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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1915
Page
4
Community notices report Edna Curtis visiting friends in Brazil and several guests arriving for university commencement week. Events include a DePauw concert with Indianapolis players, a marriage at Rockville, a burial procession in Greencastle, band performances, and local travel to and from Greencastle.
Health hints promote osteopathy as a natural, discipline based therapy. It argues harmony with nature, vitality building through proper habits and correct intake, and stresses hands on manipulations as a distinct medical system.
Notice advising customers that electric light bills are ready for payment. Call at the office to settle. Putnam Electric Co.
Jackson C. Boyd of this city was named state chairman of the Progressive party at a meeting in the Claypool Hotel Indianapolis. He succeeds Edward Tower of Anderson after a session marked by resignations and differences with district chairmen. The committee reaffirmed party principles and pledged to perfect the organization for next year.
A pair of suburbanites joke about wives delaying their plans to catch trains. The first laments slow dressing causing missed trains, while the second boasts his wife works on a system that yields punctuality for the next train.
Two sailors debate if the trade winds have ceased due to the tight money market, noting there is no breeze while they stay on course. The remark hints at economic conditions affecting seafaring.
A taxpayer friend touts the candidate as already fixed for election urging fines for contempt of court to fill the treasury. The candidate questions the exact argument used, while the booster insists voters are enthusiastic.
President Hazard recalls a witty line from a girl graduate bidding farewell to her dean. She said she is indebted for all she knows, and the dean joked not to mention such a trifling debt, delivering a lighthearted quip at the meal.
Treasury agents seized from A Anpikadjian of Constantinople two egg shaped diamonds weighing over 18 karats each. Claimed worn by the Queen of Sheba and once attached to emeralds as a large pair of earrings. Anpikadjian said he bought them in Constantinople from an Egyptian princess and that customs passed them on arrival.
The program notes a morning service at 10 30 and an evening vesper at six o clock. The baccha laureate service unfolds tomorrow with the listed times.
Full printed program for Sunday morning and evening services at DePauw University includes processions, hymns, creeds, and prayers led by university officials. The list features Grose and Ogden as sermon and vesper speakers, with Mendelssohn music and a long roster of university officers and choir contributors.
Edwin Hawkins of East Moriches, 73, shocked neighbors by marrying Miss Christina Ophelia Overton, 37 years his junior, instead of the mother. The East Moriches man, a lay preacher of the Plymouth Brothers doctrine, had been courting Mrs. Lucile Overton, widow, before choosing her daughter and breaking off with the mother. He has been married twice before and has grown children.
Locust Street Methodist lists Sunday school 9 30 a m with classes for all ages and strong attendance. There is a 10 30 a m baccalaureate service at Meharry Hall and no service at this church. Junior League meets at 3 p m and university vesper service at 6 p m with no Epworth League. Evening service at 7 30 p m features chorus choir singing and a pastor sermon inviting all not worshiping elsewhere to attend.
The Hoel scher family of Violet Texas, twelve children of the late Joe Hoelscher, weigh a combined 3060 pounds with an average of 225 pounds each. They have eighty five children and sixty five grandchildren all in the heavyweight class. The brothers and sisters are farmers noted for strong builds and record crop yields.
The Christian Church led by Pastor A M Hootman holds Sunday school at 9 30 with Wm Conklin as superintendent and Mrs Cora O'Brien involved in a fifty child Children’s Day program to be presented Sunday evening as Foreign Mission Day. A 10 30 communion and sermon on The Transmission of Power follows. An afternoon talk is planned for the Odd Fellows at the cemetery. 6 30 Christian Endeavor led by Kenneth Wilson on Body Under Soul on Top. At 7 30 the pastor preaches The fool hath said a sermon for the doubters and skeptics inviting all to attend. Presbyterian Church pastor Thomas Younger announces services tomorrow at 10 30.
The parish announces an organ sale and a Pilgrims Chorus performance by Lawrence Stout. The Par ish School meets at 2 o clock with a class for all. A Children’s Day program is planned for June 7. The session and deacons will meet with trustees at Andrew Black’s home Tuesday evening. In memory of husband and father Joan A Paris died June 6 1914. Mrs John Paris and children express condolences. Edna McClure leaves for Elwood for summer, returning next fall.
Greencastle Crescent Rebekah Lodge No. 763 will meet Monday June 7 at 8 p.m. Members are urged to attend especially the degree staff. Margaret Hoffman and N. Rae Masten, Secretaries.
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