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Greencastle Daily Banner (Newspaper) - October 25, 1939, Greencastle, Indiana/ the Wearb a a a a mgt warmer a the daily Banner i amp 0 t the Home news United i kens service a a Ltd it Waves for All i a my i a Orty eight Greencastle Indiana wednesday Btl Obeidi 1 Ltd. N. 8 eiders l meet in 01rt House or gathering for la discussion will he. This evening club notes District Moose to meet sunday mrs. James passed away Early today a District of Moose members from Attica Clinton Terre haute and Greencastle will be held in this City at the Moose Home sunday with a colourful Parade at 2 o clock in which will appear at least oldest coloured resident of. One Deo rated float and Many Auto i Greencastle succumbed mobiles also decorated. A drum corps at Home of daughter from Terre haute will c the to a la a a a doings of boys and from Over the county sled in agents work cession. Two Hundred members Are expected to att and the gathering. The feature of the Day for the Moose members will he the giving of the initiatory degree by the team from the Terre haute Lodge beginning at 12 30 noon. A aders of the county will night in the court House in ,95 session. A part of their m will be the achievement Era of the farm Bureau Liv Monroe township will meet y night at the Home of Lois o organize a farm Bureau j that township. Ird Mcmullen of Jackson i Section also relieved from p Putnam county has a Nous calf which he will in funeral to be Frida y mrs. Lames was of deep religious nature from child Hood. Saw county develop from wilderness he Hoosier 4-h fat steer the stockyards at Indiana urday of this week which tract attention and possible Rizes. The calf is less than 2 cd and weighs about 1050 it was bought by Howard by him the result being a Imal. It won honors in the county show Jay Corn demonstrations were the county under the Spon of the county agent David ties but with George Ensfield agronomist and Demontra rain Breaks Lon it i drouth Haza Iii from fief in this tuesday Nhi hts a rain danger from fires starting in dry grass and leaves in this Vicinity which has been a real Hazard to property for several weeks was removed by the rainfall which started As a gentle Shower tuesday evening continuing consistently through the the a Sweet Chariot of Southern minist rely swung Low wed Les Day morning to carry away aunt Catharine Townsend James who a age of 85 years had been seriously ill some time itt the Home of her daughter mrs. Agnes Rickard 805 Crown Street. Mrs. James had been patiently awaiting the coming of the time when she would arise to that other world in whose actual existence she has implicitly believed these scores of years. She not Only lived the life of a Christian but she had been an Active Power for the furtherance of the Good cause Here on trustee Chart is of interest Ingco a township largest Airport reputed safest Airport is Ono at North Beach just Oul Sido new York City which the City opened recently. Costina $40,000,000, it is largest Airport in United steles and is the mail terminal for new York. Partial View from tio air is shown Here. Indiana near top Cash prizes in Shi table taxes to be offered i trustee Abel has made interesting graph of some expenses for year july was Peak month Chart slums costs of Media ii and Hospital Aid a Well As Cost of food ship pres a glimpse behind the scene in the matter of the administration of the i office of trustee of Greencastle is revealed by a Chart of costs a of ids office prepared by John Abel it Puis medical surgical and Hospital expenses at the top of the list with a food not far behind. These costs Are i for a township which has a Popula ii Ion of 6.606 persons and the Figur Jos Are of interest outside the township because they May be taken As in general parallel with such costs Quot Jack Steward do. T i i in other township of similar general i a s a i., ill Oil i character. Earth working for her Church the Bethel a. M. E. And helping others by her Good words and Good deeds. She had a real in beloved i Only Levy not passed on to Consumers was tax on inheritances. 