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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1928
Page
3
Mrs J B Crosby and Mrs Albert Miss Margaret Bryan of Newcastle Dobbs spent Friday in Indianapolis and visited her mother Mrs Dessie Bryan. Over the weekend Miss Pearl O Hair is confined to her home on Seminary street business.
The petition of the Old Trails Express Company to operate an express and freight line through Greenscastle was dismissed before a hearing before the Public Service Commission Thursday. Opposition by local businessmen and the Chamber of Commerce is given as the reason for the withdrawal.
C We Tribby traveled to Indianapolis on Thursday for business matters related to the Tribby Garage operation.
Miss Leola Moore a Martha Ridpath school teacher entered the county hospital Thursday for influenza treatment. She is the daughter of Dr A Moore of Clinton Falls who is seriously ill at his home. Also Miss Nellie Harris a county hospital nurse underwent an operation with Dr Noble Jr and Dr Tucker and Dr OBrien assisting. Home Elletts ville. A full house attended the three mystery play And Whats His Name at Fillmore high school Thursday night. Benjamin Philbrick a DePauw senior entered the county hospital Thursday for influenza. He lives in Evanston and is a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon.
County Superintendent John C. Vermillion addressed the Putnamville Parent Teachers Association Thursday night. Seventh and eighth graders presented a fine program and refreshments were served by the association. Local news notes include William Jones returning from Washington and Mrs. Albert Nelson visiting Chicago. Mrs. Cartwright’s father Frank Chance remains ill in Indianapolis. Marriage announced for Hattie Hamer sly Hamersly to Jas Cherry of Brazil with ceremony in Evansville. Clyde Elkins sentenced at 20 for Penal Farm escape and James Thompson dies at 65 at the Penal Farm. Burial arrangements made for the deceased. Families from Amo, Danville, and Greencastle visit relatives here. George Schwin, class of ’28, spent the weekend in Greencastle.
Mrs Roy Newgent and her infant child from Spencer are visiting relatives in the area, staying for an unspecified duration. The brief note confirms familial ties and travel but provides no additional details.
Tommy Gibbons of Grand Rapids Michigan is visiting friends in Greencastle during a brief trip.
Mrs Alice Cline visited Mr and Mrs J B Bunten of Fillmore Sunday in a social gathering noting hospitality and local community ties amid small town routines.
Mrs. W C Timmons is confined to her Northwood home due to illness.
Charles Epperson, a senior last year, visited the Delta U house over the week end. He is teaching in Fort Branch, Ind.
Mrs Mark Bills and her children of Fort Wayne are visiting as guests of Mrs Bills' parents, Mr and Mrs C N McWethy, during their stay.
Robert Smiley employed at the cement plant suffered a badly masked left thumb injury Monday morning at the facility.
Gilbert Reeves of Indianapolis spent the weekend with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Lee Reeves on West Franklin Street.
Mr and Mrs C P Reeves of Greencastle visited Mr and Mrs Jay Hudson on east Chestnut street Friday evening in Brazil Indiana recorded by the Brazil Times.
Funeral services for Robert Harbison were held Sunday at 1:30 PM at McCurry Funeral Home. He died Friday at his home on South Jackson Street. Rev. C Howard Taylor presided. Burial followed at Brick Chapel.
Dr. A H Moore is seriously ill at his home in Clinton Falls. His daughter Miss Leola Moore, recently released from county hospital after several days with influenza, returned home Sunday due to her father’s grave condition.
Prof B H Graves of DePauw returned to his home Sunday from the County Hospital and is greatly improved after an attack of influenza.
R E Richards of east Franklin street returns from Joliet Illinois after attending a Gerlach Barklow Calendar Company salesmen convention. Mr and Mrs Charles Marshall and Mrs Emma Batchelor of Greencastle and Mr and Mrs Henry Marshall spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs Penn Thomas of Clinton township. Alva Smith of Killmore is reported death’s door in pneumonia and heart trouble. Funeral services were held for Mrs A D Goodwin at the Fountain Home farm near Groveland and Lebanon Methodist Church with interment in Oak Hill cemetery. Mrs Goodwin was mother of Miss Fleetta Goodwin, former Greencastle teacher now in Paris Illinois.
John Hartsook, a DePauw University graduate of 1928 who now teaches in Cedar Rapids Iowa, spent a few hours visiting the campus Friday.
Mrs A B Phillips remains at her residence on Poplar Street due to illness. Local effort to provide care and news updates continues as neighbors monitor her condition and assist with daily needs.
Harry Phillips of Greencastle was fined ten dollars and costs by Mayor Charles McGaughey after being arrested Monday afternoon on a charge of intoxication. The total spree costs reached forty five dollars. Phillips, a cement plant worker, was arrested near noon.
George Thomas and Roscoe Skimmerhorn are confined to home due to influenza. Captain B B MacMahon of De Pauw has influenza at home. Ralph Early, class of 30, was slightly injured Friday in a fall from a moving automobile. FE Taylor remains at home on East Washington street with a slight pneumonia. Eleanor Collins, daughter of Mr and Mrs Harry Collins, ill at home with influenza.
Verne Bennett remains home with pneumonia after influenza. Arnold Tilden returns from University of Chicago to spend holidays with Prof and Mrs Tilden. Mr and Mrs Oscar Ashley of Russellville visit relatives in Indianapolis area. Robert Webster of Eli Lily Research hosts William Boyce of Swayzee. Miss Blanche McGaughey Purdue coed athlete featured in Alco Gravure. Reelsville scenes also showcased. Miss Flora Vandament and friends Howard Matthews and Richard Terry visit Vandament's home then travel to Elmira New York for holidays.
