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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
1
State Highway Commission orders improvements on five road sections under new law. Two sections are not let by bid and will be re-advertised at once. Project covers twenty two miles with total cost of 761013 dollars.
The State Highway Commission awarded five road contracts totaling 761,013.35 dollars for twenty two miles of improvement under the new law. Bids on eight roads were invited. three were not awarded due to price, and two roads received no bids. Additional roads will be readvertised for late this month.
Advertised letters listed for Greencastle Indiana June 16 1919 include Mrs Lucille Fry and Mrs Effie Frazier. An all day Flatwoods community house meeting features Rev Don Nichols at 10 30 AM and 2 PM sermons with Harry Maxwell leading a sane service. Moore sisters donated the house after school consolidation. Ed Walls of First National Bank takes a two week vacation. George Christy reports delivery of a seven passenger Stevens car to Jacob Poll of Harmony.
Washington reports say 49 Republican senators, led by Senator Lodge, will demand reservations in ratifying the League of Nations covenant. Article X opposition and partisan framing loom, with debate over how far reservations should go and fear of costs of living rising under such policy.
Milt Brown of Bainbridge purchases the old Vermilion homestead from Mrs Carswell for 3400 dollars. The deal, closed via Talbott and Hamrick, leaves the residence occupied by Mr and Mrs Henry O Hair with Brown planning to move to Greencastle as his future home.
Massachusetts foreign relations chair asserts Shantung as Japan's price for League acceptance. Senators Borah Fall Norris attack the Shantung deal while Hitchcock and Williams defend Wilson. Senate adopts Lodge resolution seeking any secret 1918 Japan Germany treaty and Versailles conversations. Foreign Relations also requests White House drafts for a league covenant and related data.
Charles Hoag Land, 35, died at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis at 1 30 PM Wednesday after an operation for appendicitis and hernia.
Charles Hoagland 35, partner in Broadstreet and Hoagland shoe firm, died at Indianapolis Methodist Hospital at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday from pneumonia after an operation for hernia and appendicitis. He had been in Indianapolis since July 7 for surgery, rallied briefly, then pneumonia and heart involvement ensued. He leaves a widow formerly Miss Flossie Vermillion, a mother and sister in Indianapolis, a brother Harry, and a Greencastle origin story of local business leadership.
College athlete Hoagland was a star pitcher for the university team. News of his death shocked local residents as details of his hospital admission emerged and his condition changed from satisfactory to grave. Mrs Hoagland, with him at death, suffered a breakdown in Indianapolis around 2 pm.
Good attendances mark the union Sunday evening services in Greencastle churches. Next Sunday July 20 the Presbyterian church invites the public to join and hear Rev Don W Nichols D D pastor of Locust Street M E Church. Dr Nichols should be heard by a full house.
Tuttle, manager of the Reid-Murdock Co canning plant, was severely hurt when a 1,500 pound case dropped from rope and pulley and struck him on the building. He suffered multiple broken ribs and facial bruising and will remain home for a week or more. He lives on East Anderson street.
The license shows Miss Bertha Arbuckle 27 of Carpentersville daughter of William and unknown Arbuckle of Indianapolis and Charles Ralph Hall 52 of Carpentersville son of Francis Hall of Indianapolis a truck driver.
Otis A. Gerhart transfers twenty lots in the Fairview addition, Fillmore to Otto O. Dobbs for $1. Mrs. Nancy Craver visits Fillmore to stay with her son Ray Craver for several days.
Secretary announces intention to ask Republican leaders to call at the White House to discuss matters connected with a peace treaty. Multi party leader Lodge named as one of fifteen, with Mr Wilson especially desiring to see.
Washington July 16 President Wilson plans to invite fifteen Republican Senators led by Senator Lodge to confer at the White House on the peace treaty and league of nations while the foreign relations committee continues a line by line reading of the document. Senator Borah prepares to press a resolution seeking a copy of a letter by Bliss Lansing and White protesting the Shantung settlement.
Charles Barnaby named city chairman to oversee distribution of Central Community Chautauqua tickets set for Thursday. Ward chairmen coordinates distribution efforts across precincts.
Charles McGaughey announced ticket sales for Greencastle Chautauqua to run July 28 to August 2 on East Washington street. Tickets cost adults two dollars and children one dollar with sales opening Thursday morning. Local chairmen include Ernest Stoner Frank Donner Ralph Knoll Fred Hixon A A Houck with McGaughey urging fare payment via other family members if not at home Thursday.
Indianapolis hog receipts reached 10 000 with prices dropping 40 cents. Early trading showed general sales around 22.60 with a 22.76 transaction. Packers bought about 6 000 hogs while outside buyers took 1 000. cattle market remained weak and calves strong only at top grades. Sheep stayed steady.
Miss Mabel E. Peck of Purdue extension will give a free canning demonstration for Clinton township domestic science class Thursday at 1 30 o clock in the Clinton township school. She will repeat the demonstration for the Reelsville Canning Club on Friday.
Funeral services for Captain Sharp will be held at the Louts Street Methodist Church at 10 oclock tomorrow morning. The program includes participation by the university president and faculty members.
The funeral for Captain Maurice Sharp, who died Monday in a Pittsburg hospital, will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at Locust Street Methodist Church. Rev Don Nichols presides. George R Grose De Pauw and Salem B Town read scripture. H A Gobin H B Gough address. Beta Theta Pi pallbearers. Burial at Forest Hill Cemetery with a short fraternity ritual.
Mr and Mrs Joe Wright hosted dinner Sunday with Mr Deich Miss Frances Bradley of Greencastle Nelle and Lucile Glidewell. John Howard visited Horace Houck and Ernest Smith family with John Sellars. Elynn Talkington visiting Columbus and will attend Chautauqua. Dr and Mrs Hurst Rollie Dobbs and Virginia Williams of Greencastle visited Joe Cromwell family. Alfred Curtis family visited in Brazil. Epworth League social Friday night at Margaret Jones south of town. John Able hosted his Sunday school class last Thursday at Mrs Will Glidewell with about twenty five children. Mrs Art Fry spent weekend at Mt Meridian.
A large crowd attended the ice cream festival at Brick Chapel Saturday night. George Love sprained his shoulder from a wagon fall, while Glen Flint of the U S Navy is expected home this week. Mrs Sophia Wells is on the sick list with heart trouble. Funeral for Mrs Mize held at Greencastle Tuesday.
The Money Weight Scale Company of Chicago sues Will Wetz for money and interest on a December 7 1918 note of 125 dollars. They ask the court through attorney Jackson Boyd to order 200 dollars as judgment for the note.
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