Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 5 August 1921 — Page 2

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THE HERALD-DEMOCRAT, GREENCASTLE. INDIANA

CRAI* SHOOTERS BEFORE MAYOR FRIDAY MORNING

AUTO CAUGHT AT CROSSING . BUILDING BY FAST TRAIN

Vernie Smith. Wm Manire of Green castle and Thomas^ Green of Brazil colore,] and Dennis Curran and Dora Chadd, white of Greencastle were be fore mayor Bartley Friday morning to answer a charge of frequenting a gambling hotlre. Vernie Smith, proprietor of the south end barber shop in whose build ing the game was held had two other affidavits filed against him. One of keeping a gambling house and the other charging him with allowing the use of his building for a gambling house The charge of allowing his building to be used as a gambling house, and which carried a twenty dollar fine and a penal farm sentence with it was dismissed Smith was fined ten dollars and costs on the oth er two charges. His total fine was

$10.

Wm Manire and Thomas Green plead not guilty and stood trial Friday morning. City Marshall took the wit. ness stand first and testified that on Sunday, July 24 he was called to south Greencastle to stop a crap game. He said that he got night po. liceman Sewell an,] went to the Smith barber shop on Main street. When he arrived he went to a back window put a board up against it. climbed up and looked in. He said that he saw the six me n charged with gambling on their knees in the middle of the room He testified that he could hear them talking and saw the dice and money on the floor. Policema n Sewell also testified that he, also climbed up on the board and looked in the window. He said that he could hear the men talking an,] that he heard one of them say “shoot $8 05.” When the men heard the officers at the window they put out the light and started for the front door w'here the Marshall headed them off and ar. rested them When the evidence of the two officers was concluded Man. ire and Green refused to take the stand saying that they admitted that they were there They were each fined $20 and costs. Manire paid his fine but Green stayed his. The total of the two fines was $60. Curran and Chadd were released on their own recognizance. They asked that they be allowed to produce wit. nesses and get an attorney Their trial is to be held before the mayor tonight Late Friday morning Curran went to the mayor and offered to change his plea of not guilty to one of guilty if the mayor would give him the mini, mum fine The mayor refused to ac. cept the fine. Curran will be tried at 8 o’clock tonight. Friday afternoon Chadd was be. fore the prosecutor with the same proposition. The prosecutor told him that he must see the mayor but that the mayor would not consent to give him the minimum fine

GREENSBURG, Ind., July 28 —

PROGRESS BEING MADE

Building in Greencastle is going

Three persons were killed and anoth | forward more rapidly than it has for

er was injured fatally, this afternoon when a Big Four train crash, ed into an aetomobile driven by Jam. es Anderson of Richland^ Rush coun. ty, at McCoy station, five miles east

of here

The dead are:

. .JAMES ANDERSON, 49 years 0 ld i prominent Rush county farmer.

the past several years. The factory building of the Rosenthal Bros . to be used by the Putnam Garment Com pany is being pushed forward as ra_ pidly as possible. Already much work on this building has been done. The basement has been completed, and the I wall of the first floor is almost com. ! pleted. The building is being built of

MRS. MARY. ANDERSON,.. 30 j cement blocks and when completed

years old ' wife of James Anderson. | will have the largest floor space of

RUSH ELSTON ANDERSON. ‘6 i any building in the city.

^months old so n of Mr. and Mrs. An.

derson.

The injured: GEORGE ANDERSON, 2 years old o n of Mr and Mrs. Anderson; cut and bruised about head and body, and be. liaved injured internally; unconscious and expected to jie. * Two other children in the Andersen family, James Robert 3 years old, and Frank 4, were in an automobile with W. E Patton, residing near Milroy who was taking them to their home They knew nothing of the accident until an hour after it oc.

curred.

Returning From Picnic The Anderson family ha,] spent the day at a picnic give<n by the Richland Sunday school at Hillsdale park, six miles east of this city and were en. route home when the tragedy occurr. ed. • Caught in a rainstorm. Anderson had stoppej his car near the tracks and took shelter near a section house on the north side of the tracks Whe n the rain had subsided they started. A view of the track is obstructed by a string of empty coal cars standing on a siding it is said and Anderson drove the car onto the tracks direct, ly in front of the train. Howard King operator at the McCoy station, tried to warn the autoists he said as they started but his cries were unheard.

