Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 September 1921 — Page 1
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A VD operators of IN COUNT! SUBMIT j\CES FOR SETTLE. \;a.\S TO VOTE ON .JOHN HESSLER TO ■ EMPLOYES AND P H I OR OWNERS «STATE CAPITOL, Au ? . and mine operators of >c«untv coal fields in a rith Governor McCray to -g reported mob disord. 'district, signed an agree. that all questions in «n miner? and oper erred for “full and final to a committee eonipo* Hessler, president of 11, United Mine Work, rica and P, H Per.ra of , , eecretarv and treasur. Indiana Bituminous Coal Aseociatio* littending the conference t the acreemnt to their 3 ratification within three notify the Governor of the
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Treement is apnroved hy a date will b e set for
Si* committee to
-istions at issue.
meet
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WILL ORGANIZE iVJRNEY DAMAGE WOMEN VOTERS, S 0IT STILL IN IN PUTNAM 00. FEDERAL COURT
MISS L1U.\ peshakova, of chi. CAtiO, FIELD DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS. HAS CALLED MEETING TO BE HELD IN GREENCASTLE NEXT MONDAY
Putnam county women are called upon to organize a League of Women Voters. Miss Liba Peshakova of Chicago, Field Director of the National Leag. ue of omen Voters was in Greencastle on Wednesday and arranged for a meeting to be held on Monday after, noon at 2:30 o’clock in the assembly room of the court house, at which time a n orfanizatio n will be perfect, ed. The league is strictly non.partisan and all Putnam county women are invited to attend the, meeting and affiliate with the movement. Among the Greencastle women who have signified their desire to assist in the organization are Mr? Frank Donner, Mrs O F. Overstreet. Mrs. Ferd Lucas, Mrj Neelv O'Hair, Mrs. Oleve Thomas, Miss Era Bence. Mrs. P. Al!e n an,: Mi«s Ella Wright.
PROBABILITY IS THAT CASE WILL BE DISMISSED WHEN COURT OPENS UNDER JUDGE ANDERSON THIS FALL—AC. QCITTAL OF SACKETT IN ( RIM INAL CASE LEA\ ES I I I 1 LE GROUND FOR HOPES OF VERDICT
Uonv.r. and daughters jmy with jI-'s. Walter Aier of Coatesville visited jVirgii Ackr last week lits, Julian Petro spent iti at tins. Petra’s. 'in i.ay Robinson and 'Fiiunote ipent Sutiaay at i'l, \irgil Ader attended a saoastle Saturuaj and it tows and calves, s lent and Miss Carrie .of E&;r,bridge spent Tues. Ills W. W. Boardman. Mrs Alva Gowin ano dau to Brazil Sunday and hy with relatives, llz and Virgil Ader help. Ifc for Dr. F. C Collings
inning spent
iapolis
Saturday
Virgil Ader anj Miss 1 the cit y •
7 ARE SLAIN IN BELFAST RIOT
BELFAST, Aug. 30.—Five per. sons were killed today during the re newed rioting in the city, and at least forty five others were wound ed some of them seriously Nu_ merous cases of gunshot wounds are under treatment in the hospitals. Tonight’s fighting came to a sen>a tional climax, at 9 o’clock, when a party of men armed with rifles in. stead of revolvers entered Stanhope street and opened fire upon the
crowd
During the day in the fa rtory dis. tricts there was considerable fighting especially this, afternoon, when ship, yard workers on the way home, pass ing through York street, came un. der the guns of snipers. Sniping op. erations continued in this district up til late in the evenng and there was desultory firing also in the center of
The case of Miss Hilda Varney, a former DePauw University girl who was accidentally shot by Wililam P. Sacket here last winter, which case was filed in the Federal court, in which she asks $5,00 damages of Mr. Sackett, is s^ill pending in the Fed.
errd court.
