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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1914
Page
4
REELSVILL announces an ice cream social at the basketball grounds on Saturday August 8 with all invited. The item also notes local visits and travels among residents including Mrs. Charles D Reel and several others from nearby towns and states.
Miss Pearl Troy of Danville visits relatives and friends while L B Mills and family spend Sunday at Clayton. Numerous residents travel between Danville Indianapolis Brownsburg and surrounding areas for visits and gatherings over the weekend.
Harry Higgins and family and Merle Patrick visited in Martinsville over Sunday. Dr. Cullipher will return this week from Chicago where he has been in school all summer. Mrs. Bozelle and daughter spent this week with Martin Henry and family. Lois Kendall and Lena Temple are visiting friends in Amo.
PINCASTLE. Anna and Russell Routh of New Ross are visiting relatives and friends here and called on Mrs. James Terry along with Mrs. Kate Watson and her daughter.
Purdue University plans to deploy about twenty extension agents at the Indiana State Fair to answer farmers questions and display teaching materials. Prof. G J Christie says the effort will offer short cuts to better farming and rural life, with cooperation from the State Board of Agriculture and extensive displays for Hoosier farm people.
The Everman reunion took place Sunday at Will Everman's home with Mr and Mrs Joe Everman present. Lon Lookabill and Ethel and Earl Watson visited John Dodd. Aunt Sarah Lookabill returned to Russellville after weeks with Lon Lookabill’s family. A large crowd attended the Grider reunion Sunday.
Miss Clara Hodshire returns home after a week with her sister in Greencastle. Harold Wright improves after appendicitis surgery. Cisterns and wells run dry raising concern. Pastures burned. rain needed for stock. Mildred Reeves opens a refreshment room. Mrs. Ernest Herbert and Mrs. Frank Gose ill. Verlie Davis home from Hamrick with her brother. Hodshire and Wright women visit S. B. Wright. Attendance at Cloverdale picnic noted. Lloyd McGill and Orval Templeman visit Ed and Noah Roberts after weekend in town.
Miss Olus Brattain of Clinton visits grandmother Mrs Edna Brattain. Road work progresses. A Cloverdale picnic draws a large local crowd with a pleasant time reported. Jessie Allgood of Bainbridge visits Mrs Edgar Staggs. A mapic supper at John W Knauer’s Tuesday night with music by the Hearney brothers ends in a fine time. Bethel M E Church to host an ice cream festival Saturday night August 8. The William Dilly farm house and barn were destroyed by fire last week.
Trustees from Madison, Mill Creek, Jackson, Monroe, Floyd, Marion and Fillmore townships list weekly hours and locations to transact official business. Each trustee notes residence or office as venue and specific days, including J W Knauer Ernest Kivett Benjamin Walls Oliver Stringer D V Etcheson Fred Todd Otto Rector.
Real estate transfers show Ghee Pruitt to George Murphy for a Filmore lot, T J Haltom to Alice Haltom for a Greencastle lot, Hawkins to Green Castle Produce Co. for Greencastle land, Colglazier to Alva Nichols for Madison township land, Denny to Clyde Hurst for a Cloverdale lot, Larkin to W Moser for a Belle Union lot, Sellar to Dallas Misner for Greencastle land, Bainbridge Cemetery Co. to G B Walkup for a Bainbridge cemetery lot, Robert L Smith to Oscar Stevenson for Floyd land, Leene Lager to F R Williams for Warren land.
A farmer notices lambs crowding and misusing grain. The writer suggests feeding lambs from the ewes troughs by opening a gate between yards, allowing lambs to rush for grain. The tip promises easier feeding and less effort for the caregiver.
Mrs. D. Cornman notes that hens benefit from varied summer grazing and winter meat scraps, with a bone cutter to grind bones and scraps. She describes buying pounds from a local butcher to supplement feed and claims the investment pays off through higher winter egg production.
A guide explains packing the fleece by laying it on a table, turning the head and fall, then the flanks, rolling into a neat roll and tying it firmly. A tying box built from light lumber with slots is shown, through which the rope is threaded to secure the bundle.
Wool buyers favor loose light elastic fleece, tied for easy opening. Farm and Home notes a simple packing box placed on rope to feed rolls efficiently.
George Sickerrow of Madison Wisconsin argues many farmers rely on coarse coach horses to breed farm stock. He says only a small fraction of resulting colts meet usable standards. He favors finer stallions like Hackney or American trotter types for better general purpose stock.
A congressional report on American Indians reveals a high tuberculosis rate with 26 500 estimated cases among 190 791 individuals and 32 percent of reservation deaths linked to TB. It urges tuberculosis camps on reservations as funds allow.
A three quarter length portrait of the son of Charles VI of Spain later Philip II, painted by Titian in 1550 in Augsburg, Germany, passed to American Mrs Thomas J. Emory of Cincinnati for about 400000 dollars. The painting then moved through the Barbarigo family to Padua, Lubmach in Munich, Agnew & Son in London, and finally to Sir Hugh Lane after a recent sale.
Public may be reading of a new law restricting morphine sales to prescriptions. In Massillon state hospital, many addicts are admitted weekly. One city’s users know each other, with a patient revealing morphine given since birth.
New Yorker Ross Sobel, son of a New York contractor, returned from England aboard the Majestic with $10,000 earned playing ragtime in London music halls and for wealthy foreigners. He claims four hours of performances pleased Grand Duke Michael and that Baron Leopold de Rothschild preferred ragtime to any other music.
A pair of poem snippets by Nathan M. Levy and Arthur Chapman contrasts globe trotting and screen time with desert hardships. Levy mocks tourist rituals across Rotterdam Rome Madrid and London while Chapman paints stark desert imagery and perilous heat, thirst and death.
The passage recalls ancient battles and valor as the speaker longs for days past when Caesar fought the Gauls. It contrasts today’s duties with a fixation on historic warfare and the thrill of steel and conflict. Washington Star.
A verse fragment describes The Song from the Crag and a bustling scene in an eating place. William Byron Forbush is noted for rushing to a table with eager appetite as a cashier or observer notes the rapid dining, the brisk service, and a 40 cent total in Chicago News.
Notice of Sheriff sale under a decree to satisfy 54779.70 issued by the Circuit Court of Putnam County Indiana. The property in Greencastle is a 60 acre more or less tract in Section 14 Township 12 North Range 4 West with rents and profits for up to seven years. If rents insufficient, fee simple may be sold to satisfy the decree with costs. Sheriff Theodore Bofs announces sale for August 22 1914 with administrative notices and advertisement by Hays Murphy attorneys.
Notice announces a special meeting of the Putnam County Council on Wednesday August 12 at 10:00 AM in Greencastle. Audit official C L ArtHart requests attendance and marks the date and time for the session.
Geo Brock publisher of the Enterprise Aberdeen Maryland recalls using Chamberlain's Cake Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for twenty years as a safe diarrhoea cure. He has recommended it widely and reports no disappointments. For sale by all dealers.
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