The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 March 1928 — Page 2
THE GREENCASTLE DAILY BANNER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1928.
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Entered in the Post Office at Greencastle, Indiana, as second class mail matter. Under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, 10 cents per week. HARRY M. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor. S. R. RARIDEN, City Editor. Personal And Local News
Mrs. A. J. Duff was an Indianapolis visitor Saturday. A Chevrolet sedan was delivered to L'r. Edwin Post Friday by the Beck Salts Company.
A Dodge sedan was delivered Charles Sharp, R. R. 4, Friday by
II. A. Sherill Company.
Andiew Sanford left this morning for Mooresville where he will be in the Sanitarium for treatment. The Red Men’s Lodge will have a called meeting Sunday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in their hall, to make arrang nients for the funeral of Charles Shildmyer who passed away Friday
I night at his home on N. Madison St.
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j Oscar Thomas received a message j today from Woodbury Oregon, of the ! death of his uncle Melvin Fhomas in^ j the Masonic home there. Mr. Thomas was a former Putnam Co., man and had many friends and relatives here, j Dr. A. K. A.'ler returned to Greencastle from Chicago, Saturday after ! noon accompanied by his daughter Mli>. Frank Cowan and children from Billing , Montana. Dr. Ayler left Gicencastle late Friday afternoon for Chiiago where he mot Mrs. Cowan.
Spring is Here and a large selection of children’s socks, all colors and all sizes, to make your selection. 25c, 50c, $1.00 J. H. PITCHFORD
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PROGRAMS FOR CITY CHURCHES ARE COMPLETE
CHARLES T. ERICKSON WILL GIVE A SERMON \T METHODIST CHURCH.
Among people who will participate in religious activite- thi week is
terjsts of her independence. The Rev. B. H. Bruner will give the last of a series of addresses on “What’s on the Student’s Mind About Religion,’’ Sunday evening at the First Christian Church. In tho morn- 1 ing, he will speak on "A Mornim; Walk With the Master.” “Interiffioters of Christ” will be the subject of the Reverend C. H. Taylor’s morning address at the Moth odist Episcopal church. Louis II. Dirks will teach the college men’s class of the Presbyterian
Hunter. ‘‘And Thou Shalt serve twelve month and a Day.”
REGISTRATION OF STUDENTS IN SCHOOLS NOTED
The Greencastle band will practice, Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. I Members be present on time. Harry Crawford, who has been con-1 fined to his home with pneumonia, is J reported as being somewhat improv- i
cd.
'Harry Crawford, who has heen seriously ill at h's home on West Wal-J nut Street, of pneumonia, was reported some improved Saturday. An affidavit charging wife deseration has heen filed in the Putnam Circut Court aganst Edgar Miller. The affidavit was filed by his wife, Hazel Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Clarol Cross arrived Friday night from Connautt, Ohio to spend the spring vacation with Mr an ( | Mrs. Omer Beck, parents of Mrs. Cross. Miss Lillian Scobee is at her brothers at Greencastle recovering from an operation for appendicitis she underwent at the County Hospital sometime ago. Mrs. Edw. Herbert has returned from Rockville, where she attended the wedding of Rex Arnold and Miss Mary Overpeck of Mansfield. Mr. Arnold is a cousin of Mrs. Herbert.
MAXIMUM OF 79 DEGREES WAS REACHED
Mrs. Scott Hostess.
The regular monthly meeting of
! the Co-Workers’ of the Baptist TKMI’ERVIT RE ON FRIDAY WAS Church \va. held Friday afternoon at
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Mercury Has Bren Bather Hiyli All Week With The Maximum On
Friday—High Saturday.
the home of Mrs. Maggie Scott, Beveridge St. Twenty-one members
were present.
The regular routine of business was conducted, and the remainder of the afternoon spent in a social way, and the hostess served lovely refresh-
ments.
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The Democratic Club held a meeting in the Law Library in the Court House Saturday afternoon. A very , v : th ! interesting anil instructive program had been arranged for the occasion.
