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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1913
Page
1
Teachers from Greencastle Madison Marion Washington and Warren townships held a meeting to discuss school problems and outline priorities. The gathering reviewed local district needs and planned collaboration for addressing student performance and resource issues.
The teachers from Greencastle Warren Madison Washington and Warren township schools gathered in the offices of County Superintendent L G Wright this morning to begin the preliminary institute for the new school year.
All five townships sent teachers to an institute where Superintendent Wright urged advance planning for a week ahead. Otto Rector of Marion township spoke on Township Trustees relation to schools, Mrs Rupert Bartley presented Everyday Problems in Teaching, Frank Wallace discussed Ellwood's Sociology and modern social issues, and Miss Myra Parks led the opening exercises.
To friends and neighbors who saved to us their help and sympathy in our time of sorrow we extend heartfelt thanks from Dr J F Cully and Family of Bainbridge Indiana. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE HERALD.
Two Indiana men plead guilty to visiting a gambling house in Bainbridge with $10 fines and costs. The docket includes estate settlements, guardian appointments, foreclosures, and land sales, plus a receiver appointment and a guardianship report approval.
Little Thomas Hubbard six years old of Indianapolis son of Mr and Mrs Kim Hubbard and grandson of Abe Martin cartoonist’s sister visited Greencastle with his grandfather James A Jackson of Indianapolis. Jackson, a Putnam County native, came for the Co B 43rd Indiana Volunteers reunion. The lad toured the area, rode a horse and will stay two days.
Coykendall of St Louis demonstrates an electric lighting setup in the city. Louis Zaharakos plans to install the device in his business, lighting the store with 600 small globes to enhance its beauty.
Congress weighs the plan to assist the construction of 666 roads with a grant of 25 wind for stone road funding. Officials consider economic impact and regional needs as lawmakers debate the proposal.
Indiana representative Henry A. Barnhart explains a Roads Committee plan favoring federal aid per mile for rural road maintenance rather than a coast-to-coast trunk highway. Payments would be $25 per mile for stone roads, $20 for gravel, and $15 for dirt, aiming to benefit widespread rural communities and the national postal network. The committee believes this approach distributes benefits broadly and anticipates passage in the upcoming Congress session.
Otis English of near Winchester is fined 100 and sentenced to three months in jail for up charging a girl. The sentence is suspended.
In Indianapolis on September 4 buyers dominated hog trade with prices easing. Heavy hogs 275 lbs and up sold below Tuesday, mostly 8.45 to 8.70 per cwt, with some at 8.25 and a few at 8.80. About 7,000 fresh hogs available. cattle pens crowded and fat cattle steady. Calves rose or fell erratically with slight declines, while sheep prices moved slowly and held barely steady.
On Tuesday afternoon about one hundred people gathered at McLean's Springs for a Sunday school outing hosted by Limedale M E church. Children enjoyed games and songs while workers discussed plans to expand the Sunday school and church involvement this summer. Ice cream and cake followed as attendees left feeling the afternoon was profitable.
Otis English, a resident near Winchester, faced Judge Hughes after being charged with assault and battery against Ruth Riddle age 16. He pled guilty, receiving a $100 fine and three months in jail, suspended. Sheriff Bees and Deputy Harris arrested him Wednesday night after a telephone summons.
Mrs Mary FE Brothers age 63 wife of Thomas Brothers died at home in Fillmore Wednesday night from Brights disease. Funeral is Friday at 9:30 at Antioch church with Rev Beard officiating. Burial follows at Boone cemetery.
Say ers Book Store announces new school books now ready for pickup and classroom use. The notice highlights availability across subjects and grades with bulk ordering options for districts and individual buyers.
The article notes three upcoming celestial events within two months two partial solar eclipses and one total lunar eclipse. An August 31 partial solar event will be brief and not very notable, while a September 21 total lunar eclipse will be visible nationwide and rare in a century. A local September 29 partial solar eclipse completes the sequence.
Bell's shop offers cleaning and pressing of clothing at 202 West Poplar Street with telephone 356 for service inquiries and orders.
Members of Company B 43rd Indiana Volunteers gather miles north of town at Robert Allen's residence to discuss war times and hold a reunion.
The fourteenth annual reunion of Co. B, 43rd Indiana Volunteers, recruited in Greencastle in 1860, met at Robert Allen's farm three miles north. About twenty of the original 110 members plus families attended, with Alec Scott, David Campbell, Ben Collins, and James A. Jackson of Indianapolis among early arrivals. The gathering began around 11 and featured a noon dinner by the soldiers wives and discussions of war times.
Mrs. Ernest Roller underwent a minor operation at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis on Wednesday afternoon. The procedure, performed by Dr. Pontzer of Indianapolis and assisted by Dr. W. W. Tucker of this city, was entirely successful and reports say she is progressing well.
All persons wishing to rent rooms to young lady students must file an application in the President's office with a signed pledge to comply with college dormitory regulations for young women. Blanks for application will be forwarded upon request.
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