Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 172, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1957 — Page 3

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REUNION OF DECATUR HIGH SCHOOL CLASS AT POKAGON Twenty-six members of the Decatur high school plas of *56 met at Pokagon state park near Angola; Sunday, with Miss Charlotte Vera, sponsor, for their second reunion. Swimming and movies of the senior party and graduation rehearsal shown by Miss Vera, were activities taking up the evening. al<|M with a potluck supper. Classmates there were Mary Ann Spahr, Battle Creek, Mich., and Leah Brandyberry, Janie Smith, Janet Lane, Luanne Lehman, Jackie James, Judy Locke, Jeannine Schultz, Sharon Kreischer, Bev Poling, Carolyn Aumann, Joyce Callow, Marian Bashar a. Kathy Cole, Mara Dee Striker, Bill Zwick, Mike Beery, Terry Murphy, Jim Sheets, Dan Krueckeberg, Jerry Gattschall. Phil Deßolt, Harold Sommer, Tom Grimm, Dave Ellsworth, and Bob Rawley, all of Decatur. LADIES AID SLATES BAZAAR AT EMMANUEL SCHOOL Emmanuel school of Wayne Trace will be the scene of the bazaar Saturday evening, sponsored by the Emmanuel Ladies Aid of Soest. Beginning at 5 p. m., the bazaar will include a cafeteria supper, bake sale, and fancy work sale. A look on the menu reveals that those who attend will be able to choose from chicken sandwiches, sloppy joes, hot dogs and chicken and noodles, with' sides of potato salad, potato chips, baked beans, jello salad, pie, and coffee and milk. In the evening the first three grades of the school will provide part of the entertainment, with their complete grade school band. “Come for supper and then stay for an evening of entertainment.” is the invitation the Soest Ladies Aid extends. MISS MILLER TALKS TO GIRLS STATE FILM VIEWERS When the American Legion auxiliary unit 43 met Friday evening at the Legion home, Miss Ann Miller, 1956 Girls State delegate talked briefly to the guests, after the showing of the color film on the '56 Girls State session. Summary of the week of activities at Indiana University last summer, the picture began as the girls arrived at the start of the "bysy week.” With each Girls Stater joining a political party* many ran for- state offices in a miniature government built to function like Indiana's own state government. After meetings, rallies and parties to stir up enthusiasm, and elections, the highlight of the-week came with the inauguration of the governor of ' I I- I 1 -• " "ii• • ir iTn i ■ i rrill i . I in DON’T TAKE A CHANCE TAKE PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co.

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Girls State. Mrs. Frank Liniger, publicity - chairman for the auxiliary, which t sponsored Miss Miller and Miss ; Catherine Goelz tp, last year’s , convention, states that “along with the learning of the funda- . mentals of government, many 1 new and lasitng friendships were . made . ~< alter a week of fun , and learning." Following the film, Miss Miller 1 talked to thh group, for both her- . self and Miss Goelz, who was unable to attend, thanking the auxiliary for sending her. ’ At the social meeting of the , auxiliary, scheduled for Septem- , ber 27, Miss Beverly Steven?, ’ 1957 Girls State delegate, will report to her sponsors on this J year's convention, held June 22 , through June 30. Mrs. Dallas J Brown, the auxiliary Girls State * chairman, arranged for the pub- ’ lie showing of the film. CLUB WELCOMES MRS. CHARLES KESTER TO CITY - Twelve members of the Decatur , Welcome Wagon club met at the ’ home of Mrs. M. C. Sieling recent--1 ly; with Mrs. Charles Kester being . greeted as a new member. In the absence of the president, the vice president, Mrs. Robert , Stevenson, conducted a short buss iness meeting. Contests were , won by Mrs. James Bleeke and 1 Mrs. Stevenson, and Mrs. Lamoi ine Tinnin received the door prize. 5 Helping Mrs. Sieling serve rei freshments was Mrs. Robert Gage. 5 Mrs. DenzibDowell will be hostess to the next meeting of the Welcome club, scheduled for Sept- > ember. X ’ 1 i Suprise party and regular meet- . ing for the Auxiliary has / been set up'” a week, for July 30, * instead of tonight. 3 Monroe WCTU will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs. Flossie Brandyberry. Mrs. Lester Strafim will be hos--1 tess to the Friendship Circle of the it gathers Friday evening at 7:30 5 Decatur Missionary church, when for a shower for Mrs. Paul Buck- ’ ingham. r . Called meeting for the DAV Aux- ' iliary will be Thursday at 8 p.m. * Installation of officers and prepar- ' ation for the Lafayette day, August “ 4, at the Soldiers and Sailors home at Lafayette and the Veterans hos- ‘ pital party August 8, in Fort 3 Wayne, will be important topics, ji It is vital that all members attend ' this called meeting. t Lee Replaced By r Bowen As Director Harry Lee, representing Willshire township, resigned as a member of the board of directors of the Van Wert county agricultural society Saturday. Heber Bowepyrill replace Lee. who has served six years and was reelected last fall for another three-year term.

