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^ r)AIIY BANNER, GREEN CASTLE, INDIANA TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936.

! of town called on Mr. and Mrs. Ralph PREPARE txtK CONVEXTlox

Frye Sunday afternoon

Mr. and Mrs. Vandergrift I Sunday dinner guests of Mr.

Mrs. Finn Runyan.

| Miss Mayme Hollingsworth Greencastle visited last week Mr. and Mrs. Estes Duncan.

‘ .There tiny oeils tinkled on the treei tops to keep off malevolent spirits."

were

and

(By Charlotte H. Prescott. Interna-

tional News Writer)

! PHILADELPHIA Mrs. Philadelphia’s all a-twitter. She’s giving a with party! A gigantic house party to last five days. Engraved invitations

' Mr. and Mrs. Gerl Furr and daugh- m everything. ter visited over Sunday with her par-1 Her guests are the people who are , ents. Mr and Mrs Ernest Heiney at looming to the Democratic national | Cory. Ind. convention delegates, alternates. | The funeral of Mrs. Jennie Rule wives of delegates, governors and was conducted at the Church of < governors* ladies, mayors and mayorChrist Sunday by Rev. Raines of Bed-1 esses. No wonder Mrs. Philadelphia's | ford with interment here. | excited. She’s never been hostess to | Mrs. Ollie O'Connor returned home| a Democratic convention before, and j Saturday from a visit with relatives j h er | as t Republican convention dates and friends at Indianapolis. back to 1900, when McKinley and ' Mrs. Eva Todd visited over the “Teddy” Roosevelt were nominated. | week end with Mr. and Mrs. Kami has been house cleaning for j I (Kid east of town. 'months. Scrubbing the lovely green l Mr. and Mrs. Estes Duncan were in' of hPr bronze statues until | Indianapolis Friday. I they gleam like new pennies; and j Rev Turner ol Gieencastle filled freshening Independence hall, birth-

Miss de Lys writes in The American Magazine. "I have visited tribes where men were forbidden to dance with women. Yet these things are no mare strange than what I have found

In the United States, wheto there are horseshoes above doors, where the wishbones of chickens are pulled apart where football teams have mascots, where people are burned in effigy and loads of hay are wished on.”

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his regular appointment at the M. E. Church Sunday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Frye and Mrs. i Lewis Nier were in Indianapolis last

Friday.

place of the constitution, with a

gleaming coat of white paint. Mrs. Philadelphia’s daughters arv

especially thrilled over the won-ien visitors. They’re paying no atten-

Rev. and Mrs. Haines of Bedford tion to ])artv ,, nes or p erRonal lntpr .

were entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Branneman, east of

town Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Cline and Mrs. Ann Bourne and daughter Elizabeth of Indianapolis visited Sunday with Mrs. Cline’s parents. Mr. and Mrs. Oden Shoemaker and family.

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■I* V -I- -l(LINTON FAI LS Eula Staggs •:*

Several from around here went to WDie train wreck near Greencastle Sunday. Junior Filler of Brazil is spending i feu* days with his aunt, Mr. and Jin Charles Miller. Warn'.I mi Helen Sanders spent

the week end with Elbert Bettis and wife. Eugene Staggs and Ruth Skinner r.fi Greencastle spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Staggs. Bettie Jane and Wilma Jean Chadd and Helen Sanders spent Sunday with Mrs. George Pierce. Mrs. Emily Boswell spent Thursday evening with Mrs. Eula Staggs. Mrs. Goldie Bee and Mrs. Lida

OFFICIAL ENTRY BLANK

THIRD ANNUAL

Greencastle Beautification Contest This is to announce that I Intend to enter the third annual t>n>encast|p Beautification Contest to be held during the summer or IMli under the supervision of committees of the Greencastle < hnmhrr or < ornmeree and the city council of Clubs.

NAME

address

Note — No entry fee Is re«|iiired for entry in this contest. „ Only residents within the city limits of Greencast e are Higlhle. The deadline for clipping and mailing this entry blank Is June .<• Mail In Beautification Contest Committee, Chamber of < ornmeree.

Pierce spent

Bettis.

