Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 183, Decatur, Adams County, 5 August 1957 — Page 3

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THOMAS-SCHAEFER NUPTIALS READ SUNDAY IN FLORIDA Sunday, Mrs. Frances Schaefer, of Holmes Beach, Fla., and Bryce Thomas, of Decatur, were united in marriage near Bradenton, Fla. Roser Memorial church on Anna Maria Island, near Bradenton, was the scene of the ceremony. Thomas is the principal of Lincoln grade school in Decatur. KARL W. SCHROEDER CLAIMS BRIDE IN SATURDAY RITES Miss Linda £choenemann, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schoenemann, of the lower Huntington Road, became the bride of Karl W. Schroeder, son of Mr. and Mrs. August Schroeder, of neat Decatur, Saturday evening in the Mt. Calvary Lutheran church, Waynddale. Officiating at the 6:15 o’clock rites, the Rev. H. H. Backs received the vows before an altar adorned with white mums. Pre-nuptial music was presented by Mrs. Lester Uffleman. Silk net over taffeta fashioned the bride’s gown. A portrait neckline and short sleeves topped the bodice and a pleated leaf motif trimmed the bouffant skirt which ended in a chapel length train. Her veil of illusion was caught to a bridal headband, and her flowers were white mums and daisies. In a pink dotted Swiss gown, Mrs. Frank Crosby attended her sister as matron of honor. Mrs. Robert Hardy, Miss Mary Hockemeyer, cousin of the bridegroom, and Miss Joyce Nieman, bridesmaids, wore blue dotted Swiss gowns. Flower girl was Kathi Jacobus, and Verlin Bulmahn was ring

dollar! DAY WEDNESDAY — AUGUST 7 LADIES’ and MEN’S SPRING & SUMMER SHOES PLUS SPECIAL GROUP SHOES First Pair At 2 n j £ 1 Regular Price p . i from 5.95 to 13.95 1 a,r ■■ Here’s Your Chance To Get 2 Pair of Shoes For The Price of One—Plus $1.00! ♦ Second Pair May Be Man’s or Ladies’ of Equal Value or Less! ~ ODD - LOT - TABLE • HOUSE SUPPERS • SHOES • SANDALS s l-«® & ALL BUSKENS CHILDREN’S CANDAIQ SHOES UANURLO Values to $7.50 NOW s<a QQ NOW S^AQ Reduced to Reduced to __ — — FINAL CLEARANCE LADIES - GIRLS - CHILDREN GROUP 1 GROUP 2 *1.99 ’2«99 ■ 1 ! ALL SALES BUY NOW i FINAL AND SAVE! | Kaye’s Shoe Store 4 Doors South of Bank DECATUR SHOP: WED. - FRI. - SAT. ’Till 9:00 P. M. 1

bearer. James Crosby served as best , man, while Frank Crosby. Norbert ! Schroeder, and David Hockemey--1 er seated the guests. When the bridal party received i guests afterward at the Goeglein i Kercherval reserve hall, servers - were the Misses Marcia Sprague, > Edna Brown, Mildred Schmidt, Dorcas Knoblauch, and Carolyn Elckhoff. I Blue silk made the princess dress the new Mrs. Schroeder ■ chose for traveling north, and • black patent accessories completi ed her ensemble. I Mr. and Mrs. Schroeder will make their home in Hoagland. . COMMITTEES, KEY WORKERS APPOINTED FOR AUCTION Committees and key workers : have been appointed for Saturday’s ■ public auction for the Valparaiso ■ University guild, Decatur chapter, I with Mrs. Fred Schamerloh and ■ Mrs. Edgar Thieme, co-chairmen. For the afternoon sale, which bel gins at 1:30 o’clock, Mrs. Harold • Hollman will be cashier and Mrs. » Edwin Reinking will serve as ' clerk. In the evening session, Mrs. i Henry L. Meyer, president of the Decatur chapter, will have charge » of the clerking duties, while Mrs. ’ Louis Jacobs will be cashier, at 7:30 o'clock. The public, in between sessions, and starting at noon, will be able to inspect the items on sale, which will include household items, yard tools, and electrical appliances. Key workers assisting with the auction include the Mesdames Edwin Graft, Bethlehem; Arthur Doci tor, Soest; Lawrence Steele, Im-

