Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 April 1920 — Page 1

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FRIDAY, APRIL 16, 19^0

HARD FREEZE; FRUIT SAFE IS WETZ OPINION

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Springtime

LmPURVTLRE MONDAY NIGHT I REACHES LOW MARK OF 27 I iiEGREHS—COLD SNAP PASSI K „ us PREDICTED

W- aWS HDPEfULL

the mum STRIKE IS NEAR AN END

EW,%NN>( r»ecs MV

SWITCHMEN ARE KETl KNTNG TO THIER WORK AND SITUAT- j ION IS RAJ IDl Y SMPRC ' YCCORDING TO STATKMENNTS

HY OFFICIAI^s.

AN EARLY RtTURN TO NORMAL

I uthough the- temperature reucued , w mark of 27 degrees Monoay | rut, the fruit growers ur e hopeful, | ml it b t.w opinion of William Wet/., I (ireencastle fruit grower ami auth- ■, rv on fruit conditions that the {, not been llkied. Because of K , cool woather this spring the fruit

I' u(is wen- not far advanced.

K-,,,. cold weather of th t . past two I

I ',;., had not injured the fruit and

■ Ml hard freeze on Monday! Chicago, April II .Whil c officers I’Tt'dcl more damage than has been , of the railroa/l brotherhoods who unit

^Vvonr for a 1 with the rail road officials to break

livdii'tc.l mu s f ^i r j the unathorizitl strike of switchmen I .. frui t crop to tau coun^. Uich .urted in the rhieago t ermw t7 aftei examining e , i Jnar district, announced tonight that ki morning, tel< i> onL< 0 ‘ j the situation was steadly improving ■'niversity, and in the opinion o t | an( j crisis of th e walk ouj | ■Xpert- there, the central m lana j wiag past, John Grunau, president of ■i lit '■> not killed. However, it tan -J tj, e Chicago yardmans asso<'iation. I t be I' termined forr several days j w j lQ cu ]| e< | the strike, declared “the

1 1 . exie t nffe< , t o* iTie Monday night j situation is unchanged."

■n-eze on the fruit. The largest break among the s t rik- : p -« perature on Monday night, crs w as tt Columbus ()., wh e re 600 y J, Hjfl j $ JU y | 5^ M I

I ^ „ 0 f a winter tinge and thin j switchmen voted to return i > work. w L»Sill W 1 Elir a L,

E , formed on still water during The situation in Chicago is dispnet- ■ T be prediction for today is ] l.V improved tonight" said S. E. Heber K • lUnff. presiden! of th e ^witchi i’s

I Union of North America Nc"‘- men r,

I - vitxiTQ 'turning to work iind we look ior an Ru 'J dANUIIj j early return to normal conditions.

HOLD UP BANK Mr. Ileberling said tliat tn t . brother

hood leailiTs were m e eting with dela. gations of strikers in an effort ^ <) < ‘ ni l the walkout an,) that satisfactory pro-

gress was being made.

FIRE DESTROY OLD BUILDING SATURDAY NIGHT

DKLAPIDATED BUILDING ON EAST ANDERSON STREETOWN- . ED BY W ALTER ASHTON BURN LATE IN THE EVENING CAUSE OF FIRE UNKNOWN. WAS NOT OC< l PIED N N N N

EARL ELLIS HOME DAMAGED

I oout . !UnJ. 1ml., April 12. -North, ■ro la liana and southern Michagan K. | hundreds of city

Mieriffs. deputies,and village

K , ... in an effort to find some L, th five masked automobile Bandit, who entered the South Bend Btitr I,.. , this morning at 11 O’clock

Chicago April 12-- While the unauthorized strike of rail road employes which started in Chicago two week

- a k° with the walk out of Too switch

| at • o point of revolvers forced! Men on the Chicago, MilwaukeeAiSi. lusta- Hsslanger, the cashier to sur- ( Paul rail road, today appeared gradBn.,.., H'arlv $15 000 in cash after | ually U. he wanning in the m.ddiewest I,., -h instant cashier and the! and the far east, tne situafen in tne

working la ights, built in closets and featur to ksscu the housewife’s work A feature of this was the 1 disli drainer which does away the J labo’ if drying dishes three times 1. day. A living room, ot|uipped like I any city home and shown how it coi l 1 ! be in ti e country added to the : t-

Itractiveness of the car.

