Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 33, Number 69, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1935 — Page 6

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NINE PUPILS IN DISTRICT MEET Nine From Adams County Entered In District Latin Contest Bloomington, Ind., March 21. — (Special) — Nine Adams county high school pupils will be entered in the district meet of the annual state high school Latin contest to be held next Sat unlay, March 23. Winners of the district meets throughout the state will be eligible to compete in the final state meet April 5 at Indiana university. Miss Clara Reppert, of Decatur. Is chairman of the contest in Adams couuU'. Adams county pupils competing in the district meet next Saturday are as follows: Thomas Andrews. Dwight Kimble. Robert Coffee and Marie Grether, Decatur; Eloise Christy, Monroe, and Clara Gable, Berne. Alternates are Peggy Staley, Faye Martin, and Jack Grether. Decatur. This year's contest, which is the twelfth annual state high school | Latin tourney conducted by the | Indiana university extension division, is divided into the following four divisions: I —pupils who will complete first year Latin at the end of the second semester of the current year; II —pupils who will complete second year Latin at the end of either semester; Hl—pupils who will complete Cicero at the end of either semester, and IV—pupils who will complete Vergil at the end of either semester. County contests In Divisions I and 11, in which winners of the local meets participated, were held Feb. 23. In Divisions 111 and IV no county contests were held. The local representatives in these two divisions will compete in the dis- | Doctors B say: “When you’re rundown get needed iron!” COUGHS, colds, grippe and fever leave the body weak, run-down —an easy prey to other ills. Start taking Peptona today. It's j a scientific iron and malt compound that enriches the blood and aids rebuilding of nerve tissue and muscle. And it increases the appetite and aids digestion. PEPT 0 N A full pint 9g c B. J. SMITH DRUG CO. pMts k lEPLACE HAIR OILS WHEN YOU SHAMPOO When you shampoo with ordinary harsh soaps you remove needed hair oils with the result . that your hair and scalp becomes dry and listless —loses th© lustre of well kept hair. When you shampoo with Klenzo Cocoanut Oil Shampoo you replace these needed oils while you shampoo —for Klenzo is marie from pure oils that tone the hair and scalp, yet it removes all the dirt, flakes, grime. Gives your hair that lovely appearance so much admired. KLENZO COCO AN U T OIL SHAMPOO 39c B. J. SMITH DRUG CO.

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trict contests without further elim-1 inations. In Divisions I and II the winners of first and second places in the district meet will compete in the state contest and in Divisions HI and IV, the winners of first places only will compete in the state contest. There will be nine I district meets, according to Mrs. | Adela Littner of the Indiana uniI versity extension division. Gold, silver and bronze medals I will be awarded to the contestants i ranking first, second and third in each division of the contest in the finals at Bloomington April 5. o Hot Cross Buns — Order from your Grocer or stop in at Miller's Bakery.

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I “Money Thrower” Is Released By Police Battle Creek. Mich., March 21 — (UP)—Mrs. Isabel McHie, estranged wife of a Hammond, Ind., publisher. apparently recovered from an attack of hysteria, today threatened legal action unless police returned to her $173,000 and a small fortune in jewels. The cash was found in an envelope on the station (platfom. there yesterday when Mrs. McHie was removed from a train and taken to Leila Post Montgomery hospital. The ip?wels, variously estimated to be worth from SIOO,OOO to $500,000, were found in her luggage. Police chief Hugh Goodman said he was holding the cash and jewels

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until Mrs- McHie's positive ownership could be established. He talked to officials ot the South Side Trust I and Savings bank in Chicago wiho said Uiat Mrs. McHie had been given the huge sum Tuesday. Serial numbers of the bills were to be forwarded and checked today. — o Duke Gardens in Bloom DURHAM. N. C. (U.R) — First blooms were seen this month rising from some of the 75,000 flowering bulbs planted in a newly arranged iris garden at Duke University here. The plot will eventually be one of the South’s most beautiful gardens. During ten months of preparation. 40.000 iris bulbs were planted, 25,000 daffodils, and 10,000 small bulbs.