Monday with Georgia

■9 •f’-V-v-r-?- d* 4 + BAINBRIDGR 4 4 Mrs. Nelson 4 444444-44 Mrs. Leona Colliver is visiting relatives in Indianapolis. Miss Mildred Cunningham of Indij anapolis spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Cunning-

ham.

| Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mitchell en- ! tertained at dinner Sunday for Rev. Paul Paul Yinger and mother of Greencastle, Mrs. W. D. Conn, Mrs. Carrie Darnall and Mrs. Leona Col-

liver.

Mr. and Mrs. Archie Chadd of Anderson wore guests of Mr and Mrs. Dolby Colling on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geddes Priest spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Coff-

man.

Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Frazier were W. P. Sackett and daughter Garnett and Miss Rowena South. Mrs. Daisy Edwards of Indianapolis is visiting her daughter Mrs. Geddes Priest this week. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Crodian and son of Peru were here for the funeral of Mrs. Crodian’s grandmother, Mrs.

Goff or Russellville. They were

Lois Ball spent a few days j £. uestg 0 f \frs. Maggie Hall last

week.

Miss Eleanor Modlin of Lafayette is spending her vacation with her parents. Mr. and Mis James Mod-

lin.

Mr. and Mrs. Basil Pruitt and son of Crown Point are spending the

summer here.

A surprise birthday dinner was held Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Graham in honor of Mr. Graham’s birthday anniversary and also the birthday of his brother Joe

Mary

with Lilly May Burk.

Mr. and Mrs. Willard Miller entertaine i with an Ice Cream supper; Floyd Miller and family of Greencastle Clark Miller and wife of Brazil. Elbert Bettis and wife, George Pierce and wife Saturday evening. The Children's night program was largely attended Sunday night. Mrs. Lida Pierce and Mrs. Eula Staggs attended the funeral of Mrs. Mary Call at Union Chapel Thurs-

day.

Mrs. Wm. Thomas and daughter Ida spent last Thursday with Mrs. Serena Burk and family. Curtis Burk and wife of Brazil spent Sunday with John Burk and family. Ernest Shonkwiler of Indianapolis training camp spent the week end with his wife and mother. Mrs Ruth Burk called on Mrs. Lida Pierce Sunday evening. Dora Day, David and Gene Thomas spent Monday with John Williams ami Ida May Burk.

Stars May Be Cast in New Role

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4 4 4 4 ULOVEIIDALE Mrs. Clara Dorset* 4 4 4 4

est. Republicans and Democrats, “practical” politicians, club women, employed women, Junior leaguers, old-line socialites, have joined together in six smoothly working committees. Under the leadership of Mrs. George H. Earle, wife of the governor of Pennsylvania, they plan to give their guests a thoroughly hoteha time in the old town. “We want them to feel that Philadelphia’s not only a city of brotherly love but of sisterly love, too!” says Mrs. Gustav Ketterer, chairman of the hostess committee. Young girls, garbed in demurely fetching Quaker costumes of gray with snowy kerchiefs and bonnets, will be scattered in booths through the heart of the city. They will tell people which way “north” is. the location of the Liberty Bell, how to get to Wannamaker’s or the Betsy Ross house. Visitors will be pleased to find most of the interesting places, both old and new. in William Penn's “fair green town” within walking distance of each other. What will they wear? “Long chiffon dresses and picture hats.” I was told. And what about clothes for less dressy occasions? “Washable suits and cool, dark practical things will be best. Sheers and voiles. It's apt to be warm here

in June.”

An elaborate program is being planned, most of it free of charge to the visitors. Besides the events to which both men and women are invited, there are a number intended especially for women. Tuesday, there’s to be a “scrapple” breakfast, scrapple being one of the lures offered by Mrs. Emma Guffey Miller (national Democratic committeewoman for Pennsylvania and a Filter of Senator Guffey) to bring the convention to Philadelphia. This is a highly seasoned fried corn meal mush with bits of pork embedded in it. which natives swear by, and out-

laaders, at!

