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Newspaper
Greencastle Herald
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1928
Page
1
Charles J. Arnold discusses upcoming Fair competition for the best gentleman rider over 50, praises Greencastle street improvements, and questions Roy West’s political forecast for Putnam County while noting Florida hurricane impacts and local road work.
Spencer readies for the Owen County Agricultural Fair to run four days starting Wednesday. Exhibition tents line the square and streets of Greencastle. concessions and amusements will entertain visitors. The Brazil fair is scheduled for October.
The Greencastle district of the Wabash Valley Electric Company met Tuesday in Roachdale led by Mrs. Grace Barnard. Attendees from Greencastle included Miss Alpha Robinson Mrs. John Ave and Miss Margaret Wells with representatives from Spencer Jasonville and nearby towns.
Warren C. Middleton A M has been named assistant professor of psychology at DePauw University. He will replace classes from Prof. Lytle while Lytle assumes Williams' courses. Middleton earned an A B from Fayette College in 1923 and an A M from Vanderbilt in 1924, with Yale study later. He led music and debate in college and directed the glee club and orchestra. He previously directed religious education at the First Methodist Church in Orlando.
Leota Figeas of 612 Main seeks divorce from Phillip Figeas in Putnam Circuit Court. She cites cruel treatment, asks custody of their child, a restraining order, and suit money. Married January 28, 1924 and separated September 17, 1928.
The body of Frank Grummel, 41, a mechanic, with multiple knife wounds was found in the White River in Indianapolis. Mrs. Florence Wingate and her stepson Paul Miller identified him, noting he had recently returned from Florida and Cincinnati and had stayed at Wingate’s home.
Fair conditions persist tonight with a warming trend into Wednesday. Temperatures rise except in the extreme south portion where cooler air may linger.
Seventeen bodies found in West Palm Beach Lakewood Deerfield and Delray as relief teams count casualties. Red Cross reports twenty dead at Bell Glade while James Grant says at least one hundred died around Lake Okeechobee. The storm isolated the region with high water and impassable roads as shelters are set up and aid pours in.
George Crowell 17 shot and killed a giant American eagle at Shively Park. The bird measured six feet four inches wing tip to wing tip and was felled with a single .22 rifle shot from a 60 foot high Walnut tree. Crowell plans to have the eagle mounted. Another large eagle was killed nearby days earlier near Noblesville with an 80 inch wingspan.
The Indiana Federation of Music Clubs begins its district meeting in Martinsville on October 9 with Mrs. B. M. Pitkin presiding and Martinsville Music Club hosting. Bloomington’s Mrs. E. B. Birge is program chair. districts include Brazil Bedford Bloomington Plainfield Litton Greencastle Mitchell Salem Bloomfield Worthington Indianapolis Martinsville.
Last rites for Julius Sudranski former Greencastle businessman and respected citizen were held at the Masonic Temple Tuesday at 10 in the morning. Rabbi Fuerlicht led services, temple ritual followed, and interment was in Indianapolis Hebrew Cemetery. Pallbearers included Harry Williams C Gautier Ford Lucas W L Denman A B Hanna and Elmer Crawley. The funeral procession traveled to Indianapolis by motor.
Twenty years ago in Greencastle the report notes Judge William Irvin, a former resident, died suddenly in the criminal courtroom in Indianapolis this morning. It also reports DePauw University enrollment near 990, a rise from last year, plus visits of John Gainor from Logansport to his sister Mrs. John Cannon and Sam Purcell taking a job with the Hurst Buggy Company.
Commander Cesare Sabelli delays 4200 mile sesquiplane hop from Old Orchard Beach to Rome due to weather. Large crowds watch fueling as Sabelli voices confidence and vows to drop a message from the living to the dead on the grave of Old Glory.
The Derby Winners a sixteen member cast presented a mixed program of play music and dance before a large Monday night Granada Theatre audience. Songs by cast members enlivened the show with six chorus girls in pretty costumes and a merit toe dancer. A widowed boarding house keeper and a horseradish dealing hick farmer supply humor.
The General Manufacturing Company of St. Louis delivered a new fire truck that underwent a three hour underwriter test at the Water Works pumping station near Green Castle. The vehicle must meet 600 gallons per minute for approval and help Greencastle obtain lower insurance rates. The test, conducted by a factory representative and an Indiana Inspection Bureau official, passed successfully. Local firefighters will be trained on the truck Wednesday and it should enter service soon. Mr and Mrs A G Brown traveled to Gary for the Indiana Bankers Association meeting.
The Putnam County Democratic Club will hold a Saturday meeting at 2 PM in Democratic headquarters above the First National Bank. Mrs. Theodore Crawley will preside and the speaker for the event will be announced later.
Indianapolis announces two special trains will transport 450 Indiana American Legion members to the national convention in San Antonio, October 8 to 12. Trains depart October 6 from Indianapolis and Elkhart with stops at Greencastle Terre Haute Mishawaka South Bend LaPorte Gary and Indiana Harbor. Paul V. McNutt seeks national commander and Mrs. J. C. Glackman backs national chaplain. Cass County Legion band and Hamon-Gray Legion Post Drum and Bugle Corps to compete.
Henri Cochet captured the American championship at Forest Hills by defeating Francis T. Hunter in a dramatic five set final. The French star trailed early before rallying to win 4-6 6-4 3-6 7-5 6-3 and complete a full set of major titles. Hunter, a veteran Davis cup player from New Rochelle, N Y, pushed Cochet to the limit before falling.
The registrar reports 1,511 students enrolled in Liberal Arts for the first four days of registration at DePayow University. Music school enrollment figures are not available. No class changes will be allowed except by petition after next Monday.
In Lebanon Indiana on September 18 two high school freshmen repelled a sophomore hazing attempt by fighting on a downtown street corner. The youths, outnumbered, forced their escape as rival factions urged diploma talks but authorities planned a separate school party.
Governor Al Smith travels by special train through Iowa and Nebraska launching a western outreach to farm groups. George N. Peek and ex Senator Hitchcock join the trip as a nationwide radio hook up promises broad audience. Crowds greet Smith with calls of Al while he clings to the brown derby as a symbol of his candidacy.
German aviator Baron Guenther Von Huenfeld starts from Berlin at 1:53 AM with Capt. Herman Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice aboard the Bremen. He aims to fly non-stop to Sofia first, then continue toward Tokio and later attempt a Pacific crossing to San Francisco.
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