Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 123, Decatur, Adams County, 25 May 1954 — Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 25, 1954

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MRS. ROBERT SWAIN HONORED WITH SHOWER Mrs. Robert Swain of Fort Wayne was honored recently with a miscellaneous shower at the home of Mrs. Virgil Andrews. Mrs. Swain is the former Phyllis Johnson of this ctty. The color scheme of pink and blue was used for the decorations. Bouquets of spring flowers also added to the theme. The shower gifts were attractively arranged around a small umbrella with pink and blue streamers leading to each gift. Bingo was played and prizes awarded to winners, who in turn presented them to the honored guest” A delicious luncheon was then served by the hostess, Mrs. Andrews, and Mrs. Glen Johnson. Those present were the following: Miss Karen Swain, Mrs. P. W. Johnson, Mrs. Murvel Andrews, Mrs. Glen Johnson, Mrs. J. H. Andrews, Mrs. Robert Egly, Mrs. Raymond Johnson, Mrs. Herbert Fravel, Mrs. James Johnson, Miss Joan Johnson. Mrs. George Andrews, the honored guest and the hostess. .. Unable to attend was Mrs. Alvin Andrews of Marion, O. DEMONSTRATION CLUB MEETS RECENTLY The Friendship Village Home Demonstration club met recently at the Kitnsey school. There were 37 members and 11 children present. Mrs. Charles Schoaf was a guest. After the club song, “The More We Get Together.” was sung, Mrs. Rolla Raudenbush read the scripture, followed by the-rprayer song. The lesson on master, mixes was given by Mrs. Floyd Myer. She demonstrated the methods of making biscuits and cinnamon rolls. Later they were served to those present. Roll call was answered by "my mother’s favorite hobby." It was decided to hold the June meeting June 9 due to the Purdue conference. There will also be a birthday collection for those who had birthdays in April, May and June. During the social hour a wash dress parade was held and cheer sister gifts were handed out. Delicious refreshments were then served by the hostesses, Mrs. Mairice Miller, Mrs. Arthur DeArmond, Mrs. Harrison Maitland, Mrs, Rue Strayer and Mrs. Hula Tiqkle. Mrs. Lawrence Carver received the door prize. _ _ HOLTHOUSE DRUG CO.

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•Mrs. Veda Smith will be hostess all day Thursday for the St. Paul's Ladies aid. i —■ " > A rehearsal of the * 4-H band ■ will take place Thursday at eight ■ p.m. in the Monroe Firemen’s hall. The parents’ organization will meet 1 there at the same time. ' Our Lady of Victory Discussion ’ club W’ill meet with Mrs. Nick Braun Thursday evening at eight ! o’clock. The Guardian Angel Study club 1 will meet Thursday evening at ' eight o'clock with Mrs. Leo Alberding. The Rebekah lodge will meet in the 1.0.0. F. hall Tuesday evening at seven-thirty o’clock. Plans will be completed for the observance of ’ fraternal night, June 8. The local lodge and the Geneva lodge will act as hostesses. The meeting will consist of district 31. The Three Link club will meet in the dining room after lodge with Miss Nancy Fields in charge of the ' business meeting. Mrs. Ireta Judt, Mrs. Mel vena Reed and Mrs. Mary Bueker will be in charge of the social hour. Friends in this city have received word from R. A. Stucky at Mackinaw City, Mich, that he consulted ■ a doctor in Petoskey about his long standing skin ailment. Mr. and Mrs. Stucky went to Michigan after returning here from Florida. He lives near the site where the large suspension bridge is being built across the Straits. Mrs. Rose Moran and her daughter, Mrs. IR. J. Meyers of Indianapolis, were involved in an automo- . bile wreck when their car was struck at an intersection. Mrs. Moran was taken to a hospital for X-rays and treatment and later returned to the Meyers home, where she is improving. Ernest Egley, 61, who died last Saturday at Fort Wayne where he was residing at the Phillip Foster home, will be buried in the Ray cemetery at Monroe this afternoon. Two sisters, Mrs. Coalture and Mrs. Bradford, both of Hartford City, survive. Juanita Rhodes, Mrs. Nell Huff- : l»an and Gary Huffman are listed 1 as patients admitted at the Jay county hospital yesterday. C. C.« Pumphrey, well-known Decatur man, was greeting friends in the business section today after being to his Jiome with illness for the last several months. Floating sawmills once separated on the Ohio River and got their power from large water wheels lowered into the river current. ; Democrat Want Ads Bring Results DON’T TAKE A CHANCE TAKE PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co.

