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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1929
Page
1
A Greencastle Sunday School reports a class with perfect attendance and full coins until a boy used multiple Bibles and coins to game the contest. He supplied classmates lacking contributions by trading ten pennies for a dime, inflating the class record.
Local residents watched Lieut. Frank Irwin perform during the Air Circus at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis. The event accompanied the Reserve Officers Association convention with planes from Schoen Field Selfridge Field Mt. Clemens Wright Field Chanute Field Norton Field and Bowman Field participating.
Our Maysville correspondent reports Clarence Hughes made a busy trip to Greencastle last week to subscribe to the Daily Herald before resuming farming and chicken-raising duties.
A lighthearted DePauw Journal entry notes an ash pile diminishing and a cafe mishap where Newt Horn jabbed an eye with a spoon. It mentions saucers or rubber handles as hazards grow, plus Sigma Delta Chi hosts their annual Razz with President G Bromley Oxnam as the main target. Dr. Salem B Town receives the Leather Medal for service.
Walter H. Daly, warden, announced the Indiana state prison now houses 2,143 inmates, the largest total in its history. One inmate sits in the death house, condemned man Dreyfus Rhoades of Oklahoma, scheduled for execution October 11 for the murder of Vincennes police officer Simon Carrie.
Effective next Sunday the Big Four Railroad will make several changes in its passenger train schedules, according to Ticket Agent Herbert Wartin.
Bernard Pritchard of Terre Haute sues Albert Mann of Lena and promoter Robert Thompson for 5000 damages after Mann knocked Pritchard out in a January boxing headliner in Brazil. Pritchard claims the match was ill advised and that Mann, 26, had a boxing and wrestling reputation while he was an inexperienced boy.
Kirby Page world traveler author religious leader and former athlete will speak at the Kiwanis noon gathering in the Christian Church. He is touring DePauw University with talks today and tomorrow including chapel at 10 45 and a 4 30 seminar in Plato hall on World Economic Conditions and a 7 30 Cosmopolitan Club opening at Reetor Hall Thursday chapel at 10 45.
Vincennes officials moved to appeal a Chicago Court of Appeals ruling to the U S Supreme Court after the court set the Vincennes Water Company valuation at 1 2 million, up from the Indiana Public Service Commission's 700 000. A challenge to the water plant purchase remains pending locally.
The sixth annual Gridiron Raz z at DePauw's Longden Hall featured L Bernard Kilffe of South Bend as “Chef,” comedian and public speaker, with faculty and student leaders quizzed amid heavy applause. Awards and portraits highlighted the event honoring journalism fraternity Sigma Delta Chi with Danford Derby and other prizes for campus service and leadership.
The second in a series of public student recitals will be held Thursday at seven in Music Hall. Selections from The Morning of the Year in Cadman’s Song Cycle will be performed by Miss Anne Rickett soprano Miss Elizabeth Mullen contralto Paul Brown tenor Robert Phillips bass with Miss Helen Walte at the piano.
More than half of Hanna Street property owners filed a remonstrance with the city council opposing summer paving. George Boyle presented the petition, signaling sentiment against immediate improvement. The remonstrance, though not binding, could prevent a survey expense unless plans are refined.
Ross Stone 25 of Bloomfield, held on murder charges in the Easter morning poker game killing of Orval Wires north of Bloomington in 1928, pleads guilty to automobile banditry. He receives five to twenty one years from Judge Herbert Rundell after turning state's evidence. Steele and Buchanan, accomplices, are serving life terms.
Carrie Logan Foreman was named guardian in Putnam Circuit Court for William Henry Foreman a World War I soldier afflicted by shell shock both physically and mentally.
Earl Williams, local plumber, awarded the plumbing and heating contract for the Prevo Hanna building. A cement walk will be laid across the campus from Locust and Hanna to Larrabee Street, with work starting immediately. Mrs C C Hurst attended The Merry Widow in Indianapolis last night at English's Theatre.
At a Greencastle council meeting mayor Charles McGaughey cites a State Board of Health finding that local milk contains foreign matter and adulteration and is below standard He urges an ordinance to restrict milk delivery to homes and protect children He asks council to study neighboring city controls and assist in drafting the ordinance
Friends in Crawfordsville Indiana seek a new trial or sentence reduction for H Kelly Graves who, with Fremont Ward, received 25 year terms for a St James Missouri filling station holdup. Graves, with no prior record and longtime chauffeur for local families, allegedly was led into crime by Ward who also has a police record. Ward is a former Cloverdale boy who lived in Crawfordsville recent years.
The Methodist Brotherhood plans a 6 80 o clock dinner at the church. Bishop Edgar Blake of Indianapolis will address the gathering with the topic International Relations.
Showers and thunderstorms continue tonight and Thursday with a slightly warmer east portion. Increasing southeast to south winds may reach strong gusts, impacting coastal and inland areas.
In Putnam county, the State versus Elwood Pollom faces delay as 34 veniremen are examined with no verdict yet. Deputy Nussel summons jurors while farmers fear losing time from plowing and several prospective jurors refuse to serve for various reasons.
Otis Gardner will build one home on north Greenwood avenue A G Brown plans two on north Arlington avenue while Raymond Riley and Ernest Mugg each build one. A fire plug on north Arlington was requested and the Water Company faced criticism for halting water lines. The council sent the matter to a committee for study and Mayor McGaughey warned he might relocate fire plugs to cut water bills. Fire department repairs and new fire limit and shingle roof ordinances were also referred for investigation.
Greencastle Kiwanis Club members will travel to the Greystone Hotel in Bedford for an Inter-Club Kiwanis meeting at 6 30 tomorrow evening. Detours on state roads are removed and Lieut Governor Philip Lutz Jr. of Boonville will headline the Bedford event.
Commandery No. 11, E. T. holds Stated Conclave Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. Work in the Temple. T. G. Yuncker to serve as Commander and E. E. Caldwell as Reporter.
Indianapolis police arrest 17 year old Thurman Swan on an alleged burglary spree confession. He reportedly admitted stealing 150 letters from 21 apartment mail boxes and taking $7 from Greencastle resident Rue Donnohue, who later identified him. Swan had been under a suspended burglary sentence.
John Shields died Tuesday at his son Harrison Shields home one mile south of Coatesville from complications of old age. Aged 96, he was born near Greencastle and spent his youth in Putnam County. He leaves a daughter two granddaughters and other relatives. Funeral Thursday at 10 50 AM from the home with interment in Stilesville cemetery.
Joseph A Hill former resident of Greencastle died at his Danville home. Funeral services will be held in Danville Thursday at 9 30 am, body to be brought to Greencastle for Forest Hill Cemetery interment. A brother Edward Hill and sister Harriett Hill live in Danville, another brother Jerome Hill died in Cincinnati in 1924 and was buried here.
Effie B. Shannon files in Putnam Circuit Court for guardianship of Dalla D. Skillman age 66 alleging infirmity and inability to manage estate. The estate includes farm land in Franklin township.
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