Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 132, Decatur, Adams County, 3 June 1936 — Page 3

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Kr R TH bEE PLEDGES \ t I " ■W* , < :n iu >■!!!.•: T. (> J.ill" II I I ill.l ■p’J’V p,,n Sweariny.i 11. ■'!"' U s -' vivi.m -^EK : . > i BL . ■ . ~ ' I' ' ,| S g r Alu v >•<<■••■-I!•!»!: |kL- V! \ .I.ll' Hi'i! l !ag|.'"‘<'l' f,,ar yv " :l ll ' 1 "' ■' KbeM filin'"'' 1 ' •' l! - v -' Tili ’ s " iH ■ 1. wiii iip , .. ■ mi 1,. K Ki.iil- mil I"' :i iiiiouik ••■! KSSiW4ARY SOCIETY Kkeet -HURSDAY l!.. > ii !i Miv .ilil ... 'Kli be 'ill" 'l' '"li'iiml leader mill >i K, ft;. Kj| be «>n ; ■ '■ <1 !'"■ til.- blossom .. < i ii o'clock. v Kn be V i'.mi Edwards. Miss Mrs.ll'rman Myers. WTlie Zi w .Hi :i"V L-m.-im .in cream HMHHr Kmte X ' ii! ' the congregation to Bresem at the United Brethren Ettl’ch Sun lay June 7. at seven<ci The i-omplet- pro- ’ . Bgttrt i part either in the choir K play!* are requested to be at | :: two Kltb<>ii|fa.l MK' ' H*e: wfti Mrs. Ira Bodie Thursday at o'clock. All Rm|Kare urged to attend. ■iRS. HEBER FEASEL ■6 HOST ' CLUB of the Root township club at ■ Tuesday afternoon KtiiMiv. Aliii-i't Johnson and Mrs.

AN OUTSTANDING FURNITURE VALUE ■ i Wit I ail j n | jO |i '"' V £ 11 I "" I W ® i|l e 3 Pc. WALNUT jßed Room Suite f W’fully shaded decorations. Triple Venetian Mirror. Bte consists of Bed — Vanity And Chest of Drawers 639.00 | S I(aT SCHAFER’S AFTER SALE $49.50 HOME FURN IS HI -

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Wednesday Frivolity Club, Mrs. Dick Biirdge, 6 ip. tn. Thursday U. B. Work and Win Class, Mrs. Dick Shaffer, 7:30 p. tn. M. K Ever Ready Class, Mrs. Frank Crist, 7:30 p. m. Monroe M. E. Ladies' Aid, Mrs. Donald Floyd, 1:30 p. tn. Evangelical Woman's Missionary Society, church, 2 p. m. Presbyterian Garden Party, Mrs. John Schug, 3 p. m. St. Mary's Township Home Ec Cub, Mrs. Ben Colter, 1:30 p. tn. So Cha Rea. Miss Virginia Laurent, 304 North Third St. 7:30 p. nt. Eta Tati Sigma, Mrs. Don Stump, 7:30 ip. m. M. E. Woman’s Home Missionary, Mrs. Gerald Smith. 2:30 p. in. Baptist Woman's Society, Mrs. Ira Bodie. 318 South Tenth Street, 2:30 p. m. U. B. Children's Day Practice, church. 2 p. m. Psi Lota Xi initiation, Miss Dorothy Young. 4 p. in. Psi Lota Xi Dinner, Fairfield Manor. 6:30 p. m. Friday Pocahontas Isrilge, Red Men's Hall, 7:30 p. im. American Legion Auxiliary Public Bingo Party. Legion Home, 8 p. m. U. B. Ladies’ Aid. Mrs. Charles Robinold. 2 p. nt. Zion Junior Walther League. Public Social, Church Grounds. 7 p. m. Saturday Pythian Sisters Baked Goods Sale Schafer Store, 9:30 a. m. Lloyd Bryan assisting hostesses. Twenty-seven members responded to the roll call. An interesting lesson was given by the leaders after which a delicious luncheon was served Mrs. Grotian of Monmouth and Mrs. Raudebusch of Hoagland were guests. PYTHIAN SISTERS REGULAR MEETING The Pythian Sisters met Monday evening at the K. of P. home after Temple with twenty-six members and two guests present. After a business meeting the ladies "were invited to the dining room where the hostessess, the Meedames R. A. Studkey, Fred Ashbaucher and Joe Hunter served lovely refreshments. Several games of bingo were enjoyed and prizes were given to Mrs. Sam Shamp and Mrs. Ed Ahr. Miss Jane Krick entertained a number of friends Tuesday evening in honor of Miss Rosie Moyer, who • will leave Decatur in the near future. The evening was spent in ■ cards and dancing and a delicious

