Greencastle Herald, Greencastle, Putnam County, 19 November 1928 — Page 3
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Orris Lush spent Sunday at Paris, 111. Joe McCord of Evansville visited friends in Greencastle Sunday. Charles Daggy is reported seriously ill at his home north of town on State Road 43. .Mi. - Carol Shoultz, County nurse, visited her parents at Anderson, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Clay Phillips* of Terre Haute visited Mr. and Mrs. 0. F. Lakin and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Phillips Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. William Hays and Mr. and Mrs. August Beeman of Indianapolis were the guests of Mr. and rs. Jacob Eitel Sunday. Martin Higgins, coal hauler for A. J. Duff, was X-rayed at the County Hospital Monday morning, for an injury to his left ankle. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Ritter and son Wayne of Indianapolis were guests on the DePauw Campus Sunday. Mr. Ritter is a trustee of DePauw.
OFFICE ENTERED; NOTHING TAKEN
He Went Down With His Ship
The office of True & Hixon, lumber dealers, on north College avenue, was entered Sunday night and the drawer? ransacked. A checkup by em ployes Monday revealed that nothing was missing. According to Marshal Paul Grimes a skeleton key was used ti unlock the office door.
PERRY WESLEY IS AUTHOR OF A NEW BOOK OF POETRY
T. Perry Wesley, a former local | boy, is the author of “Pot Shots at Life,” a new book of poetry which will be published by the Meuller Pi ess late this month. Wesley is taking a specialized course in critical writing and reviewing in Michigan University, and working on a group of Western stories at present.
DAMAGE SUIT DISMISSED
Riuce Hale, who has seriously in-1 jural when he fell from a scaffold at The damage suit of John J. Gamthe cement plant, Friday afternoon, bold of Coatesville against the Terre is .'lightly improved at the County Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern TracHospital. ! tion Co., filed in the Putnam Circuit
court, was dismissed at cost of the j defendant Monday. Gambold sough!
BENNY NAMED S. S. HEAD
Phi Omega Pi Dance Saturday
Phi Omega Pi sorority entertained Saturday evening at an informal “balloon party.” Thirty couples were present and danced to music furnished by “Cap” Sheperd’s Serenaders
from Indiana University.
The house was decorated with balloons, crepe paper, and colored lights. | Lollypopps, sandwiches and punch j were served from gay booths during
George Wilson, inmate of the Indiana State Farm, was X-rayed at the County Hospital Monday morning. He was found to have a fractur-
ed right shoulder.
Mrs. Allen Bain and son Keith, Mis Ruby Bain, Mrs. Oscar O’Hati and Mrs Webb Evans spent Thursday witn Mrs. Charles Rutter at Rockville. Mrs. Rutter was formerly Mi - Liliian O’Hair of Brick Chapel. Prof. L. E. Mitchell spoke Sunday morning at Stilesville and Sunday af ternoon at Cloverdale, at the annual county Sunday School convention. Mrs. Mitchell sang at the Baptist
Church at Stilesville.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Jones and son have returned to their home at Chi-
damages for an auto-traction car collision in Coatesville. Suit of Mary Lawson against John Lawson, was dismissed. The divorce suit of Elpha Ingle against Edd H. Ingle was also dismissed. Several other minor complaints were dismissed for various reasons.
Accused of delaying the SOS which might have saved lives of everyone aboard the Lamport fit Holt liner Vestris; of failing to enforce proper discipline in his crew, and with neglecting to enforce the company rule having to do with keeping lifeboats provisioned for an emergency, Captain William Carey (above), veteran of 40 years at sea, impatiently waved aside a life belt just before his vessel took her final plunge. He was seen for an instant after the ship sank, then he disappeared under the angry waves. {International Newsreel)
The Putnam County Council of Religious Education held it’s annual convention at the Cloverdale M. E. Church Sunday. Prof. E. R. Bartlett of DePauw and Miss Nellie Young, State Superintendent of Religious Education for Children, spoke. A regular Sunday School session was held at 9:30 in the morning, Donut E. Denny presiding. Miss Young spoke at 10:30 on the theme, “Some Essentials in Wor-
ship.”
