Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 30 August 1937 — Page 3

If IN SOCIETY

PARTY . p. thieme ■* ' prt W party was held In hon- » V f Thteme Sunday after- ■*., Ms home at 121 North street, the occasion being second birthday annl-! were played during the as B ‘ 8 Sn d a delicious luncheon of ■^ he ». cake ana Ice cream * Krveil. Those present were Mr. sister, Mrs. Kd Bleeke, *in E Mrs. ( ,irist Selkin *' Mr au d iXfJsnry Selking, Mr. and Mrs. ELrhtetne. Mr. and Mrs> Amo ® 1 E Mr anJ Mrs MaX Thielni, ‘' o ' Cnl Alma, Gerhard, Albert Selking, Arnold, Lora ■ofrsd. otto, Leo, Norvin, LesBdmond, Rubin. Esther, *'3„. oiga. Delorta and Gretchen •S$ ?. and Mr ' and Mr *’ A F ' g Sy picnic planned by the mem- j I-oval Daughters class Evangelical Sunday school night has teen postponed ; ~n Senior Walther League i business session at the ■L ull Wednesday evening at !b«J*r Ladies Aid Society cl the Brethren church will meet 1 BgTrjirs Delma Elzey Thursday two o'clock. sigma NEW members H, Herman Girod entertained i ■ambers of the Eta Tau Sigma ft 4 7 it her country home ThursA candlelight service for two new members, the IlK* Martha Christen and Gladys Mrs. Ford Schafer of: Wayne, was present. At the of the evening Mrs. Girod serrefreshments. WfetiDS ENJOY party uai Mrs. Jess Sheets enter*hh a birthday party at Friday evening in h.nor son. Lester. Card games were enjoyed and the guest was the recipient of gifts. Refreshments were H&.jests included Mr and Mrs

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It HARRISON' CARROLL bntliH, IM7, Sf Lt; feature* S) rdieatr. lac. To us. the most Hjtgsrmt fan letter Is one written Lloyd by 100 Japanese All under 20, they belong

to the Osaka. machine gun reserve. One of these days they’ll probably, be marching off to war. When they do. they tell the comedian in halting English, each boy would like to have an a u t o g r aphed picture of Lloyd to carry in his knap-

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And, if Harold would be so they'd also like to have a hi 3 spectacles to use as for the troop. H&lywood stars, being, in a citizens of the woriu, natuHftF take sides in wars P Harold will not disappoint toy«. He is going to send their pictures. ■** same as he would to any out to face death under ! ST* | Motion Picture Almanac, an ! ■“r 1 * 11 * reference book and 80 accurate ’ makes an error in its new edition. 1 the name of Wayne Mor--1 ,*ys: “Actress, see Jane' when you turn to Jane BF; *t says: "Actress, new g*® same is Wavne Morris " ■T" 8 and Miss Bryan are both contract to Warner Brothwt that is the only tiling they ® common. S°ssips were keen to see j Tyrone Power would j arTh ~ h* preview «>f "Thin Ice", PW® „ Picture he made with W*™'*- There was a flutter K*Pr ,rv intment when Power “P wj th his mother and ■Toother, but interest revived r* star’s party also was 0 ‘hcludc a mysterious K V Much scurnhng around but tew ioanicd her ,1° the curious, it ~h * ri * Whitney, the extra Kr r ' p °wer has adopted as Bbt> w. happened to show Bnuy ° ftck ß r ound of several of successful pictures. He |Hfcv t ,fle wa * good luck and, ■kt. gets her a job in every Your Questions: ■V -‘wrtson, Los Angeles ■ tddy's birthday is June

