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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA. MONDAY. APRIL 12-1920

THE WEATHER-.

FAIR /TUESDAY

FIRE DESIROUS OLD ^ i S31 BUILDING SATURDAY NIGHT

delapidated building on KLST ANDERSON STREETOWNEI) BY WALTER ASHfrON BURN * I ATE LN THE EVENING CAUSE OK FIRE UNKNOWN. WAS NOT OCCUPIED N N N N E1RL ELLIS HOME DMGED

{The old frame buildinff on east AmU-rson streot owned L>y Wlalter Ashton, was destroyed by fir e at near ten o'clock Saturday ni(fht. The build in? was an old delapidated structure and was not occupied. The cause of

the fire is not known.

KlamgS got big headway before (he five department arrived. Because of

the delapidated condition th e loss is I)avid wilson to Herbert Norris 80 not irreat. Th^ old residence building ( acrps jn Marjon T(Wnshl $]

.lames 11. Scott to Vandiver E. Terry,

A. J. Knoll.

Ott Webb Treasurer of Putnam County who has been ill for several doy e at his hom on east W.vrhinglon ■‘trctt with !nl bienza is a'to li l, nack at his office again today. Dr. Winn blood specialist of Indian- ■ I'poiis was in jhis city Sunday m con. s tation with Dr. W. M. M Gaughey. Mr. and Mrs Thomas Newgen; ot C. i.lon Falls are the parent i of a boy

l. rn .Sunday.

Mrs. Addie P. Rir.go and Mrs, W. O. Timmons are in Indianapolis today

on business.

The Veronica Club will meet with MrsWilliam Benson Tuesday afternoon at her rome on west Liberty strej.

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

was <>ne of te oldest struettures in the ci(y and formerly occupied by the Vorhces family on e of the pioneer

families of Greencastle.

On Sunday afternoon, burning soot from tie flue at the home of Mr. ami

6 acres in Jefferson Township $1 Ella B. Davis to FLOYD O. Wert, lot

in Roachdale, $1,800

Olive McCloud to William B. Morland, 19 acres in Jackson Township.$ J

Mrs Earl Ellis on Locust str e et which I ^ Me is l>einir occupies for the sunimii P t Cammack toThomas E Stranger lor Mr and Mrs. William P. Koehler, in <;r ^ ncastle f500 ' ’ 1 ignited the shingles and qu»t e a hole i clajr Rohigon aml wifo to Walter S. was burned in t le roof be>fore the fire , ra!mpb<1 | 1( land Marion Township $600 j men extinguished the flames with th,. Mn . E i izab ^ th p p ra thers and others'

cemical apparatus. Tie loss will not ^ j oe be great I g;ioo

THE RAILROAD STRIKE IS NEAR AN END

RUIN FISH INDUSTRY

SWITCHMEN ARE RETURNING TO THIEK WORK AND SITUAT-

j ion is hai idly mramne Salmon in Washington Depleted otatembnnts

I Hi f >r I* I Al-rt.

by Foreigners.

AN EARLY RETURN TO NORMAL

Chicago, April ll..Whil e officers of the railroad brotherhoods who united with the rail road officials to break the unathorized strike «f switchmen which starred in the Chicago jerminar district, announced tonight that the situation was steadly improving and that jhe crisis of th e walk ouj was past, John Grunau, president of

M. Eckels, 21ots in Fillmore

Mi , I.wile Glide well of Putnamville is vbiting Miss Augusta Glidewell of this city. 'Th,. Beehive Rebecca Lodge will meet tonight in rgular session at '. |. Dollie Caldwell, Noble Grand Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mann of LaPorte Indiana were in this city Suna visiting Mr, an ( j Mrs. Millard Hoatirvan. Mr and MrsH. T.Knoll of Conners«r, i \iilo -pent the week end in this city with th e foimers narents Mr. and Mrs

AUTOMOBILES ARE DAf^ti! IN COLUSA

EiGHTY-fOOP, im CHURCH MEMBERSHIP

Ciarlgs Barnalby, who has jusj re- , turned ficm an extendej trip through ! the west, reports that while in San I Francisco, he had the pleasure >f i megting ‘Charley Lloyd’ one of the old time Grcencastle residents, who is now residing in California. Mr \

Barnaby iports that Mr. Lloyd is en-1 "

joying god heath ,.nd prsporty MAC HINES DRIVEN BY WALTTER SUNDAY TABERNACLE ACTIV ami that he s e nds his best wishes to |;\ \NS AND ROBERT QUIN GO (TIE ARE MOST SUCCESSFUL!.

