Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 47, Number 98, Decatur, Adams County, 26 April 1949 — Page 3

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fiS Society Items for days publication must be phoned in by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 1000-1001 Miss Betty Melchl Tuesday C. L. of C. chorus-choir, C. L. C. ball, 7:30 p.m. Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Miss Irene Braun, 8 p.m. Adams County Rural Youth, Lincoln school gym, 8 p.m. Church Mothers study club mothers day meeting, Mrs. Gerald Jones. 8 p.m. Delta Theta Tau spring party, Elks. 8 p.m. Delta Theta Tau, Elks home, 8 p.m. Wednesday Friendship flrele of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Mrs. James Hunter, 7:30 p.m. Aeolian choir rehearsal, Lutheran church. 8 p.m. St. .Vincent de Paul society, C. L. of C. hall. 2 p.m. Philalethean circle of Women’s guild of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, 8 p.m. Union Township Woman's club, I Mrs. Mav Stults, 1:30 p.m. Bethany circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Mrs. Harry Knapp, 8 p.m. Jolly Housewife club of St. Mary’s township, Pleasant Mills, school. 1:30 p.m. Thursday Ruralistic study club, Mrs. Victor Ulman, 8 p.m. St. Ambrose study club, Mrs. Jacob Heiman, p.m. j Circles three and' four of the W.S. C. S. of the Methodist church, Mrs. Ed Wicks. 2:30 p.m. Little Flower study club. Mrs. Mary Foos. 7:30 p.m. Guardian Angel study club, Mrs. Leo Al herding, 8 p.m. Boho United Brethren Willing i Workers class, Mrs. Katy Daniels, 1 p.m. Presbyterian Ladies Aid society, church parlors, 2:30 p.m. Circles I and II of W. S. C ,S. of Methodist church, Mrs. Clifford L. rrible„2:3o p.m. Order oi Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. ~ ers for next year will be one-year . scholarships for elementary school i teachers at Indiana university. Pur- . due and Ball State Teachers col- . lege, Muncie. ’ MISS ROWENA MAE FORTNEY ENGAGED TO ELDON MILLER Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fortney, route 6, announce the engagement of their daughter, Rowena Mae. to Tldon T. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. True E. Miller, of Portland, route 4. Miss Fortney is, a graduate of Pleasant Mills high school and is ~WANTED~ Experienced Bea ty Operator, Full or Part Time / Phone 1880

lN BRETON TO R S K oHl>e Ee,lsageinent "X marriage of Miss Harold Keller, son ' J rs Ed Keller, of this J made by her parents. J John H. Brunton of h stree( . The wedding Cd for W 3disS Brunton and Mi- L J from Decatur Cath--.-1001. The bride-ele.-t M ted from the St. Frans Nursing in Evanston, '^privateduty nurse , te e Mr. Keller is employGeneral Electric Co. G OF PYTHIAN club HF ld Sister Needle club met pie Monday evening, wi'h Jefferies presiding. Anna read the secretary’s reieabsence of Matilda SeiThe group voted to sponmage sale on May 14. with ■ollock. Bessie Beeler. ,-er. Bernice Jefferies and ie te in charge. B were then invited to l room, where lovely rets were served by the hosVon Reber. Della Cartel, shtaucher and Hattie I |R BEST IEETS lo Tour Best class of the Evangelical United lirethtliheld its regular meeting Birch recently. esident. Mrs. Floyd Death, n the business meeting, time thirty two members I roll call. One hundred aty five cards were sent atly-five calls were reportJlarie Debolt and Mrs. ohnke were program leadistesses, Mrs. Earl Crider, tert Cochran. Mrs. George iMrs. George Hill, served Kits at a later hour. _• d two-da y meeting RENT-TEACHERS UIS Indiana Congress of eachers was held at the auditorium in Fort Waytie ’’•23. Representatives (attending were Mrs. Malte Mrs. Randolph Brandyid Mrs. Paul Hancher. heme of the meeting, which I he the theme for the 10; tiation next year, was lion of Living." The profile Indiana Parent-Teach-vitation to Sew ' Al // /// /A/ J 7 I a Nnaro i?*! " as ”* e new let,, “ wkline - <r>m collar. Z. ’ ® lrt «Mrt! L«. « .. Slw ‘ 34. 36. 38. Il Uh L S ' le 38 takes * Twfutv J 1 con ’ra»t. I« rh>< Y FIVE cent* in ' Pattern to Decatur ,p n ?*’ Pa ”ern Depart hfut D i?’ 67W - Chicago 80. lU Yoor Name. Ad »■ i vL”' S,sr,e Number, kt gJ. EW Marlan Martin ° D,,f d«inl? aU,iful ?um . ,0 ww M ’iiy It tte- J *’ hlon dollars go Ph ”* raEE ' he book ' ’ 1 IfrJ mid * of towels * S X?Hn Or * ,W ,hto ’■ *5 fashions!