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Monday Business and Professional Women’s Club, Reference Room of lib. I rary, 7 p. m. Dramatic department, Important meeting, Mrs. Herb Kern 7:30 p. m, Tueeday Evangelical Loyal Daughter, i class Picnic, postponed. Catholic Ladies, ice cream social Cathcllc school, 8 p. m. Thursday M. E. Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Mrs. R, w. Graham, 2 P. m. W. O. T. M. membership party Moose Home, 7 p. m. | U. B. Ladies Ai<j Society, Mrs Delma Elzey, 2 p m. M E. Ever Ready Sunday school class pot luck supper, church 6 p. m. Fred Shearer, son Ed, and daughter Lucile, Lloyd and Helen Sheets, Bill Blakey. Ben Kruetrman, Delsic Lewis and Leo Sheets, Andy Kaduk, I Harold and Bryce Burger, Don Hart Harold Donald, and Milo Sheets, Mr. ami Mrs. Jess Sheets and the horn'.red guest, Lester Sheets. The Dramatic department ct the j Woman's Club will hold an important meeting at the home of Mrs. Herb Kern tonight at seven-thirty 1 o'clock. The Women of the Moose will meet at the Moose Home Thursday evening for a membership party. I The losing side will entertain the winners with a supper at seven i o'clock. Mrs. William Noll is chairman of the Lasing side. Following the supper a program of entertainment has been planned by the winning side. The entertainment committee Includes Mrs. Lulu Schafer and Mrs. Bert Haley. All co-work-ers are urged to attend. The twentieth annual Baker-Bol- ! lenbacher reunion will be held Sun- | day, September 5 in Schaadt's Grove, two and one fourth milee east of Chattanooga, Ohio. A basket dinner will be served at noon I and a program and contests have been arranged for the afternoca.

29. His first picture was "Dancing Lady". Remember? He sang one number. This film was something of a record-setter in introducing future stars. It also was Fred Astaire's first appearance. — The "golf widow" is now out- , numbered in Hollywood by the "bowling widow”. Some of the> | girls have gotten together and j formed a club. First meeting was. held at the home of Irene Hervey. Mildred Lloyd, Jeanette MacDonald, Grace Newell, Mrs. Norman Rock and Fay Wray attended. To while away the evening, they copied their husbands—went out and bowled. The movie star parents have their extra problems. During their vacation. Joan Blondell and Dick Powell got In the habit of singing Norman Scott Bames to sleep with nursery rhymes. Then they both went to work and had to stop. But the duties of a movie star meant nothing to the young-' ster. He refused to go to sleep. Stars finally solved the problem' last week by recording a 10-min-ute record of the rhymes. Chatter. . . . Don’t know why it hasn't been printed before but, ! Peter Lorre has been out of j "Look Out, Mr. Moto” for 10 days os account of makeup poisoning following sunburn. When he re- | turned he could work for only one j hour out of the 24. . . . One of the nationally

known advice* c olumnists (not you, Beatrice Fairfax) regularly sends a batch of let-; ters to Mary IB ola n d who works out the answers. . . • Cantor took over the Hill-, crest Country club to throw a party for everyone who;

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had anything to do with his pic lure. "Ali Baba Goes to Town . Grips, propmen, etc., were the honored"guests- Stars were ta- ; vited only if they '*' orked ‘ ,lrH floor show. . . • Kathieen Howard has turned down those Broadway offers and will remain in Holly wood to work in the movies. . . • The doghouse in Helen back yard is papered «£h ladiHk^ ecpted ° n n . e ° f .Tnd .vhaTtWs country needs, we say it in a telephone* cord * nai won’t twit Itilf so Yeih, we ve tried aU the gadgets.

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1937.