SIS Society Items tor today** publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 . BARBARA FIECHTER TUESDAY Dutiful daughters class, Bethany EUB church, picnic, Mrs. Heber Feasel, 6 p.m. Root township home, demonstration club, Mrs. Richard Harkless, 1 p. m. Kirkland WCTU picnic, Hanna Nuttman park, noon. Olive Rebekah ladge. Odd Fellows Home, 7:30 p. m. Jolly Housewives home demonstration club of St. Mary’s township. Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma, Mrs. Don Stump, 8 p. m. Kirkland Ladies £lub, Adams Central school, 7:30 p.m. • Preble Sunny Circle Home Demonstration Club. Preble Recreation Center, 8 p.m. WEDNESDAY Ruth and Naomi Circle, Zion E and R church parlors, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Union Chapel Ladies Aid, church basement, all day, with potluck dinner at noon. St. Ambrose Study club, Mrs. Henry Heimann, 7:30 p.m. . Union Township home demonstration club, Mrs. Donald Smith, 236 N. 12th, 1:30 p. m. Monroe WCTU, Mrs. Flossie Brandyberry, 7:30 p.m. ‘ Called meeting, DAV Auxiliary, DAV home, 8 p.m. FRIDAY* . V Friendship Circle, Decatur Missionary church, shower, Mrs. Lester Strahm, 7:30 p.m. Office Opened Here By Insurance Agent Carl J. Braun, Decatur, special agent for the New York Life Insurance Co. has opened a new Decatur office in the Niblick building, it was announced today by Roy J. Schick, Fort Wayne district manager for New York Life. Mrs. Laura Bosse of this city will be associated with Braun in his new office, it was announced. Braun has been a member of the company's production clubs and presently is leading the* Fort Wayne district in production. He has been with New York Life for 11 years. Mrs. Herman Thoma Dies At Bluffton Mrs. Emma Thoma, 81, mother of william H. Thoma, owner of the Thoma funeral nome in Bluffton, died Monday at the Clinic hospital in that city. Surviving in addition to the son are three i granddaughters. Mrs. Thoma, widow of Herman Thoma, senior member of the firm, was a member of the First Methodist church. Order of Eastern Star, Past Matrons club. Bay View reading club, and Delphic Circle. Services will be held at 3:30 p. m. Wednesday at the funeral home, the Rev. L. G. Sapp offidating. Burial will be in Fairview cemetery. Martin Watson To Clinic Thursday Martin Watson, Adams Central

