Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 31, Number 103, Decatur, Adams County, 1 May 1933 — Page 3

SOCIETY ■delta kappas K ANNUAL DANCE I-'"' ■» a 5 ? ' X ;«&( Si tuu -Jm I I "j* liy J b ziLg i>H ■ ■’ * *%3** a *® MimMk s&3n& aiK, ■ K-A JE (w j*4 JjLffil I- preparations are being made by the local Phi Delta Kappa K v for the annual Spring Dance which will be held at the ■ country Club, Thursday evening, May 4. ■ Deiknian and his orchestra of Lima, Ohio, well known 1 radio

vv ‘ Kwill furnish music for the Rhich will start at nine ■orchestra is composed of Klayers. each of whom play ■ different musical instruH The men are also talent■ers and will entertain with ■ d group selections. Kober of tickets have been K the annual affair and Kut of town guests from Kling towns and cities are K to attend the dance. K s ell for one dollar and K - Kall will be beautifully decKfor the affair in keeping ■e spring season. Bouquets Kkets of spring flowers and of pastel colors will be Hr decorations. Keening with the spring Khe opening of the present | Kason. sluing fashions will : Benced. Kan Lankenau is chairman 1 Kocial committee in charge for the dance Kry Sheets and Don Gage K members of the commitKlzey. Severin schurger and , Kncher are members of the I K. public affairs and educa : Kcommtttee. John Burnett ■act man between commit-1 Ku-1 Everett Sheets had I ■ of the contracting for the | ■ra and for publicity. Dr. ■Daniels is president of the j ■lay meeting of the Women's ■Ma mmary Society of the I ■ist Episcopal Church will be ' ■ the home of Mrs. J. M. Mil- I ■ursd y afternoon at two- ■ o lock. The assisting hos-1 ■ will be the Mesdames A. J. I N. A. Bixler and Leota I H Callow will have charge ■devotional services, the sub- ■ which will be Jesus, the ■m. Mrs. Dan Sprang will I' tin | sson, the topic being ■opement of Science and ■e." A good attendance is E COUPLE I'ED SATURDAY I Edna Nussbaum, d'lighter lacd Mr William Nussbaum ■roe township and William )• lienee teacher in the I Miles on 1 Gallon? ■aver Engineers, C 1751 st.. , lon. 111., have brought out a i ■ orld's Fair Auto Gas saver ' Iside Engine Oiler that saves i Id oils valves inside engine le time. Fits all cars. Easy I with wrench. Users and I wanted everywhere. 327% I- flue sent free to introI't'iick. Send Address and pine today.

YJOHM FINISHEBTHisA J PV 1-y’' '[/ FLOOR LASTNIGHT- L) H<v4 \y JUNIOR WAS PLAYING (ON IT THIS iHnVyN Umoqth A finish?J/ at KOHNE CALLOW &

CLUB CALENDAR Miss Mary Macy Phones 1000—1001 Monday Bona Terns Club Mrs. Charles Omlor, 7:30 p. in. Christian Corinthian class, Mrs. C. R. Lanman, 7:30 p. m. Monday Night Club, Mrs. Clyde Butler, 7:30 p. m. First Christian Ladies Aid May Day breakfast, church basement, • 5 to 8 a. m. Tuesday N. and T. Club, Mrs. Roy Gaunt, : 2 p. m. Catholic Ladies of Columbia business session, K. of C. Hall, 7:30 p. in. prompt. Zion Reformed Women's Missionary Society, church parlors, 2:30 I p. in. < Adams County Choral Society, | above Brock Store, 7:30 p. m. Baptist Men’s Brotherhood, church 6:30 p. m. Wednesday North St. Marys 4-11 Club supper | Boho scho'd, 7:30 p. m. Historical Club closing, Mrs. DelI ton Passwater, 1 p. m. Thursday M. E. Ever Ready class, Mrs. B. ! R. Farr, 7:30 p. m. Methodist W. H. M. S., Mrs. J. M. Milkr 2:30 p. m. Phi Delta Kappa annual Spring ; Panoe, Decatur Country Club, 0 I p. m. Calvary Ladies Aid Society, Mrs. i J i mt<s Darr hostess. Afternoon Bridge Club, Mrs. ClitI tord Saylors, 2 p. m. Zion Reformed G. M. G„ church parlors 7:30 p. m. Saturday M. E. Ladies lAid Cafeteria supj per, church basement, 5 to 7 p. m. Berne high school, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Spurgeon of Sheridan, were married Saturday afternoon at three o'clock at the Mennonite church parsonage in Berne. Rev. C. H. Suckau officiated. The bride has been employed as a bookkeeper at the Nussbaum Novelty company in Berne. Mr. Spurgeon will return as science tea h r la the high school next year. The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Church will serve a cafeteria supper in the church lka.sement Saturday night from five te seven o'clock. MRS FRANK HURST \ SURPRISED ON BIRTHDAY I Mrs. Frank Hurst residing one |'and <i,e half miles north of MonI roe on state road tw nty seven I was surprised Sunday when the members of the D. Y. B. Class of the United Brethren Sunday School and their families arrived it her horn to assist in celebrating her

