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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1929
Page
1
A serialized column remarks on city election chatter around Mayor Me ghey and local figures such as Bill Den and Charles McGaughey. It follows a mock campaign tone about ambitious sidewalk tallness as civic boast and parodic reflection on urban pride and politics.
Two 15 year old girls from Richmond left home on Monday morning with 2.10 dollars and rode the National road to Clayton before ending up in Hendricks county jail. Aldaretta Garrison and Dorothy Jane Frazier were jailed by Sheriff Bert Shane after running away over school and parental friction. Their parents retrieved them and brought them back to Richmond on Tuesday.
Five councilmen chose Otto F. Lakin by secret ballot to fill the unexpired term of Frank Allee. Lakin, a Greencastle undertaker, will serve until January 1, 1930 and may seek re election next fall. He will likely attend the February 12 meeting. salary is $106 annually.
Levi Louderback former chief of detectives for the Pennsylvanian railroad St. Louis division and former Brazil city marshal announces candidacy for mayor on the Republican ticket. He enters public service after rising to detective chief and marshalling Brazil.
Thomas Duncan 63 renowned electrical inventor and president of Duncan Electric Manufacturing Company died of a heart attack in Los Angeles after a weeklong illness. He is credited as a founder of the electric meter industry in the United States and was a leading figure in Lafayette Ind. industry.
Mrs. O S Wagner aged 66 wife of a Johnson county farmer and mother of Ernest Griz Wagner Franklin college basketball coach died at her Franklin home after a seven year illness. Funeral services are scheduled for tomorrow afternoon.
President-elect Herbert Hoover began a month of seclusion on Belle Isle in Biscayne Bay Miami Beach. He will largely rest and ponder policy data gathered after talks with Washington politicians. A guard-protected Penney estate retreat offers quiet, with plans for fishing and private contemplation.
In southern Monroe county near the county line, 26 year old farmer Byron Barrett drowned when attempting to cross Salt Creek with a horse and buggy. His body was pulled from the water after the incident with his father-in-law Homer McKnight rescued but exposed to the cold. Barrett’s body carried heavy hip boots.
Leslie T. Frank age 18 a mechanic of Clinton Falls and Frances Lucille Hinkle age 16 at home Greencastle filed for a marriage license with parental consent.
Emerson G. Greffard aged 44 of ten miles northwest of Crawfordsville was found dead under his wrecked car west of Covington. He was en route from his home to Danville Illinois when the vehicle skidded on ice, hit a telephone pole and overturned. Surviving: widow and 11 year old son Byron. Coroner Newport to conduct inquest in Vermillion County.
The trial of five bandits Geo Wetherington Walter Wilson Logan Mains and Jesse Squires for first degree murder in the death of Arlie Bryant is postponed due to illness of their appointed attorney Omar O Horrow. They seek own counsel and the case will proceed at an early date in Morgan County jail.
Elwood Pollom a Manhattan youth is charged with manslaughter in the death of Clarence Gilbert owner of Brazil filling station. The case stems from a fatal crash on the National Road west of Brazil found by the Clay County grand jury and scheduled for trial in the Clay County circuit court on February 25.
Twenty years ago in Greencastle Theodore Bales accepted a position in the real estate and insurance department of Central Trust Co. to succeed A. F. E. Harris. Miss Margaret Baker and others traveled to Indianapolis to see Romeo and Juliet. Mr. and Mrs. E. Hume of Stilesville and E. F. B. Hume of Garber, Oklahoma, returned home after visiting A. Kelly and family. Miss Mabel Lawton entertained friends last night.
In Indianapolis the legislature opens a perennial fight to curb utility expansions and rate hikes. Sen Robert Moorhead and Rep from Indianapolis propose bills to place foreign owned companies under Public Service Commission supervision and repeal the Neads law allowing appellate court review of rate orders. The reform group also seeks use of the commission profits for hiring specialists.
In Dayton, four people died when a coupe carrying two men and two young women was struck by a Big Four passenger train. Albert Ingleman 25 Charles Walker 18 Efe Powers 21 Ruth Somers 18 were killed. The couple had likely just left a dance and crowding may have obscured the driver's view.
The Oxford Fellowship of DePauw University will host a Thursday night meeting featuring Rabbi Milton Steinberg of Bethel Temple Indianapolis as the guest speaker. The fellowship gathers students preparing for the ministry.
Indiana motor police chief Robert Humes warns all motorists that 1929 license plates must be attached by February 1 or drivers will be arrested on sight. The alert urges immediate compliance to avoid penalties.
Fair tonight with colder air in the east. Thursday brings increasing cloudiness followed by snow. Relief from cold is expected later in the period.
G Bromley Oxnam president of DePauw university will give the principal address at the Hoosier Salon Patrons Association opening in Marshall Field & Co Chicago galleries from January 26 to February 13. John C Shaffer editor of The Indianapolis Star serves as association president. A $200 prize for best painting by an Indiana artist is funded by Mrs Edward Rector, a benefactor of DePauw, first awarded in 1925 before Rector's death.
The Greencastle city council met in regular session to convert a $10 deposit from Daniel C. Brackney to the general fund and authorize payment of a $500 claim for Indiana street, plus an $8,872.25 corrected certificate to A E B Dorsey for final payment on the same project. Miss Laura Sheridan was approved to seek reimbursement for cement sidewalk costs after the city repaired her earlier work. The light committee favors a street light at the William Morgan corner, and the taxi war in Greencastle was discussed with no action.
Dr. F N Wright of Stilesville remained in serious condition Tuesday night after an automobile crash near Eminence Morgan county Saturday. At Indiana Christian hospital in Indianapolis it was reported he was scalped with a deep facial wound and had a fractured rib a lacerated knee severed eyelid and other injuries.
Champaign police hold Ray mond Harris alias John Robinson a Black man awaiting Indiana state penal farm authorities. Harris escaped from the farm several days ago and is held pending transfer.
Bellevue Ohio reports the worst motor bus disaster as 19 people die after a Greyhound Coach collided with a Lake Shore electric car. Among the dead are Bela Theiss and Richard Freeman, with four white men and a Black woman remaining unidentified. Several injured are listed from Detroit Cleveland and nearby towns.
The Herald, via its link with International News Service, was the first Greencastle paper to publish news of the Ohio bus crash that killed 19 people.
The home of Arthur Wade in Danville Indiana was robbed at noon today while the family was away. Items taken include shirts pants an overcoat dresses night clothes kitchen utensils rugs bed spreads pillow cases four rings a watch and other articles. Foot prints of a man and a woman were found on the porch.
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