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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1929
Page
1
The 1929 football season opens with Notre Dame beating Indiana and Purdue defeating the Kansas Aggies while DePauw tops Oberlin. The column also jokes on fashion, quail control offers, Greencastle High School’s field meet, sidewalks near the courthouse, and DePauw students’ antics.
Oswald Ryan, prosecuting attorney, announces the Department of Commerce will license all airplanes in Madison County by October 16. The edict follows three fatal crashes in the last two weeks, prompting regulatory action to curb aviation accidents.
Mrs Abe Roberts of Commercial Place was cut and bruised in a car crash when she lost control and plunged into a ditch Friday afternoon. Her small son suffered bruises as she grabbed to stop him from crawling toward an open car door. They were taken to Dr G B O'Brien's office for treatment.
The forecast calls for mostly fair skies tonight with rising temperatures, then warmer conditions expected Sunday especially in the northern portion. Local low temperatures will be mild. daytime highs trend upward into the weekend.
A Purdue university agricultural bulletin reports over 3,000,000 acres of Indiana farmland need liming and about three quarters require liming to grow sweet clover or alfalfa. It recommends using limestone or marl as the most economical liming options, noting marl is common in the north and limestone statewide. Liming enhances fertilizer effectiveness on most soils.
Navy Day State Chairman Sidney S. Miller of Indianapolis asks Wilburn Donner of this city to join the Indiana State Committee for Navy Day preparations for the October 28 observance. Miller cites national Navy Day goals and aims to highlight the Navy’s peacetime functions and role in aircraft development to Indiana residents.
Funeral services set for Joseph K Cooper of Indianapolis civil war veteran and former Greencastle resident. Died Friday at his home 2143 Broadway after heart disease. Survived by widow and three children W K Cooper Indianapolis H O Cooper Vincennes L J Cooper Vincennes.
Howard Thomas of Bloomington was sentenced by Judge James P. Hughes to 1 to 5 years in Indiana State Prison for a Penal Farm escape. The 42 year old escaped July 24 while serving a term for robbing his wife and was captured by Bloomington police.
At Canon City Colorado the penitentiary riot ends with twelve dead seven guards and five convicts and $500000 in property damage. Danny Daniels dubbed arch slayer precipitated the seventeen hour siege and is credited with causing eleven of the deaths. Nine hundred prisoners are housed in tents as investigations begin by federal authorities and the governor.
A Soviet plane crashed near Baranof Island about 100 miles south of Sitka, Alaska. The four crew members are safe, but details and damage to the aircraft remain unconfirmed pending official word.
Arnold Gardner of Greencastle was granted a divorce from Russell Gardner on cruelty and inhuman treatment. Custody of a 10 month old child awarded to the plaintiff with the defendant paying $5 weekly support. Goldie Sullivan of Greencastle granted a divorce from David I Sullivan on cruelty and inhuman treatment and desertion.
Franklin Cole reveals DePauw University’s Old Gold Day program for next Saturday. Events start at 9:30 with chapel in the gym, corner stone laying for Asbury Hall at 10:30, freshman-sophomore scrap, and junior-senior football, followed by DePauw vs Earlham and the play The Goose Hangs High with leads Louise Freeland and Archibald Voorhis.
Mrs James J. Tunney wife of the former world heavyweight champion underwent an appendectomy in Berlin on October 5. The operation at Professor A W Meyer’s clinic was reported entirely successful.
George Dodd and Isaac Peck named by Democrats of Wards 1 and 2 as council candidates. Mary and Florence Woodrum purchased the small farm north of town, with Ford Lucas as agent. Albert Albaugh left for Aberdeen S C to register for the Indian Reservation land drawing.
About 45 airplanes depart Ford airport Dearborn for the fifth annual air reliability tour. The sixteen day route covers 35 cities in 20 states and 5,000 miles with notable pilots including Amelia Earhart and George Haldeman. The fleet will stop in Windsor Toronto Ottawa Montreal Portland Springfield New York Philadelphia Baltimore Richmond Winston Salem Greenville Augusta Jacksonville Macon Athens Murfreesboro Cincinnati Louisville St Louis Springfield Wichita St Joseph Des Moines Cedar Rapids St Paul Wausau Milwaukee Moline Kalamazoo before returning to Dearborn.
Deputy Sheriff Alva Bryan arrested Charles Frank and Richard Everett after intercepting them in a Whippet coach tied to a Buchanan Michigan theft. The car was stolen from W. T. Beardsley on September 29. Everett pleads guilty to petit larceny. Frank faces multiple affidavits and possible federal charges for interstate auto theft. Everett traveled from Smithland Kentucky. Frank recruited him after meeting in Cairo Illinois.
Nelson Nelson, 17, of Marion Indiana, was fully conscious today for the first time since a Sept 6 auto crash left him unconscious for 648 hours. He had skull injury, undergone brain surgery, and was fed through a tube while untreated.
Martinsville Reporter notes Baley Beaman of Cloverdale files cross complaint in a divorce case, accusing Hazel Beaman and her brothers of conspiracy to steal $1,350, plus cruelty and neglect. Hazel seeks divorce and $5,000 alimony after joint earnings of $9,000 from stores in Cloverdale, Martinsville and Bloomington.
Mrs. G. Bromley Oxnam wife of Dr. G Bromley Oxnam president of De Pauw University is in Robert W Long Hospital Indianapolis awaiting a serious operation set for Monday doctors say she will likely remain in the hospital about three days due to the procedure and recovery.
Paris dispatch claims Captain Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Bellonte landed near Tsitsi Har Manchuria after a weeklong departure from Le Bourget. If true they may have surpassed the existing distance record by over four hundred miles though timing questions and transmission delays are noted. Both fliers previously failed to cross the Atlantic.
Circuit Court notes show Dallas M. Vermillion filed suit on a note against Harold J. Wysong and others with a riding for the plaintiff amounting to 146.05 plus costs. Other docket items include suits by Rawhide Products Company, Central National Bank of Greencastle, and Buckeye Incubator Company, plus a divorce and a family visit report noting John W. Houck and son David departing for Bowling Green and Nashville before returning home.
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