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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1919
Page
1
Thieves entered Kelley’s store in Greencastle Sunday night and carried off about $1000 in clothing shoes shirts jewelry. Five suitcases filled with merchandise were taken in the burglary.
Merchandise including men’s clothing shoes shirts neckties silk shirts cuff links and jewelry valued about $1000 was stolen from the C A Kelley store on the south square Sunday night. Robbers used a shovel to pry an iron bar and entered through the back door leaving footprints and a shoe print as clues. One man seen in the shop Saturday night is the only potential lead.
Dr. A. E. Ayler of this city served as a surgeon at the speedway hospital during the 500 mile race. He assisted drivers and mechanics injured in the race while several spectators overcome by heat and minor injuries in the crowd received care at the hospital.
Two road contracts in Floyd and Warren townships went begging as county commissioners met to award them. The failure to bid halted plans for the Brothers road in Floyd township and the A. A. Cooper road in Warren township.
Earlier estimates for road construction proved too low causing contractors to abandon the job. New estimates will be prepared and bids reissued under the updated figures.
Superintendent Dodson distributed commencement tickets to seniors for Friday night in the high school auditorium with reserved seats for relatives. Public seating will be free. A monster audience is expected. Midweek and Saturday high school picture shows will be suspended for two to three weeks. Manual training under Prof. Knight and domestic science under Miss Cammack will be shown tomorrow and Wednesday in the high school gym and rooms. The 1919 G H S Annuals edited by the senior class will go on sale tomorrow at 3 15 in Principal Courson’s office. Class Day exercises are Wednesday afternoon in the high school auditorium with Harold Neugent as program committee chairman.
Reverend Blaine Kirkpatrick delivers an address to the Greencastle High School graduating class. The sermon-like talk emphasizes instruction, ambition, and community values for the new graduates.
Service Sunday evening honored forty three high school graduates with a class sermon by Rev. Blaine B. Kirkpatrick at the College Avenue Methodist Church. Music coordinator Miss Catherine Allison presented a solo Ave Maria with piano by Miss Margery Thomas and violin by Marshall Abrams as fourteen girls performed in the chorus. The sermon urged the graduates to pursue education and religion in tandem and noted wartime losses of potential leaders.
The twenty third annual Greencastle district convention of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society will convene at the Fourth Avenue church in Terre Haute on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs Ten Rittenger and Mrs Daniel Stocker will speak. District youth session Tuesday evening and Wednesday reports and officer elections follow. Attending representatives include Brazil Greencastle Newport Perrysville Rockville Dara Amo Fillmore and Bloomingdale. Officers listed: President Mrs Henry Ostrom Greencastle. VPs Mrs W E Carpenter Brazil and Mrs W F McCommack Terre Haute. recording secretary Mrs Homer Davis Dana. corresponding secretary Mrs H Ehrmann Terre Haute. treasurer Mrs Q A Myers Perrysville.
Mrs Alta Seamans died Saturday afternoon at the Misses Ikar mire home on South Indiana street after a three month illness. The Greencastle Presbyterian church member leaves son Donald a DePauw junior, a California-based mother, and a sister. Funeral Tuesday at 2 PM from her Wabash home with Rev Victor L. Raphael officiating.
Rev Kirkpatrick urged 43 graduates to extend education and recruit for national service. He warned that rushing to work without training risks failure, likening youth to ships: a well-prepared vessel gains speed and reaches the goal, while the unprepared lags. The benediction was given by Rev Don Nichols of Locust Street Methodist Church.
Marshall Henry O'Hair flushed four south Greencastle men at a craps game in Peck woods, with hearings before the mayor today. Judge James P. Hughes ruled in Rogers vs Bradford from Hendricks county, awarding Rogers $10 damages and enjoining Bradford from using one line of filing.
County commissioners name James Fischer of the Indiana Portland Cement Company as special constable to police liquor-law infringements at the plant. The move follows reports bootleggers selling alcohol to laborers, with the aim to stop the practice.
J. F. Hill, once a local resident but now based in Indianapolis, arrived today to oversee his business interests in the city.
The Indianapolis group pressures for its preferred candidate as usual, sidetracking Merrill Morse in favor of Al J. Rucker in the race for Congress.
Washington reports a push by Marion county Republicans to nominate Alvah J. Rucker of Indianapolis for Congress in the seventh district. The plan aims to unseat Merrill Moores with Rucker favored for his strength with the colored vote, reflecting tension between local reform ideals and state unity.
The piece portrays Marion county as decisive for a Republican win in Indiana and criticizes local reform rhetoric. It highlights alleged precinct-level counting irregularities, mentions Lew Shank races, and argues Marion county machinery could determine state officials, with Washington voices echoing these tensions.
Monday receipts at the Indianapolis stockyards totaled 11 000 hogs with prices 26 cents lower from the prior quotation at 20 25 to 20 50. Local packers bought 7 500 hogs and outsiders 3 000 while cattle trading started slow and prospects weakened Calves and sheep held steady.
Mr and Mrs Anderson Goodpastore Warren township are parents of a daughter born Saturday. A N Healey of Chicago returns home after visiting relatives here. The funeral of John Rockey will be Tuesday at College Avenue M E Church with Rev B E Kirkpatrick officiating. Burial at Poland Cemetery pallbearers listed. Captain W H Ball Indianapolis overseas veteran plans district Y M C A meeting June 18 for returned soldier boys with about seventy five delegates expected. The district includes Putnam Clay Parke Hendricks Owen and part of Vigo counties. Mr Hester Kelly and Edwin Kelly from Indianapolis spent Sunday with Mrs Margaret Kelly. Edwin Kelly is son and Mrs Hester Kelly sister of Mrs Margaret Kelly. Mrs Frank Bittles invites guests Wednesday afternoon for her sister Mrs W T Sitlington of Little Rock Arkansas visiting.
Four Putnam County men are listed for a few days in Green Castle for special enlistment work as soldiers join the army through a local effort.
Elmer S. Smith Greencastle Ernest J. Wat son Greencastle Robert J. Langley Clinton Falls and Charles Boling Reelsville enlist for U S Army at a special Greencastle enlistment office set up by Ft. Benjamin Harrison personnel. Lieut. Wilson leads a fifteen man recruiting crew who arrived Saturday and stay until Tuesday evening at the court house south entrance accepting enrollments as more locals express intent to join.
The 6500 Indiana Sunday schools with about 700000 members will meet in Marion June 24 23 under the state association. The program features new international association standards and sessions with experts including Dr Henry F P Cope Miss Pearl L Weaver and Rev O F Fifer music by H Augustine Smith and a Sunday school pageant. Several thousand delegates are expected with extensive Marion preparations.
The suit of Dan Besser against his late father's estate over $3,000 for labor was compromised Monday before trial. A judgment of $500 was awarded to Besser, who is one of two heirs and will gain $250 more than his share of the estate.
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