Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 4 September 1912 — Page 1
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OREEHCASTLE, IMDIAHA. WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4. 1»I2
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dish omwer is I0BBED OF MONEY
Hill no HOCkEK. WHO CON1HMS kestairant on MiK III0 LSI COKNEH OF THE „g| 4HI IS VICTIM—LOSS A110I T *IS.
FARMER PIOSENED BY EATING CORNED BEEF
OOBBER ENEERS REAR DOOR
Breaking the glass out of ihe rr ai dour of the William Kock r restaurant, at the northwest corner c ih«' square, Monday night, a robLer unlocked the door and stole all or the < a^h in the rash drawer, vliitli amounted to tibout $1H. The robbery occurred sometime S fier midnight. John Patterson, the night clerk in the restaurant, closed up at near midnight. The next norning when the restaurant was opened it was discovered that sotn? uni had broken *he glass out of the rear door, reached through and unlocked the door and then robbed the cash drawer of the money. The same night some one broke the glass out of the rear door of the Shipley Jewelry store hut evidently was seated away before he Uttered the store. The police have no clew to the identity of the robber
Convention Tonight. At the District Christian Endeavor Convention tonight at the Christian church, the principal address will be made by Rev. L. O. Richmond, of Terre Haute, upon the subject Won by One.” Mr. Richmond is the pastor of the largest Presbyterian church in Terre Haute, a strone church of over 500 members He is an able speaker, and all who ran come should do so Oilier addresses on the program will be e welcome address by Rev. G. H. !.• Beeman of fireencastle and a response b> Mr. C. C. Woodrum, District Secretary. The Misses Williams and Mr Charles McGregor w*lt sing special selections and the chorus under direction of Mrs. F. V Hays will have an anthem A r reption will follow this evenine’s
session
All are invited to the meeting *onight The delegates heean arrivin'.' shout noon today and a eond attendance is looked for- The afternoon session was held in the Christian church. The program was mainly a conference upon youner reople's work and a meeting of dis-
ifici and county officers.
The meetings tomorrow will be at ihe Presbyterian church, opening *ith a sunrise service at fi 30. At it o'clock a 'Quiet Hour" will he conducted by Rev. L. A Beard of
A business session
"'ll he held at 9:30 and at 10:30
Mali Trait, of K*H»tllle. Taken Hi Saturday Night and Tollupsed When He Tried to Work on Holiday.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
Isiah Craft, a farmer living at Reelsville, was taken suddenly ill Saturday night with Ptomaine poisoning on returning from Greencastle. While at Greencastle Craft and his brother Curt ate a lunch at a restaurant and one of the articles of which they ate was canned corn beef. On returning home Isiah was taken seriously ill but improved Sunday under the care of Dr. G. F l.ewis. Monday morning he felt so much better that he went to work on the farm hjjt soon collapsed from heart trouble. Dr l.ewis reported that he was better Tuesday.—Brazil News.
A House Party. Miss Maurine Ballard is enter taining at a house parly at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs Emer son E. Ballard of this city, the members of the Alpha Phi sorority of DePauw university who are in the city to attend the Craven-Cofting wedding last evening. An informal reception was given in honor of the girls Monday afternoon. On Tues day morning Miss Ballard entertained her guests at hrenr.fast. The guests are: Misses Tessa Evans of Greencastle, Inez Gass of Danville, lil., Forest Luther of Terre Haute Gladys La Rue of Thorntown, Alma Lee Mohr of Shoals, Ind., Beatrice Evans of Greencastle, Alta Bridges of Plainfield. Grace Jordon and Adelaide Mills of Indianapolis. Of this number the six first named were bridesmaids at the w’edding Mondav Irvenlngi—CrpwifordAville ^fournal.
Veterans Hold Tumpiire.
Surviving members of the One Hundred and T wimpy-third Regiment of Indiana volunteers met in annual reunion at the State Hons-’ yesterday and last evening. Scenes and incidents of their active service was recalled In talks by the members. about thirty-five participating in the campfire last evening Charles A. Woodard of Indianapolis, said to be the only surviving noncommissioned officer of the regiment, ntmded last night's meeting. M. Donnohue of Greencastle second vice president of the organization, made a short address A feature of the evening was the singing of an original song by George M Mowrer of Oreensburg. The officers of the organization are: President, Wilbur F Hitt Indianapolis; vice presiden*. M Donnohue, Greencastle; secretary William S Kaler, Glenwood:
MONEY ORDERS PASS HIGH MARK
MDNON ItHAKI M V\ II ts ITt I Li \ It \ml»l V I .
