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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1929
Page
3
The Gentry Bros Circus comes to Greencastle on Friday May 3 featuring a wide range of exotic animals including leopards tapirs camels yaks polar bears zebras and two elephants herds. Visitors may inspect the menagerie for a full hour before performances at 1 and 7 p m with shows at 2 and 8 p m.
Sullivan of Associated Chautauquas interviewed DePauw Music School students about forming a Pinafore company for a Granada Theatre May 9 and 10 tour. Dwight Trezise and Dorothy Deamer head the DePauw cast with tickets sold through sororities and Stevens Drug Store.
In Greencastle the Gentry Bros Shows return with over 100 artists and new acts like the Flying Jordans and Florence riders. A daytime street parade, multiple bands, and two performances are planned as merchants expect a large turnout. May 3 marks the show’s arrival with doors opening early and crowds filling the streets.
Yesterday's results show American Association: St Paul 4 Indianapolis 3 in 10 innings. Kansas City 9 Toledo 7. Minneapolis 12 Louisville 4. Columbus 8 Milwaukee 3. American League: Philadelphia 10 New York 1. St Louis 8 Detroit 2. Chicago 13 Cleveland 4. National League: Chicago 4 Cincinnati 3. St Louis 7 Pittsburgh 3.
Rev. F. E. Shumaker, superintendent of the Anti Saloon League, will address a mass meeting at the First M E church in Brazil this evening under the Clay County W C T U. The talk will cover the liquor situation and his impressions from the state penal farm where he served 60 days for comments about the Indiana Supreme Court.
John Merryweather former city resident died in Grand Rapids Michigan after a year of illness. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 10 30 a m at the Rector Funeral Home with Putnam Lodge No 45 Odd Fellows presiding. Interment in Forest Hill Cemetery. The Elks will sponsor a service at his residence Tuesday at 2 30 p m before the body is sent to Greencastle for burial. He leaves a widow a son Oscar of Grand Rapids a daughter Lorraine of Detroit another daughter Helene at home three brothers and two sisters and four grandchildren. He formerly owned the Grand Rapids Electric Piano Company and had managed Concessions at Reeds Lake for Grand Rapids Street Railway. He was 69.
Three Catholic priests of the passionist procuration at Hankow China were killed by bandits on April 24. They are Father Walter Coveyou of Petoskey Michigan Father Clement Seysold of Dunkirk New York and Father Godfrey Holbein of Baltimore. American consul Frank P. Lockhart reported to the state department and said he had notified the Chinese government.
Crawfordsville Lodge No 6 Loyal Order of Moose will install officers May 6 with a bio musical program and fish fry at 7 30 PM Brother M M Mahorney district organizer and William Anderson district secretary will attend along with delegations from Attica Greencastle and Lebanon lodges and other speakers.
Joe Somerville, a former Brazil high school and DePauw University athlete, has been doing secretarial work for the YMCA in Prague, Czecho-Slovakia with his wife and two daughters. He plans to return to the United States soon, rest this summer, then consider another foreign posting in the fall. He will visit his sister Mrs Eppert northwest of Brazil during part of the visit.
Four Bulgarians, including a woman, were assassinated in Yugoslav territory within 400 yards of the Bulgarian frontier today. Central News dispatch from Sofia reports the killings occurred near the border amid tensions in the region.
Putnam county sends 13 students to Indiana University for Founders Day observances during the universitys 109th anniversary. Local programs, a nationwide radio reunion, and speeches by President W L Bryan accompany campus and county events across Indiana and major cities. Students listed include Bainbridge Dorothy Akers Cloverdale Beulah McCoy Greencastle Martha Boyce Winship Callaghan Robert Howell Fimball Larkin Margaret O Hair Paul Wietzke Putnamville Albert Williams Raccoon Imogene Gilliland Russellville Kenneth Harbison Vera Spencer.
Review shows state and local scholarship activity for 1928 29. Local loans and gifts totaled 23 687 with 140 loan recipients and 66 gift recipients. State funds provided 2 150 and 2 161 20 in total support. Overall Tri Kappa aided 720 individuals through local and state scholarships and other programs, with substantial disbursements to Rockville Sanatorium Riley Memorial Fund and Hoosier Art Salon Patron’s Assn. totals.
The body of 3% year old John Hanson was recovered after being buried alive in a thirty five foot well since yesterday afternoon. Rescuers reported he had spoken to them while trapped and was alive on reaching the surface but died shortly after.
The Greencastle Herald traces origins to the Star and Democrat of 1858. Published daily except Sundays at 17 19 South Jackson Street Greencastle Indiana with Charles J. Arnold as owner and LeRoy Bee as proprietor and city editor.
Rates show by mail in Putnam County 3.00 annually and outside Putnam 3.50. In Greencastle by carrier 10 cents weekly. Weekly edition priced at 1.50 per year. Advertising rates available on application.
Miss Margaret Gillespie 77 died Sunday after four days with bronchial pneumonia at the county hospital. Funeral Tuesday at 2 from her home at Indiana and Poplar streets with Rev. C Howard Taylor officiating. Burial in Forest Hill cemetery. Pallbearers listed. out of town relatives attended from Terre Haute Indianapolis Champaign and Logansport.
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