TOGHTHER AT THE - INTER FULLY 1600 ATTEND THE SECTION OFi WALNUT AND EVENING MEETING AND HEAR

JACKSON STREETS SUNDAY MRS. BARK

AFTERNOON !

TABERNACLE SOLD TO MR, BURNSIDES

State Fisheries Commission Urges | That They Be Barred From

State Waters.

Olympia, Wash.—Washington’s salmon Industry, once among the leaders In the state’s activities, has been almost depleted by the intensive Ashing of the last six years, L. H. Darwin. state Ash commissioner, declared in his annual report Aled with Gov.

Louis F. Mart.

Creation by the legislature of a Ash- . . . 1 pries eon,mission to take full charge ! the Chicago yardmans association, of Ashing operations in Washington w ho called the strike, declared “the

waters was recommended by Mr. Dnr- J situation is unchanged.”

win. i The largest break among the Sfriklle urged that foreigners lie barred ers was t t Columbus O., wh e re tiOtl from Ashing in the state waters, be- j switchmen voted to return to work cause, he said, the destruction In a j The situation in Chicago is dis t inrtInrtfe part, has boon accomplished ‘»5 j, , . • U4 „ . . c, . persons not citizens of the United ^ improved tonight said S. E. Hober States. Ourin^r the war. he Haiti, for- ’ president of th^ Switchmen a elgn Ashennen banded themselves to- ! Union of North America Nore men ro gether. took the lead in the Industry turning to work and we look for an and Increased the prices. ! early return to normal conditions. So. keye snlmon runs of the Puget ! Mr Heberling said that th e brother sound hav ulmost been wiped out by hr>tft leaders were m eting with delallie heavy Asblng, the report slnted. . . . . rt t ,

, ’ , , gallons of strikers in an effort to end The silverside and chum or dog salmon 1

havo also been reduced in number. tle wa,kx>nt an d that satisfactory pro-

The Iminphack salmon runs pr(»bnhly | press was being mode. will be , Hacked by the Asbermen n,*xt j °

and. In a few years, the commissioner; Mrs ('. C. Piyne, formerly Miss predicted, they, too, probably will be | Katherine Allen, who has be e n here depleted. guest of her mother Mrs MargColutnhln river, Grnvs harbor nnd i ,,, , , ... ,■ < , . v, s*

! aret Allen has left for ( arlsbad N M Williapn harbor waters of Washing 1

his many friends in Grcencastle. i While in California. Mr. and Mrs. Barnaby were delightfully entertain-

ed by Mr. and Mrs Lloyd.

SIRKjrURE WHICH COST $2,200 IS_ PURCHASED -BY .LOCAL M\N FOR $1305. .THERE WERE ONLY THREE BIDS---

ton have not suffered to the extent of Puget sound. Mr. Darwin said, largely because of the greatly Increased hatchery v <>rk. But as the Ashennen are beginning to take immature salmon and are preventing the Ash frotr. reaching their spawning grounds it is probable these waters will suffer

more in the near future.

where Mr. Payne has a position with fhe state highway commission. Mr.

Payn e is a civil engineer.

OPEN RICH MI0A DEPOSITS

FINDING MISSING PERSONS IS NEVER-ENDING TASK

OCCUPANTS NOT INJURY NINETEEN NEW C0NVERTS

TNE PIANO TOO IS SOLD )C3LESSt TRIPLETS welcome

The front wheel was torn off a Ford touring car driven by Walter i Evans, a rural mail carrier when his machine collided with a Ford Road- ! ster tlriven by Robert Quinton of Limedale th 0 corner of Walnut and

Jackson streets at n e ar three oclock jn ^

I Sunday afternoon. Evans was driving oast on Walnut street and Quin was going south on Jackson street

when the accid e nj occured.

The view of l>oth drivers was obstructed by Dr. Gilespie's ofice un- ; till they w e re on each other and it \ was to late to avoid the collision. \ left front wheel was tom completely off th Evens machine and the I crank, fenders, lights and radiator were badly damaged on the Quin machine Fortunatly no one was in-

Tabernacle Schedule.

Monday: 6 O’clock Get together supper for men at the College Ave Methodist Church. Mrs, Barr will speak. No services in the tabernacle. Tuesday :9:30 O’clock Neighbod meetings S'-.'IU O < i. ck Bush ess men’s

Tounty Agents office in (h • Court House.

