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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1930
Page
2
Local residents hosted and visited relatives this weekend with guests from Terre Haute and Miami. Opera patient Miss Jane Farmer recovers after surgery at Putnam county hospital. The Greencastle band plans its first summer concert Thursday night at 7 30.
Residents report travel and homecomings including Mr and Mrs Fred Hosea returning from Columbus. Charles Allen improves after hospital stay and returns home. Several visitors from Casey Illinois and Chicago head off for travel or studies. Dexter Oliver ad um medically treated for acute appendicitis. School plans call for Wednesday practice and a new baseball league for under seventh graders. James H Hughes shows rapid improvement after long hospital stay. son of Judge and Mrs James P Hughes.
James Terry and Lester Wells leave Greencastle for a vacation. Dennis Shieldmyre and family of Kokomo visit Greencastle. Mrs. Mary Shieldmyre. Mrs. J. E. Bennett of Westfield Illinois visits Rev. and Mrs. W F E Gill and Mr. and Mrs. Ora Moffett. Rev. W E Gill preaches in Indianapolis for George Waterman funeral. Daniel Gash 20 dies at Putnamville penal farm from pneumonia. home Indianapolis. body returned to relatives. Ed Cassity appointed by Putnam circuit court to administer estate of Oliver Cassity who died May 9 valued at 1500. heirs Ed Cassity and Mary C Maul.
Prof Lester N. Jones head of sociology sails from New York June 25 for three months in Europe. He joins Sherwood Eddy's European Seminar, spending most time in London and Russia with week long stops in Paris Geneva and Berlin. They meet leaders Ramsay Macdonald Lloyd George Philip Snowden and others to discuss social religious and economic issues. After Warsaw the group tours Austria Italy then returns to Geneva for the League of Nations assembly.
Greencastle merchants plan to close Tuesday afternoon for two hours from 1 80 to 3 30 oclock while the all Indiana Rail tour visits Green castle. The Chamber of Commerce announced the closure.
Old mattresses and box springs refurbished by Greencastle Mattress and Upholstering Co at 118 West Franklin Street. For rent at the Longmoor a furnished one or two room apartment with kitchenette, phone 193 K. Farm for sale eighty nine and a half acres near Morton on gravel road known as Stanton Trekler. Manager needed for Greencastle branch office with pay up to six hundred dollars secured, write E J Wall 816 Chandler Street Danville. Lost coat and vest with Sigma Chipin initials return to J F Cannon Co for reward. Table garbage hauled free phone 790. Housekeeping wanted to take full charge must be capable, phone 10 K.
Greencastle will host Aviation Day with 30 plus planes landing at the government field southeast of town at 1 30 PM The Ford tri motor plane piloted by Col Robbins will also land and give rides The fleet will stay two hours before leaving for Terre Haute The Chamber of Commerce arranged parking traffic signs and refreshments for spectators
Peter Tasoola of St. Louis suffered a badly cut foot when a pipe from a truck driven by Phillip Wolfe on the National road west of Mt. Meridian struck the side of a Greyhound bus he rode. Tasoola was taken to Green Spatie hospital after care by a Greencastle physician. The bus and truck were not wrecked and T. J. Smith assisted the driver Thomas Miller.
The marriage of Shirley Elizabeth Martin daughter of Charles Martin of Seminary Street and Russell Lakin son of Mr. and Mrs Otto Lakin of East Washington Street was announced today. The ceremony took place December 29 1927 in Paris Illinois.
The westbound car nearly stopped when a crash occurred as Highlander ran at high speed. Conductor Stansifer said the Highlander should not have passed Fillmore station while the local was clear. Highlander car No 47 named the Butler and the other car No 29 named the Hendricks drew crowds from Fillmore and Green Castle to the scene before clearance.
George A. Manning 26 of Mesa Arizona was released from Putnam county jail after being injured while jumping from a fast Pennsylvania passenger train. He was treated, arrested by Chief Otto Dobbs, arraigned before Acting Police Court Judge Glenn Lyon and given a suspended trespass sentence. Pennsylvania railroad detective Lloyd Neirpath testified.
Roachdale June 16 Mrs Lawrence McCloud a well known Roachdale woman died Saturday morning in an Indianapolis hospital after several months illness She was about twenty five years old and is survived by her husband and two children Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Roachdale home
Greencastle Country Club members traveled to Crawfordsville Sunday afternoon for a golf tournament, the Crawfordsville club winning 42 to 19. About twenty Greencastle players participated, and Crawfordsville will host a return match in July. Participants included Don Ellis, Fred Hosea, Harold Talbott, Fred Snively, Ed Coffman, and others.
Miss Ethel Ader of Greencastle public schools returns from Lake Wawasee where she attended a vocational conference for home economics teachers. Ninety five Indiana teachers heard lectures by Purdue professors and 4 Her club leaders. Ader handled publicity and exhibits.
Miss Ethel Rebecca Boatright daughter of Mr and Mrs Charles Boatright and John Sears son of Mr and Mrs Jesse H Sears were united in marriage Sunday afternoon at the brides parents home in Greencastle. Rev B H Brune read the service before about four hundred relatives and friends with a small reception to follow. The bride wore white and carried white roses, the groom wore formal attire, and the couple planned to reside on a farm east of Greencastle.
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