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Newspaper
Carthage Citizen
Location
Carthage, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1940
Page
3
Detroit reports Chevrolet dealers posted a 55.8 percent jump in total sales for the second 10 days of March, reaching 33,510 vehicles. New car sales rose 23.4 percent, while used car sales climbed 26.2 percent from the prior year, with 52,852 units sold.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed a large barn about four oclock in the afternoon on the Draper farm three miles northwest of Arlington. Hay and farming tools were lost, two calves saved, and nearby outbuildings and a house endangered but saved by neighbors. The barn was partially insured. Other local notes report health improvements and visitors in the area.
The Home Helpers club met Tuesday with 27 members and 2 guests west of Arlington. Activities included a creeds, a song, talks on electric stoves and refrigerators, and sponsor-naming for 4-H girls. Various visits and entertainments at the Friendship and Priscilla clubs, plus hospital and church events, are noted along with several local residents attending events in Indianapolis and Rushville.
Virgil M. Simmons, Indiana conservation commissioner, states that sale or purchase of small or large mouth bass, Kentucky bass, silver or yellow bass, white or striped bass, red eared sunfish, crappies and rock bass is prohibited in Indiana regardless of where taken. The law defines sale to include serving these species in restaurants and hotels, with an exception for fish legally caught in Indiana during open season.
In Rockwell Texas speculation spans 80 years over an immense buried rock wall enclosing about four square miles. Investigations report stones unlike any found within 300 miles and a wall with a smooth outer face and terraced inner slope. Excavations reach 35 feet with potential openings and ruins of a prehistoric race claimed by a leading scientist to challenge world history. Exploration continues to settle origin once and for all.
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