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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1928.

No. 172.

hospital day will

n ALFRED HIRT CELEBRATES

86TH BIRTHDAY

DONALD GODDARD DEAD

National Day Will »v observed .vt Hospital In This County Two

Weeks Hence.

National HLspital Da> will be obseivcil by the Putnam County Ho>-

Donald Goddani, api' 17, son of Mrs. Etta Goddard of Connersville, who formerly lived here was run over and fatally injure'I by u truck in East St. Louis, Thur-'la\ nipht. He died at a hospital in Highlands, llli-

I,;-- OF TWO KEEL.T/ Uln “ m ujunt >' 1Kl ' MU HIK, Iv I V|,,V I- . ■ •>««, shortly after 12 o’clock. I _. txra P*®« on Saturday. May L2 whicli ,v * 1 ^ NATIVE OJ BILLS, u

ly STAR IS MONDAY , .• > - vvnun -UM/||;| \\n iti., ,i ,ur ‘' lrs - Ooddard left Gi.encastle late

f""- e, • ,H - — ’

TK N , l , h jV 1 V° Nt, , UEN l,ALL " BANK PRESIDENT of Otho Ellis, of this city. The , l . u as a t J Oelta K ip- i mother, and one sister, Mrs. Glenn!

pa Honorary organization will hold Hirt ,

" bantiuet meeting this evening t

OLD CHIEF CORNSTALK’S TRIBULATIONS

BROUGHT TRIBE AC ROSS T>YO

STATES LOOKING FOR

\ RIDING PLACE.

TREES PRESENTED TO THE HOSPI i iL B\ MBS. BY ANS »—o—• Two Birch free.. And Two Japenese Magnolias To Help Keauiify Hospital Grounds.

JUNIOR-SENIOR PROM HELD ON THURSDAY EVE.

k. I.M>

PLANNED

M l I I I D NEAR

ipals. Man> Extras In

Ltioii Picture Sponsored fc,oner and Granada.

Longden Hall. A program and a number of addresses will be given.

i Uso One of Lessening Monnett, survive,

of \ eterans of Civil War. Enlisted In iSlil.

Mis. Mary Evans, president of the Board of Trustees of the Putnam County Ho.-pital, has presented the hospital with two beautiful birch trees and two Japanese Magnoliawhich will in future years, be of great

KOACHDALE beauty on the east lawn of the hos '' AS

' pital grounds.

GYMN \sll M VC \S DKt ORATED

IN RESPLENDENT MANNER FOR ANNUAL FESTIVITY.

DEC 1 DUD

SI t( ESS

of Greencaetle citizens! n an opportunity to take jf, stle’s own little movshow when the Baiuiet L ly "ii the Che city next week. Every^l I, t" experience the j, rarel. to thou |lyw "d, will get before tlie

CLUB ROUND-UP AT PURDUE U. IS COMPLETED

1 bat concentration of effort is nee ' > for achii ■ ement is illustrated by the life of Alfred Hirt, of this 1 city, who, on May 4, completes his eighty-sixth year of life. He enters upon his eighty-seventh year with his health much better than that of many younger persons. That he has been

APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE FOR ELECTION HERE

Putnam Piomers Knew I his Shawnee Abraham. Hunted and Trapped With His Warriors.

EIGHTH GRADE ENTERTAINMENT

Spanish Decorations And Atmosphere Prevailed. Waiters Dressed In Spanish Costumes.

enabled to retain so much vitality

Ing the taking of the down pfjlNAM COUNTY GIRLS W ERE s i H;a * is ;l U11 d constitution, un *•’ ENTERED I N THE CONTESTS 1 ■ < y excesses of any kind, k during the tnriliing parts p'UIHAY. His tall, spare figure has been a Jedy that the huge mob familiar one on the down-town street-

and he ha.- always commanded the re-

ELEt I ION HOARD APPOINTMENTS FOR REPI BI.K AN PUIM ARIES ARI MADE.

