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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1914
Page
2
Miss Pearl Troy of Danville spent the weekend with Mr and Mrs Kendall. Mills and family hosted Claude Job from IU for a Sunday visit. Madge and Ruby Wright visited Dolly Ader. Nathan Jones returned to Ladoga after a few days with his sister Mrs Conrad Underwood.
Harry Higgins and family and Merle Patrick visited in Martinsville. Dr. Cullipher will return this week from Chicago where he has been in school all summer. Mrs. Bozelle and daughter visited with Martin Henry and family. Lois Kendall and Lena Temple are visiting friends in Amo.
Emmet Stages of Indianapolis guests Lee Cobl for weekend events. Numerous Indianapolis visitors and Brownsburg travelers join locals for family and church gatherings. Names include Elbert Wilhite Olive Elmore Rodards Osborns and Lineberry families among others with Sunday church appointments noted.
Anna and Russell Routh of New te visit relatives and friends here. Mrs. Kate Watson and daughter Michel called on Mrs. James Terry and remained for a time.
Purdue University will direct much of its educational effort to farm men and women at the Indiana State Fair. Prof. G. Christie of the Extension Department says about twenty Purdue instructors will be at the fair to answer questions and present extensive beer exhibition material. The program aims to cover breeding home economics and all lines of Hoosier farming to help Indiana farm people improve farming and rural life.
The Everman reunion was held Sunday at Will Everman's home with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Everman. Lon Lookabill and Ethel and Earl Watson visited Mr. and Mrs. John Dodd. Aunt Sarah Lookabill returned home to Russellville after weeks with Lon Lookabill's family. A large crowd attended the Grider reunion Sunday.
Manhattan reports Mrs Clar Hodshire has returned home after a week with her sister. Harold Wright recovers from appendicitis. Cisterns and wells run dry as the drought deepens. Pastures burned, stock needs rain. Mrs Mildred Reeves opened a refreshment room. Mrs Ernest Herbert and Mrs Frank Gose ill. Verlie Davis returns from Hamrick. Mrs John Hodshire visited Mrs Wright. Attendees from here at Cloverdale picnic. Lloyd McGill and Orval Templeman visiting Ed and Noah Roberts.
Miss Olus Brattain visits Clinton relative. crowds attend Cloverdale picnic and a magic supper at John W Knauer's with Hearney brothers. Ice cream festival planned at Bethel M E Church. William Dills farm house and barn were destroyed by fire last week.
Trustees announce weekly office hours across townships. J W Knauer in Madison, E Kivett in Mill Creek, B Walls in Jackson, O Stringer in Monroe, W Etcheson in Floyd, F Todd in Marion and Otto Rector announced, with days including Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday for various posts.
Real estate transfers include bot e Harold Pruitt to George T. Murphy a Filmore lot and various deeds: Haltom to Alice M Haltom Greencastle lots to Green castle Produce Co. and other land transfers in Madison and Cloverdale townships. Listings include Bainbridge Cemetery Co. to G B Walkup and Floyd F Williams to W A Williams. Amounts 950 700 700 100 460 25 1600.
A neighbor raises forty fattening lambs and a breeding ewe flock beside an orchard. The farmer's feeding method proved chaotic, while the narrator suggests a simple shift: place lambs grain in the ewes troughs after the ewes finish, then release them to rush the grain, a method that would save effort and reduce strain.
Mrs. D. Cornman argues for varied fowl diets and year round fattening with green summer forage, weed seeds, and junked kitchen scraps. She promotes buying a bone cutter to grind bones and meat, noting it pays by converting waste to eggs and reducing butcher costs.
Guide explains packing the fleece by laying it on a table with head and tail turned in then flanks folded. It details rolling into a neat roll and tying it firmly using a tying box made of light lumber with slots for rope passage.
Wool buyers favor loose fleece packed in a light elastic box tied on a rope for easy opening if needed. The method described by Farm and Howe emphasizes simple, secure packing to facilitate inspection and transport.
George McKerrow of Madison Wis argues against breeding nondescript mares to leggy coach horses. He notes most such offspring fail as general purpose horses and claims using a finer compact coach stallion or a Hackney or American trotter yields better results. He urges this approach as more reliably successful.
A congressional study on American Indian health finds high tuberculosis and trachoma rates. Of 16 470 students examined at Indian boarding schools, 4 916 had trachoma. On reservations 39 231 examined yielded 8 940 trachoma cases. Estimated total tuberculous Indians reach about 26 500 with 32 percent of reservation deaths linked to TB. The report urges tuberculosis camps on reservations as funds permit.
A Titian three quarter portrait of the son of Charles V later Philip II, painted in 1550 in Augsburg, Germany, sold to an American buyer Mrs Thomas J. Emory of Cincinnati for about 400000. The painting later passed through Barbarego and Massillon connections before reaching Sir Hugh Lane. In Ohio, Morphine restrictions lead to mass hospital admissions and a network of users. In Minnesota, three brothers ride 8 miles daily to school on horses.
New York born Ross Sobel, son of a contractor, arrived in England a year ago with 10 cents and returned on the Majestic with $10,000 earned playing ragtime in London music halls and homes of wealthy foreigners. He says he played four hours to please Grand Duke Michael and that Baron Leopold de Rothschild preferred ragtime to any other music.
A two poetical piece contrasts a jaded traveler recalling sights from Rotterdam Rome Madrid and the Nile with scenes of desert life. Nathan M. Levy celebrates globe touring via cinema while Arthur Chapman probes peril and longing in desert landscapes.
The reader reflects on ancient battles and Caesar's campaigns while recalling a distant Washington Star scene on a crag and pine winds. The poem voices solemn vows to learn past stories, rejecting present needs in favor of noble, distant valor.
Public auction set for August 22 1914 in Greencastle Indiana to settle a decree against Aetna Life Insurance Co et al. The property is described as sixty acres in the west half of the southeast quarter of Section 14 Township 12 North Range 4 West. If rents and profits fail to cover the decree additional sale of the property may occur. Sheriff Theodore Bobs announces the sale. An administrator Andrew J Sweeney appointed for the estate of John Sweeney.
Formal notice announces a special meeting of the Putnam County Council at the usual Greencastle court hall on Wednesday August 12 at 10 00 am. Auditor C L Airhart requests attendance and signs the notice dated August 8 1947.
Aberdeen Maryland publisher touts Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as a quick safe cure for diarrhoea. He claims it has never disappointed and has sold it through all dealers for many years.
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