Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 34, Number 304, Decatur, Adams County, 24 December 1936 — Page 3

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IVOLITY CLUB R istmas PARTY r w . Dick Btirdge was hostess to nembera of the Frivolity club 1 . ] O vely six o'clock dinner par'y dn«iday evening. A delicious „ course dinner was served at' dining table centered with a J en table tree with green tapers cither side. per dinner pinochle was played every glK*t received a prize. p gift exchange was then held. gift box was also prepared for former member, Mrs. Bernard mn who ie a patient at the Irene ■on Sanitorlum, Fort Wayne, 'hose present were the Mesnets Bob lAuguet, Will August, Iter Eckrote, Frank Crist, Nich inn. Jack Keller, Burl Johnson, ian Baker. Ray Fryback, Florenz mard, Lew Miller and Dick •dge. ——— o personals Ir- and Mrs. Robert Smith of eington Blvd, and Mr. P. J. hy of Fort Wayne will be gueets ■istmas day of Mr. and Mrs. Wili Bowers and son. Billy. I. W. McMillen and D. W. McMilJr., left today for Chicago where y will spend Christmas. Ir and Mrs. Don Farr and daughs will spend Christmas as the ats of Mre. Farr's mother, Mrs. s Kelley of FrankfortIr. and Mr. Roy Will of Evans- , 111-, will arrive in Decatur this prnoon for a holiday visit with , and Mrs. William Bowens and jttend the first birthday annivery of William S. Bowers, Jr. it the Cloverleaf Creamery .party ' Id Tuesday evening each employe | ‘ the company received a Christ-j is gift. Those who had been em-; , )yed with the company over a' , ir received an extra week's pay.! > lose who have been employed neatly received a five dollar billMrs- Harry Hartman, of Bluffton spending the day with her Paris, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fuhrman. | Herbert Fullenkamp, of Chicago i II arrive here today to spend' ristmae with his mother, Mrs. ( xOU cheek, Qfi £ c ?h DS i D n n Headache, LIQUID, TABLETS 30minut«M. | l y ‘•Kub-My-Tfam*’—World’s Beal

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II By HARRISON CARROLL B Copyright, 1936, ■ King Features Syndicate, Inc. ■ HOLLYWOOD—The first Hollyboat to be equipped with K radio telephone B will be Preston Foster's Zoa 111. Although ■ filmdom s nio.-t ■ g- e x p e r i e n ced ( *X. sailors, he has ■ jl a wholesome remu s P ect fnr pacific jjljl storms. The set will enable two I w| way communi- ■■ « 9 cation between If'"- A 91 the actor s Doilt «« and the shore. H Preston Foster Foster will ■ operate it him■eif. He just passed the governBient exams. This service is an ■xtraodinary affair and is being put ■nto use to increasing extent by shippers and yachtsmen. II Those big tomes Mo-** Blue ■tudies on the sets are law books, ■ie is taking a correspondence Bourse and hopes to eventually ■•ass the bar examination. It’s a ■ong ambition and, besides, it ■bight be handy if he ever got tired B* acting. Is it new, the gag that Groucho Karx pulled on Al Boasberg the •ther day? The pair were in ■sated argument and Boasbtrg was •houting the loudest. Finally, Groucho got a word in. ■'Listen, Al," he squelched, “don’t orget I have a brother who made • fortune by keeping his mouth hut!” You Asked Me and I’m Telling ? ou! Mrs. R. I. Todd, Minne•polis: Ann Dvorak must have hared your idea about her being oo thin, for she has just put on to pounds. She did it by sleeping 11 hours a night. Many a parent will envy Frank McHugh. His two older children, ’eter and Susan, have taken up he study of the piano. McHugh •as solved the peace-and-quiet problem by building a soundproofed room over the garage. As in past years, Harold Lloyd '■’ill throw a Christmas party for bis servants and their children. The gardner will be Santa Claus *nd will distribute gifts from a

' CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Thursday Eastern Star, Masonic Hall 7 30 p. ntMary Fullenkamp and family. Mr. and Mrs H. B Macy Jeff this morning for West Palm Beach, Florida where they will spend two weeks with the former's parents, Mr. and Mre. E. B Macy. They will stop enroute at Americus. Georgia and spend Christmas day as the guests of Mr. and Mr. James Blair and son. Mr and Mrs. Bill Myers of Farmland will arrive in Decatur Friday to spend Christmas with the latter's paientu, Mr. and Mre. George Squiers. Mrs. Myers is teacher of music and physical education in the high school at Green. She will remain for the holiday vacation with I her parents. Mrs. Robert Freitag of Bluffton visited with friends here yesterday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Scott will leave Sunday morning for St. Petersburg Florida, for a visitMr. and Mrs. Robert McGriff, of Portland will spend Christinas with j the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tilman Gerber. Scott Finlayson will spend Christmas in Washington, Indiana. Miss Helen Lower of Port Jervis, N. Y., and her brother, Joe Lower of New York City, arrived in Decatur last evening to spend the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Homer Lower. Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Smith and ! children left this noon for Free- . mont, Ohio, where they will visit I over Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tricker iof Sturgis, Michigan, are spending I Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tricker. Dick Tricker of Newcastle is | the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Tricker. Miss Dorthea Palmer of Columbia City will spend Christmas with friends in Decatur. Sigurd Anderson left yesterday for Hartford City, where he will spend Christmas. Mrs. C. M. Prugh and daughter Doris Jean are visiting with Mre. Prugh's parents, Dr. and Mrs- E. H. Cosner of Dayton. Rev. Prugh will join them Christmas morning. Frame Wallace and Dale Hunt will leave Christmas day for a three weeks’ visit with friends in Braden-

tree. Not only Harold and Mildred but their three youngsters are present at these parties. Which makes quite a gathering, for there are about 20 servants on the comedian’s Beverly Hills estate. The meeting between Gladys George and Mae West is still to take place. Brock Pemberton had it arranged in Chicago when Gladys was appearing in "Personal Appearance”, but a crowd of fans got between the two girls and they never exchanged words. Another meeting was arranged in Hollywood when Mae was filming “Personal Appearance”, but it fell through, too. The other night at the fights, Miss George had seats next to Mae’s regular pair. It seemed inevitable that the meeting of the two Hollywood blondes would take place. Then Mae failed to show up. Here and there in Hollywood.... Connie Talmadge and Townsend Netcher looked anything but estranged when lunching together at the Vine Street Brown Derby the other noon. . . . The David O. Selznick company will spend 000 on the newspaper campaign for “The Garden of Allah”. . • • Adrian, of M. G. M., has been invited to design the costumes for vlt 6 the Monte Carlo - Russian balleL t If it can be arranged with the i studio, he’ll ac'I cept the comI OW I mission. . . The H • Christmas tree | f ± i of George it O’Brien’s daughI ter Orin, Will A M M P be the tip of cn ...■■■.•jjjMff Oregon fur cut J b y the actor BA-„ himself on the George O Brien j oc at ; 0 n for “Park Avenue T _ p .~ er " . ■ Warners' film, "The Go-Getters” will show the destructio" °:t th the M C?ub ' Casanov other night with June .. And in the party wa p Y Fraser, cousin of Ginger « g who is, of course, Lew s ex m call?

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I ion and St. Petereburgh. Florida. Mr- und Mre. c. W. England will enjoy Christmas at the home of! Mr. and Mrs. Glen Rickard and granddaughters Barbara Ann and I f’atsy of Kendallville. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Knapp and i daughter Kathryn are spending the, | holidays in Savannah, Georgia with Mrs. Kntapp's sister, Mre. Ralston, Mlhh Iverna Werlfng of Indianapolls will spend Christmas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert WerlI ing of Preble. Mrs. Elsie Rleley and Fred Woods of Cleveland will be guests over Christmas of Howard Wisehaupt and Francis Drake at the Wisehaupt. residence, 616 Nuttman avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Dale Sprague of Bluffton visited friends in Decatur last evening. Jim Hurst, Decatur pioneer, recalls to mind today that, just 69 years ago Christmas he and Ezra Miesse enjoyed a luncheon of quail! on toast at the old Miesse House.