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vocational agriculture instructor, will attend the district land judging clinic at the coliseum in Fort Wayne Thursday. Watson, who has taken two land judging teams to the state finals in the past two years, will attend the general meeting in the mdrning, and the field tests in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Linder are guests this week at the Cavalier Hotel in Virginia Beach, Va., where Linder is attending the annual convention of the Commonwealth Life Insurance Co. A local agent for Commonwealth, hr recently qualified for the Commonwealth club, by exceeding his sales quota, and was awarded this trip as an additional honor. Spending the week in Indianapolis as the guests of Mrs. Carl Barnett, Jr., are Mrs. Walter Kiess and daughters Kathleen and Donnalu. Miss Esther Feasel returned home Sunday after a week’s visit their also. Sunday dinner guests at the Earl James home, Magley, were Mr. and Mrs. Clint Charleston, Mr. and Mrs. Volney Steiner, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Davis, Mrs. Harry Shoemaker, Keith McCollum, and Mrs. James Durbin, of Geneva. Visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hook recently were Mr. and Mrs Donald Culp, Niles, Mich., and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sprunger and Jack Gilbert, Winterhaven, Fla. John R. Worthman, Inc., builder of the Stratton Place addition, has purchased 400 acres on the north edge of Huntington for a long range development program of residential expansion. Mrs. William Lenhart, the former Helen Swearingen, was a visitor in Decatur Monday. Herman Andress, Mrs. Roy Andress, and Kevin Andress, of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., are visiting for two weeks with the Les Marquart family in Monroeville. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Houk and daughters Barbara and Charlotte recently returned from a vacation trip to Florida, where they spent several days in Clearwater and the , surrounding area. James A. Julian, 17, of Craig- ■ ville route 1, was fined $lO and coI sts for a total of $24.75 in Bluffton : city court Saturday after being > found guilty on a charge of driv- • ing with an inadequate muffler July 7. He was ordered to replace the muffler. Julian had pleaded not guilty to the charge. A $25 appearance bond was posted Saturday in Bluffton city court ■ by Merlin D. Alt, 22, of Berne rouf te 1, who was cited by Bluffton . city police for driving the wrong ; way on a one-way street. . Judge Myles F. Parrish of Adams J circuit court was in Portland today sitting as a special judge in a Jay • circuit court case. HOSPITAL NOTES Admitted Mrs. Emma Simerman, Decaj tur; Mrs. Wilbur Borror, Deca- ' tur. " Dismissed Mrs. Samuel Hilty and daughter, Berne: Mrs. Melvin Buuck and daughter, Decatur; Miss Levida Anspaugh, Geneva; Floyd Bowers, Decatur; Mrs. John T. Mazelin. Berne; Mrs. David A. Kwasneski and daughter, Decatur.

Rev. Settlage And Wife And Daughter On European Trip England, Belgium, Germany, Italy. Switzerland, France, and Scotland are on the itinerary of the Rev. and Mrs. Herman Settlage and their daughter Rachel, who sailed from Montreal, Quebec, on the Cunard Liner Ivernia July 5. Their month In England and on the continent will find them stopoing overnight at hotels in these cities: London, England; Brussels, Belgium; Coblenz and Augsburg, Germany; Bolzano, Italy; Luzerne, Switzerland; Dijon and Paris, France, and, returning to the British Isles, Lincoln and Harrogate, England and Edinburgh, Scotland. August 7, the trio will sail back from Southampton on the Ivernia. Since September 1, 1951, Rev. Settlage has been pastor of the Salem Evangelical and Reformed church. (The United Church of Christ) near Magley. The Settlages live on route one Decatur. Miss Rachel Settlage lives in Cincinnati, 0., where she is employed at the Veterans hospital. During the absence of Rev. •Settlage, who will resume his pastorate August 18, Dr. E. L. Worthman, retired minister and a son 1 of the Salem congregation, is serving as supply pastor. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Shackley, route three, are the grandparents of the baby daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gillett, of lowa City, lowa, Friday at 10 o’clock. Named Rebecca Lynn, she weighed seven pounds, nine ounces, at birth in the Mercy hospital in that city. Mrs. Gillett is the former Kathleen Shackley. Monday morning at the Parkview memorial hospital in Fort Wayne, Ivan and Barbara Sautter Minich, 5210 Lillie St., Fort Wayne, became the parents of a daughter weighing eight pounds, U ounces, at 7:41 o'clock. The maternal grandmother is Mrs. Harold Sautter, Decatur; the paternal grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Ed Minich, Hoagland. At the Adams county memorial hospital: Henry and Ann Irene Vogeler Hufmann, 511 Indiana street, Decatur, became the parents of 3. son at 5:30 p. m. Monday. He weighed five pounds, 12 ounces. Today Charles and Ethel,. Andrews Hamrick, Decatur, became the parent? of a daughter weighing eight pounds, 11 ounces, at 4 a. m. To Billy and Fern Colleen Weinman Schlickman, Willshire, 0., a six-pound, eight-ounce daughter was born at 11:28 a. m. today.

