Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 36, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1938 — Page 3

SOCIETY

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I County School Book List ■wCOINTY SCHOOLS. 1938-1939—C. E STRIKER. County Supt. ■ First Grade Ht Book Price ■ ill*' - --------- 7. Companion Book for First Khfand Jerry Prime.- .64 Re ‘ ad#r _____ 29 B»> o. . Write-Well Handwriting Book .11 lYimer'.' -29 Zaner Blosser Pencil No 2.. .05 H Second Grade ■ Price Book Price ■L , Rook Book I .54 Number Stories — — .65 Kan Villace Reader .79 Write Well Handwriting, Bwik to Friendly Book II — — .11 W l ?™ 32 Down the River Road .65 M Third Grade ■ Price Book Price Reader -57 Keeping Healthy -- 75 and Grammar Ser- Music — First Book 65 KoXkßook I-.-- 54 Spelling Tablet (Vocabulary). .18 ■fan 4 Practice Arith Write-Well Handwriting K? Book I 51 Book 111 - - 11 ■ Fourth Grade ■, Price Book Price ■Lg ;al j er .67 Thorndyke Century Junior and Grammar Dictionary .... 118 K Book I .... .55 Write-Well Handwriting. Kifoni Book. Book I .54 Book IV .11 ■fanand Practice Arith- Music — First Book - .65 ■nk Book 1 .51 Spelling Tablet (Vocabulary. .18 Healthy .75 Essential of Every Day Kind Its People (Lower) 1.26 English 40 ■ Fifth Grade Bg Price Book Price ■kt Fifth Reader .67 Progress tn Spelling.. .40 ■pF and Grammar Founding America .87 Ka Book II .56 Write-Well Handwriting Kkodriheeds .79 Book V 11 K*ltd Its People (Lower) 1.26 Spelling Tablet (Vocabulary) .18 ■ Essentials of Every Day ■Mens and Practice Arith- English .40 ■zie. Book II .51 Music — Book Two ... 69 5 Sixth Grade ■ Price Book Price ■if Siith Reader .67 Problem and Practice ArithB Early Ancestors .83 metic, Book II .51 ■tßody's Needs 79 Language and Grammar Bps In Spelling 40 Ser,eß '. Boo^, n ” 56 K, r n- Htt j Essentials in Everyday Handwritmg. English .40 Bu 11 Earth and Its People (Higher) 1.26 ■W Tablet (Vocabulary) .18 Music — Book Two 69 | Seventh Grade f Price Book Price F lllre ' or Seventh Grade .82 Problem and Practice ArithF® m Spelling .40 metic. Book HI .57 ■taentary English in Action Health Studies .68 I™* Hi 82 Socialized History of U. S 1.44 fraction to Agriculture 126 New Elementary Home Eco ■teWell H.namu.i ' nomics 108 Handwriting. Spelling Tablet (Vocabulary) .18 E,.. 11 Earth and Its People (Higher) 1.44 F"™ p Through Problems 1.44 Music — Book 111 .79 t Eighth Grade EL . Price Book Price KL °o lg “ ,b Grade.. .86 New Elementary Home EcoEa u. Pe!ling -40 nomics 1.08 EL HU ' S —- 144 Health Studies .68 Hi tng ' n Action Science in our Lives 1.58 pen and Practice Arith’ 82 Introduction t 0 Agriculture... 1.26 P* Book 111 Spelling Tablet (Vocabulary) .18 FHnhip Through Problems 1.44 Write-Well Handwriting. E~ ,' stor >' Work Book.. .36 Book 8 .11 r - Book 111 .79 Living Safely 47 high school book list RliihFrru. * Ninth Grade hturc in Thou B ht and Expression $1.40 $1 33 ru. ana kliP 1 62 1 fcreXT!?” ,0 Bi °l°gy —w— — —- — — 1.58 1.49 F Fwd 8<? ln A!gebra 97 I Whs H ” me Making 1.61 oka to be selected by the teacher k’i’h-ExncrUn— , Tenth Grade Watr,. and L- " Th° u ßht and Expression $1.40 $1.33 pen 1-73 1-43 hd C0i.7./, ilual,on - 1-78 1.67 h Pla ne r e “ Algebra - -81 hoks are to be selected by the teacher feature E l\T.\ Grade ...... ....SI.BO ,1.70 t»««atwJ k Mr .l --J - V l 9 of America............. ~ 1.73 1.62 •'“‘Buelnera t Emetic (Complete) 1.44 1.36 Sie S t A v* ,hme,fc (Brief) 1.15 1.09 Course ln Al - - 158 148 Workbook' ’ G « rn >a n — .... 83 .79 re be selected by the teacher JlHlb Llteratnro Twelfth Grade >Clt|*en fc hVK' — sl ' 9B $lB7 ’ Pr incipi« n<? B Govern ment 1.51 1.43 Human W’ (ReTl “d) - - 162 153 •"J. Lee t n Welfare 1.44 "ryday pl ,n Sec °nd Year 144 w °*te m,c . B - Hi 1.42 11 to be selected by the teacher

