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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1927
Page
1
The piece satirically advises visiting the sick with alarming honesty and loud talk while noting Knox College women smoking and a call for a smoking room. It contrasts blunt social advice with a college magazine's suggestion to curb deceit by a campus smoking space.
A six to eight man gang entered the Parody Club on the North Shore, opened fire as officers challenged them, killing waiter Harry Smith and wounding eleven others including a dancer and guests. Police say one bandit leader was found wounded. a youth named Meyer Goland claimed to be the finger man.
In Greencastle a physician, angered by persistent demands for a drug, refused urgent calls. The patient, determined to kill himself, told the doctor of his plan. The physician replied that he would assist, yet no death by the patient’s own hand occurred.
A Greencastle man shoots a game squirrel during closed season and hides the kill after a friend warns him. A Greencastle boy rewrites a Christmas list after his father critiques his handwriting. A diner overcharges for peanuts and drinks, while a travelogue quote by Ruskin and a family note from Oklahoma City appear among fragmented items.
Packets were distributed to over 1000 homes in Greencastle by volunteer student workers Sunday afternoon to collect Golden Rule contributions. About 250 packets were returned to the local chairman. Miss Mary Jones spoke on Golden Rule Sunday at the Baptist Church and urged yearly gifts to save a child’s life in the Near East. John Devore, 45, a carpenter, fell from a downtown Martinsville building and died from a fractured skull.
A bob-tailed wildcat weighing just over 15 pounds was killed south of Greenfield by farmer John Holden. Once common and ferocious, such animals are now rare in the area. The wildcat had a short banded tail tufted ears and a dark back streak. Holden will preserve the hide.
Ten Greencastle residents arrested Friday by State Motor Vehicle officers McMillan and Early were found not guilty by Justice Robert Newgent. The judge warned that future improper rights arrests would be fined and urged stricter enforcement of lighting regulations. Defendants named include J. A. Bamberger Elvin H. Harlan Albert Runyan Fred Reising Lawrence Wright J. A. Quinn M. C. Coffman Paul Maloney Raymond Thompson and Mrs W A Beemer.
Richard Halliburton visits Tuesday night to lecture The Glorious Adventure at the High School auditorium. His talk has previously drawn 25 000 in Philadelphia and 2 000 at Princeton. He aims to identify Homeric geography and reconstruct the Odyssey in a sweeping epic.
A hotel fire in St. Louis early today killed four women and left a fifth badly injured with deaths expected. Seven others were seriously hurt as the blaze caused about 180000 dollars in damage and most guests and staff escaped.
Berlin faces a total shutdown of the steel and iron industry with unemployment for over 250000 as industry leaders approve closing plants on January 1 to force government wage and hour concessions amid a labor dispute. In Rockport Indiana John Doffer and his wife Cissie die in a domestic tragedy after a quarrel and a pistol duel with officers.
Prosecutor Clifford Dickerson visited Groveland and ordered Phillip Wolfenbarger to discontinue crap-shooting outside his business on the northeast corner. Responding to complaints, the prosecutor rushed to the scene but found no gamblers or dice. He warned that any similar activity would be dealt with severely if caught.
Frank Hamilton 40 laborer and Gladys Anglin 24 house keeper both of Putnamville obtain a license. Charles Olin Leonard 25 farmer Russellville R. R. and Martha Merrill Thompson 19 at home Roughdale also receive a license.
The 70th Congress convened in Washington amid insurgent mood and party splits. Republicans hold a one vote Senate majority and a fragile House edge, with independents able to disrupt plans. Major legislation is expected to be limited though taxes may fall and navy be strengthened.
Mrs Nancy N Brown 77 wife of J M Brown died Monday at 3 55 AM at 1108 South Indiana Street after a six month illness. She lived in Putnam County many years and is survived by her husband and five children Samuel and Clarence Brown Greencastle Albert Clay City Virgil West Terre Haute and Mrs Maggie Messer Denison Illinois. Funeral from J E McCurry Funeral Home Tuesday at 1 30 PM with interment Forest Hill Cemetery.
A land patent dated February 16 1809 signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison was recorded by Grant County auditor William Eckerle. The parchment issued to Toussaint Du Bois lay with the Sherrit family and Judge John F. Dillon estate records before being registered as part of the Dillon estate farm.
Arraigned before Mayor Charles McGAughey John Wells of Madison township pleaded guilty to hunting on Sunday and was fined one dollar and costs. Wardens Murray and Watson captured him after he discarded his gun and fled. his dog led them to Wells.
Five Farm Bureau meetings are scheduled this week in Putnam County with Indiana Farm Bureau’s Mr. Axter assisting local drive chairman Gilbert Knetzer. The county drive ends in Victory Week during the week of December 12 with celebrations at each township, likely a dinner or banquet. Meetings are Monday Russellville, Tuesday Cloverdale, Wednesday Clinton Center, Thursday Bainbridge, Friday Washington Township.
Six railroad operators in Pennsylvania receive a new policy allowing a two day monthly vacation. The change, effective December 1, raises their hourly rate to offset one paid day while the second day is unpaid. Operators at Almeda and Limdale total six workers.
In Indianapolis the defense demurrer to the plea in abatement was denied as Special Judge Oscar H. Montgomery opens hearings on Governor Ed Jackson's bid to avoid trial. Clyde H. Jones, Lafayette attorney and former Public Service Commission member, joins the defense led by Louis B. Ewbank. The indictment charges bribery conspiracies tied to plans to influence Warren T. McCray and appoint James McDonald as Marion County prosecutor.
Former Crawfordsville resident Mrs Eliza Guntle died at her sister's home in Lebanon on Thursday. She was born in Putnam county and married Dallas Russell, then Adam Guntle. Her first husband died in 1880 and her second husband thirteen years ago. She leaves a step-daughter Mrs A S Clements of Crawfordsville and a step-son Frank Guntle. Burial was in Oak Hill Cemetery after services in Lebanon.
The worst Atlantic storm in years leaves four sailors dead as three steamers wrecked and other ships in peril off the North Carolina coast. Five deaths in New York and New Jersey are linked to the storm.
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