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GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, SATURDAY, AUG. 9, 1930.
NO. 248
ASKS COUNTY . AGENT FOR
FARM AID GIVEN DI’CIYPCC
IN PHONE DENIAL DIM Koonomic conditions affecting the! , farmer, aggravated by the unpreccd- ^ m i''\/ ' nt “' 1 ,lroUKht of th< ‘ ^
LOl.AL M KVLi ;;" ,k \7 reive<1 - offi, ' iil1 by
I the j)ublic service commission ycster-
I day when two petitions for rate in-
KEEP TANKS DOWN
OUTLOOK IS
ARTHUR M. HYDE. SECRET \KY < ' l<a «e, bj India a telephone compan- ^ ies were continued for ten months.
, The two companies, the l^nlogn
OF AURHTU MAKINi, ( (>l M Y
C'Ol N ft SI RVEY
1 ASKED ID
PRESIDENT HOOVKR
Legal Conditions Resulting Irom Drought Will lie Outlined By Floyd Miller
Telephone company and the Southern Indiana Telephot e and Telegrajih Company, serve rural communities as the major portion of their husinesses. The Ladoga order w:t. written by John W. MeC'ardle, chairman, and .lore West, member of the eoinmis-
! .sion.
“Organization,” says the Indiana ! laxpayers’ Association, “is the nieth- i ^ ml whereby the citizens of Indiana;
I |P r l I^IIW I If liave mote e. inomicnl govern- ^ ^ * ment. In counties having strong and
aggressive organizations of taxpay-
AIRCRAFT (;UNS SE ARCH LIGHTS TO BE SHOW
bwk ROHBED
KKNIVMA II.I.K, Ind. Aug. !l (CPl i —Two young unmasked bandits locked ! Clyde Perkin.-, cashier, in the vault of the Faum rs State Bank, Stroh. f I_’ mle- n rt of here, .-11111 escaped wth between s',.OtiO and $10,000 to-
day.
POINTS TH \T CONSTBI (TION OPE RATIONS ABE PLANNED
REPORTS RECEIVED FROM M.L 1 ; y Utt1, ‘‘’“"i""'' tilST COAST ARTILI.KRY OF V. S.
there i- no diiecting hand for the taxpayer , their complaints against high rate- and extravagance are futile. As the taxpayers form themselves together tn protect their own interests they express public opinion in such a determined manner that officials take heed and economy become* a
fixed principle.”
EMPLOY MEN!
l.MPROt I
Samuel Insull Plan* Expenditure
>2,500,000 In (alumet
District.
SCHOOL ENDS ON SATURDAY
A survey of ci op and f.0 niing < on- ■ \ ■ x ■ L 1 1 % $ \ I I ^ I > ditions, resulting from the present M }\ WVAX.
nation-wide drought, is being conducted by Arthur M. Hyde, -eeretaiy of agriculture, at the reque-t of Pre-i-
dent Herbert Hoover.
In connection with this survey, 1 County Agent Fioyd .Miller 1 f Put nam county, received the following,
telegram Saturday: PROF. (.BEENLEAPS REPORT “Washington, D. ( .. Aug. 7. MO.” I SHOW S AN INCREASE “K. W. Miller, Agricultural agent, IN ENROLLMENT Putnam County, Greencastle, Ind." .
“President Hoover i deeply concemed oxer drought and possible evil
farm families, relief
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 9 (UP) — | Optimism is manifest in business circles throughout the state a- reports are rereix-cd from all points that large | construction operations are planned jand factories are beginning fall pro- - durtion.
EDUCATIONAL FEATURES \T COUNTY FAIR
ARMY WILL SPEND NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT IN CITY GUNS HAVE LONG
TEN \s BVNKER KILLED
FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. !» (UP) —A bandit tmmh killed txvo persons, injured a third and wrecked th< RANGE Stockyards National Rank today. | The dead: I' L. Felton, viee-presi-
Hoth Searchlights \nd t.uns Electri-1 drnt ofh " ,k - and th '' uni,|pntified cally Timed. Coast trtillery De- | m * n who h,,r|pd ,hp bomb - tachment Coming On Tuesday. ! l Marshal1 ' ' •.shier of
tho hank wa> critically injured.
