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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1915
Page
1
Pay D. Pickens returns with a wartime poster collection from England. The items illustrate Allied and British efforts and contribute to a young man’s growing interest in history, with a parliamentary committee securing support for the collection.
Pickens of American lumber interests brings a wide poster set from London to Chicago. The Exhibition includes Lusitania disaster visuals, German actions, and patriotic calls like England expects that every man will do his duty, with notes on English war factory work and home front sacrifice.
The forty fourth wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. William King was celebrated Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lueteke on south Locust street. About thirty relatives attended with dinner and fellowship. Attending from out of town were Galvin King of Cloverdale and George Miller of Rockville among others. The Rev. Bert DeWitt Beck and Rev. H. A. Hootman spoke at a Putnamville Sunday afternoon Sunday school convention.
Ott Gibson, a local barber at Bloomington street and Morton avenue, claims the Greencastle champion tomato title. His garden plant stands nine feet tall and bears 28 ripe fruits, the largest 18 inches in circumference and 6 inches in diameter. He invites friends to view the extraordinary "wonder."
The Rooster Club urges local motorists to join nearly a hundred cars heading Thursday evening to the New Providence church south of Mt. Meridian for an ice cream social. Previous trips to Fillmore Union Chapel and Fincastle were successful. the band will perform. Members with space in their cars are asked to contact booster committee members Priest Stoner A. B. Hanna or E. E. Caldwell.
W S Deffenbaugh of the U S Bureau of Education urges publicity to show how school funds are spent. He cites printed reports and newspaper articles as tools, notes women's clubs and PTA groups can boost school efficiency, and references a 1914 education report.
Elmer Cook, 16, son of Charles Cook, was arrested by Policeman Frank Riley for intoxication and jailed. In Mayor Walter Cooper's court the case was continued pending investigation of liquor source. Cook offered stories and asked for leniency while authorities probe where the whiskey came from. Sam Carr, a sewer laborer, was fined $25 and costs after a separate arrest on North Jackson Street.
State Fire Marshal advises Hartford City and Advance to adopt bans on indiscriminate fireworks use and storage. Municipalities may implement measures after July Fourth stock depletion and before new pyrotechnics are bought. Fire loss for first half of 1915 shows substantial decline from 1914. In parallel, Eitel greenhouse expansion begins on Vine Street with a new office building planned at Franklin and Vine.
A valuable horse owned by John McCabe Jr. of Morton was stolen from a hitching rail at Union Chapel Church in Northeast Putnam County Sunday night. The horse was recovered after a spirited chase that brought two thieves to the area.
Two men accused of stealing a valuable horse owned by John McCabe Jr near Mor ton were chased by fifteen pursuers and captured three miles west of Carbon at 4 am. The horse was unharmed. Suspects, one identifying as Sutherlin from Terre Haute, were jailed in Rockville to await Putnam Circuit Court on the first Monday in September. Theodore Bees of this city will escort them to Rockville for lodging.
Mr and Mrs James McMahon of Bedford spent Sunday here as guests of Mr and Mrs Thomas Nelson.
Earl Lynch of Greencastle and cousin John Lynch of Malden Mo sailed from New Orleans on a mule ship bound for Egypt. The letter says the voyage was pleasant and the vessel saw no warships or submarines. They expect to land in New Orleans around August 16.
New York Progressives adopted a resolution urging resignations from the state committee members who supported abandoning the National Progressive party for the Republican party. Philip C. Samuels proposed the measure aimed at Theodore Douglas Robinson and Chauncey J. Hamlin, though expulsions were rejected as too drastic.
The Hurst family reunion scheduled for Wednesday August 4 is postponed to August 11 at the Oscar Blue grove half a mile south of Mt. Meridian due to delays in threshing from recent rains. The note adds obituary for Richard T. Long 66 of Knauer farm with funeral at Forest Hill cemetery and survivors listed. Mr and Mrs C C Gillen and children and Paul Gibson visited Riverside Park in Indianapolis on Sunday.
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