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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1929
Page
1
The Say column laments threats to its writer while joking about Indianapolis cows, Greencastle golf, courthouse sidewalks, and a skipped poem. It quips on signs reading keep off the grass and proposes removing sidewalks to reuse signs.
Elmer J. Kramer aged 14 son of Nicholas Kramer died in New Albany Indiana from lockjaw seven weeks after a compound fracture of his left arm sustained in a high jump fall. He had received anti tetanus serum at injury but developed lockjaw Saturday. Bones protruded through flesh and precautions were taken to prevent infection.
Indianapolis players figure prominently as 32 golfers reach final eighteen holes in the maskie and niblick state amateur at French Lick. George Lance of Terre Haute defends with a 68 70 138 to set a new 36 hole record. Green Castle, Bedford and Terre Haute each send multiple players into the next round as match play begins with two rounds per day.
At Thursday noon Kiwanis at the Christian Church will honor eight past Greencastle presidents led by Andrew Durham Silas Hays J P Hughes Eckardt R P Mullins W W Sweet Milton Brown and C Howard Taylor The present president is B H Bruner Eckardt and Sweet are no longer members Milto n Brown may be elected Lt Governor at Terre Haute state convention preparation and a large attendance is expected.
Reports from the air derby unfold with sabotage allegations after Mrs. Keith Miller claims her plane was tampered with causing two forced landings. Officials remain cautious while many top contenders dismiss sabotage rumors amid the Santa Monica to Cleveland flight sequence through El Paso.
The Putnam County Credit Association will publish its annual Rating Book, going to press in early September. Members are submitting ratings for compiling. accounts may be paid and credit ratings kept in good standing. The association aims to promote profitable credit and reward prompt payments, with records shared with state and national associations.
Captain Roscoe Turner of Oakland announces the first refueling transcontinental passenger flight from Roosevelt Field to Glendale California. Turner and three passengers hop off early, aiming to reach Roosevelt Field in about 18 hours.
Governor Harry G. Leslie announced Arthur Thomas of Peru as a member of the State board of education to replace George Reitzel of Danville who lost his seat after not being re elected Hendricks County superintendent. The governor also named L B Holleman of Noblesville to succeed L L Gutheil as state building and loan clerk.
The County Council is set to meet September 3 to approve the 1930 budget with a proposed 36 cent tax rate, down from 47 cents in 1929. Officials anticipate further reductions may push the rate below 30 cents as expenditures for 1950 are finalized and several items may be eliminated.
William Henry Williamson age 86 of Washington township dies at home three miles south of Manhattan after three years illness. Survived by son Fred, three granddaughters, four grandsons. brother and sister in California. Funeral Friday 1 p.m. at Big Walnut Chapel Rev Dallas Rissler officiating. Interment Boone-Hutcheson cemetery.
Stated meeting of Temple Lodge No 47 F A M Wednesday at 7 30 p m. Ray H Trembly Worshipful Master E E Caldwell secretary listed.
Ellis K Wright returns home after time at a farm near Wichita Falls Texas where drought and hot winds ruined crops. Charles Barnaby and John Dunlavy watched automobile races in Indianapolis yesterday. Miss Mabel Bishop, former Latin teacher at the local high school, will head the Latin department at Brazil high school this year. Miss Vera and Miss Avis Kelly hosted a watermelon party at their home last evening.
Graf Zeppelin repairs complete and the airship set to depart Tokio for Los Angeles at 4 am Tokio time. Dr Hugo Eckener said the voyage will follow a great circle route via the Aleutians, with a stop in Los Angeles for 36 to 48 hours before continuing to Lakehurst.
About thirty Putnam County Bankers Association members attended a dinner at the Christian Church. They planned projects and a banker-farmer tour in the third week of September. Robert Stevenson, ex-County Agent now with Central National Bank, and Nathan Call of Roachdale will organize the event to visit farmers and improve cooperation.
Ladoga August 20 John Obenchain of west of town was thrown from a horse and suffered a broken collar bone He is recovering well. He was seriously injured in a similar fall about four years ago and was unable to walk for several months.
Shanghai dispatches report Chinese authorities have imposed martial law across the Manchuria railway zone due to sabotage and rail wrecking by Russians. In Ohio, convict Dr. James H. Snook, awaiting electric chair for murder, greeted fellow inmates with humor as he entered death row at the state penitentiary.
An action for mandamus to force Clarence C Wysong Indiana commissioner of insurance to return two Liberty bonds valued at 2000 to Neighbors Benefit Society was filed in Superior court Room 5 by attorneys for the organization. The bonds were deposited with the commissioner by the Neighbors Benefit Union organized under state insurance laws but not engaged in the insurance business and reorganized as the Neighbors Benefit Society in 1928 without incorporation under the insurance acts. Wysong is a former Pugnam County man noted in the area.
The Fourth Quarterly Conference will be held at Brick Chapel M F Church at 8 o'clock Thursday night, August 22. All church officials and heads of organizations are urged to attend. Dr. A T Briggs will preside. Reports will be given by the Sunday School Superintendent, Ladies Aid president, Epworth League president, financial secretary and pastor.
Reports from Peiping indicate a major 24 hour battle on the Manchurian border with Chinese forces said to have repulsed an entire regiment of Soviet troops. Source notes the information comes from both foreign and Chinese circles and details are unconfirmed.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy conditions tonight and again Thursday. Temperatures rise slightly tonight with warmer readings expected in the extreme east on Thursday.
The Swiss air youths Oscar Kaesar and Kurt Luescher, attempting a Lisbon to New York flight, are missing after departing Portugal. Floodlights watch Atlantic approaches as hopes fade. a possible sea landing offers a ghost of a chance if weather or fuel holds.
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