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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1929
Page
1
Charles J. Arnold recounts a long, festive evening celebrating the Buick Marquette with Ora Moffett at the Commercial Hotel. The night included a fried chicken feast, a church gathering, a humorous Celotex talk, and a grape juice mishap before ending with a toast to the new car’s debut on June first.
Colonel Charles A Lindbergh and Anne Morrow wed at the Morrow home Englewood New Jersey with twenty guests none from public view. The ceremony omitted the word obey and the couple disappeared by car, sparking a nationwide hunt for the newlyweds.
Ora Moffett, a Buick dealer, hosted a dinner at the Commercial Hotel where the Marquette six cylinder automobile was introduced to local newspapermen. Buick dealers anticipate record crowds next Saturday June 1 for nationwide display and sales push of the new model.
Children’s Day exercises will be held at the Methodist church next Sunday. The service will graduate beginners into the primary and the primary into the junior department. It promises to be a service of great interest and should attract many parents and friends.
Indiana attorney general James M. Ogden will deliver the Memorial Day program at Forest Hill cemetery Thursday at 2 30 p m If rain occurs the event moves to the Court House A parade forms at 2 p m and proceeds to the cemetery led by Oscar Obenchain A reception committee includes Mayor and Mrs Charles McGaughey and John R Miller The cemetery program is led by George E Black, Mrs Margaret Hamrick, Mrs L D Snider and Matt Murphy Arrangements mark every Putnam County soldier's grave.
Darwin Barnaby and Miss Emma Higert wed at a sister in law's Indianapolis home. Mrs. John M. Allen hosted honor for Miss Helen Beckett of Terre Haute, soon to marry Russell Allen. Miss Margaret Kreigh plans a senior vocal recital in Music Hall tonight. Mrs. Eugene Snider and others visited Bazil today.
Two Roachdale youths were sentenced in the Putnam Circuit Court by Judge James P. Hughes. Oscar Lane, 18, received five months at the Indiana State Farm and a $5 fine plus costs, with lane to the penal institution for leading petty theft. Warren McCloud, 22, had his penal farm term suspended and was ordered to leave Roachdale for Kansas to work in wheat fields, with a warning that future thefts could renew imprisonment. Police arrested them yesterday on charges of stealing auto accessories from Mike Pitman. Deputy Alva Bryan recovered the property. A new general assembly law allows petit larceny up to five years and a $500 fine, with judge discretion on imprisonment at the Penal Farm.
Former Indianapolis mayor John L. Duvall, 55, must serve a 30 day jail term and pay a 1000 dollar fine from 1927 after Indiana Appellate Court ruling. The court voided a four year public employment ban and noted Duvall’s earlier guilty verdict tied to a 10000 dollar payoff from Indiana political boss William H. Armitage.
The Men's Brotherhood of the Baptist church meeting scheduled for Wednesday evening is postponed along with the church business meeting the next evening due to Decoration Day obligations.
Small son of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Paris sustained a green stick fracture of the right arm Monday afternoon while playing at Martha Ridpath school. He fell after a shove by a fellow pupil and the fracture was reduced by Dr A E Ayler.
Mostly cloudy tonight and Wednesday with likely local showers and thunderstorms. Warm conditions expected with humid, unsettled weather across the area.
The late Frank L Hall of Kansas City left DePauw University as residuary legatee after gifts to eleven Kansas City charities and family. Estimated at three quarters to a million dollars, the estate honors Hall a DePauw alumnus born near Carthage Indiana. He led Abernathy Furniture Co and served on multiple city boards. He died May 18 1929 on his 73rd birthday.
Memorial Day events in Cloverdale Sunday June 2 at 1 30 p m under American Legion and Knights of Pythias auspices feature Walter Myers of Indianapolis as speaker. Myers, an attorney and former Democratic mayoral nominee, will address the crowd after a harmony band, hymns, invocations, and salutes before veterans’ graves.
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