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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1929
Page
1
In North Wood a neighbor flaunts a new lawn mower praised as easy to push by women. Fred Snively seeks a gentle cat named Tom to replace a black cat killed by a car on East Washington. His yard marker mourns Tom with a humorous epitaph.
Report warns drivers to navigate the Bloomington street sink hole district carefully after a car wreck yesterday that required two wreckers to free the vehicle. The piece also notes fishing warnings around stagnant waters and mentions upcoming boxing exhibition at the Ft Harrison arena with local notables attending.
W E Able of Terre Haute leases the east square room once the Artie O Hair pool hall and will open a modern plumbing and heating shop with display room and workshop. Able is known in Greenscastle for DePauw University plumbing work for several years.
E A Smock, 55, of Madisontownship, is jailed on intoxication, reckless driving, and driving while intoxicated charges after a Sunday night crash on the National road near the Clay Putnam line that injured Mrs. Charles Yocum of Terre Haute. Smock fled the wreckage and was later tracked. his brother Hugh Smock was arrested for intoxication nearby.
Two minor crashes occurred Monday afternoon in Greencastle. On Locust street Miss Elizabeth Thompson's Buick rear ended C. M. Newgent's Essex sedan at a stop sign injuring both cars. A faulty Buick seat impeded braking. In a second collision on Washington Street Ed Stone's Chevrolet sideswiped a Schlosser Bros. butter truck with minor damage to the Chevrolet.
Putnam County will receive next year’s passenger and truck plates from December 15 to February 1. The plates will be orange and dark blue with orange numerals on a dark blue background. Each plate will read Indiana across the bottom with the year marker "30."
Winona Lake Indiana July 23 An exhibition of summer work by more than fifty John Herron Art Institute summer school students from Indiana Florida Ohio Kentucky and South Dakota opens July 25 in the Art School Building gallery. About 150 paintings will be shown during the event with families arriving for a dinner at the Winona Hotel honoring Mr and Mrs Wilbur D Peat new director of the institute. Peat will discuss Art Museums then plans are announced for the September 2 opening of the John Herron Art School home at 16th and Pennsylvania streets Indianapolis.
M. L. Crawley of Greencastle Indiana and J R Chenot of Akron tied for high honors with a 225 in the Advanced Course R C T C Camp Knox rifle competition Crawley is a DePauw University student and was listed at 309 North Indiana Street Greencastle Indiana
The forecast calls for generally fair conditions tonight and Wednesday. Temperatures rise slightly, with the warmest spell in the extreme south portion tonight.
County Auditor W. E. Gill distributed the semi annual state school funds based on enumeration of 4,970 school age persons. Per capita share was 2.2235028 dollars, totaling 10,351.55 with 756.74 interest added. Townships received specific amounts including Greencastle City schools 3,428.54 and Clinton 462.65.
The Greencastle School Board met to handle city school matters. Elvin Harlan, newly elected township member, attended for the first time and is expected to join for August 1 reorganizational meeting. Harry Collins retires after Monday night’s session. The board confirmed Martin Bassett of Vincennes as new high school agricultural teacher to replace Floyd Miller, who left to become Putnam County agent. Bassett, a Shelby county native and Purdue graduate, has a first grade license and has taught at Decker for two years. he is currently at the 4-H Club camp in Sullivan.
City engineer James T. Denny read a sanitation paper to Prof North's sociology class this morning. Forest Hughes bought Wyat Cosner's south Indiana street property. Rose Haspel and Clara Smythe returned from Ohio. Attorneys Corwin and Hays in Cloverdale to represent Bascom O Hair in eviction proceedings against Mr Sutton, landlord of the Commercial Hotel.
International News Service reports the Russo-Chinese clash shifting to diplomacy. Both sides pledge to avoid war and seek arbitration once a legal basis is set. Only violence noted was a 30 minute Soviet occupation of Pogranichnaya. troops rest on arms as frontier tensions ease.
A Studebaker Victoria driven by Mr and Mrs B A Dickerson of Decatur Illinois struck a hay wagon driven by William McClure east of Putnamville while avoiding a gate. The car veered into a ditch but only minor damage occurred to the vehicle and one horse was slightly skinned. Special deputy Clarence Vestal investigated the accident.
Hazel Irene Myers of 1014 South College Avenue filed for divorce from Carl Myers a plumber in Putnam Circuit Court. Married in 1916 separated July 22, 1929 she accuses cruelty, infidelity and drunken spending and seeks custody of three children and support.
Local D A R members launch a drive to locate grave sites of Revolutionary War soldiers buried in Putnam County. Readers with information on listed soldiers or others are asked to submit burial details at The Herald office. Names include Armstrong Bowen Buck Hall Hammer Jones McPheeters Mahorney Moore Norman Rhoten Tucker Walden Whitehead Brown McHaffie Bartee Hopkins.
The First National Bank rooms on east Washington street are leased by a Brazil merchant who plans to occupy by September 1. The Blumenstein Ready-to-Wear store of Brazil is the lessee, filling a vacancy since Greencastle Gas and Electric left for a new site on south Indiana street.
Edith Marie Seward a 13 year old girl died after an apparent drowning at a gravel pit near Lawrenceville Illinois. Two youths Oscar Stone 19 and Bert Larson 17 were under arrest as investigators search for details of the drinking party they allegedly hosted. Her sister Lillie Mae Seward said Edith went to the pit with the pair and others before disappearing. The body was recovered after the pit was dragged with the girl last seen on the steep bank.
The St Louis Robin pilots Dale Red Jackson and Forrest O Brine ride into the eleventh day and 241st hour in the air as St Louis eyes a new endurance record. Officials fear last minute technicalities while preparations to push toward 300 hours unfold amid public admiration. Curry Sanders and Van Lear Leary in Shreveport face a 128 hour 40 minute hold after a fuel stop and suspected fouled spark plug.
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