Local residents and visitors attend events and travels
Mrs L J Baldwin and son Richard of Joliet Ill visit the Merryweathers. Rotary delegate Ed Hamilton will speak at the Rotary Club on Wednesday. John J Oakes will be introduced as a new cement plant member. Attorney M J Murphy returns from West Baden. Mrs Mark Bills visits Fort Wayne with her son. H A Sherrill goes to Detroit on business. Mrs Kenneth Todd goes to Indianapolis for a Rainbow Beauty Parlor course. Mrs T H Hunter visits Indianapolis. Miss Evelyn Ayler visits Indianapolis with Dr and Mrs Ayler. Mr and Mrs Lawrence H Finney of Williamsport visit. Finney heads a large telephone concern. formerly Greencastle manager. Moffett Dobbs deliver Buick sedan to Rev Henry McLean. Miss Crystal Coper returns from Benton Harbor where she taught. Benton Harbor schools run ten months. Mr and Mrs W A Cooper drive to Michigan to pick her up. Thomas F Dowling returns home from a ten day trip to Denver Colorado Springs and Estes Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Hamilton
Rotary
Rotary International
Minneapolis
Rotary Club
John J. Oakes
Crystal Coper
Benton Harbor
Mich
W. A. Cooper
Bloomington Slaying Solved After Confessions
Indiana University police Walter Peterson and Merl Clay secured confessions linking Gene Steele and Robert Buchanan to the April 8 killing of Orville Wires during a poker party robbery plan. Steele, jailed in Brazil for a separate holdup, helped locate Buchanan in Bloomfield who admitted firing the weapon by accident as Wires backed into the doorway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Buchanon
Bloomfield
Orville Wires
Bloomington
Ind
INS
Walter Peterson
Merl Clay
Indiana University
Wires
Brazil
Gene Steele
State Reformatory
Steele
Robert Buchanan
Buchanan
Buchanon
Indiana Delegation Supports Woollen On First Ballot
Houston June 26 Emergency caucus of Indiana delegates failed to revolt against Evans Woollen's presidential bid. Hoosier members indicate sticking with him on the first ballot if released. Some urge Woollen to run for vice president. others favor joining Smith ticket soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Tex
Indiana
Evans Woollen
Indiana predicts Smith landslide if Smith is nominated
Indiana anti alcohol leader Edward Shumaker says Indiana will back Al Smith by 300000 if he is nominated at the Democratic convention. He warns Smith's nomination would revive the Ku Klux Klan and notes women voters lean dry while Smith is wet. He adds Evans Woollen could be harmed by a Smith ticket and no further steps will be taken to sway him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Herbert Hoover
Indiana
al Smith
Edward S. Shumaker
Anti-Saloon League
Smith
Shumaker
New York
South
Wean Evans Woollen
Hoosier
German girl plans trans Atlantic flight from Canada
Thea Rasche, a German aviatrix backed by Mrs. Anna U. Stillman, prepared for a first leg from Grandmere Quebec to Harbor Grace Newfoundland en route to Germany in the North Star. The departure followed a legal challenge by Hollis Corporation and Howard W. Harwell, later halted by a New York judge. Amelia Earhart and Lady Heath were reported to discuss a future long distance flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Thea Rasche
Camp Madeline Field
Grandmere
Canada
Germany
Anna U. Stillman
North Star
Harbor Grace
Newfoundland
Stillman
Aviatrix
Hadley Field
N. J
Ulrich Koenemann
Miss Rasche
Hollis Corporation
Howard W. Harwell
Justice Valente
New York City
James A. Stillman
London
Amelia Earhart
Atlantic
Corydon Airdrome
Lady Heath
Miss Earhart
Amercian
Savoy Hotel
Colored man charged with rape on white girls
George Hays a janitor on the south side square was arrested and jailed on rape charges against three white girls aged 12 14 and 16. He pled not guilty and was bound over to circuit court. In default of 5000 bond he was remanded to the county house. Police filed charges after questioning the girls. Bloomington World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hays
Hostise
Hays
Bloomington
World
Killing of Wife's Lover Shocks Indianapolis Home
Wayne Herndon shot and killed James Boo Faudy at the Herndon residence south of Indianapolis after accusing Faudy of stealing his wife. Mrs Herndon and their two children witnessed the killing before Herndon alerted police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
INS
Wayne Herndon
James “Boo’ Faudy
Herndon
Here
Faudy
Livestock Market Report Shows Mixed Beef and Hogs Slips
Hogs 180 lbs and up mostly 25 cents lower. 180 to 300 lb pigs 10.90 to 11.05 with many at 11. Cattle and calves steady. beef steers 11.50 to 14.65. light heifers 14.50 to 15.25. weaners steady at 14.50. Sheep steady. extra grade lambs 15.50 to 16. ewes 5 to 7. breeding ewes up to 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
For Sale Mare in Reelsville and 4-Room Rental Notice
