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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - August 9, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaA a a a a a a. Ray am cooing a 55 a a a is it the daily Banner Ujj 0 i press service 4 All the Home news 0j at it Waves for All a Tokay seven a Akk Castle Indiana wednesday at �1st it 1�?~k��. No. A re books list Issi id for s i i in i s Quot Tkv it a �01 o it conty Book by co knit is Perintend-1111 ent Frank Jickell a his t i 4sed books Are available am plication Shim b Hils Mil a \ supplies will lir \ cede i also in the Cal of Eil Hfrank Jarrell county superintendent and Trust. Have about completed plans for the opening of the to county schools on Friday september and in Conno a urn with the open in of the next school year and the Urchasko by the children of test books. Or Jarro �1 has issued the folding list of Bonks to be used Ana he Cost of each High 8cho�ii text Hooks g 1939-40 English a re experiences in thought and sex Russion $1.40 acquiring skill in Inglish work Bonk $ .41 prose the City Silt new director welfare to Cost $136,171 says budget estimate Iok the Gill i Vear by welfare Board with Ai editor i s i i it i ii t l for 1910 Federal government and state reimburse county in part old ago Lead he be id ext and Petry for calf i enjoyment $1.58 directed enjoyment in literature Vork Book $1.4 engl Kli Iii experiences in thought and exr Sion $1.40 using English effectively work , $ .4 5 prose r As and poetry for appreciation. $166 i if directed appreciation in literature. Vork Book $ 47 is a a a English ii English literature. $1.9s. Eng lid. 12 american literature. $1.80. Social science on the Road to civilization $1.78 flip development of America $1.73 the citizen and his government $1.81 ev��4r 2 a a $1.51 civics through problems $1.55. It to ural science new Eelen Clary physics $1.62 now Intro Nuotio to biology. $158 nations at work geography si$l73 foundation of health $1 37. Mathematics first course in algebra 7c second course in algebra. 07c new plane geometry $1.12 new solid geometry me. A latin latin Rint year $1 if latin a second 14. A to twentieth Century typewriting. Complete 3rd edition$1.35 Gen. Eral Burnete is 33 twentieth Cen a Tury Book keeping. $1.26. Mulset Vaneous modern dictionary i Macmillan or West or Siccle Lewinte am recommended. Work books other in English should selected by the teacher where Jeno Pennington june Pennington newly elected director of the High school band will assume his duties with the beginning of the school year on sept 11 he has been in charge of the band concerts Given Down town during the summer and is already a popular favorite with the musicians of till City. He had a group of school children in some splendid demonstrations it rotary on Weenie Day. Band concert to fair tomorrow \ skied program of my ii is 1011�?Tlar Iii sic am solos As a part of the fair program there will be presented at Robe Ann Park on thursday evening Al 7 00 p. A band concert by the Grucan Castle band. The proposed budget of the Putnam county welfare Board has been completed by county director Benton Curtis approve by the Nimb is of i the Board and filed with the county auditor for the consideration of the county Council. Hie budget Han been approved by the state welfare Board j hut there wan a slight increase by j the state Board in inc figures of the local Board. The Federal and state governments reimburse the county in the following her cd stages 81 per cent on of i age , 71 per cent on dependent children placed with relatives 2.5 per cent on costs of crippled children and practically 50 per cent on oin rating expenses which includes Balales of the director and assistants. Because of this reimbursement there remains $41,660 to be raised by the county s tax Levy effect in 1940, that Levy being fixed by the welfare Board at 19 cents on the one Hundred dollars of valuation of property which valuation in the county for taxation purposes is $21,800.000 this year. Last year the Levy to produce Revenue for this year was fixed at 15 cents on the one Hundred dollars. Announce parking Arlas at fair chief of police de Maddox is giving careful consideration to the anticipated traffic situation at Robe Ann Park during the horse show. He has announced the following parking areas to be used North of the show ring in area marked with stones East of the show Rhu around the 4-h tent parking permitted along one Side of main drives in Park und the limited space around the hoist Bain. The Small parking area directly West of show ground is to to reserved