Local society notes and upcoming events in Putnam county
G G Buis buys a Studebaker touring car from local agent L H Athey. Mrs Frank Thomas ill with appendicitis is improving. The Hammond family and Irene leave for Plymouth then home. Stilesville picnic Saturday, Quincy picnic next Thursday drawing large crowds. J P Allen first in Putnam to register this year with a Chalmers. Gardner Bros register an International. 1915 Indiana auto registrations reach 85,000. Fords lead with about 33,000. Moler yields 63 bushels per acre on six acres of oats. McCabe expects big yield on 40 acres. Meston Hauser Candle motor 1800-mile round trip. well-kept roads praised. Daggy of Greencastle lauded in Wellston Sentinel. Knoll visits Indianapolis. Baptist Sunday school picnic August 7 at McLian’s Springs. Patrick Long returns from Lafayette. Elder Athey preaching at Union Chapel, Clay county. Evans and Donner party report rain while traveling to Michigan. Invitations extended for Mary Hazel Downey and Rev Clyde Pearce marriage August 17 Martinsville.
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J. P. Allen, Jr
Greencastle
Chalmers
Putnam County
Gardner Bros
Fords
Indiana
Shelby Moler
Clinton Township
St. Thomas
Ontario
Canada
St. Louis
W. L. Meston
P. Hauser
T. Candle
Thomas
Wellston
Ohio
Maynard Lee Daggy
Mr. Daggy
Charles Daggy
Dawson
Antioch
Subect
Skelton
James L. Hamilton
Augusta
Frank Donner
R. L. O’hair
Donner
Bay View
Mich
Paw Paw
Michigan
John M. Downey
Mary Hazel
Clyde Covington Pearce
Methodist Episcopal Church
Martinsville
Stowe
Massachusetts
Pearce
DePauw
Used Car For Sale Want Ad Notice
A brief plea to place a want ad in The Daily Herald to sell a car. It stresses wide visibility and low cost, urging readers with a vehicle to list it so hundreds of interested people see the notice.
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Daily Herald
Herald
Electric bill notice from Putnam Electric Co
The electric light bills are due. Please call at the office of the Putnam Electric Co. to settle.
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The
Putnam Electric Co
Settle
Funeral Held After 32 Years in Texarkana Family Lot
Ben and James Wilson laid to rest the skeleton found on a Red River sandbar near Fulton believed to be their father who disappeared 32 years ago. The body was recovered about 300 yards below the spot of the drowning and interred after funeral rites at the family plot.
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Texarkana
Ark
Red River
Fulton
Ben
James Wilson
Wilson
Ancient oysters and shells found near Smiths Wharf raise questions
Washington captain describes centuries old oyster shells taken from a mail bank on the Virginia side of the Potomac near Smiths Wharf. One eight inch shell remains solid like stone. Prehistoric oysters are reported along the river and in marl beds near Smiths Wells. In King George county, large half-burned shells were found 40 to 50 feet below current grade, with locals theorizing they come from long gone meals. Bloomington jury convicts Pendegraft of a blind tiger crime, sentencing him to 144 days in Putnamville and a $50 fine, noting a barrel of beer equals 144 bottles.
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Washington
Joe Miller
Virginia
Potomac
Smith's Wharf
King George County
Smith's Wells
Bloomington
Ill
Monroe County
Tuck
A Pet Carp of Sandusky Claims Unique Ownership
Theodore Sharp, a fisherman from the upper Sandusky bay area eight miles southwest of Sandusky, says he owns the only educated carp in existence. The nearly forty pound fish reportedly comes when he whistles, takes food from his hand, and follows his boat closely, resembling a fat hog out of water.
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Sandusky, O
Theodore Sharp
Sandusky Bay
Sharp
Amazing Acts by Mail Route Horse Ned in Grand Rapids
In Grand Rapids Michigan a mail carrier Martin Gilbertson keeps a remarkable horse named Ned who feeds himself using a chute and rake system. Ned also stops at street lines on traffic calls, avoids collisions, and visits over fifteen candy shops for daily treats, finishing his 300 daily stops an hour early. The horse’s feats resemble a legendary Hambletonian lineage, though Tom Allen’s track promise never materialized.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Ned
Martin Gilbertson
Gilbertson
Gilbert
Tom Allen
Parting Shot Opens Gusher At Dilton Pool
In Muskogee Oklahoma an oil well believed worthless began to flow after a 27 quart nitroglycerine shot. Located on the edge of the Dilton pool, it showed no productivity until the blast spouted oil over the lease, potentially launching a 5000 barrel class wells and extending the Cushing field.
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Muskogee
Okla
Cushing
Dilton
Buzzard Returns to Porch After Months Missing
Lawrenceburg Indiana reports a large old buzzard once kept by Justice John W. Probst vanished last fall. Belled bird reappeared Sunday, ringing its neck bell from a tree and landing on the justice’s front porch.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
John W. Probst
Man in Pajamas Walks to Night School in Sleep
Adolph Fremder, in pajamas and a bed quilt, wandered two blocks to Soldan High School in his sleep days ago. Automobilists rescued him and returned him home. He is the son of Charles Fremder and had attended commencement at the Soldan night school the previous evening.