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luncheon was served at midnight. There were twelve guests present. The Pocahontas lodge will meet in the Red Men's hull Friday evening nt seven-thirty o'clock. PSI IOTA XIS ELECT OFFICERS The following n-w officers were elected by the Pel lota XI aoronity at the meeting held Tuesday evening In the city hull: Mrs. Alfred Beavers, -president; Miss Hetty Macklin, vice-president; Miss Charlotte Elzey, treasurer; Ml.ss Eb'anor Pumphrey, charity treasurer; Mrs. Charles Hite secretary; Misti Marjorie DeVops, corresponding .secretary and Mrs. Carroll Cole, publicity chairman. The outgoing officers are; Miss Dora Shosenberg, president; Mies Dorothy Young, vice-<president; Miss Effie Patton, secretary; Mrs. Oharleu Breinor, secretary; Mrs. Alfred Beavers, treasurer; Mrs. Robert Freeby, charity treasurer; Miss Betty Macklin, publicity chairman. A report was given by the chairmen, Min. Robert Zwick and Mrs. Ben Duke, of the two sections into which the sorority has been divided the past year. Delegates to the convention to be held at Jeffersonville-June 18 and 19 are the president. Mrs. Alfred Beavers and the corresponding secretary Miss Marjorie DeVoss. Initiation for the girls recently pledged will be held at the home of Miss Dorothy Young Tuesday afternoon at four o'clock, followed by a dinner at six-thirty o’clock (CST) at Fairfield Manor, Fot t Wayne.

PERSONALS Evangeline Spahr, teacher at Bainesville, Ohio is visiting her parents for a three weeks' period before entering summer school at Ohio State. Mrs. Charles Patton. 211 Grant street, well known resident of this city, is seriously ill at her home. She developed pneumonia following an attack of the flu. Mrs. Patton is the mother of Miss Effie Patton, teacher in the Decatur schools. Mrs. Sam Brooks, who has been confined to her home several weeks because of illness, was able to be up town yesterday. Her condition is much improved. Clem J. Steigmeyer and Edward Myers, attorney of Fort Wayne, were business visitors in the city yesterday. The finishing touches on the redecorating of the interior of the city ha'l were being made today by WPA painters. The trim and cornice of the outside of the building will also be ipalnted. The bath house at the city swimming pool was painted last week by the workmen. A volunteer committee of local citizens started a movement today to clear and beautify the Reynolds cemetery north of Decatur, where John Reynolds, one of the founders of Decatur is buried. Frank Shoaf of Kirkland township visited in Decatur Tuesday evening. Frank Ulmer and Weisel! Cummins of Bluffton visited in Decatur Tuesday eveningRobert Fritzinger is able to be out after having been confined to his home for the past ten days on account of injuries received to his head and face when a heavy iron beam struck him w’hile at work at the Central Sugar Company. Mrs. William Bell will leave Thursday for a week's visit iin Washington D. C., and Durham North Carolina. At Durham she will attend the-commencement festivities of Duke University where her brother, Daniel Schafer, is a member of the graduating class. Alice Jane Archbold, freshman student at Purdue University has been initiated into the Alpha Lambda Delta sorority- Only a limited number of outstanding freshmen girls are accepted for membership in this scholastic society. Mies Archbold is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs L. E. Archbold of this city. She is a graduate of the Decatur high school and is completing her first year at Purdue university. - An electric bell in an English museum has been ringing continuously since 1840. A synthethic rubber powder has been invented for molding articles of various shapes. Carrying 12 passengers, an Italian transport airplane has a speed of 200 miles an hour. About 25 per cent of the vegetables and fruits eaten today were not known ten years ago. The Irish city of Dublin lias planned to obtain hydroelectric power from the Liffey river. “TRIGGER MAN” OF tCONTINUED FROM_ y * GF! ONE \ Dean said. “How far away from Poole were you standing when you started shooting?” asked McCrea, pacing away from the witness stand. “There,” replied Dean when McCrea was eight feet away from him. “I fired eight shots at Poole before he fell down,” Dean added.

