The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 21 June 1939 — Page 2

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R. S. Christie has gone to Ft Wayne and Bluffton on a business trip. Harvey Owens, east Walnut street is taking a vacation from the local pos toff ice. Miss Marian Ellis is attending the Y. W. C A. conference at Lake Geneva. New Y’ork. Paul Cox. manager of the meat department in the local Kroger grocery is taking his vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Alen Binkley spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. L B. Owens and family at New Castle. Mr. and Mrs. George Davis of Bloomington spent Tuesday with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Davis. Mrs. Oscar B. Mullins and daughter and son of Wichita, Kan., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Mullins, west Washington street. Miss Eva Milburn. superintendent of the Putnam county hospital, was in French Lick Tuesday attending a meeting of the Indiana Section of

I rontlnnnl from mire Onei big program, because there are many fine relics of old days in the vicinity of Cloverdale which have never before been displayed to the public. There will be a showing of Indian relics, too. most of them collected In this county. One of the committees working on the pageant is searching earnestestly for a tandem bicycle, to be ridden by two venturesome souls in th? gay parade. So far, no vehicle of tha sort has been located, but at least

SOCIETY Phone AH Social and Personal Items To 95 Pauline Sandy Society Editor

Mildred IMtchford, Donald Baird Wedding To Be Performed Sunday

One of the prettiest brides to be married this June will be given in

one will be in the parade. That one ^ ponOs of matrimony when Miss

of the yet older highwheel bicycles would be a fitting feature for the parade, was suggested, but the question was asked: ''Who will ride it? There was no volunteer for the pa-

triotic task.

The general committee assembles from time to time, to check the aggregate results of the sub-commit-tees' work, and the total accomplished is really astounding. The entire community has been aroused by the possibilities of the event.

FAMILIES ON HOUSETOPS WATCH RIVER DO DAMAGE

COLORADO CITY. Tex . June 21. — (UP)—Men women and children sat on housetops today and watched the flooding Colorado river sweep at least 85 homes from their founda-

tions.

One drowning, that of Ollie Marrow. 60. salesman, was reported. His automobile was swept off a bridge Precautions were taken at Buchanan dam. near Austin, the main reservoir of the Colorado river power authority. to hold as much water as possible there to avoid a repetition of last year's disastrous flood along the

lower stretch of the river.

Numerous railroad and highway bridges were washed out. Traffic was stalled on a dozen highways. Colorado City recently adopted its present name, changing it from “Colorado” to prevent further ques-

Mildred Pitchford becomes the wife of William Donald Baird of Jamacia, Illinois, on Sunday. June 25. The marriage will take place at the home of J. H. Pitchford on East Franklin

street.

Rev. Claude McClure of the Gobin Memorial church will perform the ceremony which is to take place at two o’clock. Miss Pitchford is a graduate of DePauw University and a member of Alpha Gamma Delta. She is also

Mrs. Ted Glidewell Honored By Shower The Misses Pauline and Anna Ruth Neier entertained with a miscellaneous shower Tuesday evening at tneir home on east Walnut street in honor of Mrs Ted Glidewell, formerly Mary Ellen Trout. The house was beautifully decorated with bouquets of sweet peas and roses. The many gifts were cleverly arranged in a shower effect. They were wrapped in white and hung from blue streamers to a toy sprinkler on a high chest. Contests featured the entertainment and prizes were won by Mrs. Mary Ellen Glidewell. "Miss Mary Lou Talbott and Miss Harriett Heaney. The colors of blue and white were carried out in the refreshments and

