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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1929
Page
1
Charles J. Arnold recounts a humorous Texas pilgrimage with Greencastle friends where a prank led to a missing typewriter. He hints suspects include John Cartwright and Don McLean, notes the lively travel, drinking, and mischief, and promises retaliation when possible.
Paul Jaworski and Calvin James, notorious Pennsylvania criminals, were executed in the electric chair at Rockview Penitentiary Bellefonte. Jaworski, linked to multiple killings, died four minutes after the chair's start. James was executed for the slaying of William Dunstan over a liquor debt.
Trial of Eli Chambers charged with selling liquor to two young men now jailed on the Indiana State Farm has been continued from next Wednesday to February 14 in the Putnam Circuit Court. Chambers, convicted in city court, appealed to the higher court. The postponement followed a petition by Mrs. Chambers with a doctor’s certificate noting locomotor ataxia.
Alva E. Lisby as county treasurer and Anna Miller serving as clerk in store are residents of Fillmore referenced in the county records.
Dr F N Wright, a Stilesville physician, suffered a fractured skull and severe wounds when his Ford coupe plunged from a washed out bridge into Dorsett creek near Eminence during heavy rain. He extricated himself, sought help from Joe Anderson, and was taken to Stilesville then Indianapolis hospital with serious injuries.
Trials of Gilbert Patterson and C. W. Tribby for assault and battery before Justice Robert H. New were continued from Monday to Wednesday at 10 o'clock. Tribby retains attorney John H. James and Patterson seeks counsel with Theodore Crawley expected to represent him.
The Greencastle group hosts the Baptist Men’s Association of Cos. churches including Greencastle Plainfield Amo Clayton Coatesville Stilesville Fillmore and Big Walnut Tuesday evening January 22 from 6 30 to 9 30 with about ninety five to one hundred men expected. A 6 30 supper precedes music by DePauw students and a Japan Hawaii trio. Rev W H McLean will speak on Human Values.
Unsettled forecast with rain or snow in the north and rain in the south beginning late tonight or Tuesday. Temperatures rise slowly tonight and fall Tuesday, with colder air to the north and elsewhere mild.
Dr. Overstreet and county nurse Miss Carol Shoultz examined third ward school children on Monday. A full report on the physical condition of these children will be sent to parents next week.
Four Indiana junior high basketball teams Spencer Brazil Crawfordsville and Greencastle meet in a blind tourney this Saturday afternoon and evening. Afternoon games at 2 and 3 pm. Night games at 7 and 8 pm. Winners receive a silver basketball trophy.
The Indiana General Assembly debates higher road funds and tax changes. Proposals include raising the gasoline levy to 4 or 5 cents per gallon and boosting truck license fees, plus a plan to rent built highways to the state to speed completion. A budget bill would fund surveys of state penal institutions and set a 1 percent state tax levy for building needs. Labor and farm groups form an alliance backing a joint legislative program.
J C Bottum of the Purdue University farm management department and County Agent R H Stevenson work in Putnam County this week to close year two and begin year three of the farm record program. Books, supplied by Purdue, guide farmers in tracking earnings and expenditures with individual visits and instructions rather than meetings.
From the files of the Herald Greencastle notes Bar Association opposition to a Senate Royce bill creating a joint Clay and Putnam counties judicial district. Also mentioned is Greencastle's new string quartet with members Barton Shipley Frank Bittles Eugene Kellar and Elmer Long.
Commission to issue orders pertain ing to the health comfort and safety of employer of utilities. Free textbooks for school children and ratification of the child labor amendment pensions for the aged and blind state operated industrial insurance five sixths or three fourths jury verdict law in civil suits.
The public service commission approved the sale of small telephone firms to the Standard Telephone Company of Logansport. The merger groups include Royal Center Greentown Greenfield Greencastle Attica Putnam and Steuben counties Waynetown Logansport and exchanges at Walson Galveston New Waverly Young America and Lucerne. The $1 060 000 first mortgage bond issue and 1 000 no par value shares are part of the plan. No money changes hands and operations will run as a unit to reduce costs. Completion is expected in two to three months with detailed hearings and appraiser reports referenced.
In Marion Indiana three youths Jewel Todd 15 Myron Todd 16 and Daily Officer 16 died after their rowing boat struck a bridge abutment in the Mississinewa River and overturned as they sought a view of an ice jam. Harry Reese 16 survived by swimming to shore. Police continued search efforts.
Roy O. West of Chicago, president of the DePauw University trustees, was confirmed by the Senate as Secretary of the Interior after a lengthy Progressive challenge. Opponents claimed his ties to Samuel Insull ally Samuel Tweall justified blocking the nomination. Coolidge pressed for a resolution and the Senate approved the appointment.
New York readers may enter for a $25,000 prize funded by William Randolph Hearst for the best temperance substitute for national prohibition. Entries must be original single articles up to 1000 words. One entry per person. Mail postmarked by April 30, 1920.
W. L. Denman a prominent Democrat and former Green Castle Postmaster is named as a potential Greencastle mayoral candidate for the spring primary. Friends say he would be strong. Several Republicans are also mentioned but not yet declared. Mayor Charles McGaughey says he does not seek the post though he may be drafted.
Lloyd Nelson cashier of the First National Bank of Milroy surrendered after two weeks missing. He is in Milroy conferring with bank officials as two grand jury indictments accuse him of embezzling nearly $20,000 following examiner findings of shortages in big ace accounts.
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