Next day, June 24, comes the re-

Graham of Newcastle. Those present "’P tion al thl ' Art Museum, to which

5.000 engraved, gold-embossed invitations have been mailed. And every day there’ll be sightseeing tours in

were Mr. and Mrs. Joe Graham of Newcastle. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Shoemaker, Miss Alice Shoemaker of Indianapolis. H. W. Graham and fam-

ily of Groveland. and William Lydick'^orge. where the very intrenchments

and family, Mr. and Mrs. Maynard i s P a ‘ ,e<, ragged

chartered busses. Through Valley

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Mary Brian r * ry Gran * ^''fluent appearances together at Hollywood night clubs of Mary Erian and Cary Grant, above, two of the more popular idm colony Ct 'h'bmies, have stirred romantic rumors among observers of activities along the "gold toast ’. j

William Vogel, head of the Educational division of WPA for Indiana, Mrs. Vogel and son William of Indianapolis visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Denny. porter Cassady spent over the week end with his daughter. Mrs. Roger’s arid Mr. Rogers in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Asher of near Gosport and Mr and Mrs. Herman Foxx of Bloomington called on Mr. and Mrs. Robert Davis Sunday afternoon. Mr and Mrs. James Slggle and Mrs. Alice Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Otho Smythe were at Vincennes and Spring Mills State Park Sunday. Mrs. Belle Horn of Greencastle and Mrs. Katie Horn of Putnamville are visiting this week with Mr. and Mrs Charles Rockwell Mrs. Nora Morris of Muncie visited Mrs. Ella Truesdale Sunday. Mrs. James H. Sutherlin and sister of Indianapolis called on Mr. and Mrs Charles Rockwell Sunday afternoon. Roy Akins of Indianapolis spent Sunday with his mother. Mrs. Virginia Akins. Mr. Tackett, of the Ford Motor Ci mpany moved last week from Tcto Haute to the Carrie Cunningham property of East Maine street. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brown, south

Lydtck and Mis. Emma Graham of Amo. Mr. and Mis. Ray Eteheson and family visited relatives in Charleston, III., over the weekend. Dr. and Mrs. L. W. Veach were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weaver of Brazil. Mrs. Catherine Weaver returned home with them Mr. and Mrs Albert Heavin and son of Greenfield spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Carl Smith. Mrs. Alice Brothers spent last week with Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Jones of Brick Chapel. Howard Hostetter attended thi alumni banquet at Wabash college BANNER WANT ADS PAY

LEGAL NOTICE OF PUBLIC

HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Local Alcoholic Beverage Board of Putnam County, Indiana will, at 9:00 A. M. on the 2Rth day of June, lODO. at the Clerk’s Office, Court House, in the City of Greencastle, in said County, begin investigation of the application of the following named person, requesting the issue

Revolutionary

troops are still intact. To the Navy Yard. Through the Colonial mansions in Fairmount park, where lovers of “antiques” will have a chance to feast their eyes on Chippendale

tables and canopied beds

There’ll also be regional breakfasts and luncheons, at one of which Secretary Roper will speak; a reception in honor of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson: a buffet supper for women, and a dinner and dance for “young Dem-

ocrats.”

A crowded program, you’ll admit. So crowded that this reporter became worried. “But what about the convention?” she asked. “After all. these folk are supposed to be attendjing one! Wne will they have time?” The committee member looked

startled.

“Oh, there’H be sessions every day.” she answered after a moment’s thought, “though they probably won’t last very long. The most exciting one will come the evening of June

••That’s the session when President Roosevelt is to he nominated!”

to the applicant, at the location here- SUPERSTITIONS IN JUNGLES

in-fter set out. of the Alcoholic Beverage Permit of the class hereinafter designated and will, at said time and nlace, receive information concerning the fitness of said applicant, and the propriety of issuing the Permit applied for to such applicant at the premises named: Keith Spaw. 160.51, 16402, (Package Liquor Store), Corner of Harrison and Morgan Streets, Russellville Liquor, Wine Dealer. Said investigation will be open to the public, and public participation

is requested.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE COM-

MISSION OF INDIANA

Bv. R. A SHIRLEY Secretary. PAUL P. fRY, Excise Adminis

trator.

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AND IT. S. COMPARED

NEW YORK iUP* There are aaj many primitive superstitions among , the skyscrapers of New York and the J farmhouses of Iowa, as there are in i the jungles of Africa or the inner fastness of Tibet, according to Claudia de Lys. who has been around the world three times tracing superstitions to their origin. She has traveled through strange places on all the continents, but she says civilized countries have as many as the oth-

ers.

