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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1922
Page
3
Local notices report a 7 30 pm prayer meeting at the Pointer home on Crown and Ohio streets and Locust street M E Church officials meeting at 7 30 pm in the Anderson street classroom.
Roy Earnest colored of north College Avenue was badly cut on the face when a taxi driven by George Humphreys collided with a machine driven by Cleve Thomas of Christie Thomas Company at Indiana and Poplar near six Sunday evening. Earnest rode in the rear seat and was cut by flying glass from the windshield. He was the only one seriously hurt. Dr. Tucker sewed the wound with eight stitches.
Otto O. Dobbs seeks the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. He was born in Mill Creek township and has lived in Greencastle for several years.
The present semester study program is complete and schedules have been signed for permanent filing by Principal Glidewell. Honor Rolls will be announced Wednesday morning. Several teachers and students have mild grippe, with many pupils absent due to the epidemic. Manners and Conduct textbooks go on sale tomorrow for fifteen cents, half funded by the G H S Athletic Association. The February high school picture show has moved to February 12 and 13 showing The Little Minister at Vita graph theatres.
Greencastle High School will dismiss on April 6 and resume April 10 for spring vacation. The South Central Indiana School Superintendent Research Club meets March 17 and 18 with sessions at the high school. Members will attend the Shelbyville Greencastle game that Friday night. Local players Black Taylor and Allen return from illness boosting prospects for the Putnam County tourney in DePauw gym next Saturday. Season tickets for the county tournament go on sale at the high school.
The Progress History Club meets Tuesday afternoon at Mrs. Eugene Hawkins home. Mrs. Richards will present the paper titled Noted Indiana Writers.
Yours for service. BICKNELL HARDWARE CO Henry Bicknell W P Bicknell.
Washington township Farmers Association hosts a free oyster supper Wednesday evening February 1. Wanted man with car to sell low priced Graham tires offering 130 dollars per week plus commissions for Graham Tire Co located at 1030 Boulevard Benton Harbor Michigan.
Greencastle Indiana residents are told a stockholders meeting of The First National Bank of Greencastle is set for February 21 1922 at 2 p m at the bank offices to vote on ratifying the consolidation terms with Citizens National Bank of Greencastle and to conduct any lawful business. The notice is signed by President A G Brown and Cashier R E Brown.
Miss Larene Purcell daughter of Mr and Mrs Alva Purcell of near Belle Union has been released from Methodist Hospital Indianapolis after an appendicitis operation and returned home Sunday in Rector Brothers Ambulance.
Sheriff Lawrence Sears and four men captured two men and a Ford touring car with fifty gallons of liquor on the Ocean-to-Ocean Highway Saturday night. Arthur Eaton and James Davie, hired to haul the booze by an Indianapolis man known only as Big Dutch, pleaded guilty or claimed ignorance. Both released on $1,000 bonds. trial set for February 4 after postponement and a manhunt for Dutch.
Hog receipts reach 4500 with opening prices 9.10 to 9.65 per cwt up 10 to 15 cents. Pigs same as hogs, sows at 7.75, market clearances good, cattle steady, calves opened steady to strong with top veals at 14.00, sheep and lambs steady with top lambs at 13.50.
Green castle Ind Jan 30 Registration at DePauw University reached 1275 the largest enrollment since its founding. The college faces a busy basketball week with Detroit Junior College Butler College and Earlham on schedule. Coeds enjoyed a wireless recital and campus housing demand exceeds dormitory capacity with 245 applications for 240 beds.
Real estate transfers include Sarah FE Clift to Walter Wright for a two lot property in Fillmore at 650. Frank Roberts to Earl A Bunyan et al for a Greencastle lot at 3700. Hans Anderson to Frank Frazier for 80 acres in Monroe township at 1. A spark from the chimney caused a small hole in the Delta Zeta sorority house roof on east Hanna street. Fire department extinguished the flames with the chemical tank. damage was slight. This is the second fire at the house in two months, a prior blaze noted mid December.
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