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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1928
Page
1
SAY! recounts light local anecdotes from February including a New Year resolution mishap on ice, a student with pink eye, license date reminders, a basketball note about Rushville High, and a court house cleaning plea. It mixes opinion, humor, and city scenes with brief police impressions and a corky traffic tale.
Central message urges merchants to continually advertise to grow business. It argues newspaper ads create goodwill, attract customers, and sustain success. Emphasizes timely, persistent ad campaigns as essential to staying in business.
Charles Stretch Murphy, Purdue University basketball center, requires two upper berths on road trips. Coach Lambert notes he is too big for a lower and needs the partition down to rest well. Purdue has not yet lost in the Big Ten Conference due to Murphy's scoring.
Indianapolis January 27 Special Roads once soft and damaged by heavy loads are freezing firm again as cold weather returns. John D Williams director of the state highway department urges public caution in hauling heavy loads and warns of thawing roads turning soft overnight. Traffic should avoid new pavement and soft shoulders remain a real hazard until berms are finished in early spring.
F W White of Waveland Indiana died in a railroad crossing crash near Dayton southeast of Lafayette. He owned a farm south of Waveland and had earlier lived in New Market and Russellville. He is survived by five children and was married to Cora Yount who died years ago.
Sunrise is at 6 58 and sunset at 4 58 with a forecast of fair skies and a drop in temperatures.
Indiana observers expect Thomas H. Adams veteran editor of the Vincennes Commercial to announce a bid for the Republican nomination for governor. Known as Old Tom Adams he helped lead a clean up that resulted in indictments of 16 public officials and is seen as entering a bitter Hoosier campaign with allies such as Taylor E. Groninger.
State high school inspector John Hussey visits Putnam County schools. All but Clinton Center gain continuous commission. Clinton Center earns one year commission with possible renewal after recommendations. Reelsville Cloverdale and Belle Union also placed on continuous commission. County Superintendent John Vermillion accompanies the inspection team.
The Navy dirigible Los Angeles departed Lakehurst New Jersey at 3 55 am on a training flight commanded by Lieutenant Commander C E Rosendahl. It carried 47 officers and men including Commander Garland Fulton of Washington. He previously flew from Germany to the United States aboard the ship. Riga January 27 The Soviet government announced drastic measures to speed grain supplies and executed Leonid Novikoff a thief in the graf department of the trans Caucasian trade commissariat without trial. He was shot by the G U the Soviet secret police for enabling private traders to buy grain from peasants dislocating the Soviet trade organization.
In Mexico City over 300 Roman Catholics were arrested in three days on charges of spreading seditious propaganda and running secular schools. Most faces only fines. In Indiana, John Hershman, son of state highway commissioner George Hershman, is in critical condition after a 20 foot fall from a tree fracturing his skull.
C C Gillen, local attorney, spoke to high school students during the regular chapel period Friday morning. The pep session before games was dispensed with due to the death of Mrs Bausman’s parents. Gillen delivered an encouraging talk on athletics.
Los Angeles January 27 defense lawyers indicate nine of twelve jurors tentatively chosen for the Hickman Marion Parker kidnapping murder trial would be removed by per emtory challenges at resumption today. Eleven of the fourteen seated yesterday had been passed by both sides and the defense chief urged a fair panel despite press and radio accounts. Hickman slept eight hours after a tense court session on jury selection.
Green castle won the local affirmative at Crawfordsville while the Crawfordsville negative team won at home. Debaters included Ernest Boyd Dwight Dodson Maurice Bratton Muriel Todd Glen Woodrum Kenneth Evans Pauline Hostetter Martha Shannon Victor Boesen with judges Professor Harold Rows and local officials. Estate matters issued letters of administration for Elizabeth B. Hammond and David Kennedy.
George W. Christie aged 66 died after a seven week illness from kidney trouble. Survived by widow Minnie Grush Christie two daughters Mrs Amos Harvey and Mrs Frank Draper a son John and a Hartford City brother Frank all of Danville. Funeral tomorrow afternoon at his East Broad Way home with burial in East Cemetery. Christie a DePauw University 1885 graduate.
Bloomington dispatch reports Charles F. Benzel of Indiana University bureau of business research forecasting continued good times for Indiana in December 1927. He notes automobile plants expanding, stone mills full time, iron and steel output rising, and new building projects progressing during milder winter spells.
Police hunted the author of a death threat left at Roy Macey's home on Delaware Street. Nurse Ethel Wilson found a note on the porch reading Beware death lurks at your door Tonight you shall witness the power of the Invisible realm The Evening Phantom.
Preparatory students from DePauw School of Music present a Saturday afternoon program at Music Hall starting 4 P.M. The recital includes duets, solos, piano pieces, violin, and vocal numbers performed by students such as Gansehals, Livsey, Orton, Lytle, Jones, and many others with pieces ranging from classical etudes to dances and songs.
At Wabash Indiana on January 26 police arrested Fred Dewey 38 after a chief recognized a familiar face while walking. Dewey sought in Terre Haute on a wife and child desertion charge. Local officers compared the man to old warrants before authorities from Terre Haute arrived for custody.
Greencastle hosts the Putnam County basketball tourney with eight teams entered except Greencastle and Bainbridge. Saturday morning features four preliminaries: Reelsville vs Clinton Center, Cloverdale vs Russellville, Roachdale vs Fillmore, Belle Union vs Putnamville. Afternoon and night sessions determine advancing winners to the title game.
Tres sa Surber, 16, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ed Surber in Waveland Indiana is stricken with infantile paralysis. The home is quarantined and students who visited there are barred from school.
The Democratic Club hosts its January gathering Saturday at 2 PM in the Law Library Court House. The Honorable James P. Hughes is slated to speak to attendees.
The Phi Gamma Delta local chapter receives the Cheney Cup for meeting fraternity standards and leading in campus scholarship. Lambda chapter tops the list, with Iowa State and Washington chapters in second and third, and other schools cited for honorable mention.
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