Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 91, Decatur, Adams County, 17 April 1957 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1957

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THREE GROUPS PLAN BAKE SALES SATURDAY Three organizations will sponsor bake sales in Decatur Saturday. The W.M.A. class of Nuttman avenue Evangelical United Brethren church will have a sale in the {building formerly occupied by Gerber’s market on South Second street. The sale ' will begin at 9 a.m. Another sale, to be sponsored by the Pleasant Mills high school band, will begin at 8:30 a m. at the Western Auto store. The ladies auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will sponsor a bake sale beginning at 8:30 a.m. at the Firestone store. GIRLS GUILD HEARS MRS. JESSIE BELL Mrs. Jessie Bell was guest speaker for the recent meeting of the Jessie Bell chapter of the Girls Guild of the First Baptist, church. The meeting was held at the church and was opened with ■ group singing led by Cynthia Lehman. i Mrs. Bell offered a prayer and devotions based on the Easter theme were conducted by Miss Lehman. Mrs. Bell spoke on "Graciousness’ and her talk was followed'with a group discussion. The meeting was closed with prayer and refreshments were served by the hostesses of the Missionary society. WOMEN’S GUILD MEETS RECENTLY The Women’s Guild of the Salem Evangelical and Reformed Church met recently at the church. The meeting was opened with a piano prelude by Mrs. Ella Scherry. x A meditation was read by Miss Amanda Worthman, followed with the singing of a hymn, “Beneath the Cross of Jesus." Scripture and prayer were offered by Mrs. Walter Walchle, who then presented a meditation. “Catching the Vision of Greater Possibilities" was presented by Mrs. John Borne, Mrs. Ed Kolter and Miss Worthman. Prayer was offered by Miss Worthman. A short business meeting was conducted by Mrs. Carlton Worthman, president. Refresh-, ments were served by the hostesses. Mrs. Walter Peck, Mrs. Ed Kolter, Mrs. Caroline Fruechte, Mrs. Walter Walchle and Mrs. George Gerber. MRS. LEHMAN HOSTS DECATUR GARDEN CLUB The Decatur Garden club held the April meeting recently at the home of Mrs. Wesley Lehman. Mrs. Ada Lower was assistant hostess for the meeting which 22 members attended. During the business meeting, _ which was conducted by Mrs. Amos Yoder, president, final plans were made for attending the Northeast district State Garden convention to be held at the Van Orman Hotel in Fort Wayne May 9 and 10. Mrs. Yoder and Mrs. Lehman were named delegates to the convention. Members of the Decatur club will serve as hostesses at the noon luncheon of the convention May 10. “Birds, Our Feathered Friends” was the lesson topic presented bj VFW. Ladies Auxiliary Bake Sale at Firestone Store, 8:30 a. m. Saturday, April 20. 91 t 2

