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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1915
Page
1
New liability law demands consideration as employers of all kinds must make provisions to access the new Indiana Workmen's Compensation Act. The measure is considered a wise step in legislation with two exceptions noted.
Indiana employers must decide whether to insure or face a state board to cover employee injuries under the new Workmen's Compensation Act, effective September 1. The law limits lawsuits, sets damages by injury type and duration, and provides benefits to dependents in fatalities.
The Central Trust Company advertises ready to issue a policy covering the Indiana Workmen's Compensation Act for employers. It invites inquiries and offers to provide premium estimates, with a telephone contact at 121.
An appreciative audience heard the music pupils of Miss Jessie Gill in a piano recital at the teacher s home in Cloverdale. The Belle Union and Cloverdale classes participated with pleasing performances including duets and solos by Lucile Prichard Leola Waitz Vivian Vaughn Reba Jones Averil Hurst Freda McCammack Rosalee Dobbs Georgia Rockwell Davie Wright Elma Wallace Charlotte Jones Ethel Cummings and others. The program listed pieces such as Golden Locks Duett and Spinning Wheel with various students performing under Miss Gill a DePauw University graduate.
Members of the Greencastle Organization accompanied by the Greencastle Band will travel to North Putnam Town next Thursday evening to attend a church festival.
The Greencastle Booster Club agrees to visit Fincastle on Thursday night July 15 for a festival similar to the Union Chapel event. An executive meeting accepted the invitation and formed a committee to arrange the raid. The Greencastle band will provide music while boosters with cars are urged to join with band members for the trip. Isaac Peck sold his 240 acre Jasper county farm for 14000 after four years of ownership.
State Farm prisoner killed by a bolt of lightning identified today as the inmate who entered the institution under an assumed name after an Indianapolis woman alerted local officers.
Indiana woman identifies the State Farm inmate killed by a lightning strike as A. H. Knipper of Indianapolis, who used the alias Harry Webber to enter Terre Haute and later the State Farm. Officers confirmed scars and a gold tooth matching the description, and await Mrs Knipper to claim the body.
Former Terre Haute mayor Donn Roberts serving a federal sentence at Leavenworth Kansas for election fraud is reportedly in solitary confinement after an attack on a Chinaman worker in the laundry department. John H Crall of the Terre Haute Indiana Traction Co visited to tend farming and orchard interests with a Putnam county fruit farm noted as a local booster.
A quirky admonition urges sellers to avoid natural settings and use the press or exchange to market goods. It warns animals may observe or dine, implying wildlife distracts from selling and promotes using newspapers or exchanges for ads.
Dave Wallace of Mill Creek township suffered a heavy loss in the Wednesday flood with 128 hogs drowned. His bottom lands crops were badly damaged in the same event.
A Coatesville resident reports his small car tied to be dogged by a passerby. The dog, believing a can was tied to its tail, bolted home, causing no injuries beyond a sore spot on the tail.
Reese Matson, formerly of this town and now in Chicago, is due Sunday for a lengthy visit. His father Col. C. C. Matson may join him. Reese will spend most of his stay at the Green Castle camp at Eel River Falls.
The City Council will hold a special meeting tonight to take final action on accepting the Green Castle improvement from the contractors.
A special city council meeting is set for this evening to decide whether to accept the recently completed sewer system by Foulkes Contracting Co of Terre Haute. Councilmen expect acceptance. Company president George Foulkes and superintendent Mr. Harris will attend to oversee finishing details. The assessment roll showing sewer taxes for each property in the district will take several days to complete, per Mayor Walter Cooper.
Fragmentary lines evoke a muddled verse about scale and impact. The speaker contrasts a larger yet not large head with a small welt, noting 97 and blue blazes as a punchy rhymed obstacle, then refers to the resultant rub.
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