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birthday anniversary. The members gathered at the Hurst home following the church services and a delicious basket dinner was served. During the afternoon games and a social time were enjoyed. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Raoph Wiseman and daughter Phyllis, Mrs. Frank Wiseman, Mrs. Joy Gamble and daughter Helen Marie of Van Wert, Ohio; Rev. and Mrs. C. J. Roberts, Mrs. O. P. Mills, Mrs. Blanche Elzey Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fisher Misa 'lre-ta Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Fisher, Mr. and Mrs. William Foughty, Ruth Foughty, Mrs. Lillie Hill, Mary Lou and David Studebaker, Mr. and Mrs. George Hill, Vernon and Catherine Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Bittner, Marlowe, Phyllis and Dorcas Hoagland, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Light, Mr. and Mrs. John Sovrne, Lois Sovine, -Mr. and Mrs. Lester Raney, Robert Raney, Mary Hurst, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurst and daughters Mabie and Ruth. Mrs. John S. Peterson attended a D. A. R. Luncheon at the Womans Club in Fort Wayne today. Mrs. Peterson is a member of the organization. The Afternoon Bridge Club will meet with Mrs. Clifford Saylors, 1 hui sday afternoon at two o’clock. The Girls Missionary Guild of the Zion Remormed Church will meet in the churcli parlors, Thursday night at seven-thirty o'clock. Members are asked to take note of the change in date of meeting. FLORENCE NUSSBAUM WEDS HOWARD VON GUNTEN Miss Florence Nussbaum, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Nussbaum of Monroe township and Howard Von Gunten son of Mr. and Mrs. John Von Gunten of Fort Wayne were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Sunday afternoon at five o’clock. The Rev. C. H. Suckau pastor of the Berne Mennonite church officiated at the marriage service. Wil Ham Spurgeon and Marie Von Gunten attended the couple. Sunday evening, the mewly married couple left for Portsmouth, Virginia where they will make their home, for the present. Mr. Von Gunten is engaged in construction work. FAMILY GATHERING HONORS JOHN BRIGHT John Bright was pleasantly surprised Sunday when a number of friends and relatives arrived at his hom'd with well filled baskets to celebrate his birthday anniversary with a dinner. Dinner was served at noon to the following guests; Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bright and daughter June, Mr. and Mrs. Willis Landes and sons Raymond and Martin, Miss \ irginia Gates and Miss Christens Wiles all of Dayton. Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Marion Johnson of Ashley; Harve Beery and family, Helen, Robert and Marvin, Mrs. Raymond Shackley, Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Abbott and daughte.r Frances and grandson Richard, Mr. and Mrs. John Parrish and daughter Juanrita, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Liddy of Berne; Miss Mayme Cloud, Mrs. Letta P fers, Mr. and Mrs. James Sheppard and son Ronald, Mr. and Mrs. Jefferson Yound and son James of Fort Wayne; Mrs. Don Turner and daughter Barbara Ann of Middletown, Ohio; Junior Bright of Montpelier; Ma.x| o Alltrfin, Florence MeConmdl, Lucinda Borne and Mr. and Mrs. John Bright and daughter Imogene. The Ever Ready class of the Methodist Episcopal Sunday School will meet Thursday evening at sew en-thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. B. R. Farr. The assisting hosI sses will be the Mesdames M. E. Hower, Robert M'.inn and Forest Elzey. 0 Botany Specialist Visits Adams County O. C. Lee, botany specialist from Purdue was in the couaty Thursday of last week and in company with County Agent Archbold visitod plots on which spraying of Canada thistle, quark grass, and European bind weed were nude last year. Where the spraying was properly (lone, excellent results seem apparent. Two plots were visited wlr re continuous cultivation w tariied on during the entire growing period of the past season. These plots also show excellent r.sults. On June 15 and 16. meetings will be held at the various demonstration plots so that those interested may come and observe for themselves and results in the efforts toward weed radication and control. o Alexander Crawford Dies At Linn Grove Berne, Ind., May 1, (Special to Democrat) — Alexander Crawford, 78, died at his home one mile south east of Linn Grove Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Deaith was title to penoumonia. Mr. Crawford had been ill four days. Surviving is the widow and one daughter. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Wljits Oak Church u».ir Geneva and burial will be in the Gravel Hill cemetery.

