Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1951 — Page 3

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 1951.

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ROY MUMMAS OBSERVE 40TH WEDDING FRIDAY Mr. and Mrs. Roy Mumma, prominent Decatur residents* went to their lake cottage at Rome City Thursday evening ■where they celebrated their 40th anniversary on Friday. The couple received many cards end gifts and were presented with a wedding cake. A group of friend and neighbors at the lake resort gathered to give the Mum-, mas an old-fashioned belling to .mark the occasion. Ice-cream and cake were served later in the evening.- - • . v ,■ >, Mr. and Mrb. Mumma were married August 24, 1911, by the late Rev. Isaiah Imler pastor at the United. Brethren ’church, in the brick house that stands on the corner of Elm and Eleventh streets. Six years ago they built a new home on Eleventh street, where they now reside. * The Adams county chapter of the Indiana Roadside Council, Ihc., will meet at the ' home [of Mrs. - Hiram Wittwer Friday Afternoon at two o’clock. The Wittwer home is located on state road 124 west of the railroad in Monroe. Plans to establish another roadside park near Geneva will be discussed as will plans for the picnic and dedication of the Winteregg Park near Monroe, the latter event scheduled for mid-Sep-ternber. All members Affiliated organizations and interested persons are urged to be present at the- meeting. “ ; Try our Marks FILM SERVICE . 'I ’ ?'■ V for developing and printing your Vacation Films S Ml TH Rexall Drug Store

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Mrs. H. L. Koontz entertained at Sunday dinner in honor of her sister, Miss Fan Hammell, who obdferved her birthday anniversary. Gueets included, Miss Florence Haney ahdth e Mesdames Lili Borroughs, Frank Alton, Jesse W. Rice of this city and Mrs. C. O. Porter of Huntington. The Pleasant . Grove W.M.A. will hold their second quarterly meeting Thursday at the home of Mrs.' Harold Minnich. The day will be spent in sewing and members are requested to bring their needles thimbles and scissors.. A potluck’ dinner will be erved at noon and pledges will be taken at the business meeting. Mrs: William Kruse’ will be hostess to the St. Ambrlose study club Thursday evening at seven thirty o’clock. — Election of officers for the Wesley Couples class of the First Methodist church will be "held at the class meeting Wednesday evening at eight fifteen o’clock in ’the Wesley class room. The committee for the evening is Mr. and Mrs. Roy Collins, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Sprague, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard Hetrick, Mr. and Mrs. Burdette Custer, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Harris and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Mills? A meeting of the Jolly Housewife Home Economics club will be i held at one thirty o’clock Wednesday afternoon at the Pleasant Mills school. • The Philalethean and Bethany Circles of the Zion Evangelical and Reeformed church will have a combined picnic supper at the home of Mrs. George Thomas Wednesday evening at five thirty o’clock. Meat, rolls and coffee will be furnished. f The Monroe W.C.T.U. will entertain the L.P.T. in the Monroe Methodist church annex Thursday afternoon at two o’clock.

