Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 August 1921 — Page 1
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VOLUME 14
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1921
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GIGANTIC ELECTRIC PLANT IS PLANNED GREENCASTLE WILL RE LINKED UP IN THE NEW SYSTEM W HICH IS NOW BEING ORGAN IZED—GIANT POWER PLANT TO BE BUILDED AT TERRE
HAUTE
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 12,—Ne. gotiations leading toward the under raking in Indiana of a gigantic ven. ture t which i n its forward looking economic aspects is almost unparaL lelled in Hoosier history, came to light today when articles of incor. poration for the Indiana Electric Cor poration, capitalized nominally $10,000, were filed in the office of the
secretary of state.
The corporation petitions the pub
lie service commission for authority a! reason why Harry Moore of Indi. to consolidate about the Merchants ! anapolis can n ot serve at the same Heat and Light Company of Indiana? time two concurrent sentences im_ olis and what is said to be aiproiCL | P 036 ' 1 him for liquoj law viola.!
mately $18,250 000 worth of public * utility properties. The properties
plant the Grencastle.Indiana system and the Frankfort.Kokomo.Marion system directly from the Vigo coun. ty plant, and also the two systems by a line from Kokomo to Indianapolis, which line would complete the tri. angle by connecting the diverging ends radiating from the Vigo county j plant. The entire field would be in. ter.connected and a multitude of ci. ties, towns and rural communities could be served^ Especial attention would be centered o n developing the rural business along the transmis. sion lines. More than ninety towns | woulj be put on the system and coun. ties in addition to those named for inclusion in the system. Among them would be Marion, Grant, Cass How. ard and Clinton. It is not contem. plated toe onnect the Porter and Elk. hart counties fields until some time
i later.
NM Listen TO This mates-we hap The lowest spring chicken FOR DINNER WITH FRESH VECET^PLES OUT OP>THE GAPPEN *NP THE-
ANALYSIS MADE OF MANURES
CONFESS
Dry Material Contains Large Amount of Nitrogen, Phosphorus and
Potassium.
SAYS SENTENCES MAY BE SERVED SAME TIME
Without passing on more than the strictly legal phase of the situation the state legal department in an opin ion to Ralph Howard, acting super, intendent of the Indiana State Farm Wednesday said that there is no leg.
tions.
are held by seven public service cor porations of varied ownership and serving a territory of approximately 900,000 population in a great num.
her of cities, towns and
One sentence was imposed on Moore by the Indianapolis city court lest July. Moore appealed. In the interim another sentence was impos. : ert on him by the Putnam circuit
mra 1S -j court and the two sentences were
tricts in fourteen counties of the somewhat concurrent Moore with. 8tate . i drew his anneal to th" Marion crim. Ihe undertaking is backed by the ina] pourt when thf Putnanl cil ,. ui t Joseph H. Brewer interests. It was court , pntencprt him aml was taken Brewer who. with associated capital. t tp thp farm Both , PnterrPe were ists took over in 1914 the Merchants for ninetv dayg The fine? werfi e3ch
Heat and Light Company from a num j^jqq her of local citizens. Mr. Brewer
now is president of the Americaff ^ " as explained at the state office Public Utilities, Grand Rapids Mich. that the Indianapolis sentence was
The average of analysis of manures from cattle, horses and mixed, shows that a ton of dry manure contains 8 s pounds of nitrogen, 7.(1 phosphorus and 80.4 pounds of potassium. A ton of fresh farm manure consists of nhout three-fourths water but it contains ten pounds of nitrogen, two
j pounds of phosphorus
pounds of potpssiuro
and eight
TO I.UlOIiP
! JOHN ALTMAN, A DUGGER RES! DENI ADMITS PARTI IP.»T. IV, IN REELSVILLE HOLD.! . —ARRESTED BY BRAZIL OFFI. CERS
COOWING WINTER
WHEAT IN NORTH - •
Hardier Varieties Introduced Thai Give Better Yields
and Mature Earlier.
jEntR urough! hesistmh
INDICTS PAIR IN KENNEDT DEATH
and js'assnciated with a number of eastern millionaires who have finan. ced several large public utility pro.
jects, it is said.
