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(iREENCASTLE, INDIANA, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1928.
No. 139.
K ELLIS njured IN |L ROBBERY
TO PEACE SIGNS Following their luncheon programs tomorrow noon, members of the Kiwanis and Rotary cluhs will assemble at the high school building to supervise the erection of safety signs in the neighborhood of the school. Roth clubs hope to eliminate some of the fast driving in Greencastle by the IDOL MAN k. ' ' placing of these traffic signs. The HOl.PI P A I I EKKE public is invited to join with the H'l IE. members of the clubs tomorrow afternoon at 1 o’clock while the signs >IVhi: LARGE HAUL are being erected.
SCHOOL BOARD WILL MEET ON THURSDAY EVE.
IMPORTANT SESSION IS POSTPONED FROM MONDAY EVENING.
TO (HECK (TTY TEACHERS
KhH Sawed Off Shotguns Kegifderrd Pouches. (Mail Clerks Mt*h Wire. *11, foimer Grcenea.-tle fP^idcl at the corner of Dn an ,| Walnut streets, was .-t by bandits Monday night ■ail robliery «r- staged at * . ,tion i" tl' 1 ' union depot HauU. When the baivlit, mail department. Ellibi- gun but was truck L,| In cithci a hi at kjack or a -awed-off hotgun and Vd uncoil-i ious. I wo other we re hound with baling the robbers make away "pouclKs of registered mail poiichc containing letter-. t|,||i occurred at 11 p. m. ^the arrival of the Florida ii Chicago over the C. E. The exact amount of the !the regi-tered poaches haii •jetermined Tuesday mornjr ,. Haute. The bandits each i-c iff hotguns and made >h\ in higii powered autoieii veiing from Ids injained in Hie robbery alrecrived a nasty blow. He i here and v/a- formerly i the Big Four railroad hg tran-fern d to Tene he now icsides with his
S FOR IL TERM RE DRAWN
\l) Pi rn .11 RY MEMmnw.N ii;rsi»\v HORNING. at count\ clerk, and jury George Landes and judmaii, drew the grand juries tr.i the April term tiiam ( rcuit court, TuesW. The April term will 'pril 2. «ing arc the names of the "ii 1 ' !ho juries: (irand Jury. Robbins, Jackson Twp. "u k, W ashington Twp. I" lew i . Monroe Twp. ,Itler, Clinton Twp. ur-t, Marion Twp. O'Hair, Monroe Twp. Petit Jury jBiglor, Clintoii Twp. rosby, Jackson Twp. Lvan . Warren Twp. ight, Warren Twp. ammond, Marion Twp. K Browning, Greencastle I* Ogle, Marion Twp. P- - Greencastle Tw p. d'is, Clinton Twp. u ‘k, Washington Twp. r'haway, Madison Twp. H. Scott, Jefferson Twp.
B. P. O. ELKS Regular session Greenca.-tle No. 1077. Tuesday 7:110 P. M.. tion. Refreshments.
Lodge, Initia
Is Said Several W ill Not Be Sent Contracts l or Next Year. The Tenure Law Is Cause.
IN CONGRESS TODAY Senate: Continues debate <n Norbeck Migratory Bird bill. Interstate Commerce Committee continue- coal investigation. Agrculture .-ub-commit* o lesumrcotto.i invesi igation. Ho'.e: i . i-'ders Na\ >: apprupiia* >r bi 1 ’.. MARRIAGE Lit ENSE Virgil Waldren, Crawfordsville, to Muriel Ford Woodrum, Crawfords-j ville.
CONTEST WILL BE SPONSORED OVER COUNTRY
PRIZES TO HE GIVEN FOR BEST ESSAYS BY H1GHW \Y EDU- ( A TION BOARD.
SAFE I V
SUBJECT
COACH HUGHES RAMS FREIGHT TRAIN; UNHURT
TIGER YI HLETM MEMOK H \S NARROW ESI APE 'N ( BOSSING (RASH.
