Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 45, Number 218, Decatur, Adams County, 16 September 1947 — Page 3

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t p w. COUNCIL MEETING £ EL ’d IN INDIANAPOLIS i The annual fall council meeting L .he Business and Professional In,men’s club was held at the Clay- |,,,; ho tel at Indianapolis Sunday. | Pgist ,ation was at ten o clock fallowed by meetings of all clu Ihirmen with their respective stale I o'clock a luncheon was Lid in the Riley room of the hotel. Burs I ide Stage, president of the .tier dub. sang "The Lord’s Praytr" as the invocation. As mistress f f cer emonies, Mies Grace Schoenl.achler, state president, conducted meeting, introducing officers Lid guests. Miss Sally Butler of Indianapolis, national and international president, was the main Leaker In her address she spoke L, her recent trip to Paris, France, |f l)r the international conference, Iwliere she was elected president. Lhe advocated doser relationships Iwitli UN friends and stressed the [importance in continuance of financial and moral .support. Although the Belgium orphan project has keen discontinued as a national project ,she urged those clubs who had adopted an orphan to maintain Ithat support as it was appreciated (and needed. | The mid-winter council meeting will be held in January of 1948 in Indianapolis. Miss Marcia Martin, a member of the state international relations committee, also represented the local organization of Business and Professional women at the meeting Sunday.

BIRTHDAY DINNER IS GIVEN SUNDAY Mrs. Perry Morgan was the honored gueet at a pot-luck birthday dinner Sunday. Guests attending were Mr. and Mrs. Perry Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bulmahn and son, Larry, Mr. and Mrs. William Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Morgan and son, Dennis. Mr. and Mrs. John Morgan and daughter, Susan Kay, Mr. and Mns. Homer Leroy Ratliff and children, Leroy and Kathryn, all of Decatur; Mr. and Mrs. Eugen Noggler and children, Leo and Eugene, Jr., St. Henry, O.; Mrs. Emma Foggleman and Benjamin, Brandford. 0.: Mr. and Mrs. Ray Coppess, Junior Coppess, Mr. and Mrs. Forest Foreman and children, Deloris, Dora, Ethel and Phyllis Ann, Mns. Marion Coppess and children, Dorothy, Betty and Marion, Jr., Dayton, 0.

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GECODE CLUB WILL HAVE WEEKEND OUTING The Gecode club will have its annual fall conference this weekend at the Limberlost cabin on Oliver lake. Members will leave here Saturday morning at nine thirty o’clock by chartered bus and will return Sunday. The conference will open with the installation of the officers: Dorothy Schnepf, president: Rosemary Miller, vice president; Barbara Roop, secretary, aitd Florence Schultz, treasurer. The' social calendar will also be made, the conference closing with a candlelight service. Members who have not made reservations may do so by calling Mrs. Lorena Keller at the General Electric Co. All reservations must be made by Friday. DUTIFUL DAUGHTERS CLASS IN MEETINNG The Dutiful Daughters class of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church met at the home of Mrs. Clarence Brunnegraff recently, with Mrs. Reva Stauffer as the assisting hostess. During the business meeting, plans were made for the next meeting, to be held October 7 at the home of Mrs. Amos Ketchum. This will be the last meeting before rally day and a good attendance us urged. Mrs. Homer Eley will be the assisting hostess. Delicious refreshments were served at later hour. HOME ECONOMICS CLUB PROGRAM WEDNESDAY A special Back to School program will be given at the Home Economics club meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Burt Haley, at 1:45 o’clock. The program committee has put forth much effort to make this a good meeting and every member is urged to attend. The Y. P. M. B. of the Nuttman Avenue United Brethren church will meet Thursday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Hazel Foor. The Willing Workers class of the First Christian church will meet Thursday evening at aeven thirty o’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Strickler. A meeting of the Baptist Philo class will be held Friday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home

JI Hk| WJK '■r ' **'. • 7 W 1 g | WED IN ANDERSON—Miss Martha Irene Resh, daughter of Mrs. Doris Resh, route 2, and Carl J. Beitler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Beitler of this city, were united in marriage recently in the parsonage of the Church of the Nazarene in Anderson. The Rev. J. T. Trueax. former pastor of the Nazarene church here, officiated. (Photo by Edwards).

of Mr. and Mrs. Brice Daniels. All members are urged to attend. Gamma Nu sorority will have a district picnic Sunday at Pokagon state park at Angola. A basket dinner will he served at twelve noon, and all members of the eorority and their families are urged to attend. Those desiring transportation are asked to call 1294. The Phoebe Bible class of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will meet at the home of Mrs. Clara Baumgartner, 921 Marshall street, Thursday evening at seven thirty o’clock. o Personals Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Weidler of Detroit, Mich., visited here over the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weidler. Miss Janet Goldner has entered Ball State Teachers college as a freshman. The Rev. and Mns. Carey R. Moser will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Kruse on a fishing trip to Brainerd, Minn., extending over a 12-day period. Judge W. H. Eichhorn, of Bluff-

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ton, has been in the Wells county hospital for treatment of coreness in one of his feet is again able to he at the courtroom. The Rev. and Mrs. Tillman Amstutz and son Kenneth of Berne will sail Thursday from New York for India, where they -will do missionary work. Four other children are remaining in Minneapolis. Earl Colter te building a new twocar garage at the rear of his residence lot on Winchester street. Bill Bell, Jr. is confined to his home with a severe case of influenza. Dick Heller, Jr. will leave Wednesday morning for Bloominton, where he will enter Indiana University as a freehman. Tom Sharp will go to Bloomington Wednesday to enter Indiana University as a freshman. Chancy Sipe, former Decatur resident who has lived in Detroit since 1908 and is now dividing his time between that city, Douglass Ariz., and Los Angeles, is visiting here a few days. He expects to return to the west the latter part of the month to enjoy the winter. Robert Klepper attended a lawn party in Fort Wayne last evening. Fannie Witham started employment this morning in the office of the county surveyor, Virgil Bowers. She succeeds Miss Phyllis Barger.

