Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 192, Decatur, Adams County, 15 August 1947 — Page 3

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ra K.y reunion JKID annual Fn»ubig»*r fJsL.I,! Sunday at S'troyer lake, hat* kef dinner .<1 noon. f*.i h y president. Evon by tliv president. Evon attnnllriK w**t< Mr Franhigei Mr. and Mr«. August Mr and M Erm -t and family. Mr and Mr and Mr« Evan Yake Mr and Mr*. Vernon Mr and Mrs. Wayne R. and daughter.* Mary Ac Merle Snyder and Hon*. and Johnny. Mr. and Mr* ;>i Kruetzinan. Mr and Mr-. vH Arnold and family. Mr and ■MB l.elloy Heer. Hi. bard Eran Ben Krnetzman. Carl Man Harrell. Junior Wendell Heer. Vera Frauhiger. lsßy Kohne, Rene Kruetzinan. Joan Houdyshcll. Bernleie (■ch. Marilyn Beer. Mariella Bucher. Delore* Werlinger. Longenherger. Naomi Yake Mankey. u ll of Decatur Hr and Mr*. Harry Frauhiger. Mrs. Albert Frauhiger and HEKtier-. Virginia and Grace, '|BK Frauhiger. Goshen; Mr. and yHjohn Frauhiger. Liberty ten Mr. and Mrw William Frau Mr and Mr*. Adam Frau- ■ and family. Ivan Frauhiger. Mrs R. W Halfley. Mr HlUrs Lewis Yake, Irene Innin y|Band son, Dic kMr and Mr* OrdH Gerlier and family, Mr. and H. Arvine Stelnger, Mr and Haul Scott. Bluffton; Mr and Forrest .Mankey and family, a|»ii| Mrs. Noah Vake and fam ■■and Mrs Noah Yake and Cralgvllle; Mr and Mr*, Schlickman and family. Mr and Mr*. Jen* Schlickand family, Wiltshire. 0.; Mr. Mr*. Robert Bucher and daughKaren. Preble; Mr. and Mrs Hal Gerber and family. Mr. and Tim Buuman, Berne. Mr. and' Eli Dubach, Mr. and Mr*. Beer. Geneva; Mr. and Mn< Mford Mcßride and family. OsMr. and Mr* Edward Kruetzand daughter*. Dorothy, Joan Shirley, Detroit. Heart Winner Kryr. -IVs ♦ livL ■Tr* / *]/ / Iyy ' i 1 f I Ewk ~ I ’‘•-.'Mt I I JK- ' \1 I f 'LJJ. 9,47 •- ■■ ■ siZ£S / /Ir u. l *-” 40 B V Mil \ ' [■' i 1 vl ■ Bf. I s l v 1/ r 'll ■l*3 i 11M I I 1I A >1 ' - 4 vS J up IJ f I I KTam*** HbviK** You’ll lose your heart to thiw! ■Pattern #147 ha* the line you ■want. Smooth, slim and simple ■to *ew. And something ext raff special in embroidery. Easy ■transfer is Included. This pa'tern give* perfect fit. ■i* easy to use. Complete. Ulus- ■ (rated Sew Chart show* you ■ every step. Pattern 9117 comes in size* 12. 1 14. 16, 18. 20 and 40. Size 1« ■ frock take* 2 ? A yards 38-fnch. Send TWENTY FIVE cents In I coins for this pai •■rti to Decatui I Dally Democrat. Pattern Dept. I 155 N. Jefferson St.. Chicago 80 •11- Print plainly your NAME, ADDRESS. ZONE, SIZE AND style NUMBER. QUALITY Photo Finishing Featuring OVERSIZE PRINTS AT NO EXTRA COST. Fast Service holthouse drug co.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Friday Pocahontas lodge, Re>l .Mem hall. 7:10 p in. Calvary Izulie* Aid society, Mr. and Mr*. Ix*wls Drake. 8 p.m. Profit and Pleasure Home Economics club picnic, Hanna Nuttman park, 6 p.m. Faithful Workers class of Union Chapel U. B. church, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest Walters, 8 p.m. Sunday Zion Lutheran church farewell reception for pastor, church basement, following church service, 8 p.m. Salem .Methodiet church, homecoming. V. F W auxiliary district school of instructing. Jim Eby post. Fort Wayne, 1:80 p.m, St. John's Walther league* ice cream social. St John's* Grove, 8:30 pm. Wednesday Decatur Home Economics club family picnic, Mr and Mrs. Roy Price. