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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
5
Mr and Mrs Cohen Pierson and children were returning home when the car skidded on slick pavement east of town. It left the road, hit a telephone pole, and shattered glass caused facial injuries. The elder son required stitches, while the younger son and Mrs Pierson had minor cuts.
Mr. McCoy, a DePauw alumnus class of 1925 and member of Phi Gamma Delta and Scabbard and Blade, is now sales manager of the Cincinnati Automobile Club. He and his sorority and Theta Sigma Phi affiliations are noted.
Gypsies camped at the Jesse Young farm north of town and near the Black farm 20 miles west were ordered to move on by Officer David Braden on Friday. Those north of town loaded belongings into a Ford and a wagon, while those west of town loaded three wagons. The camps had persisted for some time and irritated nearby residents.
The excerpt discusses learning drawing and color, observing artists, and absorbing their spirit. It compares knowing a human being to knowing God, through acquaintance, reading deeds, conversation, and personal introduction, then ties college years to deepened faith and the divine in life.
Bromley Oxnam, 36, named president of DePauw University, is a dynamic, well educated leader with a background in social ethics and theology. Born in Sonora California on August 14 1891, he holds degrees from USC Boston University Harvard MIT and the College of the Pacific and has held roles at USC Boston Theological School and Boston School of Theology. He has lectured globally and written on social and religious topics. He is married to Ruth Fisher daughter of oil operator Walter Harrison Fisher.
The text profiles Mrs. Oxnam as a prominent Los Angeles social and business figure closely allied with Dr. Oxnam. She centers on home and children, with three offspring: Robert 12 Phillip 9 and Betty Ruth 3, detailing the family dynamic and roles.
Daniel Strain, 25, student of Columbus Ohio, and Kathleen Tloise Evens, 22, at home of Greencastle Ohio, apply for a license. O D McCullough, 44, zine worker, and Flossie Runyan, 39, teacher, both of Greencastle. Dr Neal Davis, 28, teacher, Baltimore Maryland, and Doris Leavitt, 24, teacher, Greencastle.
Margaret Christina Dicker of Roachdale and Barnard died at North Salem home of Mrs. Elisha Shirley Sunday at 3 35 pm. Cause given as old age and complications. Age eighty eight, born North Salem. daughter of Preston and Susan Pennington. First husband Franklin Butler 1856, son John survives. Second husband Floyd Dickerson 1890. Member of Roaddale Baptist church. pioneer of Hendricks and Putnam counties. Survived by eight grandchildren, five great great grandchildren, five stepchildren, and brother Worth Pennington of Roachdale.
DePauw University held commencement in Bowman Memorial building with Francis Calvin Tilden head of comparative literature delivering The Ideal College in a Practical World. He urged truth and life integration, cautioned on rationalization and drifting moral standards in a rapidly shrinking world.
The piece argues that college graduates should balance material progress with spiritual and ethical standards. It warns of wealth and power eroding values, urges clear thinking, and calls for colleges to apply truth to life, fostering service, unity with business, and a motto of We Build.
A. B. Hanna and A. G. Brown, Fifth district Republican delegates, leaped from a local Pennsylvania station to catch the Watson Special after a signal mix up. The train stalled fifteen minutes at Limedale, allowing them to reboard en route to Kansas City with Indiana Farm Bureau Federation President W. H. Settle and a large Indiana farmer delegation carrying 50 000 petitions urging a McNary Haugen bill styled federal law backing farm support and non voting pledges.
Raymond Wright president of the Putnam County Farm Bureau and representative for Putnam County farmers at the convention attended. W. A. Alexander another Putnam County farmer joined as a spectator at the event.
Fire of mysterious origin destroyed the general store of Campbell and Giscns at Center, Ind. Insured loss about 6,006 with total damage around 15,000. The second floor housed the Modern Woodmen lodge, which lost all. lodge losses about 2,500 with 500 insured.
Columbus Illinois June 11 Every county in the state is expected to be represented at the 49th annual encampment of the Indiana G A R and five allied organizations in Columbus June 18 19 20 and 21 Careful plans are in place to host more than 2000 delegates and visitors plus 2000 additional guests for sessions features and the parade Various affiliated groups will meet separately but join in public functions A concert by the Boys Band of the Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Home Knightstown and a mammoth Wednesday parade with bands and 1000 World War veterans are planned The encampment ends with a Thursday business session and closing ceremonies
Mr and Mrs Lewis Young were away from their Fern area home west of Greencastle when thieves entered Thursday night and took a feather bed four pillows a bolster four quilts a comfort and other bedding plus forty six chickens eight Anconas and thirty eight mixed. Sheriff Edward Bitelforge and deputy Alva Bryan investigated but had no definite clues.
Honorary degrees were awarded at DePauw commencement to Lewis Simpson Smith, 77, retired minister of the Northwest Indiana conference, West Lafayette, Doctor of Divinity, and George Walter Stewart, 98, professor of physics and head of the department, State University of Iowa, Doctor of Science, joined by Oscar Milton Stewart, '22, professor of (text cuts off).
The passage notes DePauw graduates occupying top positions across major universities: Edward Charles Elliott president of Purdue University, and Frederic Austin Ogg professor of political science head of department at the University of Wisconsin. It cites these men as DePauw alumni with Elliott not as a DePauw graduate.
Martinsville resident A H Stierwalt, who lost a foot in a Gosport switch accident, won a $42,000 verdict plus $10,000 interest after the Indiana Supreme Court denied transfer. The Monon railway company appealed, but the decision remains in Stierwalt’s favor per his lawyers.
The Sunday afternoon service for Rev. D. L. Vandament drew large crowds from Greencastle and across Indiana. Speakers included Rev. A. C. Thomas and Dr. C. Howard Taylor, with solos by Rev. Brockmeyer and Mrs. Ben Riley. Pallbearers listed, and numerous out of town mourners presented from Chicago to Waynetown.
George W. Young 64 from north of the Butler School house near Reelsville is jailed on a religious insanity charge. Family and officers say not dangerously insane but mentally ill. a sanity commission could commit him to Evansville Hospital for the Insane. Dr Stiles of Lena treated him. He was brought in Sunday by Sheriff Ed ward Ejiteljorge.
Mrs Sarah E Field mother of Mrs Edna Dailey wife of Indiana governor candidate Frank Dailey died at her home in Bloomington Ind after a long illness She is survived by a brother Thomas Carr of Bloomington Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon She was a member of the First Methodist Church widow of land Field founder of the Field glove factory
Mr and Mrs Fred Goddard and Mr and Mrs Joe Skelton of Greens Castle spent Sunday in Terre Haute visiting relatives.
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