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THE DAILY BANNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1939.

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LOCAL TENNIS SQUAD LOSES MEET 7-2. SUN.

C AVE TRIPS POP! EAR I»l RING HOT WEATHER

Boat trips into Donaldson and Twin Caves at Spring Mill state park have taken on an added attraction for park visitors during the Jut weather. Virgil M. Simmons, commissi mer of the Department of Conservation, said tfiday. Temperatures inside the cave rarely exceed 55 or 60 degrees while water in the streams which flow through the cave is even colder. Air around the entrance to the caves is several degrees cooler than in other parts of the park. Last week more than 20 percent of the visitors at Spring Mill "cooled off’ with a trip into one of the caves.

RICHMOND BROTHERS FROM INDIAN \POM.M ARE FIRST TO DEFEAT LOCAL TEAM

Soft Ball Game At Seven Tonight

PRIZES TO BE GIVEN MAN \ PLAYERS FOR VARIOl’S PLAYS

COFFMAN PLAYS 43 G A "ME SET

TUI’* WEEK’S WEATHER

Generally fair, although some probability of showers Wednesday or Thursday; temperature near normal most of week.

In the hardest fought match j'ayed this season the previously unlefeated Greencastle tennis team went down 7-2 before the Richmond brothers team from Indianapolis, at he University courts Sunday afterioon. The local lads lost five singles and wo doubles but the match was well | worth witnessing as there was a fine j display of amateur technique. In the first singles "Bomber' | Coffman was up against the 260 lb powerful driving ex-Butler player, Hillicker. Coffman with his hard drives fell down in the last set. His 260 lb opponet played the net and slugged across to win a forty-three game set. The scores were: 10-12, 6-3, 7-5.

At seven o’clock this evening soft ball wall start for this season at Robe

Ann Park.

After being disbanded for several years the Soft Ball Association was

able to start up again due to a desire ! »jj e co; je.

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by paying your Telephone account on or before the 15th of each month So as to avoid a Collection Charge.

on the part of many local residents and the organizing ability of Carl "Splinter" Myers. The first game, scheduled for seven. will be between the Colored Giants and Putnamville and the second game at eight-thirty will be between Russellville and the DePauw Univer-

sity team.

There will be prizes awarded to the hitter of the first single, the first double, the first triple, the first homer. the maker of the most sensational play and the team making the first double play. The three judges

Signs bearing any commercial advertising are barred from all highways in Ind.ana by the new traffic code which became effective on July I 1, T. A. Dicus, chairman pointed out c lay in discussing provisions of the j code affecting the state highway

system.

Other provisons of the code prohibit the hanging of advertising signs over the right-of-way of any highway and the erection or mainenance of any advertising sign which interferes with the effectiveness of any official highway sign or which may obscure the vision of mo-

torists at intersections.

Authority is given to the State Highway Commission and to county and city offcials having jurisdiction aver the state highways, county roads and city streets, to remove a! dgns which violate the provision of

Defacing, removing or al-

tering any official traffic control d" vice, signal or sign without prope; authority, is declared a violation o. the law. One of the major sections of th traffic code relating to signs pro vides: "No person shall place, main tain or display upon or in view of any highway any unathonzed sign signa 1 , marking or device which porport? to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic control device or railroad sign or signal, or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic, or which hiles from view or

will also award several other prizes ! interferes with the effectiveness of

s they see fit. Tomorrow evening

at seven the

any official traffic control device Dr

Agnew’ played Sunman in the sec-1 Lone Star team meets the Coca Cola

ond singles and again came through to win for the local team 7-5, 6-8, 7-5. Taylor, Quebbeman, Hurst and i Hamilton lost their matches in Uvs j succession. Each match lasted but two sets. Hurst played hard against ! his opponet and made a good show- 1 ing. | In the doubles Longfellow and Grueninger as number one team lost 6-0. 6-1. Taylor and Quebbeman took their doubles 6-4. 6-4 to make the second victory for the local team. Coffman and Agnew had time for only one set before it became dark. They lost this set 7-5. Over fifty people attended the match in the course of the afternoon.

lads and at eight-thirty Morton meets Bainbridge. A large crowd is expected out to witness the first game at seven.

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any railroad sign or signal, and no person shall place or maintain, nor shall any public authority permit, upon any highway any traffc sign or signal bearing thereon any commercial advertising. This shall not be deemed to prohibit the erection upon private property adjacent to the highways of signs giving useful directional information and of a type I which can not be mistaken for offi-

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BU YULE KYENT AT PARK THIS AFTERNOON

This afternoon at 4:30 there will be a group of Bicycle events at the Robe Ann park. The program is under the supervision of the Recreation program for Greencastle and is sponsored by the Elks Lodge.

