Social notes from Greencastle and Indianapolis visits
Local society items list visitors and residents in Greencastle Indiana including Mre Frank Day in Indianapolis Mrs Hosie Perry from Filmore Miss Fannie Horn from Cloverdale and George Birely of Shelbyville on university business Hear R A Walker at the Presbyterian Church and mentions of the Emera Auxiliary market at Hamilton Music store. Multiple entries note people traveling visiting relatives and attending events in town and nearby cities with names and places throughout the region.
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R. A. Walker
Presbyterian Church
Emera
Thes Harris
Hame Street
Susie Hopwood
Ladies’ Union of the Christian Church
Hamilton
City Council Approves South Inthana Street Improvement
A special meeting records a confirmatory resolution favoring the improvement of South Inthana Street. No remonstrances were filed against the improvement, and contracts for construction are to be set in September.
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Inthana Street
Indiana Street Improvement Approved by City Council
The council approved a preliminary action to improve Indiana street from Hanna to Berry with cement sidewalks four feet wide and four foot street crossings. Gutters and catch basins will be removed. Estimated cost is 5333.99. contracts set for September 8 in a sparsely attended meeting with Councilman Abrams absent.
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Indiana Street
Hanna Street
Berry Street
Lick
A. A. Lane
Abrams W Ur
Royal Neighbor Camp to Meet and Local Notices
Royal Neighbor Camp No 6261 will hold a regular meeting Friday evening with members urged to attend. The Putnam County War Museum on the courthouse fourth floor will be open to teachers from 11 am to 4 pm Friday. Also listed are coal prices, an O Hair family reunion north of the city, Uncle Lige Grantham turning 85, local visits, and a car collision near Indiana and Hants streets involving Dr. Sigler and Dallas Meisner observations. Prof. F. M. Nicholson returns from Chicago after receiving Ph D at the University of Chicago.
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Rose Knsner
Oracle
Cora Reeves
Putnam County War Museum
Court House
T. A. Sigler
Indiana and
Hants Streets
Dallas Meisner
F. M. Nicholson
DePauw
Chicago
University of Chicago
Nicholson
Ghostly incident rattles Freeport as locals chase a headless specter
In Freeport New York residents recount a strange tale of a headless ghost seen near Washington Avenue and the public school. Elijah the oyster man, a local hunter Sherman Smith and a visiting fortune teller tie the event to old rumors while the ghost reportedly evades pursuit and provokes fear among townsfolk.
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Freeport
Elijah Heyner
Elisen
Elijah
Herryetones
Barren Island Shoal
Tuider
New York
Mre F Goodwin
Washington Avenue
Sherman Smith
Sherman
Washington
Elijet
Robbers overtaken after five killed in Indiana
Six burglars stormed the Kidney Bean grocery at Organtown, Indiana, taking a pint of sugar. A sheriff's posse captured them fifteen miles south of town. Five reportedly died when the car used for plunder overturned during a dispute over shares. The survivor blamed the accident on the crash. The car will go to the town museum. General Stein leads at tack. Many Greencastle relations reside in Terre Haute.
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Organtown
Ind
Stein
Greencastle
Indiana
Terre Haute
Drill for Water Find Gold Near George Brownfield Ranch
White men drilled for artesian water on George Brownfield’s ranch when at about ten feet a gold bearing quartz vein was struck. The vein showed large quantities of gold in stringlets the size of a match and an assay of 233000 was reported. Excitement spread as claims were staked and a shaft begun in the vicinity.
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Bothes
George Brownfield
Ion Juere
Reverend's yard sermons draw fowl crowd in Perry
In Perry Kansas Rev Sven Joreenson preaches in his yard to a real audience of chickens. As he speaks on human cruelty one rooster battle ends with a death and the flock abandons the winner, prompting Perry residents to wonder if the birds heard the sermon and might stop laying.
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Perry
Kan
Sven Joreenson
Jorcenson
Mouse Chokes Itself in Corset Mystery at Hubbard
Miss Annie M. Pye reported a strange muffled sound in her Hubbard Texas bedroom. She found a mouse entangled and fatally choking in a corset that had fallen into a cluttered closet, prompting a brief local inquiry.
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Hubbard
Texas
Annie M. Pye
Cat Roosts With Hens in Clarketon Yard
A cat owned by Stacey Wagner, noted for poultry raising, insists on roosting with the hens both day and night. Even at night the feline seeks the biggest bell to perch among the chickens in Clarketon.
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Clarketon
Stacey Wagner
Wagner
Degner Reported Abroad in London Amid War Turmoil
Mrs. Martha Geyer Degner of DePauw School of Music is in London with Miss Minna Mattern as war developments loom. Dean R. G. McCutchan says return plans may be affected and some faculty abroad may miss early school opening. The note came via Rev. A. C. Geyer of Morris NL. The Cassandra was booked for August 29 departure.