The afternoon session was opened at 2 o’clock by a worship service in which Rev. W. H. Thompson was the leader. Announcements pertaining to county work were made, after which Prof. Bartlett spoke on “Cooperation
in Kingdom Building.”
The following officers were chosen i Guests At Crawfordsville
at the business meeting, L. E. Mitcholl. County president, presiding: President—Donus Denny, Clover-
dale.
First Vice President—Charles Hen dricks, Bainbridge. Second Vice President—Romulus Boyd, Russellville. Third Vice President—Lester Miller, Coatesville. Secretary-Treasurer—Miss) Lisby of Fillmore.
the evening.
Chaperoning the party were Mrs. Mollie Levy, Dr. and Mrs. T. G. Yuncker, and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Huggard. Out of town guests were Mr. and Mrs. Quentin Stultz. Mrs. Stultz was one of the founders of the DePauw chapter of Phi Omega Pi.
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DePauw Faculty Members
Dr. and Mrs. H. B. Longden, Jerome Hixson and Mrs. Fred FHxson, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Frank C. Evans at their home in Crawfordsville. Mr. Evans is a trus-
tee of DePauw University.
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Domestic Science Chib To Meet Tuesday P. M. The Domestic Science Club will meet Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'clock
toes. Mrs. R. T. "Stephenson will furnish favors for the hospital trays Thanksgiving Day. Mrs. Eckardt, the president, opened thie program of the afternoon by reading a selection from the Book of Micah, the Club members joined in repeating the club collect. The Negro in Cultural Fields was the subject of an interesting paper given by Miss Rose Joslin. a number of poems of the modern Negro poets were lead by Miss Joslin which added to the program. Mrs. O’Hair accompanied by Mrs. Pence sang a group of Negro spirituals which were greatly enjoyed. Following the program the hostess served refreshments. * * * Grand Worthy Matron To Visit Eastern Star There will be a special joint meeting at the Masonic /Temple Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock of the Fillmore, Glorerdale and Greencastle Chapters of the Eastern Star lodge, for a visit of the Grant! Worthy Matron, Airs. Susie Masters, of Indianapolis. initiation will be conferred on candidates by the degree staff of the Fillmore lodge.
Supt. Adult Division—C. E. Hill of with Mrs - Francis Lyon, 717 east
S1 (in IS PRICE OF STILESVILLE TELEPHONE COMPANY
RHOADES !S FOUND GUILTY
A SECOND TIME
METHODISTS GAIN 34,635 MEMBERS
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 19.—(INS) —One of the smallest utility trans- ’ fers in the State’s history was peti-1
tioned for today with the public ser- GIBS0N COUNTY JURY REC0M-
vice commission. Farmers, who own the Stilesville Telephone Company,
cago after a visit with the former’s today asked the commission for auth-
ority to sell "the company to Clayton Telephone Company
$1G0.
the for
BANK CASHIER MAY RECOVER
father at Terre Haute. Mrs. Jones spent Sunday here with her mother, Mrs. Asa Smith, north Madison
street.
An article accompanied by the picture of DePauw’s oldest living graduate, Michael M. Stolz, appeared in the ociety section of the Sunday edition of the Indianapolis Star. Mr. Stolz is 92 years of age and lives at. Lucas, Kansas. He was formerly a
pastor in Indiana.
Miss Margaret Jones who is a
freshman at DePauw University was crippled cashier of the People’s State in the city on Thursday to visit with Bank ot Sulphur Springs, seven miles her parents Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Jones Northwest of here who was shot In at their home on south Water street the neck by one of five bandits who and to attend the Hen-Hur musical robbed the bank of about $1,000 late
NEWCASTLE, Did.. Nov. 19(INS)- Physicians at the Newcastle clinic today held ou't hope for the recovery of I>:wis 11. Wampler. 16,
MENDS THAT SLAYER GE VINCENNES POLICEMAN BE ELECTROCUTED—WAS SECOND CON-
VICTION
I VINCENNES, Ind., Nov. 19.— j (INS)—Dreyfus Rhoades, 28, conj victed slayer of Patrolman Simon j Carie, was back in the Knox County jail here today. Extra guards will be j maintained at the jail until Thursday v hen Rhoades will be taken back to Princeton to be sentenced to death j in the electric chair by Judge Claude j Smith of the Gibson County circuit court. Rhoades was found guilty yesterday by a jury at Princeton which fixed his punishment at death.
comedy “Girl of My Dreams” given at the Strand theater on Thursday right.—Crawfordsville Journal.
