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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - December 16, 1939, Greencastle, IndianaThe weather fair and mild 4 in me forty eight the daily Banner a a 4 al1. The Home news 4 unit ii 1ress service 4 a a it it Waves for All 9fgreen Castle Indiana saturday diet lumber i i a i no. �. Libration of founding opens sunday e. Bundy to i e i i kiss at vespers service to Chad to preside Mon. Greencastle women Huva Brno fleeced to membership Tea at Theta House Dean Dirks named head of committee Indianapolis inti dec. 16 adj. Gen. Emer f. Straub today announced that Dean Louis h. Dirks of Depauw University will act As Putnam county chairman in the fight infantile paralysis Campaign which will receive profits accruing from the Celebration of the president s birthday. Adj. Gen Straub who will direct Corn awards presented at banquet Fri. Webb Evans director presided Lois Arnold made Waim keen interest was shown services sunday for lot is 1kamirk funeral services for Louis e. Ika mire Well known resident of Marion township will be held sunday afternoon at 2 00 of clock at the methodist Church in Fillmore. Rev. V. L. Raphael will be in charge of the services. Burial will be in the Fillmore cemetery. A All masons Are asked to meet at the Fillmore Lodge room sunday at 12 00 of clock to go in a body to the Charles William herring has had an Active and varied life the Campaign in Indiana As state Chaitman under gov m Quot Ere two in the lint of five funeral where they will hold their acre club winners who had services. Honor three year j or Walter e. Bundy professor of a dish Bible at Depauw University. Open the fiftieth anniversary ration of the founding of Phi i Kappa on the Depauw Campus i an address at a vespers serve iday afternoon at 4 30 in the bin memorial Church. The vespers service commemorate actual anniversary of the found of Indiana Alpha chapter in old Tidle College which took place dumber 17, 1889. In addition to do indy s address on a the school of t the University choir and r. Van Denman Thompson will pro i music for the program. Presi it Clyde e. Wildman will preside or. Bundy is a past president of a Diana Alpha chapter and chairman the anniversary Celebration. H-1 a Depauw graduate of 1913. A Phi Beta Kappa Chapel will be id monday morning at 10 30 in Ibin memorial Church. Or. J. L. Web sour. 28, president of the inter. Will preside and introduce William e. Hocking of Harvard University the speaker. Or. Hock in s address will consider a the a arts of the Chap will be marked by the announce Lent of six honorary memberships in i Beta Kappa awarded to Promin it alumni and non alumni. A Dean William m. Blanchard presi int of the Indiana Alpha chapter a Many years will preside at the Iii Beta Kappa forum at 2 00 Mon by afternoon in Gobin Church. The inc pal speaker will be or. Arthur 1 Compton whose subject is a the ice of science in a Liberal arts an informal discussion Jill follow his address. Preceding a Tea at the Kappa Al a Theta House. Colonel Weaver s id Home where the Early social stings of the chapter were held e or toni Ary members and the Alum i members elected will be initiated to the chapter. Roy o. West of Liciago. The first undergraduate j cited to the chapter in 1890, will eak at the dedication of a commemorative plaque presented by his i fighter Helen West Cannon �?T28. Ire. Cannon is a member of Phi a it Eta Kappa and Kappa Alpha Theta it Depauw. V. A Deg ate luncheon will be serv in Lucy Rowland Hall and the Golden anniversary dinner at 7 p. M. Ii Rector Hall. All delegates faculty and alumni members of Indiana Alpha will be guests of the chapter and of the Depauw alumni Assoc a on h. Foster Clippinger. �?T08, of Indianapolis president of the Indiana a Alpha association of Phi Beta Kap Townsend. Honorary chairman said that in this county Dean Dirks will direct the activities one of which is expected to be the president s birthday Ball january 30. Dean Dirks has not yet made definite plans As to just what will be included in the Celebration in this county. Socially speaking the High Point of the 14th annual Corn show of Putnam county was the banquet Friday evening in the presbyterian Church social rooms in this City