Community notes and local updates in Putnam county
Mrs Silas Buckley returns home from visiting parents in Ston west of town. Spanish War Veterans meet Wednesday at 7 30 PM in A J Duff office, change of location noted. Mrs Elizabeth Lane Perkins of Salem Mass guests sister Mrs Albert Nelson. Mrs Robert Conner of Chicago returns from visit. Mrs O W Bales moved to Putnam county hospital after two weeks illness. C M T C enrollment in Putnam and Fifth Corps area was largest in eleven years per county chairman Robert Hoffman. Mrs George Walker discharged from Indianapolis hospital. Funeral held for Martha June Nelson at Christian Church with Rev Brauner. burial at Little Walnut cemetery. Prof Lester M Jones to attend National Conference of College Hygiene at Syracuse May 7 to May ? Dr Courtland Gillen to speak at Crawfordsville Woodrow Wilson club event. also on program John C McFadden. Charges against James Carmichel dismissed after victim refused to press. Carmichel had passed a wooden check. Laverne Smiley guardian named for minor by Judge Hutcheson. Madeline Black taken to hospital for acute appendicitis. Funeral for Charles McAllister held at Reelsville with burial at Boone Hutcheson cemetery. Putnam grand jury to investigate Fox Ridge fight. March Hamilton hospitalized for knife wound. Isaac Rogers and hall participant jailed on deadly weapon charges.
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Putnam County Grand Jury
Fox Ridge
March Hamilton
Bloomington Street
Putnam County Hospital
Isaac Rogers
Stilesville
Putnam County
Camel prize winners to be announced next week
Officials of K. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company said the Camel cigarette contest will name 38 prize winners next week. A first prize of 25000 dollars leads 1000 entries judged by Roy W. Howard Charles Dana Gibson and Ray Long.
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Winston-Salem
K. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Roy W. Howard
Scripps-Jioward League of Newspapers
Charles Dana Gibson
Lartier
Life Magazine
Ray Long
International Magazine Company
Cosmopolitan
X Ray Reveals Secrets Of Brooklyn Mummies
Brookyln Museum mummies examined by X ray reveal a perfectly preserved woman with intact bones and visible flesh outlines. Another mummy shows displaced bones and no flesh evidence. A child's skull fracture indicates possible violent death.
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Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn
N. Y
Popular Science Monthly
Pilgrim Mothers Honor Washington on Bicentennial
The American War Mothers and the George Washington Bicentennial Commission announce a Europe pilgrimage for Gold Star Mothers to honor sons who served. Congress will fund chapels on battlefields, with missing graves marked, and services aboard ships George Washington and President Roosevelt.
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United States
George Washington
Congress
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
Representative Simmons
Nebraska
Europe
War Department
General Pershing
Roosevelt
America
Washington
France
Lafayette
Science Now Credits First Broadcast to Hertz in 1887
Authorities credit Helmrich Hertz with early radio broadcasting experiments. Clarence A. O'Brien and Dr. C. G. Abbot note Hertz’s work on long wave electromagnetic theory and the first broadcast in Karlsruhe between 1885 and 1889. Hertz’s detector and resonating circuit aided signal discovery.
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Hertz
Helmrich Hertz
Beinrich
Rudolf Herz
Helmholtz
James Clerk Maxwell
C. G. Abbot
Smithsonian Institution
Maxwell
Karlsruhe
Germany
Clarence A. O'Brien
Washington
O’brien
Mr. O'Brien
Herz
Hamburg
Munich
Berlin
Keil
Polytechnic School
Baden
Marconi
Indianapolis Livestock Market Receipts and Prices May Day
Livestock market in Indianapolis reports receipts of hogs 4000 cattle 1500 calves 700 sheep 600. Hog prices mostly down with 160 to 260 lb at 7.00 to 7.25 dollars. Underweights 7.15, heavy hogs 96.00 lower, sows down 86. Cattle slow bidding with calves 50 cents higher. Sheep steady with shorn lambs down 9 and spring lambs down 11.50.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Westminster bells mimicry heard citywide in Camden
Camden City Hall uses 180 dynamic speakers atop a hidden tower to broadcast bell chimes speeches and phonograph records over a five mile radius. A control room with microphones and electric mechanisms reproduces the toll of Big Ben, with careful acoustics to avoid street deflection.
