Local News Highlights From Greencastle And Nearby
Local items note travel plans by Mr and Mrs C H Barnaby to Indianapolis Frank Donner in Indianapolis and illness of Mrs James P Hughes at her East Seminary home Scouts to meet at Commercial Club Wednesday at 7 30 pm visitors Glenn Tucker and son from Rushville to visit Dr and Mrs W W Tucker birth of a seventh son to Mr and Mrs Robert Hill Bay View trips for Mrs Josephine Lewis and Miss Minna Curran missions society meetings at Howard street and church missions groups O E S Greencastle chapter 255 meets Wednesday at 8 pm with Jennie Gardner and Jennie Lane presiding upcoming church society gatherings at College Avenue and the Presbyterian church teachers exam results 75 took the exam with 58 applying for state licenses Standard Heating Sales Company to establish offices in Greencastle moving from Terre Haute Pauline Roberts and Alfred Feary marry in Newport Washington with Feary in forestry service and the couple planning to reside in the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Roberts
Miss Pauline
Alfred Jr. Feary
Newport
Wash
Miss Roberts
Feary
Government
Forestry Service
Greencastle High School
DePauw
Clinton Falls Social Roundup Draws Local Visits
Sunday visits knit Clinton Falls households as neighbors called on kin and friends. Clay Lane spent the night with Oscar Rowings while families including the Bettises and Pierces hosted and visited relatives. Illness teams with Lucile Bettis and others amid hospital like concerns. several women visited Mrs Eula Stages and companions Friday evening.
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Clay Lane
Oscar Rowings
George Pierce
Indianapolis
Mose Manker
Jacob Thomas
Sarah Bettis
Clay
Edward Bettis
Elbert Bettis
Frank Davison
Greencastle
Lucile Bettis
Zelda Thomas
Rena Fulford
Golda Sachs
Sarah Newgent
Wallace Spenter
Nellie Bettis
Emily Boswell
Anna Boswell
Golda Bee
Eula Stages
Maple Hill Social Notes and Visits Highlight Week
Warm weather arrives with locusts as corn planting continues. Andrew Johnson visits Fillmore to see daughter Ola Bain who is ill. L M Wrights dine with Robert Irwin. Leu Marshall is ill. Vaughn Dickey family visit Samuel Dickey. Kirk to preach at Long Branch on June 15. James Dillinger recovering from stomach trouble. Easton Dickey and family attend Lena meeting. Andrew Johnson buys a new automobile.
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Andrew Johnson
Fillmore
Ola Bain
L. M. Wright
Robert Irwin
Wysong ill. high school play. locals attend
Somerset notes illness of J F Wysong and Mrs Mize while Miss Hester Wallace and Mrs Ruth Wells travel to Indianapolis. Cecil Pruitt visits grandmother. Orville Thomas graduates. Brick Chapel children’s exercises planned. Miss Singleton visits Earl O'Hair. The Red Cross and American Food Mission describe relief efforts in Romania amid epidemics and food shortages.
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J. F. Wysong
Hester Wallace
Ruth Wells
Indianapolis
Cecil Pruitt
Brick Chapel
Miss Singleton
Earl O'Hair
Cora Kibble Visit Sparks Edgar's Match Mixup
Edgar Gatepost resists a planned meeting with Cora Kibble as his mother nudges a potential engagement. He recalls past matchmaking schemes by Effie and harshly Judges Cora, while her parents push for a cordial visit and possible romance. The scene unfolds with humor and tension as family dynamics collide with courting plans.
Child asks if floor will go barefooted during carpet removal
In a quiet sitting room a three year old girl named Dorothy watches as the carpet is lifted for cleaning. The child asks her mother, with innocent curiosity, if the floor will be allowed to go barefooted.
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Dorothy
Mumma
Ey to Utility pants inquiry in rough goods era
A brief exchange portrays a shopper asking for pants with rough goods language. The clerk offers options and the customer prefers rough material described as suitable for scratching matches, indicating practical, improvised dressing needs.
Lighting a Six Room House In Early Electrical Design
The article outlines practical lighting schemes for a six room house focusing on light wall colors to reflect illumination and reduce needed power. It details lamp types and placements for porch reception living dining kitchen and bedrooms, with switches sockets and stairwell controls for modern electrical appliances.
Drift Sergeant Chides Out of Step Jones in Mock Command
A light trench scene shows a drift sergeant taunting Private Jones for being out of step. He sarcastically orders the company to change step while declaring he prefers not to bother Jones again, highlighting tension and discipline in a wartime drill.