I have lived In an African village

J i . KOVtil/IO •' “ lllVS

Norsis: Joe Wil.son and Katherine Grant can't marry on t'i.s |30 <1 ■week job, *o rhe i/o s west to teach in a high school and help save up mom n. Joe ar.it h>s brothers, out of jobs, take on option on a run-down garage 4 race trick is- budt close 'by and they make money so fast that bu fall, Joe starts to drive to Katherine’s to get married. A' most there, he is stopped by armed men on a lonely road.

Chapter Two

THE RANSOM BILL The seraggly rnen, vest hanging ©pen over a shirt buttoned at th( collar but without a tie, instead ol answering, asked Joe a question. •'You weren't lettin' any grass grow under your wheels, were you'”' "Oh. speeding,” grinned Joe, relieved. ’T was in a hurry — ” "Illinois license plates," interrupted the man with the shot-gun. Sure, Chicago. Say, what is this'.'' Joe dropped a hand from the wheel. "Keep that fist up there!” "I haven't got a gun, if that’s what you mean. Peanuts won't kill you, will they? X haven't had any breakfast yet." "Salted peanuts?” asked the man with a peculiar intonation "Yes. Why?” "I ain’t answerin’ questions. You nre. C’mon, get out . . . Wilbur", he called to the youth who, shot-gun in hand, had been watching intently. "you (hive his car. lii take him in with me." ’What right," demanded Joe hotly. "have you—” "Shut up! You can pow-wow with the Sheriff." Joe could get nothing further out

| In an wer, th" man who had arr i ’d Joe, appi 'red suddenly. Sheriff Hummed counted the money in Joe pocket-book. "Check these bills against the numbers of the ransom

banknotes.”

Bug. Meyers at a desk comparing the five dollar bids with a list of numbers whistled, closed the rolltop dork, and shoved a list of nuinbehs under the Sheriff’s eyes. "Hero! VTidor the five dollar . -r s. See! U’tpG-TTS-OS-B. Same aa on this bill of his! Man, is this goin’ to ' e a sensation!" ; Hash barked and flew at Bugd , leg Lugs pushed the dog away and started to leave the office. "Keep it to yourself, Bugs," or1 lie red the Sheriff. "Wilson, tie up | that dog of yours.” He gave Joe a i piece of clothesline from his desk. Joe tied H.nsh to the radiator. I "If I'd stuck to the main instead of trying a short cut — " he murmured to himself. "Sheriff, let me i rlenhone to Chicago. Or better than that, I can 'phone my—” lie broke off, closed his jaw\ firmly, for on the police circular was a line "— and a young woman accomplice”. He must not bring Katherine Into it. "Phone your what?” asked Hummcll, watching him closely. "Phone my brothers, I'll pay fof it. Book, 1 got that bill in chang* some place a store, gaa station — I don't know where. Take m* back over the line—" "If you an tnixid up with this gang, it wouldn't be very smart of mo to let you telephone —” the Sheriff was saying when Bugs

Mover came back.

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went through his car, Sheriff.

Nothin' in it "

Hummell summoned the lock-up keeper and turned Joe over to him. "Take care of this stranger, Frank, and go through his clothes. Sure you haven’t forgot anything, Wil-

son?"

"Mv watch," said Joe. unstraoplng it, “and this ring. Xt’s too tight

to tal e off, but maybe you could ci<( it off." "I'll have to hold you for th« District Attorney, Wilson, bift vou'll get a square deal,” said tha Sheriff. And Joe was locked up. Engs Meyers went to Hector* barber . hop where, being an aide to the Sheriff, lie was twitted about police failure to accomplish anything in the Peabody kidnapping

case.

| "If you public servante," said JorI genson, a barber, "would quit playin’ cards all day maybe you'd ; linn," somebody to justice once In

a while.”

Bugs had been taunted with police inactivity before and was touchy on the subject. He lost his temper and

turned nasty.

"Oh, yeah? What'd ya say If told ya I just raked in a guy who may know something about those kidnappers? Me and the Sheriff

gave him the works.”

