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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1930
Page
1
A long forgotten Greencastle tale recounts officers using a stone pile jail guard and a planned escape by hobos. The scheme involved prisoners aiding a breakout, chaining a supposed guard to a post, and the town’s Monon tracks scene as the escape fizzled when discovered.
A Monon Railroad special train will carry 130 high school students and townspeople from Greencastle to Bedford for the Greencastle Bedford basketball game. The fare is $2.50 round trip. Tickets available at the station.
A Greens Cast le attorney receives compliments from peers in Grant's Pass Oregon after a week marked by blizzards and sun. Jenn H Lyon the Greencastle city attorney attends council, praised for work in starting the new administration.
Dr. John A. Egan spoke to the Kiwanis club at the Christian church, detailing history types and diagnosis of spinal meningitis. He noted the Indianapolis epidemic is highly difficult to control with fatality rates near ninety percent. The club adopted a new finance plan.
Samuel McLean a 20 year old freshman at DePauw lies seriously ill in Putnam county hospital after emergency operation for acute appendicitis performed by Dr. Thomas Noble of Indianapolis and Dr. W R Hutcheson. He is from Orleans and has been living with Henry H Phillips at 704 South Locust Street.
The forecast calls for mostly fair skies tonight and Friday with colder temperatures. Tonight will be notably cool and Friday remains cold, with continued chilly conditions expected through the day.
A Henderson State Teachers College sophomore at Arkadelphia is chosen queen of South Arkansas for 1930 and will be coronated January 24 at the South Arkansas Chamber of Commerce annual convention by Governor Parnell.
Joseph Allee a farmer east of town facing a charge of disposing of mortgaged property probably will have his trial postponed Judge Hughes said a letter shows Allee is bedridden in Indianapolis. The charge was filed by Alonzo Cook who alleges livestock mortgaged to him was sold by Allee.
Earnest Rush son of W O Rush and nephew of Mrs Harry Talbott died yesterday at a Gary hospital. The body will be brought to Greencastle Friday afternoon arriving at 2 50 over the Monon and taken to McCurry Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements to be announced. His mother Mrs Mattie Rush died last November and was buried here.
The Grand Jury enters the second day of inquiry into the Bascom O Hairs fire and the theft of alcohol and other property from a wrecked rum runners car near Bainbridge. Investigators have found no origin clues. O Hair seeks about $10,000 in insurance. The panel will visit the county farm and the jail and is expected to wrap up by Friday.
Rev. Query praised a strong election of a capable superintendent and officers. The duties were split for efficiency with Mrs. Fd Benson as superintendent and Miss Mildred Pickett as secretary among others.
Water Works in Owen County officials state pumping station is fully equipped with trained engineers and rebuilt pumps. Supervisor Orville Stewart says claims of inadequate service are unfounded and asserts recent upgrades ensure reliable water supply and quick response to any fire or emergency.
Telegram from Dr. Oxnam reports Mrs. Oxnam is considerably better after a major operation on January 6 at a Los Angeles hospital. The missive notes she cannot leave the hospital for a month or more, though she is on the road to recovery.
Twenty years ago in Greencastle W L Denman was elected general manager of the Mary Mining Company with offices at Anna Nuevo Mexico. He will resign as cashier of the First National Bank and depart soon. Mrs FE B Lynch died at her West Washington Street home Saturday. James Foudry, longtime county resident, died yesterday opposite McLean Springs after 25 years at Vandalia station.
The Spencer region reports rising flood levels with Owen bounty bottom land underwater and crossing closures. State Road crossings are guarded and traffic halted while boats shuttle passengers along the White River and Salt Creek crossings. Train service continues at Keystone, though tracks are flooded. cross-country water and backwaters affect routes toward Bedford and Oolitic.
Wabash College eyes a Thursday night clash with DePauw in Crawfordsville after a second loss to Central Normal. The Little Giants field a familiar lineup of Chase, Bowman, Johnson or Grovey, Howell, Harbison or Harting, with Haskett, Bush and Ellison likely to see action as they prepare for the traditional rivalry.
Urban Elmore and Isaac Harris join to open a plumbing firm serving Greencastle. Elmore brings twelve years of sewer experience and is well qualified for the work.
Senator Brookhart taunted a proposal to reduce wheat acreage accusing critics of aiming to kill farmers to limit cultivation. He asserted the farm board would nearly have to kill off 20 percent of the farmers to carry out the program, during a Senate session amid an International Clarified News photo report.
Representatives of the State Industrial Board held a hearing on Louis King of Crown Street who seeks compensation for a zinc poisoning illness he says he contracted while employed as a fireman at the American Zinc Products Co. zinc mill east of town.
Essie Benefiel, longtime Greencastle Automobile License Bureau clerk, announces as a Republican candidate for Putnam County Recorder in the upcoming spring primary. Her four year tenure at the Franklin Street garage has earned high state ranking for the Greencastle branch among 104 offices.
The Franklin Townshop Farm Bureau will hold its annual meeting at the Presbyterian Church in Rowedale on January 21, 1950. Supper at 6 oclock in the basement. Families to bring two dishes and their own table service. A short program follows at 7. WH Settle, president of the State Farm Bureau, and director of the National Grain Corporation of Chicago, will speak. Afterward refunds for crime, oil, fertilizer and twine will be distributed.
The student affairs committee ordered a sanitary inspection of DePauw University pool by the state board of health soon. Coach W L Hughes will invite the board to assess if the pool is fit for use.
Florence E Coffman seeks a divorce from husband Melvin C Coffman in a cross complaint alleging cruel inhuman treatment inconsiderate of her health unkind and unsympathetic conduct and claims infidelity. The couple married in 1920 and separated June 1 1929.
In Vincennes Indiana the White River flood worsens with a second levee break near Decker two miles north and 12 miles south, inundating 25 000 acres and forcing about 100 farmers from homes. Townships including Decker are submerged while roads to Branewville are blocked and city levees are reinforced by volunteers.
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