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St. Louis
Adolph Fremder
Soldan High School
Adolph
Charles Fremder
Soldam
Want Van Nuys for governor Elwood Paper endorses Van Nuys
The Elwood Reporter says Frederick Van Nuys of Anderson should be nominated for governor by the Democrats. It notes his role as Democratic floor leader, author of a direct primary bill, and his clean nonpartisan record. Born April 16 1874 in Farmland Indiana, he has been prosecuting attorney, county chairman, and a leading eastern Indiana attorney. His friends urge him as the logical candidate due to ability, fitness, and a nonfactional record.
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Elwood
Frederick van Nuys
Federick van Nuys
Anderson
van Nuys
Senate
Mr. van Nuys
Falmouth
Rush County
Indiana
Lebanon
Earlham College
County Farm Wheat Grades 61 Pounds To The Bushel
John Clark, superintendent of the county farm near Greencastle, reports 451 bushels of wheat from 15 acres, grading highest at Harris Milling Co. The wheat weighs 61 pounds per bushel, described as exceptionally heavy. Clark also lists four yearling short horn heifers, raised on the farm, with an offer of 60 dollars per head.
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John Clark
Greencastle
County House
Harris Milling Co
Clark
Livestock Market Prices and Manhattan Shirt Sale Ad
Market notes show varying prices for cattle sheep and calves with ranges for steers cows bulls and sheep. Also an advertisement invites readers to take advantage of the Manhattan Shirt Sale at the Fashion Store on West Side.
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Fashion Store
West Side
Dinner Stories At Nauvoo Revival With Captain Higgins
In a Nauvoo Mississippi river revival a veteran river pilot Captain Higgins slips into the mourners and is hailed by a zealot who mistakes his interest for conversion. Higgins responds with humor about enduring the heat as he grips a big red handkerchief. A Chicago night school teacher challenges a wary pupil about a chance at presidency prompting a sly boy to offer to sell his chances for ten cents.
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Nauvoo
Mississippi River
Higgins
Chicago
Special bargains in school shirts for high school boys
The Fashion Store West Side advertises special bargains on school shirts for high school boys in sizes 14 and 14. Mr and Mrs Oscar Cosner and daughter Jane and Mrs Cosner's mother Mrs Hood and son Harry of Chicago visit the Moores, motoring here in the Cosner car. An Ice Cream Festival at Fox Ridge M E church Friday night August 6 hosted by the Epworth League benefits remodeling. Everyone is welcome.
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Fashion Store
West Side
Oscar Cosner
Miss Jane
Cosner
Hood
Harry
Chicago
Harry W. Moore
Fox Ridge M. E
Epworth League
Death claims a prominent young Greencastle businessman
Harry M. Sheppard aged 38, a noted Greencastle entrepreneur and half owner of the Mission pool and billiard room, died at his parents’ home this morning after a six month illness of diabetes. He is survived by his mother and father, a sister in Columbus, Ohio, and a brother in Columbus. Funeral arrangements were not announced.
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Harry M. Sheppard
Greencastle
G. R. Sheppard
Larrabee and
Indiana Streets
Sheppard
Mission
J. K. Bruner
Columbus, O
William M. Sheppard
Columbus
Furnished rooms for rent in town seek tenants
Three nicely furnished rooms offered by Mrs. Briggs at 408 East Walnut. Also a lost item notice for a blue skirt and light cap between the southwest corner of the square and crossroads south of town. Reward offered at the Herald office.
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East Walnut
Herald Office
Apply Herald Office
Manhattan Shirts Shine At Sale Time
The Fashion store advertises shirts at sale prices as a splendid opportunity. Official board meeting tonight of the elders and deacons of the Christian church at 7:30 o'clock, business of importance on the agenda.
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Manhattan
The
Christian Church
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G. G. Buis
Studebaker
L. H. Athey
J. Deitrick
Helen
Christine
Jhonnie Stairwall
Richmond, Ky
Frank Thomas
Hazel Wood
Isaac Hammond
Ormond
Irene
Plymouth
Stilesville
Quincy
Ralph Knoll
Indianapolis
Baptist Sunday School
McLian’s Springs
Patrick Long
Lafayette
George Long
West
Walnut Street
Mr. Long
Lawrence H. Athey
W. W. McCullough
Union Chapel
Clay County
Brazil
Frank Allee
Miss Lessie
Arkansan
Buzzard
Belled Bird
Old Home
Indnp
D. M. Bowman, G.P.A
Binder
Marshall & O’hair
Walnut and
Vine Streets
B. Carr
Mer
Mr. Farmer
J Greencastle Produce CO
Orth
Brother Higgins
J. W. Herod
Greencastle Garage
E. A. Browning
Express
Zeis
West Jackson Street
Lis
Aerc UR
Chas. Gray
Cloverdale, Ind
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