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday V. F. W. auxiliary white elephant Hale, hall, 8 p.m. Decatur Garden club, George Rentz cottage, Celina, (). Ijoyal Daughter* class of Bethany Evangelical U. B. church. Hanna Nuttman park, 6 pin. Thursday Pleasant Mills Methodist W. S.C S„ church, 1:45 p.m. W. S. C. S. MEETS THURSDAY AFTERNOON The general meeting of the W e man's Society of ChriHtlan Service of the Methodist church was held at the Church Thursday afternoon. .Mrs. N. R. Steury presided over the business meeting, at which time forty one calls were reported. Mrs. Leigh Bowen gave the devotional lemon, taken from :'te first chapter. 9 verse, of Philllpians. The September meeting will be* carry-in luncheon at twelve thirty o'clock, with the W. S. C. S. of Pleasant Mills as guests. Mrs. C. W Morris of Fort Wayne will be the guest speaker. During the social hour, a committee from circle IV nerved dainty refreshments. ANNUAL FRUCHTE REUNION IS HELD The* nineteenth annual Fruchte reunion was held Sunday at Hanna Nuttman park, with eighty seven persons attending. Following the potluck dinner al noon, a ahort business meeting wns conducted by the president, Franklin Fruchte. Mi*. Caroline Fruchte and John Kruetzman. of Utuisville, Ky„ were recognized as the oldest persons present, and Ann Cheryl Fruchte, daughter c,f Mr. and Mrs. Donald Fruchte. was the youngest present WOMEN OF MOOSE MEET THURSDAY The* regular meeting of the Women of the Moose was held last night at the Moose home. The door prize was won by Mary Roop. Following the business meeting, a farewell party was given, honoring Mrs. Ruth Gass. The next meeting will lie held AugUHt 28. TRI KAPPA SORORITY HAS ANNUAL PICNIC Alpha Sigma chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa enjoyed a picnic Tuesday evening at Hanna Nuttman park. The long picnic tables were attractively dporated and a delicious supper was prepared by the hostesses, Mrs. William Redmond. Mns. Ixiwell Harper. Mrs. Kenneth Runyon. Mrs. William Schnepf, the Misses Ruth Holthouse. Nancy Bell. Mary Lelta Helen Baughman. Kathryn Edwards and Anna Marie Steury. i During the brief business meet- » Ing. conducted by tjie president. • Mrs. L. Gray Paddock, final arr rangc-ments were made for the dance to l>e held at the Hoagland . Hayloft on Augtrnt 22. Don Smith - and his orchestra will play for the > dancing. Miss Dorothy Schnepf was appointed general chairman: Miss '■ Margaret Moses and Mrs. William ’ Christen, tickets; Mm. Wendell Smith, orchestra; Mrs. Gerald 1 Strickler, refreshments, and Miss 1 Kathryn Kauffman, publicity. The Loyal Daughters class of the i* Bethany Evangelical United Breth- ) ren church will have a family picnic Tuesday evening at six o'clock at Hanna Nuttman park. Members are asked to bring a covered dish, table service and a ten cent gift. The Pleasant Milla Methodist W. 8. C. 3. will meet Thursday afternoon at one forty five o'clock at the church. The Decatur Home Economics club annual family picnic will be held Wednesday evening at six thirty o’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Price. Members are requested to bring table service and a picnic basket.

