Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 35, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 14 October 1937 — Page 3

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is held i'-hi -■ "'•••‘■'■y an ; l ** Md.; at the church >ber t< • lf '""" ,,,n ’ wl,h ’ hlr,y ‘ 1 nl \lih George Meyers no . with Christian LitW ° rki ' “ 8 P.-tin,' opened with tinging . * ompanied IKan.Hb!'••• reading of ■S.nture was followed with Mrs. Lilly Hill. wuS BbPn by < i organization en-l-’irst”. Th- past ’ .ng week •• Kp„ : p.| fifty ea'ls had !Kr u,;,' to attend tint I^K V io be held at Calvary i n Fort Wayne October 26. ’» were received - ■ , . Mrs. U. S. DrumCIOI. Mte. Carl Fisher. The * prayer by Mrs. For, Weber. Ht. ■T* ' " I,our * hich fo! ‘ lovely refreshments were S S ? by bie hostesses. Mrs. DelHg Mis \ddi<- Andrews and Cochran. E,t s. christen CLUB HOSTESS Historical club met at the ’ Mrs. E S. Christen Wedati. with twenty-one « and two guests present. ■ El' . roll call and round table ■’current events. Mrs Stia-i:;. >ad an i’it-'restii: * "The Storv of Glass." l iu . Wta. S« ts known to the ancients --<. A band of Phoenifr. m Egypt campKI the sandy beach of a riv- t of niter were placed under K>aok:ns vessels to protect them t ithe flames. The niter melted. " :a with the sand and formed ’’ l B.iui. I stream. In this crude way was discovered in this form -'Kwa- first used as a medium of ilver but a compound

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' made thy melting together certain Ingredients. Sand lime and ordinary washing soda are used for bottles I .and window glass. Lead oxide is used Instead of lime for flint glass—for things which must sparkle and i shine. Various ways liquid glass was used — blown, molded and 1 pressed. "Glass was first made in America at Jamestown In 1608 and exported l to England in 1609. The glass industry was given an impetus when coal oil became a lighting fuel." Mrs. John Schug gave a subtopic -on spun glass used for insulation and its possibility -if use as a cloth, providing the seratchiness can be removed. Mrs. S. E. Hite as her subtopic discussed the use of safety glans to protect motorists. . During the social hour which followed. the hostess served delicious refreshments. The next meeting ! will be held at the home of Mrs. j Ivan Stucky and Mrs. Hite will have the paper. The regular meeting of the Philathea class han been postponed because of the Baptist convention, being held at Anderson this week. OLD PATCHWORK QUILTS MAKES INTERESTING TOPIC With “Old Patchwork Quilts’’ as her subject, Mrs. C. A. Dugan pre- 1 sented a moet interesting paper when the Ladies’ Shakespeare club . ; met at her home on Monroe street I Wednesday afternoon. Fourteen l members were present. A comprehensive review of the I history of the making of patchwork j from early Grecian and Oriental } . days to the present time was given. I Mrs. J. L. Kocher read “The Ro- i mance of Linen", Mrs. Krick t/ild of J "Old Fashioned Quilting Bees” During the business meeting it ' was decided that each hostess , would conduct the fifteen minutes devoted to the study of better' speech. The ladies also voted to! give $4.00 for the planting of an i acre of trees in Memorial forest at | Shoals. Indiana, in commemoration ! of Mrs. Virginia Claypoole Meredith, honorary president of the Ind- ■