I A I ES OF C ITY.

DEMOt RATK NO I t OMl’LETE

mob !

■ "I, Director Charles ■nounced this morning. Of Impoitance is the terrible. I up that will occui- in the |i. ■ nt"wn di.-tiict. Twe [automobiles furnished by ^ Dobbs .Vut" <Jo., will be

i scene,

,) ml lav !!■ i ’ii |,lice in charge of the debus given today for the | of this thriller. Director ined that the accident is i accident, but will appear breen. It will be one of the %• i.,i'ii.

DEMONS I RATION

( ON I US I S

-Alary Kiley Ifeprescuted I he County Organization In The Ulub Style Show Friday.

4-11 Club work activities at the an- i nual Club Round-up, which is being

>pect of his fellow men. Those who know something of hi.-, achievements' financially, have admiration for his! ulterness in such matters and have wondered at the almost uncanny way in which he has been enabled to reap

an exceptional and failing

Name- of Hoard Appointed lo Serve

In Anting Precincts In Grccncastle Township Published.

"i

i The historic wayfaring of the Israelitish patriarch, Abraham, from Ur of the Chaldees up through Mesopotomia to Paran, and thence, later, down into the Promised Land, because of changing conditions in his old home, is faintly mirrored in the “personal life” of Chief Peter Cornstalk, as it has come down to us after about a century of elapsed]

lj nlP . ] This evening at 8:00 o'clock in the

High School auditorium, the annual

1 eter brought his immediate fol- grade entertainment will be given lowers away from Point Pleasant, un( i er tJ le supervision of Prof. Oscar V\e.-t Virginia, soon after his uncle, Thomas. Each year the affair proves t hiet Cornstalk, senior, had been de- i, e one well-worth while, und this Icated by the whites, about 17H0. y ear tp,- public is promised an even1 oint i leasant is across the Ohio riv- ln ^ f u u „f first class entertainment.

Following is the list of graduates*.

and his dependents

With a. resplendent and artistic decoration -cheme carried out in

l-| l< |< |< Tl lNir.H I ever y P" Able and conceivable man

lILrlVL, 1VS111VJ1I1

j transplanted from Spain to the old THIRTIETH ANNUAL PERFORM | h j gh • seh,n ’ 1 gymnasium, I’hursday ANCE OF JUNIOR HIGH GRAD- nlKhtl wlth lh ‘ ! Presentation of the

from financial seed

held at Purdue university this UK "' '* hul h ° 1 a "’ un ^ thu few real| y

wealthy men of Putnam county i.-> well known. His wealth is in substan-

were completed late today. The young ladies attending the Round-up from Putnam County will return to their homes here on Saturday.

tial form, chiefly land, buildings and

government bom is.

Mr. Hirt is a native of Biel, Switzerland. It is in the portion of the

The members of th. election board.- er from Gallipolis, O.

W ', M J I'"' 11111 ’ tnl thief Peter and hi.- dependents Jerome Austin, Ralph Alspaugh, haivest " !’ U J aal * ,a ^ ' ' n ' P |l!llul J hopefully entered Ohio in the search George Brown, William Butler, Charhave been appointed by for a new hume lan()i an j ^ hopo . , es Cartei . ( i> a t r iek Concilia, Maynard

fully entered Indiana, in turn, and Coleman, Lloyd Conyers, Kenneth hud almost traversed it, also, when Dawson, Ralph Denny, James Du -

serve tor the Demo-1 they happened onto the then wild, 1 ham, Leland Ernest, Clifford Estep, crane party has not been entirely beautiful region lying along the head- Otis Floyd, Osbom.. Goldsberry, complet. ' a \et. j waters of Big Raccoon creek, ten- James Hall, John Hauck, Paul Hill, I he following are tht election tering about a mile and a half north- Robert Hill, Arvo Hood, Maurice Ma-

Junior-Senior urom, “A

Spain.”

