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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1919
Page
1
Eighth grade pupils produced an entertainment titled Own a Home First on Friday night with Ruth Wilson winning top prize for her essay. The program showcased student performances and literary work in a community school event.
The twenty-fifth Greencastle public schools show in the high school auditorium Friday night delighted about 1,000 people. Ruth Wilson won $5 for best essay “Own a Home First” with Minnie May Bartley taking $2.50. W. P. Sackett presented prizes and praised the students and faculty, with Miss Elizabeth Tilden, Miss Blanche Bicknell, and others delivering popular musical and literary numbers.
Miss Helen Brothers and Miss Dorothy Dodson led the program with the Dance of the Fairies and a boys dumbbell drill. Thirty two boys performed with modifications under Prof Oscar Thomas. William Blanchard received special mention for piano accompaniment as the audience applauded loudly. It marks the first class to graduate in the new high school building with fifty two girls and thirty two boys.
May 17 arrivals of hogs at the Indianapolis yards totaled 5,500 for the weekend. Higher bidding pushed prices up 10 to 20 cents, with sales at 20.90 to 21.00. Local packers took 5,000 head while outsiders bought the remainder. Cattle calves and sheep totaled 250, 200, and 100 with prices holding steady from Friday.
The annual Mendenhall lecture series will begin Sunday at 3 15 PM in Meharry Hall with Dr John Kelman pastor of Free St Georges Church Edinburg Scotland delivering the Waren lecture Sunday evening and lectures continuing Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday evenings at 7.00 PM Kelman has completed lectures at Yale Harvard and Ohio Wesleyan universities.
Miss Clara Marie Cann of the Ne Pamu school of music will present a senior voice recital on Monday evenings. The program includes varied titles and composers, reflecting a formal student showcase. Dobbs and Vestal sold the 0 C Dobbs farm in Marion township to Fred W Vaughn for 15000 dollars.
The eightieth annual DePauw University commencement will run from Saturday June 7 through Wednesday June 11. events include ceremonies and related activities across campus to honor graduates.
The DePauw University 80th commencement program lists events from Saturday June 7 to Wednesday June 11. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes will deliver the commencement address. Activities include concerts, sermons, class meetings, plays, alumni meetings, trustees sessions, and Phi Beta Kappa events. Class reunions for multiple years are noted as due.
The schedule lists an 8:00 p.m. reception in the Studebaker Memorial Building hosted by the President and Trustees. At 10:00 a.m. society reunions and 10:00 a.m. commencement exercises follow in the Bowman Memorial Building with an address by Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes.
All partnerships including farmers merchants and blacksmiths must file partnership returns with the collector of internal revenue by June 15 1918. Penalties apply for delinquencies. Blank forms mailed to partnerships of record in the seventh Indiana district Terre Haute but the list may be incomplete and forms sent to every bank in the district.
The Brooks revival ends Sunday after three major meetings. The Bible school aims for 300. Last Sunday set records with an $11 attendance and offerings over $25. Tomorrow’s sessions include Dr. Brooks on What An Unbeliever Must Believe in the morning and excuses in the evening, with Miss Huger and Dr. Brooks singing at all meetings. A large audience heard a German atrocities lecture last night, with striking Kaiser quotes. Three new church members raise total to sixty three as 250 new hymnals are purchased for Sundays. Baptismal services are planned Sunday at 4 o clock.
Purchasers with subscriptions through local banks must visit their bank by May 20 to make initial payments or pay in full. If not paid by May 20 the bondholders lose the right to interest starting then.
Dr. Frank Long of Indianapolis will visit Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tim mons on Sunday, continuing a planned social engagement.
Local school presents The Hoodoo performed by graduating class members in the evening of Friday May 39. The event showcases student talent and aims to engage the community in a school activity.
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Lieut L Fegley of Chanute Field and his mechanic escaped serious injury when their plane struck a clump of trees in Roselawn after a Kokomo to Logansport maneuver. The crash damaged the machine during a return to air after a short flight. The aviators had been part of the war department air service recruitment campaign and were previously seen in Greencastle last Monday.
An interested group of women met at the home of Mrs. Lee Reeves for the missionary program of the Women’s Bible Class of College Avenue M. E. Sunday School. Mrs. John Gray spoke on Paul’s missionary experiences and Miss Martha Crouch discussed How to Win the World to Christ. Mrs. Meyers highlighted mission progress, church growth and a $1000 gift to the Centenary movement, noting China’s plea against American breweries and opium. Social hour followed with refreshments. Greencastle Crescent Rebekah Lodge to meet May 19 at 8 p.m. Ina Crump and Rae Masten, N. G. and Sec.
Flyers make fast progress over the first seven hundred miles of their trans Atlantic voyage from Trepas Sey at eighty five miles an hour. NC-4 leads other craft as conditions stay favorable.
Three U S Navy seaplanes NC-4 NC-3 and NC-1 began from Trepas Bay N F and reached 700 nautical miles 700 miles in mid flight toward Ponta Delgada Azores as dawn neared Navy officials predicted an earlier than planned arrival with 20 knot airspeed. Messages relayed via Cape Race showed steady progress as station ships tracked each craft. The NC-4 led to within about 150 miles of Horta Azores where Ponta Delgada bay awaits landing.
The May Day program presented by the university’s young women in the DePauw gymnasium will be repeated next Monday at 4 p.m. at Rosa Bower. The public is invited to attend.
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