Revival Fills Every Seat in Evening Tabernacle Session
Large revival attracts full congregation as the tabernacle seats fill by 7 PM. The event emphasizes a strong turnout on Sunday evening despite limited space.
22 Mar 1920
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1920
Page
1
Large revival attracts full congregation as the tabernacle seats fill by 7 PM. The event emphasizes a strong turnout on Sunday evening despite limited space.
Greencastle notes a day of rest at the YougAY Day of Rest Tabernacle with no morning services and 9 30 meetings in the evening. Mrs Barr delivers sermons on salvation and morality while Daisy Douglas Barr leads musical features and a large audience fills both Greencastle and Steuben Presbyterian venues.
Superintendent Dodson is ill at home on East Washington Street. Former student Robert Lane, now in Washington DC, sent a letter and the school paper praising his debate work and noting his recent captaincy in a Peace Treaty Article Ten debate. Local reading contest Tuesday at 4 features Beryle O’Hair and others, with winner advancing to Putnam County events Sunday night.
More than 500 musicians and music teachers from across Indiana will attend the Indiana Association of Music Teachers convention in Richmond April 20 to 22. Frances E. Clark will speak at the opening session with other educators, and DePauw University figures will lead several departments. A community sing will open the events, with business sessions and sectional meetings continuing through April 22.
Indianapolis Star sports editor John W. Head names an All Indiana College Basketball Squad with Cannon of DePauw at forward and Purdue and Valparaiso players heavily represented. The piece notes disagreements from Indiana fans about selections including DePauw’s Moffett and other players receiving honorable mention. The Star’s first squad includes Cannon DePauw forward Talson Purdue forward Bradley Valparaiso forward Dean Indiana center Pike Franklin center Hunt Wabash guard White Purdue guard Miller Purdue.
Farmers and stock breeders of Putnam County organized the Putnam County Live Stock Breeders Association after meeting Saturday. They discussed plans for a sales pavilion to be erected here in the summer.
The Putnam County Live Stock Breeders Association was organized to promote better livestock. Chas Bridges elected president with W D Lovett as vice president and Earl Bunten as secretary treasurer. An executive committee of four breed representatives will oversee a new livestock sales pavilion planned for construction this summer. A report on committee work will be given April 3. In other news, Ernest David Williams married Miss Lela Myrtle Phillips at the Christian church parsonage and will reside on a nearby farm.
A pleasant spring day drew many golfers to the Greencastle Country Club Sunday. En thusiasts enjoyed sunshine and fresh air on the links during both morning and afternoon sessions.
DePauw University rifle team lost to Indiana University 1021 to 1017 in Bloomington. Shooters included Morrison VanArsdel Seld Bushheit Scott and Rufe with Captain Shute and Sergeant Harris present. Debate results followed with AQ b ien College topping Earlham in a triangular event. President Grose left for a western alumni trip. other campus notes include faculty and student movements and local visits.
The Thirh Ward school pupils voice slogans and verses urging higher salaries for teachers. Grade V lines plead for more pay and better provisions, while other students emphasize the need for fair compensation and improved conditions.
The opening of Greencastle's new Star Store, a Ladies Ready to Wear shop in the former C. A. Kelley rooms, drew a large Saturday crowd. Proprietor Harry Goldberg, a noted Brazilian merchant, praised the turnout and merchandise, with Mrs. Lottie Gregory overseeing operations and Miss Bertha Remington handling alteration services.
A Ford car owned by Lawrence Crawley was stolen Sunday evening while Mr and Mrs Crawley attended revival services. The vehicle was parked on Vine Street near the tabernacle.
Lawrence Crawley reports a Ford touring car valued near 400 dollars stolen Sunday evening from Vine street while he and Mrs. Crawley attended revival services. The car contained carpenter tools worth over 50 dollars stored under the rear seat. Police were notified. the switch box key suggests the thief had access. No trace of the vehicle yet.
Cottage prayer meetings are held Tuesday morning from 9 40 to 10 oclock in numbered homes across town. Leaders include Mrs Ernest Browning Miss Martha Crouch Mrs J M Reeves Mrs C W Tuttle Mrs Charley Talbott Mrs Harbison Mrs Rostraight and others at multiple streets including West Poplar East Seminary South Locust Berry Han ra and Illinois Chestnut and Jackson streets.
An alleged suspect, Eugene Waymire, was held in Terre Haute for robbery linked to two home burglaries. Marshall O H air planned to identify the man and bring him to Greencastle for trial. Waymire reportedly accompanied Herbert McGranahan during the crimes. McGranahan was later jailed and sent to the state reformatory. The suspect used the name Hugh Miller when arrested.
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