Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 199, Decatur, Adams County, 23 August 1957 — Page 3

Friday, August 23, 1957.

INSPECTION FOR ORDER OF EASTERN STAR THURSDAY Thursday evening, when the worthy grand matron of Indiana grand chapter of the Order of Eastern Star, Mrs. Kenneth. Tuttle, paid her official visit to the Decatur Order of Eastern was honored at a bauquet before the, baby dedication services and inspection. Sixty-five members of the Order of Eastern Star attended the banquet at the Bethany Evangelical United Brethren church. Baby dedication services, open to the public, were held at the Masonic hall at 7:45 p.m., for ICE CREAM SOCIAL, Sunday. August 25 at 8:00 at Preble Lutheran Church. Presented by, St. Paul’s Ladies Aid. 197 T-X

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ten children of members of the Decatur chapter. Conducting these services was Mrs. Tuttle, assisted by Mrs. Willard Avery, worthy grand patron; Mrs. Howard Morton, grand adah; and Mrs. James Truman, ceputy of number 14. After the baby dedication services, Mrs. Tuttle conducted her inspection of the Decatur, Portland and Geneva chapters of the Order of Eastern Star. At the close of the meeting, refreshments were served in the dining room, which was decorated in shades of green, and violet and yellow roses. Guests from out of town included Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Tuttle, Gaston; Mr. and Mrs. Willard Avery, Knightstown; Mr. and Mrs. Howard Morton, Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. James Truman Coesse; Mr?. Raymon Turner, Muncie; Mrs. V. L. Burch

■ * <...§ Ma •• WSBy3?*'- \ -W' ' wlWwk •f .-W" - • ,■* g|fr y SMS— - U AFTER AUGUST 26, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Thomas Gerber, above, be at home to their friends in Elwood. They were united in marriage Sunday evening in Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses, Richard Briggs, of Elwood, receiving the vows. Mrs. Gerber is the former Patricia Mae Hopkins, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs Virgil Hopkins, of Elwood, formerly of Decatur, and her husband is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Gerber, of near Berne. The new Mrs. Gerber is an alumna of Wendell Willkie high school, Elwood; Gerber, who graduated from Jefferson high school, is manager of the Kroger store in Montpelier. —(Photo by Anspaugh)

and Miss Mary Louise Lillie, North Manachester; and Mrs. Ruth Baker, Butler. Juniors of the American Legion auxiliary will install their coming year’s officers at the American Legion home Tuesday evening at 7:30 p.m. Initiation practice for the order of Rainbow for Girls will be held at 1:30 Thursday afternoon at the Masonic Hall. This meet-

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ing is important for all choir members and officers. — Thursday evening at the Han-na-Nuttman shelter house, the home demonstration club of Union township will have their family picnic. Each member is to bring wieners and buns for her family in addition to a covered dish and table service. Hostesses for the picnic, which begins at 6:30, will be Mrs. Forrest Walters and Mrs. Margie Shaffer. At the Moose home at 8 p.m.. the Women of the Moose will meet Thursday. The officers will get together at 7:30 o’clock, and Mrs. Nita Deitsch, Mooseheart alumni chairman, will be in charge of the social hour.

Society Items tor today's publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 BARBARA FIECHTER FRIDAY CWF of First Christian church rummage sale, McConnell building, North Second street, beginning at noon. Communion announcements, Zion Lutheran church, 2,4, 5,7, arid 8 p.m. ✓ SATURDAY First- Christian church CWF rummage and bake sale, McConnell building, North Second street, all morning. SUNDAY St. Paul’s ladies aid, ice cream social, Preble Lutheran church, 8 p.m. Merry Matrons Home demonstration club family picnic, Amos Thieme home, noon. Reunion of Decatur high school class of 1942, Youth and Community center, 10 a.m. MONDAY Pythian Sisters degree staff, K. of P. home, 7 p.m. TUESDAY Kirkland Ladies club, Adams Central school, 7:30 p.m. Preble Sunny Circle home demonstration club, Preble recreation center, 8 p.m. Jolly Housewives home demonstration club. Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 p.m. Juniors of American Legion Auxiliary, installation of officers, American Legion home, 7:30 p.m. THURSDAY Order of Rainbow for girls, initiation practice, Masonic Hall, 1:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, Moose Home, officers, 7:30 p.m., general meeting, 8 p.m.