STATE TROOPS PATHOL MARION STREETS TODAY
sm VTIIIN TENSE VS RESULT Ol LYN< MINI. OF TWO NEGROES
If Greencastle |ieople want to see
132 STUDENTS
consequences to
measures are dependent upon accurate Special < nurses Were Offerer! During information of need- of each county Summer \t Del’auw. I-all term dfected. The President has directed Starts Aug. 10
tKis department to make a survey j which will be larger than the present
of stricken area, county by county,; .Summer school at DePauw Univer- huild,, ’ K -
covering following point : Lily officially closed today. Many f'One, percentage of damag*.* to | of tllc stu ,i 0 „t iS completed their final
Announcement has been made that |Samuel Insull, mid-continent utility, magnat 0 , has ordered construction of ; additional power plants and poxver: line- in the. ( alumet industrial di: - 1 trict in a program calling for ex )
pendituro of $12,500,000. j.)l'lK<ES
This construction is to start at once. The additional poxver plants will he the second and third units of the State Line Generating Company,
Prof. <
Stevenson
search lights xvith 800,000,000 candle I power each, and anti-aircraft guns! which will shoot accurately about 6 I miles in the air, or xvill -hoot 9 miles 1 elevated normally, as well as to see these guns electrically timed with Hie' search lights and fired automatically, they xvant to visit the Handy farm \ next Tuesday night when the 61st \ Coart Artillery of the If. S. Army | stops off here enroute from Canipj < Knox, xvliere they have l»«en in sum
SELECTED i uier training, to Fort Sheridan, their
| home base. | The guns are the latest anti-aircraft
K Goble And Mrs. Harr) g Un - developed. They are so elecin .lodge Bo)s And, {r j t , a ||y opoj-afed by one man that
Girls Exhibits
WILL VI I LMPT ID M IKE I P FOR
L\< K OF ADULT EX Him l S WITH OlH1 R hunks
V RE
GOVERNORS SUMMONED BY PRESIDENT
grain crops; also forage oop. l>a-ed ; ,, x . lm j nat j oris earlier in the week and
on present condition and assuming
normal rainfall in future.
“Two, number of farm familie- unable to purchase fed for their lixv stock and approximate amount of food aboxt) county’s resources required to
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departed for home. A total of 10!) were enrolled in liberal arts cours< - and 23 majors xx-ere taking woik in
the music school.
Prof. H. E. H. Grecnleaf, director inf the summer session, reported an
rsiry through winter. 1 increase in enrollment over last year. “Three, neatest points where (' od Effort were- made to offer courses
can- lie had. “Four, hoxx long available feed xxill
la.-.t.
“Five, extent to which local authorities'' and interests have help, d or can help. “The human side of problem's i.- particularly appealing. Hope local inter eats will co-operate to hold lixestock and ir$eri evil lonsequeneer of pan.'e soiling. “Wire your report and include suggestions of possible measures of r
lief.
ARTHUR M. HYDE, Scr’y of Agriculture." Greeley llrvaul
that would be of special interest to
erators have been awarded, one to the General Electric Co., and the other to the Atlas Chalmers Company of Milwaukee. The fir.-t generator will have a capacity of 125,000 kilowats and the second of 132,000 kilo-
watts.
Construction contracts are to be let next week and xvoik is to start
immediately.
A $2,500,000 line also will be con-
tea'hers who mu-t me t state board M r acted to supply power to indu requirements for teaching license, tries along the Indiana Harhor Ship
EXE< UTIVKS TWELVE ST V I ES TO ((INFER u ITH HI KUi R l HOOVER TO DIM FSs FARM RELIEF
Help Fo lie cAtended In Areas Stricken R> Drought. Gox. Leslie In Group
I tiie operator picks up the noise of an
- • j airplane at a great distance. He then
Additional feature in the way of turn- three cross beams in that direc-
Contracts for txxo nexv huge gen j education and entertainment, have tinn until the ship is sighted and been added to tlv program of the automatically the crossed lights and . > - — Putnam County 4-11 Junior Fair next j the guns are focused on the ship < '0-< > l' er! 't iv e Federal-state program
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, t" and the guns can be fired 25 to 30 offset the lack of adult exhibits, it (times a minute. The shells xveigh was pointed out at an interesting | about 15 pounds each. They xvill not meeting of the Fair Board Fridax , be fired here because of the noise and
evening. |destruction they might create. Members of the Fair Board stat.-d The outfit carries a truck that
that more interest beiim rnanift st generates its own electricity for the than wa expected and xarious com search lights and in addition they mittoe heads rcpoili'l -plendid pro hax-e 12 machine gun.- of the nexv
WASHINGTON, Aug 9 I’rrsiden Hoover called : White House conference of Governors of twelve -late for next riiui -day to map nut a board
of relief in the drought stricken area.'
