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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1929
Page
4
Jacob F. Hirt, local electrical dealer, will arrange and oversee the industrial tent for the Putnam County Fair set for September 11 to 14. The tent has been a major fair feature the past two years. Fundraising continues with about 250 dollars still needed. Workers are determined to make this year bigger and better than last year.
Forest Hurst and Cecil Carpenter of Cloverdale returned with their wives after a three day Greene County excursion on the White River. They hooked twenty three fish weighing one and a half to ten pounds, including bass crappie channel cat and carp. Mrs Hurst led the group with the pole and line. A big fish fry followed at the camp Saturday with Mr and Mrs R E Larkin and M F Dorsett attending.
Esther and Marie Benefiel visited grandparents Mr and Mrs George Fox Sunday. Gretchen Pickett visits Greencastle this week. C E Hill and family and Mrs McAllister and daughter Marie attend Sears Reunion west of Greencastle Sunday. A new Reelsville bridge will allow driving soon. Dorothy Williams visits sister Mrs Ray Beaman at Brazil this week. William Hathaway and family of Staunton were visitors in Reelsville Sunday.
W G Moser son of Mr and Mrs W M Moser of Jefferson township resigned after six years as vocational instructor at Waveland schools to pursue a degree at the University of Wisconsin and study landscape gardening. A farewell supper on the school lawn honored him with a ring and words of appreciation from Newton Fudenwider and others amid songs readings and storm-shortened program.
Results show American Association games with Indianapolis 6 Columbus 5 Toledo 11-0 Louisville 10-8 St. Paul 12 Milwaukee 0. American League Chicago 9 Philadelphia 1 St Louis 5 New York 0 Washington 1 Detroit 0 Boston 8 Cleveland 5. National League Chicago 6 Philadelphia 1 Joston 5 St Louis 2 Cincinnati Brooklyn and Pittsburgh New York postponed by rain.
Martha Norelius of New York won the Wrigley ten-mile women’s swim in Lake Ontario, finishing in 5 hours 24 minutes 22 seconds. She led from the start over 45 competitors from the U.S. and Canada, earning $10,000 first prize with Ruth Tower taking second and Evelyn Armstrong third.
The report notes Eckener's route reduces hazards for a pioneering Pacific night flight but warns the Aleutian south ocean area remains one of the worst patches in the vast Pacific for trans Pacific aviation.
United States Senator Lawrence Tyson of Tennessee died at Stratford sanitarium near Philadelphia after a two week hospitalization for a nervous breakdown. Physicians attributed his death to complete exhaustion.
An American from Louisville, Joseph Gross, was among three men who died when a passenger plane crashed into a mountain forest near Fulda on the Frankfurt to his city route. The pilot was among the deceased. one woman died and another was severely injured, with fog blamed for the disaster.
John Coolidge, son of former President Calvin Coolidge, told an Associated Press interviewer that his marriage to Florence Trumbull, daughter of Connecticut Governor John H. Trumbull, will occur in September in New Haven.
Rentals offering East Seminary and West Poplar locations list multiple apartments and houses with heating water gas stoves furnished four rooms one bath three rooms. Modern six room home at 605 East Seminary Street and a three bedroom house with living room sun parlor dining room kitchen and garage noted along with local banks and an agent.
Mrs Frank Ross was honored as guest at a pink and green colored shower hosted by the Greencastle Telephone Company employees. The event featured a watermelon themed gift basket and cantaloupe refreshments, with many local ladies attending. The column also notes a church wedding in Indianapolis, family visits to Cammack household, and several community notices including meetings and reunions.
Roscoe B. Young sues in Putnam Circuit Court to eject Cremith L. Land from property claimed to be possessed by the plaintiff. Damages of 100 dollars are also sought.
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