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Mary E. Lehman Recent Bride Os Robert Strickler Candelabra and vases of pink and white snapdragons decorated ' the altar of” the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church for the recent marriage of Alias Mary Ethel Lehman and Robert Allan Strickler. The pews were marked with white satin bows. and candles. The Rev. William C. Feller lead the double-ring vows at one-forty-five o'clock, (May 16, after a musicale by Mrs. Edgar Gerber, organist, and (Mrs. William C, Feller, soloist. Selections included ‘‘o Perfect 'Love,” ‘‘The 23rd Psalni," “Wedding Prayer,’’ and “The Lord's Prayer.” Parents of the couple are Mrs. Ann Lehman of Decatur, route 5, and 'Mr. and (Mrs. Robert G. Strickler of Decatur. Given in marriage ny her grandfather, James M. Cummings, the bride chose a gown of white satin fashioned with a pearl trimmed bodice and a basque waistline. Her sheer yoke of illusion was outlined with scallopsand the bouffant skirt was-floor length. She wore matching mitts. Her fingertip veil of illusion was held 4n ; place by a matching headband of satin and she carried a bouquet of white .carnations centered with a purple throated orchid. Mrs. Fred Isch, her sister's matron of honor, wore a pale blue net-over-taffeta gown. Her strapless bodice was topped with a stole and she carried an arrangement of pink carnations. Serving as bridesmaids were Miss Sharon Strickler and Aliss Carolyn Strickler, sisters of the bridegroom. They selected pale pink net-over-taffeta. gowns. All the attendants wore white and gold necklaces a gift of the bride. Little Miss Vicki Strickler, sister of the bridegroom, attended as flower -girl in a pale blue floor-

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I UULU uj length dress of taffeta and she carried a basket of pink and white daises. Her miniature pearl necklace was a gift of the bride. Kenneth Watkins was the best man. and seating the guests were Gerald Grandstaff and Soger J StricKler, brother of the bridegroom. For her daughter’s wedding iMrs. ' Lehman chose a gray suit with navy accessories and Mrs. Strickler wore a gray suit with white 1 accessories. ’Both wore corsages of red roses. ' A reception followed the cere- ’ mony for approximately 200 guests'.’ ' The bride’s table was covered with ’white linen and centered with a • three-tired wedding cake. Miss ) Nancy Kirsch, Miss Faith Settladge, ‘Miss Ethel Cook and Miss - Shirley Gerke serve<L~tlie guests, •Mrs. William Howell presided at . the punch bowl and Mrs. Ray Leh- , man cut and served the wedding . cdke. For traveling to Clifty Falls . state park, Madison, the bride was j wearing a navy blue suit accented ] -with navy and white accessories j and the orchid from lier bridal r bouquet. A J , The new Mrs. Strickler is a t graduate of Monmouth high school . and will graduate from the Inter- . national Business college, Fort a 3. The bridegroom, -a 1 graduate of Decatur high school, a is a member of the -U. S. air .force and will be stationed at radar air force station in Rockville s after June 1. — > Guests from out of town included „ Mrs. James Henderson, Mrs. Tom » Middleton, Mrs. Floyd Shick, Mr. f and Airs. Frank Caun, all of Fort . Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Rits- . manx>f Loganspcrt: Mr. and Mrs. . Roscoe Dadd, Mrs. Edward fGilI bert, all of Indianapolis; -Mt. and Mrs. William C. Howell of Rome I City; Miss Cynthia Loye, Urbana, O.; Miss Shirley Russell of Litch- . field, Mich.; Mies iMary Sutton of ; Peru: Miss Marilyn Drewes of . Napoleon, O.; Miss Ami Hoebamer of Rockford, 0.; Miss Patricia Elett of Markle; 'Miss Hilda Lehman of Berne; Milo Lehman of Berne, Mr. and Mrs. Dwight McCurdy, Mrs. Beverly Strawrer and daughter, Cheri, Mrs. Alma Schmidt, all of Alexandria; ‘.Mrs. Floyd Shoaf of Willshire, O.; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stowe and daughter and (Mr. and' Mrs. Abe Whitright, all of Elkhart. •a- Admitted , Mrs. Emma Hamilton, Bluffton; Master Max Wanner, Geneva; Master Loren Wanner, Geneva; Jean Baumer. Bryant; Master Leland Shoaf, city; Hubert Cochran, city. ** Dismissed Mrs. David Embler, city; Mas“Jer~Paul Ehrsam, Monroey Master Phillip Hess, Gary; Master i Stephen Hess, Gary; Mrs. Oliver ' Harmon and baby girl, city; Mrs. I Eugene Schindler and baby boy, ; city;' Mrs. Andrew Chavez and I baby daughter, city. 1.. . . ... ~ r j I At the Adams county memorial i hospital : Mr. and *Mrs. Melvin Schetrmann, city became the parents of 'a 9 pound baby girl Monday at 8:55 p.m. . | A baby girl was born to Mr. and , Mrs. Marvin Ostermeyer, Fort |.Wayne, at 8:40 a.m. Tuesday. She ; weighed 5 pounds and 14 ounces. Mr., and Mrs. Garth Anderson, ; city, became the parents of a baby daughter, weighing 7 pounds and 12 ounces, at 12:3'6 p.m. Tuesday. | ■' Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

