The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 24 December 1934 — Page 2

THE DAILY BANNER. GREENCASTLE. INDIANA. MONDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1934.

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President Hutchison t Adoption of a policy of no scholarships to outstanding athletic stars at Washington & Jefferson college, Washington, Pa., has been revealed by Dr. Ralph C. Hutchison, pie ident of the college. Dr. Hutchison declared that maintenance of a college football team in a prominent place in the nation gridiron picture costs $40,000 a year.

SOCIETY PE.’j'ISIEMSISSElKiSitySE^'rSIS/SPMiPfs'FPIii Kntertains (inests At Buffet Slipper , Miss Minna Mao Bartley entertained a number of guests at a buffet supper Sunday night. Decoiations were in keeping with the holiday season. Guests were Mrs. Orman Hammond, Cleveland, O.; Mrs. Kenneth McCoy. Cleveland. O.; Mrs. Walter F.nz, Cincinnati, O.; Mrs. Fred Hosea. Franklin; Mrs. Deo Wilson, Clayton; Mrs. B. W. Alvin. Indianapolis; Mrs. Hosalee Huffman. Indianapolis; Mrs. Wallace Blue, Greencastle; and Miss Margaret Emily McGaughey, Greencastle. •!••> + + + Brick t'hn|M‘l Aid Holds Xmas Meeting The Ladies Aid society of the Brick Chapel M. E. church held ttieir Christmas meting at the home of

Mrs. Ruth Evans. Fifteen members! and five guests were present. Devotions were led by Mrs. Oscar O’Hair. A business session followed which was presided over by the presilent, Mrs. Jesse Smith. The story ? Christmas was read by Mrs. Paul McKeehan. Gifts were exchanged with Betty Evans distributing them as names .. .o called. Refreshments were servI by the hostess during the social ,ir. The next meeting of the aid ill he an ail clay affair at the home i Mrs. Oscar O’Hair.

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Girl Reserves To Hold Dance

The Girl Reserves will have their '.nu.d holiday dance Wednesday ight at the Studio Tea Room. Bci lea a large number of local young • I. several are expected who are it home for the holidays. Music will Ire furnished by the ■ ’runt Hotel orchestra, which prom is- ; to be an added attraction. For inII ation call Bette Fenn at Hamiln’a Book store or Jucl Maddox.

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Woman’s League

To .Meet Friday

The Woman's League of tire Gcbin Memorial Methodist Church

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PERSONAL AND LOCAL NEWS

Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Abrams and chilliren will spend Christmas in Chicago with friends. Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Porter and children are spending this week with relatives in South Bend. Miss Lawrie Davis of LaPorte is spending the Christmas vacation with Mr. and Mrs. N. C. O’Hair.

Mr. and Mrs. Cleve Thomas are will! spending Christmas day with Mr. and

meet at 2:30 o’clock on Friday, December 28tli instead of Wednesday the 2Gih, as stated in the program. Members please note change of date.

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Martha Washington Club

To Meet Wednesday

The Maltha Washington club will

Mrs. Lloyd Thomas in Louisville, Ky. It was announced today that the courthouse will be closed all day Tuesday in observance of Christmas

day,

Mark Bills who is attending Michigan university at Ann Arbor is

meet Wednesday afternoon at 2:30! spending the holidays here with his

o’clock with Mrs. Maude McNary, j family.

728 cast Seminary street. There will 1 „ _ , , . . _ , Miss Winifred Murnane of Lincoln, be an exchange of gifts. , ™ u ,

! Nebr., is spending the Christmas hol- ! idays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs.

, John Murnane.

Kenneth Eitel who is attending Purdue university, is at home with | his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eitel during the holidays.

INFANT DIES

Melvin Eugene Beams, 18 months old son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell W. Beams, residing south of tow r n on state road 43, passed away Monday

morning at 7:.':0 o'clock. The infant Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Moffett and is survived by four brothers and four Mrs. Shaffer went to Bloomington sisters. ! Sunday, where the latter will spend Funeral services will be held Wed-' the Christmas holidays,

nesday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the McCurry funeral home. Inteirnent. I will be in the Ladoga cemetery.

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TO ONE AND ALL at Christmas

Sidetracking the best of the season’s good wishes right up to your front door. We bnng you our sincere hope that good health will add most to your jov of living.

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STORE CLOSED ALL DAY CHRISTMAS

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We wish You and All of Yours a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Horace Lmk & Co. The Store of Furniture

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There will be a Christmas program and a Christmas tree at the Walnut : Chapel church Monday evening. The

public is invited to attend.

Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tildcn and son of Little Rock, Ark., are spending Christmas with the former’s parents,

Prof, and Mrs. F. C. Tilden.

Mrs. K D. McCoy and daughter Nancy Lou of Cleveland, O, are spending Christmas with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Mc-

Wethy. •

Mr. and Mrs. Walter Enz of Cincinnati are here to spend Christmas with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mis. W. A. Cooper, Bloomington

street.

Miss Pearl Young, teacher in the Laporte schools is spending her Christmas vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Young, south College avenue. Miss Hannah Gough of Now York and Harry Gough of Detroit, Mich., are spending Christmas with their parents, Prof, and Mrs. H. B. Gough, south College avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Ira E. Cowling. 110 East Poplar street, and son Hale of Ann Arbor. Mich, will spend Christmas with their son Ellis Cowling and family at Thorntown. Mr. and Mrs. I. L. Patterson of Elkhart and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Vonbery and sons of Indianapolis are spending Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. Will Glidewell, south College

avenue.

Suit to collect two alleged unpaid notes was filed in circuit court Satj urday by Arthur Johns against Ralph | A- Ball. Harold B. Call and Ella Call. ! Demands of $683 and $3.30 are made. | M. J. Murphy is attorney for the j plaintiff. In. the mortgage foreclosure suit of the Central Trust company against Edward B. Bash and others, a finding in favor of the plaintiff in the sum .f $1,576 lias been returned in circuit court and the mortgage ordered foreclosed. The Central Trust company was appointed receiver of the mortgaged property, Fred Hood and Roscoe Bratton, of Lena, were painfully injured last night when their auto skidded off the icy road on the Lena highway, about a mile and a half north of the National road, leaped the ditch and crashed into a tree. Both Hood and Bratton were cut about the head, face and hands by broken glass. James Hood, who was driving, escaped injury. The two injured were taken to the Clay county hospital in an ambulance and were discharged after .their injuries ^-ere dressed.— Brazil Times.

O. W. Hollowell is at home from a f showing of the new Chevrolet motor, cars made at the Detroit factory. Mr. and Mrs. Donald Connerly of Gary are spending the Christmas holidays in this city with relatives. Miss Beulah Gill who is teaching in Grassle Fork, is spending the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gill. Miss Mona Jean Eckardt of Philadelphia is spending the Christmas vacation with her parents. Prof, and Mrs. L. R. Eckardt. There will be a Christmas program and a Christmas tree at the Putnamville, Monday evening at 7:30 o’clock. The public is invited. Donald Cox of Toledo, O., and Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Bartlett and family are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John R. Cox, east Washington street. Eugene Akers, son of Omer Akers, trustee of Franklin township, is at home from Purdue university for the Christmas and New Year holidays. Mrs. Alma Barrow and grandson Spurgeon Johnson of Indianapolis spent Saturday with her aunts, the Rader sisters on east Walnut street. Dr. VV. S. Rader of Franklin spent Sunday with his sisters the Misses Lou and Sallie Rader anil Mrs. Etta LeFleur. Miss Lou remains quite ill. Miss Elizabeth Daggy is home from Hobart, where she is teaching, to spend the Christmas holidays witii her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Daggy and Dr. and Mrs. G. D. Rhea. There will be a midnight mass at the St. Paul's Catholic church this evening, Father McGrath announced today. Tomorrow's masses will be held at eight o’clock and at ten o’-

clock.

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Brown and family of Louisville, Ky., spent Monday in Greencastle visiting relatives. Tuesday they will go to Rossville to spend Christmas with Mrs. Brown’s mother. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Graham will accompany them to Rossville.

MARRIAGE LICENSE Louis A. Gohman, clerk, Indianapolis, and Alice Fielder, at home, Bedford.

WHITE CHRISTMAS A white Christmas, missing in a good many localities for several years, is in prospect for the northern half of the United States. From Maine to the Rockies and as far south as Kentucky and Virginia the weather man forecast precipitation, "mostly in the form of snow." Also, the forecasts carried warnings for motorists and shippers, "A new cold W'ave is spreading southeastward from northern and western Canada.

