The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 May 1928 — Page 2
THE (tKEENCASTEE DAffiY 6‘AMMfeft, MONDAY, MAY 14,1928.
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Personal And Local News
W. L, Denfnan *p#nt Monday in In- 1 Mr. and Mr-. T. E. Evans =pwit dianapolis. j ^^ot^lPr’s Pay in Indianapolis. Mrs. Frank Dnnnor of this city will Mr. and Mrs. Manson Blister
1 " J to Decatur, ill., Sunday . i er a few days visit with relatives]
! here.
art as delegate from this rity to the [turned to Decatur, 111., Sunday aft-
Federation biennial.
Milton Pierson of roaresville -pent the week-ervd with his -i'ter, Mrs.
John Knight, and family.
Kappa Delta l.unrheon. birthday Dinner Sunday. The members of the Indianapolis; A h . (linn , r waF Kivell Alumnae Association of the Kappa J Kennpth ^ Su|lday at ^ hom ,
JMta Sorority were nonteMes for tnp , , /ValUsrP irs»«r h nX h '“i £?.• ’i&Tjrzz 1 .n, ^ Active memliers from Indiana arul or of hj( . th , |av of Ma ^ r ,.; (Uill evening at 7=.% o’clock.
J)f»Pauw univpfFitiVp and alumnae
Mt. and Mrs. I.. ft. Me Neely and Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Williams and family motored through the north and eastern portions of the state this
at-'
Haven.
Mr. and Mr-. J.eo Knight of Mun-
Those present were: Mr. and Airs. ( ,j t . w ^ff> visitors in (irecncastle, Sun-
members throughout the state
Miss ( ornelia ( ooney. ! esville, Mr. and Mrs. I.ouis Wagner lural agent, was a visitor in Brazil,
!• rom DePauw were Misses Jos- , ,, , „ 111 gunMav ephin. Trimble, Mabel B.chellor, Mu-| #n ‘ l u n ■ U tn a i'
rie Stein bach, Mary Foster, Harriet “ n<i family, Mrs Dess.eBij an an.1 Mr a(ui y f .. W . K . Bau-^ma/i and Kelley, Cornelia Cooney, Eula Clifton,I Bradley of thi.s ( i y. | family sfient Sunday in Dayton with
•Sarah Frances Burris, Dorothea Aik-^ ()r . relatives.
man, Katherine Brooks, Itegine AU-j ea '*' a> '• Th<> Chj|d W elfare Committee met paugh, Anne Williams, Mary Kath- in.liana delegates to the CJeneral ; jn thf> p ub | if jj brary Monday after-
erine Mitchell, Mabel Matthews, Car- Federation of Clubs Sessions at San noon #t 4 „- ( .| 0 rk. nl Sayre, Mary Kiser, Olive (Justin; Antonio, Texas will leave Indiana-j
Mesdames John Spaugh, Zionsville; S. polis May 2f»th and will arrive in the 1 Clifford Miller of Indianapolis, c. Wynn, Hohert Miller, Bloomington; eonv»nlion city un Muy 27til. The enn sjient the week-end in Greenca-tle, C. A. Payne, F. 11. Hickman, (Jieen-| yention will be held from May 28 toj visiting with his parents.
June 7th.
+ + •!• -I* + + Penelope < lull To Meet.
castle,
+ A* •h “T + ♦ Bee Hive Kebeksh To Meet. Bee Hive Itebekah l.ixlge will meet tonight at 8:00 o’clock. There will be installation of officers. •I* •i* + Tobin-MagemlMiiz Nuptials.
Mr. and Mrs. Koy Abrams and Mr. | and Alls. II. J.. Boyce, of * Brazil, I s|ient the week-eml in Madison**'
Mis. Carl Confi r, N. Jackson St., 1 will be ho-tess Tuesday afternoon at 1 2:20 o'clock to the Penelope Club. + -p -I- -I- -I-
Miss blu M. Tobin of this city and Entertain For Daughter.