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employed at the Adams County , Farm Bureau, Pleasant Mills. Mr. i Miller, a graduate of Bryant high school, is employed by the Fulton Glass factory at Geneva. OBSERVES SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY i A pot-luck dinner was served Sat- | urday evening honoring Charles G. Kirchner, of Preble, who celebrated his seventieth birthday anniversary. Those attending were Mrs. Amanda Hener, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bleeke, Herald and William Bleeke, Mr. and Mrs. Gust Bleeke, of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Bohnke and family, Mr. and Mrs. Otto D. Bieberich. Air. and .Mrs. William Macke and family, Mr. and Mrs. | Carl Menter and family, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Kirchner, Mr. and ' Mrs. William Werling, Mr. and I Mrs. Charles Marahrens and daughter. Ruth, Fort Wayne, and Air. and Mrs. Charles Kirchner. HOME ECONOMICS CHORUS ENTERTAINS The Adams County Home Economics club chorus entertained the Allen. Jay and Wells counties ' chorus groups with a lovely six thirty dinner at the Decatur high 1 school recently. Melvin Meyer, assistant director of music at Purdue, was the guest - speaker. He chose as his subject "Community and Church Music," ■ stressing the value of community singing in meetings and of congregational singing in church services. He pointed out, “in worship service - we worship God together in thought, prayer and song. Thus by all joining together in song it is more uplifting than to sit and listen to a soloist in the'Worship ser- ■ vice, Mr. Meyer brought out the merits of Home Economics chorus ■ work in Indiana and how it is an . ideal long sought for by neighboring states. He stressed the value of ■ Home Economics chorus work and pointed out it was one of the great- . est extension projects in Indiana and that home demonstration : agents and county agents should , give chorus work as much time and thought as any other project , and should visit rehearsals and know what is being done so they I can report accurately to Purdue. J it is the policy of Purdue to send all correspondence to home demon--3 stration agents and she in turn goes to enough meetings to get the material to the chorus. Many probi- lems were brought out and Mr. ] i Meyer gave some very helpful ad- . vice. To close the meeting. Mr. . Meyer led the ladies in singing several old hymns. Approximately seventy-five per- : sons attended the meeting. The : members of the Allen County chop , us and officers of the Jay and Wells t- counties groups, Aliss Anna K. Wil- > Hams, L. iS. Archbold and Mrs. E. I W. Busche, county home economics : club president were guests. I DECATUR WOMAN'S CLUB . CLOSES CLUB YEAR MONDAY The Decatur Woman's club held • its closing meeting of the club year Monday evening at the library. Mrs. Howard Buck, president, presided at the brief business meet- - ing at which time yearly reports were made by Mrs. Lowell Smith. I treasurer, and Mrs. Gerald Durkin, attendance secretary. Announcement was also made of the state ■ federation meeting to be held in

