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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1929
Page
2
Local residents return from visits to French Lick Dallas Indianapolis and Banff Canada. News notes report guests at Greencastle Gosport and Spencer plus new car delivery and a trust company paying estate claims. The Dutch rains worry farmers as corn and wheat needs plowing and haying.
Washington township 4-H club girls perform the play Clubbing A Husband at Reelsville High School Friday at 8 PM July 12. The cast includes Mrs Blanche Newman Mrs Henrietta Ashton Miss Lorene Hutcheson and several others with music provided. admission is 15 cents and all are invited.
The Northern Indiana Public Service Company and Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company filed petitions with the public service commission seeking to issue and sell 15 million dollars in 40 year first and refunding gold bonds at not more than 5 percent interest. They also seek 7.5 million dollars in first lien and refunding mortgage bonds at 6 percent to be pledged as collateral. The two firms, merged three years ago, intend to use proceeds to reimburse treasury capital expenditures and finance future additions, with the Greencastle Gas and Electric Light Company owned by the PSCo.
A 12 year old boy Leslie Gott drowns at Lafayette Country Club pool while swimming alone. The body was found by Henry Winters. The incident marks the eighth Indiana drowning this week. Local court suit filed in Putnam Circuit Court seeks 75 dollars. City council plans regular meeting at 7 30 pm to elect a school board member and hear objections to paving Bloomington and Vine streets.
Fanny Tree, eight years bedridden by spinal curvature from infantile paralysis, graduates from Public School 116 annex at Bellevue Hospital in New York. She received her diploma bedside after a ceremony attended by family, nurses, social workers, and twenty classmates. The event marked a poignant milestone as her brother Morris also graduates from Thomas Jefferson High School.
The Chicago to Berlin aircraft Antin Bowler reportedly has been unable to report its position for 48 hours after takeoff. Pilot Parker Cramer and copilot Robert Gast are unaccounted for while radio signals ceased and search plans for an amphibian aircraft circulated.
Twenty one officers and seamen are missing and believed dead after a collision between British submarines H-47 and L-12 off St David's Head in St George's Channel. The H-47 sank, lying 50 fathoms deep, with salvage planned. L-12 is a 1000 ton craft.
Six sailors were killed and four injured when the boiler exploded twenty miles off Cape Penas. The incident occurred aboard the S S Alicantina, news from Madrid reported.
Washington July 9 Two vacancies remain on President Hoover's federal farm board after William F Schilling of Minnesota accepted a dairy industry seat He is president of the Twin City Milk Producers Association The two remaining spots are expected to be filled this week The first board meeting is set for July 15.
Mr and Mrs Cannon return from a two week wedding trip to Canada New York and Washington DC and reside at 112 Bloomington Street. Gertrude Anderson and Harry Robert Payne wed in Brazil with DePauw ties. Various clubs plan picnics meetings and civic events with local officials and residents noted.
In Los Angeles a 24 year old woman, Mrs Josephine Valenti, confessed she touched a match to her eight month old baby's clothing in a carriage in the yard while she chatted inside with her mother in law. She said poverty forced the act claiming she could not afford nursery care and saw it as a solution.
The heavyweight wrestling championship will be decided tonight at Fenway Park as Gus Sonnenberg faces Ed Strangler Lewis. Sonnenberg, the present world heavyweight champ and ex Dartmouth football star, and Lewis, former titleholder, meet in a high stakes match.
Hogs 200 lbs and up steady as underweights higher. bulk 160-250 lbs 11.90 to 12.10 with tops to 12.15. Cattle generally steady. top steers 16.25, several loads above 15. Wealers 16.50 down. Sheep and lambs steady. top lambs 15, bulk 13.50 to 15. Fat ewes 4.50 to 6.50.
King George may need a second minor operation for an unhealed abscess sinus on the right chest. He passed a comfortable night, yet the health report surprised the nation after Westminster Abbey Thanksgiving for his recovery from a serious illness last winter.
Smothering heat enveloped New York City and the Atlantic coast today causing numerous prostrations and seven deaths. Thunder showers this morning failed to ease suffering in crowded apartment buildings and tenement houses.
J J Kauble local meat market owner will open a milk pasteurizing plant at 5 East Columbia Street in the former John Leaning building. The building, leased today by Mrs Jennie R John for five years, had been vacant since the John cleaning plant merged with Reliable Cleaners. The plant will source milk from nearby dairies and supply Kauble Meat Market.
Laura Weaver 230 pounds confessed slaying Wilmer Kitselman 52 by choking with his belt as he lay drunk. She wrapped the body, burned it with kerosene, and disposed of it in a deserted spot. Weaver seeks a doctor for alleged pains and noises in her ears amid arraignment on first degree murder charges.
William T. Wallace a 30 year old school teacher of St Charles Iik and Fern E. Putt 26 a school teacher of Roachdale obtained a marriage license Irene Cherry of Detroit Michigan visiting relatives on west Walnut street is mentioned in connection with the locality
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