[US Society Items for today’s publication must be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a. m.) Sharon Kimble Phone 3-2121 MONDAY. Pythian Sisters Needle club, K. of P. home, after temple. £ Flo-Kan Sunshine Girls K. of P. home, 6:15 p.m. Welcome Wagon club, Mrs. Dan Tyndall, 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Rebekah I. 0. O. F. hall, 7:30 p. m x Delta 'l7eta Yau sorority, Elks home. 8 Zin. P-yjLa uxiliarv. hall} 8 p.m. ‘’jolfe/fbusewive# Home iiemonstratiMTclub, Pleasant Mills school. 7:30 p.m. Church Mothers Study club, Mrs. Wesley Lehman, 8 p.m. Krikland Ladies club, Adams Central school, 7:80 p.m. Ladies auxiliary of Eagles lodge, hall, 8 p.m. Sunny Circle Home Demonstration club, Preble recreation hall, 8 p.m. Rosary Society, K. of C. hall, 8 p. m. Root Township Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Harold Owens, 1 p. m. Xi Alpha Xi and Delta Lambda chapters of Beta Sigma Phi sorority, Mrs. James Elberson, 8 p. m. WEDNESDAY Epsilon Sigma chapter of Berta Sigma Phi sorority. Hanna-Nutt-man park, 6:30 p.m. Bethany circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Mrs. Tillman Gehrig;, 8 p.m. Ruth and Naomi circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, church, 2 p.m. Women’s association of First Presbyterian church, church, 8 pan. Union Township Home Denaonstration club. Mrs. Jack Grey, 1:30 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul society, C. L. of C. hall, 2 p.m. Decatur Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Norman Kruse, 7:30 p.m. Friendship circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, Mrs. Fred Corah, 7:30 p.m. » THURSDAY Women of the Moose, Moose, home, 8 p.m. Ruralistic Study club, (Mrs. Lewis Rumschlag, 8 p.m. Monroe W.C.T.U., Mrs. Amos Lehman. 1:15 p.m. Order of the Eastern Star, Masonic hall, 7:30 p.m. So-Cha-Rea, Mrs. R. -C. Hersh, 7:45 p.m. St. Ambrose Study' club. Mrs. Lee Lengerich, 7:30 p.m. 4-H band rehearsal, 8 p.m., Monroe Firemen’s hall. St. Paul’s Ladies aid, Mrs. Veda Smith, all day. THURSDAY Guardian Angel Study club, Mrs. Leo Alberding, 8 p.m. Our Lady of Victory Discussion club, Mrs. Nick Braun, 8 p.m. Fresh water clams spend the early part of their lives as parasites on fish.

