Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 42, Decatur, Adams County, 19 February 1948 — Page 3

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1948

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(UM JOIN US CLASS N MEETING TUESDAY The Kum Join Us class of the jethany Evangelical United Brethen church met Tuesday evening at he home of Mr. and- Mrs. Merritt Uger, with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn ifauller assisting. Devotionals were read by Mrs. tarlan Jackson, using as her subect the day of the month devotions r om the Upper Room. Roll call was mswered with "my favorite Valntine.” Following a short business meetng, conducted by the president, jverett Hutker, games and conests were enjoyed in keeping with he month of Valentine and famous lirthdays. Delicious refreshments were servd at a later hour to the thirty two nembers, two guests and two childen attending. loyal daughters CLASS IN MEETING The Loyal Daughters clase of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church met Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Earl Fuhrman. The president, Mrs. William Dellinger, presided over the brief business meeting, opened with devotionals by Mrs. Elmer Anspaugh. Fourteen members answered roll call. During the social hour, a silent auction sale was conducted and several contests were enjoyed. The hostesses, Mrs. Fuhrman. Mrs. Elmer Anspaugh and M.rs. Genevieve Owens, seved delicious refreshments in keeping with Washington's birthday. HEBER L. FEASELS TO OBSERVE ANNIVERSARY Open house is being planned by Mr. and Mrs. Heber L. Feasel for Sunday afternoon in observance of their silver weddihg anniversary. Friends of the couple are invited to call at their home, 721 Dierkes street, between the hours of two and five o’clock. A family dinner will precede the reception. Mr. and Mrs. Feasel were married in this city and have resided here since that time. They have four children, Leo Merlin, Billy Joe, Hubert and Eloise, all at home. LADIE-S SHAKESPEARE CLUB IN MEETING Mrs. Maynard Hetrick was hostess to the Ladies Shakespeare j club Wednesday afternoon. Seventeen members and one guest attended the meeting. Mrs. J. C. Sutton, Sr., was program leader for the afternoon, using as her subject “The Sweetert Town on Earth.” She gave Easiest, Smartest! isl Moi IM / /ywsr- — 9404 t P sizes r.' 12—20 Such utterly simple sewing; Just one pattern piece, just one square of 54-inch fabric! Sleeves ■ n one with blouse; no placket! Pa'tern 9404 is smart! Make several. This pattern gives perfect fit, is eas y to use. Complete, illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Pattern 9404 sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 20. Size 16, long sleeves. 1% yds. ’i'in.; cap sleeves, 1% yds. 39-in. Send TWENTY-FIVE cents in coins for this pattern to Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., N. Jefferson St., Chicago 80, *'■• Print plainly Your Name. Address. Zone, Size and Style Number. NOW is the time .to sew for Spring! Fifteen cents more brings you the brand-new Marian Martin Pattern Book, cram-full of excitlnq spring fashions for everyone! “■us— a FREE PATTERN printed uiside the book—two belts to give \°u the New Look. Better have this!

