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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1928.
No. 124.
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Kiinwn Vii'l Rrspedrd W as I rm* ( hristian ( hildn n Survive.
SE(ONI) OPERATION 0—. Marion Detro, age !), son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Detro underwent the sm oikI operation this la.-t week at the Kil > Hospital at Indianapolis. While playing marbles at his home he fell on a thick rug and broke a needle off three fourths of an inch long into his knee two weeks ago today. They re moved the needle, lodged in the knee joint Wednesday afternoon, his condition wa. fair Thursday. Di. Worley, Dr. Batman and Dr. Steyemates performed both operation..
SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE TO BE HELD SOON
TWO CHILDREN KILLED < EDER RAPIDS, la , Mar. 9. (DP) —Two children were killed and elev-' n injured when a Rock Island passenger train struck a school bus near here, late yesterday. Harrison May, 12, and Roger Schaeffer, 14„ were killed.
DISTRICT K. P. MEET IS HELD AT CLOVERDALE
>Dl Nt; PEOPLE'S DIVISION OF COUNTY RELIGIOUS COUNUIL TO MEET.
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l> Jehu died Thursday i, ienni nil South Locust L n jllnes- of more than a Id been .i resident of l., 40 year.- during which T tive in the religious, Jimi ieal life ot' the city. » of the <'oil ge Avenue Kuieli -he was piesideut |time of the various | he bad also of the Woman'.- Bible i f the oldest members I;, i , . aii'l ba i kept ftmli i hip in it until two ■ir was om of the early ■i Ik i in Pianoforte in 1 Sri, <d of Music with
CONFERENCE TO BE HELD UNDER DPU AUSPICES
RELIGIOUS (ONFERLM i: WILL BE SIMILAR TO ONE III l D •N INDIANAPOLIS. W. I. HR VAN W ILL SPEAK N. L. Richards And G. L. Hrandenburg Also On Program—Other Widely Known Speakers.
Can you teach character? This w 'll he Dr. F.
The ( onferrnee Will Convene Friday Night, March JO. In General
Assembly.
Of considerable interest to religious circles in Putnam county is the announcement of the -ixth annual conference of The Young People’s Division of The County Council of Religious Education which will he held in Roachdale from March RO to April
MT. CLEMENTS, Mich., Mar. It. (UP)—Snow driven by a powerful wind, forced Eddie Stinson and Capt. George Haldeman to abandon their
effort to create a new world' cndui- PYTHIAN
|ance flight record at (I A. M. today. At that time they had he. n aloft in the special Stinson-Detroiter air-
plane 1812 hours.
ELEVEN NEOPHYTES RECEIVE PAGE RANK DEGREE ON
THURSDAY.
SISTERS
SERVE
Midnight Banouet Follows Initiation Of Candidates. Meeting Opened
Thursday Afternoon.
E. R. BARTLETT WILL TELL OF PICTURE PLAN
I. According to Mi s Jane Farmer,
superintendent of the County Young MEETING OF REPUKSKM ATIVPeople’s Division, plans are’ practi US OF WARD COt N( II, WILL cally completed to provide for a va- BE HLLI) MONDA).
lied and interesting program of
events, which is expected to attract The Parent-Teachers
representatives from each church in „f Gie various word schools in the sentatlves and visitors of other chap *, ' U "*' V - city as well as a representative of th 1 ’ tors were received by member of I he conference will convene Friday High School Parent-Trachea Assoc- Diamond Lodge, Number 349. night, March 30, in a general assem- iation will be present at a Parent However the majority of the visitIdj , at which the principal speaker Teachers Association Council meeting ors did not arrive until the latter pait R. Bartlett, who will to be held in the Christ Church Par- of the afternoon. About ii o'clock the
Approximately 200 members of the Knights of Pythias Lodge attended th. fifth district meeting, which was held in the C’loverdale Lodge hall Thursday afternoon and evening. The Page Rank was conferred on a class of eleven candidnb > at a special session held in the evening. Following the conferring of the fir-t degree on the candidal*.- a mid-night
-upper was given.
The meeting opened in the after-
Association noon in Castle Hall and the rtpre-
, THREE PAPERS RECEIVED Three papers on fire prevention i have been received by N. C. O’Hair, chairman of this work in Putnam county. They were from Floyd and Washington townships, and were graded in the following manner: Miss Amy Ellen Crowe, R. R. 1, Fillmore, age 13 years, bth. grade 111
the Floyd Center School.
