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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1930
Page
4
A Purdue University bulletin reports rural Indiana households rely on coal wood and kerosene for cooking. Kerosene is cheapest at 39 cents for 2.85 gallons weekly, gasoline 42 cents, coal 86 cents and electricity 1.16 dollars. Kerosene dominates in summer while coal stoves heat kitchens in winter.
Woman cooks on coal and wood stoves spend about three hours weekly on stove care. Those using electricity spend under thirty minutes. The Purdue bulletin notes electricity saves labor despite higher operating costs. With more rural electrification, more farm kitchens will switch to electric cooking. It suggests using steam pressure or waterless cookers to save fuel and reduce costs.
Dorothy Mackaill stars in Hard to Get, a First National all talking Vitaphone feature opening Tuesday for a two day run at the Voncastle Theatre. The comedy reels with Mackaill as a Second Avenue girl aiming for Fifth Avenue, hitch hiking to work with a millionaire and riding to her wedding with a garage mechanic. The cast includes Jack Oakie Charles Delaney and Louise Fazenda, with Harry Langdon’s all talking comedy on the bill alongside The Fighting Parson and December horoscopes. Tonight Bebe Daniels appears in Alias French Gertie with Ben Lyon.
Greencastle will host the 61st Coast Artillery from Ft. Sheridan around mid August. The detachment traveling to Camp Knox on an overland march will stop here on its return to Ft. Sheridan. A letter to Mayor Denman dated June 26, 1930 from Fort Sheridan Illinois explains the arrangement.
In a letter from Major James H. Cunningham of the 61st Coast Artillery Camp Knox the Greencastle mayor is informed of an overnight stop for the detachment returning from Camp Knox. The date is planned for around August 14 or 15 with further details to follow from Major Hinman who commands the unit.
Indianapolis reports Indiana recruiting authorities have raised the navy enlistment quota for July to forty first enlistments, the first time such a high number has been authorized in over three years. The recruiting month also shifts to the fifteenth each month, instead of the first.
Lenore Cook, University of Wisconsin graduate and painter writer, along with her husband and three companions, sails the schooner Swordfish from Chicago to Bermuda then through the Panama Canal toward New Zealand Australia. The crew aims to chronicle the voyage for books.
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