I HE ONE III N DIM P N \ N ill II Mil TEN HI VI TIFIfATE ISSIED \i PON TOE 4 HI HI SDAY.
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—From New York World. When the Illustrious Grant aakid a third term the people of New Eng Und thundered their “No " Is this the reason Roosevelt calls Now Englanders “Ignorant, prejudiced and craven” In his recent speech? GRANT MONEY NOTES FROM THE FOR BRIDGES COURT DOCKET
[ One of the most peculiar acciden's | happened on lln: Motion last Sum!::' 1 evening. Second section of freight 'train No. T. r i in charge of Conductor | .1 II. Esnew and Engineer James j Conners was coining south near
J Clear Creek, rear hrakeman R T. i
^Hamilton, star'ed over the train | I from tlto caboose. Near quarry i . just after ho swung around from a ! bn\ ear to a flat car loaded witut j Ftone he was struck by two pieces | of a broken slab. His injuries ar 1 considered fatal. His left leg w ts broken just above the knee, his left | collar hone broken and otherwise cut and bruised over Ihe body He was not missed iiniil the train |
Over one hundred thou md i'tiii ! 'oppeil at Thornton' ol ! n« to s. S'ates money orders have been nine enipti, md wa found h sued front the locgl posioffiet tit, 'I" 1 i t " 1 tyin upon the ear r 1 hundred thousandth one being sold f lo, o While Conduetor la in w ait i Tuesday- Tie number n tt ,M :,e tnd fin man the total number of order- sold here ' l;t 11 '’ini in the < tltoo Ftflne.-v since the establish!mem of tie Conner railed up th> Bedford otii • • money order system. And Hie ntiin "‘I Mi-Donald ne t the train and her represent a great amount of '' ' '" it' d trainman was taken t>
BOWERS TO GIVE THE ADDRESS
I UH.I I 11011II LOOKED EOK AT Dl 1101 It II It MEETING IN A8Sl MBI 1 ROOM OI I HE COI H I Htll SL THIS EVENING.
OTHFR POSTOF’ICE NEW'
MIIPHY WILL PRESIDE
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COUNTY COUNCIL APPKOPKI I II TI E BUSINESS UHAKAUTEK
ATES *H,MHI FOR STRIA II Bis OVER DANGEHOUS EOKDM IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COI N
TY.
l/.ES FIRST FEW DAYS OE THI SEPTEMBER TERR OE THE PI I N til CIRCUIT COURT.
money.
There is no way of afte.-rtahtie--
it.ywhere near Ihe exact iiinoun i money the one hundred iliou. an ’
money orders called for The' rat
ed in value front five rents to one hundred dollars as the governnu t ■ 1 does not allow an order to he mad
out for more than that amount. On ' I' l:| i
the other hand. Iiowever, an orde- ^ ' " 1 ' p( ' ' 1 v 1 for any less amount may be pur rUh, v or
chased. Orders for amount as five cents have been i -on 1 ii
'• » - wardt Ih • ' •""" ob corps'will'VumrahmuMc fection of the night rerv ee, Ciav ;'"•uetmn in- knte it into Severn.
"nee Holllck, formerly a eit\ rnr j P'"*"’-’ nnd hurling the two pieer Her. is being “broke In” aa 0"'t.-| ; Brnkeman Hamiltot clerk His route was taken I" ' ' rn ’ r '^hifw' Hemo
Richard Whelan, who at one tim ornf
was a city carrier. I '— Frampton Rockville, carrier on TF tCHERS* INSTITUTE
i„.. i Put of a socket allowing a slab of,
.is io\ preside
aw.d mm about ten feet long ,n iim( . tUe wi|BOn an(1 Marshall drura
Claude II Bowers, well-known Democrat, will be the chief speaker at the meeting in the assembly room of the court house this evening. Tlte meeting will open at 7:3U o’clock and will lie held in the assembly room of tlie court house. Judg« She i. candidate for judge of the v ppellate Cnurt of Indiana, also will be pie-1 nt No doubt Mr. Shea
"ill make a few remarks.
I tot It men have many friends, not only in rite Democratic party, but in ■ 11 Hie parties ni Putnam county, and it is believed that a large number will turn out to greet them this
ei citing.
The meeting will be under the au-
nt Hie Wilson and Marshall
| ub. I’n idem Matt J Murphy will
If it can be arranged In
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Rural Route, No. 4. is off on a fifteen days’ vacation. Hie son. Howard Rockhill, is cart-yine hi: route K:irl Smith, ritv carrier, is aim takim his vacation, and Frank Vshwprtl is acting as substitute eirrier in I (ilace.
