Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 14, Decatur, Adams County, 17 January 1952 — Page 3

-THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1952

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TRI KAPPA SORORITY HAS CHEER GUILD NIGHT Members of Tri Kappa sorority observed Ri|ey Cheor Guild night at their regular social meeting, held Tuesday &t the hope of Mrs. John Spaulding {on Mercer avenue. The group .‘made Valentines tor the children at Riley hospital in Indianapolis during the evening. The Riley Cheer Guild is one of " the sorority's main, philanthropic projects. > ' At the business session, conducted hy jMrs. William Schnepf, Jr., it was voted to give $5 to the Woman’s Club ;to aid in purchasing Care packages and the sorority constitution was reviewed. Mrs. Lewis Smith, new sorority pledge, was a guest at the meeting. Mrs.\ Spaulding was assisted- in serving refreshments by Mrs. Stanley Mcßride. ’ Mrs. L. A.’ Cowena and Miss Dorothy H. Schnepf. MEtHODIST WSCS HAS * LUNCHEON RECENTLY , \ „ The .Woman's Society of Christa ian Service of the First Methodist church held a luncheon meeting recently at the church with Dr. Clyde Meadows, spiritual emphasis week speaker, as guesL'Mrs. Meadows, the Rev. Samuel Emerick and W. F. Beery were special guests. y - - Mrs. D. Burdette Custer was devotional leader for the meeting. At the business session it was annojriff’ ced that the circle -meeting -vntl die held January 24 with Mrs. R. D. • LOOFv! JANUARY SALE! DRESSES sjg. 00 Reg. 10.95 to 19.95 STYLE SHOP Quality Photo Finishing Order extra prints for ■ that special friend or serviceman. "’ i Holthouse Drug Co. CHtST -e To retiev? distress ruh or rnmfortns. . Jg VAPORUB

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Myers as lessoni leader ami Mfs. Ralph Smith devotional leader. Mrs. Paul Ediwgrds and Mrs. Harry Dailey weje co-chairman for the' meeting. j ; ' : —t—-f~- 'H; I ■ ( PSI IOTA XI SORORITY HEARS GUEST Psi loth Xi sorority 'rpembeM met in the Elks [home last'evening for their February social meeting and speech and shearing month. Mrs. Maynard 1 Hetrick, program chairman, introduced Mrs, Clem Snell, who gav(j a report jon the children the apriority sent to ithe speech and heading clinic at Ball State last sunnijer. i \< The chairman! then introduced M. T. Way, speech and hearing instructor in the Wayne piyblie schools, who told of (he%. work being dofle and jauded Psi lota XI for their part ih developing clinics over t|he nation. Mrs. David Ehjbler led the group in singing several sorority songs and refreshments » Were served by Mrs.' Hetrick, Mrs; Embler, Miss Fan llammell, Mjrs.-Malcolm Locke, Anita Macklin, { MrA J. W. McNerney and Jiri. Ronald Rarrish. ' • • I f t GECODE DINNER MEETING LAST NIGHT Forty-three * rfiembers of tt» e Gecode Club attended the January party last evening at the Moose home. Women of the Moose served •the six o'clock dinner. Tables were decorated pin a ' New Year's theme with confetti and the figure of a New Year’s doll pulling a sled. Noisemakors marked the place of each The door prize was won by Olive whb{was then crowned “Miss 1952,” and Evelyn Plasterer won the prize fbr having the best New Year's hat{. Bingo was then played and a short business, meeting was conducted by the president, Mrs. Geneive August. HISTORICAL CLUB HAS MEETING ON WEDNESbAY Mrs. Rose Welty was hostess to the Historical club Wednesday afternoon at tlje home of Mrs. Ada Lower. After the opening with the club collect, roll call was answered with annotations. The program leader, Mrs. Edra Dellinger, called;for current eVents and also read! an informative paper entitled { ‘'Pyramids of a New World.” i :* In two weeks Ithe club will meet with Mrs. Lydia| Worthman. CHURCH GROUPS IN \ COMBINED MEETING The. Ladies A|d and the Willing Workers class ; of the Calvary Evangelical Uinit ed 1 Brethren

