Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 13, Decatur, Adams County, 16 January 1959 — Page 3

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p. m. Monmouth Parent and family Life Educational Group, school, 7:30 p. m. . _ F.V.W. Auxiliary, Post home, 8 p. 'm. . Academy of Friendship, Moose I home 7:30 p. m. Adams County Home Demonstration Chorus, Monroe, 7 p. m. TUESDAY Root Township Home Demon- _ stration club, Monmouth, 7 p. m. J Merry Matrons Home Demonstration club, Mrs. Arthur Krueckeberg, 7:30 p. m. Eta Tau Sigma Miss Helen Wellman, 8 p. m. Psi lota Xi sorority, Mrs. Jane Reed, 8 p. m. Decatur Garden club, Mrs. Roy Runyon, 2 p. m. Loyal Daughters class of Bethany Evangelical U.B. church, Mrs. Edna Hammond, 7:30 p. m. Washington Toy n s h i p Farm Bureau, FarrrfsßSreau hall, 7:30 p. m. - <« Church Mothers study club, Mrs. Raymond Walters, 8 p. m. Past Madam Presidents club, Mrs. Robert Witham, 8 p. m. WEDNESDAY Decatur Home Demonstration club, C.L. of C. hall, 2 p. m. Ladies Shakespeare club, Mrs. Fred Smith, 2:30 p. m. St. Paul Missionary Ladies Aid, Mrs. Gale Cook, all day. Historical club, Mrs. Homer Bittner, 2 p. m. • Ajosmtal I pn Mi ADMITTED Mrs. Flora Bright, Decatur; Mrs. Robert E. Keller, Decatur. DISMISSED Miss Landa Smith Decatur; Master Kevin Geyer, Decatur; Mrs. William Burger, Decatur.

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• 1 " 11 .**■ GROUP SINGING OPENS W.C.T.U. MEETING RECENTLY Group singing opened the meeting of the members of the Kirkland Women’s Temperance Union whiih was held recently at the home of Mrs. Harold Bafger. Mrs. Chester Longepberger presented the devotions, which were taken from Genesis 18. Mrs. Difrptha Shady a prayer. “Shadows Oyer America’’ was the lesson topic presented by Mrs. Shady. A prayer offered by Mrs John Arnold closed the meeting. Refreshments later were served by Mrs. Barge?. EAGLES AUXILIARY MEETS IN HALL TUESDAY Eagles Auxiliary number 2653 held a regular meeting at the Eagles hall Tuesday. The members voted to donate to the grand Aerie memorial foundation and the cancer fund. Plans were made to attend a special meeting of the Van Wert. Ohio, auxiliary January 25. Any member wishing transportation is to contact Mrs. W. R. Morris. The' Past Madam’s Presidents club will hold their monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. Robert •Witham Tuesday at 8 o’clock. All members are invited to attend. MRS. CLARENCE SMITLEY IS HOSTESS TO GARDEN CLUB Members of the Rose Garden club met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Clarence Smitley. The meeting was opened by Mrs. Frank Crist who had the group repeate the club collect and the pledge to the flag. Mrs. Paul Daniels gave the lesson on window gardening, stressing the importance of watering plants, and room temperatures. Roll call was answered by the members telling, “Why I Lake winter.” Many varied and interesting answers were given for the question. Mrs. Grover Levy read the minutes they were approved by the group. Mrs. Ralph E. Roop, Mrs. George Squires and Mrs. George Sprague were selected as a nominating committe for the next meeting. Mrs. Joe Hunter was in charge of a contest on trees, with Mrs. Floyd Arnold being awarded the prize. Mrs. Smitley, assisted by Mrs. Carl Barnett, served refreshments at the close of the meeting. SURPRISE PARTY HONORS MRS. HERMAN C. WEBER Mrs. Herman C. Weber was guest 61 honor at a surprise birthday party which was held for her Saturday. Hie party, which was in the form of a pot luck dinner, was attended by 53 friends and relatives of the guest of honor. Those attending the affair were Mr. and Mrs. William C. Klenk, Mr. and .Mrs. Art Klenk, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Woerner, Mr. and Mrs. William Springer, Mr. and Mrs. John Eisberg and sons, all of Fort Wayne; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Schaneyfelt and daughter of Yoder; Mr. and Mrs. Art Schumm and family, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Schumm and daughter of Convoy, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schumm and daughter of Van Wert, Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Ewell, Mr. and Mr.s Clare Ewell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bieberich and family, of Preble; Herman C. Weber, Mr. and Mrs. Ferd Klenk and sons, Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Ewell and family, Mrs. Adalinda Getting, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Getting and sons, all of Decatur. Tuesday at 8 o’clock, Mrs. Robert Witham will be hostess to members of the Past Madam Presidents club. Members of the Adams County Home Demonstration chorus will meet Monday in Monroe. Mrs. Homer Bittner will be hostess to members of the Historical club Wednesday at 2 o’clock. Quarterly Dividend Declared By Kroger FORT WAYNE - A quarterly dividend of 22% cents a share on common stock of the Kroger Co. was declared at the meeting of the board of directors held today. The common stock recently was split on > a three-for-one basis. Certificates for the additional shares will be mailed to shareowners about January 23, 1959. The dividend is payable March 2, 1959, to shareownres of record as of January 30, 1959. Last year the first quarterly dividend Was equivalent to 16 2/3 cents per share when adjusted to reflect the three-for-one split. At the same time, the directors authorized a quarterly dividend of $1.50 on the six per cent first preferred stock, payable April 1, 1959, to shareowners of record March 16, 1959. A quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share also was declared on the seven per cent second preferred stock, payable May 1, 1959 to shareowners of record April 15, 1959.