W. I,. “Bish” Hughe:, athletic director at ItePauw univer ity, fortunately escaped possible seriou- injuries * lar * Monday night in Anderson when he drove hi- Buick sedan into a moving freight train on a Big Four triple crossing. Coach Hughes was returning from Farmland where he had delivered an address on physical education and the accident occurred about
midnight.
Coach Hughe- stopped and carefully scrutinized the tracks before starting to cross. iHe believes that he was blinded by (lie glaring light of a locomotive standing on the track nearest to him. He drove between a string of cars that had been cut for traffic on the -econd track and then ran into a slowly moving freight train on the third track. Hughe:, threw his machine into reverse and this combined with the impact of the collision shoved the sedan back entirely off the crossing. The Tiger mentor escaped even minor injuries hut his machine was badly damaged. Police investigate’! <nd for a few minutes thought the Greencastle man was an auto thief. C oach Hughe-, however, produced hicertificate of title and this resulted in hi- being '.u* .< • ... courtesy possible by the Anderson authorities.
Due to the fact that Dr. C. C. Tuck er was unable to he present, the -cheduled meeting of the city school board was postponed Monday evening until Thursday night. The session which will he an important one, will he held in, th i ffii ■ of Supt. Warren
J. Yount.
It i- undr r-tood that during the Thursday meeting, the names of the teachers in th<> public schools who will sf nt contracts for next year will he chicked. It is rumored that several members of the Greencastle -taff of in-tructois will not he offered confer next year as they will come under the Teachei ’ Tenure Law which \va , pa- 4 b> the Indiana (ieneial A. embly and came into ef-
fect in 1927.
MANY ATTEND COUNTY CLUB MEETING HERE
Is Annual ( ontest—Essays Will Be Written by Elementary Pupila and Elementary School Teachers.
THE WEATHER. Fair and continued cold tonight. Wednesday fair, followed by increasing cloudiness. Slightly warmer. M \N RELEASED CLINTON. Mar, 27 (UP)—Harry Doyle, of Indianapolis, who had been kept, in the city jail hero, after he had been unable to furnish $. r )00 bond for a week, because his machine was said ito have crashed into a car belonging to a Clinton man, was turned loose when the man whose car was alleged to have been wrecked failed to appar again-t the defendant. Doyle pleaded not guilty when arresited.
TREE PROJECT IS STARTED BY WOMAN’S CLUB
PROPOSITION TO BE PUT BEFORE V ARIOUS CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS HERE.
TREES
FURNISHED
Furnished and Planted by ment Free of Charge. Worth-While Project.
FREE Govern* Is
APPROMM VI ELY OM III SDK ED AND TWENTY-FIVE PRESENT AT FIRST SESSION.
WELCOME ADDRESS GIVEN
Music Whs Furnished by I he Morning Musieale Club. Committee Reports Followed.
Offering Id.JiOO in prizes for the best essays and lessons of street and' highway safety, the Highway Educa- 1 tion Board, with offices in Washing-; ton, D. (’. is announcing to schools | all over the United States, the annual safety contest open to elementary -chool pupils and elimentary school teachers. The competition is conducted each year with the active cooperation of the school authnritie.-. Based on past experiences officials j 'of the Boaid .-ay they expect to re-
ceive e- ays, not only from each state j To
in the Union and virtually eveqy city
i of -izo, but from the territories and |
CLUB LEADERS TO HOLD MEET HERE FRIDAY
NT THU ION PROJECT PLANS FOR THE COMING YEAR WILL
BE OI TLINED.
OUTLINE
PROJECT
265 STUDENTS TO GRADUATE FROM D’PAUW
ANN I XL ( OMMI.M EMENT EXERCISES WILL BE HELD ON
MONDAY, JUNE 11.
LESS THAN LAST YEAR
Graduating (lasses of Practically Every College and I Diversity In
The Slate Are Smaller.