WANDERER GRANTED 63 DAY’S REPRIEVE BY GOVERNOR SMALL

SPRINGFIELD. 111., July 28 —Gov emor Small through his office in the Capitol today, granted a reprieve to Carl Wanderer until Sept 30. W’ander was sentenced to hang to morrow for the murder of the “raggej stranger,” an unidentified man killed in a fictitious holdup when Wanderer shot and killed his wife. Wanderer’s eleventh hour rescue' from the gallows tomorrow came a£_ ter intervention by the American Le. gion, asking that an insanity commis. sion again examine the ex.army offi.

cer.

CINCINNATI. O., July 28,Robert Marx of this city, commander of the Disable,] Veterans of the W’orld War, today telegraphed Cook county. 111. inois, authorities to reject indignant, ly the request of Carl W’anderer, ex. lieutenant that the callows upon which he will die be draped with tl^; American flag

STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION LET ROAD CONTRACTS The state highway commission on Tuesday awarded contracts to Wil. Ham F. Smith of Indianapolis, for the grading and construction of ap. proximately thirty two miles of roads in Putnam and Warrick coun. ties. Construction is to begin at once on both contracts. The Putnam county road is to be completed by January 1,. 1922. The Putnam county contract is for the construction of three sections of the Natioal road as follows: A stretch extending east from Man. hattan 10.994 miles to one and one half miles east of Mt. Meridian; a sec tion from Mahattan to the Blooming, to road a distance of 5.728 milesj a section extending from the Blooming, ton road 5.284 miles to one and one half miles oust of Mt Meridian. An unusual feature of the contracts is the fact that both were procured at a price considerably lower than the price estimate,] by the highway com. mission enginers. The commis. cion’s engineer’s estimate on the Put. nam county roads was for $100,830.37 and the contractor’s bid was for

$81 967 81.

Contract for several other small sections between this city and In. dianapolis are to be let yet and when these are completed the National road will be pavej fwm Brazil to the capital and from Brazil west to Seelyville.

Members of a family by the name of Anderson, going to their home near St. Louis from Cleveland, were injured Wednesday morning when in rounding a curve near Bainbridge they met a Ford on the wrong side of the road. To avoid a collision, the Anderson party went to the ditch. A young lady. Miss Leona Anderson, was badly cut by glass as the car turned over. Mrs. Anderson sustain, ej a broken wrist. A little boy was severely bruised Dr. Armstrong was called and the party was brought to Danville to await repairs on their car.—-Danville Republican

INVITATION TO PERSHING

INDIANAPOLIS, July 27.—Gov. McCray today extended ati invitation to Gen. John J. Pershing chi* 17 of staff of the U. S. Army to attend the Indiana convention of the American Legion at Wabash, October 10 and 11 The governor expressed “high hope” that Gen^ Pershing will accept

CHARGED W IRE KILLS TWO BOYS AND A WOMAN o DOVER, O , July 29—Two boys and a woman are dead and the father of one of the hoys is in a critical con dition as the result of coming in con tact with an electric power wire in Strasburg, near here The victims of the accident were found early today in an alley When Donald Heitzman age ten and his cousi n Harolj Horn, age nine of New Philadelphia, did not return home from play last night, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Heitzman, parents of Donald started a search for them They found the children dead in an alley. The boys had touched a live wire. Mr. and Mrs. Heitzman ran to ])iek up the bodies with the re. suit that Mrs Heitzman, age thirty four was killed instantly and Mr Heitzman was burned seriously

MRS. LUCY BLACK WILL OPEN TEA ROOM IN TWO W EEKS

Mrs. Lucy Black who recently sold her business room at the corner of Washington and Vine Streets to Earnest Browning has rented tlv room formerly occupied by the f? of P. lodge in the Donner block and will open her tea room in this room in a. bout two weeks Mrs. Black intended opening her tea room in the room at the corner of Washington and Vine streets but be. cause of the deal recently consumated with Mr. Browning she was compelled to find a new location.

The big temporary dormitory that is being built by DePauw University just north of the Florence Hall dormitory is rapidly nearing comple. tion The outside work ori the build, ing is all done ad very little of the interior work remains to be fiaished. Work has already started on the grading around the building. This building will be used for a men’s dprm and the men who room in the new building will use the ffining room at Florence Hall. It is a one story woden building and is built on the barracks style. The residence property being built by W O Timmons in Northwood is completed and ready for occupancy. C. C. Huestis and Henry Prevo are also planning to buil,] beautiful new homes in Northwood The ground for the Huestis home has already been broke and the excavation for the basement completed. It was the orig inal pla n of Mr. Huestis to build a brick Veneer Home hut because of th e high price of brick the plans were hastily altered and it was decide,] to use weather boarding instead of brick. • Mr. Prevo plans to build a beauti. ful nine room house. The beautiful new stucco home of Prof H. B. Gough on South College Avenue is completed and Prof. Gough intends to move into it in the near

future.