of the country.
GUARD VGVINST RACE RIOTS
Strong 1 ndercurrent Felt Although City Vppears (Juiet After Mob Action Thursday Night
MARION, Aug. !) (UP) —Peaceful to all outward appearances, but acutely aware of an undereurrent of racial antagonism that it feared might flame into open warfare at any mommt, the city of Marion today gave tself into the hands of state troops for safekeping. Since Wednesday night, when a mob xtormed the Grant County Jail, dragred two negroes into the streets, heat md hanged them, there have Imoit mutterings of racial hatred- that bod'd no good, officials xvho requested the presence of state soldiers de-
clared.
The troops, numbering about 100 nen and in command of Col. George FT Healey, xvei • rushed by special nterurban- from Camp Knox, K\., it the request of Sheriff Jacob Campbell and Mayor Jack F',dwardr, xvho gaid they feared some ; mall disturbance might prove the signal for
more mob violence.
Col. Healey arrived last night by
The conference was called alter thi Urplane and the two troops, K, of
President had received a detailed port from Secretary Hyde showiin the “critical a-peel ’ of the situation to be in the shortage of animal feed crops in state of the middle and far Northxvest and extending east as fai
the
New courses xvere offered in the department of physical education. Freshman registration for the fall term begins September 10 and L-r upperclassmen September 12. Recitation- and lectures wil tart Monday, September L5. Many of the fraternity and sorority houses on the campus are already beginning to clean up their properties and make repairs in preparation for the ru.-hing season. With the granting of ,-ix more scholarships to the list already announced, the total has been raised [to 291. Other applications have l»cn forwarded from the office of the di-
| rector to Dr. Henry 11. Longden, who
SlHwIiMliV ' <>n b ' ,s during tlv pre-ent
▼ month Tin* ~t\ ♦«» whom -«*lx,
WIDF.U KNOWN ( OATESVII.I.K
MER< H AM DIED \ T STORK SAT1RDA1 MORNING
I month. The six to whom scholar hip
xvere awarded are:
Robert Stevens, Angola; Richard Schilling, Indianapolis; Floyd W jSwager, Crotnxvell; Paul Whitehouse. ; Granit City, 111.; Jack K. Clark, New I York City, and Donald Daoust, Gary.
canal. The poxver will come from thr state line plant and the Youngstown
•Sheet jmd lube (o. Indiana Harbor Educational exhilu' seemed for will provide the high tension cabh |.'aj|. include oiv n the Kuropt'an for underground installations. ,-om borer which will reach PutAn expansion program calling foi nal „ county within a lew years. The tho expenditure of $500,000 xvill !>< j m( . t hnds of contMl and combative started within the next vo week ,,, u n i„. ,. A • e farm Servel Inc., at Evansville, aecordim j,, a booth i)n pared for this pur-
to announcement of H. II. Spinffonl. chairman of the board f directors
gre.-s in their department . If work 50 calibre type and 12 of the 30 cali-jas the Atlantic seaboard, No alarm on the Fair is continued at the pre- hre type. The new gun will hoot j was felt over tha nation’s food sup
ent pace, a splendid I air
it xx;u- said.
assured, | about 500 times a minute. 'ply.