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SPECIAL PROGRAM TO BE GIVEN AT WOMAN’S CLUB Monday evening, a special program will be presented to members of the Decatur Woman’s club. The Junior Arts Department of the organization will be in charge of the program which is entitled, Indiana Club Woman Magazine." The cover of the ClubJWoman magazine will serve as a backdrop for the program, which will feature five pages from the magazine. Miss Judy Rhodes is the general chairman for the special feature. , Page one of the live magazine, will feature the editorial page with a message from the presidents of the organizations of Woman’s club and a special message from Mrs. R. C. Hersh, president of Woman’s club. Chairman for page one is Miss Pat Girod. The second page of the playet will be the story book page and will feature dramatic readings and poems. Miss Betsy Burk is in charge of page two. Miss Betty Smith will head the third page, known as the commercial page. The children’s page, with members of the Junior Arts aS the children, will be listed as page four. Miss Barbara Burk is the chairman. The last page in the friagazine will be the music page'with Miss Gloria Wall in charge. All mothers of the Junior Arts members are invited to a tea which will be held immediately following the program. The Misses Sara Eichenauer, Eva Plumley, and Delores Kohne will handle arrangements for the tea. Mrs. Floyd Reed is the head of the Junior Arts department of Woman’s club. ; . -1.. •- . t.. 7 I' ' \ Extend Suspension Os Penalty Charge Postal Penalty Is Father Suspended Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield announced today that he has ordered indefinite suspension of the 5-cent charge on “short paid” mail (mail with insufficient postage). The extension of the deferment has been ordered as a result of Congresstional action designed to aolish the extra charge permantly by legislation. Public Law 85-371, effective July 1, 1958. provided that a short paid charge in addition to the lawful postage Should be colleced from the addressee on delivery of mail not fully prepaid by the sender to cover the costs incurred. The 5cent charge was adopted to cover the costs. However, under authority contained in the law, the post office department, on August 1, suspended the 5-cent charge pending further study. This suspension had been scheduled to terminate Feb. 1, bua will now be continued for. an indefinite period,, uptil a final Congressional decision on the matter ir forthcoming, Mr. Summerfield explained. -'t ’ ' The 5 cents short charge should not be confused with regular “postage due charges” for unpaid mail or mail bearing insufficient postage, Mr. Summerfield pointed out. Uostage due charges are not involved in the present deferments. For example, an ordinary firstclass letter with a 3 cent stamp instead of the required 4 cent stamp is still subject to a penny portage due charge. Hie possibility of Congressional action was called to the Postmaster General’s attention by Representative Erward H. Rees of Kansas, a member of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, who suggested an indefinite portponement until Congress has had an opportunity to act on the matter. Other Triplet Sets Born In County At least two other sets of triplets have been born in Adams county according to reports received at the Decatur Daily Democrat since the b i r t h of the Mickelini triplets, last Friday. Most recent set was the Raudenbush boys, born April 1, 1923, to Mr. and Mrs. Homer Raudenbush. They are Raymond, Roscoe and Robert Raudenbush. There were eight children in the Raudenbush family, all of whose first names start with R; the other children are Roman, Roger, Ruth Weaver, of Convoy, 0. Romaine Young, of Van Wert, 0., and Rowena Phillips of Decatur. Another set of triplets, born about 36 years before the Raudenbush set, were known as the Zerkel triplets, and were all girls. The > mother of Mrs. Royal Friend was ' a member of this set of triplets. I

