Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 297, Decatur, Adams County, 16 December 1936 — Page 3

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MEETS [{u,,> r,afls of ,h '‘ r •,,. ( . I !ii'-ii Sunday school lift - sn,:ig thirteen mem,wo visitors present. ting opened with the . Sl! .-nt Night’. Mrs, Deg! wl l!i:1Ig . of the devotions. ' a f Imriness scvwion the offh- rs w-ro elected: g£g , Jackson, president; Hill ;ceident; Br ice Har- <.,•••• treasurer; Mrs. Deßolt, teacher. P' jli " as , ' n j°y p<l 11,111 " it^B lx3S exchange held. CHRISTMAS is PLANNED ladies' aid of the Methodist sl : , >mr. h will meet at the IS ,"v:< Paul Edward* Friday .. two-thirty o’clock. A .r fol- tlte meeting are th Mesdamos \V. F. Beery, llarve Baker, Wilbur r er Fred Handler, Delton Frank Crist. .John N-l-Roes Mallonee. K.. Passwater and Mrs. Crist charge of the entertainMrs. fl. R. Carson will lead T .-v woman of the church is to attend. D. Y. B- class of the United Sunday school will meet evening with Mre. Frank ’ .<■ regular class in---t- --■ -ttna* party. A twenty ( »nt gift exchange will be enHr LUCK SUPPER ■ held TUESDAY ■he Catholic Ladies of Columbia their annuai Christmas party ■t.hr K. of (’. hall last evening. At rty o'c'ock a delicious potwae served to the sixty Kts present. The guesta were taught a Cold ? help end it sooner, S j rub throat and chest with paV!C»<s ■Mgl WOWO 4:00 p.m. ■ EH WGL .. 7:00 pm. ■ Mon. Wed. Fri. f the recorded I ADVENTURES I |ace Williams! I r\- ff f * ■ I I Bl M Holsum Bakery Company

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seated at two long table which were beautifully decorated with ever- “ green branchee and lighted tapers, t Christinas trees decorated the - large reception room. • After supper cards were enjoyed and prizes were awarded to Miss ’ Rose Schurger for bridge, Mrs. Tom - Durkin, 54)0. Miss Rose Steigmeyer, . pinochle and Miss Rose s 1 rhtun. Christmas gifts were exchanged 1 at the conclusion of the games. • Miss Agnes Braun was chairman of . the party with the following assisting. Mrs. Nick Braun, Miss Thelma I > Cook. Miss Edith Ervin, Miss EleiErunnegraff, Mrs. Noble Drum and Mrs. Mark Braden. The Ladies’ aid of the Evangelical i church will meet in the church par- • lore Thursday for an all-day meeting. The morning session will open at ’ 10:15 o’clock. A pot luok dinner will 1 be enjoyed at noon. At two o’clock a business session will be held with ‘ the election of new officers. A ten ’ cent gift exchange will be enjoyed. All women of the church are asked 1 to attend both sessions. PSI IOTA XI CHRISTMAS PARTY The Pei lota Xi sorority enjoyed the annual Christmas party at the home of Miss Eloise Lewton Tues--1 day evening. Assisting Miss Lewton as hostesses were Mrs. Arnold Gerberding. Mrs. Leigh Bowen, 1 Mrs. Robert Zwiok, Miss Marjorie : De Voss, Miss Effie Fatton and Miss ‘ i Mary Cowan. A lovely two course dinner was served at six-thirty, o’clock. The j guests were seated at small tables centered with candles and evergreens. A silver Christmas tree added to the attractiveness of the en-: tertaining rooms. JI During the business meeting ' which followed the dinner the sor- ’ j ority decided to purchase a ten dol- ' i lar Health Bond and to donate sis- , ; teen dollars to the Good Fellows. I Announcement was made that; I Hal Bertman's orchestra, which is i a national broadcasting orchestra, 1 has been secured for the dance Deci ember 26. Tickets were distributed ' and are on sale for $1.50 j Three games of bridge were played and prizezs were awarded to Mrs. Robert Freeby, and Mrs Alfred Beavers Mrs. Mary Chandler was : presented with a gUMt prize ‘i Santa Claus arrived with a gift Ifor each one present Mre. Paul Kuhn and Mrs. Herman Kruckeberg, pledges of the sorority were present as guests Out of town guests included Mre. Mary Chandler Mrs. John Mitchell and Miss Helen Harrell, all of New Haven and Mrs. Dan Augenbaugh of Fort Wayne. Miss Betty Frisinger’s Sunday School class will meet at the home of Miss Patsy Edwards Friday even tng at 6:45 o’clock. Miss Dorothy Watrous will be the assisting hosi teas. GUESTS HONORED AT CHICKEN DINNER . Mr and Mrs. Or ville Slusher and children Donald and Alice entertained with a delicious chicken dinS“. P .n“» ’-»»«• "• I roe was an afternoon caller. BETTER HOMES CL T U h ! "“J'S-., club or M«n"'“"“’Mi CJ the Model Hatchery w w R Schwartz as hostess and Mrs. E wßuscheand Mrs. Elbert Moranswered with