MONROE NEWS Mrs. E. W. Busche, Mrs John Floyd and Mre. Otto Longenberger attended the economic club meeting at the home of Mre. C. R. Mann at I'leasant Mills Thursday afternoon. John Johnson is Improving slowly at his home in Monroe after a several week’s illness of rheumatism. Mr. and Mre. Floyd Lihy entertained at Sunday dinner. Rev. and Mrs. Paul Brandyberry, Mr. and Mrs. Ransome Barkley and daughters Jean and Evelyn of Decatur and Frank Brandyberry of Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Meyere and Mrs- Sadie Meyers of Fort Wayne called on Mr. and Mre. John Crist Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Charley Bowman of Napoleon Michigan, is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. O. O- Hocker and other relatives. Mrs. Forest Ray and daughter Helen, and Mr. and Mre. Harry Beitler and family visited Mrs. Ray's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Watkins at Upland Sunday. Max Balmer spent Saturday in Fort Wayne. Miss Louise Bueche of Elkhart is spending her holiday vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Busche. Mr. and Mrs- Raymond Crist visited Mrs. Charles Lammiman and daughter Sarah Margaret at the St. Joseph hospital at Fort Wayne Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith of Preble visited Mr. Smith's parents, Mr. and Mre. W. S. Smith Sunday. Mrs Elizabeth Martin of Ohio City returned to her home Saturday after a two week's visit with Mr. and Mre. Otho Lobenstein. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Lehman of Berne were the guests of Mr. and Mrs- Paul Bahner Sunday. —o 80 Years In One Home Grafton, Australia, (U.R) — Mrs. T. Layton, who has just celebrated her 80th birthday, boasts of having passed her entire life in the same house. She was bora on the day her parents arrived in Australia in 1556. For many years the house was the only one on the lonely bush track which is now the principal street of Grafton.

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Luke’s Christmas Mone y SXfci 'SSKIHpwSSwEKwSSiwJSw Little LUKE, watching his father splice rope, was suddenly struck with an idea. "It’s just one strand after another, isn't it dad?” "Yes, just one strand after another that makes the rope that holds the ship. It's the way most things are accomplished, boy, when you come to think of it.” A cold wind blew around the fish shed back of the wharves. Other men were busy, too, tying snoodknots on trawls, hoping a good day would come for Ashing tomorrow. Luke walked away and up the hill. Christmas coming in a week! He knew his father and mother had been busy planning something for his happiness then. But what had he done? Nothing at all. He stood stock still, his thoughts all mixed up in a queer way. with the strands of rope that made the line, the hundreds of snood-knots the fishermen were tying. "Just one thing done, and then another to make the whole,” he reflected. Then, walking slowly again he seemed to see two one-dollar bills folded away in his pocket-book. And trailing back from the money a row of different pictures of himself, working hard to earn those two dollars. Planting seed potatoes in the spring, hoeing them, weeding in the hot sun, even watering his own plot when the weather was dry. Then, in the fall digging them up. Selling them . . . for two dollars. One bit of work after another. What next? He took more steps. Money was earned by the work of one person to buy something which was the work of another. Luke smiled. He knew "what next,” very well indeed. So, on Christmas morning, though Luke was delighted with his own gifts, he had an almost dizzy pleasure in watching his fatter and mother unwrap a pair of bedroom slippers and an apron he had given them. "My potato money!” he shrieked. "I got it by doing one thing after another . . . just the way the rope grows, strand after strand.” Luke’s father looked puzzled, but his mother kissed him and said "Merry Christmas, dear!" © Western Newspaper Union.

The Mistletoe Hunt By FRANCES GRINSTEAD “By O Baby Bunting. Daddy's gone a hunting" When the mothers of young children in the east Oklahoma countryside sing this nursery song to their little ones they may out of loyalty to Mother Goose add the next two lines: "For to find a rabbit skin. To wrap the Baby Bunting in.” But that isn’t exactly what daddy does down there. When it comes the time oi year that the baby needs warmer covering, daddy takes his gun and goes out to shoot down mistletoe! This he sells for the Christmas trade and buys Baby Bunting a different kind of raiment. For mistletoe, with its wellknown holiday meaning, grows in abundance there and is always found high among the bare winter branches of the native elm. Little boys climb for it, of course, but the quickest way to gather it for commercial use is to shoot it down. “Open season” for mistletoe hunting begins about the last of November and the demand increases steadily until Christmas. Truck loads of the green sprigs with their wax-white berries are driven to the cities of the north for the holiday trade. As the mistletoe is not always uniformly ripe at the time it is wanted, much "hunting” is required to find sprigs whose berries are at a stage to suit the demands of the buyers. At such times the roadsides may be strewn with discarded mistletoe, for the condition of the berries cannot be seen until the sprig has been shot down. But such waste is not lamented, for mistletoe is a parasite that reappears in abundance each year, however ruthlessly it may be treated. © Western Newspaper Union, X*** MEANING OF CHRISTMAS t THE first meaning of Christ-1 mas is that of generosity, | inspired by the great gift of God t to mankind. The selfish sway of | the world is broken at least for 1 a time, and the Christ spirit is | born in our hearts. Sometimes | the exchange of presents is car-1 ried too far and becomes a I burden instead of a pleasure; but | anything that makes the world I unselfish is beautiful and good. | «~9 Blow in Christmas In Denmark on Christmas morning they "blow in the Jul” at dawn from church towers, playing Christmas hymns to the four points of the compass-