Pauline Hammond, age 13, Greencastle, R. R. 7, Manhattan school. l^dtie Naomi Rowlett, age 13, Greencastle, R. R. 7, Manhattan
school.
oMASONIO NOTICE Calhd Meeting Temple Lodge No. 47 Fiiday at 7 30 P. M F. ('. Degree. B. A. Daggy, Wm. E. E. Caldwell Sec.
REGIONAL NET TOURNEY HERE ON SATURDAY
( LBS TO ENTER NET TOCRNAMENT IN ( RIPPLED CONDITION TOMORROW,
MANY IANS
ATTEND
Competition Will Be Keen During Three Games At Local Gym. Craw ford*'itle Confident,
ROY WISEHART WILL ADDRESS ROTARY CLUB
MILL ALSO SP|\K DURING ( II API I. PI KIDD M A I M COM SDAV
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INS I Rl ( I ION si P I
igo, Cincinnati ami question will be discussed at a con- speak on the theme of the conference, sonage next Monday evening at 7:30 Pythian si.-ter- of Emerald Temple
John’ official connec-
feiencc on education to be belli at iv f, ngi"ii m ( onfluct." o'clock.
D Pauw Univer.-ily, April 2<;, 27, and Saturday morning and afternoon Prof. R. E. Bartlett will be present p' l;l lu " e a .k'M'j 28, under the auspice- of the depart- "’'I 1 be spent in mass and group ses- ( and outline a motion-picture plan for
kt ■ t in all, i hi - affaii
phy # Dr. John. ^^■1 n
I - 01110 Woods' n ai.d
I • ..do,
1 1 1 ■ ,n Woo on all
of education. Edward Bartlett ‘Sinus, the latter to be
Prof. O. II. Williams, head of three classe according to the individ- Prof. Bartlett delivered an add re < departments, and Dean L. H. ual conference experience. In addi- to the Second Ward Association a confer- tion to the worship in each session week ago at which time he statul that ( , s ^ a ||
led by members of the Young Peo- certain types of pirtui- have much pie’s Division, the various groups will to do with the building of character
be addressed by Paul Reid, director of children,
of Religious education of the First Friends’ Church in Indianapolis; Mrs. Peter K. Stair of Chicago, and Professors L. E. Mitchell and C. O. Hildebrand. The Rev. B. H. Bruner of
ment
and
thee
Dirks are arranging for th*
ence.
This conference will he similar to the one hebl in Indianapolis recently with -pecification reference to public
s* hooks.
The chmacter education movement
gave, a supper in the Modem Wood
m* n Hall.
Tentative plan- were di-cussed con
composed of ‘Jie character education of children. ceriling th( . , ;lU . meeting during the
special se.-sion and sev* nil reels of I film were shewn that were of inter-
members of the lodge.
Representatives and visitors from chapters in Clay, Park* , Vigo ami Vermillion counties, as well as rep-1 rc.-entatives and visitors from Put-, nam County, attended the meeting.
ludli-tin ot th* State muRsion.'it several p* rinds of iw during the winter mtep mitt* ntly were en and more likely to
\ 1, a
^ 1W -Ij '-neral and me.a ■ P I th* gleund, Ull- ■ 11111 * k I >■ 1 * - |i'' in* * work.
f s ' is lapidly assuming a nation wide f ' 'i'* will be I eld at intdest. Religii.u- educators are emphasizing this through week day re- tlie ( hristian Church will then speak liglous education schools, and the pub- to the entire group on the subject lie s* hcol educators arc making this “Jesus and the Problem of IMeas-
one of the most prominent issues of me."
convention programs. Paul Reid and Charles Mull, De-
|rv|\ CJIJ A nr 3 be people of th** DePauw conf*‘i- I’auw student, are in charge of the
,ll< < ' piopose to bring together actual recreation peri* d from I to .> o’clock projects in chaiacter cilucation now, 'n the afternoon, which will be f«)l-
I* |,ting worked <.ut througb such com- lowed by a banquet. Vo lend inform-
munit\ agencies a> H- chuieb, the ality to the occasion, various delegatpublie school.-, the courts, mcial *cr- es will present skits and humorous ^ to(j . , vice agencies, and the home. stunts. Officers for the coining year ' WHnamal ;„
I William Lowe Bryan, president <>f will be elected to succeed the pres I- freuent hine to- Indiana university: N. E. Richards ent staff composed of Mil.lred Goff, Jti'ii-ivc work with drags on, head of the division of religious Russellville, president; Esther Whit-
education, Northwestern univer.-ity; aker, Putnamville, secretary; and G. L. Brand nburg, head of the de- Harold Storm, C.iatesville, treasurer.
iifl'T.'ioon in the Meth-
RAYS IN
hn WO SU' HIM'! Lodi) I.I FLI IS ON
It. HIGHWAYS.
