Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 70, Decatur, Adams County, 21 March 1936 — Page 3

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T 0 A i..-’ 1 '' - 1 " 1 ■"■ B h „ T l>“ it u-■ B inPPtinK--Wr:' 1 r-v «>••* ’Mf i M.<kstn>th and soli. ... |.„ : h Brown. It win rinv-i H " lk - BE '■■" Will >l'.'"' " I,h M ' s ■ k Mrs ■B .■'..■,■.■■■ Mrs imlland Gr<»>' s 1 w " Twenty " til* 1 \\ oiiiun 1W,"','... «nh ,M;s Ray R-'R K club meeting 1 ■-* M: v . ■8..... r '■ ' ''■■’■ l! " s ’ ... .... of the r.\- ■'. ■ ,:;!> with Mrs. Tu.-sc.iy afo-inoon o'clock. ■BL s. '.' - ..... ■ r •:■'<'!! will be the MRS. CROWNOVER flßi ■ uNG COUPLES .. ■ •■*;■• Mr > 111 b hostess. - - ' ''l -■■ |M: the Fred Busvhe. -nail ion was : II" Rev. ree LV- ..- \ ..as Married :h- l-'irst Metho|B '■ It's at .: |M' and r.-s-ark tie- return ■ n «t year. ’• ■ ■ an ' amateur followed with R-v. Caiwon Ma;-r Hi. a.." Tim- progß''-- '■• ' ii'..ii if f it; and 111-rri--1 Priz! * “ere won by Miv. - Washington ••• pr.-re-nnsd to Frerl Bueche. B »• : ,| tn. Mr,. [),, ra and Melvin Barber. |B' : - 1 * '■ i.'-iiti.-it's wore serv|M: '’lose of th- meeting. |W‘ , ’ : '*''y:-ri. 1 :. 1..id;.-.-• Aid will B * :,h «r»- M A. Frisinger |B™ 7 a ' at two-thirty ii club will meet with |B ' ’> t'ortet- Monday afternoon obloes. Mrs. Fred ' Wll h' m charge of the proD «mati<. Section or the Wo'J' l? " ht-et with Mm. Hertne,-!- Monday evening at o'clock. 7u tlnan Need >e dub will K<, , hw ’ Monday evening Ch P '' riie 11<)Bt C8sew will be » Beinek... Mr ,. James Ain-Christen. Historica! club win meet liee, ' y vv «*lnesday |b at two-thirty o'clock. Hung p EOPIe meeting of UU |'t K Pw>ples ' Miseionery ■tFridav ?. Evan K e| lcal church B* s Virgi, at ,he church. B’aa o ski n re . iner ' vlceJ ’**« 1 - ■We or u y lnßta!!ed t 0 ta - k t ' '* e "a Hare who B^ceHln 8115 " ma<l6 by in V n ‘ Who tOW Os K the b*hnl a KentUCky a,ld of soe - B and ‘Myow k M Abraham Li “' K rb ‘' foUowin/ Kentttck y Home " E ng thusieal selectiona

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Mrs. Fanny Maey Phones 1000 — 1001 Saturday Boys group King's Heralde. Jim Hunter. 2:30 ip m. Monday Pythian Needle club. K. of P. home. Dramatic Section, Mrs. Herman Ehlnger, 7:30 p. m. Research club. Mrs. C Q. Porter 2:30 p. tnArt Section. Mrs. Ray Keller, 7:30 p. m. Eiterature Section. Mrs. O. L. Vance. 7:30 p- m. Junior Chamber of Commerce, Rice Hotel. 7 p. m. Music Section, Mrs. Clyde Rittler. 7:30 p. m. Tuesday Civic Section, Library net room. 7 P- nt. Pei iota Xi, pot luck dinner. Miss Eloise Lewton, 6:30 p m. St. Patricks day luncheon. Methodist church. 1 p. ntUnion Chapel Young Peoples' claMfl Mkss Ruth Fleming. 7:30 p. in. Delta Theta Tau, Mses Helen BarI thel, 8:15 p. m. j Root Twp. Home Economics, jelub, Mrs. Gus Bohnke. 1:30 p. in. Wednesday Historical club, Mrs. Leota Beery. 2:30 p m Union Twp. Home Ec. club. Mrs. Fred Hammond, 1:30 p. m. St. Vincent De Paul, K of C. home • 2 pan. Shakespeare club, Mrs. Walter Krick, 2:30 p. m. Thursday M. E. Ladies' aid. parsonage. 2:30 p. m Presbyterian Ladies' aid, Mre. M. A. Frisinger, 2:30 ;p. m. were enjoyed; Etola Jane Eady, accordian solo; Ruby Miller, guitar; Dorothy Spuller, piano solo. Seven members and five guests I were presenti i _____. PHOEBE BIBLE CLASS MEETS FRIDAY NIGHT The Phoebe Bible class of the Zion Reformed Sunday school met with Mru. Walter Deitsch Friday evening. Assisting Mrs. Deitsch were Mrs. Kirchenbauer. Mrs Ed ■ Miller, Mrs. David Smith and Mre. , Walter Cable. Devotional<r were le~ by Mrs. Charles Beineke. Several contests

Y '1 ' ~:y. ,u **. ' ' r ~" -'>» When the Ohio river went on a rampage one of the cities which suffered most was Marietta. 0.. above which was practically cut off from the outside world. r KfTTWWSfcLi xk - I v IJ ■ RR I H I L ll v EkXr 1 . ./< »..Jal BMP ' : 5s OiM BB Chao, and confusion reigned at Johnstown after floods piled wreckage and debris in residential and business sections, causing damage estimated in the millions.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1936.

