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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 21. 192!

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NOTHING FOH PUBLICATION SAYS SCHOOL BOAHD MEMBER

GREENCASTLE EDUCATIONAL HEADS HAVE BEEN KEPT BUSY GOING TO INDIANAPOL. IS DURING THE PAST FEW DAYS—GOT LITTLE SATISFAC. TION THERE IS REPORT

The Greencastle school board members are a busy lot these days During the past three days C_ E_ Dodson, James Stoops and Mister Eugene Hamrick, have made trips to Indianapolis to consult with L. N. Hines, superintendent of Public Instruction. The trips to Indianapolis followed a letter received Monday by the school board from the State Department stating that the Greencastle High School was in a position to have its commission taken away. The trips to Indianapolis by the school board members have availed them little consolation, it is said. Conditions which have existed in the High School all year, which have been allowed to continue by the school board, have been brought to the attention of the state department and will be presented to the State Board of Educaion at its meeting in Feb. ruary. What action, if any, the City Schoolboard has taken, the Herald has been unable to ascertain from school board members J O. Cam. mack member of the board, whan asked Wednesday regarding the matter stated that he “had nothing for publication.”

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^GERALD MASON IS GIVEN A BIRTHDAY SURPRISE i o • Mr and Mrs. John Mason who live at 509 North Madison Street gave a very pleasant surprise Tuesday even, ing for their son, Gerald Mason, in honor of his nineteenth birthday. Refreshments were served at an appropriate hour and a very pretty color scheme of pink and white was carired out All reported an enjoyable time and left wishing Gerald many more happy birthdays

HAMRICK AND STOPS WOULD NOT SIGN THE RESOLUTION

It is interesting to read the min. utes of a recent meeting of the Green castle School board, at which a re. solution was presented the purpose of which was to expell from the Green, castle high school a boy who had been charged with ruining a High School girl and who this year has assaulted one High School boy anj a Green, castle citizen who wag a spectator at a Greencastle High School basket ball game. The High School boy pleaded guilty to assault in each in. stance paying fi.nes in a Squires Court and in the Circuit court. Members of the City school board ' went to a Greencastle attorney and had prepared a resolution under which the boy could be expelled for High School Thig resolution was present, ej to the School board at its next meeting J. 0. Cammack, a member of the school board, and E. C. Dodson, sup. erintendent of schools signed the re. solution, but “Ringmaster” Eugene Hamrick and James Stoops refused to sign it So the resolution got no further than to be placed on the min. utes of the school board meeting. This however, shows the attitude of the school board members. Evident, ly Mr. Dodson and Mr. Cammack stand for morality and good conduct of the school pupils, while the other members, Hamrick and Stoops, ap_ prove of immorality and ungentle, manly conduct

C. OF C. ELECTS NEW OFFICERS AT ITS MEETING o ' The newly elected directors of the Chamber of Commerce at a meeting held Monday night elected the following officers: A. G. Brown President Harry Allan .... Vice President Ed. Hamilton Treasurer George S. Harney Secretary The Jiewly elected president will within the next day or two appoint three big committees, one on mem. bership proposing to make the Greencastle Chamber of Commerce a one hundred percent membership. The Finance Committee will take up the question of seeing that dues are paid, by legal method or other. wis e and the City Beautiful Committee The last named committee has aom e women members anj compre. hensive plans will be taken up for a number of city improvements.

THREE MILE LAW MAY BE BEPEALED

BILL BEFORE LEGISLATURE WOULD INAUGURATE A COUNTY SYSTEM OF ROADS IN ITS PLACE—FIVE YEAR PROGRAM OF ROADS PLANNEDNEW LAW WOULD PROHIBIT COUNTY CLERKS FROM IS. SUING MARRIAGE LICENSE EXCEPT TO RESIDENTS OF COUNTY

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.,. uan. 18.— Repeal of the three mile road law and establishment of a county road system plan will be sought by Representative Barker of Posey county, minority floor leader in the lower house 'of the Indiana legislature, ac. cording to a statement issued by Representative Barker today. The proposed bill will remove road building authority from the township unit to the county unit. It will also provide that county commiss. ioners shall have prepared five year road programs to be carried out as money is made available under the law. Under the present system road petitions are filed the day before New Year’s anj in the following year as many of the petitioners are possible are acted upon. Lieutenant Governor Branch is ar. ranging to have a bill prepared and introduced in the senate to prohibit county clerks from issueing marriage licenses to persons who do not liv e in the county, it was announced here today. The measure is prompted the increasing number of child elopements an^ by the indiscriminate issuance of licenses to aoplicants by county clerks throughout the state. He pointed out that, although the state has attempted to place safe, guards around the marriage laws they are not strict enough and are abused

GREAT SEAL OF THE CITY LOST

Grencastle City was in a terrible condition Tuesday afternoon. For the Great Seal of the City was lost. City clerk McGaughey. who is keeper of the Great Seal, when he dis covered the loss, started a thorough search and after several hour s local, j ej the Great Seal in the Mayor's I office in the Fire Department buildinp.