Noncommittal
Saturday. The wounded bank official wa • conscious this morning and was reported much Improved. The doctor" agrted that he would recover unless Infection sets in.
VESTRIS SURVIVORS ENTER VAUDEVILLE NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—(INS> - Two of the survivors of the crew of the lost liner,Vestris deserted lapstan bar and deck swab for the footlights today when they went into vaudeville to tell the story of their adventure. They are Joseph Ramsey and Gilbert Ford.
LIVESTOCK INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., No\. 19 (INS) — The hog market today was
| generally 16 cents higher. I he bulk
i from 160 to 300 lbs., sold for $9.15. The cattle market was slow, 15 to
23 cents lower on all slaughter < la s es. No good steers here. Hulk under
Capt. Schuyler Cummings (above), whose masterly han- ~,' n K the S. S. American A. PP*r at scene of the Vestris . lsast er, is credited with sav- ' n b many lives, had no comnont jo make on handling of \c ill-fated liner. He paid a obute to officers and men of ship for their part in (IntanuiCIsiiai NawarMll
$13.00. Vealers were from $17.00 down.
steady sell'iig
PRINCETON, Ind., Nov. 19.— (INS)—Dreyfus Rhoades, 28, today fated the electric chair for the second time as the result of his conviction of the first degree murder of Patrolman Simon Carie at Vincennes, Ind., April 1, 1926. The jury in Gibson Circuit court recommended that Rhoades be electrocuted. On April 7th, 1926 Rhoades heard the first sentence of death passed on him when Circuit Judge Walter | Coulter at Vincennes accepted his ! pk-a of guilty and sentenced him to ithe electric chair. Rhoades at tin t I time was sent to the death house at | the slate prison at Michigan City but won reprieve after reprieve from the state supreme court until on April 27 1927, the tribunal granted him a trial before a jury. Rhoades was returned to the Knox County jail on April 29, 1927, and escaped on October 1. 1927. He was recaptured at Oak Gro/e, Colorado. August 25,
1928.
The jury in the local court decided that it was Rhoades who shot and killed Patrolman Carie at Vincennes when the officer tried to arrei' Rhoades and Albert King for passing unsigned banknotes at a Vincennes confectionery. The Jury deliberated only a few hours.
NEW YORK. Nov. 18.—The Metho (list Board of Foreign Missions announced today their gain in mission
fields.
The report stated that the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1927 gained 34,635 new constituents. This brings the number of its overseas adherents to 903,183. More than half the gain was made in India. The church now has 697,533 members and 205,650 baptized children under instruction for admission to the church, these are distributed, the report showed, as follows: China, 90,236: Japan, 18,860; Korea, 41,280; India, 507, w 52; Latin American, 27,645; Europe, 111,743; Africa, 37,515; Malaya, Dutch Indies, Sumatra and the Philippines, 67,9<i2. The church has 139,718 pupils enrolled in 2,832 schools in mission fields. Methodists outside of this conn j try contributed $2,313,971 during the; year for support of their churches, | •schools and hospitals.
Reelsv ille.
Supt. Administrative Division— Mrs. William Strain, Greencastle. Supt. Children’s Division—Mrs. A. i C. Lockridge, Roachdale. Supt. Young People’s Division— J Miss Jane Farmer, Greencastle. Supt. Educational Division—Prof. E. R. Bartlett. Miss Young spoke after the business meeting on the subject, “The Motive and Objective in Religious
Education.”
Putnamville M. E. Sunday School was awarded a banner for having the most members present.
EX-PRESIDENT’S FATHER IS DEAD
SANTA ANA, Cal., Nov. 19.— (INS)—Dr. George Harding, 85, father of the late President Warren G. Harding, died from parajysis here today at the home of his sister, Mrs. K. E. Romsberg. He suffered the paralytic stroke Friday and was unconscious from that time until the moment of his death.