There are 28 trucks in the outfit, I Mr. Hoover also conferred late in ranging from the big five-ton size the day xvith Ernest P. Bicknell, act to -Vton size. They xxill go from ing chairman of the American It"'; here to Kentland enroute to Sheridan. Cross ,nnd instructed the reli"f or This outfit has been stationed at , ganization officials to stand, by to a.Fort Monroe, Va. f ayd Is being Iran, -i.-t in any pos ible emergency involx
ferred. 1 mg human suffering.
The demonstration of the lichts will “The situation is one to cause 1
pose, he held prior to eight o’clock, after great deal »f concern," the President A Farm and Business booth will xvhich the men xvill be brought up, said in a -tatement to the press. “Rut .-tress the importance of farm man Mown. They will also visit the uni- it must I*- borne in mind that th< agement in fa> businc.-s. F'arm versity swimming pool and be given drought has mainl: affected animat
feed, the bulk of the direct human food production of the country being
The construction program xxill m able the plant to go ahead with man
ufacturing of a full line of re frig, r j lt r C ord hooks k ato J’ 3, ! ing the past
Full production wall lx .tarted Kept. 1 part this booth exhibit. G the new Warner Gear c., fac 1 ^ 4.]! club I" :h xxill explain what tory at Muncic, FT H. Raltlex, src..ii(| L j.|[ j v it is handled, and vice-president of the companx , an h ow boys ami c tJs can bceoinn inemAbout 50 men 1 oxv arc at!|, crs> Literatm xvill lx' banded out
Greeley Bryant, xetcr.an merchant of
Coatesxillc died uddenly soon after, (GUN PRICKS SOAK openiitg his store Saturday morning. | ( IHCAGO, Aug. 9 (UP)--Anoth"r Hi* body was found by Drue Coffman blistering day of intense drought some little time after hi death. j sent corn prices climbing on the Mr. Bryant was widely known : n Board of Trade today while wheat the oaatern part of the county, as he -hot upward under the impulsion of had been in hu.-ines- in Goatesville j strong foreign cables and a bullish fof many .xoars. , Canadian crop report. Liverpool was Mr. Bryant xxa- 05 years of age • unexpectedly and exceptionally strong an| h«- licen in the general merchan-J w ith a very firm undertone on a sustilq bu ine.-s for the pa.-t 32 year .gained demand du" to unsettled FiuroHe- wa associated with Mr. Drapt r, pean weather and steady Canadian wl\o r«'tire<| three months ago becau. e offer.-. Advances were uneven and ol ill health. rather sharp. Oats trailed the major
Hf. Bryant is survived by the xvill- cereals in a lesser sxving.
oirjBiil two granddaughters, Mr-.; 0
H.. A. Hessler, Plainfield, and Mr • I 1 * 1 * Paul H* rod, Coate-villc; one brother, I IJ | II ( H‘III 1 Howfcit of Cinrinnati; and five si *
toi*»fclrs. J. Fh Sharp, Mrs. Frank Dmpei Mrs. O. O. El rood, Coate ville; Mrs. Clara Kinimel, Berkeley, Uollf* and Mrs. I.aura Bryant, Ithn.^^■fmieral wil be held from tic home Monday afternoon at two-thir-ty O'eie.’k, and will lx- in charge of iho Hfi-ons. Burial will be in thr
Co«Wix He cemetery.
work testing machinery for the mnnu facturi' of 2,0n0 transmission a dav. When the plant is operating at full capacity between 500 and 600 workers
will be employed.
Normal operations xxill lx. re,aimed next week at the Antes Shovel and Tool factory at And«r.-on, xvith a full
force of 180 men.
The plant has been idle several months pending erection of two now buildings replacing the section of the factory destroyed by fire. The buildings have been completed and practically all of the machinery installed. W’hat probably is the largest contract ever to be awarded a limestone company had been obtained by the Shawnee Stone Company, according to word from Bloomington. This eon-
\t Bloomington
THREE ( ASKS OF INFANTILE
PARALYSIS REPORTED IN TOW N SOUTH OF HERE
BLOOMINGTON, Aug. 9 Bloomlington is due to have a widespread [epidemic of infantile paraljrai* thi-
i: BANDITS GET $12,000 j-ea-on, medical critics asserted to
jjfejfYloN, O., Aug. 9 (UP) —Two ,|ay -
yeathfn bandits held up F'ranci- There have been a few sporadic Minigan, superintendent of the II. cases of the disease in outlying disR. Bluet, company here shortly b tricts of the city for the past few fo<e 10 o’clock today and escaped seasons, and according to the history wit)i| the payroll totalling betxvocn of infantile paralysis, a general epi$10,00 and $12,000. ; demic is now due to spread here it
o— I w as aathoritathrsl) itfltnd.