The cage will be called early during the fall term of the Federal court, hut it is probable that ^he case will be dismissed and never come to trial The acqudtal <?f Mr. Sackett in the criminal suit filed in the Put. ram Circuit court, leaves little grounds on which Miss Varney can hone to secure a damage judgement. Attorneys an,| others who h gd the testimony in the criminal trial agree almost as a unit that on the testi. many introduced Miss Varney has lit. tie hope of securing a verdict for
damages
were among the guests at Thomas William, abridge Sunday evening.
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McFarlane of Floyd tp. Valter Huffman for a as,) neighbors of Mr. »l Steele offer their sym. to family since word has son William losing his sccider.t of the dirigible
Lie on Floors of Cars
In the course of the evening per. sons who haj to use tram cars be.
^iiler attended teacher's! came so nervous that they lay upon 'Greencastle on Friday 1 Vhe floors of the cars to avoid poss.
ible bullets
Up to tonight there had been sev I en deaths as a result of the rioting. Heavy firing continued until the cur.
few hour
Street fighting became particular, ly violent after 1 o’clock today, the I dinner hour at ninety factories in side streets radiating from Duncairn Gardens and North Quee n street.
A large crowd attended the Nelson reunion at Somerset last Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Pace ,Ray_ mend Flint and family and Mrs. Ray. mond Philip? and little son spent last Sunday with their parents Mr and Mrs Herman Flint. Little Margery Ferrand who has been Quite ill of scarlet fever is im. proving. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Glidewell of Indianapolis and Miss Nellie Glide, well of Puthamville recently visit. Mrs. Martha Ferrand and family Miss Helen O’Hair returned home Sunday evening from Syracuse, Ind. Where she has been for two weeks camping at the lakes with Ray Hillis and family Mr. and Mrs. Claud' Wallace and son, JJr. and Mrs Minnick and Ray MinnVk of Danville ,Ind.. were Sun. day visitors at Henry Beamans Mrs Raymond Phillips and son. Eugene of Valparaiso are visiting her brother, Raymond Flint and fam ily. Mrs. Joan Glidewell is visiting Mrs. Martha Ferran ( j this week Mrs Mary Stevenson of Cham, paign. 111 visited at C. K Halls the latter- part of the week and attend. e,| the Nelson reunion. Miss Mildrel O’Hair left last Sat. urday for Missouri Valley, Iowa where she wil teach this winter
CAMP OIX UNIT PREPARES FOR FIELD SERVICE
26TH REGIMENT, FIRST DIVISION UNDER ( OT. T M. ANDERSON ORDERED EIJI IPPEI) FOR IM. MEDIATE DUTY — ORDERS MEN TO DISPERSE—PRESI. DENT ISSUES PROCLAMA. TION DEMANDING PEACEFUL RETIREMENT BY THURSDAY NOON
DISNEY ADMITS
LEAVING BURNINGlSPECTACOLAR IRON IN HOUSE! CAPTURE OF A
FARM ESCAPE
FARM HAND, QUESTIONED BY STATE FIRE MARSHALL RE. GARDING THE BURNING OF BERBER I AM.HE FARM HOI SR MAKES CONFESSION OPFACTS
Browning and daughter K? visiting relatives in
(feweek
to Metz and childrem ? with Mrs. Ruth Ader
Scanning com.
Vhue of Mario n Town
totug relatives here last
and Mr and Mrs.
Ldison township were
in this vicinity one ‘nd family spent Sun.
Hb* Shoemaker’s n or+ -’'‘ I
SOUTH RUSSELL
0
Sutherlin and wife
visited
McGaughey and
Hugman who pur. toher'shome place, mov.
tot
i'toajer and Lemmon of *"iwpanied by their fam
visitors at Tom
't'niay
has not
’ ^‘erintendent 1 !.!‘ J 80,1001 hoard ha«
Section of a sup ,r cee d Prof E I ^ lle board
Dod‘, or ; Thls < ‘ an he th« . n . has agreed to C;: ,>f 8011001 ln V i n ' ,tart « (1 for the k, ^ Derm anently f or
honners villa
Witt
Sunday with Lafe,
family.