Two hundred and sixty-live students will receive degrees from the University at the annual commencement exercises Monday, June It, according to
Approximately one hundred and twenty-five women from over Putnam County were in Greencastle attending tin Federation of Clubs meet ing held here all day. More were expert'll to attend the afternoon session Mr-. Mary Anderson, pre.-ident, wain charge. A welcome address was given by Mr-. Charles Arnold at the opening of ti e morning session. All members joined in repeating the Club Collect. Music was furni-hed hy the Morning Mu-hale Club, after which reports from the chairman of the different committees were given. Mrs. T. (i. Yuncker .-puke on “Conservation of Animal Life,’’ and particularly on “Reforestration.” Mr.-. John Alice next gave a very interesting address on “Art Appreciation,” and urged the dubs to at least have one art program through ait the year Mrs. Call of Re ichdale di-cu.-sen th problem of “Music” in ' ic clubs, and gave the names of club which had mu.-ic at each program Mrs. John
McCabe of this city g
Preparation and Serving of Food Will Be The Project for the Year.
Five Meetings.
outlying possessions as well, such as, Alaska the Philippines, Hawaii, Porto
Rico, and the Canal Zone.
The $(i,50(i is prizes given by the ; “ , National Automobile Chamber of Com I Th, ‘ first ‘"’K , of the 1™*-
a.,.) | the leaders of the County Nutrition Project will be held in the Home
Economics departmental rooms in the high school building next Friday. The eighteen leaders who were in
charge of the work in the nine club purpose.
mercc, and this year includes state prizes, three national prizes for pupils and three national prizes for teachers, the latter totalling $1,0001 in cash. In addition the pupil and the
teacher whose es.-ays and lesson re-. .
spectively are chosen as the best in ce “ ter! < ‘ lur i ln S thc > ear wl11
the nation are gven a trip to Wash- P rcM ' nl al "
ington with all expense- paid, no mat trr from what section of the country
they may come.
Thi- year, according to the rules,
Saturday’s program of the W r oman’s Club was given to a study of forestry under the leadership of Mrs. J. L. Beyl and Miss Ames. After a general discussion a meeting of the council membersi of tho clubs of Greencastle was called to arouse interest in this community toward establishing a muncipal forest. The American Tree Association of which Chas. Lathrop Pack of Washington I). C., is president will furnish 5 000 trees anil plant them for any municipality that will furni.-h th land and set it aside for that purpose. In some localities in Germany these municipal forests pay the entire tax of a town. Fitchbury, Mass., was the first town in the United States to establi'h such a forest. It is now bringing in quite an income. According to the laws of Indiana such land is appraised at $100 an acre, assessed at the local tax rate uch lan mu.t be set aside for this
all other women’s clubs
or organizations who are interested in carrying the project through for i the year, arc asked to send two rep-
^ resentatives to the meeting.
Mrs. Ned i Beadle, assistant in the
pupil* • write <• ays of B00 j Home Economics department of Purwonls in length on the subject, “tthy ^ universlty w j|| l)f , p rrse nt at the We Have and ITactice Traffic Rules.", eeUn(f Mrs Bra , ) |,, w jU explain Teachers are given the subject, “Ob- thp variljUS phases of the work of the jectives and Method- of Education in| year an() w j|[ a | s „ explain the or- 1 -trect and Highway Safety, 0,1 ] ^anixatinn, including the county and
which they are asked to prepare les- j | (>ea | un j( s
for practical use not alone in project for thc year will be,
other
teachers in the class rooms of the na-
their own das- rooms, hut by omer | «{>|.pp ara tj on a i„t Serving of Food.’
A- usual four meetings will hr held
, , „ _ Report tion as well. Pupil.- of the fifth, 'ixth,l ^ ur j n g |he year, with the fifth meet word given out from the Registrar's on International Rela'i ns," and out seventh and eighth and lower grades |n p being the annual Achievement
This project will be presented before the different civic organizations of Gncrcastle with t«if ultimate aim of securing a tract of land upon w hich the U. S. Government's proposition mav he t ken advantage of 5000 trees planted free, the future income from which may be used to pay the com-
munity’s taxe.-.
