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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1929
Page
3
Wesley Chapel M E Church hosts a reunion on Sunday August 4 with a basket dinner at 12 30 and special music. Rev Hansel Tower delivers his last sermon before departing for the East at 11 o clock, followed by talks from visiting ministers and laymen.
In the 1929 Warner Bros. musical drama On With the Show the backstage strife centers on Nita French the star and Durant the reluctant backer. Jerry Connolly battles salary woes while Sam Bloom plans to strip scenery as tensions flare among cast and crew amid a high pressure tryout.
Local residents and families gather for visits and travel, with Sherman Harmless and Noble Miller returning from California and a B O section excursion to Cincinnati. Funeral notices for J H Galey and J Howard Harbison detail services, burial, and distant attendees from Detroit, Indianapolis, and Crawfordsville.
Six weeks old Benjamin Bonnini of Raritan swallowed a small wrist watch and survived after the watch was jolted from his throat by a rough road as a motorcycle policeman ferried him toward the hospital.
WAVELAND Aug. 1. Mr and Mrs Dane Moore and son Robert visiting relatives, went to a Lebanon creek for a swim. Dane Moore dived on a sandbar, injuring head and back. three vertebrae broken, great pain reported.
The Herald established as the Star and Democrat era in 1868 notes mail and post office details. Charles J. Arnold and LeRoy Bee are listed as proprietor and city editor Roy Evans as manager. The paper publishes weekdays at 17 19 South Jackson Street with telephone 66. Subscription rates: $3.00 yearly in Putnam County, $3.50 outside, carrier 10 cents weekly in Greencastle.
Frank Rogers visits Fred Rogers then a string of calls and visits across Fillmore Attica Groveland Plainfield Coatesville New Winchester and Indianapolis. Families including Miles Smith Mickel Summers Osborn Beck Rogers and Baker attend gatherings, with a Groveland burial and two ill residents noted.
A claim for $260 for the burial of Carrie Hunt Latta, wife of Indianapolis attorney Will H. Latta, was filed against his estate. Funeral directors Flanner & Buchanan filed the claim with probate clerk Charles E. Bebinger. Latta died two years ago. his car was struck by a train in Hamilton County. His will directs an estate of about $140 million to fund public buildings in Indianapolis and Indiana.
In Crawfordsville Indiana this morning and on Tuesday night three automo bile accidents left Ben Bouillon 50 of Greenville Illinois with a likely fatal skull fracture and broken arm after his car was struck by a traction vehicle ten miles east of town. Walter Turner 21 suffered chest leg and arm injuries when his car was struck and dragged 500 feet by a Monon freight at Market street crossing. I J Freeman Crawfordsville high school athletic director sustained a deep forehead cut and bruises in a head on collision with Rufus Myers of Jamestown. three accompanying boys were uninjured.
Battle Creek Mich July 31 Corp Harold W Gullick 24 of Company H 2d Infantry was killed at Camp Custer today when he walked across the rifle range during machine gun instruction. The machine gun fire struck him in the abdomen and he died within minutes Col A C Gillem ordered an immediate investigation.
Results from yesterday show American Association games in Kansas City beating Indianapolis 12 to 9 and St. Paul defeating Toledo 3 to 0 as Milwaukee edged Louisville 2 to 1. In the American League New York beat Chicago 16 to 2 while Philadelphia routed Detroit 10 to 1. St. Louis defeated Washington 5 to 1 and Boston won 4 to 2 over Cleveland. National League action had Boston 7 Chicago 3, St. Louis 5 Brooklyn 2, Cincinnati 2 New York 1, and Philadelphia 6 Pittsburgh 2.
A Washington dispatch notes Big Jim Watson a 260 pound Indiana senator near sixty five cautions men his age against regaining youth through strenuous activity. He recalls gymnastic days at DePauw University and warns that inactive men over fifty risk mental or physical decline from overexertion. He jokes about pallbearer duties for friends who died from heart strain.
Joy riders stole Judge Joseph Sullivan's car from a downtown Whiting parking area. The vehicle was driven about 180 miles in four hours before police found it abandoned on a street.
An Indianapolis man, M Fink of 328 North Jefferson Street, credits Konjola with curing years of stomach trouble, weak digestion, constipation, and liver sluggishness after a two year fight. The remedy is sold at Owl Drug in Greencastle Indiana and by leading druggists across the region.
Mr and Mrs Morris Payne of Indianapolis visited with Lottie Dickey and other relatives in Madison Center. Claude Cantonwine commutes to Greencastle for work while Elder Victor Brown of Decatur Illinois preached at Long Branch. The Wright Johnson and Bradfield families held a Scott Irwin homecoming with guests from Bras il Rockville Terre Haute and Decatur.
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