Otha Bales and wife were in Indt. anapolis Thursday of last week from Monday until _).’*MRDUWY Mary Y’ialet McGaughey visited 'from Monday until Thursday of last week with her aunt, Mrs Dean
Webster
Miss Denna Cope is staying with
Mrs. Otha Bales
Mrs. Quince Wilson and daughter i May called on Mrs. Guy Sutherlin
Monday afternoon
Earl Sutherlin attended at Greencastle last week.
Will McGaughey and family took dinner Sunday with Elmer Clodfel. ters , ** Jimmie Cope an^ family visited Albert Cope and family Sunday ,
institute
CHILDREN MUST ATTEND SCHOOL
CAMP DIX, N J. Aug 30.—Ord. ers were received from Washington ton today by the 26th regiment of the 1st division in camp here to pre. pare immediately for field duty. While the orders contained no spec, ific instructions, officers at the camp believe that it means they would he hel,] ln Readiness for duty in the mining fields of West Virgin,
ia.
The 26th regiment is commanded by Col T. M Anderson. It has been recruited up to nearly its full quota and is one of the most strongly org. anized units of the regular army Virtually all its non commissioned off! cers are veterans of the world war. The regiment includes a full com. pany of machine gunners which also is believed put in readiness to move at a moment’s notice
Joe Disney, a farm tenant, who re • side,] i n the Herbert Allee farm ten. I ant house, east of Cloverdale at the tinYe the house was hurried, when ques tioned Tuesday by the State fife mar shall regardigg the burning of the
‘BRAZIL POLICE FORCE, 'FIVE STRONG, TAKE I’AKI IN \R_ REST OF WALTER BRADLEY, COLORED. AGE lfr~STOLE HORSE AND BUGGY AND THEN DROVE INTO HANDS OF PO. LICE
Officer S A. > WASHINGTON, Aug . 30.-Presi. the following dent Harding, in a proclamation, late school atten. j today commanded all persons engaged
i n “unlawful and insurrectiunary pro
County Attendance Vermillion has given statement regarding
dance:
Every child between the age of 7! eedings’’ in the Virginia coal fields and 16 years, unless especially provid to disperse and retire peacefully to ed. shall attend the public schools or thei- homes before noon on Thursday
other schools in the district Sept. 1 taught in the English lan.
Brazil police ofticeus, fiva. strong,
, , , a took part in a niost thrilling capture, house, admitted to the officers, that 0 . ... . r I of .M alter Bradley, age 18, a State ,
tzrHcsvt I-wa Iz^tt /a n t h q rvwAvn i n O’ rvt 1 farm escape ^Tuesday night at near 11
o’clock.
Bradley left the farm Tuesday af. ternoon and got to ’Staunton that night. There he stole a horse and buggy, but becoming confused in his directions started back toward Brazil 2 The theft of the horse was diseov erej soon after it was stolen and the Brazil police were notified that the thief was headed that way Five policemen were waiting for Bradley when he entered tow n but on the'Command to halt he drove all the faster. Some shots were fired at him but they did not stop him. Finally, the horse stumble^ and fell Then Bradley left the buggy and ran to a deserted house. The officers surround ed the house and soon captured the runaway.
when he left on the morning of the fire he left a buring gasoline iron sitting on the dresser in the house. He said he did not think of the burning iro n until quite a while af. ter he left th£ house an^ that when he did think of it he realized that it might set the house on fire, but that he did not go back to the house. He said that he had had trouble with Mr. Allee early in the spring an,] that he was half starved and sick Ha said that he made up his mind that he would not go back to the house and that if it did burn he could collect his $300 insurance on
his household furniture.
Mr. Disney said that his wife knew nothing of the circumstances regard ing the fire Mrs. Disney also was questioned by the fire marshall but denied any knowledge of the con.
flagration.
