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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1928
Page
2
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Scene from a Warner Bros. film piece set in the Tenderloin district shows Chuck and Rose intertwined in a violent plot. A bank robbery unfolds with Sparrow and Mug as criminals pursued by police while Rose plans escape amid a rain soaked night.
REELSVILLE updates show Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Smith visiting Indianapolis. Clint Rogers buys a new Essex coupe. Miss Sarah Elizabeth Burks of Batavia Illinois visits her aunt. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Aker of Brazil visit his mother Martha Aker. The Hill family visit Harvey Butts in Staunton. Nablys of Denver visit Belle and Kate Reel and plan Chicago trip. Foxes spend Sunday in Greencastle visiting Essie Benefiel. Bests visit William Trent’s. Fruit prospects are discouraging with scarce apples though peaches grapes pears remain. Dance at Rocky Fork. tent revival discussed. Rev. Eilis to preach next Sunday. Johns reunion at Fred Johns home. Bain siblings visit A. J. Johnson in Green Castle. Storm damage from wind includes roof loss at Carey Dillinger’s and barn damage. new house planned. Wrights and Irwins travel to Lafayette for Purdue poultry stock. Marshall and Johnston to Kansas harvest. Mrs. Marshall hosts Mrs. Johnston in their absence. Wrights and Elling visit Cloverdale for church. Irwin and White families hold July 4 reunion. Johns and Roberts visit Fred Johns. Ward Lovett returns from California. Griders attend funeral of niece Mrs. Lee Witted at Union Chapel. Katherine Grider not well. Ida Putt preparing for hospital retreatment.
Mrs Eva Nicoson of Brazil visits friends in the area this week. Predestinarian Baptists held an all day meeting at Little Walnut Church with five ministers present. Mr and Mrs Will White, visiting relatives in the state, plan to return to Muskogee Oklahoma this week. They formerly lived here. Rowen Irwin now cares for stock on the Charles Arnold farm northeast of Greencastle.
Roachdale news notes Gene Hutchins family visited in Lafayette with the Clodfelters. Arlie Fuller is upgrading his home with a new roof. Thomas Walsh and Eva called on the Anderson family. James and Walter Myers visited their grandparents in Lafayette and returned home Saturday. Mrs. A C Lockridge came back from Detroit to be with her daughter and husband. Ardilla McGaughey of Russellville visited Mrs. Lizzie Burkett on Sunday.
The Indiana Corn Growers Association fiveacre corn club opens with more than 1500 growers across 80 counties racing to crown the 1928 champion. Past champions like Harry Ayler of Brooksburg renew bids while counties and sponsors offer gold silver and bronze medals plus challenge cups and farm education trips.
Weather conditions influence corn production as the five acre contest encourages quality crops and high yields. Record keepers monitor production costs to lower the cost per bushel across the state.
Berkeley July 11 Professor B H Crocheron director of agricultural extension service at the University of California outlines four remedies for rural ills Decreasing production by reducing acreage decreasing competition from abroad by tariff expanding markets by seeking new customers or increasing the use of old customers and decreasing production costs He warns that many people prefer to hope for change rather than take action noting farmers are often sick but mostly talk and little medicine.
A lavish circus comedy comes to Al Christie’s Von Castle Theatre with W G Fields Chester Conklin Louise Fazenda and Mack Swain. The plot spoof follows a troupe drafted into a mistaken French army amid romance and backstage antics. Doris Hill Grant Withers Tom Kennedy also star in this wartime parody of circus life.
Ringmaster and Babe Lon don star in a chaotic circus skit where a brutal axe thrower terrifies his partner, prompting Tillie to swap into pink tights. Tillie is placed before a board as the heavyweight performer hurls axes in a tense scene.
A Gary Indiana man Harry Vidmer reports relief from headaches back pain and constipation after taking Konjola. He says his energy and spirits improved and credits Konjola for toning the system. The remedy is sold at Owl drug store Greencastle and by other local druggists in the region.
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