Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 41, Decatur, Adams County, 18 February 1952 — Page 3

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CIVIC DEPARTMENT FEBRUARY MEETING The February meeting of the Civic department of Woman’s Club was held Monday evening at the home of; Mrs. George Renta;. Mrs. Glen Mauller. presided over the business session. 7— = The topic for the meeting was “Community Health” and Mayor John Doan gave an interesting talk on the function of the state arid county board of health. Later clever contests; in keeping with the Valentine sehson were enjoyed and prizes won by Mrs. Fred Hanchet, Mrs. Lowell Smith and Mrs. Amos Ketchum. |- Refreshments wore served to thirty members by Mrs. Rent?. Mrs. Frances Ellsworth, Mrs. (j. Remy Bferly, Mrs. Mauller and Mrs, La wren de Green. INTERESTING LESSON GIVEN HOME EC CLUBS A most interesting lesson wafe received by representtatives of Adams’ eounty’s home econommiefe clubs last week. Miss MonhAut, Purdue specialist in home management, ? gave the lesson on "Business Ftcts.” She emphasized the importance of a well . lighted and venilated place for writing. She showed, several ideas for a home filing system of business papers, and proper storage of needed business supplies. The women studied some bank* ing principles, including the uSe Os a safe box. The afternoon session included a study of inheritance laws, wills and other legal matter?. The meeting was held at the De-, catur high school. Mrs. Albert Beineke presided throughout the day. | . ■ A pot luck luncheon was enJoyed at noon with the following guests: W. Guy Brown, school superintendent, Hugh J. Andrews/ School principal, Iverna Werling and Margene Morris, school secretaries, Pauline Augsburger and Gloria Koeneman, extension office secretaries. STUDY CLUB OFFICERS ’RAVE MEETING FRIDAY 4 The officers of the study clubs j3f St. Mary’s parish, National Council of Catholic Women, met Friday evening at the C. L. of C. hall to elect officers for the coming year. . Mrs. Harold Engle will serve

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a» parish dhairman, Mrs. Norhert Case, study club* chairman, <fnd Mrs. Charjes Miller, secretarytreasurer. ; i■ i ' p - After the meeting was opened with prayer led by Mrs. Irenaeus Gase, the Rev. Stanley Kusman, of Austin. Texas, who conducted the retreat the Decatur Catholic school last week, gave a talk on “Keeping United.” i FEDERATED CLUBS MEET ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON ; The -Adams County Federation of Clubs held its February meet- 1 ing Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Harve Baker in this city. Mrs. Gerald Durkin presided over the regular business session. The following nominating committee was appointed by the president; Mr?. R. C. Hersh, Mrs, H6nry Heller; Mrs. Myrtle Fflson, and Mrs. Hersh then distributed artb cles to., he sold for benefit of the blind veterans. ' ) - ! It was also announced that a book in memory of the late Mrs. E. W. Busche has bedn placed in the DecatUr public library. Mrs. A. R. Holthoiuse was the afternoon speaker and used as her topic "Citizenship." Ji, Hostesses were, Mrs. Herman Girard, M-rs. Chester Bryan, Mrs. Thelma Kreps and Mrs. George Squier. Tile March meeting will- be a carry-in- dinner with the Shakespeare clqb, Root Township' Home Ec club apd Farm Bureau as hostesses. tr ’ i - - :- 7 . The Rebekah Lodge will meet in the Odd Fellows hall at seven thirty o’clock Tuesday evening for a special meeting. All Officers and members are urged to attend as important business Will be discussed. The Three Link club l Will meet after lodge. Mrs. Anoli jurist and Mrs. Gusta Baker will have charge off the entertainment;; and refreshments. i I Mrs. Carl Braun will bte hostess to the Guardian Angel study club j at seven thirty o’clock Thursday evening. • f 1 1 J J i. ; ■ The Little Flower study club will meet at Mrsj Martin Braun s Thursday evening at seven thirty o’clock. -*■ !j II 'I . The Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C.S. -Mill meet at the church Thursday afternoon at ope thirty o’clock. AU are urged to attend! The Past Matrons club of the Order of Eastern Star will meet in the chapter rooms of Masonic hall Thursday evening at seven thirty o'clock. ' j 4 — I \ i ' The Eagles Auxiliary will have a special meeting at the Eagles hall Tuesday evening at eight o’clock. All members are urged to attend. The Ladies of St. Peter’s Lutheran church at Fuelling will have a bake sale at the Schafer Store Saturday morning beginning at nine thirty o’clock. i, ■ - ,H The Delta Theta Tau sorority will have a bake sale at city hall at nine o’clock Saturday morning. Our Lady of Lourdes study club will hold a meeting in the home of Mrs. Roman Brite at eight thirty o’clock Thlirsdaj evening. Mrs. Arthur E. Meyer will be the chairman. f ! ■ "mJ ■ -. v ■ ■ «-'■ - vh- ■ J