church held a carry.-in supper: Friday evening in the churdh basement. I A brief business meetiing was conducted following the dinner and devotions were then given by Mrs. James Dfirr. The gift Exchange was given to Mrs. Glenn Hirachy and a Christmas treat was given tb all the children. ..' v < HAPPY HOMEMAKERS | IN RECENT MEETING The Happy Homemakers club imet recently at the home of Mrs. Floyd Mitchel with seventeen members and one guest present. Mrs. Clarence Mitchel ' was welcomed -gs a new member. y The club creed was repeated in unison to open the meeting, devotions, were given by Mrs. Freeman Walters and; the club prayer was sung. A lesson and demonstration on “Broiling’’ was given by Mrs. Floyd Mitchel and Mrs. Paul Erp. ' ; Refreshments were served at the close of the meeting. The duh will meet February 11 at the home of Mrs. Herbert Hawkins. i . ■ r ,• The Holy Family study club met recently at the home of Mrs. Virginia Teeters. The Study of the "mass was continued and the meeting closed with recitation of the rotary. t Members of th© Past Matrons Club of this Order of dpastetn Star are asked to note that their meeting scheduled for tonight has been postponed until February. y*—-— Delta Theta Tau sorority will have a business meeting at the Elks home Tuesday evening at eight o’clock. Mrs. Sam Yost will be hostess to members of St. .Catherine's study club at seven thirty o'clock Monday evening. Delta' Lambda chapter of Beta Sigma Phi sorority will have a business meeting at the home of Mrs. James Kane Tuesday evening at eight o’clock. / ,■ The Adams County Chorus re- .. » , ; • Wi ■ /-tes /AX -ww < I s ■ in LI 20-YEAR-OLD Patricia Hardy raise: aloft a news camera in token oi being chosen 1952 queen of ,th< Press Photographers Associatioi of New York. Picked from 31 . finalists, Pat will reign over th< photographers’ 23rd annual bal Feb. 15.

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Society items for day’s publication must.be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) .'I Phone S-2121 Phyllis Acheson ’i ■ . > THURSDAY Paid Matrons cluh of O. E. 8„ postigmed. Trinity D.Y.B. Class, church parlors, 7:30 p.m. Union Chapel Ladles Aid, church, all day. Little FloWer study club, Mrs. Jack Neering, T:3o{ p.m. j So-Cha-Rea, Mrs. T. H. Gehrig, 6:30 p.m. W.M.S. of An|tio<j:li Mrs. Ellis Skiles, Peterson, all day. G. E, Aeolian choir rehearsal, Decatur high school music room, 7 p.m. 1' ni t 4 of Bethany church WSWS, Mrs. Simeon Hain, Jr., 7:30 p.m. Adams County Rural Yoiithi Lincoln school gym, 7:30 p.m» Friendship Village club, Kimsey school, 1 p.m.\ Phoebe Bible class, Zion E. and R. church social rooms, ?:45 p.m.. Our Lady of Lourdes study dub, Mrs. Arthur E. Meyers, 8 p.m. Unit 3 of Bethany WSWS, Mrs.. Martin Zimmermdn, 2 p.m. Lincoln P.T.A. meeting, .postponed. Unit 2 of Bethany W.S.W.S., Mrs. Robert Garard, 2.M. Ladies Fellowship of Missionary church, Mrs. Herald Welty, 7 p.m.; FRIDAY Guardian Angel study club, Mrs. Carl Schults, 7:30, p.m. > Philathea Class, Baptist church, social rooms, 7:30 pan. 1 # \ > .< Adams county . Federation /of Clubs, Mrs. -Gerald Dbrkin. 2 p.m. Girl Scout Association, American Legion home, 7:30 p.m. ■ * ; SUNDAY Harvesters of Nuttman Avenue U.R. church, Mrs. Gladys Raver, 2:30 p.m. * \ r * MONDAY St. Catherine's study club, Mrs. Sam Yost. 7:30 p.m. Adams Gpunty Chorus, Monroe ’Farm Bureau, 7:30 p.m. Monmouth Mothers Study Group, Monmouth'fechool, 7:30 p.m. Adanis Central P.T.A., Adami Central school, 7:30 p.m. District 4p Rural Youth Huntington township school. TUESDAY Delta Tau business meeting. Elks home. 8 p.m. Great Books discussion group, Public library, fr:3o p.m. Delta lambda chapter business meeting, Mrs. James Kane, 8 p.ni. Root Township Home Ec Cluty Mrs. Gerald Eady, 1:30 p.m. hearsal will -be held at seven thirty O’clock Monday evening kt the Monroe Farm Bureau building. The Great Books discussion dub will meet In the library Tuesday evening at se v en thirty o'clock. Aristotle’s Ethics is the subject. —

| Admitted: Mrs. Norman Young, Decatur: Mrs, Sylvan Strahm, Monroe. , ( ‘i / Dismissed: Mrs. J. E. Conrad and baby boy. Berne; Mrs. Bert Brewstef, Geneva; Gaylord Weaver, Monroe; Ronald Hoffman,' Decatur: Mrs. Melissa Jane Baller, Decatur;’ Mrs. John Kelly and bahy boy, Wi liam Lewis, Decatur. i I- ‘