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Urges Streams And ' Ditches Kept Clean Preventive Moves Urged By Official INDIANAPOLIS (UP)—Millions ! of dollars in damage caused by ' Indiana’s floods this year could | have been avoided by preventive measures in keeping the stream- ( beds clean, a state official said , today. Robert W. Kellum, executive secretary of the Indiana Flood 1 Control and Water Resources Com- ’ mission, said the heavy loss in many areas was due to the fact 1 that cities, towns and counties permitted ditches and creeks to * grow up in willows and underbrush. On the other hand, he said, the loss was counteracted partly by the fact local authorities have become more alert than they have been in 20 years or more to the urgent need for keeping riverbeds cleanDo Something Now Literally dozens of communities are working on plans now to clean out riverbeds and thus help aleviate the danger of future floods. The plans could be endangered. 1 fyowever, by a gradually diminishing loss of interest with the arrival of drier weather, Kellum said. “We hope they will continue and not forget 1957,’’ Kellum said. “It is very important for local communities to do something now. We feel they should make a real, definite effort.” "Streams and ditches in many parts of Indiana are in bad shape,” Kellum said. “Growth, willows, shrubs and brush have i lowered the capacity of streams to carry off excess water/’ The spring and summer flobds this year folltfwed an unusual pattern. They struck mainly on small streams which normally were not affected much by floods in the past and therefore had been neglected. Need More. Integration One of the biggest problems in local stream cleaning is integration of effort by county ’ and city officials. Both agencies : in a community should work together where possible, he said, ' make a cleaning pipgram countyI wide instead of confined to a city's limits or a county area outside a ■ city. Lack of funds seems to be the r chief deterrent. Yet some areas - which were hurt badly by this year’s floods are starting to work ; out plans for cleaning due to public demand that something be . done to prevent recurrence e Kellum, whose opinion undoubt- . edly reflects that of the entire t commission he represents, would like to see the problem treated j on a year-to-year basis. Otherwise. it’s like locking the barn door ’ after the horse has been stolen. The ounce-of*prevention-is-worth- • a-pound-of-cure attitude is needed

because water is so unpredictable. « Some of this year’s floods came overnight with no advance warning. Eagle Creek Example Among the areas hard hit because of failure to keep stream beds clean, was a large area along Eagle Creek. The stream reached its highest stages perhaps in history at some points, partly because clogged channels were unable to carry off unusually heavy rains rapidly. Kellum says there is no pattern for stream cleaning. Each situation is a case of its own and may require different handling. Among areas where plans are being considered or work is under i way for cleaning are Portland, | Ellettsville, Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Kokomo and Columbus. Kellum said a good exampe of advance planning and work which may have prevented food damage i was at Greenfield. There, the city I worked with the Pennsylvania Railroad in cleaning out Brandywine Creek, a little stream mentioned in the poetry of James Whitcomb Riley. “It helped a lot,” Kellum said. I Modern Etiquette | BY ROBERTA LEI 0 - —0 Q. I issued invitations recently to an informal affair in my home, and now. because of illness in my family, find it impossible to give this affair. How can I recall the invitations? A. Either by telephone or brief note, explaining the circumstances and informing your intended guests that you will get in touch with them at a later date. Q. When writing a personal letter, is the date correctly put at the end of a message, or at the top righthand corner? A. Usually, in the top righthand corner of a long letter, but at the end of a short note. Q. If -a close friend of a bereaved family attends the funeral, is it necessary for him to wear black clothes? A. No. He should however, wear subdued clothes, and avoid any gay colors. TOMORROW TOT’S DAY AT Edward’s Studio SEWING MACHINE BUSINESS Sales, Parts, Repairing. We Sen the Best. We SeU for Less. We have a Sewing Machine Repair Shop. (Customer's Security.) BOARDMAN’S . SEWING MACHINE SHOP 223 N. First Street Store Honrs: 8 a. m. to 8 p. m.

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