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Excursionists Head For New York Tour 24 Persons Leave On Excursion Trip Twenty-four persons boarded the Erie diesel-powered “Lake Cities," at 1:34 p.m. today, and headed for a holiday week-end in New York City. In the group that left from the Decatur station, were 19 Decatur residents, two from Berne, two from Monroe, and one from Bluffton. The travelers will be served a continental breakfast on the train in the morning, and arg, scheduled to arrive at Hoboken at 8:45. They will transfer from the train to motor coaches, which will take them to the Hotel Governor Clinton, where they will be assigned rooms for their 34-hour stay there. Places of interest to be visited by them and the groups traveling with them, will be Rockefeller Center Observatory, the R.C.A. building, the Isle of Manhattan, which will be viewed from a large white yacht during a three hour guided cruise, the statue of Liberty, Governor's Island. The yacht will cruise the East River, Hall Gate and Hudson River and pass the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Yankee Stadium, Polo Grounds, Palisades of New Jersey, the George Washington bridge, Riverside Drive, and the Empire State building. Saturday evening will be open for individual action, with the vacationers free to do as they please. Nothing is slated for Sunday morning either, so that the group may attend church services of their choice. Uptown New York city will be the destination of the group Sunday afternoon, when they will board motor coaches for a four hour tour of the city, hitting all the highlights. Early Sunday evening, the group wlil return to the Hoboken station, traveling by motor coach through the Lincoln tunnel, and then homeward bound. The Decatur group is scheduled to arrive at the Erie station here at 1:38 p.m. Manday. Taking advantage of this year’s special week-end vacation tour, which was sponsored by the Erie Railroad and the Decatur Daily Democrat, were the following per-

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.sons: Mr, and Mrs. Roy Kaehr, Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. Edwards, Mrs. and Ollie Culberson and Mrs. Bertha Bowen, Arthur C. Meyer and Stephen Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. Owen K. Baker, Mrs. Charles Lobslger and Mrs. Beulah Burgett, Mr. and Mrs. Sim Burk, Mrs. Edith Riehle. Mrs. Rachael Eichhorn, Mr. and Mrs. Leo H. King, Sr., and Mrs. Nellie tjrummen, all of Decatur; Mrs. Ida Chalfant, of Bluffton; Mr. and Mrs. Elmer C. Beer, of Berne, And Mr. and Mrs. Austin Merriman, of Monroe. At the Adams county memorial hospital. Charles and Ruby Combs McCullough, Pleasant Mills, became the parents of a son weighing six pounds, 13 ounces, Thursday at 5:35 p.m. [®|OSMTAL Admitted Mrs. Theodore Schumm, Willshire, O.; Miss Mary Lou Lewton, Decatur. Selking Honored At Company Convention Donald Selking, Decatur, was one of the men honored by the Midwestern United Life Insurance Co., Fort Wayne, at its ninth annual leaders convention. Selking, special representative of the company, attended the convention last week at French Lick He qualified by meeting a sevenmonth paid volume and premium income requirement. Second Garrett Man Dies In Plane Crash GARRETT — Loren B. Ashenfelter, 28. Garrett, died Thursday of burns sustained when a small plane crashed and burned early Tuesday near the Garrett Airport. Ashenfelter was the second victim of the crash, caused when the plane he was piloting struck a mound of earth while landing in the dark. His passenger, Raymond Perry Jr., 27, Garrett, was killed outright.

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