Dryest July since 1901 and other odds and ends
Columns editor SAY! by CHARLES J. ARNOLD notes a dry July and quips about prohibition officers, water with kick, corn whiskey, and bath tubs. It comments on Will R Woods, an Indiana congressman, an Oxnam visit in Indianapolis, a Chicago baby mixup, weather and drought, and reflections on progress from bicycle to airplane. The piece ends with a wry forecast of dull generations ahead.
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Will R. Woods
Indiana
Panama City
Mr. Woods
Chickens Stolen From McNary Farm Near Greencastle
Mrs. Forest McNary reports 15 to 20 chickens stolen from her chicken house during the night. Deputy Alva Bryan and Detective Harry Snider investigated after being alerted around 4 am. The theft likely occurred about 1:30 am with a car heard leaving near 1:50 am. Two sacks of chickens were found at the scene as clues.
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Forest McNary
Greencastle
Alva Bryan
Harry Snider
McNary
Indianapolis
Glass Bottle Attack Injures Jenkins Family on Highway
Mrs. Everett Jenkins and her son were injured when youths in another car threw a pop bottle at the Jenkins vehicle on state road 44 north of Greencastle. The windshield and a window shattered. glass cut the boy’s nose. The other car sped away and license numbers were not obtained.
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Everett Jenkins
Debhert
Greencastle
Jenkins
Brazil
Weather Outlook Mostly Fair Tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for mostly fair skies tonight and Friday with little change in temperatures. Light winds and dry conditions are expected across the region.
Franklin Township Names School Teachers for 180 31 Year
The Franklin township list from County Superintendent John Vermillion names eight teachers at Roachdale high school led by Eugene Hutchens and eight more in Roachdale and nearby schools. Carpentersville and Grider each have two or one teachers listed, including Eston Cooper Ruth Cunningham Esther Stamp Ethel Bulburn and Catherine Powers Rae count Grace Arnold.
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Franklin Township
John Vermillion
Roachdale High School
Carpentersville
Raccoon
Grider
Eugene Hutchens
Hubert Jeffries
Robert Hanna
Noble Wallace
Esther Crosby
Mary Rogers
Opal Young
Blythe Archibald
Roachdale
Eston Cooper
Ruth Cunningham
Esther Stamp
Ethel Bulburn
Thomas Harney
Margaret Miller
Catherine Powers
Raecount Grace Arnold
Man Fined for Intoxication in City Court
James Coleman of Bedford, about 45, was fined 10 dollars and costs totaling 45 in City Court by Mayor W. L. Denman on a public intoxication charge. He was arrested Wednesday night by Chief Otto Dobbs and Officer Em as Morgan on North Jackson Street and jailed until arraignment. Coleman pled guilty and received the minimum sentence. Two companions were released free as they showed no intoxication.
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James Coleman
Bedford
W. L. Denman
Otto Dobbs
Emas Morgan
North
Jackson Street
Greencastle Band Cancels Thursday Concerts
The Greencastle band has discontinued its regular Thursday night concerts on the Corat Hostie lawn due to insufficient merchant subscriptions to fund the project. No show will be held tonight as officers seek funding.
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Greencastle
Robberies of stores thought near solution
North Putnam county investigators say the series of July 17 robberies targeting nine stores in Bainbridge, Pinedale, Raccoon and other towns may involve a Muncie gang. Four men held in Danville and Greenville face charges as detectives tighten evidence.
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Danville
Greenville
North Putnam
Chanville
Putnam County
Offlelule
Munete
Bainbridge
Bryan
Snider
Mutnele
Muncie
Ohio
Dan ‘Ile
Hendricks
Ova Trail
Fincastle
Stultz
Weston
Raccoon
Postogee
D.C. Tate
Department
BE. V. Eteleson Hardware
Horace Phearson
Groveland
J. R. Jarvis
Marshall Abrams
Alva Bryan
New License Plates To Be Blue And Gold
The 1931 Indiana license plates, produced at the state prison in Michigan City, will use blue letters on a gold background. This reverses last year’s color scheme of gold letters on a blue background.
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Indiana State Prison
Michigan City
Two Cars Damaged In Morning Collision Near Jackson Street
Two vehicles collided at the Jackson Street Road and Old Mr Olive Road corner around 7 am. Maurice McCullough of Washington township and Omer Vanlandingham of Warren township owned the cars. Sheriff Edard Eiteljorge investigated. no arrests were made and both drivers agreed to their injuries and vehicles.
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Jackson Street
Mr. Olive Road
Maurice McCullough
Washington Township
Omer Vanlandingham
Warren Township
Edard Eiteljorge
New Book by Dr Bundy on Jesus Prays Opens Press
A new book by Prof Walter J Bundy of DePauw University is off the Bobbs Merrill press. It collects prayer passages from his prior works The Religion of Jesus and Our Recovery of Jesus aimed at students scholars and all readers curious about a vital prayer tradition. Bundy notes his wartime service and Basel Basel study days shaping his approach to Jesus using New Testament Greek and diverse modern critics.