0 ,. Merited right to have been Active in night and developing at 8 o clock that Church because its congregation wednesday morning into a real1,. Downpour with lightning and Thunder. Although the Southern states have j had a drouth the wind which brought the Clouds Over this area was from the South. The Tempe Raber were two of these demure Wolg no Jow Here although in ions one at web Evans farm it Alberta. Canada and elsewhere in a township and the other at the far North Snow drifts stalled rest Akers farm in washing a a motorists and the temperatures went Iship. The former is an up Down to a Low Reading. Was organized Many years ago in the Home of her father Ami Mother who i were Luke and Charity Townsend and the herself when a Young woj Man worked with her sister who be-1 came mrs. Mark Mcgruder. In the raising of funds for the erection of the present Home of that congregation now located at Crown and Howard streets in Greencastle. She was that churches oldest member and the latter is in the the wind whipped off Many of the Luke Townsend her father was by James owner in halloween Cerebra Ion w ill be is Gei it Down Tow n tuk8d \ y Evic Vang Alnut Bottoms. At each place highly coloured leaves which while brought to Putnamville had been planted a dozen or be in ma8apg on the Trees charmed Townsend former slave levies of Corn some of them nature lovers As late As monday. Kentucky and freed but he remain and some open pollinated and Trees began to show up gaunt and de a member of the entourage of the i sorts of fertilizer had been naked As their garb of foliage fell Townsend Home and one of the most the results of All of this were away from them. This stripping of religious persons in that Community. A a a i records male. These fat the foliage uncovered to human gaze being in a sunday school class in the 111 be available for inspection nests of Birds hornets and squirrels methodist Church with a number of n As the results of the Mois whose existence were not suspected boys who became leading citizens of intent tests have been re Civ while the leaves were on the Trees. Putnamville. He had an excess of the showers and mild temperature religious Fervour All of his life. Ular plantings were my Deron a Huyler Arnold farm in Jeffer ship. Were forecast cd continue through powerful Bass voice could be heard the Day and until tomorrow. 0 woman slays rival j Young woman a love Snow storm in i Northern Canada Cofield 111., oct. 25 up a Cran Pappy Seago 73, a. Blacksmith and father of 11. Jail today for the slaying of a w. Mcneece 56, whom Heel to be his rival for the fila of a woman half his age. Edmonton. Alta. Oct. 25 1 up Northern Alberta was digging out today after a 36-hour no a i Zard one of the most severe in re i cent years. Ten inches of Snow in Edmonton an i disrupted traffic i. 1 and business. Go is White haired slender and awed until his arrest monday bated his farm at nearby Atwa 1 and also daily As the Vil German r Trees Withy. He confessed last night Ding to the state s attorney i in Kwh i \ it 111. 0 w. Hall that he killed me by due Lull talk because he was jealous of map h attentions to mrs. Donna n >8. Mother of two children. No Cec Handyman lived in afield with his wife Jessie 57. Above the voices of All other singers at methodist revival meetings. Mrs. James Mother Charity As a Little girl was one of a party of slaves being taken through this part i of Indiana on the National Road to i be sold in Missouri by a slave trader. Became in danger of losing their i lives in High water in Deer Creek. A while trying to Cross that Stream i East of Putnamville. They were. Saved by a party of men from the Putnamville Community. Benjamin i Jones being among them. Or. And munc1e, oct. 25 All but one of Indiana a major 1�88 taxes were Shi table to Consumers As indirect levies on the Cost of living according to a Survey announced today by the Nati it Nal Consumers tax commission. The Lone exception according to mrs. W. H. Ball of Muncie Indiana National committee member win made Public the study was the tax on inheritance and gifts. This Levy was the Only one which in part at least could not be passed on to the buying Public the Survey report stated. The analysis of state fir Anees showed that Shi table taxes last year Oro Lucid 88.96 per cent of Indiana s 580 758.386 tax total Only five other so ates depended More heavily on indirect a a consumer tuxes for Revenue according to the study. In comparison the study pointed out that approximately 77 per cent of the $3.000,000.000 collected by the 48 state governments was raised through indirect a a consumer taxes. South Dakota and Illinois had the highest Shi table tax ratios the a act reported raising 92.53 and 91.52 per cent of their respective revenues indirectly. They were followed by Washington with 91.28 per cent Florida with 89.72 Arkansas with 89.60, and Michigan with 88.95. Heavy income and inheritance and gift tax payments which Are not Shi table to the