Referee Substitutes Bessemer. Ala. — (U.R) — When Scotty Dawkins. Louisiana, injured himself too severely by a plunge through the ropes, to continue his wresting bout here with Joe Dill-j man. Indianapolis. Referee Kid Lott, Birmingham, stripped off his shirt and shoes and tussled the remaining 25 minutes of the 30-rnin-ute event, to win a draw. Third Set of Twins Born . South Londonderry. Vt. — (U.R) —, Mrs. Harry Shattuck, 30, recently gave birth to her third set of twins, a boy and a girl, increasing, her brood to 10 childrden. i

New Cabinet Member * I I I, f ! I :? , \ ’ ' / B / / Roy D. Chapin, chairman of the board of the Hudson Motor Car Company, who was appointed Secretary of Commerce, by President Hoover, to succeed Robert P. Lamont, resigned. Mr. Chapin is one of the country’s pioneer automobile manufacturers.

AUCTION SCHOOL * NEWS By CLASS REPORTER Two more new students added to the enrollment of Reppert's Auction School yesterday. They were Herman Redeker and Ernst F. Studtman, both of Arlington Heights, Illinois. What would the splendid crowds the school has been having at the sales do, if our famous mule salesman of Mississippi would not show up?. Don’t worry, patrons, he is too faithful to leave. Col. Guy Johnson, of Co’umbus, > Ohio, an instructor arrived at the school today. The Reppert Auction School almost turned into a hospital yester- . day when two of the students went • to sleep, one accidentally and the . other intentionally. 0 _ Eleven Hundred Persons Drown at Harbin, Russia lHarbin, Russia Aug. 9 — (UP) — Eleven ’hundred persons were drowned in floods in the Ulan region near the city of Sansing o i the ’ Sungary river, according to repo: ts received here today. F nr thousand farms, valued at 2 million yen were submerged. Democrats Nominate Barkley For Senator Louisville, Ky., Aug. 9 —(UP) — |<Alben W. Birkley has been renomiinated by Kentucky Democrats for I United States Senator by a major- | ity that may reach 50.000 votes. Barkley was far out in fiont of : George B. Martin, a former state , senator and who challenged the sin--1 cerity of Barkley’s change in pr :- I hibition attitude almost on the eve I of the primary. Barkley had been ' ! an avowed dry, but favored repeal, in the pre-primary campaign speech , the third c ndidate. Dr. J.F. Wright was not a serious contender. . —. —— o Get the Habit — Trade at Home ———————————— Sooty Hideaway > $ i/V '' A 7* ' Airs. Thelma Thompson is shown as she was released from the Dixie Bee mine at Terre Haute, Ind., after hiding in a boiler for two days while the mine was besieged by strikers. The woman had accompanied her husband, a non-union worker, to the mine and was trapped when armed unionists besieged it.

Aged Junk Dealer Is Found Murdered Fort AA’ayne, Ind.. Aug. 9—Robbery and revenge were held today as motives in tlie slaying of Isaac Hoffman, 65. a junk dealer feund murdered in his s h ack here. He had been slugged and shot twice in the head. lit was reported that Hoffman had a large amount of money hidden. . o Phone Co. Is Alarm Clock Paris —(U.R) —The sale of alarm clocks here is thre.-tened with a drastic slump following a new service offered to telephone subscribers. For a stna’l fee the telephone company has offered to call ali subscribers who wish tc rise at a certain nour. A system of this kind lias been in operation at Marseilles since 1929, and it has been decided, in view of tlie success there, to extend the service to all towns with a population in excess of 2.090 subscribe! s.

