Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 22 February 1958 — Page 3

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1938

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HILL-REPERT EXCHANGE VOWS Mrs. Fairy Hill recently became the bride of Lowell Repert. The ceremony was performed in the United Brethren church by the Rev. Argo Sudduth. Assisting the couple were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kohn. A small reception following the double ring ceremony was held at the Kohn’s home. Mrs. Leo Feasel, Mrs. Clyde Kohn and Mrs. Black Kohn acted as servers for the reception. The bride is a waitress at the M. C. truck stop and her husband is a truck driver for C. O. Violet, Delphos, Ohio. They will reside at the corner of 13th and Adams streets. % MRS. RICHARD KELLEY FETED AT BABY SHOWER Sunday evening Mrs. Richard Kelley was feted at a boby shower held at the home of Mrs. William Kelley. The shower was surprise and had been planned by the hostess and assisting hostesses. Mrs. Hubert Butler and Mrs. Elmer Wagner. During the course of the evening, games were played, followed by a luncheon. Guests attending the shower were the Mesdames Jesse Schug, Wayne Gaunt, Kathryn Bucher, Lawrence Williamson, Elmo Lengerich, ‘Ralph Busse, John Gribler Robert Everett, Harold Miller, Art Beer, Chalmer Stevens, Martin Bienz, David Myers. Harold Kelley, Paul Butler, and Tom Butler; and the Misses Linda Wagner, Kay Stevens, and Judy Butler. Invited but unable to attend were Mrs. Roger Braun and Mrs. Henry Schug. MRS MAGLEY ENTERTAINS PINOCHLE CLUB MEMBERS Mrs. Calvin Magley entertained the members of the pinochle club ! recently at her home. In keeping: witfi the Valentine theme,she began the evening by serving an appropriate dessert ‘luncheon. Preceding several games of pinochle, a brief business session was held. The prizes were won and presented after the card games to Mrs. Paul Hammond, Mrs. Buford Dull and Mrs. Royal Friend. A traveling prize went to Mrs. Jerome Keller. It was then announced that the March meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Dull in Wren, Ohio. MrS. Bill Ported will furnish the prizes for the occasion. Mrs. James Moses, Sr., was the club guest. BOBBY MORRISON SINGS SPECIAL SOLO Master Bobby Morrison sang a special solo at the Pleasant Mills Methodist Women's Society of Christian Service meeting held Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. John Bailey. Mrs. Elmer Golliff opened tire meeting by giving the devotion and lesson on “Christian Action on the March.” She was assisted by Mrs. Darrell Clouse, Mrs. Clyde Jones, Mrs. Lawrence Ehrsam, and Mrs. Billy Springfield. A prayer was offered by Mrs. Clyde Jones and the poem "He,” was presented by Mrs. Ehrsam. At this time, Mrs. Benoit Johnson was welcomed as a new member. She and Mrs. Paul Butler, a guest, were then introduced to the group. Plans were made, during the business meeting, for the society to study the book "Disciples to Such a Lord” each Tuesday from the 25th until March 18. The first session will again begin at the parsonage, at which time Mrs’ Billy Springfield will act as the leader. The hostess, assisted by Mrs.' Adda Hahnert and Mrs. Charles Morrison, served refreshments, prior to dismissal. COOKIES Now“For Sale. Wesleyan Service Guild of Methodist Church. Contact Any Member or Call 3-2443, Morning or Evening Hours. , 45 tl

HEARING £ UNDERSTANDING ■® Many persons, on hearing tests, has just comK Maico engineers pleted a valuable new booklet have discovered, discussing this problem. Write TV : would like to have for free copy today, sent in ' sounds made clear- plain envelope. No obligation, er for them, not—— louder. They hear, i maico - 229 w. Berry i but don’t understand. This is | tod ’ I a problem of an estimated 5 i N „ I million Americans. L. A. Wat- | St ,. <t j son, author of 600-page text .4 c;, y stot*j U —— — — —— — Mr. John Kenwood, your Maico Hearing Aid Audiologist, will hold a service center on Tuesday, February 25, at the Rice Hotel between the hours of 1:00 and 4:00 P. M. Visit him for a demonstration of the newest in a complete range of hearing aids. Batteries, cords, and repairs are available for all makes of instruments.

