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THE DAILY CONSTITUTION, CHILLICOTHE, MQ. MONDAY, JAN. 16,1928. PAGE THBEB. PERSONALS Miss Hattie Mae King entertained with a farewell party honoring Edward Barteet of Dubach, who is soon to leave for Oklahoma on a position.

Guests were limited to C. B. C. friends of Mr. Barteet.

Favorite card games was the diversion. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. Miss Beulah DuFloth who assisted! over the week-end. ton Sunday where they spent the day.j CJI7A Dfll 17 AD Mi-, Mrs' James O'Haver are tMVflltvll Ult moving from property on High street to property.at Second arid Walnut streets today. Frank O'Brian of Brookfield spent Sunday in the city with Mrs.

O'Brian and children. SLAYER OF GIRL IS CONTINUED Mr. and Mrs. Guy Bloodworth of FUNERAL SERVICES FOR LITTLE Macon were guests of friends in the city at the Shearer Hardware Store during the holidays and invoice, resumed her work at B. C.

this morning. Mrs. R. Warren Roberts and daughter Madelon have returned from St. Louis They have been guests of relatives there since Christmas.

Harve Stuck and niece Miss Catherine Kennedy of Kansas City were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Bargdoll, West Clay street, Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Brockman and Mrs. Carrie McGovern and Miss Willie Smith were guests of friends in Trenton Sunday afternoon. C. K.

Seigrist of the Chula Mercantile Company was a business visitor in Chillicothe Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Ciyde Maxwell apd daughters of Trenton were guests of Mrs. Maxwell's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. N. B. Gill Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Haynes were guests of Mr. Haynes' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Haynes in Dawn, Sunday afternoon.

Mrs. R. L. Schneider of Chula visited with frierids in the city Saturday while trading with local merchants. Mrs.

R. D. Atkins of Chula spent the week-end in the city the guest of her sister, Mrs. Ha Tanner. G.

M. Kriner of Chula is in the city today looking after business matters. Mrs. A. C.

Dickman and daughter Miss Cleo of Chula were guests of friends in the city Saturday. Bolivar Robinson came from Hominy, Oklahoma Saturday evening to join John West of Humphreys spent the week-end hi the city visiting with relatives ajid friends. Mrs. L. S.

Tharp and daughter, Miss Lorraine of Meadville were guests of friends in the city Saturday. Mrs. H. C. Butts returned today from a several days visit in Gallatin with her mother, Mrs.

Mary Powell and brother, Wallace Powell and family. Don Horn and Miss Marian Schneider motored to St. Joseph Sunday and visited with friends. Mr. and Mrs.

C. A. Fish and family motored to Milan Sunday. They were accompanied by Miss Gayle McClaskey, who has been a guest of Mr. and Mrs.

Fish and family for the past two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. James Darr and Mr. and Mrs.

C. M. Darr motored to St. Joseph Sunday. They were guests of Mr.

and Mrs. Lawrence Gier. Mrs. Lawrence Gier and son, Eddie accompanied them home for a week's visit. Mrs.

E. P. Stubbs went to Kansas City this morning to spend the week with relatives. Mrs. Hugh Doolin and Mrs.

T. B. Doolin of Meadville were visitors in the city Saturday. Miss Mildred Jenkins returned to her home in Chula Sunday, after a visit in the city with relatives and friends. DOROTHY SCHNEIDER HELD IN FLINT, TODAY.

Officers at Bay City, Are Holding a Man There Suspected as Being the Slayer of the Kindergarten Student. HOUSTON IS PREPARING FOR CONVENTION SEVENTEEN FIRST-CLASS HOTELS WILL TAKE CARE OF THE BIG GATHERING THIS SPRING. FLINT, Jan. the funeral services were being held today for Dorothy Schneider, 5-year-old kid- dergarten student, more than 100 police and sheriff's officers continued their search for her maniac slayer. They sought a man suffering from a rare type of sexual dementia, which led him to abduct and murder the girl, and to make queer incisions in her body with a surgeon's precision.