a member of Delta Theta Tau. Delta Rapp;’ Gamma, and A. A. U. W. Mr. Baird is tno son of Mr. and Mrs. William I. Baird of Jamfwia, 111., and is a member of Sigma Nu. Since graduating from DePauw, Miss Pitchford has worked at Boston's Dennison House, doing social service work, and taught school in Fort j Wayne and in the local First Ward School. The wedding will be attended by | the family of the bride and bride- i groom and their most intimate friends. Brown-Eckardt Unite In Matrimony Saturday Miss Jane Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Brown of Chicago, will become the bride of Wilbert Eckardt, son of Dr. and Mrs. L. R. Eckardt of this city in a ceremony to be solemnized Saturday morning at 11 o’clock. Dr. Eckardt will officiate at his son’s marriage which is to take place in the Gobin Memorial Chapel. Their attendants will be Miss Patricia Birch of Danville, 111., and William Warren Sweet, Jr., of i Chicago. Both Miss Brown and Mr. Eckardt , are graduates of DePauw University. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority and he is a member I of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

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YOU deserve a rest — a change of pace from the monotony of this workaday world. Go away this summer. Lease your cares behind. Lock up your valuables in a safe deposit box in our vault, buy the travelers cheques you’ll need, and head for vacation land. I’. .S'.— While you're away, keep up yum itgular depositi by using the mails. FIRST-CITIZENS BANK AND TRUST CO. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

the Tri State Hospital Association.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton Mangun and (asking to see Pike's Peak,

son of Coolidge, Ariz. have returned home after visiting with Mrs. F. P Huestis and family, south College evenuo. Mrs. Mangun is a daughter

of Mr. Huestis.

Miss Omah Albaugh has gone to Seattle, Washington, where she will make her home with her sister. M:ss Marian Albaugh. who lives there. She will complete her education at Washington university in Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Sandy, east Franklin street have returned home from Joliet. 111., where Mr. Sandy attended the National Laundry Institute. At Chicago he attended the Laundry Modernization

Clinic.

! Mrs. Edward Wendell and children, j who have been visiting her parents, Mr and ].*rs. E. B. Taylor, east j ■ Washington street, left today for j tneir home in Rorkport. Mass. Mrs. j I Taylor accompanied her daughter home for a visit.

the favors were white wedding bell

tions from tourists who came here j gumdrops tied with blue ribbons.

RAINSTORM HITS COUNTY

<r«>ii(lniipil from I’nice One) that cause, for a time.

The home of Miss Mabel Morris, on

the Grecncastle-Bainbridge road, not far from the Monon crossing of that highway, suffered damage of the roof and chimney Tuesday when the wind overturned a large tree upon it. It was one of the items of loss oc-

casioned by the storm at noon. Some of the county highways, in

the vicinity of streams, were overflowed by water which could not find a quick escape through the channels

of the branches and creeks.

S. C. C. Club Held Dinner At Park

Eighteen S. C. C. members and two guests had a dinner Tuesday eveing at the McCormick's Creek State Park hotel. A veiy delightful evening was enjoyed by a drive through the park grounds, later by a tour of inspection through the hotel, closing with a brief business

and social hour.

I ill) WHEAT U.I.OTMENTS

Wheat allotments for thf

wheat farms in Putnam county are now lx ing computed in the county office of the Putnam County Agricultural Conservation Association.

Wheat allotments for 1910 will be established for those farms that have grown wheat for harvest in the years 1937, 1928, and 1939. The farms in Putnam county that have not harvested wheat in these three

tablished for them in the regular ( Mr. and Mrs. Willard Sunkel and manner. The farm that has not pro- family of Northwood left Wednesvarious duced wheat since 1936 will be classi- day morning to spend a vacation at fied as a new wheat farm, and in Nashville, Tenn., and the Great order that this farm may have an Smokey Mountains. Mr. Sunkel is allotment, it will be necessary for | manager of the Horace Link and

the owner or operator to apply to Company store,

the county committee for an allotment. This application must be filed with the county committee not

later than July 1, 1939.

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Walnut and its tributaries, which are choked with willows, were the slowest of the streams to dispose of j the rainfall, and some of the water which should have flowed away i within their banks got into the fields and over the roads in the low places. A tributary of Little Walnut raged out over its banks without warning. Tuesday, and washed out an acre of corn on Reuben Higgins’ farm, between Clinton Falls and Vivalia, and washed over roads in that vicinity. Other similar damage was done in

that neighborhood.

