Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 31 January 1958 — Page 6

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Unusual Business In Tracing Heirs - Delves Into All Parts Os World By DOC QUIGG United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK UP) — Theodore W Roth has spent 23 > years in what he calls "the craziest busi-1 ness in the country.' He delves into alt parts-of the world for pcO-j pie just to offer them money. "Crazy? It’s like the stock mar- i ket; Up and down*” 'he says. • ~ BEERY Motor Sales .Wagon Specials! 1955 DODGE 6 Cyl., radio, heater. Apto. Trans. Like new while side wall Tires, Wonderful Family Car. 1955 FORD VB, radio, heater. Overdrive, Red and White. Really Nice. There Is No Substitute For Qualify I Closed at 6:00 P. M. "T February Onlvf 1 ■ ___________L 3

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You’ve got to be a detective, genealogist, lawyer, and have the proper will and aggressivenessland still you never know what’ll . happen. "If you do collect, you make a large fee. But you can devote years and thousands of, dollars to a Case and never solve it, and j you're out cold, you make noth- j ' ing,” / ■ ■■'■ ■ Roth's business is tracing rniss-i • ing heirs. It's a rather exclusive I ■occupation. About a dozen per-: j sons are in it in this country, ho | says. ’ * Located Thousands i Roth figures that in 23 years he J has located about 8.000 missing : heirs to sums totaling several million dollars. ; "And I Suspect there have been about 300,000 more persons, the I wishful thinkers, who have come j to me or written me tetters all i saying something like, ‘please find my aunt Matilda’s money: she i died in 1800.’ That’s not what l ! do. The way I work is I find the I money first and then I trace the heirs by scientific geanealogy We trace back sometjihes 200 years. “Once I spent a year tracing a man. from here to Philadelphia to Washington. Finally I located his brother and. got him on the phone The brother said, ‘You're one heck of an investigator. Where did. you ..say your office ' is? I said.* Tl West 42nd St.’ He [ said", 'that's where my brother is.' i And he was—six floors below my ; office.'' Looking For 2'i Years Roth has been looking for nearly two and a half years, both in Poland and the United States, for heirs' of Frances Wolanska. who came here in 1893 from Galatia, which then was part of Austria. Her brothers and sisters or their children would be entitled to an 1 inheritance of nearly $300,000. ■ An old marriage record, written ! in Polish script, shows her par- j ents were named Michael and I Anne, but whether they died in this country, or even had any other children, is unknown. Another case, on which he’s : been working a year, would bring I $175,000 to the kin of Lottie Stry-

.' ker add John F. Sandford, who were married in 1858 near Mata-: ’wan or Marlboro, N.J They had : four girls, all of whom died with- j ' out having children. Lottie's and John's brothers- and. listers _ also 1 are dead cut their descendants would be sole heirs. T?~ “ I SALT LAKE CITY - <UP> - ! Last year, nine-year-old Mike i James planted some seeds taken ■from a Hallowe'en Jack-o-lantern ! in his back yard, Last week he had I his grandfather help him pack the total harvest —a Single 22-pound . pumpkin — to ychool for display in his fourth grade classroom. —J ' | Rural Churches PLEASANT DALE CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN John D. Mishler, Pastor Service are on Central Standard Time I 8:30 a.m. Sunday School with Mr. Russell Baumgartner as superintendent and Mrs. Anoli Mann as ‘ children’s director. Assistant teacher will be before the classes. 9:30 a.m. Morning worship with young participating in the service and the pastor bringing the message "Youth Seeking the Kingdom I of God.” 4:00 p.m. the youth will meet ' at the parish hall with the depu- | ration team from Manchester College for fellowship and an evening lunch, f 6:30 p.m. the M. C. deputation team will be in charge of the service and will present the play "The Thief and the Hangman.” Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the parsonage a group will meet for the j first session of a study in “Chris- i ' tian Faith. Life and Service.” i Wednesday Bible study and j Prayer service at 6:30 p.m. at the I ! home of Mr. and Mrs. Loren Lie- j chty. Thursday the Ladies Aid will meet at the parish hall for their monthly meeting. WREN CIRCUIT E.U.B. CHURCHES A. N. Straley, Pastor BETHEL: ’ 9:30 a m. Sunday School. Lesson: “Privileges of Church ' Membership”. I 10:30 a.m. Morning Worship. In charge of the Youth Fellow- | ship. | WOOD CHAPEL: I 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Prayer Meeting. World Service Day in Charge i of W. S. W.-S. THURSDAY ..-■■-—>..■ BETHEL: ! WOOD CHAPEL: 8:00 p.m. Prayer Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Prayer Meeting and Youth Fellowship, MONROE FRIENDS CHURCH Vernon Riley, Pastor Sunday school 9:30 a.m. William Zurcher. superintendent. Morning worship 10:30 a.m. The pastor will bring the message. ,p»m. Adams county holiness association will meet at the Plea- I sant Valley Wesleyan Methodist ■ I church. The Rev. James McCain ■ will preach. No evening service as we will / | attend the revival meeting at Plea- 1 I sant Valley church. PLEASANT MILLS CHURCH Oakley Masten, Pastor 0:30 a.m. Sunday School, come ! Lowell Noll. S.S, Supt. An alter — Family night com- ' ing up soon. Read ACTS.

