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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1930
Page
1
A reader recounts listening to WGN and Greeencastle high school band time, noting Dr. Oxnam and Erna Phillips remarks. He previews World Series chatter and Tom Thumb radio, plus a soup dinner for Greencastle merchants and band envoys.
Horace Link & Company invites the public to a week long open house for the National Home Furnishing Style Show. Visitors can view latest furniture designs from Grand Rapids to San Francisco in room settings with on site sales staff to answer questions. The display features new styles for every room and a redecorated front window.
Large crowds in five towns greeted the Greencastle high school band on Tuesday evening as they toured Fillmore Bainbridge Roachdale Russellville and Morton. A Morton community soup supper hosted band members and local merchants at Marion Hall as part of the Good Will sale event. Accompanying musicians were J E B McCurry Jacob Ritel Medford Maxwell and Rey Christie.
The Indiana State Conference on Social Work will hold its thirty ninth Annual session in Gary October 4 5 and 7. Ralph Howard superintendent of the Indiana State farm at Pathamville attends as an executive committee member. The program covers all social work types with tours to Gary steel mills the Gary settlements the Lake County Children's home and detention home at Crown Point and other Gary points of interest.
Fair conditions dominate with light frost in the east tonight. Thursday should be generally fair and somewhat warmer across the area, with milder conditions extending to the western portions.
Rothe Wells and Bauer of Indianapolis sue Greencastle restaurant owner Guy L Call in Putnam circuit court for 425 dollars. Complaint seeks foreclosure of a chattel mortgage on fixtures and furnishings at 25 East Washington Street. The notes were due monthly through March 25 with amounts of 50 dollars and 31 dollars, and the business was preparing to open Tuesday morning.
Frank Fry 26 and Robert Becker 22, Lafayette, received long terms after being captured in Crawfordsville as alleged highwaymen. They were found with two guns, identified by victims from robberies near Labor Day, and sentenced to the remainder of their unexpired terms seven years eight months for Pry and seven years three months for Becker. The pair were kept in Crawfordsville then sent to Pendleton. The case involved victims including Charles Blue and Katharine Reynolds.
Grove defeats Tiger Eleven in a mound battle as Burleigh Grimes earns the win in Athletics. Cardinal eleven advances with a 5 to 2 scoreline.
Philadelphia Athletics defeated the St Louis Cardinals 5 to 2 at Shibe Park. Lefty Grove pitched well, two homers by Cochrane and Simmons powered Philadelphia as Grimes struggled. St Louis led 2-0 in the third, then the A’s pulled away with timely hitting.
Charles Turner of Cloverdale, an insane man, will be taken to the Indiana State Hospital for the Insane at Evansville by Sheriff Edward Eiteljorve on Thursday. He was arrested at his Cloverdale home on a charge of intoxication after officers found liquor on the premises. Prohibition charges were not pressed due to his condition.
Samuel C. Sayers of Greencastle seeks a judgment of 48.40 and costs from Morton Wells of Bainbridge in Putnam circuit court. The suit claims the amount is due on an insurance premium Sayers paid at Wells request.
Mr and Mrs G W O Dell of east Seminary street celebrate their fiftieth anniversary with seven children and six grandchildren present. Miss Mary Detrick and Samuel McCoy wed at 4 pm at the Detrick home. C L Jones Co begins feed store addition. Dr Joseph Gillespie M D Rick etts and James P Hughes attend Gov Marshall address in Indianapolis.
Mayor J A Campbell and water works superintendent F Dillman issued a notice to Bloomington water consumers warning that unless rains come soon the water situation will become acute. The shortage has already forced limits on lawn watering car washing and other high water use activities.
The Rev. Mr. Bruner spoke at the university chapel urging DePauw students to be real radicals who seek roots and fundamental changes. He warned against destructive radicals and urged building a new sub foundation beneath current civilization.
Morgan county grand jury indicted Bro ent Pryor on first degree murder of his wife Carrie Thelma Pryor. He admitted his story accusing his paramour Elsie Han of Brazil ot poisoning her was a fabrication and Elsie Han was released after his repudiation of that statement.
In Indy area, Owen Crickmore 46 is critically injured after being slugged and shot by four bandits at a Midway Service Station. They then robbed Mr. and Mrs. O. Marcum and real estate agent W. F. Beher, taking their cars as deputies pursue suspects. Deputy Crickmore vows to chase the four men after learning their identities.
A Greencastle city council meeting Tuesday night accepted a committee report confirming 194 valid signatures on the remonstrance against airport site purchase, 27 short of the 231 required. The council voted to move forward with the purchase, while attorney Fay Hamilton warned an injunction may be filed.
A green castle sale day draws fair sized crowds from Putnam county as more than forty Greencastle merchants offer seasonable bargains. TheGreencastle high school band accompanies a merchant tour and will perform on the public square from 4 to 5 PM.
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