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Dmnonl Kennedy Historian, Stricken

SERVED TWO TERMS AS MAYOR OF < RAWI ORDSVILLK AS REPUBLICAN

Dumont Kennedy, 73, one of Crawfordsville’s most distinguished citizens. died suddenly at his home in Kennedy Place Saturday night at 10:30 o’clock. Death was due to organic heart disease. Mr. Kennedy who was twice mayor, twice county clerk and twice prosecuting attorney, had been in ill health for many months but it was believed that he was considerably improved of late and his sudden and unexpected death came as a great shock to the community. For nearly a half century. Mr. Kennedy had been an active member of the Montgomery County Bar Association. Throughout his life, Mr. Kennc ly had been a great admirer of Abraham Lincoln and was known throughout the state as an authority on the life of the Great Emancipator. The funeral services will he held at the Masonic temple in Crawfordsvillc Wednesday morning at 10 o’clock. The body w'ill lie in state for one hour preceding the service. FARMER HELD BEDFORD, Ind„ Dee. 24 (UP)— Daniel Smith, 66, farmer north of here, was held in jail today as authorities investigating the shooting of his neighbor, Carl Dickerson. Approximately 35 shotgun pellets were removed from Dickerson’s body but his wounds were reported minor. Sheriff Frank Swango said Smith admitted firing at Dickerson after a quarrel.

GAVE THEM BROTHER BRANDON, Vt, (UP)—The situation was reversed by Mrs. George Gove, 42 year old grandmother. Her mafried son and daughter had presented her with four grandchildfen, hut she recently presented them with a brother. •

tyoman Kills 6; Commits Suicide

SORROW OVER I.OSS OF SON RELIEVED CAUSE OF

TRAGEDY

PF.RRYSVILLE. Pa., Dec. 24 'UPi — Mrs. Katherine D. Shock, 38, stepped from the role of Santa Claus into that of mass killer. She kilted her Bister, her brother, her brother’s four children, and probably fatally wounded his wife. She then killed herself. Authorities today ascribed her act to insanity caused by the recent death of her child. She left four vaguely phrased notes. She came here Saturday loaded with toys to play Santa Claus for the children but the pistol with which she killed her victims and the poison with which she killed herself, were in her baggage. Twenty-four hours earlier she killed her sister, Mrs. Ruth Hughes, with a bullet in the back as Mrs. Hughes slept in their Dunkirk, N. Y., apartment, Mrs. Hughes was not discovered until last night. Mrs. Shock’s brother—Walter F Dempsey, 42 and his children,' Robert, 11; Walter, Jr., 8; Thomas, 6. and David, 18 months were wounded fatally as Mrs. Shock moved from lied to bed in the Dempsey’s Perrysville home, loading her six-chambered revolver, firing, reloading and firing again. Dempsey’s wife, Mrs. Clara Veith Dempsey, 36, was in a Pittsburgh hospital today in a precarious condition. Mrs. Shock came to Perrysville Saturday, ostensibly for a Christmas visit with her brother’s family. In an upstairs room- one of the two where the family later was shot— Christmas presents were stacked on a dresser. Mrs. Shock had bought some of them for her son, Jimmy, but when he died six weeks ago, she sent them to Dempsey and asked him to give them to his own children. When she arrived Saturday, the Dempseys thought she would take part in the Christinas festivities. They were glad of the chance to help assuage her sorrow, and though their house was crowded, made a place for her by taking Walter into their own bed. She vyas to haye slept with Robert. They talked all they could of cheery things, of Christmas, and Santa Claus’ impending visit. Mrs. Shock suggested a gingerale "treat” for the children, and she went herself to a nearby drug store and brought home several bottles. She also bought sleeping powders and dropped them into the glasses when she poured the drinks. The family drank. Then drowsy, all but Mrs. .Shock went to bed. She explained she had to write some let-

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She wrote four of them, "To whom it may concern," sketching her preparations for killing the family. "Oh, dead God," Mrs. Shock wrote in one of the letters while her brother and his family slept, “it’s hard to do all this, but I cannot go on any longer. Not to feel my darling boy’s arms around me, nor hear his precious voice makes living unbearable." “I purchased a revolver in Buffalo ami signed a fictitious name at a pawn shop,” she wrote in another note. "Then I had some one whom I did not even know purchase bul lets for a certain make of gun. I took the precaution of not getting anyone in trouble because of the purchases." The four notes written, Mrs. Shock, fully clothed, loaded her revolver and shot Robert and Thomas, sleeping in the room she was to have shared. She reloaded, walked into the adjoining bedroom, and shot Dempsey, Mrs Dempsey, Walter, Jr., and David. Then, standing by the dresser where the Christmas presents lay, she swallowed the poison and fell at the foot of her brother’s bed. Mrs. Dempsey regained consciousness about 3 a. m., arose and staggered to William Held's home nearby. Held took her to a doctor and summoned Joseph Kunz, her brother-in-law who, with other neighbors, found the bodies. Dempsey was employed in Pittsburgh in the state emergency relief service, working on veterans’ affairs. Mrs Shock, twice married to Donald Shock of Dultols, Pa., had twice been divorced from him.