where at the tables were seated representative farm men and women of c. A. Beard featured in publication bestow title i Pon Wilbur Kurtz i mini i crib aim Vuu Iurii m j a a the county with others also present i few Greencastle i i who while not Farmers tin a Are old enc ghz have a sympathy with Farmers work j for various reasons. A at the banquet at which Webb j Evans director presided the awards made at the Corn show were announced by Lois Arnold assistant director of the show representative of the first citizens Bank and Trust it is now Quot colonel Wilbur Kurtz company of Greencastle. And the this High military title was bestowed awards in the county a five acre upon the former Greencastle youth i Corn production contest were an and Young Man. Graduate of to denounced by David l. Grimes. Put Greencastle schools at Atlanta a Nam county farm agent. Residents to remember 1899 received Honor because of ills outstanding work on a a a one with the wind each yesterday when along with Clark Gable. Producer David o. Selznick w. F Rogers metro Goldwyn Mayer executives. Or. Kurtz was escorted in a vast Parade to the mansion of governor e. D. Rivers where the four were made colonels on the governors acre club winners in the Gold med there was a keen interest on the i part of the persons present at the i banquet in these awards Ami name called received applause. Skott r i t u it e a in in e a r s in connection with h cleverly written article in i Lii Gumma Delta publication there is a Man residing in Greencastle who As a Small boy lived with his Grandfather in a Frame Bui which stood where the Central National Bank is now. As a 14-year old lad. Was a p Nch hit operator in Greene As tie s first Telephone Exchange. As a Pupil at the old county Seminary which was where College Avenue Church was later built was the first to discover the smoke from the which burned out Indiana ask Bury s first College Hui d no. As a Young Man. Was a student in Greencastle High school and at the same time was a regularly Caro led student in Depauw University and played on the Depauw varsity baseball team. As a member of Depauw s to in team in an intercollegiate contest at Indianapolis made the longest throw of a baseball on record up to that t me. As a Federal employee walked nor than the distance around the Wor d at the Equator without doing any of that walking outside the City limits. As an Active Church officer was elected As a Lay Delegate to the Gen staff. A few Greencastle residents who Are old enough to remember Depauw students of the classes of 99 and a few years earlier have these last few Days had much pleasure in looking at a group picture appearing in the november number of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity publication. In that photo appears these Well remembered Depauw students of that time Karl Mkee Andrew j. There were two in the list of five-1 Kuykendall. Orison h. Hays. Theo Church at Apple and Crown in which a Dore h. Ness Fred s. Hall w. Paul j or. Herring has occupied All Lay of i a no tells of attempts to Stop w a i told 1iim in m1i�- August if. Feared us t Oulu not Ert War g i Al. Survey said peace efforts failed because of the incomprehension of the other nation Quirles. Herring Rome. Dec. 16. Up Adolf j Hitler in mid August last told Cou it i Galeazzo Ciano italian foreign inn ister that he feared he could not Avert War Ciano disclosed to the j chamber of fascist corporations to j Day. I Rome dec. 16. Uri count i Galeazzo Ciano foreign minister told ers and others Well known. It waste chamber of fascist corporations during that time that or. Herring j today that vigorous efforts made by pm Ayed on the University baseball i Italy to prevent a european War had team. J failed because of the "1 wanted to take an examination i Sion of other nations n h go school at a postponed Date j Ciano began a general Survey of so i could go to Bloomington i h a International affairs from the italian the team to play i. U. But prof. Ogg a viewpoint a Survey which diplomats would t let me. I had to go Down that j Lud awaited eagerly night and payed the next Day. I a no a. He said developing the Al Liance idea had constantly opposed eral conference of his Church in an Eastern state. Representing his was enrolled in a chemistry course Church conference and to was Sec at that time but part of the time military guarantees As dangerous rotary of the de leg at Ion from the conference. This Man. Now 72 years old is Charles William herring. 