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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1919
Page
2
The Greencastle Indiana Daily Herald lists subscription terms and rates for four months, six months, and single copies. It notes cards of thanks, obituaries, and poetry as chargeable items with specified fees.
The Greencastle Township Trustee and Advisory Board meet September 2 1919 to set 1919 20 expenditures and taxes. Township expenditures 1800 Road 500 Library 850 Poor 56344 total 3713.44 tax 7 cents per hundred Net taxable property 386112 township 5502910 polls 265 512.
The Trustee G. O. Whitaker of Warren Township Putnam County announces proposed expenditures and levies for 1919 at the Advisory Board meeting on Sept 2. Totals show Township expenditures 1250 dollars and tax 8 cents per hundred. Local Tuition 4429 and 28 cents. Special School 3991 and 26 cents plus 50 cents per poll. Additional Road 1250 with no cents on the hundred. total expenditures 11411 and total tax 62 cents per hundred, Net Taxable Property 1 565 050 dollars. Dated Aug 2 1919.
The Trustee of Franklin Township Putnam County announces a yearly expenditures and tax review by the Advisory Board on September 2, 1919 at 1 PM. Estimates include township expenditures 2500 and tax 0.05, local tuition 12900 and tax 0.30, school tax 12978 and tax 0.30, road tax 800 and tax 0.02, library 1200 and tax 0.08, total expenditure 28385 and total tax 0.71 per hundred. total assessed value 4326928. 318 polls. Signed Raymond Crosby, Trustee.
The advisory board sets expenditures and tax levies at the annual meeting to be held at the Schoolhouse of District No. 5 on the 2nd day of December 1919 at 2 PM. Township expenditures are $1400.00 with a 9 cent rate per $100. Local Tuition expenditures amount to $5100 with a 33 cent rate per $100.
A notice from trustee Lee Wood dated August 9, 1919 itemizes expenditures of 13,500 dollars and total tax of 89 cents per hundred on a 1,556,256 dollar base. It specifies 6000 dollars plus tax and 1000 dollars sun tax with 7 cents per hundred dollars.
Advertisement for Triumph Pills claiming safe dependable relief for irregular or delayed menses. Promises non sale at drug stores and urges writing for details from National Medical Institute in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Includes no scientific evidence or efficacy claims.
Sunday morning service in the Ader block on the second floor at 11 oclock. Wednesday evening testimony service at 8 oclock. All are welcome.
The Trustee of Russell Township Putnam County will convene an Advisory Board meeting at the trustee’s office in Russellville on September 2 1919 at 2 PM to approve the year’s estimates. Totals include expenditures of 22000 with a tax of 85 cents per hundred dollars and separate line items for township local tuition special school road poor mortgage and bond taxes. The total net taxable property is 2599055 with 99 polls and mortgage exemptions credited.
R. E. Bower of Dixie Brooks County Georgia testifies the Chamberlain's Coke and Diarrhoea Remedy is one of the best family medicines for dysentery flux and related illnesses. He notes castor oil should be given with dysentery.
Sunday school at 9 30 Superintendent Mrs H B Longden Preaching at 10 40 Morning service includes election of delegates to the annual conference in Indianapolis and discussion of inviting Indiana conference to Green Castle Junior League meeting at 2 40 Epworth League 6 30 Union service at College Avenue Church Rev Victor Raphael speaks at evening service
A Chillicothe Missouri resident reports suffering indigestion and bilious attacks before using Chamberlain's Tablets. She says a single bottle cured her and she has had no recurrence. The ad encourages others with digestive troubles to try the product.
Sunday school begins at 9 30 with Dr W M Blanchard as superintendent Morning worship at 10 40 with Dr G H Meyers preaching Mrs T S Haddock to sing and Miss Helen Fraley at the organ Epworth League meets at 6 30 Evening service is a union service with all churches Prayer meeting Thursday at 7 30 The pastor returns from vacation late this week and will preach next Sunday
Trustee Mullinix calls a September 2 1919 meeting in Reelsville to approve estimates. Total expenditures reach 17050 with 61 cents tax per hundred dollars. Polls total 251. documents list township local tuition school and road taxes and poor expenditures.