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16,1936.

CLUB CALENDAR — Society Deadline. 1! A. M. Mre. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 1 — ■" - Wednesday . Historical Club Christmas Lunch- . eon, Mrs. J. S. Miler, 1 p. m . , Troop 1, oiri Scout Christmas j Party, Mrs. Albert Gehrig, 4p. m. Decatur Home Economics Club [ Mrs. W. O. Little, 1:30 p, m. i St. Paul Ladies’ Aid, Mie. Abe ! Schnepp, All Day Meeting. Zion Reformed Ladies’ Aid Church 11:30 a. m. Corinthian class, Mrs. Adam' Kunowich. 7:30 p. m. Thursday Women of the Moose, Mrs. Andy ' Zeser, 6:30 p. m. j Evangelical Loyal Daughters, Mrs. Frank Buter, 6 ,p. m. Christian church Ladies Aid, 2 p. m„ Mrs. Joe Cloud. Progressive Workers Class, Mre. John Sovine, 7:30 p. m . Philo Class, Miss Alice Lake, 7:30 p. m. M. E. Woman's Foreign Missionary, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, 2 p. m. Mary and Martha Class, Mrs. Daniel Sprang 7:30 p. m. Dinner Bridge Club, Miss Madge Hite, 6:30 p. m. M. E. Standard Bearers, Miss Zulu Porter, 7 p. m. Friendship Village Club, Mrs. Ollie Heller, all day meeting. St. Marys Twp. Home Economics Club, Mrs. Glenn Mann, All Day , meeting. Baptist Woman’s Society, Mre. Will Winnes, 2:30 p. m. Evangelical Ladies' Aid, Church' all day meeting, 10:15 a. m. Rurallstic Study Club, Mns. L. A.' Holthouse, 8 p. m. . Friday Pocahontas Lodge, Red Men'e Hall, 7:30 p. m. Mise Betty Frisinger S. S. class 6:45 p. m. Mies Patsy Edwards D. Y. B. Class, Mis. Frank. Bohnke, 7:30 p. m. Adams County Nurses’ Association, Miss Beulah Barkley near Monroeville, 8 p. m. Philathea Class Party, Mrs. Homier Aepy 6:30 p. m. Nurses’ Association Christmas party, Miss Beulah Barkley, 8 p. m. M. E. Ladies, Aid. Mrs. Paul Edwards, 2:30 p. m. Saturday Primary Class Practise, Evangelical Church, 2 p. m. Tuesday Rebekah Lodge, 1. O. 0. F. Hall, 7:30 p. m. vealed and names drawn for the '■ new year. Hostesses for each month were appointed. Twenty-four members and five children wete present. The Pocahontas lodge will meet in the Red Men’s hall Friday even- j ing at seven-thirty o’clock. -, • The Rebekah lodge will meet in the I. O. O. F. hall Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. MRS. IRA FUHRMAN HOSTESS TO SECTION Mrs. Ira Fuhrman was hostess to the Civic section of the woman’s club at the annual Christmas party, which was held Tuesday evening. The entertaining rooms were beautifully decorated In keeping with Christmas. Thirty-one members were present. After a brief business meeting, Miss Patsy McConnell sang a number of Christmas carols and Miss Marjorie Miller entertained with a group of accordion solos. Keeno was played and ten prizes were awarded. At the conclusion of i the games the tables were laid with white linens and centered with red candles in crystal holders. A delicious luncheon was served. The entertainment committee included the Mesdauies Amos Ketchum, William Dellinger, Ford Russell; refreshments, the Mesdames N. A. Bixler, Fred McConnell, Chester Reynolds, Ivan Stucky. SORORITY RECEIVES A CHRISTMAS GIFT Forty members of the Tri Kapipa sorority- enjoyed the .lovely Christmas party at the Elks home Tuesday evening. Hostesses for the affair were Miss Vivian Burk, Mrs. Harry Knapp and Mrs. Milton Swearingen. At six-thirty o’clock a delicious two course dinner was served at small tables centered with a single red candle in a poinsetta holder around which was a circle of evergreens. Immediately following the dinner a business meeting was held. The sorority voted to send ten dollars to the Riley Hospital, Indianapolis, in support of the state Tri Kappa project which is the purchase of films and a projector for the pleasure of the crippled children in the talMrs. Dan Tyndall then read a letj ter from Serena Homada Tranbarger in which was enclosed a gift of fifty dollars to be used by the sor- ' ority Mrs. Tranbargc.r was a former Decatur girl and a graduate of the Decatur high school. After her graduation she received a state Tri Kappa scholarship. After completing her college education Mrs. Tranbarger taught in the city schools a .number of years. She is now aseo-