With the maximum temperature reaching the heighth of seventy-nine degrees above zero, Greencastle and Putnam county residents, Friday, experienced the warmest day of the year
so far.
The temperature has been high all week with the mercury creeping higher towards the latter part of the week. Friday morning was rather R ee cool but during the day the mercury]
kept a cending and the maximum was ^' ve Hebekah Lodge will meet reached about the middle of the aft- Monday at 8:00 o clock. I hose who ernoon. attend are requested to bring one Saturday took on the appearance of l loun, l of something suitable for re-
a sultry day as Saturday morning,
Kappa Kappa Gamma chapters from all over the state will attend the state dance to be given this evening in Indianapolis at the Claypool Hotel. The DePauw active chapter will present a play this afternoon at the luncheon. Alumnae from over the state will also be present.
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Kcbekah To Meet.
COMPARISON BETWEEN NFMHKU IN SCHOOLS IN VARIOUS YEARS ARE OF INTEREST.
Charles T. Erickson,’91, major in the church. Miss Lucy T. Bowen is in American Red Cross and an authority charge of the college women’s class, on Alabama, who will give a sermon and l ’ rof - °- H. Williams will conentitled “Albania,—The Mother of (luct the class in leadership taraining.
the Balkans” at the Methodist church Sunday night at 7:30. After Major Erickson graduated from Dcl’auw he took work at Boston University. He has been pastor of several large Methodist churches in the country and during the World War he was made a major in the American Red Cross. He also is ;ui authority on Albania, having heen director of missions for the American board there ami special envoy to the United States for Albania in the in-
eral Conclusions of the Discusion “And the light of victory and I glory gained and even more to
gain.”
Dean Katherine S. Alvord Address “What guerdon will ye—none for the deed’s sake have I done the
deed.”
Groups."
8:00—Scholarship banquet. Toastmistress—Dorothy Axtell.
An interesting compariooi: is found) in the number of students in the high schools in the county before and after the cumpulsory school law was passed in 1921. A comparison shows the num her of pupils that attended the schools in an eleven year period. In 1018, a total of 255 freshmen were registered in the freshman classes in all of the county .school;, including the Russellville high school mid the Greencastle high school. The sophomores totaled 222, junior* Kil,
and the senior class 118.
Prof. A. F. Caldwell who has been in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital at Indianaplis for the past three months, underwent a second operation there Saturdav. He had a similiar op-
' oration two weeks ago.
relative small amount of
booze the mercury kept ascending. About D o’clock rain began to fall and continued to fall for atrout an
hour.
I The weather forecasts for Saturday | and Sunday predicted unsettled w« ;.the r conditions and probable showers.
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VOL. Ill GREI NCA8TLE, INI' , MARCH 28, 1928. NO. XXI.
Published in the interest of Greencastle and vicinity by the True-Hixoo
Lumber Co.
GEORGE ENSIGN Manager ami Rditoi WM. POLLARD Advertising Manager HARRY \S11 Circu ation Manager From all indications there will be a lot of residence building in Greencastle this year. We are basing our prediction on the num-
ber of bills
figuring.
we are
Assistant Editor —Here’s a woman who says she’s heen a reader of our paper for ten years, asking: “Why do the most worthless men get the best wives ?” Editor— Tell her to ask her husband. That will flatter her so sh#’I1 be good for another ten years. —o— 0. G. Evans is progressing nicely on the house he is building for N. M. .Skinner on South l/ocust St.
Parson: Mary, ah baptizes you in de name of do Father, de Son and de Holy Ghost. I'sc asking de Lawd to make you white as de driven snow. Mary: Oh pahson! da’.s too much you’re asking from de good Lawd; ah’ll be satisfied to be made a good golden brown,
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When you buy from us, you can expect quick service, fair prices and quality material.
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First Colored Gentleman (after having reduced the population of a farmer's hen yard) “What’s dem flies followin' us so close
for.”