Mr. Fred K. Magendanz of Indianal«dis were united In marriage Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at The Manse l>y the Bev. V. I*. Raphael of Tlie Presbyterian Church. The -ingle ring eivire wa- use*. r>tr. Magend-
Otto Cox, Penal Farm escape, was taken to Michigan City early Monday morning by Sheriff Ed. Eiteljorge. Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Hunt and daugh ter of Indianapolis were guests of Mr. anil Mrs. Oscar Sullu-t, south of
the city, Satuiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Tobin entertained Sunday with a prettily appointed luncheon for their daughter, Ida, whose marriage to Ercd E. Mugeiulanz of Indianapolis took place,
anz I- u truck”gaiilner. arul''the^young Sulunla - V ' ^ !' th “ t with Mrs. S. A. Hays on Fast Ander-
' ’ . , terian church. I be bouse was atpeopie wil reside south of Indiana- tractive| (b( , )r;t „. (| in g flow-
poll-. I hey were accompanied by Mrs. Richard Magendanz, James
A general claim of $1300 wa,- mnd<«
for Charles P. Brnadstreet, in a find- we^f-end.
ing by Judge James P- Hughes in! | the Circuit Court, Charles P. Broad-1 Kenneth Stiles, Jf. year old son of
Estate of Flossiei Mr. ami Mrs. Richard Stites, We-t;
j Jacob street, received a very painful! i injury w hen he accidently stepped on I
The a-sensing period will dose cn, 8 p il( . bf „ r |, Sunday morning.
Tuesday, Majr ifi. Practically all of!
the papers of the various assessors' ' All member, of the Relief (nm-j and their deputies will be turned in mitteC of Putnam Podge No. 4n I. on that date nr a- soon after os is i 0. 0. J\, are requested to meet in possible. | the hall at 7:30 Tuesday evening, as
i there will be business of importance.
Mr. and Mrs. James Akins an ‘l j (Signed) !.. R. MgNeely, N. IP
son Glenn of Cloverdaie, and Air. an I |
Mrs. Virgil Akins and daughter | W. A. Grogan and Mr*. Willis A. Dorothy Mae of Mt. Meridian visited | Miller who were called to St. i.ouis Mis= Goldie Akin of near New Rieli- Mo., by the serious illne-s ni their
Tobin and Ruby B. Tale.
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Bring Thanks Offering, The Standard Bearers and
(jueen
Mr. and Mrs. Magendanz left Sun1 day afternoon for Inilianapoli- where | they will make their future home. Those in attendance were: Mrs.
Washburn Chapter, D. A. R. will meet Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock
son St.
Elmer Wells, Mrs. Edna Woods of Indianapolis -pent Sunday with their parents Mr. and Mr . Jesse Wells on
Rim St.
Esteher Circle will meet Tuesday ev.*
Mrs. Sarah Gardner and Mrs. Wilbur Knauer are visiting at Bridgeton, the guests of Mrs. E. T. Smith of
Anna Magendanz of Indianapolis, El-
ning at 7:30 o'clock with Mildred , 1:1 Watt < ,r Terre Haute - Mr *' Je *> e Cuvine-s, 12 E. Berry St. Memliers Williams and granddaughter Maxine ale asked to Plea e bring their thank ! Mr ’ iln * , •' lrs ' Jsu ; k (;aH T 1^;! Mr. and Mrs. Robert Gail, Mr. and Oorotby laniise the small daughter Mr.-. Wallace Poynter, Miss l.ulaj of Mr and Mrs ErneBt Radpr who Young, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Gorham fp)1 Satur<ltt nion(in and fut hw . | ip
ami family, ol this city, Miss Opal . . ami Miss Vera Smith of Roa, bdale, , ” 1|,roV,n ^
and Jesse Crawley of this city.
offering.
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To VI-el With Mrs. Diet rich.
The Domestic Science Club will 'I uesday afternoon at 2:3(1 o’clock
aiin Mrs. John Dietrich.
U. S. PLANES Fatal Shooting
WINGING WAY TO PICT0U, N.S.
