Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 April 1920 — Page 1

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KeraCd -Dctnocmt •V WIUNI ‘H'U.sv 'KHHM'i FRIDAY, APRIL nC 1M0

• "ESTABLISHfci* PRICE C. $1.00 A VEAR. ALL THE •> EWS ALL THE TIME. \ •*' *!• •> <• !• •> •> ^

INCASTLE '9PIILATI0N

IS NOW 3,780

RAIL EMPLOTERS AGAINST STRIKE

Ul

Not Yet

HAVE SEA FLAVOR

\| ih PERSONS SINCE THE 1 ENSLS ACCORDING TO RES MADE I'UBLIC to. m rfL CENSUS BUREAU IN

Xhington

Chicago, April 20.— Strike fever among railroad employees suffered a

setback today when 30,000 railway clerks and 8,000 freight handlers in | the Chicago district announced their decision to await hearing of their J wage demands iby the railroad labor j board at Washington. An unauthor. |

—~ j ized strike to attempt to enforce I B I granting of (increased wages wu< Iw.J the Government Census vo t e( j down after an appeal wa re. j L chat Greencastle had a P°P- ^ ceived from James J Forrester, head k of :: d*0 , 0 f t.rotherhood and member of

lj>,) the government census Itj.jt Greencastle has a popu. I, )( - : 780, A loss of ten people

ips* tiree tenths of a percent j j ?e( j yardmen and enginemen's mI* 1 -' 011 ' strike, continue<l to inctt“ase today

L .r aes were given out today

of the brotherhood

the labor board. ) Freight movement in the Chicago listrict. hampered hy the unauthor.

officials in Washing.

j and elewhere in the middle west and - far west traffic conditions were re.

; turning to normal.

Nautical Expressions Common in Old Nantucket.

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,1 MRS TO AN ILLNESS OF MEASLES

h of William J. Roberts, lt r , of Mr and Mrs. Charles , r ,ned at the home on 1 ie J K,. R Old this morning at near j I , 'GHewing an illness <f u i ( im -ra! was held Thurs. j T at 2 o clock at 1'

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Burial was in

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Mt ■ r,.me‘ary

IMS EM SLtiSING OF

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SPACIOUS RESIDENCE ON SOUTH (< ! EGI m a I I WILL BE UTIU/.ED BY SOROR. ITY AS A HO.ME—TO GET POS. SESSION JULY 1

1 The Kappa Alpha jTneta Sorority of DtiPauw Llnivers.ty now occupying the TUden residence on East Anderson street as a sorority home, has purch. I ased of Mrs. James Riley Weaver, the I magnificent Weaver homo prop ity

!_ • on South College Avenue for a consid. 0® ." 'I. of ■ 16,25) a Ml AII.L ARK THE END Ot (| lt > residence ns a sorority home I 1 ' lit.: PRESEN 1 St HOOL ! Ths* deal was closed on Monday, S W>E FI BLIt i Ferd Luens being Uie agent in tr _ deal. The Theta’s will get possess. Bd superintendent E. C. Dod. ion of their new hom t , aoout July 1. Hi nnaie public the program for which wil give them time to have it it* ul senior high school.. The . — •

f ii commenemnt exercises '

Worley Timmons, propneU r ol

NEGRO, BELI

mind of t. first company of Amer. J" lean troops that did patrol duty on he Mexican border during th e Ma.

PD t* jf dero revolution,

fj W j Colonel Turner was sent overseas ' & J y 1 ith the 'nachine gun company, 23nl \ Infantry anil was promoted to major , in Align t 1917. One year later, jT 1 < lone! T r was promoted to lieu. I ®* D * ! tenant col e! and joined tho Third

BODY OI 14-Y E YR OLD INDI \N \. POI is GIRL is FOUND IN t VG. LE CREEK TWELVE STAB YYOl NDS IN THROAT

Division a He was

assistant chief of staff. 1 promoted to a colonel in

May 1919, and has horn chief of the 1 st iff of the Third Division since Jan. uary,1919

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May Seem Somewhat Odd to the Visitor, but Are Used by the Natives, Without Thought of Any Incongruity. The widow of a Ncwhurypnrt sea captain—she had once brought his ship to port herself, when he was Inenpnel- | tated hy injuries received In a typhoon —was long the joy of an olfl-fashimied hoarding house whose other residents were ehlelly quiet maiden ladies, because of her breezy manner, loud voice and oddly nautical turns of expression. tjhe would invite a fellow bonnier across the narrow table to pass the butter in tones suited rather u> hailing the masthead In a gale. Every spring her store of foreign sweetmeals. and jams and jellies eonipoundci| of queer tropical fruits, provoked an irruption of small, red ants, which would emerge In endless process on from the crevices in her eloset; and every spring she would shout aloud al breakfast her Intention to ‘•swab Ihe hull (dace with lie of pennyr'.vnl ami then calk every drulb'd

crack.”

