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Newspaper
Covington Republican
Location
Covington, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1923
Page
2
A Greensburg gathering of the Decatur County Sunday School council arranged a county wide schedule of work and programs for each Sunday school for the coming year.
Gustave Martin, 35, died after a sewer cave in buried him up to his neck at Misha waka. He watched helpers struggle to rescue him but died before relief workers could finish.
The Bernard Hurst post of the American Legion at Brookville purchased the Meeks property on the main street. The 100 year old house will be razed to clear the site for a new community building planned by the Legion.
The Greensburg circuit court jury finds for Shelbyville Citizens Gas Co. against Louis Friedman a Muncie contractor. Judgment awarded totals 88505 on breach of contract claim.
Purdue university agricultural experiment station at La Fayette reports fruit and crops in Indiana escaped serious damage despite unusually low temperatures plus Tuesday snow rain and high wind.
At the Sixth District Federation of Clubs closing session in Brookville Miss Marie Gard of Liberty was reelected chairman Mrs Cora Long Saxon of Falmouth reelected vice chairman and Mrs Roscoe O Byrene of Brookville reelected secretary treasurer Rushville was chosen as next year’s meeting place.
The Diapason Singing class successors to the Missouri Harmony singers will meet in Margaret Dodd Memorial Hall Morristown on May 27 for an annual gathering and homecoming. The Missouri Harmony singers organized about 15830 and the Diapason class preserves its lineage as descendants of the original group.
Representatives from the state highway commission New York Central railroad and the Laporte chamber of commerce gathered in New Carlisle to address the death crossing. State highway officials present included John D Williams director Alva Bureh vice chairman and Earl Crawford.
An affidavit charging grand larceny was filed in Shelbyville city court against Amos L. Ferguson formerly of Marietta in Shelby county. He and his brother bought a used automobile from a Shelbyville dealer paying with a $150 check drawn on an Indianapolis bank. Ferguson took the car and said he planned to drive to Washington state. The check later was returned marked no funds.
A PTA organized in Cannelton with 19 charter members. Andrew C. Little, city superintendent, serves as chairman. Officers elected include Mrs Leona Johannes Roland president, Mrs Jennie Bacon Memphill vice-president, and Mrs Hannetta Mueller Vogel secretary treasurer. Committees named to report later with a full program planned for 1923 24 school and club year.
Clark County Council allocates 2000 dollars at request of the Clark County Bar Association in Jeffersonville to index county recorder and circuit clerk records. Large volumes of probate and civil case files remain unindexed making tracing difficult for attorneys. Indexing stalled after the state board of accounts refused to authorize payment of bills as current expenses.
Mrs. Pearl Klinger of Elkhart is described as a grandmother at thirty two, a figure that trims three years from a Cincinnati woman's grandmother record at thirty six. The note highlights intercity comparison of early matriarchal ages.
Miss Vivienne Muntington of Folkstone England, great granddaughter of ex Senator Daniel B. Pratt of Indiana, resident in Logansport forty years, inherits the Pratt estate of $100,000 on her twenty first birthday as dictated by her great grandfather’s will.
Joseph Frans a 64 year old prominent Lake County banker died at his Crown Point home from paralysis. Hardin Roads 75 president of Merchants National Bank died at Muncie after several weeks illness.
The board of governors of the Associated Advertising Clubs of the Wabash Valley met in Brazil to finalize the schedule for the Associated Clubs meeting in Brazil on May 17.
The Logansport United Brethren tabernacle was dedicated Sunday. Rev. A. C. Siddall of Dayton Ohio, church erection secretary of the national organization, delivered the principal address.
Governor McCray in Indianapolis announced two dozen state appointments including the formation of two new commissions and one new department created by the 1923 general assembly session.
The Rotary club of Franklin installed Livy Young as president George Freeman as vice president Chester Roberts as secretary treasurer and J M Henderson as sergeant at arms in a formal ceremony chaired by club members.
An oil gusher erupted at the Mock farm in Jay County near Portland as drillers worked on a well. Oil shot ten feet above a 90 foot derrick, and before containment began, several hundred barrels of oil were wasted.
Leo Browne aged twenty four pleads guilty to shooting with intent to kill and is sentenced by Judge R Carney in the Versailles circuit court to two to fourteen years at Jeffersonville reformatory. He is also fined for carrying concealed weapons.