Second Ditto:— ‘ Keep runnin’, boy, them's buckshot.”
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In the recital of a
u r .u r- i * n the records showed (hat Results of the Convent I on”-Pa„- L 1)proximately , am) HeUemc representative. were enrolled in the freshman cla-s, Freshman speaker- Betty Lou 283 in the gophomore t . las! . ,, 8 jun .
1 I -ors, ami 185 seniors.
It would naturally be expected that there would be a greVcr difference between the number of students rnrelled in the high schools in the coun-
ty, than there i.-o
The greater difference is evidenced in the grade school- and the fir.-t year of high school as after the egc of sixteen years, the pupils art' not compelled to remain in school.
True-Hixon Lumber Co. Phone 551 Build it of wood—
case two years after the first hearing, a woman witness was again asked her age. “Thirty five”, she replied. “If f remember correctly,” said the young lawyer, “that is the same figure you gave at the first
trial.’’
“Well,” replied the witness, “I want you to understand that I’m not one to tell you one thing today and another 'tomorrow.”
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A new oak hardwood floor is a lasting and beautiful improvement to any home and the cost is reasonably low and our stock is complete. Let us quote you prices.
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Hub (surveying mass of bills): As to how these are to be paid I am completely in the dark. Wife: Well, there is one of them you’ll have to pay or be even more in the dark —the gas bill.
CEMENT PLANT HEAD SPEAKS
(HARLES F. CONN CONULl DES SI MMARY OF BUSINESS
SITUATION.
To whatever extent unemployment is serious in this country, industries suffering under inequalities in the existing tarilf law are an important factor. Furthermore, improvement will probably await definite assurance trom re-ponsible quarters that .-uch tariff inequalities will be corrected by Cong re at the earliest practicable
date.
Ch.irl* F. Conn of Philadelphia, President of the Giant Portland Cement Company, thus concludes a summary of the business situation as
it affects the cement
Mr. and Mrs. Omer Beck and daughter, Fern, and Mr. and Mrs.j Clarol Cross of Connautt, Ohio, have j gone to Lebanon to spend the week-
end.
The principals of Putnam County High Schools will hold their regular monthly meeting in the office of John Vermillion, superintendent of county schools, next Wednesday afternoon at
1:30 o’clock.
The district Latin contest was hf Id at Brazil Saturday. Putnam County was represented with nine entries in the annual contest. Following the district meet winners will be eligible to enter the state contest which will be held at Bloomington. The annual meeting and election of officers for the Greencastle Chanib r of Commerce has b> j en changed and will be held a ‘he Methodi-; Ciiureh on Thursday evening, March 29, Mi- I Helen Bla k, secretary, announced today. The speaker will be J. R. Morgan of Kokomo. The city street force continued work on Vine street on Saturday practically completing the work. The curbs ! and gutter- cn the east of the street 1 b' tween Poplar street and Seminal y street were raised to permit better passage (f water in the gutter- to the
drains.
The Bu.-iness and Professional Men's class and Brotherhood of the M. E. church had a wonderful time a‘ their banquet Monday evening. Got so chummy it was impossible to tell who from who. Come, the whole bunch of you Sunday morning and bring a neighbor with you. Have extra room provided for. Prof. Hilde-
brand, leader.
“The mini-ter must not be dominat ed by any one class within the church but must remember his nspon-ibil ity to all. He should especially remember his duty to «Tie poor”, said the Rev. Elmer Jones, of St. Paul's Methodist church, Indianapolis, at th
WILL HOLD CONFERENCE INDIANAPOLIS, March 24. (UP) —A conference of attorneys representing the two Huntington and three Nohlesville defendants in the Steinbrennrr Rubber Company conspiracy alleged to have resulted in
failure of two banks, was to l>, riel I |
today in Federal Court to arrange
freshments. Those who are on the program will meet at the hall at G:45 o’clock. A good attendance is de-
sired.
Delegate Appointed.