Night

sown many years ™ lh count ' v ' t . hairlI , an 0 ' f

iM , i t I'ziallx.'

the Republican party. The list of election boar .- to serve for the Demo-

The color scheme in the interior of the gymnasium was carried out in black and orange, with the chairs draped in red. The walls were completely covered with lattice work with branches intermingling all around the room. A beautiful fountain completed the decorative scene. A .-mall electrical fountain at one corner of the room, with red lights was very oiiginal as well as attractive. The small tables at which the banquet was served were spread with ! black and yellow lunch cloths and napkin.A Red candle sticks and holders centered the tables. The backj of the chairs were in red, thus car-

The majority of the conte.-ts were

eats that the Banner completed during the earlier part of country vhi< German-speaking I the citizens ol Gruencast- the meeting but the demonstration and, until the beginning of the world picture. contests and the stylo show were war, he u;« p aid of the achiev lecting the cast, the hero, held Friday. . nients of the empire whose language „ the villain and the “fail the spt ke, hut, when th war clou

lirwaj and a fuU list may . *n the dyi i

d by Saturday. With ex- “J ‘infing daartflcatmns with Mary , .

cveloped by years of ex- /’ 0,1 an ' a, ^ ter e,ltere d p ro bable that tlnne was not in Putthe show lots of the cen- u utnan ' Uount> c uh. Mary llam C0U , ltVj j, 0 . S; ,|i,|y j n a wider area, adustry, Director Fetty f‘^y represented the county club in u lalger illUlvi(iual p Urcha .. er of

the actors from among he StyI ®. ^ a " d , she wore a cos -, gove.nment bonn,.

stle people. tU r whlC ^ sh , e had niadc herself : ! When Mr. Hirt was twelve years r to many quetstiuiits ask- . e ^ IUC ^ Uar won seCMn ^ l^ aco | old, his lather ami his family embark-

lotion pictures, €inemato-’ the h # ea ‘‘ h C0,lUjst wlth a

age of 99.

tying out the vivid colors of the evc-

bou^ appointed for the voting pre- | west of Roachdale, just over the line 0 n, Delman Redding, Percy Rice, Le- Small dance programs in the cim t* in Greenca.-tle township and j n Montgomery county, fixm Putnam. | arK | Sanford, Virgil Skelton, Maurice K orm miniature Spanish girls were

! There they built their wigwams. Smith, Eugene Statts, Donald Stone,! Kiven a - s favors -

I . . .... _ . I Pri

ed at Antwerp, for New York. Their vessel was a three-masted barque,) not very large, and ii encountered one storm that tossed it wildly upon the waves, bringing suffering to the passengers and hard work to the crew. During several day.-, the waves wcie , so high that they swept over the] ship. Mr. Hirt, during the worst of the waves, ventured upon the deck, only to find himself almost carried overboard by the water, which was i nearly waist-deep for him. One of the I I masts was broken off, and fell across, the other rigging. Fifty-three days

were required for the voyage.

That was the only ocean trip Mr. Hirt made un a sailing vessell, hut in, I the course of his husines.- career, be- ] ginning a number of years later, he • 1 crossed the Atlantic ocean close to , fifty times, lie owned and operated

a steamer himself, later.

Mr. Hirt’s principal busines.- was, the manufacture and export of

ually decreasing, according to an es-| s t. av ,,. f or cn.-ks, his foreign customtiinate devised by the Crop and Live- B1 . ,ng found chiefly in Germany

^rmer explained toda;- that ■ if filnvJr-i. .tuv „:,te.'> W.-hot of complete pb'hen taken in the cymeia, i in the period of one-fif- ■ (second. A complete com- [ 1,800 feet. “A Day In will he of regular comedy will carry a plot, story, id the regular features ] Van! making u fiist cla-:

Induction.

plet'' ' ust "til piobably " Itomorrow and the “shoot^egiii eai y Monda aft<

DECREASE TOTAL SEVENTY-SIX

jk Monday night the inter

jio scenes that go into the jl be made on the stage of ja tl. r. Pcweiful studio »'di.c tailed for thi.- pur ^ere you will see a miniain operation, the same

Jing used as are used in the ' ,anl 18 8teadlly but very ^ ra,l ‘

lo." l ii'...' scenes will be

TOTAL NUMBER OF HORSES IS ON DECREASE

EM IMA I E DKt IDED BA I N1 I ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF

AGRICULTURE.