The First Presbyterian church building committee in Elwood led by Rev. Herbert F. E. Cormuelle selects T. E. Setters & Sons of Anderson to construct the new church on the 80 year site. The contract price is $58,500 excluding lighting, heating and plumbing.
School authorities in Muncie note a puzzling drop of 38 school age children after a year of population growth, rising housing demand, and higher factory employment. The latest enumeration lists 10 891 children, down from 10 929.
Anderson police hunt Mr and Mrs Leonard Maiden who recently arrived in the city and have not been seen since involving passing worthless checks. The fraud was alleged to have been conducted by a young woman posing as Mrs Maiden using a street address tied to a Muncie hotel dining room entrance.
City officials announced a return to the prior street lighting schedule after a brief moonlight trial. Officials cited financial conditions as the reason for abandoning the moonlight system which reduced electric usage only when moonlight was present.
E. B. Northcutt whose Anderson soft drink shop was shut by Sheriff Arthur Daniels of Madison County under a temporary restraining order faced a second court hearing on permanent injunction but failed to appear. The premises remain under sheriff's lock and key. Northcutt formerly served on the police force until last year.
Fair officials in Tippecanoe County reach a cooperative agreement with the Farm Bureau and Lafayette civic groups to remove objectionable shows and gambling devices from the annual county exposition. After initial resistance the fair management agrees to support the clubs and withdraw controversial attractions to protect income and public interest.
Morgan F. Vining resigns after ten years as director of Peru community service. He will leave July 15 and move to Boulder Colorado to head the bureau of community organization at the University of Colorado.
Richard Elder an eight year old from Fort Wayne and Warren Bechberger twenty two from LaGrange county drowned when a boat crossing Big Long lake filled from a leak and capsized.
Edward Pickard reports on British protests over Germany's Ruhr stance and French court sentences to death in the Ruhr rail sabotage case. Britain chats with Berlin on reparations while France demands debt reductions. Admiral Sims criticizes Navy leadership. a New York judge rules liquor limits for physicians unconstitutional under Prohibition terms.
Chinese bandits hijacked an express from Shanghai to Peking. They kidnapped many passengers including 14 Americans and several Britons. Ransom of 1 million dollars demanded. Some captives released after abuse. others carried off as China vows action. Foreign powers seek release and discuss protections for nationals.
Britain issues a peremptory note to Moscow demanding within ten days that the Soviet government provide satisfactory assurances on propaganda liability for offenses against British subjects and ships, agree to compensate, withdraw two Moscow replies, and accept no controversy over the charges.
Ausanne was shaken Thursday night by the killing of M. Vorovsky, the Soviet envoy to the Near East peace conference. A Swiss officer, once in the imperial Russian army, killed him saying Bolshevists tortured his father and uncle. Vorovsky had faced threats from Swiss Fascisti.
Secretary Mellon announced a May treasury program declaring federal finances sound and a possible annual balanced budget. He projected the fiscal year ending June 30 1923 would show a revenue surplus exceeding 125 million dollars and a steady debt reduction path.
At the New York annual convention the Chamber of Commerce of the United States called for a rapid, united effort to restore railroads to a sound, profitable position. It endorsed private ownership with government regulation and urged consolidation into about twenty large systems without altering established rate basing points.
Georges Barbot of France impresses with a tiny forty foot wing span flivver monoplane that crosses the English Channel and returns on four gallons of gasoline and 15 cents worth of oil. The craft uses a two cylinder motorcycle engine and lands and takes off slowly for safety. It floats on water due to thick hollow wings and measures forty feet tip to tip, twelve feet long.
A collection of aphorisms contrasts law with uncertainty and blunt honesty. Observations touch on folly, discovery, stock, politics, whispers, experience, money, and charitable giving in a compact, reflective tone.
RESIDENT GOMPERS begins a campaign to expel the Red menace from the American Federation of Labor. He shows a sharp cut in the A F L monthly funds used for Chicago Federation of Labor operations tied to W Z Foster's Trade Union Educational League. The A F L executive council also demands Seattle Central Labor union and Minneapolis Trades and Labor assembly reverse their endorsement of Soviet autocracy in Russia.
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