The day started with the faint hope that a Bay City, man, who once posed as a physician and was leader of a religious cult until two months ago, would be connected with the murder. Every other trail investigated in the last fifty hours had proved barren. The leader, whose name was not disclosed by Oscar G. Olander, state commissioner of public safety, who at Governor Green's order had taken complete charge of the investigation, disappeared about ten day ago after serious charges had been made against him by a girl member of his flock. Dorothys ooay was found Thursday Miss Ella Grace Maloney went to i under the ice of Benson Creek, a deso- Kansas -City this morning for a few late spot seven miles from here.

days visit with her sister, Miss Esther Maloney. i Mrs. Louis Palm, returned to her home in Kansas City Saturday. Mrs: Palm spent several days last week in Mrs. Robinson, who is a guest of her the city, a guest of her mother, Mrs.

A. parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E.

Claybrook. Lowenstein and family. Mrs. Charles Strang and son, Ralph of Avalon were in Chillicothe Saturday transacting business. Mr.

and Mrs. Syl Gantner and daughter, Marilyn reutrned from a week-end visit iri Kansas City Sunday evening. They were guests of Mrs: Gantner's sister, Mrs. Aubrey Brown and Mr. Brown.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Austin and son motored to Tarkio Sunday and spent the day with friends. Today they motored to St.

Joseph on a short business and pleasure trip. They will return this evening. Mr. Mrs. Frank'Austin and sons, and Melvirilmd Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Hicks and son, Junior were guests of friends in Trenton Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M.

J. Rice and daughter, Nancy motored to Trenton Sunday af- ternoori. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Emmerson were guests of Mrs.

Emmerson's sister, Mrs. Paul Dowell and Mr. Do well at their country home near Springhill Sunday. Mr. and Mrs.

Ed. Kelley, Springfield, Illinois who have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Emmerson went to St. Fred Brady of Kansas City spent Sunday to th'e city the guest of relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tate-of Trenton were guests over the week end of friends in the city. Miss Neva M. Adams of Grant City is visiting with friends in the city this week.

W. D. McKee of Polo was among the business visitors in Chillicothe Monday. Miss Mildred Sawyer of 'Maryville is spending a few days in the city visiting with friends. Mr.

and Mrs. T. Clark returned Saturday evening from a few days visit in Kansas City. Isaac Graham returned this morning from St. Louis; where he spent the week end with his family.

Jake Brandenberger went to St. Louis Saturday evening for an extended visit with relatives. Prof, and Mrs. J. D.

Rice were weekend guests of relatives and friends in Pattonsburg. They were accompanied by Mrs. Carl Bray, who will be their guest this week. Mrs. Homer Reynolds is confined to Description of the kidnaper and the dilapidated sedan he drove were broadcast throughout the Middle West, but both disappeared like phantoms, despite a manhunt without parallel in Michigan.

Four army planes were pressed into service yesterday. Veteran pilots circled above the woods and little used roads. They found several derelict cars not the one sought. One plane will remain here to aid the search. Olander took charge early Sunday after Governor Green had found the search was not getting results.

He called the most experienced members of the state police and succeeded in coordinating the efforts of city and county authorities. ST. PAUL, Jan. officers of Minnesota are on close watch for the slayer of Dorothy Schneider, The Convention Will Be Held in the Municipal Auditorium Which Cost the Texas City More Than HOUSTON, Jan. a city of nearly 300,000, which brought the sea inland fifty miles to its door, is getting ready to 1 entertain the 1928 national Democratic convention June 26.

Four years ago the delegates drifted to Broadway, but this June they will come to Main street! And what will they find? They will find the "world's model man made port." They will find seventeen first class hotels, including one with 1,000 rooms, the largest in Texas. They will find a beautiful bay, twenty miles from Houston and the Gulf of Mexico, with o.ne of America's finest pleasure beaches just fifty miles away. They will find sky scrapers which top the thirty-story mark, beautiful parks lots of old time "Southern hospitality." The municipal auditorium, which cost more than will seat 6,200 and is believed to be large enough to acco- modate the convention delegates. However, if the convention committee believes otherwise, the city is prepared to erect a temporary auditorium that will accomodate as many as wanted. The delegates will delight in a climate made to order for just such an occasion.

