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(•ItEENCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY. AIGLST 18. 1919.
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ALLISON CHRISTIE WEDDING
FORMER GREEN!ASTEK SHOE REPAIR M \N EXPRESSES IDEAS ON H. C. E.
MARRIAGE .OF’ -GREENCASTLE SHOE MERCHANT AND I’OI'l -
“I don't think it will last much lender.” , Georpe Schopp, a shoemaker, of South Illinois street, in the delibera-1 tive way of men of his trade, was 1 commentind on the hijrh cost of shoes and the hid'n cost of livinjr generally. A shoemaker does much level think-' ing while he works, and Schopp hasj probably done more thinking than I
E\R DEPAL'M' SCHOOL OF MU-j mos t shoemakers, for he has worked
-K i,RADI AIE SOLEMNIZED f ' SATURDAY AFTERNOON IN | na I
: i poSKEY> Mil H. | city in 1868 he was a shoemaker at
I Greencastle, where he learned the * ' trade in IKtlO. His observations cover a wide sweep of years. He has seen prices go up and down, hut he has never seen prices of leather and shoes as high as they are now. He has seen machine-made shoes take the place of | hand-made, though he still makes
QEPAUW PEOPLE Me PART
Prcakey, Mich., August 16. — The marriage of Miss Catherine Allison, laughter of iMr. and Mrs. C. K. Alli-
son, of Mattoon, 111, and George R. j some shoes.
Christie of Greencastle was beautifully solemnized here at 4:30 o’clock this afternoon, the Rev. W. J, Dalson of the Emanuel Episcopal church of-
ficiating.
The ceremony was performed in the Episcopal church at the corner of
Schopp was learning his trade when the Civil War began. He was then fifteen years old. After the war had been going on for some time he ran away and enlisted, but his parents found the camn to which he had been sent and they brought him back to
Mitchell street and Waukezoo avenue! Greencastle.
before about thirty-five friends, mostly Greencastle friends who are spending the summer at Bay View, just a mile from Petoskey. The members of the DePauw University choir which this week is singing at the Bay Viewassembly, of which the bride is a member, witnessed the ceremony. Among the others who witnessed the ceremony were Dean and Mrs. R. G. MeCutchan, Mrs. Frank G. Gilmore. Mrs. F. A. Arnold, Mrp. James Vermillion and Migs Hazel Vermillion, T>r. and Mrs. C. U. Wade and two f daughters. Mr. and Mrs. Charles J.! Arnold and Prof, and Mrs. Howard! Barnuni. Although the orfde anil gioom had planned a very quiet wedding, Dean MeCutchan and the members of the choir, learning of their plans, persuades! them that the DePauw choir and others here should participate in the event, and as a result there was a most beautiful and impressive cere-
mony.
The bride, accompanied by Miss Mary Ann Schull, of Rushville, entered the church through the main aisle as Clarence Ball ef Lebanon played the Lohengrin wedding march. Previous to the ceremony the DePauw choir sang two beautiful numbers. Mr. Christie entered the church accompanied by Charles J. Arnold and met the bride at the alfar, where the impressive ring ceremony was read by the Rev. Dr. Dalson. Dean R. G. ■MeCutchan, in the absence of the bride's fi.ther, who was unable to attend the ceremony, gave the bride in marriage to Mr. Christie. During the entire service Prof. Howard Bamum, violinist, softly played several appropriate numbers. Following the ceremony the young couple left on a short motor trip to Burt Lake, returning later to Petoskey a nd Bay View, where they will spend a week before motoring back
to Greencastle.
The bride a graduate of the DePauw school of music, is a musician of exceptional ability. During the past two vears she has had charge of
Greencastle
ALL BUSINESS HOUSES WILL CLOSE AT NOON
Plenty of Hides, He Says. “I see the government is after the packers,” said Schopp. “That should help some. They control a lot of hides. There are plenty of hides, but leather is being forced up by the speculators, I believe.” Schopp was working on a pair of calfskin shoes. “How much fur a pair like that?” he was ^pked. “Nineteen dollars. I'm making this pair and another just like it for a I farmer who alwavs has me make his j shoes. The bill for the two pairs is j
$36."
