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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1928
Page
6
Harry Stamp, farmer one mile south of Raccoon station on state road No 45, finished threshing fifty five acres and produced nine hundred ninety bushels. The average yield was eighteen bushels per acre and all the wheat graded number one, a strong showing given Indiana crops this season.
Mrs. William Whitted of Morton drove without lights at Hanna Cross Roads nine miles north on Road 43 causing a collision with W. E. Bausman and family car. Both vehicles damaged but all occupants escaped injury. Bausman returning to Greencastle from Lafayatte. Whitted and a son west on State Road 36. Whitted car reportedly belonged to Albert Miller.
F H Brown, state veterinarian, asks Putnam County to include at least 4000 in the 1929 budget to fund cattle tuberculin testing and eradication. He notes Hendricks and Morgan counties are accredited, Putnam is adjacent, and previous council refusals stalled the program. He requests the county council’s September 1928 meeting action and asks for council members’ names and addresses.
Stephen Brown files for absolute divorce from Ada Brown in Putnam Circuit Court alleging four month marriage began March 22 1928 and separation July 30. He claims Ada accused him of infidelity and angered when he gave insurance policies to children from a former marriage, then forced him from their home. He cites the marriage as a mutual mistake and lists 202 North College Avenue as his residence with 702 Monon Street as prior home. attorney F S Hamill represents him.
The European corn borer was discovered in Jackson township Huntington County Jefferson township Whit ney County and Center and Greene townships St Joseph County. Infested townships total 13 percent in 16 Indiana counties and the new infestations likely will be quarantined.
The Franklin Township public schools unveil a staff list for the new year showing nine returning members and seven new hires. Eugene D. Hutchins leads as principal after six years with the district, with a largely college-credentialed faculty across disciplines including history English and science.
Kroger will open a second Greencastle store in the Sudranski building room formerly Cooper & Inman. Cooper & Inman lease expires March 24, after which Kroger takes a ten year lease on the space.
Ben Carr, a local farmer in Vincennes Indiana, reports a remarkable oats harvest. His 15 acre crop yielded 1 078 bushels at an average 72 bushels per acre, a record considered unlikely to be surpassed this season.
Daniel Brewer Vancleave, 76, long time resident of New Market, died at his home Thursday afternoon after a three week illness from arterial sclerosis. He leaves a widow and four children.
An affidavit filed in Putnam Circuit court charges Ben Nicholson with failure to provide for four children. The document is signed by G. W. Potter.
Russellville residents Harold Harpold a 21 year old truck driver and Lenora Clodfelter a 20 year old teacher obtained a marriage license. The couple both reside in Russellville and are listed as the applicants.
Former Tribune manager Evens, now secretary treasurer and business manager of the Kokomo Dispatch, moves with his family to Kokomo. He sold his Peru home at 409 East Main Street to E. C. Murphy, a C&O train dispatcher, who will reside there. Evens bought a lot in Forest Park to build a home but later purchased a residence.
The narrative notes Mr. Evens joined the Kokomo Dispatch publishers Poynter and Gifford as secretary treasurer and business manager. It identifies Paul Poynter as president, Mr. Gifford as vice-president and editor, and mentions Evens previously managed The Tribune and earlier lived in Cloverdale. It also links Roy Evens of The Herald as a brother.
Officials at Indiana State Farm Putnamville thwarted a jail escape when a shale pit inmate, part of the shale pit gang, allowed himself to be buried about eighteen inches deep with air space between rocks. A guard named Wilson uncovered him during a search after he skipped roll call, pulling him from the grave before dark to attempt escape from the guarded area.
Purdue University officials announce a detailed program for a regional soybean meeting on Wednesday August 15 starting at 10 AM at J B Edmonson farm near Clayton. The event will feature fertilizer plot demos variety displays haymaking methods seeding rates and a luncheon by Hazelwood Economics Club.
Mrs Verna Wegerley of Indianapolis and her 11 year old son John Wiley were reunited after ten years after he wandered to Indianapolis and was placed in Marion County Detention Home A newspaper photo of Dale Grover led authorities to match the boy with his mother and the reunion followed at police headquarters and the detention home.
A Bluffton, Indiana, woman says she was divorced ten years ago and gained custody of her son. She accuses her former husband of borrowing the boy with promises to return him, but he did not. She explains she had no money for lawyers and needed to work to support her other children.
A deal to transfer management of the Granada Motion Picture Theater from McCarrell Enterprises to Harry Vonderschmitt interests who own the Voncastle Theater in Bedford. O L Goodlander, current manager of the Voncastle, will oversee both houses and maintain the same high class entertainment under consolidated management.
Miss Delia Pearl Wysong of Portland Mills announces her engagement to Fred Oberst of Iowa City Iowa. The couple plans to wed August 31 at her mother's home, following an evening party at Portland Mills hosted by Mrs James Taber. Wysong is a Clinton Center High School graduate who taught in Texas for several years.
Miss Lenora Clodfelter daughter of Mr and Mrs Ross Clodfelter Russellville and Harold Harpold son of Clarence Harpold Louis were married Friday afternoon at 2 30 o clock at the Christian Church parsonage by Rev B H Bruner. The couple will reside in Greencastle where Mrs Harpold will teach at Putnamville next year and Mr Harpold works as a truck driver.
The Layman farm of about 435 acres at the National Road and State Road 4% junction was sold today by Central Trust Co. as executors to Andrew Hirt and Don McLean for 22600 in two parcels. Corners at the four corners bring high value and bidders included out-of-town rivals. Roscoe Hurst leases one corner for a year, while another corner remains under his control. Hirt and McLean have not announced plans but may later reveal development such as a filling station or hotel at the prime site between Indianapolis and Terre Haute.
