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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1929
Page
1
A narrator laments a broken coupling pin in his spectacles delaying work and revealing dusty farm life. Ott Webb visits, boasting a new threshing outfit and wheat yields while the writer jokes about joining the harvest, biscuits, and preferring rugged sports over indoor amusements.
Noble Lawson aged 14 was captured in Anderson after clever tricks that puzzled officers. The bandit had escaped from Plainfield reform school weeks earlier and fled to Detroit before leaping from a train near Anderson. He had been at large for several days when officers detained him.
Floyd Walls, 23, paroled yesterday after a 1 to 10 year term in the Indiana State Reformatory for house breaking. Today Judge James P. Hughes sentenced him to a further 2 to 5 years for escaping from the Indiana State Farm July 11, 1928. Walls was returned to Greencastle after arrest following his parole release.
Indiana university reports 1766 in the summer session with 13 Putnam county students among enrollees. Bloomington hosts 1424 students, plus 740 men and 686 women. Indianapolis hosts dental 14 medical 103 and nurses 167. Winona Lake station has 58 biological students and 150 in the extension program. Total summer enrollment could exceed 2000 with second term additions. Putnam county students listed include Bainbridge Albert Heavin Cloverdale Christine Burris Thelma Hambler Elsworth Lowery Burl McClure Edna Morris Trellis Taber Martha Royce Callahan Robert Howell Kermitt Todd and Imogene Gilliland.
Columbus July 20 James Howard Snook's sanity hearing was waived by his attorneys and Judge Henry L Scarlett announced Snook would be tried next Wednesday morning for the confessed slaying of his sweetheart Miss Theora K Hix.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railway announced it is willing to withdraw the Monon from its consolidation plan after talks with the Interstate Commerce Commission and stock owners. The move ends a protracted dispute driven by chambers of commerce and state agencies along the route, with reasons tied to stock ownership and lack of consent from joint Monon owners.
Mrs. Anna Goodwin, 72, wife of Morris Goodwin of Fillmore, died Friday afternoon at her daughter’s home near Coatesville after a long illness. Funeral at Fillmore Christian Church Sunday at 2. Body to be viewed at her Fillmore home this afternoon. Survived by husband, son Samuel R. Goodwin, and daughter Mrs. Fred Hunter. She lived on a Fillmore-area farm all her life and recently retired to Fillmore. member of Eastern Star and Christian Church.
Mrs William Coffman of East Washington street road suffered a burned hand and singed hair when a gasoline stove in the kitchenette exploded about 730 last night. The city fire department responded with a booster tank to extinguish flames. Damage was limited to the stove and kitchen and estimated at several dollars. Mrs Coffman was alone at the time.
State board of tax commissioners approved Putnam county board of review actions and confirmed personal property assessments. The review panel included W. E. Gill, Charles Marshall, Alva Lisky, Albert Albaugh, and Milton Edwards. they met in June for thirty days and may not reconvene.
Two burlesque dancers Florence Weaver and Mickey Daniels were fined $1 and costs each by Justice J. W. Stapp after a carnival act at Oolitic near Bedford featured dancers wearing only shawls who tossed them skyward during a performance attended by a largely male crowd. Deputy sheriffs halted the scene as the shawl toss ended.
From the files of the Merald comes notes of a trip home by Charles Southard after touring the East. Florence Black Lottie Thomas Leota Trueblood Kathryn Moore Verna Stoner and Mayme Naylor travel to Noblesville to join a Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority group at John Kreag’s farm. James B Nelson buys the Thomas Brothers farm in Clinton township for 25000 dollars, one of the county’s most fertile properties.
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions with a slight rise in temperatures tonight and Sunday. No precipitation expected and light winds.
Mrs. Mary Parrish aged 60 died at Bloomington hospital after burns from an oil explosion when she added coal oil to a kitchen stove in her three room log house north of Spencer. Her daughter Floyd Tuttle aged 20 was badly burned and in critical condition. Four children and husband escaped as the home burned to the ground. The Parrish family had moved from the Concord area near Gosport.
The Moffett Buick Agency announces the 1930 Buick will be on display at the South Jackson Street showroom on July 27. A Buick sponsored national radio program airs next week over WFBM from July 23 to 27, with two additional programs on July 22 and 29. New Buick features will be announced during these broadcasts.
Rodney Ford of Cincinnati, condemned for the slaying of Marshal Peter Dumele of North College Hill, was electrocuted at the Ohio Penitentiary. He sat in the chair at 8 57 and was pronounced dead three minutes later.
Asa Morehead aged 69, recently from Butler, Indiana, died instantly from a fall from a hay wagon on the O. H. Bowman farm southeast of Pierceton. Funeral services will be held in Hamilton, Indiana.
County Agent Floyd Miller demonstrated calcium chlorate on Canadian Thistle at Miss Laura Ammerman’s Wood Street home. The spray, sold by the Putnam County Farm Bureau, kills the entire plant by reaching the roots. Timing matters as many thistles have already set seed. application is best at bud stage or within five days after first bloom.
Cecil Wayne Green by his next friend Frank Green of Manhattan filed in Vigo County circuit court at Terre Haute a $5,000 damage suit against D L Rood driver of a car accused of striking him on November 18 192k as he walked home from school. The complaint by Fred W Thomas of Greencastle names injuries including a fractured jaw from the car door knob and further serious injuries.
St Louis Robins the St Louis Robin and Missouri Robin remain aloft at Lambert Field. The St Louis Robin marks a full week in the air with 169 hours of continuous flight by 7:17 a.m. and 8:17 a.m. records. Missouri Robin enters its fourth day in the air at 10:31 a.m.
International News Service reports hope war between Soviet Russia and China can be avoided through peace steps by the United States Britain and France. Denials of Soviet incursions surface while troops mass along the Siberian Manchurian front and civilians flee western Manchuria amid stalled communications.
London reports Britain formally aligns with the United States and France in urging peace in Sino Russian tensions. Soviet and Chinese responses to Secretary Stimson’s intervention are awaited as mobilization along the Manchurian frontier continues. Russia denies invasion while noting a $10,000,000 annual loss.
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