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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1915
Page
1
Dr. H. A. Pitkin, Dr. George R. Grose, Rev. B. D. Beck and Miss Angie Godwin will take active part in the Bloomington district conference at Mitchell.
The Bloomington District of the Indiana Methodist Church opens tonight at First M E Church in Mitchell with sessions Tuesday and Wednesday. Local attendees include Dr Alfred H Pitkin district superintendent and several speakers from DePauw University Moore's Hill College and Northwestern Christian Advocate.
Borghi Valetario and Tony Ruta, Italian laborers at the O. & I. stone quarries west of the city, were each sentenced to 35 days at the State Farm by Mayor Walter Cooper for intoxication. They were arrested after causing a disturbance in downtown streets with a horse and buggy.
The Ladoga Scalpers defeated the Greencastle Redmen 7 to 2 on a muddy Ladoga field Sunday afternoon. Errors marked both sides as Ladoga capitalized on Redmen miscues while Bailey and Blue of Belle Union held the visitors to few hits. The Redmen expect a road game next Sunday at Crawfordsville or Belle Union.
Ewing Shields of Greencastle files three mandamus suits in Terre Haute Superior Court against Acting Mayor Gossom City Controller Mancourt and the city. He seeks bonds totaling 3,575.25 for North Twenty-fifth Street, 2,602 for Schoal Avenue, and 1,472 for Tenth and One Half Street, with property owners guaranteeing payment.
The Rev Hootman of the Christian church conducted regular services at the Putnam county home four miles east of Greencastle on Sunday afternoon. Several automobile loads from Greencastle attended with many from Fillmore. Dr Hootman was assisted by Mrs John Young who sang a solo.
The May term of the Put Nam Circuit Court will end this week and court attaches will enjoy a ten weeks' summer vacation.
The May term ends next Saturday with a light docket and a vacation to September first. The only notable trial was the McCammack case in which McCammack was acquitted of manslaughter after the fatal shooting of James Simms in south Greencastle. Probate business was heavy though civil and state cases were scarce. Judge James P. Hughes is in Crawfordsville as a special judge this week. Mrs. Peter Stoner visited Ladoga over Sunday.
Harvest in Putnam County will begin next week according to farmer advice. Some fields are excellent while others have been injured by fly.
Farmers report cutting time near as weather dries and rains end. Wheat shows bright prospects with some fields excellent and others damaged by fly. Clover hay abundant due to recent rains. Corn and oats also look strong for a bumper crop in Putnam County this year.
The Martha Rebekah Lodge of South Putnam Town hosts the Rebekahs 1060 group this evening. A local degree team will initiate fifteen candidates during the event.
About thirty members of Greencastle Bee Hive Rebekah lodge No 106 will travel to Cloverdale for the south Putnam lodge initiation of about fifteen candidates. Martha Rebekah lodge of Cloverdale hosts a social after the meeting with a planned program and refreshments. The Cloverdale team is noted as highly efficient in Putnam and surrounding counties.
The 8S. C. C. will meet Tuesday evening at Miss Lulu Shildmyer's home on north Madison. The Greencastle Boosters' Club executive committee meets tonight at 7 50 in Ben F Corwin's office. Charles H Barnaby and his daughter Dorothea left Sunday for Philadelphia to handle business. Dorothea will visit relatives in New York before returning home.
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