COLD IS FATAL TO WANAMAKER
MILLION \IKK stoic MAGNATE DIES EARLY I KIDAY
MORNING.
ATLANTIC CITY, N J., Mar 9 (UP) Rodmun Wanai ker, 64, son of the founders of th* c Wnuatnaker stores, <lied at nis home here at 2:30
ar* having their goo*l (jravel ami stone mile-
contracted a severe
cold eaily in the week, but hi- eornlition did not beeoni critical until la t
night.
Waiiamaker was one of th*' principal backers of commneder Richanl F,.
loaders will have parts on the
gram.
Three Act Comedy To Be Presented
tMFR SUNK
h, Mar. (UP) — |l 1 "111 1 lU'i in* . m a
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e an was reported here
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in ' :
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rapidly ‘returning to lament of psychology Purdue uni-. The principal speaker of the evening Byr(| , s airp|ane exp| , )ltSi iliclu(lini : • ondition, according versity, Bird many other widely known witljbe the south pole and T.ans Atlantic
fights.
At tlie death of his father, he inherited tie* Waiiamaker stores of which he had active charge for many
years.
In addition to the lore.-, he owne I th* 1 Philadelphia Ree* id, a morning newspaper. Mthougli always a Republican, he continued it as a Democratic Newspaper. He also was one of America’s leading yachtsmen. City Bonds Bring A Fancy Premium
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RUSHVILLE, Mar. 9. (UP)— Clarence E. Brown, an employe of the Mehoy hank 23 ycai , nine as cashier, today was uruUr two indictments by the Rush County Grand Jury ihaiging emhazzlement, the amounts being $877.44 and $07.24. Farm Bureau Work Progressing MEMBERS OF ASSIM IATION II \\ I BI EN SIGNED (FIN two TOWNSHIPS.
During XftcrnoiMi Mr. Meeharl Mil Meet M i‘.h S**veral of I uivcmitv
Liiucalion < lasses.
Ro> P. Wisehart, tali' -upeiintiii dent *if public instruction, will spec' bef*ue the Rotary club Mi'dnesda; 110011 on th** general theme of nev movements m education. Prcrcdin; the Kotar> mi * ting, he will speak ii the Univei ity chapel and in the aft ernoon will meet with I'veral of th* advanced eduiation classes at th*
University Library.
The discussions will In' ha. ed 01 th*' work of a conference * f the Nortl I . i.-ti'i n A. ociation of * (Incaioi lii l*
at Boston recently.
Byron Williams, son of Prof. O. II
William of th*' University education department, who 1 th*' present di rector of educational research in the slat** department of public instruction will accompany Mr. Wi chart. II* will al o address the University education groups on th* new develop-
ment in cdumtioiiHl r'"“Hi")i
pro- 1 subject is “Religion in Social Life.' Sunday morning is to be devoted i to Sunday school and worship, with Mrs. Stair, Or. Bartlett, Professor Hildebrand, Professor Mitchell, and
Paul lt**id as leaders.
Miss Wilma Hinnon of Roachdale, is in charge of making arrangements with Roachdale residents to accommodate the 200 or more expected conference attendants wilh rooms and breakfast, which the $1 registration fee covers a • well as the banquet ex-
pense.
“Safety Fiist,” a three act comedv | n ortl ,, r t() |, pr f ec t the plans alby Sheldon Parmer, will lie present*'*! rPa( jy formed and to arouse local en
j I.KFI FOR PALM BEA( H COl.l MBIA FLYING FIKLO, 11 \V ANA, Rlarcb 9 (UP) Charles A. Levin , Mi Mabel Boll, “Queen ot Diamond.-," ai.d Wilmcr Stultz, pilot, b'ft for Mist Palm Beach, Fla., at Jy;_'3 A. M. tiilay in Levine’s Bellanca
I Monoplane.
j Levine and hi. party planned to spend the night at W* 1 Palm Beach J and to start tommrow for N w York, fust, however, diverging f'*r halts at
Miami and St. Petersbuig.