for people who Ailt officially connected with the fair. The men who Art to assist vidtoi3 in plur Kiis a Are dutch Smith. Edgar Perkins Hank Stone. Berkley Watson John Brown and Paul Bintz. These men will extend every Courtesy a it ssh a to fair visitors and it is hoped the Drivers will cooperate with them. A great Deal of work has been done to beautify the Purk in the last two years and it is hoped the people will enjoy it during the fair but not abuse the Young Trees shrubs or newly Laid soil do a w Michigan due to High wind of life while proper n damage Vii i i \ into tii Ofsa is of Hollars Junior 1-11 leaders held Busy meeting a Busy it i \ n leaders and named for special exhibits during fair trip w innkr8 it it Nfn de farm Bureau will Send mks Folie Hunter to slate fair. Miss Ellen Thomas Flosen Siho i there having Beon a Small reduction the program is a varied one with from the estimated Levy made by. J seme popular music and marches on the welfare Board. The item of old age assist acc the principal item of the expenditures i is less for 1940 than it was for the j present year. The schedule. There will also be a number featuring Roland Headley on his tuba and another featuring Claude Jackson on his trumpet in Quot sugar on the schedule Are March loss y. Blaze away Holzmann. Royal Welcome h o m e Rosen Krans. Beer barrel polka Brown Timm and Vejvoda. Trombones on Parade Taylor. Deep purple Derose. Show boy Huff. Princess of India King. tuba Solo Southwell featuring Roland Headley with tuba Little giant March Barnes. Sugar blues Fletcher and Wil Merriam a rams featuring Claude Jackson with trumpet. Tiger rag la Rocca. U. S. Field artillery Sousa. Soi til Section is Iii wind swept Arriba tin South portion with Liea damage to crops and to property Detroit. Aug 9. Up emergency work Crews and i red Cross disaster organizers wer a rushed today into Tornado Riddle lower Mich the estimate for 1910 of this item Igan where twisters in five different of expenditure is a 56.170 last year the estimate was $144,450, effective this year. The 1940 estimate of burial allowance for deceased recipients of old age assistance is $3,400 it i $3.240. Areas injured hundreds of persons flattened buildings and devastated crops. The tornadoes get nut of legalized Low pressure areas that had Drift this year. T., eastward from Iowa and Minnesota and struck late yesterday the amount needed next year for throughout the lower half of the assistance is $2.000, which is the state. For 1 Tnuva a thu Rayahin of there the same As for 1939. Quot la i 1 Mill la my assistance Quot Hka 1%� standards set on i for i ors to Tea Clit re consult you principal or county if any questions arise texts. County Grade it books 1939-40 it Grade a handwriting Book i. Jul la Tufts Lori pro primer practice Clad 18c at Home Ami away pm j or 54c at Horne and away. Prac j _ Tice pad 29c in City and country. Books unit Reader. 58c in City ainu country practice pud 29c in f land work Book 29c Art a Quot Vond life Grad it l work Book. 30c. A a a a�0"1 Grade or write Well handwriting Book 2, 11c round about you. Book 2. Second Reader 65i round about you. In Tractive pad. 29c numbers at work work Book. 33c Art and life Grade 2, work Book 30c my clo candidate ahead Louisville ky., aug. 9 up late returns from saturday s Deni socratic gubernatorial primary in creased Lieut. Gov. Keen Johns a no a lend Over John Young Brown. Coil j new Low in Indi \ a re it owes effective on Al a i St 15 in Sale of eggs i c minimum standards for Grade a a go to be sold in Indiana under the Gress of Industrial organizations candidate to near y 27.0 h today word Book Book 1, 54c my word Book practice Book. Grade 2, 18c. Third Grade la write we 11 handwriting. Book 3. 11c Orienda around the world. Third Reader 65c child life Arith Metic Book 1. 79c Lenics Arith Metic sheets pad 3. 22c Art and Ltd if Anim Al on Law a two old heavy rainstorm tuesday for ninja it f in 11�?o to Vichit in Sion information issued Texas township of county was hardest hit j Only fatality was report led. The Black funnel shaped Cloud ripped through the Southern Edge of Kalamazoo and advanced to Comstock three Miles away. In South Comstock 25 Homes were blown Down. An emergency tent to Supply feed and medical Aid to hundreds of homeless and injured South Corn Stock residents was Pencil at Daybreak by the county chapter of american red Cross. John c. Wil son assistant director of the Din St. Loins regional red Cross office was due at noon to direct Relief. The tent was erected in one of tin few open a a a. In the Village where an important