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VOTE TO RAISE LEVY LOSES
WER CASES OCTOBER 15
EXTRA CARS EOK STATE I 1H{ CROWDS
In addition to the regular appropriation asked for, the county council Tuesday appropriated an add.tional $8,600 for the building of several bridges in the county. The regular appropriation was for the salaries and office expenses, tugetii
cr with miscellaneous expenses to; latter part of next week-
the coming year
Numerous petitions asking for an propriations for monies to buiPt bridges were asked. Some were ai lowed while others denied Tie lund would not allow the allowance of about one-half of the monies ask
chaplain, James Miller, Rising Sun t *? r ,.
w ne! ner
—Indianapolis Star.
to raise the bridge tax
levy, which is now five cents on tim one hundred dollars, was cited o i
CHI K BROTHERS HAYE ; lour times but the motion lost each nitiPi iv iT liTATF FAIR ,ilne Several oi the councllmen lOISrli li AI MAir. fvm j were j n f avor 0 f raising the levy so
that all the bridges could lie huil
George Crawley and Ross Burks
- -- — ; are in Indianapolis with a lightning
Hre " lli be an address by Miss | r0f ] pxhibit from the Cole Brothers
orenoe (.anham of Indianapolis.
S'ate Field Secretary.
Ltrious eonferenres will he held n 'be atiernoon. and a convention SPr "° n w '" be preached Thursday gening by Rev. J. R. Qorsuch of
Brazil.
hfmocratic SPEAKING
Hon. Claude Bowers of Terre 11,1 private secretary to Senator
John “
Shea, of
Kern,
immediately.
The following amounts were a'
lowed for the bridges:
, „ . , John Ohadd ford, Marios townfactory which is at the State Fair. | H ^jp 14^350
The men will remain with the ex-j R]j Boswell ford, Clinton town
hibit the remainder of the week The | ship $2,350
display is a unique one is attracting I Ader ford, Floyd township $750
1 Graham ford. Floyd township, $b50
The interprban this morning ran
three extra cars for the crowds go ing to Indianapolis to attend the Indiana Slate Fair The ears leav ing here at 7:30. S:ll and 9:25 o’ clock and also the earl' niornii; car, ran in two sections. All ei-.-h
of the ears wore crowded to 1! guard rails when they left this eii Tlie majority of the ear " filled before arriving hero
-numbers of Brazil nnd Reel 'ill'
people taking advantage of tie- 01
portunity of seeing the fair Tin second sections of tlie cars won started hero however, giving fire- iicastle people an opportunity to get
seats for the ride to indianapoh
iRpeeial ears also will be placed on
ask for ten thousand dollars dam ( pj s OVPI1 | n ,. agis each, ami the other for ®vej
thousand, are an aftermath of the
Tlie first three days of the September term of the Putnam Circuit court have been slow ones—or, in other words there have been few important matters taken up. The first case to be tried probably will not come up until the middle or
The largest matter on the docket at prese*nt, are the three cases of Hunter against the Traction company These eases, two of which
Tlie teachers of Cloverdale. Clov evdale township. Mill Creek town ‘ihp and Jefferson towm-hip met - t'toverdnle Tuesday for their fir^ Instiftilo of (he year. Similar meet
were held for the other town riovetdale Cemetery ;Assov,
to .l.ilie ( line. lot )U
nrop innry 10 Hie opening of the I cloverdale cemetery
| tieorge \Y Wright to Titos. H. Varley, land in Floyd
S. .lack Thomas to T- Bar-tholm-w, land in Russell township $ Luella Bartholnew to Wil-
liam F. Dwigans, laud in Russell township
8320.5U
no little attention.
Lucas ford, Warren township, $2,-
700.
Durham ford, Madison township,
$750.
COMMISSIONERS MEETING
James Maloney, of Crawfordsville. was here yetserday to see his aum
Mrs. Hanna Kehoe. who is confin“ 11 ’|-|||.; coi’NtV
to the home of her sister, Mrs Fan-
nie Deltz, by illness
Miss Cecil Fisher entertained a number of Iter friends last night at
and the Hon Joseph her home on Bloomington streel.
Seymour. Demorratie can-
l°r Judge of the Appellate
Court,
"ill address the Demoerats
Dot) ' 0 ' ln bouse Wednesday night. ^ 1 lm ‘n are eloquent speakers and Kvh 1 crow d should hear them. L ai P )p <nocrat is urged to attend, ’’specially are inviled to at-
The eevning was spent in playing games, afler which delightful re-
freshments were served.
ten<l 'bis meeting.