“So one cou'd not save by patroniz- j • —— •
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with the facte-ies” M)K A H,( ’ DAY - " EDNESDAY
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, How mneh doe. « pair of .hoes of TERTAINMENT AND EATS IS about tha euahty cost at a store? ; By THK C()NC ES .
“About W5 or $16/ I
, ! SION COMMIT!EE.
Seven or eight years ago we made
a pair of shoes like these for $8. We ! -- made more money on them at IhiM 1 14111 i mm 4 '’nCPIll price than we do now at $18," Schopp WILL HUn A vM tulAL
went on. “Six years ago we paid 35 cents a pound for sole leather. Now we pay $1.50. We usually buy the uppers. Six vears ago we paid $2 for uppers. Now they cos* $,). We used to figure about 75 cents for sole leather for a pair of shoes. Now it is about
$2.50.”
A fellow-workman who heard what Schopp was saying remarked that
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THREE INSTRITTOKS I’ROVIDE LONGEST PROGRAM EVER GIVEN VI Ml El IN'. 01 II U ERS IN THE «OI vi ^ Bi l m\m: work interesting.
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'Practically all of the business houses will close Wednesday at noon for the picnic. “It's going to he one swell day,” stated an official of the Farmers’ Association - Greencastle Commercial Club picnic to be held Wednesday of this week in the Hazelett grove one-half mile east of this
there seems to be some kind of “dope” j city. The picnic is an all-day affair in sole leather now to make it heavy. Jin d nearly “all night.” The interurA pound of sole leather won’t go as j |, a n company has promised a shuttle fur as it used to, he said. I car service between Greencastle and Repair Prices Are I'p. | the grounds during the day anil evenPrices of repairs have not gone up j n| j County Agricultural Agent R. in proportion to other prices, Schopp |» Fouts received word this morning says. | that Prof. Pipal of the soils and crops "In 1876,” he recalled, “wc got 40 ^ department of Purdue University
The engagement of Miss Stella j Jr.ne Owens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William R. Owens, 3211 Kenwood avenue, to Kenneth W. Hurst, son of,Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Hurst, was] announced Thursday night at a beau-' tifi^l party given for Mi.-s Owens by her mother. 'I^he rooms were attractively decorated with baskets of roses tied with pink tulle. These baskets contained a cupid to which the ;innouncement of the engagement was tied. The hostess was assisted by 1 Mrs. Charles Worth, Mrs. Edward | Tillson, Mrs. Arthur Dougherty, Miss Ziliah Worth and Miss Hazel Green.
Mr. Hurst was formerly a lieutenant —
with the 150th Field Artillery and
was later transferred to the 107th M[[T AT NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Field Artillery. The wedding will tane place in September.—Indianap-1
olis Star.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurst and son are The 1919 session of the Purnam former residents of Putnam county County Teachers’ Institute began this and have many friends here. morning under most favorable condiRINGLING BROS. AND BARNU.M A BAILEY -.truction The music again, under tho ! most able direction of Harry Maxwell, Mammoth Shows Are Now Combined ,ids f. to lie more popular than ami Announce Kxhibtinns at ever before, and that means • > GreenEarly Date. | castle people a most excellent pro- - 1 gram. Mr. Maxwell has promised The world’s biggest amusement in-j that in addition to tne regular - ng-
stitution, Ringling Brothers and Bar-
num & Bailey Shows combined, is to i exhibit afternoon and night-at Terre' Haute Tuesday, August 19. The consolidation of the “World’s Greatest Shows" and the “Greatest
ing of the teachers in chorus many special numbers will be provided during the week. Miss Era Bence and the Indiana Trio were among the
numbers to be presented.