CROWD ENJOYS PRESENTATION f ■ c (CONTINUED 4' ROM PAGE ONE) I ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ ithe local girls, played by Agnes Wolpert. s Once on Tom Tom Island they ' meet Quackenbush’s ex-butler who 1 is general of the Amazon warriors. | 1 Julius Baker took this part. He | t introduces Lula Palaza, queen of I the Amazons, played by Mary i | Jane Colchin. Other members of I the cast were: Jerome Miller, . Margaret Rumschlag, Edwin Hess, , Mary Ulman, Dorothy Heiman, - Dorothy Lafontaine, Edward Wait, |, • Ambrose Spangler, Lucille Miller,! 1 i Mildred Teeplc, Mary Kay Leon- ' , ard, Annette Lengerich, Justine • Spangler, Ruth Voglewedc, Rose- ’ . mary Miller, aud Medonua Rip- , berger. [ Patricia Fulleukamp was in • charge of the dances, Mr. Coffee ] J and Mr. White were directors of , the orchestra. The play was directed by the Catholic sisters. > 0 , TWO IN JURED BY DYNAMITE BLASTS TODAY 1 , (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) **-**«***•»♦«*♦*•♦••••••* I • company was badly damaged at I] the immediate scene of the blast. ‘ A loading platform was demolished and debris ,was six feet deep. At tlie Sprague-Warner company, one of the nation's largest ' wholesale grocery firms, two large concrete pillars were snapped and gaps appeared in marble floors. A railroad car entrance was twisted' 1 into debris. Lieut. Make Mills, chief of the . police radical squad, was hurriedI ly summoned from his' home. t After a brief inspection he said L he was convinced the attacks were May Day demonstrations. | ' The'buildings at which the blasts occurred were selected, Mills bes lieved, as representative large! corporations and not for specific i 1 reasons. Four men were arrested as sus- I poets shortly after the explosions I but police believed tltey were not I

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actively linjced with the attacks, i No labor troubles or other dis- ' ficulties have been reported at any s of the concerns within recent 1 months, authorities said. 1 Yesterday several hundred per- i sons professing to have communistic, tendencies met in a loop building ostensibly to make May Day preparations. Police said the meeting was orderly. —o Hold Eighth Grade Exercises At Berne 1 The annual commenc'ememt ex-1 ercises for eighth grade pupils’in I the Adams County .rural schools i will lie held in the Community building at Berne, it was announced today, following a meeting of the county trustees in the office of the superintendent of schools Clifton E. Striker, tills morning. The definite date for the commencement exercises was not decided, although it will probably be Junie 10. The annual eighth grade picnic will be held June 8 in the Lehman Park at Berne, Mr. Striker stated. The remainder of the monthly me. ting was devoted to business and tlie preparations of reports for the state department. o Rotary Clubs Show Increase Chicago, May 1 — (Special) — Seveifly-seve.n new clubs have j been elected to membership in | Rotary International since July 1, 1932, raising the total number of clubs throughout the world to 3,578. Most of these new clubs are outside of English-speaking' North America. During this period, twenty clubs I have surrendered their charters, | leaving a net gain of fifty-seven | chibs —a figure that may be com-1 pared with thirty-eight for all of the Rotary year pf 1931-32. According to latest information j available, twenty-seven of the fif-ty-three districts in the United i States, Canada, Newfoundland and j Bermuda reporting for February, show a net increase in member-' 1 ship; one has just held its own, I

