Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 18 April 1928 — Page 4
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PADDLES ACROSS ORATORICAL WHEAT CROP CREEK TO ESCAPE ZONE CONTEST OF INDIANA FROM OFFICERS FRIDAY,APRIL2# 40%NORMAL • BRINY" COOMBS ESCAPES AR- THREE DISTRICT WINNERS TO INSPECTION TRIP BY FARM BUR-
REST HERE BY JUMPING INTO RIVER AT CRAWFORDSV1LIE
“Briny” Coombs, notorious local |polir»> eharncter, who lias displayed Ian i-lusve tal*»nt in numerous jail breaks ami escapes In recent years, beat police to it by a few seconds on Monday night after they had received a tip the fugitive was fishing in
COMPETE AT INDIANAPOLISSTATE CONTEST AT CRAWFORDSV1LLE NEXT TUESDAY
EAU OFFICIALS SHOWS MANY FIELDS IN STATE ABANDONED OR PLANTED TO OTHER CROPS
Winners from the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh congressional districts in the state-wide oratorical contest on “The Constitution," sponsored by the Indiana State Bar Association, will meet in Indianapolis Friday to determine
Sugar creek, north of the slaughter I the winner of the third zone, who will
house and had gone to the scene to arrest him. “Briny’’ seeing the police approach jumped into the river and swam to the opposite bank, making good his escape. He was seen on west Wabash avenue several weeks ago by police i who were making their night rounds j but on that occasion he also managed to escape. He has been sought since I escaping from the penal farm several months ago. Capt. Fred Grimes and Patrolman Uiederstedt were unable to find I Coombs Monday night after his swim across the river.—Craw lordsvHie Review.
FO-LAND AUCTION—SUBURBAN HOME
COMMERCIAL CONTEST AT MCNCIE APRIL 28
MUNCIE, Ind., April 17—Plans for the seventh annual state high school commercial contest which will be held
„ , , at Ball Teachers college, April 28, are
FRIDAY. APRIL 20. 2 o’clock. Will sell without reserve, first house east | rapidly m>arinK colT1 pi e tion. One hunof the city limits Brazil. Indiana on south side of state road 40—3y 2 acres. ( | m j an() gixty . five sc hools have enimi'roved with a 6 room bungalow on cement block foundation. Front and| tpm | the oon { es t ( vvhich is directed rear porches. Large any rooms with nicely finished wood work. Ample j, iy p rof ^ark E. Studebaker, head
wardrobe space. Cement walks, shade, shrubbery, flowers, fruit and berries. Easy walking distance to main part of city. Bus and interurban service. Invest in property in the thriving and growing city of Brazil. Liberal terms.
Immediate possession. SMANTHA LASSELL. Owner.
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he entered in the state finals Tuesday April 24. Harold Lewis, a student at Shortridge high school, will represent the Seventh district, Haiold G. Kepler of Greenfield will represent the Sixth and Miss Helen Brown of Newport, Vermillion county, will represent the Fifth district. The six zone winners will be determined by Friday and all will compete in the state contests at Crawfordsville next Tuesday. Each of the six \vill he awarded cash prizes ranging from $250 for first place to $15 for
sixth.
Winners in the essay contest on the same subject, sponsored by the association, will also he announced at the Crawfordsville meeting. CHILI) SEES FATHER K 11,1. MOTHER, SELF
of the department of commerce. During the last seven years this event has grown from a gathering of local and neighboring schools into a organ-1 ized system of district eliminations i
and a state final.
District elimination contests will lx* held at the various centers next | Saturday. The district centers this | year will be at the high schools in j
STERLING, 111., April 17.—(INS) —In the presence of his 4-year-old daughter, John Taylor, :!0 years old, in an alleged fit of jealous rage, shot and instantly killed his wife in their home here today and then shot himself. He died as neighbors, summoned I by the screams of the girl, broke into I
the house.
An inspection trip was made recently by officers of the (entra! States Soft Wheat Growers Association, Indianapolis, through many counties in the west and south portions of Indiana, to ascertain the condition of the growing wheat crop. B. B. Benner, secretary-treasurer, and M. Record, wheat salesman, made | the trip. They motored from Indian- : apolis to Evansville through Terre | Haute, Sullivan, Vincennes and ! Princeton, returning by way of Boonville, Jasper, Salem, Scottsburg, Madi j son, North Vernon, Columbus and | Franklin. Every wheat field was! counted along the route, a total of | (120. Of this number, 228 were either | abandoned of sown to oats or con- | tained only slight evidence of being | wheat fields; 111 fields contained what might he considered a good crop for this year; 80 fields were classed as 75 per cent good; 118 as 50 per cent, and 80 as 25 per cent. The latter 80 fields are still subject to further abandonment. Should none of the 25 per cent fields be abandoned, the survey shows 4().. , 5 per cent of a normal crop. The trip covered a part of the best wheat areas of Indiana.
