Greencastles Big Fourth a Great Celebration of Veterans
Greencastle marked a strong Fourth of July with speeches by Rev. A M Hootman and W P Evans, a Greencastle Choral Club concert, an American Legion Band performance, and a two hour fireworks show. Highlights included foxhound prizes, baking contests, and a large audience at Northwood Park with talks on democracy and national heritage. The day featured patriotic addresses by local officials and a night fireworks display drawing the largest crowd of the events.
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Greencastle
A. M. Hootman
W. P. Evans
American Legion
Dean
Crawfordsville
Greencastle American Legion Post
Putnam County Fish and Game Association
Northwood Park
Legion Band
Greencastle Choral Club
C. W. Otis
C. Elmer Crawley
Perry Rush
Hootman
Putnam County
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Legion
Hutcheson Reunion Held At Prof. Ogg Home
Hutcheson family members gathered today at the South Locust Street home of Professor R A Ogg for a reunion. Mrs Ogg and Mrs George N Logan are daughters of the late Rev F A Hutcheson, long time Indiana Methodist Conference member. Most immediate family attended. Miss Ida Hutcheson was absent due to illness. Out of town guests included Grace Westfall and her sons Robert and Earl of Bloomington, Samuel Cook and daughter Doris Louise, Frankfort. Frank N Logan and Bobbie. and Joseph S Logan of Muncie.
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Hutcheson
R. A. Ogg
South Locust
Ogg
George N. Logan
F. A. Hutcheson
Indiana Methodist Conference
da Hutcheson
Grace Westfall
Robert and
Earl
Samuel Cook
Doris Louise
Bloomington
Frank N. Logan
Bobbie
Frankfort
Joseph S. Logan
Muncie
Miss Susie Hopwood Dies in California
Greencastle mourns as Miss Susie Hopwood longtime bookstore proprietor dies in California Miss Hopwood went to Long Beach last winter to visit relatives and died of typhoid fever The body will be brought home for burial accompanied by Miss Cora Shelton sister of Mrs R L OHair Will Cumback of Connerville is the only living relative of the Hopwood family
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Susie Hopwood
California
Cora Shelton
R. L. O'Hair
Hopwood
Long Beach
Will Cumback
Connereville
Greencastle
Miss
W. C. Hopwood
Marshall O'Hair Busts Crap Game Under Vandalia Tank
At six o clock Saturday evening Marshall O H air received a tip of a full grown craps session under the stock chute near the Vandalia water tank. He went alone and flushed the craps table seizing the dice money left by players as they fled. He identified several participants and affidavits will be filed.
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Marshall O’hair
Vandalia
Pluyers
Legion Wins Twelves Inning Ball Game
Greencastle Post No. 58 American Legion defeated the Dean Specials of Crawfordsville 5 to 4 in twelve innings at McKeen Field. Joe Sullivan drove in the decisive run after Hanna lined a single to right in the twelfth. Welch and Thomas contributed the first two Legion tallies, as both teams traded runs through the late innings.
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Greencastle Post
American Legion
Dean Specials
Crawfordsville
Keen Field
Joe Sullivan
Hanna —Loach Walker
DE Pauw
Legion
Greencastle
McKeen
Pullen
Clemons
Ingersol
Joe Sulivan
Hanna
Walker
DePauw
Sullivan
Pariy
Welch
Thomas
Short
Clemens
Coach Walker
Dean Special Rally Sparks Tie Then Legion Win
Welch leads a chaotic late rally as errors and steals push Dee and Legion to a 4 4 tie after nine. In the twelfth, Hanna's sensational catch and Walker’s six innings of smart pitching lift the Legion to victory over the DePauw Dean Specials with key hits from Ramsey and Ingersoll.
Pitching duel headlines seven inning heroics in Crawfordsville clash
Walker earns praise for six strong innings as the Legion beat the Dean Specials 5 to 4 at McKeenfield. Pulon works 12 innings for Dean, while both lineups feature standout plays and refined fielding. Umpires Ed Sering and James Moran officiated the game.
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Dean
Mercury's Fourth of July heat record noted
The article reports extremely high temperatures over the holiday weekend with the government thermometer peaking at 94 degrees on Sunday and Monday. It notes 88 degrees at 7 am Monday and noon readings reaching 94 degrees, describing Sunday and Monday as scorching and hot overall.
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Mercury
Mrs Margaret L Smith Dies In Marion Township
Mrs Margaret L Smith aged 73 wife of Abraham B Smith died near 7 o clock this morning at her home in Marion township one and a half miles east of Fillmore death attributed to dropsy and heart trouble Funeral services set for Thursday at the Fillmore Christian church Survived by seven children Sirus A Smith Mrs Ethel Walker Ernest R Smith Mrs Laura Johnson Ruben C Smith Mrs Davie Williamson and Mrs Zora F Storm Park Bryan and an Overland car involved in a collision east of town on the Washington street pike Sunday evening with further damage Monday when another car backing into the Bryan vehicle at the picnic grounds bent a fender fires later disrupted power to Greencastle cutting Clinton power plant lines leaving lights out about thirty minutes
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Margaret L Smith
Abraham B. Smith
Marion Township
Fillmore
Filmore
Cloverdale
Davie Williamson
Zora F. Storm
Park Bryan
Putnamville
Kinsey Tucker
Washington Street Pike
Bryan
Baney Family A Fourth of July Visit at Kentland
Mr and Mrs Irwin Baney and their son from Kentland were Fourth of July guests of Mrs Baneyls parents Mr and Mrs Emily Biennard and Mr and Mrs William Baney.
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Irwin Baney
Kentland
Mr Baneyls
Andm
Emily Biennard
William Baney
Fox hound show caps Fourth of July program at North Wood Park
Prizes awarded by Captain H H Talbott of Cloverdale who served as sole judge for the fox hound show. Top awards go to Lloyd Blue and Walter Masten, with multiple prizes for hounds and a bread baking contest won by Maxine Duell. Children prizes and a mother’s contest also noted, funds allocated to the Children’s Milk Fund and a few events canceled.
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H. H. Talbott
CrawfordsviLle
North Wood Park
Talbott
George Starney
Greencastle
Rockville
Lloyd Blue
Cloverdale
Walter Masten
Fillmore
H. Grimes
Harry Bond
Reelsville
Maxine Duell
Hamrick Station
J. P. Allen Jr
William Pollard
Chilqg Welfare Committee
Children’s Milk Fund
William Feld
Matt Murphy
Charles Goodman
No Fires on Fourth in Grencastle Historical Record
Grencastle observes a safe Fourth as far back as records show no fires on July Fourth. In 1917 no runs occurred and in 1920 an automobile fire on the evening of July 3 called out the fire department with only minor damage reported.
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Grencastle
Grencastl
Friewo.ks
Book of Records
Seven year old burned by firecracker accident at home
Charles Davis, seven, visiting Mrs. Sable McNeely, was burned on the face when a firecracker exploded in his hand Monday afternoon. Eyelashes burned, nose and upper lip scorched. eye escape serious injury. He picked up the firecracker after lighting the fuse, thinking it would not explode. The accident followed.
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Charles Davis
Sable McNeely
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