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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1929
Page
3
The all talking Fox Movietone musical comedy version of Cradle Snatchers screens Thursday and Friday at the Gra Ay playhouse. Walter Catlett heads the cast with Sue Carol and Nick Stuart, delivering a lively spoof with star musical capers and hits like Look What You've Done To Me and Come the Boom Boom.
Sears Roebuck and Co offers asphalt roofing in rolls or shingles with a 17 year guarantee. J M Jones, salesman, Greencastle R R 8, Commercial Place, phone 367 Y.
The Movietone Picture Lucky Star featuring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell screens tonight as the final showing in this picture’s run.
Roachpale residents report W T Wallace and W A Armstrong leaving for Washburn Illinois to establish a new home. Mary Anderson visits Berwyn with Fay and his wife. Ella Walsh visits Kate Anderson while Nellie Lockridge heads to Detroit for school. Various relocations follow including Kenyons, Hyten family, and Britton Anguses hosts.
John Ebert a 19 year old youth died in City Hospital after a gunfight during an attempted robbery. Police say accomplice Guy West confessed that Ebert and he planned to rob night watchman George Sprouse who fired after drawing his gun. Ebert died from a chest wound and whispered that West knows who shot him.
Bud Taylor from Terre Haute Ind fought Earl Mastro in Chicago in a ten round rough and tumble bout that ended in a draw after jury disagreement. Taylor's record remains clean and he fought a hard, decisive bout.
Mary McConaughey and Lewis Lasley spent Sunday with the Buchanans and Weller families. Ida and Laura Steward visited the Crammers and Elmer Reese and Miller Reese with the Germans. Conrad Temple of Indianapolis visited his parents, Charles Temple. William Underwood of Roachdale called on the Weekleys and Sutherlins, while Bert White and Indianapolis kin stopped to see Minnie Chepin. Mildred Pickett also visited with Thelma and Ethel Bell.
The Greencastle Indiana Herald announces its post office registration as a Second Class mail item in 1868. Charles J. Arnold is listed as proprietor with LeRoy Bee, city editor ROP AEVANG. Published daily except Sundays at 17 19 South Jackson Street. Subscription: Putnam County $3.00 yearly. outside county $3.50. Greencastle carriers 10 cents per two weeks. Advertising rates on request.
Bus timetable fragment shows Greencastle service with departures at 9:00 PM and 1:00 PM, 4:25 PM and 7:00 PM, connecting to Bloomington arrivals at 10:40 AM and 2:40 PM 6:05 PM 8:40 PM with Kingston phone contact 573.
Clinton Falls brief notes show multiple visits and family gatherings. Lizzie Hart and son Donald plus Fannie Sigler and grandchildren Joan and Paul Boswell visit Ed Bettis. Russell Boswell and son Wayne with Joe Stages host family gatherings. Emily Boswell visits Oscar Lubanks family. Marion Brattain and wife visit Arthur Brattain’s home. Sarah Burk family and Mary Burk visit. Della Davis stays with Clarence Williams while Murray remains in hospital. Wolverton and Louie Wolverton of Indianapolis join visits with Charles Cloe family.
Maplewood residents hosted and visited relatives in Indianapolis Bainbridge Crawfordsville Greencastle and Greencastle with several calls and Sunday gatherings including families of Hanks Denny Gowin and Gowin household members. The notes mention Gordon Lee Hanks working for W M Denny and Mr and Mrs Modlin visiting relatives over the weekend.
North Floyd community records show Mr. and Mrs. Garl Priggs and son of Anderson visiting the Solomons for weekend. Mrs Mae Stages visited Green castle. Indianapolis residents Pertle Smith spent time with relatives in Bainbridge and here.
The new preacher Rev Conway of Greencastle filled his first regular appointment at Aanaan Chapel on Sunday. Numerous local names appear in notes of visits and social gatherings including Mrs Frank Busby quilting Thursday Oct 10 and Ladies Aid meeting Wednesday Oct 16 with Mrs Harvey Lowery.
New York October 8. A 150 story office skyscraper will rise a hundred fifty feet north of City Hall in Lower Manhattan. It will be three times the Woolworth Building and reach about 1 600 feet above Broadway. The roof spans more than an acre.
The area will serve as an airplane landing field with an estimated cost over 75 million dollars. When completed the structure will dwarf the 1000 foot Eiffel Tower in Paris and will be erected by Charles F. Noyes and David Schulte who control the property. Viewers may see West Point cadets on parade from the field when days are clear, as West Point lies about forty miles away.
Miss Lucille Abram of Bloomington Indiana reports rapid cure after using Konjola for years of liver and kidney trouble chronic constipation and sleepless nights. She credits back pain relief restored appetite and normal organ function to Konjola. The remedy is sold at Greencastle Owl Drug Store and by druggists in the region.
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