THE HERALD
Seminary street. * * * Penelope Club Meet Postponed The meeting of the Penelope Cluh w r hich was to have been held Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Roscoe Dnggy, north of town has been indefinitely postponed on account of the serious illness of Charles Daggy. * • • Business Women Invited to Clinton The Business and Professional Women's Club of Greencastle has been invited to meet Wednesday evening with the Clinton Club. Dinner will be seived there at 7:30 and as many members as can are urged to take advantage of this opportunity to visit one of the most active chapters in the state. The dinner w’ill be served at the Clinton Methodist Church. Several members of the local club are planning to attend. The regular meeting of the local club has been postponed, and will be held at the Elks Club, at 7:30 p. m., Wednesday, November 28. New members will he voted into the club at this
time.
• • * Century Club Met Saturday The Century Club met on Saturday afternoon with Mrs. Fred L. O'Hair. During the business session reports were given by members of commit-
TEMPERATURE TO FALL AFTER HEAVY RAINS
FREEZING WEATHER TO FOLLOW THREE-DAY SESSION OF DEVASTATING RAINS IN MIDDLE WEST—FLOODS CLAIM LIVES CHICAGO, Nov. T9.—(INS)—Falling temperatures today greeted Chicago and the Middlewest following a three-day session of devastating rains. The unseasonal rainfall over sections of Oklahoma, Missouri and Kan sas caused disastrous floods which took a toll in human life and millions of dolirrs in property damage. Five persons were reported drowned at Ottawa, Kansas. Two more are reported dead in Oklahoma. Several towns and villages throughout the affected area are isolated as a result of railroads and highways being covered by water. The ci Id wave, sweeping in on the heels of the torrential rains, only adds to the suffering of the hundreds of homeless. Some sections reported ten inches of rain had fallen during the storm. Snow flurries, with temperatures near the freezing mark arc on the weather menu for Chicago today.
WANT ADS. FOR KENT—Steam heated apartment, cheap; also semi-modern house. Phone 591 or 387.
FOR RENT—4 room 2nd floor apartment, modern, close in, heat and water furnished. Dr. J. F. Gillespie.
MORTON CHAPTER, O. E. S. will have an oyster supper Nov. 21. All members of the chapter be present. Bring table service.
FOR SALE—13 acre farm at Mt. Meridian. Good 8 room house, barn and out-buildings. Suitable for chicken raising, small dairy or feeding farms. Will sacrifice for quick sail!. Easy terms. A. O. Rice. Greencastle R 2. Phone Mt. Meridian. WANTFL Ti not farm suitable tor small dairy and to raise poultry and some grain, desire aliout 135 acres. Must be within 6 miles of Greencastle. Write to Gaddis and Doyle, Rockville, Indiana.
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TAX FERRET SUIT DROPPED Suit of Otho C. Dills against William F. Davis and others, filed in the Putnam Circuit court February 19, 1927, in which Mr. Dills in behalf of tho taxpayers of the county, sought to halt the county commissioners from naying J. B. Workman, a tax “ferret,” for collecting sequestered taxes, was dismissed Monday. Mr. Dills, in the original complaint alleged it wag an injustice to taxpayers to permit the commissioners to pa\ the tax collector 35 percent of taxes collected. The commissioners held that the tax ferret did not wor* a hardship on the county since taxpayers did not pay him anything until hidden taxes were found and collected, the ferret's division coming out of the taxes collected in this man ner.
BENEFIT SALE Nov. 21 at 9 a. m.
at Court House
LOST—Duroc sow weighing about 225 pounds. Finder please call Phone 819-L.
WANTED—Young Jersey cow giving good flow of milk. Phone Rural 15.
INDIANA 4-INCH LUMP, No. 5, $5.00; West Virginia Cabin Creek 3-inch lump, $6.75. 25 cents discount on all two-ton orders. We deliver one half tons. Greencastle Canning Co. Phono 805-Y.
BUY YOUR TICKETS for Charley Murray in “Tho Head Man,” from children of Third Ward ParentTeacher Association, Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 21 and 22, at Granada.
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