Mrs W O Timmons confined by illness at her Northwood home shows signs of improvement.
Campus notes list Prof and Mrs Camden Strain of DePauw spending Christmas in Chicago. Miss Lucy Bowen leaves for Ohio. Dr Grace Barkley attends AAAS convention in New York City. Several students and staff suffer illnesses. funeral held for Charles O Talcott with DePauw University ties. Families and local figures travel or recover over holidays.
Lee A Miles colored remained in the county jail Wednesday after authorities planned to dismiss the case if he honored the fraudulent checks. He failed to do so, and authorities continued to hold him. Funeral services for Harley Nichols were held in Cunot with Rev. W. E. Gill officiating. Nichols, 51, farmer, leaves a widow and five children. Two penal farm inmates William Robinson and Herbert Hall died of pneumonia at the penal institution. Carl Anderson of MacMillan Publishing, former secretary to DePauw president, visited campus and shared updates on DePauw alumni and colleagues at Grinnell Iowa, Missouri, and Coe College. Edna Lane of Indianapolis Teachers College returned home for holidays. influenza closed the school Monday.
A man chased a thief through a hall and was followed by a description matching a man terrified by a Sigma Nu house dog. The suspect, wearing a brown overcoat and bright scarf, was seen near Sigma Nu by a chaperon. At High Point filling station he looted tobacco, cigarettes, cigars, candy, gum and pennies, with three unknown men spotted cruising in a car near Greencastle. no solid clues beyond the faint description.
Roachdale residents record a flurry of visits and family news. Mrs George Long spent Sunday with her mother Mrs Lucy Sutherlin and several others including Miss Mary King and Mrs Addie Clifford. A newborn son was born to Mr and Mrs Albert Noland on December 13. Multiple trips, illnesses, and travel are noted, including Mrs Ida Wilson preparing for a Florida winter with her son and Mrs Emma Kelly’s return from Russellville.
Three Greencastle fraternities suffered burglaries Tuesday night with Delta Tau Delta and Delta Upsilon losing cash and valuables including watches. Sigma Nu was chased from its house by a watchdog. The High Point filling station and Greencastle High School also reported entry, while Superintendent Yount’s office briefly appeared active before being checked by police.
Chicago December 18 Death in the electric chair was the sentence for David Shanks a negro who last August brutally beat and killed Miss Jennie Meta Con stance a Northwestern postgraduate student after leaving her at night Judge Denis J Normoyle overruled a motion for new trial and set the execution for February 15 The sentence disappointed the youth who believed a new trial would be granted.
Lifurd Johnson, 54, placed his head on the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks in Warsaw Indiana early today and was decapitated by a train. The headless body was found near the Brande Pierce furniture plant where Johnson worked. Ill health was believed to have led to the act.
Mrs Mary Farrow and Mrs Minnie Holland visited Crawfordsville last Monday. Pritchard family of Crawfordsville spent Sunday with Carrie Clodfelter. William Cope of Clinton Falls joined Arthur Garrett for Sunday. Oral Maddox improves after illness. Cora Bush and Raymond Firestone of Eaglestown visited William Perkins. Laura Inge was in Indianapolis Wednesday. O Havers attend Greencastle all day club. Lloyd William O Haver very ill. George Inge was in Indianapolis Monday and Tuesday.
DePauw University choir joined the Indiana Federation of Music Clubs as part of a choir extension. Directed by Dean R G McCutchan, it is the first college choir to be federated among others already part of the federation.
The Central Christian Girls' choir of Lebanon joins the Schubert Club of Kokomo and Crawfordsville the New Ross Girls' Glee Club and the First Presbyterian church choir of Shelbyville in a regional music collaboration and performance series.
On December 18 a merger uniting Fosdick Ice Cream Company Ward Ice Cream Company Wray creamery and the Sanitary milk depot was completed in Crawfordsville. The new unit will operate January 1 under leaders George Fosdick Forrest Ward and J E Wray, with plans for a new building to house management.
Noblesville Indiana December 18 The board of health orders closing all city schools and churches and bans public gatherings for two weeks due to influenza outbreak. About seven hundred residents are listed as sick.
Washburn Chapter D A R met at Mrs Erman Ellis home with Miss Sara Bridges as assistant hostess Tuesday A silk flag gift to the chapter from Mrs Prosser Timmons and her niece Miss Josephine Rebush highlighted the gathering Ten magazine subscriptions were reported the largest in years Mrs Yuneker reported ten dollars sent to Carr Creek Community School and a clothing toy gift to Tamassee Industrial School in South Carolina Genealogy work was begun on the second volume of Putnam County Genealogy a copy already sent to libraries in Washington and Indiana polis The chapter also plans to locate and mark unmarked Revolutionary soldiers graves Any information is welcome Miss Sara Bridges noted the immigrant Americanization discussion and Ellis Island work supported by the National D A R through patriotic education efforts in the mountains of the South
Mrs Frank Jones hosted a pretty Christmas party at her Elm Street home with many Domes Scientific Club members in attendance. Albert Landes and Mrs Nellie Stoner assisted hosts. Guests answered roll call with First Christmas Gift that Remember. Mrs A A Brothers recited on Ellen F H Richards life.
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