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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1929
Page
2
Dr and Mrs Ralph Overstreet move into C C Gautier house on East Elm Street. Various residents visit relatives, travel for medical operations, insurance courses, and vacations. Local car accidents, new doctors arriving, baptisms, and community events fill Greencastle life with marriages, births, and civic notes.
Esther Zern, 14, died after attempting to start a fire with kerosene in her Warsaw Indiana home. An oil explosion showered her with flames, burning off all her clothing and sparking a destructive house blaze.
Miss Marjorie Lower presented the Melody Way teaching method for pianoforte at the Rotary luncheon aided by Miss Leota Mullins. Pupils aged beyond school age learned rhythm through singing marching and bouncing balls before playing on numbered piano keys. The program featured short pieces by young students with names including Marguerite Erdman Eleanor Brown Barbara Bartlett and Annie Marie Eitel.
Judge James P. Hughes of Putnam Circuit Court granted a finding for the plaintiff for 150 dollars and made a temporary restraining order permanent in the suit of William Penz Sr against Earl L. Butler and others. The complaint originated in Clay County and the case had been pending for months. The trial occurred several days ago.
John Young of the Young and Maroney pool room escaped a head on crash with a northbound Monon freight shortly after noon on Walnut Street Greencastle. He swerved to the north jumped an embankment and his car rested on the bank before a tractor from Bittle saw mill dragged it back onto the road undamaged. A separate Putnam Circuit court finding awarded $75 to William F Meeks in a suit against William H Deakins and others.
Tokyo dispatch reports 45 men entombed in a flooded Kyushu mine after a rescue party entered to aid workers but was overwhelmed by a sudden underground water surge.
Hogs were steady to lower with 160-250 lb at 11.10 to 11.25 and 250-300 lb at 10.95 to 11.10. Steers and heifers were mostly steady with a load of choice heifers at 15 and bulk cows 8 to 10.50. Vealers steady with good and choice at 14.50, lambs strong and sheep steady with bulk lambs 13.50. Throwouts 9 to 10.50 and fat cows 4.50 to 6.50.
Capt Charles Kingsford Smith and three companions finished the first leg from Sidney to Derby Australia in the tri motor Southern Cross after a 22 hour journey. Derby lies about 2000 miles northwest of Sidney with vast wild country and deserts in between. The men had recently been missing for two weeks after a forced landing in New South Wales bush.
Master Melvin Ott, a rising Giants outfielder from Neo An glins, hit his 21st homer to lead the leagues as Brooklyn rode past New York 12 10. The Athletics split with the Red Sox 7 1 and 8 2 while the Yankees rested. Mule Haas had seven hits and Bing Miller extended his season consecutive games streak to 26. The Phillies dropped to a ninth straight loss 5 4 to the Braves but won 8 6 in the nine run second game. Walter Stewart pitched two hits as the Browns beat Cleveland 8 0 after Cleveland had won 10 7 in the opener. Detroit erupted for eleven runs in the seventh as the Tigers crushed the White Sox 14 2.
About 200 women attended an all day session at Union Chapel near Morton for the Putnam County Federation of Clubs. Officers were elected, and readings and music featured the program as 27 clubs were represented with Clinton and Madison townships leading attendance.
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