Herald-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 September 1921 — Page 7
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FRIDAY,
SEPTEMBER 2. 1921
THE HERALD-DEMOCRAT, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA
WORTHINGTON DEAD F Hayi>^ esident l 0f I tb ! ^ f Trust company tiled at ,rtfc Twedr.esc:ay at his home at ;30 “ • ffTrf ,i»' i,"" c *“* J th< ' »» ^ ,hi> <T ' id ‘ y \ ^ in City cemetery. ^ at Point Commerce that Franklin Hays, was bom, ^ 15 1855 He lived on the C . farm and’attended school un. , matriculated at DePauw Umv. " Ht . was active in student !« ar.d was a member of the D < E fraternity. While at college, gays courted and won Miss Jose. p Hayfl daughter of James McD 8 clothier and leader of affairs feencastle He was active in ; f 5 at one time serving as mayor ter the marriage Mr and Mrs. Hays came to Worthington, liv. [or a' time in the property where White now resi(ies i Later they ived to a beautiful and comfort, farm home at Point Commerce the place where he had been ■ Hays is survived by his wid. i son Harry and two brothers, i and Sam nong those from out of town came here for the funeral are ad Mrs H McD. Hays, Newark Mrs Mary Patrick, Robinson, ijs; Mr. and Mrs W. B Harrah, non. Mrs P. K Buskirk and Buskirk, Indianapolis, Mrs_ iel Grimes Brazil and Charles i, Indianapolis. —Worthington
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BRAZIL Indiana. August 26 .— William McGarr, of Coalmont, me to the city late yesterday aft. .loon and notified Sheriff Wallace ‘•t he had completed his plans to ” certain prominent Braz.il attor. jt ar.d had come to the city to try out his plans H ; object in notifying the sheriff his plans, he stated, was to save . officer any trouble in finding the irty responsible for the murders vd he wante ( ] the sheriff to know t if certain prominent Brazilians "ce killed he would he the guilty ny and the sheriff would know . to arrest and would not have to any time trying to solve any Wer mysteries The sheriff thanked McGarr for i murder program ar.d informed (Garr that in return for his kind. ‘ Of would be equally liberal and md furnish McGarr with free and room at his institution un ■wh a time as the State could , '• tare of him. , HcGarr wanted to decline the sher •’’hospitality as he had com] -ted his plans to snuff out the * of f° ur prominent Brazil at. -w? at once, but the official in tf l1)i MrGarr locked up as Cancerous lunatic •'Garr ha-, a fancied grievance a. - the Brazil attorneys as a re. ‘U. a Jaw suit in the Hay Circuit ’■ " ich Was decide,) against him. man was examined this after. ., an insandv commission com f 0f J )r » H. M Pell, George w] 1 r ' 1 Hilley and Esquire ' ' a, ° 8 - He was adjudged in. ‘'.-Brazil Times. RN STALK SHOWS Ifi TO 1 THEORY , T j!* e of Us who remember the “16 ca mpaign arguments of 1896 Z" tha ‘ theor y. long Since for. itd ,n a sta 'k of corn V ! r 'itshall, northwest ; J' ami displayed in the * “tore window j ears , ” corn there are six] ear s of corn Brazil Times. hecomes " 0R ROBERTS WINS ? N 'j A STa TE CAPITOL, r atir n Honn Roberts, t f ° r Ma ^'- tambee ,; f Sh0U ,l receive the high /- in the !,J t eS cast #or the the SP H '° n ’ t * ie P erso n re. > would 0 h n p <, , eh6St riunlber of °® c « accord- ecalIy ele oted to whn J inR t0 ooostitutional ^'■tthe ca,rTv en . makiripa Tion i, . Thl8 of the - “Pinion of TT 1 the ^^t of ' Uhh ^ing M r 0r p’ V K GeneraI U - tc hold th,]' Robe,- t 8 ineligi. utility w fflce untler th «“ 1921 ' ,1 of violaf 011 a< ’ f ’ 0unt °f his con ° f Feflpra] la - ^ of 'noret h ^ edera ' Pris ° n for ttlan s'* months^ f in Iowa"* T' 1 cbl!(ir on are vis. L fron, , R ° n aT1,i his wife ^*e (k ohiropractic school ^ BeiiT'r b Beri <i with^K ' 8 v '* itin g in I 11 h, ‘ r ^ n and family.
