The Mail-Journal, Volume 7, Number 22, Milford, Kosciusko County, 1 July 1970 — Page 3

Leesburg-Oswego News

By Mrs. Max (Chearyl) Miller Phone: 453-3792

Patricia Smaltz And Thomas Hoffert Exchange Wedding Vows Recently

The Leesburg Brethren church was recently the scene of the marriage of Miss Patricia Smaltz and Thomas Hoffert. The Rev. David Willett officiated at the double ring ceremony. Nuptial music was furnished by James Morrison, organist. Parents of the couple are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smaltz, r 1 Leesburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hoffert. r 1 Pierceton Given in marriage by her father the bride appeared in a gown of white organza and chantilly lace wi|h bodice, high scalloped neckline and long bishop sleeves with detachable chancel train bordered in scalloped lace. Her fingertip veil was secured by a head piece of petals and lace. She carried a colpmal bouquet of white carna&ons. tipped with lavender and baby's breath centered with corsage of roses Maid of honor. Miss Carlene Weirick of Winona Lake, cousin of the bride, and bridesmaid. Mrs Lana Hiss of Columbia City, sister of the bride, wore identical dotted swiss over lavender with matching pill box hats They carried colonial bouquets of white carnations

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tipped with lavender. Bridesmaid and flower girl gowns were made by Mrs. Laura Hudson, sister of the bride. , 4 The flower girl, Michelle Hudson, wore a gown identical to bridesmaid, carried petals in a white basket tied with lavender ribbon. The ring bearer, Timothy Hudson, nephew of bride, carried the rings on a white satin pillow. Attending the bridegroom were Douglas Hoffert and William Frush. Ushers! were Paul Beery and Cecil Kissinger. Following the ceremony the couple greeted the guests in the church basement. Assisting at the reception table were Mrs. Karen Hoffert and Miss Janet Morrison. Mrs. Carol Hiss opened the gifts. Mrs. Karen Hoffert was in charge of the guest book. Mrs Hoffert, a graduate of Leesburg high school is employed in 1 the office of Sun Metal Products, Inc. Her husband, a graduate of North Webster high school, is also an employee of Sun Metal Products Since retun&ng from a wedding trip they are residing on r 1 Pierceton LOCAL ARTISTS TO HAVE EXHIBIT ’ Several local artists will have’ on Exhibit during Leesburg Days some of their paintings. This class under the direction of Rev. David Gosser has visited several interesting, shows. A few of their pictures will be for sale Field trips and different types of paintings should make this a most unusual exhibit. Don't miss it Some will be displayed in store windows and some on the street. LAYMEN TO HOLD BREAKFAST This Sunday, July 5, the laymen of the Leesburg Brethren church will have a breakfast at 7:15 at a restaurant in Warsaw. Rev. Bill Smith of Winona Lake will be the special speaker.

SING-OUT GROUP WILL PERFORM “Sing-Out Warsaw”, a group of teenagers under the direction of Bob Brennan, will present a program (hiring Leesburg Days. They are sponsored by the Town Shop and will sing Saturday evening, July 11. The time and place will be published later. This group recently made a trip to Detroit to perform at the Kiwanis convention. LEESBURG TRAVEL LEAGUE PLAYS AT NORTH WEBSTER As in past years, the Leesburg Travel League had the privilege of playing in the tourney held at North Webster during the Mermaid Festival. Leesburg’s first game was Monday night. They were victorious over Pierceton. 8 to 2. Tuesday night they were pitted against Akron. Once again Leesburg landed on top with a score of 18 to 6. Thursday night the tide turned, Leesburg fell to the hands of Mentone, 13 to 9. Leesburg received the second [dace trophy. Smaller trophies were given to each member. The only home run by Leesburg was slammed Monday night by Kenny Foltz. Leesburg's pitchers are Brian Hur sen and Jimmy Adams. LEESBURG DAYS PLANS NEARING COMPLETION Plans tor the annual Leesburg Days, July 10-11, Friday and Saturday, are in full swing. President Mildred Engle, along with several other merchants are busy gathering old items to display. Many new things have been added to the collection at the Town Hall which will be open to the public (hiring Leesburg Days. Various stands and activities are being scheduled by the Leesburg Plain Farmerettes, Tippy Lee club, Leesburg Homemakers club, United Methodist WSCS, Leesburg merchants. Successful Farmers boys 4-H club, American Legion Auxiliary, Leesburg Lions club, Plain Township Firemen, Little League, Rev. Gosser's Art class, Eastern Star, and the United Methodist church discussion class. A parade will be held on Friday evening July 10th, at 7:30. The children are urged to decorate their bicycles,' tricycles and wagons for this event and cash prizes will be awarded to the best in each category. Merchants and organizations are invited to enter along with old cars, horses, floats, bands, politicians, beauty queens or anything that will add to the parade. Mrs. Chris Kammerer is the parade chairman, please contact her.