CLUB CALENDAR Society Deadline, 11 A. M. Phones 1000 — 1001 ! nursday Friendship Village club, Mrs. Fred Freewalt. Pleasant Mills Methodist W. S.C. S., Mrs. Harry McDermott, all day. St. Luke Women’s guild, church basement, all day. Phoebe Bible class of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, church, 6 p.m. Church of God Missionary society, Mrs. Charles Franks, 7:30 p.m. Do Your Best class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, Mrs. Frank Bohnke, 7:30 p.m. Baptist Women’s Missionary society, Mrs. Gerald Rumple, 2:30 p.m. Order of Rainbow for Girls, Masonic, 7:30 p.m. Progressive Workers class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wietfeldt, 1020 Patterson street. Circles 111 and IV of W. S. C. S. of Methodist church, Mrs. E. N. Wicks, 2:30 p.m. Friday Adams County Federation of Women’s clubs, Mrs. A. R. Holthouse, 2:30 p.m. Work and Win class of Trinity Evangelical U. B. church, Mr. and Mrs. William Strahm, 7:30 p.m. Philathea class of Baptist church, Mrs. Bryce Butler, 7:30 p.m. Pocahontas lodge, Red Men hall, 7:30 ,p.m. Monday Art Department, Mrs. J. E. Morris, 7:30 p.m. Dramatic section of Decatur Woman’s club, Mrs. Sylvester Everhart, 8 p.m. Cub pack, Lincoln school, 7 p.m. Music department of Decatur Woman’s club, Mrs. C. E. Bell, 7:45 p.m. luesaay Church Mothers Study club, Methodist church, 6:30 p.m. Kirkland Ladies Home Economics, club, Kirkland high school, 6:30 p.m. Delta Theta Tau social meeting, Elks, 8:15 p.m. Wednesday St. Paul Ladies Aid society, Mrs. Floyd Smitley, all day. St. Mary’s Home .Economics club, Mrs. Austin McMichael. an interesting account of the per- | fume industry of which the city of Grosse, in southern France, is the center. Mrs. Lois Black read an article on “How Perfumes Get Their Names.” At the close of the program, Mrs. Sutton presented each member present with a sachet. The door prize of cologne was drawn by Mrs. J. R. Denney. During the social hour, the hostess served delicious candies'. The next meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Sutton on March 3. Pocahontas lodge will meet Friday evening at seven thirty o’clock at Red Men hall. A meeting of the St. Mary’s Home Economics club will b<j held Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Austin McMichael. All members are urged to attend. Circles HI and IV of the W. S. C. S. of the Methodist church will meet Thursday afternoon at two thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. E. N. Wicks. The St. Paul Ladies Aid society will have an all day meeting Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Floyd Smitley. Omicron chapter of Delta Theta Tau sorority will have a social meeting Tuesday evening at eight fifteen o’clock at the Elks home. The Music department of tire Decatur Woman’s club will meet at the home of Mrs. C. E. Bell Monday evening at seven forty five o’clock. "The Whole Truth,” a three-act farce, will be presented by the Geneva senior class Friday, March 19, seven thirty p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Mrs. H. G. Van Matre announced that members of the cast are: Duane Shoemaker, Jane Van Emon, Bill Kamman, Norma Wright, Esther Stucky, Max Mattax, Walter Bai- ■ ley. Barbara Robinson, David Shepherd, Mary Low Hofstetter, 1 Bill Pyle, and Phyllis Hofstetter. Members of the Kirklaud Ladies Home Economics club will entertain their husbands Tuesday evening at six thirty o'clock at the Kirk- ’ land high school gym. Members are asked to bring two covered dishes and table service. —o Reflection Costly West Minot, Me. ■’(U P.) — Rei flection of the sun from bright i metal stripe on his plane’s wingtip ■ cost Roland R. Maheux, airport owner $7,000. The rays focused on 1 the fabric of a nearby plane, start- • ing a fire that burned tour planes ! and a hangar.

Decatur Girl Meets 'Pen Pal' After 10 Years Os Writing The first meeting of two “pen pals” of 10 years’ standing —one a Deca’tur girl—was made known here today. Ten years ago, when Miss Anita Koeneman, now an employe of the First State Bank, was a student at St. Paul’s Lutheran grade school at Preble, the youngsters in her class started a “pen pal” correspondence. • The correspondence was started under the supervision of the teacher through a magazine, to which the local students sent their names, addresses and birth dates. Miss Koeneman celebrates her birthday each year on June 3 —and so she received a letter from a • Leona Koehler, a grade student at a Melrose Park school in the Chicago suburban area, and who had the same birth date. Thus began a continual correspondence between the two girls. They even exchanged photographs, but had never seen each ether — not until recently, that is. Miss Koehler followed a singing career and began a road tour with a group of singers known as the St. Regis trio. Then Miss Koeneman received a postcard from her Chicago pen pal, saying that the latter was to appear with her group at the Decatur junior-senior high school in a special assembly program. Miss Koeneman arranged to be present and for the first time met the girl to whom she had been writing for 10 years. “Yes. she looked about like I expeced,” the local young lady commented. Ice and the winter accumulation of dirt along the curbing of streets in the business section were removed by state highway employes today and it was the first real sign of spring. There had been ice along the curbs for the last six or seven weeks. Clarence Ziner is in Chicago attending a convention of bottled gas dealers. Mrs. Cletus Miller and Mrs. Richard Linn are visiting in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Thomas K. Lutes and Miss Eileen Keller of this city, have been notified that they successfully passed the state examinations for nurses. The young women were graduated from St. Joseph’s hospital, Fort Wayne, last fall and took their examinations in Indianapolis. Miss Keller is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keller of the Homesteads. • —o \