CHANGE OF TIME
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SUNDAY APRIL 22nd
Bloomington, Clinton, Eaton, French
CEMENT PLANT GIVEN CONTRACT BY COMMISSION
COMMENCEMENT AT BAINBRIDGE ON THURSDAY
MRS. GRACE SLOAN OVERTON TO ADDRESS GRADUATES OF HIGH SCHOOL —PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED
Lick, Fort Wayne, Goshen, Kokomo, j
Lafayette, Lebanon, Madison Marion, j Richmond. Rochester, Shelbyville, Val L0N£ STAR COMPANY OF LIME-
BRAZIL DIVISION
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paraiso and Vincennes.
To cover the majority of the courses taught in high school, the con test has been divided into four divisions; penmanship, bookkeeping,
shorthand ami typewriting.
DALE WILL FURNISH 350.000 BARRELS AT PRICE OF $2 A BARREL—TO BE USED BY HIGH WAY BODY
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Friday, April 20, is Arbor Day, as procaimed by the Government of In-
diana.
Richard Either, director of this state’s conservation department, says the day is one of unusual ignificance and provides opportunity for all citizens to take- a wore personal interest in forest production so needed in our
economic life.
The purpose of Arbor Day, says
Mr. Liebor, as conceived by its found- would live
ers, was to inculcate in youth u love and knowledge to trees. Like youth. Arbor Day looks primarily to the future. As a people without children would be hopeless, so a country without young trees, will become desolate. While Arbor Day suggests the beauty and gladness of the earth’s awakening from winter’s long sleep, as revealed in trees and shrubs, and flowers, it also teaches man’s serious dependence on trees and the civic duty of preserving their lienotits in the
long years to come.
Arbor Day also suggests thoughtful consideration of our country’s need of trees, which will become more serious within a generation, and urgently calls the children and youth of our schools to the patriotic service of planting, protecting and preserving trees. It is puerile to think otherwise than that our constant loss of trees can be redeemed only by a continuous renewing of our forest and shade trees. Arbor Day suggests that this economic need can receive great stimulus through the public schools. jit is suggested that the schools arrange 1 in advance a program for tha* day, decide upon the number and position of trees to be planted. It Is not necessary to confine Arbor Day plant mg to the school grounds. In some instances space on the school premises is not available. However, there are other places in need of trees aDout churches, cemeteries, along roadsides and especially roadsides paralleling streams, where they are ever a source of beauty and comfoit. In cities it is suggested they Ice planted along streets, about churc hes, in parks and in areas contiguous to public buildings, bearing in mind to set them
hac k so as not to interfere ac grow taller, with utility wire
poles.
While for many years the planting of trees was considered only from cultural standpoint, today such work lias great economic value in view of the depleted timber stocks of the nation, and particularly Indiana, whose once great hardwood forest areas were the pride of the country and whose citizens today import the
bulk of lumber used.
The commercial aspect looms big I when one considers each of our 000,OIK) school children planting one tree | on Arbor Day, for if all these trees
to maturity, the lumber
from them would in later years possess a market value in excess of >00,000. Also during the life of each tree it would constantly be a source of comfort and benefit to man.
VALUATION OF WATER PLANTS ARE REDUCED
OTTAWA, 111., April 17.—(INS)— Judge Joe A. Davis in the LaSalle County court overruled a motion and petition to admit Harry Hill, 22 years old, of Streator, 111., to hail pending his retrial for murder here April 23. The motion was asked by Hill’s attorney, who told the court he believed his conferences with his client were being overheard by state’s officers through the aid of a dictaphone installed in the jail.
FORMER I’l’TNAM MAN DEAD AT BRAZIL HOME
(Brazil Times) John W. Grable, a veteran coal miner died at an early hour this morn ing at the home of his son, J. M. Grable, 1120 west National avenue, after about two weeks suffering of kidney trouble and other complications. Mr. Grable was liorn in Putnam county. July H5th, 1850 and at the time of his death was 77 years, nine months, and 11 days of age.
Contracts for 1.250,000 barrels of cement, which will cost the state approximately $2,500,000 were awarded Tuesday by the state highway com mission to five Indiana companies. The average net price delivered at various road projects will be- about $2 a barrel, according to John D. Wil liams, director. This is the same price that was paid last year. The contract was let yesterday when Jesse E. Murden of Peru, who succeeded Charles W. Zelgler of Attica, took his place on the board. Although Mr. Zeigler was chairman of the commission, the body will take no steps to select a new chairman until the first meeting in May it was announced. Firms which were given cement contracts and amount of the contracts are; Universal Portland Cement Company, Buffington. 500,000 barrels: Lone Star Cement Company. LJmedale, 350,000 barrels; Lehigh Portland Cement Company, Mitchell, 17 0,000 barrels; Louisville Cement Company, Speeds 150,000 barrels and the Wabash Cement Company of Stroll, 80,000 barrels.