MAKE AUTO THEFT LIFE SENTENCE

BILL INTRODUCED IN LOWER HOUSE OF STATE LEGISLATURE BY REP FILBERT

DEMOCRATIC RETURN IS FORECAST FOR 1924 o DES MOINES, IOWA Jan. 17 — A Democratic “return from Hlba” in 1924 was predicted here today by E. H. Meredith, Secretary of Agricul. ture “McAdoo is generally regarded as the leader of the party, though of course, Cox, Bryan and others have high places in its councils.” he said.

INCOME TAX FORMS DELAYED WASHINGTON. January 15.—Th e sending out of income tax forms for incomes of less than $5,000, a job requiring distribution of more than 5,000 000 copies has been delayed. It was expected to begin mailing them today, treasury officials said but pro. bably they will not be ready before January 25, leaving forty three days for filling out and filing.

INDIANAPOLIS Jan. 18.—Auto. « mobile banditry would be mad e a life imprisonment offense under the provi sions of a bill introduced in the low er house of the state legislature to. day by Rep. Filbert of Linton. The crime is defined in tne bill as one in which two or more persons “co-operating or aiding one another to commit burglary, robbery or grand larcency, having an automobile on or near the premises attempting to escape in it, or when such persons attempt to seize an automobile to es. cape." A similar bill, introduced by Rep Cooper last week, provides life imprisonment as a punishment for bur. glary or robbery by an individual armed with a deadly weapon.

WEDNESDAY’S 9—

MARKET

Indianapolis receipts—hogs, fresh, 15,000; layovers 500; cattle 1,300; calves, 500; sheep and lambs 400 Hogs were steady to 25 cents higher according to weight, at the open, ing of the live stock market today. The light kinds were steady and those weighing more than 250 pounds were 25 cents higher. Sales generally were strong, the best selling at $15.00 top, $10 50. Some heavies sold at $9 .50 Pigs went at $10.50 down, sows at $8.50 down During the

early trading local killers took about i in its office

YEGGS WRECK SEVEN SAFES

BURGLARS MADE THE ROUNDS OF SEVEN MANUFACTURING PLANTS OF BRAZIL EARLY TUESDAY MORNING AND BAD. LY DAMAGED THE SAFES BUT GOT LESS THAN S10 FOR THEIR TROUBLE—FIRST JOB WAS DISCOVERED AT I O’CLOCK BY OFFICER NEWTON AT THE INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY COMPANY’S OFFICE

7,500. outsiders, 7.000.

Cattle values held steady. Calves wrer strong the best selling at $15.00 Sheep and lambs were 50c to $1,00 higher with good lambs around $10.00

ACTS TO ADOPT RUSSIANS

BRAZIL, Ind. Jan 18.—Burglars made the rounds of seven manufac. luring plants of the city last night, broke into the offices of each of the industries, wrecked seve n safes and got less than $10 for their trouble. The burglars also visited Harmony, breaking into the Pennsylvania

station

The nrst of th e jobs was discovered about 3 o’clock this morning by officer Edward Newton on his rounds when he found on visiting the offices i f the Industrial Supply Company, ;hat the place had been burglarized. The police at once started in the search of suspicious characters, but failed to find the burglars. This morning reports began to pour into police headquarters, making a total of seven places in this city which were entered in addition to the Pennsylvania railway station at Harmony The places entered here were the offices of the Crawford & MacBeth machine shops and foundry, corner Depot street and the Pennsylvania railroad; the Halstead Lumber Company on South Walnut street; Stout Furniture factory in East Brazil; Ampliphone factory in East Brazil; Industrial Supply Company, corner Walnut street and Pennslyvan ia railroad; W. C Hall Milling Com. pany on South Sherfey street and Pennsylvania railroad, and the Wilder Lumber Company on South Franklin

street.

At each of these places except the Ampliphone factory, the robbers wrecked the safes and caused damage estimated at over $2,000. The Ampliphone Company had no safe

and the robbers just

broke in and looked arounj and then departed

COLD W AVE HITS EAST: 34 BELOW AT BIG MOOSE

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WATERTOWN. N. Y. Jan. 18 — The first cold wave of the winter pre vailed throughout northern New

ANDERSON, S. C. Jan. 18—The York today The official temperature first step to make himself legally the j in this city early this morning was 16 guardian and protector of the seven | below zero. Big Moose reported 34 Russian orphans he brought home , below. with him from Sebastopol was taken | - . e- - here todav by Rear Admiral McCully ; TORONTO, Ontario. Jan 18 — i n filing a petition in Common Pleas ' For^y degrees below zero was the court for permission to adopt the t temnerature at Iroquois Falls, children. , Ontario this morning.