session was held tuesday evening in the court House a of 4-h Junior leaders at that ses j a Don announcement was made of Heads anti their assistants of con mites of 4-h leaders to it serve at the count fail this week and a. No so it Unn Une ement was made of the 4-h Vader who will attend the Indiana state fait girls school August 25 to september 8. Guests of Tho county farm Bureau and tin 4-h clubs of the county. The farm Bureau has named Coleen Hunter of Cloverdale. And the 4-h clubs have named Mary Ellen Thomas of Reelsville. The sex j lenses of these girls will be paid. Ralph d. Spencer county 4-h club Igent and Russell Grimes vice president participated in the meeting also. Tim Ruark president of the Junior leaders Ann Minord the following chairmen and assistants for the various departments of tin fair poultry Willard Abbott assisted by Norman Evans and Donald Thomas. Sheep Toble Fry assisted by Eugene Harlan. Swine Dale Bushong assisted by Vernon Mann Melvis Shinn and James Cromwell. Dairy i cattle Bernard Tomick or. Colt Vernie Zeiner assisted by Mace Akers. Garden Robert Phillips assisted by Tommy Welch. Beef Ralph Call or. Assisted by Howard Mcmullen. Entomology Donald Osborn assisted by Robert Nichols. The second Ward school building is being prepared today by workers from the 4-h clubs for the display of the Home economics Flower Garden and entomology departments of the fair. Final touches Are being Given to All other quarters to be used for the exhibits and other activities of the fair. Ii0ksk is kit program to i saturday some splendid events will la i i i i d a closing i \ Ciji of cold qty fair Fine in limit Ais offered county agent grime a or. Grina s is one of the busiest men in the county As a result of the annual 4-h club fair which he is assisting in numerous ways. He promises to be still busier during Friday and saturday if this is possible. Farm Hoard moves in larger Oiler exhibit on is expected to bring out tin Best in horses to tie in ibid in tile county new Quot fresh egg Law Quot on or after Auk 15 were upon by inem astr. Staff of is f the state egg Board in a recent me ting at Lafayette. All eggs to meet the minimum requirements of Indiana Grade a and to be offers 1 for Sale under the new i streets still were mazes of fallen coi nov kept. Frank Yakkel Bias some valuable information Foit teachers tenths of an inc h of water fell during the night Gree Castle experienced another Bard rainfall a tuesday evening about dark when the rain storm that had threatened for several hours broke. It rained hard for some time and continued wll into the night and a 1 total of 7 of an Inch was recorded by the daily Banner. The Rair. Followed a High wind up which swept the Community throughout the Day. The wind prob ably was the Tail end of the Cyclone i Iii which swept Southern Michigan with heavy damage resulting. Trarlu is in the Public sch Wilh of Putnam county arc deeply interested in the present status of the teachers retirement fund regulations Whiteii recently have Heim amended. The following information on that Matte i comes from the office of Frank Jarrell superintendent of county schools. The amended form of the regulations gives these is qualifications affecting applications All teachers who have taught during the school year 1038-39 and who have contracts for the school year 1930-40 Are eligible for membership after the lat Day of july. All other teachers will have to a actually teaching under contract of i ter that Date membership in the fund will clone for All on december 31. 1942. Any teacher who is employed in the Public schools of Indiana after july 1. 1039. Will be eligible for membership in Tho new fund until december 31. 1942. Regular plants for application for membership under the 1937-39 amendments May be secured at the office of superintendent Jarrell of the Putnam county schools there Blanks must be filled Accuri Atchly and completely claiming ail service years and Thor years for which sabbatical leave is desired Hyall teachers i Uii i hip twill act. Will to required to me t the fid lowing standards a a it Shell clean and sound. Ltd air cell localized and regular not to it exceed three sixteenths of an Inch in depth for wholesale nor inc fourth of an Inch in depth for retail. A ice White reasonably firm and Clear free from meat spots and blood spots. 4�?