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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1924
Page
3
Local items report visits and greetings among families in DePauw University circles. Frightened by misadventure a 13 year old boy fractured his arm while cranking a Ford. Plans for the Centennial celebration parade include a Putnam County Farm Bureau float.
A Cloverdale Graphic feature revisits The Courier issue of January 22 1880. Highlights include Fiddler Bill Wm Vestal praised as a gifted painter and a large crowd at M E Church for the wedding of A V O Daniel and Miss H Horn with mutual friends, formal procession, reception at Mr Daniel’s home and generous supper.
The Christian Church of Greencastle holds a Sunday rededication with morning and evening programs after months of improvements. The work added Sunday school rooms a basement dining room interior redecorations and a new heating plant. About 360 attended the Friday Homescoming social with a program and remarks by Charles McGaughey and Mrs J L Randel.
Jed Williams, a 55 year old minister, reveals to his wife and parish that he killed a man thirty years earlier. After years of hiding and resigning, he confesses from the pulpit, pleading for mercy. The congregation, led by Frances Minturn and Peter James, urges him to stay.
Classified notices offer sales jobs with high earning potential in Heberling medicine ads and packing house work Indiana Portland Cement Co positions. Also listings for animals including work mare and ram, student directories for sale, and fifty native ewes from E C Darnall in Bainbridge.
In the matter of the Estate of Lydia Walls Gertrude Sears Executrix notice is given that by order of the Putnam Circuit Court the executrix will offer for private sale at the law office of Hays Murphy on the public square Greencastle Indiana on October 25 1924 and for day to day thereafter until sold the west half of lot 55 in the original plat of Greencastle the one story frame dwelling at 212 West Washington Street formerly the decedent s residence terms one third cash one third in six and one third in twelve months secured by mortgage six percent interest purchaser may pay all cash for particulars inquire of Hays Murphy Attys.
F. L. O Hair serves as president with S A Hays as vice president and J B Crosby as assistant cashier. In J L Randel holds the cashier post with H L Wells as assistant cashier and K E West as assistant secretary.
A 1924 guide describes several salads and dressings. Potato salad uses small cube potatoes with onion, olive oil or vegetable oil, vinegar, salt, cayenne, and optional corn peas peanuts or peanut butter. Cabbage carrot salad is ground cabbage and carrots on lettuce with flowers. Prune and lettuce uses prunes on heart lettuce with lemon juice and mayonnaise. Apricot honey crush cooks ripe apricots with sugar to a thick pulp for canning.
A London fashion incident saw a patron asked to leave for wearing attire deemed too masculine or feminine. The individual was later revealed to be a woman in a near masculine outfit with only a skirt as an extra garment.
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