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| CLUB CALENDAR I Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phones 1000 — 1001 Thursday Eastern Star, .Masonic Hall, 7:30 P. nt. Bridge Club, Mrs. Robert Freeby 6:30 p. tn. Baptist Woman’s Society, Mrs. Gettls Parmer, 2:30 p. m. Union Chapel Missionary Society, Mrs. Earl Chase, 1:30 p. m. Better Homos Club, Monroe School House, 7:30 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma Sorority. Miss Mildred K-.Jdewey, Supper Meeting. Kum-Join-Us, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Flemming, 7:30 p. m. Friday Adams County Federation Mrs. A. R. Ashbaucher, ,2:30 p. m. Mt. Pleasant Ladies' Aid Society, Mrs. Merle Sheets. 2 p. m. Pocahontas L«lge, Red Men’s Hall. 7:30 p. m. Union Chapel C. I. C„ Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bailey, 7:30 p. m. I | Y. M. C. Class, Mr, and Mrs. H. | iL. Neil. 7:30 ip. m. Charter meeting of Auxiliary of United Spanish American War vet- ' erans, American Legion home, 7:30 ' p. m. Installation of officers of Auxil-i iary of United Spanish American War veterans, American Legion home. After The Game Dance, Masonic Hall. Saturday Deta Theta Tau Founders' Day | 1 Party. Masonic Hall, 8 p. tn. Mission Band, Evangelical church 8 p. m. Cafeteria Supper. Zion Reformed ' (Church, 5 to 7 p. m. Monday Research Club, Mrs. F. 11. Heuer, : 2:30 p. m. Woman's Club, Library Hali, 7:4.1 I Ip. m. Tuesday Delta Theta Tau Busine.se Meetling, Mrs. Charles Holthouse, 7:30 1 p. m. Wednesday I Historical Club, Mrs. Ivan Stuc- | ky, 2:30 p. m. Business- And Professional Women's Club, Rice Hotel, 6:30 p. m. Shakespeare Club, Mrs. C. E. ' Peterson, 2:30 ip. m. I iana Federation of Clubs. Mrs. Dugan served a lovely i luncheon at the close of the after- | noon. The next meeting will he held at the home Mrs. C. E. Peterson ! I Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. William H. Bell will be the leader, with ■ The Restoration of Williamsburg and Period Furniture" as her subject. % The Kum-Join Us class of the Evangelical Sunday school will meet at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Hemming on High street Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. This is to be a Halloween panpty and all guests are to come masked. Mr. and Mrs. Garth J.airnay will assist in entertaining. A dance will be held at the Masonic hall Friday evening after the football game, sponsored by the Psi lota Xi sorority. Tickets will sell for 20 cents. Harry Moyer's "Mel-ody-eers" will furnish the music. DELTA THETA TAUS PLAN FOUNDERS DAY PARTY The Deta Theta Tau sorority will give a Founder's Day party at the Masonic Hall Saturday evening at eight o’clock. All active members and the alumnae will be guests. The party is given in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of the national sorority. The committee in charge of the party includes Mrs. Hugh Holthouse I and the Misses FLithilda Harris. Mildred Acker, Vivian Lynch and Mary K. Leonard. MENU IS ANNOUNCED FOR CHURCH SUPPER A delicious cafeteria sppper will be served at the Zion Reformed church Saturday evening from 5 to 7 o'clock. Fallowing is the menu: Fried chicken, creamed chicken and biscuits, escallaped oysters, noodles, mashed potatoes, gravy, sweet potatoes, escalloped corn, baked beans, cottage cheese, deviled eggs, salads, pie and cake. James Moses Cow Sets New Record Peterborough, N. H„ Oct. 14.— (Special)—A new record, exceeding the average of the Guernsey , breed for her age and class, has just been completed by a two-year old cow. Peggy's Jean of Elm Grove. 440110, of Decatur, Indiana, tested and owned by James C. Moses. Her official record, supervised by Purdue University and announced by the American Guernsey cattle club, is 7528.'0 pounds : of milk and 363.6 pounds of butter fat in class GGG. if”TODAY'S COMMON ERROR * — Never pronounce conspiracy | | —kon-spi’-ra-cy; say, kon-spir’- | | a-cy. + , ■ ■ , ’ — ♦

H. P. "Yub" Schmitt sends a curd from Calender, Ont., Canada, where he and his brother Al Schmitt stopped on Ihelr way to Sudberry and then to the big game hunting grounds. They are enjoying the trip and expect to get a moose us soon as the season opens. John Deßolt, well known painter is ill nt his home, 215 South Eleventh street. He is suffering from a stomach ailment, Willis Magner, well known farmer living at the south edge of the | city, is confined to his bed. He has been ill Several days with a fever and th<> symptoms are that he has undulent or Malta fever. The regular weekly meeting of the Rotary club will be held this evening at the Rice hotel. Tickets for Mrs. Franklin RooseI velt's lecture at the Shrine atldi- ' lorium. Fort Wayne, November 17, j can be sent to the box office, but ; cannot be reserved at the office I now. Reservations can be made i later. The tickets are on sale. Miss Helen Walters will return to Detroit this evening after a several 1 day’s visit with her parents, Mr. i and Mrs. C. L. Walters and her 'sister. Mrs. Jack Leigh and family. Miss Walters is the manager of one of the Sanders confectionery steres ' a chain of about twenty stores in ; Detroit. Mr. and Mrs. R. To.»ke left this | morning for Houghton Lake, Michigan where thye will spend several: days hunting. | Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bell will 1 spend the week end at Ann Arbor. Michigan, where they will visit ■ friends and attend the MichiganMinnesota football game. Jeff Addy is suffering from a car- ; bnncle on the back 'if his head. He | is able to walk around, but suffers I a lot of pain. Neal Currie, Jr., manager of the Fort Wayne works of the General Electric company, Cliff Matson, superintendent of the company and other officials of the Fort Wayne office were visitors here yes'.erday. They met with E. W. Lankenau, I superintendent of the Decatur w.'.-ks. Mrs. Hugh Daniels, Mrs. Mary Sorg, Mrs. B. Wertzberger. Mrs. Chas. Lose, the Misses Teena and Rose Schurger, Rose Steigmeyer, Dorothy Lafontain and Frances Ulman attended the N. C. C. W. meetI ing he'd at the Precious Blood pari«:h in Fort Wayne Tuesday evening. Lyman Keyes of Peru attended to business in Decatur today. Dr. and Mrs. Fred Patterson and