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Westminster
Camden
N.J
City Hall
Popular Science Monthly
Tiny camel skeleton unearthed at Agate Springs
Harvard University researchers add a three foot high camel skeleton to the museum collection. The fossil, found at Agate Springs Nebraska, indicates a camel living about 17,000,000 years ago on the Western plains.
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Harvard University Museum
Cambridge
Mass
Popular Science Monthly
Agate Springs
Neb
Bishop McConnell to Speak at Indianapolis Kiwanis Luncheon
Bishop Francis P. F. McConnell of New York, president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America and former DePauw president, will address the Indianapolis Kiwanis luncheon in the Riley room at theClaypool hotel. Kiwanis will invite pastors. Charles J. Gaunt chairs the program.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Francis PF. McConnell
New York
Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
DePauw University
Indianapolis Kiwanis Club
Riley Room
Claypool Hotel
Charles J. Gaunt
Delegates Named for Foreign War Veterans Convention
Walter Wameley Claude Best and Edwin Holmes will represent the Jesse Lee post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the state convention in Indianapolis in June. Frank Ashworth J A Friend and Russell Brown were chosen to represent the post for Memorial Day observances. Poppy Day plans were approved with the Christian church class selling Daddy poppies on May 23. A letter from G Bromley Oxnam of DePauw praised the post for opposing a Seventh District Legion probe into alleged sex and socialist influence at DePauw.
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Walter Wameley
Claude Best
Edwin Holmes
Jesse Lee
Indianapolis
Greencastle Public Library
Frank Ashworth
J. A. Friend
Russell Brown
The
Christian Church
G. Bromley Oxnam
DePauwway
Post
Seventh District Legion
DePauw
W. P. Bryans
Legion
Few Jurors Chosen In Draves Slaying Case
In Valparaiso Indiana on May 5 the Draves murder trial for Virgil Kirkland progressed with only a handful of jurors chosen after four days of questioning. Of 110 summoned, 100 were excused mainly for fixed opinions. the defense used seven of its twenty challenges. One prospective juror, Mrs. Mattie Conover, suggested she could serve if newspapers did not bias her, prompting objections from the prosecutor.
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Valparaiso
Ind
Virgil Kirkland
Gary
Arlene Draves
Bernard Myrs
Henry Beserman
Garelh Horner
Mattie Conover
Central Trust Company Obtains Foreclosure Judgment
Judge James P. Hughes of the Putnam circuit court issued a decree of foreclosure against A. A. Hauck and others in the case of Central Trust Company vs Hauck. The court also awarded the trust company a judgment of 2 243 74 with Kenneth West named receiver for the property involved.
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Central Trust Company
A. A. Hauck
James P. Hughes
Putnam Circuit Court
Hauck
Kenneth West
Greencastle Baseball Postponed and Golf Match Rescheduled
William E. Bausman announced Greencastle Tiger Cubs baseball game with Spencer High School, set for this afternoon, is postponed to Thursday at Handy Field. A golf match between Greencastle and Crawfordsville High at the Country Club has been moved up to Wednesday here, following a Crawfordsville win in a prior contest.
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William E. Bausman
Greencastle High School
Spencer
Handy Field
Crawfordsville
Local plant hires mainly county workers from Greencastle area
The Chamber of Commerce investigated Lone Star Cement Company staffing and found about ninety percent of employees come from Greencastle and Putnam County with ten percent from surrounding counties. These workers are skilled and have worked there for several years.
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Lone Star Cement Company
Greencastle
Putnam County
Chamber of Commerce
Madison county commissioners name road viewers
Lee Woods and Charles McLinden were named as viewers on the proposed Ray Evans and others road in Madison township by the Putnam county board of commissioners at their regular meeting. The viewers are to meet on May 21.
