Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 July 1921 — Page 1

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VOLUME 14

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GREENCASTLE. INDIANA TUESDAY JULY 5, 1921

THUNDERSHOWERS SUNDAY MOSTLY FAIR AND WARM

GREENCASTLE'S BIG FOURTH WAS A HUGE SUCCESS

PROGRAM PLANNED AND EXE. CUTEI) BY GREENCASTLE AMERICAN LEGION POST AND THE PUTNAM COUNTY I I>H AND GAME ASSOCIATION AT. TRACTED LARGE CROWD

Fourth of July attractions at Green castle were a great success Aside from the speeches by Rev. A. M_ Hootman and W. P Evans and the choral Club of Greeneastle the baseball game between the Amer-

ican Legion team and the Dean Spec j of^r '^tion’s builders and“preset jals of Crawfordsville and the fire. ers They posses the rea , American works display at night were the two | gFirit and to know them js tQ L . atch

with the history of our government! and the developement of our constitu] tion. It is likewise impossible foil one to know the life and times ofl Washington and Franklin, of Hamil.f ton and Jefferson and of Robert Mor. ris and Gouveneur Morris or Charles Pinckney, the Adamses, John Mar. shall and Patrick Henry or Daniel Webster and then of Abraham Lift- ■ coin without catching the spirit of the nation and becoming its par. j tisan supporters. As long ns we keep j their memories fresh in our minds they and their teachings will b e a re. servoin on which we can draw for real inspiration There is a story of an irishman who visited the Brit, ish Museum and who tipped his hat to the statue of Nero. When asked why he did it he replied that he wanted to be on the safe side; that he was afraid the old fellow might re. turn to power again. Let us be glad today that we need have no such fear

great features of the celebration pnx gram in point of attendance and in. terest_ The Greeneastle American Legion Post and the Putnam County Fish and Game Association are to be congratulated for the successful cele-

bration

With the arrival of the American Legion band at Northwood Park at near 10 o’clock Monday morning the program officially opened- Already !he‘ refreshment booths were up and doingr business. Baying fox hounds were tied in a del! or. the northeast corner of the grounds awaiting the awarding cf the the prizes in the fox hound show. Little groups of men

sat near the dogs discussing their I piness. They gave us a democratic— respective merits and. fox hunting in i or more strictly speaking a republigeneral. I can—that is a representative form of A’ter the awarding of the fo.\ popular government- Before that hound prizes th e other awards were i tune, governments had been admin made in th e baking contest, pie eat. j tered in the interest of the governing

individual

that spirit and be secure

Our government was originally established by men who had been de. nied the civil and religious liberty which was justly theirs, and they were inspired by the hope that in this new world they would find op. portunity for them and their poster, ity to rose to man’s estate. They left kinds and autocracies and came hither in increasing numbers They found this nation founded it upon the prin. cinie that all men were created equal and vested with certain inalienbie :;<ht.- among them being the rigr.: life, liberty and the pursuit of hap-

ed places with Walker at the begin. 1 ning of the seventh inning, deserves high commendation for his pitching during the six innnings he was in the box. His good control and perplexing twisters were a great factor in th e defeat of the Dean Specials of Crawfordsville. Nor should Pulon, Dea n Special’s pitcher, go without compliment for his work. For the twelve straight inn ings of the game he pitched a super, ior bran d of ball, which made the Leg ! ion men Work hard for their runs. ! All players who took part in the game showed marked ability and should be commended_ Sensational plays were made on both sides. Considering these factors, thi^ was the best ball game that has been played on McKeen field this season. The lineup and summary follow: Legion 5 Dean Specials 4 Walkefj P ».^. IB. Ramsey Sullivan, C .u L. F. Gardner Paris < IB. S S. Guiheries Hanna 2B P. Fusion Whitaker, 3 B 2B. Clemons Blue, S. S 3B, Servies Welch, C. F C .C. Coffel - L F R. F. .1 j Runyan, R F L. F. Rutan

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| Score by innings: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 1 J Dean Spec.O 0000010300 0—455 8 Legion ...’000 02 011000 1—5 8 3 Umpires: Ed Sering of Crawfords. ! ville and Janies Mo*ran of-Greencas-

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PRIZES WERE AWARDED AT CELEBRATION

CAPTAIN H. H- TALBOTT OF CRAWFORDSVILLE W AS JUDGE IN THE FOX HOUND SHOWOTHER PRIZES WERE AWARD. El) ACCORDING TO THE PROGRAM WITH THREE EXCEP. TIONS

law The ff ig of our country mean, more than any other Hag. It expi-'-ses more than any other nation al emblem It is the emblem of a -ivit anu powerful people and it-pro ] claims that they are free and that 1 they acknowledge no earthly sov.