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Martha Geyer Degner
DePauw School of Music
Europe
Waldorf Hotel
London
R. G. McCutchan
Music
Minna Mattern
Dean McCutchan
Attorney Crawley Recovers Greencastle Dog Grouch
The persistent searcher Theodore Crawley finds the tan shepherd Grouch alive near Quincy after months missing since a mad dog scare. A Greencastle resident confirms the dog is alive and well at a farmer’s home where the dog now stays. Crawley plans to travel to Quincy to retrieve Grouch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Crawley
Tan Shepard
Greencastle
Quincey
Crawley
Quincy
Notice of Administration for John W. Randolph Estate
Karl Randolph named administrator of the John W. Randolph estate in Putnam County Indiana. The court notice declares the estate to be solvent and dated August 19 1914 with attorneys Nays Murphy listed and dated August 28.
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Circuit Court
Putnam County
State of
Indiana
John W. Randolph
Karl Randolph
Nays & Murphy
Uniform Course Proposed by County Committee
A committee appointed by English teachers recommends a uniform course for Eng lish classes in Putnam high schools. The proposal suggests common standards and materials would benefit instruction across campuses.
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Putnam
Putnam County High Schools Adopt Uniform English Course
A county committee led by Greencastle high school principal Prof. Murray Dalman has announced a uniform English course for Putnam County high schools starting next year. The plan aims to standardize study across schools, emphasize expression and life influences, and include weekly spelling, grammar, oral reading, a yearly play, and one written composition.
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Putnam County
Murray Dalman
Greencastle High School
Augusta Hendrix
Monroe Township
W. L. Mayle
Putnamville
Ollowing
Reading list of classic works and authors
The text lists multiple literary titles and authors across genres and periods. It includes diaries and autobiographies, poetry collections, plays, novels, and short stories such as Franklin, Kipling, Shakespeare, Dickens, Whitman, and Swift. It appears as a catalog of outside reading options for a course or classroom.
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Pilgrim's Progress
Burke
Franklin
Webster
Hayne
Kipling
Carlyle
Burns
Whitman
Howell
Allen
Page
Hamlet
Henry Esmond
Milon the Floss
Swift
Indiana Businessman Predicts Strong 1914 Outlook
Melville W. Mix of Mishawaka disputes Republican claims of a strong downturn. He says crops are large, stocks are low, and business will improve through 1914 and into 1915. Indianapolis leaders report a prosperous year and expect a better fall and winter nationwide.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Melville W. Mix
Mishawaka
Indiana
Mix
Wilson
Newgent Family Reunion Draws 300 Plus to Clinton Falls
Over 300 Newgent family members and friends met at the old Newgent homestead three miles northwest of Clinton Falls owned by Mrs. Lucinda Newgent. Lena band provided music with speakers Dr. W. M. McGaughey and Dr. A. A. More and Rev. Ray Collins. A large picnic dinner capped the gathering.
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Newgent
John Newgent
Fairmount
Golf tournament at Green Golf Club draws ten contenders
Ten men qualified for a week led event at the Green Golf Club on the local course this afternoon. Early scoring suggested the eighteen hole course record could fall. Matches list Gillen 96, Brown 93, Ellis 82, Martin 87, Nicholson 85, McCutchan 89, Taylor 88, Mathews 94 with others noted. Dorothy and Dorine Chadd of Indianapolis were in town en route from Quincy.
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Reene Andl Golf Club
Gillen
Brown
Ellis
Martin
Nicholson
McCutchan
Taylor
Cotso
Eee Mathews
Dorothy and
Dorine Chadd
Indianapolis
Quincy
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Herold Burks
Isaac E. Norris
Asbury Conservatory of Music
Women’s Union of the Christian Church
Hamiltons Music
K. A. Walker
E Union
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Harry Gregory
Ray Walker
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Decker, Ind
J. B. Hoover
East Elm Street
Pred Masten
Warren Township
Ernest Kivett
Mill Creek Township
Teachers’ Institute
Charles Wood
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Harry
Centralia
Edith Harlan
Ruth Stroube
E. R Bartley
South Indiana Street
John Sheets
Richard Shirley
A. H. Wilkenson
South College Avenue
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F. A Arnold
F.’. Tilden
Arnold
Rushville, IL
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Mrs Scripps
HH. Bunyan
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Clinton
Lulu Shildmyer
Lelia Talbott
Bainbridge
Claude Wimmer
Ladoga
Wimmer
Hugh Drummond
Michigan
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James Smith
St. Louis Park
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Smith
Sherman Nelson
West Washington Street
Edna Bence
Naomi Randel
Mise Ers Morrish
South Walnut Street
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H. Crouch
O'Hair
Onear O’ Hair
BR. L. O'Hairari
Frank Shoptaugh
Curtis
Edna End
W. Jeffries
Lige
Grantham
Fleming Lynch
Linton
Earl and
Arthur Lynch
O. H. Bowen
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Oysterman
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Petie Duebill
Ron
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Marcus Herbert Duebill
Eothen
Wye
Dora
Putnam County Teachers’ Institute
F. C. Tilden
DePauw University
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Ether
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Deal
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Tennyson
Milton
Anquer
Ia Doone
Lamb
Tom Brown
Rudder Grange
Princet Prisone
Vandalia
Harris
Browning’s Grocery
Newgent Family
Paul Hill
Capitol Avenue
Thirteenth Street
J. F. Hill
Hill
Bloomington Street
William Grogan
George Cook
H. J. Betzner
Kirkeile
Spaunhurst Osteopath
Donner Block
Gree
John Riley
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