All members of the family are urg |'*d to attend. o— Bob Hite of Detroit visited here over the week-end. ; Luther GUliom of Indianapolis is | here for a several weeks’ visit at the I Dr. Palmer Elcher home, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Heller and Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Holthouse have returned from French Lick where they attendee the edlt/.wial meeting. Mr. and Mrs. William Bell, Nancy and Billy and Mrs. Faiyiy Macy, Martha and Libby, will leave this 1 evening for a week at Lake Wawasee. Mrs. Mary Myers will arrive from Indianapolis tomorrow to assume her duties at the high school offices. H. L. Conter of Gary is greeting old friends here and says they are thinking seriously of returning here to make their home. Judge H. M. DeVoss, N. C. Nelson G. Remy Bierly and C. H. Musselman are home from the editorial meet at French Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Shaw of Shelby, Ohio visited here over the week end with Mrs. Grace Alwein. Mrs. G, Remy Bierly and children will motor to the south part of the state this week for a few days’ visit. Mr. and Mrs. David Bodle, Mr. Miss Emma Marquart were weekend visitors in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Wayne Beavers returned to his work in Chicago Sunday evening after spending a two week’s vacation with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. S. D. Beavers here, and with friends in New York State. Dr. end Mr 3. I leavers and Bob Beavers, together with Wayne Beavers, visited at Winona Lake and at Culver Military Academy before going to Plymouth, where he entrained for Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Rex Risher of South Bend and Miss Jane Risher and Harold Clay ct Rockford, Ohio were guests of Mr. and Mrs. V. J. Bormann Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Gass and family and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Gran: spent the week-end at a lake in Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kunowich, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Estell and Mrs. Mae Johnson spent Sunday at Celina, Ohio. Mrs. Margaret Dierkes has returned to her home in this city from the Irene Byron sanltorium, where she has been a patient for several weeks. Miss Ethel Courtney and Mrs. Frank Liniger attended the funeral •*f Mrs. Lottie Keller, Saturday at Fort Wayne. Mrs. Keller Is a cousin of Miss Courtney and died from the effects of an automobile accident at Elgin, Illinois. Mrs. Ada Martin and daughters. Mrs. Chester Mclntosh, Maxine and Marcia spent Sunday visiting with Mrs. Martin’s brother, Douglas Johnston of north ei Garrett. They were accompanied home by Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston, who had spent three weeks visiting there. Mr. and Mrs. Dave Adams and daughter Marjorie and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Deitsch have returned from a week’s visit to Washington, D. C. and the battlefield at Gettysburg. Enroute home they attended the Cleveland, Ohio exposition. Mr .and Mrs. G. N. Acheson of Winchester street had as their guests for the week-end, Mrs. Gerald Acheson and son of Roundhead, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Butler and Mr. and Mrs. Francis Eady and daughter Atola Jane have returned from a week’s motor trip through the East. They visited at Washington. D. C., Atlantic City and Jersey City. At New York City they visited Radi.. City and Radio City Hall. Enroute home they traveled near Wellborough and Ithaca where a cloud-

Slayer Collapses Found guilty of ravishing and slaying three little gills of Inglewood Cal., Albert Dyer collapsed in court, above, when he heard the jury return a verdict of guilty, carrying with it a mandatory death sentence.

Carthage, T«m- VtpG tokclCCO thdt TVICIkCS gshs: smokers say.. Chesterfields Mullins, S.C. Danville. Ky. J sseS 6, ke? give you more pleasure Timmonsville, S. C. ““"'l* I O J L Whiteville, N. C. C oburg Ky Eastern North Grweneviiu’iw In 1937, Chesterfield tobacco buyers Carolina Markets tJL* will attend each one of the 113 auction markets listed here. In addition they will Goldsboro, n. c. HuntLgton, w!v«. I be buying tobacco in Southern Maryland, Kinston, N.c. C ' I and aromatic leaf in Turkey and Greece. RobersonviHe.N.c. Lebanon, ky. Wherever Chesterfield tobacco is bought, Rocky Mount, N.c. Lexington, Ky. ... , , . , ... Smithfieid, n. c. Louisville, Ky Markets in this country or abroad, it must be mild, Tarboro.N.C. Madison Ind • i ./ Wallace,N.C. M.y.vilie, Ky. lt mUSt be Tt P e ' Washington, N. C. Morristown, Tenn. w3u.L£ C n.c. SSsESjST ! There is no higher standard of tobacco w 'hon. n.c. NewTazeweii,Tenn. I quality than the Chesterfield standard Middle Old Belt . _ Market, RUtaig,. 1 I Aberdeen N C. Ripley, Ohio gaa? {&& < / terfield Tobacco Co . ' sdEm

burst had occurred aryd bridges were washed away. Jud Acheson of this city and Frank Leichner of Chattanooga, Ohio spent the week-end in War saw. Mr. and Mrs. Herman Ulman and daughter returned Saturday from a trip through southern Indiana and lilinois. Roy D. Haines, postmasters at Bryant and daughter. Dora Dean were Sunday dinner guests on Mr. and Mrs. G. Remy Bierly and family. Richard Deininger, deputy county surveyor, returned Sunday after a week's vacation at Rome City. Misses Esther Hutson, of Monroe and Fern Bierly, Ed Waite and Don Waita of this city spent Sunday at Lake James. Ernest Wortlunan and family visited in lEluffton Sunday afternoon. Miss Helena Rayl and Robert Hite, of Detroit, spent Saturday evening in Fort Wayne. Mrs. George Armstrong and daughter Caro'e Jean of Auburn the week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Roop. Employes of the First State Bank of this city have received two boxes of Honeyrock canteloupes, the gift of Charles H. Colter of Kendallville, former Decatur resident. Mr. Colter states that the region around Ken-dallv-ille is rapid’y becoming noted for its splendid crops of this type of melon. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Woods of AnnArbor, Michigan, Ben Woods and Miss F-inkhausen of Middlebury, 0.