801 Crown Street whose Home is Only a Block away from the Bethel a. M. E. Al class who have had that Honor colonel Kurtz received this Honor three years in succession Herschel because of his outstanding work as1 Nichols a Marion township Young a technical adviser in the production Man and l. A. Dicks also of Marion of a gone with the wind a written township. Or. Dicks has been top by Margaret Mitchell which had its Man of the Gold medal list each of premiere showing at Atlantia this those three years. His com product week. The picture was made at Holly a a Ion is an outstanding Achie Vemer. Wood but its scenes Center around Hig record this year being 120-8 Tanta which has been the Home. Bushels per acre on the selected five of colonel Kurtz Many years and he acres. He planted i his hybrid seed was called upon to advise the pro May 24, using 3-18-9 fertilizer a and i Duckers. While the picture was being. 8x weeks or. Dicks said a it i planned and made at Hollywood As was As High As my Stratton Claude d. Hall Maynard i flees starting jus librarian of the l. Daggy Charles a. Beard Lester sunday school and going to the top a. Poor. Frank h Bacon. I most p Ace. His sister mrs. Jay the picture is captioned a Char Townsend who keeps House for him les a. Beard in his i ate mity at de a helped raise the funds with which i that Church Structure was erect. The photo appears in connection a it standing first on the lot on locus with i cleverly written article con j Street on which the University Secer Ning or. Beard. Several members j ministration office now stand.-, of this group have attained consid a where the first Catholic Church of the Erable prominence since their Grad 1 City stood decades ago. Nation from College especially in the \ or. Herring was born in Juffer educate onal Field but probably or. Sonville. June 22. 1867. Where his Beard is the most widely known. He j father the late William herring to the settings costumes and other j or Dicka believes in. And quoted is a professor at Columbia Ulver a lived at that time but the Little son details. and mrs. Kurtz re j biblical statement. A there , and the Aliw of a number of j Charles came to Greencastle earlier sided at Hollywood during the pro ume to sow and a time to he i books and Magazine articles per i find lived for a time with his grand longed period during which the Stu Sai j the thing to do is to Plant seed talking. For the most part to Sociol father Perry Mclean in the second logical themes although he is us 1 floor of the building on the South hous Pendus picture was being product when the right Lime comes. De. Pay Brackney. One of the Gold dually spoken of As a an eminent his West Corner of the court medal winners when asked How he i Lorian 1 Square in the first floor of which went about producing his 113.1 Bush a mrs. Beard was Mary a. Ritter were the Daniels shoe shop and a i. Christmas recital Cis to the acre caused chuckles when us so of Depauw. The article in the Butcher shop this Perry Mclean i he replied a group of Young pianists of Green j a a Well if you want i to it a sight singing in music apparently referring to Italy a school mid played on the baseball Quot aspirations Quot he commented a a we fought Long and hard against Quot it was in an Inte Colleg ate ath a the efforts of others to prevent re Letic meet at Indianapolis with Wabash Indiana University. Purdue. Butler and Rose poly competing that 1 threw a baseball 335 feet and won that contest. And there a Breeze against me too Quot said or. Herring. Or. Herring was a letter Carrer i vision of world War treaties. A Mussolini was the first in the world to denounce the bolshevism menace and fight against Ciano continued to the wild cheers of chamber members. He belittled the importance of the n Greencastle seven years beginning league of nations. It had been is in 1902 and had to a sign in 1909 but tined to die he said Ever since Tho cause of failing vision. He is now on i world disarmament conference failed tirely bind and in addition is at that was in 1933, when Germany flicked with what he said the Doc Cut tors called creeping paralysis. His j referring to the Spanish civil War father Charles herring died april Ciano praised Gen. Francisco Franco. 