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Lee Woods
Charles McLinden
Ray Evans
Madison Township
Putnam County Board of Commissioners
Commissioners
Putnam County Court House
Mrs G Bromley Oxniay Reelected as Faculty Women’s Club President
Mrs G Bromley Oxniay, two years president of the Faculty Women’s Club, was reelected for the coming year at yesterday’s meeting. Officers include Mrs B Nichols vice president, Mrs W A Neiswang er treasurer, Mr W Cranda secretary, with Mrs E Rt Barter presiding in Mrs Oxway’s absence. Tea featured spring apple blossom decorations and lighted pink tapers.
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G. Bromley Oxniay
Womens Chi
B. Nichols
W. A Neiswanger
W. Cranda
E. Rt. Barter
Oxway
Auxiliary of Spanish War Veterans to meet Wednesday
The Auxiliary of the Spanish War Veterans will meet Wednesday evening at 7 30 o clock in the city library. The Monday Club met at the country home of Mrs W T Handy with Andrew Sweeney reading articles on flower gardening. Refreshments were served by the hostess assisted by Bernard Handy.
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Heath Building
Jackson Street
Greencastle
Ola T. Ellis
C. A. Vestal
The
W. T. Handy
Andrew Sweeney
Bernard Handy
Hixson
Methodist Church
F. W. Ihlixson
Northwood Blvd
Crescent Rebekah Lodge
Private yacht doubles as fire fighting boat
Albert T. Bell a hotel man and president of the National Fire Protection Association funded a private yacht built to aid local fire fighters. Electric powered pumps and nozzles in the engine room supply water power. diesel engines run the vessel. The yacht is fireproof with electric heating and stored heated water circulating via radiators.
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Albert T. Bell
Atlantic
National Fire Protection Asociate
Watyr
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Maine
California
J.F. Cannon & Co
Silas Buckley
Huntington
Mrs
S. T. Johnston
A. J. Duff
Elizabeth Lane Perkins
Salem Mass
Albert Nelson
Mr. Nelson
West Walnut Street Road
Robert Conner
Chicago
EB. A. Brown
O. W. Bales
Brick Chapel
Putnam County Hospitar
Fifth Corps
Robert Hoffman
George Walker
South Indiana Street
Methodist Hospital
Martha June Nelson
James W. Nelson
North Jackson Street
B. WH. Brauner
Littlealnut Cemetery
Lester M. Jones
College Hygiene
Syracuse
Courtland C. Gillen
Woodrow Wilson Club
John C. McFadden
Rockville
Parke County
Montgomery
Gillen
McFadden
James Carmachel
Marshall D. Abrams
H. R. Nicholas
Nicholas
Carmichel
A. R. Hutcheson
Clay
Brazil
Putnam Circuit Court Today
Fred Masten
Laverne Smiley
Madeline Black
Charles Black
Robert Long Hospital
Reelsville Methodist Church
Charles McAllister
Reelsville
Bennett
Boone-Hutcheson
Lakin Funeral Home
the Herald
Heinrich Wertz
Herald
Foreign War Veterans
Indiana Loan CO
Ben Davis
L. C. Buchheit
University Shop
W. T. Besser
Columbia Street
Dorothy Adland
Admr
A. Vestal
Jersey
Herald Office
Vine
Poplar Streets
Foster & Akers
Fillmore
Heelybrook
Dunfield
Campbell Brothers
H. Thompson
R. R
Jackson St
Indiana St
Western Union
Mrs. Oxnam
Auxiliary of
Woman's Home Missionary
WLFL
M.S
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church
Woman's Home Missionarg Society
Byron Wilson
Frances Quinton
Crescent Rebekah Ladye
Fillmore Ladies Aid
Arnold
A. L. Arnold
Anderson Street
Ladies Aid of the Fillmorehristian Cedured
Chas. Hutcheson
Charles Hutcheson
Ivan Ruark
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