WOHAN IS SUICIDE i Txvo Bloomington children are now
NEAR NEW MARKET! being treated for infantile paralysis
NEW MARKFiT, Aug. 9 .—Mr-.'in the Riley hospital at Indianapolis, Doroth; Ellen Williams, age 30, of and a third is stricken at the home of
Uhicag' . committed suicide early Fri- her parents, south of the city,
day morning at the home of her un-j Linder treatment of convalescent cle, Allen Spenc. residing four milts scrum, Warren Fyffe, 8, and Walbum west of this plm ,'. Despondency over! Dalton, 9, yre recovering from attacks ill health xva- thought to have been j of the children’s disease i n the. Riley the cause of the act. Mrs. Williams hospital. Beverly Anadel, 3, daughter had be*‘ii visiting at the home of her I of Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Anadel, has unele for some time. . ' her right leg in a brace. She was Mr*. W|lliams took her life by stricken two weeks ago. Hope, is held shooting icr self with a small calibre that the child’s leg will not be perm*
’•'fie. (Bhe was found wounded in a anently impaired by paralysis,
room on the second story of the home Parents are warned fl* use all preat 5 o’clock Friday ciorning. She died ! cautions to prevent the spread of the nt 7 : «0 o’clock. feared epidemic.
by 4-11 Club
to interested i" r ons
members.
Another imp ant education.il fen turo will lx' a i ties tone booth xxhei' th*' use of h i ■ stone on farms in thi- section will lx 1 pointed "lit. Sam p|rs of soil hnoight in by fumei will lx' te tel '* the booth and the limestone requiri ment- of that par-
ticular soil ixplaincd.
Fair 'mnc 1 ins xxill eoi^i t of practically tlx ame amusement devircs as lu ri lofore, it was said, including a chaii-plane, feiris wheel
and merry-go-roiind.
A ningiaiu "f entertainment "ill be (Hit on < acli night, (juarteta and old-time fiddler will perform the first night; I II dubs xvill put on a program of reading-, songs, and
in the county dur- the privileges of the city, years w-ill be an o
i/sexf ll /svYaiIniI
BEST KITES TODAY
The funeral services of Mrs. Ch.«
Best who passed away at her home on Gillespie street, Thursday night, was held in the Presbyterian church at 2 o’clock this afternoon. Rev. II. A. Sherrill had charge 'if the service:.. Mi.-s Alpha Williams sang sex’eral
beautiful selection and Mrs. Oti,
aorompanied her. The pall Iwarer •
were: John Scars, Stanley Sear ,
Marion Sear, Fhigene Browning, Cha..
Ton- and Lawrence Wright. The flower bearers were Miss Ka-
therine Houck, Miss Norma Houck,
Mrs. Fhigene Broxvning, Mist
and Mis. Mary Torr, Mrs. John Sears and little Ri'hard Houck, all grand
children of the deceased.
Among those who were here for the funeral wen Miss Katherine Houck of Lorn villc, Ky.; Miss Norma Houck of I^afaytte, and Phillip Re t
of Conneaugh, Ohio.