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Fire Chief Relates Finding Os Bodies German Fire Chief Tells Os Discovery PASSAU, Germany UP —A volunteer fire chief who discovered the hacked and burned bodies of three American army officers _in_. the Villa Koller here eight years ago said today he would “never forget the sight.” Willy Osderkorn led German firefighters to the requisitioned villa the night of Jan. 7, 1946 when Maj. Everett S. Cafran, Capt. Adrian L. Wessler and Lt. Stanley M. Rosewater met violent death. Former Army Capt. James M. Leech, Lima, Ohio, has been formally charged with the triple murder. The former officer, now a boilermaker, has denied the charges. U. S. chief prosecutor Thomas C. Lancian is preparing a request for the extradition of Leech. H« or--1 dered army criminal investigation agents here to get sworn testimony from key witnesses in the eightyear old crime. One of them is Osderkorn, the ‘ man who first found the victims of the ax-and-fire murderer. "I’ll never forget the sight as ’ long as I live,” he said. “One body was so badly charred it looked L like a six-year old child.” Osderkorn recalled that the alarm sounded in the first station at 4:45 in the morning. "In a few minutes I arrived at the Koller mansion with 19 men—it was biting cold,” be said. "We first thounjt it was a normal house fire and rushed in with foam extinguishers and gas masks.” The fire was put out within min- ’ utes, he said. He then began a search of the interior with an emergency light. “In one bedroom I found Lt. ’ Rosewater. He was burned to a ' crisp. Upstairs in the attic 1 found Cofran. He was not burned so bad- ■ ly because he was almost completely covered with blankets. “Then I realized it was a crime case," Osderkorn said. “His skull and left side were gashed. A couple of gas cans were still in the ' room —everything was soaked with gasoline. ."In the guest room, I found b ’Wessler. It was the same story,” Osderkorn said. 1 U.S. deputy prosecutor William Canfield, who filed the charges 1 against Leech, claimed the fire was set in an attempt to destroy ’ the evidence of the crime. The , y■■ ■ ■ ■■■ vj.. il’l'Ci -j.biw■■ ' Hew Jelly-like Formula Knocks Baked Grease . Off Oven Surfaces “ITS” is the name of a new t oven, gleaner that restores oven surfaces to grease-free newness without scraping or scrubbing. The substance is brushed on • allowed to stand, then wiped clean with water. i “ITS” oven cleaner is available at Holthouse Drug Co. for $1 and : this includes a plastic brush. “ITS” is non-inflammable and spectacular in performance. ( Advertisement »

• accusations against Leech include murder, intentional manslaughter and arson. Helm Is Enlarging Store In Florida " Robert Helm of New Port Richey. Fla., formerly of this city, is enlarging his hardware store, which was badly damaged by fire last Feb. 15. —Operatlog 4he Pasco Hardware Co., the former Decatur clothing merchant states, that the store is being entirely modernized with new fixtures, equipment and, merchandise. A third business room is being added to the business for household merchandise. Mrs. Helm is recovering from -a major operation performed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. ’Round the Clock! 5i / X / / \ \ // ft w ’Mi 9227 10-20 Inf UTMifcMlllkcffw Bared, billowing—and beautifult That,necklipe is the prettiest way to display your sun-tap. And just see how that whirling skirt accentuates your narrow waist. Wear this for town with the scalloped boleroL- Ba-re -your back -ter-sun-ning. dinin-g. dancing! Pattern 9227: Misses' Sizes; 10. 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. Size 16 takes 5 yards .35-inch; 14 yard contrast. 1 This easy-to-use pattern gives perfect fit. Complete, illustrated . Sew Chart shows you every step. Send Thirty-five cents in coins for this pattern—add 5 cents for each pattern for Ist-class mailing. Send to Marian Martin, care Decatur Daily Democrat, Pattern Dept., 232 West 18th St., New York 11, N. Y. Print plainly Name, Address with Zone. Size and Style Number. Trade in a Gooa Town — Decatur

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Ascension Service Wednesday Evening The festival of the Ascension of- our Lord will be observed by Zion Lutheran church, West Monroe street, with a special service of praise Wednesday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The service will be conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Edgar P z Schmidt, who will speak ■on the topic, “The Importance of ♦hrs . A aizYn pF __. .. 'TYjlit festival commemorates the bodily ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven 40 days after His resurr«(£lon on Easter Sunday." The festival day actually falls on Thursday of this week, but the local Lutheran congregation will observe it at the Wednesday evening service. The church choir, directed by David Embler, Will sing, “Draw us to Thee, Lord Jesus.” a Johann Bach arrangement of an Ascension chorale. Donald Bieberich will be at the console of the Gottfriedt organ and will also present a concert of bells preceding the service. The sacrament of Holy Communion will be celebrated with the festival service. Democrat Want Ada Bring Results

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