Society Items for day's publlcation mustbe phoned In by 11 a. m; (Saturday 9:30 a. Rhone 3-2121 < Phyllis Acheson SUNDAY ’I Harvesters of Nuttmpn I Ave. U. B. church, Mrs. Lawrence Michell, 2:30 p.m. MONDAY Our Lady of Victory study club, Mr?, Lawrence Gase, 7:30 p.m. \ .V.F.W. post and Auxiliaries potluck supper, V.F.W. hall. 6:30 p.m. Pythian Sister degree staff, K. of P. home, 7:30 p.m. Academy of Friendship,: Moose home, 8 p.m. Research Club Guest Day luncheon, Zion Lutheran parish hall, 1 P in- I ‘ . Monmouth Mothers Study Club, Monmouth school, 7:30 p m. ■ Adams County Chrirus, Monroe school, 7:30 p.m. St. Catherine study club, Mrs. Ed Faurote, 7:30 p.m. ' TUESDAY Eagles Auxiliary special meeting, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. ‘ Rebekah Lodge, 1.0.0. F. hall, ’7:30 p.m. - -I j - I Loyal Daughters class of Bethany church, Mr?. George Sprague, 7:30 Catholic Ladies of Columbia 1 social night, C. L. of C. hall, 6:30 p.m. Bethany Dutiful Daughters class, Mrs. Arthur Baker, 7:30 p.ip. Pocohantas Lodge, Red Men’s hall, 7:30 p.m. Great Books Discussion Club, Public Library, 7:30 p.m. i Tri Kappa sorority : business meeting, Mrs. William Schnepf, 7:30 p.m. ‘ 4 ' | J Decatur Garden Club, Mrs? Charles Bieneke, 2 p.m. ' <'i ; i Root Township Home Ee club husband’s party, Monmouth School, 6:30 p.m. ; 1 i 1 ' 1 ' \ Church Mothers study club. Husband's dinner, First Methodist church, 6 p.m. ’ 1 < WEDNESDAY , Organizational meeting for Little Theater group, city hall council room, 8 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul society; C. L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. Psi lota Xi pledge-social | meeting, Elks home, 8 p.m. | Decatur Home Economics club, Mrs. O. K. Baker, 2 p.m. Ladies Shakespeare clpb, Mrs. Dan Tyndall. 2:30 p.m. Gecode Club guest party, Moose home, 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY Little Flower Study club, Mrs. Martin Braun, 7r30 p.m. I !• ! Pleasant Mills Methodist W.SiC.S., church, 1:30 p.m. Past Matrons club of d.E.S., Masonic hall, 7:3G’ p.m. Guardian Angel study club, Mrs. Carl Braun. 7:30 p.m. i ; i .. Our Lady of Lourdes study ’ club, Mrs. Roman Brite, 8 p.m. Unite 3 of Bethany W.S.W.S., Mrs. Winston Rawley, 2:30 -p.m. ■ Friendship Village’ club, school, 1 p.m. ; ; ■ ' Unit 4 of Bethany W.S.W.S., Mirs. Arthur Beeler, 7:30 p.ml. I' Women of Moose formal initiation, Moose home, 7:30 p.m.. f *\ , SATURDAY ■ ; 1 • ,<l r Delta Theta Tau bake sale,, city hall, 9 a.m. J ' ! t St. Peter Ladies Aid, Fuelling, bake sale at Schafer Stikre, 9:30 -1H ‘ ; >

— i—,— ' ■i' 1 ’ • '• '■ ' r I • A I HANDYMAN, Harry Frazier H (bottom, right), 26, accused of locking his wife’s head in a wooden torture box which he first fitted for size is being held in $2,500 bail in the Vineland, N. J. jail. He is charged with atrocious assault and battery with intent to kill. Vineland, N.J. Police Chief 8. Grill D’lppolito (bottom, left) holds the 18 by 12 box which Frazier allegedly fitted about the neck of his I wifa, Evelyn (right), several times to make certain that she could breathe. Mrs. Frazier told the court that the torture took place last December. (In^mationlal). ; J M