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South Bend on May 26, 27 arid 28.' Mrs. Joe Morris, ehairman of the urogram committee for the Art department. then introduced Mrs. Frederic Krull, of Indianapolis, win gave an illustrated talk on the topic “The Cross in Art.” Mrs. Krull traced the cross as an art motif I back to the time in the Christian i era when it first became the greatest -Christian symbol. The speaker j wore the Dagmar cross as she relat- ' ed the human interest stories in connection with the various crosses A Saxaphone quartet from Dee at u r highschool played several selections preceding Mrs. Krull’s address. Mrs. Morris was assisted in the arrangements'by Miss Georgia Foughty, Miss Florence Haney, Miss El- | eanor Pumphrey, Mrs. A. M. Anker 'and Mrs. Adrian Wemhoff. Circles three and four of the W.S. C. S. of the Methodist church will meet at the home of Mrs. Ed Wicks Thursday afternoon at two thirty o'clock. - The Little Flower study club will have its meeting Thursday evening at seven thirty o’clock at the home of Mrs. Mary Foos. The Philalethean circle of the 1 Woman’s guild of the Zion EvangelI ical and Reformed church will meet I Wednesday evening at eight , o’clock. Hostess will be Mrs. Walter - Bockman. assisted by Mrs. Erwin j Goldner and Mrs. Adolph Weidler. | A meeting of the Friendship cir- ' cle of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will meet at the home of Mrs. James Hunter Wednesday evening at seven thirty o'clock. — j Mrs. Helen Buckmaster was nam- ■ ed president of the Geneva Garden i club which has just been organized. ' Other officers of the new club are s Mrs. Flossie Lybarger, vice-presi- • dent; Mrs. Irene Sprunger, secre- • tary, and Mrs. Allene Moser, treas- ! urer. s 1 The Ruralistic study club will • meet at eight o’clock Thursday f evening at the home of Mrs. Vicii 1 or Ulman. 1 The St. Ambrose study club meet--1 ing will be held at the home of Mrs. ’ Jacob Heiman at seven thirty p o'clock Thursday evening, t 1 s I Word has been received from the ■ Rev. and Mrs. D. R.' McCurdy at '■ Fort Myers, Fla., that they are en- ' joying their vacation in the south. • Rev. and Mrs. McCurdy are motoring through Florida and other ■ southern states. -Elmer Baumgartner, president of ’• the First Bank of Berne, transe acted business in Decatur today. Samuel Acker is reported as sers iously ill at his home on North SecI- ond street. I. First Lt. Gale Ely left Sunday s for Fort Richardson, Alaska, where he will be stationed for 18 months. His family will join him there later. » Chester Ray of Madisonville. Ky.. 1 son of Mrs. Pearl Ray, formerly of < this city, is reported as a patient in ■ the Madisonville hospital suffer- • ing from burns received last Friday • from an oil explosion. Mr. Ray mfs sered injuries to his hands and face. Miss Jan Risher. chief clerk for . the Dayton Power and Light Com--•f patty at Rockford. 0., is a surgical ? | patient in the Gibbons hospital at t Celina. O. John Glenn. Huntington young, man, son of Judge and Mrs. Burr Glenn of Huntington. has received notice of his acceptance as a cadet at West Point, it was learned today. Young Glenn is a nephew of Mr. and -Mrs. Wilbur Petrie of this I city. Ruthie Holthouse has returned I to the College of New Rochelle at New Rochelle. N. Y.. after spending an Easter vacation with her parents. Joe Colchin has returned to this •I city from Indianapolis where lie lias been a patient in the veterans’ hospital for several weeks. He re-, cently underwent an operation for, the removal of a cataract on one eye and one will be removed from I the other eye in alxiut two weeks. I Joe will return eiext -Monday for i further observation. Mrs. Harry Knapp. Mrs. Raymond Keller. Mrs. Leo Saylors and Miss Patty Johnson visited several Indiana college campuses bvef the weekend. They motored to l^fay-1 ■ ette. where they visited Roger and I Richard Knapp, and then visited DePauw Univysity. Indiana Uni- : versity and Hanover College at Madison, returning Sundav night. Local painters report that they are booked many weeks ahead for outdoor painting this year. The Rev. and Mrs. A. C. E. Oillander will leave next Monday morning for Turkey Run state park, where they will attend a conference. Amos Lewton of Root township was called to Mishawaka today on account of the serious illness jof his son in-law. Russel Funk.

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Lisi Honor Pupils In Public Schools Senior And Junior High Rolls Listed Honor students for the second six weeks of the second semester at the Decatur high school were announced today by school officials. There are 50 students on the honor roll'and 25 on the junior high list. The honor rolls are as follows: SENIOR HIGH Striker, Kristine 5A Kohler, Phyllis 5A Bauer. Margene 4A Bieberich. Eileen M. 4A Stucky, Marilyn 4A \hr. Sally 4A Bohnke. Harold Warren 4A Braden. SaralynSu 4A Linn. Dianne 4A "ribble. Robert 4A Smitley. lona Luella 4A Cole. Tom 4A Fuelling. Marilyn 4A Hite, Jackie 4A Karlen, Pat 3A 2B Bogner, Richard Samuel 3A IB Foley, Odel 3A IB Foreman. Marcus 3A IB Grant. Kenneth 3A IB

