Pageant set for Municipal Gardens with Pocahontas tale
Second in a series of playground pageants will stage at Municipal Gardens with Indian life as the backdrop. Rader Adel and Lentz assist. Mrs Norma Koster directs. Cast features Helen Ugrinovich as Pocahontas and Hooper Howard as Chief Powhatan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Gardens
Rader
Adel
Golden Hill
Lentz
Norma Koster
City Recreation Department
Pocahontas
John Smith
Municipal Gardens Woman's Club
Catherine Carlyle
Carl Frye
Koster
Howard Shelby
Municipal
Lena Lohrman
Carl Ford
Anna Wyssand
John Orr
Udell
Mary Deveney
Helen Ugrinovich
Hooper Howard
Chief
Tian
Children describe diverse activities in Why I Like My Playground contest
The Times publishes standout letters from Greer and other playgrounds showing swings, crafts, music, games and dramas as popular. Winners like Virginia Paden and Norrie Brown describe instructor roles, friendships, and the appeal of shaded seating, prizes, and trips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Landers
the Times
Hazel Miller
Helen Schoettle
Madalene Vittorio
Angela Brennan
Dorothy Horton
Josie Venezia
Cathleen Schoettle
Virgina Paden
Willard
Norrie Brown
Indianola
Joe Bauer
City Playground Events Planned Over Two Weeks
Nine major city wide events for children are announced by David Kilgore recreation director. Highlights include a pet circus at Rhodius park, a foreign settlement house pageant, an Indian pageant, and park pageants at Douglas and Ellenberger parks. The two week program ends with swimming contests at Garfield pool and life saving events at Rhodius pool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Kilgore
Rhodius Park
West Side
Tourneys for Girls Dodge and Volleyball Next Week
Dodge and volleyball tournaments for girls aged 14 to 17 will occupy the city playgrounds. Sectional contests are set for Fall Creek Rhodius Willard and Brookside this afternoon with city championships at Willard Park during the annual playground field day on August 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fall Creek
Spades
Brookside
Kansas and
Orange
Rhodius
Oakhill
Kingans
Kansas
West
Riley
Indianola
Hawthorne
Military
Douglas Park
Brookside Park
Norma Koster
Willard Park
City
Willard
Elizabeth Major
Nancy Shelby
Helen Ernsting
Gretchen Klee
Margaret Anderson
Nellie Blume
Emily Pond
Gun Brawl At Poolroom Leaves Three Under Arrest
Police investigated a poolroom brawl at 559 West Washington street Tuesday night. George Ghib age 22 of 31 South California street John Oliver age 23 of 711 North Rochester street and John La Pear age 22 of 11 North Blackford street were arrested after a bloodless gun battle following a dispute over a dice game. La Pear challenged Oliver to a gunfight and shots were fired with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Washington Street
George Ghib
South
California Street
John Oliver
Rochester Street
John la Pear
North Blackford Street
Ghib
Oliver
la Pear
Son Shot as Burglary Under Way in Chicago Home
Mrs. Gertrude Lawler, 44, woke to a noise at the hallway door in Chicago and fired her pistol. She turned on the light and found her son Clyde Lawler, 24, wounded in the groan he made while returning home late. Local authorities investigate the shooting as a domestic incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Gertrude Lawler
Clyde
Asthma Sufferer Credits Climate Change Experience
Cumberland Indiana resident Earl L Harvey details nine months of asthma with nightly coughing and furniture selling to seek Colorado cures. Since Sept 15 1924 he has worked daily, taken no medicine since Nov 1924, and reports no asthma symptoms. Hundreds claim long term relief from asthma and bronchial coughs after trying the remedy offered by the Nacor Medicine Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl L. Harvey
Cumberland
Ind
Colorado
Nacor Medicine Co
Buiz
Pet Owners and Youthful Acrobats Stage Evening Circus