Robles Family Await New Quiz : ~ t t- \ --Wak • J it GU IT L '■ mWMH' fa IwSlm v W«June Robles and parents Three of the principal witnesses at the new investigation at Tucson, Ariz.. into the unsolved mystery of the kidnaping of 9-year-old June Robles, left, are the three members of the Robles family, June and her parents, shown above as they awaited to appear in court

Judge’s Assailant Is Found Guilty Hartford City, Dec. 24— ((U.R> — ] Clint Everett, 42, world war veteran and father of seven children, , was found guilty by a jury in the Blackford circuit court of the charge of assault and battery with intent to kill Judge Ethan Secrist I and will be sentenced to 2 to 14 years in prison. The verdict was returned at 2 o’clock. o> Can’t Hold Fathers For Support Failure Indianapolis'. Dec. 24. —(U.R)—lndiana fathers who have lost custody of children in divorce court orders cannot be convicted legally of desertion for failing to support their children, the Indiana supreme court held in an opinion yesterday. The court’s decision was made in an appeal from a judgement in which John R. Manners was sentenced from one to three years in the state prison for desertion. Man Is Held After Attempted Assault Fort Wayne. Dec. 24. — XU.R) — George Dannells was under $5,000 bond today, after arrest on a charge of assault and battery with an attempt to commit criminal assault. ( Dannells was allegedly identi- , fled by a 10-year-old girl who was grabbed on a city street Tuesday night and dragged to a tent along | the St. Mary's river. The girl was* freed when the assailant feared her screams would attract attention. o Four-Months Old Lad Found Dead In Crib Becond, Ind., Dec. 24 — (UP) — Klevin Dolan, four-months-old, was found dead in hie crib last night by his mother Mre- Lawrence Dolan. He apparently had choaked on milk o State Relief Fund Shows A Decrease Indianapolis, Dec. 24. — (U.R) — A decrease of 30 per cent in amount of public funds spent on relief in Indiana during November, compared to the same month last year, was shown today in compilation of statistics by the state' welfare ( board. Welfare department officials

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pointed to an increase of 14 per I cent on individual cases to show that the reduction has not been made at expense of persons on relelf. Total outlay for relief in the state last month was $534,400, coinparetl to $767,784 a year ago, the i compilation showed. Cost per case I was shown to have increased from $12.96 in 1935 to $14.77 last month. L o Salesmen Use Buggies Ashtabula, O. —(UP) —Persons who were surprised at finding six salesmen from a St. Louis stove company traveling Ashtabula County by horse and buggy, elicited the explanation that the men's bosses regarded ‘oats cheaper than gasoline." The salesmen said they received a two-week training course in harnessing and care of horses. o Pioneer Bridge Built Priest River, Ida- —(UP) —WPA workers built a 1,113-foot bridge across the Priest River this year, costing $11,567. Lumber and piling used for construction of the bridge were cut from forests near the Priest River. A portable sawmill was used for cutting the timber into lumber. Mre. John Schug and son Richard nave gone to Parkersburg, West I Virginia to spend the holidays with the former's son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs- George Schug and eon. FLOWERS for CHRISTMAS Flowers — at Christmas — as gifts and for the decoration of your home are absolutely correct. Incidently they make excellent last minute gifts. We will remain open until 10 o’clock tonight and will deliver Christmas morning. Ixtrge stock to select from. “efez// il wilh‘flaweri DECATUR FLORAL CO. Nuttman Ave. - PHONE 100

Adams County Memorial Hospital Dismissed yesterday: Mrs. Wil-1 Hum Morrison. Willshire, Ohio: ' Mrs. Russell Keller, Bryant; Theo dore Waltmler, Dixon, Ohio. Admitted yesterday: Menno S. | Habegger, Berne; Lamar Winter egg, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Winteregg of Berne; Richard Petterson, son of Mr. und Mrs. Cal S. Peterson of 603 Penn Street. -— - - Experience Is Costly Kellogg, Ida. - (UP) — Camillo Postero. 42, mine employe, thinks I the School of Experience Is costly. He went to the hospital with two broken ribs, scalp wounde and fu-

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