The Putnam County Teachers Institute starts Monday at 10 in the high school auditorium. Superintendent Frank Wallace arranged the program, praised for merit. About 160 county teachers attend yearly, with the assembly fueling renewed interest and better schools.
Washington August 16 Representative Louis W Fairfield of Angola Indiana touts earning extra money during a ten week absence from Congress to tour New England. His critics warn of absenteeism and favoritism in hiring relatives as office staff amid calls for action on high living costs.
The Nazarenes plan Sabbath services in a tent with Rev. T. H. Agnew of Waverly Illinois preaching both morning and evening. Agnew, a holiness preacher of forty two years, will speak as fundraising proceeds for remodeling the new Nazarene church. Sunday school at 9 30 morning worship 10 30 and an evening evangelistic service at 7 45. Public invited to attend both services.
Mrs. Frank Shoptaugh was severely bruised when struck by a bicycle ridden by Paul Dodd on East Washington street. Dodd, son of the Rev. and Mrs. Dodd, was tossed from the bicycle and briefly unconscious after the collision. Doctors W. W. Tucker and C. C. Tucker treated both at the scene.
Farmers of Putnam County and the Greencastle Commercial Club request stores to shut from 1 to 4 pm on Wednesday August 20 for a celebration at Hazelett's Grove east of town. Barbers will close at noon. Superintendent John Hoffner of the T H I E says an interurban shuttle will run to the grounds every twenty minutes all day.
Miss Helen Birch spent six months as a canteen worker with American armies on the German border. She told Greencastle friends of her experience in the Y M C A dry and wet canteens, arriving in New York City last Friday and witnessing the Paris Bastille Day parade on July 14.
Four thousand hogs sold steady at 21.50 as local packers bought about 2,500 head and 1,000 went to outside buyers. Receipts included 4,000 hogs, 300 cattle, 400 calves, 300 sheep. Cattle were slow and weak, sheep weak, calves 50 cents to 1 dollar higher.
The Masons admitted twelve men to the second degree Friday evening in the Masons' hall. Names listed include Fred Lancaster William P Sackett Walter J Brown Belmont Tompkins Charles Deich John Wass David W Houck William A Baldwin Orren D Williams Marion Farrow Glen O Stringer and William A Shelly.
Victor L. Raphael minister delivers Sunday school at 9:30 and morning worship at 10:40 with sermon theme Laboring Unceasingly. Union evening service at 7:30 at College Avenue M E church. Dan Pollom of Brazil visited Greencastle Friday on automobile business.
Mrs. T. E. Hullinger of Mansfield Ohio was sick three months with stomach trouble and constipation. She tried Chamberlains Tablets and reports the first dose did more good than all prior medicines, and after two bottles she was positively cured. Adv Van Carpenter visits Greencastle to enter DePauw University. his brother Rev Guy Carpenter travels home to Valparaiso.
Walter Lawrence Long, a young farmer from near Greencastle, and Miss Nellie Aburns of near Cloverdale, were married yesterday afternoon by Justice George E. Law in his marriage shop. They will reside in Greencastle.
E R Carswell son minister leads at FIRS BAPTIST CHURCH with Sunday school at 9 30 grant scott superintendent preaching at 10 45 by Dr Carswell subject True Church Unity and Divine Church Equipment Bible talk to Baptists and all others who wish to know the church of God
A testimonial style note extols Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy as a trusted domestic medicine. The piece highlights relief for infants and adults alike and frames the remedy as a reliable household staple.
A Zanesville notice promotes a bowel remedy used by a woman and her husband for fifteen years. It claims reliable relief from cholera morbus and related ailments.
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