Dr. Jones of Northwestern Univer
~ SSVS ro/“ j ; TZ j ;x p “'« r p,y - The use of machinery in the repair; grounds the identification of all kin* * u " 1 H .. * k "’'"’''■"Jr
shops, Schopp thinks, has had a good J n f weeds and the control and life
ity j
deal to do with the fact that repair [ habits of such
prices are about the same as they The concessions are coming each were in I816. jay t 0 the grounds and hy Wednes“Were prices of shoes just after th«'| Jay morning everything will he opCivi! War as high as they are now?", ened for business'. The (Monrovia
surprise of the country. Nothing to approach this gigantic new circus lias ever before toured America. It has been formed by merging the pick and cream of all that was biggest and be.-t in the two famous shows. It would he folly to attempt to enumerate its wonders. Some idea of the
the music in the Greencastle cityi n0 - Factory shoes were then Baptist church has asked to sell re- man y
schools and has taught in the DePauw i f rorn $4 to $4.50, and hand-made $7 j freshments during the dav and have | enormous scale upon which features
She is a member of' nr hand-made boots with |, een given consent by Frank Can-[ace presented may be had when it is
sorority
school of music,
the Kappa Kappa Gamma
and most popular in- Greencastle, where she has many friends. The groom is the proprietor of the Christie shoe store in Greencastle and one of that town’s most progressive young
business men.
After returning to Greencastle the young couple will reside in their new! home on Elm street.
$8. Fine
Morocco tops were $14 or $15.” When Schopp came to Indianapolis
in 1868 he recalls that there were i there.
stated that a quarter of
million
MAURICE BROWN SAN' GRAVE OF RALPH BOONE
Maurice Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Brown, who recently returned from France, saw the grave <>f Ralph Boone, son of Mr. and Mrs. Moses Boone, who was killed in action during the Marne drive, Boone "’a* the second Putnam county boy to lose his life in the great war. Brown was in Brussels and while looking over a cemetery he came across the grave of Ralph Boone. Not knowing of the death of his Greencastle boyhood friend it was quite a shock to Private Brown. Over the grave was the name of Ralph Boone, stating he had been killed in action.
four tanneries here. Some of the | go-round which was at Quincy owners of shoemaker shops had their | Thursday and many ot her entertainown tanneries. The owner of the ment8 , uch as s hows will be present shop at Greencastle where he learned j f or tho bi g d ay. Virgil Grimes, who his trade had a tannery, he says. - • — ■-
There were not so many middlemen's
been given consent by
non, concession chairman. A James-
town man operating ball racks will be ! pounds of lephants take part in a sinThe Booher brothers’ merry-) irlc act. In other words, six times as
Jastj many of the big-eared giants than
profits then, and not so much opportunity for speculation. And there was another condition that made for lower costs then, Schopp says. The day’s work was longer. Schopp says he used to work fourteen, sixteen and even eighteen
hours a day.
While Schopp does not believe that prices will soon be as low as they used to he. He is convinced that shoe prices have reach?d the highest point, and “prsnt pricspSchopsusjx.naanSt and “present prices won't last much longer.”—Indianapolis News. o——— Miss Laura Phillips and Mr. Clyde I^eslie Underwood, both of Greencastle, were united in marriage Saturday afternoon at the Presbyterian ihanse by the Rev. Victor L. Raphael.
is installing the electric “trimmings” for the evening has stated that the night will be bright as day. The two airplanes from Kokomo will be on the grounds and give exhibitions and take people riding throughout the day.
BROWN REUNION PROVED A GREAT SOCIAL AFFAIR
The Brown reunion at the state farm Sunday was attended b^ more than seventy-five persons. The meeting was full of enthusiasm and of interest. The nienion is an annual affair and one looked forward to with great preparation. A reading given [ by Mrs. James Grantham of Roach-
dale entitled “A Trolley Ride” was ter and Mr. and Mrs. George Long read with good expression and great-] and daughter left this morning in the ly enjoyed. Songs by the little folks Hillis car for northern Indiana, where were a feature of the day’s entertain-. they will spend two weeks camping
ment. 'out.
than have ever before been seen in one main tent exhibition. The arena stars embrace all the world’s foremost circus performers. There are three hours of novelties and big sensational acts. The menageries is far and away the most colossal ever traveled. F'or instance, a herd of eight giraffes is exhibited in place of the two or three shown in the past. The great tournament which opens the main tent show is the most magnincent thing in pageantry yet produced in America. Hundreds upon hundreds of gorgeously costumed characters and beautiful horses take part in it. The morning street parade is the longest and most brilliant ever given
anywhere.