22. 1934, and his wife who was the nationalist Leader As chieftain a Blandina b bus. Of Jeffersonville be a re Tony National revolution which a resulted in a historic Italo-8panisli a Friendship being brought into he denied that Italy had any ret agreement with Franco before i the Start of the revolution j anti nationalists have asserted i that italian support of the National 1 started even before the outbreak one of Finland a greatest j of the Spanish civil wat perils is ended for the moment at least fore their marriage died in 1925. Finnish troops consolidate Cain Castle will pay in the annual Christ-1 did t do to know. I in this Way he explained he was Mas recital of preparatory students in the Hospital and thus kept from the Active work but he advised his of tile Depauw school of music the program will he Given in music Hall at 7 monday evening. Miss Leah Curnutt and miss Mary Elizabeth Herr will present the following Pupis Barbara deem Margie Smith Billy filers Dorothy Williams to Mae Arnold sue Moffett. Joan Alexander Mary Frances Torr Jack Harlan Beverly trembly Glen Stiles Mary Ann Bills Mary Moseley Ben Rockhill. Virginia Arnold. Dorothy Cowgill Catherine Manhart Nancy Rockhill Joan Sutherly Maril Cei rites to be sunday of Christmas a a us 1 it resided Here about five years when Iii was with the it. O. T. U. Will preside. Brief informal talks re. Pm Lockwood Marian Surber and go. Lings will follow the a incr. It arc a Hamilton Ami Robert Pierson Twenty one alumni who were graduated when there was no Phi Sta is Ipa chapter on the Campus a Ai cd whose Scholastic records have a �?~11 a k hade them eligible for membership i _ _ Lav. Neen elected to membership. A Are Kate s. Hammond 83. Nastle John l. Jackson. 8p, Picago John Howard Mcelroy. 88. By Imago Cora Lloyd Neff. 84. Kan Ltd to. To. Merrit Tarbell scar it. 83. West Orange. N. Jfrancis t Singleton 86, Martinsville de Pard b. T. Spencer. 88. Grinned. Iowa George w. Switzer 81. St. Joseph Mich. William f. Switzer. �?T&4. Gary Martha Tarbell. 84. East Orange. N. J. And James Herbert Wilkerson 89, Chicago Millard j. Beckett 85, los Angeles Clara Conklin -86, Lincoln. Neb. Thomas 0 Cunningham. 82, Kansas City. Al Quot William a. Hough. 86. Green Celd Mattie Elizabeth Louth. 85. Chicago Frank m. Mcfarland 89 Stanford University Calif. Bertha j Stephenson. 84. Pendleton Charle n. Thompson.82. Indianapolis 11 Neil nned in pub two it seals a protect a tour Home h trom a tuberculosis i Ohr Linmee Seale Nelp to it emulate the building end the use of to Boru locale Oana Torla. J llq39. A word was receive Al today by the Rev. V. L. Raphael pastor of the first presbyterian Church of this City from Joe w. Comstock at Lake Geneva. Wis. Of the death of the lat terms father. Captain Joseph h. Constock. Thursday. The funeral will be held at Lake Geneva sunday. Captain Comstock and family re sided in this City some five years ending about 1931 during which period he was connected with the r o. T. C. Of Depauw University he being in Active service in the United states army. The family came Here from the hawaiian islands where Captain Comstock was also in the army service. During their residence in Greencastle the family were Active members of the presbyterian Church j Captain Comstock was transferred by the army braid to r. O. T. C. I supervision at Beloit. Wis. And later he was retired from service taking up his residence at Lake Geneva. Among the children Are two daughters who Are wives of army officers and another daughter Dora Well re substitute. Bronze medals were awarded in the five acre contest to those producing under 85 bushels to the acre Silver medals to those Between 85 and 100. And Gold medals to those above 100. The Twenty winners of medals and the number of bushels produced per acre by each on his Floc acro tract were the following l. A. Dicks. Marion twp a 120.8. Raymond Crosby Franklin twp. 114.1. Roy Brackney Greencastle twp., 113.1. H. C. Perkins Greencastle twp. 112.0. D. S. Hall Washington twp. 111.5. We Wright