~ d Yolk visible fairly Well can Trees. Telephone poles and wires. Tornado also a lipped into regions near Midland Jackson grand rapids and Lapeer leaving Many injured. Livestock loss was reported High. Early estimates of damage Toj crops and buildings were More than $1 000,000. The f figure was expected to mount sharply when reports from outlying Rural areas were received. Some of them were without Means tired slightly Mobile with no germ of communication. Development. A weight requirements a eggs must weigh 23 ounces per dozen or Over. Each egg must weigh a minimum of one and eleven twelfths ounces. It b medium eggs must weigh from 20 to 23 ounces per dozen. Each egg must weigh u minimum of one and eight twelfths ounces. Many families remained overnight in their wrecked Homes guarding them against looters. Hot food was distributed this morning by red Cross workers at Comstock and an Appeal was broadcast for clothes for the destitute. Convict goes on sit Down strike Kingston. Ont. Aug. 9 up after perching on top of a 128-foot Chimney at Kingston Penitentiary for More than 12 hours a French Canadian convict serving a 20-year term climbed Down Early today and a surrendered to prison guards. The convict homesick for his former Home. St. Vincent de Paul Penitentiary. Montreal from which he was recently transferred Here went in a strike in an Effort to Force prison officials to Send him Back. The first National Bank of Cloverdale has been appointed executor of the will of the late William Coffman. 20 years a of in Greencastle May Harvest Isioma crop a crop that he did not expect to receive May come to James g Hughes who is starting the erection of a now Home in North Wood. There Are several Large Trees on the lot on which this Home will be erected and in one. A swarm of been have been busily storing up Honey for the past few months and or. Hughes is of Tho opinion that there May be a sizeable Quantity of Honey in the tree As Many a Bee Trees have produce i dozens of pounds of Honey when found in the Woods. This True May have to be Cut Down to make Way for the House and if it is. The Home of the bees will be watched with a great Deal of interest by those who eat Honey. Tho i a. R. Cabins will lie open from 2 to 4 of clock in the afternoon during the fair. Dohlon a. Space taken Over id government ear Ming projects the request by the county farm conservation Board for larger office space has resulted in the moving of that boards former quarters on the third floor of the court House to the fourth floor where the Board now occupies the Southwest Corner room with the room adjoining on the East which through recent years has been devoted to the Putnam county museum. The Large number of pieces in tim museum have been stored in a smaller room on the North Side of the fourth floor. The office room on the third floor which has been Occupin a by the conservation Board is now occupied by the farm Security administration j operating under the United states department of agriculture which Lias been in the Southwest room of the fourth floor in its present room the museum pieces Are not made available for convenient inspection by the Public in authorizing Ali change of rooms for the museum tin county Tommis i sinners were informed that the mus Eum has not been patronized by the Public the custodian of the court House stating tie t have not been More than three visitors to that room during the last a year. The collection of relics t Here pertains principally to the civil War and includes p. Number of such pieces that were formerly the property of the Green Castle Post of the grand army of tiie Republic which had quarters on the fourth floor a it of the court House tiie museum a not received attention from the patriotic organizations of the count it is said Many residents of the county Are not aware of its existence. It is claimed the principal events for saturday of the 4-h Putnam Cor to a. Which opens thursday will be on tie Saddle horse show program starting at 1 of clock in the afternoon and continuing until 9 30 or later that nigh. Tho afternoon events in that department will be open to Putnam county horse owners Only. Saturday evening All events Wal be open to riders und owners Fnu i outside the county excepting clans 13, for the Liest lady rider and cd a a 14. Be t gentleman rider rinse ate limited to Putnam residents. There Are four awards $6. $3, $2 and $1 in each of classes 1, 2, 3, t. 5. 8. 9. 10, 11, 12. 13, 14. 15. And 16. The awards classes 5, 6 and 7 a re $3. $2. $1 and ribbon. The program for saturday of tiv noon and evening is As follow 1 00 p. A. Mass 1 sucking Colt 1 15 p Clean 2 Colts i year and under 2. 1 30 p. A Casi 3 Colts <2 cais and under 3. 1 45 p. In. Class 4 three gait 1 horse Mare or gelding. 2 00 p. In. Class 5 ponies Over 48&Quot-58&Quot or under shown under sad die. 2 15 a in., class 6 horsemanship a girl rider 14 years and under. 