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1 * October 7.
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The following business was transacted by the county commissioners at the session held yesterday after-
noon :
Advertisements for bids for the contract for the improvement of tho John Taber and others road in Cloverdale township ordered Cook Drug company granted pe.mission to eonnept sewer with court
house sewer pipe.
Advertisements for bids for eontraet for building of Frank Peck and others road in Greencastle townshin ordered. 1 ‘ Advertisements for bids on repairs to two bridges, one the Barnard bridge over Big Walnut creek just south of Barnard, and the other
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sad aeeident on the Walnut Green bridge several months ago when a ear ran down Mr Hunter and his family. One son died front his in juries and Mrs. Hunter suffered much anguish from her injuries. The boy, who died, was knocked from the bridge Into the water, a distance of twenty-five feet or more. The following notes front the docket show the work of the past
two days:
William F. Kennedy, administra tor of the estate pf Joseph T. Ken nedy, has filed the final report which has been accepted and approved. The administrator has been
discharged.
The defendants in the case of Mary Wyant, adniinistrix of the estate of Harry O. Wyant, against the Traction company have been rulel to answer before September 10th This ease is the damage suit resulting from the death of Mr Wyant who was run down by a traction i ear at the crossing just east of town Mr. Wyant was driving his auto from St. Louis to Pendleton. He had stopped here over night and had started for Indianapolis. While crossing the interurhan tracks at the crossing his enigne “went dead.” stopping the car on the tracks and
SCHOOL BOOKS.
A complete line of till (he Bool and school supplies tr . d i Oti- • it
schools and good hart-nin in oe ru It
ond-hand high school boo) at •L K. Lnnirdon A Co. Book store.
schools for 1912-13 school voars County Superintendent Wright at i ti tided the meeting nnd nave an ndin the morning, on “Instrtie-; Hen nnd Llvico to the Teachers'') 1 1- the morning session plans to J bring Hie teachers and ■parents - t . together to aid in the school
v ork " as discussed
In the afternoon matters pertain ing to the welfare of tlie pupil teachers and schools were dwell" : upon Tlie institutes are very inHiirtive and add to the proficiency
of the teachers. School Kotiks.
All the books used in Hie grade) schools on sale on and after Tlttir- >' morning at l.iiiigdoii's Bonk
township
2.700
More. We can tell you what hookyou need. Come early and avoid tin
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SI list RIBE EOK THE HERALD. Democratic Speaking ...HLAR... HON. CLAUDE BOWFRS ...AND... JUDGE JOSEPH SHEA ...AT THF... COURT HOUSE Wednesday Evening
g ...THE NEW... | SAsbury Conservatory of Musicg CORNER WASHINGTON ST. AND SPRING AVE. S H FACULTY NOT SURPASSED IN THE MIDDLE WEST
the Fineastle bridge over Ramp. directly before a traction car It creek on the Greencastle and Craw j | s alleged in the complaint that the fordsville road, were ordered. ; ron ,]|t| on 0 f fj,,, crossing was re- — ' sponsible for his engine stopping. .Tames Merrjweothor ' ,, ' S V ^ ,, ' r . | a substitute complaint has been noon was looking for his hor. e M Jn , he pasp of E rne8 t q. Bush
wagon which disappeared from in
Conservatory Building Newly Equipped I hroughoutPupils may be Registered brom Now On. Regular Registration Days—Sept. 1 6 and 17, Lessons Begin Sept. 18.
FACULTY
front of the Central National Bank
Mr. Merrvwealher left the animal standing in front of the bank while hr was working on the roof of the
building When he returned for it
no horse was to be seen. The ani-
mal was not tied and probably wandered off on its own accord
against George R. Shultz which was | venued here from Clay county. D- C. Brackney has filed an affl- I davit for a change of venue from | the judge of the circuit court in th" | case of Ida Cullen Boyd against i himself. 1
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Special rates will be made to Public School students below High School classification. Illustrated Catalog will be mailed to any address. Phone 241 n
Mr. 1. E. Norris, Director Piano, Organ Miss Margaret Kreigh— Voice. and Theory. Mr. Ferdinand Schaeier—Violin. Miss Jessie Alice I rout—Piano Miss Alice Potter Public School
Mr. Rudolf I ieyne—Voice Music.
Mr. Walter P. Pfaff—Dramatic Reading