. Super. Power house Planned Eventually it is'intended to estab
lish a great super.oou'a-n-n^e on kae Wabash river in Vigo county near Terre Haute at an expenditure of sev eral millions of dollars an,j to connect with it a vast system of electric trans mission lines which shall cover many parts of the state and deliver elec, trie current generated i n the heart of the Hoosier coal field. The big,plant is to have a capacity of 30,000 kilo,
watt units and its principal
mission system i 4 to carry 180,000
imposed on Paul Maple an,| that the Putnam sentence was imposed on Harry Moore. When the sentences were executed it was discovered that Moore and Maple were one and the same. I Maple, giving his address as 702 North Uinois street was arrested on July 0 with Frank Lentz, also of the North Ilinois stret address, when ; Lieutenant Woollen found about five gallons of whiskey in their possession \ Maple and Lentz were convicted on “blind tiger” charges and were fined j
GRAND JURY RETURN TRUE BILLS AGAINST MRS. OBEN. CHAIN AND BURCH LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 11.— Mrs. Madlynne Obenchain of Los. Angeles and Arthur C. Burch of Evanston, 111., ex.students of North western university, were indicted late today for the murder of Belton Ken.
nedy.
Mrs Obenchain. who was with Ken nedy last Friday .night when he re. ceived the shotgun charge that tore
Mis. R. L. Hussey and daughter. Mrs. Paul Usery and husband df Princeto n will arrive in Gieencastle Saturday for a week’s visit with Mr. ami Mrs. Jacob E. McCurry and dau. j ghter, Mary Ella McCurry. Mrs. M McCurry is a daughter of Mrs. Hus
sey anj a sister of Mrs. Usary.
James Cannon will leave Sunday for Kcldron. South Dakota where h.will join his wife who has been visit ing her mother Mrs. James Wright, there for the last month. After a | short stay in Keldron, they will go ■ to their ranch near Reed Point, Mon, ! to spend a short time. They will 1
probably be gone a month.
LOCAL MEN ARRESTED ATOUINCY FIVE GIVING HOME AS GREEN. CASTLE AND ONE CLOVER. DALE MAN ARE TAKEN IN RAID AGAINST GAMBLING AT QUINCY PICNIC THURSDAYTRIAL BEFORE JUSTICE TO.
DAY
Chaigeo with gambling, Cecil El.
Lway "the'hack "of his head, had been ' ' ' • nh* in the horn* W F Goddard.
Funeral
Coombs of
services Lena will
for George be held at 10
at Lena Elder L H. Athe v will con duct the services Inte-ment will be
was arresren at L,a* vt-ga^, „ii . • Sunday, when returning home fromj maf I e ‘n fl ie ' aleutta cemetery.
Mary Frances Brown, infant daugi
held as a material witness. Burch waij arrested at Las Vegas, Nev., on
Los Angeles response to
He had come here in request by Mrs* Oben
$100 and costs and sentenced to the [ chain,
Indiana State farm for thirty days. ; The indictments were returned be. trans. 1 Lentz went to the farm and Maple fore Judge Sidney Reeves of the Su. appealed his case After Maple ^ perior court who had been requested
volts over approximately 300 miles ! alias Moore was arrested and con. of wire The location o n the river i victed in Putnam county he with, will be for the purpose of having ( I rew the appeal from the citv court easily available a great water supply decision and aske d to he permitted to
for the condensers for the enormous turbine engines which shall drive the
generators. Present plants operated by the merging companies are to be in most instances, it was said, kept as auxilliary or ready to serve sta. tions, . Corporations to Be Merged The merging corporations include the following: The Merchant’s Com. pany, Indiana; Indiana Railways and Light Company, , Kokomo; Wabash Valley Electric Company, Clinton; Putnam Electric Company, Greencas. tie and Cloverdale; Cayuga Electric Company; Valparaiso Lighting fom pany and Elkhart Gas and Fuel Com
pany, •
The first part of the unifying ,of the systems is intended to be accom plished by the construction of con. necting transmission lines. A ,con_ nection is to be made between the (’lay City, Jasonville.Farmersburg. Sullivan system, and the system in. eluding, Cloverdale, Greencastle, Clinton, Dana and Cayuga by build, ing a line from Cloverdale to Clay City Then the combined systems are to be connected with the Indiana polisjHendrick county system by building a line hetwee n Greencastle and Danville. Roachdale and Bain, bridge are to be connected with the Ithree combined systems by building le line from Bainbridge to Green. ■ castle This work will connect scores I of cities, towns and rural commun. I (ties i n Hendricks, Putnam Vermil. jlion, Parke, Sullivan, Greene and Clay
■counties.