Though far in the Southland, Houston in June is a city with ideal ed and published by Jesse H. Jones. Mr. Jones is'chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic national committee, and it was upon his invitation offer at the January 12 meeting in Washington that the convention was awarded to Houston. MARINES HAVE REACHED CORINTO, JOIN COMRADES TWELVE HUNDRED OF THEM ARRIVED IN NICARAGUA FROM U.

S. OVER WEEK-END. Every Effort Will Be Made to Dislodge General Sandino, Leader of the Rebel Forces in Nicaragua for Months. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Jan. United States marine reinforcements have taken the field against the rebel band led by General Augustino Sandino, it was learned today.

The marines, numbering approximately 1200; arrived at Corinto from the United States over the week-end and instead of proceeding here, went directly to field posts. Meanwhile Major General LeJeune, commander of the marine corps, and Grig. Gen. Logan Feland, who has been placed in charge of the American forces here, proceeded from Corinto to Managua. General Feland came by train.

They immediately went into conference with Colonel Louis Gulick, who has been in command here. The officers spent several hours going over the situation. The last major engagement with the rebels was reported Saturday when an official report said Maj. R. E.

Powell, commanding a marine airplane bombing squadron, had attacked a standing patrol, killing 40 rebels. weather conditions. Cool breezes sweep, The attaCK was near Elcllipote moun tain, where Sanding and his followers by Orville Emmerson. Mr. and Mrs.

H. W. Kiple motored to Trejaton Sunday afternoon and visited with friends. Mr. and Mrs.

Byron Stevens and Evan Thompson were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Austin in Trenton Sunday. Mrs. Nora Epperson and daughter, Miss I'lee went to Kansas City Sunday for a few days visit.

Charles Shepherd, Raymond Gladieux and Russel Steen motored to Brookfield Sunday and attended the dance at the Blue Goose Inn. Arch Shiett spent the in Eversonville the guest of friends. Miss Grace Wilson of Avalon spent the week-end in the city with Misses Neva and Nina Bruce. Mr. and Mrs.

Nick Horeath were guests of relatives in Sampsel this week-end. Harry Burgess, Brock Smith, Fran? Smith and C. Peterson and Charles Mitts of Chula were guests of friends Saturday while here transacting business. Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Myers went to Linneus Saturday and spent the week-end with -Mrs. Ora Phillips and family. Jesse Shields of the Prudential Life Insurance Company is in Cameron today transacting business. Mrs. Dale Osborri returned this morning from Gait.

She has been a guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Constant.

Reece Annul, Ralph VanStane, Harold Blue and Misses Velma and Mary Schneider were guests of Miss Mildred Joseph today. They home on South Walnut street on account of illness. Mr. and Mrs Walter England of Breckenridge were guests of Mr. and Mrs.

J. E. England in the city today. Crockett Bidden and son of Ludlow in the city today transacting business. Mr.

and Mrs Hubert Granthan of Cameron are guests of friends in the city today. Miss Retta Butler of Wheeling visited with friends in- the city Saturday. E. S. Huffey, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Seigrist of Chula were visitors in the city Monday. Miss' Mildred Warner of Wheeling visited with friends in the city Monday. Flint, with one suspect taken into custody. Sheriff U.

S. Pratt of Anoka, about 30 miles north of Minneapolis, Sunday arrested a man who said he was from Detroit and that he recently left the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. The suspect, Sheriff Pratt reported, purchased a ticket for Detroit after he said that his automobile was stalled about six miles from Anoka and that he could not find the car. Sheriff Pratt said the man acted "nervous and suspicious." He was described as five feet eight inches tall, has light hair and weighs about 160 pounds. Sheriff Pratt immediately notified Flint authorities of the arrest.