were enjoyed and prizes awarded to Mrs. Elmer Millar and Mrs. For- ■ rest Oweiw a yfano selection was | given by Mias Lulu GerberDainty refreshments with Easter appointments were served. i GuestH other than class metnliora I were Mrs. Grover Nenenschwander, Mrs. Christ Iz’hmun, Mnt, Robert , Cole, Ml.-a Ad'leno Rocker and Mrs. Arthur Urriner. The Civic S 'ction of the Woman's club will meet in the Library rtwit : room Tuesday evening at seven I I o’clock. PAYMENTS OF X AOE ONE > maximum acreage 20 per cent. Sugar beets and sugar cane: 12*, 2 cents per 100 pounds of sugar produced. Flax: 20 cents per bushel on average yield o Rat* Upset College Assembly Tiffin, 0., —(UP)—Assembly at 1 Heidelberg College suddenly became a panic when a score of white rate invaded the itall. While scream- . ing co-eds stood on chairs, several students assisted President Charles ; E. Miller to capture the rodents J and return them to the biology la- . I boratory. Stanford Pay Cut Likely i Stanford University, Cal. —(UP) —Owing to the reduction of inter- . est returns on Stanford University's I investments. President Ray Lyman Wilbur has notified the faculty a ■ further reduction of salaries may be necessary. One 10 per cent cut has already been made. < o Hollywood Sets Shirt Styles b Chicago —(UP) — Longer, exaggerated points on men’s .shirt col- , lars will be in general demand this 1 year, predict men's wear stylists exhibiting in the Merchandise Mart. , They base their forecast on current greatly increased demand for this type in the Hollywood district, which they say, sets the nation’s . shirt styles. — o Abandoned Mines Sealed Harrisburg, Pa.— (U.R) —Pennsyl--1 vania's abandoned mine-sealing i program, as a preventive against ! stream pollution, is rapidly getting I under way. Attorney General Char- ‘ les J. Morgiotti reports. Approxi- ' I mately 1.100 men are sealing out- ' of-date mining operations. o 1 Historical Inn Razed I | Salem. Mass. (U.R) — The old ■Washington House, where the first i President spent a night during his . INew England tour in 1798, was J razed recently for a new theater.

Washington occupied a northeast chamber on the second floor of the hotel. oPERSONALS Mr. and Mns. Frank Jennings have returned from 'll llkiboro, 111., where they spent a week visiting with the former’s (parents, Mr. and i Mns, Will J. Jenningvi. George Krick han returned from a business trip to Hartford City and other central Indiana cities. Spring got mixed up a little beca.'tse of leap year and missed the date by one day, arriving this morning bright and early while winter gave a last breezy turn yesterday. Those ”1 bought my bond’’ buttons look good and those who wear them are proud of it. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rrown of Geneva were visitors here this morning. D. J. Schwartz of Monroe township attended to business here today. Dr. A N. Ferguson of Fort Wayne vinited in Ilecatur Friday evening. Mrs. Herman Ehinger and son | Jimmie are spending the afternoon I in'Fort Wayne with Mrs. Monta I Hemiley and Mrw. Robert Orff. James Burk of Duke University. Durham. N. C., arrived home last evening for a week's spring vacation with hie parents, Mr. and Mns. Avon Burk of North Fourth street. Miss Eileen Rurk left this noon for Grccncautle. 'lnd , to attend the DePauw university Junior Prom to bbe held there this evening. Mimi Kathryn Hower and Mian Ferrall Fennimore will accompany her as far as Indianapolis where they will spend the week-end. — o Kitchen Pans in Band Hawthorne, Cal. —(UP) —Music by the local P- T. A., band goes ! round and round" the kitchen. All eighteen instruments used by the I membera are made from pots, pans 'and other kitchen utnsiln. 0 Riches in “Fools Gold” Oakland. Cal. —(UP)-“Iron py- , rites, or “fools’ gold, ’ once the heart j breaking disillusionment of early . gold seekers, its netting D A. McD nnell $135,000 annually from a ! mine within the city limits. o — Michigan Pension to Man, I<>6 Monroe. Mich. —(UP) — lAt 106, I Frank Schinevare has received his first old age p°nsion. Schinevare doesn’t need glasses, smokes and chews, and says he enjoys a drink occasionally. o > Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

Pictures Os Flood In Eastern States Flood Leaves 20,000 Homeless at Wheeling, W. Va. *> _ . - ■■■ - ' 'X- ■ IRsK?' ’ -iiijtf* iff ~ .FrW If «>..'> t •. ; rt More than a score of lives were lost in the vicinity of Wheeling, W. Va., above, when the Ohio river rose to the unprecedented height of 54 feet, leaving at least 20X00 homeless in the city of Wheeling alone. Fire and explosions added their terrors to the perils of the churning yellow flood as ref ugees fled to higher ground. — : —7 . , ; r j v "-j >'l Yr T ssS; v ’ .j ...i p ?■ Ti ' I 'WW' V Vj- i i I I I 1 This striking aerial view of New Martinsville, W. Va., on the Ohio river, shows how the city was inundated when waters descended from the surrounding hills and the overflow of the river swept down the valley. jLfe " '■ |' * ' . ' '. 1 * * *-• -<■ * A •x. | ; I .. i KF s > cr t '*7 ' ‘ ' ''■ 'W* ’■... x V ‘J. ! 4 7 • ■" I „ A A'..MT- ' X - > y ''W Mt •»!. I i •■■ > * -. L * * * k?" I' . > ', ■■ B L j i _ - —— Ten thousand people were left homeless when the angry Ohio river went on a rampage, completely submerging Wheeling Island, above, and endangering the huge suspension bridge across the river from Ohio to West Virginia. The flood passed the all-time record of 52.4 feet, claimed the lives of a score of residents of Wheeling Island and Wheeling, and caused property damage estimated in the millions.

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