Building or Power House I The next big step will come when ■the great central power house is ■ built in Vigo county. From it will ■run a triangle of transmission lines Iconnerting with the Vigo county
I serve the two sentences concurrently Moore is one of the men arrested by Sheriff Sears on one of his “Booze
Runner Raids.”
by the gran,] jury to remain at the Hall of Records to receive a report
after his usual court hours.
Reeves remanded the prisoners to the county jail to be arraigned Monday.
Search For Shotgun
Lester Leonard anu Shurd Cummings giving Greencastle as their home, and.Ehenezer Quinnette, giving Clov erdale as his home, were arersted by | special constables at the Quincy Pic
nic Thursday.
I The officers’ allege that the men | were shootig craps. Shurd Cum.
terment will be made Saturday after. m|nKS al , 0 of G - een castle, was char noon in Forest Hill cemetery. j KP(1 with ^legally having liquor in
his possession
ter of Mr and Mrs Clarence Brown die,] at 3:40 o’clock Friday morning. She was horn Thursday night In
Better Division of Labor Permits Fall Seeding and Earlier Harvesting— Careful Selection of Seed Will
Aid Yield.
(Prepared by the United States Department of AKrtculture.) Since the introduction of the hardy varieties of wheat from southeastern ,Europe there has been a decttled northward movement of the winter-wheat rea. This movement lias been rupvI In recent years. The reason., theretor are the generally large yields of winter wheat due. first, to Its earlier maturity, thus enabling it to escape hull, hot winds and disease; second, to its greater drought resistance; and third, to (lie better division of labor, which It allows through fall seeding and ear-
lier harvesting.
The profitable production of wheat In the eastern part of the United States depends to a considerable extent on ttie choice of the best-adapted varieties. In general, the soft red winter wheats are grown, although soft white winter wheats are popular in the northeastern United States, especially In New York and Pennsylvania. In the extreme western portion of the eastern area, which Is llfnited on the west approximately by the line of 1 30 Inches of rainfall, hard red winter j | wheats of the Turkey type are grown. Along the line of 30 Inches rainfall I there Is a transition zone in which hard and soft red winter wheats suc-
ceed about equally well.
Better Varieties for Many Farms. Many farmers are doubtless growing poorer varieties of wheat than they might grow if they knew exactly what was adapted to their localities and i farms. The United State* Department of Agriculture Inis Just Issued Farm
Because of rain, only a short con
Ul 7 ! ebrt was give n Thursday evening by
the American Legion Bat d of Green castle* Quite a (towii of Green: a-
, . . l. , people heard the concert despite Search for the shotgun with whtch | the dampnes ,
in oowl lx it? qc L-illrt.i nrvn H n
LLOYD GEORGE QUITS COUNCIL OF ALLIES AS BREACH WIDENS
PARIS, Aug. 11,—With a tense sit uation, exceeding the phases of a deadlock, developing between the British and French premiers over the division of Silesia, as proposed by experts the meeting of the allied supreme council was disrupted sud. denly late today by withdrawal of David Lloyd George, British prime
minister.
Lloyd George’s actio n followej ,de livery by airplane from London of the Irish republican reply to the re. cent proposals made by England for a basis on which to conduct negotia. tions looking toward bringing about peace in Ireland and immediately in. timation was made in French diplo. matic quarters that a grave crisis had developed i n the Irish situation. Later developements tended how. ever, to discredit this theory to large degree and to intensify the growing gravity ,of the differences hetween England and France on the other, over division of Silesia.
it is said Kennedy was killed ®ontin ued today Failure to find the wea. pon was described by investigators as the “only weak point of the case,” While the g-and jury was hearing evidence and evolving the indict, ments Ralph Obenchain, who gave her up that she might marry Ken. nedy, sent word that he was pushing to her assistance Late today she had telegraphed to him to come her side. He and Burch both court. | Madalynne while all three attended
| Northwestern university.