Rev. Harold Jung Speaker At Mission , To Open Monday At i St. Luke's Church 1 ; .Yi J — - ; The Rev. Harold Jung, pastor of the Central Evangelical and Reformed church, Dayton, G., will be guest speaker for the teaching-reaching-preaching mission at the St. Luke Evangelical and Reformed church., at Honduras. The mission will be held at 7:30 -o’clock each night. Monday through Thursday of next week, Rev. Jung will also speak at the morning services at 9 o'clock Sunday morning. Rev. Jung is a graduate of Central Seminary of Dayton, and has served various churches throughout Ohio. He is a former president of the Southwest Ohio synod, of the Evangelical and Reformed church, now the United Church of Christ. Mr. and Mrs. Leon Gerig, of the Adams Central school, will be in charge of special music and also the song services each night. The public is invited to attend all services. Conference On Bible Prophecy Planned To Hold Conferene At Baptist Church Dr. Herbert J. Pugmire, former pastor of the Galilea'n Baptist church, Dallas, Texas, and wellknown Bible teacher, will conduct x <,week long conference on Bible 'prophecy ..at the J ir s t_Baptist church of Decatur, beginning with the morning Service Sunday. Dr. Pugmire offers over 20 years of experience as a pastor, teacher and evangelist. He was associated for several years with the late Dr. Harry A. Ironside on the partoral staff of Moody Memorial Church in Chicago. He has held the position of Professor of Bible at a Bible institute and seminary. Dr. Pugmire is well known in the Bible conference field and has preached for many summers at the Winona Lake Bible conference. “Believing that God has a plan for the ages and that this plan is revealed in his Holy Word, The Decatur Baptist church is pleased to offer the ministry of Dr. Pugmire for this week of meetings on Bible prophecy. Services will be each evening at 7:30 with special music at each service. The services are open to the public,” the pastor, the Rev. Stuart Brightwell, stated. Over 2,500 Dally Democrats are sold and delivered in Decatur each day.

