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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1928
Page
3
Listings include dinner invitations, marriage licenses issued in December, club meetings and hostesses, visits by officials from the State Board of Accounts, county commission activities, local residents’ travels and hospital updates, church societies events, a smoke incident at a residence, hospital transfers, traffic minor incidents, weekend visits, and New Year’s Day closures and visitors among local families.
Frank Davis of near Roachdale was elected chairman of the board for the coming year at the first regular meeting in the courthouse. Ora A. Day of Fillmore was welcomed as a new board member, succeeding Reese Buis. Passage of claims was the main business transacted.
Inquests on Albert Himsel, a wealthy farmer, find heart trouble caused his death and that hogs mutilated his body near Petersburg. Himsel's wife and four children were drowned in a ferry boat disaster twenty five years ago.
In Brazil Indiana Albert Clark is fined 100 dollars and costs and sentenced to six months on the penal farm for possession of intoxicating liquor. John Downing receives a 50 dollar fine and 90 days on the farm for a similar charge.
Orville Knight alias Orville Mc Knight of Chicago was arrested in Bedford Indiana by Sheriff John Tyree and Officer John Peyton on a bigamy charge after a five month manhunt.
Hogs were generally steady with 180 pounders at about 8.90 to 9.00 dollars. Cattle rose up to 25 cents with light receipts, few beef steers bringing 12.25 to 16 dollars, Wealers steady at 17 dollars less.
Indianapolis attorney Walter Myers announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator.
A South Shore Railway collision near 130th Street between a holiday excursion limited and a stalled local train killed motorman Edward Stafford and injured 28 passengers. Thick steam, burns, and a panic followed as other cars derailed and passengers fled.
Photo shows Dr Charles McMillan of Los Angeles held by police as a suspect in the brutal murder of Mrs Amerita Appleby, a wealthy apartment house owner. Parts of her body were found sewn in a sack just outside the city limits.
Thirteen township trustees and county superintendent John Vermil lion attended a Monday noon dinner at the county hospital. The board and hospital superintendent Miss Eva Milburn hosted the event. Harry W. Moore, newly elected to the board, attended his first meeting today succeeding James L. Randel.
Charles E. Turner 21 of Terre Haute is reported among Marines wounded at Quilali Nicaragua after Friday clash with rebels in which five Marines were killed and twenty wounded. Reinforcements and Nicaraguan constabulary move to attack Sandino forces at El Chipote as rebels reportedly use anti aircraft guns.
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