Burch the son of the Rev, W. A. Burch, a professor at Northwestern, also is a divorcee his ex.wife, who is a daughter of Bishop W A. Quayle of St, Louis having sued for divorce in Kansas City a year ago.
Tells of .Seeing Two Men
Kennedy was killed as he stood on the steps of his cottage in Beverly Glen, where he had gone .with Mrs, Obenchain, to search for a lucky pen. ny. Mrs, Obenchain said she was at the head of the steps and saw two men, who ,she said , spoke with a strong foreign accent flee i n an auto
mobile after the shooting.
Mrs Obenchain ran hysterically along the road leading from the house and excitedly told two passing men that Mr. Kennedy had been shot. After examining the body, they took her to the Beverly Hills police, where she first related her story of the ^wo
foreigners.
Mr, and M rs . Virgil Grimes enter.
The me n were taken to Spencer and spent the night in Jail, This morning they- were taken before a jus tiec of peace in Spencer for trial. All
plead guilty.
Professor H B. Longdon left Fri.
tained at Five Hundred Thursday day Bay View, Michigan
where
Ruth Meyers is spending the week end in Chicago and Gary
Mrs, J. F Albin who has been vis. iting her brother, E R Hamrick and family left Friday for her home in Geneva, III.
avening in their home on east Semin ary street. Mrs Edna Loring and daughter, Ann, have returned to their home in Kalamazoo Mich after visiting nine weeks in Greencastle with her par. etns Dr. and Mrs. G W Bence. Mr, and Mrs. Raymond Hirt of near Harmony were in Greencastle Friday on business. They report that it was necessary to shove their auto bile out of mud holes three times be tween Harmony and Greencastle A good crowd attended the dance Thursday evening in the American Le gio n hall The Legion will give an. other dance' in their hall Saturday
evening
Paul Jackso n was Friday on business. Mrs Cora O’Brien is visiting friends in
in Indianapolis
of Indianapolis Grencastle.
Dr T. A Sigler was Friday on business.
In Plainfield
HOG RECEIPTS, fi.000: PRICES jr* CENTS LOWER Indianapolis receipts—Hogs 6,000; caetle, 500; calves 700; sheep and lambs 400 Hog prices were generallq 25 cents lower at the openin# of the local livestock market today. Most sales ac cording to weight were at $19 to $11.
will join his wife, daughter in law and grandson who have been spend, ing the last few weeks there Mrs. Grafton Longdon an,j so n will return to Greeicastle the first of next week.
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A Premier touring car belonging to and drive n by J, T Speer of Brazil and the Ford service roadster belong ing to the Moffett & Dobbs garage and driven by D. O Moffett collided Friday morning at Washington and Indiana streets. Only slightly bent
fenders was the result
Harvesting Wheat.
ers' Bulletin UtW, Varieties of Winter Wheat, Adapted to the Eastern United States, which charts localities in which various types of wheat can he grown to advantage, and lists the varieties adapted to each particular
locality.
The bulletin suggests that there is a large local demand in New England for whqat as a poultry or stock feed, and it should not be difficult for several fanners in almost every neighborhood to sell all the wheat they etui raise at a good price to their neighbora. Winter wheat will doubtless produce better average yields, where It can he grown, than spring wheat, if proper cultural methods and suit-
able varieties are used. Improve Wheat Yield.
Wheat can lie Improved In yield and | m 'other desirable characteristics by
Crawfontsville visiting Miss Tinsley’s tl , p selection of good heads or £ood parents. Mr, anj Mrs. G, W\ Tins, plants from the general field and growley. , ing (tie seed from each individual head
__ ( or plant in separate rows. Continued Ro v Dixon of Clinton Falls was in !lele « tlon w111 r ’‘ s " ,, ln po,wt " ntl > lm -
proved seed. Another met hod of purl-
Ruth Ralston and Irene Kelley, summer students at DePauw left Fri day for Indianapolis where they will spend the week end at the home of ex.governor Samuel M. Ralston. Miss Ralston is a daughter of the ex. Governor She attended Purdue
University last-year.