manuel; Norbert Koeneman, Bingen; Wade Tyler, Flatrock; Victor Hoffman, Preble; Theo. Schieferstein, St. Peter’s; Rudy Seddelmeyer, Trinity: Herman Krueckeberg and Earl Caston, Zion, Decatur; and Wilbert Gallmeyer, Zion, Friedheim. In the food tent, two staffs of three workers will serve home made pies, sandwiches, and hot and cold drinks, beginning at noon and continuing throughout the evening. The Mesdames Willard Fawbush, Wilbert Gallmeyer, and E£mer Bultemeier, will work in the afternoon, while the Mesdames Richard Mailand, Don Burke, and Fred Schamerloh make up the evening food committee. In its 73rd session, the Reppert school of auctioneering will .sell the goods, and will donate all proceeds to the Valpo guild project fund. The money will be used In building the 3,300 seat chapel-aud-itorium for the Valparaiso University campus. MRS.' FRANKE REPORTS ON LEAGUE CONVENTION Decatur circuit delegate to the Lutheran Women's Missionary League convention, Mrs. Erwin C. Franke, of near Ossian, returned home late Friday from the 1957 session in Minneapolis, Minn., July 31 and August 1, with her report on the convention for the 10 Lutheran hcurches in the Decatur zone. Mrs. Franke represented this part of the central district of the 172.000-membered women’s organization of the Lutheran churchMissouri synod, in the two-day convention, which saw 3.200 women of the Lutheran church gather to elect officers and hear reports on the missions and other projects initiated by the Missionary League. At the fall rally of circuit A. Decatur zone, Mrs. Franke will report to members of the 10 churches on the convention. Among the projects adopted, Mrs. Franke reports, are a Bible institute, a training center and two chapels in Nigeria, Africa. Dr. John W. Behnken, president of the Lutheran church-Missouri synod, spoke to the delegates on his recent tour of the church’s Asiatic missions. A new mission will be opened in Korea this fall. Giving the picture in India, the Rev. James Mayer thanked the Missionary League for the grant of $75,000 for a new wing on the church's hospital in Ambur. India. He called attention to thft, dire poverty and lack of medical' services. Referring to India’s new policy to closing the door to any addition American missionaries. Rev. Mayej; called jt “a blessing in disguise, -which accelerated the transition from a colonial type mission to a national church.” He declared that ‘‘lndian missions are no longer 'foreign missions’ but ‘home missions’, done by the Indians themselves." Other projects adopted by the convention include a school for missionary children in New Guinea. with a grant of $60,000, and a girls’ dormitory in Selma, Ala., for a grant of $85,000. Toronto. Canada, will be the scene of the next convention of the Lutheran Women’s Missionary League, in 1959. Tuesday evening. Mrs. Claud Laisure will be hostess to the Monroe Better Homes demonstration chib. The meeting will begin at 7:30 o'clock. Gals and Pals Home Demonstration club will meet at the Pleasant Mills schoolhouse at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Catholic Ladies of Columbia will convene for a business meeting Tuesday evening at 7:30 o’clock, at the C. L. of C. hall. Miss Margaret Heimann will be hostess to the Sacred Heart study club, when it meets at her home Tuesday at 8 p.m. Hanna-Nuttman park shelter house will be the scene of the Thursday meeting of the Town and Country home demonstration club. All members will bring their own picnic lunch and table service, and a business meeting will follow. At the home of Mrs. Carl Schug, the WSCS of the Salem Methodist church will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock. WSWS of the Union Chapel Evangelical United Brethren church will get together Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Jess Sheets at 7:30 o’clock. Mrs. Tom Quality Photo Finishings - 77 AH Work Left Before 8:00 p. m. Monday Ready Wednesday at 10 a. m. ... • . »■- •" Holthouse Drag Co.

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Society Items for today’s publication must be phoned in by U a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 BARBARA FIECHTER MUNDAY Women’s Missionary Association of Mount Zion United Brethren church, Mrs. Charles Wagner, 7:30 p.m. VFW Auxiliary, Post Home, 8 p.m. . TUESDAY Monroe Better Homes demonstration club, Mrs. Claud Laisure, 7:30 p.m. Gals and Pals home demonstration club, Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 p.m. Catholic ladies of Columbia, C. L. of C. hall, 7:30 p.m. Sacred Heart study club, Miss Margaret Heimann, 8 p.m. Eta Tau Sigma, Mrs. Ray Heller, 8 p.m. THURSDAY Town and Country home demonstraton club, picnic, Hanna-Nutt-man Shelter house, noon. WSCS of Salem Methodist church, Mrs. Carl Schug, 7:30 p.m. WSWS of Union Chapel EUB church, Mrs. Jess Sheets, 7:30 p.m. Unit Four, Bethany EUB church, Mrs. Spencer Andrews, 8 p.m. Monroe Rural Fire Department, special meeting, Monroe town hall, 8 p.m. Mount Pleasant WSCS, Mrs. William Fifer, 1:30 p.m. Happy Homemakers Home Demonstration club of Washington Township. Mrs. Clarence Mitchel, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY Harvesters and Y.P.M.8., Mount Zion UB church, Mrs. John Johnson, 7 p.m. Gaunt will be the leader. Unit Four of the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church will convene Thursday evening at 8 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Spenser Andrews. Harvesters and Y. P. M. B. of the Mount Zion United Brethren church will meet Friday evening at 7'o’clock, at the home of Mrs. John Johnson. •CefeYHTl At the Adams county memorial hospital: Thomas and Dorothy Rupert Brandt, of Willshire, 0., became the parents of a son at 11:59 a.m. Saturday. The new arrival weighed six pounds, four ounces. Saturday at 10:40 a.m., a ninepound, two-ounce son was born to James and Virginia Koenig Hackman, of 115 Oak street. To Vernon and Vera Braun Krugh, route four, a son weighing six pounds, four- and one-half ounces, was born Saturday at 9:45 a.m. I Admitted Mrs. Omer Nevil, Geneva. Dismissed Simon Zimmerman, Geneva; Mrs. Billy Emick and son, Linn Grove; Mrs. Alvin Thatcher and daughter, Monroe; Mrs. Emma Simerman, Decatur; Burel Singleton, Monroe; Mrs. Kelvin Springer, Decatur; Mrs. Neil Hesher and son, Decatur; Mrs. Alejo Romero and son. Decatur. Il you have soinethlng to sell or rooms for rent, try a Democrat Want Ad. it brines results.