Fred Ellis is planning to build a five room cottage house on N. Col. iege Avenue. Bert Smith, also, is planning a beautiful six room stucco house on north College Avenue. Mrs. Mary Alspaugh is building a bungalow on East Seminary street. The excavation* for the basement has been completed there and the frame work of the building is rapidly go.

ing up.

Besides the houses that are already going up, two other houses have, been planned. These wil be builti n North. Wood in the near future- The Green castle Chamber of Commerce, also is in touch with several more prospect, ive builders. The lumber dealers here also report that there has been a greater activity in lumber here in the last few months. Building is certain, ly on the boom in Greencastle

GOLD STAR VOLUME CONTAINS TWENTY PUTNAM CO NAMES

In the Gold Star, Volume issued by the Indiana State Historical Associa. tion are the names of twenty two Put nam county men who lost their lives in the World War. The men whose names are in the book are: Michael Ader, Fred Adkins Levi Aker, Ralph Arnold, Homer Austin, RAlph Boone. Lee Collins, Dwight Ford, Millard Gibson, Andrew Hays, Clyde Hurst. Charles Lasley, Raymond McCammack, Earnest McVay, Byford Montgomery Harry Moore, Clarence Patrick, Henry Sanders, Carl Scribner, Perry Snyder. Elbert Thomaa,' Garnie Timmons, The book is handsomely bound in leather" withfc*:he United States seal embossed on the cover It contains the names of 3354 men and 15 worn, en from the state of Indiana who lost their lives in the war. Besides the names there is a picture and a short biographical sketch of each person listed in the book. The State Historical association has been over two years compiling the data that is given in the book. Aiding the State association have been men in each county that took the data gathered from the war de. partments records an^ correct it. C. C. Hurst di c ] that work in the county. Mr. Hurst said, when the original list was sent to him that it contained the name of one man who is alive and in Grencastle at the present time The man was wounded but not killed, j however the war department records have him listed as dead. The book can be obtained by writ, ing to Harlow Lindley Room 334, State house, Indianapolis. The price of the book is $5..00.

TWO VACANCIES IN CITY SCHOOLS STILL o As yet there has been no one sel. ected to fill the place left vacant by the resignation of Robert Gipson from the teaching force of the local high school. Earlier in the spring Mr. Gipson signed a contract to teach in the local high school and coach the high school basket ball team A few weeks ago Mr Gipson resign ej saying that he had found that it would be impossible for him to do the work at the high school and car. ry his work at DePauw university at the same timeE. C. Dodson, city superintendent said this morning that he had several men in minj for the position, but as yet he had not made a selection It is probable that the selection will be made in the next few days. There is also a possibility that another teacher will be necessary at the first ward building this year. However, this teacher will not be secured until it can be learned about how many children will attend the first war,] school this year

GOSHEN MAYOR ASKED TO QUIT

GOSHEN. Ind., July 27.—At a se_ cret session of Council touifcht, form, al demand was made upon Mayor William H. Charnley for this resigna tion. A communication addressed to him, signed by six of the seven Alder men, says that the best interests of the city demand his retirement as mayor and that if he does not resign by the time a special meeting of Coun cil is held Friday evening, impeach, ment proceedings will be started a. gainst him Differences between Mayor Cham, ley and several of his appointees, long of threatening proportions, reached a crisis today when the may. or demanded the resignations of Amasa G. Hoovens, president of the board of public works, ex.councilman and recently defeated for the repub. lican nomination for mayor, and Guy W Daussman, city attorney who is chairman of the Republican county central committee.

AFTER 21 YEARS MAN CONFESSES FIRING SAWMILL

BLUFFTON, Ind.. July 27.—A fire mystery of twenty one years ago was cleared today when Cary Graft, 41 years old of Poe, Allen County, made a signed confession to having burned a saw mill and tile mill at Echo, Wells county, belonging to four partners, including his brothers, Fred and Conrad Graft and John and * Charles Kreigh. He said his motive was revenge on his brothers, whom he thought defrauded him in settling a family estate. Another brother .Chris Graft, was suspected of the fire and was arrest ed and prosecute,] but the jury ac. quitted him. Carl Testified at the trial he knew nothing about the fire. His confession today also included the admission that Feb. 11,, 1916, he set fire to a United Brethren church near Echo while he was intoxicated “just for the fun of seeing it burn.”