GREENCASTLE’S LOSS I n the resignation of Prof E C. j Dodson, we have lost the sort of'citi zen Greencastle can ill afford to lose, j Much is being said these days of the I high quality of service he has render 1 «. to our youth The majority speak of the improved conditions of our school buildings and point to the High School building in the con. j struction of which he spent himself j without reserve in 1916 and 1917 , Many are mindful of the fact that he carried through that work 0 f con. struction and subsequent re.organiza tion when he and his teachers stag gered under the adde<) burdens impos ed hy war. Some speak of improved and perfected educational methods It is only the more thoughtful howl ever, who are voicing the deeper sig nificance of Prof. Dodson’s, service here. A man right minded in all re. lations of life, devoted to his fam] ily, and to his church, attending to his business modestly and effectively yet one, whose qujet dignity, honor hn ( i integrity could be counted on in the community’s emergencies, such a *me could not fail to impress himself upon the minds of his pupils But Prof. Dodson has done more than this He came here in the fall of T916 embued with the importance in educational work of positive instead of negative methods in molding the character of adolescent youth. Un. ostentatiously but persistently he has provided clean sport and whole, some recreation until he has trans] formed the environment of the boys and girls of High School age in Greencastle. Much credit is due to Prof Dodson’s teachers an,; to those citizens who saw the need and made the gymnasium and the High School Auditorium a reality, hut they could have accomplished little had they not had for a Superintendent of Educa. tion a man of broad vision and dog. ged perseverence. An Appreciative Parent
GLIDEWELL ACCEPTED AS PRINCIPAL The Greencastle School Board, whK-h, immediately it received the re signation of Joseph Shock as prin. i oral of the Greencastle High school I offeree the position to Ivan S Glide well, w h0 taught last year’ i n th^ Washington, Indiana, schools, have received the accep tance of Mr. Glide well The accpetance was delayed pend, mg a communication by Mr. Glide, we’l with Wisconsin school authori] nes. rip had bee n engaged to serve as Principal in a W 7 isconsi n school and upon receipt of the offer from the local boar d wired to Wisconsin ask to be relieved from his contract TW0 billed in a plane MISHAP NEAR WARSAW
U.S. SIGNS PACT THAT REJECTS LEAGUE SCHEME
WASHINGTON, Aug. 25,-The treaty with Germany which was sign e,; today i n Berli*. was made public tonight by the State Department It puts into force the economic repara, tions, military and various other pro. visions of the unratified treaty at Aersailles, but provides specifically that the United States shall not be bound by the covenant of the League of Nations or by any other numerat ed parts of the Versailles settlement
WEST—EDMONSON
A very pretty but simple wedding was that of Bable E West to Chas. B Edmonson, both of Clayton, which M, a . celebrated last Wednesday eve at 8:00 o’clock at the home of the bride, Dr. W. W. Sweet of Greencastle kifficiating. Preceding the wedding 'ceremonies, Mrs C E. Kelley -ang “O Promise Me’’, and also played the Mendelssohn Wedding March and “Heart’s and Flowers” during the ceremony The bride wore a gown of white Canton crepe, a veil caught with orange blossoms an,) carried a show er bouquet of Bridal roses Mrs. Edmonson is a graduate of Clayton high school and attended De Pauw university. She is a member of the Psi Chi Omega Sorority and Fire Fly club of Clayton M r Ed. monson graduated from Purdue uni versity in 1920 He is a member of the Alpha Gamma Rho and Phi Delta Kappa fraternities The young couple will be at home in Rossville
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Elizabeth Hillis to Mary Alice Cox lot in Greencastle $.1,850 Lorenza Dodd to Fred Todd, lot in Greencastle, $1,275 Frank J. Long to Mary Lend Wor. rell, land in Greencastle tp. $1. Trustee Marion Tp , to Arnia Phjl. Mps, Ian,; in Marion township $120.50 John E O'Neal et us to Samantha O’Neal, land i n Warent tp $1 Harry B. Gough to Herman Beck, lot in Greencastle $1,850. Charles Meikel to Susan Keater. ■son, lot in Greencastle $1,900 William G. Hoag to Henry Rick, ardt. land in Clinton tp. Rhallum Perry to Paul F. Priest, land in Marion tp Lucy F_ Sharp to Edith F. Sharp, lot in Greencastle. Edith F Sharp to Elmer Sharp, lot in Greencastle. Paul F. Priest to Shallum Perry, lot in Greencastle $3,200. Sarah Branham to Trustee of Clover dale tp. lot in Cloverdale $1 Trustee of Cloverdale tp. to Isaac Sanclair .lot in Cloverdale $2,550 Lonnie Clodfelter to James B Har, ris. lot in Russellville James B Harris to Addie t’odfel. ter, lot in Russellville Reuben Walls to Simon Jones, land in Jackson tp , $700 John Huffman to Stella Huffman, al, land in Floyd tp.