Lincoln Restaurant Wishes You A MERRY CHRISTMAS WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY • CHRISTMAS DAY

KANSAS AIDS MISSOURI BOOM ATCHISON, Kan., <UP> — When Kansas elected to retain its dry status at the fall election rumors of i, business boom across the Missouri river were heard. Just across the river is Missouri and wet territory. In the pre-prohi-bition days the town fff Winthrop— or East Atchison—flourished at the east end of the old steel bridge, and now that conditions are much as they were then, it seems likely that the old status will be resumed. Winthrop was Atichison’s drinking spot. It made no pretense of being anything else. It’s one street was an almost solid line of saloons. They were as numerous as the houses in the village. It was called the “wettest spot in the United States," and on a per capita basis it undoubtedly was. The old bridge still is ready to carry the thirsty over the river, and better yet, there is a movement to build a free bridge. This, however, has nothing to do with the wet and dry question. The highway departments of both Missouri and Kansas were studying proposals for a connecting highway span long before the Kansas wets considered a joust with their 54-year-old dry law. At present Winthrop could not have saloons, for it is not an incorporated town and Missouri law does not provide for sale by the drink in places outside town limits. Package stores could be opened, however. And, of course, there is a possibility that a town could be incorporated. There is little likelihood, though, that Winthrop’s reputation ever will reach again the heights of pre-war days, with its unpaved street, dusty in summer, rutted or snow covered in the winter. Then it had its "First Chance Saloon” and its “Last Chance Saloon.” In between were the others, most of them frame buildings with their swinging doors, sawdust covered floors and free lunch counters.

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CHEAP MONEY FOR FARMERS SEEN BY G. O. P. SENATOR

SALEM, Ore. <UP)—The next congress will plan cheap money for farmers, Charles L. McNary, United States senator and minority floor leader in the senate believes. "As long as the tax rate is as high us it is today, and as long as the interest rate is so high while the price level remains low, the farmers can not continue to exist,” the senator said. "Taxes and interest are fixed charges. Congress cannot do anytliing about the tax rate, but it can do something about the interest. We can and will say to the farmers that you rinterest rate must be as low as it is for those who are getting money from the United States.”

BRAZIL, Dee. 21 George CunnJ ingham of New Albany, a trucJ driver, appeared at police hc i „i ( . iUi J ers here Saturday with a coffee' sacll which he aal i ha J about his head by hijackers v.hotooll hi* truck loaded with a $15,000 can] of whiskey and cigarettes. Cunningham, a driver for J Wright Truckin; '"i|,any of N.J Albany, said (he hijackers seized J truck yesterday n a Aumi . inunj him, tied the coffee sack over hi head and hauled him to a place i this city where he was released, Three men corapi J band, he told officers.

LETTER TO SANTA Dear Santa Claus i am a little girl 7 years old Fol Christmas f want a .lull with re* curls, a doll bed, a book, and loU< candy, oranges and peanuts Mona Charlotte wunts a ihll wit! curls, a little w i in and a habl buggy. Also randy, nuts and apple^ She is five years old. Emmet is two y, :ir rid Hewantj two cars and a wagon with a hon tjgd on. Caleen Jean Wilson.

The expenditure of $500,000 to expand the Republic Steel Corporations electric-weld pipe mills in Youngstown, Ohio, has begun.

CASTLE CAFE EXTENDS WO"! 'I\( Hil.l (TIRISTM \S GUI I I ISOS T0| ALL. We Will Be Closed Christmas Day Rut will serve you mi New leaei.| FRED M sTAKK, I’rop.

THE LAUNDRY Wishes all Greencastle a very Merry Christmas.

X t To Our Customers and Friends: ♦ Jn appreciation of the friendly Rood will that makes it possible for us to know and serve you, we send Christmas and New \ear Greeting’s and Best Wishes.

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Handy’s Sanitary Dairy

| The Campus Market AND EMPLOYES Extend Seasons Greetings It is our sincere wish that everyone of you enjoy a happy, healthful and A Merry Christmas 9 P. S.: Parents—Plraae give tly children a chance | LESTER I,.C6NRAD.^ (