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Walter J. Bundy
DePauw University
Bobbs-Merrill Company
Basel
Switzerland
Jesus
Bundy
Basel University
Sheriff’s Trip to Fetch Defendant in Child Desertion Charge
Sheriff Thomas Tiffee of Clay County and his wife traveled to Bismark South Dakota last week to bring back Benton HH Grantham on a child desertion charge. The distance was about 2 500 tiles and the trip took five days with about 500 miles driven each day into the evenings.
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Sherif Thomas Tiffee
Bismark
South Dakota
Benton
Practical joke ends in teen’s death in Indiana
Juanita Wehmer, 17, former Francisco high student, died at Evansville hospital after a knife blade was placed in a school desk seat last fall. The accident stemmed from a practical joke.
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Princeton
Ind
Juanita Wehmer
Francisco
Evansville
Elks Beat Sullivan 20–0 in Green Castle Game
In Green Castle yesterday the Elks defeated Sullivan 20 to 0. Governor Marshall returned after the Cloverdale parade to attend the game. J Mark & Co of Indianapolis won the contract to redecorate the Elks club rooms. Karl Lane and family move to a new Jackson Street home today.
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Elks
Sullivan
Governor Marshall
Cloverdale
Jtme
J. Mark & Co
Indianapolis
Elks Club
Karl Lane
Jackson Street
Four Calls Answered by the Greencastle Firemen
Greencastle fire department responded to four incidents Wednesday causing little damage. A false alarm at Jackson and Hanna streets, a tractor fire on the county hitch lot on Vine street, burning telegraph poles on Commercial Place, and a vehicle fire at Bloomington and Vine caused minimal damage.
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Green Castle
Jackson
Hanna
North Vine Street
O. J. Larkin
Bert Howard
Bloomington
Vine
John Nelson
Straw Stack Destroyed by Fire Near Green Castle
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed a large straw stack on the Charles Zeis farm about a mile east of town today. A hailing crew fought the blaze near the bailer and moved the machine, but could not save the straw. Fire department was called when villagers feared the home of Art Raines nearby. No other blazes were found and Jack Towne of Los Angeles is visiting his grandparents.
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Charles Zeis
Art Raines
Greencastle
Squirrel season set to open August first
County officials issue hunting licenses as the squirrel season opens August 1 and runs to November 1 with a daily limit of five. The quail season is scheduled from November 10 to December 20.
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Ford Larens
de Puty
Miss Pearl Cole
DePauw Summer School Closes August Ninth
DePauw University summer session under Prof H. K. Greenleaf ends Saturday August 9. Enrollment this year reached 109 in liberal arts and 24 in music. Faculty includes Greenleaf botany Yuneker Tilden Dirks Mitchell Crandall Lytle Nichols Tomlinson and Kosollenberger. Male students outnumbered females in liberal arts and Putnam county residents are listed among attendees.
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DePauw University
H. KK
HW. Greenleaf
Greenleaf
HB. A. Greenleaf
T. G. Yuneker
F.C. Tilden
L. Mh. Dirks
Wo Fo Mitchell
W. A. Crandall
W. V. Lytle
Bd. R. Nichols
Tomlinson
Judith Ko Sollenberger
Enelich
School of Music
DePauw
Putnan County
Well Known Banker Johnson Dies in Crawfordsville
WAVELAND July 38 Charles Holmes Johnson 7% cashier of the State Bank of Waveland for years died at Culver hospital Crawfordsville Wednesday morning at 2 o clock after a period of ill health and gall stone surgery. Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 o'clock at his Waveland home with burial in Waveland cemetery.
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Waveland
Charles Holmes Johnson
State Bank of
Culver
Crawfordsville
Johnson
Jay I
Waveland Cemetery
Changsha Hostage Rescue and Looting Amid River Battle
Reports from Shanghai and Peiping describe five American sailors wounded and Communist forces firing on the gunboat Palos on the Siang river near Changsha. Foreign residents were evacuated to gunboats as looting and fires raged through the city, with foreigners and several missions damaged or destroyed.
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Changsha
London
Cins—A
China
Shanghai
Siang River
Chanesha
Peiping
Liang River
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DR. Bundy
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Greencasne
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East Washington Street
Jack Towne
Los Angeles
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William Emerson Bausman
Charles Kay Blue
Beatrice Brown
Donald Cooper
Neve Cowgill
Fillmore
Marion Crawley
Cecil Erwin
Helen Fisher
Francis Hamilton
Eupgene Hutchine
Towehdale
Cyril Johnson
Russellville
Amece
Mary Ella McCurry
Helen McGaughey
Freda MacDonald
Colin Morrison
Raynond Neal
Elizabeth Padgett
Marie Voerkins
Mildred Pitchford
Virginia Raviden
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Grace Reynolds
William Blanchard
Palos
Changha
Shamehai
London Times
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W. H. Lingle
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Yale-in-China
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