WARSAW, Ind., August 26 M L Merrill, formerly a lieutenant inthe l nited States air service and Jack Rodeheaver, age eighteen, broth er of Homer Rodeheaver, song leader for Billy Sunday, who have been at Winona Lake nea r here, were killed a * 5:30 o’clock Thursday afternoon when a n airplane in which they were riding fell to the ground from a height of approximately 1.500 feet Rodeheaver, it is said was piloting the plane at the time of the acci dent under the direction of Merrill] who was i n the rear seat When the plane plunged forward. Merrill who evidently was not strapped in, fell out of the machine His body was found in a field near the Pennsylvan. ia railroad tracks. The plane, which was out of con. trol. sailed along for a half mile and crashed to the groun,i in a cornfield just north of Winona Lake. ,
BROOKS ADMITS SLAYING FARMER
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind , Aug 26 Ben Brooks. 36 years ol ( j o'f Jackson county, Indiana, confessed today at the Indiana reformatory that he kill, ed Amazona B. Montgomery, a farm er four miles east of Seymour, Ind. last Tuesday between noon and 1 o’clock. Brooks said he filed in self, defense after a n argument in which he was threatened and that his fa. ther Sylvester Brooks and his two brothers Lyman and Denney Brooks are not implicated i n the killing. The weak point in Brook’s tale, according to authorities, are that he is able to give n o satisfactory ex. planation of why Montgomery went to the lonely thicket a mile and a half from his chicken farm, where the body was found, and where, Brooks maintains, the shooting oc. currd, nor of why it was necessary to kill a little dog that followed Mont gomery wherever he went. The ani. mal was found beside the body its head blown off by a shotgun. Made to Superintendent The confession was made to Sup. erintendent George A. H Shideler and Capt Frank A. Miles, assistant: supernitendent of the reformatory. The four members of the Brooks family were brought here Thursday night from Brownstown, the county seat of Jackson county as refugees from mob violence The men were first taken to the Clark county jail hy Sheriff Otis Hays of Brownstown but when Superintendent Shideler learmed that the mob jnight follow the men here from Jackson county he consented to have them brought to the reformatory. The officers left in too much of a hurry to obtain com. mitntent papers and it was said these woul ( j be sent later The formal charge against the men is not murder hut chicken stealing
EXPECT DAFGHERTY TODAY TO REQUEST PARDON FOR DEBS
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Attor. ney General Daugherty is expected to lay before President Harding to. morrow a recommendation that Eug. ene V. Debs, five times Socialist can didate for President, be paroled from the Federal prison at Atlanta, Ga., where he was committe,) during the war for violation of the espionage law It is known that the attorney gen eral has made an exhaustive study of the Debs case and those who are fam iliar with the opinion that he was prepared expect it to be considered a masterpiece of its kind While the attorney general expects to discuss the Debs case with the President tomorrow it may be some time before executive action o n the re commendation is taken There is no direct authority for stating that Mr Daugherty will make a recommenda tion favorable to Debs, yet there are reasons for believeing that he will propose his parole. Nothing is known as to the President’s attitude.
