Local notes mention visits and transfers across Indiana towns
Mrs Charles Reeves of west Walnut street was a business visitor in Indianapolis. Rev B H Bruner spent the day in Terre Haute. Walter Bidwell of Granada and Vancastle theatres visited Indianapolis on business. Mr and Mrs Claude Burks returned to Akron Ohio after visiting relatives. Mrs Lou Allen Baker travels from Los Angeles to Florida for the winter. John Drury of Madison Township is in critical condition at Putnam County Hospital. The body of Matt Gayton, 60, from the Penal Farm, died of pneumonia and was sent to Indianapolis. Mrs S A Hazelett shows improvement after heart trouble. Lorene Williams, injured when a kitchen cabinet fell, left county hospital. Miss Helen Hathaway leaves for Los Angeles to visit her brother. she worked at Greencastle Savings and Loan. Charities meeting notes three coal needs. volunteers sought for Christmas Cheer. Dr Paul Ream resumes practice in Roachdale after study at Northwestern. Funeral set for Myrtle Lorene Reeves at Eric Chapel Church with interment at Brick Chapel cemetery. Stores plan nights before Christmas. tuberculosis seals sold at local outlets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Lorene
Alfred Reeves
Detroit
Eric Chapel Church
Brick Chapel
C. Howard Taylor
Robert Allen
Reeves
Allen
DePauw Music School Presents Christmas Cantata at Chapel
The DePauw University School of Music staged a Christmas chapel program in Meharry Hall with the University choir performing a cantata. Joseph W. Clokey set Laura Spencer Proctor's poem When the Christ Child Came to music. Faculty and student performers led by Dean R. G. McCutchan and organist Van Denman Thompson included soloists Margarete Parson Edna Bowles Dwight Trezise and Charles Pearson among a large choir. President Oxnam sent a Christmas message in the printed program as Dr. Oxnam plans to conduct the next chapel with a talk. No chapel Thursday before the Christmas recess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DePauw University School of Music
Meharry Hall
Joseph W. Clokey
Laura Spencer Proctor
R. G. McCutchan
van Denman Thompson
Margarete Parson
Edna Tyna Bowles
Coste Breaks Distance Flight Record Over Closed Circuit
Captain Dieudonne Coste shattered the distance record on a measured closed-circuit course. The French air ministry said he flew from Istres to set a new mark around 7,870 kilometers about 4,910 miles, landing at Istres shortly after 11:58 a.m. Paris time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
INS
Dieudonne Coste
Coste
Istres
Air Ministry
Letter To Santa From Reelsville Child
Richard Taber, a six year old first grader at Manhattan School in Reelsville Indiana, writes Santa asking for a sled wagon motorized truck a suit for his three year old brother a sweater and hat for the younger sibling a tricycle and a ball. He promises a good lunch on the dining room table if Santa brings all the gifts and plenty of candy nuts and fruits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa
Manhattan School
Richard Taber
Livestock market report from Indianapolis
Indianapolis market roundup shows hogs at 9000 head, bulk 160-300 lb at 9.50, 130-160 lb at 8.90 to 9.25, and sow prices 7.75 to 8.25. Cattle and calves totaling 1800 head: slaughter classes slow but steady, five loads of beef steers at 14.00, sows mostly 7 to 9, light heifers around 14.50, under 12.50 for bulk. Sheep 1200 head steady, lambs 12.50 to 13.25, low to medium grades 9 to 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
RAF Monoplane Takes Off for Cape Town Nonstop
Squadron leader Williams and Flight Lieutenant Jenkins depart Cranwell Airdrome at 8:00 a.m. on a nonstop attempt to Capetown South Africa using a large Royal Air Force monoplane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranwell Airdrome
England
Royal Air Force
Williams
Jenkins
Capetown
South Africa
Spencer printing plant in Indiana bought by Samuel R. Guard
The half million dollar Farm Life Publishing Company printing plant at Spencer Indiana was purchased by Samuel R Guard of Chicago. He will open the plant January 2 and move his family to Spencer February 1 to edit Breeder's Gazette American Sheep Breeder and Berkshire Journal and National Swine Grower from Spencer. It is unclear if the three magazines will be printed in Spencer after current contracts end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spencer, Ind
Farm Life Publishing Company
Samuel R. Guard
Chicago
Spencer
Guard
Towers to Guard Roads Considered by Governor Leslie
Governor Harry G. Leslie discusses heavy armed bullet proof towers on state roads to curb banditry. Towers would guard city edges and mediate access via circular drive centers. Lafayette entrepreneur David Ross funds feasibility survey with Purdue engineers aiding at no state cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry G. Leslie
Leslie
David Ross
Lafayette
Purdue University Board of Trustees
Ross
Tippecanoe County
Purdue University
Withrow Fined $100 for Auto License Charge in Rockville
Samuel F. Withrow of Bridgeton, known from a Parke county arson trial, was fined $100 and costs in circuit court here for improper use of license plates. Judge Howard Maxwell presided. prosecutor Benjamin F. Stephenson led the state case, with Causey and Miller of Terre Haute defending. The full courtroom heard the auto offense verdict. Withrow had recently been fined $1 and costs at Rosedale on a similar charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rockville
Ind
Samuel F. Withrow
Bridgeton
Parke County
Howard Maxwell
Withrow
Benjamin F. Stephenson
Causey and Miller
Terre Haute
Rosedale
Perl Grimes Freed in Crawfordsville Case
Perl R. Grimes, once indicted for assault with intent to commit a felony in the slaying of Virgil Young, was released from the county jail after Judge Edgar A. Rice sustained a motion to nol pros the indictment. He had been jailed since May 25 and was found not guilty by reason of unsound mind for two indicted acts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawfordsville
Perl R. Grimes
Edgar A. Rice
Walter Linni
Nollo Prasse
Grimes
Virgil Young
Charles Carter
Former Roachdale Man Dies in Indianapolis
Russell Sanders 80 died at his Indianapolis home Sunday after long Putnam County life. He married Eliza Chastain and was a longtime grocer in Indianapolis. Survived by daughters Cate Wilson, Mrs. Lawrence Cannon of Indianapolis, and Mrs. Herbert Fitzimmons of Mt Meridian. Funeral services Tuesday afternoon with Rev. C. L. Airhart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roachdale
Indianapolis
Daugters
Cate Wilsor
Lawrence Cannon
Herbert Fitzsimmons
Mt. Meridian
C. L. Airhart
20th Century Club Meets Thursday at 2 30 PM
The Twentieth Century club will meet with Mrs. Guy Black Thursday afternoon at 2:30. A Christmas program will be given.
