Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 98, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 August 1925 — Page 17

MEMBERS OF TOWN BOARD ARE ELECTED • However, Two - Thirds of Present Body Has Been Appointed. Beeph Grove is governed by an elective town board of three members, one from each of the wards of the corporation. At present, Willard Tscen, boilermaker in the Big Four shops, is the only member who was elected. He is chairman of the board. The second member is W. S. Newcomer, who operates the leading lumber yard of the town. He was appointed by Ticen recently, iollowing the resignation of Gilbert McFarland and Frank Stuck, members who started the bus line to Indianapolis. Name Third Man Newcomer and Tioep then appointed L. C. Dukes, retired, as third member of the board. The various moves in reorganizing the board was attended by much excitement, due to the bus line-traction company scrap which is dividing the town. Stuck and McFarland had to resign from the town board before the public service commission would grant their bus line, the South Side Motor Coach Company, permission to operate. Would Regulate Russels As board members they would ao had the say-so in regulating eir bus lines inside the corporate limits, it was argued. The board meets in the ancient little town hall, which the Beech Grove Civic Association, newly organized, says must be with anew building in the near future. CITIZEN FEARS SWALLOW ACT Sees Advantages of Being Outside City. One of the prominent citizens of Beech Grove fears his town will be swallowed up by Indianapolis as

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Baptist Congregation Flourishing

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Beech Grove Baptist Church.

The Rev. Lewis Grafton, Indianapolis, is pastor of the Beech Grove congregation of the Baptist

soon as Indianapolis “learns the truth about us.” He is unalterably opposed to such swallowing up. "Os course, there are advantages we could have If we were In Indianapolis we don’t have now. For instance, we could be controlled politically by Bill Armitage or George Coffin, or both. We could also have city police stationed here to catch the city bandits and we would have the privilege of being arrested and being tried in city police court, which we can’t do now unless we go to town.” "Then we could be under the city school board, which can’t even find en<yigh money to run the schools. "I like it the way we are now, away out in the country by ourselves, three miles from the Claypool.”

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Church, 'fhe congregation is a flourishing one, numbering about 250 persons.

Use of German make of musical instruments in the world now is greater than before the war.

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CATHOLICS TO START SCHOOL Sisters of St. Francis Have Acquired Tract. The Sisters of St. Francis of Oldenberg, a teaching order of the Catholic Church, will start building a girl s boarding school and university next year in Beech Grove. They recently acquired a tract of fifty-three acres of beautiful rolling land along Troy Ave. Development of the site into a

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t*hool grounds fits into the plans of Indianapolis officials to preserve the tract, which is flanked by Lick Creek, according to Father Peter Killian, pastor of the Holy Name Church in Beech Grove. The city had considered preserving the land by buying it for a park, he said. In the little desert town of Tonapah, Nev., water sells for five centa gallon.

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