Children from Rhodius Riley Camp Sullivan and Hawthorne playgrounds will stage a pet circus at Rhodius Park at 5 p.m. Thursday. Clowns acrobats and a pet parade will entertain a large crowd of young pet owners. Miss Alma Tiefert leads the event assisted by Miss Helen Ernsting and Mrs. D. H. Badger. The Police and Firemen band plays and Charles Jones is ringmaster with George Stumpf in a central chariot race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhodius, Riley
Camp Sullivan
Hawthorne Playgrounds
Rhodius Park
Alma Tiefert
Helen Ernsting
Rhodius
D. H. Badger
Reisner Street
Rhodius Park Woman's Club
Charles Jones
George Stumpf
Minnie
Martha Meadows
Cameletta
Bernice Connor
Maxine
Leila Leach
Bobby Lyle
Sally Love
Lenora Swink
Hazel Coryell
Pauline Myers
Bill Totten
Orval Smith
June Ashby
Lucille Swab
Dorothy Bennett
Mary Joe
Joe Pittman
William Totten
Charles Connor
Dell Wheeler
Dell Patterson
Carl Ford
Lawrence Owens
Negro pageant planned at Douglas grounds August 25 26
Major activities on Negro playgrounds center around a pageant to be staged at Douglas August 25 and 26. About fifty children will sing folk songs for The Development of the Negro directed by Ann Johnsonne with Theresa Genus Lentz Louise Terry and others assisting. A safety flag was awarded to Fall Creek playground. A Negro checker tournament was won by Lucille Holt and Victoria Knox. Field day will decide athletic champions August 27 at Douglas park for boys and girls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas
Ann Johnsonne
Theresa Genus
Lentz
Louise Terry
Crispus Attucks
V. A. Knox
Hattie White
Virginia Horner
Rhoda Handley
Fall Creek
Carolyn Hill
Wesley Wade
Lucille Holt
Victoria Knox
Camp Sullivan
Douglas Park
Thirty-two win in musical jubilee at Garfield park
Thirty-two children from Municipal Gardens won top individual awards and the city playground music championship in a musical jubilee final at Garfield park. More than 1,500 attended as bands from seven playgrounds across four districts competed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Gardens
City Playground
Garfield Park
Carl W. Frye
City’ Recreation Department
Judith Julian
Brookside
Kenneth Payne
Highland Playground
Ruth Norwalk
Henry Schurmann
Lenora Coffin
Adolph Schellschmidt
Raymond Hall
Indianola
Rader and
Udell
Highland
Garfield
Chris
Claim confession in gas station hold up
Police arrest M. J. Avagnan 31 after a gas station robbery. He allegedly admitted robbing attendant Glenton Sylvia at a Standard Oil station on West Washington Street, ten minutes after the crime. An emergency squad traced his car from Sylvia’s description.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. J. Avagnan
North Arsenal Avenue
Glenton Sylvia
Standard Oil Company
West
Washington Street
Avagnan
Sylvia
Ellenberger Leads Water Polo League Action
Ellenberger pool team remains in front as Warfleigh defeats Garfield with Rhodius and McClure. Feature games this week include Rhodius at Ellenberger on Thursday and Garfield at McClure Beach on Wednesday, in a league run by city recreation department swimming directors led by Francis Hodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warfleigh
Garfield
Rhodius
McClure
Ellenberger Pool
Ellenberger
McClure Beach
Francis Hodges
Citizenship training through city playground recreation
City recreation directors stress citizenship as a key aim of supervised play. At Greer Street playground Mrs. Edward Brennan leads daily discussions on good citizenship and preventing violations of street ordinances. Merit awards and weekly flags honor top sportsmanship and safety efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greer Street
Edward Brennan
Handicraft Show To Be Conducted At L S Ayres
A summer handicraft display by playground classes will be shown at L S Ayres Co on August 26 and 27. Supervisors Her man Phillips and Miss Mabel Rose oversee the exhibits which include birdhouses raffia pocketbooks rag dolls embroidery reed baskets power boats quilts and nature study collections. About 1 000 boys and girls participated with Ellenberger park offering one of the largest classes and a special window display planned under Miss Marjorie Dawson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. S. Ayres , Co
