Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 290, Decatur, Adams County, 10 December 1956 — Page 3

MONDAY, DECEMBER 10. 1954?

PAST PRESIDENTS PARLEY HAS CHRISTMAS DINNER The Past Presidents Parley of the American Legion auxilary,, unit 43, held their annual family Christmas dinner at the American Legion home, Sunday evening. Holiday decorations adorned the serving tables. Mrs. Frances Monahan presided over a short busness session, after which a Christmas gift exchange was held, and games were played. Later in the evening, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Roop showed scenic slides of their travels. ■- The next meeting will be held January 14 at the Legion home. Mrs. Roop will be hostess. CHRISTMAS PARTY IS HELD BY WESLEY CLASS .... The. Wesley class of the Methodist church met recently in the church lounge for their Christmas party. The lounge was appropriate with decorations in keeping with the Christmas season. Mrs. Clarence Smitley, president opened the meeting. Mrs. Harold Gay led in devotions, reading the second chapter of Luke, versas 1 through 21. Mrs. Smitley read "How Far to Bethlehem?" The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved and the business session was conducted by the president. The group was entertained by Christmas records, which were played by -Earl Sprague. Games and Christmas contests were enjoyed, with various prizes being awarded to the winners. Gifts were exchanged and delicious refreshments were served to 27 members. The committee in charge of the party included Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smitley, Mr. and Mrs. William Lister, Mr. and Mrs. Tim Sprague, and Mrs. Harold Gay. CHURCH OF GOD SOCIETY HAS CHRISTMAS PARTY The Church of God Missionary society met recently in the fellowship basement for its annual Christmas party. The meeting was opened by the singing of “Silent Night.” Emma Frank had charge of the worship and Bonnie Watkins was program leader. Theme of the evening was J “keeping the Christmas spirit all year long in our everyday lives.” Edna Kirkpatrick conducted a short business meeting, which was closed by revealing secret pals and exchanging of gifts. Refreshments were served from tables decorated in the Christmas spirit, to 24 members and one guest. Hostesses were MaWe Strickler. Veda Mitchell, Angela Sharpe, Kathryn Strickler, and Erline Hawkins. EVERREADY CLASS HAS ANNUAL PARTY RECENTLY The annual Christmas party and gift exchange of the Everready class of the First Methodist church

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was held last Thursday at the church parsonage. Mrs. W. Guy Bdown was devotional leader, and read the traditional Christmas story. Christmas records were played, as were records of the Methodist church choir, and one of the ringing of the church bell. Mrs. Lloyd Cowans gave a reading on the “Symbols of Christmas.” The group was then invited into the dining room, where dinner was served. The tables and entertaining rooms were cleverly decorated with the Christmas motif. Guests at the dinner meeting included the Leonard Soliday family, Mrs. Bernard Pickett, and Mrs. Lucy Watkins of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. W. P. Robinson presided during the business session, and introduced the new officers for the next year. They are president, Mrs. Dovie Bedwell; vice-presi-dent, Mrs. Lloyd Ruse; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Ahr; and secretary, Miss Ivy Gilpen. Hostesses for the Christmas meeting were the Mesdames W. P. Robinson, John Kelson, Fred Hancher, Rose Weldy, Paul Edwards, Lloyd Ruse and Miss Ivy Gilpin. THIRTY-THREE MEMBERS ATTEND SCOUT ASS’N PARTY. Thirty-three members of the Decatur Girl Scout association met Thursday afternoon at the Legion hall, for their annual Christmas party. Mrs. Lowell Harper presided over a short business session. A Christmas caroling party is planned for the Girl Scouts and Brownies, and will be conducted Saturday afternoon. Because of so many girls in scouting, it is necessary for the troops to ,divide into two groups, and the leaders are asked to watch the paper for the time thev are to meet and the places they are to visit. After the caroling party, the board members will serve refreshments at the Youth and Community center, at which time each troop will present a special ornament for the Center’s tree. ' / Mrs. Wilbur Reynolds was chairman for the association party. 1 Games were played later, and a 10-cent gift exhange was held. A delicious luncheon was served by the committee, Mrs. Don Beery, Mrs. Jack Rosenberger, Mrs. Anna Belle Smith, and Mrs. Doris McGeath. The next association meeting will be held January 11, and the leaders club will meet January 3, at 1:15 p.m. at the Youth-and local and national standards for Girl Scouting. The Phoebe Bible class of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed church will meet in the church parlors Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. There will be a 50-cent . gift exchange, and members are reminded to bring cookies for the Christmas project. .2: ' : 1 1 The Emblem club will have a ’ pot luck supper Thursday evening at 6:30 o’clock, at the Elks home. There is to be a $1 gift exchange, j There will be a meeting of the i Eagles auxiliary Tuesday evening 1 at 8 o’clock at the Eagles hall. 1 .» — | The Ladies of the Pleasant Mills 1 Baptist church and all of its au- 1 xiliaries will meet with Mrs. Mary 1 Melching Wednesday evening at ] 6:30 o’clock. Members are to bring ■ a covered dish, their own table • service, and a 50-cent gift. • Mrs. A. R. Holthouse will be hostess to the honorary group of the local Psi lota Xi sorority, Tues- I dav evening at 7:30 o’clock.