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Mrs. R. P. Unkefer, of Philadelphia, Pa., is. visiting here wit|tf her mother, Mrs. C. A. Dugan and her sister, Miss Frances Dugan She will return to her home on Wednesday. I Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bjurdg 1 have returned to this city Jrom their Florida home for two weeks. They will conduct a household auction of their personal profierty next Saturday. The Burdg farpi in Union township was recently sold. Mr. and Mrs. Burdg plan to spend considerable time in Florida and Missouri, but will continue to reside in Decatur. ■ , - Mrs. Clara Mayer, 604 Washington street, who has been ill for the last three weeks, is reported to be improved. Her sister, Mrs. Pete Martin, has been attending her and her son. Pfc. Kenneth D. Kiser, also hqs been with her on a 15-day furlough. Mrs. J. E. Oelberg. of 1327 Master Drive, was admitted |to the St. Joseph hospital in Fort Wayne last Friday.'j j ' Mr. and Mr?. Paul Lobsiger and son. Jimmy, and Mrs. Myrtle Daniels attended the capping exercises held at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne Sunday. The Lobsifeers daughter. Beverly, was one of the student nurses who received caps in a cererriony in the chapel of the nurses home. Robert K. Wolfe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Wolfe, of Pleasant Mills, and Robert F. Sprung.ef' son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin F. Sprunger of Decatur, were initiated into Kappa chapter of Alpha Kappa Lambda social fraternity at Purdue University last Both are graduates of Pleasant Mills high school. Wolfe is a junior in the school Os physical education and a member of the Purdue wrestling: team. is a junior in the school of agriculture, a meriiber of .‘the Collegiate 4-H tlUb. Purdue Folk-O-Whirlers, .and the Agricultural Education Society! Between Japan and Korea the; sea is so shallow that a com para-, lively slight upheaval of the bottom would permit an army ,tq walk across dryshod.

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Garrett Shufeldt I Purchases Company ; Adams County Mdn To Head Company Garrett H. Shufeldt of Deriatur : route \ three, ‘has purchased the Midwestern Box' Corp., at ’J436 Wall street, Fort Wayne. jr The? company was formerly owned and operated as a branch ot the Enfield Box Co., Inc., Enfield, 11. Shufeldt has acted as general manager of the firm rinee it started operations in Fort Wayne in Apiill, 1950. The; officers of the Corporation are: Garrett H. Shufeldt, pre# dent; Virginia Shufeldt, vice-jiresi-dent, 3ml Beverly Mueller, s<?cre■tary. I fl! ' « ■ ■ • i- .- 1 i Mid Western Box manufactures wood packing boxes and export cases, i specializing in custqmrdeHgned; government cases as well as wood' shipping containers for Industrial users. The firm employs between 20 and 30 wood worker?, bailer? and machine operator?, ? Shufeldt is a former resident of N. J. He is a graduate |>f Foddham University, a veteran t>f Worid War 11 and has bfeen closeljt allied with -the lumber jnisineps for a number of years. . >■ " I ■ hl ill

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AgBIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clifton, of Wrep, 0., are the parents of a baby girl, weighing eight pounds, bp<n at a.m. today at the Adams county memorial hospital. A baby girl was horn to Mr. and .Mrs. Charles Fravel, of Geneva, at 8:34 a.m. Suday at the Adams county memorial hospital; She weighed Six pounds and 15 ounces. A baby| boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Leoln Snyder Sunday at 4:27 ' a.m?at th?i Adams cobnty memorial hospital. The baby weighed six pounds, 14 ounces. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Donqld Powellson, of Monroeville, are the parents of a. biiby girl, born ab 3:45 o’clock Sunday morning at the Adams county memorial hospital. She weighed Seven "pound?, five ounces, Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Gallmeyer. Ossian, are parents of a baby boy, weight ! seven pounds and I 12 ounces, born at the coqpty memorial hospital Saturday at 6:42 p.m. A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jones; of Geneva, at 8:32 a.m. Spnday at the Adanis county memorial hospital. She weighed seven pounds, 14*4 ounces. A seven pound baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morrison at 9:16 p.m. Saturday at the Adams copnty memorial hospital. Admitted: Amos Schttmm, Rockford, O.; Mrs. Marcella Uhrlck, Decatur. Dismissed: , Mrs. Edwin De Long, Decatur; Mrs. Marie York, Decatur; Sherman Liechty, Berne; Mrs. Jerome\ Hawbaker and baby boy, Geneva; Mrs. Wayne Collier and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Howard Gehrig and baby girl, Decatur; Dohald L. Liechty 1 Decatur; Arthur E. Mey?r, Decatur; Mrs. Fenton Sprunger, Monroe; Mrs. Roy Jones, Decatur; David Schwakz, Geneva; Mrs. Roger Flueckigef and bpby ■ boy, Berne; Michael Warthman, Decatur. I ; : I k The Continental Divide runs ;jtl rough the middle of Montana.

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Day Os Recollection Held Here Sunday h The Rev. Stanley Kusmap, S.M., conducted : three conferences in a day of spiritual recollection for the. women of; St. Mary’s. Catholic chjirch Sunday. One' conference was held in the morning and two in the afternoon, the last conference ending with benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. i Women ;of the parish received Holy Comriiunion during the morning masse? and a large crowd attended eacjh conference. Father ■ - • I 1 k - 1A

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Kusman, who fcerv?d six years as an army chaplain, Conducted a retreat for the Catholic high school students last weekend.

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