, . , ,, ., • j .j , ereign save themselves fts folds body, whether it were an indiv.dual vvaive a ben ediction to the yesterdays a small group or a large nun f „ ( , mplishment and be

i morrows of progress with hope and j confidence. May we as citizens on this

ing for boys 14 or under, and to the mother having the largest number of

children present at the band stanj at .free citizens and with relatively little 11:30 o’clock. j disregard for the wider interests of

At 1 o’clock the afternoon pro. ! of th e body politics anu without any . , get asjde for natipnal in _ gram opened with a concert by the | adequate restraints of tradition. t tioni Ldetermin e anew that the

Mlulethe government they estabh-h. , l;f ^ ^ and teachin({s of Gt . orKe

Washington and compatriots and the

. , , , 1 gentle spirit of Abraham Lincoln shall

a system of tradition and checks ard i * j

„ , hlia larger part in our lives to the end.

hGinnnpct wnnaa crmnnni crrnwrH nnn ,

that our national ideals and the hopes

ed was to be administered in the in. terest of the entire body politic under

Legion band. This was followed by a concert by the Greeneastle Choral Club under the direction of Mrs C W. Otis. The club sang four num.

bers. C. Elmer Crawley and Perry j balances whose gradual growth and Rush took the solo parts in two de. preservation were to be the best guar lightful negro melodies. They were anty that the public interest should

assiste d by the chorus. The concert 1 b e subserved.

was greatly appreciated by the large The revolutionary patriots said in audience which heard it ; their day and generation: — Rev. A. M. Hootman, a popular ; „ of what avail the pU)U({h or wil

or land, or life, if freedom fail.”

It was along about 6 o’clock Saturday evening when Marshall O’Hair got a tip that there was a full grown crap game in session under the stock shute near the Vandalia water tank. The Marshall single handed and alone went to ihp shute and flushed a big bunch of crap shooters They all took “leg bail” but the Marshall got the canvas on which the dic e was be. ing rolle'd and some little money which the crap shooters left in their hur. ry to depart. The Marshall recog. nized several of the players and afli. davits will be filed against them

preacher of Greeneastle, delivered an excellent address on ‘'Thtf Conserva- i tion of Fish and Game.” Talks and addresses by Rev. Hootma n are al. ways eagerly heard by Greeneastle and Putnam County people who have learned to expect appropriate speech,

es from him.

W. P. Evans, prosecuting attorney of Marion county, was the chief speaker of the day. He spoke fol. lowing Rev. Hootman. Mr. Evans is a Greeneastle man, the son of T. E Evns. During the war he served as a captain in th e American Expedition ary Forces. His address was of a patriotic nature Mr. Evans said in

part:

“Putnam County is today celebrating the anniversary of the birth of our nation. One hundred forty.five years ago today a new nation came into being. We rejoice today in the thought that in the virgin soil of the new republic, the ideals of political and religious freedom were planted an d first grew to commanding propor tions. Here it was that civil an d re. ligious liberty became existing facts and really representative government was first established whereby it be. come possible to apply democratic gov ernment to an ever increasing popula tion. Here the governing body be. came a reduced photograph of the people in their individual and collective capacities. Here government was first base d on universal suffrage. It recognized neither class nor cast, neither weath nor education,as a ba_ sis of citizenship and was based upon the theory that while the people may make mistakes through thoughtless, ness or the neglect of their public duties, yet their final judgement, their sober second' thought, could be de. pende d upon to be right. That philo„ sophy constituted and now cosftutes the spirit of the America. It is a philosophy more puisant than any a-my or navy for the conquest of the world In it is to be found the glorious contribution that our nation has made to th P welfare of its people and of mankind. “It is impossible for any man or any woman to possess the real Am. erua*n spirit without being fami

and aspirations of George Washington and the Revolutionary Fathers for us as a people, may in God’s good time, become accomplished realities. At night, the Legion gave an hour’s concert beginning at 7 o’clock The two hour fireworks exhibition began