BRAZIL, Ind , Aug 11—John Alt. man age forty ,a coal.miner of Dug. ger was arrested today near the
railroad station, at by John J. Jones, mayor
\ and Richard Alexander, a policeman i of Brazil, charged with being one of two men who held up tvvo taxicab drivers of Terre Haute and a party 1 of Brazil persoVis near Reelsville a. j bout 10 o’clock last night. After rigid questioning Altman is i said to have confessed, admitting a part in the holdup, .but declaring he 1 did not know his partner. The po. lice have a good description of the other man and .believe they will have him under arrest before night.
Hired a Taxicab
! The two men hired Omar Pence a taxi driver at Terre Haute to dsive them to Cloverdale paying $15 fa-e in advance. . Pence was accompaniec. by George Vaught, another taxicab driver When a short distance east of Harmony one of the highwaymen obtained Pence’s revolver which was lying o n the fino" of the car an,| ord. ■red the driver to stop. The two men at the point of a revolver then held the two drivers up, ohtaming the money paid Pence as fare and a small amount of change. They ordered the drivers to run down the road and fired three shots to fi ighte,, them. The taxicab men 1 came to Brazil and notified the po.
: lice
The highwaymen then took charge , of the automobile ami drove east on i the National road to the second grade crossing of ;he Pennsylvania rail. I road, Thev 'ailed to make a short i turn and the car rolle,] over an em. bankment, landing \i a corn field. Abandoning the machine the men stood near the crossing where they flagged two •1'itomobiles, one oc. cup er. by George Pittaway, a rail, road engineer of Brazil and his fam ily, and another by Jack Pittaway, his wife and child also of B azil tnd ordered them to stop. The lar. ger of the two highwaymen display,
ed revolver.
Valuables Are Saved Pittaway exclaimed that his brakes would not work, and the highwaymen ordered him to back down the hill, which he did . This gave members of the party time to hide their watches, rings, pocket, bunks and other valuables and when they were lined up and searched the highwaymen obtaine,] only 6 cents. Mr Pittaway drove to Harmony and notified .William Wallace, county
sheriff.
Searching parties led by Putnam county authorities searched for the highwaymen all night, Altma n being arrested after a/ailroad section crew reported that he had been seen walk ing towar d Brazil. Altman said his partner claimed to be an agent of an automobile detective agency ami that he sought permisison to carry a revolver from the Terre Haute po. lice department, yesteniay, the r*. quest being refused ,
THOMAS FAMILY REUNION WILL BE HELD AUGUST 24
The Thomas family reunion will be held Wednesday, August 24 in the grove, 6 miles northwest of Green, castle belonging to William Thomas.
Miss Jeanette Tinsley and Smith will spend the week
Melvin i end in '
Greencastle Friday on business Ott Thomas of Morton was in Grencastle Friday on business Mr.
fylng a variety uud Inereustng the yield Is what may be callisl muss selection. This consists simply In pick
, Thomas announces that he will have | ing out gisnl heads from the field at ' a sale of Big Type Poland China hogs I large, sowing the selected seed In a September 22 at his home near Mor. ( *mull «“'* reselecting It the next ton. He has one of the finest droves l ha, ? , ** st ,l,ne - Th ' 1 bulu ‘ tin "*“* be
of hogs in the county.
time. The bulletin bad on application.
John Cannon and Judge James P. Hughes have returned from Colorado Mrs. Hughes and Mrs Cannon stop, ped off at Gary, Indiana, for a short visit with Mr, and Mrs Harry Call be fore returning home. Mr. and Mrs Harry Moore and dau ghters left today for an auto trip to Chicago Milwaukee and northern W’is consin. They expert to be gone for two weeks Mr and M*s. Theodore Crawley will spend the week end in Indianhp. olis. Fred Thomas is in Grencastle for a few days on business