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s™ ——3 Sunday Sthpci Lmxxw j Bible Material: Luke 4:14-21; II Corinthians 9:6-8, Galatians 6:1-3; Hebrews i 4:14-16; 10:2345; I Peter 2:9-10. Devotional Reading: Il Corinthians 5:11-19 — Chosen People Lesson for February 2, 1958 XyfOST church members do not [ I’ * realize w.hat a privilege it is to be one. The Bible passages for this week are extremely suggestive and will bear careful study. As usual, there is room here for comment only on two or three points brought out in one of the

most striking sentences ever penned to the church —To the church as well as about the church: for most of the New Testament books were written as letters to churches. As the reader thinks

over the words, he should keep in mind not “This means me," but “This means the church, in which I am privileged to be a member.” A New Kind of People Saint Peter, writing to people he had probably never seen, dares, to say to them some very high things. He could say these things because, while he did not know them separately and personally, he knew the church and wbat God intended it to be. “You,” he wrote, “are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation." A chosen race ... The qjpurch. so far as it is a true church, is made up of persons whom God has chosen. He has chosen them not like separate little pearls: each in its own oyster, but as the gathered pearls on a gleaming necklace. Peter uses the word “race” rather than organization or group or society. Race suggests blood brotherhood, it suggests a common ancestor, a common life. If each race of mankind has some- • thing special about it, so the Christians, as the “chosen race,” have something special about them. A church which cannot be told apart from just any club, a church whose members are not appreciably different from people on the outside, is a church in name only. Christians as a family are a new kind of people. They have been born anew, they have a quality of life no people have. ■ . God's Personal Representative Again Saint Peter says. You are "a royal priesthood ” Romember these words were not addressed ■'to any particular person or group in the church, they were written to the whole church/ The church is itself a priesthood; this is what is meant by the expression “the priesthood of all believers." NoiS’ Saint Peter had been and still was very much a Jew. Fpr him. priesthood Had meant a great deal. The Spriest; "in tHe centuries —before ' Christ, had long-been the accepted mediator 'between God and men. ' He represented men before God, I he‘ represented Cod in the presence of men. Now if the church, taken all together, is the priesthood of : God. then it also is, or Is expected I to be, God’s personal representaI live in this world Consider only one meaning of this. What convinces us that any person exists, and really is. ' the i kind of person he is said to be? Next to the" person's coming to set us himself, the most convincing evidence that he* is real, and no flying-saucer imp, is some friend or relative of his who-ean make all our doubts vanish by telling us what he,knows. So the church, as a priesthood in this skeptical world, ought to be representing God in such a Convincing way that people" no longer doubt that He exists. One test of a true church, as of a true Christian, is: Does this church make it harder, or easier, to believe in God? The Internationa! People The church is also a “holy nation.” It has not always been clearly understood what Saint Peter meant by this. Did he mean that Christians must withdraw from the world to a little holy is- . land or ghetto of their own, there to “let the - rest of the world go by?" Did he mean that Christians arc a supernation, empowered to dictate to all other nations, owing ellegiance to no flag but the Christian flag? Unless Peter was out* of line with all the rest of the New Testament, he probably meant no I such thing. He did mean at least this much: first that the Christian church lives by higher laws than the "kingdom of this world.” The church is the nation where the Law of Love is the constitution. Second, since the binding force in this nation is not race or tradition or geography but holy love, it will not have any earthly boundary but i will spread throughout the world. The church is the. great and only , completely international society. I (Baaed en outlines copyrlrhted by the ' Division al Christian Education, Na- I lienal Connell ot the Churches at Christ 1 In the V. 8. A. Released by. Community I Press Service.)