Announcement reports Harry P. Vonderschmitt owner of Vancastle Theater has acquired three additional cinemas including Strand and Are in Crawfordsville and Granada in Greencastle. McCarrell Enterprises previously held Liberty in Washington and Granada deal shifts control of Greencastle theatres to Vonderschmitt while McCarrell gains others.
The Strand and Arc theatres in Crawfordsville are sold to Mr. Vonderschmitt, who takes possession September 1 and adds Crawfordsville to his operations in Bloomington, Bedford, Greencastle. O L Goodlander becomes general manager of the Voncastle Granada and Crawfordsville houses, keeping policies, prices, and hours, with Voncastle operating 2 to 11 daily and Granada offering evening shows plus Saturday matinee.
Olus McAlinden seeks divorce from Charles McAlinden in Putnam Circuit Court alleging he choked struck and beat her and on August 1 threatened to kill her and their four teenage daughter. He is barred from encumbering or disposing of property and from approaching the family home by a court restraining order. The couple married August 14 1912 and separated August 14 1928. Attorneys are James and Allee.
Bloomington Aug 4 Ten institutions of higher learning in Indiana will display campus views and literature in the Indiana Colleges section of Indiana University's state fair exhibit. DePauw Butler Evanville College Hanover Franklin Huntington Earlham Taylor Oakland City Indiana Central. Notre Dame considering. The exhibit, begun in 1922, invites all Hoosier schools without fair space to join.
Charles Cline an 18 year old orphan is held in the County Jail charged with writing bad checks totaling 47.50 on local merchants. He confessed to cashing the checks at Glascock Jewelry Schoen man Jewelry and Southard Book store after using fictitious names. He reportedly signed the checks with different names and often used a loaned residence in 8 A Vermilion.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Stoner were returning from Tipton Sunday afternoon when their car was struck from the rear by a car driven by a colored man named Smith of Indianapolis. The Stoner car sustained bent fenders and damage.
Tail light broken and the tire carrier torn off. No one was hurt. Mr. and Mrs. Stoner had been visiting Mrs. Stoner's sister Mrs. David S. Phares and family at Tipton. Mrs. Phares and daughter Margaret returned home with them for a week's visit.
Greencastle Coun try Club members were defeated Sunday by Crawfordsville Country Club players on the Crawfordsville course. Attendees included N C O'Hair Donald Ellis Chas Ellis Jacob Eitel and Kenneth, John Melville, Sam Jones, Mr and Mrs Wilbur Donner, Matt Murphy, S C Sayers and Gordon, Cleve Thomas and son Lloyd, Fred Snively, R P Mullins, Ray Trembly, Charles Mc Gaughey, Frank Cannon and children, Helen Black, W L Denman, Joe Bamberger, Reese Matson, Ed Coffman, James Cannon, FE B Taylor, Richard Taylor, A B Hanna, Glen Lyon, and Harold Talbott.
In Roachdale dated Aug 4 Jack Porter age 13 son of Mr and Mrs Ward Porter won a $25 prize from Ferry Seed Company for an essay titled Why I Plant a Garden in a national contest open to both adults and children.
Several automobile accidents occurred around Greencastle over the weekend. Herbert and Lonnie Floyd are hospitalized with minor injuries after a Sunday crash on West Columbia Street when Hugh Smock’s car overturned after a tire blew. A son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Harris escaped injury in a Saturday embankment rollover on Lemmick Hill. Indianapolis driver Leo Punchsack wrecked two Fords and collided with a filling station on the National Road east of the city, injuring no one and causing structural shifts. Additional crashes involved a Paoli convoy en route to a Wallace reunion, a Ford truck collision on South Jackson Street, and other minor damages along roads 43 and the National Road.
A collision occurred on Dent Jackson Street Saturday night near Valley Chur close to Belle Union. Cars driven by Guy Pickens and Harry Maab were damaged and taken to Franklin Stress for assessment.
Sweet and Wright were the only bidders for the Obenchain road west of the city. Their bid of 48500 was sent to the State Tax Board for approval. The board will decide within fifteen days. The engineer’s estimate was 48517.50. Taxpayers remonstrated against the bond issue, but the Tax Board ordered the county commissioners to proceed with the bond scale. Regular business and claims were also processed at the meeting.
Spencer Indiana August 5 Mrs Cassandra Conant Pierson 88 died at her home. Funeral 4 p m Tuesday at the late home. Burial Riverside cemetery. Survived by four children Guy Pierson Paris Pierson and Mrs J D Garrett and Mrs R D McLean seven grandchildren. Active church and Anti Saloon League worker. saluted by Presbyterian Sunday school weeks ago.
Dr T A Sigler of Greencastle former president of the American Veterinary Medical Association departs Sunday by Monon for the national meeting in St Paul Minnesota He will address the all week gathering and be in the University Farm clinic Friday He is accompanied by Dr F J Muecke of Indianapolis Indianapolis seeks the 1929 national gathering Henry Davis of the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce aided efforts to bring the convention to Indiana The meeting draws veterinarians from across the United States and several foreign countries.
Members of the Long family, including Mr and Mrs J F Long of Montgomery County and later Greta Castle, gathered at the Call farm southeast of the city for a Sunday reunion. A basket dinner topped the event with many relatives present from Gr castle, Northampton, Indianapolis, and nearby towns.
Fragmentary OCR item notes individuals Ed Meanshen F and Diederich in Indianapolis. Mentions a teacher and Greencas but lacks clear event, dates, or affiliations.
Hansel Tower, formerly DePat dent, has leased the J. B. Cash store near the high school and plans to run the business starting around September 1. He will operate it as Mr. Cash did.
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