Number Of Mules (n County Increas-

ed Eleven In County During

1927 Over 1926.

The total number of horses in i’ut-

Greencastle City.

First AAard

Judge: E. E. Caldwell. Clerk: Irene Byerly Henry. Sheriff: Urban Elmore. Second AAard South Judge: U. V. O’Danicls. Clerk: Lillian Ashton. Sheiiff: M. I. Butterfield. Second Ward North Judge: Lemuel Johi -. Clerk: Nolle Browning. Sheriff: J. M. Ree\ rs. Third Ward VA est Judge: Mari91) O. VH 1.. Clerk: Olive A. Brown. Sheriff: Charles K. Kendall. Third A\ ard East Judge: Ross Tustison. Clerk: Frank Masten. Sheriff: George Cotton.

Fourth Man!

Judge: George Sheppard. Clerk: Minnie Alverson. Sheriff: John Gray.

Norihw ood

Judge: E. .A. Brown. Clerk: Mrs. Perry Mye,-. Sheriff: Peiry Myers. North Grecncastle Judge: Frank Roach. Clerk: John H. Ra er. Sheriff: Claude Wimmer.

Lintrdale

Judge: John R. Cox. Clerk: Russell Hauck. Sheriff: William Pitts.

Fox Ridge

Judge W. J. Alice. Clerk Elvin Harlai. Sheriff: Flank McCammack.

The region was, in miniature, a re-

John Vermillion, Leon Williams, Paul

Prior to the dinner and dance a program was given from a balcony situated at one corner of the huga

program consisted of a

I room, the

production of the rough country on Wri « ht ’ Leonard Fi * her ’ Ja,nc8 1>et ‘ i the Ohio with which he had been erson, Edna M. Albin, Mildred Atkin-

familiar since childhood. Cornstalk '' on ’ B ^ ancbu Bachert, Agnes Baugh- ... , , , .

■nui hi, oennle were well eafahlUhed '"“n, Lois Black, Alice Butler, Louise ” UX ° d t f 0rU8 ‘* nd heVeral danCeS - 1 h<; and his ptoph were well established M • rhenoweth F.La entire chorus was assembled under a

there when the first white pioneers! ,ln ld ’ Maxine Chuiowet , . . , .. ,

I'nterml north No Hoselv w.s i l ’hiles, Melba Collins, Clara L. Conk-! ■ s l M,ush t >T'-‘ balcony and the dances ntered north I utnam. So closely was , .. t . )urh were given from the balcony. The

he identified with the locality that! 1111 - Barbdra Due > Maigaret Durham, » „h,.r.. - ..rrio I

1 ihe creek n„ which his encamn Ruth Ellington Carolyn Ellis, Doro- Bpantsh atmosphere was earned out

k .lag wl hi. can | . .. I’arol Goodenouirh Rebecca >n the dress of all of the participants. I nient lay was given his name, Corn- lh > Frew, Carol Goodenough, Rebecca ,

t-ilk bv most of the ninneer, al Hostage Madonna Grimes, Marjorie 1 b 0 '‘i t dance was gi'tn by

U H*«. Mini, line Hef(,„a„, Willard Miller

garet Inman, Leona Jenkins, Eliza-1 <,wln * Anis dlMiee was a typical beth Knauer, Mary F. Landes, Fran- SP a,U;< b dance given by six High ces Long, Irene Mary. Lorene Me- ^b 00 ' 8tudent *: Klizabcth Leavitt, Cammack, Ruth Moore, Marjorie | Bud Shannon, Virginia Rariden, Muuiain', Mildred Murphy, Pauline| Tl°y d Fhomas, Mary Louise Ihroop, Neier, Elizabeth Rariden, Mariella and Roland Campbell. Following the. Myers, Martha E. Rector, Meredith I Pfogiam the banquet was held with Reeves, Zona Rogers, Marjorie Rum- tht! ’ la,,cu foUowing. In a room adjoinley, Emma J. Satterlee, Mavel Shafer j in * th,! Kymnasium games were playled lor those who did not dance.

