Country Reading Club Meeting and Sorority Picnic Items
Local clubs schedule meetings and a picnic across Greencastle and Bay View. Activities include Country Reading Club at Mrs. Albert Stoner’s Rural Route 7, Greencastle O. E. S. initiation, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society with Miss Laura Ammerman, and a Bay View bridge luncheon with DePauw delegates Ella Madanna Frances Eckhardt and Lillian Hays Ector among attendees.
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Country Reading Club
Albert Stoner
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Laura Ammerman
Wood Street
Bay View
Mich
Terrace Inn
DePauw
Ella Madanna
Alpha Chi Omega
Frances Eckhardt
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Lillian Hays Ector
Fire Threatens South Milford Indiana Town
A large fire swept South Milford Indiana destroying seven key buildings including the McGown County Telephone Exchange and the Opera House. With water power scarce, the blaze risked the entire town of about 600 and was spreading at 1 p.m. Estimated damage reached around 150000 dollars.
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Milford
South Milford
Ind
INS
LaGrange County
McGown County
Opera House
New Christian Church
Edinburg marshal held after fatal shooting
Edinburg deputy marshal James Glass, 23, is jailed in Franklin charged with fatally shooting Earl Jackson, a 30 year old one legged World War veteran. The confrontation began when Jackson broke a bottle of liquor as Glass questioned him, Jackson was shot through the lungs and died at Columbus Hospital. Glass allegedly struck Jackson with the pistol butt and then shot him in the back as he lay.
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James Glass
Franklin
Edinburg
Ind
INS
Johnson County
Earl Jackson
Jackson
Columbus
Hodshire Family Reunion Set for August 5
The tenth Hodshire reunion occurs Sunday August 5 at John Hodshire's home on the National highway west of the State Farm. Friends are invited to bring baskets and enjoy a daytime program led by Raymond Fisher president and Mrs Theopore Crawley secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodshire
John Hodshire
State Farm
Raymond Fisher
Theopore Crawley
Indianapolis Hog and Cattle Prices Slip in Mixed Trade
The hog market slipped 5 to 15 cents with bulk 160 to 275 lb stock at 11.20 to 11.40 and a load at 11.50. Steers were 25 cents lower while cows and heifers held steady. Good beet steers ranged 15.00 to 16.90, yearling cattle up to 16.00, vealers 15.50 to 16.00, and sheep and lambs steady with lambs at 13.50 to 14.00 and some 14.25.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Local residents plan visits to Michigan and Chicago
Dr. O. F. Overstreet and John Thomas leave Monday for Bay View Michigan to spend a month. Mr. and Mrs Milo West and Miss Barrow return home from Chicago after visiting Mr. and Mrs Harold Coffman. Mrs Coffman is daughter of Mr. and Mrs West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. F. Overstreet
John Thomas
Cleve Thomas
Bay View
Mich
Milo West
Miss Barrow
Harold Coffman
Chicago
Mrs. Coffman
Mrs. West
Brennan Near Death After Dental Operation
Geo. F. Brennan, Democratic committeeman for Illinois and close ally of Presidential nominee Al Smith, was reported near death in Chicago from septic poisoning. He was stricken after an extraction of two ulcerated teeth last Thursday as the infection spread to the throat glands.
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Chicago
INS
Geo. F. Brennan
Illinois
al Smith
Village inmate killed after alleged assault at New Castle
Indiana state charities board reports Joe Wysinger a 40-year-old Fort Wayne inmate of the Indiana Village for Epileptic was fatally beaten on July 6 at New Castle after being divested of his weapon. Grand jury indicts three attendants and a dairyman for manslaughter.
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Indianapolis
Joe Wysinger
Fort Wayne
Indiana
New Castle Institution
John J. Brown
Brown
Wysinger
Henry County
Claude Roach
Benjamin Allen
Kelley Reeves
Second Haag suspect held in Los Angeles
Rupert McDonald aged 26 was arrested by Los Angeles police in connection with the murder of Wilkinson Haag at the Green Mill barbecue on East Thirty eighth Street on May 4, 1926. Indianapolis authorities requested extradition. McDonald used the alias Bob Caldwell and worked as a salesman for a Hollywood fire concern.
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Indianapolis
Claude M. Worley
Rupert McDonald
Wilkinson Haag
Green Mill
East Thirty Eighth Street
Los Angeles
Air Mail
Worley
Rugenstein and McGlenn
San Francisco
Cal
McDonald
Bob Caldwell
Hollywood
Rugenstein
McGlenn
Lawrence Ghere
Haag
Ghere
Sacramento
Jessie Murphy
Miss Murphy
Local notes from Martinsville and nearby towns
Mrs. J. H. Pitchford rests in a Martinsville sanitorium. Several residents and guests, including Miss Mary Lewis and Miss Rowena Satterlee, travel plans and visits are noted. Local workers take vacations. townspeople move homes. a baptism of hospital care and court actions are reported amid community events and a district telegraph meeting prep.