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[Mr.dmd Mrs. Paul Snurer returned h.st evening from a several days motor trip through the Allegheny inountalns. They visited places of Interest in Maryland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Will IT. Ward and son Deo of Walker, Minn,, are visiting relatives and friends here after an absence of many years. Dec 1 , who was mt seventeen, when he left here, 1« now a substantial farmer near Walker and his three children are operating It in a manner that makes It remunerative. Lyman Keys of Peru was here today, advertising his circus ’to be given here under auspices of the , high school on the 26th. Thomas Kelley, manager of the Public Service at Fort Wayne was here today to superintend the changes for gas. Dr. Roy Archhold attended a medical meeting at Logansport yesterday. Mrs. Gladys Chamberlain and Mrs. Deane Dorwin visited in Fort Wayne yesterday afternoon. Miss Electa Oliver is much improved after a several days illness of influenza. George Flanders will return this evening from a two weeks visit on his farm near Sanford. Mich. Billy and Ruth Ann White, grandchildren of Mrs. William Butler, underwent tonsilectomies at the Adams county memorial hospital this ! morning. They were reported as I getting along very well. John D. Stults of 330 North R .urth street is still confined to bis home after a several weeks ill- ; ness. o One Man Is Killed In Auto-Bus Crash Butler, Ind.. Oct. 14—(U.R>—Burl ' Haverstock. 60, was killed instant- < ly and two other persons were in- 1 jured last night when an east bound ' Chicago-New York Safeway bus j collided with an automobile on U I S. highway 6. The injured were Haverstock's} wife and Mrs. Burton Abram, 28, Chicago, one of the 10 passengers on the bus. She was the only I passenger injured. o Take Further Steps In Syphilis Fight Indianapolis, Oct. 14.—JU.R) —The | state health board and Indiana's private pathologists today inaug-i urated a new and cheaper method, of testing blood for syphilis as the first co-operative move in the cam paign against the disease. Reduction in private pathological

Seek Assailant n An extensive search for a sex degenerate was launched by police , of Columbus, 0.. following the I escape of 10-year-old Betty Jane i . Rush from her captor after she I I had been kidnaped and al talked . fees alone will enable more than} I half a million persons to take the | I tests next year, according to Dr. 1 Verne K. Harvey, stale health' I boad director. “1 believe this is the greatest! i single step yet taken in the state: against the disease," he said. o — Housewives Forcing Meat Prices Lower Chicago Oct. 14—(UP)—A house-' wives "pork chop strike” is forcing J meat prices down. G. W. Kaiser, i representative- of 2,000 Chicago but : chers. announced today. Kaiser, secretary of the retail , meat dealers association, said meat ■prices generally will drop 10 per ! cent within a week. | "Prices on all but the choicest cuts of beef will tall." He predicted.

"Pork prices already have fallen ' and «ahers will follow suit, within a few days.’' Kulser said that with meat prices at current high lev ' els, the wives "just won’t buy anything hut soup meat and hatnburber.” —o — J Waterloo Woman Is Acquitted By Jury Auburn. Ind., Oct. I I (UP) — ! Mrs. Margaret Parks, 61. Waterloo, was free today after being acquitted by a DeKalb county jury of a manslaughter charge in connection ■ with the slaying of her husband, Bert, last August 4. Mrs. parks, who testified that her husband drank excessively, was acclused ii shooting him during an argument over his reported friendship with a young relative. She also to'd the jurors that her husband failed to pprovide for her and kept firearms about the house. Miss Vera Porter To Head College Choir Muncie-, Ind.. October 14 —Miss Vera Porter of Decatur has been elected persident of the college choir of Ba'l State Teachers college. Other officers elected are Ralph I !Cripe. <f Alexandria, vice-president and Miss Harriett Meehan of Ridgeville, secretary-treasurer. Miss Porter, a senior, is also a i member of Kappa Delta Pi. national honor organization in education; 1 Sigma Beta Tau. of which she is treasurer; the Kallista Art Club; 1 jthe Music Club; and the Girls Club.

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Grand Jury Resumes Probe Os (Jambling Greenfield, Ind., Oct. 14. (U.R) - Hancock county grand jury today i resumed Its investigation of slleg-i-d gambling in the county. . Among a series of wTlnesscs callfed Io testify yesterday were 23 111dinniipollH resident)). The gambling probe was ordered by Circuit Judge John B. Hinchman and centers around investigation of the Plantation, a supper club in Hancock county. o Two Attend 79th Fair ; Croton, O. (U.R) — The record for fair attenders is believed to be held by Bert Stu'tx and Ezra Mitchell of Croton. They recently attended the Hartford Fair in northern Licking county f'.r the 79th consecutive time. - . o Fingerprint Outfit Stolen Salem. Ore. (U.R) — Stol -n: u fingerprinting outfit ownetl by Deputy Sheriff B. G. Honeycutt. Deputy Walter Ford discrivi'red two men fleeing with the bag of fingerprint equipment from Honeycutt's parked ear in front of the courthouse. Ford grappled with the men. but they escaped with the unusual loot. —o Trade In a Good Town—Decatur. H C Ct Colds V 0 V Fever Liquid. TabletM, Salve flrut dny ‘ Headache. SO lainutm. Try ••Iliib-My-'riMm” Bent l.lniiiirnt