The bride’s mother. Mrs. Ernest Trout and her mother-in-law, Mrs. | William Glidewell were among the

J guests present.

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Former Greencasfle Young Man

Married in the East

Announcements have been received here of the marriage Saturday, June 17. of Carl Vincent Confer, forme*Greencastle young man, and Miss Elizabeth Lavender Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Nathan Grimes Davis, in the Old St. David’s church at Radnor, Pa. Mr. Con-

fer is a son of Mrs. Louuse Confer. aro rca( iy for use. Beginning next formerly of Greencastle, now resid- wf . e j{ tournaments will be conducted ing at Urbana, 111., where her other j n these various activities for the

The park playground

9:30-11:30 a. m.

MANY ENJOY RECREATION

< f <iiifiiiiiud from I'hkp Our)

11:00 a. m. and 2:30 to 4:30 p. m. The croquet, shuffleboard, badminton, volleyball, deck tennis and horseshoe courts are completed and

where her other

Little s on, Warren, has been in school. Mr. children

Confer, the bridegroom, is a former Rector scholar at DePauw, and has many friends in this city. He is now

teaching in the East.

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Bride-Elect Honored At Party, Tuesday

will be open from

and 2:00-5:00.

The Recreation Board and direc- | tors want to emphasize that this is 1 a community enterprise and that all people should avail themselves of the recreative activities being offerMembnrs of the Alpha Gamma e( '-

Delta Alumnae Club of Greencastle entertained with a dessert party INDIANAPOLIS LIVESTOCK Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Hog receipts 6.000. holdover 135; John Rightsell in Northwood, in hon- market 10 cents higher; 160-300 lbs.,

Mr. ami Mrs. Warren Seeley of Minneapolis, Minn, have returned home after visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Seeley and family In this city. These two men are cousins and this was the first time they had seen

each other in 42 years.

Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Levan Porter, Miss Nancy Porter and Laddy Porter, left Wednesday morning on a motor trip to California. They will visit other points on the Pacific coast and return home by way of the northern route. The automobiles of Fred Pease and W. O. Lewis of Warren township collided south of Putnamville Tuesday afternoon, with severe damage to both cars, the Pease car coming out the worst in the collision. Neither driver was hurt. Vision in the road was obscured by high

weeds, it was said.

Funeral services for Charles T. Webster, prominent business man of Russellville, who died Monday night at the home of his daughter. Mrs. Fred MeGaughey, were held Wednesday afternoon at 1:30 o’clock from the Russellville Christian church. The Rev. Hartling was in charge. Interment was made in the Hebron

cemetery.

Oscar MeKamey, rural mail carier of Fillmore, his wife and small son, started today on a 30 days’ vacation trip to visit relatives and friends near Great Falls, Montana Traveling by auto, they are going via Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City and Yellowstone Park. They will return through Minnesota, South Dakota, Wisconsin and Illinois.

JAPS BLOCK NEW PORT (ContlniMHl from I'nfce One) hundreds of Britons, reside at Swatow. It was believed that the British destroyer Thanet was with the Pillsbury at the scene. Japan had quietly mobilized a big fleet off Swatow. During the night a sudden blockade was clamped down. Foreign ships wirelessed that they were forbidden to approach the port. Four British merchantmen were among those turned away. Just before dawn the Japanese fleet opened a bombardment on Chinese concentration points about Swatow. Under the barrage of smaller calibre guns, the Japanese landed two columns, one on each side of the Han river at whose mouth Swatow is situated. A third force was landed a little way up the coast, apparently to encircle the city and cut the Chaoehow railroad, 27 miles inland.

of Miss Mildred Pitchford, brideelect of Donald Baird. A lovely gift was presented to Miss Pitchford. The evening was spent in playing Chinese checkers. The house was beautifully decorated with flowers and the bride-elect’s colors of blue and white were carried out in the refreshments. Mrs. J. H. Pitchford was a guest. 4 4 4 4 Trl Kappa To Meet Thursday Tri Kappa sorority will meet Thursday evening at 7:30 o’clock with Mrs. Don Ellis at her home in the Allan Apartments in Northwood.

