Urgent golf invite and courthouse flood chatter in Greencastle
A Greencastle citizen recalls an urgent golf invite due to lack of a hunting license and recounts a $18 fine from quail shooting. The column riffs on threats over 80 cents, a cracked Federal Building needing deep repairs, and Jimmy Bittles seeking flood-protective sidewalks mirror. A playful morning tale follows a dawn ride with a Chicago woman, horses readied on Seminary Street, and a nod to Paul Revere.
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Jimmy Bittles
Court House
Northwood
Jimmy
Jim
Don McLean
Don
Chicago
Nature
Paul
Paul Reviere
Betty
Stark Leaves Local Automobile Agency
Ewell Stark of Stark and Griffith Oakland Pontiac agency resigns from the local business to become Indianapolis district sales manager for the Ale mite Company. W O Griffith takes full charge of the local agency, with Stark retaining financial interest.
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Ewell Stark
Stark & Griffith
Oakland-Pontiac
Indianapolis
Alemite Company
W. O. Griffith
Mr. Stark
Hig
Weather Outlook For Tonight And Friday
Partly cloudy and unsettled tonight with possible showers Friday afternoon in the northwest. Warmer temperatures are expected tonight in the north and overall around Friday across the region.
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Northwest
North
Germany Faces Burden of Reparations and Planned Talk
Former Grand Admiral Alfred Von Tirpitz denounces Allied reparations as ruinous to Germany. He argues Versailles imposed limits, Dawes plan expanded them, and current talks on the Young plan threaten trade with possible bankruptcy without tariff relief. He warns unconditional loans will not avert ruin.
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Alfred von Tripitz
Germany
Otto D. Tolischus
International News Service
Berlin
von Tripitz
von Tripitaz
London
Paris
America
Rome Welcomes Flyers Williams and Yancey
Rome greets Roger Q. Williams and Captain Lewis Yancey of the Pathfinder after their trans Atlantic flight from Santander Spain. The pair say no plans exist to return to the United States soon and may tour Europe before heading home.
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Guglielmo Emanuel
Rome
Williams
International News Service
Yancey S
Pathfinder
United States
Martin Bassett Named New Greencastle Agriculture Teacher
Vincennes native Martin Bassett a Purdue graduate will be named agriculture teacher at Greencastle High School succeeding Floyd Miller who resigned to become Putnam County agent Local board may confirm July 22 Bassett taught in a nearby consolidated township school and was chosen from about eight applicants.
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Martin Bassett
Vincennes
Purdue University
Greencastle High School
Floyd Miller
Putnam County
Bassett
Wheat threshing begins in Putnam County and Floyd township
Wheat threshing started in Putnam County with a combine cutting and threshing west of Morton. A regular threshing machine began in Floyd township. County yields are expected to be good quality but short in quantity. Campbell Bros expect new wheat to fetch around $1 a bushel depending on quality.
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Putnam County
Morton
Floyd Township
Campbell Bros
Boys Corn Club Shows Superior Growth This Summer
County Agent Floyd Miller and Simpson Stoner of the First National Bank promote boys corn club work. They visited members and found the Woodburn's Yellow Dent plots thriving, with corn 3 to 5 inches taller than others. Seed was provided by the bank at no charge to the boys. Plots visited belonged to Manford Harris south of town and Raymond Curry, Lenny Cooper, and Harlan Allen south of Putnamville.
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Floyd Miller
Simpson Stoner
First National Bank
Woodburn
Manford Harris
Raymond Curry
Lenny Cooper
Harlan Allen
Putnamville
Claypool Lacey Music Store Opens in Crawfordsville
Putnam County residents gain a new music shop as Claypool Lacey Music Company opens in the W. C. Glascock building in Green Castle area. The firm, with about twenty five years in business and ten thousand instruments sold, brings pianos talking machines records and sheet music to the community offering high quality instruments at liberal terms. M. L. Claypool plans to serve the area from this new Crawfordsville location and cites a large customer base already established in Indiana.
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Crawfordsville
Glascock
Putnam County
W. C. Glascock
Claypool-Lacey Music Company
Indiana
Mason & Hamlin
Knabe
Chickering
Packard
Brambach
Greencastle
M. L. Claypool
Green Castle
Cafeteria under construction at 435 East Anderson Street
Local contractors Pruitt and Masten have begun a cafe Teria at 435 East Anderson Street for Bruce Shannon. The new cafeteria aims to open with the school year and will serve University students.
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Pruitt & Masten
Anderson Street
Bruce Shannon
Elks Defeat Bedford 14 to 5 in Minor League Match
Green Castle notes that the Elks beat Bedford 14 to 5 with a triple play in the 9th inning yesterday afternoon at Bedford. The county bought Oscar Hawkins 8 acre farm near Reelsville for 200 dollars to satisfy a judgment. Maynard L Daggy, Greencastle native, published a 436 page Public Speaking book after graduating DePauw in 1896 and teaching at the University of Washington.