buying Public brought new York s percentage Down to 55.44. The lowest among the states. Twenty Cash prizes will be offered for the Best costumes at the City an i county wide halloween Celebration which will l e held Down town tuesday evening members of the chamber of Commerce non canned today Cene Pennington s band Wili feature the Parade and several musical specialities will be Given following the Parade. Cash prizes will be offered for the Best in the following groups children 5 to 8 years Cleverest costume. Children 8 to 14 years Cleverest costume. Children 8 to 14 years for the Moit comical costume. Character portrayals including Uncle Sam. George washing on Martha Washington. Abe Linom Charlie Mccarthy. Popeye tallest. Fattest movie actor movie actress Ferdinand the Bull scarecrow largest family. Best Drassal to updo. Cowboy funniest costume costume. Character. J this Chart is for the period beginning january 1, this year. The month of july was made the High one of the period largely because of operations an exploratory operation on a Man. A cancer Case in which the expenses spread Over several months Hospital anti surgical costs entering the totals with burial was i Orui k Bini Ridge and Dei Al w Star was popular director friends Here and at Bainbridge were shocked wednesday to learn of the death of Cleon c. Steward former basketball Start at Bainbridge High school and in Depauw univer expenses later. Maternity Casca Aro sity. He died tuesday afternoon ill i a item through the year the holy family Hospital in la j Ehart for next year Icsom Porte. When he Quot was taken monday Ipp that of Quot a this a car 11 Mav he cd Quot following a a reve heart attack i �1 hot coming will Steward was coach of the laportol1"�?T tha it it Quot to Quot us of thl a a or. As far As the number of persons relieved by the trustees office is concerned. High school basketball squad and had been highly Succo Kabul there As Well jus elsewhere in his chosen Field of i athletic coaching. 1939, was 328, this number january in 78 tan Diles. The costs on some of these Principe was familiarly known us pm for the year to far Are As follows january medical and doctor $396.33 Hospital $300.90 food $209.50. February 326 persons food. $266.75 Hospital $207.02 medical $178.85. Match 273 persons food $294.95 few ducks sighted As season open Start of migration Bias been slow owing to warmth in North mrs. Jones were so sympathetic with although new Yorkus $534.762.330 the opening of the migratory waterfowl Hunting season. Monday did not cause much of a flurry h1ti.kr seems to have completed troop movement preparatory to attack Hickins and her children have Paris. Oct. 25.up germans in the Mcneece Home since she have practically completed a big rated from her husband 10 years movement of men and supplies to the Western front and arc now in i aged in Small scale attacks intend it m Viool convocation red to drive the French out of their few remaining outposts on German # Greencastle High school band a soil it was disclosed today. A trained the student body of both an authoritative commentator and Junior High school with said that it Adolf Hitler elected to a attack in Force in the West his arrangements seemed to have been completed. But. The informant added the French had made their own preparations and were ready for an attack at any Point. The germans failed yesterday in a second attempt to drive the French acc optionally fast moving and planned program yesterday Dur the weekly convocation period. R the direction of or. Penning to band indicated by its splendid Al performance Groat Promise for or Quot appearances. He opening number tuesday con it i a March entitled a the i out of the Wardt Forest on the Ger right Lerer March Quot featuring three in majors Harry Barrick Mary Hoffman and Jane Smith. The n l selection was a Waltz Medley a we by ,.the Klaxon March Quot in the French Borns were feature then the band played a special a the German band a which Fearl different instruments in rapid Salon. A Thiu Honor March Quot a piece Huising the clarinet Section r came the most popular special of the entire concert Quot the Clown 1 the last two numbers were 1 goodnight medleys a selection Quot modern arrangement and a songs fhe Navy Quot including several stir airs. Man Side. A German detachment attacked a Hamlet on the outskirts of the Forest Southwest of Forbach. The germans drove direct for the Hamlet while supporting forces tried to encircle the French by flanking movements on both sides. French reinforcements