CHAUTAUQUA DIRECTORS TO HOLD MEETING
r'K'.AMZE POSI
'VILLE, Mar. 27. (UP) — ' po-t, No. 1,152, Veteran1 ^ai-, has been organized |>o.-t name is a tribute to Ut 'k) Steel, world war veterh few weeks ago in an air-
^fiit at Macon, Ga.
are: Commander, Tron H. : adjutant, ('harle.- Collier erma ter, J. (). Bratton.
Contest Will Be Held This Evening ANNUAL ( OUNTY ORATORICAL ( ONTEST WILL BE HELD IN COURT HOUSE. The annual county constitutional oratorical conte.-t will he held in the Court Hou-e thi- evening, starting at
7 o’clock.
So far the name- of five students, representing five schools in Putnam County have been turned in, hut undoubtedly practically all of the school 1 will he represented. i Roachdale will he represented, an I it is thought that Clovcrdale, Russell ville and Clinton Cent' i would be replesmted although names of the winn is of the local contests held at the three schools, have not been turned in C. (’. Gillen is the county chairman I in charge of the conte.-t. The following are the entries: Fillmore, Esther Dunlavy. Bainbridge, Janetta Moore. Putna nr ville, Mary Shields. Greencastle, Hubert Dirk-. Belle Union, Frank Ogles. Roomers Flee In Night Attire As Hotel Is Burned
office. Of this number four will receive their M. A. degrees and 2GI will
bo granted A. B. diplomas.
The graduating class will be GO less than the cla— of 1027. Practically all schools and colleges are to grad-
uate smaller classes than last year, Hn minus of securing
accroding to a survey made of a
number of representative schools.
Decision has not been made as to the Commencement speaker hut several tneii of national prominence are being considered and arrangements will be completed within a -hort time, according to members of the Commencement committee of the senior
class.
Senior chapels will be held during thc week beginning May 7. At chapels, only senior talent will participate in the daily programs. Alumni reunions will be held .Saturday, June 0. Letters have already been sent out to members of the classes of '27, '25, ’23, and to every preceding fifth class. Major John G. Dunbar, 'Gl, of Greencastle, is
oldest living graduate.
Mrs. M. Hutcheson Died On Monday
w \s LIFE-LONG RESIDENT O PM \ \M ( ol M Y. FUNERAL
W EDNESDAY.
lined the association which clubs have with outside affair*. ''Mental Health" wa.- the .-ubject used by Mrs. David Houck. Mis- Margaret Gilmore u-ed as her subject, “Reciprocity”, and talked in a most interesting manner
material for
club programs. Mrs. Frank Jones, secretary of the Country Federation complimented the club -errataries on the manner in which they had b on sending in reports of the mc'tings to the new-papet-, and asked that they contii ue to do so. Work of the District Federation was next discussed, in charge of Mi ■ Frank Donner. Mr-. Hi nee Daggy spoke on “Junior Membership,’’ and tho-e askeil that each dull arrange a special program arid invite thi* girlduring what is known as “Girl Week,” the week following Easter.
Mrs. Lane cheduled work
following year on “Mental Health in five different da <s including that the club women place literature in the public librarie . The County Chairman of Clay Co., was present and spoke briefly before the member- on “Beautifying the Koaxls.” She asked that tin Putnam County dub members, the Clay County ano Vigo County member- cooperate in beautifying the national road lietween their cities. An invitation wuextended thr* ladie- t" attend the t lav County district meeting to be held April 11th at Rockville. Mr-. Donrn r gave an interesting report on th<‘
District Federation
Miss Ardith Moore, accompanied hy Mrs. C. W. Otis gave two beautiful solos “Natures Holiday” and “Old
are eligible to participate.