Mr. an,] Mrs J W. Duncan of Indi anapolis came over to attend the fun ifceral of Mrs. Florence John Monday
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A caravan consisting of five auto mobiles hit town yesterday. The cars were maned by gypsies and the pas. senger list included gypsies of all sort am, condition In age they ranged from babes in arms to men a. bout 80 years old. The women were clad in true gypsy raiment with plenty of color and a generous dis. play of gaudy jewelry. The Order of the Bath had been conferred o n none of the party so far as could be no. ticed. The ban d struck town about noon and began a door to door can. vass of the business section Short ly afterward they were seen leaving the city with officer Si Rogers in their wake.—Crawfordsville Review
GEORGE DENIEi
THE IRISH PLEA
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2 BODIES FOUND
IN ZR.2 WRECK
i Tl'KKS DEFEAT ONE WING OF (.REEK FORCES
from the wreck of the ZR.2 late To^ ritrM day of two more bocies, those of Al' ° f f ^ army ’ Wh ' ch Was attack bert L. Loftin, an American mechan A W the Sakar ’ a ri ^ ic, and Flight Sergeant A P Martin L Miri0r l nie i t Wltb ,lisast * r ami of the British crew and the near re ^ b ^ n c ^Pletely severed from the covery of another, which slipped from Z\n Z . ZZt ^ the mass of wreckage just after it "*• t0 & d i‘J )atch from the cor -
was brought to the surface, gave hope to the searchers and officials that they would soon be able to lo. cate other missing members of the
crew.
respondent of I’Information at Con.
stantinople
The dispatch adds that the entire Greek army is thus placed in a most difficult stategical position. The
As the salvagers were continuing w ^ ^ t0 their work, another brief chapter in ^ r, * nty ° f » mmunit ‘ on
News Agency said the Greeks in
positions along the river The dispatch atkled that
oner’s inquest on the bodies of Lieut
Marcus H. Esterly of Washington, Ram tne Ureeks in D C ; Lieut Charle- G T f As ' a Mmor ha(l com e ln contact w : th
LONDON, Aug. 26. Davi d Lloyd i Newburyport, Mass , and Lieut R. 5? ^ ™* in forces of the J urks ea?t of George. British prime minister, to. J Montague of the British perionnel' lbe * akana r ' ver an d tjat in the Salt cay sent a prompt rejoinder to the | was opened. ' esert they had found the Turks in
letter of Eamon De Valera, “presi. ’ Brief Session Held
dent of the Irish republic,”’ which re • The session, however, was a brief !V 0U ' , , ,
jected the British government’s: one and after the taking of ? 0 me e\i ^ ^ b ^ n Rharp sk,rm,|!hef!
.cm- .M t peace in Ireland. ; dence, adjournment was taken until The premier’s note constitute,, a, Oct 4. The formality enabled the firm reiteration of the Government’s | coroner to issue burial rrtificates sc previous standpoint, that Ireland that (he bodies could be taken away
..„,i ’ Farther inquiry is impossible at pre
sent owing to the lack of evidence and the fact that the most important witness Flight Lieutenant A H Wann, is still in a hospital- where he must remain for another fortnight.
could not be permitted to withdraw from the empire He said he thought he had made it clear in conversation .and previous communications that the government “can discuss no set. tlement which involves refusal on the part of Ireland to accept a free, equal and loyal partnership in the British commonwealth under one sov
ereign ”
Lloyd George in concluding his note still held open the door for ne. eotiations with DeValera and his colleagues, if they are prepared to ex amine how far the government’s con. sideration “can he reconciled with the aspirations you represent.” He declare,j the government could not prolong a mere exchange- of notes*”
SOW SMALL GRAIN FIGHT CHINt H 15I'd SOME OTHER WAY
LAFAYETTE , Aug. 27.—Farmers whose corn was infested with chinch bugs during the outbreaks the last summer are urged not to keep from sowing wheat and rye this fall i n or. der to avoid damage next year, in a statement issued today by director G I Christie of the Agricultural Experi ment Station. The statement was made in response to a number of in. quiries in from throughout the state many nie n thinking to lesse n the bug damage next year by eliminating small grain crops, the hatching place
for chinch bugs.