and itwenty-five had a net loss. The total increase of members since July Ist has been over 1,500, bringing the total estimated Ro tary membership as of April 15, to 147,000. Give Demonstration Friday, April 28, Roscoe Frazier a mock crop specialist from Purdue assisted the county agent in arranging some fertilizer demonstration plots for onions. He will return in about two weeks at which time fertilizer plots for carrots and potatoes will be 'arranged for. o Plan School For Vining Crop Study County agent Archbold is assisting with arrangements for a school for study on the planning and management of cucumber and other vining corps. The school will be held Tuesday evenimg at the Geneva high school. Banks Collings, field representative of Crampton’s Cannery at Celina, Ohio, will discuss soil preparation, rating of fertilization, seeding rates and thinning of cucumbers. The county agent will discuss control of insects and diseases. It is expected that about 200 acres of cucumbers will be raised in the Geneva territory this year and Gei neva will be a receiving station. o ._ ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Forest Stewart of Paulding, Ohio are the pirents of an eight and one half pound boy i Iraby born this morning, May 1. i Mrs. Stewart was formerly Miss I Katheryn Smith of this city. This ' is the first child in the/ family, i Mr. and Mrs. Harve Smith of Paulding, Ohio well known here, are I grandparents of the child. I o The regular meeting of tlie city j council will be held Tuesday evenI ing. Report on the survey made by j Charles Brossman, Indianapolis, j will probably be made to the coun- ■ cil. Ira Fuhrman made a business b I trip to Monroe this morning.

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Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Saylors and Mr. 'and Mrs. Leo Saylors attended a -movie in Fort Wayne, i Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Johnson and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johnson attended funeral services Sunday afternoon for Mrs. John Martz at Berne. Miss Katheryn Sutter, Walter St. John and Mrs. Dick Shaw returned to their home at Shelby, Ohio, last evening after a visit with Mrs. Grace Alwein here. Miss Alice Al-we-in accompanied them home for a weeks visit. The Cort theater was moved into the Rice building over the weeikend and Mr. Leßrun is planning to reopen there in a few days. The crowd here- Saturday evening was one of the largest in Decatur in a. long time and the mor chants did an old fashioned 'business. Dr. C. J. Blackmain of Bluffton, who is well known in Decatur, left Saturday for Chicago for special treatment. Dr. Blackman has been seriously ill for the past two weeks. Herman Myers and family spent Sunday visiting friends and relatives in Bluffton. John Zuercher of near Decatur was a. business visitor In Bluffton Saturday. Mrs. George Harding has returned from a week’s visit witli relatives and friends in Blissfield, Michigan and Toledo, Ohio. Miss Alice James had as her guests Sunday afternoon Fred and Myrtle Evans and Mel Baumgart-' ner. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Witham spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Witham’s mother, Ethel Evans. Dr. and Mrs. H. Frohnapfel have returned from Cleveland, Ohio where they attended a two day chirepractic convention. They also vis-1 ited witli Rev. and Mrs. W. Hinz while in Cleveland. Mr. acid Mrs. A. W. Lytle and I daughter Berneta and sou Harold ! 'and Miss Agnes Fuhrman and Mrs. |

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Arthur Mayer and daughters, Marjorie and DorotJiy Ellen of this city spent Sunday afternoon visiting with friends and relatives east of Wren, Ohio, Miss Marie Kolter of this city who has completed a four month’s childrens course in nursin gat Akron, Ohio, visited in this city Sunday evening, before returning to the Methodist Hospital in Fort Wayne. She will graduate in June. Two cars attached to the regular Pennsylvania train which goes south at about noon, was filled with young men on their way to the forest camps down south. There were about 125 men in each car and the young fellows were happy lot. Those who saw the train were reminded of the old troop trains which passed through here during the war. 0 _ Railroad Fireman Confesses Kidnaping Denver, Col., May 1. — (U.R) Chancing a life term in the penitentiary, Arthur Youngberg, young railroad fireman, today pleaded guilty to charges of kidnaping Charles Boettcher, 11, and holding him for $60,000 ransom. 0 Early Traveling Library The first practicable traveling library plan was started by Samuel Brown In East Lothian, Scotland, Ik 1817. You Can Have a Lovely Skin New, wonderful MELLO-GLO face powder stays on longer, hides tiny lines and wrinkles, prevents large pores. Banishes ugly shine, none of that drawn “pasty" look. Cannot irritate the most delicate skin because new French process makes it the purest face powder known. You will love the delighti ful fragrance. Try MELLO-GLO I today. 50c and SI.OO. Tax Free.