Local Births and Community Notes Highlight Town Life
Local residents share news of a newborn son to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Michael of Fillmore. Harold Collins of High Point Oil underwent tonsil removal by Dr. A E Ayler. Mrs. W D James recovers from typhoid fever. Presbyterian church holds preparatory communion service at 7:30 with session to receive members. Charles Sanders opens an art shop over Stevens Drug store, after previously working in Roachdale and Indianapolis studios. Ella Coffman wins a flower bowl guessing 1555 chips. others receive smaller and third gifts from Eitel's window display.
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Presbyterian Church
Charles Sanders
Roachdale
Pearl O
Stevens Drug
Indianapolis
Ella Coffman
Eitel
Bobby Stegmiller
East Washington Street
Margaret Kendall
Man Dies by Suicide After Divorce Suit Filed
In Indianapolis Indiana Abraham Wilkes 79 died by asphyxiation after divorce papers were served on him minutes earlier. His wife Geneva Wilkes 65 had filed for divorce and served the papers shortly before the death occurred.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Abraham Wilkes
Geneva Wilkes
Wilkes
Music Program Delights DePauw Chapel Audience
Professor Vernon Sheffield rendered a varied program before faculty and students. The encore featured Rubenstein’s Barcarolle in G minor, providing a quiet finish after Scriabin, Jensen, and Tschaikowsky items.
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Depauw Chapel
Vernon Sheffield
Sheffield
Scriabin
Jensen
Listz
Tschaikowsky
Rubenstein
Lost Ad Inquiry Appears in Townwide Notices
A terse notice indicates a lost advertisement inquiry circulated at multiple doors in town. Local office urges residents to respond if they have seen or received such a missing ad and to contact the office with information.
Murder Farm owner to face execution in California
Gordon Stewart Northcott, 22, the Canadian behind the Wineville murder farm, prepared for the gallows as mothers of victims confronted him. He admitted youths died. warden doubted his truth given shifting stories. Crimes cited include the axe murders of Louie and Nelson Winslow and the decapitation of an unidentified Mexican boy.
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San Quentin Prison
Cal
INS
Wineville
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Nelson Winslow
Christine Collins
Northcott
Warden Holohan
Louie
Pomona
Northcott Ranch
University Young People Hold First Sunday Services
The new Methodist church hosts the first Young People service at Greencastle. Dr G Prendey Oxnam speaks on The New Patriotism while Prof Van Denman Thompson performs a 15 minute organ piece. The lower floor is for students and balconies open to townspeople. The 6:30 pm service lasts forty minutes with notable speakers expected.
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New Methodist Church
G. Prendey Oxnam
van Denman Thompson
Greencastle
Williamson Man Held on Three Counts of Murder
William C. Adams alias W T Lowe allegedly confessed to killing three women in Williamson West Virginia. Victims were Flossie Adams 28 estranged wife John Campbell 60 and Cynthia McGuire 35 from Johnston City Tennessee. Adams allegedly shot his wife first then killed McGuire as she fled and killed her mother. Police captured him within ten minutes as he fled toward the hills near the barracks.
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McGuire
Adams
Livestock market trends at Indianapolis auction
Indianapol is stockyard report shows hogs 4 000 and calves 650 sold with prices rising for hogs to 25 cents higher, 140-160 lb hogs 9 25 to 9 50, 200-225 lb hogs 16.05 to 10.15, sows 7 25 to 8 50. Cattle steady with steers scarce, fat cows 4 25 to 6 50, vealers 12 and down. Sheep 1 800 with ewe and wether lambs 8 to 8 50 and bucks 7 to 7 50.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Man blows up home to commit self destruction in Chicago
Frank A. Perlich a 40 year old chemical dealer blew out the rear of his bungalow after filling the kitchen with gas and igniting it with a match. He had slashed his wrists earlier and was found with bandaged wrists. He was estranged from his wife.
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Chicago
INS
Frank A. Perlich
Io Chemicals
Perlich
Tri Kappa Rummage Sale Saturday October 4
A Tri Kappa rummage sale is set for Saturday October 4 at the Court House. Proceeds support the chapter’s charitable causes and community programs.
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Tri Kappa
Court House
Adv
Marketing School Opens In Putnam Courthouse
The first of eight farm marketing school meetings was held in the Putnam county courthouse assembly room Wednesday evening attended by about 80 farmers. E. C. Masterson, head of the state program, conducted the session and outlined the course. The second meeting will be next Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.