Each state and territory is entitled! to one fir-t prize and one second prize j The fir-t prize is a gold medal and check for fifteen dollars; the second <
award i- a ten dollar-
the
Day meeting, which will he held in the Court House, at which time var-
ious exhibits will be shown. Ihrring the past year approximate-
ly 250 women, in thc county were
ilver medal and check for member- of the organization and car The number of third I ,.j e ,| the project through for the year, prizes, which will he bronze medals The club leaders, of which there and check- for five dollars, varies in a)0 two to a club, meet with Mrs. proportion to the elementary Beadle and then put the plans and school enrollment in the various states! projects and the best manner and New Ymk with it- dense population methods in which the projects can Ire being entitled to twenty-five, Indiana carried through, befon the local
eleven, Florida 4, and Nevada one, to dub-.
cite examples. These prizes will be Club center , the pet year, were distributed through th* 1 state de part- in Ru—ell Township, Clint'n townment- of education. ship, Madison township, Marion townThe essays which are chosen a-j ship, Greencastle township, Warren best in the' states will Ire entered in township, Cloverdalo and Franklin competition with each other an the, townships. This year it is planned national prize will be awarded the to I trt ever towi
winners These prize consist of a gold -hip in the county,
for the watch and the trip to Washington, the j At the meeting Friday, the nrgans'cond and third national awards will, ization will he discussed and planbe gold watches. , wil1 l "' mu,lp for ,h '’ >" ar ' . At thp
(1 | second meeting, table furnishings, se-
. lection and cost, decorations, dishes, ' removing stains, cleaning silver and I various other subjects will he the
WILL BE HELD IN THE (OUNTY AGENT’S oi l It E TUESDAY EVENING.
Jueeting of the director, of the posed chautauqua, to Ire held in
: A
prop*
Greencastle this summer, will be held in the Court House, Tuesday evening at 7::!0, in the office of Robert H. Stevenson, county agricultural agent. The program will he outlined from the list of available talent and if possible final plans will be started. The date- for the chautauqua will 1><» set and other arrangements, relative to a slicce sful hi wing will he planned. INDIANAPOLIS LI\ ESTO( K
Seven Injured In Auto Crash
topics for discussion.
POLICEMEN \ND REPORTERS VICTIMS OF Act I DENT AT IN’DI \ N AP< ILLS.
Atlantic Hop To Start Thursday
INDIANAPOLIS, March 27. (114 — Hog price- were 10 to 15 cenui lower on the Indianapolis livestock exchange today. Bulk, 1G0 to 300 Ib.v, hogs brought $H.30 to $8.50. The top price paid was $8.65. Receipt# numbered G,000. Holdovers were estimated at 301. Cattle were strong, veals closed higher. Receipts were estimated at 11,000 and calves receipts 700. Beef steers sold off at $11.30 to $13.50. Vealers cleared at $1G to $17.50 and heavy calves at $G.50 to $10.50. The sheep market closed littla changed.
GERM AN I RIO AW Al l FAVORABLE W EATHER FOR DARING
AERIAL DASH.
• LESH TO SPEAK HERE
FIREMEN SANE SEVERAL PERSONS BA THRILLING RESCUE MEASURES.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 27. (UP)
K ..... , —More than a score of persons were V ' ""><■" - i«t" . «*• l RDAY Niru r U ' wind, and three person- were slight-
1 ly injured, when tire swept through
. * ; the Cico hotel, in the downtown dia-
L*ih,,
. candidate for governor trict, last night.
'' ' ’'’can ticket subject to cle rtion in May, will ^ assembly room of thc
u ' '>n Saturday evening at 1 "ill b e an organization * lh * 0. O. P. party in
^ ■‘'id community.
*'h W i|| faiicm.”
he »r him.
speak on “Lincoln
Damage was estimated at $12,0(i<>
Hundreds cf specators who gather- of Coatesville, and Mrs. e ,l to watch the blaze, were treated kett, of C’loverdale-
to the spectacles of persons jumping from windows, and firemen carrying residents of thc hotel down long lad-
| ders.
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hutcheson, age G3, and a life long resident of Putnam county, passed away at her
home, west of Hamrick Station, about March Wind.’’
4:30 o’clock, Monday afternoon. All ladies attending brought their Mr-- Hutcheson was the widow of own table .-eivice, andwiches and al the late William Hutcheson, well dishes and at the noon hour the known resident of that communitv. | unc heon was spread on a long table Mrs. Hutcheson was preceedcd in jn die basement of the church an i
death hy a niece t'or.i Edith Mercer, , erv ed buffet style,
who passed away in 1922. The niece The- afternoon session began at 1:30
was raised by Mr. and Mrs. Hutche- O vioch.