I The fourth car served as a lecture , room. Better living conditions for Irura 1 j eople was the general theme

Running water in farm homes war.;of tin whole train, and the hearty the keynote of the Indiana Home I vec< 'i given it here indicated

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w. e «. r is

BETTER WE CONDITIONS

The old frame building on east ! Anderson street owned by WiaJ*er Ashton, was destroyed by fir e at near ten o'clock Saturday night. The build ing was an old delapidated structure j and was not occupied. The cause of the fire is not known. Flames got big headway before (he fire department arrived. Because of the delapidated condition th,. loss is not great. Th e old residence building was one of te oldest struettures in the city iir ’d formerly occupied by the Vorhees family oiip of the pioneer families of Greencastle. J On Surulay afternoon, burning soot j from the flue at the home of Mr and j Mrs. Kail Ellis on Locust str e et which | is being occupied f ,,r the summer by I Mr. and Mrs William P. Koehler ignited the shingles and quit e 11 hole was burn ■ 1 in ( >e roof before the fire I men extinguished the flames with th,. cemical apparatus. The loss will not

;he great

^ this' problem.

castle from nine to 11 '.."vO o’clock j Wednesday morning. More than 40(' , persons visited the train which is j touring the state on New York ( en-( traT lines under the auspices of Pur- j due University, to inaugurate a j campaign for running water in ^

.•ountry homes.

"Nothin!, means more to the farm

81 BIKERS HOWDY I’M

YOOR paiFND

CHICAGO, April M The fir-': im J i >IIE«3iU

THE SLOGAN

SAY FOSTER ir

' 31 t * r m The rob-i tenitory east of Clgvela J took a ' woman than running water in the |tron, mto an ante room. The rob , ^ } ^ ^ w Q. Fitch, of Purdue, 1., nsole thier escape ,n an au j The o ,. doveiopn.ents in the | who has charge of the train. ‘Only ■‘'10 -»! <» have i>eon stolon in 1 ,, i nrovidmer tlit'si* convenience.v and

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A

tvent railroad employes in the Chi-1 (ago’ terminal district came today, I v hen railroad officers announetd that 'groups of strikers on the Pennsylvania. the Soo line and the C’nicagT), Rock Island w Pa' itic had decided to .

return to work.

Edward Corrogan, vici--presidem of the Brotherhood of lavconiotive Fire-

■ men and Knginemen. said that en- ■ einemen o i a number of roads ha 1

FUIKNSHIP DAY BEING CELEBRATED IN GREENC.YSTLE IN MOVEMENT I'KOMOTF.D B> THE UNION EVANGELIST CAMPAIGN

voted to go back tomorrow or Friday. NEW YORK, April U.—The strike

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main vault, ri.v.■ -

With instant death if h 0 re j ^ caused ' l ‘ no ^ " f J” the institution over $17.0 S'^ht and ,.es,a. g. r traffic and the , hich had t,een deposited of 8 ‘ vert -‘ ,ndu8t, "‘ s de|n " ,J -

SIXTEEfiM]REN^]J]/i]!

TABER-N.U Li- .A IIEDL Lx.

■X morning.

B \ n| ITS THE

cut on rail roads for supplies. The situation in the Chicago yards showed a marked improvement, and

k i rports from larg ran centers in the MENU AN KEPI BL1C nl ij,i],. wcs t indicated that the erisisof

the strikewas past and strikers were

■JlAIA.- Sonora ApriUO,- (returning fo -ork in consideral/c ft- state of Sonora withdrew from j numbers. Offi rs of the railroad Be t pul.::, of Mexico today. The | brotherhood have been fightn

\\ ■ ine. iiay: 7:15 O’clock Song Serlc lej by Mr. Uaugheity. Sei.m ri

^■>'-0 '•ngresss at Hermisillo in a r»vion which lasted all last ■•si, according to reports h ig .cr to resist with armed B hi. attempt of th c Carranza ’ ■ i»vi f Mexico to si nd troops > tl><> ‘ate.