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Putnam County Court House
Court House
Putnam County
E. C. Masterson
For Rent and Sale Notices in Local Classifieds
FOR RENT strict three room and bath bright apartment with dinette living room and gas stove inquire C J Arnold Herald office FOR SALE Apples Red Delicious Grimes Golden and Starks Buchheit Orchards FOR RENT Modern four room apartment with bath hardwood floors fireplace gas stove heat and water furnished 682 East Seminary Street Phone 65 Charles J Arnold TRI KAPPA RUMMAGE SALE Court House Saturday Oct 4 Open 9 o'clock
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Square
University
C. It. Arnold
Herald Office
C. J. Arnold
Apples
Red Delicious
Grimes Golden and Starks
Buchheit Orchards
East Seminary Street
Charles J. Arnold
TRI Kappa Rummage Sale
Skin Disease Spreads at McHaffe School
An epidemic of an unidentified skin disease sweeps McHaffe School with all pupils affected and discomfort reported. Nurse Mary Agnes Miller confirmed the outbreak and inspected the children to prevent further spread.
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McHaffe School
Mary Agnes Miller
Putnam County
Miss Miller
Suit Seeks 14900 Foreclosure and Receiver in Putnam
The Union Trust Company of Indianapolis files in Putnam circuit court to foreclose a mortgage on Cyrus O H air and seeks a receiver. The Federal Land Bank of Louisville is named as a second-mortgage defendant. A judgment of 4900 is sought against O H air for principal interest and fees on a 3700 loan made in 1926.
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Cyrus O’hair
Putnam Circuit
Union Trust Company of
Indianapolis
Federal Land Bank of
Louisville
Kentucky
O'Hair
Trust Company
1-H Club Broadcast Over National Hook Up
National 4-H program airing Saturday October 4 from 11 45 a m to 12 30 p m over 46 stations. United States Marine Band will perform music and background for a music appreciation segment. Speakers include Pearl Nichols Durham NC Penn Coach Nowata OK Rose Ellwood Bryan Durham NC and Madge J Reese Western States field agent.
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United States Marine Band
Pearl Nichols
Durham County
North Carolina
Penn
Nowata County
Oklahoma
Rose Ellwood Bryan
Madge J. Reese
Actress Alleges 24Hour Assault by Cameraman in Hollywood
Gloria Wiley, 20, a scenario writer, seeks arrest of a cameraman on statutory charges. She says he took her to a house, introduced her to a woman he claimed was his mother, and attacked her after the older woman left. Wiley hails from a prominent Morristown, Tennessee family.
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Hollywood
Cal
INS
Gloria Wiley
Miss Wiley
Morristown
Eradicating the Canada Thistle in Fields
The article advises finishing control this fall with sodium chlorate to kill roots and prevent regrowth. It notes seeding laws, root spread via plows, and that multiple treatments may be needed, but this method outperforms repeated cutting.
Dr Oxnam to Speak At W H M S Conference in Cincinnati
Dr G Bromley Oxnam of DePauw will headline Youth Night at the Woman's Home Missionary Society national conference in Cincinnati Ohio on October 11 Seven Greencastle members plan to attend The society marks its 50th anniversary October 12 to 14 in Cincinnati with sessions at the Masonic Temple Taft auditorium and Scottish Art rooms The event begins with Mrs Goode presiding and includes special music and a closing address by Oxnam Also notes Presbyterian Young People party planned at Ruth Ellington home 407 Columbia Street.
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G. Bromley Oxnam
DePauw University
Woman’s Home Missionary Society
Cinenati
Ohio
Greencastle
Woman's Home Society of the
Methodist Church
Trinity Church
Cincinnati
Masonic Temple
Taft Auditorium
Presbyterian
Society of the Presbyterian Chuncil
Ruth Ellington
Columbia Street
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Albert Michael
Fillmore
Harold Collins
High Point Oil Company
A. E. Ayler
W. D. James
THE
University Music School
State Teachers’ Association
Thibeles
Innocense
Master Cleaners and Dyers Association
College Ave
W.S. Stone
Mgr
Courthouse
MASTERS@V
Shropshire
Emory
Brattain
Addie Ruark
Stilesville
Indiana
Clinton Center
Mhaffe
Canada Thistle
Dr. Oxnam
P. Blaine Kirkpatrick
P;oxnam
Tri Psi
Sorority
Tri Psi Sorority
Delta Delta Delta
Handy’s Sanitary Dairy
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