Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 26 August 1921 — Page 1
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ML [LECTION OFFICIALS CIAIBMAN OTT DOBBS HID INSPECTOK8 AND FOK CONSTITUTION. mendment SPECTAF. ON TO BE HELD SEP. i ft—WOMEN ARE NAM CLERKS—THE VOTING
The Port of Missing Men
it Chairman Ott Dobbs i to the county auditor of the Inspectors and erve in the special elec, held September 6, when )f Indiana will vote upon d amendments to the Indi ution ublican county chairman to appoint the Judges for but as yet Mr # Bartley imitted the names to the ards for the special election sist an inspector one clerk judee. The regular voting each precinct will be utiliz the election. h instance a woman was ap_ by Dr Dobbs as a clerk of ion board. ispector , Clerk and voting each rreci- t is as follows: ACKSON TOWNSHIP ecinct—Joh n Moreland, In. tor Mis? Mar- Wilson Clerk; .ard School House. Precinct—Clark Wilson In. For. Opal Grantham, Clerk; Maysville School House. ANKLIN TOWNSHIP ecinct—Roy Crosby, Inspec. Mrs. Ethel Hinkle, Clerk, Male Library. inct—Henry A. Dawson ctor, Mr< Bernice Chas. Clerk i Wilso n Brick Build. Orval Fosher, Inspector, Eva Williams, Clerk; tian church, ISSELL TOWNSHIP , ecinct—W :lliam Hodgskin, Ftor. Mrs Bert Gardner. • Mm Hodgski n residence, ecinct—Ora Sutherlin, in. :r Hazel Webster. Clerk; School House. N’TON TOWNSHIP -unct—Edd Thomas, Inspec M-s. Ott Thomas, Clerk; I House No 2 ■ net—Lee Wood, Inspector Nelson Wood, Clerk; School So 10 SHOE TOWNSHIP Precinct—Halve Shuey; -lor. Mrs. James Reed i note! Bainbridge * !»1 Precinct-Harry Brow n A ^ rs - lake Huffman, : “rick Chanel school house. , YD township met—Edgar Wilson, In. r 'Mrs Sol Ader, Clerk; "a School House met—Sylvester Lewallen. U wm Zeiner - ■ school House No 8 RI0N township D - Wri * ht - In - ■ M.ldred Chamness. im-t ^Blmore. '"'-Lewis Ogles, Inspec’ .SchLl CkS ’ C,erk: Cr03S "astle township vv aspe » N Dalb y In - W V ' V#n Baldwin, clerk; oodrum. residence, w. Thomas Owens. In. Fo,'” Jen "i« Farmer, ,0 * R 'dge School Sa sre. In. Ran!!?- n Albert Houck - n,ofer Residence. ZyriE CITY r u" Rfeiffenberfer John;, 8 Dan Besser, James residence r d .\f Ward ~ Wm Houck, fs (Sc, 8 PierC0 - Clerk In - Ih. Mcp. m - Grogan, Gau *hey Garage. Wp lch Inspec ide nce K,ef(,r > clerk; Wal.