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Jones
Little Jones
Private Jones
Classified Adverts Offer Cabbage Plants and Milk Delivery
A newspaper ad notes the difficulty of naming an article and promotes Chamberlain's Tablets for constipation and digestion. It invites milk delivery in Green Castle via Charley Watson, Brick Chapel, at his expense. Early cabbage plants are for sale at 5e a dozen, with phone number 506 for orders.
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Greencastle
Charley Watson
Brick Chapel
Chamberlain's Liniment Eases Stiffness and Pain
When stiffness and soreness of the muscles and aching joints make movement painful, massaging the affected parts with Chamberlain's Liniment helps relieve pain and makes rest and sleep possible.
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Chamberlain
Notice of dissolution of auto accessory partnership
Having dissolved partnership in the auto accessory business we require all accounts settled immediately. Mr MacDonald will continue the accessory and battery business at the same stand. Mr Cash will continue his vulcanizing work at the old stand for the present. William MacDonald, J. E. Cash.
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MacDonald
Cash
William MacDonald
J. E. Cash
Wisler cured of indigestion by tablets
In 1909 William B Wisler of Douglasville Pa. found relief from indigestion after receiving a free sample of Chamberlain's Tablets by mail. He tried them, bought a package, and reports no similar attack since. A for sale or trade ad offers a Singer sewing machine traded for a heifer calf or pigs. The White Cleaning Company and others drove to Indianapolis for a day of golf at Riverside course.
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Chamberlain
Wm. B. Wisler
Douglasville
White Cleaning Company
Booze Not a Cure for Colic and Stomach Ache
Ames Intelligencer warns against using whiskey to treat colic and stomach pain. It advises sending the sufferer to a doctor or giving Chamberlain's Colic and Diarrhoea Remedy instead. The piece notes a common belief that alcohol is a remedy, correcting the misconception.
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Ames
Iowa
Intelligencer
Chamberlain
Man loses hoe in purchase of Mayr remedy claim
The ad claims a man suffered stomach trouble for ten years and found relief after using Mayr's Wonderful Remedy two and a half years ago. It asserts the product clears catarrhal mucus from the intestinal tract and relieves inflammation causing stomach liver and intestinal ailments. One dose will convince or money refunded. Sold by druggists everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mayr
Ady
Cagle Mill Nears Readiness Sparks Local Growth Talk
Black Hawk reports the Cagle Mill will soon begin operation and outlines plans for a grocery store nearby. The community envisions broader development including an aero plane and automobile plant. Manuel Neese, returning from over a year with the American army in France, expects to be home soon. Mr and Mrs Daniel Craft visited Carrie Neese on Sunday. William Evans visited his brother near Greencastle Sunday. J L Breedlove sold his farm and moved to Indianapolis. Charles Sargent and family were seen here Sunday. Maurice Gibson plans to build a new house.
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Manuel Neese
France
Daniel Craft
Carrie Neese
William Evans
Greencastle
J. L. Breedlove
Indianapolis
Charles Sargent
Maurice Gibson
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Ideal Bank
United I Central
Ford & Evens
Jackson St
Indiana Loan CO
Donner
East
Washington ST
Via
Highlander
E. He Browning
Grocer
Ferndell
W. P. Sackett
C. H. Barnaby
Frank Donner
James P. Hughes
East Seminary Street
Boy Scouts
Commercial Club
Glenn Tucker and Son
Rushville
W.W. Tucker
Josephine Lewis
Minna Curran
Bay View
Mich
Robert Hill
Sycamore Street
Hill
Benjamin Swahlen
W. F. Swahlen
Cincinnati
Mary J. Vanlandingham
David Vanlandingham
Overseas
New York
Missionary Society of the Christian Church
Edgar L. Harris
Howard Street
Jennie Gardner
Jennie Lane
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of
College Avenue Church
The
Presbyterian Church
William Haspel
Columbia Street
Standard Heating Sales Company
Standard Heating Company
Terre Haute
Clinton Falls
Maple Hill
Easton Dickey
Lena
Somerset
American Food Mission
American Red Cross
Roumania
Red Cross
Danube
DE Rer Opera House
A. Cook
American Film Company Presents
Winifred Greenwood
Franklin Ritchie
Stace Mutual
Diando Film Company
Betty Compson
George Larkin
Forrio Prospect
Edgar
Cora
Cora Kibble
Effie
Efie
Sugar
Eile
Neo
Ellie
Jila
Poncherino
May
Lesa
Willard
Greencastle Battery Company
H. Askew
Palmer Chiropractor
Theles
School of Auctioneering
Robert M. McHaffie
Stilesville, Indiana
Aeep
MR. Wisler
J. Warren Kerr
S. C. Sayers
Fred Hixon
Riverside
Man
Black Hawk
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