Woman Kidnapped by Horse Traders Near Linton
Nellie Long, wife of Coal Wagon Driver Walter Long, was found by Officer Pinkston in a camp of horse traders near Linton. She claimed she had been abducted two weeks earlier near Cloverdale by a man called John and was brought to Green Castle and then to town. Mayor Inman consulted Greencastle authorities. Lucas suggested she may have left home of her own accord. She awaits further disposition as she is turned over to Salvation Army for the day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linton
Ind
Nkston
Pinkston
Nelliene
Walterne
Greenstle
Cloverdale
John
Heey
Greencastle
Salvaon
Reelsville Boy Makes Fine Record at Purdue
Lafayette Ind August 22 A Purdue University official reports Alpha Kirk of Reelsville has an exceptional freshman year in civil engineering with 12 A grades and 2 B credits reflecting credit on his high school and parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayette
Ind
Alpha Girk
Reelsville
Purdue University
Young Kirk
Reelsville High School
Tuesday Day of Many Troubles
Tuesday faced a series of issues at the Herald Office starting with a gas outage until 1 pm making linotype work impossible. At 3 pm, the electric current was cut off delaying the presses for about half an hour.
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Herald
Eighteen Machines Pulled Through by Highway Crew at Deer Creek
Heavy rain disrupted road 32 near the Deer Creek bridge as a work gang rebuilt a new grade. Eighteen machines waited for traction while a highway commission team pulled them through, the slick hillside hindering southbound passage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deer Creek
State Highway Commission
Deer Creek Bridge
The
Highway Commission
Car overturns on Water Works Hill. minor injuries reported
Arthur G Campbell and his passengers, including Lon Smith and their families, escaped serious harm after the Ford Touring car left the road on Water Works Hill north Jackson street Tuesday night. The crash occurred as the vehicle rolled into a ditch and rolled over after a sharp return to the roadway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur G. Campbell
Smith
Water Works
Jackson — Street
Campbell
Lon Smith
Brown Family Reunion Draws 56 Attendees at Riverside Park
The 16th annual Brown Family reunion was held at Riverside Park in Indianapolis last Sunday with 56 relatives and several friends enjoying ideal picnic weather. Leslie Ferrand presided as president with new officers elected including R. C. Glidewell as President Carl Ferrand as Vice President Martha Ferrand as Secretary and Treasurer. Several relatives from Greencastle and Springfield joined, and plans for next year may place the gathering near Greencastle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Riverside Park
Indianapolis
Leslie Ferrand
R. C. Glidewell
Carl Ferrand
Martha Ferrand
Greencastle
Mildred
Martha Glidewell
Sarah Glidewell
Chas. Davis
Roy Ferrand
Leslie Ferand
Ferol
Ada
Velma Braden
Katherine Love
Russell Firestone
Bert Pruitt
Al G Barnes Circus Promises Big Greencastle Showing
Greencastle and surrounding territory were plastered with bills and posters announcing the Al G Barnes Circus and Animal Show coming to Greencastle on Wednesday September 5. An advertising car carried a large force of posters, filling every available space by noon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle
AL G, Barnes
G. Barnes Circus
Animal Show
Soy Bean Meeting at John McCabe Farm
A soy bean meeting will be held at John McCabe's farm west of Morton on Monday August 27 at 1 30. Mr Meharry from Purdue University soils and crop department will attend. The session will discuss varieties and culture with general soybean topics. Everyone is invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soil and Crops Department
Purdue University
John McCabe
Morton
Meharry
Soils and Crop Department
Boswell Family Reunion Held At Hinkle Home
The Boswell family reunion is set for Sunday August 26 at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Hinkle located four and a half miles north of town. Family members are encouraged to attend and share in the gathering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boswell
Frank Hinkle
Reverend Reed to Speak at Weekly Band Concert
Prominent minister Rev. C. Fenwick Reed will give a three minute talk at the regular weekly band concert Thursday night. The program features marches by Erick Webber and Skaggs, the New Colonial March, and selections by the Louisville Home Boys Band among others. A rain postponement previously prevented Reed from speaking last Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Fenwick Reed
H. C. Hall
W. L. Skaggs
Louisville
Roland F. Seitz
Mystic Star
Gorton, Jr
American Freeman
S. Wall
Poultry Butter and Egg Prices in Local Produce Quotes
Local produce firms list Wednesday prices for heavy hens light hens springers roosters and cream with figures rendered in OCR garble. Prices show small cents per unit for poultry and dairy products across merchants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springers
Deesserress
Ottsiitsave
Eseers
Ike Know All Weather Prognosticator
Ike forecasts fair and warmer conditions with sunrise at 5 03 and sunset at 6 32 for the day.
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Ike
Aden Hanks Visits Bainbridge on Business
Aden Hanks of Bainbridge was here on business Wednesday.
