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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1928
Page
3
Obituaries and social notes report the death of Mrs. Alice Wampler at her daughter Ethel Stock’s home in Grafton Ohio. Funeral plans are at the daughter’s residence. Several residents visit relatives or travel for vacations.
Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Ayler and daughter Evelyn traveled to Indianapolis and Greencastle before Sheriff Edward Witelforge took them to the Indiana State Farm Tuesday afternoon to serve 90 day terms. They were sentenced in Putnam Circuit Court on Monday.
Robert B. Phillips conventions secretary of the Gary Commercial Club visited to interview local delegates from Indiana Bankers Association Elks Indiana Medical Society Moose Indiana Realtors Association and Royal and Select Masons. He urged early arrivals and noted Gary facilities including steel mills schools dune lands a bathing pavilion recreation building and Hotel Gary amid preparations to prevent convention crowd disappointments.
Judge Jamies A. Collins of the Marion Criminal Court pledged quick trials for 71 people arrested in 25 liquor raids in Indianapolis. Trials were set to be held this week after police acted on information from federal undercover agents.
Officials of the National Dry Cleaners Company say a spark from a patent cigar lighter left in salt used for dry cleaning caused an explosion in the gasoline room. The device struck a metal rim and ignited the gasoline, killing an employee.
New Albany Indiana July 24 two prisoners being taken to Bedford for funds to pay fines vanished as posses hunted them after officers failed to reach Bedford. The missing officers are Deputy Sheriff Lloyd McBride and Constable Chester Wright. Their prisoners are Alfred Smith and John McMurphy.
Indianapolis reports two boys dead from drowning and firework related injuries. Edward Ballinger, 16, drowned at White River after losing grip on a diving board. Samuel Silverman, 12, died of lockjaw from powder burns at home July first. Goshen notes two more fatalities from a fire escape collapse and a man struck by a moving train near Gravelton. Argos sees a fatal motorcycle crash versus a wagon killing Dan Hardesty, 18, and John Denero, 14.
Mrs. Emma Ragan of Fillmore, long ill at her home, shows improvement in health as reported by local observers and family.
The Newgent reunion gathered relatives at the Cooper home near Greencastle on July 22 with a noon dinner after a morning of visiting. Dr. W R Hutcheson spoke on travels, and Shelby Moler discussed the Newgent family. Mr Moler was elected president and Mrs Pearl Wimmer, secretary, with plans for a 1929 reunion at the Coopers.
Indianapolis police seek to extradite Lawrence Ghere from San Francisco to stand trial for the May 4 1926 murder of Wilkinson Haag a prominent Indianapolis chain drug store owner. Authorities hold photograph fingerprints and measurement data identifying the suspect beyond doubt.
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