And so they went out and won a | at 8 o’clock. This was witnessed by great victory of democracy over auto. | th P largest crowd that attended any cracy. Their contribution to popular 1 -ingle feature of the program during government was of such a high order | the day. of excellence that England's Glad, j ■■ —-

stone was persuaded that it was the | greatest work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man.” In a word this democratic government of ours was and is “The great charity of God and Man." “But since that time there have been many asaults from within and from without upon that system of government and upon the ideals upon which it is founded. A great asault has only recently come to dismal fail ure We thought that after slavery ha d been put down and th P Union saved by those men, who were “the pillars of a people’s hope, the -enter of a world's desire” and after Span, ish tyrany had been driven from the new world that our republic wa* safe. But inthis day there came an omin. ous threat from another source Auto

LEGION WINS TWELVE INNING BALL GAME

Knocked out by Coffel and the catcher j was unable to stop a wild throw I

from second.

With two men out, the Dean’s pitch j er walked Welch in the last of the sev | enth. The catcher made an over- j throw to second when Welch attempt | ed to steal, -an d Welch gained third ; and then home on an overthrow to |

the catcher.

The Dean’s Specials failed to score I in the eigth W’elch, running for 1 Runyan, made another marker for j tne Legion in the last of the eighth. ; i Runyan was -'afe whe n the first base | I man missed a hot grounder. Welch ;

| took the sack for Runyan^ and scor. i Hot? I say it was: i ed when Paris clouted one over the j Sunday was a scorcher, Monday, too j right field fence, which was counted ■ :1| 'd today is not much better . I as a two base hit according to- the | The temperature reached the sea. | ru i es o« the diamond. I son’s high marks on Sunday and Mon Pullen Clemens and # Ingersol scor. [ <iay with an altitude of 94 degreesi ed for the Dea n Specials in the ninth ! Monday started o a% a scorcher, the | on a series of safe hits. Pullon made j thermometer registering 88 degrees at

Awarding the fox hound show prize by Captain H. H Talbott of Craw, fordsviile opened the Fourth of July program Monday at North Wood Park. Captain Talbott was intro, duced to the houn d owners by George S Harney secretary of the Green, castle Chamber of Commerce. Captain Talbott was born in Fayette county, Ky., and was raised near Lex ington. Throughout his life he has always been interested in fox hounds and i n fox hunting^ and still keeps hounds and participates in hunts al thqugh he is 81 years old. At the opening of the Civil war he enlisted and became a captain in the Union

army.

Captain Talbott was the sole judge in the fox hound shew H. awarded ] the prizes as follows: Best male <»f one yea, or o\e- Llovd Blue cf Clpv. erdale, first prize $3; Clarence Shill, ing s of Greeneastle second best $2. Best houn d of eithe* sex Walter Mas ten of Fillmore, $10 Best hound under one year—Walter Masten of Fillmore first prize $3: Roscoe Sutherlin of Rockville, second prize, $2 Best pair of hounds of any age—Lloyd Blue of CIoverdal e first prize $0; Wal ter Masten of Fillmore second prize

NINETY E.’-.IIT DEI.REES RF.fJlSr latZr Ban female of oue year or over

MERCURY HITS HIGH MARK -ON FOURTH OF JULY

TERED BY THE GOVERNMENT THERMOMETER—STARTS OFF WII H 88 DEGREES AT 7 IN THE MORNING—SUNDAY WAS HOT

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HUTCHESCON REUNION IS BEING HELD TODAY AT HOME OF PROF. K A- OGG*

Members of the Hutcheson family are holding a reunion at the home of Professor R A. Ogg on South Locust street. Mrs Ogg an dMrs. George N Logan of this city are daughters of the late Rev. F. A. Hutcheson who was a member of the Indiana Meth. odist Conference for fifty years. All of the members of the immediate family are present except Miss Ida Hut. cheson who was too ill to come. Those attending the reunion from out of of town are Mrs Grace Westfall and two sons Robert and Earl.ii Mrs. Samuel Cook and daughte^ Doris

Lpuise all of Bloomington, Mr and

cracy. the natural supreme enemy of Frank N Loga n and son "Bobbie” of democracy again rose an d wa* strug^ | Frankfort and Joseph S Logan of

gling this time for world supremacy, j Muncie

“But the spirit of war is not now upon us Martial mVsic does not now call me n to arms. But the duties and obligations of patriots are no more real and binding in tim e of war than they are in the more prosaic times of peace. It requires a certain kind of exalte d patriotism to cause men tp willingly offer themselves on their country’s altar in time of war. It requires a different but equally exalt ed form of patriotism to make mpn heroes in performing the humbler

tasks of ordinary life.