Ed Ilossick, who has been in the | hospital for .sometime for medical treatment I.as returned to his
much improved.
mond Sunday. Robert Browning, formerly in the monument business in Greencastle is sexton at the Fore-t Hill cemetery. Mr. Browning started his duties the first of May. Simpson Hirt was formerly sexton. A picture of I.. Bernard Kilgore, editor of the DePauw paper for next year, appeared in the Indianapolis Star Monday morning. Kilgore will he a senior in the Fniversity and i.a member of Phi Gamma Delta. A finding in the sum of $4,11*8 wa made for K. R. Vermilliqn in a claim against the estate of Claudia V. Car - well, deceased, and Charles P. Broadstreet, special administrator, by a finding by the court in the Putnam Circuit Court. Eugene Chenowcth, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Chcnoweth, underwent an operation for appendicitis at. the Putnam County hospital early Sunday evening. Dr. T. H. Noble, Sr., of In dianapolis, assisted by Dr. C. C. Tucker, performed the operation. Putnam Lodge No. 4. r i I. O. 0. F. will m.^et Tuesday night at & o’clock. There will be important business to transact and also the woik of the J«t degree. All visiting members un urged to attend and help put on the
work.
*»v a /“'l 1 Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nebon of In(JCCUrS lH v/hliychi 'Unnapoli visited* Sunday with the
The liook.- in the treasurer’s office in the Court House, were closed the ^ onlp ! latter part of the past week. Alva Lisby, county treasurer, reported that the payments from Marion, Russell, and Jackson townships, were the best of the various townships in the coun-
POISONING BY RADIUM SEALS FATE OF GIRLS
FIVE WOMEN SLOWLY DYING MOST PA I NELL AND SI RE DEATH.
SCIENTISTS ARE BAFFLED
IRMA AIRSHIPS KNROfTE TO LABRADOR TO REPAIR TKANSot FAN PLANE.
SCNDAY S< HOOI. SI 'PERI NTENDBNT PULLS CUN FOLLOW ING
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formei’s parents, Mr. and Mr:. Ab
Nelson, we t of the city.
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Abel were in i Bloomington Sunday the guests of their *on at the Mothers’ Day dinner
I at the Lambda Chi House.
MUNHALL, Pa., May 14 (UP)—
A Sunday School xupei intemkent F. drs. Emily Prevo and sons, Edgar T. Tyrell, wa- held today in con net-! a 0 ' 1 Gordon spent Sunday in West
A. M. today for Pictou, N. 8., it was
piloted by Capt. Ira Eaker.
The second left ten minutes later. It was piloted by Lieut. E. R. Quesnda and who took the place of Muir Fairchild when the latter was striek<n v. ith ap|>endicitis. Brig. James E. F (hot, chief of the army air service was a passenger in the second plane. The army planes will refuel at I’ictou and then continue to I.ong's Point, Labrador, to where the Bremen has bei n removed from Greenly
island.
O,m „ f the'two U.’S\ “dunes Inroute i ti«n with the death of Phillip Clark! Union, ML, where they visited with
to Greenly l-hind departed at 8;4C who Wli e shot and killed in the first Christian Church vesterday ju.-t as | Cu| . lis has t0 the pastor began a Mothei’s Day set- hf ,. ))onip Lebanon aft<(r ending
: the nast few days with her sinter,
The hhooting followed un argument i Airs. T. It. Hunter and family,
between the two in: n over Tyrrell'
defense of Mis. Clink in a recent sep- j Uulby, returned to Greencasnitilioii suit. The woman works in: 1 !'* Sunday evening from Kwazee, tlie Sunday School Superintendent's ! G'ant count), where he had charge of law office services in a church in that town
of the Sunday School and also was said to have accussed the attorney of being responsible for the marital difi-
A tliint army plane arrived here cullies that brought about the recent
last night from Boston to remove cpnaiation suit
Lieut. Fairchild to Bo-ton today. |
0- j Tytrell defended himself anil then,
witnes-es saiil, drew a pi-tol from hipocket and shot Clark twice. Claik
died instantly.
