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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1930
Page
2
Greencastle area residents hosted relatives and friends over the weekend. Local trips included James Bittles and son visiting Bedford, while several families hosted guests from Indianapolis and Washington, D C. Road incidents included two cars damaged in ditches near Stilesville and on State Road 43 with no injuries. Memorial Day committee and church notices accompanied social items.
Several Greencastle students at DePauw were honored on Recognition Day for scholastic attainment. Awards were presented by Dr. William Blanchard. Amos Light received a graduate assistantship at Syracuse University. Floyd Call earned an economics scholarship to Northwestern University. Mary Elizabeth Briggs won English composition honors. Towne Stephenson was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and received a Yale University scholarship.
The Kibitzer stars Harry Green as a cigar store kibitzer who bets on bonds and a stock ticker misadventure drives the plot. Mary Brian and Niel Hamilton provide romance as Green’s daughter and the architect. In Granada, Ruth Chatterton headlines Sarah and Son, showing a poor woman's rise to fame and the search for her lost son with a lawyer’s aid.
The baccalaureate service at the First Baptist Church in the school auditorium featured processional led by Mrs. O F Cox and Mrs Ray, invocation by Rev B H Bruner and Rev V L Raphael, class sermon The Alabaster late by Rev Wm J Crowder, duet The Lord Is My Shepherd by Neal of the choir, scripture reading, anthem Jehovah Reigns, song America, and benediction by Dr C D W Hildebrand.
Abridged social page notes Evelyn Ayler, daughter of Dr and Mrs A E Ayler, to marry Edward Stevenson Jr next Saturday. She was guest of honor at a pink and blue bridge party and shower hosted by Mrs Buford Gill and Miss Beulah Gill, with gifts and prizes for high scores. Other items mention club meetings, engagements, small weddings, and her sister Esther Bash engaged to Walter Roehr.
A high school poetry contest in New York awards first prize to a young writer for verses about refuse collectors hurling ashes and an alley cat seen as a snob. The winning piece titled Ash Can Remover also references To A Root Tile Horse in the same entry.
Miss Sylvia Walker of Terre Haute suffered a severe cut on her leg Sunday while in Greencastle with friends. She stood on a running board as a car backed, slipped, and was caught between two cars. Dr. W. M. McCaughey gave aid and she was taken to the hospital for X rays fearing a crushed bone.
Want ads list car washing services from Tribby Garage at Franklin and Vine streets with 8 cars washed for 1.50 and springs greased for 1.00 for 30 days, plus rental listings for six room modern houses on East Seminary and East Walnut streets, an upholstery company ad, an apartment rental, tobacco plants for sale near Cloverdale, and repeated car washing offer with same details and phone numbers.
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