Local News Briefs From Greencastle Area Activities
An Indianapolis bound ambulance accident near Clayton injures T. J. Nixon and Dr. Moser but they recover. The page gives local social notes on visits, picnics, weddings, car purchases, and upcoming band concert plans in Greencastle and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
T. J. Nixon
Cloverdale
Clayton
Mr. Nixon
Dr. Moser
Belle Union
Nixon
Moser
Greencastle
Runyan Buys Ford Touring Car From Local Agency
C F Runyan purchases a Ford touring car from King Foster Morrison agency in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. F. Runyan
King, Foster & Morrison Agency
Trutona Praised By Vincennes Woman In June Testimony
Mrs. Lucy Johnson of Vincennes declares Trutona a perfect tonic after three months of stomach trouble and rheumatic pain. She reports improved appetite, relief from belching and sour taste, and stronger health after one bottle. The product is being introduced in Greencastle by druggist R. P. Mullins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincennes
Ind
Lucy Johnson
North Tenth Street
Trutona
Greencastle
R. P. Mullins
Advv
Farm for Sale in Putnam County Old Dale Farm 200 Acres
200 acre Dale farm in Putnam county with corn and wheat fields, orchard, silos, livestock and dairy income. 110 hogs, six brood mares, horses and four mules, vitrified silo, fence, ditched fields, good roads. Located two to seven miles from Brick Chapel Bainbridge Greencastle. Asking 175 dollars per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Dale
Putnam County
Apple Belt
Brick Chapel
Bainbridge
Greencastle
Rich eighty acre farm with fruit orchard and prolific yield
The property includes eighty acres with poplar, walnut, sugar maples and an ever bearing orchard of apples such as Akin Reds Pewaukee Stark Grimes Golden and more. It averages about $2000 yearly and features forty-two acres in one field, prime soil and good access three miles from Bainbridge. Price 150 per acre. H M Randel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pewaukee
Stark
Bainbridge
Brick Chapel
Greencastle
H. M. Randel
First Jasper County Livestock Shipments From Rensselaer
The Jasper County Livestock Shipping Association delivered its first load from Rensselaer on June 7, consisting of seventy four hogs and one sheep from eighteen farmers. Hog buyers paid farmers 19.74 in home weights. one shipper with twenty one hogs received 18.50, sixty dollars less than his return. Demonstrations by Harvey Hilands on hot water treatment to control smut in wheat, in cooperation with County Agent B H Doddridge, prove effective with no loose smut in treated fields and a ten percent loss in untreated portions. Seventy five DeKalb county farmers joined a livestock tour visiting pure bred hogs cattle and sheep herds, with Purdue University livestock men giving talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasper County Livestock Shipping Association
Rensselaer
Harvey Hilands
Jefferson County
B. H. Doddridge
DeKalb County
Purdue University Livestock
Silent Fourth of July urged to curb noise and explosions
An editorial urges a safe patriotic Fourth of July with no pistols or explosives. It notes Reds may plan bombings and argues bans would help detect offenders. Cites drops in casualties from 1903 to 1918 and praises municipal orders against fireworks to reduce alarms and deaths.
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Chicago
State Councils of Defense
United States
Local News Briefs: Car Purchase and Travel Plans
Andrew Hanna drives a new Dodge touring car bought from the Thomas Buggy Company. Miss Margaret Shoptaugh, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Shoptaugh, is ill with mumps at her East Seminary Street home. She planned to go to Detroit today for the Delta Delta Delta convention. Miss Edith Tompkins of Maple Heights traveled to Indianapolis to visit her sister Mrs Homer Sellars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belmont Tompkins
Maple Heights
Hazel Wampler
Jess Wampler
Gosport
Mr. Tompkins
Tompkins
Louis Schnachtel
Mrs. Tompkins
M. W. Robb
Mary
Clinton
Ind
Greencastle
Robb
Putnam Electric Company
Howard Harris
Cincinnati
Robert Brinkman
Brinkman
Andrew Hanna
Thomas Buggy Company
Margaret Shoptaugh
Frank Shoptaugh
East Seminary Street
Miss Shoptaugh
Detroit
Edith Tompkins
Indianapolis
Homer Sellars
Aged Reelsville Citizen Dies at 75
Mrs Annetta Hathaway aged 75 died at her Reelaville home this morning around seven. She was born in Reelsville and spent her life there. Survived by seven children including W N Hathaway Staunton Samuel Hathaway Brazil Milton Hathaway Reelaville Mary Powell Chicago and Sarah Furney Reelsville. Funeral at Hathaway home Saturday at 3 pm with Rev John Urton officiating. Burial in Lower Boone cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annetta Hathaway
Reelaville
The Scorpion Bites: Desert Insect’s Habitat and Sting
The scorpion is a small tropical insect found in dry dark places such as ruins and stone structures in Sinai and Palestine. It moves defensively with a raised tail and has a venomous sting that injects a toxin into wounds via two tiny orifices.