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was among so-called educated people. Education in the mental powers of the citizenship of the country, as those powers were concerned with public affairs.
POLITICAL GOSSIP
FROM WASHINGTON
Mr and Mrs. Rov Hillis and daugh-
> with an interesting discussion of the possibilities of child diagnosis. He predicted that before many years each school system would have in attendance a psychological expert who would make mental tests of each child in the grades and suggest the studies that would be most helpful to that child. He insinuated that the present method of giving each child the same work in the same way was a had school method. He declared that we formerly taught school; now we teach children; eventually we will teach the child. Teaching must be made and more adapted to the individual needs
of the child.
Dr. W. W. Sweet ■ f DePauw began a series of discussions of history and the teaching of tent y with a lecture on “Why History Sh old Be Taught.” He emphasized the points that history should be studied in order that the present life of the w rid may he bet ♦ r i'• ' ‘ >od ai r sure foundation for patriotism, and ‘0 cultivate “historical mindedness," by which the speaker meant the n wer of looking at both sides of a qni : tion and ! ing on the facts instead of deciding through partisanship or prejudice. Professoj F. f. Tilden, also of DePauw, spoke of the new tendencies in education, especially the belief that education more than ever before must correct the mental habits of the people. He believed these mental habits to be so bad as to imperil the stability of the country. He also believed that much of the bad mental attitude
Washington, August 17. —Senator . am "J°hnson, of California, and I Senator William Calder of New York as candidate for the presidency and the vice presidency, respectively, is the latest presidential ticket put forward by the Johnson boosters. The | Calder boom is offered to satisfy the Republicans of the East who are in control of Congress a mJ the party as usual and who have been demanding that one of their ow n kind shall be their candidate for the presidency. The Johnson-Caluer boom and those booming have lost all sight of Governor James P. Goodrich, of Indiana, as well as of Senator James E. Watson. In fact, as far as any discussion of the presidential candidacies goes these days, there is no consideration for either Goodrich or any other man from Indiana for either of the offices. The Goodrich name has been lost completely in the shuffle of Republican politics if it has ever been considered. Word has reached the Republicans leaders that the naming of Goodrich for either the presidency or vice presidency undoubtedly would mean the loss of Indiana for the Republican party and that it would be far better to rely upon some other candidate with no more ability than Goodrich has but with whom the voters of Indiana would not be so intimately acquainted. There is little cnance, however, that any man from west of the Mississippi river, or even west of the Allegheny mountains will be chosen as the candidate for the presidency. The latest rumors are that the big interests have decided that Charles E. Hughes will make another good race for the presidency and that he i s n true son of the Eas*, which was named to control the country when the voters sent tho Republicans into power in both houses of Congress. The Hughes boom links up well I with the theory that the next Repub-■' lican candidate will be picked from New York st-.te, if possible, and probably from New York City. He will be a man thoroughly acquainted with the desires of Wall Street and with the element which now controls the party in Congress. Penrose would not be opposed to Hughes, and if Penrose is not Hayy will not be. There is also another rumor that despite agreements that mav have been made by the Indiana Big Four —Goodrich, New, Watson and Hays— to divide up the political spoils in Indiana and to exclude anyone who might be ambitious that Havs having renounced his determination to be Governor is not entirely satisfied to permit Goodrich to take the leading role in the national conflicts. For Goodrich to become prominent in the next national race might cause an accident whereby he would be named vice presidential candidate for his party and then any aspirations Hays might have for the same opportunity in 1921 would be shattered. And Hays is known to have ambitions to become President and to be willing to permit Senator Penrose to dictate anything and everything if only Penrose will continue fond of Hays and
Hays rule.