Eighth Duck Arrives Owen Hutson, of Carlisle, Arkansas, brother of the twins, Ray and Roy and Joe, who enrolled in the fall for the complete course of business training at C. B. C. arrived today to enroll for the Commercial Course. Four other stud- e.nts in the complete department from Carlisle are Joe Ben Pfeiffer, Robert Bennett, Fletcher Walters and Curtis Young.

Joe Hutson and Curtis Young Try a Constitution Wantad. Jenkins in Chula Sunday. Stanely Shatto, Arthur Gier and Misses -Velma Wheeler and Mildred Braun motored to Kansas City Sunday and spent the day. Attorney L. A.

Warden of Trenton was transacting here today. business in circuit court Mr. and Mrs. A. C.

Nichols and Mi'. and Mrs. Virgil Bloss motored to the home of Herbert Nichols near Prince- Miss Mary Hopkins of Excelsior were on the football squad the past Springs was a week end guest of Dr. season. Helen Bowie.

Mr. H. Glagg of Harris is a guest of the V. P. Lihdsey home.

Miss Patrica Lindsey, who has been ill at the family home on Washington street is improving. Miss Bernetta Smith is confined to her home on South Washington street today with illness. Mrs. A. C.

Dickman and daughter, Miss Cleo of Chula were guests of friends in the city Saturday. Orville-Eccles of Chula was among the business visitors in Chillicothe Monday. Mi-, and Mrs. Frank Scruby, Miss Nina Scruby and Harrison Boutwell motored to Trenton Sunday afternoon. Mr.

and Mrs. Floyd iSummerville, were guests of friends in Trenton Sunday. Miss AmyrGibbons of Dawn was in the city today visiting with friends. Mr. and Wilkerson motored to St.

Joseph Saturday evening and spent the with their parents. Mrs. R. J. RearxJon of Braymer is in the city today trading with local mer- North Locust street.

Mrs. O. P. Pettig and daughter, Peggy of Montgomery City, who have been guests of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

James Kelso since the holidays, returned to Montgomery Saturday. Mrs. Cora Fullerton spent Sunday in Avalon visiting with relatives and friends. J. S.

Blain of Kansas City spent Sunday in the city, a guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Hatcher and family.

Rev. J. E. Berger of University City, who spent Sunday in the city, returned to his home this morning. Rev.

Berger conducted morning and evening services at the Presbyterian church, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Leigh of Kingston came today to attend the Emerson Burns trial.

Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Potts and children and Mrs. Lena Gallagher motored to Utica Sunday and were dinner guests the city from the gulf, driving away the heat of summer days.

And June is not the rainy season here. Perhaps there will be a few showers in that to keep the atmosphere refreshing with the fragrance of growing Some eight years age Houston was a city of about There were few skyscrapers here then. But in June the 20,000 delegates to the national Democratic convention will find a city of metropolis of the Southwest. Passenger steamers playing betwe2n Houston and New York and Philadelphia and other, points east will many delegates to the Democratic convention fifty miles inland up Houston's ship channel to its front door. As they pass along the channel, they will see industries crowded along the banks, representing an investment of more than $150,000,000 while only a few years ago only canoes could ply the waters of the stream and trees grew along the banks where now factories, warehouses and refineries are fast fill-' ing up vacant plots of ground.

Some 1 $5,000000, would have bought out the investments along the channel ten years ago. were strongly entrenched. The bombing planes swung out of the clouds on the patrol. Some of the planes flew low and strafted the patrol with a vigorous machine gun fire. Hand grenades were used.

The Sanding patrol returned the fire. One of the marine planes was struck twice but was not downed. Meanwhile Nicaraguan politics became more tangled through the repeated report that President Adolfo Diaz was considering resigning. From a source close to the president it was learned Diaz was by he termed the lack of support from the United States. Confirmation of the rumors thus far has been impossible.