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Fanny Macy Phenac 1000 — 1001 Saturday Mission band of the Evangelical church, church basement, 3 p. m. Tuesday Ixtya) Daughters Class Picnic of I E. V. church at Lohman's park. Berne. 6 o’clock Friday of Mrs. Charles Beal and daughter, Patey. of Fort Wayne. 'Other guests were; Miss Elizabeth I Porter, of New Orleans. Mrs. A. W. ’ Dell of New Bedford, and Mrs. ' Ben W. Weaver and daughter. | Peggy of Fort Wayne. PHILA CLASS MEETS HERE FRIDAY NIGHT The Phila class met Friday night at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Darell Bedwell of Homestead number twenty-eeven. A short business session was held, followed by a social

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT SATURDAY, AUGUST, 27.1938.

hour. * Refreshments were served by the hostess, assisted by Mias Jane Augt nbuugh. Plans for the next meet-' ing were discussed. ST. MARY’S CLUB ENJOYS PICNIC The St. Mary's township Home Economics Club enjoyed a picnic Thursday at Hanna-Nuttman Park. The picnic was attended by thirtythree members and twenty e'ntldren j and (Ueats. A pot luck dinner was J served at noon. In the afternoon I a short business session was held after which a social good time was held. The club hostesses wore Mrs. Austin McMichaels. Mrs. Ray Mc-j Michaels. Mrs. Groce Tope, Mrs. I Ray Meyers and Mrs. Jennie Sapp. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Amos Graber and daughter Jane will spend the week end at Bear latke. George R. Bierly. Jr. is visiting in ! Chicago. Pete Reynolds will leave this as-1 ternoon for a week's visit with I his brother, W. G. Reynolds, and' family nt Decatur, Illinois. Bob Schmitz is spending a week in Fort Wayne visiting his sister. Mrs. Dave Brames. Mrs. Carl Mies and children Richard and Patey made a business trip to Fort 'Wayne Saturday morning. o Adams County Memorial Hospital I ♦ Dismissed this morning: Mrs. Elmira La Turner, 304 N. First street; Mrs. George Laurent and baby, Edward Alvin, 518 Madison street; Mrs. C. W. Price. 11l Madison Street; Master Billy Pyle, Geneva; Robert and Virginia Kuhnle. Third street. — o DEMOCRATS IN (CONTINUED FHOJk PAGE ONE) resolutions were to be adopted. The remainder of the time was to be spen’ in golfing and Guv. Townsend is sponsoring a skeet shoot Sen. Sherman Minton and other party leaders were to make short speeches tonight but the spotlight will be reserved for Van NuyS and Townsend o ~ EASTON TRIAL (CONTINUED FKOM PAGE ONE) turing Orelle. Both C. O. Easton and his wife, parents of the youths, have sat in court throughout the trial. They testified that their eons had ’’childish” Habits and once had asked a court to adjuge Clarence insane. o RETIRED ARMY (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) illg. Shufeldt, was going to Wisconsin for a vacation with Eric Santheil and his wife, and Charles Greetham. Springfield, when the accident occurred. Bearss’ body will be returned to Peru for burial. He was an officer in the famous 2nd division of the U. S marines during the world war and retired from active service in 1919. o— Boy Spends Rare Coin Maquoketa. la. (U.R) — Bobby Powers, 10-year-oltl son of Willis Powers. Maquoketa numismatist, is in bad repute with His father, The lad took a 100-year-old halfdime from his father s collection and spent it by mistake. . —o Wife's Pererogative Upheld Sacramento, Cal., —(UP) Acting Police Judge Silas Orr has held as legal the time honored custom of a wife taking money from her hueband's trousers. He acquitted Mrs. Edith Swain declaring that under California law the marriage contract entitles the wife to half the money he has. o— — Squirrel Seizes Birdhouse Sabbatus, Me. —(UP)—Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Holden were disappointed when for the first time in years martine didn't take up residence in the house provided for them. But the mystery was solved when they saw a skuirrel mother earring her offspring one by one from the birdhouse. Ruse Balks Spanking Bakersfield. Cal. (U.R) A 6-year-old daughter here, having been spanked twice by her patents for being late in -returning from school, took precautions for the third time. At the time normally due for the spanking she was not present, nor later either. At 10:15 in the evening, her parents found her in a clothes closet. — — Alton Terry to Teach Abilene. Tex. <U.R> - Graduation took Alton Terry, Hardin-Simmons this month. Terry holds the AmerUniversity’s most noted athlete, lean javelin-throwing record and was on the 1936 Olympic team. He has accepted a position as teacher at Richland Springs, Tex.

