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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1915
Page
4
Local residents make visits and conduct arrivals from Indianapolis and Urbana. Notables attend funerals in New Ross. a DePauw alumna and Chicago lawyer wed in Shelbyville. Rushville clubwomen plan a 400 guest district convention with speeches by Indianapolis and Cambridge City speakers.
Dr Sparnhurst edits health notes over Lyric Theatre praising osteopathy for healing through better hygiene and simple principles. He argues bad habits wear machinery, proper food fuels the body, and pills pander to weak patients while Nature and osteopathy offer true cures.
Sunday visits highlighted by Miss Gertrude Boswell with Miss Thelma Slavens. Charley Hart and family visited Mr and Mrs Frank Vermilion. Mrs Jessie Keyt and Mrs Ross Thomas called on Mrs Squire Young. Miss Callie Vermilion visited Miss Lora Young on Tuesday.
A second inmate from the State Farm escape is captured in Rushville Indiana and faces a two to five year term. Newsom, among the first escapees, is expected to be sent to Michigan City prison this week, with prior arrest leaving two of four or five men recaptured.
One half cent per word for quick results in Herald want ads. Short, affordable listings invite reader responses and immediate publicity.
China men defeated DePauw University 3 to 1 in a brisk contest on McKee n Field drawing a large crowd. Antics by Chinese players amused fans as speed and skill fueled the win over the Tigers.
On McKeen Field Monday afternoon the Chinese University baseball team of Hawaii edged DePauw 3 to 1 in a closely contested game. Agau the Chinese shortstop starred in the field with 4 assists and 4 put outs while reaching base safely three times and scoring. Bo Harris opened the Old Gold scoring with a walk and score, but DePauw managed only one hit, a Morrow ball through second base.
Mrs. Willie Neese and daughter Lola visited Joe Evans's home on Sunday. Tom McCullough just returned from South Dakota and was seen in the area. Frost was reported in south Putnam Monday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Nage of Brazil visited Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Phillips Sunday. Clarence Skelton of Greencastle visited his father Sunday. Rev. Deeters of Terre Haute will preach at the McHaffie church the fourth Saturday night this month. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Craft of Brazil visited Milroy Craft Sunday. Edmond Huffman, son of Ross Huffman, is seriously ill. Charles Sargen and Frank Workman were in Brazil Saturday.
In Bobtown the community notes a quiet Sunday with William Neese visiting toe Neese. R Evans and family spent Sunday with H C Evans and family at Poland. Carrie Neese visited her father last Sunday. Tom Phillips and wife of Brazil visited the former's father C M Evans. R G Evans went to Brazil on a business trip Monday. Corn planting nears completion as Buck Hepler of Putnamville visited Sunday's area.
Edmund H. Hatton a 55 year old railroad brakeman built a three story concrete block home near Daylesford Chester County Pa with seventeen rooms two bathrooms electricity steam heat and fireproofing all while supporting his wife and nine children. He financed the project with 90 day notes paid from wages and plans to finish paying the balance of 2600.
Baltimore reports Frederick W. M. Burmeister appointed custodian of the Patapsco River cut-off channel lights at a salary of 1 a year and free use of a home on the lighthouse reservation. The position carries limited duties and unclear payment timing. Also noted are inventions in phonograph lantern shows, electricity used in oil wells, a cell adjusting grain pail, and a series of light humorous quips on time and marriage.
The eighth grade entertainment titled The Annual Commencement Exercises of the Nosoke High School will be staged in the Opera House on Wednesday evening May 12. A large turnout is expected as pupils from the second and third wards perform the comedy sketch and announce the D A R Prize Essay Contest winner later that evening.
The Terre Haute Spectator weighs a fanciful chain of events if Donn Roberts were released on appeal and returned to Terre Haute. It imagines Roberts as city controller, Gossom as mayor, and Roberts succeeding to mayor then naming Gossom controller, a scenario the paperCalls a quixotic possibility. Also notes Miss Nell Elliott leaving for Wichita to live with her uncle after completing a business college course here.
Notice from Putnam Electric Co. informing customers that their electric light bills are ready and requesting immediate settlement by phone or in person. No specific amounts or due dates are provided in the readable text.
Treasurer H. H. Runyan and deputies Ross Runyan and Ed Dalby completed work on the May county tax installment. Hundreds of residents sent their checks to the county treasurer, who processed the payments and prepared receipts for inclusion in records.
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