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Aden Hanks of
Bainbridge
Fifty-One Pass Teacher Examination in July
County Superintendent John Ver million announces fifty one individuals passed the July Teacher's Examination. Successful applicants include Ella Hazel Pickett Grace Arnold Tina Wright Mary LeMaster Margaret Donald Beryl Douglas Lucile Pollum Mary Mabel Morris Albony Farmer Frank Davis Flossie Rissler and many others. T. E. Gilbert was in Roachdale on business Wednesday Mrs Margaret Torr of Terre Haute is guest of J. H. Pitchfod family for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vermillion
Ella Hazel Pickett
Grace Arnold
Tina Wright
Mary LeMaster
Margaret Donald
Beryl Douglas
Lucile Pollum
Mary Mabel Morris
Albony Farmer
Frank Davis
Flossie Rissler
Mary Bond
Alice Ann McCorkle
Noble Vaughan
May Pickett
Robert Irwin
Ethel Eckels
Esther Crosby
Halford Houser
Versal McCammack
Robert Jones
Ruthven Dunlavy
Esther Sutherlin
Lola Coe Beck
Grover Clements
Agnes Sargent
Martha Butcher
Harold Newgent
Margaret Torr
Terre Haute
J. H. Pitchfod
Clothing and auto stolen at Clay City recovered
Brazil Indiana August 22 Chief of Folie Frank Moore went to Beecher Illinois to recover an automobile stolen from Carl Myers of Clay City after burglars robbed the Moyer Fisher and Moyer general store. The car was found abandoned near Beerher with men’s clothing inside. A second car tied to the thefts was found at Clay City and claimed by its owner last week. The same burglars are believed responsible for both crimes.
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Brazil
Ind
Frank Moore
Beecher
Ills
Chicago
Carl Myers
Clay City
Moyer, Fisher & Moyer
Beerher
Monticello
Boy 15 Electrocuted While Raising Peach Sign Near Cloverdale
Gilbert Cradick aged 15 of two miles north of Cloverdale died in a tragic accident on Greencastle road. He and his father were raising a "Peaches For Sale" sign when a limb shifted a taut line into a high tension electric wire, delivering a fatal voltage. The father below in the tree caught him as he fell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Cradick
L. F. Cradick
Cloverdale
Greencastle
Jackson Township Farmers Picnic Draws Speakers at Miller Grove
Members of the Jackson Township Farmers Federation will hold their second annual picnic on August 22 at George Miller Grove near Roachdale Wheaton Indiana. A nationally known speaker will address the gathering with entertainment planned for all attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Township Federation
Miller Grove
Whpfaton
Indiana
Jackson Township Farmer's Federation
George Miller Grove
Roachdale
Wheaton
Mother of Mayor Zeis in Critical Condition
Mayor Charles Zeis traveled to Oxford Indiana to be with his mother Mrs Conrad H Zeis who has been critically ill for weeks and it is feared she cannot live for many hours.
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Charles Zeis
Oxford
Indiana
Conrad H. Zeis
Thief Accommodated: Car Repaired at Ford Agency
Two Greencastle men, Clarence Shillings and Don McLean, sparked a morning scene after Shillings reported his Ford stolen from east Anderson street. A Ford Agency plan inadvertently led to repairs on the wrong car, with about 20 dollars in work, leaving Shillings frustrated but the machine improved.
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Greencastle
Clarence Shillings
Ford
Anderson Street
Shillings
Don McLean
Ford Agency
Don
Mr. Shillings
East Anderson Street
McLean
Ford Repair
Shilling
MISS HELEN O REAR TO WED G W GREGG
Miss Helen O Rear daughter of Mrs Mary Ellen O Rear formerly of Greencastle will wed George W Gregg of Amsterdam New York Thursday afternoon at the bride’s sister Mrs Ralph Hostetter home in Road cale The Rev H L Davis of Greencastle will officiate The bride a DePauw University graduate and east school attendee is described as popular and talented The groom works with a chain of department stores headquartered in Amsterdam New York
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen O
Mary Ellen O’rear
Greencastle
George W. Gregg
Amsterdam
New York
Ralph Hostetter
H. L. Davis
DePauw University
Brazil Merchants Seek Traction Station Retention
Merchants led by Gus Loeb push to block the Terre Haute Indianapolis and Eastern Traction Company move, arguing the central station boosts business. Loeb offers a prize for the best arguments to keep the station in the business district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Gus Loeb
Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern Traction Company
Funeral for Rural Allee in Eminence
Funeral services were held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. for Rural Allee of Eminence who died in Boulder Colorado last Friday while there for health reasons. The Christian church in Eminence hosted the service with Rev J L Sharritt of Indianapolis preaching. Burial followed at Cloverdale. Allee, a former Eminence school teacher, had moved to Colorado six to seven weeks earlier to regain his health after years of tuberculosis.
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Allee
Eminence
Boulders
Colorado
Christian Church
J.L. Sharritt
Indianapolis
Cloverdale
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Irren Castle
Indiana Police
Green Castle
Bony” Long
Purdue
Madonna Gunsten
Elsie Gunstein
Springfield
It.s
R. N. Cox
J. F. Champer
GAR
PT M’cabe Farm
Anual Boswell
Ernest Webber
Billings
Jos, Gorton, Jr
Waltz Olivette
Myers
H. C. Miller
Heroes of
Arvonne
J. W. Griffes
TNC Gaon Sere
T. E. Gilbert
Jackson
Farmers
Zeis
Helen O'Rear
G. W. Gregg
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