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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1928
Page
3
A flurry of brief items notes Dave Braden and several others in Greencastle and surrounding towns spending Saturday in Indianapolis. It lists visits, family events, illnesses, church activities, and a small house fire on North Jackson Street with minimal damage.
Indianapolis dispatch reports Clarence Fate named chief examiner for the securities commission and Mark Rhoads as director of the automobile license department while James L. Bradley is named assistant director. Fifield also discharges 15 typists and clerks in the automobile license section amid new state appointments. Governor Morton names Pliny Wolford’s successor as secretary to the auditor and Archie Bobbitt will appoint Morton’s replacement soon.
The national convention of the Oxford Fellowship concluded at noon. New chapters were chartered at Corner College Lincoln Neb John B Stetson University Deland Fla and Heidelberg College Tiffin Ohio. Officers elected include President Harold Hanmon Syracuse University Vice President J K Delahooke Cornell Associate President Clarence E Dammon Albion College and Gordon Chapman Garrett Institute. Dr G Bromley Oxnam delivered the closing address on The Preacher and the Present Day Problems outlining challenges for modern religious education scientific attitude and the educated audience.
Fordham University scientists reported a violent quake about 5 040 miles west of New York. The tremor registered on the seismograph from 11 17 p m to 3 20 a m with peak at 11 45 p m yesterday into today and varied in intensity throughout.
Classified notices list Tribby's Taxi offering 24 hour phone service and requests for curtains to launder from Mrs. Oakley at 7 west Seminary street. Also ads for Xmas wreaths, a sorority bazaar at Eitel's Flower Shop, a rental for a five room semi modern house, and a sales position with Bankers Adv. & Supply Co. in Iowa City.
At the Wednesday Elks Club gathering the Business and Professional Women's Club outlined taking charge of the Health Bond sale and organized a December 19 Christmas party with canned fruit vegetables candy and cash donations for needy families. The group also reported on Greencastle members visiting Clinton and discussed the January Fifth District meeting at the Terre Haute House urging strong Greencastle participation as the district gears toward the state convention.
Henry Romine 81 the only Civil War veteran serving a life term in a U S penitentiary was pardoned by the Indiana State prison board and sent to the Old Soldiers Home in Lafayette He had been sentenced in March 1913 for killing John and George McQuaid in a drunken Columbus Ind brawl
Continuation argues an independent state department acted, as the executive and administrative departments move collaterally against a pardon. No evidence shows Shumaker’s direct or indirect participation in obtaining the pardon.
Leota Figeas won a divorce from Philip Figeas on Saturday. The court ordered the defendant to pay 3 dollars weekly for the support of their son, with custody awarded to the plaintiff.
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