spent the week-end with the Mr. Woods' mother, Mrs. Charles Helm. A. J. Beavers, Albert Beavers and family spent the week end at Rome City. Mrs. A. J. Beavers and son Edward returned home after spending the last week at the lake. Miss Rose Nesswald, and the Misses Edith, Ethel and Erwin have returned from a motor trip to Cleveland, Niagara Falls, into Canada, and to Royal Oak and Dearborn, Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. John Spahr and family visited in Columbus, Ohio yesterday with a daughter, Miss Evangeline Spahr. Robert Frisinger, Tom Burk and Wayne Beavers spent Saturday evening in Fort Wayne. Miss Wilma Andrews of Preble is visiting several days with Miss Ida Mae Steele. Miss Susie Ennis Johnson of Newport, Kentucky and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gilbert and son George Franklin of route 3, Decatur, attended the funeral of their friend, Mrs. Charles Gibson, in Monroeville Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Nichols returned from Fort Wayne where they had visited with Mrs. Sara Earl and Mrs. Margaret Buckmaster since Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Gilbert and son George Franklin of near this city; Miss Susie Ennis Johnson of Newport, Kentucky, and Bert Stogdill of near Ossian were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Byron Dague in this city. Miss Susie Ennis Johnson re-turn-

ed to her home in Newport, Kentucky Sunday after visiting with Mrs. Jesse Gilbert and eon of near Decatur, and with friends at Monroeville. Mrs. Von Murray, who has been spending the last few weeks visiting friends and relatives here, will leave tonight for her home in Hollywood, California. While here she visited Clark J. Lutz at Hami.it/yn Lake and Mrs. Merle Kist of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Patrick visited in Bluffton Sunday. o Tall Corn Stalk On Exhibit Here Hi P. Schmitt proudly displayed today a stalk of corn that had grown to the unusual heignt of 14 feet and seven inches. The giant stalk was gr/iwn on the Schmitt farm east of the city. Four ordinary sized ears remain on the stalk, on exhibition in front of the Democrat office. o Noble County Infant Dies Os Poisoning Kendallville, 'lnd., Aug. 30 —(UP) —Two-year-old Freddie Lee Stabe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stabe of near here, died today after eating strychnine capsules intended for cattle. The baby crawled from his high chair onto a work bench and finding the capsules, ate several of j

them. An antidote was administered too late to revive him. o * ♦ Many Reunions Scheduled For Summer Months ♦ ♦ Saturday, Sept. 4 Mumma family reunion, Franke Park, Fort Wayne. Sunday, Sept. 5 Brown family reunion, Daniel Helm home, east of Decatur. Roop Reunion, Sun Set Park, Decatur. Wilson and Schafer Reunion, Suu ■ Set Park. I Urick annual reunion, Sun Set Park. Labor Day, September 6 Broadsword reunion. Sunset park. Annual Roebuck reunion, Sun Set Park. Sluseer-Gauee family T eunlon, Park, Willshire, Ohio. Sunday, September 12 Annual Conservation League Picnic, Sun Set Park. Springer family reunion, Sud Set Park. FAMOUS CLOCK AT STRASEBOURG ON 99th YEAR — Strasbourg —(UP)— The astronomic clock of Strasborg Cathedral which has attracted more than 5,1 000,000 visitors to the city during its career, will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year. Started in 1838, the famous clock

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tells the time of day. indicates religious and civic festivals the hours at which the nv.on and sun rise and set, eclipses, and the average revolution of each planet. Allegorical personages figure in the action of the clock and at noon visitors come to see the Twelve Apostles appear and knee! at the feet of Jesus Christ wh-ile the c«ck crows three times. The present clock is considered a mechanical masterpiece, and is the third to be erected on the cathedral. The first clock, begun in 1352 was used for 200 years and in the latter 16th century a second astronomic clock replaced it, remaining in use for more than 300 years. o Indian Chief Is “Alien” Fall River, Mass. (U.PJ — Chief Black Hawk, a full-blooded Powhatan Indian, was dropped from the WPA during a drive on “aliens.” The chief, known as Robert H. Clark, was teaching archery and Indian arts and crafts to children. Trade In a Good Town —Decatur.

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