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Mrs. Lower at the meeting. Refreshments were served during the social priod./A game was played and Mrs. Hubert Zerkel, Sr., won the prize. The meeting ended with a tour of Rentz Florist house to see the Easter flQwers. SALEM W. 8. C. S. ELECTS OFFICERS Mrs. Austin Merriman was elected president of the Salem W. S. C. S. at a recent meeting held at the home of Mrs. Maurice Miller. She succeeds Mrs. Merle Riley. Assisting her during the coming year will be Mrs. Merle Riley, vice-president; Mrs. Charles Burkhart, secretary, and Mrs. Claude Foreman, treasurer. Heads of the various committees will include Mrs. Floyd L. Meyer, promotion; Mrs. Rue Strayer, missionary education; Mrs. Oscar Young, Christian social relations; Mrs. Elisha Merriman, student and youth; Mrs. Carl Schug, spiritual life; Mrs. Maurice Miller, literature and publications; Mrs. Leßoy Miller, supply, and Mrs. Clifford Roe, reporter. The election meeting also featured scripture reading by Mrs. Riley, devotions led by Mrs. Claude Foreman, a piano solo by Mrs. Leßoy Miller and an Easter reading by Mrs. Floyd L. Meyer. The lesson, “Our Plus Becomes Cross,” was reviewed by Mrs. Leßoy Miller, Mrs- Lawrence Carver and Mrs. Claude Foreman. The meeting, conducted by Mrs. Riley, was closed with the recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. Officers of the Pythian Sisters will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at the K. of P. home. Their meeting will be followed with a general meeting of the organization at 7:30 p.m. Needle club meeting will follow the general meeting. meeting of the Pythian Sunshine Girls is scheduled to take place at the K. of P. home Monday after school. A meeting of the Church Mothers Study Club will take place Tuesday at 8 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Raymond Lehman, 745 Parkview drive. Plans were announced today for a sing bee at the Greenbrier Church Sunday at 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend. The Jolly. Housewives Home Demonstration club will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Pleasant Mills school. The meeting will feature an exchange of flower seeds. Practice for the Westminster chori of the Presbyterian church, scheduled for this evening, has been cancelled and will not be held this week. The Rosary society had the regular meeting Monday evening at the K. of C. hall. Following the regular business meeting, plans were made for a future social event. Mrs. Robert Rumschlag was chairman of the social committee which had charge of Monday night’s social hour. Two Cars Collide Tuesday Evening An accident one mile north of Geneva and 6.2 miles east at an intersection of gravel roads caused approximately S4OO damage to two automobiles at 6:10 p.m. Tuesday. The automobiles were driven Jay Robert E. Crandall', 17, of route 2, Berne, and Rhea B. Wall, 52. of route 2, Geneva. The state police and sheriff’s office investigated, and reported that the two vehicles approached the intersection at 30 to 40 miles an hour in a drizzly rain when the view from both directions was obscured by trees and buildings. Both cars braked, and skidded in the loose gravel. The front of the Crandal automobile, owned by Harvey Crandall, a passenger in the car, had a damaged right fender, grill, and radiator, with about S3OO estimated damage. The Wall vehicle, owned by John Wall, had about SIOO damage to the right rear fender, rear door, and door panel. ' NOTE—Due to Holy Week .1 No Special Event This I I Week! Continuous Thurs- 1 i -day from 1139. Tonight & Thursday '-■ / ■ Brought Back — One of the Greatest Pictures Ever Made! Story of Father Flanagan. “BOYS TOWN” Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney ALSO — Shorts 15c -50 c —o Fri. A Sat—“ 3 Brave Men” A “Storm Rider” Sun. A Mon. — “OKLAHOMA” Rodgers A Kammerstein Hit At Our Regular Low Prices.

Society Items tot today’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 GWEN HILYARD WEDNESDAY Decatur Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Owen K. Baker, 213 Rugg street, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Pleasant Mills Methodist W.S.C.S., Mrs. David Sovine, 1:30 p.m. • Past Matrons of the Order of Eastern Star, number 127, meeting postponed. Lincoln P.T.A. meeting postponed until next Thursday. Do Your Best class of Trinity E.U.B. church, postponed until next month. Blue Creek home economics club, Kimsey school, 1:30 p.m. " „ SATURDAY Easter Bake sale, at the Goodyear store, sponsored by the Chi Rho Sunday School class of the Zion E. and R. church, starting at 9 a.m. MONDAY Monmouth Parent and Family Life Education study group, Mon. mouth high school, 7 p.m. Academy of Friendship. Women of the Moose, Moose home 7:30 p.m. Pythian Sister officers, 7 p.m., K. of P. home. Pythian Sisters, 7:30 p.m., K. of P. home. Pythian Salendar Bake Sale by W.M.A. class of Nuttman E.U.B. church, 9 a.m. building formerly Gerber’s market. Bake Sale by Pleasant Mills high school band, 8:30 a.h.. Western Auto store. Bake sale by V.F.W. auxiliary, 8:30 a.m., Firestone Store. TUESDAY Jolly Housewives Home Demonstration club. 7:30p.m., Pleasant Mills school. Church Mothers Study club, 8 p.m., Mrs. Raymond Lehman. Order Warrant For Arrest Os Speeder A warrant for the arrest of Virgil R. Taylor, 34, was issued this morning following the failure of Taylor to appear in mayor’s court to answer charges of speeding. Taylor was arrested at 1:30 a.m. Tuesday one-half mile south of Berne and charged with speeding 100 miles an hour on the open highway. He was to appear in mayor’s court at 10 o’clock this morning. Howard E. Shipley, 46. okroute 4, Bluffton, was fined $1 and costs foi failure to dim his lights while driving at night. Shipley was arrested by the state police on April 13 at 10:20 p.m. two miles west of Decatur on U. S. 224. Junior Town Meeting On Radio Saturday - The junior town meeting, recorded at Sturgis, Mich., Tuesday, will be broadcast over radio station WOWO, Fort Wayne, at 8:30 a.m. Saturday. Gene-Baxter and .Edwin Bean represented Decatur high school in the meeting. The trip by the speech class included a visit to the beautiful new Civic auditorium ip Sturgis, where the recording was made. Two parents, Mrs. Don Jefferies and Mrs. Roger Kelly, made the trip as chaperones.