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Driver Found Dead In Cab Os Truck SEYMOUR, Ind. (UPD—Frank I N. Van Alstine, 51. Omer, Mich., 1 was found dead in the cab of his parked truck on U.S. 50 Wednesday night, and a coroner’s autopsy was scheduled. Deputy Coroner V. L. Burkholder said Van Alstine apparently died of natural causes. 1 Carlson Is Speaker ; To Northwest PTA 1 Scout Executive Is • Speaker At Meeting i i “The privilege of being a den fhother” was the topic of the ad- , dress given by John Carlson, , south district field executive of , the Anthony Wayne area of Boy Scouts of America. Carlson pointed out that one of the satisfactions of being a den mother was the , broadening of her own outlook on life by being a part of the lives of each one of the cus she has in her den. “The rewards and satisfactions much outweigh the trials and tribulations and just plain work the Den Mother faces as she works with the boys in her den," Carlson stated. He also read exerpts from articles taken from “Scouting” magazine, pointing put rewarding experiences in particular instances of "both men and women working with boys. The growing movement in the new Explorer program for boys of high school age was briefly outlined by Carlson and he closed with a poem entitled “What is America?" Preceding the introduction of Carlson, Mrs. Arthur Beeler, president, called the meeting to order and introduced the Rev. F. Hazen Sparks, pastor of the First Methodist church, who gave the invocation. Mrs. Beeler turned the meeting over to Paul Moore, program chairman, who introduced Mrs. Feasel's 4th grade class unwho sang three songs, “Mother’s Song,” ’ “There’s No Place Like Home,” and “Come Thou Almighty King." Cub Scouts from Northwest pack 1 3063 under the direction of Mrs. Nelson Doty recited the Cub Scout promise and the law of the pack. During the business portion of the meeting Mrs. Beeler, presiding officer, announced that the Northwest P.T.A.'s share of the fall festival had been received and there was an increase over the previous years of S3O. The tentative date for the rag drive, a fund raising project for Northwest P.T. A., was set for April. Announcement of the P. T. A. legislation workshop at Indianapolis on February 5 was also made. Minutes of the previous two meetings were read by the secretary, Mrs. Nelson Doty, and the treasurer's report was read by Mrs. Beeler in the absence of E. E. Rydell. At the conclusion of the evening, refreshments were served by the hospitality committee. -r, — —i. i—h At the Adams county memorial hospnital: James and Adruey Ross Cowens of Decatur, are parents of an eight pound, five and three fourths ounce girl borri at 9:55 p.m. Thursday. An eight pound, two ounce girl was born at 10:32 o’clock this * morning to Robert and Betty Jean! King Grear of route 10, Fort Wayne.

Township Trustees Discuss Problems 1 State Examiners Conduct Meeting A total of 11 of the 12 township trustees, and four clerks, met Wednesday with three representatives of the state board of accounts to study township record problems. The group met in the county board of education room next to the court room in the county court house. Robert Cotterly, assisted by Joseph Thornberg and Pete Ellis, field examiners from the state board of accounts, presided at the meeting. Discussed were the new appropriation records, new functional school ledger, poor relief applications, claims, and formers, and dog fund procedures. This was the first meeting of the group which was attended by the clerks, and everyone agreed that the meeting had been very successful. Attending were: Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kolter, of Preble township; Mr. and Mrs. Omer Merriman of Root township;. Les Brunner, of St. Mary’s township; Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gay, of Washington township; Theodore Heller, of Kirkland township; Raymond Moser, of French township; Silvan Sprunger, of Monroe township; Frank Myers, of Blue Creek township; Floyd Baker, of Jefferson township; Mr. and Mrs. James Lybarger, of Wabash township; and Eugene Burry, of Hartford township. The four wives were clerks in their respective townships. Only township not represented was Union.*’ 4 Girl Scouts < Brownie troop number 230 met Wednesday after school. The meeting was opened with the Brownie promise, led by the president. Roll call was taken and dues collected. The Brownies saluate, sign and . hapd shake . were practiced and the meaning of the motto and slogan discussed. Each member is to do a good deed every day. A keep talking story about the Brownies Inky and Pinky was held. Jane Gerber is to bring the treat next week. The meeting was closed with the Brownie arch. Scribe, Janelie Heller

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' . Ak ■ wA IhEh The school of missions of the I Methodist church will hold ith j third session in a series of five, J in the memorial chapel, Sunday, evening at 7:30. The Rev. Albert; Clarke, pastor of the First Metho-; dist church of Auburn, will give an illustrated lecture on his evangelistic mission to South Americd. All members and friends are in-v vited. Brownie troop 269 met recently for an election of officers. Linda Mclntosh is the new president, Peggy Smith is the secretary and Cossie Reynolds is the new scribe. During the meeting, the girls worked on tenderfoot requirements, salute, sign and handshake. They also studied the laws and promise. The girls sent a card to Mrs. Doyle Collier, who is in the St. Joseph hospital. Linda Garwood will bring the treat next week. Scribe, Cassie Reynolds Wednesday afternoon, Brownie troop 551 met at the Lincoln school. Donna Smith brought the treat. Mary Chappius and Pamela Hirschy are new Brownies. The girls played games at the meeting. Scribe, Mary Chappius _ Willis Dettinger, of route 2, was admitted Wednesday to the Wells county hospital.