The suggestion is heard now and then that one of the Indiana members of the House would be good timber for the gubernatorial race in Indiana. Representative Sanders is now and then pointed out as a man who is at least making an endeavor to do something for the district he represents, but the general reputation the delegation has for doing nothing has caused even Sanders to become apathetic. Then Sanders would be op posed the moment he got started by others in the delegation, for it appears the members are unable to get Lie re.”! opinion of Indli.na as to their efforts in Congress.
AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENTS
TWO FORD CARS DRIVEN BY LO- » \l. MEN <OLLIDE NEAR 1*1 KBAR RIDGE AND FIVE-PASSEN-GER INTERS! VTE 1 \R DRIVEN BY TOURISTS FROM NEW YORK STATE I I RN - OVER NEAR PUTNAMVILLE ON THE NATIONAL ROAD.
ANOTHER AT TERRE HAUTE
Glen McGill, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clay McGill, who reside near Beeclr Grove school house in the northwest corner of Putnam county with his sister, end three children of Mr. and Mrs. William Creeks featured in a Ford accident happening this side of the Dunbar bridge northwest of Greencastle Sunday evening about R o’clock. Glen McGill, who was driving his father’.- F’ord five-passenger car, was approached by William Eiteijorge in his Ford car coming through the bridge. In passing the Eiteljorge car the McGill car turned over on its top, crushing it and the windshield but not even scratching the five passengers. The car was righted by men passing by and after spinning the motor the party took their seats and drove to their home. The accident might have been very serious, as the embankment here is several feet deep. Another auto accident occurring near Greencastle was east of Putnamville on the National Road Sunday morning about t>:30 o’clock. A party from New York state touring to relatives living in the southern part of Illinois in an Interstate five-passen-ger car. skidded while going at a fas* rate of speed and turned on its side. None of the occupants were injured. The engine of the machin was slightly injured, necessitating the car being pulled into Cloverdale, where garage attention was given.
Torre Haute. Ind., August 18.— Adolph Brink, a foreman at the Steinhart & Geiger garage of this city, and Mrs. Marie Weldele were instantly killed Sunday evening when the automobile in which they were riding was struck by a west-bound Pennsylvania passenger train at Gray’s Crossing five miles east of here. The train Is said to have been running at sixtyfive miles an hour at the time. Brink was driving north. When the engine struck the machine the engineer thought part of the machinery of the engine had broken and brought the train to a standstill, when the parts of the automobile were found on the pilot of the engine. The bodies were brought to !he city and taken to an undertakinfr establishment, where a brother-in-law of Brink identified his body. The body of the woman was not identified until late last night. She is surived by the husband, Harvey Weldele, an electrician. Brink was unmarried. This accident occurred at the same crossing where Fred Nelson of this city, who with three other persons was driving a Ford touring car, were struck by a Vandalia passenger train several months ago. It will be recalled that Nelson suffered severe injuries about the face and head. This is a very dangerous crossing for antoists.
HOG RECEIPTS, 3,500; PRICES DOW N 25 CENTS
Sergt. Earl Baldock, son of Albert Baldock, nof of Lexington, Ky., hut formerly of Greencastle, is visiting his uncle Hiram Earkin, who resides east of Greencastle. Rergt. Baldock has served eikhteen months in the army, twelve of which were spent in France.
—August 17— Indianapolis Receipts—Hogs, 3,500; cattle, 1,400; calves, 600; sheep, 600. Despite higher prices at Chicago and small receipts here, prices of hogs in the local yards declined 25 cents today with the bulk of the sales at $21.25. Thu top quotation was $21.35. I/ical packers brought about 2.200 of the offerings. Cattle were dully with a lower tendency, sheep steady and calves 50 cents to $1,000 lower. o—-. — - NOTICE.
The Hurst reunion will be held on Thursday, August 21, instead of Wednesday, August 20, the change having been made on account of the F’armers’ Picnic being held on Wednesday.