Dollar Day BOARDMANS Spells Out Super Values ! On Sewing Machines On Materials On Good Scissors On Buttons Many other thing* too numerous to advertise. We give trading stamp*. One Big Day, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7th, 8:00 A.M. to 9:00 P.M. Don't Miss This Sale ! ■■- ■ - ? Boardmans Sewing Machine Shop 223 North First Street

H’ fl i I ’1 i ■ ■' '1 p I a 9 JANICE VAN EMON, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Van Emon of Wabash township, and a member of the Wabash Cloverblossom 4-H club, will represent Adams county in the state dress revue at the Indiana state fair. She was named grand champion Thursday night in the climax show of the annual 4-H fair, and modeled her beige embroidered cotton dress along with nearly 100 other entries.—(Staff Photo) Mr. and Mrs. Jack F. Kline and family are vacationing this week at Palmer Lake, Colon, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Anderson and are children are spending this week at Lake Lavine. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Voglewede and family, of Mexico City, left their home this morning, enroute to Decatur, where they will spend the next three weeks visiting with Mrs. Charles Voglewede and other relatives. Sister M. Gabrielita. a teacher in the Bishop Noll high school, at Hammond, is expected to arrive here Tuesday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Minnie Holthouse and family. Miss Barbara Lewton, deputy clerk in the, county clerk’s office, and Miss Juanita Hoffman will spend the next several days visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Rus'sell Hoffman, at Logn Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Striker were in Spring Mills Sunday, where they attended a family picnic and state meeting for county recorders. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kohne returned Saturday from a trip through the New England States and New York City. Special points of interest on the ten-day trip were Hyde Park and the Corning Glass Center, they report. - After spending a week at Lake James, Mr. and Mrs. Laverne Gerber have returned to their home on route four. Miss Janice Stoller, of Van Wert, O.; spent Thursday and Friday and one weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Lantz and Rose, John, Junior, Jimmy, Mary Sue and 'Steve, on route four. Sunday she returned home with her mother, Mrs. Lillian Stoller. Visiting Niagara Falls was the highlight of last week’s vacation trip of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Aschliman, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Aschliman. and the Misses Dora and Elva Ashliman. They returned Sunday to their homes on route fodr. The funeral of Miss Hope Mumma, 52, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mumma, of Warren, 0., was held Saturday afternoon at the Roberts funeral home in that, city. Miss Mumma was bom in' Adams County. The following 1 from here attended the funeral: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrews and daughter Elizabeth Leming, Mrs. Frank Brandyberry, Miss

Helen Fairchild, Mrs. Robert Garard; Miss Dora Fairchild and" Enoch Fairchild of South Bend, Mrs. Mary Wilhelm and Mrs. Burton Louh tand daughter Debby Jo of Fort Wayne. Mrs. Robert Garard, Mrs. Burton Louth and daughter Debby Jo and Mrs. Mary Wilhelm visited Saturday with Charles Mumma, at the Crile veterans hospital in Cleveland, where he has been a patient since June 6th with a broken hip. Mark Branden, of Decatur, is recovering from an 'appendectomy

