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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1914
Page
6
Mrs J B Trimble and Mrs Charles J Arnold were in Indianapolis today. Several residents visit, travel, and events noted including DePauw plans, graduation, and local notices. The death of Mrs W A Armstrong is reported along with church society activities, reunions, and upcoming public events in Greencastle and vicinity.
A Herald want ad story shows a 10 cent notice helping Roscoe McCoy recover glasses and Mrs. Grubb recover a pocketbook. Other examples note no ads failing to publish yet later results prove ads work. The piece urges readers to use Herald want ads for lost items sales rooms and rentals.
A Cloverdale warehouse owned by Havens Bros near the railroad station burned this afternoon shortly after 2 o clock. The fire caused about 600 dollars in contents losses and 250 dollars for the building. The cause is unknown. Insurance covers part of the loss. O B Linley manages Havens Bros in Cloverdale.
Greencastle Indiana school board adopted a resolution praising Professor H G Woody upon retirement after sixteen years as superintendent. The document commends his careful attention to details, financial integrity, and unselfish devotion, and extends best wishes to him and his family. Signed by President H C Allen Secretary W P Sackett and Treasurer Clara Lammers.
Members of the S C C club picnicked at Sunset Hill with lunch baskets and about twenty members plus guests attending. An elaborate dinner preceded a viewing of a picture show. Guests included Miss Mayme Sullivan, Miss Delia Sullivan of Chicago, Miss Augusta Glidewell, Hattie Leuteke, Miss Hattie Parks of this city, and Miss Edna Miller of.
An Indianapolis official from the State Utilities Commission said the Greencastle Water rate decision was not yet prepared for release. The Locust Street Church picnic by the C. I. C. Sunday school girls class at McLean's Springs drew twenty two attendees with songs and yells after a bonfire. Miss Florence Earl and Miss Sylvia Singleton chaperoned the event. Miss Adelaide Grissom of Cloverdale is visiting.
Thirteen year old Inez Bond confesses to facts leading to the release of her father, in a case described as a serious charge. A concerned embrace between parent and child followed. James Bond, an oil worker, is granted freedom after a period of fasting since arrest.
President Wilson asks Congress to appropriate 2.5 million dollars for immediate relief to Americans in Europe, joining 250 thousand dollars already approved. The plan relies on the Tennessee to transport funds, with limited ship availability and an estimated 16,000 passengers could be moved. About 20,000 Americans in Europe urgently seek to return.
We thank our many friends for kindness and sympathy shown during our bereavement and for the beautiful floral offerings. Mrs. Alice Krofft and Family, Ada, Ohio.
The annual Hurst family reunion gathered about 200 members at the John McCammack grove three miles southeast of Mt. Meridian in Putnam County. West Virginia relatives join locals for speeches, ancestry talks, and a long Maple Grove dinner on the McCammack farm.
H. C. Allen was re elected president W. P. Sackett named treasurer and C. C. Gillen elected secretary at a Greencastle school board re organization meeting held in the superintendent’s office Tuesday night Gillen replaces Mrs Lammers and the board will meet on the second and fourth Tuesday each month.
DePauw University becomes owner of a new ten thousand dollar pipe organ funded as a memorial to the late Bishop Thomas Bowman. The organ, purchased by a committee led by G O K Grose H A Gobin and R G McCutchan, will be installed in Meharry Hall and ready for use when the autumn term opens.
The Greencastle community will repair the city schools heating plant in the high school before winter. The deplorable condition will require near 1000 dollars to restore, with the school board expected to set a contract soon.
The Burks family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness and supportive flowers during illness and death of their wife and mother. The Harris and Weathers families plan a reunion Sunday in the Levi Sears grove near Reelsville with baskets to share. Frances King will travel to Terre Haute this evening to visit friends for several days.
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