SENIOR CLASS TO GIVE PLAY Kiikland Seniors Will Present Play Friday And Tuesday Nights The senior class of the Kirkland 'high school will present a three act play, "Hobgoblin House" in th© school auditorium Friday and Tues day nights, March 22 and 26, at 8 o’clock.. The admission will be 25 vents f>r adults and 15 c.nts for childrenThe play takes place in the early spring near the Ozark foothills. Tire three acts are laid In the living room of the late Horace HobgcMMl’.H hoiue. Following Lh the cast of characters: Darius Krupp, tihe old caretaker of Hobgoblin House — Carl Barnett Mims Priscilla Carter, the (present •jwner Anna V\ ullinxinn. Marian Carter, her niece— Lucille Longenbergcr. Jill Carter, Marian's younger sister — Velma Spade. Frank Harlow. Marian's fiance— Dale Augsburger. Jack Loring. Jill’s fiance—Dale Adler. Susan Parkins, the "Henglish 'ous ©keeper"—Alice Reinhard Henry Goober, the darky gardener—Thomas Adler Oelilah Worts, the darky cook — Mabie Stoneburner Bluebeard Bronson, an escaped maniac —Robert Kolter Bill Wilklna, his keeper-Herman YakeThe Headless Phantom— Georgia Yaney. __ „ He Tapped For Maple Sap, Tree Gushes Liquor Perry, 0.. —(UP —Fancy, if you will. Elmer Sweetdew's perplexity when a thin trickle of whisky ran from a spout inserted in a maple tree ba draw sap on hie farm near Centerville. Scarcely trusting his senses, he walked around the tree. On the other side, he found his drill had bored through a cork in a jug cached in a deep cavity of the trunk. Then the remembered a hired man he had discharged several years ago who habitually took along a jug of liquor to lighten his labors. ' o Woman Kills Two Ot Her Children, Takes Poison Kansas City. Kan., March 21 (UP)—Mrs. Pearl Defries, 25-year-j old farm wife today told officers i she wanted to die and take her I three children, two of whom she j killed yesterday, with her. Mrs. Defries, worried "about howI things were going,” administered SALE CALENDAR March 26—J. Rumple & Son. 4 miles east, 2 miles south and % i miles east of Berne, 2 miles south | of Road No. 118. Mar. 21—A. B. Showalter, 3 mi. I so. of Convoy Road No. 49. I Mar. 22—Decatur & Chattanooga stock sale. Mar. 23—Elmer Tricker, 2 proi perties on Oak street. Mar. 25—Art Merriman, Zanesville. Ind. Horse sale. Mar. 27—Cloyd E. Stover, 3 mi. west and 1 mile south of Rock- ■ ford. Ohio. ’ Mar. 28 —Nathan Nelson, % mile I east, % mile south of Geneva. Mar. 29 —Decafur and Chatta- ' nooge community sale. | — SO EASY | to be SAFE! IHW J ” L v < I KEEP your medicine chest H well stocked with First aid i Products. For here is a line of I bandages, cotton, and other needs that is produced with the > highest standards of physicians • and surgeons in mind. Ask to I see these dependable bandages, II cotton, thermometers and other jl medicine chest needs today. Firstaid HOSPITAL SUPPLIES B. J. SMITH DRUG CO.

and fl.cn ©hot her daughter .nd tw sons with a rifle. Robert Defrh*. 3. 1 ihe father, Oordon Defrlw. - • • (*\VA worker, returned ,aHI i night. Arthur Defrlea. 1. dfod In a I hospital The girl. Joyce, 5, had been Hhot In the left aide, the right leg and the right arm. She mutable to walk to th© door and elide the Ikilc in answer to her father► I hou to. Arrest Made In Murder Os Girl Shot In Church Cleveland-!UP)-Pollce investigation of the mysterious murder of .six-year-old Ophelia Scrutchlns, who wuh -shot while praying in Thankful Baptist Church, a negro congregation. resulted <n ‘he arrest of a member of the congregation. Op.elia waa killed by a bullet fired from outside the church. The . suspect, 32. was arrested when a deacon of the church re;s>rted the I man rocently hud threatened to | kill the deacon's, wife. The threat, , the deacon said, wa© made during] an argument over who should take up the collection in the church. Thousands For Drainage Spent, Land Too Dry Now Norwalk, Ohio (UP) Several year© ago. thousands of dolk.ns were spent to drain anrplue water . from the vast celery marsh tracts at Seleryville, near here. Now it lias developed the draining was overdone. The nxirshlands are going dry. ' I Celery growers said the water table has fallen to such extent that 1 crops have matured only with the greatest difficulty, because of 1 " ” """

CURTAINS and DRAPES I B i NEWNESS .... FRESHNESS is the story. in I Curtains and Drapery Fashions for this Spring. We laid plans for it weeks ago. Now we’re show- M F ing the latest ideas in curtains for the season. T '' ■ 1 WITH THE COMING OF SPRING EVERY HOUSE I WIFE has an irristible desire to “Spruce Up" the 2 home with New Curtains. B •J If your curtains are old. grimy and . AvWi dirty why not buy new ones. XE/ *' I r Curtains this Spring at Schafer’s are . Beautiful, yet low in price. \Yi| HNew Ruffled Curtains I Nkl ■ill A Beautiful New J Y I bW V of Smart Ruffled (J to tins in Fancy Weave n fl and cand,e wick w Nk I ■J Assorted Colors, y JL ■ wU Ecru Straight Curtainssl.oo pats MARQUISETTE NEW SPRING 15c BOSTENETfi PANELS DRAPES Curtain Material X each ' ar( ’ S Beautiful New Mexican ' pid Crash, Terry Cloth. x-. Damask. Cretonne and f f f / “ Monks Cloth. Cottage Sets AA £ New and Very Attractive HM H BH RS ' 'j r M ■ HM ■ Why not brighten up your .. JjjJdjJ?*? thi« ynj-.ipg. Set.... Beautiful Lace Panelssl.oo to $2.00 S&SchaferSs 11 HARD WARE HOME FU R NIS HI

aridity, ’ Celery field owners to prevent their interests from being wiped out by biok of water, are planning construction of an eight-acre lake with a 12-foot depth. IVderal aid f >r irri gallon also may besought. o ■ just a Blackeye PROVIDENCE. R. I <UR) While driving a borrowed automobile, Frank Sousa crushed through

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