r* - *** - • .... 1 Society Items for day's publication must be phoned In by 11 «. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) Phone 3-2121 { ! Phyllis Acheson MONDAY ‘Willing Workers class, Pleasant Mills Methodist church, Rev. and Mrs. Harley Shady, \8 p.m. ■ Art Department, Mrs. Clyde Harris, 7:30 p.m. First Christian Missionary Society, Mrs. Harmon Kraft, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Kirkland Ladies’ [ Club, Mrs. Herman Burger, Bluffton, 7:30 p.m. f . Eta Tau Sigma, Mrs. Hetman Girod, 8 p.m. Junior Girls of American Legion, Legion home, pot-luck supper, 5:30 p.m. Eagles Auxiliary past madam president and charter members* night, Eagles ball. 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Wesley Couples class* of Methodist church, Wesley class room, 8:15 p.m. j Philalethean and Bethany Circled of Zion E. and R. church, picnic, Mrs. George Thomas, 5:30 p.m. jolly Housewife Home Economics club, Pleasant MOls school, 1:30 p.m. THURSDAY Monroe W.C.T.U. and L.P.T., Monroe Methodist church annex, 2 p.m. Pleasant Grove W.M.A., Mrs. Harold Minnich, all day. St. Ambrose study club\ Mrs. William Kruse, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY Adams County chapter of Roadside Council, Inc., Mrs. Hiram Wittwer, 2 p.m.. Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Sniith, of. North First street, returned last evening from. Chicago where they attended the Chicago Beauty and Frangrance show at the Palmer House over the weekend. They also attended the international music festival at Soldier’s Field. Mrs. John Mayer, of 604 Washington street, has been confined to her home the past week with arthritis. Her condtion remains about the same. Mr. and Mrs. Tad Pursley and family are spending the week at Tri Lakes near Columbia City. Mrs. ; Phyllis Acheson,> society editor of the Daily Democrat has returned to her desk after being absent a week because of illness. Mrs. C. O. Porter of Huntington went to Columbus, Ohio, today to meet her son. Navy Lt. Robert Porter and family who flew in from Oakland, Cal. Lt. Porter and family will go, to Boston where he has an -assignment with the navy. . Mrs. Charles Camp and children, Jeffrey, Gail and Paige of Hanovef N. H„ are Visiting at the J. Ward Calland residence. They served here with Mr. Camp. Saturdaf morning. The latter proceeded on a western business trip. | Pete | Heimann, well known Washington townshhip farmer, has ret|irned from Eldorado and Piqua, kan.. where he- attended the funeral of the Rev. August Heimann, last Tuesday. He also traveled? through some t of the flood areas and reports that great destruction was done in the state. Almost 3,00(1 farms in the U.S. are certified as “Tree Flarms,” with their main crop lumber and wood products.

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WED RECENTLY — Miss Mary Margaret Ohler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Ohler of route five, and Ralph A. Shnitz, son of Mrs. Florence Schnitz. were married Sunday, August. 5, in a double ring ceremony performed at St. John’s Lutheran church. They have returned from a short wedding trip and are at home with the bride’s parents. —Photo by Edwards. j. / ' / ,

<gIOSPJTAL V* 1 | ilo#U\ Admitted: Keith Smallwood, Decatur; Mrs. H. J. Ehrsam, Berne. Dismissed: Mrs. Walter Trask and baby girl, city; Mrs. George Thomas, Monrbe; Mrs. Paul Counterman and baby girl, Hoagland; Mrs. Vaughn Schindler and baby girl, Berne; Miss Jennie Costello, Decatur; Miss Eleanor Decatur; Mrs. Mike Garcia and baby girl, Chattanooga, O.; Mrs. Harold Dolch and baby girl, Dianna Lynn, Decatur; Mrs. William Fritzinger and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Willis Martin and baby boy,, Geneva; Miss Alice Lake, Decatur; Mrs. Karl Schnepp, Decatur; Mrs. Adrian Lortie and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Charles Tumbleson and baby boy, Decatur; Mrs. Merlin Charleston and baby boy, Fort Wayne; Fred Habegger, Berne; Mrs. Elfurt Blomenberg and baby boy, Decatur. Given Contract The Meshberger Brothers Stone warded the contract for resurfaCompany of Linn Grove was aclng 9.5 miles of U. S. highway 20 near La Grange. Their bid was 1180,478. It Wears So Well tA a* * -jflT l A */rVf 1 lM /Bi * fl** ri / » ' Jtl >ll 11/ I'l 4 IJ w w /1 /1/ Imp/■IL rs . 1 / Erl * I 9 \ I a i t‘.?i* • * 4 f z ' I I K- ■ .I* * 1 12—20 30-42 V J | 4 , Inj You wear it so well! A stunning classic, right for so many events, now and all. fall. Sleeve interest is very new, and matches the curved lapels. Best of all, this is simplest sewing! Pattern 9295 in sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 30, 32, 34, 36, 38. 40, 42. Sizej.l6 takes 4% yards 35-inch. This easy-toi-use pattern gives perfect;. fit. Complete illustrated Sew Chart shows you every step. Send 'Thirty cents in coins for this pattern to Marian Martin, care of Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., P. O. Box 6740, Chicago 80, 111. Print plainly YOUR NAME) ADDRESS, ZONE, SIZE and STYLE NUMBER. Our Marian Martin Summer Pattern Book is the best ever! Send Twenty Cents today for your copy. You’ll sew the smartest most practical wardrobes for your family and yourself with patterns chosen from this book. A Free Pattern of a beachrobe for Misses is printed in book. -

