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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1923
Page
4
Greencastle Indiana publication lists Charles J Arnold Proprietor with daily issue details. Obituaries cost one dollar each with poetry at five cents per line and a Cards of Thanks option available.
Jennings Knoy and family moved Friday to his father’s farm near Little Mount. Mrs. Lillie Jones visits relatives in Romney. Cleo Mullen and E G Dorsett of Gosport visited Mrs. Alice Mugg. Curt Knoy and family visited J C Lewis. School opened with Mrs Frank Johnson as teacher. Miss Anna Moore and Mrs Pearl Graham called on Mrs Mary Moore.
Raymond Flint drives school truck for local children while others share news of funerals and visits. Louis Garton’s funeral was held at Brick Chapel. he had lived in Greencastle recently and died after hospital treatment. The Garretts and Brackneys hosted a family reunion. visits planned with Watts and Hall families. Fay Hall’s death reported in Oklahoma. Remodelling under Harvey O Hair. Flint family Reunion in Roachdale. various health updates and long travels among local residents.
Putnamville Albert Williams entered Greencastle High School where Mereline Rogers has become a senior at Cloverdale High. Putnamville High opened last Monday with Prof Roy Jones as principal. Mrs Luther Hazel of Bloomington visited with Mrs Mabel Shields. Mrs Orville Collins returned from Terre Haute. The Wamsley Home Coming occurred last Sunday at the Scroggins home.
Five members were present. Miss Gertrude Hendrix and Wayne Whitaker attend DePauw University. Mrs W S Collins and Mrs Lilburn Hepler with daughter Miss Mary Jane Frost joined the Home Coming near New Maysville last Sunday. Mrs W G Sublett and son Gerald were in Brazil last Saturday. Ladies Aid served at Gill’s sale with dinner. Mary Harrison visits relatives in Terre Haute. Mr and Mrs John Mangun of Brick Chapel and Mr and Mrs Leslie Mangan of Los Angeles visited Mrs Secrests. Myra Parks has a public school position in New Maysville. Mr and Mrs C S Hughes of Terre Haute visited Mrs Secrests last Sunday.
Corn stalk valley news notes Lester Storm and Marion McNary spent Sunday in Martinsville Wm Hunt and family moved to Amo after six months on the H O Higgins farm Mr and Mrs Ira Denny will occupy the farm for the winter Sunday visitors with Wm Newman and family include Homer Slavens and family Clinton Falls J R Cox and daughter Eber Hamilton and wife and Mrs Josephine Downey Oran Buis and wife visited Sunday with Nathan Hammond and wife Relatives of Terre Haute spent Sunday with George Cheek and family Noble McCammack, after months with relatives here, started home in Gravelsburg Canada Saturday O B Rector and family spent Sunday with Cecil Quinlan and family Mrs Harold McNary visiting her parents E E Buis and family Myrtle Storms spent Monday with Amy Buis
Roachdale notes show Miss Lorna Barker and Miss Lola Barker visiting Misses Dora and Dorothy Anderson. Mrs. Clay Lasley and Anna Albright host Miss Lorna Barker. Lavonne Bennett and Leatha Bennett also visit. Rosy week includes visits among the Anderson family, Clay Lasley, and Harold Clones in Indianapolis.
South Russell and Wood families relocate from the Mary Bowers place. Floyd Bales and family attend a surprise party for Mrs. Sutherlin at Roscoe Sutherlin’s Saturday night. Alva Stark and wife visit Carroll Connerly and wife on Sunday. Guy Sutherlin stays with Quince Wilson and family Saturday night. Riley Whittaker and family dine with Oscar Martin and family. James Sutherlin plastered for Otha Bales Friday and Saturday. John Clodfelter and wife moving to Alamo.
Sugar Grove Number 10 school opened Monday with Mr. Cooper as teacher. Families visit relatives across the area including the Payne and Wells families. The Nelson reunion gathered at Reelsville while visitors came to Roxie Payne and Carey Payne households. Wilford Ellis, son of Jess Ellis, remains in County Hospital but improving. Mable Adams of Indianapolis visits home folks. Ora Adams plans a September 12 sale before moving to Lebanon Indiana.
Dr and Mrs A E Ayler residents on North College Avenue were in Indianapolis on business Tuesday.
A Department of Commerce statement foresees airplanes used for business and leisure in the United States within ten years, expanding commuting distances and influencing real estate values. Experts discuss landing fields, field classifications, and the need for infrastructure to support widespread air travel.
Ruhr residents resist French train services and switch to self propelled cycles motorcycles or small motorized coasters. Armored trucks provided by employers move hundreds of thousands to and from work as the boycott cuts rail travel.
The Interior Department reports 110,820 patents issued, transferring 23,022,680 acres of public lands to homesteaders. The land totals exceed Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Connecticut combined. Major categories include homestead, stock raising, forest, reclamation, desert, Indian patents, swamp land, and indemnity school lands with acres listed for each.
Dr. Kh. B. House of Los Angeles showcases a drug he calls truth serum that induces sleep in the conscious mind and truthful responses from the subconscious. He has conducted demonstrations in state penitentiaries and jails with prisoners and reports astounding results.
In Vienna hundreds of doctors struggle as fees rise to 10 000 crowns or 15 cents per visit. Most families live on bread and potatoes with meat scarce, while 90 percent rely on sick benefit associations. Foreign patients are scarce as local doctors encourage staying for care at home.
Germany triples postal rates effective July 1 with ordinary letters to the U S or foreign countries requiring a 606-mark stamp. Telephone rates also increase fivefold. The post office will not accept letters from post offices under French control in the contested region, a move tied to growing tensions and fears surrounding French countermeasures.
In a Youth's Companion feature, an old executioner discusses his past killings as simply their livelihood. He claims to have freed ten thousand souls, rejects torture, and says personal ties never entered his work. The piece ends noting Liechtenstein's customs union with Switzerland and neutral wartime stance.
Watson visits Doctor Brighton seeking diagnosis after a prior warning from Doctor Smith that he has only a few years to live. Brighton urges calm and questions trusting Smith too much while acknowledging his reliability on other matters. Kansas City Star.
Julian Arned of the United States Department of Commerce notes Americans may be nearer to China than believed as Asia’s shores appear from Alaska. Engineers describe a hypothetical tunnel under the Bering Strait to link Ciicage with Veking via the shortest great circle route over Merine straits.
Beavers have caused extensive damage in the Adirondack region of New York, leading to a law authorizing the conservation commission to regulate beaver trapping in traps only from March 1 to March 31. Once extinct in New York, a small number have since recovered but continue to devastate pear trees and forest areas, forcing action by authorities.
The Barnaby Mill in Greencastle has operated for fifty years turning Indiana hardwoods into lumber and veneer. Charles H. Barnaby expanded the business in 1896 and the plant now employs fifty men with a long history of humane treatment of workers and long service records.
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