Judge John * Crush of the Massachnseiis Supreme court, an aiiiliorlty on the hislory and customs of quaint I NntilmT.e!. has lecently giien some ! interesting Instances of the ailaptntion nautical terms to landward Use'. Whelhm or not 'If ndi ihitiiats ; of thi* imand me the salt of tic* earth, ; their rruinreis an.l sjas-ch are cnjoy.thly sensi,n<'{| by ihe salt of the sea. When a man goes to the mainland 1 he Is said to ‘*lo 'o Anna n a 1 ' or to I *'i he eetitineiit.” This form if e'tpr sslon Is In evervday use without any consciousness of its piwullurily. ) In Nanliiekel ymi ilon’i raist- an mn1 hrella : you ’‘set It" like a j!b. | A house blind tines not work loose;

| It gels adrift.

1 "Ever.ytlilng Is drawing" means milking the most ,!ogreSN. I Hiring the

"" 1 last glia‘‘e of the war you heard licit DEI \ MHKl V PI MEMBERS WILT, "ihe allies have _nt everything d m

FRATERNIIY TO

CELEBRATc ?5TII

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InditinapolD. Apr. 21:. Tic body of •Martha Huff, I 1 year old stepdaughter of Hugh sailors, -121) Bank avenue, who, the police say was enticed away iroin hoi acme b v a negro about o’clock M nday afternoon, was found 111 Eagle creek about a httlf Tnilo n irth "f West Washington street yesterday .vftci roon. IT ie borly was nude and

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w|' Crysantnemum’’ the' Timmons •'"'‘I’' " 1 ■ velv t . stab wound.- in the throat ym , tta which will be his home by d» - Mr, 1 mimon.-. The girl had been assaultd. T.ie .-lay H^TORK AI Ji i .. diretion of Mrs. Geo.' has been unable to l>. at *'-• •- • ‘‘ ! ,.1 stripped the clothes from her body ■ will he of especial inter, several days. j with th» exception of in r shoes and J- • of the high school havi i l out- «k New gent r. p 11 tac ,a,, .Peking-, anj stabbed her. Then it is. kill. mg for the past few of the Hcpry B. Longdun ^pi‘ peuy mnitof i. i B threw her body in Iht

Ktafm .. me production promises .m east Aiukisoa .stre," to S. 1-. I’- i'- ,. ri>e k,

musi al treat i*y wf Fillmore. Ihi.- is the vacant #pj K4 was found about 5 o’clocl; | If dl-Aving is the program for property east of the reskienca prop. y lHt( , r( | HV afternoon hy Thomas Ne.'. i ..vents— erty recently purchased by the Phi Hom .jg J ( drs 0 | (lf o 515 Weet W-.sh. j J »ivcrsity ■ Mol Psi I tho ■ . I . < Gautier of the Owi Drug St re, , |(;/ j,, fie. k about thirty min riiV p . Crysanthemum, wa: in Indianapolis today to aticml ut( , s d leaving detectiv t . and pol. On , presented by the music the annual convntion d the i .:<«;( ^ been searching tie H> • ,.f the higi school. Drug Men. Mr. Gautici -vas^ „n ’oe _ ian j. , f . . reek and the hollo,c-

y ( ,r Cl;i- play,“It Pays program today for a tall. i>ef,-i U’-- t h r uirhout the day

■... 'convention on a phase of the diug u

ft H.Jh School Night | busimas

I \ ' Eigth Grade enter.. Miss I.eLi Walls, te.v ner "I Eng. L t i |ish in the high senool is coniine^ to 1 Junior—Senior Reception, heel home on west Walnut street on I Da- Sermon.High School account of illness. _ riim7'4r> P M I Funeraal services far Jas. R. i.M Annual Exit.it of Man. 0 ls whoso death occurred Monday at L n-r and Domestic Scelnce his home one and one half miles south k Gymnasium ' ! of llmcre were neld Wednesday

CONVENT! ON TO iBE ATTENDED BT 100 EDUCATOBS

G\"’HI R IN GREEN'CAS'I l.iS | Big."

FRIDAY VM) SATURDAY TO I u,ien

COMMEMORATE DATE OF FOUNDING OF CHAPTER IN

DE PALMY' u

ASSIK I \TION d’O

DePauw graduates will gather in Greer.castle April 2.1 and 24 to join j in the celebration of the seventy.fift i | anniversary of the cstail’llshmcnt of ! the Delta chapter of the Beta Theta | 1 Pi national fraternity. Among the; , men expected are many of note, suen j as Maj. Gen. Omar Bundy of C mtev u j Thierry fame; William Wirt, Founder I of the noted Gary .School system.

