Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 37, Number 125, Decatur, Adams County, 26 May 1939 — Page 3

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ryh Baxter amt y M AM „ y Piano Mio “Rondno’, pi rk K(n< l lano roll. "Vais. Prtite", Cart FueL line. Vocal Mio "In the Garden." Ronme Koop Guitar aolo “Nobody's Darling" Hetty Haley. ; Plano duet "Betty's Walse," Gladys and Mabie heath I Vocal aolo. Joan llodle Piano duet uid Kentucky Home, Heluria and Marcelia Fuelling Piano aolo "Morning Prayer," .Sherman Nyffler Plano Holo "Rustic Dance.' Kathryn Baxter Pla»» and cornet duet. Adrian Gib non and a friend. Tlano aolo "Fair/ Polka", carl Fuelling Vocal duet "Round the Ba"le Cry," Maynard and Varnell Habegget Plano duet "March of the Brow - , nlea," Helen Haai-lwood and Mr* Akey. I'lano aolo. Deloria Wurst Group of songs. Kyanaon children Recitation. Annabede Roop A picnic supper will follow the recital at Lwgion Memorial park with I pupils and their parenta aa th-> guests. • The T. P. M. Circle of the Eranrelical Sunday achool wilt have a I b-ked goods sale Saturday morn- ' inn at eight o'clock at the Broi k jstore. I The Tri Kappa sorority will con[duct a rummage aale in the Ellis I’uildiiig Saturday. The sale tri'l iopen at eight o'clock in t.te mornlinn and continue through the day All members are urged to attend the pioneer B. Y. p. U. of the Tiaptiat church Sunday evening at a*X o'clock. The Adams county woman a chorus will meet at the Monee home Monday afternoon, .'tne Sth. at onethirty o'clock, instead of May lath ax first announced. Anyone wishing

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(’LIIB CALENDAR Bocisty Deadline, 11 A. M. fanny Macy Fhonxs 1000 — 1001 Friday PhilaHuM Class Meeting. Mrs. Curtis Monet, 7.30 p. m. I'nlmi Chapel Mother-Deught.,* Banquet, t'nlou Chapel Church. 1 ip. m. American I .eg ion Auxiliary. Le'pion Home. 7;sp p. m. Itelta Theta Tau Picnic Supper, Mrs. Joe .Murphy. 5 45 p. m. Monmouth Merry Maida, Mon , mouth School. Pocahontaa lardge, R-d Mena . Hall, 7:30 p. m. Saturday T. P. M Circle Biked (loons Sale, ; Brock's Store, x a m. Iri Kappa Rummage Sale. Ellis ■ Building. 8 a. m. Wednesday Girl Scout Trop 1 Initiation. Han. na-Nuttman Park. Thursday Women of St Mary’s Parish K of j <’. Hall, it p. m. Guest Day Tea. Pretbyterlan I Church. 2:30 p. m. j to join must do no now as thia will ' bo the last opportunity until Fete , rtiary into.

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CHAPTER LIV Five days later Noel took sick, suddenly and violently, and Chris knew that he was feeing a ruptured appendix. There was no time to get help from a distance, and no help at hand. He went out into the narrow hail outside the bedroom and stood there, opening and closing that right hand at his. Then, his mouth tight and his face set, he turned to I Hiram. “I’ll have to do R. Hi." he said. “There’s no time to get anybody here, even if 1 could find some one. Boil some water and put a blanket on the kitchen table. I’ll be back as soon as I can." An hour later he stood beside Noel ax he lay on the table. He had given him the ether, and Hiram was keeping him under. In Amy's shining I dishpan at his side lay his few instruments. now boiled and sterile. The boy was breathing easily, re--1 taxed at last; and the rxqn was Silent. save for the breathing. Chris stood for a minute looking down at the valiant young body, so dear to him and now in his hands to save if he could. For the first time since his boyhood he muttered a prayer. “O God, give me strength and [ skill,” he thought. i Then he reuvhed out his still awkward right hand and picked up a ! scalpel. • see In the early spring of the following year Chris was preparing to go back and start his life again. He | had no illusions. For two years he i had been a country doctor, with all that that implied; and in that two i years his city practice had been i scattered to the four winds of hexven, and much of his reputation had i been forgotten. [ He was still a young man, as such things go. And there was a quiet strength in him now, aa of one who had passed through deep valleys and no lunger walked alone. Chris glaneed about him. On the mantelpiece beside David’s horseshoe still stood a recent snapshot of Noel. He went over and, picking it up, took it to the lamp, and studied it. Strange that this should now be his boy, his son; this tall lad with Jerry’s hair and his long-fin-gered, sensitive hands. “I’m going to be a surgeon like you,” he had said after that operation of his. * “You’ll have to be a lot of things first" "Sure. That’s al) right with me." Grieving over Amy, grieving again over Hiram, who had followed her so soon, and yet with the adapt- , ability of youth adopting Chris as i both father and mother. ' Strange, this life. Strange that , long ago he had sat in the old baek i office talking to a girl in trouble, a ' brave girl who meant to bear her i child; and that later on it had been ' that child who had brought back his [ confidence in himself. Now, stranger i still, the child was his, to love and ' care for. Ho meant to make a good , job of that 1 Hix mind drifted to Beverly, if indeed it ever left her. She had gone i abroad that winter, but now she was ; back. Back in his house again, with , the scar on the marble mantel and with the spring grass sprouting over Caesar’s grave. Some time, long ago, she had written him a letter, and Katie had destroyed it in that house. But he could tel) her that now. It was indeed almost all he had to offer her—that, and the years ho had loved her, and some possible future still vague and un- ; certain. Tomorrow he would take the car and start back for the fight; like the war. Like— He wax whistling when the telephone rang and he answered it. “Wait a moment, Doctor. It’s long distance.” He held the phone, surprised i rather than apprehensive. Then the connection was made, and he recognized Tod Lawrence’s voice. “Chris?" “Yes. What’s wrong?” “It’s Beverly. I thought I’d better toil you. They're operating on her tonight. Emergency, or I’d have let you know sooner." He went on. Chris sat rigid, I listening. Now and then he said, “Yes,” or “All right, I’m here." But he was not aware that he was speak, ing. Beverly was ill, very ill; and he