Madison twp. 109.0. Webb Evans. Monroe twp. 107.7. Marion Sears Marion twp 106.1. Herschel Nichols. Marlon 105 0. Harry Mccabe Clinton twp. R. J. Coffman Cloverdale 104.1. Clarence Ragan Marion 103.9. James r. Nichols Monroe 968. Tressman Parker Jefferson twp. 96.1. We. Mcmullen Jackson twp. 95.4. John Day. Marion twp. 92.3. C. O. Leonard Russell twp. 90.5 fraternity Magazine Speaks of them was bom a slave on the old Mclean a Plantation in Kentucky in the year Quot the beards live on Broad acres 1804. He Ami Finis Mclean son of that they have owned for several. The master of the Plantation we e years in new Milford. Conn when born within a few weeks of one an or. Beard was told he 9x>ked too other and u Ore close friends All of Bright to go in for gentleman farm-1 their lives pm is Mclean was the ing he said Quot i am a dirt Farmer. A father of Ewing Mclean and grand you know there Are Throe kinds of father of Don Mclean of the City. Farmers tired Farmers retired Farmers and rubber tired Quot he has a Homespun look is tall and Rangy and Many of his phrases Are homely As when he said Quot the old adage is still True an empty meal sack cannot stand up to our interview brother Beard William herring then a Little boy. Lived in that House during both serious fires which Greencastle had the destruction of the House being threatened each time hut averted each time. In february 1879. When or herring was a Public school Pupil in til gave a delightful touch of greatness i old Seminary at College Avenue and that Only the really great can Mani i Seminary streets he asked his twp. 104.2. Twp. Twp. Twp. Fast. I wish you would he said. Mention the fact that the faculty at old Depauw did More for me than i could Ever Quot brother Beard was asked about the difference in these College a lays and his. His answer was i Don t know Ucli about contrasts. How can an old Bluffer ii come a freshman again life was certainly much Sam per for us Back in 1895. We had no automobiles and could not get far away from the Campus in an hour or two especially to the City. College life was lived rather intensively on the Campus or near it Quot but there were fraternity houses then As now a was the Oil offered by the interviewer to keep the wheels of reminiscence moving. Quot yes there were answered one of the two greatest historians of h s time Mary heard being the oth Mem ered Here is a nurse having a Lydic Melvin Reeves. Phillip jihad her Taining at Johns Hopkins i hutcne9orli l. A. Dicks Stanley Baltimore. A Ltd aids air Ltd a a a it we Tsoi Clung to the old Hall. It was the top floor of a Bank building Down town i first citizens. The rent was Low. The whole show did not Cost anything like the interest on a big Juicy continued on Pace two c. B. Howlett. Monroe twp. 86.9. Upaul Mcgaughey. Russell twp or but Lambda had no House. We 86.2. Otis Clodfelter Russell twp., 75.8. The Corn show awards the awards at the com show held in the lobby of the court House Spon j sorted by the first citizens Bank and Trust company under the auspices of the Putnam county Corn growers association were the following the winners ranking in it their respective classes in the order in which their names appear. Class 1. 10 ears White h. C. Perkins. Otis Clodfelter Marlon Sears. Melvin Reeves John Sears m. Fry. Class 2. 10 ears yellow Otis Clodfelter. John w. Day Carl Arnold h. C. Perkins. Clarance Ragan. Ott teacher of that time professor Joe t. Dobell to excuse him a few minutes from the room. Out in the school Yard the boy looked Over towards the College building and saw a thin Wisp of smoke coming from the roof. He ran to the door and called out prof. Dobell. The latter turned All the children Loose and most of them began screaming a fire alarm. Just then the janitor of the Quot College building possibly John a Reineri ran out in his shirt sleeves and ran toward town Yelling Quot fire Quot his outcry being taken up by Larry Downs on the Street and the latter getting the alarm to the firemen so that Larry Downs got the credit for being the first to give the alarm. Quot everybody thought aunt Ellen Pierce a coloured woman who weighed 320 pounds and who had been in the building scrubbing was yet there trapped by the flames but she had finished her work and had gone Home a said or. Herring. Teachers of or. Herring in the High school inc Ludd e. E. Meredith w. P. Burris. Fred Clearway Helsinki. Dec. 16 it of Nish troops today consolidated thei victories won on two fronts after four Days of Savage fighting. At Suom Salmi. 