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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1928
Page
3
Reverend Henry McLean will join the faculty of the Miami Valley Epworth League Institute at Chautauqua Ohio from July 16 to 25. He will teach sessions and participate in institute programs during the Chautauqua tenure.
Mr. and Mrs. John Shildmyer of Marion, visiting Mrs. Mary Shildmyer and daughter Lulu, have returned home Saturday.
Miss Polly Towne and her brother Lockwood Jr. of Boston along with Dick Kimberlin of South Bend will arrive Saturday to spend time with their grandparents Dr. and Mrs. B. Towne.
Local residents travel and visit relatives in Illinois Iowa and Indiana. Names include the Browns Hostetters Gregg O Rear Moore Allee Rambo Riley and Fenton Cannon 4-H Club Camp enrollment and hospital notices wrap the community update.
Miss Alta Kerr and Mrs. Zella Hamm of the Greencastle Telephone Company traveled to Niagara Falls Saturday night for a brief outing.
Miss Augusta Glidewell has resumed duties at S. C. Prevo's store following a vacation in Delaware Ohio where she stayed with Mrs. A F Ringo. Mr and Mrs Albert Nelson hosted Sunday guests including Clarence Peterson of Chicago and Thomas Nelson of Indianapolis.L L Allen of Rushville visited Mr and Mrs Ernest Stoner, with his daughters Jane and Avis returning home with him after a week with the Stoners.
Mr and Mrs Charles Reeves returned home Sunday from Anderson where they visited Mrs Reeves sister.
Mrs William Pavlos of The Hut and her daughters travel to Salem for a week to visit Mrs Pavlos' parents.
Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Mullins drove to Clinton and accompanied their daughter Leota home. Miss Mullins has been visiting Miss Wilma Salman in Clinton. Miss Anna Miller of Fillmore is taking her vacation from the J. H. Pitchford store and will visit Indianapolis and Bloomington.
A long list of local visits and travels from Greencastle and surrounding areas. Notable mentions include Dr and Mrs Horace Askew in Lafayette, Miss Mary McNeff in Terre Haute, and Mrs Elsie Smith of Washington DC visiting relatives in Oxford. Also noted are travels of Miss Anna Collier, Miss Bernice Flint, and Miss Esther Snider to various destinations, plus updates on DePauw University staff, a prison escape case, and a family illness in Charleston Illinois with Edward Davis improving.
Mrs Glen Owens and Irene visit Mrs Thomas Randel in Indianapolis. Edward Hibbitt visits in Indiana polis. The Hudlin family leaves Seminary street for northern states. Alice Murphy returns from Terre Haute. Clarence Hollick visits McCormick's Creek Canyon near Spencer. Morrison Bros. head to Detroit for an Erskine car. Ola Ellis and Charles Thomas visit a Terre Haute hospital. Englehart guests in Crawfordsville. Local group attends Crawfordsville auto races. Brackney and Marshall reunion held at Forest Park in Brazil with Frank Brackney elected president. Charles Thomas improving after surgery at Terre Haute Hospital. new son born to Thomas family. Prison escapes delivered to state prisons. three men face 1 to 5 year terms. James L. Randel returns from Hammond to work at Central National Bank. Car races at Sunflower track draw Stark & Griffith personnel. Riordan drives a Pontiac. McCullough drives a Chevrolet. Birth announcement for Robert Edward to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Allen of De Land Florida, former residents.
Professor and Mrs L E Mitchell spent Monday in Franklin attending the Baptist summer assembly. Mr and Mrs Ed Dalby accompanied them.
Miss Hazel M. Alverson assistant in Publicity at DePauw takes vacation and is visiting Dayton Ohio during the period.
Miss Jane Farmer of east Washington street and Miss Susie Talbott of east Hanna street left Tuesday noon over the Pennsylvania Railroad for Washington D C. They will stay ten days at the All States Hotel and tour the capital.
Miss Frances Bool of Cayuga and Miss Mary Burks a Cayuga high school teacher plan a week long departure for a tour of the southern and western states Miss Burks residence is Reelsville.
Varied notices show residents visiting relatives and traveling soon. Trip plans include J P Naylor to Porto Rico and Dr C Howard Taylor attending Mission summer school in Battle Ground. News mentions births, weddings, and a funeral at Brick Chapel with pallbearers.
Mrs. Aaron Arnold is confined to her Northwood home due to illness, with family providing care and noting limited mobility while she recovers.
Miss Imogene Mullins and Russell Welch were in Indianapolis on Tuesday. Miss Irene Roach of Indianapolis visited her parents at Fillmore during her vacation. On Wednesday she called on Miss Pearl Cole in Greencastle.
A. W. Islein of Indianapolis manager of the Grant Hotel on the National Road visited Greencastle on Wednesday on business. Robert Stevenson county agent also traveled to Terre Haute on Wednesday on business.
W D Lovett former Putnam County auditor from Roachdale was taken to Culver Hospital Crawfords ville Monday and expects to undergo an operation soon.
Mrs Rosa Hyde and her children of Detroit are visiting Mrs Hyde's sister Mrs Dennis Curran, according to a local social note.