I JUST KNEW RtCHlHOMh HL WAS A
fllA RECORD OF 'CONTRACT FOR ACHIEVEMENTS i ELM STREET
LEFT BEHIND
PROF. E. C DODSON, WHO HAS RESIGNED AS HEAD OF THE CITY SCHOOLS ACCOMPLISHED MUCH DURING HIS FIVE YEARS SERVICE HERE—RE. CORD HAS GAINED HIM RE. COGNITION
Fourth Ward—Elmer Blue Inspec. tor, Mrs. Fred Thomas, Clerk; Commercial Hotel. MADISON TOWNSHIP East Precinct—Robert Dills, Inspec. tor Mrs. John Quinlisk, Clerk; Center School House, West Precinct—Charles Marshall, Inspector, Mrs t Robert Irwin, Clerk, Brunerstow T1 School house WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP North Precinct—George Aker < In. spector, Kate Reel* Clerk; Barber Shop Reelsville. South Precinct—James Rightsell, In. spector. Mrs. Lola Long_ Clerk; Beech Grove School House WARREN TOWNSHIP Warren Township—Tilden McNeff. Inspector, Mrs Haypenny, Clerk; School House. JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP East Precinct—L. S. Smith, Inspect, tor. Gertie Stringer, Clerk; Belle Union School House West Precinct—Walter Dorsett, In. spector, Mrs. Wm. Sinclair, Clerk; Mt Meridian CLOVERDALE TOWNSHIP East Precinct—George Walker. In. spector. Mrs. W E. Gill, Clerk; Morrison’s Office West Precinct—Elmer Farmer, In. spector. Mrs. E. M Hurst, Clerk; Geo Rockwell Office. MILL CREEK TOWNSHIP Mill Creek Township—E. A. Neier, Inspector, Miss Mildrel Stringer, Clerk; Broad Park School House
WEEK END MEETINGS AT FILLMORE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
0
A “Week End” series of meeting will be held in Fillmore in the Meth. odist church under the leadership of the pastor. The first meeting will be I on Thursday evening of this week. I The topic for the first address, and j the theme for the series will be i
“Thing- That Matter Most.” Other ^0 REPRESENTATIVES OF THE
subjects are “Sin” .“Redemption," ‘ “Jesus of Nazareth and “The Dan., gers of the Lower Way,” On Sunday, at 2:00 P. M., the Rev H L. Davis, | D D, of Greencastle will speak. Oth. |
OIL COMPANY MEN WANTING LEASES HEBE
er services will be held, morning and evening, on Sunday, and a basket din ner at the church Everybody is welcome
ED DUE FORMER GREENCASTLE COLORED RESIDENT IS DEAD
Ed. Due, age 68 a former and well known colored ma n of this city died Tuesday night at the home in Terre Haute where he had been living the past two years Death was due to dropsy The funeral will be held at the home and following the services the body will be brought to Greencastle and taken directly to St. Paul’s Bap. tist church where final services will be held. Interment will be in the Brick Chapel cemetery. Besides the widow he leaves six children, four sons anj two daugh. ters. Before going to Terre Haute Mr Due lived on a farm near Brick Chapel. He was engaged in farming during his entire residence in this county. He was well known and was one of the highly respected colored citi, zens of the county. For a number of years he sold water melons on the streets of the city, and in this way became known to many, especially to the children
CITY TAX RATE GOES UP AGAIN
SOUTHERN OIL COMPANY HERE TO LEASE LAND SOUTH OF TOWN—STATE THAT THEY WILL START DEVELOPMENTS SOON AS LEASES ARE SECUR.
ED
Two representatives of the South era Oil Company were in Greencastle today. The men are attempting to se cure oil leases on land just south of town in the neighborhood of the Char ley Kelley farm They state that I they will start developement as soon | as a sufficient number of leases are i •ecured.
CITY COUNCIL AT ITS REGULAR MRS . MARY E. BRIDGES DIES MEETING ON TUESDAY NIGHT I FOLLOWING SERIOUS INJURY
AGREES ON A 76C LEVY—WILL ^
NEED $36,000 TO OPERATE I Mrs Mary E. Bridges, age 82 died
CITY NEXT YEAR—START S E MIN A BY IM PROVEN E NT PROJECT AGAIN
Tuesday aftersoon at 1 o’clock fol. lowing injuries which she received
five weeks ago
Mrs. Bridges tripped and fell and severely injured her hip and limb. The accident occured five weeks a. go and since that time she haj been
in a serious condition
Up she goes. Another 5c has been
added c '^y t 3 * ra ^ e
The city council at its meeting on Tuesday night after accepting the estimate of expenditures as prepar. ed by the city clerk, which estimate shows that approximately $36,000
will be needed next year for the o P '~ e8iding at 6 East Hanna 3treet
eration of the city affairs agreed toj fix the rate at 76c o n each $100 of
taxable property.