17 MEMBERS PRESENT AT POT LUCK SUPPER Seventeen members of the Welcome Wagon club met at the home of Mrs. Kenneth Shannon recently for a pot luck supper. A silent auction was held and games were played. Prizes were won by Mrs. Jay Markley and Mrs. Herman Krueckeberg. Mrs. Dan Tyndall was awarded the door prizg, after which Mrs. Bud Kiefer was welcomed into the club as a new member. Mrs. Shannon was assisted by Mrs. Robert' Stevenson and Mrs. Catherine Ogg. Mrs. Giles Porter will act as hostess to the Decatur Historical club at her home Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock. The leader of the program will be Mrs. W. P. Robinson and her subject will be “Early American churches.” ■ 1 *• Members of the Union Pals and Union Workers 4-H club will hold their organizational meeting Friday at 7:30 o’clock at the Immanuel school. Thursday, at 7 o’clock, the Monroe Women’s Cnrrstlan Temperance Union plans to meet at the home of Mrs. Orval Lenhart. The DO YOUR BEST class of the Trinity Evangelical United Brethren church will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock at the church. Hostesses for the evening will be Mrs. Dan Welty, Mrs. William Kennington and Mrs. John Gage, Mrs. Frank Bohnke is to lead the devotions, Mrs. George Myers is in charge of the special and the program will be handled by Mrs.. Jess Williams and Mrs. Ira Bodie. Mrs. Fred Ulman will entertain the Ruralistic Study club at the regular monthly meeting Wednes- : day at 8 o’clock. — - -- ■ - - ■■ Members of the Federation of Woman’s club are to meet Friday at 2 o’clock at the library. Miss Bertha Heller will present a book review and the hostesses wrill be the Decatur Garden club and the , Decatur Horne Demonstration : Club. A cookie sale sponsored by the Wesleyan Service Guild of the Me- . thodist church begins today. To , order cookies call 3-2443 or get in touch with one of the members. Doyle Lehman, vocational agricultural teacher, and Mrs. A. A. Luyben, -home economics teacher, are acting co-chairmen for the Pleasant Mills PTA meeting to be ( held Monday. ——— . ■ ■- The Academy of the Women of the Moose has scheduled a Monday evening meeting at 7:30 to be I held at the Moose home. Wednesday, at 2 o’clock, the Ruth and Naomi Circles of the | Zion Evangelical and Reformed I church will meet at the church. MIOttITAL v n nrfu Admitted Charles Mcßarnes, Decatur; Master Gary Lee Voss. Geneva; Master Gregory Beery. New Haven: Master Jeffory Beery, New Haven; Mrs. Hattie Schlinder, Geneva. Dismissed Joe Sorg, Hoagland; Miss Debra Ann Baker, Decatur; Mrs. Anita Macklin, Decatur; Master Gary Voss, Geneva; Mrs. Dwight Egley ..and daughter, Decatur; Mrs. David Langston and son* Decatur; Mrs. Herman Everett and son, Decatur; Mrs. Ivan Hakes and daughter. Decatur; Mrs. Ray Mathys and son, Geneva; Mrs. Ralph MerJ riman and daughter. Decatur; Mrs. Menno Girod and daughter, Monroe; and Mrs. Harry Anderson, Geneva. Trade in a good town — DecatW

Society Items tor today a publication must be phoned In by 11 a. m. (Saturday 9:30 a.m.) Phone 3-2121 Miss Pat Zehr SATURDAY Bethany Builders, Bethany E. U. B. church basement, chili supper 5-7 p. m. Rural Youth, extension office to Coliseum, 7:30 p.m. c Eagles auxiliary district 5, Bluffton, 8 p.m. Win Wun class of the Church of Christ, skating party, 7:30 p.m. SUNDAY Ruralistic study club, Mrs. Louis Rumschlag, 6:30 p.m. MONDAY Pythian Sister Temple, Moose home, 7:30 p. m. Pythian Sister Needle club, Moose home, after Temple. Research club, Mrs. Lloyd Cowens, 2.30 p. m. Adams County Demonstration chorus, Geneva E.U B. church, 7:30 p.m. v Evening circle one, Methodist church, 8 p.m. Weight club, corner Sth and Monroe, 8 p.m. Pleasant Mills PTA, school, 7:30 p.m. Women of the Moose, Fort Wayne chapter. Academy of the Women of the Moose, Moose 7:30 p.m. TUESDAY Olive Rebekah lodge, 1.0.0. F. hall, 7:30 p. m. Root Township Home Demonstration club, Mrs. R. W. Rice, 1:30 p. m. Delta Theta Tau, Mrs. H. R. Frey, 8:30 p. m. Church Mothers study club, Trinity EUB church, 8 p.m. Jolly Housewives Home Demonstation club, of St. Mary’s Township Pleasant Mills school, 7:30 p.m. Emmanual Lutheran PTA, scchool 8:30 p.m. Sunday Circle Home Demonstration club, Preble community building, 7:30 p.m. " Eagles auxiliary formal initia- ’ tion, Eagles hall, 8 p.m. K. of C. auxiliary , K. of C. I hall, after church. St. Raul Missionary Ladies aid, Mrs. Dora Bess, all day. Adams County Historical society, public library, 8 p.m. . _ WEDNESDAY Home Demonstration club, Union township. Community Center, all day St. Vincent de Paul society, C. L. of C. hall. 2 p.m. Decatur Historical club, Mrs. Giles Porter, 2:30 p.m. Ruralistic study club, Mrs. Fred Ulman, 8 p.m. Naomi and Ruth Circles, Zion E. and R. church, 2 p.m. THURSDAY Monroe W.C.T.U., Mrs. Orval Lenhart. 7 p.m. Do Your Best class. Trinity E. U. B. church, 7:30 p.m. FRIDAY Union Pals and Union Workers 4-H club, Immanuel school, 7:30 p.m. Federation of Women’s club, library, 2 p.m. John Eicher Dies At House In Louisiana Funeral and burial services will be held at Baton Rouge, La. for John M. Eicher, 73, a native of the Berne area. Death was caused by a heart ailment. His wife preceded him in death a few years ago. Two children, Ruth and John M. Eicher, Jr., survive, in addition to four grandchildren; two sisters, Mrs. Effie Schwartz of Michigan and Mrs. Fanny Allread of Troy, 0., and a brother, William Eicher of California. Prayer must mean something ' to us of it is .to mean anything to God.