Want ads list a six year old mare described as a good worker in Reelsville Indiana by Mrs Ida Evens. Also offered is a four room rental with entrance hall bath and garage at 207 South Vine Street with contact phone 760 X.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Evens
Reelsville
Ind
Police Chief Hughes Summoned by Special Grand Jury
Chicago June 26. Commissioner Michael Hughes was summoned to appear before a special grand jury probing kidnapping and slugging at the last primary election to answer obstruction of justice charges. Frank J. Loesch, Chicago Crime Commission president, obtained a subpoena after Hughes removed five detectives aiding the jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Commissioner of Police
Michael Hughes
Special Grand Jury
Criminal Court
Frank J. Loesch
Chicago Crime Commission
Loesch
Hughes
Grand Jury
American Engineer Killed in Mexican Train Bombing
In Mexico City on June 26 an attack by guerrillas between Bernal and Querétaro derailed a National Railways train, killing seven people including American locomotive engineer Andrew Robinson who had lived in Mexico 35 years. Twenty passengers were injured as the explosion destroyed the locomotive baggage car and two coaches. Robinson was the sole American employed as an engineer by the railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
INS
Bernal
Queretaro
National Railways
Andrew Robinson
Robinson
Mexico
School Board Approves Additional School Building Appropriation
The City School Board met Monday evening at the High School to hear remonstrances about a necessary emergency appropriation of 6410.62. The funds will cover additions of alternates on general construction specs for the new Second Ward School and related architect and legal fees. Greencastle township pays 2311.23 and Greencastle City 4090.39 as its share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Ward
Greencastle Township
Greencastle City
P B O Sisterhood Convention Highlights Indiana Efforts
The P B O Sisterhood of Indiana closed a convention at the Severin Hotel in Indianapolis detailing the national Educational Fund totaling nearly $500,000. The fund aided over 2,000 girls, averaging more than 100 annually, and funds a Junior College in Nevada Missouri. The group also financed a memorial library at Iowa Wesleyan College Mt Pleasant and seeks a trust and welfare fund for a P F O home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Severin Hotel
Indianapolis
National Educational Fund
Sisterhood
Nevada
Peaches and Daddy in Court Over Dower Rights
In Mansfield Ohio Peaches Heenan Browning seeks guardian and litum for dower rights from Supreme Court Justice Lyden. The case follows her eighteenth birthday after a vaudeville career and a romance with Daddy Browning. She is contesting a multi million estate while recovering from an automobile accident between Cincinnati and Canton preserved by her mother Carolyn Heenan and attorney Daniel Cohalon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
INS
Peaches
Daddy
Frances Heenan Browning
Browning
Daniel F. Cohalon
Supreme Court
Lyden
Carolyn M. Heenan
Heenan
Daddy Browning
Mansfield
Ohio
Cincinnati
Canton
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. J. Baldwin
Richard
Joliet, Ill
James Merryweather
M. J. Murphy
Hays & Murphy
West Baden
Mark Bills
Fort Wayne
Bills
C. N. McWethy
H. A. Sherrill
Detroit
Kenneth Todd
The
Rainbow Beauty Parlor
T. H. Hunter
Evelyn Ayler
Mrs. Ayler
Lawrence H. Finney
Williamsport
Finney
Greencastle Telephone Company
Moffett & Dobbs
Henry McLean
Thomas F. Dowling
Denver
Colorado Springs
Estes Park
Colorado
Eva Hessel Gordon
Boston
Thhe Eastern Steamship Company
Dyson, Gonti
International Mewsresh Hi
Urey Woodson
Ken Wcky
Eugene J. Cadoll
R. Lee Barnes
Alabama
International Newsree
Hodshire’s
Greencastle
Terre Haute
Cobhcentere
2Urmoniate Vico Brea Company
Saar
Boodie TY
Christian Church
E. R. Bartley
South Indiana Street
Fillmore C. E
Fillmore Chapter No. 1860
Twentieth Century Club
H. R. Krehl
West
Columbia Street
W. J. Hunt
J. L. Beyl
Jewel Ashton
R. E. Richards
Woman’s Relief Corps
Columbus
Grand Army
Grand Army Fund
Presbyterian Church
Grace Browning
Joan Durham
Edith Marie Brown
R. L. O'Hair
Marjorie Orton
Janice Williams
Democratic Club
W. L. Denman
Putnam County
Louse
C. C. Gillen
Denman
Dailey
Leslie
Lafayette
Theodore Crawley
Crawley
Simm
Snodgrass
Eminence
Margaret Madrel
Thee
Talbert Bdick
Medaryville
George Macum
Hammond
Ken Hayward
Logansport
Monte Mull
Ed Snodgrass
Catherine
Franklin Leland Duckworth
Franklin
C. W. Snodgrass
Richmond
Charles Walter
R. E. Black
Corydon
Walter
Sharpe
New Albany
Belle Wil
Edenburg
John Nicholson
Alma Sharpe
Eliza Snodgrass
Ella Snodgrass
France E. Black
Flo McClellan
Thomas Lisby Greencastle
Emma Morgan
Margaret
Glen Morehart
C. M. Snodgrass
Fillmore
Gladys Nichols
Jaquline
Madre
Moose Lodge
Bridgewater Orchestra
Martha Washington Club
B. B. Stringer
South College Avenue
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