Uw I , I . pr* Isl J Jfl M U ■ I' dL *1 ' RBII II /BP* \ ? BL R| ” I rI H PRESENTING CHECK — Lion President Don Boggs presents check to Miss Cindi Furnas, County Fair Queen candidate from Leesburg* I A T ’ i - I ' 1 f ! > J J{ i * iJßtt r Ik ' , * INSTALLING PRESIDENT— Lions District Governor Alex Miller installs Lion Loren Pound as president of the Leesburg Lions club.

Leesburg Lipns Elect Officers

Members of the Leesburg Lions club held their regular meeting in the den on Thurs., June 11, with Miss Cindi Furnas and her father Chase Furnas as special guests. Miss Furnas was nominated by the Leesburg Lions to represent Leesburg as County Fair Queen. She was presented with a check from the club to help pay expenses involved as a candidate.

David Freeman Attends Music Clinic At 1. U. David Freeman, son of Mr. ami Mrs. Ned Freeman bf Lake Tippecanoe is attending the Indiana university music clinic on the Bloomington campus from June 27 thru July 5. Composed of 350 high school musicians, their 24th annual clinic features four large ensembles, two bands, directed by Dr. Fredrick Ebbs, and Dr. Ray Cramer, an orchestra conducted by Dr. Robert Klotman and a festival chorus conducted by Dr. Don Moses On Sunday July sthJ Mr. and Mrs. Freeman will attend a concert presented by the music department to be held in the Indiana university auditorium. YOCUM REUNION HELD ON SUNDAY The Yocum reunion was held at Bixler park in Warsaw Sunday. The 30 members present enjoyed a carry-in dinner. The president is Esta Yocum and the secretary and treasurer is Hilda Leedy. Next year’s reunion will be held

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Also present at the meeting was District Governor Alex Miller of Silver Lake who installed the following officers for the new club year 1970-71: President: Loren Pound Ist Vice presidents Robert Shroyer 2nd Vice president: Hal Strong 3rd Vice President: Jerry

at the North Manchester park the fourth Sunday in June. Mr. and Mrs. Yocum attended from Leesburg. ENGAGEMENT ANNOUNCED Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Matthews, r 1 Warsaw, announce the engagement of their daughter Maurita Ann, to Dennis G. Dettmer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund F. Dettmer. 2019 Miami Street, South Bend. An August wedding is being planned. Both Miss Matthews and Mr. Dettmer are students at Purdue university. ROSA HARMAN REUNION HELD The annual Rosa Harman get together was held Sunday with a carry-in dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Harman of r 2 Milford. There were 82 present for the occasion of reuniting with each other Those present were from Nappanee. Warsaw, Etna Green, Wakarusa, Syracuse, South Bend, Leesburg and Michigan.

Kammerer Secretary: John Miller Treasurer: Robert Ferverda Tail Twister: Robert W. Bishop Lion Tamer: David Gosser 2-year Directors: Chet Albert, John Buhrt, and Ben Stout 1-year Directors’ Elmer Martin, Steve Davis, and Ralph Hughes

annual McConnell REUNION SUNDAY The 21st annual McConnell reunion was held Sunday at Nye park screen shelter house at Center lake. There were 47 attending from Wisconsin, Goshen, Fort Wayne, Warsaw, Wabash, Pierceton and Leesburg. John Stookey of Goshen, president, presided over the business meeting. Mrs. Roger iMcConnell is the secretary and treasurer. Mr. and Mrs. Roger McConnell attended the reunion . CELEBRATE-SILVER WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dye celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary Simday afternoon with open house being held at their home in Leesburg. Friends and relatives from North Webster, Pierceton, Syracuse and

