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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1928
Page
2
By mail in Putnam County the rate is $2.00 per year. Outside Putnam County it is $3.60 per year. In Greencastle by carrier ten cents a week. Weekly edition costs $1.50 per year. Advertising rates available on application.
Betsy Patterson hosts Jerome Bonaparte at the Patterson Inn in Baltimore as news arrives that Napoleon has become Emperor. Betsy’s moral conflict with a secret tutor and the approaching wedding frame a glittering gala that masks deeper rivalries among three Frenchmen planning to influence her future.
Graham Paige cars feature brackets that hold up both sides of the engine hood at the same time. The design prevents hood marring from repeated side-to-side folding and allows better light and airflow while servicing a warm engine.
Auditor Willis B. Gill of Putnam County Indiana announces a petition by C A Sallust and others to grade drain bridge and pave a one mile stretch of public highway in Greencastle Township. The hearing before the county board is set for Monday July 2 1928 at the July term. Signed by O A Sallust and sixty two others with attorney W M Sutherlin.
Summer school began at the High School building Wednesday at 7 am with twenty six pupils from the high school and seventh and eighth grades enrolled. Four English classes and three history classes plus algebra arithmetic and grade two courses are offered. DePauw students teach under Miss Lela Walls and Miss Genevieve Daggy supervision. Each class meets two hours daily for six weeks with a small fee. The instructors include Ruth Bickel Jesse Robinson Fern Beck Margaret McLean Helen Dunbar Hazel Stroube Harrietta Kelly Lucille Allen Dorthy Fisher Elliott Acree Dale Cue Esther Jones Frank Hammond Louis Overton Marion Barrows Edmond Alley Rowena Satterlee and Forest Roe.
Mr and Mrs Joel Thomas of Washington township visited their son Paul Thomas last Sunday. Guests Mr and Mrs A J Johnson visited daughter Mrs Olan Kein to see granddaughter Miss Helen Bain who had mastoid operation. Hollis Colglazier of Salem calls on friends this week. Elder W E Dudley preached at Long Branch Church last Sunday. Catherine Johns celebrated her twelfth birthday with Miss Johns as guest of honor. Strawberries and cake preceded a happy party at Fred Johns’s with many presents for Catherine.
Sunday evening June 17 a children's exercise program was hosted at the M P Church in Clinton Falls. Attendees included Mr and Mrs Richard Reed and sons from Bellmore visiting Staggs relatives. Several locals attended Ken Priest's funeral at Brick Chapel. Families visited Spencer and Vermillion households during Sunday visits. Mose Manker and daughter Merca visited George Pierce, and Edward Bettis with son spent Sunday with Tom Bettis.
Putnamville J. W. Hendrix and daughter Gertrude travel to Lafayette to be with Mrs. William Lewis Hendrix who had an appendicitis operation Monday. Mrs. Katie Horn hosts dinner with guests including Scott Ferris, Dickerson of Terre Haute, and Belle Horn of St. Louis. Clarence McNeff returns home from Purdue. Esther Whitaker, formerly at tending DePauw, is home for the summer. Mrs. Dan Brackney of Greencastle visits Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wright.
Mr and Mrs Charlie Heath and their son Arthur spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs Sam Wright. Mrs Ollie Williams and daughter Jessie stayed with Mrs Gertrude Williamson in Greencastle for DePauw commencement. Will Glidwell served as a delegate to last week’s state convention.
Mrs. Helen Maddox visited her brother John Newgent near Clinton Falls last week. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Farrow were in Crawfordsville Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Carmichael of Greencastle spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Gooch. Children’s exercises were well attended at Union Chapel Sunday night. Wilbur Nichols moved from the Inge property to the Zepha Barket property last week. Mrs. Edna Chadd and Miss Madonna Tustison from Bainbridge called on Mr. and Mrs. George Inge Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Spencer from Marshall spent Sunday with W. S. Lawter and family. Mrs. Jessie Newgent spent Sunday with her sister Maud O’Haver. Wayne Bettis of Indianapolis spent Sunday in Morton. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Pitts of Browns Valley called on Mr. and Mrs. George Inge. Sunday afternoon Lee Miller and children spent a few days last week in Muncie.
The Granada Theatre presents Warner Bros. Brass Knuckles starring Monte Blue and Betty Bronson with Lloyd Bacon directing. Harvey Gates wrote the story and scenario. The tense drama follows Zac, unjustly imprisoned, who strives to care for a prisoner's daughter as danger looms from an old foe. Also stars William Russell Georgia Stone Paul Panzer and Jack Curtis.
The Voncastle Theatre presents Finders Keepers a War era comedy starring Laura La Plante as the Camp Commandant’s daughter who loves a Private. She impersonates a private and performs the manual of arms amid a cast led by John Harron Edmond Breese Arthur Rankin William Gorman Eddie Phillips and Joe Mack Wesley Ruggles directed.
Andrew Lancett, a pioneer merchant of Brazil, died at the Cunot home of his niece, Mrs. Alma Knoll, in Owen County from paralysis at age 72. He leaves two sisters, Carolina Holloway of Brazil and Clara Hendrix of Putnamville, with one brother, Daniel Lancett, deceased. Funeral held at First Christian Church in Brazil, after which the body was taken to Clinton, Oklahoma for interment beside his wife.
Ola Johnson of Cloverdale and Joseph Pearson of Chicago were arrested after colliding with G. A. Fletcher’s car at Kennedy's Crossing. Johnson was fined 100 dollars and 30 days on the penal farm for driving while intoxicated, with May or Carpenter reducing his term by two months after he paid for the damage. Pearson received a 100 dollar fine and three months on the penal farm.
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