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Sinai
Sane
Palestine
Erie
Courtery and Business Principles Lead to Italian Invention
A fragmented piece discusses Ross Winans acting as a courteous shopkeeper in Day thoore who aided foreigners sent by a car to select machinery for locomotive production in Risa. It notes his rising income and comments on gentility, commerce, and influence in Napoleonic era France.
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Shocess
Ross Winans
Daythoore
Cccchan
Ma Iin
Risa
Giorl
Tesephine
France
Napoleon
Classified ad notices from Greencastle Indiana listings
Local classified items include cattle and horse payout offers, hogs by weight, veal calf purchases, mill wood for sale, a printer’s trade opportunity at the Herald office, warm loan abstracts from a Greencastle firm, and an extra good red Shorthorn bull for sale weighing 1200 pounds from E R O Hair. The notices reference Brazil Tankage Company and Dobbs and Vestal real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greencastle
Brazil Tankage Company
Braa
Acc Vm. B. Vestal
Dobbs & Vestal Real Estate Office
Ind
Sage
E.R. O
Vold and land names in Norwegian farm toponymy
The text explains Norwegian farm name elements such as Vold meaning grass-covered flat land and variants like Voldstad Rotvold Finveld and others. It lists examples with land descriptors including Langlind Liland Marland Fintland Flatland Morland Sandlend Boland England Rudland Howland Holland Birkeland Klemand Gardland Goland Thorland and notes Thor as a god of strength.
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Grase-Coveret
Votland
Volfland
Vollan
Norway
Voldhelm
Voldstad
Rotvold
Finveld
Langlind
Flatland
Morland
Buland
Boland
England
Rudland
Ryland
Howland
Holland
Birkeland
Klemand
Gardland
Goland
Thorland
Thor
Blissful Depravity in a Border Town
An elderly darkey carpenter known for grand words fears his domineering wife in a southern border town. A trio of bachelor professionals hire him for repairs. He asks if white gentlemen live dead in total depravity of the feminine sex, and sighs that he’d sully himself if he waters them.
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Darkey
Farm Sale in Warren Township Sells for 12000
The Elias S. Garner farm trading 128 acres in Warren township was bought by Layman Hepler for 12000 with S. C. Sayers of Central Trust Company as agent. Mrs. W. M. Hudson travels to Detroit for the Delta Delta Delta sorority national convention. A zinc mill roll failure caused a shutdown. A well attended College Avenue Church basement picnic featured missionary society members and families with a program led by Lois Fraley and Josephine Wade.
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College Avenue Epworth League
College Avenue League
Greencastle
Elias S. Garner
Warren Township
Hepler
S. C. Sayers
Central Trust Company
College Avenue Church
Foreign Missionary Society
Columbus
Margaret Ostrom
Fraley
Reading
Lois Fraley
Josephine Wade
Card of Thanks for Family and Friends Support
Card thanks friends and neighbors for assistance during illness of wife mother and daughter. Appreciation extended for floral offerings. Signed by Arthur Early and Children Mr and Mrs William McMurry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Early
Wm. McMurry
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Golf Club
Robert Allen
Lucy Allen
Lena Mufer
Ruth Height
Muncie
J. S. Albin
South Locust Street
J. G. Martin
W. A. Martin
Rochester
E. B. Taylor
B. Taylor
Heber Ellis
State
Parent- Teachers’ Club
George Christy
Stephens
Frank Miles
Terre Haute
Miles
John Eitel
Reo
Margaret Theodore
Robert Woodson
J. P. D. John
Harold Talbott
Methodist Hospital
J. R. Giiger
Roachdale
L. W. Sellars
Bert Decker
Brazil
Via
Highlander
Excent
Thire Sey Tt
R. P. Mullins Druggist
A. Cook
Fayette
J. W. Herod
Main St
Browning Grocery
Ratic
USS
Evens & Moffett
Mrs
Reelsville
Jasper Miller
Barnaby’s Mill
Herald Office
Jones
School of Auctioneering
Robert M. McHaffie
Stilesville, Indiana
Greencasts
TEL. CO
U.S
Wire Service
Willard
Green Castle
North Side Square
H. Askew
Palmer Chiropractor
Washington St
W. M. Hudson
Delta Delta Delta Sorority
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