Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 46, Number 64, Decatur, Adams County, 16 March 1948 — Page 2

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Entries Are Made in Several Cases

Entries were made in several circuit court crises late Monday and today. The court overruled a motion to make the complaint more specific in the damage suit of Richard Hendricks against Eva Stapleton. The defendants made a personal appearance in the possession suit of O. J- and Eva Harmon against Clarence and Dorothy Roop. Appearance for the defendant was entered by Barrett, Barrett & MeNagny in the damage suit of Sven Leonardson against W. J. Roe. The defendant was ruled to answer. o CITIZENS TELEPHONE (Continued from Page 1) necessary for each phone to be re-

Buy Now! Genuine Armstrong Quakerßugs All Sizes. —o—- — 20 patterns to choose from in some sizes. Ehingers formerly Lankenaus The Boston Store ' WANTED * 1 Your Opinion ( •on old age pensions! I In order to get it, you j must vote 'Your vote will help determine! What is done about security 1 ' for the aged. I Register before April 3rd DECATUR LABOR 1 UNION COUNCIL I Local 924 UE Local 2109 AFLj Local 44 FTA Local 93 FTA • Local 1932 USA

Implement Auction FRIDAY, March 19 — 12 Noon If you have farm machinery to sell, consign it to this sale for the HIGHEST DOLLAR. If you need farm machinery, you'll find it here. Decatur Sale Barn Decatur. Indiana PUBLIC SALE I, the undersigned, will sell tlie following personal property, livestock and farm machinery. Located on the "Walter Linn Farm” 7 miles West of Berne, Indiana on State Road No. 118 then 1 mile north then first house West or miles Southeast of Bluffton. Indiana cm State Road No. 116 to Vera Cruz then 2 miles South then first farm West or 2 miles East of JJeiffsburg on State Road No. 118 then' 1 mile North then % mile East, on Friday, March 19,1948 Sale will start promptly at 12 o'clock noon — CATTLE — Cows have been calfhood vaccinated 6 year old Guernsey Cow, giving 3 gallons now. due to freshen Nov. 4. 6 year old Red Cow, giving 3% gallons now, due to freshen Oct. 20. 5 year old Black Jersey Cow, giving % gallon now. due to freshen April 20. 4 year old Red and White Cow, giving 2% gallons now, due to freshen June 26. 3 year old Brindle Cow. giving 1 gallon now. due to freshen Apr. 18. 1 Coming 2 year old Guernsey due to freshen in July. 1 Coming 2 year old Yellow Jersey due to freshen in June. H/2 year old Holstein’ Heifer2 - 3 months old Guernsey Heifers. — HOGS — 2 year old Male Hog, Spotted Poland China: 3 Gilts, bred, due to farrow in April. Spotted Poland China"? 18 Feeding Shoats about 50 to 150 pounds. HAY AND GRAIN 150 Bushe’s of Corn; 40 or 50 Bales of Wheat Straw; 40 or 50 Bales of Oats Straw; 5 Ton of Loose Alfalfa Hay. — TRACTOR — F “20" Farmall Tractor on good rubber, power lift, Cultivators. FARM MACHINERY New No. 10 Little Genius. 2 - 14 inch plow; New Dunham 7 ft. Disc; Dunham Hoe, used 2 seasons; Soil Fitter Manure Spreader; Cultipacker; Side Rake; Mower; International Web Hay Loader; Hog Feeder; Ringing Grate; Hog Fountains for water tank; Kerosene Tank Heater. CONSIGNED: 15 - 2 gallon galvanized chicken fountains; 1 Electric Brooder. 350 chick size; McComb Oil Brooder Stove. 1000 chick size; David Bradley Fertilizer and Lime Spreader on rubber. CONSIGNED BY JOHN H. BAUMGARTNER. Elmore Harris OWNER wileaberger Brethedt 4;wti<sneer&