arrived and with automatic weapons forced Back the flanking units. Those who had made the frontal attack found their own position untenable and withdrew. Such operations As these were Al most the Only ones on 11lie Little Rirl Charity that they i bought her from the trader freed Hor and raised her As a maid in their own family. She and Luke fell in love and were married. They lived at 1 urn Arnville some years then at line Dale. It was while residing there that Luke when in a store in Greencastle one Day. Was offered a barrel of flour free if he could carry j it unaided to his line Dale Home and he accomplished the feat. This couple became the parents of eleven children will. Robert Elen Julia Mary Jane. Margaret mrs. Mark Mcgrude Rjohn Jay Enos Agnes and mrs. Janies. Mrs. James oldest sister Agnes was the first coloured baby bom in Putnam county. He death occurred forty years or More ago. Children of mrs. James whose husband was the late Wyatt James a civil War Veteran a included George. Mrs. Ruth lord mrs. Agnes Rickard. Harry. Ollie. Guy and mrs. May herring. The funeral services will lie held at the Bethel a. M. E. Church on Crown Street. Friday afternoon it 2 30 of clock conducted by the Rev. Mitchell of Plainfield. will be at Forest Hill cemetery. Indianapolis livestock hog receipts 6,500. Holdover 240 weights Over 200 lbs. 5-10 cents higher 160-200 lbs. 5 cents lower lighter weights steady 160-300 lbs. $6.55 ___$6.80 300-400 lbs. $6.30-$6.50 100 the Western 360 lbs. $6-$6.50 sows steady most front it was suggested that the by $5.75-$6.25. For cattle 800, calves 500 Market Ful 1 h. Smith collector of inter Revenue from ind Ana stopped wednesday while on his Way ded a Burg to attend the funeral s. Purnell who died Satur a Ira Washington. Germans wanted to get Back All their territory and then leave the front quiescent until Hitler decided whether to essay a big attack. War communique no. 103 of the French High command said merely a the night Wras Calm on the whole front. Patrols and artillery were Active West of the a total was highest in the nation the largest single Revenue in Indiana was the tax on gasoline and related products which amounted to $24,594.810. The motor fuel levits miso were leading Money raisers in 26 other states and in five More were second Only to payroll taxes which the study pointed out Are not available for n Umal governmental expenses. In addition to the gasoline and Oil a other Shi table Indiana Levos and the amounts raised were listed As follows in the study general a of $22.425,408 payroll. $15,135,804 commercial motor vehicles $3, 156.664 alcoholic beverages $2,243.807 insurance companies $1 935,633 property $1 634.284 of the $3,280,568 total Chain stores. $568,610, franchises $11,281 and miscellaneous $30,047. On the Quot non Shiftar Lcy Side the a Etc listed the inheritance and gift a Evy which produced $956,419, property taxes on owner occupied property amounting to $1,634,284. taxes on non commercial motor vehicles of $6.313.329.34. The report showed that 38 of the dates derived More than three Quad ers of their Revenue from indirect axes a on the consumer a Cost of the states obtaining less than 75 per cent of their revenues incl a cutly in addition to now Yore in Clu led Connic Lieut Maine. . Minnesota Oregon Pennsylvania Utah Vermont and Wisconsin. Among such Birds nor among Hunters Lar in this Vicinity because there have a Lay will it a a been but few such Birds available in Chi n meeting hero because of the Lack of bodies of water sufficiently Large to attract these Birds As they travel Over the country migrating southward. These Birds will alight on Ponds that Are Large enough to give indication of having foes i in their Waters for the Birds and to be Large enough to enable the Birds to alight and take off easily. However on Albinus Pond one Day last week a Bunch of wild ducks said by one Man to number hundreds alighted Early in the morning and spent the a Lay feeding and resting from the labor of flying incessantly the preceding night from their nestling and feeding ground probably in Canada. None of these ducks were hunted As the open season had not yet started. But it is claimed the greater part of the migration of these water Birds has not yet occurred the temperature in the North not yet being Low enough to Force them to seek warmer climates and it is quite possible that there May yet be Opportunity for tical sportsmen to Hunt them. Jack Ash it Here and in Bainbridge was the son of or and mrs. Clarence Steward i he was born and reared