Clark was said to have demand: d | Mrs. Mary E. Day was taken to that Tyrrell resign a superintendent j the Putnam County Hospital Sunday.
She fell ami was injured and her condition is thought to be quite serious.
Yeggs Crack Safe' Escape With $10,000
INDIANAPOLIS, May 14. (UP) In one of the most thoroughly executed robberies in this city’s history, three safe blowers cracked the safe in the Pettis Dry Goods Company and e-taped with $10,000. The bandits were hidden in the tore when William Cope, night watchman, went on duty. As Cope walked down a parking mom aisle, he was confronted by the men. , Handcuffing the watchman to the pipe, the robbers went leisurely “bout the work of placing the explosive and setting off the charge. Cope said the three men appeared to lie expert workers. \> -non as the explosion occurred (lie bandits scooped up the money and e raped. %
| The attorney went his hoini* and j wa- arrester! tbeie later. Me is mailied and the father of -ix children.
Tear Bombs Do Not Bother Dogs
RICHMOND, hid., May 14. (UP)— Through an error, two members ot the local police force have found that in at least two instances, tear gabombs have no effort on dogs. Commissioner! to execute the animals, the officers fired what they believed regular bullets, but instead they were tear gns missiles. One dog outran the gas. The other sat down with the gas all ah ut it and -er-merl
perfectly <omfortable.
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Greencastle Higti School
Summer Session. June 11—July 27
Opportunity to do make-up work in all of the u uni . objects.
Nominal tuition—one dollar.
Courses open to -tridents of Greencastle and surrounding
towns. Investigate.
Phone 419-K. Phone 382-K. •irren J. Yount, W. A. Huggard, of Schools. Director, The Summer* Session.
Roy Dickerson, who has been in the Robert Long Hospital at Indianapolis, convalescing from an operation, returned to bis home in this city, on Saturday. Miss Mae Mullins, who is attending State Normal at Terre Haute, .-pent the week-end visiting with her parent.-, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Mullins of this city. i Miss Ella Alspaugh, Beveridge 8u, I is suffering from u badly infected I hand, which resulted from a bad out I she sustained while at work at the j University shop. Miss Hazel Alverson, assistant di- ] rector of publicity at DePauw university spent the week-end in Indianapolis. She remained in that city Monday also on business. Rev. Johnston of the Metropolitan Church of Indianapolis will preach Tuesday evening at the St. Paul Baptist Church on the corner of Howard and Crown. All are cordily invited. On account of the mumps, the health club girls were unable to sell Kor-GeUMe-Nots for the Veterans of Foreign Wars last Saturday hut will -ell them on the -treets next Satur-
day.
A claim of $50© was allowed Roy Dobson, by a finding made by the court in the Putnam Circuit Court, in the matter of the claim, Roy Dobson versus the estate of Mahalu Hasty, deceased. Ralph Johnston of Montezuma visited in Greencastle Sunday with friend, and relative-. Mrs. Johnston spent the past week in th : s city and returned home with her husband Sunday.
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The death of Mrs. Henry Ford, occurred at her home in Bainbridge, Sunday at 7:45 o'clock A. 11. The funeral wil! he held from the heme, Tuesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock. Surviving are the hu.-hand, one daughter, Mrs. Warren Young, and two sons, Ernest and Fred. Charles C. Fetty, director of “A Day In Hollywood,” the Banner comedy to be shown at the Granada the first three days this week, was in Cruwford.sville Sunday completing arrangements with the Crawfordsville Review and the Strand Theater to cooperate on the same movie. “National Air Week,” celebrating the tenth anniversary of the use of planes as a regular vehicle of mail transportation, started Monday, May 15, 1918 was the first time that an air mail route was started in the history of the United States Post Office service and since that date many milek of air mail routes have been
started.