Commencement exercises of Rainbridge high school will be held Thurs- I day evening. April 19, in the gymna- I slum, beginning at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Grace Sloan Overton of Sioux 1 City, Iowa, will deliver the address. I Mrs. Overton is one of the best and j most widely known young people's leaders in the United States. She is a teacher in the Geneva and Chicago Training Schools and has been a teacher in Chicago University. She is also a writer of religious pageants. Mrs. Overton has a very charming personality and makes friends every where she goes. Following is the program: Music—Orchestra. Processional. Invocation—Mr. York. Address—Mrs. Overton. Presentation of Diplomas—Mr. Ver million. Music—Orchestra. Benediction—Mr. York.
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ALTAIC VESSELS ARE STOLEN FORM CHURCH
WALKER GIVES TABLE MEMORIAE
NORTH VERNON. Ind., April 17. —Police here are .searching for clews
| to the identity of burglars who en-
I tered St. Mary’s Catholic Church last
GREENCASTLE. VINCENNES AND n 'k ,ht and stole gold-plated altar vesELWOOD COMPANIES AFFECTED i n t ' lu<lin K chalice and plate. The
intruders entered the church through a window which they pried open. Poliee of surrounding cities have been notified to watch for the appearance of the articles at pawn shops.
BY ACTION OF STATE BOARD
OF TAX COMMISSIONERS
A leiluction in the valuation of the Oreencastle Water Works Company and the Vincennes Water Supply Com puny was made Tuesday by the state board of tax commissioners. No change was made in the Liwoml Wa-
ter Company.
All three of the above concerns are ow ne<l by the same group and all have petitions before the public service commission for increase in rates. Hearings have been held in the various cities but the commission as yet has handed down no decisions. Valuations of the plants set Tiles day were; Vincennes Water Supply Company, $427.500;last year $381,000; Oreencastle Water Works Company, $152,000 last year $160,000; Elwood Water Company, $131,100,
no change.
YESTERDAY’S RESULTS
American Association St. Paul - Indianapolis (wetgrounds). Columbus, 4; Kansas City, 3 ( innings). Milwaukee, 9; Toledo, 7. Minneapolis-Louisville (rain), American League Cleveland, 6; Detroit, 4. Chicago, 4; St. Louis, 2. Nbw York-Boston (cold). Washington-Philadelphia (rain). National I/eagur Chicago, 3; St. Louis, 2. Pittsburgh-Cincinnati (rain). Philadelphia-New York (cold). Boston-Brooklyn (cold).
DePauw University has recently re .ceived a table memorial, dedicated to Prof. Joseph Carhart, who was at one time professor of oratory and rhetoric in the College of Liberal Arts. Guy M. Walker, graduate with the class of 1890, is the donor of the memorial. The inscription on the tablet reads as follows: "To Professor Joseph Carhart, professor of rhetoric, oratory and life at DePauw University, 1884-1890. This memorial is raised by his grateful pupils. ‘The deed returns to the doer.’ ‘The wheel has turned full circles, I am here.’ ” 'Mr. Walker, who is a resident of New York City at present, is a son, a husband, and a father of DePauw graduates. After receiving his Master of Arts degree in 1893 he took the examination for the bar in the state of New York. He was soon admitted and has been practicing law since thai time. Besides being a lawyer he is a reorganization expert and a lecturer at Cornell University and other schools. Mr. Walker is the founder of The Horizon lectures in political Economy at DePauw University and is also the donor of the Walker cup for the all-round student of the school.
STOP 36 Several from here attended the sale at Mrs. Elizabeth Hutcheson’s farm Friday afternoon. Miss Myrtle Landers attended the funeral of a cousin, Miss Mildred Frost last Wednesday afternoon. Froy Conly and family have moved near Stop 35. Mrs. Luther Girton was in Brazil Monday. Ross Hutcheson was in Terre Haute Sunday. :Mrs. Lucy Hutcheson, Mrs. Creta Boone and Mrs. Joseph Hutcheson were in Grecncustle Wednesday. Andrew Appell made a business trip to Indianapolis Thursday. George Morland made a business trip to Terre Haute Friday. Mrs. Gertrude Herron of Brazil and Mrs. Clara Hutcheson attended a family dinner with Mr. East, an uncle in south Washington township. J. W. Gose of Brazil spent the week end with Joseph Hutcheson. Mrs. W’ill Boone and Mr. and Mrs. Oral Hutcheson spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. James Hutcheson. Tom Nelson was in Brazil Wednesday.
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100 POUND METEOR GIVES THRILL TO POPULATION or 1 ILL4GB in W. VA. By International News Service ROWLESBURG, W. Va.—Crowds of visitors are filling the home of Mrs Meyers to see a large meteorite which fell near here, lighting up the entire countryside and remaining hot for several hours. Arley Meyers, watchman at the railroad crossing near which tha celestial wanderer fell, carried it home, when cool enough to handle. It is shaped like a bullet, 72 inches in circumference, 12 inches long, weight 100 pounds and is light grayin color. Some parts resemble coke while streaks of bright metal appear here and there.
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