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k ■ i « RECOUNTS SPY WORK— Reino Hayhanen, Russian secret police colonel who defected to the west, arrives at Fort McNair, Washington, to testify at the espionage court-martial of M/Sgt. Roy A. Rhodes. Rhodes Is accused of passing secrets to the Russians while on duty in Moscow. Hayhanen testified that when he was a Soviet police agent he was ordered to locate Rhodes, and did so by contacting Rhodes’ parents in Colorado. (International) Mrs. C. E. Bell fell Friday while burning trash near her home and broke her right wrist. She is recupatering in the Adams county memorial hospital. Services will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Methodist church in Rockford, 0., for O. G. Dudgeon retired lawyer and farmer of Willshire, 0., who died Wednesday, in McAllen, Tex. Mrs. Or la Markle, of 1320 Mad- : ison street, has been admitted to the Jay county memorial hospital. Mrs. John Shirk returned to ■West Palm Beach, Fla. today following the general improvement in the condition of her father, John H. Heller, who had been quite ill for the past two weeks. Geneva water hydrants were frozen solid during the recent cold spell, but fortunately no fires broke out in that town. Mr. and Mrs. William H. Bell, of Lake Tippecanoe, are visiting in Decatur today. .Tilman Steiner, of French township. is recovering in the- Adams county memorial hospital from injuries suffered last Monday when he received three or four broken ribs from a young bull. David Leroy Schwa rtb of Berne have purchased the Verlin Moser home in that city and will take possession April 1. W. Guy Brown will attend the regional convention of the American school administrators association in St. Louis, Mo., Monday through Wednesday, Two New Members Os Quarter Century Club Edward J. Gase and Elmer E. Chase have joined the quarter century club at the Decatur General Electric plant. Ambrose Gase. of the Decatur Generail Electric plant, recently received a $250 award for a suggested improvement in his department. Clean Sweep NORTHAMPTION, Mass. — (W — Boy Scout Troop 111 of St. Mary’s Church here” made a clean sweep of the city recently. They 1 completed a sale of brooms to bring a total of $1,300 into the | treasury to purchase camping equipment.-

Proceeds Os Leopold Book To Go To Youth Donated To Helping Disturbed Children CHICAGO (UP >—Nathan Leopold has announced plans to turn oyer the proceeds of his autobiography to the society that awarded him the “mercy I did not show.” Through his attorney, Emmer GAtz, Leopold said the bulk of revenue earned from his book will be donated to the cause of helping disturbed children and fighting juvenile delinquency. The book, “Life Plus 99 Years,” is due for publication March 6. roughly the same time Leopold will be released from Stateville Penitentiary near Joliet, 'lllLeopold’s autobiography is his personal account of the “Crime of the Century, ” the senseless slay- j ing of a 14-year-old boy in 1924. I The 53-year-old convict tells how he and his adored friend, Richard Loeb, tried to demonstrate their J contempt for ordinary standards of behavior by murdering a child at random. Leopold was 19. Loeb, 18, and both were intellectually gifted and wealthy. Believing themselves apart from and above society, they attempted the “p e rs e c t crime." v A neighbor boy, Bobby Franks, was the victim of thru; "superman” theories. The Bobby and slew him with a chisel. They were captured within three days because Leopold left his glasses at the scene of the crime. Rev. Robert Jaeger Speaks At Monmouth The Rev. Robert Jaeger, assist- -■ ant at St. Mary's Catholic church, was the guest speaker at Monmouth high school Friday as one of the series of speakers in acknowledging national brotherhood week. Rev. Jaeger opened his talk to the student body by saying, “the whole point—of brotherhood is to put into practice as« adults ~the principles of brotherhood 'and friendship that we learn in our formative years.” He stated, “The basic attitude ; of brotherhood is respect for the , other person.” He urged the stui dents to practice tolerance; the acceptance of persons on the mer- » its- of those things -they-Share -in I common with each other rather ; than to reject people because of differences such as race, creed or 1 , color. 1 — : . ■ dr V i To Active Duty Pvt. Rtissel Pagelor son of Mr. . and Mrs. Edward Pagelor route 4, left this morning for Fort Leon-, ardwood, Mo. where he will serve I six months of active duty. Pvt. j Pagelor has previously served with I j the Fort Wayne National Guard) for a period of two months. He . will be in the 300/30 Motar Division. • _____ " i New Address Mr. and Mrs. Morris Bleeke have received the new address of A . their son. Richard, who is serv-; ing with the armed forces. The address is: Pvt. Richard Bleeke, Br. 16584416; Btry. B Ist Bn. ATC,; USATC — FA; Fort Chaffee, Ark. Before entering the service, Pvt. Bleeke was employed by the Phillips Service Station, highway 27 and 224. Trade m a g«xxl town — Decatur