(jiani, ixennetii .>.a in Mac Lean, Don 3A IB ' Porter. Victor 3A IB Stingely, Norman E. 3A IB Burnett, Carolyn 3A IB Harris. Margaret 3A IB Rose, Betty 3A IB Petrie, Jack 3A IB Anderson. Betty 3A IB Myers. Lester 3A IB Potts, Jean Ann 3A IB Swearingen. Mary Ann 3A IB Fennig. Ruth E. 2A 2B Helm. Barbara 2A 2B Mac Lean, Dave 2A 2B Schafer. Mary Catherine 2A 2B Smith, Byford 2A 2B Beehler, Barbara 2A 2B Bleeke, iFvelyn 2A 2B McConnell Colleen Joan 2A 2B McFarland, Edith 2A 2B j ”lumley. Chalmer 2A 2B Vanhorn, Marilyn 2A 2B I Deitsch. Ann 2A 2B ' Kirchenbauer, Donna 2A 2B Krueckeberg. Doris 2A 2B Morris. Frances 2A 2B Mowery, Helen 2A 2B Alger, Caroline 2A 2B Kolter, Jerry 2A 2B Myers. Judy 2A 2B Simons. Bonnie Mae 2A 2B JUNIOR HIGH Elliott, Beverly 6A Rromer. Edna Marie 6 A Krick, Marvene 6A Busse, Ruth 6A Kruse Joan 5A IB Smith. Janet Louise 5A IB Bowman, Carol Jean 5A IB Strickler. Carolyn 4A 2B ; DeVore, Barbara 4A 2B laberg. Marilyn 4A 2B Thomas. Dan 4A 2B Treon, Patty 4A 2B Everhart. Janet Kay 4A 2B Davidson, Gladys 4A 2B : Fisher, Shirley Ann 3A 3B Kalver, Carol 3A 33 Strahm. Lois 3A 3B Egly. Verlin 3A 3B Nelson. Jack 3A 3B Syster. Karen 3A 33 Gilbert, Nonna Jean 2A 4B Cole. Allan 2A IB Lawson. Jack 2A 4B Reinking, Donald 2A 4B Custer. Tony 2A 4B Quality Photo Finishing Satisfaction Guaranteed Holthouse Drug Co. Stitch *l* With every garment we clean—the following repairs are made at No extra cost to you: ..Buttons sewed on ..Lining repaired ..Seams repaired ..Cuffs tacked ..Belt loops repaired ..Snaps sewed on Pockets repaired ..Buttons removed and sewed back on. For Better Dry Cleaning Always Call KELLY’S Phone 147 t 1 ”” TIRED ? Doe« Your BACK BOTHER YOU? A Spencer Supy e port designed e»- i /11 \ pecially for you I /]« will give relief by improving poiv—A - lure. Mrs. Leota Connell 242V 2 Madison St. Phone 114 If no answer, call 9072

Decatur Choirs In Choral Festival At Fort Wayne Sunday The Aeolian choir of-the Decatur General Electric company and the choir of the Zion Lutheran church will appear in the Westminster choral festival Sunday evening, May J, at 7:30 o'clock at the Zion Lutheran church, Creighton and Hanna street, Fort Wayne. Both Decatur choirs, under the direction of David C. Embler. will appear separately on the program and will join with the choirs of the Grace Evangelical, First Evangelical United Brethren, Plymouth Congregational and Zion Lutheran church, Fort Wayne, to form a 260-voice chorus which will present a group of ancient and modern sacred choral works under the direction of Prof. George Kreuger of the music faculty of Indiana university, who will be guest conductor for the occasion. All choirs appearing on the program are directed by graduates or students of the Westminster Choir College, PrincetoA Vincent E. Slater, prominent concert organist and director of the Plymouth Congregational choir, will be guest organist. The public is invited to attend.

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I M. I fOSPJTAL r Admitted: John Koch, Rockford, ~ Dismissed: Mrs. Lloyd Miller and ; daughter, Decatur; Russel Moser, I J Decatur; -Miss Pearl -Meshberger, I Berne. - — ww > W i 1 .1 Brownie troop 15 met at the Lin- . coin school Friday evening. Boxes > of cards were distributed for sale, c after which games were played and t refreshments served. The meeting • closed with the Brownie promise -and arch. Sharon Katt, scribe. I f Drastic Clearance on all suits and coats, from 22.95 to 59.95. Nice selection.—E. F. “jGass Store. 97t5 i i Trade in a Good 7owr. — Decatur I

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