I elated In bnsinesß with her husband 1 iin Detroit. The sorority feels extremely grateful for the generous I gift and the motive which promoted it. At the conclusion of the business meeting the Christmas exchange was enjoyed. Three games of bridge were played and prizes were given to Mns. Ward Calland, Mrs. P. O. Eicher and Mrs. Don Farr. The Rurallstic study club will | meet with Mrs L. A. Holthouse eaat of the city, Thursday evening at eight o'clock. MISS WERTZBERGER HOSTESS AT PARTY Miss Mary Wertzberger enter-' tained the telephone office employee at a lovely Christmas party Moni day evening at her home on Mercer avenue. The entertaining rooms were beautifully decorated in keeping with the Christmas season. . The guests were seated at small, tables centered with red tapers and eerved a delicious three course chicken dinner. Assisting the hostess were Miss Joyce Riker and j Miss Geraldine Smith. At the close of the dinner Santa I arrived and hade the guests follow him. He led them to another room and disclosed an attractively lighted Christmas tree surrounded with gifts. The gifts were then distributed. Ten games of bunco were played and prizes were awarded to Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain, Miss Helen Sheets and Miss Geraldine Smith. The guests Included the Mesdames Walter Bockman, Gladys , Chamberlain, Helen Liechty, FlorI ence Drum, and the Misses Gerali dine Smith, Freida Clingenpeel, I Joyce Riker, Helen Sheets, Kathryn Hill, Laura Stanley, Margaret Heuer, Esther Bowers, Wilhelmina Schmitz and the hostess Miss . Wertzberger. —o ARRIVALS Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Kiser of North Seventh street are the proud parents of a seven and one-half pound baby boy born Sunday, December 13. The baby has been named John Thomas. Mrs. Kiser was formerly Miss Isabel Pitser. o PROPOSITION FOR (CONTINUED FKOM_ PAGE ONg) which we believe would cover the cost of the auditorium.” Resolutions presented by the De- ' catur Woman’s club, the Decatur j Junior Chamber of Commerce and ’ the Decatur Lions club indorsing the proposed combination school and community building were read I to the council and ordered placed ! on file. A letter, setting out his suggesti ions, written by Mayor Arthur R. Holthouee, was read to the council and ordered placed on record. • | — —o - Commissioners To Hold Special Meet , A special meeting of the county i commissioners has been announced for Monday, December 28, at which time claims for the balance of 1936 . will be allowed. On Monday January 4, bids will i be received for supplies for the first three months of 1937 at the county infirmary. ’ On Tuesday, January 5, bids will ' be received for supplies for the year ’ 1937 for the county highway department. o- — i To Retain Hamilton As G. O. P. Chairman ' (Copyright 1936 by UP.) Chicago, Dec. 16.—<U.R>—J olin D - M Hamilton will be retained as ’ chairman of the Republican natI ional committee because its members think “Hamilton did the best ’ he could,” a United Press survey disclosed today. — : LIVE CHRISTMAS TREES i Evergreen J Grave Blankets t > Wreaths Cemetery Bouquets Potted Plants i Cut Flowers 3 . A. t Complete Selection Reasonable Prices. - Open Evenings and Sundays, f 3 DECATUR fLORALCO. : Nuttman Ave - PHONE 100