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MYSTEKKMS M\LAOY INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 9. (UP)
Tomorrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, the Greencastle regional high school basketball tournament will get underway with the strong CrawfordsvilU and Clinton teams clashing on tha hardwood court. At 3 p. m., the local Tiger Cubs will face the “dark horse" squad from Fountain county, Mellott, winners of the Vcedsrburg
sectional.
Greencastle will enter the tourney handn apperl by the loss of Wallie Longdeii, dar forward who is sick in bed. Jimmie Tobin, flashy floor %uard, is also not in the best of condition, •ut he has plenty of grit ami nerve in*l is being depended upon by tha ocal fan in deliver even if it i» icarly a uperhuman effort. Crawf* nlsville’s team will com* In r*' confident of winning according to all reports from the Montgomery ounty -rat. However, the Athenian may find a stumbling block in "Spike" Kelly’s Clinton net tossers. riu* Vermillion county school has a smart ball dub and if they are “on" they sh o|*l be able to win from Crawfordsville. Advance sal*' of -eason tickets reveals that Clinton, Crawfnrdsville and Mellott an* bringing plenty of rooter. in addition, to the Greencastle delegation of fans. DEM KIBES POSH ION
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VINCENNES, Ind., Mar. 9. (UP)— Ray Fortner, former motorcycle poll* * man Icre describes his job as a airplane te-ter for the National Air- ^ way Company at Lomax, 111., as follow . “They build them up and turn tbeu! over to in :vt I run the mot01 s. Then they strap a parachute to me and I take them up and try to tear the wings off of them. They have all held together so far."
THIRTY KILLED IN VENEZUELA
M ILL HI GIVEN IN < LOV KKD M l! H'GH S( HOOL ON EVENING
OF MARI H 23.
H P'OR IN HOSPI I M.
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L* sti r Heniler) hot, I > wa reportiil in a
luition at Emergeney d today from what he p electric hock 1 oceiv rimenting with a motor, e i the Lester H'*iid-
’ c h "I * * htod t he w h n
Nw
by the -enior ela-s of the ( loverdal* U gh School on the evening of March
23.
The play is being coached by Mi - |Iclen M* (laugh* y of the English d« pirtment. The following are th*’ names of the young men and women who will take part in the production.
thu-ia.111, a council meeting will be held Sunday, March 11, at the Christian Church at 2 o’clock, under the supervision of Miss Jane Farmer. o M AN M AS KILLED
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ABBY DELL, Ind., Mar. 9 (UP)
I NION TRUST UttMPANY OI F EK H*GH HID l<>K $10,000
( ITY BOND ISSUE.
According to John Ritter, fielu I'opre.-entstiv** for the State Farm Bureau Association, work in Floyd an I Clinton township* has been completed an I a total of 103 memNera up
for the '"ouiity Association.
A meeting was held at Floyd Center last, Tursilay night end approximately 250 persons were m attendance. A prigram of informati. r. concerning th ' Bureau as well a. social entertainment completed tlv* pro-
gram for the evening.
Last year only twelve ''sident-* of today. He apparently ' ••ifflictc wit a Floyd township and -ix from Clinton the .ime 1 -ease whir brought de.i'h township, were membrrs of (he As- [to Oi’villa anil Rich.'ir*| Buhl**, his . ociation. Work wi". be started in sev- ni' *''' mid nephew two w* * k ago. oral other township at an early date So tar, the phy ieimi have le i'll *i the work di the * ounty can be '.’Oin unalile to <leti*i miio tit la 1 the can so p’elc*! as soon as pos i!j’ n . i.r tb** nature of th*' 1 ■* a **.
DISORDER IN SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY IS REPORTED
SERIOUS
BOGOTA. COLUMBIA, Mar. ft (UP) Thirty persons have been idllod in Veni * in tha
every known method to iscover the past few days, according to unconiiitui* *f th** niy tiriou malady firnuxl dispatcher reaching Cucuta from whi'li Iv 1 off*-mg, William from Caracas today. Thi* does not Sim continued in n criou mnd/tion include dx policemen, said to have
been lynched by student agitators. Many students have been arrested as re-ult of the disor<iars and held In jail. The gov* mment is understood to have effected (hem freedom on bail, but the student* declined to negotiate with thu government.
STRONG RKUONAL < ONTENDEKS
Jack Montgomery, Vernic** Larkin. .|. |m p-jtj.pati 0 k. 19, living near here,
Unearthed
ence Diggers
Jerry Arnold, Luurin Linley. Mr. McNutt, Ralph Rails. Elmer Flannel, Vivian Sackett.
