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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1929
Page
2
Local town residents and visitors travel to and from cities including Chicago Indianapolis Oklahoma City and Columbia City. People attend events, seek medical care, or visit relatives while preparing for fall plans at DePauw and Indiana conference sites.
Two drown at a cave mouth near Wabast River when a ten year old girl and a woman attempt to help each other in deep water. Lucille Gram ar and Rufus Grubb are named victims. Grubb's body found on a sand bar. search continues for the girl's body.
Dr J F Gillespie presented 120 quarts of peaches to Miss Eva Milburn superintendent of the County Hospital. The gift was welcomed and appreciated by hospital staff and patients.
Mary Ellen King of Greencastle a bride of a month has filed suit in Putnam Circuit Court against Albert King for divorce. She claims he cursed her failed to provide and said he would leave her. She seeks attorney fees and restoration of her former name Mary Ellen Haltom. The couple married July 31 and separated September 4.
Hogs were mostly 25¢ lower on heavy and light weights, bulk 140 to 280 Ibs brought 10.15 to 11.15, top at 11.25. Cattle slow with lower tendency, whalers steady 17 down. Sheep and lambs steady with top lambs at 13.50 and bulk 12 to 13. Fat hogs 4.50 to 6.50.
Continuation C outlines 15 minute morning home room periods to check attendance hold class meetings and discuss matters. School will dismiss at 8 31 in the afternoon. Music gains a regular afternoon period and a local anonymous donor gives 500 for band instruments and uniforms. Two band divisions may form this year with free after school lessons offered. District attendance rules assign children to specific wards and schools Fox Ridge joins Maple Heights while Track pupils stay at last year’s school.
Funeral services for William Feld a former Greencastle resident who died in Chicago will be held Friday at nine o'clock at the Catholic church with Father J J Mullen presiding. Burial is planned for Forest Hill cemetery. Relatives including sons Walter Casper William and George have arrived from Chicago St Louis Indianapolis and Denver. The widow and one daughter are present. The body lies at the McCurry funeral home.
The Warren Township Home Economics Club met at Mrs. Lucy Shields home on September 4 with assisting hostess Mrs. Myrtle Moore. Vice President Mrs. Katie Horn led the session and members discussed meat varieties and market demonstrations from Greencastle, with readings on study topics and refreshments served.
Four inmates fled the county jail in South Bend last night after overpowering night turnkey Cecil Mc Henry. Suspects include Sam Reichman of Chicago awaiting kidnapping trial, Bert Zimmerman a federal prisoner violator of the Dyer Act, Jeff Harris a burglar, and an unnamed man. the escape followed Sheriff Goodrick leaving the jail minutes earlier.
County Clerk Ford Lucas condemns the move as false economy saying it will burden future clerks and attorneys who must search records. He notes only one empty file remains and after use there will be nowhere to file or locate documents, forcing storage in improvised boxes.
Lafayette residents must boil all drinking water after bacillus coli was found in the supply though wells showed purity at source. Coroner returns death by own action verdict for Walter Holland, 54, found on a flatbed wagon with chloroform soaked handkerchief. Monsignor William Berg, 75, dies of heart disease at St Michael church altar. funeral next Tuesday. Edinburg residents report a horned worm found in a yard prompting curiosity and unidentified species questions.
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Delta Theta Tau will meet tonight at 211 Bloomington Street the home of Miss Imogene Cooper. All members are asked to be present.
The endurance flight of the airplane Flamingo from Hoosier Airport in Indianapolis is planned to begin Friday. Major Hollis Mullere, flight director, and pilots Lieut. Walter R. Peck and Lieut. Laurence Genaro met with supporters to finalize preparations including a new propeller and barograph. If any detail is not ready the takeoff could be postponed to protect the mission. The crew aims to break refueling endurance and coast to coast return records.
The bodies of William McElligott and Cy Cawley, last of the Four Horsemen gang, were found in a desolate Chicago area with bullet wounds, their hands clutching nickels as a sign of gangland contempt.
Lemuel Keller celebrated his 54th birthday at his home west of Belle Union on Sunday September 1 with relatives bringing baskets and a cake baked by his daughter in law Mrs Clarence Keller of Bainbridge. A long list of attendees from Belle Union Greencastle Bainbridge Coatesville and Indianapolis shared in the celebration and expressed good wishes for more birthdays.
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