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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1930
Page
1
Charles J. Arnold reviews calls and jokes from friends, recalls USC vs Pittsburg game with Von KleinSmid, comments on the Herald’s New Year edition, relocates old DePauw campus figures, notes a close Illini Wesleyan win, and urges 1930 boosting over knocking.
In Greencastle tonight DePauw held a slim lead late but Illinois Wesleyan Meehan tied and then clinched with two free throws in the final minute. Meehan led Wesleyan with 14 points while Ragsdale topped DePauw at 11 and Moffett had 9 as the Tigers rue a 29 28 13 :13 halftime tally.
Council adopts plans for a 16 by 27 foot addition to the Fire Department building with an estimated cost of 900 dollars. Frank Coss of Greenscastle elected vice president of the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association covering Indiana Ohio Illinois and Michigan. Rose Joslin leaves for Evansville to teach while sister Hattie Joslin visits from Nephi Utah. Dr and Mrs G W Bence visit Noblesville.
The Hon Marvin Campbell of South Bend, longtime DePauw University trustee and loyal supporter, died yesterday at his home. He was a distant relative of Dr. Salem B. Town and is survived by family including son Albert Carp ell, a 1926 graduate. Funeral services set for Friday at 2:30 P.M. in South Bend.
Called meeting of Temple Lodge No 47 Friday at 7 30 p m E A degree conducted by W M E O Long and EF Caldwell to preside at the lodge venue.
The forecast calls for partly cloudy to cloudy skies tonight and Friday with a noticeable drop in temperatures. No precipitation is mentioned and winds are light.
DePauw University appointed Prof. Herrick E. H. Greenleaf associate professor of Mathematics to head the 1930 summer school. He has taught eight years at DePauw and has done summer teaching at Boston University. About one hundred students enrolled last year. the program aims to attract former and current DePauw students.
Union College president Frank Parker Day told the National Collegiate Athletic Association meeting that the Carnegie Foundation findings on athletic depravity are substantially true. He warned that college games attract public betting, rowdy crowds, and "Roman holiday" atmospheres, urging colleges to act while condemning the current spectacle.
James Lee, grandson of James Merryweather, was operated on Wednesday morning at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. Dr. Clevenger, assisted by Drs. Norris and Sourwine, performed the procedure and report him as doing as well as can be expected.
Eight county elementary schools in Putnam County were commissioned after state inspector John Hussey found they met requirements. Clinton Center High School received a continuous commission following consolidation and new building, signaling overall school quality under Superintendent John Vermillion.
Andrew Malone Lockridge, 50, of Detroit, died at 2:45 AM at his brother William P. Lockridge’s home 307 West Walnut. Cause was blood poisoning in the left arm. He was wintering with his brother after his mother’s death last April. Funeral Saturday at 2 PM at the residence, interment Forest Hill cemetery. He was born October 16, 1879, son of Alexander and Laura Pickrell Lockridge, a DePauw graduate and Beta Theta Pi member, a graduate of 4 Military Academy at Alton HK, and attended the University of Pennsylvania as a medical student. Survived by his brother. cousins also. Rev. B. H. Bruner to officiate. Please do not send flowers.
A milk truck belonging to J. F. Boesen escaped from the curb in front of the Crawford hotel and struck the Ford taxicab of Harry Crawford, smashing the radiator. The truck was uninjured, and Boesen attempted to halt it but could not stop the runaway vehicle.
Two killed and 13 injured when a Greyhound bus traveling from St. Louis to Pittsburgh swerved into a culvert after a front tire blew out near Eaton Ohio. Driver Spratt begged for a gun as rescue crews raced to hospitals in Richmond Indiana.
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