Stores Robbed at Bainbridge
Three business rooms of Bainbridge are entered by robbers on Saturday night. Money drawers rifled. about 17 dollars is the loot. Robbers believed to be Bainbridge residents.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1914
Page
1
Three business rooms of Bainbridge are entered by robbers on Saturday night. Money drawers rifled. about 17 dollars is the loot. Robbers believed to be Bainbridge residents.
Three Bainbridge businesses were entered Saturday night or Sunday morning with about 17 dollars stolen. Robberies affected Brown & Edwards Hardware True & True Lumber office and Frank Forge Grocery. Bloodhounds traced two trails west from the business district toward the Monon tracks, with locals hopeful of arrest.
Arrangements are complete for the county convention of the Republican party to be held in the courthouse next Saturday afternoon August 29. A large crowd of Stand-patters will be here to hear the program. Speakers include Honorable John C. Chaney Will H. Hays Roy Shattuck and others. Music by Cloverdale and Roachdall bands. A flock of 300 homing pigeons from Mishawaka was liberated by Ed Stone at Vestal Livery barn. President Grose of the university has returned from Detroit after preaching at Central Methodist Church.
State public utilities commission says Greencastle Water Works can charge 50 dollars per hydrant and 40 cents per thousand gallons for domestic use. The modest increase matches rates in force in 1886 except no prewatering charge.
The Greencastle Public Utility Commission approved a rate increase for Greencastle Water Works. Water durants rise from 42 to 50 cents per thousand gallons and domestic from 30 to 40 cents, with elimination of free water. Rates echo those from 1886 to 1907, replacing prior 1907 structures. The decision requires city conformity or a court appeal.
Fifteen men sign a petition urging the charter for a United Spanish War Veterans camp. Officials expect twenty charter members before the campaign closes.
Local veterans report fifteen signatures on a petition to form a Greencastle chapter of the United Spanish War Veterans as they plan an organizing meeting and charter arrival from Lafayette. Signatories include E Hawkins and Wile Hazelett with ranks and companies listed. A second item notes Hershal Niel fined for intoxication after a Rockville Pike Fourth of July celebration.
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