Hi I. Vairhart, son of Rev. AirH' >1 1 awfordsville who foimerly 1 .• this city, left today for 'oriiska where he has ac-

io.sition as master electrician

*1'' ,r :uiha. Airhart was n*eently ■’ : argod from the army at Ft. M icti'ming as a civilian '»i Swahlen of Detroit, was

to Join his wife, who

(ft .lore several weeks the ^fri Mr. Swahlen’s mother Mrs.

hlen and Mr. and Mrs.

strike since 'T s inception, were confident that the breaking up of the

tractive that when-a man vvh.a has | of the ill-fated steel Mrme, ls . lh f, | , vhon Kdward McHugh, chairman cf by Mrs. Barr. .-pent most of his life on the farm'.piime move a ..mi >‘ u ' ‘' l ,IW strikers’ co.nmittcc, gave out a 1 Thuisday: tidlQ O’clock Neighbor

desire- to retire, he can have a mod-■ lailroud strike,

era home right there and will not

have to move to town."

Although running water in the fanii home was featured uirouchout the train, lighting outfits and many labor-saving devices were not lacking and the display was good. Septic tanks, which provide sanitary sewage disposal for the farm, attracted un-

from the

"he govern,rem let this be known statement that "now that thc railroad , hood meetings. 9::i0 O clock Bus,to,light, feeling that when the strik-1 labor bojrd h “ 8 be€ V- |,po ! n ^’ We ‘ Ws n “* et,n * at Lan * don cr- learn what influences are behind I »" a v,ul ourselves of the op- Book b ‘ tor e. Mrs. Bair will speak. th. movement they will align them-[ !’ ortumt > r P~ v,ded by ^ for ,. a C ° n *; 5:a» Business Wonten’s lunc lent, at - es wlththaiyerognliedorganiaa- *‘^ r r at 'J n ^ ur £*^J‘ ... ®* pti8t 'jhiiv... a..;^ -tuiv > Action by the government ml .... , . ,,, u,,..t Mrs. Bair. • uo bong Service and

, , , ... , , usual interest, especially

Chicago district would h e followed by i fnr|Tler{1 'i'| K , women showed una great resumption of work in other i L1 .. ua | hiterest in the running water areas. i system and that they wanted modern More freight a jVed in the Chicago ; kitchens and bath rooms in their

the direction of prosecution of strike i

that the strikers would not go back

, , ,, . , until they had received a mbstantial s( -* rnw " b V Mr *- Ban - D^egdions

leaders therefore will he held ln ; wa ,.p that .. t h e y ere not Busines Women, Woman s Relief abeyance pending the expected re-1 to it poljticiani , in their . Corps, and G. A. R. o action, among the trikcsonreceipt ^^ t<) lemi them „ Ho denie d-em- — of information showing the da ectmg ^^ ^ t(K> rank;> of the The last wet I of the Union Evanimpulse of the strike agitation. strikers were weakened here and dc-’ gelistic Campaigif under tie leader-

clared they were “stronger than ship oi evangelist Uaisy Dongias

homes.

“A farmer doesn't think much of: pdtCn;; several hundred dollars into

binder which he uses

yards today tb m any day since t ie strike started, railroads announce. At the Stock yards 229 ears of live stock weTp received and 9,000 employes

who had been force,! out of work by out of a y ^“ r ’’ th , . c-y X,.,.. ianapolis Sunday to spend a few , fop h(s wjfe days with her .mother, Mrs Jennie | _ , ,,

PUTNAM RAISES QUOTA IN MONUMENT FUND DRIVE.

ever.”

few days ,

, Gar- I

in

SHKCIAL SERVICE AT

County i THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH to thisi

The schools of Putnam have met the quota alloted

county in ti e drive to secure funds ! There will be special baptismal scr-

,;”X’; 1 “‘- ‘he erection of a .monument on vices at 2 p. m. Sunday at the ^ chri9tian ^ at tU# closL , . th. Marne. This monament is to bejchristinn Church. A merman bv Mrs Barr en “the L cud out of respect to France , made the confession and have not of t ie seman by Mrs. Barr

Barr and party opened with a bang yesterday both in atcndance. interest and results.o The “standing room only" sign was hung out early last

nig lit.

Sixteen people came forward to

Smythe who is ill in tie Methodist

hospital.