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(Continued on page 4)

AVERAGE YIELD OF WHEAT HIGH FOR YEAR 1927

20.U00 At RES OF WIIEAI FL AMED IN FALL OF 1927 FOR 1928 HARVEST.

I MUNI A PERCENT STANDING

Maigaret Shilling, Ruth Smith, Ison j Snider, Vietta Stites, Mary Louis.' Talbott, Helen Tobin, Mary Tobin, Lucy Trail, Elizabeth Varvel, Geneva Vaughn, Dorothy Wells, Mary E. Trout, Catherine Wilson, Lottie M. York, Dolores Cunningham and Jean

Patterson.

total Acreage AA a- 6,000 Acres More Hum 'Acre Planted in 19M For 1927 Harvest.

[e$

Hangar

t Spitzbergen W it NOBILE ADVISED

AT VKDSOE,

iORVA'A\ FRIDAY.

PRE-PRIMARY CAMPAIGN IS IN FULL SWING

M the regular program so . . . „ . . o. .

trill be able to see the mak- stock Jt,lv,sw, ‘ ol th '’ Lnlted htat ' an I II:.- familiarity witn the

■

Banner" tomorrow for an- other ,onn * of livMtock ’ with ^ ex Jt of all local caat " 1 ■ 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 beep,

o ^ I decided increase. The estimate is ; ncss was of such magnitude that ho

based on assessing figures compiled ^ ecame a nationally known figure in]

n 'in 1927 in comparison with 1926. .^at line of industry and upon it ho

ravages

number of horses is recorded which accumulations. Entering the umber, shows conclusively that each year the business early in the South he was horse is used to less extent. Howev-1 able to buy white oak trees for fifty there is shown an increase in the cents which now would comnmnd, number of mules owned in 1927 over fifty d «H ar8 . l ; ach ’ » e entered f tha

| Business at a favorable moment, and^

1B26 ’ j (eft it before it became unfavorable. > The decrease in horses totals 76 for jj r Hirt' connection with the lo1927 and an increase of 11 mules. In (>a j financial world at president of the HOO R

the milk cow division there was un o„tral National bank and, later, of — increase of 237 milk cows over the (• n-st National, is well known. The Hoover Rally To Be Held In ( ourl

(BAY, SPITZBERGEN, May t 0 tal in the county in 1926 but a de- [ a tter institution he piloted to a pros- Houae Here. 'Irs. Hugh Clark fA furious snowstorm last crease of 977 of total cattle was not- condition. AA ill He Speaker. paged the hangar destined e( j, A decrease of 741 sheep and an He i also one of tie eidng .. ! tne Ita *ian Polar Dirigible i ncre ase of 699 sows, 10749 total nunl h cr 0 f veterans of the Civil War. rj , he ure . urjmarv campaign is in

swine, and 2,020 dozens poultry, com- Hu en ij 8 ted in the Fifty-First regi-

ment of the Ohio Infantry, in 1861,

The members of the chorus were aa

I follows:

Louise Robinson, Pauline Hostetler i Vtra Jean Brown, Mary Louise Moffett, Elizabeth Leavitt, Alberta Houck Mildred Caviness, Mary Soper, Gertrude Herod, Ardith Moore, Mary Lou ! Throop, Virginia Rariden, Forest 1 Riggs, Raymond Brown, Willard Miller, Lloyd Thomas, Roland Campbell,