ST. MARY'S PARISH WOMEN FINAL MEETING CF SEASON The women of St. Mary » Parish will meet at tike K. of C. ball Thursday evening at maht o'clock for taelr final meeting of the season. Annua) and convention reports will . be beard followed with election of new officers. Rev J. j Sei met a. spiritual dire" tor, will address the gathering. A social hour and r dreahmt nta will cmnplete the program. Troop No. I of the girl Meats will I have Initiation for new members Wednesday at Hanna-Nutunan park. Evelyn Strickler. Barbara Duke. Anna Jane Tyndall and Margaret Milyard are the troop supervisor. A number of friends and relatives 1 enjoyed a supper and axalnted Mrs. C. J Spengler in celebrating her | birthday anniversary at her homo I i'i Pleasant Mills Wednesday even- . Ing. ECONOMICS CLUB REGULAR MEETING The St. Mary's township home | e< onomlcs club met at the horn** ■of Mrs. V’erlando Clark Thursday | .’’ternoon. with twenty-three men.- > b, rs. four visitors and a number oi children present. Roll call was ana-

wax not with her. She was facing that alone. She had nobody. In a way she never had had anybody. He hung up the receiver and went out into the hall. His hat was there, and he must have put it on, for later he discovered that he was wearing it. He remembered dimly getting into the car and shooting out onto the main road, although he remembered nothing else. After that be ceased thinking. Ahead of him was the road, white before his headlights, and nothing mattered but that road. There was no world to right or left of it, but only somewhere an end. Once he crossed a railroad track only a foot or two ahead of an express, and hardly knew it. He left a sweating engineer in a locomotive cab, leaning out and looking back. “Drunk or craxy, the fool!" he said, and wiped his face with a greasy handkerchief. Chris did the usual things, but by sheer automatism; stopped for gas and water, and once to telephone. Beverly was still in the operating room, but that was all he learned. He got into the car again and rattled and banged along. But after that telephone cal) his mind had commenced to function once more, his surgeon's mind which spared him no possibility and no horror. Driving like the madman he probably was, he could see her there In the operating room. That new room with its glassed gallery and its modern equipment; there on the table, with the masked white figures about her, and then at last the thin red line—God, they couldn’t do that to her. Not to Beverly. Not to hie girl; always and forever his girl. At four in the morning he turned in at the gates and stopped the car before the door. He was almost unrecognisable, covered with grease and dust and now hatless, but they knew him by his walk. “It’s Doctor Arden!" “Good heavens! I'd never know him." He passed nurses without seeing them, going by instinct to that door of Annie's, and brought up short there only by the fact that it was closed. Then for the first time he hesitated, and Ted Lawrence found him there and caught him by the arm. “Get a chair, somebody." “Nonsense.” Chris’s voice was thick. “How is she?" “She's over it As for the rest, she's all right so far. It's a little soon. M "Who did it?” And Ted told him. It was a good job, he thought It had taken time. The common duct—but they had a donor ready, and there would be a blood transfusion soon. Not essential, perhaps, but she had been run down, and it would do no harm. Chris listened. Just so had he talked when a situation was desperate, soothingly and hopefully. It was ths old familiar patter of the hospital, and ha brushed Ted aside roughly. “I’m going in there," he said. "I’ve heard that talk before." “Go in, If you want to kill her. She can’t stand a shock, man. Don't you even know that?" He hesitated and then turned away. He had no right in that room. Everybody else, but not he. He did not leave the corridor, however. Sometimes ho sat there outside the door, sometimes he paced up and down. But once toward morning hs learned that she was rallying again, and he could have gone down on his knees there in the open hall and thanked Whoever it was, great white throne or not. Who had given her that extra strength. At dawn they got him away for a while, long enough to wash and to drink a cup of coffee. He went back at once, however, watching the door ■gain, searching the faces of nurses and doctors as they came and went. “SUH all right?” “Better. Much more than holding her own, Chris." Inside her room Beverly lay In her bed. Shadows came and went. She would see them, then they were blotted out, and she was alone with herself, to sink down and down until she had escaped them all forever. If they would only let her alone, so she could do that The worst of the pain was over now. A thousand years ago they had brought in a table, and she had