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(Visiting Hours 2 to 4; and 7 to 8 p.m.) Admitted: William H. Morrison, Willshire, O.: Robert Maloney, route 4; Rolland H. Miller, route 1. Dismissed: Mrs. Mary Railing, route 6; Mrs. Frederick Fuelling and daughter, route 3. o Divorce Action Is Dismissed In Court The divorce action of Albert against Dorothy Biston has been dismissed in Adams circuit court, upon motion of the plaintiff. In the partition suit involving the local churches, a summons was ordered issued for Carl C. Pumphrey, trustee of the First Presbyterian church, returnable March 3. An answer was filed by the defendant in the partition suit of llary against Charles 'Roebuck.

IN THIS ® PROFESSION g '|ol|| OF OURS, P i wQtftKnDJvi / i i/rßfffiP , «> perhaps more than any other, we are in a position to $ observe the neighborly kindF f ness that bereavement brings 1 J —the quickly extended hands Ir to a stricken home. / This comment has no particular purpose, except a reminder that OUR COMMUNITY J / XI IS WIDELY KNOWN FOR ITS j FRIENDLY PEOPLE. ‘ lOf GILLIG S DOAN y wfe FUNERAL HOME DECATUR. PHONE 794 VIK 3 nT If I 1 ' .. ®

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Mr. and Mrs. Richard Boling, of Willshire, 0., are the parents of a baby girl, born at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She has not been named. Mrs. Boling is the former Miss Joan Hitchcock . A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Smitley, Jr., at 2:56 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the local hospital. He has not been named. New Ideas Feature Dairy Day March 4 Decatur Meeting One Os 12 Carded Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 19 —New ideas on Indiana dairy production will be featured in a series of 12 special “dairy days” in northeastern Indiana to be held March 2 to 19, it was announced here today. These sessions will be arranged cooperatively by producers, county agents, distributors, dairy processors. and the Purdue University agricultural extension service. The series of meetings will open in Huntington county, Tuesday, March 2, and will include: Allen county, March 3; Adams county, March 4; Wells county, March 6; Whitley county, March 9; Noble county, March 10; Elkhart county, March 11; Kosciusko county, March 12; DeKalb county, March 16; Steuben county, March 17; LaGrange county March 18; Wabash county, March 19. A special feature of the series of “dairy days” will be a display of a group of educational exhibits, prepared at the University, on such important topics as “artificial insemination,”; “D. D. T. controls flies,” “brucellosis in cattle and hogs, and undulant fever in man,” “quality roughages including pasture, hay and silage;” “home pasteurization of milk;” and “how to wash milking utensils and milk sanitation.” Present for each meeting will be speakers from Purdue and elsewhere, who will discuss pasture improvement, feed supplies, dairy disease control, and other prob- ; lems of the dairy industry. Pari emphasis will be placed on ■ methods of avoiding undulant ■ fever among farm families. , — 1 0 Predicts Increase In Minimum Wage Washington, Feb. 19 — (UP) — Rep. Gerald W. Landis, R., Ind., predicted today that the house labor committee will vote in “about one month” to boost the minimum wage rate from 40 to 60 cents an hour. Landis, ranking Republican on the committee, said some members who opposed a minimum wage in- - crease last session have changed their minds. “There is no question that the bill will come out of the committee if the house leadership approves of it,” he said. “I cannot speak for them, of course, but I believe they will support this legislation." —o — - Accident Laid to Drink Denver (U.P.) — Traffic officials in Denver have found that during 1947 the great majority of fatal accidents on the city’s streets were caused by drunkeness. During the first 11 months of the year 56 people met death — 26 of whom were pedestrians. Police said 19 of the deaths were caused by drivers or pedestrians who had been, drinking.

