Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 43, Number 105, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1945 — Page 3

■sDAY, MAY 3, 1945.

SOCIETY

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' Mr. mid Mrs. Russell Fitmlng. SOt'TETY The Church Mothers Study club will meet Wednesday afterim-m al two o’clock in the M thodici rhnr-m parlors. Mrs. George 1100 > will have charge of the devotions. Mrs. Calvin Sieitry wil] discuss the item •Willingly to D d." taken from I’.-iii-iiik magazine, and tin- le. son "Help for Teaching Religion." taken from the Christian Home magazine, will h< discussed by Mrs. Harold (l.v-'iis. Hostesses will be Mi Clyde Herri and Mrs. Harlan Jackson. The Methodist junior chur n moi iii the church has men- W-dm.-•day afternoon, with fifteen t Midren present, (lames and coii:esi s w< re enjoyed and delicious refreshments were served. The inter-river zone of ’he Wai lher League will sponsor tli annual spring festival Sunday at the Monmouth high school. The pro gram will begin at ,-iiiht o'clock Refreshm nts will lie >rve,| and the public is invited to attend. I There will be no admission cnarge. I FARM BUREAU CONFERENCE IS HELD IN MARION •A number of ladies from Adame county attended the fourth district quarterly farm bureau social and educational ’Conferenee. held in Marion April 21. T.rnie were fifty ■wonien from nil) of the ten counties in the district present. The meeting w . ■■ <e> med by singing ami pray r. Mrs. J-’imer Armstrong of the >;.i e it'fice was in ■ charge of the morning session, at which time Mrs. Albert Amstutz of Monroe town-.tip v, awarded a four dollar pr.ze in the state cak- baking con' Culet-n Wagoner and J.icon W. l; .. bo:' of Monroe township, won prizes in the pester contis: a- lite ,<■ r ■ -inference ami w- . e p: ■ - 1.1-'d .. . prize money. It 'was announced tha: the play writing and mine Is iw be in

CLUB CALENDAR fioclety Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Thursday ■ Annnitl mother and daughter 1 b.impiet of .Monroe Methodist ■ rmirch, church parlors, 6:3n p, m. ■ i Missionary society of First EvanI g-lical church, church parlore, 2 | P- m. i'ot-luck'supper. Methodist church i 6:30 p. m. i I'r iti'nyterian missionary society, i I Mrs. ,1. F, Sanmainn. 2:30 p. m, ~ Rainbow Girls initiation, Masonic , hall, 6:30 p. m, Salem Reformed and Evangelical s ladies aid society, parish hall, all i day. i Pleasant Dale ladi-fl aid society, i ! church parlors, all da v. | \\. M. A. of Ntitiman avenue I’. -1 '' church, Mrs. Emma Johnson, I ':•'*() p. m. Friday i Mother ami daughter banquet of - First Evangelical church, church . basement, 6:30 p. m. Ever Ready class of Methodist -1 church, Mrs. M. O. Lester, 7:30 | P. m. } Y. P. M. 1!. of Nuttman avenue ■ I church, Mrs. Lawrence Miclml, 7:30 -IP. m. 1 I Red Cross Knitting Center, Red ■ I Cross headquarters, 2 p. m. to 5 P. m. I Sunday Bobo W. S. C. S.. church parlors, . I 7:30 p, m. Monday Men's I'nion Prayer Service, au- | ditoritim of Ninth street, I .» P,. ; church, 7:30 p. in. D-l.a Theta Tau sorority, Elks Tuesday i j Delta Theta Tau mothers day ■ i p.i y. Elks Itome, 6:30 p m. Wednesday ("lurch Mothers Study club. Me--Ithodist church parlors. 2 p. m. ■ i Red Cross sewing c liter, LeII gion, 1 p. m. _____________ : i.ie state office by November 1, and was voted that these be changed to skits and stunts h-reafter. The poster comes: will remain the Fame ' for the children, and the cake conit<s't will li held again. It was de- ' i ide,l that it would be permissible i to pr< sent only one-half of a cake ■ far judging becaus of the shortage of sugar. The district cake routes’

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The Air Medal 1 j: w. t - i . 4k*-' X ■ z /\ ' rt I c ■ v First Lt. Robert Hunter, a pilot of a 817 Flying Fortress with Hie Eighth Air Force in England, was recently advanced to that rank, according to word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs.] Floyd Hunter. Overseas since January, Lt. Hunter lias completed 26 missions over Germany and has been awarded the Air Medal with two oak leaf clusters. will be held September 21. $3.'750 wap contrWiuted to thr-j freedom fund. The fund will be held open indefinitely for contribut ions The safety program, which is sponsored jointly with nineteen other organizations of the I country, will begin in July. Literature was distributed and each township in the state was asked to participate with the rural youth collecting records of all accidents for the u.se of the state office. Lois Critiri, disirirt S and E chairman, announced that all funds for the Moudlin educational fund must be j sent to her. Those from Adams county attending w re Mrs. Albert Amstutz, Mrs. Harry Crownover, Mrs. Ervin I.ochner, Mrs. (\ W. R. Schwartz, Mrs. William Kruetzman, Mrs. Dortha Shady, Mrs. Delota Engle, Mrs. Ed Neuhauser, Coleen Wagom r and Leland Ripley.

