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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1931
Page
2
Local residents and visitors are recorded in a sequence of social items. Floyd Miller and James Albin are noted in Bloomington and Greencastle on business, births occur on Melrose avenue, and church events and reunions are announced. Several residents visit hospitals, travel to Chicago or Detroit, and attend family gatherings or funerals.
George Barnett 71 and Rosa Barnett 68 both of Greencastle received a marriage license yesterday from the Clay circuit court at Brazil. Mrs Eddie Buis of Greencastle R A 2 has returned home from Putnam county hospital after medical treatment.
The meeting features Polis and Professor Carroll D. Hildebrand of DePauw with Ernest C. Wareing of Cincinnati and Will presiding. W. S. Bovard and Dr. G. Bromley Oxnam speak, with Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle concluding on the Religion We Need, arguing religion as the true spiritual objective amid science and education.
The weekly traffic bulletin from the state highway commission reports early year starts on state roads with detours on routes crossing Putnam county. Detours include U S 46 from seven miles east of Rockville to Road 43 at nineteen and a half miles and Road 43 at Wanatah for overhead bridge work. A detour from Crawfordsville to Parkersburg for paving spans nineteen and a half miles with eleven and a half paved. Another detour seven miles south of Cloverdale for grading lasts day hours. U S 46 from Bloomington to Spencer for paving covers twenty miles in fair condition.
The report notes Aaron Sandy's health remains unimproved in Cloverdale. Mrs. Retta Patrick and daughter Deema spend summer on a farm near Amity. T. J. Nixon buys the Sinclair residence on North Main Street. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Neier and their son enjoy part of the summer on a farm five miles south.
The program features a private Will Rogers screening at Paramount Publix Palace and a Friday schedule with talks on medical advertising typography and radio ads. Barbara sessions include lunch by Prof. Wright and tours of Gary steel mills and Whiting refineries. Notables include Mayor Anton Cermak and Nellie Tayloe Ross.
Continuation list of children stories and classics including Aesop's Fables, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Little Women, Moby Dick, and Homeric Greece with assorted readers and adventure titles for Grades 7-8 and high school, plus historical and travel volumes.
An arts column highlights junior high spirit books and drama titles including Play the Game and One Act Plays. It lists poetry collections and tales such as Jane's Island Sunup and Pol and the Unexplored Real Legends of New England.
Livestock receipts at Indianapolis include hogs 4,000 cattle 3,800 calves 500 sheep 700. Early hog prices up 40 to 55 cents with sales of 160 to 275 pound pigs at 7.25 to 7.35 dollars, heavy weights 7.15, underweights 7.25, sows 6. Cattle active with higher tendency, calves down 8. Sheep steady with best lambs at 9.25.
A Rockford Illinois article notes the Chappel Kennel Foundation presenting skeletons of a man and a dog mounted in the museum to compare anatomy. The illustration shows dogs share anatomy with humans more closely than farm animals, and organ function insights come from dog studies. Proper feeding centers on meat as the base of a dog's diet.
The Sew-So 4-H club elected Freda Bittles as president and others for key posts at Lettie York home with eleven members present. Wee Tri 4-H elected Kathryn Johns president and Irma Henry secretary with eleven members meeting at Miss Irma Henry’s home. The D A R Flag Day picnic is planned for June 16.
Announcement at the Northwest Conference session states the Crawfordsville district of the Methodist Episcopal Church is restored with the superintendent’s residence returning to Crawfordsville. The change was approved 78 to 73 after discussion led by Dr. Henry L. Davis of Indianapolis. Sessions run through Monday.
The 1930 conference cut Crawfordsville district, leaving Bend Lafayette and Greencastle as the three districts. A superintendent for Crawfordsville will be appointed at the final meeting. Previously Rev. O T Martin led the Crawfordsville district before its elimination.
Professor Francis Tilden of DePauw University was principal speaker at the dedication of the Safety Monument at the Lone Star Cement Plant in Limedale this afternoon. The monument honors the plant for operating last year with no serious accidents, awarded by National Portland Cement Co.
Five patients underwent tonsil removal operations at Putnam County Hospital today. They include Charles and James McAlister of Reelsville Marilyn Crask daughter of Rex and Mrs Crask Buddy Vosmeier son of L H Vosmeier and Wilson Handy.
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