County Auditor Ralph Knoll filed a report showing that the total amount of taxables in the city of Greencas.
tie is $4,674,440.
Since the death of her husband Milton A. Bridges i n 1904 Mrs Brid ges had made her home in this city,
THE GREAT WHITE PLAGUE
Determined to get Seminary street improved the council again adopted a resolution providing for the improve, ment of that street by the building of a roadway of either brick, cement macadam or asphalt Plans to improve the street were stopped recently whe n the Interur. ban Company surrendered its city franchise. Under the franchise the interurba n company would have been required to pay for one third of the street improvement. Now the proper ty owners will have to pay the entire cost It is planned to pave up to the interurban tracks but not to pave be tween them.
Whe n Prof. E C. Dodson, Super, intendent of the Greencastle City schools, who this week resigned to accept a position as head of the Con. nersville schools, came to Greencas. tie five years ago, he found the city school system in a deplorable condi.
tion
The schools were houses in three old and delapidated buildings, none of them complying with the regula. tions of the State Board of educa.
tion.
The High School was not commis. sioned—it could not be commissioned under the conditions which surround,
ed it.
Then Prof. Dodson got busy The third ward building was first mod. •^raized and remodeled; a high school building was builded; the city and township schools were consolidated; and this summer the first and sec. ond ward buildings were remodeled and modernized. Now the city build mgs comply with the state regula.
tions, ,
As the result of the activities, of Mr. Dodson the high School re. -eived a commission. And it took a lot of work to accomplish the build, ing changes Special legislation had to be secured arrangements to se cure mon®y had b® planned and much work had to be done. With the completion of the new High School building the school sys. tem was changed, the seventh and eighth grades of all the wards he. ing taken to the High School build, ing and organized upon a Junior High School plan; the mid year promotion plan w a s adopted; virtually all of the township schools were abandoned and the township children transferr. j ed to the city schools. The High school, also was reorgan ized Many new departments were introduced. Chemistry with a full equipped laboratory was added; a three years course of French, a Com. mercial department including book, keeping, short hand, typewriting. Commercial arithmetic; office prac. tice and Salesmanship were put in the school course. The physical training department was broadened, all grade and first year high school pupils being re. quired to take this work. Both Man. ual Training and Domestic Science departments were enlarged and a caf eteria for school pupils, under the direction of the Domestic Science de partment was installed. A course in Bible, under the direc. tion of Miss Martha Ridpath, is an. other new department, added to the
High School.
The high school is now accredited f in the North Central Association of colleges and secondary schools for the first time in the history of Green castle This means an unusual high grade of instruction and equipment, and other educational opportunities andthe fact that students are admit, ted to all colleges and universities in the seventeen states located in this
IMPR0VEMEN1 LET TUESDAY
CITY COUNCIL AT ITS REGULAR MEETING CONSIDERS BIDS OF FIVE CONTRACTORS—LAM AL BIDDERS WERE HIGH AND CRAW FORDS VILLE MAN GETS
THE WORK
The bids of Black & Crawley, Frank Allen, Dodge & Heiby and Ez_ ra Champer for the improvement of Elm Street by the building of side, walks, curbing and gutters which were considered by the city council at its regular meeting on Tuesday night were too high and the contract was give n to a Crawfordsville man. The bid of By Stout of Craw_ fordsville for the improvement is as
follows:
Cement Walks, 14c sq. foot. Grass plot, 1 Vi sq. foot. Combined curbing and gutters—-
95c lineal foot.
Straight curb, 50c Lineal foot.
Catch basins, $25 each. Cutting trees, $25 each
Brick Crossings, 40c sq. foot. Elm street will be improved from Bloomingt''’! street to Locust street. Five bids were submitted. Four of the bidders were Greencastle firms but each was much higher tha n the
Crawfordsville man.
THREE ESCAPE FROM THE CLAY COUNTY JAIL
A number of Greencastle people attnded the Band concert give n at Bainbridge Tuesday evening by the North Salem Band.