The D.A.V. auxiliary Christmas party will be held at the D.A.V. hall Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. There is to be a $1 gift exchange. The W.S.C.S. of the Calvary Evangelical United Brethren church will have their monthly meeting and family night, Friday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the church basement. A 50 cent gift exchange will be held. Muscular Dystrophy Drive Tuesday Night The Adams county rural* youth will conduct the muscular dystrophy drive in the rural areas Tuesday evening, according to Forest Tucker, fund drive chairman for Adams county. This disease is at present quite prevalent in Adams county and is one of the diseases for which no cure is known. Millions of dollars are being speqt for research in hopes of finding the cause and effecting a cure and prevention of this disease. Mrs. W. A. Redmond Committee Chairman Mrs. W. A. Redmond of Fort Wayne, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Winnes of this city, has been named chairman of the first of three study committees to be organized by the United Chest council in Fort Wayne. Mrs. Dedmond die former Anne E- Winnes of this city, will be in charge of the committee on preschool education and training for handicapped children. The program and facilities of Allen county will be studied. I Lloyd 'and Eleanora Fisher Dunwiddie of route 1, Lafayette, are the parents of a baby girl, born December 7 at 12:50 p.m. at the Clinic hospital in Bluftfton. She weighed eight pounds and one ounce, and has been named Suzanne Marie. Maternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Orval Fisher of 416 Formax street. At the Adams county memorial hospital: A baby girl was born Sunday morning at 7:10 o’clock, to Gordon and Mathilda Goertzen Neuenschwander of Berne. She weighed seven pounds and 15 ounces. Billy and Jean Kallenberger Ross of 1716 Madison street, are parents of a seven pound, nine ounce son, born Sunday morning at 10:25 o'clock. —- O ■ MJosrital Admitted Mrs. Arthur Lillich, Decatur; Mrs. Lucy Hirschy, Berne; Martin Zimmerman, Decatur; Mrs. Charles Myers, Bryant; Miss Helen Brodbeck, Willshire, 0.; Donald Nash, Cincinnati? O. Dismissed Mrs. Lyle Vorhees and baby girl, Geneva; Mrs. Mae Sprunger, Berne; Cnarles Boring, transferred to Parkview in Fort Wayne; Mrs. Ross Winans and baby girl, Decatur; Mrs. Catharino Briones and baby girl v Decatur; Martin Leininger, Monroe; Master John Baker, Decatur; Lawrence Fuelling, Decatur; George Braun, Portland.

