The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 June 1928 — Page 2
THE GREENCXSTEE DM3Y BANNER, TUESDAY, JUNE 12,1928.
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THE DAll.T BAXWK*
Mr*. Lemuel Waldon entered hospital Tuesday for treatment.
MAN RUNS AMUCK
INDIANA HARBOR, Ind., June 12
Entrrrd ,h, Po.. ««Hc .« Or,e.-1 dau „ hter j (UP)-Albe.t Compass was shot to rnatie. Jndi«n». u . .,.n„d ci«.. m-u Mrs. D. O Moffett and daughter ieath and four othei . persons woundmmttrr. l ader the aft hiareh a. are visiting Mrs. Motfett s parents in 1^ he an( j a p 0 ]j ceman engaged >»"»• (Albion, 111., a few days. | in a Run battle. The shooting follow-
Mrs. Jennie Curtis Hearst has a | ed an attempt to arrest Compass afnew two door Chrysler sold by the 0. I ter he ran amuck with a gun.
; J. Rector Sales Company.
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Missionary Society N isits Here. Mrs. Henry Osirom was hostess to the Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the Methodist Church at Amo at her beautiful home on east Seminary street, Tuesday. About fifteen members made the trip, coming in time for lunch and spent the afternoon with Mrs. Ostrom. •I* r h 'l* Picnic Friday. The Fliilay Circle picnic wull be held Frida; June lf>th at the home of At is. Oscar Sallu t on Route 2 at 1 o’clock. •W Mt. Olive < lub To Meet. The Mt. Olive ML sionary Society will meet with Mrs. Wm. Houck, on Thursday afternoon. Devotions by Miss Clara McPherson. Work b\ Afrs. J. D. Mick. ++++++ Veronica Club To Meet. The Cei'onica Club will meet Wednesday at 2 .'SO o > lock at the huu e of Mrs. (ieoige York. Mis. Gorham will ha\e the ptogram.
Personal And Local News
Attend Wedding.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eitel anil fam ily were in Indianapolis Sunday to attend the wedding of Mrs. FJitel* niece, Miss Helena Sieloff to Robert
Nipper. The marriage ceremony took on business Monday,
place in the Broadway M. E. Church.:
Mr. Nipper is a former Butler athlete ^ ft. Chenoweth was a business and is well known to local port fans. v ; jt or , n Indianapolis, Monday.
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Woman's Circle. ! Fred Thomas is in Marion on busMrs. Margaret D. Bridges and Mrs. iness for the remainder of the week. Roy Ellington, will be hostesses to j , „ . j u the Woman’s Circle of the Presbyter- l ^°y Ellsworth Ba.r made a busian Church Wednesday afternoon at iness tr| P t0 Columbus, Ind., Tuesday. 2:30 o’clock at the home of Mr | Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Benson have Bridges, on West Columbia Street. | ta k en the Lewis apartments on So.
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Bee-Hiv? Rebekan Meetfl.
Bee-Hive Rebekah Lodge held a Cornie L. Buis of Coatesville is meeting Monday evening at the lodge driving a new Whippet -edan. sold by rooms. There was a good program T. E. Sherril.
given by different members of the lodge and the children, consisting of readings and recitations. An old fashioned spelling match was enjoyed,
on a new house fell on a tin can, verely cutting his arm and eight stitches had to be taken by Doctor
_^i Hutcheson. ,
Audrid Fleenor was in Terre Haute j The Children’s day service at the
Methodist church this year will take the form of a children’s worship service. It will be held next Sunday
morning at the 10:40 hour,
dren of the
Officer Ranich, in the duel with
n .Compass, had an arm shattered by _
William Underwood, while working | bu u et3 others wounded, bystand- r
ers watching the battle were Frank Klieh, Indiana Harbor, and Mrs. John Pana, Harvey, Illinois. None are in a
serious condition.
SPEED KINO HELD
DETROIT, June 12. (UP)—Ray Keech, world’s auto spaed champion,
The chil- ( is to appear in court today to answer
primary department of u-harges of abandoning ‘ l “ 1
Mrs. Lemuel Walden was taken to the hospital today, suffering from a
neivous bleak down.
also. Refreshments were served later in the evening.
COLORED MASONS *—o All masons in good standing will meet at the :'t. Paul’s Baptist Church tonight at g o’clock to make arrangements for the St. John’s Day program to he held Sunday. Frank Hall, W. M. An Irew Pittman, S. D.
i Judge James P. Hughes was in Bloomington today, acting as special judge in a case being heard there. I
The Putnam county grand jury has I Bummer completed its investigation of the evi- [ dence presented by Prosecutor Clifford R. Dickerson. If any indictments are returned, the warrants will he
The children of the Presbyterian Sunday school will meet at the church Wednesday at 2:30 o’clock for rehear-
sal.
