Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 200, Decatur, Adams County, 24 August 1957 — Page 3

SATURDAY AUGUST 24, 1957.

F **>«.«*- ■-«* -<NW> SCHMITT-BURROUGHS VOWS RECITED THIS MORNING The' Rev. Simeon Schmitt officiated this morning in St. Joseph’s Catholic ctfhrch. Bluffton, as Mrs. Patricia Joan Burroughs became the bride of his nephew, Hubert P. Schmitt, Jr. Parents of the couple are Mrs. Alfonso Vachon, of Bluffton, and Mr. and Mrs. Hubert P. Schmitt, Sr., of 107*4 North Second street. For the double ring ceremony, read at 10 o’clock, Mrs. Clifford Baumgartner was organist and John Joel was vocalist. Included in the nuptial music were liturgical wedding marches by Roulus and Marchant for the processional and the recessional, respectively, and "Pamis Angelicus,” Missa Simplex Mass,” Ave Maria," and, while a bouquet was placed at the altar of the Blessed Virgin, “On This Day, O Beautiful Mother.” Given in marriage by her uncle, Robert Vachon, the bride wore a gown fashioned of rosepoint lace over taffeta in shell pink. Detailing the bodice were a sabrina neckline and elbow length sleeves. The bouffant skirt was waltz length. Amazon lilies and stephanotis topped a white Bible for the bridal bouquet, and on her head a shell pink ostrich feather hat held a brow veil. Mrs. Tony Faurote attended her friend as matron of honor in a blue chiffon-over-taffeta gown. The softly draped bodice featured • cowl neckline, and floating back panels swept to the hem of the waltz length skirt. She wore a mat* ching straw braid picture hat and carried a bouquet of asters in shades of pink. Mrs. John SchwDON’T TAKE A CHANCE TAKE PLENAMINS Smith Drug Co.

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arz served as bridesmaid for her sister in an ensemble identical to the honor attendant’s. Tony Faurote was best «man; Don Schmitt, grtomsman, and Joe Weber and Max Colchin seated the guests. Corsages of purple orchids complemented the mothers’ ensembles. For her daughter’s wedding, Mrs. • Vachon selected a champ-agne-colored dress, with which she wore champagne-colored asscessories. Mrs. Schmitt cho§e a beige dress, and lavender .accessories completed her ensemble. Fifty guests are attending the wedding breakfast in Bluffton. Pink gladioli and white asters form the background for the breakfast, which began at 11:30 o’clock. This afternoon from 2 to 5 o’clock the bridal party will receive approximately 200 guests at the Elks home in Decatur. At the table, laid in white for the wedding cake, the Misses Carolyn and Mildred Vachon and Mrs. Tom Miller, cousins of the bride, will serve. Pink and white gladiolus win carry out the decorating theme. When the couple leaves on a wedding trip to Minnesota, the new Mrs. Schmitt will wear a beige knit dress with a beige beaver hat and brown accessories. A corsage from her bridal bouquet will complement her ensemble. Alumna of Bluffton high schqpl, Mrs. Schmitt was formerly associated with the Lancaster school system, near Bluffton. The bridegroom, a graduate of Decatur Catholic high school and Indiana University, served two years in the U.S. Army as an instructor in the government specialist school in Eta Jima. After September 2, Mr. and Mrs. Schmitt will make their home at 105 Rugg street.

■ I .... •*■ I > : "Hi u MR. AND MRS. HENRY BRUNSTRUP. of route six, will celebrate their golden wedding anniversary Sesptember 1 with open house at their home from 2 until 5 and from 8 until 10 p.m. The Brunstrups were married August 29, 1907, at Ohio City, O. They have one son, Charles, and two daughters, Lois Evylyn and Dorothy Stamm, both deceased. Three grandchildren are living: jl grandson, :t Tommy, and two granddaughters, Judy and Kathy. One grandson, Marvin Stamm, is deceased.