■ — Floyd Buckanan, Bud Shannon, Clif*

Vocation Day will be observed in ford Fraizer, Frederick Thomas, the Presbyterian church Sunday, May James Goodwine, Orville Webb and

6, at all services. An increasing num Mailer Bryan.

her of denominations are using this 1 At the close of the program, with date to direct the attention of the the accompaniment of the orchestra to the opportunities offered in Theodore Forepaugh gave a special-

the ty dance of his own interpretation,

with thq

A OCA I ION DAY

MAJOR WILLIAM RADFORD COYLE TO ADDRESS RALLY

AT CLOVEKDALE. RALLY SATURDAY

Out of 20,000 acres of wheat sown in Putnam county in the fall of 1927 ■ for 1928 harvest only twenty percent

] is standing at the present time, ac- the Christian callings, such as,

cording to Robert H. Stevenson, the m i n j fi t r y, missionary and medical ser- which made quite a hit county agricultural agent. Gee, teaching, etc. party.

In the fall of 1926 14 000 acres 1 1,urin K the opening and closing Members of the Sophomore class of wheat were sown and production worship periods of the Church school of the high school served. They were:

tota l at 9:30 a service entitled “Our Tart-, Mildred Surber, Genevieve Pollum,

ner*” will be used. At 10:40 the] Marion Peck, Frances Kerr, Julia

However I paat01 wil1 8peak on ‘‘ Individual Ca-lWcrneke, Thelma Hill, Arthur Grose,

"purity” The young people will havelJules Shannon, Harry Godfrey, Dena Fellowship Luncheon in the Manse nis Mathews, Robert Dirks, Donald at 6:30 p. m., followed by their dis-j Grimes and Herbert Mundy. cussion hour having for its subject,! Miss Genevieve Daggy, junior class “How to Choose a Life-work.” Keith ] sponsor is indeed to be complimented be the leader. on her beautiful work. The prom

in the number of bushels was

of 176,000. This made a percentage

yield of 12.6 to the acre,

this year, with 6,000 more acres sown during the fall, and with only twenty percent of the total standing, the acre percentage will he negligible. During 1927 the wheat production

in the number of bushels totaled 13,- Fr<d<dl ' W ‘ B

had

made an

els per acre.

rKdence, the weather bureau pleted the survey.

Geienul Umberto Nobile, , , . iives-tnek

to postpone his de- total I,UmbCr ° f 1,VeSt ° Lk

ander,

• r °m Vadt^

a.ay.

scheduled for! their special division follows:

Livestock

1926

4,208 811 5,791 11,604 8,181 4,928 24,200

1927 4,132

6,028 16,627 7.440 5,627

84,949 12,028

U NORWAY, May 4, (UP) Horses . ■• Part of the Great Air Mules - • • i* 1 wil1 take the Dirigible It- Milk Cows . i ‘''"’(th Pole area was corn- Total Cattle J -' when Command'r Um- Sheep . . •■ ( lk brought his charge to Sows I Total Swine

cfliturous Italian had fought Dyzens Poultry • - •

r f ' ,r -■vcral hours and the u' 1 " t, hut -teadily the £. J ' "iig'h the night, a|> 7 S only • few min-

time the explorer had ' , v I’‘(rival. called meeting Temple Lodge No. 47, F. & A. M. Friday, 7:30 p. m. ] caught a channel cat M. M. Degree. ' ^ a t Bi K Walnut creek B. A. DAGGY, W • M. ‘id one-naif pounds. E. K CALDWnLL, feecj.

'The pre-primary campaign is full swing this week in Putnam coun-

.. ty. On Friday evening Major Wil-

and was in ’he service tm.’ ' ' . , liain Radford Coyle, of Pennsylvania,

participated in the fighting which centered in Tennesee and Georgia, Fraternally, he is a member of the Odd Fellows of some half-century standing, and he is a Mason of ad-

will address u Republican rally at Cloverdale. On Saturday night a final rally by the friends of Herbert Hoover will be held at the Putnam

County Court 11 use.