Society and Clubs Miss Fern E. McCoy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bert McCoy of JJtica and Mr. Loris J.

Sydow of St. Louis were married at Columbia, Saturday, January fourteenth, nineteen hundred and twenty-eight. Mr. and Mrs. Sydow have gone on a weddipg trip to St.

Louis. Mrs is a graduate nurse of Noyes Hospital at St. Joseph: The College Girls class, of the Elm Street Methodist church issued invitations to a party to be given in Commerc3 Hall at C. B. C.

Tuesday night. Miss Altha Van Hoozer is teacher. Mrs. Rpzetta Plaster and granddaughter, Miss Mildred Bowes, entertained at dinner Sunday at the Plaster home near Bedford, Mr. and Mrs.

Ernest Plaster, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Timmons of near Eversonville and Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Youngs.

The Duplicate Bridge Club met Saturday at the home of Mrs. Jonathan Hawley. The party was in honor of Mrs. Ray Brooks, who has been a member of the club for several years. A two course luncheon was served at 4:30 by all the members and a souvenir gift of a deck of cards was presented the guest of honor.

Mrs. W. W. Edgerton made high score and received a bridge set. The next meeting will be regular at the home of Mrs.

Shirley Brownfield. of the Missouri Federation, attended the meeting. Mrs. G. T.

Sailor, State Publicity Chairman and a member of the board, was unable to attend. Kay Howard Back Ray Howard returned last night from Bendena, Kansas, where he has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. R.

Howard. He resumed his work in the Commercial department at C. E. C. this morning.

Miss Rousch ta New Jersey Miss Nellie Rousch, formerly assistant to Miss Wilkinson at the State Industrial Home, a.nd a student of C. B. C. has accepted a matron at the Orphans' Home in Elizabeth, N. J.

Miss Rousch to her home in MaysvUle for a short visit with relatives before leaving for the east. The Kil Kare Club will meet tomorrow with Mrs. W. A. Cash, 1314 Locust street.

Sorosis will enjoy a program next Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Shirley Brownfield. Mrs. 'Russel Barnett with the assistance of Mrs. E.

R. Carlstead will arrange a program on the Symphony Orchestra. What Chillicothe Writers Are Doing The. names of three Chillicotheans appeared in the "What Missouri and Karisas Writers are Doing" column in the Kansas City Journal Post Sunday, "Mabel Hillyer Eastman has a poem called The Dream Bubble Elf in the January issue of Wee Wisdom. Mrs.

Eastman lives in Architecture, a magazine published by Scribners, will soon have an article written by Mrs. Elizabeth Palmer Milbank of Chillicothe. The article is called Adobe Style of Architecture and has been sold to that magazine. Miss Laura A. Schmitz, Chillicothe, Mo.

is the author of A Week Trip for Ace, appearing as the feature story in the January, 1928 issue of the Household magazine. The story is featured on the cover page and elaborately illustrated." Mr. and Mrs. Hobert Glick, H. Kessler, Ida, Lola and Oreri Kessler of I this city and Mr.

and Mrs. Harold 1 Ward of Dawn were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Haynes at Blue Mound, Sunday. Chillicothe Chapter 113 Order ot Eastern Star will meet Tuesday, 7:20.

Business and social hour. Visitors welcome. Kate G. Johnson, W. K.

3E30Z fl IOE20I Mrs. Emma DeVorss entertained a number of friends with a party at her apartment on North Locust street, Saturday evening. The evening was spent in dancing after which refreshments were served. SENATEISIN FAVOROFTARIFF REDUCTION Mrs. Ray Bassett returned Saturday afternoon to her home in Kansas City after a week's visit in the city with her parents, Judge and Mrs.

Arch B. Davis of Mr. and Mrs. M. A.