“We believe that it is not advise, able to discontinue growing wheat, barley and rye because it is difficult to secure universal adoption of the plan and unless universally adopted it probably would give only mediocre results,“ reads the statement “Fur. thermore, this would result in a de. creased acreage of clover which of course is not at all adviseable. Be. cause of these facts, the station does
MORE THAN TWO INCHES OF RAIN FELL SATURDAY 0 With a precipitation of 2.32 inches of rain, between 5 o’clock and 11 o’clock Saturday morning, Green, castle was visited with a reeor d breaker rainfall. The rain was the heaviest which has fallen here in months. There was littip wind with the rain
ASK RETURN OF DR. CLIPPINGER TO LOCUST ST
District Superintendent W H. (Wylie conducted the fourth quarterly (conference of this confernce year, for Locust Street M. E. Church Friday night. J E. Sharp acted as seere.
'tary.
Reports show the past year to have been a very good one and progress had bee n made in the several depart ments of the church. The Sunday 'School is far in advance of two years «go, the home department which was foot organized then, runs about eigh. ty. The subscriptions made will clear the $1,000 debt in due time, a treat success for these distresses fi_ nancial times Maple Heights Mission is out of debt and in the best condition for years. Repairs are to he made on the building soon The Sunday school is now self supporting. Mr Grace Black is superintendent and pastor in
charge.
Jesse McAnally was re.elected chairman of the Boar,; of Stewards. J E Sharp, Recording Steward; Miss Nina Cook, Financial Secretary Louis Stevens. Treasurer and Miss
not advie eliminating grain crops in — - ...... ... the fight ^gainst the chinch bugs, hub/ Etta Adams, Sacramental Steward
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it seems desireable jto reduce the acreage in small grains somewhat in the heavier infected section The chinch bugs can be controlled if farm ers will plan to burn the places where the bugs are hibernating this winter, and plan next season to adopt unhesi tatingly the cresote barrier line re. commended by the station, before the bugs migrate from grain to corn.” Sowing of oats next spring in corn stubble which is badly infest, ed will do as this crop usually is not. up high enough to make it attractive as a place for laying eggs, when this period comes for the chinch hugs Sowing of spring wheat is not ad] viseable under any circumstances. The chinch hug outbreak wj* bad in most'of the counties over the state last year and the farmers are evinc. ing great interet in the fight against
it
RECALL OF U. S. TROOPS ON RHINE IS FORECAST WASHINGTON, August 27—With drawal of the American forces on the Rhine is axpected to be considered seriously by the administration once the peace treaty between the United States and Germany has bee n formal ly ratified. The view is understood to be'that there would then be no necessity of burdening Germany with the support of the forces for which she is obliged to pay. There was no (consideration of the* subject in the negotiations leading up to the treaty (to far as is known and whatever de. cision is reached will be solely that of the American Government According- to latest figures there are 14.000 American troops in the army of occupation at a maintenance cost of nearly $1,000,000 a month
The meeting of the Child’s Wei. fare committee which was to have been held Tuesday afternoon at the Public Library has been indefinitely postponed.
The several committees for the year
were appointed.
Eeslie Haymaker. George Shepard and C. H Tuttle were made new tru. tees, Theodiro Harris, Janies I. Nel. son, E. R Hamrick, C F Mathes. W. H. Evans and Glen Badger were add. ed to the Board of Stewards W. W. Sellars was made district steward C. F Mathes, reserved. Theodore Crawley was made Trier of Appeals The conference asked for the re. turn of W T . H. Wylie as district sup. 'erintendent and H C Clippinger as Pastor of Locust Street M E. Church
for another year
The resuest will be presented to Bishop Hughes next month at Con.
nersville
ROBBERS DRINK, GET NOISY; FLEE IN A HAIL OF BI LLETS LEAD IN CHICAGO
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CHICAGO, Aug 28-After an after noon spent in raiding the vaults of
a safety deposit company i n the Ma. er hood
sonic Temple, in which more than
The Greencastle banks will close all day Labor Day
Mr and Mr O. O. Dobbs and children attended the Adams family reunion at Belle Union on Sunday.
the tragedy was written when 'the ccr , A **** ? Ut **tmt* 7 oner’s inonest on tbn r frorn Athens the Official Greek
with the Turks in this region for sev 'era! days, but the Ottoman forces had been defeated in all the encoun.
ters.
