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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1915
Page
1
Darsee Club secures charter of Lambda Chi Alpha installation of chapter on Saturday afternoon. Eighteen charter members. Darsee was founded in June 1912.
The Darsee Club at DePauw becomes Xi Zeta of Lambda Chi Alpha during a Saturday installation led by Ernest J. C. Fischer. Lambda Chi Alpha, founded at Boston University, now has eighteen chapters with Xi Zeta at DePauw as the latest. A banquet at the Martha Washington Tea Room celebrated the event with toasts and color themed decorations.
The text lists initiated members including Paul Bickle Louis Butler Fred Butler Floyd Chapman Russel Jantz Clifton Pond Raymond and Orville Steward.
Kin Hubbard of Abe Martin fame is fond of country sausage. While visiting William Jackson in Monroe Township, Hubbard’s passion led Jackson to Greencastle with a basket of fresh sausage. Jackson plans to take it to Indianapolis, and Hubbard will likely have sausage and buckwheat cakes for breakfast tomorrow.
Indiana volunteers and residents contributed 4 651 barrels to the Belgian relief movement while Minnesota led states with 16 835 barrels. The dispatch notes Minnesota’s larger aid output and underscores Indiana’s charitable effort in the nationwide relief drive.
PaUw graduate declines a lucrative appointment, choosing to remain in ministerial work despite an attractive offer from the PRR.
The Northwestern Miller thanks contributors to the Belgian Relief fund. It praises millers who led efforts, newspapers that aided, subscribers who funded flour conversion, and agents who joined the movement. It prays divine blessing on all and hopes the generosity returns bountifully. Minneapolis, Minn. January 16, 1915.
Rev. John G. Benson of First Methodist Church in Brazil declines a one year $10,000 chautauqua contract, prefers ongoing preaching vocation, and will stay in Brazil until his sense of duty calls him elsewhere. His wife approves, and a friend disclosed the offer and Benson's decision. Benson is a DePauw and Boston Theological School alumnus. Mrs. Benson was Miss Henriette Jordan of Greencastle. Read Bulletin No. 19. Buy bananas by the bunch. See Wetz. adv.
Indiana contributed 4651 barrels of flour to the Belgian Relief Fund and ranked second among states in total supplies to the destitute. Greencastle led towns of its size with 92 barrels, part of 38 Indiana cities contributing before December 28. Plus, DePauw pitcher Winfield E. Sisson faces possible ineligibility for paid play, prompting an I C A L review and potential removal from intercollegiate competition. Arthur Hamrick and Forrest Cooper returned to Indianapolis after legislature duties.
A deep cold snap brings fresh snowfall as temperatures plunge to a yearly low. Readings drop to 12 below zero at several stations Saturday evening into Sunday morning, marking the coldest start to the year.
A Sunday morning report shows readings from 12 below to 13 below with an average near 10 below. The cold wave follows last week’s heavy snow and brings a real winter feel to Greencastle. Edward Scott and wife Beile Union welcomed a son named Edwin Eugene Scott last week.
We thank friends and neighbors for kindness in illness and death of our husband and father Rev Hootman and choir members for the church services Mrs Theodore Hutcheson Mr and Mrs Charles Wendel The Art Needle Work Club meets with Mrs Ernest Browning on Larrabee street Tuesday at 2 pm Twenty cent produce to five cents See Wetz for Fruits and Vegetables adv
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