Shop Early for these BIG SAVINGS DOLLAR DAY WEDNESDAY "7™ V Ladies Summer Dresses" Choose from Vicky Vaughn, Toni-Todd, Marta ’D in h i . ■ i Juniors, Regulars, Half Sizes. Hundreds to choose I AAIf I from. LUU A! $5.95 - $6.95 Dresses $ A a o . Dollar Day 4**® One Special Rack/ $7.98 Dresses $ w ftQ Lad IOS Dollar Day DRESSES $8.98 - $9.98 Dresses $jP oo Special Dollar Day Qe®® DOLLAR DAY $10.95 Dresses W.SS Choice Dollar Day yww — Aft $12.95 Dresses s>» a a Dollar Day ®*®® I 14.95 Dresses $ a a I Dollar Day LADIES SKIRTS Extr * Sp * cll,l! MtviM «nmi4 DOLLAR DAY ONLY I Hundreds to choose from. Pepperrell Nylon Blend Summer Cottons and Dress Skirts* m ■■llf FT A $3.98 Skirts $2.98 BLANKETS $4.50 Skirts $3.49 Size 72x84. Six with Nylon $4.95 Skirts $3.98 Binding. Regular $6.95 $ W Qfi $5.95 Skirts $4.98 Value. Dollar Day Only Ladles Shorts Children’s children’s Sta. u<. » Bathing Suits Short *’ Bermuda., 229 $139 H9B - si.w Pedal Pushers 298 198 LM 2 ”.:” ■ 15 «nd 2-Pc. Play Suite LADIES 59c-«9c 49e ladies SummAr PuruAu 81.19 98c Bermudas «■« Pedal Pushers = —- 2 ” IS ==•£ CAUtam I -2.98 2.49 Fancy Sleeveless $» 19.199 m. ■; Sixes 30 to 38 2.1b129 «L7»? BOYS 92,49 - - -— «“ CHILDREN S PLISSE Sport Shirts *•*• Pajamas Sizes 3 to 14 3 98 2.98 Regular or Baby DoU Plain or Fancy LAD “» • M Sizes Ito 14 $ »n» 98c Sleeveless m %jT~ 2.29 i.m Blouses 2 Sizes 30 to 40 M BOYS Plain and Fancy Patterns CHILDRENS -fe. , . j _ a. 92 W - *2.49 StTSW PUrSOS Shirt and Pant 3 m ... 3.29 Several Btyle , Suit ONE R I CK . Choice 250 5229 si 98 Summer Jewelry .. . childrens 2.49 1.98 Earrings, Necklaces. Hat & PurSO SetS 298 -2 « cK'Se % PRICE Piece Goods Savings Tremendous Piece Goods Savings! — One Rack - One croup - LADIES LAWNS, CURTAIN MATERIAL. 4 *1 *°® -L ■ SEERSUCKER, FAILLE *t Yds. * BLOUSES Y I - One Group - Nylons and Cottons PIQUE. PUCKERED NYLON. TAFFETTA, 1’!,““ 3® 95,95 ■ LINENWEAVES, SILK CREPES, A Sf .00 »«***<• Day M FANCY PLISSE Yds. * Choice ’’'■'■TTT; — One Group — OTHER PIECE GOODS, CHAMBRAYS, PONGEES, DIMITY, SILK PRINTS, AU DrasticaUy Reduced! SPECIAL! UNBLEACHED MUSLIN 4 If .00 One Rack - ®t Yds. * Children's ftg Stevens If .00 TT H Baton QftC Mostly Fancy M DISCIPLINE COTTON — Yd. NyJon M ' CLOSE-OUT! McCALL PATTERNS $«.00 Cholce — Your Choice each * ONE TABLE rtU e-r*nir tM Consisting of Children’s Sun Dres- UIME TABLE ■ lIM U*. S.U. a.™,. CMld™... Y| Draperies. Ladle. Pur.,.. CPU- ||g| »™““- C “"" S “‘ 0, "“j Halters, Ironing Board Covers, and lps * ’ nd n,any ot her Silk Scarfs. Children’s Rayon special Items SUps, Ladies Slips Ehinger & Kortenber THE BOSTON STORE

; performed last Thursday morning I in Emo, Ontario, Canada, and is , progressing satisfactorily. He will be dismissed this week, it is hop- ■ ed. Decatur friends, who were vacationing in Ontario at the time, • and who are visiting with Braden • now, are Mr. anti Mrs. Dan ForeI man, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Warren, and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rich. I —u— ■ ' Van Wert Man Dies From Seeping Gas Charles Parsons, 42, city em-

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ploye at Van Wert.O., for six years died from seeping gas in an interceptor sewer in that city Saturday, and two Van Wert firemen were reported in serious condition at the Van Wert county hospital. Parsons, who had been on vacation, was called to the sewer shortly before noon and the interceptor, not working properly, permitted sewage to seep into the creek. He was accompanied by a stepson, Larry Zinemeisteer, who, when he saw Parsons keel over, called police and firemen.

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