Mrs O. F. Overstreet entertained the bridge club Monday afternoon at her horn,, on east Seminary street. J Owen Sigler of the Back Woods

J. ....... Mr and Mrs Swahlen j Stock farm was in Greenr.stle MonH >un.k. night for their home in day. Mr. Siglers farm is three miles ■r.t j south of Morton. For many years he

The first coach entered train visitors showed an power plant which lighted

operated an electric water system erected whiih pumped water to a milk room and well equipped hath room. It al .o provided power for an electric ironer, a washer, a churn, separator, and other features. All had individual motors controlled by a switch. The

.,11,1 as a friendship mark existing bv the between France and the United elec States. In commemoration of tie failin' car. len heroes the monument will be

on the site where t iu first

been baptised are requested to he lost son" and besides thes ■ seven ready. Those who transfer member- others signed pledges to bring their ship are also requested to be ready church membership to soma church

to be received. in this city.

Today is “Friendsip Day" i:: Green castle ahd everywhere on the streets you will see the tig dangling from

, ,, ,, th coat lapels or from ladies waists n,< <AVen ’ This i the day when everyone is sup-

v. .11 be P 0 "-- d ‘hair .Tr.’Iger.

ro BE

svn RDAY

RKHARD H. HO"” '

battle of th Marne was fought. ) BURIED

The monument is being designed j

by Frederick McMonnies and will | Thc body of

cost 1250,000 Putnam County’s ; which Us been in t!a vault t.t 1 nv ’ quota was $52. The schools have)Hill Cemetery sin )., • l.v.

lid-

I south OT .norum. rur j- motors conuunc-u u.> « ..rattbserihe. Xu .mota The ach-1 buried Saturday - . . . f i atm- I v, ft „ oniragoi in the Jack and Stallion tank, actual size for the aver- , ' ., , , . o’clock in Forest Hill. There will be and the G. A. R. will be the gueots < f -i Sherfy who vtsitesl Miss has engagej intn pY ;' ept , ’ „. 1W in em , of ools and ..mount eontnbuted by each Mr. honor. Th., buslnes woma ’» lun-

T'» morrow night the. Relief Corps

A|* C, ,np in this citv Saturday husine- ,m this year he has an ox j ; farm home, was in or.e end of -« h„ t, J „n,nt lo. or on hi. Urnd ,1,1,. c, .n,l . .T... dv. , 4' . in Bloomington 1 Mr Sigler ilielleves there will soon be of attention. Its construction was

■ !■ Harrision of Poland was ln! n serious shortage good horses in the , expkined by university ■ C tl Mond *y business. 1 Uniter States and advises all farmers , "o m. >v^ ^ car ^ ano t M 'avis of the True & Hixon ^ ri ^ ^ many good colts as poss . ! ^ %)ectric power pi ant

H 1 "' """any of this city was in ib ! ei as he predict a big inceie run|lin>r T heir workings were ex-

s Monday on business. price for h»r?es and mules In the next j by attendant s. 1 " G. R. Groae have re- y ear s The third car was equipped some-

V fwtn Richmond, where they s\I,T. Nine • feeding shouts x»t. attending th Northern y Hayin, North of Burnaby Mill.

■inference of the Methodist

Putnamville on January 27, and because of the ice and ^now on the round at that time tka body was

placed in the vaujt.

SUBSCRIBE I OR THE HERALD

wlmt like the ticst, but instead ef the milk room a modern kitcher was i shown, with tables at the proper

.short services r.t the grave. Mr. honor. ?'h e busines woman's ■Bowen’s death occured at the home in cVon will be served in the. ptist ^ i t»--* .in-. -> intc,inrv '.*7 and be- CYmrch .and in addition to the ad-

dres by Mrs. Barr, important busi-

nes will be performed,

i Mrs J. W. Colp and her cousins i who are visiting ^er from Erie, Pn.

Charles Gambold, manager of the w#nt to Indiana p 0 i is to< i a j. to spend

the day,

Mrs. Frank Donner went to Ind-

R(^«lsvlll p .. 1 l< ' TUl . rt ri> 11 re ’’nnapolis th's morning to spend the

total $60.87 SUBSCRIBE F0» TW VFRALD

Roachdale and New Maysville ha'> (

not yet reported.

is as follows: Greencastle City Fillmore

Toverdale

Russelville Barnard Clinton - Rainbridge Belle Union ... Reelsvlllp

. 2.10

10.00

..5.00

-..50 ...88

—8.95 j Hurst & Company Store was in In.120 'in* •,polls Wednesday' o!i business.

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