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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1929
Page
1
Charles J anyg ty shares lighthearted notes from Greencastle including humorous tales of a Siamese twin dinner invite and a pie scarcity. He recalls reader subscriptions, Christmas gifts, and stock market mildness as well as playful jabs at shopping and Prohibition enforcement.
The McCullough and Hamm String Band of the Lone Star Cement Company will leave Saturday for Evansville to broadcast a program from Station WGRE Saturday night from 7 to 9. Musicians in the band are Rees McCullough J M Jones Howard Hamm Bert Hamm and Leslie Frank.
H W Newgent, son of Clinton township residents, formerly Greencastle, now director of athletics at Lawrenceburg High, is praised as the Miracle Man for guiding Shelbyville High’s basketball squad to a victory over Aurora, with noted coaching and hard work described as key factors. Aurora had earlier beaten North Vernon by 23 points.
Six long serving women at the local J C Penney store received Christmas bonuses based on sales and salary. Men are excluded. Eligible workers date back to 1920 or earlier. Total company bonus pool was 48117550 across 1400 stores.
A compiled list shows Wayne Hutcheson and Gladys Jackson both age 21 from Putnam and Clay counties respectively. Harold G. Crawley 22 of Greencastle and Mary Elizabeth Miller 22 from Muncie are noted alongside Clarence FE Beck 22 of Putnam and Josephine Walters 22 of Hendricks. Leonard Greenlee 34 of Greencastle and Faunael Baize 19 of Indianapolis are also listed as pairs.
Police in Peru Indiana questioned three Lafayette men J W West John D Nolan and Harry Cook after witnesses said they resembled the seven bandits who robbed the National Bank of Peru on October 18 the gang leader Burke identified in a photo.Locals fled as gunfire rattled the main street injuring a patrolman and a railroad worker.
William Bill Coffman a local garage mechanic faced two affidavits in Putnam Circuit Court for public intoxication and driving under the influence after driving a heavy car onto the Big Four tracks blocking traffic at the station for an hour. Fred Wampler detective filed the affidavits. Coffman blocked the railroad right of way stalled in snowdrifts while a fast train waited. He was arrested and released on $300 bond pending January arraignment.
Thieves stole several boxes of cigars from the Oak Hill filling station on the National Road. A passing motorist is suspected of helping himself to the cigars. no one saw the thief. Earlier, a slot machine with coins was taken from the filling station across from Oak Hill park.
LeRoy Bellinger, age five, sues in Clay Circuit Court for $5,000 damages over an automobile accident. Action filed by father Harold Bellinger against Guy Suddithh and Kenneth Buntin, owners of other cars, with a parallel $5,000 suit by Olive E. Bellinger venued in the same court.
Jess Reno, 67, a reclusive man living alone south west of Quincy, was found dead in a hog lot by Kirk Way and Elmer Muse. Authorities say heart failure caused his death about a week ago and a large sow had partly eaten the body, with bones crushed and skull fragments missing. Coroner L O Fish confirmed the death and notified Zale Reno, son in Crawfordsville.
Barnard Heppen 80, missing over a week, was found frozen to death about fifty feet from the Wabash River bank near Terre Haute. Authorities believed he wandered from home during the recent blizzard.
Oscar Thomas will read a paper on the subject What the Teacher Can Do at the State Teachers Association in Indianapolis next Monday. The Presbyterian church program tomorrow night features recitations and songs by Wallace Welch Olga Pfahler Wilber Smith John Halbert Stoner Thelma and Gordon Schmitt Frank Irvin Blanche Reed and Grace Browning. Lucius Chapin returns home from Chicago to spend the holidays with relatives. he is a Proctor and Gamble traveling salesman.
More than 100 people were summoned to Jackson Kentucky to testify before a county grand jury about their alleged roles in the Breathitt County jail lynching plot. Chester Fugate, the confessed slayer of farmer Clay Watkins, was shot eight times and taken to a hospital after being forced from jail.
Indiana polis reports 28 deaths from cerebro spinal meningitis in three weeks and 34 total cases. Five died on Christmas Day as three new patients were admitted to City Hospital. Six squads including a doctor and a technician isolate cases and quarantine homes. Police warn officers to avoid inhaling breath of suspected drunks to prevent spread.
The Kiwanis Club will entertain Greencastle boys at a Christmas dinner and party at the Christian Church Friday at 12 15 PM. O W Hollowell leads the program and every member is urged to attend. A boy will be invited for each member.
R W Denman son of Mayer elect W L Denman and former Green Castle boy authored an article titled How We Budget to Protect Profit in Sales Management. Denman directs sales promotion and advertising for the Troy Laundry Machinery Company of New York City.
A message reports the sudden Christmas Day death of Mrs Kate Elliott Breckenridge of Brookston Indiana formerly of Greencastle. She was daughter of the late Pat Elliott and died from heart disease. Funeral services are set for Friday in Brookston with relatives Mrs Keith Roberts and Miss Cade Elliott listed as nieces.
Eugene Downey 27, son of Police Lt. Eugene F. Downey, was shot by coast guardsmen while speeding a small boat across the Niagara River. Downey, on bail for liquor smuggling, died from a gunshot wound after officers fired from a machine gun. An escaping companion fled shoreward. no liquor or narcotics were found. Downey had been tied to the Loretta smuggling case locating liquor from Ontario.
The C. T. Southard Book store, operated for over three years by C. T. Southard, is sold to Sam Hanna, a high school science teacher. Hanna will run it as Sam Hanna's Book Store starting January 1 while continuing to teach this school year. Southard is retiring after nearly four decades with the shop dating to 1872.
Bandits who robbed the Bank of Oakland near Bowling Green, Kentucky, fled with $1,000. A posse pursued them and exchanged fire. Robert Kirby, 50, president of the Partners Bank of Smith Grove, was killed, and Charles Bass was wounded. Bandits forced Oakland directors to reveal the money.
Terrific gales sweep the British Isles and western Spain killing at least 28 people. The Norwegian freighter Aslaug was smashed on the Failanes shoals, two killed in Britain and numerous injuries. London was hit with flooding in low areas along the Thames.
Three men died when their car struck a high tension power line post two miles west of Castle Oklahoma. Doc Glasswell of Paden was uninjured. Mike Carson of Prague R G Duvall of Paden and Lawrence Williams of Norman were killed instantly as they tangled in the lines. The driver may have been blinded by another car’s lights causing the crash.
The forecast calls for unsettled conditions tonight and Friday. Slight warming tonight except in the extreme southwest, with colder air expected Friday in the west and north and by night in the southeast portion.
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