Ml til IS GREEN! \s u E M’ltll, United 1

29 TO M VY' 1 100 dei EG VTFS Van DeVanter and others of

ARE EXPECTED TO ATTEND; ‘a’dar standing.

UNIVERSITY' VFI'VIU The celebration has especial signifi. :

eancp to all fraternity men through.

P William W. Sweet, head of the’ 1 ' u ’ taie < si,u, « tho 1)ePauw 1

GKF OF STAFF ’. PUTNAM 10. Kl!

nt of History at DePauw has announced that the

! ..ii for the Mississippi Valley i t-i. i il association's thirteenth an. :•••' i: ■ ting in this city, beginning April 2 * and closing May 1. About 1 2'M) men and women interested in oi> are members of the assoc, itiou md about 100 delegates are evpeited at the meeting. Milo M. > aif. of th ( . University of Wiscon. n, if president of the association.

f the Beta Theta Pi is the first

fraternity founded in the State of »Lima, established April 23. 184'i With the outbreak of the civil war h- spring of ’(’>1, thi- entire chapter enlisted, attaching themselves to the 71st In.L ma volunteers. In 18!M) the fiatcmity established a precedent by pur. basing a chapter house, th" first uch in the state In 1912 the present

palatial home was erected.

Nearly (TOO men have been initiated

Is preimrcd to ge - nnv-

j where he is soi.l p» be "bov.» siitirr" : (Mint Is, on his nnebor cable) and •i-eail.v to trip" (the iniolmr). Jusi l,of.,.o I be l ui i < lllglil 1 was told that I be was "!io\o abort nnd about ready

to trip."

Instead of saying Mini a mim is used i ip. or “nil in," lbey ~av tlmt Ii" i- "tin I out" (like a dying whale): "'I was licai'ly lin out willi the I nil lien za." I once heard it said of an extravagant limn on iln slidul. who spent more Hum ki- Incouie, (hat In* had "two lunips burning ami no slop at

tea."

Wlieti (M> d Mncy, who wrote the Idstory of whaling In is:*,."., dr.,fied ids will in the venr IS}], he Ins.-rp'iI the toilowing clauses, wiilch lire clianu lerisilc of Ihe nautical expressions of.lho imtlves: “Ileni. I have cniised witli tnv wife. Dultly Jane, sin. • isil. We .signed arilc'es In town before the preacher on Independence day. I wan: he! Him my son JotLotn, to bo captain and male in liringing to port wludever i leave nnd set- that every one ol the crew gels the lay as writ down on this paper. I put mother in command I know siieol be captain ntiywnv. for six inonllis after we started on o :r life cruise I found out that 1 was ma'e nnd she was master. 1 ilon't in an that she ever inutinietl, but I k mw that whenever we didn't ngi.s' she al ways tnnnoovred to vvindard. “Item. I want mother to have the i Union street till site goes

MRS ELIZABETH SMILEY TO BE BURIED IN FOREST HILL

inlo Beta at DoPauw in its lor.g hist, nry, and of these 400 are living.

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DliK—Yl’NIJT

•miHDAY ANNIVERSARY

I A delightful surprise dinner was The 1-,sly of Mrs. Elizabeth Smiley^ j plannc . d and successfully can-ieii out

:'un.l v byiMr, R. B

t morrf Christian churci. Services wt’l be conducted l.y Rev. A. M. Hoot man. Burial was in the Fiilmor t . cemc.

1 tery.

; The body of Chester, the infant son j of Mr. ami Mrs. Ben Louden of ImL 1

__ .April 16.—Frank!.., P ul ■ ^B ; f Gn encastle, son of Thonvi.s

I’ 1 >|>s of Lafayette, we- • <as . t)e today” and plasevl it. the c'tm' H’ ''.e.it.esday aftern ■■ n u , | y xuU it where it will be kept until

G George at the parso... of W(iuthe| . permits

DUTY AT CAM!’ BIKE. NEAR LI m.l ROCK W AS BORN IN BUTNAM (OUNTY

Little Reel., Ark, Major General

widow of the lute Capt. Smiley, nm* , | for many years a resident of Green. a th .who died at tie home of her ( daughter, Mrs Mollie McKee Smith, ! in Seymour, wil tie brought to Green, castle Thursday on Ihe Interurban, ar. riving here at 10:38 O'clock. Funeral Services will be held at the Christian

Mustard

i ni.r of his wife’s thirty fifth • ' 'ay anniversary. FYiends gather, t ip at the noon hour and a sum.

