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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1928
Page
1
DPawn hosts the Little State Track Meet next Saturday at Blackstock field with about 11 colleges in the state entered. Greencastle should send a large delegation as DPawn boasts one of the region’s best tracks and a wide downtown park area is planned for improvements.
Earl Sample aged 52 a former Hancock Circuit judge at Greenfield died in a Newcastle Indiana hotel after a brief illness. Authorities attributed death to acute poisoning from denatured alcohol. Sample had practiced law in Greenfield Indianapolis and Gary and planned to open a Newcastle law office. Funeral services are set for Greenfield tomorrow.
Police report an organized holdup bandit group roaming Putnam and Montgomery counties. Victims include County Agent R H Stevenson and Miss Elizabeth Stoner on State Road 43 near Raccoon, with cash and a wrist watch taken. Separate Friday and Sunday robberies in Crawfordsville area mirror the pattern. Local residents blame the bandits and doubt cross county planning.
A blaze at the Harry Wheeler hatchery two miles south of Darlington destroyed the facility around midnight. Four thousand eggs in hatch, 14,700 setting eggs burned, two pet lambs and seven brooder stoves lost.
The chamber of commerce directors will meet tonight at 7 oclock at the First National Bank.
Seven bandits robbed the First National Bank in Angola holding bank president E F Croxton captive for over five hours. They escaped with about $15 000 in tax payments and headed toward Toledo Ohio in a large touring car as armed pursuers swept Northeastern Indiana and Western Ohio.
Walter Goldsberry a school teacher and farmer was injured when his Ford overturned after he swerved to avoid a dog in front of George McHaffie home east of Green Castle. He sustained neck to waist burns from hot radiator water and chest pain. Orville O Nea l county surveyor helped and drove him home.
After eight days without miners returning to work at wages below the Jacksonville scale, Knox Consolidated Coal Company officials announce that its three mines east of Vincennes will be closed again.
Mayor L Ert Slack faces a possible veto on the daylight saving ordinance as Indianapolis votes five to three to keep the measure. If enacted, clocks advance to 2 a.m. Sunday.
Willie Jackson, once a nationwide suspect in the Grand Trunk train robbery of $153,000 last February, was found dead from a gunshot in a South Side alley. No jury will hear his case.
Henry Ford predicted prosperity for the United States upon arrival in New York aboard the liner Majestic from a three week visit to England. He was accompanied by Mrs. Ford and was met by officials and press representatives.
Greencastle Chautauqua Association selects August 7 to 11 for the summer program. The Loar Independent Chautauqua Company proposal is accepted in part with remaining terms sent to Bloomington for revision. Gymnasium hosting approved to shield from weather. school board consent to be pursued.
Alvin Hanks was elected truant officer at a township trustees meeting. Alva B. Smith was awarded 9500 in a suit against the C C C and St L A R for farm damage from railroad ditch overflow. J M Voliva died at his home this afternoon. Mrs S A Hays left for Gordon Kansas to visit her mother Willis Epperson of Barnard was in town today.
Indiana voters opened polling with forecasts of a heavy turnout as Hoosiers decide among major presidential contenders and a crowded list of gubernatorial hopefuls. Estimates placed total votes around 7 million, with Republicans showing stronger participation amid the Hoover Watson contest for 33 Republican delegates.
DePauw School of Music presents the May Festival program in Music Hall at 7 PM. Highlights include works by Mendelssohn Schumann Gurlitt Offenbach Dvorak Weber Nevin with performances by Ruth Donnough, Bernice Ruark Lettie York Clare Conklin Betty Nichols Genevieve Pollom Geneva Brown and others.
Taxes totaling about 77000 were collected at the county treasurer s office on Monday the final day of paying the spring installment. Some mail in payments remained unopened and will raise the final total. Treasurer Alva Lisby noted numerous delinquencies and warned of delinquent fees for those unpaid by Monday.
In Greencastle the county primary drew a light turnout as many voters mixed up precincts. Several county office candidates lacked opposition and were left off ballots while the Republican sheriff race featured Virgil Grimes against Henry O'Hair. Focal interest rested on presidential and gubernatorial races with Hoover gaining strength in Putnam County and Watson supporters uneasy.
The Monon railroad discontinues two passenger trains between Michigan City and Medaryville defying a public service commission order. Chairman Singleton reports the hearing date shifted from May 17 to May 25 in Michigan City after protests by sixteen Westville residents and local businessmen. H. R. Currie and the railroad legal adviser requested delay and the AG was asked to enforce the commission order.
Sheriff Ed ward Fiteborge deputies Alva Bryan and Prosecutor Clifford Dickerson uncovered a fifty gallon still hidden in an underground chamber on Clarence Booker’s Clar ence Booker farm southwest of Barnard. They seized 200 gallons of mash and a fully equipped setup for corn whisky production and destroyed the lot while Booker fled.
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