DePauw to Rename Athletics Leadership After Walker
Reports indicate Fred Walker will not return as athletic director and football coach at DePauw next year. Ted Merriam likely departs. Kranz may remain. Two new coaches are planned, with the athletic director focused solely on duties.
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Coagh
E. C. Buss
Merriam
Indianapolis News
Fred Walker
DePauw
George R. Grose
DePauw Athletic Board
Walker
Ted” Merriam
Kranz
Krantz
Indianapolis Hla, Roi
DePauw University
Fred M. Walker
Hoosier Tiger Institution
Ned Merriam
Methodists
Columbus Well 76 Prominent Farmer Dies Saturday
Columbus Wells dies at his Madison township home at 76 after weeks of illness. Survived by widow, two sons Oscar H. and Benjamin H., and four daughters Sarah Payne Eva Ratton Fred Lancaster and Ellen Knauer. Funeral held at Long Branch church Monday at 10 30 AM with interment in Long Branch cemetery.
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Columbus Wells
Madison Township
Oscar H
Benjamin H
Sarah Payne
Evaratton
Fred Lancaster
Ellen Knauer
Monroe Township
Long Branch
Long Branch Cemetery
Zinc Rollers Open Season Slipping 4–1 to Putnamville
The American Zinc Products Company baseball team lost 4 to 1 to Putnamville on Sunday. Zinc Rollers managed only one hit as Bullerdick struck out 20, while Alexander fanned 16 for Zinc Mill. Davis walked and scored on a wild throw, the lone Zinc Run. Errors aided Putnamville’s tallyes.
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American Zinc Products Company
Putnamville
Bullerdick
Davis
Alexander
Dung Mee
Zinc Mill
Sutherlin
Sigma Chi Hosts Mothers Day Observance
The Sigma Chi fraternity entertained sixteen mothers of members at the chapter house on South Locust Street for Mothers Day. A noon dinner was served with Miss Lucille Gillespie soprano and John Sapp and Miss Esther Alice Green on violin providing music. The chapter attended services at Locust Street Church in a body along with the guests.
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Sigma Chi Fraternity
South Locust Street
Lucille Gillespie
John Sapp
Esther Alice Green
Locust Street Church
J. D. Howate
C. Z. Cook
J. A. Hornbeck
Lafayette
F. Shontauch
R. M. Abrams
M. I. Butterfield
Beveridge Defeats New Shocks Republican Leaders
Washington reacts to Albert Beveridge’s victory over Senator Harry S New as a major setback for the Harding administration and regular Republican organization. Democrats claim the loss signals voter retribution and a tougher path in the 1920 election. Republicans note Beveridge ran on a Republican platform and pledged to support the national administration.
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Washington
Indiana
Albert J. Beveridge
New
Capitol
Senator New
Harding
Cordell Hull
Democratic National Committee
Europe
Beveridge
Indianapolis couple visiting relatives in town
Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Hurst of Indianapolis are here visiting relatives and friends.
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Mrs. L. T. Hurst
Indianapolis
DePauw Triumphs Over Wabash In Track Meet On Saturday
DePauw defeats Wabash 44 to 2 in a one sided track meet. DePauw secures ten firsts including Smith and Robbins dominating multiple events while Wabash picks up four firsts led by Thorne Peare and Van Arsdale.
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DePauw
Wabash
McKeenfield Satuday
Glenn Smith
Tigers
Thorne
Peare
Robbins
van Arsdale
Smith
Dinwiddie
Myers
Snape
Austin
VanArsdale
G. Smith
Haas
Wyatt
Young
Cady
Lestinger
J. Maxwell DePauw
Bruce
G. Adams
Clark
J. Adams
McFarlane
C. Smith
P. Jones
Pike Wabash
Jones
Hanes
Yeager
Berger
Staples
Funeral of Columbus Wells Held at Long Branch Church
The funeral of Columbus Wells a prominent Putnam County farmer occurred after his death at his Madison township home Saturday morning. The service was held Monday at 10 30 o clock at Long Branch Church with burial in Long Branch Cemetery.