■on. 0
She i- survived hy one brother, Joseph Sears, of Greencastle; and four sisters, Mrs. Emma McDonald, of Greencastle; Mrs. Alexander Sears, of Greencastle: Mrs. Cora Masten,
Anna Sac-
IN’DIANAPOLIS, Mai. 27. (UP)— Speeding at a 45-mile an hour clip, a police emt rgency automobile crashed into a telephone pole late yesterday
aftrnoon, and today, -even persons wire in the city Hospital suffering DUBLIN, Mar. 27. (UP)—The from injuries su-tained in the wreck Tran Atlantic flight to New York of Three of the injured were newspaper tB(1 j un kers Monoplane Biomen, carreporter.- and four were policemen, eying thiee German-, will tart aAs the emergency car swerved it jiqoii a- the weather is favorable, skidded on the lippery pavement, probable Thursday, jumped the curb on the northeast cor- \ somber grey monoplane waited tier and then, completely out of con- a t Saldonnel flying tield nut de Dubtrol, crashed into the stone wall, |i n today for the time, ju t after ricocheted hack and struck an iron dawn Thursday, when it- three gcr pole, continued a little further and m an masters were expected to pilot
BOMB BLASTS WRECK HOMES
Mrs. Coolidge’s Mother Improves
in
The
Nilllea C tl0ol «, v,
John S. Huestis of Albany, N. A .. arrived in Greencastle, Monday called
by the serious illness of his tlaugh ,1 , superintendent of ter, Miss Anne Huestis, at the home - '■ visitH the Roachdale of her uncle, Charles C. Huestis in
Northwood.
The funeral will be held from the Antioch Church Wednesday morning at II o’clock with interment the Boone-Hutche: on cemetery. Rev. B. H. Bruner will have charge
of the services.
Dr. and Mrs. Henry L. Davis of Indianapolis, and son, William who is attending Chicago University, spent
the day here.
NORTHAMPTON. Mass., Mar 27.
(UP)—Cheered by an early-morning visit from her daughter, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, was reported slightly im- ( proved at Dickinson Hospital today.
No formal bulletin had been issued
up to 7 A. M-, but h"-pital authorities reported that the elderly woman’s condition wa- somewha'. better than
at the same hour yesterday.
finally jammed to a stop between another pole and the wall. The car was
demolished.
Ellis Cowling, who is attending a theological school in Chicago, is visiting with his parents Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Cowling..
A radiogram wa.- received today from Dr. and Mrs. W. R. Hutcheson, who are on a world tour. The message which was .-ent yesterday stated that they were in Manila and would be in Hongkong, Chinn, on Thursday. Both are well and enjoying their trip to the utmost.
it on the dangerous westward path acros- the Atlantic. Facing a task that none has accomplished, the Germans—Capt. HermaJt Koehl, Baron Von Huenfeld and Arthur Spindler were determined to
succeed.
RESIDENCES <»l T\A<> CHICAGO OFFICIALS DAMAGED. GANGSTERS RESPONSIBLE. CHICAGO, Mar. 27. (UP)—Two bombs wreked the homes of U. SSenator Charles Deneen and circuit Judge John J. Swanson last night, and today Chicago was thrown into such turmoil as the heat of election campaigns and gang wars never produced before. The word went out on all sides this morning, before the city had recovered from the first .-hock of the two bombings, that th». lid was off.
Frank F. Brackney left today for Pali.-, 111., to attend the funeral of his nephew Nathan Shirley.
The complaint for damages, Samuid Hamm versus Owen S. German, Ketha Fern German, Martha E. Block which was venued to Putnam county from Owen county, has been dismissed at the cost of the plaintiff.
UNDERWENT OPERATION Miss Beatrice Evans, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Evans, underwent an operation for appendicitis last Friday at Indianapolis. Word was received today by friends that she stood thc operation very well and was resting more comfortable yesterday.