TWELVE GAMES SCHEDULED FOR OLD GOLD NINE

COACH BUCHEIT ANNOUNCES 192! TIGER DIAMOND CARDFOUR GAMES WITH WABASH

LtDOCA WANTS OUT OF CONTRACT WITH ROACHDALE

MONTGOMERY COUNTY TOWN WOULD PURCHASE ITS ELECTRICAL SERVICE FROM CRAW. FORDSVILLE — SAY ROACHDALE DOES NOT SUPPLY SUFFICIENT SERVICE

BASEBALL SCHEDULE Indiana April 15..there State Normal April 22...here Notre Dame April 28..there Goshen April 29 there Michigan Aggies ... April 30..there W’abash May 3..there Wabash May 10...here State Normal May 13 there Wabash May 17..there Georgetown May 24...here Michigan Aggies .... May 31.. .here Wabash May 31 here Baseball has begun to loom on the horizon of DePauw athletics despite the fact that the basket ball season is not yet half over. Plans for one of the biggest, if not the biggest. Tiger diamond schedules are being made by Coach Buss and Coach Buchheit. Already a dozen games have been scheduled for the 1921 season an ( j it is probable that the Tiger pill catch, ers will go south in the early spring on a ten day training trip although plans for the sojourn.are as yet in the making. The Old Gold diamond season will open April 15 at Bloomington with Indiana furnishing the opposition and according to the present card will close here May 31 with the last of the four Wabash frays scheduled. Notre Dame, the Michigan Aggies, State Normal, and Georgetown are among the other schools appearing n the schedule. A triangle northern trip has been carded for April 28. 29 and 30 On this trip games will be played with Notre Dame, Goshen, and the Michigan Aggies.

CRAWFORDSVILLE, Jan 19.—If the Public Service commission acts favorably on the request of Ladoga to be relieved of its contract with the Roachdale Electric Light Company, the citizens of that place will secure their power from the Crawfordsville plant. The matter was laid before the council by Superintendent Hevworth at the regular meeting last night. Mr. Heyworth stated that the peo. pie of Ladoga had said that the Roachdale plant was not large enough to supply all of the power that is required in Ladoga. Provided the commission grants the request of fhe Ladoga people work will he started soo n for laving a line from that place to Crawfordsville

HIGH SCHOOL NOTES The Purple and Gray squad is training for the Summitville fray which will be in the local gymnasium Friday. Coach Smith announces that his proteges are rounding into shape very fast and the Summitville tossers will have to show some veryspeedy work in order to force G, H S, to hand over the laurels of victory. The first semester ends Friday January 22 and the grade cards will be given out next Monday. New programs will be made out by the G, H. S, students. “Cabbage” Black former G. H S star who has been ineligible for the lest semester will resume his posi. tion as forward on the G, H S. team, it has been unofficially announced This is a great asset to Coach Smith’s squad.

DRY AGENTS OF CHICAGO SWOOP DOWN UPON PEORIA o PEORIA, 111., Jan, 18.—One of the biggest raids here since the prohibition * a w took effect started late to. night when a corps of Chicago prohibition agents swooped down upon places suspected of illegally selling liquor Within thirty minutes after the drive started, twelve places had been ••aided. In former years this city was one of he largest distillery centers in the world.

MEASURE WOULD PUT CURB ON ALL HASTY MARRIAGES INDIANA STATE CAPITOL Jan. 17,—An effort to curb hasty marriages which might later cause work for a divorce court, will be made in a bill which Representatice George W. Freeman of Howard county will cast into the legislative mill tomor. row The bill is primarily intended to p-»vent the marriage of persons under age who might make false statements when securing licenses, Mr Freeman said. The proposed law provides that every applicant for a marriage license shall make a statement under oath giving his or her cored age. The bill also provides that county clerk or the deputy who issues the license to publish the license once each week for three consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circula tion throughout the county, giving the names of the applicants and the date on which they will ask for a license. Should the clerk fail to enforce pro visions of the act, a penalty of not less than $5 or more than $500 will be imposed, A term of imprisonment of six months in the county jail al. so may be imposed at the discretion of the court.

WORCESTER. MASS, FIRE LOSS ABOVE $1,000,000 WORCESTER, Mas., Jan 19.— This city was spotted by fires early today^ with a loss that ran upward of $1,000,000, Two business buildings in Main street, heavily stocked with merchandise, were burned out a few blocks south of City Hall, a score of tenement structures were overrun by sparks that causey roof blazes and guests at the Bancroft an,} New Park hotels, between the business and the tenement dwellers, prepared to follow the tenement dwellers into the zero temperature of the streets. While this epidemic of flames en. gaged all the city’s apparatus, another fiery spot developed several blocks northeast of City Hall at North Foster and Union streets, where the wood working plant of the M. K. Smith corporation was burned with a loss of $100,000. The origin, of the principal fires was not definitely determined, but the | police said they had only the faint. ; est suspicion of incendiarism.

, BERLIN SAYS PAYMENTS ARE TO BE MADE YEARLY

TWO KILLED TEN INJURED IN FILM COMPANY BLAZE

BAYONNE, N J.. Jan. 18—Two persons, one a young woman, were killed and ten injured in a fire h°re today which swept a building hous. ing several film manufacturing '• fm - cerns Exploding film s hurled bum. ing debris 200 feet setting fire to «»veral dwellings. The origin of the fire has not been determined

PARIS, January 19.—Abandonment of the plan of fixing the total amount of reparation to be paid by Germany and the substitutions of annual payments has been agreed on hy French, British and German dele, gates savs a Berlin dispatch to the Journal The newspaper says that for a period of five years the annual payments will be made in kind under the terms of th? arrangements made

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