“May we as citizens never fail to show fhat we rightly appreciate and value our national traditions, our national ideals and our national insti. tutions May we never fail to place the welfacp of America above every other earthly consideration. We re. cognise much that is glorious in the civilization of the Greek, the Latin, the Slav, the Celt, the Teuton and the Anglo Saxon, but America Is to con. bine the virtues of them ail and heater and more glorious tfiari all of them ia to be this land* of liberty uni i T

MISS SUSIE HOPWOOD DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Miss Susie Hopwood, for many years proprietor of a bookstore here, and wh later resided on her farm northeast of town, died Sunday in California, according to messages re. ceivea here. The body will be brought here for burial and will arrive here next Sunday. The body will be accompanied from California by Miss Cora Shelton, a sister of Mrs R. L.

O’Hair

Miss Hopwood went to Long Beach California last winter to visit rela. fives. The first telegram received here stated that she was critically ill of typhoid fever. This telegram was closely followed by another telling of her death. A nephew, Will Cumback of Con. nersville a former Greeneastle Ix^r, is the only living relative Miss Hopwood was a daughter of th* late Dr. W. C. Hopwood.

GREENCASTLE POST NO. 58 AMERICAN LEGION DEFEAT. ED THE DEAN SPECIALS OF CRAWFORDSVILLE MONDAY AFTERNOON ON M KEEN FIELD BY A 5 TO 4 SCORE IN A TWELVE INNING TILT — JOH SUI LIVAN BROUGHT IN FIN AL MARKER ON HIT BY HANNA —COACH WAJKBR OF DE. PAUW PITCHED SIX INNINGS FOR LEGION

Twelve inningi of hard playing brought victory to the Greeneastle Post No 58 American Legion base, all team over the Dean Specials of Crawfordsville Monday afternoo n on McKeen field by a 5 to 4 score. Three runs in the first frame of the ninth by Pullon, Clemons and Inger. sol of the Dean Specials tied the score 4 to 4. Joe Sulivan, catcher for the Legion, ran i n the final count when Hanna hit a single to right field in the last frame of the twelfth Coach Walker of DePauw was the first batter for the Legion in the last half of the twelfth. He knocked a fly to thir d and was out. Sullivan came to bat and clouted out a two bag ger to deep right Paris was safe at first on an infield grounder. Sulli. van rested at third. Hanna hit a safe single to right field near the first base line Sullivan ran home an d th e Legion had won the game. Welch and Thomas of the Legion

made the first markers of the tilt in j\Sox

the last of the fifth inning A hot grounder left Welch safe at first He stole second. Thomas hit a hot grounder through short, and Welch scored An overthrow to, second by the catcher and a wild throw to third by the short stop allowed Thomas to run home from first. The score was two to nothing for the Legion. Neither side scored in the sixth. Both teams chalked up a mark«^ in the seventh Clemens made the first score for the Dean Specials when he run home in th e ftrst frame of the seventh Blue, who was substituted for Coach Walker in the box at th» first of the seventh, hit Clemens who took his base Clemens scored when thfe center fielder misse d a high fly

safe hit and scores on a clout by Ingersoll. Clemens mad e .first, and scored on a h ; t by Rutan. After steal, ing, Ingersoll ran home on a hit by Ramsey These three runs tied the score, 4 to 4. The Legion made the next score in the last of the twelfth which won the game fof them “Bill" Hanna, Legion second base, man, probably saved the game for his team when he made what was thought to be an imposible catch with one hand in the first of the eleventh inning. The hall was clouted out by Gardner of the Dea n Specials Coach Walker of the L"gion and Umpire Ed. Sering of Crawfordsville had a short dispute in the last of the el. eventh when the Tatter refused to call a “balk” on the Dean Special’s pit. cher, who is said to have thrown the ball to first base after starting to

pitch to the batter.

7 o’clock that morning.

Today at noon the temperature was

94 degrees.