almndantly in hand.” “Nevertheless,” he ad fil'd, “tlier xvill l*e a great deal of provatiei among families in the drought areadue to the loss of income and the fin ancial difficulties imposed upon then to carry their animal- over the win ter. “The Vmerican people will proudly take care of the noces-ities of their
Fort Wayne, and I, of South Bend, both of the loitth infantry, came in at 5:30 a. in., today. The soldiers marched at once to the city hall, where they will be quartered, and half of them were sent out in twos o patrol the streets, principally those if the negro section. Fresh in the minds of tho officials were the memories of the scenes of Wednesday night and Thursday, when .wo 18-x ear-old negroes, Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith were banged and their bodies allowed to tangle gruesomely for hours from maple t*'’i',< on the court house laxx-n. Ship)*, Smith and Herbert Cameron, 16, were aerused of killing Claude Deeter, a F'aiunount youth, and atacking his sweetheart, Miss Mary Bali. Deeter was attacked xvhile drivng along a highway, dragged from bri car, beaten, robbed and shot. White citizens of Marion, a city of about 30,0u0, had been objecting openly for months to leniency which hey said was extended negroe.- n • •used of crimes. They contended officials were soliciting .-uppi rt hi “John town,” that section of M irion n which its 1,800 negro resident*
live.
Comparative ealm was re tored quickly after the hodio- of the txvo
tract calks for forty-four mammoth jgtuntK the ccond night in adition to sculptured panels and 950 feet of a style show. Winning dennmstra"laborately carved Parthenon freizr.! tjon teams also will appear that This work, for the Chicago Museum night. A pet parade Saturday afterof Fine Arts, was ii"t awarded in j noon will he a feature the final day. the original contract upon which th« ,Tug-of-war teams from the various central mill of the company has been 1 townships are also scheduled to do working since the fir-t of the year, their stuff each night, with the fin
countrymen in time of stres- or fiiffi-
culiy. Our first duty is to assure <»ii (negroes were rut doxvn Friday and
suffering countrymen that this will b; hent t" Muncie even though it was done, that their courage and spit Varnefi the third negro, UunVron,
-hall be maintained, and our second h el escaped through a ru-e.
M- hi,' fin!y i* !n assure an effective organiz ^ ' imeron, it xvas learned, xvas the. ‘ 8 ' ation for its consummation." negro dragged from the jail Wedne*.
The Governors ummnned to next <»> n'Hbt and retorned after Sheriff
week’s conference wer from M'ssour jfampbell conx’ineed the mob he was
Arkansas, Illinois. Indiana. Ohio, not the youth wanted.
Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia ' lbl ( l l| ict that cam' to most secMontana, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska i'i" 11 "f the city did not, however, Members of the faim board and l-'afi P r « ,v » i ' i” “Jolm-town." One “indigi ing farm organizations represe. tativ nation meeting of 100 egroes xxax also will participate, (disix r-ed l*y police, hut negro leaders HOUCK KIINERAI The preliminary mrvej of th '■ | ' 1 ' ' '' •
Funeral services for Mrs. William Agriculture Department showed th- fare up a* any moment.
M. Houck, Greencastle woman, who |
lied at her home, 733 east WashingItnn street, Friday noon, will he hell from the home Sunday afternoon at 12:30 o’clock, with Rev. </. Fenwick
animal feed crxtp shortage to b<- most | * negroe.-, it was -aid, were anacute in the states mentioned. Oth-! because Sheriff Campbell had er Governor- max be a.-k.-d t 0 attend (ordered hi- deputies not to hoot when the conference, the President said. a. i ,h ” mob -tormci the jail, wrecked it feed crop shortag s exist elsewhere, j in d 1 " ,k th ‘’ prisoners. Campbell
.. In anx event.” Mr. Hoover said,: 'lefended his action, say ing man;
The figure involved has not been di als scheduled for Saturday night, j ,{f ’ pd ln , ’ ,iarg ''; tPr t ,P -j,, (he most acute areas we should i members of the mob were armed and
An ndu tria •••nt xxill be located c * met * 1 . ;,. < . foundation I i effectlr* local * hi,! " ' had * " gton street and pnob-1 I au' .^•"••i- b ’> d .., u:il ,,, .* "«
which many innocent persona utt-
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Awarded (ionlrad To Mow lleacoii ,
ablv will lx- larger than ever, ar'- .. , , . , . jeording to Jacob Ilirt. chairman of, Lyon, Carl F errand and John Day.
I the industrial committee. i " ' Eugene Ak«rs, f>f Bainbridge, ’ n ( raSMCS
David Houck, \H>ert Houck, Glenn
RALPH ( R \W LEY l> LOU BIDDER FOR WORK AT LOCAL AIRPORT
Ralph Crawley, Greencastle man, submitted the low bid Friday when istimates were opened at the local postoffice, for moving the air beacon *t the government airport southeast yf town. Five bidders submitted esti-
mates on the work.