000 with 1,300 acres planted. This Stereopticon pictures of “The Phil- was carried out in detail just as average yield of 9.8 bush- d'l'ines, Pearl of the Orient,” will be been planned, and was one of the

shown at the evening service at 7:30. most beautiful successful junior-sen-The views will indicate the progress ior receptions ever given in thu high

On the bu.M. of average yield per f the Gospel in these Islands since school. Miss Daggy has devoted much acre in regards to the corn crop in tl i American occupancy bcgatl Ifi time and w ork to the affair, and the 1927 Putnam County was listed as 1S9S. An offering to defray trails- .-ucccss of the evening depended enfourteenth in the standing of coun- portation and rental expense* will be Lrcly upon her splendid cooperation. ties in the state of Indiana, with an ttken. o

average yield of 35.5 bushels to the Mother’s Day will be observed as acre. However the highest was 43 usual Sunday, May 13. The Church bushels and Uiu remaining twelve | qj.-.i-tet and Prof. G. O. Aril, organwere all in the thirties with several i j^t. will offer a program of music , of the counties with an average yield that will be very pleasing.

Hostilities Near Tsinan Are Ended

.“ vanced raiiK. His church i 1 s i meeting v\ill l>« addressed

byterian, of which he

for many years.

Was a trustee

PLAN NON-STOP FLIGH’l

.AIASOMC NOTICE

Mrs. Hugh Clark, delegate at large to ! the Republican National convention ] from Ohio, and by Monteville Flowj ers, of California. Mrs. Clark was for two years chairman of the VV’o-

A1ADUID May 4. (L I'>—Captains men’s Auxiliary of the American Lelonurio Jiminez Martin and Francisco gion of Ohio. Mr. Flowers is a per-Igle-ias Braga, Spanish army avia- sonal friend and enthusiastic supt,,,-. plan to start Sunday a non-stop porter of Herbert Hoover.

Havana, a telegram to Cu-

of only a fraction over the Putnam

county average.

Forty-four thousand acres of corn were planted during the year and the total production in bushels was 1,-

662,000.

The Putnam county average in oats was rather 1 w as the average yield per acre was 17.1 percent. The acreage totaled If),000 and the production in number of bushels was approximately 256,000.

I I RUMEN MAKE Itl NS.

BA El EE BETWEEN JAPANESE-

i HINESE I k<K)PS CEASI Al i ORDING i" Ri PI)R I 9

I

flight

ban Ambassador Nobly from the Cuban consul at Sevilla said today. Jiminez and Iglcsias recently remained aloft 28 hours in an attempt to break the flight enduranco record

The average yield per acre In pro-

It is believed that a large attend- duction of tame hay was also slightance of persons interested in the cam- ly below normal with an average paign will be present at this meet- yield per acre of one percent or one ing. ton of hay per acre. The total acre-

■ o age was 26,000 and the production in (Continued on page 5;. . . tons was 26,000 tone.

Local firemen made a run Thurs-

day afternoon to the Moffett & Dobbs ■ — Battery .Station on the north side of SHANGHAI, May 4. (UP)— The the .square. Oil, which wu bring buttle between Japanese and Chinese heated in the rear of the store room, troops at Tsinan ended at 6 a. m. tohad boiled over and tire started on day when General Chiang Kai Uheko the back stairs. The blaze was recalled his Chinese troops, Japanese quickly extinguished however with wireless reports said, two chemicals and not much damage Many foreign civilians were murwas sustained. Friday afternoon dered, the reports said. Details were about 12:30 o’clock gasoline, which lacking. had been thrown on some coal in the There were several Americans still heater at the Ideal Cleaners, caught in the Tsinan quarters but the Amerfire. The blaze was extinguished lean embassy here has not yet been quickly and no damage was done, j advised of their fate.