Mrs. Henry Clay Lewis will be at her apartments, 201 So. Locust St., until leaving for the north for the
issued Wednesday, Dickerson .fated.
Miss Shorley Martin who has been attending Purdue University, is at home with her father, Charles W Martin, ea.-t Seminary street.
the Sunday school will sing. Others of our' boys and girls will participate in the service. A class that has been in training since Easter will be received into the church. Parents desiring to present their child for baptism will be given the opportunity. A children’s sermon which will be quite
as much enjoyed by the will complete the service,
a very happy hour.
minor child.
Keech, who won the 100-mile Special A. A. A. Championship race here Sun day and also holds the World’s speed record of 207 miles per hour, was arrested late yesterday on complaint
of a woman in Atlantic City.
Keech said he had disproved patern ity charges brought by the same wo-
growh-ups i man ten years ago and said he had It will be ! been the victim of a blackmail plot.
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RECORD ATTENDANCE
The young married folks class of the Christian Sunday School of Bainbridge had a record attendance Sunday of sixty present and a collection of $8.19. They have an enrollment of 73. They call themselves the “Live Wire
GETS C LEMENCY INDIANAPOLIS, June 12. (UP)— Former Councilman, Boynton J. Moore, through gubernatorial clemency, today had escaped a two to fourteen year prison sentence and a $.-,00 fine, given him on bribery
charges.
Governor Ed Jackson commuted Moore's sentence to $100 and costa, the same sentence several other eaunvilmen received when they resigned
Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover
MRS. FRANK LOWDEN
SENATOR G. D. GOFF
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Sutherlin are the parents of a daughter, born to them Monday night, at their home on the National Road.
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Miss Lois Vail has returned to hei i home in Grayville after a visit here I with her sisters, Mrs. Kenneth I. ' Todd ami .Mrs. Louis Wagner. The local Moose Lodge, No. 1592 ; will meet in regular session on Wednesday evening at 8 o’clock. AH members are requested to be present. Mr. ami Mrs. Ferd Lucas were at Indiana University, Bloomington, Monday attending the annual alumni dinner and commencement exercises. Miss .Small Hornhaker of Chawfordsville who has been the commencement guest of Charle-. O. Talbott and family has returned to her home. Mrs. Eva K. Gregg of Yuba City, Calif., who formerly resided here, spent the week-end in Greencastle, and attended the commencement exercises. Mrs. Charles Ehrmann and Miss Hortense Boring of Coral Gables, Flu. were the week end guests of Rev. and , Mrs. Henry Ostrom, east Seminary | street. Eldon Hill, of Indianapolis, visited here Sunday. Hill, is a former local boy and a graduate of DePauw, is connected with the Indianapolis New editorial force. Miss Alma McFarland, who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. McFarland, 1004 Lincoln Ave., the past two weeks has returned to Chicago, where she is assistant librarian. The tent meetings which are being held on Commercial Place will continue each evening this week at 7:30 o clock. I he meetings are reaching man). Everybody is invited to at-f tend.—Mrs. Grace Black. The will of Carroll K. Priest was filed for private Tuesday morning. The will names Mrs. Cordelia Priest, the widow, as administrator and bequathes her the estate during her hfetime, after which it is to be equally divided among the heirs. Announcement has been received of the birth of a son, Royland Parkin, June 10th at the Methodist H,,.. pital, Indianapolis, to Mr. ami Mrs. Wallace Welch. Mr. Welch is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Welch of this city. The Putnam County Bank Vigilante- who attended the state shoot at Fort Benjamin HarYison Monday failed to place in the big money, but some of them made some good records. Tom Welch was high man of the Putnam shooters. Others taking p:,rt were Eugene Keller, Fred Jordan, Charles Crawley, Lloyd Houck, j Russell Brown and John Kversmun. A general exodus of DePauw students occurred here Monday after 1 noon following the commencement exercises at the Bowman gymnasium in the morning when diplomas were i awarded the graduates. Praciteally all of the seniors, their relatives, and friend* left the city before evening. Only a few students remain and the majority of this number will leave today and Wednesday. The rest will enter the DePauw summer session. They will be augumented by one or two hundred new students who will take summer work also.
Class’’ ami live up to their name.