Miss Nina Cook Miss Ova Daniel and Miss Ruth Stewart left Sunday in Miss Cook's Ford Coupe for Niagara Falls and other eastern points on a two week’s vacation trip

FOREIGNERS EATING U- S. CONDEMNED FOOD DUMPED AT HAMMOND

HAMMOND, Ind., July 27.—Six c loads of foodstuff, condemned by t United States government has be dumped at Globe station four mil southwest of Hammond and farme and persons from nearby villages a hauling the poison food away in w gons, trucks and by hanj in who sale quantities. No one is on gua to prevent the theft of the stuff Ei ployees of the Globe Render! Works drive the crowds away t they return for more The dump goods are stamped “United Stal poison meat. Unfit for food.” Ma take the condemned stuff for chick feed but others, mostly foreigners a eating it .it is said. Hammond f lice were notified and their invest! tion led them to get in touch wi the Illinois health authorities, aski that some action be taken

GOVERNOR SEEKS TO HAVE FOCI! VISIT EVANSVTL o INDIANA STATE CAPITOL J 27.—Governor McCray has asked S afor Watson to use his influence w the War Department to have M; shal Foch. when he comes to the t ited States visit Evansville the ho I of Corporal James B Gre’sham, < of the first three American soldi killed in France. Marshal Foch w visit the United States i n October atenj the American Legion Convt tion in Kansas City, Mo

FRIDAY. AUGUST 5, I92|

BUNDLE DRIVE WAS SUCCESS IN PUTNAM COUNTY ——o ■ ■ The people of Putnam county have given past all expectations of the committee in charge of the Armenian relief In this county.* The basement of the city library has been one moun tain of clothes for the past several days From ail over the county bun. dies have been pturing in for the past week. Mis Flla Wright county nurse, who is in charge of the boxing and shipping cf the clothes said “if the people over the rest of the Unit, ed States would resoon,] like the peo. pie of this county had that there would be no need for another call. The boxing and the shipping of the clothes has been rapidly carried on. and it is expected that the work will be complete^ l 3 - 0 today. A shortage of boxes has delayed the work of the committee but boxes were secured late last Wednesday afternoon. It is nec. essary to line all of the boxes with water proof export paper for over, seas shipment. This causes a great deal of extra work in packing of the boxes. The committees in charge of the drive are highly satisfied with the re. suits that have been obtained in this county.

SURETY OF PEACE CASE IN SQUIRE FRANK’S COURT HERE 0 BULLETIN The jury in Squire Frank’s court late last Thursday afternoon found in favor of the defendant Ben F Raikes in the case of Cora E. Smith against Ben F. Raikes on a Surety of the Peace Charge. A shot gun, an oat field and some chickens seem to be the main feature in the trial of Ben F. Raikes of. Belle Union on a surety of the peace charge before a jury in the court of Squire Frank last Thursday-

COACH WALKER lo REORGANIZE BOOSTER,^ Coach Fred M. Walker has ^ way plans for the reorganization the DePauw Junior Booster C U K ' organization composed of boy i! tween the ages of 8 and 15 and o! anized by Mr. Walker since tb j ing of the Bowman Gymnasium ming pool to the public. The club was organized as ar. Hft to the boys who are permitted! use the swimming pool and the J pose of which is to make better b, of them, morally and physically ^ to boost DePauw Athletics ami the city. Coach Walker plans to divide tk club into wards, of which there » four, and to have two Teams i„ ^ ward making a total of eight teaitj One team will be compose^ of bo, between the ages of 11 an d 15 a|) the other will be composed of b* under 11. A schedule of twe!, games for each team is being pr™ ad by Mr Walker and it i s p! arjl to have the schedules start right jf ter Thanksgiving. The Booster teams will j n ma# instances play the preliminary to tk college games this fall. The team winning the highest p, centage in the points of winning tk games, sportsmanship, time an : rej ness will be given the champiorski] The wining of the game does n t count as much as the percentage at quired in the other three points. The teams will soon be orgag ized and daily practices held

MISS GRACE MATHES BECOME BRIDE OF HOWARD YUNSE o A simple but beautiful home ve] ding was solemnized last Than ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs ( F. Mathes on South li liana ;tr« when their daughter Grace becai the bride of Howard \V Yunkeri Howe, Indiana.