STATE FARM POPULATION DOUBLED BT BOOTLEGGERS
Mr. and Mrs. W J Lewis of Sell, man, Maryland are here the guests of Prof and Mrs E. C Dodson Mr Lewis is a brother of Mrs. Dodgpn.
The population of the Indiana state penal farm has almost doubled in the last year. The cause is due chiefly to bootlegging, which has be come so general that 100 or more sentenced on liquor charges, are at the farm all the time.
The most formidable obstacle the campaign against tuberculosis is the undiscovered case, the person who has tuberculosis and doesn’t know it. The National Tuberculosis Associa tion and its affiliated state anj local association plan to search out every undiscovered case and put the afflict, ed person in the way of obtaining pro per treatment. Once that is done con trol of the dreadful plague that now kills 150,000 persons every year will
be certain.
In times past, tuberculosis was re. garded as a fatal anj incurable dis. ease. This was because it was rare, ly recognized until it had become far advanced Advance^ tuberculosis is still i frightfully fatal. Within the past few years, however, the methods of diagnosis have been wonderfully improved until, at the present time, the competent physician, if he will give the necessary time and skill to it,'can, detect the disease when it
is entirely curable.
With all the advance of science, however, the diagnosis of early tuber culosis is still one of the most diffi.
cult things in the entire field of medi I Sergt. and Mrs Estel Johnson and cine When tuberculosis is easy to ^ baby daughter of Camp Pike, Ark., diagnose, it is usually far advanced j are here for a visit with the former’s and often incurable. (mother, Mrs Ida Johnson.
section of the country.
Another feature is the introduc. tion of visual education into school work. Grade schools are supplied with steropticon and high schools equipped with modern moving picture mach. ine The best educational and feature films have bee n exhibited. Greencas
tie is a pioneer in this work
Four parent.teacher organizations
have been organized and they are very active in promoting the success of the schools. The following char,
acterizes some of their work. Equipment of Domestic Science de
partments with china, silverware and other supplies. The promotion of child welfare work including the serv
ing of milk to school children The installation of play ground ap_
paratus.
ERNEST BYRUM, CLOVERDALE MAN BEING HELD FOR HIGHWAY ROBBERY, GAVE THE A. LARM—IRON BAR IN JAIL WINDOW IS SAWED OUT 0 BRAZIL, Ind,, August 23.—Frank Pinnicks and Loys Marshall, accused of automobile theft and Jack Rogers, accused of burglary, who have been held in the Clay county jail here a. waiting hearings in the fall term of circuit court, escaped from the jail at 11:30 o’clock today by sawing out an iron bar in one of the jail win. dows A posse of citizens an^ coun ty officials headed by William Wallace sheriff and the chief of police began a search for the men as soon as the escape was discovered The men had the privilege of going into the outer corridor of the jail for exercise. It is believed that saws had been pasej to them from the outside by friends. One iron bar had been sawed from the window and the men ha,] squeezed through this and climbed down to the second story. The three disappeared in a cor n field nearby. The alarm'of the jail delivery was given the officials of the jail by Em. est Byrum of Cloverdale, another prisoner Marshall and Pinnick were arrested several weeks ago for steal, ing an automobile. Rogers was ar. rested with Lawrence Petty, of Staun ton five weeks ago. Petty and three other prisoners of the jail did not es.
f'cape.
It is believed that Byrum, who is a large man through the chest was un. ble to squeeze through the hole, but he told jail attaches that he had ten years staring him in the face and he did not want anymore added to it.
Dr and Mrs Troyer have returned from northern Canada and the St. Lawrence where they spent several weeks
Miss Mary Weik and John Weik of New York are here the guests of their father, Jesse Weik
Misses Grace Howard and Ruth Pike of this city left Wednesday morning for Kentucky where Grace Howard and Milburn Pike will be married. Miss Pike will make her home with them for the present.
Miss Zella O’Hair is visiting her sisiter, M -s. John Huffman and fam. ily near Filmore for several days