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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
1
A column by Say recounts a phone call about his barbecue line and a planned Lone Star Barbecue event. The writer describes tasting a Friday night sample menu with beef, beans, potato salad, doughnuts, bread, and java, praising the organizers and vowing to attend the Wednesday barbecue.
Kentland Ind June 14 The jury found John A Dunlap former prosecuting attorney guilty of conspiracy in the Renesselaer State Bank robbery last fall after a trial that lasted about thirty minutes Special Judge Ernest Hawkins of Fowler delayed judgment pending a possible defense motion for a new trial
Calcium chloride has been applied by the State Highway Commission on State Road 43 from Greencastle to Crawfordsville and on State Road 36 across northern county. The solution keeps road surfaces damp by drawing moisture from the air, reducing dust for motorists and visitors. Re-treatment will be needed periodically.
Putnam County Superintendent John C. Vermillion traveled to Indianapolis to press for state school funds to support two townships. State aid targets townships with at least a $1.20 tax rate to cover equipment and extra expenses beyond locally raised money.
Mrs. Clyde Cash fell from a chair while cherry picking five miles east of Greencastle Friday afternoon breaking her right arm. Dr. Hutcheson set the fracture and she was cared for at the scene. Lelia M. Stanger of Washington township sues Amandus D. Stanger in Putnam Circuit Court for divorce alleging temper and neglect and seeks custody and child support.
Indiana State Police under Chief Robert Humes begin enforcement targeting slow drivers on main arteries and other unsafe motorists. Minimum speeds on arterial highways may rise to 25 mph. arrests to curb pokey driving, passing on curves, and failing to yield to faster traffic.
County Agent Floyd Miller advises planting the main crop of late potatoes this month using White Rural or Russet Rural seed. For this region plantings should be completed by the latter part of June at the latest.
Forecast calls for fair and warmer conditions tonight with Sunday partly cloudy skies and further warming. Isolated thundershowers possible in the northwest portions.
The board of public health will require restaurants to use liquid chlorine to sterilize dishes. Dr. Herman G. Morgan announced the measure, noting that boiling water was previously required. Inspectors report many operators have failed to comply, and the chlorine order will be enforced.
County teachers institute in Putnam County will be one day this year under County Superintendent John C. Vermillion. State law limits institutes to one to three days and the auditor may pay Vermillion twenty five dollars per day. Schools start Friday August 30 and end after Labor Day with students attending the Indiana State Fair.
Bert Steele a 55 year old roomer at 310 North Jackson Greencastle ill with small pox. He worked at the County Farm and has lived in Greencastle two years. Mrs Friendly Abrams 45 near Providence church on Hubert Sellers farm southwest of Greencastle hospitalized in Indianapolis with a rifle wound through the abdomen from a hunting accident.
Roy Hill and Miss Faye Morgan from Clay County wed last Thursday. Omer Wimmer unearthed a human skeleton near Mile West farm while working on the road northeast of Greencastle. Lillian Hays and Nellie Farrow head to Gordon Kansas to visit kin. Bonnie Miller attended Edna Curtis surprise party at Putnamville.
Trans Atlantic fliers from Old Orchard to Paris still at Comillas Spain after fuel delay. Stowaway Arthur Schreiber Maine, 22, hid in the Yellow Bird, feeling like tossing him overboard before the final leg to Le Bourget.
Ray Keech winner of the Memorial Day race at the Indianapolis Speedway was killed when six cars crashed in the big race at the wooden bowl Fire spread to the track halting the event Keech suffered mangled injuries losing a leg and died en route to a hospital Cliff Woodbury was fatally injured with a fractured skull in the same wreck
The Owen county grand jury will convene under Judge Herbert Rundell to investigate an alleged poisoning in Spencer. The probe follows Loren Thomas’s petition to modify a year old divorce order relating to custody. The petition notes a child living with Thomas fell ill after visits to Blanche Thomas now of Gosport, alleging medical tests found traces of poison. Grand jury proceedings likely begin Monday June 24.
James J. Johnston 42 of Roachdale pleaded guilty in Putnam Circuit Court to making a false claim for insurance. He was sentenced to 1 to 3 years in Indiana State Prison after being charged for paying a telegraph operator to secrete an insured whippet coach and to collect theft insurance. The case involves $20 paid to relocate the coach from Mace to Chicago.
Four Russelville Indiana youths Lester Jackson Andrew Grimes Homer Stockwell and Paul Haverdale are jailed in Parke County without bond awaiting a hearing on assault with intent to commit a felony linked to the disappearance of Mary Frances Whelan a 15 year old from Fort Lauderdale. The missing girl returned home with a tale of going to Indianapolis with the youths.
Ohio State University professors Marion Meyers and Dr. James H. Snook were arrested in connection with the murder of coed Theora Hix near the Ohio State campus. The brutal attack left Hix dead with a slashed throat and a hammer-blow head injury, discovered at the New York Central rifle range.
Vern Terry of Belle Union faces an assault and battery with intent to kill charge in the knifing of Frank Lane, night foreman at Lone Star cement plant. Putnam Circuit Court flags possible continuance. case had one postponement and may be moved to the fall term.
Kenneth Oral Allee aged 26 athletic coach and Dorothy Susan Weller aged 26 music supervisor, both of Bainbridge, secured a marriage license.
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