Local Notes Highlight Greencastle Weekend Visits and Events
Indianapolis visitors Jesse Girton and families join local residents for a busy Sunday. The Shades of Death trip, Turkey Run outings, church receptions, band rehearsal, and a Brick Chapel band concert headline a page of neighborhood activity with numerous trips to nearby towns and ongoing community life.
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John Dunlavy
Elwood
W. P. Leddbetter
Turkey Run
Dunlavy
Robert Gilliland
W. E. Montgomery
Winona
Indianapolis
Mary Lockwood
Transfer company to raise charges for city trips
Beginning at 7 a m August 1915 the Greencastle Transfer Company will charge 25 cents for the transfer of each adult passenger and hand baggage to or from any part of the city or from the city to or from any railroad station except from Grand Central Hotel and Business District inside Vine Walnut Franklin and Jackson streets to Monon station and from Monon station to these hotels and district 15 cents for transfers within the restricted area Special prices for bus loads of 10 passengers Night rates unchanged Fred Bryan Owner.
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Grand Central Hotel
Vine Street
Walnut Street
Franklin Street
Jackson Street
Monon Station
Greencastle Transfer Company
Fred Bryan
Edison on electricity and farming a future progress
Thomas Edison discusses electricity as a farming advance in Illinois Indiana and elsewhere. He notes intensive farming, central distribution, substation networks, and cheap power, plus doubts about jitneys and ongoing patent challenges. He cites Germany as a model and predicts electric trucks will dominate future city transport.
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East Orange
N. J
Thomas A. Edison
Indiana
Illinois
Germany
Wizard of Orange
Edison
Notice to Gravel Road Contractors
Notice is given by Parke and Putnam counties in joint session in Greencastle Indiana that sealed bids will be received until 2 PM Saturday September 4 1915 for highway improvement on the boundary between Madison Putnam and Jackson Parke counties. Plans on file in the Auditor's office. Bids require bond equal to twice the bid and an affidavit. The boards reserve right to reject bids and readvertise. Co L AIRHART Auditor of Putnam County. Posters Carried in Herald.
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Adelaide Thomas
Gerelda Thomas
Kathryn Allen
Clara Sharp
Ross Runyan
Lewis Stewart
James Walker
Russell Farmer
Blue Bluff
Blue Bluffs
White River
Martinsville
Farmer and Runyan
R. G. McCutchan
van Denman Thompson
DePauw
Meharry Hall
Joseph Friend
Greencastle
North Madison Street
Thomas Younger
Presbyterian Church
Forest Hill Cemetery
Holmes Craver
Charles Merkel
W. R. Callahan
Walter J. Brown
Alfred Hirt
J. W. Shaver
Brick Chapel
Band of Harmony
Ind
Indiana
Boards of Commissioners
Parke and
Putnam
Putnam County
Board of Commissioners
O. T. Ellis
Parke
Madison
Jackson
Parke County
Co. L
Airhart
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