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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1928
Page
2
By mail in Putnam County three dollars yearly. Outside Putnam County three dollars sixty cents yearly. In Greencastle by carrier nineteen cents weekly. Weekly edition one dollar fifty cents per year. Advertising rates available on application.
Readable passages from a 1928 Warner Bros adaptation foreground Betsy Patterson and her French tutor La Vert at the Sweet Springs Inn. The scene centers on Betsy walking barefoot, a duel tension, a julep dispute with Major Patterson, and Betsy’s woodland meeting with her lookalike in the woods as the cast shapes a melodramatic courtship.
The Greencastle School City and Greencastle Township will accept sealed bids May 22, 1928 for General Construction Heating and Ventilating Plumbing and Electrical Wiring of a new one story six classroom school with basement cloak rooms and auditorium. Bids require 3 percent certified check and non collusion affidavits. Separate divisions and alternates apply. Estimated total 356000. Also Putnam County issues road improvement bonds up to 18000 with 4.5 percent interest subject to state taxation audit hearings within 29 days from May 8 1928.
County commissioners of Putnam County Indiana announce a bond issue to fund construction of the W. A. Grogan Road in Greencastle Township. A May 7, 1928 meeting determined the plan. Taxpayers are advised of the action and the date of formal consideration.
The undersigned qualified as Executor of the Last Will and Testament of Uriah Gasaway, deceased, in the Putnam Circuit Court Indiana and authorized to administer the estate. The estate is solvent. Central Trust Company Greencastle Indiana named executor with W M Sutherlin attorneys.
The Jackson Township Trustee and Advisory Board in Putnam County Indiana announce an emergency appropriation for 1928 meetings on May 1 1928 at 7 30 PM at J F Case Trustee office to decide increased funds for school transportation tuition road labor road materials and legal notices Taxpayers may be heard and ten or more taxpayers can file objections with the county auditor within ten days after the decision.
Trustees and advisory members sign off on expenditures as unnecessary and excessive. Document dated May 12 1928 with signatures J F Case trustee W Dodds J W Job F Miller and Jackson Township advisory board. Dated May 21 1928.
Putnam County Indiana Board of Commissioners to issue road bonds for Oscar Obenchain Road not exceeding 54000 dollars. Bonds bear 4.5 percent interest. tax unit 11595400. existing debt 159246. 51000 for preliminary expenses. Poll tax aggrieved taxpayers may appeal within 29 days to State Board of Tax Commissioners. hearing at Greencastle courthouse.
Richard Lewis a 27 year old Chicago man who attempted suicide by poison after personal troubles was found unconscious in a hallway with a note to his wife and a picture of his daughter. He remained alive and showed signs of recovery as doctors predicted a favorable outcome.
Indianapolis May 14 Leon Duray blazed a lap at nearly 119 mph in warm conditions as Sixteenth International 500 mile race prep. Capt E V Rickenbacker and Peter De Paolo watched. De Paolo also flew solo for the first time. Duray and fellow drivers Karly Cooper and Tommy Milton prepared for the race with Duray’s high speed pace setting talk among pitside observers.
A historical recount of the National Road through Indiana from 1835 noting timber clearing and grading, transition to state control in 1848, and the Central Plank Road Company actions about 1850. It describes plank road construction with four by six inch stringers, three inch planks, right of way rules for wagons, and later gravel covering and worn planks.
Sunday school and church were held at the Canaan M E Church on May 13. Charlie Diel remains bedridden but shows slow improvement. Dr. Jay Stiles of Lena visited the Young home. News arrived Friday of James Bests death. Harvey Lowery took a business trip to Brazil. Mrs. Walter F. Young visited Greencastle. Farmers plant corn locally. Richard Akinsor and family from Terre Haute visited the Youngs Friday night. Mr. E W Gwin visited the Youngs at Sunday supper.
In Chicago on May 14 an infant 17 days old died after its father Eduardo Gonzales painted the kitchen. The fumes from the new paint are believed to have poisoned the child, one of twins.
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