Heart Massage Gives Man 12 Hours Os Life Indianapolis, Aug. 27. — A surgeon’s massage when his heart stopped beating during a operation prolonged the Smith, 88, Indianapolis, for nearly 12 hours. Smith was receiving an anesthetic for emergency surgery in Methodist hospital Sunday when he “died.” The surgeon made a chest incision in seconds and massaged the heart six minutes until beating resumed. ! Then the kidney operation went off as scheduled. But SnTith died early today. , ' ! T One thousand gallons of water per person is used in the country day for industrial and domestic purposes. » ’ ’ , Shaddock is a kind of gridefruit. ’ The last duel of record in North Carolina was fought in 1802 between exGovernor Spaight md John Ssanly. The Church of England in Canada has 27 dioceses. - . . , * 1 ’rTi SHORTLY BEFORI their wedding tn Connecticut, screen and radio actress Eve Arden and actor Brook West appear at a pre-nuptial party given for them in New York by film star Joan Crawford and Earl Blackwell. The newlyweds met while playing at a summer theatre to Ivory ton. Conn. (International! ■ 9 w ■' £ fl THI ESTHETIC TYPE Is Beverly Amery, 19, of Auburn, Me., who will represent the state of Maine to the Miss America Pageant at Atlantic City, N. J. She’s studying art in Philadelphia. (International).

Funeral Rites Are Set For Veteran Sgt. White, 74, Dies In Fort Wayne Sgt. George Russell White, 74, a retired army man who made his home with a sister, Mrs. Cora Ixiugh, T 227 West Madison street, died at 10:58 p.m. Sunday at the Veterans hospital in Fort Wayne where he had been a patient for two weeks. He had been ill several years and in serious condition the past six months. Sgt. White, a veteran of 30 years army service, retired in. 1946 with the rating of technical sergeant and has resided in Decatur‘since that time. He served in both World Wars .and spent many years overseas. He was a member of Adams Post 43, American Legion, and Llmberlost Post 6236, Veterans of! Foreign Wars. i He was born December 29, 1876, in Churubusco, the son of Jonathon and Emily Pape White. H|s wife preceded him in death. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Maurice Fuhrman, Huntington, and Mrs. Ray Cline, Bremen; two sons, Lawfence, of Annapolis, Md., and Keith, of Tampa, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Lough, Mrs. Sadie Armentrout, of Bryant, and Mrs. Janie Logan of Fort Wayne. Ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held at ■1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Blacks Funeral home with the ReV. H. R. Shock, of Huntington, officiating. Burial will be in Gravel Hill cemetery It Bryant. Military rites will be conducted the American Legion and V.F.W. posts. The casket will be opened at the cemetery. The body will, remain at the funeral home where friends may call after 2 p.m. Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lutes. South Winchester street, are the parepts of a baby boy, born at 11:35 p.m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and Is the second son. Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Sovine, Pleasant Mills, are the parents of a baby girl, born at the Adams county memorial hospital Sunday at 7:25 p.m. She weighed 7 pounds, B*4 ounces. ’ Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Smith are parents a baby girl, born at 10:40 p.m. Sunday at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces. Mr. and Mr». George Thomas are parents of a baby boy, born at 11:40 p.m. Saturday at, the Adams county memorial hospital. He weighed 7 pounds. The mother was the sot-mer Miss Barbara Gravens. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur

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To Start Campaign Earlier This Year The 1952 March of Dimes campaign will start two weeks earlier than usual, it was announced today by Basil O’Connor, president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, to allow for a more atnbitioui drive Because “the Match of Dimes has not kept pace with the march of polio.!’ In a letter to the National Foundation’s 2,945 local chapters throughout the United States and its territories, Mr. O’Connor said the 1952 campaign for polio fighting funds will begin on January 2, instead of January 15, and extend through January 31. British Complete Exodus From Iran Tehran, Iran, Aug. 27.—(UP) — 1 Evacuation of British personnel | from the nationalized Iranian oil fields has been completed, ft was announced today. British and Indian technicians are concentrated at the oil port of Abadan awaiting instructioni. Nine Pakistani technicians decided to remain in the fields and work the Iranians. The senior Iranian official in each department in the oil fields took over as the British officials left, Anglo-Iranian Oil company spokesman Peter Cox said. The evacuation«was completed without incident he added.

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