Just what, if any action, will be taken against Disney is not known, So far no offidavit has been sworn out against him. but it is possible that the insurance company may pro
serute him
guage which are ope n to the inspec. tion of the local and state attendance and school officials. Every child shall attend the school the entire time the schools are in session in the school district in which said child reside. Each parent or guardian of any minor child is held legally responsi. ble for any violation of this law by such child or ward. Only ope day notice shall be given of any viola, tion of this and after this notice, if the violation is continued, then such parent or guardian will be liable un.
der the law
Unless there is prompt compliance the administration Ipt it be known that martial law would be declared and Gove-nor Morgan's appeal for
Federal troops granted.
WEDNESDAY’S MARKETS
LIMESTONE SPREADING DEMONSTRATION SEPT. 1
Indianapolis receipts—Hogs 7,000; cattle DO*; sheep and lambs. 600. Hog prices were 35c to 50c lower at the opening of the local live stock maYket today Hogs weighing up to 225 pounds brought $9.50; up to 250
VETO POWDER FOR GOVERNOR
ALL LIVING EX.GOV ERNORS MAKE APPEAL OR RATIFICA. TION OF AMENDMENT
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At the regular meting of the Ro. tary club hel,] Wednesday at noon a t \ the Christian church, Major Martin ^Shute of DePauw university, told in. terestingly of his work during the summer at Camp Knox, where he was connected with the R O. T C. and Citizen’s Military Training camp.
Judge James P Hughes went to , Crawfordsville Wednesday on le. j j gal liusiness He intimated, before
leaving that if he got
his work i n time, he might go out to the Fair rounds and enjoy the Craw, fordsville fair and horse races.
There will be a limestone meeting and demonstration at the farm of Milo West, one and one half mile south of Greencastle on the Cloverdale road Thursday, September 1st at 1 o’clock A speaking program has been arranged for and the remainder of the time will be spent watching the spreading of limestone by the Holden End.Gate Limestone Spreader on demonstration plots, which
iai.cti, 1 plots will be on the Bloomington
through with I Roa(J>
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 31.—Cover nor McCray and his four predecessors in office joined in an appeal for the ratification at the electio,, Sept. 6 of
pounds. $9.25; heavier kinds at $8 75 ' amendment to the state constitution to $9.00 Pigs‘sol d at $9.00 do^vn, 1 permitting the Governor to veto indi. sows at $7 00 down Up to 10 a mi villual items 'n appropriation bills, about 5,000 hogs had bee n sold ' j Besides Gov McCray, the appeal Cattle were barely steady. Calves ■ was 8 >Kned by former Gov James P, were 50c to $1 00 ' lower, the best , Goodrich, Samuel M. Ralston. Thom, kinds selling at $12.00. Selected j ** Marsha!! and Winfield T Durbin,
lambs lambs were quoted at $7 50 !
In addition to signing the wpeaL former Governor Marshall sent a
William Mahoney of Lafayette, a .former Grencastle resident was here Wednesday. f fWfWf
Many Greencastle people are plan, ning to atttend the Crawfordsville fair Thursday and Friday Reports are that the fair is the beet that has been held there in many years
A large crowd met at the Presby. terian Manse Tuesday in honor of Prof, and Mrs. Dodson and Dorothy Everybody regretted keenly the loss of these people to the community, but
Harold Phipps, who will teach this i' W^ram from Petoskey, Mich., say.
ing the- power given a governor by the proposed amendment would be
year in Elmdale, Kas., will leave Thursday He will drive through in his car Royal Davis, who will teach in Glaseo, Kas , left Wednesday for
Kansas
:
sincerely wishd them the greatest of 1 Mrs
success in their new field ~ castle’s loss is Connersville’s
the greatest check upon extravagance
1 can think of ”.
The appeal in part said;
“We believe this amendment to be j in the interest of efficiency and econ.
Mrs Jennie Smythe and daughter, j omy. Our experience justifies us in the
Mrs. Mort Dial, of Lockport, N. Y., ’at 'ment that the proper exercise of left We«tnesdav» for Martinsville this power, if given to the governor
Smythe has taken rooms for the I would result in a large saving to the
Green, j winter at the Home Lawn hotel Mr. j State of Indiana every session of the
gain JDiall will join them i n Martinsville 1'legislature.”