W* si |Swr 1 ■B * • V “WOW" GIRL la the title Italians give popular film actress Silvana P|tmpanini, shown in Rome. She Is considered Italy’s all-time beauty. (International) Four Small Children Found Dead In Bed Suicide Attempt By Mother Fails Fort Knox, Ky.. Jan. 17.— (UP)—. The bodies of four small children, their throats slashed by a carving knife, lay in a military morgue today as doctors pulled theii\ riiother through an unsuccessful suicid.e attempt, Second Lt. Joseph P. Coonan of Lancaster, Pa., found the bodies of his children on a. blood-stained bed in his small apartment last night. His wife, Mrs. Louise Coonah, of York. Pa., was unconscious on the bathroom floor with a ragged w’ound in her throat. Coonan screamed and staggered io the street to summon military ’police. He was talking hysterically when they arrived,. Col. Frank Reece, Fort Knox provost marshal, was unable to get any: information from Coonan and sent him-to the post hospital ter be treated for shock. Hospital authorities said he was released today. Mrs. Coonan apparently attempted t,o kill herself with the carving Knife, Reece said. She Stumbled Into the bathroom and attempted io drink a disinfectant (Lysol) but could swallow Only a small pbrtion of the fiery liquid because of the slash in her throat. It was pumped from her stomach. . \ Mrs. Coonan was given first-aid treatment at the apartment by a next-door neighbor, a military doctor. and taken to the post hospital. Her condition was first reported “critical,” but she received whole blood during the night and authorities said she -would live. She was too ill to be questioned. Before Coonan left the apartment to walk to an ambulance, he clutched a group picture of the children — Constance L., 4: Joseph P. Jr., 2; Claire, 1, and Patricia Marie, 4-% months —to his chest. Then he put the photograph' in his shirt pocket. ■

Bridge Sale y, January 18 > to 5:30 P. M. January 19 M, to 5:00 P. M. i\ W. HALL 7 N. 3rd St. \ I aiso University Otrild '

Walter Ford, secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, is in Indianapolis today attending a state meeting of chamber of commerce secretaries. , Mr, and Mrs. William Bumgerd-m-r of this eity attended a Shrine party at' Wabash Tuesday night. Bumgerdner is president of the Adams county Shrine club. Helen Jowell, Gaylie Bittner and Vera Barber have returned from Indianapolis where they attended the hair fashion fbrlum. Classes were conducted by instructors from the Robert Fiance school In New York City. Mrs. Dick Heller left today 1 for a Visit with her parents, Mfj and Mrs. Van Grant in Rensselaer. Robert Freeby of this city became ill recently in Chicago while attending the merchafndise market and returned to his h|'ome in Decatur, where he is reported 'to be recuperating. Mr. and Mrs. Freeby were attending the furniture mart at the time. * ' The Clyde Butler house, formerly located on First street, has been set on its new foundation on Whitright lot on Fornax street. The moving was almost completed in a day and the house wus set down’on its foundation this morning. Work started Wednesday morning. County Entertainment Festival Is Planned Prior to World War 11, gays county agent L. E. Archbqld. county, district, and state entertainment festivals were a very popular phase of the extension Undoubtly these entertainment festivals will be revived in 1952. It is suggested that in the county festival that a curtain act would consist of entertainment by not more than five representatives? of 4-H or rural youth groups for a maximum pt five minutes. A grp(ip act would be presented by not less than five representatives of pne or more rural organizations fdr a maximum of 12 minutes. Last year the township extension representatives were responsible for the /evening entertainment at the couirty 4-H club show. She county extension ejommittee has asked them <o be responsible for this part ,of the 4-|H club show August 5. 6. and 7. The county extension oflfice is asking that the gv'ening entertainment program at the 4-H club show be considered as an elimination contest. If this idea is adopted, the Adams county entry for, district curtain aud group gets would be selected in Monroe August 5. 6, and 7. , Bake Sale, 9:00 a.m. Saturday, At Schafers, Sponsored by Immanuel Walther league. 13t3x i. ' Democrat Want Ads Bring Results Bandbox Fresh fx V’-A. // YH > * // \\ =p- J - / I '/Sib. ■ I ~* I" —qr- —1 1 \ — - jI- __ TL; j=4 1 l \ 1 12-20 9270 ' ' * 30-42 Inspired idea! The collar is removable! So you aew several and always look sweet ’n’ neat. This is a honey of a step-in with big pockets and center front pleat below that placket-depth buttoning. Choice of four sleeve versions: , Pattefn 9270, in misses sizes 12, 14, 16, 18. 20; 32, 34, 36, 38, 40, 12. Size 16 takes 4% yards 35ineh fabric and % yard contrast. Send Th}{rty-five 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.

Mr. ana Russell Hendricks are the parents of a baby boy, born at 6:26' a.m. Wednesday at the Adgms coiinty hospital.. He weighed :seven pounds, six ounces. . b ; A baby girl weighing six pounds, four ounces, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter KOeneniann at 9:45 pm- Wednesday at the Adams county ntemoriaj hospital. Mr. and Mrs.{(Edward Wolfe are the parents of/a bahy boy, born Wednesday’ at; 1:47 p.m. at the Adams county <memorial hospital. The child weighed seven pounds, 13 ounces; .? i I A five-pound; 15 ounce baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Hoblet, of Convoy, 0., at the Adams cqunty memorial hospital Tuesday gt 7:bß a.m. ■ u '{{'•[; A '■ <

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