Local grocer settles damage suit against driver
Willis Miller a Bloomington grocer agreed to a compromise in a $3000 damage suit after paying $300, preventing a trial originally set for Monday.
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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1919
Page
1
Willis Miller a Bloomington grocer agreed to a compromise in a $3000 damage suit after paying $300, preventing a trial originally set for Monday.
A Bloomington man and grocer firm member settled a damage suit for injuries suffered November 17, 1918 when William T. Carpenter was struck by an auto driven by Willis Miller. Miller agreed to pay Carpenter $300 to finalize the case.
Eleven fat hogs almost ready for market were stolen from Cyrus O'Hair a few days ago. A truck backed up to the hog lot gate, loaded the animals, and hauled them away likely to market.
The Horticultural Society schedules a meeting at Cloverdale on Monday October 20 at 2 PM. Fouts will discuss bee keeping and Dr Gray will speak on wintering bees. Transportation help is arranged via Mrs John McFarlane. Also notes visitors Fred Donner and Doris Harris and a birth announced for Carolyn Carver in Chicago.
Miss Smith discusses Chinese student activism and women’s roles in today’s reform movement. Guild organization and patriotism sustain labor and water works workers, while women students translate literature and make patriotic hats. She notes China’s shift from monarchy to republic and forecasts growth despite foreign pressure.
Two industrial women workers travel from Czecho Slovakia and four from Poland to join the International Congress of Working Women in Washington on October 28. Miss Moory Anderson, secretary of the committee on International Relations of the National Women's Trade Union League, organizes arrangements. The Argentine Telephone Operators Association will send a representative when possible, with delegates also en route from Tel Aviv, England, Switzerland, Japan and Italy.
A Putnam Circuit Court trial is set for Wednesday morning October 15 in Greencastle before Judge Hughes. James Campbell of Brazil sues the Indiana State Highway Commission seeking to restrain road work and contracts awarded under the commission plan, alleging unconstitutionality.
A pep chapel will be held Wednesday for Friday’s home game against New Market with Coach Wilfred Smith in charge. Try-outs for yell leaders will occur at the chapel, ballots deciding the three leaders. Friday’s opening game at 7:30 will feature the two best color teams. George Browning and Joy Abbott have joined the high school. Season tickets cost Greencastle residents 2.50, students 2.00, with access to about 15 home games. Vera Wood has returned to Brazil.
The International Congress of Working Women will meet in Washington on October 25 by invitation of the National Women's Trade Union League. Mary Anderson, head of the U.S. Labor Department Women’s Bureau, says the event aims to raise global industrial standards by uniting women to discuss common problems and employment gains. The gathering will include delegates from 34 countries, each country receiving ten floor seats and ten delegates.
A new site for the YWCA Girls Physical Training School has been secured in Shanghai near the National Headquarters. The grounds cover about six acres and are split by a private road. An American residence will house teachers and native buildings will provide living quarters and classrooms for 35 students. The facility includes a garden tennis courts and an athletic field.
Petition circulating in Roachdale asks for parole for William Dickerson who pleaded guilty to assault and battery with intent to kill.
A petition circulated by Ben Walls seeks parole for William Dickerson the Roachdale man who months ago shot at Clark Sutherlin a local merchant in the Sutherlin store Dickerson pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to state prison Judge Hughes attributed the act to whiskey and lack of grounds for the attack.
Morris Hirshberg and Ray Hirshberg of Crawfordsville open a photographic studio in the rooms over the Hamilton Nook store. The venture marks a local business expansion and offers portrait work and studio services.
Lieutenant Belgin W. Maynard prepared to start at 1 12 p m today on his return to Mineola in the De Havilland airplane that set the transcontinental air race record. A tire replacement was the only repair needed after a blowout in San Francisco. The departure complied with race rules. Guest visitors include H E Tincher and local residents at the McHaffie home in Little Miss Emma Inglehart and George Englehart of Brazil were seen visiting.
Mrs. F. A. Arnold and her daughter Mrs. A. B. Lockridge are spending the day in Indianapolis while visiting Mrs. Arnold.
Miss Harriet Smith describes how twenty thousand Chinese students organized to oust militarists from Peking government offices and lead China. They struck from lectures, published demands, and formed a patriotic society to press for Shantung return, cancellation of the 21 demands, freedom of speech, and a finished constitution.
Chinese women students at Tung Fu College in Peking must learn English to communicate across provincial dialects. Western province girls endure eight years of schooling in English to avoid long and costly summer trips home. With each province speaking a different language, English serves as the shared language. stage humor aside, office chatter stays alive.
Tigers to play college players on M Keene Field. Game changed to Friday so merchants can witness contest.
De Pauw Tigers seek improvement after two opening defeats and plan to clash with Butler College in Green Castle next Friday. The Friday shift comes to accommodate local merchants. another Saturday game vs Center College may also move to Friday November 21.
Marriage licenses issued to Arthur P Hartman of Bainbridge and Maude Etcheson of Bainbridge and to Lewis A Bales of Cloverdale and Syl via Akins of Cloverdale.
The National Women's Trade Union League prepares for its first International Congress of Working Women on October 23 in Washington. The league, with 600000 members and over a million affiliated including male supporters, aims to improve wages and hours and to promote legislative action. Mrs. Raymond Robins serves as president, Miss Mary Anderson as secretary, and the event follows requests from Britain and pressures from women’s organizations in France and Italy.
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