I ■r j i i 7 Hmb F 11 1 if I uHiiil b nlv x W '* »' »«■ ’ * WED RECENTLY Miss Ruth Mary Monnier. youngest daughter of Mrs Amelia Monnier. 621 West Adams street, and Richard Roland Miller son of Mr and Mrs. Fred Miller of Willshire. <>.. wen* united in marriage recently at the St. Mary * Catholic church. The couple i« residing in Salem, (Photo by Edwards.)

The St. John's Walther league will have an Ice cream social at the St. John's Grove on I'. S. 27. north of Decatur. Sunday evening, lieglnning at eight thirty o'clock. * 0 PIRSONAU Mt and Mrs. Thornton Meadows. Falls Church, Ya. are visiting Mr. Meadows’ parent.*, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Meadows of this city The younger Mr. Meadows is employed in Washington. D. C. Mr. and Mrs. George Brewer, formerly of route five and Charles Johnson of Thirteenth street, have arrived in Florida. They are located at Bay Palms Park. Made! ra Beach. St. Petersburg, Fla. Mr. Brewer formerly operated an upholstering business here. Charles Johnson will attend school In St Petersburg. Miss Jane Maddox !» Listed on the spring quarter hon<4 list of Ohio State university's college of < ommerce. Mrs. Albert Rich of near Berne ha«< la*en dismissed from the Van Wert county hospit.il where she has been a patient. Delphos Is to have a "white way" in the down town district. Thirtyfour new ornamental posts each carrying 1.000 watt lights are to be installed taking the place of the present 25-watt lamps. Rollie Smltley of thio city has returned from a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Smltley. in Van Wert. Eugene Week. 26. of near the stab* line i> ill with menengitis but the type has not been determined. He was stricken with a severe headache which has continually become more severe. He was taken to the Van Wert hcMpltai. « o

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> • I Admitted: Miss Barbara Sauer . 1328 Master drive. , Dismissed: Wllford Ray. , North Thirteenth street; Mrs. Ger- . aid Eady and liaby. 722 North Fifth street; Charles Chrisman. Geneva; I Rlhmlu Hirscky. Berm*; Imwrence I Flauding. Bryant; Dillon Jordon, , Rockford, o.; Robert Jones, route 3. —o

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Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Painter of Willshire. 0.. are parent* of a i»aby l son. born at 3:31 a m. this morning r at the Adam* county memorial ho«t pital. He weighed 6 pound*. 6 1 * ounces and has not been named. A l>aby son was born to the Rev. I and Mr*. Oliver Oillaune of route » B. this morning at 7:22 am. at the t local hospital. He weighed 7 pounds. • ounce* ’ Mr. and Mr*. Harold Baker are ’ parents of a daughter, born at 11:22 a.m. today at the Adams county

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hoepital. She weighed 6 imhiikM. 12 ounces. i o Heal t lotaeuptn* In winter, the housewife's hands will not get so cold if she heats the clothespins before hanging the clothes.

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More Charges Are Hurled Al Lee Wounded Vet Waits In Cold For Honor Birmingham. Ala., Aug. 15 — I P) A batt e wohuded t < rgeatlt shivered for two hours in an ambulance on a cold, wintry lay at Cherbourg waiting for Lt. Gen. John C. 11. I*e to decorate him. a local Baptist clergyman charged today. Ex-chaplain Hal Bennett, who wst in tree's command, said the usually pum-ti'al g< neral wa two hours late for the ceremony that dav. Bennett said he "was mighty glad to hear (Scripps- Howard columnist Robert) Ruark sound, off" about General l<ee’s present command in Ita'y which may be ilivestigaled by u congrerslon il <ommltt< . The lki|..ftit minis*:r said that a colonel had Issued the order (or the sergeant to be decorated, thinking the general would go to the hotipital for the presentation. But instead orders were Issued lor the ceremony at the Cher bourg docks. It wa* a cold drizzly nay in November. Bennett said, recalling that "I nearly froze standing there two hours myself.'’ Bennett said on Mother occasion orders came down from l<ee's headquarters for his 33rd engineers regiment to select a man to receive the bronze star award. "Well, we weren't in combat and there weren't too many heroes in the outfit. But our com mander. Lt. Col Guy submitted the name of a sergeant in a mine platoon who had been wounded by a Isstby trap and bad really done oulstarfding work," Bennett said. "The sergeant wa* in the hoHpital at the time. So General fa-e's headquarters wrote l|uk Hat the sergeant wasn't suitable —that it had to be a man who could be out on the reviewing stands at the port. "We had a lot of big shots pass through the port. But when General Lee indicated that he was