Herman Phillips
Mabel Rose
Phillips
Ellenberger Park
Ellenberger
Marjorie Dawson
Marjorie Finn
Mary Dawson
Marjorie Humann
Jane Humann
Mary Stiener
Betty Irwin
Betty Richard
Mary Quinn
Sue Warden
Ethel Osborn
Shirley Smith
Willard Girls Win City Grounded in Checker Championship
Julia Baur fourteen from Willard park won the city playground girls checker title after district finals at Willard park Friday. Helen Williams from Rathert and Adda Marie Cox from Brookside were runners up in a crowded event led by Ruth Emhardt. A separate Lafayette incident reports four men looting a jewelry store, stealing goods valued at four hundred dollars after breaking a shop window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Baur
Willard Playground
City Playground
Willard Park
City
Ruth Emhardt
Willard
Julia
Helen Williams
Rathert Playground
Brookside Park
Robert
United Press Lafayette
Ind
Lafayette
Swim Crowns To Be Decided At City Meet
Indiana Kentucky AAU championships will be decided at the annual city swimming meet at Garfield Park pool on August 30. Francis Hodges says hundreds of junior and senior swimmers are training daily. The city life saving contest will be held at Rhodius on Sunday at 2 30 under Red Cross and city recreation department auspices. Medals awarded for diving winners. runners up receive swimming certificates from the Indianapolis chapter. Events include 100 meter free style men 50 meter back stroke men 50 meter back stroke women 1 mile free style men and 1/2 mile free style women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellenberger Park
Garfield Park Pool
Rhodius Pool
Indianapolis
American Red Cross
Negro Playground
Douglas Park
Francis Hodges
City Recreation
Rhodius
American Red Cross and Recreation Department
Indiana-Kentucky
Samaritan Association Forms to Run Indiana Camp
Superintendent Charles A. Mc Gonagle heads a new non profit corporation the Samaritan Association formed to operate the summer camp for children of the Indiana School for Feeble-Minded Youth at Ft Wayne. The venture will manage camp property at Long Lake funded by Ft Wayne luncheon clubs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles A. McGonagle
Indiana School For
Ft. Wayne
The
Samaritan Association
Long Lake
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Robert Nipper
Boys
Kansas Playground
Greer
Jean Thorne
Dora Thorne
Edna Wells
Mary Jane Badger
Bernice Auburn
Monkey
Dorothy Rather
Herbert Jordan
Katherine Connor
Rhodius Park Pet Circus
North Porn
Pet
W. L
Cipal
Garfield Reer Ave
Finch - bBi Wee
Turners Kinets
Seevee
W. Pet
Christos
Hawthorne Ellenberger
Sussman’s
Miss Lee Morse
Columbia
Chase Boy
Saxton & Farrell
Grace Thomas Circus
Earl Derr Bigger
Grant Withers
Brwarner
Ee Eens Soc
Tom Thumb
College Avenue
Burke Steel Shaft
Water Polo
Ment
Maud Adams
Ella May Bell
Rosetta Thomas
Marion County
Indiana Girls’ School
Motion Pictures
Haines Ntrs Ene
Charles Chase
M-G-M
Hearst Metrotone
Rae
Miss Lee
Morse
Mr. Hickman
Lee Morse
Lyric
Mr. Witworth
Mr. Patrick
Swanee
Lyric Theatre
Checker
William Powell
Charlie Davis
Richard Barthelmess
Ann Harding
Sses
Pepe
Sally
Moonbeams
Queen High
Mirthquake
Charles Ruggles
Ginger Rogers
Standly Smith
Imagine Ruggles
Paramount
Straigrs
Mary Lawlor
Eddie Caprice
Mary Astor
Robert Ames
Evers
Wrast
Woon
Mimo ceAy
John McCormack
My Heart
Camp IS Incorporated
Peoples Dentists
W. Wash
Celtic Savings and Loan Association
Celtic
Celtic Logs. & Loan Assn
Ohio Street
Fairway
Tones & Marschke Southern and
Madison
Mapleton Grey Kilbourne
Illinois Fairground
Jack and Jill
G. B. Millikan 63Rd and
Bellefontaine
F. G. Howl
College
D. M. Gawne
Emerson
J. H. Oakley
Madison Ave
Rob T. W. Parker
Kessler
Irvington
Keystone Ave
Roof Garden
Amos and Andy
Baby Grand
T. B. Rogers Test Building
F. G. Hows
Keystone and
Allisonville Rd
R. E. McBride
Illinois
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