re red with fond memories of mother. Mrs. Harry Crownover conducted the business meeting in the an senes of the president. During tne routine opening, prayer was given by Mrs. John Clark. The leader. Mixa Mary Koos, then gave a very good lesson on color schemes in the home, a number of contests were enjoyed, after which reirexhments were served by Mrs. Clark, assisted by Mrs. Glen Mann Mrs. David Bovine and Mrs. Will Evans. KIRKLAND CLUB REGULAR MEETING The Kirkland ladies' cluo met recently at the Kirkland achool. The meeting was called to order by the (lesldent. Mrs. Albert Belneke. who conducted a short business meeting. The club leaders. Mrs. Floyu Atoneburner and Mrs. William Griffiths. gave very Interesting and heipful cooking demonsfrations on the use of more eggs In the menus. The club creed was given and the roll call answered with "Oir fondest memory of mother." Mrs. lairtha Hhady led the club in singing "What a Faithful Friend in Mother.” A health talk was given by Mrs. Wilmette Miles. Memorial services were held for

looked at Ted Lawranca, and be bad bent down to her. “If anything happens, tMI Chris it is all right I understand. And tell him I have never changed." “Nothing's going to happen, my dear.” * “But you will tell him?" “Os course. You’ll be telling him yourself pretty soon. He's on the way. When you wake up, he'll be here." So she lay in her bed and watched the shadows, but Chris waa not among them. In due time the sun rose and came in through the windows, and she roused again. They gave her a second blood transfusion that morning, for her continuing weakness alarmed them. It was still touch and go. At.d sometime or other they let Chn* in. but she did not see him. He stood beside the bed looking down at her, his face almost as white as her own; but the hands which picked up the blue record sheet were steady. After that he stayed by the bed, and once again ho felt as if he were holding death back by sheer will power; as if he could hold her there within reach of his arms, his strength and vitality against her weakness and defeat. And something happened. At noon—himself drained, exhausted—the pulse under his fingers was stronger. She opened her eyes and looked at him. "Don’t speak, darling. I’m hero." She nodded. It was enough. Ho was there, and now she would get well for him; well and strong, so that they could stay together. Some day all this would be over, and she would make a homo for him and bear his children. Her hold on his hand tightened, and, the nurse’s back being turned for the moment, he stooped and kissed her, very gently, on her forehead and on her trusting eyea An hour or two later the house surgeon stuck his head inside the door and, finding her awake, spoke to Chris. "Sorry as the dickens. Doctor, but there's a ease in the operating room they’d like you to see." Chris sat quite still. Ke was back. They had taken him back. He was one of them once more. He looked down at his right hand, strong again, ready for work, steady for anything that came. He eould hold a knife with it, ho could hold Beverly, he could hold his world again. He got up with a new lift to his shoulders. "Coming," he said. Then he stood for a minute looking down at Beverly in her bed. "I’ll bo baek, you know, darling,” he said. "Always I’ll be coming back to you, my girl." “I know,” she said, and watched him aa he left the room. That would be their life from now on, and she knew iL But she waa utterly content, watching the eager forward thrust of his shoulders as he went ouL In a minute. In five minutes, he would have forgotten her. He would be bending over a case, intent and absorbed, all surgeon again, all doctor. Always ho would be that But he always would come back to her. He would go out and forget her, but oven then ho would know that at the end of the day she would be somewhere, waiting for him. Outside the operating room Chris was getting into bio long, wrinkled coat, his cap, his mask. Even there he eould distinguish the familiar odors of hot linen, of anesthetic and drugs, apd hear the muffled sound of voices over the table. When he opened the door, a wall of hot air confronted him, and once more it seemed to him as he entered that it was like a stage setting, with the movement suddenly stopped, froxen, and all the faces turned toward him, smiling and welcoming. It waa over In a second. The action on the stage commenced again, the movement accelerated. The table waa there, the patient on it. and around it the group of masked and ghoatliko figures. “Come here and see what you think, Chris.” They moved aside for him, and now he wax there once more, where he belonged. Instantly bo waa absorbed, intent. The paxt wax wiped away, even the present All that existed for him at that moment waa the case before him. THE END