Ah >1 Ben Mocha, James Hester. Mabel Montgomery, Lillian Herod. Viiginia Hridg 1, Marjorie Duncan. Mi.. Barrington Biidger, Georgi*'
Chamhi i
/elciku, Wilma Furr. Mary Ann O’Finnerty,
Burri.-.
was killeil when he f<'ll beneath th**
The bond issue of $10,Out) which the city will buy a now
with fire
wheels of a freight Haiti in which he truck, was sold on Ft" ay morning to wa.- ri*ling. the Union Trust Company of Indiana- _ -o polls for par and accrued interest and
:* premium of $5(i8.00.
Four bi<ls were submitted for the
i-sue as follows:
First National Bank, premium <>)
|50.
Meyer-Keiser Hank, premium of $180. Fletcher Ameiican Company, prem ium of $528. Thomas D. Sh* ridan, premium of $191. Fletcher Savings \ Trust, premium of $533.80. Union Trust Company, premium ol $508.00.
files against self
WABASH, Ind., Mar. 9. (UP) —A suit fill'd her*' by Didruk Konporal against himself is believed to be the
Chn -fene fir t in local court history in which
the plaintiff and defendant are the
same person.
.As a privat* citizen, Konporal 11 ks $2,12 1 ft* m himself as administrator of the estate of Mary L. Konporal. The money is a claim in pay ment for services of earing for Mrs. Konporal for a period of 25 we* k while she was insane, the suit said.
IN Ol AN AI’OLIS LIVKHTOt K INDIANAPOLIS, Mar. 9. (UPl
ting holes for fence posts The h"g maiket closed steady to K* k 1 ".in, two employes of cents lower on the Indianapolis Live f Brother! ice plant un lock exdiance today. Receipts were f 1 ; il bones in a field near *■ timate.l at 6,500 and holdovers at r The police department 459 Bulk hoi (160-300 M's.) sold foi I and Chief Dave Bra.len $H.25 to $8.60. The top pi ice paid was Ph Greencastle to invest!- $8.05 for 160 to 200 pounders.
Cattle receipts were 600 and calve receipts w* re 800. The market was steady with beef steers selling
^ -* ' heavy for the crash of a U. S. Marine ai^- au ^ om *,bile he was driving wa stiuck
I hime, n*i uni. bad been I whether the bones were Ihuni.iii being or those of
VI LITRE ( AUSEI) < RASH MANAGUA, Nicaragua, March 9. (HP)—A great vulture- one of the type of huge buzzards which hovers
KILLED INST \NTL7
COLUMBIA CITY, Mar. 9. (UP) Jacob B. Karnes, 75, near Whitley, killed almost instantly two miles
auctioned over battlefields -was blanvd today we>t (( f ^, )ut |, Whitley, when thu
I h*- hones
off at $15.50 to $16.50 and
were broken, rJ1 | VP . c i t .. 11 e l | u t *6.50 to $10.50.
plane in which Captain William C.' ^ u |>| a ( c freight train. steaily. Bird, Orangesburg, S. C„ and ‘ S Kt. « Rudolph A. Frankfurter wa re killed. p r() f 0 . S sor Lester E. Mitchell, of the The plane w*as going into a land- E|1(r |j s (, an ,| j ourn ali-tic department ing near Esteli when it collided with of jj r j>., UWi w i|| re pre. ent 0 nison the vulture. University of Granville, Ohio at the (tip; — o inauguration of President Eail Harpstudent THE WEATHER cr G f Evansville College, Indiana. Dr. Partly cloudy and colder tonight. j( pnry p Longden, Vice President of
ac U1 ''. a ,. cor ,!. Saturday fair, followed by increas- j) e p aU w, will represent DePauw. The
'i-arzs: l '” p ™ t “ re “ k ' tl “” “
««» je.t,. „i(h relatives, police Mi*!- eeathweet poruen. March 2*. .
r' ll: "Hy decayed. It may Pftter hole will be dug in j hn*: additional lames and I ’ • Main just what
dried.
1 that the hones ate "'hnal, however, as none
The sheep market closed
Receipts wore estimated at 300.
onurse is dead
LAFAYETTE, Mar. 9. Miss Markuerite Ray, 20,
ln ''T in south Greencas- nurse at the Home Hospital, is dead
Crawfordsville Net Tossers Left to right: Back row—P. Dickers n, E. Servies', Coach Graver, Graves, Cline. Middle Row Clore, E. Dickerson, Huffner, Barton, Layne. Front Row—L. Servies, Powell, McCluskey.