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Elks
Bedford
Oscar Hawkins
Reelsville
Maynard L. Daggy
Greencastle
DePauw
University of Washington At
Seattle
Sixty 4-H Members to Attend Merom College Camp
About sixty 4-H club members from this county will join peers from other counties at Merom College Sullican Indiana for a five day camp July 22 26 with twenty four instructors. Floyd Miller Putnam County Agent will supervise transportation. The schedule includes 6 am 9:50 pm daily activities with meals and multiple assemblies and a 2 64 round trip fare for children.
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Merom College
Sullivan
H. E. Abbott
Terre Haute
M. K. Derrick
Putnam County
Floyd Miller
Merom
Indiana
Medicine Hall
General Assembly
Greencastle
Chamber of Commerce of
Woman Found Insane in Putnam Court Petition
Mrs. Josephine Cofer 8, wife of Sherman Cofer, near Fillmore, declared insane by a sanity commission led by Dr. C B O'Brien Dr W M Mc Gaughey and Dr C T Zarine. Papers allege quarrelsome nervous condition violent tendencies and threats to kill a daughter. Mrs Cofer mother of 11 children youngest 13.
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Josephine Cofer
Sherman Cofer
Fillmore
C. B. O'Brien
W. M. McGaughey
C. T. Zarine
Putnam Chrcuit
Swedish airmen complete third leg of Nord flight to New York
The Sverige monoplane arrives at Ivigtut Greenland completing the third leg of a Stockholm to New York attempt. Captain Albin Ahrenberg and two companions trail behind schedule after stops at Bergen and Reykjavik. They plan to depart for Anticosti Island before the final leg to New York.
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Stockholm
INS
Sverige
New York
Ivigtut
Greenland
Julienhaab
Reykjavik
Iceland
Albin Ahrenberg
Anticosti Island
St. Lawrence River
Bergen
Norway
Ahrenberg
North America
Europe
Band Program This Evening on Court House Lawn
The Greencastle Band presents its regular weekly program on the Court House lawn this evening at o'clock four under William Blanchard. A brass quartet feature is planned along with standard numbers and marches such as March On The Jol Baueh Americans and Laurel of Victory. The program includes titles like Debutante, Dream of Lou, Midnight Echoes, Arcadia, and Fillmore’s Triumph. audience members from Roachdale attended last night’s show.
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Greencastle
Court House Lawn
William Blanchard
Brass
Roachdale
Myers Brass Quartette
Dream of
Lou Perdtctess
Lisat Bowers
Messrs. Wright, Webster, Hauek
Blanchard Fox
Wedding of the Painted Dolls
Sone O Soon
Business Men Win Twilight League Shutout Over Trojans
The Business Men's baseball team defeated the colored Trojans 3 to 0 at Mc Keen Field on Wednesday evening. Harlan pitched a complete game shutout, holding the Trojans hitless.
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Business Men
Colored Trojans
McKeen Field
Harlan
Trojans
Mexican youth held on deportation hold in Indiana jail
Fidio Franco, a young Mexican national, remains in Putnam County Jail awaiting federal deportation action to Mexico. He was sent to the Indiana State Farm in Hammond after a Department of Labor arrest upon release today.
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Fidio Franco
Putnam County
Mexico
Franco
Indiana
Hammond
Department of Labor
Endurance Flight Partners Push Toward 300 Hours
Loren Mendell and R. B. Reinhart extend the Angelena endurance flight into day ten at Culver City California aiming for a 300 hour record. They have notched 218 hours by 9 30 a m and receive new support including a $15 000 sister ship ordered and large donations to an appreciation fund.
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Culver City
Cal
Loren Mendell
R. B
Pete” Reinhart
INS
Angelena
Los Angeles
L. W. Mendell
R. B. Reinhart
Wright Aeronautical Corporation
Paterson
N. J
Pacific Airmotive Works
Angeleno
Buhl Air Sedan Company
Mendell and Reinhart
Earth
Tuly
la Mons
Iron
Fire Chief Responds to Break-in at Vaughan Residence
Honey Of Hair and fire Chief John Goddard were called to the residence of Frank Vaughn on East Helena Street about 3 30 this morning when someone tried to gain entrance to the house. Officers found a opened screen door and an interior closed door blocked access, suggesting the prowler fled after the screen slammed. Vaughan was away in Lafayette and the family woke to the disturbance.
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Ote Honey
John Goddard
Frank Vaughn Oeast
Clara Bow and Harry Richman to marry after current films
Richman declares plans to wed film star Clara Bow as soon as they finish their motion pictures. The ceremony is expected in about five weeks.
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Los Angeles
Clara Bow
Harry Richman
Richman
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