in Bain-1 Bridge where he made his Home i until completing his College work when a he took up athletic work in which j he had spent most of his life. He wont to la Porte last season where he had made Fine Progress. Medical and doctor. $293.84 Hospital besides his parents. A a a a is Mir Vived by the widow and two Small a laugh apri medical and doctor 209 tors of Laporto. A persons medical and doctor $430.28 i Hospital $105.28 food. $285.50. I May 260 persons medical and mrs. Robert a. Taft doctor $323.12 births 6 food. To speak monday a it a Hospital. $u8. June 184 persons Indianapolis. Ind. O t. 25 $267.71 Hospital $135.50 i up mrs or or i t a. T. It. Wife of i 199.95. The u. S. Senator from Ohio will id j july areas tiv first convention of the in $499 12 $130.00. August 195 persons. Medical committee an �$481.80 Hospital $244.75 food. $130.75. A will address Tho i september 287 persons medical a the $378.09 Hospital $15 6.75 foot introduced it a $165.75. Medical burial 225 persons medical Hospital $282.25 food d a a federation of women a Republican clubs Here next Monde he g. O. P. State bounced today. Senator Taf ulv Flint in Row tour i Ivan Bra car in it i i ions from j. A in t it Day Mill my a Xiii Lii Lise Ameita a i Viseu Berlin oct 2s Lupi Well informed sources said today that negotiations were proceeding with British fliers flew Over Berlin bombers pass Oxer a Iuca a of a Germany xxx Piile minister is speaking London Oil 2.r> up British i Royal air in to planes flew Over Berlin in Gebuis. And Hugh if night while. Him von re Hon it Russia for release of the Crew of the j nazi foreign minister won p in american freighter of Danzig the evening Sai l Silver shirts in Chicago throw bricks by steady on steers and yearlings from $9-$10.50 common and medium heifers Strong mostly $5.50-$8.50 earner and Cutter cows steady fat jewish merchants polite today Chicago oct. I up i Quot a members of the fascist Silver shirt who Are held for questioning about extortion threats against wealthy oops slow dealers steady top $11 sheep 1.200 lambs around 25 cents lower bulk Good and Choice $n-$l>.50. That they had smashed windows of a jewish owned store bets use of Quot jewish pressure Quot against their organization. 20 years ago in Greencastle father Rawlinson born in Green Castle pastor of the Catholic Church at Brazil lectured in the Catholic Church Here on his experiences As chaplain in the world War. He was or. Fiance. When o. V. Smythe cashier of inc Cloverdale Bank opened that Ensti Tut on in the morning he found an Effort had been made to fore Entrance to the vault by burning an opening. A burgler alarm wire was severed and the alarm scared Avay Tho burglars. Today on a off Hal authority. The newspaper said that the 1 Burg Rollo station stopped Bro while Ham a Jet St the Britts captured by a Gorman warship Ard sailed by a prize Crew to Kola Bay \ on the russian attic coast. These sources for the first time hptoc1 confirmed that the City of Flint i i pm a a were overhear. By on taken to ticks of Norway and Elvn to Kola Bay by a German prize Crew. It was hold that the City of flln., we carrying and that a a a a a 000 to lib German action in taking he r to today a weather 0 Kola Bay was justified in intern i and a Tiona Law. Because the ship was non local temperature o Tho air had an Notnac d today that British planes flew a ver the cities mentioned last night. I having no suitable marts 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 navigable the reference to la Ltd of charts j partly Cloudy showers in extreme was not immediately explained Al East portion Early tonight and Light t was believed that the nazis and glib rain commencing in extreme North seem to be giving the impress West portion thursday afternoon or that the ships Crew threw the charts tight slightly warmer in Northeast overboard. And East Central portions i tonight informants said that when the somewhat cooler in extreme City of Flint was taken to Tromp of West portion thursday no suitable charts were obtainable \ 1 and that therefore the ship was taken on to Murmansk where the russians were holding the prize Crew. Tho american embassy made further inquiries this morning of the foreign office regarding the freighter. But received no information. The embassy planned to inquire again of the foreign office prize court Al Hamburg this afternoon. North minimum 61 6 a. To. 62 7 a. A. Ltd. 8 a. A. 63 5 a. A. 68 10 a. A. 64 11 a. A. 64 12 noon. 65 1 pm. 65 9 p a. 65

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