20 Miles from the Quot russian Border in the Central part of the country the finns Hud Cut off the russian Advance toward the Gulf if bothnia aimed at cutting Finland in two at its narrow and nil spec to leave sunday Sev Enty two hours time limit on battleship to expire is n dal eve. Montevideo Uruguay dec 16 Lupi nine Hundred officers and had trapped 5,00 russians who had Man aboard Tel. German pocket Bat advanced beyond that Point. I the shop Admiral Graf spec faced to three Hundred Miles farther South aay he alternatives of a suicide dash a russian Force was still held at Bay Goa Intel thl. Kuna a of a., amed on the East Side of the Tal Pale rive.-, a float or the internment of their which they had failed to Cross. A Praud six f0r the duration of the Tho Battle of sum Salmi ended european War. For the moment at least one of b in sunday night 5 p. M. Cost a land s greatest perils. The russians a a link a authoritative imports had attempted by thrusts along the t waa the deadline Cross country mad to Oulu Ulea i it was reported that the British Borg on the Gulf of bothnia to Cut i a minor squadrons which Bud kept the the railway Over which South Fin j Euth watch on tile gear spec storm land can receive supplies Overland Wmk Bank in f0, just outside or front the outside world. The railway u Java territorial Waters had now runs from Haparanta Sweden near i b come a a a used Fleet the finnish , through Oulu a u waa reported though not Cun to the South finnish coast. Since i firn�?z.,i that the French battleship shipping to Finland is at the mercy Dunke que faster larger More Ixia of German and russian blockades of erful., every Way than the Graf the Baltic the Retif Lullan Advance in the suon Jaami Reg pm threatened to end All Hopes of moving supplies to the South finfish area including the capital from Britain America and other countries. Spec had arrived and was a standing 20 years ago in Greencastle marriage License Russell d. Lawyers bakery route. Mooresville. And Juanita m. Wood at Home Greencastle. Asbury Manuel and others purchased the Allen amp Stoner grocery on West Franklin Street. C. H. Barnaby went to Memphis. A court on a charge by Luther Herbert White found guilty Russell White of Washington township tried before judge William m. Sutherlin of the Putnam circuit Tenn. On a business trip. Villiam b. Peck was elected trustee of the Greencastle orphans Home succeeding his brother c. T. Peck. That White had stolen Corn from him was found guilty by the court and was sentenced to serve Tiree months at the penal farm and pay a Fine of 20, the British battleship Barham was reported in the Vicinity. British reports indicated that the Battle Cruiser renown and the aircraft Carrier Ark Royial with 60 fighting planes aboard were steam i Xiii 1 forced draft to be in at the kill if the Graf spec made its dash. The indian., Stab Board of tax according to All report. Britain commissioners has notified gilbert01 and France combined now had off the Mouth of the River plat. Fleet which should blow the Graf representative to ii Here let Elt. Igles. Auditor of Putnam county a i. Preventative of that Board i e. Ogle that a representative of that will be in the auditor s office december 18 to hear requests for additional appropriations. At 1 30 that Day he will hear the request of Putnam county for a shifting of funds at 1 45, the request from Madison town-1 a ship for additional appropriations and at 2 of clock h similar request from Clinton township. Out in ill la nil rugs ini.1 ignores blockade Rotterdam. Dec. 16 up a the japanese Steamer Sanyo Marti sailed for Japan at 9 a. M. Today carrying nitrate machinery made in Germany and shipped in Defiance of Tho British blockade. O @ a a a o a a @ a 0 today a weather 0 and 0 0 local temperature 0 00000000000 generally fair with mild temperatures sunday. Minimum 6 a. M. 7 a. M. 8 a. In. 9 a. M. 19 a. M. 11 a. M37 38 37 40 41 45 45

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