Mr. Crawley probably will start
Akers,
-barge of the livestock exhibits by 1-H club boy , stated that a show ring will he used for the livestock exhibits, thus enabling everyone to
sec better.
Prof. C. F. Goble of Purdue Uni versity, will judge all li\-e*tock 'ind jalso will be in charge of the boy’s judging contest Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Harry Stevenson, of Bloomington, xvill judge all 4-H club girls’ exhibits ami demonstrations. o
Into Building
NOISE OF ( OLLISION LAI E FBI-
DAY NIGHT HEARD FOR
SEVERAL BLOCKS
which is to prevent suffering amongt farm families deprived of support and to prevent the sacrifice of lix-t stock more than is necessary.”
doubtedly would killed.
Iiaxe been hurt or
SLIT IN REPLEVIN
George W. Deer and Bert Warbritton tiled a -uit in replevin in the Put-
GR VSSH(•PPFKS t ONCENTRAT L MT. VERNON, Aug. 9 (UP) —The phalanx" of grasshoppers near the
work as soon as his hid Is approved Posey-Vanderburg county line showed
by government officials. A change in the original layout of the local government intermediate landing field made it necessary to remove the huge, beacon light from its original location at the northwest lomer of the field to a new^location 150 feet north. A new- base will be constructerf and the beacon light dismantled and replaced on the new base.
disposition of contentment today,
DOOR MATS TAKEN
A door mat at the home of Mr.
ad Mrs. P. R. Christie, 210 north , nam Circuit court Friday afternoon [College avenue, was taken F'riday af-'against Bert Grey, of near Bain[ternoon during the absence of Mr. i bridge. The pl-.intiffx seek to recover and Mrs. Christie. While they were |possession of three white-face twoabsent between 4 and 5 o'clock a bold ^ year-old heifers, alleged w rongfully ■ • • j thief stole the front door mat. A hack held by the defendant. Possession of
Cra.-h of a car driven by Curtis Idoor mat was thought to have been (the heifers and damages of $100, is Neal, 14 years old, son of Herman taken about the same time the pravi-(demanded by the plaintiff-, through Neal, of near Clinton Fall*, into the (ou» day. i their agent, Jesse E. Coffman, front of the Blumenutein store on Petty thieving has been on the in ; It is said the heifers were taken ea.-t Washington street, Friday mid ! crease in Greencastle recently and up by the defendant after they had night," xvas heard for several blocks, theft of mats is another indication gotten into a corn field of the de-
Night officers, sitting at the Fire | of hard times- that may result In department building, two blocks away further depttdations. Officers are inheard the trash, and rushed to inves- vestigating the theft.
and remained within a 70-acre field | tigate. They found the car, which | -o infested earlier, bringiiiig complete belonged to Neil Stinson, of near Vi-; • DEATH PENALTY F'OK, fWO destruction there. Jx-alia, hiffi suffered considerable dam- NEWCASTLE, Pa.. Aug. 9 (UP) — Ragweed- in uncultivated tract* age, but the store front was undam- Mrs. Irene Schroeder and W. Glen were included in the diet chosen by the aged. Dague, were sentenced to die in the famished bisects. * | It was -aid the Neal boy was learn-1electric chair for the murder of Corp. FanTiers have abandoned effort- toijng to drive, and lost control when j Brady Paul, state highway policeman, destroy the pe-ts by poison since all he hacked away from the curb on'and their petition- for n»ew trial-
attempts have tailed due to lack of i the opposite side of the street. No were refused by Judge K. L. Hilde- signed. His future plans
fendant, and did considerable damage. Sheriff Edward Fiiteljorge took the animals in charge F’riday until the
suit is adjusted.
Fred V. Thoma - i attoftiey for the
plaintiffs. ...» 1>-— —
“POTSY" CLARK RESIGNS It was reported here today that
George “Pot-y" Clark, athlete- director at Butler t'niver-it), had re-
moisture.
i arrests Were made.
r
j brand today.
not
known.