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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1918
Page
3
Retail grocers of the city are asked to attend a Tuesday evening 7 30 gathering in the Commercial Club room. The meeting will report delegates from the state meeting with FE A Browning president and W Sackett secretary in attendance.
B P O Elks Greencastle Lodge No 1077 convenes a regular session Tuesday at 7 30 p m initiation to follow E E Caldwell secretary announces the meeting.
In a Greencastle reminiscence George W. Wood recalls severe kidney trouble cured by Dean's Kidney Pills. He describes back pain and scanty secretions, notes full recovery, and endorses the remedy six years later. Price 60c at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
The second semester begins with new courses like commercial geography and trigonometry. Superintendent Dodson teaches Sophomore Geometry as classes are reassigned. Freshman Miss Catherine Friedhoff arrives from Elwood City, Pa with her parents. The basketball team opens the semester versus Bloomington at Browning hall Saturday, with a pregame test for players tomorrow. District tournament prep and new typewriting classes in the new high school building are noted.
The Greencastle Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumni asks local housewives to share war recipes and tips to reduce wheat and meat use and substitute goods. Send recipes to Mrs. Francis Calvin Tilden with permission to use the sender’s name. today’s verse is from Miss Pearl O’Hair’s friend.
Poem by Edith Sargeant from Exchange urging wartime sacrifice and food conservation. It condemns slackers who feast while troops at the front rely on rations and appeals to national duty and memory of the dead.
Look over garments you no longer wear and dye them with Dy-O-La Dye. With sixteen colors and simple directions you can refresh blouses and dresses without wrong material issues. Durable fast colors resist rubbing and fading.
A draft classified list presents numerous names with numbered figures after each entry, including Ira L. Brothers four Earl Humphrey four Benj Piersall four Clarel Williamson four Elmer Finney one Harrison Ferguson four Alvah C Porter four Jas B Graham one Orville Johnston four James N Wyatt four Robi McHaffie four William L Skinner five Robert C Bridges four George T McDowell four Benj O Nicholson one Fred G Ruark four Herschel C McCullough four Frank Lovett one Ray Grimes one Eli S Williams one Raymond S Fisher four Herschell Montgomery four Ransom Perkins one Gilbert E Lisby four Bud McKamey one Ernest Cox one Ivan D Hesler four Ralph F Fry one Jas W Dorsett four Henry F McCammack four Herbert Lawson one Frank Bittles four Earl B Sutherlin one Harrison Harbison five William C Evans one Jesse Burnside one Frank O Evans one
Wanted at once three unfurnished rooms near square inquire Herald office. Laborers wanted twenty five at American Zinc Company plant. Cook wanted Hamptons Restaurant. For lease good grain farm call phone 721. 2nd Jan 19 Wanted a place to farm on shares inquire William Chatman Greencastle Ind Route 2. Fifteen carpenters wanted apply American Zinc Products Company.
Local officials, led by Police Chief George W. Coffin, ban public dancing in cafes hotels and other public places in Indianapolis. Leon ard Geiger was refused permission to host cafe dancing, prompting the policy announcement.
Captain A. E. Towne of the Argos Company reports to Brigadier General Harry B. Smith that the unit dug through heavy snow to free a stalled train carrying about 1000 head of cattle. They distributed the steers to nearby farms for shelter and feeding for thirty hours, with many frost bitten yet saved from freezing. The beef will help feed U.S. troops and the company later corraled and re loaded the steers.
Representatives of Indiana's retail grocery trade from every county were summoned to a state house conference on January 30 to interpret prices for fifteen staples. Dr. Harry E. Barnard, federal food administrator for Indiana, aims to publish daily price figures guiding wholesale and retail trade statewide.
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