Oliver Black, Greencastle, is one of five DePauw tudents who have entered the extempore -peaking conte-t which will clo-e at (he university next
Furnier Emphtyeew of Radium Corporation Wet Brushes With Ups Seven or Eight Years Ago.
assessor, have not as yet been appointed. The appointments are made by Judge James P. Hughes. The member of composed of five persons, the three county officials, and two appointees. The Board, will meet on ihe first Monday in June, June 4. Mrs. Frances Lyon, L. D. Snider, Jonathan, Ed and Oliver Houck were in Indianapolis Saturday, where they
Scarves In All Gay Spring Co),
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sister Mrs. Bess Knick who has pneumonia, have returned home. Mrs. Knick is confined in a hospital and has passed the crises of her illne- - and is slowly improving. Willis A. Miller received a message Sunday morning from his brother, R. E. Miller of River, Oregon, saying their mother, Mrs. Sarepta Miller hail passed away on Saturday evening at 7:30 p. m. after a lingering illness of heart trouble. The husband and faiher died four years ago. Burial will
be in Hood River.
Miss Josephine Stoner sustained .-light injuries when the ear in which she was riding with her father, Omer Stoner, and another car collided on the bridge west of Greencastle, Monday morning. The cars were not badly damaged and all of ihe occupants of both machines with the exception of Miss Stoner escaped injury.
To Overcome The Backward Spring We Will Give— A Half Ton o! Ice Free Willi each cash sale on a limited lot of! Refrigerators The same low wholesale price will prevail! ( ome in and see them NOW. Gardner Bros,
Auto Race Ends In Jail Inmate Fr Crossing Tragedy Murder Case I
GILLESPYVILLE, Un., Muy I I. An impromptu race between two automobiles, which ended when both crashed into a Pennsylvania passenger train, today had caused the death- . of eight persons. Three of the five) who were injured may die, hospital , physicians said today. The dead are:. ( lure B. Hayes, 31, North Shanenago, Pn., farmer, his wife, Mrs. Marie Hayes, 28, their four sons, Everett, 10, Melvin, 8, Garry 5, and Delbert, 3, William Thomas, 32, Albion, Pa. t brakeman, and hia father, .Ward Thomas, 60, also of Albion.
COLUMBIA CITY, lin., <ui‘) !• I •eimr Of .VlaiLi: gj the Whitley County Jail !wn ently is the la.-t chapter in I Corpse less murder cut, hj lowed di-;i|i|jeal;mre in JanaijJ Of Franklin Tucker, Wasuf Store Clerk. Pros rcutor 0. A ; j ley county, ordered ilunbij case against Rose after county commissiaaen rniiaj low the offi( ial’s < payment for services in thuJ it was brought here on,( venue.
ORANGE, N. J., May 14. (UP)— While the scientific world looks on helplessly, five former New Jersey factory girls are dying slow and painful death-. Science has dispaired of saving them and Jersey justice has been unable thus far to comfort the la-t days of their lives. The strange death sentence, which has been passed on Miss Grace Fyer, Mrs. Albina Larice and Mrs. Quinta McDonald of Orange, and Mrs. Edna Hus-man of Hillside and Miss Katherine Schuub of Newark, as a result of radium poisoning. Physicians know something of the curative powers of radium hut they know nothing about treating the effect- of radium poisoning. The malad) in the case of the factory women was contracted between 1917 and 1920 when they were employed by the United States Radium Corporation, painting watch dials to make them luminous. All of them painted 250 watches a day, wetting the brushes with their lip* between strokes. In that way they took a certain amount of radium into their systems. Seeking redress against the company for which they had worked, the
waek. The winner of this contest women found that the statute of lim-
itation had expired; that they could not hold the company responsible mile-- the suit- were filed within two years after the cau-e of the accident. In this instance the symptoms did not develop for seven years. Raymond Berry, Newark attorney employed hy the plaintiffs, then attempt-
will receive an award of fifty dollars, known a- the Margaret Noble Lee price. The prize is given annually to a major in the public -peaking de-
partment.