Beck Sales Company reports the sale of a Chevrolet coach to John Snider a mail carrier of Cloverdale on Tuesday in Indianapolis.
State industrial board members met in the lawyer's library at the Court House Wednesday morning for a private, brief hearing. Greencastle residents noted the many interurban cars passing through town, including seven special cars carrying fire department employees to a Terre Haute convention in session today. Mr and Mrs L H Hudlin and daughters returned home Wednesday morning from a trip to northern Indiana.
Herbert Flint returned home from County hospital after an electrical burn at the cement plant. Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lyon moved from 512 Anderson street to 717 east Seminary street. Mrs. Charles Barnaby, summering at Lake Maxinkukee, traveled from Greencastle with Mr. Barnaby to Chicago and will return to the lake before driving to Boston with guests of the Barnabys. Mrs. Lawson, formerly Dorothea Barnaby, is the daughter of the Barnabys.
Four Martinsville residents were injured when their sedan was struck by a truck four miles north of Waverly. Mrs. Ernest Barlow suffered serious head injuries. her husband and William McKenzie were cut and bruised. McKenzie's son Chester injured his back and head. The Barrows were taken to St. Vincent's hospital in Indianapolis. The unidentified truck driver said steering failure caused loss of control. All four were on their way to work in Indianapolis.
Clarence Ford 21 son of Jesse Ford of Anderson drowned when cramps struck him while swimming in White river four miles east of the city. Sheriff and coroner with others searched two hours before locating the body in deep water about twenty feet from shore.
Mrs. Robin Stunkard, 60, a leading club woman, died in Brazil Indiana from heat prostration, the first heat wave fatality reported. Arthur Dickey, an ice wagon driver, was in serious condition, with Monroe Hall a clay worker also affected.
Mr and Mrs Earl Sourwine of Hillsdale avenue welcomed a daughter born Wednesday morning at the County hospital.
A funeral notice for Mrs. Stankard appears in The Herald today. The report also identifies Mr. Hall, formerly of Putnam County and better known as Roe Hall, noted in a prior obituary item. The heat prostration incident left a person in serious condition.
Joseph Langstaff a rug cleaner blames illicit liquor and bad company for his son Robert’s near fatal police bullet wound after a city gun battle with bandits. He identifies the slain bandit as the Langstaffs’ son and recalls a former employee Ad Reiter, once trusted but killed.
Frank Williams, a retired farmer of Hoosier Highlands, died yesterday afternoon at his cottage after a long cancer illness at age 64. He farmed for many years and lived in the city about 15 years ago. He retired 14 years ago due to ill health and spent his time hunting and fishing, known and admired by many Brazil Times readers who visited Hoosier Highlands.
Formal transfer of 1000 acres for the Tri County park will be presented to the Indiana conservation commission on Labor Day September 3 at the park site where Clay Greene and Sullivan counties meet. Governor Jackson and Richard Lieber will attend to accept the gift. All three counties issued bonds for the purchase and details are to be completed by Labor Day.
George G. Dyer 76, longtime Indianapolis jeweler born October 20, 1851 in Cloverdale, died yesterday at Halcyon apartments. He moved to Indianapolis in 1883 and worked in the trade here for decades, most recently with his son Charles B. Dyer at 282 Massachusetts Avenue. He married Emma Allison in Worthington. she died two years ago. He previously ran a shop and factory in the Sentinel building at Meridian Street and Monument Circle.
Obituary notes the late Dyer remembered in Indianapolis with surviving children A Dyer Charles Dyer and Daisy Dyer. Siblings Elizabeth Merrick Bertha Dyer and Ott Herold. brothers Edward E Dyer and William B Dyer. Grandchildren Kathleen Rosemary and Jack Dyer. Funeral at 10 a m at 2848 Washington Blvd officiated by Rev Edward Haines Kistler.
The fifth Gardner reunion gathered more than eighty relatives Sunday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. Glasgow Britton south of Roachdale. A noon dinner, afternoon program with Willard Eggers, Mrs. Jesse Beemer, and Bern Smith of Amarah Texas followed by ice cream capped a delightful day. Kimber Gardner of Greencastle was elected President and Elizabeth Eggers of Morton was named Secretary and Treasurer for next year at Mrs. Cora Hazelett's Parke county home.
Mr and Mrs Lucas will host a dinner at their Seminary street home on Friday at 6 30 p m in honor of Mr and Mrs William T Sitlington of Little Rock Ark guests of Mr and Mrs Frank Bittles and other relatives
Mr and Mrs Allen with sons Richard and Joseph of Portsmouth Ohio visit Mr and Mrs Ernest Stoner on Shadow Lawn Avenue. Mr Allen formerly worked at Bell Clothing Store in Greencastle and now manages Richman Clothing Store in Portsmouth.
Miss Lelia A Pickett, a Greencastle teacher, and Ray L Burns, a Coal City banker, married Tuesday night at the Adams home on East Washington Street with Rev. C Fenwick Reed officiating. The couple will reside in Coal City Indiana. Only immediate family attended.
Martin Frankfort, a real estate operator, was found not guilty by a Criminal court jury in Indianapolis. The jury accepted the case at 3:05 PM and returned a verdict forty five minutes later after a swifter trial since Monday morning.
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