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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1913
Page
1
Sunday brought the year’s hottest weather in Greencastle with a 100 degree noon reading and 103 at 2 PM. The mercury peaked at the high point for the day as residents faced the heat.
Greencastle endured a blistering stretch with temperatures hitting 103 to 104 degrees in the afternoon. A late afternoon downpour cooled the town after days of extreme heat, with 9 o'clock Saturday night registering 90 degrees and overnight lows in the 80s.
A former Greencastle girl Hazel Day of Terre Haute is among New Garfield high school graduates. Daughter of Nannie Day Smythe and granddaughter of John Sellers, she taught Sunday school and served as Epworth League vice president at Liberty Avenue M E church. She will enter Terre Haute State Normal next fall.
Local automobile and good roads enthusiasts plan a reception for travelers arriving from Indiana as part of a coastal to inland tour. The event highlights road improvements and regional tourism promotion.
About 4 o clock tomorrow afternoon four dozen Indiana manufactured autos will arrive in Greencastle for a 30 minute visit on their trip from the state capital to Los Angeles. Stilesville motorists will meet them and escort the group into town. City residents with cars urged to join the run to Stilesville. meet on the square at 2 30. Attorney Matt J. Murphy will welcome the visitors and ice cool refreshments will be served. The tour then proceeds to Brazil via Manhattan.
The business men and citizens of Greenscastle will organize a meeting in the assembly room of the courthouse on Tuesday at 8 PM. The purpose is to discuss locating a state penal park in Putnam County.
Business leaders and citizens of Greencastle plan a 8 o clock gathering in the courthouse assembly room to press for Putnam county to secure the new State Penal farm. Committees will be named to pursue the 500 acre site west of town, which could host the facility and a tuberculosis hospital site.
Work began today on a major remodel of Greek Candy Store in Greencastle Indiana. Proprieter Louis Zaha karos aims to create the finest shop with artistic fixtures a 20 foot fountain French mirrors frescoed walls and solid woodwork. Completion planned within two weeks.
Charles A Bookwalter ex mayor of Indianapolis acts as right hand to Carl G Fisher on the Indiana to Pacific highway tour. He is praised as an orator and a gentleman and is expected to spur road building enthusiasm as the tour passes through Greencastle tomorrow.
In Lebanon Indiana on June 28 defense witnesses testified Mick was of sound mind in the suit to break W. E. Mick's will. Multiple Indianapolis residents including Hooten, Kinette, Glassbrenner, Hutchins, Montgomery and others vouched Mick's sound mind, noting his religious activity and business conduct.
The Rev Joshua Stansfield of Meridian Street Methodist Church testified Mick circulated religious tracts and led a laymen's missionary drive in Indianapolis. He described praying with Mick for a business deal tied to a church donation, and said Mick was of sound mind. other local witnesses agreed.
Several horses and other livestock in Putnam County died during a recent heat spell. Farmers report animals collapsing in fields and barns as temperatures soared, while some crops and harvest activities were delayed or shifted to cooler hours.
Farmers face harvesting delays as extreme heat endangers workers and livestock. Horses have died from sunstroke and several others are collapsing after the recent scorching days. Sam Nelson reports a valuable horse lost near the cross roads nine miles north of town.
Governor Ralston confirms James A. Houck of Indianapolis will replace C. Matson of Greencastle on the state board of tax commissioners. Houck, a former fire marshal candidate,joins Dan M. Link and Eben H. Wolcott on the board. The pay is 2000 a year with 1000 in expenses. Houck’s selection ends a long gubernatorial term deliberation and follows early rumors of Dr T D Scales.
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