$6.65-$6.05; 300-100 lbs.. $6.35-$6.55; 100-160 lbs., $6-$6.35; sows strong to 10 cents higher, mostly $5-$6.15. Cattle 800. calves 600; steers and

hi'ifers steady; cutter and plain beef other towns in Putn:r

Over forty men in’.eres^ J ball attended the meeting, organize a soft ball aModitj/ the city hall at 7:30, Tu shy] The meeting: was calM to by Carl '‘Splinter" Myers, pire until recently and a it interested in soft ball It was explained that the difficulty would be to raise t ey needed for elec’nrity ! field. The lights are alrealv a part of the Soft Hall Aims' post equipment While the would only he about Sl.iO a three nights a week, it sill a serious problem Several of defraying this expense » cussed. Myers also told the eidiedii they could pinv ball M ay, day and Wednesday nijhltj games a night The city's provisions for tional facilities will make i' r to cut down on expenses a« !lx provide (he balls, tats Jn!| equipment.

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It is hoped that 'he ft

firms, merchants ort'.vniw^ sor teams Those sueiredd interested were: Tlv’ Dm ment Co.- The Zin Mill K A. and P the state hu. -uyi ment; Putnamville M. ■' ( Co.; Rotary Kuan Del

versity; Bethel Chui r. Valley; Cm a Cola Cl tors and a coH ied team Officers were elec'' d to j

organization some pen These elected wet Pi"S.fi ers; V. P. Ben J ''i Dick Hurst and a eomraittm if those above merehan's df like to spons'i team The tee Is headed by Maynarli ler, Chester Jarvis. Wto Hugh Walker nil Frankly

Morton. Fillmore, C

cows strong; other cows fairly steady; most steers $8.50-$9.85; bulk heifers $8.25-$9.25; vealers steady,

top $9.

Sheep 500; spring lambs steady, 25c, this fee to !••• a ' ■ good and choice $9.76-$10.25. | tee to the light company

be Invited to enter teams

Anyone should

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Isaac E. Wiatt, farming, Waveland, and Cletis Zoe MeGaughey, at home, Bainbridge.

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TODAY—JUNE 21 U. S. Constitution established as to nine states when ratified by New Hampshire. 1788. Is today an anniversary for someone near or clear to you? Send Flowers. KileFn Mowers 15 K. Wash. 8L Phone 630

Mildred Christine White Bride of Eldon C. Staggs The wedding of Miss Mildred Christine White, daughter of Thomas White of Greencastle, and Eldon Clay Staggs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Staggs of Clinton Falls, took place at the beautiful country home of the Rev. McKeehan Sunday morning, June 18th. The bride wore pink silk. Both Mr. and Mrs. Staggs are well known in this vicinity. 4 4 4 4 Men’s Forum To Meet At Robe-Aim Park The Men’s Forum of the Christian church will hold their regular monthly meeting Thursday at 6:15 o’clock at Robe Ann Park. E. R. Bartley, chairman of the dinner committee, has arranged for an old fashion wiener roast with all the trimmings. Supt. Paul Boston and Rev. Cecil Fellers will also be on the program. They will use as their theme “The Three Little Fishes swam out to the sea.” In case of rain the meeting will be held in the social rooms in the basement of the church. 4 4 4 4 Tri Kappa will meet Thursday evnning at 7:30 o’clock at the home of Mrs. Don Ellis, Northwood.

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THEY’RE HERE— The Lovely New Shades To Go With White Aeeessortes, In — MOJUI) HOSE Pair 79c & $1.00

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