I BRITAIN PREPARES (CONTINUED FROM FADE ONE) relaxing the udmiruble discipline hitherto observed hy the Sudeten Deutsche is therefore much deplored.” The sudden British Insurslon directly into ihn Sudeten German issue, which It had tried so hard ■ to treat ns If It were a friendly, - disinterested observer, was regardI ed as primarily due to the Sudeten German party proclamation. But It was believed that other I and equally grave portents played I a part. One was the persistent report — believed to have come from the French government, among other sources -that Germany had mad<* I inquiries in various European capitals regarding the Cze<h problem i - particularly to Yugoslavia and ; Roumania as regards their possible neutrality. These reports were denied, but in vain so far as their effect went.

Keep the Boys and Girls in SCHOOL J Latin 2 years Education and proper training are essential in the General History 1 year life of the boy or girl of today. Don’t deprive , T „ , them of their school days but insist they U. S. History 1 year Civics V 2 year, Enroll in the Economics V 2 year 8 I sociology / 2 year Decatur High School Bookkeeping 1 year Th e School Officials of the Decatur High School Commercial Law Y 2 year Offer Your Boys and Girls Five Courses Commercial Geography 1 £ ACADEMIC ■ COMMERCIAL - GENERAL Home Economics ____ 2 years HOME ECONOMICS - INDUSTRIAL ARTS Shorthand 2 years Decatur School Board extends an invitation to the parents and to Typewriting 2 years the students in townships not maintaining a high school to attend and to o enjoy the privileges and comforts which are being offered by the Decatur Industrial Arts 2 years school officials. Decatur High School offers plenty of room, a thoroughly Mprhaniral Drawing- 1 vear lrained faculty ’ we " et « ui PP ed c,ass r ? oms ’ lh f ree 4 approved curricula, well ivieiiiciiiiiai i/idwuig— a jxai regulated class organizations, a continuous first class commission since Phvsirs 1 vear 1914 ’ a continuous North Central Certificate since 1908. a high standard l iiysitß j recognition by all higher institutions of learning, in fact anything that Chemistry 1 year is taught in a modern progressive high school. Biology 77/1 Graduates, who are denied the university and normal school priviAlgebra 172 years leges, are especially encouraged to take post-graduate work. An additional (’, S nm<4rv 11/ vpsr« year's work will mean another certificate and of course better preparation ueometrj ± 2 to cope w jth life’s problems. More schooling will bring about a higher Phvsical Training 2 years personal efficiency and will also reduce the hazards of unemployment in It *Uk . JC fi- 1 ,ater - vears - I-a* 4 > ear some graduates did post-graduate work. There riCaltn ano saieiy 1 y car j s now adequate time for more training. Art 2 years • V 1 9 vzxora School will open on Tuesday morning, September 6, at 8:15 o'clock. MUSIC, Vocal years A |J stu d en t s who wish to enroll for the coming year in any one of the R'ind and Orrhestra 1 vear above mentioned courses should write or see Principal XV. Guy Brown or Supt. Walter Krick. Enrollment should be made during the week of August 29, at the Decatur High School Building. Decatur School Board Ira Fuhrman, president Roy Mumma, sec’y. Joseph A. Hunter, treas.