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IfrTownTaljt Harry Musser of near Berne Is ■ pending tlie week with Kenneth Gause of this city. Howard Wl>e.iaupt left Sunday f .r Detr It and Mt. Clemens, Midi., I w)> re lie will conduct a campaign. The Misses Virginia Hite and ] Betty M icklin, and Wendell Mack- ' lin returned today from Chicago ] where they spent two days visiting : relatives and friends. Mr. Macklin motored to Milwaukee, where he , attended to bnsines.-. Mr. and Mrs. Dee Fry back and ] daughter motored to Bluffton Sunj day, where they visited Mr. and j Mrs. John Fryback and son Billy. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Smeltzer of l Bluffton entertained at their home | Sunday for Mr. and Mrs. AVill I Smith of this city and Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Wedler of Kingsland. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Baumgartner ]of this city visited at the Victor I Spiunger home in Berne. Sunday. The E. Highland family hav ■ moved from their residence n Wa’nut street to South First street." Mr. jud Mrs. E. H. Nidlinger of Darsaw visit d with their son-in-law. and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sprague and other relatives in this city. Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Fruchte and daughter Uiarri tt were sup er guests of Mr. and Mr-. Ferd Mettler ' and family at Berne, Sunday evenI Ing. j Miss Lois Fuhrman <f this city > was the gu st teacher of the living i Links Class of the Berne MennoI nite Sunday School. Sunday. She . was also a dinner guest f Miss Inda ' Sprunger of Berne. N. W. Abbott and daughter Fran ces of Peterson motored to Van Wert. Ohio Sunday where they i were joined by Mrs. Abbott who has i been visiting there for several days, and their son Clarence Abbott and family. They motored to Montpelier, Ohio and visited with Rev. J. F. Bright and family. Mrs. Abbott accompanied her husband and daugh ter to their home Sfinday evening. Mrs. Mathilda Fledderjohann .and daughters Virginia. Letha and Rob erta left this morning for New ] Kn.xville, Ohio where they will re- ] side. Tom Vail was a business visitor in Chicago, Monday. 1 AV. A. Klepper is attending to business in Cleveland today. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Teeple have : returned from a month's visit with . their daughter in Boston. Enroute home they stopped at Gettysburg and other places of historical interest* and report a delightful trip. L. C. Helm is in receipt of a letter from Dr. J. S. Boyers, now residing in Coronado, California, which says they are in good health and enjoying themselves in ! every way. E. 13. Lenhart who has been a patient in St. Jose: h hospital it Fort Wayne tlie past two w'eeks was brought home today. He is recovering nicely after a major

operation. George Krick and son attended to business In Columbia City. Henry B. Heller was at Bluffton on legal business. Mrs. Albert Sedlemeyer and daughter, Suzanne, < f Fort Wayne, are visiting here this week. Federal officers have been in this vicinity the past several days investigating matters of interest, which they have not yet made public. The band cancert tonight should attract another large crowd. The boys have some surprises ready for you ami we are sure every ono will have a good time. Mrs. Mary Fullenkimp and daughter Ruse, Mrs. Clara Meyers and daughter Mary, and Bob Gass left this morning for Chicago where they will spend the remainder of the week vislti- g Herbert Fullenkamp James Sharpe and Arthur f o x. John Reyn< Ids was In the office this morning with four unusually large new potatoes grown in his garden on North Second street. The p tatoes are "Rulers cf New York" variety. Mr. and Mrs. Dan H leflirg and daughters Jane and Marglret of Lexington Ky„ stopped he r e Monday where they visited with old friends. They ate.former residents of this city and are enroute to Fort AA’ayne and Sedar Point Ohio to visit other relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ferguson and daughter Emilee Igrmori of Col utnbus. Ohio and Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Frisliy and son Ned > f Bryan, Ohio ire the guests cf Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Brown. Mrs . Clara Anderson and Miss Alice Lenhart motored to Fort Wayne Monday evening where they visited with tlie latter's father, E. Burt Lenhart, who was a patient at the St. Joseph Hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rice motored to Elw od, Sunday where they attended the M ore reunion held at Calloway Park. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thomas re ceived a p -tai today from Dr. and

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Mrs. J. J. A’egi, written from Los’* I Vegas, New Mexico and signed the i "Vegas in La-tVegas’’ They are efl“ i route to Los Angeles where theywill attend the Olympic games and , I then enjoy a trip north to Seattle - returning the northern route. " ! Mrs. Forrest Lake »pent several \ Ldays visiting with Mrs. Henry* *i Doehrman at Fort AA’ayne. She wus.' •I joined by Mr. Lake, Saturday evsn- ' Ing und together with Mr. and Mrs, Doehrman they spent the week-end '' at Hamilton Lake. o —... . ~ Granddaddy of Mammoths ! Moscow. —(U.R) —Tlie "grandfather icf mammoths" is believed to have ' been unearthed here with the. dis--1 eovery of a prehistoric mammoth ' skull at Krashy-Jar by an expedition of the Academy of Srknre. 1 Tlie skull including tusks is more | than three meters wide. The rnam- • : moth lived millions of years ago, ■: Academy officia’s state. ■ ■ ’ ; O Faithful Dog Guarded Corpse . I Willows, Cal. — (U.R)—Faithful to •| the last, a dog owned by James I Skillman. Glenn County pioneer, I : stood guard over his dead master's I- body. Then gaunt and hungry, the. dog appeared at the nearest ranch I six miles away, and led friends of . the dead man to his body. Skillman had been dead a week. ,i « .7 Loss of Power Killed Chicks Redding. Ca'. —(U.R) —Because the 1 power was shut off 15 minutes. Mrs. E. G. Kaiser wants the city to re- ' imburse her in tlie sum of SIOO. She told city councilmen eggs in' ■ i three Incubators were destroyed when the power went off. that her ' loss was SIOO and that the city was : I responsible.

— DANCE — Round and Square Dance 7 Piece Orchestra Wednesday at Sun Set Park 3 miles south ■ ——