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20Th Century Club
Twentieth Century Club
Guy Black
Burke Called Most Dangerous Man Alive In Manhunt
Chicago police label Fred R. Burke the slain Moran gangsters massacre leader and seek him for multiple killings and bank robberies. Rewards total 100000 as authorities trace Burke to St Joseph Indiana and Capone era shootings with gang ties and a history with Egan's Rats.
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Chicago
INS
Bugs” Moran
Fred R. Burke
Scarface
al” Capone
St. Joseph
Mich
Burke
Desperado
Moran
Col
Calvin Goddard
New York
Middle West
Dane
Charles Skelly
Viola Kane
Mattie Howard
Viola Brenneman
Hammond
Ind
James Ray
Gus Winkler
John Stege
Ray
Capone
First National Bank of
Peru
Louisville
Egan's Rats
St. Louis
United Railways
Furnished room for rent in private entrance
Jan 1 furnished room for rent for a man and wife or two ladies. Private entrance heat lights and garage space. Semi modern $20.00 Address X care Herald.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Care Herald
Musical names and pieces listed in a long program
A long list of composers tunes and performers including Marian Ellis Heins Mazurka Brillante Ruth Donnahue Roberta Jackson Waltz Dora Comstock Part II with Old Folks at Home Newland Foster The Rabbit Hunt Harriet Heaney Sartorio Elnora Tharp Just a Bit of Sunshine and more notes for piano duet pieces and performers listed in order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elnora Tharp
Spaulding
Roberta Jackson
Beatrice Ritchey
Lichner
Northcoytd 5th Execution Extension Granted in Murder Appeal
In San Francisco on December 14 the state Supreme Court granted Gordon Stewart Northcott, sentenced to die for the Riverside county chicken farm murders, a further extension to January 10 to file additional opening briefs in his appeal for a new trial. It is the fifth extension granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Cal
State Supreme Court
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Riversie County
Northcott
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Charles Reeves
West Walnut Street
B. H. Bruner
The
Christian Church
Walter Bidwell
Granada
Vancastle
Claude Burks
Akron, Ohio
Lou Allen Baker
Los Angeles
Calif
Florida
John Drury
Madison Township
Putnam County Hospital
Matt Gayton
S. A. Hazelett
Lorene Williams
Mae Williams
Martinsville Street
Helen Hathaway
Greencastle Savings and Loan Office
Associated Charities
Paul Ream
Northwestern University
Eugene Schmidtt
Putnam County Tuberculosis Association
Steven’s Drug Store
Mullins Drug Store
Pitchford’s
Santa Reelsville
Elsie Hesse-Larsen-Smith- Crossley-Seaman-Metzer-Wood
James G. Flesher
International Newsreel
Greencastle
McGregor Golf
Glover
Hansen's Gloves
McGregor Sport
Manhattan
Columbia
Mallory
J. F. Cannon & CO
the Man’s Store
Spencer Printing
Perl Grimes
East Washington Street
East Seminary Street
J. Arnold
Herald Office
Oliver Typewriter
East
Washington Street
Fenwick Reed
Marian Ellis
Heins
Mazurka
Brillante
Jo Ruth Donnahue
Little Cherub
Marietta Taylor
Valse Caprice
Dora Comstock
Part
Newland
Reeceess
Harriet Heaney
Sartorio
Marguerite Cowan
Ruth Donnahue
Jeannette Campbell
Baltimore Oriole
Keats
Zink Fleener
Mary Frances Carson
Mumma
Cadman
Etude
Betty Nichols
Ee Hoins
Marion Elsis
Eis
Trammerer
Martha Waits
Night Ries
Mulley
Schumany Gruber
Northcoytd
Earlham
Depauw
Bowman Gymnasium
Weatherstrips
True-Hixon Lumber Co
North College Aven
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