Potts. Misses Madelon Ham and Irene Hubbell of Trenton were guests over the week-end of Miss Ham's sister, a student at the Chillicothe Business College. Houston ranks second to New York City in the value of exports. More than sixty steamship lines connect Houston with all points of the world bringing to Texas shores hemp and silks from Japan and China, toys from Germany fruits from the West Indies and oil from Mexico and South ships take to European, Asiatic, South American and'other ports cargoes of grain, cotton- lumber, cotton seed products, oil products and various other commodities. At last Texas'is building good roads, miles of pavement replacing mud roads leading into Houston from all directions and more roads are still being built.

The city has more than 250 miles of hard surfaced streets and some 350 miles of gravel streets. Main street, lighted like a ballroom and paved as smooth, stretches out thru downtown Houston five miles, leading past the municipal art galleries, Rice institute, one of the finest colleges-in the land; Hermann park, the playground of Houston and into the fine residential district of the city. Delegates to the convention need not worry over inability to find a place to stay. There are now seventeen first class hotels in the city with approximately 5,000 rooms. Another hotel, with about 400 rooms, is nearly completed.

The Chamber of Commerce estimates that there are 9,000 additional rooms available in smaller hotels, cal- leges and boarding houses of the better class throughout the city. Among the leading hotels are: Rice, with 1,000 rooms; Lamar, 400; Warwick, 400; Plaza, 300; Bender, 250; Ben Milam, 250; Sam Houston, 225; Auditorium, 200; William Penn, 175; Colter, 173; Stratford, 125; Bristol, 125. There are three daily newspapers in Houston, the Houston Post-Dispatch, owned by R. S. Sterling, chairman of the state highway commission; the Houston Press of the Scripps-Howard group, and the Houston Chronicle, THE VOTE TAKEN TODAY WAS 54 TO 34, TWELVE REPUBLICANS VOTING FOB MEASURE.

Only Two Democrats Voted Against the Adoption of the McMastcr Basis With Industry. WASHINGTON, Jan. United States senate went! on record today as favoring reduction of existing republican tariff schedules. The McMaster resolution was adopted, stating that such revision should be made to establish agriculture on a basis of equality with industry. The vote was 54 to 34.

Twelve Mid-Western. Republicans joined with the almost solid Democratic forces to secure adoption of the resolution. Only two Democrats voted against the resolution. Girls Give Unique Party Twelve young ladies at C. B.

C. entertained twelve young men with a leap year line party at the Strand, Saturday night. Rrefreshme.nts were served at reserved tables in the Sugar Bowl after the show. Aspirin Gargle in Sore Throat Miss Georgia Willard entertained with a one o'clock dinner Sunday, honoring her mother, Mrs. Maude Willard, the occasion being her birthday.

Covers were laid for eight. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Maxwell and 'daughters of Trenton were out of town guests. ON SALE Mr.

and Mrs. Samuel Babb, West First street entertained Mr. and U. M. Babb with a one o'clock dinner Sunday.

The Tuesday morning English fclass will meet tomorrow with Mrs. Warren Roberts. This is the first meeting since the holidays. Light Weight White China Cup and Saucer We 8 Unusual Quality For This Price. ft 6 LOCAL NEWS NOTES (Continued from page 1) of this city, who is First Vice-President In tlic Windoiv Toniyht.

jj On Sale Wednesday jj Prepare a harmless and effective gargle by dissolving two "Bayer's Tablets of Aspirin" in four tablespoonfuls of water. Gargle throat thoroughly. Repeat in two-hours- if-necessary. Be sure you use only the genuine Bayr Aspirin, marked with, the Bayer iross, which can be had in tin boxes of twelve tablets for few cents. A party or a dance but a couple of days away, and the dress that makes you look your best must be cleaned before it can be worn again.

To you this may seem a hopeless dilemma, for a garment cleaned by ordinary methods must usually be "aired" for several days before -it-can be worn again. Our customers know that we are in business to help them out of just such difficulties as this. We are always ready to help when you are in a hurry. But it is far better send your clothing here regularly so that it will always be kept in perfect condition. Shall we have our delivery car call? PHONE" 520 HERE IT 'S ON I H.

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