7:15 O’clock Song servic e in the tabernacle. Sermon by Mrs. Barr on “The Lost Son” Father’s and Son’s night. Yesterday in the union evangelistic

The Daisy Douglas Barr Tab. ■- naclc, erected sL‘ vt ‘ral weeks ago at a cost of $2,200 has ben sold by {he uilding < ontmittee (• A P BumaideB for $1 ,”06. The sale was made through sealed bids and Mr. Burnsides bid $346 higher than F. E. Dodge and W H. Heiby, who bid $900 W I). Burks of Keelsville I id $080. VJ'ho purchaser agrees to wreck the I uilding immediatelyafter the revival services close. It is estimated thaj tlie present market value of the lumber in the building is near $‘2,530. Mrs Frank Cheek purctase.i the

Former Soldier Overjoyed When Stork Raps Thrice at His

Little Flat.

New Mexico Mines, Long lole, Furniih Foundation for New Industry. The cominercial mica industry, which is jii^t being opened up in New Mexico, premises, it Is said, to he one of the mo-t extensive of its kind in

the United States.

For years this deposit, wnlch New York.—The prize optimists of] stretebes over the eastern anil snnthOrenter New York were found In a 1 orn portlo, of Itio Arriba county and little three-room Aat. | extends Into Santa Fe enunty, lias lain They are Frank Cangenil, fonnot dormant, but It is now being 'levelsoldier. and Ids wife, parents of six op,si after tests have fully demonchildren. j strilted tin t Hie mien Is equal In qilKlThree of the children are newly twirn i tty to thn: produced anywhere else, triplets—all girls—and the reason Mr Ground mien is usial In the mat unnd Mrs. Cangenil take all honors fm! fncture <d p.':!n!s. n\le grensi-, roefiog optimism Is that despite the fact tlmti material, wallpaper, lire tiowder an! he is out of employment thev accept as an adullerant In rubber, as well as their rare gift with deep gratitude and lor the maiiutuclure of washerti.

campaign set anotner highwater mark piam( \ v , 1(K . h is bein(f used at the meet-

for religious activity in Greencastle, und the opening of thelast week of the meetings conducted by evangelist

Daisy Douglas Barr and party was

indeed an auspicious one.

In the morning service which were conducted by the pastors in the

ings. Her hid for the piano was $61. Mrs. ( .’.alley Hufflmau bid $50; A. I). Steel bid $28 and .Mrs. T. J. Phipps

id $40.

believe themselves lucky.

The new babies are Mabel, Gath- 1 erine nnd Genevieve, and they hav. been card tagged to avoid a mistake, Tbe landlord of Hie tenement boiisi | In which the Gnngemls live has agreed to keep the family until fortune smiles | on them. Frank can always get enough to buy food and the mothei and babies

HOLY WELLS SPREAJ DISEASE Italian Pilgrims Recent Attempts to

Prevent Their Using Polluted Pools They Hold Sacred. the city of temple*.

Is jilso the rity of holy wells. A pil-

are doing: well. He whs in Mexico with m ini in I’.i'inires urn put In n Inisy day

lured, although Dr. Gilbert Sallust chun , hes cifrht y-f our ^siple were re. of Clov e rdale who was riding in the . oiwJ ^ in the churchEvans machine was badly shaken up. I es of GrMncagtl « practically all cf dadict runuru nnnxtc whorn had previoualy Kone forwanl r ArlS I LHLIKLn AN a t J be tabernacle. Every church also IN FINANCIM. CAMPAIGN sported a notable increase in Sun-

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Quotas of the Indiana Bipist chnrch | es in th,. Northern Indiana Bapist j Convention. t'"st wll participate in a financial drive oril 25th to May 2n d have been announced by Dr. Garlos M ; Dinrmore of Indianaoplis, general superintendent of the In liana Baptist

Convention.

day School attendance.

'-'alvBilon \ >es in , , <

’"'"l "S \vl at i •" «• "Ik -lent < f di-i 'he Bureau of *hi I. sends out .’ fi-ciUms in i< , ' 1V-. dlMap), .4, ,,l

iy. becniise of its try in t!u> \\ . id.