a deceased member, Mrs. Truman tioldner. Lovely refreshments. loctadin< a simple of the food, coogod in the demonstration was served by tne hoatessas. the Mrsdames Thottns Griffiths, Rollo Houck. Franklin Fruchte. Milton Zimmerman and EHa Helmrich. Thirty-six members, three visitors •■nd six children attended 'he meetng. Mrs. Albert Roth wax added to •be list of civets names. ANNUAL GUEST DAY TEA AT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The ladies of the First Presbyterian church will give their annual auext day mlxalonary ton in th--church Thursday atternocn at two thirty o'clock. An interesting program has been planned, with Mrs. A J. Hears of Fiat Wayne ax the guest xpea'xer. Mrs. Nears will talk on China, tn which country she lived as a mtnaloaary, LADIES' AID HAS MEETING The ladies' aid society of the M>-{ -hodist chureh met in the church entertaining roosnx Thursdev aftertoon. with Mrs. John Myers in charge of the program and devotionala.

Mrs. W. P Robin-on. president, conducted the buxiurax meeting and announced that the aocle'y would eponxer a talking picture. "Golgo!na." at the high achool bulldins June IS. Further annourcemen's concerning the picture will be made later. An interesting program of readings and music wax then presented. During the social hour, refreshments were served by the hoxtesaes. Mrs. Leland Bmltb. Mrs. Earl Kolter and Mrs. Harve Kltsoa. I Kltson. gERSONALS Mins Betty lx»u Foughty thia morning accompanied he.* sister. > Miss Georgia Foughty. to La Grange to Join the girl scouts ermp at Oliver Ijvke. Mixa Georgia Foughty is assistant scout leader of the Ls Grange girl scouts. Mrs. Ronnie Cornell of Minneapolis. Minnesota. Is spending sever al days with her uncle and aunt. ■ Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller of 3*2 South Second street. Mrs. A. B. Hines of Van Wert. Ohio spent the day with Dr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller and their guest. Mrs Bonnie Cornell. Mr and Mrs. Harry Detamore of Portland visited friends In Decatur last evenng. Mr. and Mrs. I. Bernstein have re turned from a trip to Indianapolis Miss Mary Kalh-yn Tyndall ot | Indianapolis la spending several | days in Decatur with her parents. I Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tyndall and her I sister. Miss Anna Jane. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Schafer will I spend the week-end and Memorial Day in Chicago with the latter's j |a.renta. Mr. and Mrs. Potter Miss Mary Margaret Klepper who attended International business col-

SEE—Cecil B OeMille'e “KING of KINGS” That 2', Millian Dollar Picture 1.000 Scenes, 5,000 People— Two Hour Exhibit ; It imaiM and charm" the | world — turning away Son in one night Exhibited Every Night at 7:45, from Sunday, May 28. to Satur day, June 3, incluatve. ZION REFORMED CHURCH Decatur, Indiana No admixxlon charge A ailver | offering taken after aeelng the i picture > • Tonight & Saturday JACK RANDALL “TRIGGER SMITH” ALSO — “Dick Tracy Returne" TONIGHT ONLY IQC Saturday 10c-15c Plants’ For Home and Cemetery Visit our greenhouae while selection la complete. Open Evenlnge ano Sundaya. “cTay it j ” DECATUR FLORAL CO. Nuttman Ave - PHONt 100

I ■ lege in Fort Wayne for the past 1 | tight months has accepted a poal- ‘ tlon with the Cloverleaf Creameries. ,'le i! Mr and Mrs. Frank McConnell • li ft this morning for Col.tmuui an-i l Marion. Ohio, where th»y will spend the weekend with iricmts and tela- ' ■.■l—.-.a

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| ttvea Miss Bai bare Duke will leave next week for a vlalt with bar grandparents m Crab Orchard. K>, slid Nashville. Tenn. Mr and Mrs James Edwards of | Irf-ipxi*. Ohio are visiting in Decatur.