High School Pupils Meet in County Contests
High school pupils from several county schools compete in discussion reading voice piano and violin events this evening at the high school building with representatives from each school present.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1920
Page
1
High school pupils from several county schools compete in discussion reading voice piano and violin events this evening at the high school building with representatives from each school present.
Readers are informed of entrants for the county discussion contest to be held in the high school auditorium at 7 30 pm. Greencastle lists several participants for reading voice piano and violin while Bainbridge Cloverdale and others show entries. The event leads to district and state contests with past winners named Allen Tilden and Carl O Hair.
A break on the Putnam Electric high tension line between Greencastle and Clinton cut power to Greencastle for about 30 minutes last night. The emergency local plant was activated and service returned as crews repaired the line early this morning.
James G. Steese, DePauw alumnus and War Department official, received the Officer of the Order of Montnero decoration from the Montnero king during 1919 after touring European and Near Eastern theaters as a special War Secretary representative. He later served as an assistant chief in the Bureau of Personnel at the War Department. A Vermillion Cafe luncheon for DePauw students featured Prof Gough and others, continuing debates with Albion and Albion.
Carl Anthony, a boy from a Terre Haute orphanage, vanished from the Hawkins home south of town. A wide search through nearby towns failed to locate him until he appeared in Greencastle, where a man who heard of the search recognized him. The boy said he had been at the Shafer home on the adjacent farm.
Jay G. Voss, 61, Indianapolis resident and former Noblesville native, died at his home 1931 North Illinois Street after a paralysis bout begun last Christmas in Battle Creek Michigan. An Elk exalted ruler, Mason, Columbus Club and Athenaeum member, he authored two books of verse and wrote for several papers. Survived by sisters Tarquinia L. Voss and Theresa H. Smith, he left substantial property in Indianapolis and Noblesville. Funeral arrangements not specified.
The will of former attorney Jackson Boyd is probated naming Central Trust Company as both trustee and executor. The estate income is left to Mrs. Boyd.
The will of Jackson Boyd names Central Trust Company of the city as trustee and executor. It directs income to Mrs. Boyd for maintenance with principal use if needed and to publish his unpublished manuscripts after her death. Central Trust posted a $10,000 bond. James and Allee are attorneys for the trust company.
Roachdale visitors Frank Davis and Joan Bridges came for business in the city. DePauw University hosts its fourth annual gymnastic exhibition led by Miss Steese Miss Twineham and others with a varied program including calisthenics dances and fencing. The Red Viper proved to be a venue advertisement for a Greencastle Legion benefit.
John G. Bryson of Brazil was selected chairman of the ways and means committee of the national and state Republican committee for financial work in Indiana. The banker heads the Fifth district and was named at a Republican leaders luncheon at the Hotel Severn in Indianapolis.
Under the direction of the Department of Physical Education the fourth annual athletic event will be held this evening in the university gymnasium.
Special sermon to be preached Sunday morning at 10 30 oclock by Mrs Daisy Douglas Barr for the country folk audience at the usual church venue.
A tabernacle service opens with praise and a call to accept Jesus Christ. Mrs Barr lectures on when a farmer moves to town. Public meetings follow in the court house rotunda and booster tours go to Fillmore and Bainbridge. Rain tests the tabernacle roof as crowds listen to sermons on the Ten Commandments and modern sins.
Bertha Coffin transfers land in Marion township to AL N Kersey for 1600 dollars. Lemuel Ratcliff and wife sell land to Arthur E Weller and wife not in Bainbridge for 1500 dollars.
Indianapolis receipts show hog prices down 25 cents at opening with sales 14 75 to 16 00 and top around 16 10. Lightweights 15 25 to 16 60 heavies 14 00 to 14 75. pigs at 15 50. Local buyers took 4 000. cattle prospects lower calves 1 00 to 2 00 lower sheep steady.
Mrs. Benton and her husband discuss a savory dish she prepared from a carefully compounded recipe. He notes no missing element explains the altered flavor and hints something unusual was added, leaving her puzzled by the difference from Mrs Mink's version.
In a Great Western Railway carriage bound for London the passenger mocked fellow travelers with loud remarks. At Hawali Lunatic Asylum the man boasted about the asylum’s appearance from the railway and a counter insult from an elderly passenger followed.
The Ladies' Aid Society serves a feast of good things in the church parlors of Locust Street Church. Over one hundred business women attend the luncheon, enjoying fellowship and meals prepared by society members.
The Locust Street church parlors hosted a Greencastle luncheon and lecture organized by Mrs Daisy Douglas Barr. She urged businesswomen to form an organization, argued for moral equality, and invited all to a following Thursday event at the Christian church.
The Greencastle High School basketball squad, recent winners of regional honors, traveled to Indianapolis for a day hosted by local business leaders. Accompanied by Chamber of Commerce president C. C. Gillen, the players visited the Marion Club for dinner and secured best seating at the English theater for Ben Hur. Doctors report measles illnesses at the Bake home while new birth Maxine Louise Kuhn is recorded on March 24.
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