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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1915
Page
1
Father of a Russellville schoolteacher returns home from Tennessee after hearing of a bigamous marriage involving his daughter. The groom had deserted his wife and child at Fincastle.
Robert E. White reported his daughter Nellie 21 disappeared after going to Johnson City with her sister Carrie. McGaughey, posing as a single man, won Nellie's affections, and they married June 12 in Jonesboro Tennessee and traveled to Chattanooga. White is distressed by the find.
Greencastle officials rejected the Huber Manufacturing Company contract form for a road roller citing unsatisfactory terms. A Monday special session will consider a revised contract. the city intends to purchase and test the roller on streets within weeks, with a performance guarantee from Huber.
The Put Nam Circuit Court adjourned today after handling only a few matters. Many civil cases will be carried over to the September term.
The May term closed with minor matters completed and records sealed for two months. Court attaches enjoy a vacation while many civil cases are continued to fall. The September term will start on the first Monday and be unusually heavy. Probate dispositions were higher than usual, but no cases were of special importance.
Mrs. Charles Patterson of 1415 Ewing street Indianapolis died Friday after prolonged illness linked to grief over her daughter Mrs. Florence Lloyds suicide earlier that year. Lloyd 19 took poison following a broken romance with Emmet Tolle and died at City Hospital. Patterson, 40, widow of a Vandalia Railroad foreman, funeral Monday at 2 pm at Crown Hill cemetery. Greencastle golf course notes ideal weather and improved facilities.
The court affirms the Huffman verdict and sets an indeterminate sentence for the cemetery superintendent in Michigan City. A supreme court agreement confirms the indictment signed by a special prosecutor as valid.
William Huffman former Terre Haute councilman will be sent to the state prison for three to ten years after the Indiana Supreme Court affirmed Vigo Circuit Court on June 25. He was indicted for crooked election work in 1913 acting as an election inspector and allowing 150 ballots to leave his possession.
A caravan of at least twenty automobiles will departGreencastle next Thursday evening for Union Chapel north of the city for a 6:30 ice cream social. The Greencastle band will provide music as Monroe and Clinton townships plan to entertain a large crowd.
Mrs. H. G. Ogden formerly of DePauw and Frankfort is gaining recognition in the East as a hymn writer. Her ode for a church centennial and an Easter hymn published in Signet show increasing esteem, with performances in Louisville Syracuse and other venues. She and Rev. Horace G. Ogden, once at DePauw Greencastle, are noted in the community as prominent figures.
Mrs Henry Werneke died after an operation at St Vincent Hospital Indianapolis. Funeral services will be at 2 30 pm Sunday at the Werneke home conducted by Rev Thomas Younger of the Presbyterian church. Interment will be in Forest Hill cemetery. The body was brought from Indianapolis Friday evening by interurban car arriving at 9 58 pm and taken to the east Anderson street home.
Word from Earl Runyan son of the local treasurer says he has moved from this city to Minnesota and is now foreman of a labor crew with a steam shovel in a gravel pit near Bowner. Local crops have suffered minor damage from recent heavy rains.
Richard M. Milburn interprets a 1915 statute for Charles A. Greathouse. City teachers attending institutes receive pay for twenty one days per month. those not attending receive pay for nineteen days. A school month equals twenty days.
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