Two Greencastle students attending Indiana ldiversity took part in
the recent annual inspection here of e<| to enjoin the radium corporation the 1. U. lie erve Officers’ Training! from employing the statute of liniiCorps unit for gold star rating from! tation. There ha- lieen one hearing the War Department. Howarff M.|on that injunction a month ago. Then Dirks participated in the drills ns aj the case was continued to Sept. 28, captain in the student unit while beeauae of u crowded docket. James M. Abel went through thepac-! At the hearing several physicians es as a cadet. : testified that the five plaintiffs were . , . „ , . ! dy*"*. ‘h" 1 nothing could be done for The members of the Board of Re- th<l|nf lhut lh , ir bon ,, wer , bei view, who erve on the Board be-id- paU , n . iway . Uld tha , ,, robab | y within • a, - th '‘_ r T ty treasurer, and a y „ar their bodies would he so de-
vastated that they could live no long-
er.
Vice Chancellor Bai kes, who grantid the postponement, was astounded at the helplessness of science to save the women, but said the docket was -n crowded that he could not put the case ahead of September. According U> Berry, 13 u f the 70 women who worked with his client.
Amazing ecord
The Standard Oil Company (Indiana uwd the Uui'i-st unitb ol one ot the mt*i unpcftaatg | du-trie- of the country an industry th»i Jt#)*
remarkable record.
It is a mattfr of common knowledge thwkjjj la,1 ten years the price of casoline hand**® less than that of any other commodity m use, although the demand for it has increaw* more than the demand for any of the otntn. The supply of gazoline has Ixx-n fumuMij* and where it wa* needed so taithfully tint tut ; is taken lor granted. 1 hi* r cord of stability has been ilcstiv in which coil* of production at”. . rapidly , in which the investment required rts.k* incurred have been extraordinarily p«* • Within the past dozen year* more (Mif),(j()() was expended in the l m m holes and SbOO.GuO.OOO more was put mm™*" produced so little oil as to turn the ■ (k, a heavy delicit. These statistics,eniph , achievement of Ihe oil industry ui u ^ complete and continuous Kuiiply 1,1 products at comparatively - table pricesThe average cost of drilling a wdl‘d ta h4,7t):>. 'I'lie average cost of a #f I iB M8,725 or nearly :00 per - ent more l, seven months of 1927 wa* only 1than before the war! This achievement of the oii industij made |>o ,ible by increasing efiicieucyw^^ S. jence lias been employed to imP n reduce waste and eliminate loss. j The cost of exploration ha* aid means of the torsion balance, the ■ ,, v ued W the magnetoim ter. Methods ha'< . .^iru* increasing the recovery of gasoline oil and from natural gas. The oil industry has nade such ttabdardizuig the equipment (-^ju u M* ot oil ttiai aicording to a govemm . advanced more in tw<i year: tha-i ■>
in twenty years.
Hack of Hu- steady stream - p” ^ life to millions of motor ^eliteW , ^ record <<f dithculties surmounts tal en, of tremendotu resources a
j, proud
The Standard Oil Company
to be one of the largest nm'-! n j' r*l proud of tlie part it has plsYf**. ' . mduen.
Through the
Eteadily cermd
the Middle West-
uttendzd ths funeral of Sam Bell, who, between 1917 and 1920 already have died in that city Thur-day. Mr. Bell ] died of radium poisoning, with his family lived in Greeiuustl* Tlie damage suit by which Berry for a number of yearr, where he op-, hopes to gain red re. s seeks a ca-h eraud a cleaning plant. The funeral j settlement of *250,000 for ear'll of was held from the Patterson Funeral ^ the five women “to comfort und mainHome with Rev. Ailbart in charge ol | tgin them to the last days of their
the servieos.
lives.’
proud of tlie part it hasifioyed '!''_y4ictt. *upplying ihe nation with peti-' ,,, *<»)
C h the year* it has
and efficiently with r d tnovx&t employes, stoc!jioJd r ™^r w ,
_Jle West. Hy ^ttim 111 '
pany has earned the itmftdem
whu h it enjoyu today.
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