SUNDAY EVENING LENTEN SERVICE The First Methodist Church ■ — . H' I K *' • A 7130 O’clock Worship Service Rev. C. Melvin Blake Executive Secretary of the *•' Division of World Missions of’ the Methodist Church THE PUBLIC IS INVITED TO ATTEND „ SUNDAY MORNING KEEP LENT 9:30 a. m. Sunday School AS THE SEASON OF 10:20 a. m. Morning Worship SPIRITUAL RENEWAL (Courtesy of Leland Smith Insurance Agency)’

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ih|¥u ifpT jsa||re|aM Baal [. waa GAVIN SUCCESSOR?— Maj Gen. ■John —B; Medaris (above) is I scheduled to succeed Lt. Gen. ' James Gavin as chief of the U. S. Army research and development program. Medaris now heads the Army ballistics missile agency at the Redstone .arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Gavin resigned as of March 31 due to j the ’'deteriorating position” of | the Army. (Inter national J Roger Ripley Is Third In Contest Roger Ripicy, Decatur driver salesman for Home Dairy, was honored a dinner at the Berne auditorium Thursday evening, attended by 48 persons. Ripley placed third in a contest for sales of choclate milk, sponsored by the dairy farm and one of its supplies. Blaine Bailey, Berne, won first prize and Roger Bubp, Portland, was second " These -three men were awarded cash prizes, for commissions and candy. Four From County At Huntington College w Four Adams county persons have enrolled as students at Huntington College. They are Marcus Ripley, son of Mr., and Mrs. Leland Ripley, Monroe; Vernon G. Zurcher, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Zurcher, Berne; Charles Noel Hoffman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otto Hoffman, Decatur, and Mrs. Mary A. Egley, Decatur. Ripley has enrolled for a business course, the ithers for teaching.

Panel Discussion At Girl Scout Meeting "Your summer camps” will be the subject of a panel discussion at the council meeting of the Limberlost Girl Scout council, to , be held at the Bethlehem Luth- ( eran church hall Thursday at 8 p. m. Mrs. Ben Meek, chairman ' of the camp 1 coordinating commit- ' tee, will serve as moderator. Others participating will, be Mrs. ; Clarence E. Carlson, Jr., Mrs. Barry Moses, and Mrs, Francis M. Burke. Ray Cripe of Garrett, chairman of the finance committe, will present proposed finance policies. Also on the agenda will be ‘‘Your responsibilities as a council —member” by— Mrs. Wayne L. Miller, president; “Your board and you” by Mrs. Howard Eckels of Huntington, vide president; and “Limberlost Facts” by | Miss Mildred Jacobs, executive director. A display for each day during Girl ,Scout week will be shown by Mrs. Ernest Shoemaker of Bluffton, program chairman. Annual reports of the former Decatur, Huntington, and Fort Wayne councils will be given by Mrs. William Schnepf, Jr., Mrs. Floyd Maxton, and Mrs. Robert Rinehart. Two Accidents Are Reported By Police Max Larry Egley, 17, route 2, Decatur, was arrested by city police Friday and charged with failure to yield the right of way when the car he was driving was involved in a collision with a vehicle’ operated by Alice Mae Igney, 24. Decatur. The accident occurred at the intersection of Seventh and Jefferson streets at 6:50 p. m. The Egley car ran the stop sign on Seventh and went into the intersection, where It was struck by the Igney auto. Damage was estimated at $75 to the Egley car and $75 to the Igney auto. Egley is scheduled to appear in the justice of the peace court this afternoon. Dave Edward Ellsworth, 19, Dbcatur, and Marvin Lee Sprunger, 31, Decatur, were involved in an accident in the 100 “block on Second street at 5:50 p. m. Friday, The Sprunger vehicle had stopped in the street prior to backing into a parking place and was hit in the rear by the Ellsa

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