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PRIE HOG WRECKS SCALES NORWICH, Conn., (UP)—Attendants at Nawrocki farm can only guess at the weight of their prize rog. They tried weighing it once, on a 900-pound scale. The hog wrecked the instrument.

ROADSIDE COUNCIL (Canllnued from Fuse Onrl to what the Safety and Highway Department need in the way of legisla- j tion. As a project for this year, it was voted by the Roadside Council meet-1 ing, which was held at Ladoga, June | 9, to erect a kiosk at the Montezuma Park. A kiosk, an open pavilion of Persian origin, and is a valuable asset to a community and to our state, j In a sheltered nook of the kiosk is

NOTICE OF SPECIAL ADMINISTRATION Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Putnam County, State of Indiana, Special Administrator of the estate of Wade Millman, late of Putnam County, deceased. Said estate is supposed to be solvent Wilbur S. Donner, Special Administrator. Homer C. Morrison, Clerk of the Putnam Circuit Court. June 24. 1939. Attorney, Hughes, Sutherlin and Hughes. 26-3t

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Twelve members of the Putnam County Saddle Club met at the bam of Frank Deer at seven o’clock Sunday morning and rode west of Greencastle on a ten mile ride around Big Walnut. In the group were Mr. and Mrs. John Ernshaw, Frank Vaughn, Paul Albin and his grandson. Miss Elibabeth Stonef Miss Norma Hill. Dewey Wood Ed Todd and jf.. and Mrs. Frank Deer and son, Steve. So as to escape the heat of the day the riders left at seven and were back by ten-thirty after an enjoyable and beautiful ride. This is the first of a series of rides which will be taken the first or second Sunday of every month.

CLAY CO. CHILD KILLED BY BIG FOUR FREIGHT TRAIN BRAZIL. Ind July 10.—Kenneth Dale Morlan, 17-month-okl son of Mr. and Mrs. Reeve F. Morlan, residing about two miles east of Carbon, was instantly killed about 8 o’clock Sunday morning when struck by an eastbound freight train on the Big Four Railroad which runs near the Morlan home. The child had been playing in the yards at the side of the home and after the freight train passed was missed by its parents. Investigation disclosed the badly mangled body on the railroad right of way. County Coroner Dr. R. K. Webster was called and is investigating the death.

Notice is hereby given that the undersigned Trustee of Washington Township. Putnam County, Indiana, will receive sealed bids for the transportation of school children in said township for the ensuing four school terms. Bids will be opened at 8 o'clock P. M . on the 18tn day of July, 1939, at the High School Building, in the town of Pleasant Garden, Indiana, and contracts will be awarded to the lowest, or best responsible bidders, and to resident of said township ! only. There are six bus routes and two automobile routes. Successful bidders will be required to furnish new chassis and all equipnent which must meet state requirements, except body, axe and fire extinguishers, which will be furnished by trustee. Successful bidders shall furnish doctor's certificate of health, and carry public liability insurance; also furnish surety bond for the faithful performance of the contract. For the automobile routes, the successful bidder will be required to furnish and maintain all equipment. Description of the routes and other information pertaining thereto may be secured at the office of said trustee. The Trustee and Advisory Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids. PETE HOLSAPPLE. Trustee. 3-2t.

displayed the record of some historical event which transpired in that vicinity—an event, which is of interest locally or connected with the history of Indiana as a state event or of national interest. It gives strangers a clearer idea of the history of our state. About 1500 words can be used to relate this event, which is displayed in the kiosk. This kiosk, which is to be erected this year, will be placed in the Montezuma Park a park five miles west of Montezuma on State Road 36. This park, which is to be completed this year, is to be known as “The Gateway Between Indiana and Illinois. It is hoped the kiosk will be completed for dedication not later than August. 1939. The dedication ceremony will be conducted by the Crawfordsville District of Indiana Roadside Council.

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WHEREAS C'r .in ( jJ violation of this , v. an( j 1 it of its civic obligation the improvement of app<J

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affix numerous .dvertmr.| trees, poles an . fences Highway prop j

State.

Five roadside parks are to be completed this year. The order of completion being the Montezuma Park, Parkersburg Spring Park, Lyford Park, Vermillion River .and Monitor Spring Park. The work or the Indiana Roadside Council is an important factor in improving and beautifying our highways, promoting safety and conservation and arousing deeper interest in legislation. The resolution as adopted by the

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BE IT RES, l.VI-Dl Fry dde Improven nt Counci Clubs of the Crawfords-,!, 1 at a meeting at I. a June 9th. do h, - III ic and vigorous protest -.H illegal and unw e r»n!«4 the Indiana State si 1

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ment in India: rt remove at once ad : and respect this i,< \ Mrs. T. K. Kiiley J: B dent Ro, . ^ er ®

Mrs. Earl L. P: fordsville Distr::: i Mrs. Glen Said!.!

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