Coach Fred M. Walker of DePauw pitche d a whale of a game for the Legion during the six innings he was in the box He struck out seven men and walked one Walker proved that he knew the game although he was somewhat out of form because of the lack of training. H« is a product of the big leagues After leaving the University of Chicago, he pitched fpr the New York Giants., the St. Louis Cardinals, the Cleveland Americans, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and for Pitts burjf and Brooklyn uf the Federal League. Last summer he was em. ployed as scout for the Bosti^i Red

This is the first time, so far as in known, that a director of athletics at DePauw ever participated in any lo. cal athletic contest. Near the close of the ball game, Coach Walker in. vited the men among the spectators to he his guest in th P DePauw swim, ming pool before dinner, and invited the women present to enjoy a swim in the P°ol from 7 until 8 o’clock Mon day night By his interest in local affair* an d his co.operation with the town people along with his friendly disposition. Coach Walker has al. -eady wo n a warm place in the hearts of Greeneastle and Putnam County

people-

Blue, Legion short stop who traded

MRS. ABRAHAM SMITH DIED THIS MORNING AT HER HOME IN MARION TP. Mrs. Margaret L Smith, 73 years old, wife of Abraham B. Smith, died at near 7 o’clock this morning in Marion township one an d one half mil es east of Fillmore Her death was caused by dropsy and heart trouble. Funeral services will be held Thurs. day in the Filmore Christian church. Beside th,> husband seven children survive. They are: Sirus A. Smith of Filmore, Mrs Ethel Walker of Dan. ville, Ernest R Smith of near Stilesville, Mrs Laura Johnson of near Putnamvilie, Ruhen C. Smith of near Cloverdale. Mrs. Davie Williamson of Filmore, and Mrs. Zora F- Storm of Filmore.

—H. Grimes of Cloverdale first prize $>: Harry Bond of Reelsville second

prize $2.

Maxine Duell of Hamrick Station won first and only prize awarded in the bread baking contest. She re. ceived $5,. Mrs. J. P. Allen Jr. and Mrs. William Pollard received first and second prizes respectively in the cake baking contest . The first prize was $5 and the second was $2 50 The women gave the prize money to the Chi! d Welfare Committee to be used in the Children’s Milk Fund for the Greeneastle schools. The bas e ball throwing contest and the potato peal ing contest were not held. The six paper balloons each bearing an order for $2 were not liberated. William Feld won first place in the pie eating contest for boys 14 years old or under. He was awarded th© $2 offered. Mutt Murphy won sec. ond in the contest and received $1 Mrs. Charles Goodman and Mrs W. M. Goldsberry tied for the $5 prize ofllered for the mother who would have the most children present at the band stand at 11:50 o’clock Monday morning. Each had seven children present. The program also offered 50 cents to each of the children. The women divide d the money.

Park Bryan driving his father’s new Dodge Touring car, and an Ov. erland machine driven by a farmer whol ives near Putnamvilie, were in colision at the Kinsey Tucker turn just east of town on the Washnigton street pike Sunday evening. The run ning board was torn off of the Bryan car and the front en d end of the other car were badly damaged, a bent axle being the worse damage. On Monday the Bryan car was further damaged when a car backed into it at the picnic grounds, badl^ bending a front fender. •

NO FIRES IN GRENCA9TLE ON FOURTH ACCORDING TO "AN ESTABLISHED CUSTOM” A safe and sane Fourth of July has een observed at Grencastl as far back as records go regarding fires.lt is commonly said fireme n throughout the country ar e exhausted after the Fourth because of the unusual num. 'r of runs made necsseary by firewiA.ii;, setting fire to buildings. But this has not been the case > n Grencastle, at least as far back as sent book of records goes. Monday 1917, which is as far back s the pre.

was no exception to

firemen made no runs throughout the day The nearest a fire has come recently on the Fourth was the even, ing of July 3. 1920 when an automo bile caught re and th e departmer was called out. Only a slight dam.

As the result of a fire which burn,

ed buildings nearby the Clinto n pow. \ aKe ref!U it e d

er house which supplied current to ' Greeneastle the oleal electric lights

were out for about thirty minutes Mon ! Charles Davis, age 7 year, who is day night The fire burne d the.wires visiting at the home of Mrs Salile leading from the Clinton plant. I McNeely was painfully hu-ned about Lights were given Greeneastle cus. f aoe Monday afternoon when

tomers as soon as the local could be put into operation

plant fi re cracker exploded in his hand. The eyelashes were burned o of his left eye and his nose and upper lip were

Mr and Mrs. Irwin Baney and son \ burned. No serious injury was suffered of Kentland were here the Fourth of *>y the eye. He picked up a fire July guesjs of Mr Bane/s parents \ cracker after he ha d lighted the fuse Mr. an dM Wr smllyBienaai d aa tw \ thinking it was not going to explode. Mr. and Mrs William Baney j The accident followed.

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