Queen Os Peony Festival H V ■ ’ J" j Miss Grayce Reed, who will be crowned Queen Jubilee Vth at the Van Wert Peony Festival Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock (CST). Parades will be held at 1 p. m. ujid 7:30 p. m. (both CST )

"Why did you fire so ninny?" | “I was nervous.” Dean said that no one spoke during the shooting. Ervin Lee, l another defendant, also fired at the I victim, who slumped into a ditch ■ by the roadside. “Davis ordered us all back to our cars. There were five of us there then. There was Davis, myself and Lee. Urban Lipps was in the i car already. I don’t know the oth- > ers.” Under McCrea’s questioning.

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Dean told how the (wo machines ; returned to town. Dean said he and Davis went to a German beer garden to drink. “Did you ever talk to Davis ;about shooting Poole after that?" I "1 guess it was lit the plant that lie said lie had.been trying to get over to see Poole’s wife. He said things were getting pretty hot.” Dean said that on the following I Saturday night he had thrown the I murder weapons .38 and .45 calibre revolvers—into Edison Lake.

CATHOLIC HIGH YEARBOOK OUT Tattler, Published Today, Is Dedicated To Father Sei met/. The 1936 edition of "The Tattler" Issued by the student body of the Decatur Catholic high school published today, was acclaimed as one of the best yearbooks in tlie history of the school The year's edition is dedicated I to the Rev. Father Joseph .1. Seimetz, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic church and superintendent of the school, In honor of his silver Jubilee anniversary, marking the 25th year since his ordination to the | priesthood. . | The dedication as worded on the . page: “To you Father Seimetz, as you Paus qquietly this milesotne of . I your career, we dedicate devotedly , Ijiis volume of the Tattler with the J old. old wish 'Crescas, lloreas'.” The staff of the book: editor-in-chief, Margaret Wertzberger and ( assistant, Dolores Leonard; bus- . iness manager, Leo Miller and ast, Blatant, Eugene Daniels; photograph editors, Mary Margaret Klep- ' per. Marjorie Carroll; class report- * ■ ers. Eloise Leonard and Julia Parent: school notes editors, Agnes : and Mary Schultz: sports editors, s Don Hess. Pat Murphy. Bolt Brad■en and Mary Catherine Holthouse. Alumni editor, Helen Gilllg;

Today's Vote For Queen Freida Scherer 87,650 Rosemury Miller 250 Mildred Teeple 34,2f>0 Jxiis Dellinger 250 Ruth Elzey 13,140 p ttll )j nn Affolder 250 Bernlece ('loss 8.420 Al(w Un||art 260 Kathryn Hower 8.400 Gladys Harvey 4,476 I hyllla Krick Isabelle Odle 3,550 Ruth Vogh-wede 200 Dorothy Young 2,750 Catherine Murphy 80® Kathryn Hyland 2,650 Esther Deßolt Kalinvn BagOtaf 2,500 Martha E. Cullond 2m) Patricia Fnllenkamp 2,100 Mary Ulman 150 Evelyn Kohls 1,600 Mildred Blosser 150 Marjorie Carroll 1,000 Margaret Juiube 150 Lenora Teeple . 750 Sylvia Buhl 150 Betty Macklin 700 Elaine Gaffer 150 Rosemary Holthouse COO Florence Reldenbach 100 Mildred Acker . 500 Eileen Burk 100 Alice Allweln 300 Flothllda Harris 100

copy editors, Justine Gable, Mildred Miller, Mildred Rumschlag; advertising manager. Theodore Appelman: advertising committee, William Coffee, Donald Wait. Edward Wolpert. Franklin Teeple, Walter Baker. Fred Voglewede and Daniel Holfhouse; circulation man ager, Vernon Hebble; assistants. Jerome Kohne. Charles Cook. Walter Heimann, Margaret Lose and Bob Hess. The faculty advisors of the staff are Sister M. Agnes Terese anil Sister M. Rosemary. The book is appropriately bound in gold and crimson with golden stencils heading each department, including activities, athletics, features anti advertisements. Colonial silhouettes in gold anil red throughout the book lend a col-

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■ orful touch. Special honor la- paid . the Rev. J. J. Hennes, assistant 1 pastor and athletic director of the . school. —-———o— - PASTOR TALKS 1 are graduates of a high school, only 75 went to college and only 14 graduated. Thin substantiates the theory of proper original . training unit proper thinking through life.” He also stated that there were, to his knowledge, no Hoy Scouts in the penal institution, aisi com--1 mended the work of the Lions - organization in aiding the proper ' training for the younger lads. Brice Butler and the Rev. H. W. 1 ! Franklin had charge of last night's program.