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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1929
Page
1
SAY! by Charles J. Arnold lampoons readers with a spoof by You Don't Say. The piece jokes about peach metaphors and DePauw University students, noting peach harvests and a playful dig at a rotten rowdy row.
Mrs. John Jaqua and Mrs. Albert Dobbs plan a private kindergarten in the city library basement this year. Parents must confer with them as no school will operate without enough enrollees. Opening is set for September 9 following last year’s sixteen students and a successful session.
Dr. James Howard Snook, a 49 year old former Ohio State University professor, was sentenced to death by electric chair for the murder of his illicit lover, Miss Theora Hix. Judge Henry L. Scarlett overruled a new trial motion, finding Snook's defense false and the killing premeditated. Snook was to die at the Ohio State Penitentiary the day after Thanksgiving.
A proposed special 4-H Club Day at the Putnam County Fair is planned for Friday September 15 with a Purdue University speaker and county 4-H members. Demonstrations judging and a candlelight ceremony are scheduled in the High School gym and livestock tents downtown. Club leaders will vote on the program and may add features to attract more enrollment.
Mrs. Alice Evans 68 died at her daughter’s Fillmore home after a fracture hip from a July fall in Terre Haute. She leaves sons William Pitts Read Claude Hooser Lloyd Dykeman and others plus twenty six grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. Funeral at Fillmore Methodist Church Wednesday at 2 with burial Forest Hill Cemetery.
Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher, teens, attempt Lisbon to New York voyage in the monoplane Young Switzerland. They departed from Praia Victoria in the Azores. Weather was favorable with no storms reported as they headed west over the ocean. Lisbon and Azores authorities followed the flight with interest.
Dwight Mitchell of French Lick tops opening round with 69 as three Greencastle players James Hughes Donald Ellis and Robert Stevens post solid scores in the state amateur qualifying at French Lick. Dick Taylor of Lafayette and George Lance of Terre Haute also post low rounds while Chuck Bader Gary Keith Young Lafayette and Johnny Bartlett Hammond card 71.
John Kid Sullivan featherweight boxer of Savannah Ga died in Jersey City after a knockout at the Oakland Athletic Club. Follins, the alleged opponent, is being held by police. Also noted is Wilma Miller returning home after a visit with Dr. and Mrs. Warren at Marshall.
Bodies of five men recovered from Lake Mendota after a home made motor boat capsized. The victims are Leslie E. Davidson Carl Schaller Walter Burgisseh William Englberger and an unidentified man. The boat, powered by an automobile engine, belonged to Davidson.
Miss Velma DeMoss of Muncie was elected by the School Board to teach English and history at Greencastle High School for the coming year. She is a Franklin College graduate with four years teaching experience and majors in history and English.
Stabbed in the back, Miss Egre Ashman executive secretary of the San Francisco Red Cross chapter was killed. Police held disabled veteran David Lazeratti after he asked for money and was told to wait before she could review his case. He plunged a knife into her back as she spoke with a friend. Red Cross workers said Lazeratti had been acting queerly of late.
Stockholders of the Tin Plate mill were interviewed by F. M. Lyon as a proposal was presented, signaling a probable restart. Alec Lockridge sold 50 head of choice steers at the Chicago market for seven dollars and twenty-five cents per hundred. Prof. Harry Gough returned from the East after summer school in Chicago. John Robe reported the loss of 80 hogs at his farm south of town due to cholera.
Dr. Hugo Eckener commander of the Graf Zeppelin was feted in Tokyo for the air ship’s world circling flight. Emperor Hirohito will host a tea for eleven officers and passengers including Lady Grace Drummond Hay. The Mikado praised aviation as the craft heads toward Los Angeles for the next leg.
Louise Hutcheson, active Washington township club worker, is Putnam County’s representative at the Indiana State Fair School of Home Economics. The school runs the week before and during the Indiana State Fair, with Hutcheson’s expenses covered by the Putnam County Farm Bureau, one girl from each of Indiana’s ninety two counties attends.
In Michigan City Indiana Billy Kuhn fourteen and Jack Biege ten were killed when they stepped from behind a train into the path of another while playing railroad in the yards east of town. The boys were to join the Ellis Babe Ruth party to Chicago to see the Yankees and White Sox game.
In Brazil, several drivers were fined for traffic violations including running red lights and ignoring silent policemen. Fines ranged from 2 dollars for red light offenses to 12 15 dollars for speeding, with suspects from Greencastle Cloverdale Ohio Florida Terre Haute Indianapolis New Albany and Brazil named. Turner of Terre Haute left his car and coat with police as security after failing to settle the fine.
Gus C Nations, former head of the St Louis department of federal cities, sues former assistant attorney general Mabel Walker Willebrandt for libel in St Louis Circuit Court. He seeks 500000 dollars in actual damages and 500000 dollars in punitive damages, naming a feature syndicate as a defendant.
Hogs 160 to 280 lbs generally 2 to 4 cents lower with heavier types about 40 cents off. Bulk 140 to 280 lbs fetches 10.25 to 11.50 dollars. Beef steers 25 to 50 cents lower. Sheep weak to lower with dealers steady, lambs about 50 cents down. Fat hogs 4.50 to 6.50 dollars.
In Manchuria hundreds flee toward interior amid raids by Soviet troops. Customs dispatches show 150000 Chinese troops rushed to border points along six lines. Reports also note mistreatment of Russian civilians and Japanese women by Chinese soldiers. Japanese garrison troops move north along the South Manchurian railway.
Putnam County bankers plan a Credit Bureau with a meeting tonight and a 6:30 dinner hosted by the Christian church women. Guests include Verne Livingood of Citizens National Bank Crawfordsville W A Collings of First National Bank Crawfordsville and William Stump of Elston Bank and Trust Crawfordsville. Montgomery County operates a Bankers Credit Bureau and visitors will share its methods to aid Putnam County plans.
Increasing cloudiness and a slight warmup tonight. Wednesday unsettled with local showers. Warmer in the eastern portion.
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