Give Teslimony On Slaying Os Youth Shows How Youth Killed Young Lad Chicago, Feb. 19 — (UP) — Judge Daniel A. Roberts’ courtroom shook as if hammered today as Gerald Michalek, 9, dropped a heavy rock to the floor to show how a 13-year-old pal killed a younger companion. Michalek was recalled for crossexamination on his story of how Howard Lang, then 12 and now 13, killed Lonnie Fellick, 7, in a lonely woodland near Chicago last October. When he was finished, Anna Mae Evans, 17, bobby-soxer whom Lang called his “girl friend,” described how she disposed of Lang’s bloody clothing a few days after the Fellick, boy was slain. She said she threw them away while riding along a bridle path. Samuel Andalman, Lang’s attorney who has said his defense will be the story of Lang’s life up to now, picked from the exhibit table a heavy, pointed rock and asked Michalek to show how Lang dropped it on Felleck’s chest and face. “He took it like this, and he let it drop,” said Michalek. raising the rock about to waist level. Then he ’ dropped it. Spectators in the crowded courtroom, most of them wo- ' men, jumped. “How many times did that' hap1 pen?” asked Andalman. “Three times on his face and ’ once on his chest,” said Michalek. 1 , Young Lang, sitting with his cheek on his hand, seemed only ' mildly interested in the demonstration. Earlier, he had slumped i a little more in the chair as Mich- ■ alek described acts of perversion , committed in the woods. i The point broke off the rock I during Michalek’s exhibition. i Before the trial started, a bailiff [ ejected from the courtroom two ■ high school girls who refused to . give their names but said they were . "friends of Howard’s.” The bailiff , said they were too young to stay. Miss Evans was in the courtroom yesterday when Michalek describI ed the killing. He said that Lang, then only 12, , stabbed Lonnie repeatedly and then ’ smashed his head and chest with a 20-pound slab of concrete. o 1 Williqm Wilkie Collins, an Eng- ■ lish author born in 1824. is known as the “Father of the detective story

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C. C. Enrollment Increases At Berne Berne, Feb. 19—The “Berne Chamber of Commerce already has 168 members for 1948, a survey revealed today. This is nine more than the final enrollment figures for 1947. The Chamber, at its Monday evening meeting, adopted a motion to have all local stores and other business places close on Good Friday from 12 to 3 p.m. during the time a union Good Friday service will be in progress at the Mennonite church here. 0 Report Wabash River Far Out Os Banks Berne, Feb. 19 — The recent thaws, melting snow and heavy rain of last week have sent the Wabash river far out of its bank. Many acres of lowlands along the river are flooded. No damage is expected from the flood. 0 Beef Tour Is Made Here On Wednesday Henry Rumple, chairman of the Beef project committee, reports a successful beef tour Wednesday, when 30 4-H beef members and adults met Henry Mayo, extension animal husbandryman of Purdue, at the Cal Yost farm, where four beef calves were seen. Mr. Mayo emphasized full feeding. He also urged that all cattle be sprayed with D. D. T. for eradication of lice at this time of year and for flees in the summer. He recommended 1%% Rotenone dust rubbed into the backs of cattle to kill warbles. A stop was made at the McMillen Valley Farm where a feeding herd was seen, The last stop was at the W. R. Stanley pure bred Hereford farm. An evening meeting was held in the county agent’s office, where plans were made for a summer pasture tour and hoof trimming demonstration. Help relieve distress of MONTHLY FEMALE 1 COMPLAINTS Are you troubled by distress of female functional periodic disturbances? Does this make you suffer from pain, feel so nervous, tired — at such times? Then do try Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound to relieve such symptoms. Pinkham's has a grand soothing effect on one i ot woman's most important organs! HYDIA E. PINKHAM’S compoZS'

New Harmony Woman Is Suicide Victim Mt. Vernon, Ind., Feb. 19 —(UP) —A verdict of suicide was returned today in the death of Mrs. Marjorie Johnson, 54, New Harmony. A widow, whose body was found floating in a cistern at her home Jan. 30. Coroner Ronald Niehaus said police first suspected murder when they found the lid of the cistern mysteriously fastened. —o — — MEAT PACKERS (Continued from Page 1) house workers a substantial wage increase and receive a fair return to their investment without increasing meat prices." Spokesman for the big packers have termed the union's wage demand “preposterous." The rival AFL Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen’s Childs ft Colds To relieve miseries ICK l* without dosing, rub on vF vaporua

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