Th church quotas County follows:New Mnysville

Bethel

I Big Walnut

desert than to support the family that lie t(links Is too exacting. There is

,ii, .. the woniiin Who feels Hint the river or j r '"

' ' ,1 ' t||( , , I|IWI j.,,, j,., | s ie-s ton ;tying tlian j Greencastle live bureaus ' hyrdshlps of life. Kor all these and o '' ' ' nuiny oiliers the ShIvuUoii Arniv is. m-, HELD FOR BROFITEEKING

v alarnis to ail , dne,Ing n vigilant, uneeusing Keardi. ■ ('.ad tbo.e wlio ^,,,1 ,| IP ineiliods used 111 Ondim. thn !

Fils W" 'b i Mnnk i To,. I gliiiviii ’ "ns goltl’ to , wei r til 'd nys. Mr I - TT to but , | t»U» a”

l\ '

of Lvjintiom

I The i.tonUe.v. ll.i fqie iini the gnrll i 1h W(.*i 4* nil iiii’lutam| wi; I. uaii li» tl>* I Mno of evolution follox • ti l»y l*ruf -$2,145 | K.lllotl Siinili In a late .Tltish lioyal

for Putnam

$3,815

--- $4. 400

$2,500

HABERDASHKR MM.S SELF

dellnqiieiitti Hi " a s vnl ied as the causes

la ’ll" Unite States over tt- it tln ir (llsa|i|)euniii<:»'. Soinetlii) r 'a \ w York A|>ril

I'i.i'u's rm .ssaig (itirsona coni" into overlooked clue, an eld l.dtei

t liH

II Awaiting •rial

. on a charge of violating (he Lever act

^ d vat lor, Army each year, uml In address of „ friend * ads to the end fiteerin( , for which h e was arh"l" of the ; gerness of of the search. 3 iivTitnes a pi" i-I • ; , L xT:A.eu....„

1: ' hifornmti" . In spite of the fact afa|ili Inserted In the War Cry 'he dim , ’,r ?1 . proportion of those who Salvation Army puhlicntlon. which * " r i- iiii.-attng T,o not want to be figind, rireulatcd In every country in he N'ite of till the Cba'itcbs and bln- v.orbl >r In oilier n dluin* . aleululed ''rn: "s. over l.140(1 are located by the to enich ti"’ eye. " II bring H"' m *s!ng ^'h at Inn A my eweti year. one home. Sometimes the li'.iiu or «.>- •'here :-i ib,. , |t;|,| ,vb i n tia sw: nmn limit goes on for vcsi's. onl> hi 'be fr, ’"i himie liecaitsc tlm :cvr.ir* "f ,. I I end to bs'o <- otic >f those ufisoh ed ""d limigi'r mv noth ng to him cjiitim:- •iiys'eries f ' the world spoc'.ila• ••« 'I to Him u,.,) m». b-r fmii for a n "'dh ,,r • w '’ ““d ,l -*°

•her . i, Hi l , imn, , ;i,d» li vaster to ,proi.ipil> toigem.

InsiliQtloii lecture. Tin- domination of tnamiiiiilH mer Ollier primitive antmals was given by the senses of vlston. timch nnd hearing, nnd ihe grnduni developinelll of iln-se senses inn! niilioi nun,i fnciihie.N is- iiac ,. from the Miocene period to the anthropoid apes and lo niiiii. Tlie tnTniItlve structure of remote nnci on- Is better preserved in iiiau than in any

other ninniinnl. Ills p iiTlciilnr group S|1 |,| ,| u> linN i, m> .

rested Saturday, Joseph Nichthauser, 50 years old a Brooklyn hwlyrdasher today commited suicide at hia hdme by shooting himself in the head ac-

cording to the police.

Nichthauser was o\q on $2,500 bail. He is alleged to averaged profit of ol icr cent on articles sold in his

*t

of primn'es bus never m-eii to turn pside from nuu

ment, while others, llki '.irllla nnd tl e gibbon, have in ;>ecin chtinicterlstlcs of lliui' -dlty tt avoid extinction. Primitive man pmh 1 ably came Into existence soinewhe'i ] tn the region of Asia between India ] and Chins. Me was a wniiderer, nnd hnd nothing to tix him in one spot un- i til he been me civilized it$T a legiilur ,

tiller of ihe soil.

LCCmTlJ THE MiSS.NG SHOES Passenger Who Ha.I on Wrong Pair Atimilted Thinki ng That They

Felt • Pretty Tight."