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The Needli craft Club was entertained Friday at the homo of Mrs. Robert Browning, South Indiana St., Uurine the business K'-sion a delegate wv appointed to‘attend the Fedi ' rati in of Clubs meeting to be held in thi- city Tuesday, March 27th at
the Methodi t Church.
Mr-. Rawlings- rend an interesting paper on “My Make-Believe Trip o South Ai'erica.” A social hour L ilowed t ie reading ami Mr-. Browning erven; delightful i ‘freshments
I The deb adjourned to meet at the j nexc r gular meeting' date at the
Coed Basketball Banquet. The annual coed was held Friday evening^ Inn on East Washingto»| Priscilla Club To Meat. The Priscilla Club will Mis. James P. Hughes,* ernoon at 2:30 o’clock.
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Banquet To Honor I'rwidA banquet will be gh* ning at the Beta Theta Pi honor of Dr. Francis W, national president from
is guest at tl will be initiation.
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Federation Of Clubs To The Putnam County FesS Clubs will meet Tuesday,, in the Methodist Churck castle. Mr-. Mary .:; Roachdale, President of 3 Federation will preside. S her is requested to briny vice, dish of food, and sand 1
Program:
Welcome Address-Mn. r
| Arnold, 10:30.
Response—Mrs. Anderr Reading of Club Colled Music by Morning Mas
I 10:45.
Reports of County
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j Work of District Fe.t-rrf Mrs. Frank Donner, Of A fternoon Sesiij Music—Women’s Clm Address — “Harriet 2:00, Mrs. Kate Milner( Music—3:00. Explanation <>f Bon mjj tion Society, 3:05. 1. ( Otnicron; M I Reading of Prize Dsn “Children of Other Laj Stewart and (ienevit v Of Report of Resolution Of, Adjournment, 3:45. A full attendance of men is urged.
'f 1 ' ' ! home of Mrs. Ida PoDum, South Ind-
Defendants are E. B. Ayres and ; - t W. Porter Ayres, former president and cashier Huntington County State
Bank; H. W. Cowgill, cashier, and csville A community meeting Walter W. Bray, bookkeeper, First Henry W. Stcinbrenner, former Bureau meeting wa- Ml National Bank, Nohlesville, and .S. president of the rubber company, Clinton town-hip -i': I 1 Homer Fcderman, former treasurer, committed suicide in Chicago follow- day evening. A very i’'W™ Steinbrenner Rubber Company Nobl- ing his indictment. gram had heen arranged
Allen Brothers
the In e- that industry has sustained
industry and muico, iimiaim|juiis, ui in ■ u.,, „ , f'^dh annual banquet of the DePauw
through continuing duty free cement.
As to the present situation of the I cement industry, and substantiating his own view, Mr. Com quotes presidents of two of the largest cement companies in the. country to show that this competition has not only resulted in partial losses of important markets but has resulted in
importation of‘ C 4 ha|,U * r of the 0x,ord Fellow hi P of
Longden Hall on
America, held in F riday evening.
G. T. Reeves, who is 81 years of age, and who says he is the oldest man in Floyd township, was a visitor at the Banner office Saturday morning. Mr. Reeves stated that he had read the Banner for about 71 years which is certainly some record. He
prico reduction to a point below pro-|paid up his subscription for a year duction costs and has had a serious in advance which only goes to show effect upon the annual earnings of that he is well satisfied with The
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Will End Next Saturday \«*\1 Wurks Bur<rains will t'ulipge all former olleri \Ye are sti’iiK^linuf against time with the huge undertakn»g ot closing out all merchandise and fixtures by Saturday night. The record selling of the past has onb put a dent in the surface. Thousands of Dollars’ Worth of Choice Merehfn^ Si ill |{<*mains lo Co Down Before the Mijzhl' IViec Slashing Whirlwind Finish Never were values big'ger. Prices cut deeper or bai’g^ 1!1 ‘ > more pronounced. Be Here Every Day Next