IJMlgg | pm! | |lll)l|Hllll|||IHI I ritlSlß "Mr. Fixits” Among the best "Air. Fixits” in the w-stern front are the soldiers ot the 601 si Ordnance Base Armament Maintenance Battalion of the 6th army group in Germany, and in this group are two Adams county boys, ('pl. Robert W. Koeneman and Pfc. Richard Geilber. While in Oran, Algeria, this battalion set up its shops for the North African campaign, assembling new equipment, servicing and rebuilding war-worn w- apons. Recently, in France, the battalion built a mobile radio broadcasting studio and it is from this studio that war correspondents broadcast many of their front-line reports. X’pl. Koeneman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Koeneman of Preble and has been overseas since May. I!H3, and Pfc. Richard Gerber is Hie son of Mr. and Mrs. John Ger- . lher, route 2, Decatur. Nurse is Promoted , I First Lt. Lucy E. Little, of Deca- . lur. nurse aboard the "Charles A. Stafford." one of the 26 army hospital ships in the Atlantic mercy , fleet based here, has been promot- . ed from second lieutenancy, Brig. Gen. James T. Duke, port commandi er. announced today. Graduated from Indiana Vniver- ■ sity school of nunsing, in 1936, Lt. Little enlisted in the army nurse corps in May. 1941. She was on . duty at the West Point Station Hosi pital prior to being assigned to the Stafford last June. tShe is authorized to wear the American theater and Enropean-Af-riean-Middle Eastern theater service ribbons. Cpl. Thurman Rayl went overseas in August, 1913, landing first in New Guinea and is now s'ation- ' ed in the Philippines, where he recently received the good conduct med .1. He attend-d school in Pleasant Mil's and was employed by the Cent .al Soya company before entering the army in April, 1942. His wife. Mis Dora Suman Rayl, re-sid-c on route 6. Decatur, and his father, (’. F. Rayl, also on route 6, Deca :ur. Pl ■. Dailey M. Fogle ia spending a 2'i day furlough in Decatur visiting .ela'ives and friends. He entered t ie. army in November. 1912, reeivirg training -at. Orlando, Fid.. Seo: Field. Hi., and at pres-n.t is stat: >ned in Ardmore, Okla., receiving 'raitiiu in photolithography. At the end of his furlough he will repo. : back to Ardmor-. iSc . Harry Manlier, huslband of Mrs. Be;:y Harman Manlier, 7ilo Elm .-'.rest, arrived in Decatur Mon lay for a 45-day furlough with his wife and parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Harman of Wrtn, Ohio. He entered the ar ny in February, 1942. going overseas in December. 1944 fighting in France, Germany and Belgium. Il was while lie was in Belgium tha- he suffered from frozen fe t which caused him to tie liospi alized in England before being returned to the slates. At th" expiration of his furlough lie is to report to Brooke General Hospital. Fort Houston, Texas. Pfc. Robert Crownover, in a telephone message to his parents last evening, informed them that he had arrived in the states and would be home soon on a 45-day i'urlougn. Pfc. Crownover has been overseas for 2S months, and most recently

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i An Aircraft (dinner ! 1 ’ i fBBh I; fc X </ :i gfes:: ' W, . A 1 Robert Deitsch, Aircraft Ordnance Man Technician (AOMT 3/c), son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Deitsch of St. Marys, Ohio, formerly of this city, recently completed a three month's training course at Jacksonville, Fla., in aircraft gunnery, and lias returned to his station in the jungles near South America. He is attached to the Bureau of Ordnance of the navy and was overseas before returning to the states. His father operated a grocery store in this city before moving to St. Marys. was stationed as a mechanic in the! air force in Cairo, Egypt, lie is the j son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. CrownI . over of route 6. jjMums •Lieut. Frederick Weicking. 24, who lost hie left arm as the result of wounds received in Belgium, ie now visiting his mother in Indiana-i polis. He left Scotland Saturday I night and arrived home in less than . twenty-four hours -by plane. George Thome of the Indianapolis office of the Kraft Cheese Co. was a business visitor here today. ('apt. and Mrs. Floyd Grandstaff of Mac'Dill Field, Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Kalver, who have been ; residing at S.t. Petersburg. Fla., had dinner together last Sunday in Tampa. Fla. The Kalvers w.ll rturn home about the middle of May. o - I FRED W BRAUN •£- — Spring housecleaning time is here. What kind of equipment do you use wb- n you wash windows in | your home? Thoughtless house I wives too often cjimib up ou-rick-e'y ladders and dangerous stools' and ■ ven teeter on locking chairs in.order to reach high places. The wisest praotice is to use a I s:ei) ladder which not only provid-s a firm footing but also provides a place for the water container. And a word about home dry cleaning. D spite countless warn ings of danger, some people persist in using napilia, gasoline, and otli er cleaning fluids indoors in mad<quately ventilated rooms. Explosions and fires caused by faulty bundling of these cl-aning fluids have calked severe injuries and have cost many poems their lives Do all your Irnmu dry cleaning ou' .>f-doors. o Mattress Pads Mattress pads, although covered with a sheet, eventually get soiled and should be examined occasionally to see if they need washing. When stained, soak in cold water ' before plunging up and down in rich suds or placing in the washer. Out- I door drying is advisable. No iron I rrj is

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