FORGERS IN PRISON CARRY ON SPECIALTY AND OBTAIN $14,000
OSSINING, N. Y Aug. 28.—Con. victs who dealt in spurious checks before becoming inmates of Sing Sing prison have continued to ply their specialty behind prison walls, it was learned today when it was re. vealed that checks totaling $14,000 had been forged by prisoners assign ed to office duty Three men have been placed i n soli tary consnement and Warden Lawes has begun an investigation. Blanks torn from the back of the prison check books were said to have been
used
All the forgeries took place within the past eight weeks. Seven or eight of the forged checks were said to have been returned to the prison, paid and cancelled
WAGE CONFLICT AT CLOSE RANGE IN EARLY MORN
STATE POLICE HEADQUARTERS, ETHEL, \V. Va., Aug. 28.—Five men tfell in an encounter early this mom ing between a n armed band and state troopers on Beach creek, Logan coun ty, near the Boone.Logan county line, Capt. J. R. Brockus, commanding state police and deputy sheriffs, re. ported this afternoon There was much shooting on eith. er side, he said. Whether all the men who fell were killed, Capt. Brockus was unable to state. He added that after his men had seen the fal. len picked up and carried away by their companions, the state troopers and deputies retire,] because some of their number were in civilian clothes and it was diffichlt to distin. Euish them in the darkness from the men comprising the armed band. The clash was at close range, ae_ cording to Capt. Brockus’s report, the men firing at each other whe n only eight to ten feet apart. Prior to the fight Capt Brockus said, eleven pris oners ha,; been taken by the patrol, ing party, which set out from Lo. gan yesterday ostensibly toward Blajr and Sharpies. Four of the pris oners escaped (luring the engagement it was said, and one of them is be. lieved to have been killed
WAGE CUT LAID BEFORE RAIL UNIONS FOR VOTE CLEVELAND, August 29 —The question of accepting or rejecting the recent $400,000,000 wage cut order, ed by the railroad labor hoard has (been laid before the 409.000 members -ef the four big rail brotherhoods and the Switchmen’s Unio n of North Am. erica, with the mailing of strike ba! lots.
The ballots revealed a differr^-e of
opinion among the chief executives of the five organizations, the Broth.
of Locomotive Engineer’s,
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
$1,000,000 m currency was said to be an(1 Enginemen, Order of Railway stored, three robbers becams intoxi. conductors and the switchme n using eated, made so much noise that they a j oint ballot, while the Brotherhood attracted the attent.o n of a passer 0 f Railroad Trainmen sent out a sep
by and then escaped through a hail of ara te ballot
bullets from the pistols of twenty five patrolment and detectives early
tonight
Behind them they left two hand, cuffed watchmen a hal femptied hot. tie of whiskey and a large hammer used to open fiftee n safety deposit boxes Hundreds of pedestrians wit nessed the chase through the down, town district which ended when the robbers vanished i n an alley Appar. ently none of them were injured by the bullets
FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE AGAINST URA C CUMMINGS
Bertha M. Morgan Cummings, wife of Ura C Cummings, a Cloverdale man, who several months ago was convicted of the theft of a n auto, has through her attorneys Hurst & Stoes.
sell filed suit for divorce.
Mrs. Cummings says in her com. plaint-'that they were marrie,] in September. 1919 and separated Nov. ember 4 of the same year and that they have not lived together since After being sent to the Reforma, tory at Jeffersonville, Cummings be. came mentally unbalanced and was sent to the hospital for the criminal
(insane. ^