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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
1
Nearly 300 Greencastle people attended the Union Chapel Church ice cream festival on Thursday evening. An orderly long line of cars stretched to the roadside as attendees made the enjoyable trip with no mishaps.
Nearly three hundred Greencastle residents attended the Union Chapel event near Morton on Thursday evening. About 65 Greencastle machines joined the trip, with no mishaps reported. The crowd praised the band and the music, and tables for the musicians were filled with ice cream and cake. The festival drew hundreds, with six long tables occupied, and the organizers forecast a nice profit though exact figures were not estimated. Roads were muddy from a Thursday rain, and travelers returned via Bain Bridge Road due to local repairs.
Israel Brown, an escaped inmate from a State Farm prison, was captured in Anderson. Deputy Sheriff Howard Harris took Brown into custody and he will be held in the local jail until the fall term of court, when he faces a 2 to 5 year sentence in the State Prison.
Mr and Mrs Thomas Scoggins of Nashville Tennessee conclude a visit with Mr and Mrs J P D John and Mr and Mrs T P Woodson. They will drive with friends from Indianapolis to their home visiting Mammoth Cave along the way.
Illinois announces a new marriage license rule to stop couples from other states from obtaining licenses in Illinois. Indiana county clerks were notified that residents of other states cannot wed in Illinois under the measure, ending secret elopement options once used in Edgar county.
Mrs J B Marsh prominent young woman of this community died at the home of her father in law in Danville this morning at 2 o clock after a two months illness of tuberculosis.
Edith Stroube Marsh wife of Julius B. Marsh died after two months of tuberculosis at the Danville home of her father-in-law. She leaves a husband and six month old daughter Ardith. Funeral Sunday at 2 PM at the Bartley home with Rev. Beck. burial Boone cemetery near Hamrick Station. She was twenty three, a Greencastle High School alumna and a niece to the Torr family. Her death follows two prior family losses in eighteen months.
Northern Indiana couple donates twenty five thousand dollars to the university's permanent endowment fund. Company secretary Wade DePauw reports the sizable gift as a lasting contribution to campus resources.
Dr. C U Wade announces a $25,000 gift to DePauw University endowment from a northern Indiana couple. The donors request anonymity, so their names are not publicly released. The gift boosts the endowment fund's size.
Albert Grissom of Cloverdale preserves a Ben Davis apple from 1913 in perfect condition. The fruit, grown in Wm. Mosers orchard three miles northeast of Cloverdale, has been stored untouched on a shelf and will be two years old this fall.
Mrs. Frank Darnell presents a 6 by 12 foot American flag to DePauw University through President George R. Grose. The flag, once given to the late Darnell after service as United Counsel to Mexico in 1898, will be unfurled on July 4 from the campus flag staff. J. K. Jeffries of the T H IL E Traction lines visited on business.
Mrs. Zimmerman of Silver Lake Indiana has been in town for several days visiting her son Robert Zimmer.
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