Every member of the class takes j instad of go i ng . to trial.
an active part in the discussion on the i lesson- each Sunday morning, apply-1 TO kcle ON MOTION mg the lesf-ons to daily life. Quite a INDIANAPOLIS June 12 (UP) — hit of talent is displayed in many of: Spec , al j udge Thomas Calvin today theii arguments. wa8 ru | p on a rno tj on to declare a Quite an interest in being created lninistria , in the case of Earl Klinck, and every member is an enthusiastic, alleged former ^tenant of D. C.
booster. The officers of the class are | Stephenson.
O. B. Lane, teacher who leads the ‘ Klinck js on trial for a |,e gPll forgdiscussion ami the general outline of ery of a false affidavit for presenta-
the lesson. Harley E. Miller assistant
who always gives the introduction 1
tion to a grand jury. His attorneys made the mistrial motion on the al-
and a general comment on the lesson, | egation that one of t he jurors was and Samuel Ratcliff the genial Post ■• taking no tes on the, evidence.” Master, includes $h e /l«*eon with, After the jefen-e motion, Judge an address to the class during a Carvin exp | ajned t o the juriors that practical application of the lesson to ! statut e S regulating juries provide daily life. In his address he displays 1 that no Juror sha ll take notes on the
quite a bit of oratory. 'evidence.
Mrs. F. C. rollings who is one of ( Q
the most active community workers
is Secretary of the class.
LIVE WIRES vaca t( on pi ans postponed indefi(B\ Mrs. O. L. Vandeve) nitely, president Coolidge was exWne t lass tho not i p^ted today to remain here at least
j the rest of this week, to allow Mrs.
VACATION POSTPONED
WASHINGTON, June 12. (UP>—
The “ Live
the very best,
Yet we think we’re as good as the
rest.
In Good looks, we don’t pretend to excel. And still, we think we look very well. We’re not so very brainy—that I”.l have to admit
Coolidge time to gather strength for the long trip to the Summer White
House in Wisconsin.
A relapse of the indisposition which has kept Mrs. Coolidge inactive all this spring except for trips to the bedside of her mother in Massachus-
But what we lack in brains, we make e tts, caused the sudden postponement
up in grit, j of the departure last night, less than
For in our contests, tho’ we’ve lost ' t w „ hours before the Presidential
quite a few, | ,p ec i a i wa> . to Rtart f or B ru | e( i n Do you ever notice that we look very northern Wisconsin. blue ? j We don’t give up, but keep pegging) FACES LIFE TERM 9Wa y- MARTINSVILLE, Ind., June 12.
In hopes that we may win some day. j (Up)_Charles Blackstone, 70, today
To belong to our class you have to faced a life term in prison. be married, \ j ury j n Morgan circuit court
1 hat s why several in the young folk- found him guilty of the second de-
class have tarried, j SToo murder of Ed Stewart after
But don’t worry, girls, just <k) the three and one-half hours deliberation,
best you can, Stewart was fatally shot in Blark-
And maybe -ome day you’ll get a stone’s pool room April 8 last. At
good man. jthe fame time Wayne, brother of tl(|
Then we’ll welcome you gladly,; slain man, was seriously wounded. \ n
you bet,
And you’ll think we’re folks you ever met.
FIRST LADY BETTER
|argument over an alleged gambling
the nicest debt owed by Ben, son of Blackst me,
| to tire SUwaits, preceeded the shoot-
— jing.
F. C. Kivett, veteran Martinsville lawyer, Blackstone’s counsel, said he
would request a new trial.
WASHINGTON, June 12 (UP)—
Mis. Coolidge wa< reported at th- 1 DEGREES AWARDED White House today to be improved LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 12. (UP) alter a night’s rest, and the Presi* j—Purdue university awarded degreedential vacation, deferred last night j to 625* persons today at the fif«y because of her indisposition, may he' tourth annual commencement excret-
es. The degrees were conferred by
started before the end of the week Mrs. CooUdge is in bed under cftie of the two official White House physicians, who reported her illness was
“not serious.”
The indisposition confined Mrs. CooliJge to lied earlier in the day, but after a consultation it was an-
Prevneot E. C. Elliott of the Unf-
\ci'*it\.
Alumni of the University re-electei* David E. Ross, president of the university board of trustees, as aiumri tiustee. Robert Feustel, Ft. Wayn», was elected ahimni vice-president. C.'
nounced that the trip would be start- Bale, New York, was re-elected to
alumni advisory council as a renresentat;\e of the Atlantic region, sr i F. B. Ernst, Chicago, for the
cago region.
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ed as scheduled But later Mrs. Coolidge’s physician Lieutenant- Commander Joel T. Boone, and the President’s medical adviser, Colonel James Coupal, decided it would be best not subject the first Lady of the rigors of
the long trip.