Italian War Bride Quickly Adopting American Habits

l We talked to a young Decatur - housewife yesterday in a pleasant * little 15-minute chat — and this ■ time she talked back. We remembered some 21 months ago as she alighted from an Erie passenger train, we attempted our first interview with this comely black-haired lass getting her first glimpse of Decatur — her new home. That interview fas a complete "bust.” She knew only two sentences in English—and the only Italian we knew was a few Eng-lish-sounding terms for spaghetti. On June 24, 1946 Mrs. Tommasina Lee, young war-bride of ex-Sgt. Chalmer Lee arrived in Decatur to make her home here with her husband, whom she married a few months earlier in Rome, Italy. Tommasina, a native Italian, was a thoroughly awed and dismayed young lady when she stepped from that train—and who wouldn’t have been. Here she was in a strange country, among a strange people who spoke a strange language. Even her husband was not here. He left Italy after she did and had not arrived as yet. Her mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Lee, of Line street, was there to greet her, thoughnumbered and temporary directory, supplements will be issued by the i company for all patrons, Mr. Ehinger said. The new numbering sys f em will be a link in the nation-wide plan, which in the future will permit the automatic dialling of any telephone in the United States, direct. There will be no interruption of service while the system is being converted, the manager said. I INSURANCE 1 Leo “Dutch” Ehinger 1 FIRE — WIND — AUTO 720 No. 3rd St. Phene 570 ' — t — ' TE’ You Have Property To Sell i Call 1166 or 709 CLYDE TROUTNER 1 Realty Co., 808 W. Adams

r but she was unable to speak Italt ian, either. 1 We remember her answer to our first query from which he hoped 1 to start our newspaper interview. It was “I do not speak English”— ’ this in the most fluent English. ' After an attempt at sign language and gestures we gave up. Yesterday in our interview we were amazed. Except for a natural brog(ue, she speaks quite fluently. Os course, some of the larger words cause her trouble. We changed our “you have made remarkable progress,” to "you've done well with the English language” for her benefit. But Mrs. Lee is now just like the other housewives of the community. She does some of her own marketing, visits with the neighbors over the back fence and all the other things that housewives do. Besides that she is an accomplished seamstress, and makes practically all of her own clothing —and that of the Lee family’s pride and joy. their 14-months old daughter. And she likes it here. But she re- . members those first few days when she had all that trouble understanding others — and making herself understood. ’ Ask Covered Bridge Near Ceylon Saved Geneva Booster Club To Oppose Action The county commissioners in a special session at the courthouse this afternoon were expected to be asked to save the old covered bridge over the Wabash river near Ceylon.

A delegation from the Geneva Booster club indicated late Monday that they would appear before the commissioners and ask them not to condemn and destroy the deteriorating Jstructure, as had been planned. The bridge has been declared unsafe for traffic and signs have been posted. School busses have been re-routed around the bridge for several months since passage was declared hazardous. The commissioners, accompanied by highway superintendent Phil Sauer and auditor Thurman I. Drew, went to the south part of the county Monday to inspect that bridge and others in the locality. While there they talked with residents of Geneva and the vicinity in an effort to learn sentiment of the citizenry concerning the • /// TVrl 3=l • V-' =i ’ • (T /C JI tf/QIW The "know-how” of our mechanics is your assurance there’ll be no maybe about it when we recondition your John Deere Farm Equipment. Our trained service men do the work the way it should be done . . . quickly, efficiently, and at the lowest possible cost. It will pay to let us recondition your John Deere Farm Equipment. Stop in soon and let’s talk it over! ‘ STEFFEN IMPLEMENT COMPANY Third St. Phone 184) Attention Mothers! Just received NEW shipment of the genuine PLAYTEX PANTS of pre-war quality Still Only Pair White is back again. Your choice White or Flesh in S. M. L. XL. EDINGERS formerly' Lankenags The Boston Store

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bridge. The club members indicated that while they would not ask the county to do so if it proved very costly, they would seek maintenance of the bridge because of a sentimental value. The bridge is one of a few of its kind still in existence, they declared, and it adds to the attractiveness of the Gene Stratton Porter home and other widely known landmarks in the area. p PLAN FREE (Continued from Page 11 be held in the gymnasium and kindergarten rooms of the school. During the next week each child will be given a health record blank and the parents are asked to fill this out immediately and have it returned to school. Mrs. J. M. Burk and Mrs. D. B. Custer are co-chairmen of the committee in charge of the examination. There will be a meeting of the committee and the mothers who will act as helpers at the Lincoln school at 3:30 o’clock Wednesday afternoon. March 17. The chairmen urge all to attend so that final arrangements may be completed.

