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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1914
Page
2
Trustees in Madison Jackson Monroe Floyd Marion townships list weekly hours and locations for office business. J W Knauer Ernest Kivett Benjamin Walls Oliver Stringer D W Etcheston Fred Todd Otto Rector schedule at residences or town offices with specified weekdays.
The Warren township trustee announces a meeting of the Advisory Board at School District No 1 on September 8 at 2 pm to set 1915 expenditures and taxes. Items include township, local tuition, special school tax, road tax, and poor expenditures totaling 55 11 with 89 cents per hundred dollars tax. Net taxable property listed with valuations and polls. signed Pred Masten, Trustee. George K. Lloyd, Clinton township, visiting Obenchuin residence.
A satirical note on bachelors and doubting marriages, a query about Flint society figures, a critique of agricultural writing, and a remark on Paris seamstresses cutting a gown in 20 minutes. It lampoons social pretensions and fashion speed with a wry tone.
A frugal mother or nurse can calm a restless child by using a play apron covered with pictures. Fold red muslin into a chest band with shoulder straps and add side pockets. Cut or draw figures on colored muslin and applique or paste them so they can be washed off and replaced.
The article notes an abundance of wedding trinkets sold in shops, including solid gold symbols for cakes, rings for quick marriages, luck charms, and keepsake items. Each piece comes with a link to be worn as a charm afterward, reflecting a market for ornate wedding memorabilia.
Household advice lists stain removals for iron rust brass coffee tea iodine and grass with acids alkalis and cleaners. It mentions ammonia soap suds bicarbonate and alcohol as helpful agents and adds tea tips such as mint in tea and sherbet in iced tea.
A household recipe combines 1 1/2 cupfuls granulated sugar 1/4 pound chocolate 1 cup molasses 1 scant cupful milk 1/4 cup butter and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Mix all ingredients except vanilla until the mixture crackles when dropped in ice water.
The narrator recalls cleaning a new Wilton velvet rug with a light tan background that became very soiled from soft coal usage. After heating the dust, they spread the rug, saturated corn meal with gasoline, and scrubbed hard with a bristle brush, repeating the process where needed. A neighbor later suggested adding salt could help.
Kate the collie acts as nursery maid to Emmeline and Gaby, cubs born to General Cronje and Martha Washington. Headkeeper Ernest Tretow plans to remove Kate due to her barking but votes to keep the arrangement as a weaning method, noting Kate dominates the cubs and the trio play and spar daily.
Chicago officer Joseph P Devaney testified in court after a skull fragment was shown as part of the identification process. The small bone piece was presented by the officer who described being struck thrice, aiding his recognition of the attackers.
Arizona prospectors renew hunt for the fabled Lost Dutchman mine in the Superstition Mountains. The tale centers on Perry Wildman who received ore from two Dutchmen missing in the desert thirty five years ago. Theories blame starvation, murder by Mexicans or Apaches, or accidents as expeditions fail. Globe veteran Al Sieber perished from a falling stone amid searches. James C Bell insists ore from the Superstitions matches the Pinal store sample.
The Mulroy heirs in Denver claim abandoned land near Mullinville Kansas after a 40 year lapse. A unrecorded deed was found, title deemed valid. They plan to pay a nominal tax, then sell timber from 500 black walnut trees estimated to yield at least 5000 dollars and reclaim grazing land value. The heirs include Thomas Mulroy and two married daughters.
Holidaysburg Pa. Mrs Hengst, a comely wife of a railroad mechanic, dressed as a man and robbed merchant Edward Ebaugh in Isett village. Ebaugh defended himself with a tin box containing receipts, knocking the attacker unconscious. Arrested by constable Manning, she awaits grand jury action and possible insanity hospital commitment.
A New York exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History presents fossilized remains from Rancho La Brea tar pits near Los Angeles. Sabre toothed tiger and ground sloth preyed on by wolves are shown entangled in asphalt, with painters preparing lifelike reconstructions for visitors.
John Dordent of Los Angeles says he cannot be killed by alcohol and doctors at Receiving Hospital believe him. He claims to have exhausted long standing intoxication and tried to drink all the liquor in the city, then slept with the gas that he did not extinguish, waking after servants detected the odor and rushed him to care. He recovered and walked away feeling quite pert.
Vincent Gregas aged 33 entered a Pittsburgh bar shortly after 5 a m and asked for wine saying he would die. Within 20 minutes he collapsed and died from heart disease. He lived at 1333 Penn Avenue next to the saloon.
Underfeeding or overfeeding chickens harms profits and egg yield. A balanced program uses a corn crib cross, varied grains, green greens when possible, hay for forage, and essential supplements like grit charcoal beef scrap milk or cottage cheese. Night feed should fill crops. day scratching remains vital. adjust for cold weather and lean years to keep hens healthy.
Golden Wyandotts rank among our most profitable poultry breeds. They resemble the Wyandotte family with a distinct silver variation. Slightly larger than the silver-head, they share shape carriage and general traits. Their golden color is evenly distributed on both sexes. They have clean shanks, rose combs, and a stately carriage. Noted for good laying, docility, and thrift, they deserve their place in poultrydom.
Advice on selecting a quality rooster, keeping the henhouse dry and well ventilated, and maintaining flock vigor. Emphasizes fertile eggs, proper incubation, and encouraging hens to scratch for feed. Urges gentleness and increasing chicken production for the season.
Government experiments show shell color does not affect nutritional value flavor or quality of eggs. Differences in nutritive ratio and flavor arise from how fowls are kept rather than shell color brown feathering or breed do not determine richness of the meat.
During the rainy season hens bring in mud on their feet, staining eggs and soil. Washed eggs look less fresh and do not keep as well as clean eggs, so it pays to keep the birds and nests clean.
Sheriff Theodore Boes offers at public auction on August 22, 1914 at Greencastle court house the rents and profits from 60 acres in the west half of the southeast quarter of section 14 12 12 4, to satisfy a $4779.70 decree plus interest and costs, with option to sell the fee simple if rents fail. Attorneys Hays & Murphy.
Andrew J. Sweeney is named administrator of the estate of John G. Sweeney late of Putnam County Indiana deceased. The estate is alleged to be solvent. The notice is dated July 24 1914 and is filed with the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Putnam County Indiana. W M Sutherlin attorney appears in weekly notice.
Notice announces a special meeting of the Putnam County Council at the courthouse in Greencastle on Wednesday August 12 1914 at 10 00 am. Auditor C L Arthart requests attendance.
Geo. W Brock, publisher of the Enterprise Aberdeen Md recalls using Chamberlains Coke Cholera and diarrhoea Remedy for twenty years He says it is a quick safe cure for diarrhoea and has recommended it to many with never disappointment Sold by all dealers.
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