Rural Churches SALEM EVANGELICAL AND REFORMED CHURCH H. E. Settlage, Minister R. F. D. 1, Decatur 9:00 Sunday School. Classes for all age groups. 10:00 Worship Service. Sermon, “Peace with God.” 7:00 Youth Fellowship Meeting. Tuesday 7:30 Womens Guild Meeting. Wednesday 7:00 Ladies Chorus Rehearsal. 7:45 Bible Study and Prayer I Meeting. . Thursday — All Day Meeting of : the Ladies Aid. Saturday 9:00, Confirmation j Class Instruction. 10:00 Childrens Choir Rehearsal. ST. PAUL’S LUTHERAN CHURCH I'i mile north and % mile west of Preble O. C. Busse, pastor Divine Worship 8:45 a.m. Sunday School and Bible Class 9:45 am. Edwin Reinking, suI perintendent. The Voters’ Assembly meet ' Monday at 8:00 p.m. The Church Council meets Monday at 7:00 p.m. The Sewing Society meets Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. The Walther League Society' meets Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. The Aquila and Priscilla Club meets Friday at 8:00 p.m. The Crusade for Christ Rally will be held Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in the Allen County War Coliseum at For| Wayne, Indiana. If you have no church home, I you are invited to worship with J us. ST. JOHN’S LUTHER AN CHURCH on Route 27, north .. Edwin A. H. Jacob, Pastor 9:00 a.m. Morning Worship. 10:30 a.m. German Worship. i Sermon topic, “The Law of God : not Annulled But Fulfilled,,’ Mat- : thew 5. 17 - 19. I Monday. Adams County Soil Conservation Service banquet in i school auditorium at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday, Walther League ! social with students from Con*; I cordia. Senior College presenting a pro- ] gram on Christian vocations. RIVARRE CIRCUIT Huber Bokner, Pastor i Mt. Zion: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Worship Service with j special numbers by a Trio fromJ Huntington College. 7T30 'p.m. Evangelistic Service ' will continue. The trio will be with us in this service too. ■Mt. Victory: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 q.in. Class Meeting. j 7:30 pim. Wednesday 'evening / Prayer Sprvice. Pleasant Grove: 9:30 a.m. Sunday School. 10:30 a.m. Class Meeting. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday Evening j Prayer Service. i 1:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon ithe W. M. A. will meet in the ■ home of Mrs. Huber Bokner. ® j We invite you to these Services There' are Sunday School classes for all ages. Come and bring the, whole family. UN ION CH A PEL EV ANGELICAL j UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH | Lawrence T. Norris, Pastor i 'We welcome every one to worship with us always.” 9:30 Sunday School. Warren Nid- : linger, Supt., Rolland Gilliom As-1 ■ • s't. j 10:20 Worship Service— Sermon, i “What is the wedding Garment?” EVENING SERVICE 7:30 Worship Service. Sermon, i— Confession and absolution. : WEDNESDAY EVENING 7:30 Prayer Meeting. Omer Merriman leader. Valentine Party 7:30 Feb. 11th, There will be a valentine party in the church basement by the newly organized class of young married folks, Rev. NorI ris Any young married folks f ree to £ome. . / Race Relations service Feb. 16th, (Sunday) We shall be favored with special singing by the national association of negroes from Ft. Wayne under the direction of Lawrence Merriwether, both morning and after noon, dinner in the basement at noon, please- plan to be with f-us. .. MONROE METHODIST CHURCH Willis Gierhart, Pastor 9:30 a.m. Morning worship. Theme “Be Ye Transformed?” 10:30 a.m. Sunday school. Missionary band for children. 7:30 p.m. M.Y.F. program. Monday 7 p.m. Church council. 8 p.m. Commission meeting. | Wednesday 6:30 p.m. Father and I son banquet. Thursday 7:25 p.m. W.S.C.S. ; meeting. BEJINE CIRCUIT , ~ D. C. Johnson, Pastor — ; Apple Grov* 9:30 Sunday School. * 10:30 Morning Worship. Rev. C. D. Dellinger, speaker. "' 7:30 Evening Worship closing night of rivial, Speaker Rev. Del8:00 Wednesday evening Prayer [Meeting. -U Winchester 9:00 Morning Worship. | 10:00 Sunday School.