Bugs Meyer's disobedience of the Sheriff's instructions started the ball of rumor to rolling. In the excited state of public opinion about

of his captor. When he was finally taken into the sheriff's office, he found Tad Hummell to be a t low-.’,peaking type of American, long, lean and muscular, with a loose carriage, a flat jaw and a firm though scrawny neck. He wore a blue serge suit without a vest Joe identified himself, gave hi.-i Chicago addi' 1 . and asked what hi was charged with. Kheriff Hummed merely asked another ques

tion:

•Well, Mr. — cr — Wilson, where were you last night?” “I was driving all night—” •'On that old road?” ’T got lost trying to find a short cut to Capital City.” "And the night before?”

“Cbmping out.”

Sheriff Hummell picked up n sheet of paper, face down on his desk, and looked at it closely. He pushed a pack of cigarettes towards

Joe. "Smoke?” ’’No, thanks."

Still reading the paper, the sheriff shoved a bowl of nuts towards Joe.

"Some peanuts?"

"Now you're talking my language, ' t he kidnapping,’ the news that a susSheriff. X’ve Ind that habit ever pect had been arrested spread like since I was a kid. J ve always got | wildfire. Xlector telephoned it to his

some in my pocket."

wife. She had friends — and a tele-

"Wilson, where did you say you phone. Other men in the shop told spent night before last?" Joe war their wives. They had telephones — startled at the grimness in the Sher- and friends. In stores, on the streets, iff’s voice. at bars, the talk all came back the

“Camping out.”

“Why?"

"Why, for the — Is it a crime to give yourself some fresh air after living in a smoky city all your life? Look! What am I suspected of? I

got a right to know.”

Ttn Sheriff turned over the paper ■■sn his desk, slid it across to Joe. It was a police circular describing • young man wanted in connection with the kidnapping and holding for ransom of the young daughter tif Charles P. Peabody, a wealthy resident of the county. The description might well fit Joe. And the man

arrest of one of the kidnappers. Each teller, under the feeling of importance the spreading of news gave him, added something new Rumor became fact . . . He had tried to escape . . . had refused to an wer questions without first being allowed to telephone his Chicr :o lawyer . . . His ear had been . i arched and a lot of the ransom biils discovered in it . . . five thousand, ten thousand dollars. The town was buzzing like a hornets nest. The Associated Frees got a wire from its correspondent tn

Saga.

’•Bubbles" Dawson, loafer, notorl-

had had a well-used ear much like otlH trouble-maker, often in jail, Joe’s, and with Illinois license stood before a bar with some of plates. tiis satellites, treating them to beer. "You mean ne ? That I’m sus — A man named Burmeister, drinking Why, it’s the erazietit thing 1 ever ' (-'Cltzer water, was saying: ‘‘And There are thousands of cars like while I didn't vote for Hummell for that — and in Illinois, too." Sheriff, his promptness in catching "Makes pretty good sense, seems kidnapper is most commendd°e It tnf 'fit's Car ahou’ Durkin, the tailor, over his beer, five C ^ P eL "eighrlnche/s^liZ braad try “im too quick shoulders, light hair. Dawson, about to break Into the “But that would fit a million conversation, was shoved aside by men!" j g ’orgo Pippen, a portly man heavy "Read that. The Sheriff handed with dignity. He ordered bourboa him a laboratory note, an analysts and addressed Eurmcister;

nuts.

“Am I the only peanut eater in the eountry!" exclaimed Joe. “Why you—" “Mind showing me what you’ve got in your pockets?” “I should say not!” Joe emptied Ida pockets. “Keys, handkerchief, uiy license, a little, money, some peanuts." ’1 he Sheriff examined the five und ono dollar bills Joe shoved over to himi consulted a list of figures ou his desk uiul called; “Bugul"

‘We’ve been discussing at thi Cliambrr of Commerce luncheon about what a great publicity break ot r capturing this Chicago fellow's going to give our little city — assuming. of course, that the leaders of the community see he is brought

to justice.”

EwmelVter nodded his mutton neck gravely. “We'll see to that, all right. We’ll go to the Sheriff and get it straight from him!" "Now you’re talkin'," burst In Dawson-.^ ’’We'll go now! C'mon,

fellows'.

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