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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1919
Page
1
Popular young man employed at the Zinc Mill, Tom Callahan, succumbed Tuesday evening to influenza and pneumonia at his Walnut Street home. The death marks the first influenza victim in the community.
Thomas Callahan 29 died of influenza pneumonia after a brief illness. He leaves a widow and three year old daughter Mary Frances, his parents, a brother Albert, and is survived by a Zinc Products Co. Mill catcher. Funeral Thursday at 2:50 PM at Presbyterian church with ministers Reverends Raphael Hootman and Marshall. burial Forest Hill Cemetery. he was a Putnam Lodge Odd Fellows member and lodge members will attend in a body.
The list mentions Datha M Rambo 15 and Nathan D Hester 21 both of Russellville plus Leona McIntyre 29 of Grove land and Alfred McVey 56 of Marion county Iowa. It also notes Esther Kathleen Black of Rushville and Frank Cannon to marry tomorrow at 9 30 in Rushville with John Madden of Chicago as groomsman arriving in Greencastle yesterday.
Household goods and office furniture will be sold at 211 South Jackson Street at 2 30 oclock on Saturday October 25. Auctioneers are Dobbs and Vestal and the owner is Mrs Hallie King.
Dorothy Smith accepts a position at Cauthrans music store. Mrs. Elizabeth Darnall sues Andrew J. Darnall for divorce with $1000 alimony sought. DePauw football team travels to Lansing to face Michigan Aggies after defeating them last season. Various local residents, including L. C. Duncan of Evansville and Miss Ida Adams, are noted for visits and illness.
William Robertson, a stable boy, was injured when a skylight fell while preparing a horse. His nose was severed but found in straw at the stable and reattached at King Edward VII hospital Windsor after an hour. He recovered and called it a miracle.
Judge Wadhams in general sessions sentenced Kate Mahler and William Finkel to nine and ten years respectively in state prison for luring Rose Bloom a 13 year old girl to a woman's apartment on April 4. The girl met the woman in front of public sector No. 188 and was taken to an apartment where she met Finkel.
Clearfield resident Parenwick McCloud shows a government check for $15 with a letter noting the amount was owed to his father for army service 58 years ago. The father died 47 years ago.
Miss Florence Dunbar travels to Lafayette following the death of Miss Hallie Voorhees daughter of the late Senator Voorhees. The funeral is set for Friday morning in Lafayette and Miss Voorhees formerly resided in this city.
Mr and Mrs Robert Garret and Miss Zella Garret and others spent Sunday with Wift Gtde well and family. Mrs Haze Williams and sons Estel and Hubert of Terretaute visited Ernest Smith and family. Eastern Star event at Cloverdale last Friday. Miss Vearl Allee attended a shower for Miss Laurie Jackson of Greencastle Friday. Helen Ewing and others visited Nelle and Sarah Gridewell. Lucille Hunter stayed with Margaret Jones. Paul Williams spent weekend with home folks. Wrights were in Greencastle Saturday.
Miss Bernice Brown of Greencastle visited friends here Saturday and Sunday Lon McCann returned to Lebanon Mrs Dan Shea spent Friday Saturday and Sunday in Indianapolis with her daughter Mrs Donald Smith Miss Eva Shuey and Miss Pauline Coffman were in Greencastle Saturday Mrs Deeil Morris of Crawfordsville was here Friday for the Obenchain sale Mrs D Allen was in Greencastle Friday Eleanor Modlin hosted a Miscellaneous shower for Mrs Pearle Hartman Basil Pruitt held a shower last week for Mrs Lon Harmless The revival meeting at the Christian church began Monday evening
Professor Omar Wilson hosts Charles Washburn who has just returned from England where he engaged in YMCA work. Washburn formerly served as dean of the Ward Belmont School of Music voice department in Nashville Tennessee.
Ernest Stoner and Neely OHar returned from a hunting trip in Illinois revealing a successful excursion. The pair reported success and plans to rest before resuming routine duties.
Movie icon James Dean arrives in Fucianapolis for a brief visit, staying a few days at a city hotel before continuing his itinerary.
Mrs Nell Richards of Indianapolis is here the guest of Mrs A R Sutliff.
Cox and Seer, local automobile agents, delivered a Reo Delivery truck to Harris Milling Co and a Huffman truck to Hark Jackson, the local drayman.
Washington report notes a National Geographic bulletin on the making of steel as “industry's greatest asset.” It recounts early Bessemer work by Kelly and Bessemer in separate countries, their air regulation tests, and subsequent cures for brittleness with carbon, manganese, and Mushet's contribution.
The account describes a Bessemer converter in operation with molten pig iron poured into a blazing egg shaped chamber. Sparks fly as oxygen in air purges impurities through hundreds of nozzles while heat shifts from violet to white. After carbon adjustment and mixing, liquid steel pours into a ladle, completing in about twenty minutes per ton. Bessemer steel used in rails, structural material, wire, and pipe. By 1900 the U S produced twice as much by Bessemer than open hearth, but ore phosphorus shortages boosted open-hearth use)
Child Adele Trenlath promised her mother she would recover a stolen doll and, after a long search, did not return until she found the doll. The incident highlights a devoted pursuit and a hopeful reunion in New York.
Nathan Dewey Hester and Miss Datha Myrl Rambo both of Russellville were married this afternoon at 1 30 oclock at the Christian parsonage with Rev Levi Marshall officiating. They will reside on a farm near Russellville.
An early morning quake around 7 am rattled Rome waking residents from sleep. No damage reports yet. This marks the second tremor in two days with another felt yesterday.
Anderson Indiana report details Richard Lynch five years old suffering chest pains after prior double pneumonia. Surgeons locate a one and one half inch rubber tube with a large safety pin near the heart following an N-ray showing the foreign object. A nurse recalls a drainage tube may have been misplaced during the prior operation.
In Shittoh Ti four young women report a cow ate their clothing left on a bunk not on a limb. John Rahle's cow allegedly chews buttons hooks and eyes while the girls walk home in bathing suits a mile and a half from the hamlet. Local residents debate the strange tale and its explanation.
Washington receives a field kitchen used by Wilhelm II, the Kaiser of Germany, as part of a Smithsonian collection of war trophies. The kitchen, reportedly undamaged, traveled with German prisoners to St Nazaire and is now bound for Washington along with other war material.
James W. Shea of Grand Forks North Dakota United States soldier and Mrs Margaret Gentzke who was convicted of treason in Germany for aiding Shea and other al lied fighters to escape Hun military prisons obtained a license to marry in the city clerk's office. Gentzke gave address 105 Broadway and her occupation is listed as not speaking English. She is 1 years old. Shea is Mrs Genteke reached the United States weeks after completing the sentence imposed on her for her escape. Her husband in Germany secured a divorce after her conviction for fremsmann.
J Walter Cooper formerly Greencastle mayor arrived in Indianapolis on business today. He is noted for his prior civic role and current professional engagements in the city.
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