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Leesburg were greeted by Mr.' and Mrs. Dye. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Dye entertained Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dye and family and Mrs. Bernice Watkins at a local restaurant Sunday to celebrate their anniversary. EIGHT SQUARE HOMEMAKERS CLUB MEETS The Eight Square Homemakers club met on Tuesday, June 16, at the R.E.M.C. building in Warsaw. Mrs. Wallace Huffman served as hostess and Mrs. Ellis Wildman was her co-hostess. Willis Alt, former county youth director and former exchange student to slides and explained them. He also brought some material, pieces of their embroidery work and some other items. Punch and cook ips were served to the ladies present. Residents Donate Antiques A hoe, 120 years old, has been added to the collection of old things donated to the town hall. Mrs. Mollie Giant of Leesburg, who is 91 (the second oldest resident of Leesburg) contributed this interesting old hoe. Other interesting items added this year are an old lunch bucket and a brace and bit (donated by Mrs. Ed Good who will be 93 in August), old leather post cards, an 1895 arithmetic book, a World War I flag, two copies of the Leesburg Journal dated September 6,1911, and November 12, 1919, and several other Items of interest. Be sure and visit the Town Hall during, Leesburg Days — July 10 and 11. COMMUNITY NEWS Maxanne and Brad Noel of New Whitland spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom. Jr., and the Lewis Noel family. Gene Deatsman spent a week with Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gill of Las Vegas. Nev. Mr. and Mrs. Myron Tschupp and daughters and Linda Heckaman returned from a twoweek vacation^to Los Angeles, Calif. Mrs. Darrell Phillips recently visited her daughter Jo Ellen at Chicago where she works at the Michael Reese hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Zimmerman of Milwaukee, Wis., visited recently with Mrs. Helen Zimmerman. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Sommers and daughter of Decatur visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Paul Byrer. Mrs. Lillian Custer and Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Dierks of Sidney visited with Mr. and Mrs. Myrtus Dierks of Irish lake Sunday as-

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ternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Vern Dausman and Lois had Sunday dinner with Bill Dausman and children of Pierceton. Douglas Metz was in the Mermaid Festival parade Saturday with the Mizpah horse patrol of Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Metge visited at Nappanee Sunday afternoon. There were 12 boys from the Wawasee wrestling team that enjoyed a cook-out, skiing and swimming at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Terry Frank Sunday. Mr. Frank is head wrestling coach at Wawasee. Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Starkey of Goshen visited Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Gross, Mrs. Ron Pekrul, formerly Linda Abbott, has joined her husband in Heidelberg, Germany, where Mr. Pekrul will serve one year in the U. S. army. Mrs. Walter Hoover of New Paris and Mrs. Judy Galloway and baby son of Cromwell visited eveing with Mrs. Lucy Hummel and Marvin. Sherry Long recently spent two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Kent Adams and family of Franklin. William May was dismissed from the Murphy Medical Center last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Roger McConnell accompanied by Mrs. Jim Elliott spent last Tuesday shopping in Fort Wayne. Mr. and Mrs. Doug Metz, Jr., have moved into their new home on r 2 Pierceton. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Sr./ and Peggy Jo and Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Jr., and family, Maxanne and Brad Noel attended the Tom reunion held Sunday at Elder Park near Columbia City. Mr. and Mrs. Max Miller and family attended the Rosa Harman get together at the Richard Harman home, Edith Hatton and Mabie Cast were visiting the past week with Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pritchett. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Timmons and family, Mrs. Helen McKinney and Claude of Warsaw took their lunch and enjoyed the day at Franke Park in Fort Wayne Sunday. Mrs. Roy Matthews of Indianapolis was called to Gosen due to the death of her daughter-in-law Mrs. Robert Matthews. Frank Tom of Carmel spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Sr. LAKELAND LOCALS. Carol Mynhier, Drue and Tony Mynhier attended a show in Elkhart Friday night. Sherry Whetten of Michigan visted Tuesday of this week with her great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. George Auer of Milford. The Apostolic annual church picnic was held Sunday at the Warsaw fairgrounds. A large attendance was present.

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