Mrs. Cora E. Smith the plaintiff sets out in her affidavit that she is afraid that Raikes will injure her property or her person and asks that he Tie put under a bond to preserve the peace. Mrs. Smith and Mr. Raikes. who reside near Belle Union are neigh, bors and the quarrel was caused by Mrs. Smith’s chickens trespassing on Mr Raikes oats field. When Mr. Raikes found that the chickens had been in his field he took his shot gun and drove the chickens out In doing this he shot the gun several times. He was fore, ed to drive the chickens out of his field several different times. Mrs. Smith says that the use of the gun has caused her to think that Mr, Raikes intends to injure her or her property and that she is in a ner vous condition because of worry. She asks that Mr. Raikes be put under a bond to preserve the peace. James & Allee represent Mr Raik. es and F. S Hamilton represents Mrs. Smith. Both parties are well known in Belle Union and a number of people from that place is in Greencastle hearing the trial The case is being heard in the court room in the court house

ANCHOR LINE WILL TEST VOLSTEAD RULING ON LIQUOR IN TRANSIT NEW YORK. July 27.—The Anch. or Line, desirous to test whether the Volstead act can prevent liquor from one wet country going through the dry United States to another wet country, brought 18,000 cases of Scotch whiskey today to New York aboard the steamer Cameronia from Glasgow. The liquor wag in transit to BermudaObtaining a temporary injunction, five cases were unloaded and held by the Federal marshall’s office pending arguments. The case may not be dfe posed of for some time however, and there was speculation’ as to what would happen to the unloaded whis. key. If landed, it is liable to seizure by customs officials under the recent ruling of the attorney general’s de partment that liquor shipments via the Unite,] States were prohibited

WASHINGTON. July many owed the United S April 30 last $240,744,511 tenance of American tro Rhine .Secretary Weeks in Senate today in answer f tion by Senator Borah, Idaho The total cost of can occupation forces D to April .30. the last dat, accounts were available wi $275,324,194. There now officers, 13,241 enliste,] m. four nurses in German •Secretary Weeks stated. tio n was understood to b ary to agiution for ret troops-

The bridal party entered the iivig room to the strains of MendelssoM wedding march rendered by Mn Clyde Rogers sister of the bridi Frances, little sister of th bride a: ej as ring bearer. The ring ceremony was used. Rei H. C. Clipinger pastor of the Local Street Church officiating. Only the members of the immei iate fami'gjs and few most ir. ::r.at friends were present. Mr. Yunker is a graduate of Ds Pauw with the class of 1921 and is member of the Delta Sigma Ps: fri temity. Mr and Mrs. Yunker '.eft immd lately for. Howe, Indiana where Mr Yunker will teach in the Militif Academy the coming year. They mo ored through. The out of town guests are: Mi and Mrs. John Yunker of Howe M ana an,] Mr and Mrs. Herschel Cal man of Lafyette.

MUCH PROGRESS BEING MADE AT BLACK STOCK ATHLETIC FIEU

Work on Blackstock field. Dt Pauw’s new Athletic field is boi pushej as rapidly as possible A ground has all been cleared and ti preliminary grading work done. The running track has been eM vated and the tile drains are no*l> ing put in the field proper. A -ar( tile drain is being laid every W ty four feet over the entire field I is certain thst this will provide pot feet drainage at all times. In running the ditches to by tile much stone has been encounter by the workmen It has been n* essary to blast much of this st* out with dynamite It is hardly probable that the W will be ready for use during theeo* ing football season.

MILK PRICES IN ST LOUIS RAISED 18 TO 26 PER CEK ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 27-A»'« crease of from 18 to 26 percent 1 the price of milk sold- to St. W distributors has been made by Illinois Cooperative Milk Produiei Association which supplies this c! with most of its milk. Milk increW 1 from 19% to 23 cents a g a ^ orl ?? $1.69% to $2.12 a 100 pounds. » association attributed the ra'C price to increased production - :,3ts '

PUTNAM COUNTY WOMAN DIES AT BRAZIL HOSflT* Mrs- Estella Brown, wife ^ as Brown of East Brazil, diri local hospital early lastThurs'-af lowoing an operation for ’ s!) at the age of 45 years, 6 men 1 28 days. f The deceased was born a ^ ville and had spent practi- 1 ^ her life in Putnam couty. i'be 1 vived by the husband and . Richar,] Rogers, also four 1 aU j and three sons.