FINISHING TOUCHES PUT TO CHARTER NIGHT PLANS At Tuesday’s meeting of the ladies auxiliary of the Eagles, the members set the finishing touches to their plans for charter and past madam president night. Slated for next Tuesday evening, the celebration will mark the au-_ xiliary’s seventh birthday and honor the five past madam presidents. The event will be formal and Fort Wayne's chapter will officiate at the ceremony. WAGNERS TELL DETAILS, OF BIBLE MEMORY CAMP Having returned this week from the Bible memory camp at Rainbow Lake in northern Michigan, • the Charles Wagner family has announced the details about attending this interdenominational camp. The one requisite for attending camp, free of charge, is to learn 12 Bible verses a week for 15 week§. A program participant will receive a Christian book, records, plaques, or Bible games after every two assignments‘that are repeated by memory. For the final award, he will receive a Scofield or Holman reference Bible. Both youths and adults may enroll in the association, states Mrs. Wagner. Its address is Bible Memory Association, Inc., P. O. Box 516, Wellston Station, St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Wagner will also be able to give more details. From the association, a new participant will be able to obtain enrollment blanks and details for this coming year. Ruth and Naomi Circle of the Zion Evangelical and reformed church will meet Wednesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the church. Hostesses for Tuesday’s meeting of the Olive Rebekah Lodge Number 86 will be the Mesdames Aletha Sowards, Alice Kreigh, and Virginia Merriman. The meeting, to be at the Odd Fellows hall, will begin at 7:30, and Three Links will follow.

IV 1 Admitted Mrs. Douglas Seely, Decatur. Dismissed Mrs. Oscar Miller and son, Decatur. Mike Burke Winner In Pet Parade Mike of Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Burke, was the winner of the fourth place prize in the net parade conducted Friday morning, as a part of the community wide “Kiddies day ” It was erroneously

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reported in Friday’s Democrat that the winner was Mike Beery. Young Burke entered a pet pony, which captured the prize as “the cutest pet.” Light Showers Fall tn Most Os County A general light shower covered almost all parts of the county early this morning, depositing about .1 of an inch of rain, acording to a survey of rain gauages. Union township’s observer, Jerry Staub, reported .15 inches, and the rest of the observers reported. 1 inch. Most farmers said that a “two-inch rain would be welcome, as some of the com is firing, and the ground is extremely hard. , Society Items lor today’s publication must be phoned in by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 BARBARA FIECHTER 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. Teusday Oilve Rebekah Lodge Number 86, Odd Felolws Hall, 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Ruth and Naomi Circle of Zion Evangelical and Reformed church, at church, 2 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. Home Demonstration Club of Union Township, Hanna-Nuttman Shelter house, family picnic, 6:30 p.m. ... ....

Two Haywagons Are Hit By Automobile 10 Youths And Two Adults Are Injured LAGRANGE, Ind. (UP) — Two haywagons loaded with about 40 East Chicago children were hit by an automobile Friday night and 10 youths and two adults were injured. The hayride party was returning to Oknawa Camp for underprivileged children near Wolcottville when the accident occurred on a county road near here. Authorities said a car driven by Sharon Feagler, 19, Fort Wayne, smashed into one wagon, then the other. The side of the first wagon was ripped off. Miss Feagler’s car then hit the second wagon, dragged it agout 100 feet and pushed it into a field. Four persons were treated at LaGrange Hospital and released shortly before midnight. They were William Scott, 43, the camp manager, and campers Thomas Hepburn, 19; Willie Franklin, 13. and Valerie Scott, 16. Listed in “fair" condition were Phillip Palmater, 14; Elizabeth Barrentino, 12; Manuela Alizo, 18; Ralph Garcia, 14; Allen Brown, 15; Roseland Addison, 12, and a young boy identified only as "Anthony." Miss Feagler escaped unhurt, but her passenger, Carol Merkle, 20. Fort Wayne, sustained cuts and bruises.