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Columbus Wells
Putnam County
Madison Township
Long Branch Church
Long Branch Cemetery
Local man arrested for bootlegging in Greencastle
Heschel Hutch Neal of west Jacob Street was arrested near 10 o clock Sunday by Sheriff Sears and Marshall O H air on a bootlegging charge. Police say he sold two men a pint of white mule and hid three gallons in a water filled five gallon jug retrieved from a cistern. Callender of west Washington Street and Thornburg of north Greencastle pleaded guilty to possessing liquor and were fined 50 dollars plus costs.
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Heschel “Hutch” Neal
West Jacob Street
Sears
Marshall O’hair
Neal
Callender
West Washington Street
Harry Thornburg
North Greencastle
Mr. O’hair
Thornburg
Zeis
Paving of National Road to Be Finished in 1922
The Indiana state highway commission reports six National Road hard surface projects under contract this spring are progressing well despite heavy spring rains. Highway director Lawrence Loone said all contracts will be completed this year.
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Indianapolis
Ind
State Highway Commission
Lawrence Loone
Vandalia brakeman killed at cement plant in Vandalia
George W. Lock aged 34 of Terre Haute a Vandalia railroad brakeman was killed Sunday night near 11 20 o clock when the freight train he rode while switching at the Indiana Portland Cement plant ran over him after he fell from the car The body was cut in two and taken to Terre Haute for burial Survived by widow and one son Funeral plans not yet made
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George W. Lock
Terre Haute
Geoge W. Lock
Pennsylvania Railroad
Indiana Portland Cement Plant
Lock
Here
J. E. McCurry
Putnam County
Thirteenth Street
Reformatory Construction Considered On Cost Plus Plan
Governor McCray says Indiana plans a Pendleton reformatory on a cost plus basis to speed up work and employ prison labor. Officials would closely supervise to keep costs near 2 million dollars.
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Indiana State Capitol
McCray
Board of Trustees
The
State Reformatory
Reformatory
Pendleton
Senior Class Play Tickets On Sale At High School
Eldon C. Hill reports tickets for the annual Senior class play All of a Sudden Peggy are selling fast with auditorium seating reserved Tuesday afternoon. Sales remittance extended to tomorrow morning. Rehearsals show a strong cast and the High School orchestra rehearses tonight at 7 in the DePauw School of Music auditorium. Ten pupils were absent today. The Prodigal Judge starring Jean Paige screens Monday and Tuesday May 15 and 16, sponsored by the Senior class. Junior Senior prom set for Friday May 19. Dr. George R. Grose of DePauw University to speak at the Parent Teachers Association meeting at 7:30 tonight in the high school auditorium.
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Peggy
DePauw School of Music
Jean Paige
George R. Grose
DePauw University
Parent-Teachers Association
Closing Events Begin as School Year Ends
The article notes the school year’s close and comments on the habit of going barefoot as healthy, while suggesting it helps save money for fathers. It adds a quip about reforming men and the unavailability of men willing to change.
Shadowart Photographer Honors Noted Music World Figure
Hillary Bailey son of Rev and Mrs Bailey conducts Shadowart Photo graph Studio on east Washington street and has finished a pen sketch from a photo of Harry M Holbrook. Bailey is publicity manager of Leo-Feist Music Co. He met Holbrook years ago in musical work. Holbrook is said to know many great singers by first names. Rev and Mrs Victor L Raphael travel to Cincinnati for Theological Seminary commencement May 9 to 11 where Raphael is an alumnus.
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Hillary Bailey
Victor L. Raphael
Cincinnati
Tne Theological Seminary
Raphael
Nineteen Van Freight Cars Go Into The Ditch
A major Pennsylvania railroad wreck at Gibson between Cartersburg and Plainfield involved 19 eastbound freight cars leaving the track. No injuries reported. detours used Big Four and Monon routes. cause cited as a broken arch bar dropping into a switch. traffic restored by Saturday evening.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Gibson
Cartersburge
Plainfield
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Limedale
Frank Elbrink
Harvey Martin
Farm escape ends in cathedral burglary attempt
Howard J. Hall, 17, a parolee from the Indiana state farm, was arrested on a bursary charge after trying to rob the sacristy of SS Peter and Paul Cathedral in Indianapolis. Caught by Rev. Morris O Connor, Hall had escaped from the farm last Tuesday and planned to flee with loot during collection.
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Indianapolis Star
Howard J. Hall
Indiana State Farm
SS. Peter and Paul
Hall
State Farm
Morris O'Connor
Fourteenth
Tillinois
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