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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1918
Page
3
A essay on urban life contrasts city density with rural closeness. It explores how anonymity in metropolitan living strains sociability, while shared need in emergencies binds neighbors. It laments the loss of simple country ways and urges a return to neighborly bonds.
A Highland regiment officer reports after forty eight hours in Paris that he and his servant in kilts drew a crowd while shopping. Laughter turned to sheepish grins as the servant circulated the officer's Balmoral hat for donations, leaving onlookers amused yet embarrassed.
A woman celebrates a birthday and asks three male friends to judge her age. The first two praise her unchanged beauty and aging into twenty, then twenty five. The third claims she looks thirty after tomorrow, sparking anger and a rift with one friend who reveals sharp honesty is dangerous.
A New York letter recounts a conversation among negro janitors praising Edison for a supposed invention of a magnetized returning bullet. They claim the device cannot miss a German and will return to American lines if it misses, with bullets trained not to harm Americans.
A Scotchwoman reports a mole study showing that a mole can eat its own weight in earthworms in 24 hours. By comparison an ordinary man would require about 150 pounds of food daily. One subject weighed four ounces and consumed 120 ounces in a month.
Several items fill the local page. Miss Eva Bence departs to join a Columbia music school faculty after holidays with her parents. Miss Rose Joslin and Miss Hattie Joslin visit Greencastle residents. The Indiana Public Service Commission reading error is corrected about a rate hearing set for January 10. Henry S. Hopper, longtime Treas urer of the local water company, dies in Philadelphia at about 75.
High school faculty and students congratulate Mr Stultz on his promotion to superintendent of Farmersburg schools. He starts Monday January 6 and will teach this week while transition occurs. Farmersburg, a 1500 population coal town south of Terre Haute, hosts 120 high school students and 150 in grade schools. Everett Palmer begins as a freshman today.
This week the Bainbridge and Roachdale games are set with strong records behind both teams. A service flag with a star for every Greencastle High School soldier will soon be placed in the auditorium. Miss Lillian Southard notes about eighty eight former students serve in America or France with General Pershing. Red Cross banners show the school’s enrollment in the organization.
Mrs. C W Bachelder and daughter from Greencastle visited friends here last week. Willie Green spent Christmas in Indianapolis. John Butler visited Mr and Mrs Elmer Farmer in Indianapolis. John Trout and wife traveled to Rosedale for daughter Ethel Howard’s illness. Frank Rank from Camp Taylor stopped by for a few days. Mr and Mrs Sommers of Coatsville visited Frank Riley. Elbert Allen of Bainbridge visited last week with Mr and Mrs William Allen.
William McFarland, janitor, returned to duties after a brief illness as Greencastle observes a bright Christmas display at the high school. Nearly every boy sports a new necktie while the girls show off Christmas jewelry, lifting the town’s holiday mood.
Dairy men set milk prices due to high feed costs. Milk 32 1/3 cents per quart and 40 cents per gallon wholesale in buckets, effective Monday January 7 1918. Signatories include R P D Hill C E Watson J F Long Marion Farrow.
General sales at 16.60 to 16.75 with a top of 16.85 as hog receipts reach 10,000 and outside buyers push prices 10 cents higher. Cattle remain steady to strong, calves rise, sheep steady amid Tuesday layovers totaling 2,500 hogs.
A Phoenix movement forms Two Bits a Day clubs to buy a quarter’s worth of Thrift Stamps daily. Three men bought hundred Thrift cards and sold the stamps before two blocks were covered, illustrating a fast start in the war-savings drive.
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