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7:30 Wednesday Prayer Meeting. ■ _ /. ST. LUKE EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH HONDURAS Louis C. Minsterman, Minister 9:00 Church service for Youthsermon “Keeping On The Upgrade” 10:00 Sunday School. 7:30 Manday-Giri Guild at Joan Browns. ST. JOHN EVANG. AND REF. CHURCH VERA CRUZ Louis C. Ministerman, Minister ■ 9:30 Sunday School.' ! 10:30 Church Service for Youthsermon “Keeping On The Up-, grade”. You Count One Rev. J. R. Meadows No two of us are exactly alike. ‘ Every person is a distinct individual. There is no one else in the world like you in every respect. As Christmas and church Habegger Builders & Supply, Inc. ’Berne, U. S. 27 North Phone 2-2636 Complete Building Sendee Decatur Equipment, q Inc. mHlway 27 North Sales and Service Phone 3-2904 Kenny P. Singleton, Distributor of MARATHON GAS j Fuel OH, V.E.P. Motor OU, Lubricants Farm Service Decatur Phone 3-9145 CORSON DURACLEANER We Clean Rugs, Carpets, and Upholstery in Home. No Shrinkage or Fading. * Nat’l. Advt. Phone 3-2226 No. 6 Homestead. Decatur, Ind. ” BOWERS ' Jewelry Store rangwffigi BEAVERS OIL SERVICE Dependable Farm Service j Phone 3-2705 o- “ ■ Kelly’s Dry Gleaning Laundry dnd Furriers 4 Agency -for. Slick’s Laundry Phone 3-3202 427 N. 9th St. Across from G. E. STOP BACK NEWS STAND Across from Court House • Hobby and Craft Materials B Magazines and Newspapers “Quality 154 No. 2nd ..... B®sltur, Ind. '■■■" 111 1 ■" " ' Habegger Hardware “The Store Where Old-Fashioned Courtesy Prevails" 140 West Monroe Phone 3-3716 STIEFEL GRAIN CO. PURINA CHOWS SEEDS — FERTILIZER Baby Chix Check-R-M Ixfng I — ■ - —. REAL ESTATE—INSURANCE The Decatur Insurance Agency Est. 1887 Bob Heller, Agent Heller Bldg. Decatur, Ind. Miller’s Grocery Groceries. Fresh Fruit, Vegetables, Meat, lee Cream 937 N. 2nd St. Ph. 3-3307 i i I, > The second best Is never as good as the best Try Our Ready-Mix x Dial 3-2561 Decatur Ready - Mix Inc.

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people, every one of us has certain obligations and privileges. | There are some things which we have to do ourselves, and if we | ! don't do them, they simpl yare not; done. One of these is attending church services. i No one can take the place in church services of another person. He may sit in another’s pew, or do , another’s task, but he cannot completely take another’s place. You I can take your own place in church and only your own. If you are not, there,, no one can really be a substitute for you, because one person ean couiit only one. If some one else could take your place, who would take his place? You see, every person counts one — no more and no less. If you are not there to be counted as one, | your absence decreases the total count by one. That is simple ari- 1 thmetic, isn’t it? It is a privilege as well as a duty to worship God in church. THIS WEEK’S BIBLE VERSE “The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but He casteth away the substance of the wicked.” — Proverbs 10:3. The First State Bank DECATUR, IND. ESTABLISHED 1883 MEMBER F.D.I.C. ADAMS COUNTY ' Farm Bureau Co-op Everything in Farm Supplies Berne - Williams - Monroe Pleasant Mills - Geneva Decatur Music House Wurlitaer Pianos, Organs Sales - Instruments - Service Sheet Music - Records 136 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3353 KODAK FINISHING PORTRAITS FORMAL and CANDID WEDDINGS Edwards Studio PRICE MEN’S WEAR QUALITY CLOTHING for MEN and BOYS 101 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-4115 LAWSON Heat ing - Plumbing Air Conditioning Appliances Sales and Service . Phone 3-3626 West Monroe St ■ i- . Zwick Monuments 315 W. Monroe St DOWNTOWN Phone 3-36A3 for AppoMtr.ent Freon’s Poultry Market l Fresh Dressed Poultry Fresh Eggs — Free Delivery Phone 3-3717 Kocher Lumber & Coal Co. The Friendly Lumber Yard Phone 3-3131 a 149 N. 2nd St. Phone 3-3614 Vo.r Rexall Drug Store SMITH DRUG CO.

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| Stucky Furniture Co. 30 Years of Continuous Business MONROE, IND. I ... — Sherman White & Co. KRAFT BUILDING Winchester St. Cream — Eggs — Poultry Wilbur Cook, Mgr. * Phone 7-7236 PARKWAY 66 SERVICE 13th & Nuttman Ave. Washing - - Lubrication Wheel Balancing I Call For and Deliver i Phone 3-3682 FURNITURE CO. | hon. DECATUR IJ-2402 INDIANA JAMES JOHNSON PHOTOGRAPHER Candid Weddings, Portraits, Commercial, Baby and Confirmation 110 So. 10th St. Decatm Maier Hide & Fur Co. Dealer In All Scrap Metal. Telephone 3-4419 710 Monroe St MORRISON FARM STORE fILUSCHfILMERS ■ tAltl AN. SIgVIC. 1315 W. Adams Phone 3-2971 o.in. I mni sna CLARK W. SMITH ADAMS COUNTY TRAILER SALES, Inc New and Used Trailer. Decatur, Ind. GERBER’S SUPER MARKET Home Killed Pork & Beef Groceries and Produce 622 N. 13th Street Rose Hill Dairy, Inc. EUY THE GALLON AND SAVE 351 N. 10th St. Decatui Roop’s Home Store Washington St FRESH MEATS A GROCERIES Phone 3-3619 tesss— SMITH PURE MILK CO. /our Local Milk Merchant Grade “A” Dairy Products