Miss Viola Kaehr will arrive home Sunday after a four month's visit In Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Ralph L. Engle of Oden, Michigan, is the guest of Burt Townsend of Mercer avenue. ! The Jefferson township home eco- ’ I nornics canning demonstration givjen last week by Mrs. Potts at the ! Jefferson school house was instruc-1 | tive and beneficial. Each guest re- | ceived a gift of a Ball canting book.' Miss Patricia FuHenkamip and I Miss Pauline Affolder visited in I Fort Wayne yesterday. Leo Goldberg, Standard Oil deal- ' er, Jefferson and Franklin streets. South Bend, Indiana, today was announced winner of an all-expense : trip to Chicago in a contest coni ducted by Standard Oil Company I of Indiana In its South Bend divisRm for demonstrating outstanding 1 ability in merchandising and serI vice to the public. Miss Martha Calland of Denison University, Granville, Ohio, will ar- ] rive home the last of the week to spend the Christmas holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs, J. Ward ■ Calland. Miss Sally Hower will arrive home from Indianapolis Saturday to spend the Christmas vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mil- , ton Hower. Mrs. C. E. Bell spent yesterday in Indianapolis. City attorney John DeVoss is ati tending to business in Indianapolis today. HOLD LCRASH I ... (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) precautions caused the speeding 1 all-steel interurban express of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railroad to crash into a Rapid Transit company commuters’ train which had halted at a , switch. The rear car of the rapid ’ transit train was demolished. , Van R. Grooms, motorman of the North Shore train, failed to exercise “proper precautions,” the 1 jury reported after hearing him testify that his wheels slipped on j the tracks when he applied his I brakes. The jury declared that the North Shore and Rapid Transit companies were at fault for “failure to 1 provide adequate safeguards for ! the public safety." The reference ' was to use of “block s ignals" which might have been employed

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to stop the North Shore train automatically. Interest in the jury’s report centered on safety measures after assistant state's Attorney Leslie Curtis announced that "as far as 1 am , concerned Mr. Grooms is free." The Jury recommended replace- | inent of wooden coaches on the elevated lines with "modern equipment," presumably steel coaches. It recommended use of block signals, more frequent examination of train employes, and closer supervision of express trains. Two incidents during the day I spurred interest in tlrt> jury's recommendations and in independent studies of precautionary measures by city and state agencies. A few hours before the inquest opened two elevated trains collid- ■ ed on the south side.. Poor vis--1 ion because of heavy fog was blamed. The coaches were lightly loaded and moving slowly. Six passengers suffered only minor nurts. ■ Policeman Harry O’Donnell, assigned to check injured survivors of the Nov. 24 crash, reported at i the start of the inquest that Miss ■ Eleanor Hope had little chance to i! recover and may shortly become i the 12th victim of the wreck. I Grooms, only recently recovered from hysteria induced by the fatal , accident, wept as he told his story, . to the jurors. I I He said he had tested his brakes I previously, but when he applied I them after seeing the elevated t train stalled ahead of him, the! wheels slipped on either wet I leaves or oil on the rails. | “There was no way to take the , car out of the skid,” he said, dabb-' Ing his eyes with a handkerchief. o DUKE, WALLY • FROM PAGE ONE) 5 shirt. ■X I I it is reported that Edward is so t angry at the attack made on him by the Archbishop of Canterbury 1 1 that he has considered formally , leaving the church of England. Persons who have access to the f Rothchild castle said that he par- } ticularly resented the attack be- , cause he had felt that once off the j throne he would be left in peace as , a private citizen. } i It was asserted that the Duke refrained from showing his resenti ment at the attack of the Archbis- . hop only in deference to his moth- , er's feelings and the position of hie r brother George VI, the new king. 31 whom he accepts as head of the ’ family. 1 Royal tradition requires that the