Mr. I >. of N<um!i I’rims\l\sinln l«*Ii» of :i iiour lni«♦»•!>. or snin**tiling nUIn to it. wlil< ii »»r<*uiT»Ml n few iln\> imn on :» tnortiiny train foniinu in Ipmii relat. s ilie

Indian; ; olis News.

lie had oiviiplnd an tiptH*r horth. nnd when In* arose found that Ids . ‘-lines had dlsaj ’<*arod. A pair imt i Ids own wore where ids should have heen. hill they evident l\ helniijn-d to the occupant ot 10 hiwer hi‘i*th. 'flu* porier \va - called, hut his ino<t ; diligent search tailei! to loeafe the j ndssaii: shoes. ’1 la* train was rapid- • j Iy spta*din*j d Imlinnapdis, and | with \ish* arriving stocking* ‘ ' footed, Mr. . • < in n nmst unenvi-

I aide state of tail >.

Aliout that th • • n portly lltt!«* .nun ' sm nut (‘re ^ i i> the aisle, slopped .11.,! ' c' to ;i> ♦ mhle Ids pos-osslotis | | perp * o> d *t raining. '‘What’s . the . tV he Iiwitdred. heroinIn^ ititetes* in ’he search, i “Why, this in ’ ' his

Von don’t a' mistook

the Twelfth regiment.

STOWAWAY HAS HARD LUCK ! Slippery Pile Foil* Italian Who Trie* to Swim Into New Yo-k From

Ellis Island.

New York.—Giovanni Nardl, a young Italian, was held til Kills island Inr possible deporation, despite the fact he was so anxious to enter this country thut he tried to smuggle himself in by swimming from a steutnec

in the harbor.

Nardl dived from the steamer Pcsa--(i from Naples shortly before It w is docked. He might have mude a triumphal entry Into the city had not the | ding he tried to climb proved too , slippery, lie was hauled aboard u police launch ml returned to the I’esaro, wh was discovered thut be

vas a slows ..y.

t 5 Last Influr ua Epidemic 5 Cos 0.000 Insurance

impelled j suppos . j m all m 'flop tlicni t"r yours, do

Then the portly party took a ' "k at Id* feet .<1 discovered that be

had.

“Well,” said lie, conslderr'dy chagrined, “I thought that the pesky things felt pretty tight.” Atal then there occurred a hasty exchnngv of shoes just as the train pulled Into the station.

Th" i ;"ir/a pneumonia op!cleiuie. i.ow vinuuUy i tided, has eost the life insurance companies of 1 e United Stati-s about $5,fKXi.i according to an estimate made by an official of one of the big eastern companies. This figure is about one-quar-ter of the insurance paid out to Influenza utvi pneumonia victims during the epidemic of

1018-1S4, ho said.

-t*.

making the round of these Iniidinnrks and complying with the eerenionles prescribed for these who wot,Id drink

from them.

only Hie devout Indlnn pilgrim would enrr to drink ot the sacred wells, for custom says thut flowers must bo flung into them as peace offerings. nod these decayed floral offerings tend to make Hie water unfit for drinking. The I’.rlilsh government did clean up some of the moat holy and popular of the wells In the Interests of sntiilutinn. But the Hindus were not pleased. They come liundreii of miles to enjoy the benetiis of *!,e holy water, taste, scent nnd nil nnd they do not cure to lllive It

] tamperi'd w irli.

Tlie inosi Ind.'i of the wells Is the 1 Well of Knowledge which stands near i I tenures' most ancient shrine, the t;,ddeii Temple, and is said to he the ! dwelling place of a very lm|Mirt:int I gml. The most mysterious Is the I Well of l-'iite. Aii\ one who looks ’•? lilt,, n,o U"II of l ste . vn, ’Iy St M""n J nnd fulls to see In- shadow I- said to * I.,, do, to die wlililn six months. ' ,ii emu«,■. If tin 1 - cut pro;iliecy is J uni ivoinld". the -plrlls can iisiinllv tie l 1 to o" I »v nC.'r'ii's tit I be teniple,

{ I ... I» en : III mill IV

» lii iiiioitiei well a snake god lives. J uml Silll her is di'dirnied to the t ( spirit of lioullitg. Ullgrlins not only drink of tlie watvi of this well, but also bathe ill II to make sure of the water’s power being trjiiislerrvd to them. Half a million pilgrims mur the holy wells of I’.ennres every year and drink enough of Hie water to stock up their systems with the germs of ever*

ulsease known to India.