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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1928
Page
3
Multiple brief notices report health, travel, and family events in Greencastle and nearby towns. Arthur Lisby remains confined at home in Fillmore. Local births, visitors, and travels involve the Browns, Goodwines, Mick, Priest, Williams, Vail, Harbin, and Gilmore families.
Indianapolis police hunted a man who broke into Mrs. Marie Light’s home and attempted to chloroform her daughter Virginia 12-4. The intruder fled. a bottle and cloth were seen by the mother and marks on the lawn indicated entry through a window.
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Senator Wheeler denounces President Coolidge’s pick of Roy O West of Chicago as Interior Secretary and demands Hoover disclose approval. He accuses West of handling Samuel Insull campaign contributions in 1926 Illinois races and warns of automatic FPC conflicts. West is a DePauw trustee and Greencastle figure.
David Shanks, an illiterate Black man, confessed to the slaying of Miss Jennie Meta Constance, Peoria student at Northwestern, and reenacted the crime in Evanston court while a crowd watched. He was ordered held on murder without bond after identification linked him to the victim’s watch sold to Albert Bastain.
Florida’s coast from Pensacola to Apalachicola faces the tropical hurricane as the storm moves inland later today or tonight, the local weather bureau reports.
A series of property transfers including Anna Estelle Sluss to George B. Knauer and wife in Greencastle for 470 dollars, Fay S. Hamilton and Emory O Brattain transfers in Greencastle, Forest Hill Cemetery lots, Federal Land Bank to James P Hughes for 191 acres, and additional deeds in Cloverdale Russellville and Roachdale with prices ranging from 1 to 7500 dollars.
Monon railroad brakeman Co D Graham reported a suit of clothes a hat and about 10 dollars missing after a prowler entered a Monon caboose at a local cement plant. Sheriff Eitelforge and Marshal Braden searched the Pennsylvania tracks from Greencastle to Almeda without finding the thief, believed linked to two penitentiary escapees.
In Indianapolis on Kentucky avenue a night squad chased a speeding car after they saw a woman struggling with one of three men. Ella Mitchell 21 of Brownstown Ind identified Ray Rough 25 James Thompson 28 and Vernon Enders 24 as arrestees on vagrancy charges with Rough also facing assault and battery claims.
At Lebanon Mrs. Jemina Peniston 72 died from a fence trip at her daughter’s home. In Knox Indiana Earl Everhart 20 drowned when a speed boat upset at Bass Lake. Miss Queenie Broad 21 survived. In Lebanon Clyde Pool 18 died from injuries after his car rolled on State Road No 2 near Sheridan. companion Miss Betty McQuery injured.
Glen Oliver Walden aged 24 a store worker of Greencastle and Pauline Elizabeth Sears aged 18 at home Putnam County apply for a marriage license.
Auction set for August by J A Spaugh for Reichner owner. 222 acres, 5 percent mortgage, west of Cloverdale. Cash to highest bidder. Also notices seeking plowing work, a merchant’s pay refusal, and sale items including livestock and farm equipment from Forest Aker and others.
Mrs Albert Daggy hosted a Tuesday afternoon bridge party at her East Washington Street home in honor of her sister Mrs P H Spurrier of Grand Rapids Michigan Decorations featured garden flowers and guests played on three tables.
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