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I /Ka w I ■ ** y. * 1 Society Items tor today's publication must be phoned In by 11 a.m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 5*2121 ' i Gwen Hllyard MONDAY Pythian Sisters Christmas party, K. of P. home, 6 p.m. Church Mothers study club, Mrs. Lowell Smith, 8 p.m. Welcome Wagon club, Elks home. 8 p.m. Kirkland Ladies club, Adams Central school, 6:30 p.m. Delta Theta Tau, Christmas dinner at Fairway, 6:30 p.m. Sunshine Girls, K. of P. home, 3:30 p. m. V. F. W. Ladies Auxiliary, V.F W. home, 8 p. m. Monmouth P. T. A. auction, Monmouth high school, 7 p.m. TUESDAY American Legion auxiliary, pot luck supper at American Legion Home, 6:30 p. m. Rose Garden club Christmas dinner, Moose home, 6:30 p. m. Decatur Weight Watchers club, 949 Mercer avenue, 6:30 p. m. Associate chapter of Tri Kappa, Mrs. Mary Jane Saylors, 7:30 p.m. Kirkland W.C.T.U. and families, Pleasant Dale parish hall, 6 pm. Eta Tau Sigma, Preble restaurant, 6:30 p. m. St. Dominic study club, Mrs. Joe Laurent, 6:30 p. m. Root township home demonstration club, Mrs. Sherman Kunkel, 10 a.m. Psi lota Xi sorority, Youth and -Community 'Center, 8 p.m. Profit and Pleasure home demonstration club, Mrs. Henry Heimann, 6:30 p.m. St. Catherine study club, Mrs. Sheldon Daniels, 8 p.m. Honorary group of Psi lota Xi, Mrs. A. R. Holthouse, 7:30 {}.m. Eagles auxiliary, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Little Flower study club, Mrs. Mary Sorg, 7:30 p. m. Zion Lutheran Missionary society musicale, Mrs. Louis Jacobs, 1:30 p. m. Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C.S., church, 7 p.m. 8.P.W., Christmas party-supper, Youth and Community center, .6:30 p. m. Ladies of the Pleasant Mills Baptist church and all its auxiliaries, Mrs. Mary Melching, 6:30 p.m. THURSDAY Mt. Pleasant W. S. C. S., Mrs. Frank Singleton, pot luck dinner at 11 a.m. Order of Eastern Star, stated ( meeting and Christmas party, 7:30 Christmas social, church basement, 6:30 p.m. Emblem club, Elks, 6:30 p.m. D.A.V. auxiliary, D.A..V hall, 7:30 p.m. Phoebe Bible class of Zion E. and R. church, church parlor, 7:30 p.m. Friday Union Township Farm.. Bureau Christmas party, Immanuel Lutheran school, 8 p.m. Calvary E.U.8., W.S.C.S., church basement, 7:30 p.m. Ed A. Bosse, Decatur attorney, was taken to the Lutheran hospital at Fort Wayne Sunday for observation and treatment. He has been ill for the past 10 days. Fred Schnepf, of Rock Rapids, la., returned home yesterday after attending the funeral of his broth-er-in-law, Ralph McMillen of Van Wert, O. While here, he was a house guest of Mrs. Will Schnepf and family. Mrs. Lores Lehman, of Decatur, was admitted Sunday to the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne for observation. - ---yThe Welcome Wagon Hostess Will Knock on Your Dpog with Gifts & Greetings front Friendly Business Neighbors and Your Civic and Social Welfare Leaders Oft THt occasion tfi The Birth of a Baby Sixteenth Birthdays Engagement Announcements Change of residence Arrivals of Newcomen to Tlpcutiir _Phone 3-3196 or 3-3479 ffVs ftt w oblitation) ll>

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Only One Accident Reported In County Little Damage Done In Single Accident Adams county escaped serious accidents which plagued other counties of the northern Indiana area because of the heavy snowfall and hazardous driving conditions Saturday night and Sunday mprning. Only one accident with property damage was reported from the sheriff’s department although there were several other cases of automobiles sliding off into ditches. „ The lone accident occurred at 3 a. m. Sunday six miles east of Decatur on U. S. highway 224 when a truck driven by Shelby King, 32, of Mitchel, and a car driven by Paul Rothwell, 36, of Grover City, 0., sideswipea. - The snow had obliterat d the center line and both drive, s were unable to see the sides of the road. Damage was estimated at a total of $275 to the two vehicles. Sheriff Merle Affolder and state trooper Al Coppes investigated. HOME WORK MIDDLETON, Conn. — (UP) — A government instructor at Wesleyan University assigned Douglas Bennet Jr. to interview both Congressional candidates in his district. The Democratic nominee is a cinch —he’s Douglas Bennet Sr. Tfade In a Good iown — Decatur H

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Men Os Two Churches Plan Joint Meeting The men’s council of the Presbyterian church will be host to the men’s brotherhood of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church at the Presbyterian church Tuesday evening at 8:15 o’clock. Mike Stephan will be the principal speaker for this joint meeting. designed as an occasion for fellowship for the neighboring church groups. . DUCK GETS HOME PRINCETON, Ind. —(UP)— The sheriff and his deputies searched for the person who left a black and white duck tied by its feet on the doorstep of the William McLemore residence. McLemore and his wife were aroused at 2 a.m. by dogs barking at the duck. No prankster was located, so the duck was placed in custody of the McLemore family- . . j . ■

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