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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
4
Miss Katherine Boland has returned to her Terre Haute home after a short visit with Miss Margaret Maloney of this city.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports rising hourly wages and falling nominal full time hours in cotton woolen and silk manufacturing over 23 years. 1912 wages show increases versus earlier periods while 1912 hours per week declined across principal occupations in these industries.
William H Hartley of Medford Oregon dies at 73 and leaves a granite monument over his grave. The epitaph slates his preference for bachelorhood and his disdain for “petticoat bosses” with a scene of old maids on the other side of the Jordan signaling him to cross.
Regional chatter lists visits, business trips, and social plans. Various residents travel to Indianapolis Chicago and Fishers for work entertainment and family occasions. A DePauw University Sigma Delta Psi chapter plans emerge and a public sale is announced along with a Christmas fundraiser at the Christian church.
Tony Lenski aged 3 wandered from Sharpsburg on Twelfth street and crawled under a Pennsylvania Railroad freight train on Thirteenth street. The fifty car freight train passed over him. he lay between ties as the cars and caboose rolled past, escaping with scratches and a frightful experience before being taken home.
John Robertson, a patient at the State Hospital for the Insane in Kankakee, was found in a basement room after 43 days of hiding. Near death and nearly starved, he subsisted on a single dripping water source since disappearing July 31 from a field where he worked, until plumbers locating him during a basement repair.
In New Haven Connecticut Hiram Mansfield once married Nellie Judd then divorced. Howard Rickart widow of Mansfield died, leaving Nellie to live with Ruth King in Wallingford. Mansfield fell ill. Nellie cared for him at King's home. They rekindled old affection and were remarried in New Haven.
New York student Caleb C. Hughes Jr. regains memory in Colfax California after viewing a photograph of his overheart. He had disappeared for three in the age.
Raymond Thompson and Hazel May Lear of Greencastle obtained marriage licenses. Ceremony details are not listed in the notice.
DePauw students form an independent basketball group meeting at the Beta House. William Fleming named to lead investigations with J B Johnson to manage the team and arrange armory facilities. First practice slated for Saturday at 2 PM with at least 15 players and more likely to join.
A notice places Dr O F Overstreet at the Bene Building on South Vine Street Greencastle Indiana. The listing identifies his dental practice location and the building name for community access.
Greencastle Chapter No 255 O E S met Wednesday night and elected officers for the year including Lena Quigg as Worthy Matron and Chas Huffman as Worthy Patron. Sister Jennie Lane was saluted for her year of service and guests were invited to lunch. The obituary for Mr. R W Crawley recalls a long life of work and faith, and a hymn of farewell closes the notice.
There will be a closing out sale at the Christian Church parsonage Friday and Saturday December 5 6 with good bargains.
Richard Wesley Crawley born in Greencastle Indiana on December 26 1839 died November 19 1913 aged seventy three years ten months and twenty three days. He married Rachel Morris on September 15 1868 and left two children Florence Puyear and Wellington Crawley with wife and six grandchildren. He also leaves a sister Mrs Louisa Crawley and a brother Thomas Crawley with others nearby.
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