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Newspaper
Coatesville Herald
Location
Coatesville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1919
Page
2
The Coatesville Herald announces subscription terms with Harmon H. Hathaway as publisher. Subscriptions must be prepaid and payments are required in advance, with rates stated as $1.00 per year within Indiana and $1.50 outside Indiana.
England and France are in perfect accord on a Channel tunnel project. War experiences have softened opposition arguments, and engineers expect no serious difficulty drilling through the chalk bed beneath the Channel as electric tools would advance the work rapidly.
The daily papers report coal prices rising due to production shortages with forecasts of difficult winter access. Amid economic tension, women celebrate the Susan B Anthony amendment passage and Indiana franchise leagues plan celebrations as ratification efforts begin nationwide.
Col Arthur Woods directs a program to retrain disabled soldiers sailors and marines and place rehabilitated personnel in skilled jobs. Training pays base or minimum stipends of 65 to 75 dollars monthly plus dependent allowances, ensuring support during training and reducing charity concern.
The suffrage amendment passed the Senate after House approval and now awaits ratification by states. Leaders in Indiana consider a special session to hasten approval, though no immediate action is certain. The long struggle for women's voting rights nears final success.
Announcement of a special one and a third fare round trip from June 20 to July 13 for the Methodist Centenary has surged inquiries from all over the United States. Housing plans include hotels, public buildings, and private homes, with over 40,000 rooms listed for visitors lodging across Columbus.
Visitors may book lodging through a hotel clerk with a uniform rate of one dollar per day for a single room and one fifty per day for a double. Columbus has many new restaurants expanding since the May 24 dryness and expo grounds add quick meal facilities for large crowds.
Arrangements for a colossal projection screen for the Methodist Centenary in Columbus from June 20 to July 12 are underway. The 115 by 115 foot screen will be supported by a four story building’s foundations and withstand 40 pounds per square foot. A special lantern has proven capable of projecting images across four and a half city blocks in New York. The project, designed by Harry C. Holbrook, costs about 8000 dollars and uses salvageable face lumber treated with a white surface.
BER OFESSOR LA MONTA. WAR NER of Columbia university is director of fine arts and designer of exhibits and scenery for the Methodist Centenary Celebration in Columbus Ohio from June 20 to July 13. He planned a large display of domestic and foreign exhibits arranged in scenic effects across the centenary buildings. Warner previously oversaw world exhibits in Boston Chicago Baltimore and Providence and has studied and worked abroad.
Columbus Ohio crowds the Coliseum at the Methodist Centenary celebration from June 9 to July 3 as the centerpiece. The structure, built by Ohio at a cost a quarter of a million dollars for five stock exhibitions, now hosts major events and features a $60,000 pipe organ.
The arena claims the largest stage in America and seating for 2 000 with a 75 musician orchestra pit. Concrete steel and glass construction promises superb acoustics. Daily shows include The Wayfarer with 1 060 participants and organ recitals plus symphony concerts and lectures by Lowell Thomas.
Porter Clodfelter was struck on the head by a rock during a Sunday swim in Raccoon. He required seven stitches to close the wound but still went out that evening with his Waveland girlfriend in his car.
The Present Day club met May 29 with nine members responding to roll call by quoting a sermon. A paper by Mrs. C D Knight on Bible Prophecies Fulfilled impressed the group. Music by the hostess, refreshments of ice cream and cake, and a pleasant social hour ended the club year.
Anna Elizabeth Fry of Champaign Illinois purchased part of the James Bridges farm east of Greencastle for 46360 dollars about 190 dollars per acre. Possession is to be taken September 1.
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