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Good Friday Rites At Lutheran Church Three Services To Be Held On Friday x Three worship services will be conducted Godd Friday at Zion Lutheran church, West Monroe street, at 12:30, 7, and 8:15 p.m. The reading of 'the history of the passion and death of Jesul Christ will be the feature of the noonday service to be conducted? between 12:30 and 2 o’clock. The lessons of the passion story are interspersed with hymns, carcis by the children!of the Saturday school, and appropriate prayers. Both the primary and junior choirs of the church will sing at the service. A reverent quiet pervades the entire service. There will be no organ prelude or postlude. Worshipers are requested to observe silence also when they enter and when they leave the church. The pastor of the church, the Rev. Edgar P. Schmidt, will conduct the service, while Donald" Bieberich, church organist, will accompany the singing of the hymns. A decorative Easter cross bookmark will be presented to each worshiper as a remembrance of this Good Friday mid-day service. The public is invited to attend. in your work clothes or bouse dress,” suggests Rev. Schmidt, "but come." At 7 o’clock in the evening, the annual memorial vesper commemorating the death of Jesus Christ will be conducted. The liturgy of the Cross and the Lenten es, responses between the pastor and the congregation, will be used at this service. Rev. Schmidt will preach his final sermon of the Lenten series: “He was wounded for our transgressions,” as he speaks on the topic, “They Pierced His Side,” John 19,34-37. The final Goad Friday worship hour will be a vesper with the celebration of holy communion at 8:15 o’clock. “This additional communion service is being conducted to relieve the Maundy Thursday celebration which in the past has had an overflow number of member guests partaking of the sacran'ient,” stated Rev. Schmidt. “We believe the additional Holy Week celebration will make for the comfort and convenience of our membership.” The sermon on the topic, “They pierced His Side,” concluding the series Lenten messages, will be repeated at the 8:15 vesper. The public is invited to attend all the Holy Week services at Zion Lutheran church. 4&IOMTAL I Admitted Mrs. David A. Sprunger, Decatur; Donald Krugh, Ohio City, O.; Master Michael Meyer, Decatur; Mrs. Anna Pusey, Berne; Mrs. Lydia Scherry, Geneva. Dismissed Mrs. Carl Nahrwold and baby boy, Ossian; Mrs. Leona Burkey. Portland, and the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Case, Decatur. EVERY WED. IS TOT’S DAY AT EDWARDS STUDIO

M y I Miss Alice Voglewede will leave Thursday for Toledo, 0., to spend her Easter vacation with Mr. and Mrs. -Kevin Whelan and family. She will be accompanied next Wednesday by her grandmother, Mrs. Charles J. Voglewede. Mrs. Minnie Teeple of Closs street has returned home after spending a week with Mr. andMrs. James Rutledge of Lima, O. Mrs. Rutledge is Mrs. Teeple’s daughter. l Mr. and Mrs’. A. R. Ashbaucher nave returned to their home in this city after spending the winter tin Florida. A petition opposing parking meters around the Jay county courthouse in Portland has been filed with auditor Ralph Green in that county. A recent city council session made the proposal, which is opposed on the basis that the square is owned by the cobnty. The SIOO,OOO damage suit against the tity of Delphos, 0., resulting from an accident that claimed the life of 22-month-old Thomas Allemeier on July 27, 1951, went to trial today in Allen county common court pleas, Ohio. Negligence in failing to have a sidewalk kept in repair is charged. The boy was playing about the family residence and tripped, falling into Flat Fork creek, where he was found face down in eight inches of water. -- David Ringger, 19, Monroe route 1, was fined a total of $20.50 in J, P. court in Bluffton for reckless driving. More Thon 500 Mail Protests On Budget Although a final total is not available, 509 cards have been mailed to Washington in the ‘‘cut the budget” campaign which was carried out last -week by the American history classes' at the Decatur high school. Few people failed to sign cards, some saying they would send cards or had already presented their petitions to a congressman. The students report invaluable experience from this ‘‘grass roots” movement, as almost all adults contacted were anxious to write a

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