' e ! . .

A special prayer and prair servic

t Camp Bike near Little Rock, has, his Chief of Statf. Col. Fred L.

burial Bev. Kear Turner, a Putnam County man.

_ , ichurch H »'• I "^'.companied the .body to thm city Col F«k1 L. Turner, chief of aUIT be held to the Lo t M. E *4 wi'l make their home on a . j’ 4erv iees at th vault, of tho Third divition, was born in But. ch Thursday night at 7:3<l. An op. A B Greencastle —Crawfords. , Mrs k. F Bow'll and num (bunty, Indiana, in 187,, Ho en. lX)i . tunjly n> m . eivo y,. ip(ism an d un ite *« Jevittw, h 1 1-eii who were called hero hy the UsUh! in the 40th U. S. Volunteer Inf_ w j t ^ t j u . of|Ulx .h will be* driven at this

* *. U y Bohert Irv in ha\e re. antry in 1899 ant) served in the Phil. gerv j cc r ov , Clippinger will speak ' ^ their home in Glennhuin, ppine Islands until July 1901. IMnle on “After Reviial Danger- ”

i t " - who resides on east k , lla Mrs Powell wt s for m Manila. Col. Tumor took an ex - our men,hers of the tabernacle chorus

W ' v » taken to Ind. • 1 A ' V »a Tliomas aminaton for a commission and rt '-, ari) geque8 ted t ■ Cmlay for an < xamimG.m ^ the sev *ral rains of List week cefved a spend lieutenancy ,n t ' e jwith the music

■ ' an operst i Mr Don. 4 . tH i | lV a rainfall of nearly two 23d Infantry. * Mrs w . M McGaughey went to

Sunday night b; an ° irchps on Sundfcy and Mon. Ihiing his service v th the 23rd Inf. ln( , iflna polis this morning to spend ■ ' h K'licved by his local an . a ml creeks In Put- antry. Colonel Turn- • was promoted thc l!a y K‘ appendicitis. \ d'D tv were up *Jid boo-ming.be. to first lieutenant and served m the I Mr aT)( , Christie are

■ e Thompson is in Chicago " ttm ‘“ u '’ , . b!inks an d threaten.! phillipHnes in J- j and Mindanao ■ mov d n g mto their new house on Wal

■>i>e the summer millenry open. 1 in & out . ' Col Tur

quested to be present an,] he'p

aloft. Then 1 want it to go to the children In equal lays, etc." Not long ago the following notice was published in the hx’iil N'aiituckci

newspaper:

"The thief who atole a .big of oil from the life-saving station on Great J’nlnt on Sunday last is requested to return the Jug to the place which lie took It and he may keep the o.l to light Ids crime-stained sle|ss thi’eiigh purgatory. And no questions will be

ptious dinner was served. Those pres H-ked by Caleb < oslinian, superin eo ent wore; Mr. nnd Mrs, (). E K s. v, dent."—Y’onth's Companion,

and sons and daughters Howard. Wil. | hclminn. Louis., Alice and Karl. Mr. ml Mrs. E'.mer Lathem. and daughter N'cr.i. S. F Murharger Mr. and Mr-.,' John Wohrmeyer and daughter Eiiz. | abeth Mrs. Hattie Adm'**" Mrs. Min. - nie Mitc’iel. Mr. and Mrs. James i Mustard, an,) Mr. and Mrs, R. B. Mu. -

stard and family

Mo-

the rainfall w is 1.18 inih.

To Strengthen Steel.

Cinclnnntl is one of six places In Hie world where steel Is strengthened by l-.-ing Imin d in oil. It-■■ :i|,y at a plant In Carthage, n steel shaft .9iIng Iki.lNNl pounds, the largest peon ever subjected to the new iiu'iIiinI, went through the process of I - t strengthened. It was a “hollow-1,m- I tumbler .shaft" for use In dredging gold In California, costing about !FI7,-

000. The great shaft was Hrst uus-

.■ ,- on Sunday 1.15 inches of min ponded in an upright furnace until f-11 iTiv heavy downpour put ('•' 1 heated to Just below the melting point. 1,ranches nnd creeks out of thir banks A crane then picked It up and dropped and much damage was done to the low U Into a huge well of oil, where It „ : i;, H nd boiled and sputtered, throwing out

land*.

j iiig to get much higha'.

Col. Turner-ervcs. two years on-^^, the Mexican ' order vnd was in cofm..

It Into a huge welt of oil,

More rain is predicted ^ of '

should the fall continue for several , ' “

days, the flood damage might Be

Kivat.

Mrs C N McWethy sp^nt the day In Indianapolis, j 1