British Pride Ruffled London <UJ?> —• The moil Important piece of equipment In the Weetmineter City Council'll "model" ua* proof air raid shelter In made in Cermaoy. It the air purifier. — o — Quaint $3 Bill Owned North Adame, Max*. (U.R) - A $3 bill lewind by a WlecuMet, Me., bank during the Civil War in In (he poMcselon of George H. Carter. The bill, printed on thin paper, bears a seal In one corner. ' ■ ■ o■■ ■ — Writes Autobiography, Dies Clearwater, Fla. (U.R) — Dorothy Mae Martin. 17-year-old high school senior, died three hours after she finished writing her autobiography. The sketch of her life was an assignment in English. 0 U. S. Sells Hula Skirta San Francisco (U.R) — Uncle Sams annual postoffiee sale of unclaimd merchandise included two hula hula skirts, one derby

hat, one lot of chicken wire, chi- - na eggs nnd one cake turner. t I. , I ■II—IWI »—U.OI Illi— ■.l 1.1 - Constable Victim of Thief ' Brantford, Ont. (U.R) — There Is a bicycle thief here who plays no favorites. (’unstable Fred W. Cooper parked his wheel behind a > tree in a park here, and the thief ■ took it. I Q——— —... “Four Horsemen" Banned i _____ Valladolid, Spain —(UP)— The first list of about one hundred books which from now on will have . to be barred from the libraries of i all schools in Nationalist Spain, i has just been published. Among them is Blasco Ibanez’ "Four Horse , men of the Apocalipse.” o — 500 Sheets B'/ 2 xll, 20-lb. White Automatic Mimeograph Bond $1.05. 500 Sheets B'/ 2 x 11, 16-lb. Special Mimeograph, White 35c. The Decatur Democrat Co. ts

•| Fifteen Milk Cows Die From Poisoning ____ I Rochester. Ind., Aug. 27 (U.R) i! Fifteen milk cows belonging to | ,' Harvey Hiatt nnd Alvuh Crabb, . farmers living west of here, died t j from hydrocyanic polnaoning yes-'. ■ terday from pasturing on sweet ‘ I corn fodder. 0 English Speed Driver )' Hits 360 Miles An Hour ■I II ii Bonneville Salt Flats. Utah, Aug. '! 27 - (U.R) Capt. George E. T. | .| Eyston, English speed driver, to'.day drove his 3600 horsepower' I Thunderbolt from jouth to north [ ' on the Bonneville speedway at ' approximately 360 miles per hour. , To break his own world's land i speed record Eyston must make a 1 ; eturn trip within one hour at an average speed for the two runs exceeding the 312.2 miles per hour mark he made last November.

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Teased Bees Tease Boys San Jose. Cal. KU.R) — Sergt. Ray Blackmore and Patrolman Jack Patrick feel that it is unnecessary for citizens to telephone the police to Investigate easee of where gangs of boys are “teasing" hives of bees, fln response to the last request of this kind, the/ found upon arrival that 'he bees were “teasing" the boys. Seaplane Base on Schuylkill Spring Mill, Pa. (U.R) — The Schuylkill river now bousts a landing pier for seaplanes, constructed by Alfred L. Wolf of Blue Bell, sportsman pilot. He had the pier built at Spring Mill for an air terminus in his daily flights to his Philadelphia ofllees. o .. .— Autos Don’t Go With Relief Monroe. N. Y.-(U.R>— Automobiles for relief clients have been barred by a welfare board ruling. Hereafter, applicants for relief will bo obliged to surrender their auto 11- ' cense plates.