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 Tuesday Associate chapter of Tri Kappa sorority, p.m. supper, Mrs. Raymond Keller. Decatur Garden club, Mrs. Paul Felber. Loyal Daughters class of Bethany' Evangelical U. B. church, Mrs. George Hamma, 7:30 p.m. (’. L. of C., hall, 8 p.m. Tri Kappa sorority carry in dinner, Elks, 6:30 p.m. Reception of Dr. Charles White. Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church, pot-luck, 6:15 p.m. V. F. W. auxiliary social meeting, hall, 8 p.m. Wednesday Decatur Home Economics club. Mrs. Burt. Haley, 1:45 p.m. W. S. C. S. of Bobo Methodist chtwh, Mrs. Ruth Daniels, all day. Appointed officers and chairmen of Women of Mooee, Moose home, 7 p.m. Psi lota Xi eorority, Elks, potluck 6 p.m. Thursday ■Women’s guild of St. Luke Evangelical and Reformed, all day. Friendship Village Home Economics club, North Brick school, 1:30 p.m. D. Y. B. class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, 7:30 p.m. Rainbow Girls installation, Masonic, 6:30 p.m. Officers, guilds, escorts and chairmen of Women of Moose, Moose 7 p.m. Phoebe Bible class of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Mrs. Clara Baumgartner, 7:30 p.m. Willing Workers clas,s of First Christian church Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Strickler 7:30 p.m. Y. P. M. B. of Nuttman Avenue U. B. church, Mrs. Hazel Foor, 7:30 p.m. Friday Baptist Philo class, Mr. and Mrs. Brice Daniels, 7:30 p.m. Saturday Ice Cream social, bake sale and bazaar, Hoagland Lutheran church lawn, 5 p.m. Sunday Gamma Nu sorority district picnic, Pokagon State park, Angola. ““““ “" ———— — . The Winner Garment company of Berne has purchased a tract of ground, 533 feet, on Echo and Elm streets in Celina, 0., and announce they have let the contract for $150,000 building to house their plant in that city. They will employ 150 people. —o —, Diauact «*<««»• Electric blanket wire can be flexed without breaking more than 100,000 times —equivalent to a quar-ter-century of ordinary use of the blanket. The wiring system, according to electrical technicians, will outlast the blanket itself. fyw***^*^ l W"n»H J ' : f ■ **w •***-<*»* : ARRESTED in Jersey City, N. J.. Pearl Silverman, 18, confesses hammer-slaying of her 11-year-old brother, Albert, whom she “hated all my life because my parents gave him more love than I ever got.” (International)

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ißr SB? Mb* .il Pvcz ■ I ImmK * «<-■ w ■ WED RECENTLY—The wedding of Miss Mary Catherine Gerber, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Gerger, Berne route 2, and Morris Wayne Brodbeck, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rufford Brodbeck of this city took place in Dayton, 0., recently. The couple is residing al 604 Mercer avenue. (Photo by Edwards).

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Admitted: Mrs. Mae Thieme, route 5; Daniel Hoffhinee, Rockford. O. route 3. Admitted and dismissed: Mrs. Audrey Ewan, 350 South Third street. Dismissed: Leonard Liechty, 821 Jefferson street; Mrs. Sophia Kirsch, 641 Second street; Mrs. Francis Monahan, 310 South Ninth street; Mrs. Barbara Habegger, Berne. o

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Arnold, route 2, are parents of a baby son, born at 8:55 o’clock Monday night at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 3 ounces. o-— —— CARD OF THANKS We wish in this manner to thank the many friends, neighbors and relatives for kindness and floral offerings and to Rev. William C. Feller for his kind and consoling words during our sorrow for our husband, father, son and brother. Mrs. Vera Fritzinger and Children, Mrs. Mary Fritzinger, Chas. C. Fritzinger. ■ 0 How we react to the Christ both disdeees what we are and determines what we shall become..

PACKING her photographic equipment, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., widow of the late brigadier general, gets ready in her Glen Cove, N. Y„ home for a trip to France. While overseas she will visit his grave in Normandy and take pictures of it. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism <n World War 11. (International)

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Divorce Awarded In Circuit Court Judge Earl B. Adams in circuit court I his morning awarded Arthur F. E. Merriman a divorce from Dora Merriman on his cross-complaint, after ehe filed the original action but did not press her suit. Judge Adams restored her maiden name of Everett. In his cross-complaint he charged that the plaintiff associated with other men, imbibed intoxicating beverages and became inebriated and told him ehe no longer cared for him. The court gave her numerous household goods, including all canned fruit, a refrigerator, cabinet, record player and other items. D. Burdette Custer represented the plaintiff, while prosecutor Myles F. Parrish appeared for the defendant. The divorce case of Jzora against Cecil Henke wan scheduled tp be heard by Judge Adams late this afternoon. The divorce case of Ernest against Gertrude Anderson was set for trial at 2 p.m. Wednesday. More Bacon In the past 25 years Denmark has reduced the age of pigs slaughtered from 210 to 177 days and increased the yield of bacon per hog.