George W. Eggers Dies After Brief Illness
George W. Eggers, farmer, died Monday at 1:30 p.m. at his home five miles southeast of Roachdale on the New Maysville road after a brief illness. Born February 5, 1846 in Putnam County, he spent most of his life in Jackson township. Surviving are his widow Mary Eggers, eight married children, twenty-seven grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 10:30 a.m. from Barnard Baptist Church with burial in Barnard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George W. Eggers
Roachdale
New Maysville
Mr. Eggers
Jesse Eggers
Sarah Eggers
Putnam County
Jackson Township
Mary Eggers
Barnard Baptist Church
Barnard
Tunney Retires From Boxing
Gene Tunney announces retirement at a luncheon with boxing writers at the Biltmore New York. He says no contender can attract a large purse and it would take two or three years to develop one, so he steps aside from the sport.
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New York
INS
Gene Tunney
the Biltmore
Tunney
Gene
Want Ads for Highland Apts and cabbage sale
Want ads announce a ready August 15 apartment at Highland Apts 718 East Seminary Street with gas range water electric light heated garage in winter and contact numbers 166 or 594 L. Also advertises cabbage for kraut at 1.00 per 100 lbs from Eitel Floral Co with claim of solid heads and no bursting.
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APT
Highland Apts
East Seminary Street
Eitel Floral Co
Edwardsville Guests and Visiting Party Lineage
Mr and Mrs Roscoe Davidson and son Roscoe Jr and daughter Allene of Edwardsville Illinois are visiting Mr and Mrs J G Hunt on Maple Avenue. Elder Jasper N Dalby returns from a week at Danville Champaign IL Sullivan Fairbanks Ind with Sunday guests Dr and Mrs W S Crone and son Frank Cox Cloverdale Gilbert Cox Greencastle Elmer Cox Brazil and R G Crone Eminence. C H Dow returns to New York City after three weeks vacation with grandmother Mrs Elizabeth Scott and aunt and uncle Mr and Mrs J M Dinkins of south Locust Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Satterlee
South Locust Street
A. H. Northrop
Winamac
Ind
Roscoe Davidson
Roscoe Jr
Allene
Edwardsville, Il
J. G. Hunt
Maple Avenue
Jasper N. Dalby
Danville
Champaign
Sullivan and
Fairbanks
W. S. Crone and
Frank Cox
Cloverdale
Gilbert Cox
Greencastle
Elmer Cox
Brazil
R. G. Crone
Eminence
C. H. Dow
New York City
Elizabeth Scott
J. M. Dinkins
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Templeton
West Berry Street
Mr. Templeton
Olbenlofs
Warevco Gread Company
Ton Tey
Eastern Star
Miss Ammerman
W.R. C
Allendale
Paul Allen
I Am
Janet Quittner
Esther Feldman Beck
Quittner
International Newsres
Hodshire Reunion
Geo. Brennan
Gist
J. H. Pitchford
Martinsvile
Mary Lewis
Cothersville
Rowena Satterlee
Lelia Talbott
C. Prevo
George Raines
Walter Huffman
Piltsmore
Martha Kelly
Fred G. Kelly
Anderson
Carol Shoultz
Roy Ellington
Monon
Warren J. Yount
Elm Street
Anderson Street
Glen Lyon
Harry Tresner
John Tresner
North
Madison Street
Methodist Hospital
Maurice Baldwin
Victory
Y. M.C
Bedford
Rotary Club
Addie A. Strain
the Herald
James G. Lewis
Edward Eitelforge
Michigan City
Elmer Richards
Richards
Fayette County
Davie Jent
Warren Township
Putnam Circuit
Dewey Jent
Crawfordsville
Henry W. Harding
Mr. Harding
Annapolis
Russellville
Montgomery County
H. B. Walls
Fourth District
West Central Indiana Association
Martinsville
John G. Klinger
George Gould
Clinton
John Harbaugh
Sullivan
Fred Preston
Clair Brown
Milton Brown
Harold Crawley
Geo. W. Eggers
Jersey
Herald Office
Greencastle Canning CO
Milt Brown
William Fox
Wilonewolf
Peggy Joyce
Lord Northesk
Jessica Brown Northesk
Follies
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Peggy
Mr. Mendelssohn
Deauville
Terpationa
Newaree
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