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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1919
Page
1
Heavy rain caused high tension lines to fail on the Terre Haute and Indianapolis line, halting cars from Terre Haute to Indianapolis. Poles fell, passengers spent nights aboard stalled cars, and service was demobilized for three days. Restoration hoped for Monday evening return.
City council vote to form a High School and Junior High School Parent-Teachers' Club. A committee will confer with Mayor Bartley on restoring the curfew law. Prof. W. W. Sweet spoke on Home School cooperation and a report on the Indiana Parent-Teachers Convention in Indianapolis was presented. Several local workers were named to state committees and county leadership announced. Resolutions of the Indiana Parent-Teachers' Association were read.
A broken rail south of Putnamville on the Monon line derailed three coaches of the passenger train from Chicago. All passengers escaped injury and the track was cleared for traffic early this afternoon.
The Herald reports a Sunday night low of 18 degrees with heavy ice and winter conditions affecting Creencastle and Putnam County residents.
Washington dispatch outlines the Republican National Committee stance on the League of Nations and treaty ratification. It notes Will Hays weighs political gain against conviction, Lodge opposition, Penrose influence, and looming House reorganization with James Mann’s return signaling leadership shifts.
Real estate transfers show E Cleve Thomas and others to Joseph W. Fred for lots in Greencastle with payments of 1150 and 1400 dollars. Joseph Tingley sells lot 66 in Greencastle for 2.75. The Over the Tea Cups club meets Tuesday afternoon at East Seminary Street home of Mrs. Overstreet with work by Mrs. Smith.
Rural educators will gather in Greencastle for the Fifth District Conference. The meeting opens at 10:00 A M in the high school auditorium.
Hundreds of rural educators from five counties will attend a rural education conference in Greencastle Tuesday at 10 00 am in the high school auditorium. State Superintendent L N Hines will speak along with speakers Wetherow Akre Snodgrass Jollief Lewman Probst and others. The program covers the ideal rural school vocational agriculture music in schools and improving rural education with discussions led by county superintendents and township trustees.
Miss Grace Birch returns to Springfield Illinois after Thanksgiving holidays with her mother Mrs Marietta Birch. She teaches English at the local high school.
A damage suit in which 10000 is asked began in Putnam Circuit court after a change of venue from Clay county Boone McKinney a Clay county miner sues Vandalia Coal Company alleging foul mine air in May 1918 left him permanently disabled and unable to work. The plaintiff claims the coal company was negligent for allowing the foul air to accumulate.
Miss Grace Margaret Hootman aged 20 years 11 months daughter of Rev and Mrs A M Hootman died Monday at 11 am at her parents home after a three year illness with tuberculosis She leaves two brothers Millard C Hootman Dallas Texas Harold Hootman here and two sisters Mrs Louis Themeyer Memphis Tenn and Mrs William Reddick New York The funeral is at Christian Church Wednesday at 11:80 am led by Revs Levi Marshall and C A Wade Burial at Union City on Big Four at 1:45 pm Read more of her background as a South Bend High School graduate and student at Winona Wisconsin University and Cornell University.
Renowned English novelist Hugh Walpole will lecture on Creating Novels this evening in the high debt auditorium, presented by Green Castle Women’s Clubs. Walpole is on an American Canadian tour visiting major cities. T. J. Wright of East Walnut Street, with an Indianapolis investment firm, left for Orange County to conduct company business for about two weeks.
Rev. KE Jago reports 50 000 or more Armenian and Syrian children abducted by Turks and Kurds are being rescued under Near East relief now under allied rule. In Aleppo mothers seek lost kin as search parties recover many children and girls from harems, aided by British commandants and French authorities, while Kurds await withdrawal for renewed violence.
Johannesburg reports the Anglo American company buys all private and state interests in the diamond fields of former German South West Africa for 5 million dollars. Protests arise over secrecy of the deal and alleged undue political influence.
Howard Barnaby visiting with parents Mr and Mrs C H Barnaby will depart Tuesday for Madison Wisconsin to enroll at the University of Wisconsin for studies.
The Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house on South College Ave was badly damaged by fire Sunday afternoon about 4 pm. The blaze started from the furnace and grew quickly before a passerby notified authorities. The fire confined to the basement and first floor with the furnace ruined and parts of the rugs and furniture burned. Most members remain in the house and keep warm by grate fires.
Mrs W H Worlch widow of Dr W H Welch of Lena died at 7 am Monday after a long illness of bronchitis. She would have been 67 on Wednesday. Survived by daughter Hattie and son Ernest with several brothers and sisters in Fiore Mire. Welch, a valued resident of Lens, practiced medicine before his death four years ago. Funeral time not announced.
John R Thompson a former city resident died Sunday morning at Soldiers Home Hospital Lafayette after a two month paralysis illness He is survived by a widow Funeral services are set for Tuesday in Jamestown
A stark image shows an Armenian mother and her starving child amid drought and deprivation in a desolate region. It notes U S aid had partially saved these peoples while mentioning Luther Easter’s farm sale to A V Packer of Lafayette for 4000 dollars.
With a prolonged coal strike, Putnam Electric Co. may cut Greencastle street lighting to early evening hours and limit power service to conserve fuel. Water Works and Gas Co. expect coal to last about two months, but private coal shipments run low, risking shortages for homes and businesses.
Clayton High School meets the local rival on the Hien school gym floor Wednesday night at 8 09. The curtain raiser features Greencastle and Ames second teams. Referee will be Fred Gorman of Jay Technical.
Reports from foreign missionaries at the Interchurch World Movement in New York say educated wives are in unusually high demand due to war. The need is strongest in the Orient and Africa where veterans glimpse acceptable marriage relations. One missionary notes a Moslem sheik seeking four wives and asks for an educated American girl.
Nausac City landlords restrict housing by classifying newlyweds with children and pets. A landlord laments that wives take about five years to learn domestic duties and handling groceries, while describing damage from unpacked packages and other household tasks.
A miscellaneous shower was held this afternoon at the home of Miss Lucille Wood in honor of Miss Olivia Irwin whose coming marriage to Mr. Ray Clodfelter has been announced.
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