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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1915
Page
4
Local items summarize residents visiting Indianapolis and nearby towns. The notes mention Hartleys Richards and Adams families, revivals with Rev Day, and educational figures visiting Greencastle including instructors from DePauw and Indianapolis. Injury reports include Mrs Preston and child after a stairs accident. The piece notes a courthouse dedication invitation and multiple social visits, travels, and local events.
Rev. A M Hootman of the Christian church delivers a Sunday sermon on The Value of Experience to a full Locust street M E church audience. He quotes prominent writers and interprets Gen 10 27 and other biblical passages, urging experience as a test and hammering truth into life.
Miss Myrtle Hamilton daughter of Mr and Mrs Samuel F Hamilton married William R Valentine superintendent of the Dana schools at the bride’s parents home on South Locust street The Rev Bert DeWitt Beck officiated The couple will reside in Dana after spring then move to Kosciusko county They will attend the Vermilion county teachers institute in Newport and Mr Valentine will resume teaching duties next week The bride has lived in Greencastle the past year and formerly taught in East Columbus Ind Out-of-town guest was Mrs Margaret Frushour Royal Center Ind
Short notice announces more local items to be found on pages two and three of this issue, with a brief instruction that additional news continues in those sections.
Cool weather and threat of rain keep crowds away from a Cataract picnic. The Greencastle band provided the day’s entertainment in a fall resort area planning a new dancing pavilion and bath house. Big summer events expected biweekly. Fatty stars in a Keystone two reel at the Opera House tonight.
Steven Haskett and John Estes pleaded guilty to intoxication in Greencastle and had fines of five dollars plus costs suspended by Mayor J Walter Cooper after they promised to support their families. Both men have prior arrests and drink heavily on weekends.
Perry Myers and Miss Isa Dell Harbinson were married at the Reis ing home on West Washington Street in a small ceremony attended by close relatives and friends. Rev. B D Becker officiated as Myers, an employee of J E Champer, and Harbinson, daughter of hotel keeper Robert Harbinson of Bainbridge, plan to reside on North Vine Street.
Mrs. Virgil Cash, 26, prominent in southeast Putnam county, died Sunday evening at her Belle Union home after an appendectomy. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Stilesville Baptist Church with Rev. Reuben Masten officiating, burial in Stilesville cemetery. The death has caused deep community sorrow. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Priest of Crawfordsville are visiting the Browning family.
A reader reports two large brass keys found and asks the owner to call the Herald office and pay for this advertisement to reclaim them.
Miss Florence King and Miss Hetty King daughters of W. J. King of miles north of the city will teach school next winter in Lemon City Florida. Patty in a two reel Keystone short and Mr and Mrs W E Mitten and children of Goodland Indiana were visitors to Prof H A Henderson. Mitten is a long serving Goodland school board member.
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