2 30 p in., class 7 horsemanship boy Niiler 14 years and under. 2 45 p in. Class h ponies 48&Quot and under shown under Saddle. 3 00 p. M., class 9 five Gaiter a horse Mure or gelling. 3 15 p. A class 10 Farmer class Best Saddle horse for Faim use. 8 00 p. A. 11 Light i in Ness Horst. A Mare a it i Selling hitched a open. 8 15 p. M., Clas 12 the Guild horse. Mare or gelding open 8 30 p. M., class 13 horsemanship Best lady rider 8 45 p m., class 14 horsemanship Bast gentleman rider1 9 00 p. a class 15 five guilt horse Mare or Geldin open. 9 15 c ass 16 the a and five gaited pair a to be Hown at three gait open. 9 30 p. M., grand Champion t be shown in Han Reserve Champion. Rosettes Only movie stars on rampage Burbank. Ltd d aug. A a up a million Dollar Rago of movie stars flew East today bearing tin threat of a strike which might ultimately Dar Ken every movie theater in America they demand 1 settlement on their terms of a. A of the most complicated Battles in Union labor annals. Arnold takes us on a roving trip through Mexic a towns Captain Earl Lane received his discharge from the army. The a Cine Brothers filed suit for $18.000 damages against the Zinc company. Sex governor Ralston was their attorney. They built the Mill. The name of Van Denman Thompson was forged to two checks by a coloured girl. Raymond Riley of the store was on his vacation. Or. And mrs. Roy Abrams and son Marshall motored to Webster Lak to spend two weeks. Or. And mis. Ott. Gibson and children. Paul and Pearl und Wayn Gillen and sister my iry Elizabeth drove to county to visit relatives of or. And mrs. Gibson. By Charles j. Arnold special to the daily Banner Mexico. D. F., August. 5. They May say that Mexico has a pitiful nationalistic inferiority Complex but its Flea population is As robust As any in the world. As the mexicans Tell you its not exactly a disgrace to hav fleas but it is to keep them. At the Potlan an ancient Aztec Village about 45 Miles from Here the indians have been scratching fleas for centuries. Imagine the eans of satisfaction derived from such Active the Potlan. Aside from its animal population. Boasts a Beautiful Sudranski Church a Pyramid on the top of a Mountain e rippling Creek a Valley like James Hilton a Shangrila and horrible Cobblestone streets. The population is 99 percent Indian the other one percent moving in with the Spanish. Four Hundred years ago. The Spanish of course built its Church which to this Day has fiascos on the a amp la painted by franciscan friars. The natives attach religion significance to tin fact that now the designs May be discerned through several Coats of i i paint suppl d by atheistic revolutionaries. Someone with a sense of humor built Repoz Tlane a streets. The pavement goes up Hill in tiers like a stairway. Tourists groan and cuss when the automobile Oil inn scraps Stone. Since Mexico has More than 12.000 churches every City has one or More and in them is the finest artistry of Mexico. The holiest shrine in Mexico is Guadalupe in Mexico City. Every year thousands upon thousands of pilgrims journey to the shrine to worship at the magnificent Cathedral. An older Church next to the shrine rests at a cock eyed Angle. As is the Case with much of Mexico City Many buildings have settled to an alarming degree because they were built in a dry Lake bed. The Palacio de Bellas artes. The City a most ornate edifice has h a a null Iii Ltd a on i Iwuc a i Al it a Matlida in to Depauw ins recognition go i n i d a my la Teit for of 1st Wing work Oxford o aug. 9. Up delegates to tin 100th anniversary convention of Bel i the la i fraternity returned to tin in Horny t after re electing Clarence l. Newton. Boston attorney president at the final business session yesterday. Owen d. Your no w York and Robert h. Frazier Greensboro n. Were elected vice presidents. For leading in scholarship on their respective for 10 it a its. Awards wore made to Lawrence College Colorado school of mine uni vet sity of Kansas and the ump a Rosity of Illinois. Awards were made to chapters at Depauw. University of Kansas. Washington and let. Miami and Colorado school of mines for outstanding Lead it ship in scholarship finances and activities. O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 today s weather 0 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fair tonight and thursday cooler in East and South Piort Loiis tonight slightly warmer thursday. Minimum 6 a. 7 a. A a. 10 a in i a. Ai. 12 Neon. I p 2 p. M

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