[ u wWI ' 1 W'-. oz ’ i .. A \ % BERNE BRIDE—The wedding of Mis* Betty Alice Mettler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Mpttler of Berm*, and Harold D. Sprunger. son of Mr. and .Mrs G. W. Sprunger of Berne, took place recently in the Cross Evangelical and Reformed church. Berne, the Rev. C A Schmid officiating. After September 1. the couple will be at home at*7ll Haven street. Ann Arbor, Mich. (Photo by Edward*).

due for an Inspection w»* always bad to pull out two companies to erect a reviewing stand for him.” The clergyman said his regiment did a lot of hard work in getting the harluir back hi shape after fighting advance I Inland and hi* men hoped for tanks and guns ami Hu- like to be unloaded first on the rebuilt dock*. "But itiHtead our first cargo war. housing for General Lee's headquarters.” latter the general cited the work of certain colonels, said Bennett, who Is assistant editor of the Alabama Baptist weekly. "And there arc the kind of men.” hl- quote I Lee. "whom you wouldn't mind following to bell." The minister said lie came very close to paraphrasing the quote to: "These . • fne kind of men you'd like to see put in hell.'' Rome, Aug. 15 — (IP: —Lt Gen. John C. H. Lee said today that any answer to the charge* liy Robert C Ruark, ScrippsHoward columnist, regarding condition* in tin* Mediterranean would have to be released by the war department Lee said be had read Ruark's articles criticizing his ndminis t. at ion for "wasting the taxpay er'z money" and had "sent such ii.formal ion as I deem necessary to the war department.” "I welcome visits l»y the press to any military establishment in this theater to ascertain for themselves the facts concerning the morale and conditions ol troops within this theater," lx*e said at a press conference. Local Moose Members To National Meeting | Headed by Tom Titus and . Ernst Worthman. delegates, »ev I eral members of the Decatur * lodge. Ixiyal Order of Moowe, will I leave Saturday aftiWmum and t Sunday for Columbus, (). t<

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Ing the Sunday sessions anti oth<r* will remain for the entire f*ve days. • 0 —...., Decatur Girl Is Awarded Nurse Cap Indianapolle, lug 15 (UP)--\llie students, completing their pruclinical iieritsl In the Indiana university school for nurses, will h>ceive their nurse- caps in traditional ceremolliiv litre Sum|py evening *• The taps will be fireseilted Jiv Mary L. Peacock, director of Hie school Dr Matthew Winters, chairman of the 1. U. school of medicine's department of pediatrics. will be the speaker. • Those receiving the caps will lull tide Mrs. Phyllis Ketcham, Patty Milt hell and Mary Morgan, all 'of Indianapolis Verna Jo Aetley, West Terre Haute; Jean E. Johnson, Decatur; Lorraine Kline. South Bend; Bonnie Jo Murphy, Marion; Phyllis Smit It. Tipton, and Ixmise Wyre. Amarillo, Tex, Miss Johnson is Hie daughter of Mr and Mrs. Burl John-on. of near this city. o Lads Learn Eight Penny Nails Have No Use In Tires Eight • penny nails have mfny ibtes but one of them isn’t in an auto tire, as three youngsters found out last evening. Police chief Ed Miller was called to Sixth street about 5 p.m. an autolsl reported the three little tykes, all about five years old. sticking the nails into his auto tire. The chief mad** the youn>«ters go back and pul! the nail* from the lire treads The sight of his uniform is believed to have been punishment enough for the lads. | lALLMABK 11 CARDS Large selection. SMITH DRUG CO. t »