Two Minor Accidents Reported By Police Two minor accidents were investigated by city police Friday, with both resulting in very little property damage. The first accident occurred at 3 p.m., in the 1100 block of Adams street. A car operated by Everett Thatcher, of Defiance, Ohio, was backing out of a parking space on Adams street, and struck a car driven by Arthur Raines, 67, of 421 Line street, which was going west on Adams. Damage resulting was $35 to the Raines vehicle. At 8:10 p.m., a car driven by Romona Rousseau, 17, of 324 Marshall street, struck a car operated by Richard Shura, 20. of Pennville, Ohio. Shura, traveling north on Thirteenth street, was attempting to make a left hand turn onto U. S. 224, and was hit in the left rear fender by the car operated by Miss Rousseau, which was attempting a left hand turn off 224, onto Thirteenth street. The Shura car sustained S4O in damages, while the other car had minor damages amounting to approximately $lO. Air Scouts To Meet On Monday Evening The air scouts explorer’s squadron 7064. sponsored by the Elks lodge, will hold registration night and the charter and policies will be compared and discrepancies will be remedied this next year at a meeting Monday. The meeting will be held at the home of Dr. Melvin I. Weisman in the club room. Any boys interested in .joining the squadron, which recently returned from a tour of the Wright-Patterson Air Force base, are invited to attend thd meeting, and apply for admission. The meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. The next big-scale activity scheduled for the group will be participation in the district camporee to be held at Pine Lake September 2729. Future plans include purchase of a reconditioned school bus “for use of the squadron in traveling activities. This bus will also be available to other scouting or similar organizations. \, Church Building Program Rejected The First Missionary church of Berne rejected a proposed church-building program Wednesday night in business session, by

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falling seven percent short of the necessary 66% percent in favor of the project. The church owns land on highway 27 south of Berne, but will continue its building fund several years before going ahead with the work. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Voglewede, of Mexico City, have returned from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., where Voglewede attended a convention of his firm, Haskin & Sells. The couple is presently visiting with Mrs. Charles Voglewede. Mr. and Mrs. D. Hoyt Callow left Baer Field this morning bound for Chicago, where they will board the S. S. North American for an eight-day cruise of the Great Lakes. Callow was a winner of a recent contest sponsored by the Ralston Purina company. Dinner guests at the home of Mrs. Betty Smith Wednesday, in honor of the birthday of Mrs. Julia Marlack, Cincinnati, 0., were Julia Marlack, Ray Lambers and the honored guest, from Cincinnati, O.; Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Worthman, Magley; Mrs. Edith Walters and Thelma and Helen, Mrs. Harry Pattias and Ricky, Jr., and Gloria; Mr. and Mrs. Archie Smith and John Pattis, from Pennsylvania, and Lewis, Betty, Susie and Steve Smith. Bill Guenther, Chicago, 111., is the weekend guest of Walter Roop, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Milton Swearingen and Emily and Mrs. William Lenhart are spending the week in Dallas, Tex , with Mr. and Mrs. William Frick and son Billy. M<bTrTh¥~l

At thp Adams county memorial hospital: Twin daughters were born to William and Velma Huser Reef, route two, Berne. The new arrivals, born at 1:03 p.m. and 1:05 p.m. Friday, weighed six pounds, two-and-one-half ounces and six pounds, six-and-one-half ounces, respectively- - - — Thursday evening, Carl and Shirley Rupert Hurst, Monroe, became the parents of twin daughters; born at 8:38 and 9:05 o’clock, they weighed four pounds, eight and three-fourths ounces and three pounds, 10 and three-fourths ounces, respectively. To Norman and Elizabeth Burke Koons, 426 North Fourth street, an eight pound, 14Vi ounce son was born at 2:50 o’clock this morning. Mr. and Mrs. I. William Kingsley, of Indianapolis, recently became the parents of a daughter, whom they have named Kimberly Ann. Mrs. Evelynn Kingsley is the paternal grandmother. Lake Tanganyika in Africa is the deepest lake on earth, 2,100 feet.

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Ife * Wkl wK/y.., - • -> A - E-RB MERLE AFFOLDER, sheriff of Adams county, discusses state politics with former congressman John Welsh, of Anderson, at the Jefferson club meeting Thursday night at the community center. The Jefferson club is a grotip of interested Democrats which meets monthly. Its present president is Mayor Robert Cole, who invites the public to attend its functions. (Staff Photo)

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August 24, 1937 — Annual state poultry tour is scheduled for Decatur with banquet here tonight. Joe Weber and Brud Holthouse have completed construction of trailer to be pulled with bicycles. Set of carpenter tools is stolen, Bud Steele reports to police. Distribution of interest due depositors before Old Adams county bank closed is being made on approval of state ‘banking department. Mrs. Bertha Eliis, who has been seriously ill for a week, is reported to be improved today. The annual Gillig reunion is held at Celina, O. Mrs. Harry Knapp and sons Richard and Roger are spending the week at Lake Wawasee. ( The use of the rattle as a warning is optional on the part of the rattlesnake and does not necessarily precede an attack.

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