It's Being Done at Willow Bun! Kaiser-Frazer Introduces Four New 1948 Models • V AT NO INCREASE IN PRICE! While Other New Car Prices Are Advancing HERE’S WHY Kaiser-Frazer can make this that others have attempted to copy since Kaiserannouncement while other new car prices spiral Frazer design was introduced in 1947. upward. Kaiser-Frazer controls its own supply of So far no one has been able to more than approximate many basic raw materials ... has its own engine graceful exterior body lines. No one has come plant, foundry and steel mill. Materials from these near matching the roadability ... the ride resulting sources funnel into new and modern Willow Run from seats cradled between the front and rear wheels, the largest automobile manufacturing plant in the such wide seats with both elbow and shoulder room, world under one roof. . And none have the style features, the wide choice Unfinished steel goes in one end of this great plant co^ors fabrics. and comes out a quality automobile, ready to be You get all this plus the many refinements made driven away. All this is accom- possible by years-ahead engiplished in a matter of hours, and neering and design. And, of with the economy of Kaiser- fr* ° course, all 1948 Kaiser or Frazer Frazer straight-line production. cars aVe new Goodyear This is an achievement of men pound pressure Super-Cushion who are injecting new methods tires that make bumps something and ideas into an old industry. ■ you see but never feel. I O M-F Dtaributara mW part* warabauta* I • K-F Daalart. parts an 4 sarvka atattaaa In the new 1948 Kaiser, Frazer, wherever you drive, wherever you go, round En i°y a ride today in America’s Kaiser Custom, and Frazer Man- the comer, down the street, there is a Kaiser- newest new cars — the 1948 cars - „ Frazer dealer ready to serve you with genuine . , • • • hattan you. pet all the features factory parts and approved service* that have not pone up in price. We Invite You to SEE, DRIVE and COMPARE Them, Today I MATTAX GARAGE Bailey’s Motor & Implement Ser ' Corner Line & High Streets A. Monroe St. f-hone 6565 Geneva, Indiana

Father-Son Banquet Held Monday Night

Annual Affair At Methodist Church

Stressing the importance of fellowship and companionship among father and son in developing character, the Rev. Wayne Paulsen spoke last night at the annual father-son banquet of the First Methodist church. Rev. Paulsen, pastor of the First Methodist church at Bluffton. was the main speaker during the program which followed the annual dinner, attended by Methodist men and their boys. Fred Busche opened the program with a short address, citing the importance of father-son companionship in a Christian atmosphere. Lowell Smith acted as toastmaster and introduced the entertainment, including the following: Devotions by Alva Lawson, march by David Ownes, solo by •lack Dailey, instrumental solo by Medford Smith, instrumental solo

by Jerry Lister. The church pastor, Dr. M. U. Lester, also spoke briefly. During his address he lauded Fred V. Mills of the church for his faithfulness and active part in the group. . Members of the committee in charge expressed their appreciation for assistance in insuring the success of the anj’ial event. o HOUSE REJECTS (Continued trom Psure f 30, 1950- The present law expires March 31. Even the Democrats who opposed the GOP bill conceded that it would pass. The Republican measure contains a controversial provision to give loctjl rent boards authority to raise or remove rent ceilings in their areas. 0 LET CONTRACTS (Continued from Page 1)

Wayne. The purchase of the plow brings the total owned by the county to four and allots one to each of the districts in the county.

NOTICE I We have been appointed dealer for Decatur and vicinity for the Kaiser-Frazer Cars We are fully equipped far service of these cars and will handle a complete line of parts and accessories. We will give you top prices for your old cars on trade-ins. MATTAX GARAGE W. Monroe St. Phone 65; I. A. Mattax—Phone 6552 We will continue to give prompt repair service on any make car. Miller Tires —Marathon Gasoline—Batteries

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