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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1929
Page
1
A columnist shares anecdotes from Greencastle including a hog farmer bragging of 100 pigs with 67 saved, a young couple misplacing a car in Terre Haute, and office humor at the Water Works about whitewashing and a fish fry invitation. The pieces mix humor with local character.
In Putnam Circuit Court Judge James P Hughes awarded custody of the child to Mrs Lucy Stults grandmother of Clinton Township. The child has been cared for by the grandmother since the parents separated six years ago. Estel Johnson the father recently divorced from Mary Johnson now resides in San Antonio Texas where he is a U S Army sergeant.
Geneva April 28 agents of death will be banned in future conflicts. League of Nations preparatory disarmament commission forbids use of poison gas and deadly germs with germs absolutely prohibited. Abolition of gas to rely on reciprocal national agreements. Hugh Gibson lobbies for immediate steps to cut world navies, renewing hope for a new conference and decisive action.
Ross Furney and forty one Madison township taxpayers filed a remonstrance with the County Auditor against a 15650 bond issue for the Chrisenberry Road project. The remonstrance goes to the State Board of Tax Commissioners for a hearing date. The road runs east from Fern along the old Big Four railroad right of way to Oakalla and would require a bridge over Big Walnut Creek using existing abutments.
Thomas J. Miller aged 81 died at his Coatesville home Monday evening after several months illness from a complication of diseases. He was a Civil War veteran formerly of Bainbridge and survived by nephews H. M. Monnett Wirley Monnett and Charles Monnett. Funeral services Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the home with Rev. W. E. Gill in charge. Burial in Clear Creek cemetery northwest of Coatesville.
DePauw Oxford club will install new officers and host Prof E R Bartlett as speaker at a gathering tomorrow night at 7th East Washington Street Dr Rufus Stephenson home. Bartlett will discuss Religious Education in the Rural Church with two more meetings slated May 8 at the Commons club and May 22 at Longden Hall.
State vs Elwood Pollom began in Clay Circuit court with jury selection after he allegedly drove away from a crash scene at Kennedy crossing west of Brazil on December 31 1928, causing the death of Clarence A Gilbert. Pollom lives in Manhattan Putnam County and is defended by Rawley Bau munk Fisher. Prosecutor Kenneth Miller prosecutes.
Four teachers will resign from the city schools at the end of the current school year following a School Board meeting. All other teachers have been offered contracts for next year and will receive them by mail. Names of the resigning teachers were not disclosed but are expected to be announced soon. The Board and the Parent Teacher Association also announced plans to build a playground and tennis court on the vacant lot east of the gymnasium with landscaping around the center court.
The Graf Zeppelin lifted off at 1 33 PM for its second Mediterranean voyage from Friedrichshafen Germany. Dr Hugo Eckener, head of the Zeppelin works, commands the airship after a sudden decision to proceed despite yesterday's postponement announcement.
Edwin Markham spoke to DePauw University students in chapel on his seventy seventh birthday. He defined poetry as emotion grounded by thought, reading selections from his works and offering witty anecdotes. He concluded with Lincoln, the Man of the People, and an encore toast to the ladies.
Putnam County youths aged 10 to 20 may enroll in 4-H Club work under county leaders Floyd Miller E W Baker and Noble Wallace. Offered projects include alfalfa corn pigs lambs and potato clubs with special incentives for alfalfa and corn clubs. The First National Bank of Greencastle promotes a one acre corn contest with free seed corn for 4 H members and corn club rules are being mailed by the County Agent.
On April 22 the regular Girl Scout meeting was held in the basement of the Methodist church. Patrol corners completed various tests. All girls from fifth to eighth grade interested in Scouting are invited to attend every Monday at four o'clock.
James Paxton Voorhees' The Caverns of Dawn will be serialized in the Johnson County Register starting next week, with the book version soon off the press. DePauw Alumni elect F C Tilden as president and Senator Watson as vice president for 1910. Albert O Marsh pension agent to speak on Decoration Day. D R Landis to read Gettysburg address.
About 200 girls are expected to join 4-H clubs this summer under County Agent R H Stephenson. Leaders named include Ethel Ader Martha Smith Vivian Ader Mrs Clarence Goff Mrs John Myers and Odessa Hodlshire. Projects include baking canning clothing food preparation and health over three to five years.
Miss Tillie Marie McCullough daughter of Mr and Mrs Elmer McCullough of Washington township Putnam county died at 2 30 Monday after a four year illness at age 22 years four months and ten days She attended Reelsville High School briefly leaving for health reasons Survived by parents and three brothers Ray Benjamin and Reese McCullough Funeral at Cray Creek church Wednesday at ten with Rev Lucas officiating and interment at Cory Creek cemetery
Increasing cloudiness and slightly warmer tonight in west and south portions. Wednesday parts of the south will be partly cloudy with possible showers in the north portion tonight. Temperatures rise in the extreme south.
The new 500000 dollar farm relief bill with a debenture export bounty plan, opposed by President Hoover, was reported to the Senate this afternoon by the agriculture committee. Senator McNary of Oregon, chair, said the farm problem was nonpartisan and urged immediate enactment.
DePauw University will stage Gilbert and Sullivan’s nautical comic opera The H M S Pinafore on May 9 and 10. The cast includes faculty and students led by Prof. Orville Borchers with a shipboard setting and a lively, colorful production featuring special dances and a large chorus.
Fremont Ward and H Kelly Graves, both of Crawfordsville Ind, were arraigned in Phelps County Mo. for an armed robbery at a St James filling station. Each received a 25 year sentence. The 5 dollar theft involved a Ford roadster linked to Ward. Authorities arrested them in Waynesville and returned them to Rolla for trial.
Authorities seek two bandits who held up C. W. Morgan, a farmer on the National Road near Stilesville Indiana, forcing him off the road and robbing him of 385 dollars. The bandits’ car bore an Illinois license. Miss Mary Torr has returned to Indianapolis where she is employed.
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