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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1930
Page
1
Charles J. Arnold muses on Greencastle’s charm centered around sidewalks by the courthouse. He muses on croquet memories, heat, punishment ideas, and a picky appetite for summer treats including Irish stew and blackberry pie. He laments a postcardless day during vacation.
The Big Walnut Baptist church of Washington township will hold its annual after harvest festival on Saturday night July 26. Everyone is cordially invited. A revival meeting is planned for the church beginning the fifth Sunday of August conducted by Rev. J. M. Cauldwell with an announced singer to be named later.
Sheridan Gas Utilities Co. sold its Rockville franchise to Northern Indiana Power Co. an Insull corporation, with Indiana Public Service Commission approving the transfer. The indeterminate franchise runs fifty years with work to begin within two years, giving Insull about one year to start operations.
Harold Peck 21 a theater manager of Indianapolis wed Lucille Francis 25 a showgirl. The license filed in the local marriage bureau lists both parties and their occupations.
Mostly fair conditions in the south with increasing cloudiness in the north tonight. Showers and thunderstorms are forecast Friday. Tonight will be somewhat warmer. Friday will be warmer in the south and cooler in the north.
Seven Reserve Officers from Indiana are retained for a 14 day period as instructors on duty with the Camp Knox Citizens Military Training Camp. They recently graduated from Indiana universities and are under Lt. Col. O. P. Robinson. The officers will stay until July 29 before returning home.
Putnam County Sporting club distributed ten cans of 500 fish into the Jones branch Leatherman branch and Big Walnut Wednesday. The stock from Riverside hatcheries Indianapolis owned by the state aims to let bass rock bass and blue gill grow without disturbance. Carl Stewart L P Chapin John Vermillion E R Bartley and Ernest Stoner led the operation.
Word has been received of the death of Dan Cayhill a former Greencastle resident. He died in Lake Charles Louisiana and the body will be brought here Friday at 2 10 and taken to Forest Hill cemetery for burial.
DePauw University and Wabash College join five Buckeye Conference members Ohio Wesleyan Ohio University Cincinnati Denison Miami in a two year scheduling pact. The agreement may begin in partial form for the 1930 31 basketball season with Indiana schools attending meetings but lacking voting power.
The Brackney family reunion will be held next Sunday July 20 in Deming Park Terre Haute. Many family members who live in the county expect to attend.
Frank Goldsborough, regarded as America's greatest key aviator, died at Memorial Hospital Bennington Wisconsin after his plane crashed in the mountains. He was extracted in a improvised stretcher from the parachute he lacked.
London reports the Egyptian government vows responsibility for foreign lives and property as two British battleships Queen Elizabeth and Ramillies rush toward Alexandria to deter demonstrations by Wafd supporters after Tuesday’s riot left fourteen dead. Heavy troops guard the Arab quarter and mourning runs through the city.
Valentine Hanlon of Manhattan road was struck by a falling brick at the cement plant around 11 45 this morning. He sustained a severe head cut and a badly bruised arm. A physician treated him on site and he was later taken to Putnam County Hospital for observation.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall will speak at the Old Settlers picnic in Cloverdale with music by the Newsboys band of Indianapolis. John Robinsons Circus performs in Greencastle. Harris family reunion held at Levi and Mrs. Sears home with a history read by Mrs. F B Miller.
About 250 4 H club members from Putnam County attended the Allendale picnic held all day Wednesday. Leaders plan to make it an annual event with a county fair and a junior fair to follow in August, featuring livestock and farm products, entertainment, and a later club camp at Merom Indiana.
Changes in conditioning of the Government Emergency Landing field southeast of town require new bids. Bids due Monday to Government Engineer Morris at the post office building. New specs double the work, with estimates about 1,200 dollars originally and now higher under the revised plan.
Mervin Varvel son of Mr and Mrs Karl Varvel fell from a Campbell Brothers Checker Grain Co. truck Wednesday around 11 a.m. sustaining cuts and bruises to face and head.
A boy riding atop grain sacks fell when the load slid on a street corner at College avenue and Franklin street. He suffered a deep gash over the right eye a cut lip and scratches. He was taken for medical care to Dr. A. R. Greencastle Water Works Co. continues operations today.
An explosion in the Camp Mitchell tunnel of the Hetch Hetchy project near Livermore California killed eleven men and trapped about 14 more. Rescue crews and gas masks were used as the tunnel blast knocked workers from their feet and halted operations at the cement plant and quarry nearby.
The Democratic Women's club schedules a Saturday meeting at 2 PM in the law library at the courthouse. All members are urged to attend.
Sweet and Wright report water shortage halts construction from Manhattan road to township line near the Cement mill. A little over one mile long, grading is complete and the cement bridge built, but the cement mill reservoir is dry and water arrangements are yet to be made to continue work.
Local freight on the Monon will not be discontinued on July 21 as previously announced. Railroad officials cite a 24 hour delay in handling freight in small lots as the reason for keeping the daily service.
J Penney company of New York has leased the Palmer property on the west side of the square for 99 years at 8754 500 for the first fifty years. A steel and stone building costing 70000 will be erected and ready by Oct 1 1950. The lease is in the Bloomington Property Management Corp whose stock is held by Pavil M Wilson and two others, with M L Hall of Indianapolis managing the industrial department.
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