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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1925
Page
4
Entries for a two day meet at Linton Rac ing association on Monday and Tuesday feature top trotters pacers and runners from Indiana Illinois and Kentucky. The nine events include 240 Pace 2:26 Trot 2:18 Pace Green Mixed and Free for All Pace with riders listed for each horse and the jockeys named.
Virginia C and Campbell medley points lead in a list of runners including Joe, Zit sm, Compton, Ribbon, Wilson, Fry, Sinders, Burcham, Laun, and others in a track dash event.
The Indiana Electric Light Association meeting at French Lick, Sept. 22 and 24, will explore state and national utility regulation and increased farm use of electricity. John W. McCardle will discuss regulation and Purdue’s G I Christie will speak on farm power. Leaders from Indiana Illinois Michigan and Wisconsin will participate as the event precedes a National Electric Light association session.
Indiana records seven deaths from accidents in the last 24 hours with six more injured. Drownings occurred as Clifford Cullen Jr and Frank Cullen 14 16 drowned near Clinton while escaping heat. their father failed to save them. George Coover balloonist plunged to death at Gibson county fair. Others include Josephine Weeks 18 killed stepping from a streetcar, William Shults killed by an auto, Frances Scroughnan three killed by fire, Clem Diemsteeck 26 killed near Indianapolis, and a Cincinnati group injured when their auto fell into a creek at Richmond.
Linton and Greene county fraternal orders organize a Monday Labor Day event at Linton City Park with a 10 am grand parade. A noon basket dinner, 1 pm speeches by Hobbs of Indianapolis Moose lodge, 2 pm contests, 5 pm prize awards, 6 pm band concert, 7 pm degree drills, and 8 16 pm talks led by F L Behymeier grand master Indiana Odd Fellows. Weather risks noted.
Navy continues search for seaplane PN-91 lost during a Honolulu bound attempt from San Francisco. Dawn finds destroyers submarines and other craft probing Kaunai channel area as reports of distant flares are investigated.
In Tulsa Oklahoma FE L Puttle 19 captured a rattlesnake in a cotton field and stroked it until it became docile. Hours later he screamed as he threw the snake away and it struck him in the face. He died five hours afterward.
In Montclair a six year old girl Mary Daly was abducted from her home. Joseph A. Bower’s chauffeur pursued the suspects for miles before being shot. Raymond Pierce, a taxi driver, was found slain near Little Falls. Witnesses varied in identifying the kidnapper. A ransom note offered Mary’s return for 4000 dollars. Rewards totaling 10000 dollars are posted.
Senator Robert B. Howell after a three months tour of Africa reports polygamy popular among both sexes in native colonies. He notes a man with multiple wives works less as wives share labor and one wife welcomes another. He cites affluence at six wives and a western coast wife price around 140 dollars.
Oscar W. Bogard chosen as principal of Linton-Stockton high school. A Franklin College graduate with a 1916 AB, he has taught in Bloomfield Houston Central High and Greene County. He will also teach history and lead athletics, with his family moving to town as enrollment begins Monday.
About 800 to 1,200 miners in the Clinton field idle as hundreds refuse to ride the C E L miners train after a fare rise from 1.10 to 2.50 monthly tickets. The higher price was authorized by the Public Service Commission after a hearing in Indianapolis. Mines idle include Sub marine Dering No 6 Miami No 6 No 10 Eagle and Vermillion.
Chief Eagle Feather and his wife of Oklahoma purchased the 100 acre farm owned by Oliver P. Thompson in Washington township near Nashville Indiana. They plan a high wire fence and stock the tract with government supplied wild buffalo elk deer and moose. A tourist camp with log cabins tepees trails and ponies will also be featured. The couple toured the area last year after traveling 13,000 miles with two ponies and a wagon across California.
Dispatches to Jiji Shimpo report 150 people killed in an explosion at Teihaku coal mine near Pingyang Korea. The incident was described in Tokyo reports received today.
The excessive September heat wave continued in Indiana with forecasts of higher temperatures and possible thunderstorms and cooler weather for Sunday. Indianapolis recorded a 94 degree high with Evansville and Fort Wayne reaching 101 and 94 respectively, while Evansville Mayor Elmendorf suffered heat strain but was not seriously ill. several cities saw continued highs in the nineties.
Philadelphia dispatch reports George C. Schnitzer of Point Pleasant New Jersey chief radio engineer aboard the Shenandoah perished in the Lakehurst crash after a coin toss determined who would fly. Schnitzer and H N Manley both eligible for the mission, Schnitzer won the toss and took the hop.
Former air service chief Col William Mitchell denounces Navy and War Departments for incompetency and negligence behind the Shenandoah disaster and Pacific flight failure. He accuses non flying officers of dictating aviation policy and endangering airmen.
The navy department removed the Shenandoah from the naval vessels list and ordered the wreckage sold for junk. Secretary Wilbur instructed departments to salvage valuable instruments and records from the wreck.
A Cam bridge bricklayer Fred Meyers recovered a missing Shenandoah paragraph near the control cabin site. Commander J H Klein said the instrument would help establish careening maneuvers before the ship plummeted from 1200 feet. Final arrangements were made for fourteen bodies with American flags provided by local posts.
A night blaze in Shreveport Louisiana caused over 300000 dollars in damage destroying about 300 residences in a seven block residential district. The flames affected a portion of the local Negro community according to early reports.
Rio Grande overflows flood several levees and inundate more than 3000 acres of farm land near El Paso Texas. The high waters threaten additional communities while damage estimates have yet to be made.
In Washington Indiana on September 5 the Daviess county sheriff reported thieves broke into the county jail and stole twenty gallons of pure grain alcohol prompting a search for a secure storage location for confiscated liquor.
Four business buildings were destroyed by fire of undetermined origin in Montgomery early today. Loss estimated at $60,000. Washington fire crews aided in preventing spread to the rest of the town's business district.
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