king be consulted by nny member ( of the royal family who contemplates any action such as that which Edward was said to be considering. Because of his position, it was said. Edward was likely to deter a decision on leaving the church until some time later, when future actions of the Archbishop, and the reaction of the royal family to them,! would be apparent. o , WELFARE BOARD -tSGSHKIIS!?.C 1 1- 1 pAn P-P.?-??.. filed. Forty families, with a totaj of 112 children, are now receiving assistance for dependent children in the county, 58 applications having been filed with the department. The county receives each month from the state and federal governments reimbursements of 72 per cent of the total amount paid for assistance to dependent children. A field representative from the state public welfare deportment attended the meeting of the board Tuesday and discussed the question of county staff personnel with the board. As provided in the law. the county department conducts its i woo k under the rules and regula-1 lions of the state public welfare I department, in co-operation with i the federal social security board. The efficiency of the work of I the county department must be ■ maintained at certain required I standards in order for the county to be eligible for the monthly re-1 .'imbursement Os funds from the state and federal governments for the payment of old age and dependent assistance. o Quarterly Conference At Church Tonight The third quarterly conference of the Decatur Methodist Episco-, pal church will be held this eve-1 ning at 7:30 o’clock, according to I ’ the announcement of the pastor, I ' the Rev. H. R. Carson. Devotion-’ al exercises will be conducted by ( ' Dr. Fremont E. Fribley of Fort ■ 1 Wayne, after which the business [ session will be held. Reports for i the past quarter will be made by the various organization leaders and plans for the coining quarter will be discussed. o The phone number in the recent advertisement of the Monroe lunch was erroneously stated as 82. The, ■ number should have read 682.

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County Officials Attend Convention Among the county and township officials attending the stale convention in Indianapolis today. Thursday and Friday are: Ernest Worthm.in, county assessor; John I Tyndall, county auditor; Jeff Liechty, county treasurer; G. Remy Bierly, county clerk; Clifton E. Striker, county superintendent of schools, and John M. Doan, Washington township trustee. - •- ‘ ■■ 1 -I Report Troops March To Rescue General Shanghai, Thursday, Dec. 17. — (U.R>--Reliable reports at Nanking today said that government troops marching to the rescue of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, held captive by Marshal Chang KsuehLiang at Siau-Fu, in Shensi province, had reached the suburbs of the provincial capital and dug In for a prolonged siege. WAKE UP YOUR LIVER BILEWithout Cilomd -And You’ll Junq Oul «( Bed II the Merninf Renn’ to Ge Th» liver ihould pour out two pounds of liquid bile into your bowels daily. If this bile is not flowing freely, your food doesn’t digest. It just decays in the bowels. Gas bloats up your stomach. You get constipated. Your whole system la poisoned and you feel sour. ' sunk and the world looks punk. laxatives are only makeshifts. A mere 1 bowel movement doesn't get at the cause. It 1 takes those good, old Carter's Little Liver Pills to get these two pounds of bile flowing freely and make you feel"up and up " Harmless. gentle, yet amazing in making bile flow freely. Ask for Carters Little Liver Piilsbgr name. Stubbornly refuas anything else. 26c. —h jU! MAN’S YELLOW GOLD ELGIN STRAP WATCH ! Curved to fit the wrist. $25.00 Pay as low as 50c a week. SUTTON JEWELRY STORE 210 N. Second St.