The President on obtaining the medical men’s report immediately authomrd the postponement. The following announcement was made: j
"It was announced tonight at the ,, . “'J'" White House that owing to the illness I |bs) hogs sold for $10 [ “ f „r » MS w™ 6 ‘hoK to postpone temporarily the depart- ;ium he r e,| 275. nomovers ure of the Presidential party for * ■ hi “ b« k „ frit i,, .j’; ir:
Livestock
INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK INDIANAPOLIS, June 12. (UP)— An advance of ten cents in hog prices was seen at the Indianapolis Live
the postponement trip is advisable.”
of so fatiguing a
LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN— Large German police dog. Answers to name of “Tiger”. Ethel Hunt, 687.
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cleared at $11.65 to $14.25.
Vealers were auctioned off a t $13.50 to $14.50 and heavy calves command -
ed a price of $7 to $11.
The sheep market closed steady, bat lambs closed 60 cents to one dol-
lar lower.
With Pointed Heels
Service
$2.50 $1.00
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PROHIBITION MEETING HELD HERE MONDAY
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matter of driving the drink evil from
the face of the earth.
Major Ebbert, said we are facing a very serious fight to modify the prohibition law. He said that before thprohibition laws went into effect that )n(ln statistics showed that 93 per cent of all spirituous liquors drunk was beer and to modify the law to permit sal • of beer again would be practically tv
return to the old regime.
plan the young people of to ay, develop alcohol tastes that j be unsatisfied with such drinki would demand the return of tto and such, and we would have it | drinking nation such as we have* | er seen before. He pleaded wift people of America t . use their ami influence to meet the fight Ji
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GAS CO. IS SOLD
The Gref nca tie (ias and Den; Company ha.- been purchued by Midland I ildi' i - .nygiQ
J. Gordon .Martin of U
and associati . Tht' I. ihe^-t Gj and Fuel Company which ik controlled b\ Mr. Martin lit been acquired by the Midland’liSr
Company.
The Midland Utilities (uw) an investment or hoMinr
He said the Joker in the acts pro--ented to Congress for modification of the prohibition law is to change the limit of alcohol content of liquor The “wets” want the limit changed from one-half of one per cent to 2.72
per cent. The joker lies in the fact I t j lat no , that all such proposals are based on j mf . nl ^ (| 1(
which control., a rum>r of jdl
utility companies in Indira, large, t being the .Norttam ) Uublii Service Company. Announcement wa- made
in the local maw
company :• (ntog
weight and not by volume, the United ,, (b State’s standard of measurement of liquor contents. He said that 2.75 per cent is equivalent to 3.50 per cent on the volume basis. If beer were allowed to be sold at 3.50 alcoholic content at soda fountains, dry bars and the like, we would have a condition of drunkenenness much more seiiou than under the old licensed sulo.in plan. He say:-, therefore, that the licensed saloon is much to be preferred
to the free sale of liquor of 3.50 alco- pow-wows Ih m wli' 1 1 holic content unrestricted. continually in a dezm hd"h, H The speaker said that under such a and small.
WOMEN VKK FEKEl
1 KANSAS CITY, June liiTK j Women are fewer in thi? ik^lK convention than in Ih-d-lnUST politically more “hurd h id'
wiser.
The majority of the M delegates km w a political tridW—or more and participate ! same has! as mm in t 1 ''
A STATEMENT RELATING TO THE FUTURE OF THE CHRYSLER CORPORATION and DODGE BROTHERS, INC
The widespread public interest in recent evenu affecting the Chrysler Corporation ami Dodp Brothers, Inc, deserves an authentic and » dal statement and an assurance regarding d> future of these two corporations. Subject to the approval of stockholders. Dodgt Brothers, Inc., will be acouired by the Chrvr Corporation, the plan or amalgamation ing been recommended by their resp** boards of directors. Each of these great institutions will re»i n identity, and will continue, as heretofore, produce and market its own product in atl j , ance with the high and progressive stan from which motor car buyers the wor have previously benefited. ^ Each will benefit from the consummation o apian which unites such tremendous res in material, manufacturing facilities, n power and manufacturing genius. Dodge Brothers will continue to be D?, Brothers, and Chrysler will be Chryslcrj^ products will he separate L rr upbe continued in production without t tion. Their sales organizations wi j n lated except as they shall mutually so* ^ the advantages of the consolidation. ^ ^ Both public and dealers may look * or ^Lj 0 n the greater benefits which the cons< of such tremendous resources wi • P ■ e , 5 es and the men identified with *k cs £ e i utl ife, may be assured of a stable and de 01 . ^ inspired by the progressiveness * been responsible for this uniting on* » companies. CHRYSLER CORPORATION DODGE BROTHERS, I N