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SCI! KICKER VIEWED THE 1932 SITUATION 1KI! \TI< K M < V HEI D SATSv AT HI<«H SCHOOL lK (iVMNASUM n - wonKMw” INTRODUCED . , ()f County Chairmen District Were Present; fwnk Thom|»son ANo ,,cre team county Democrats rallied njgy evening at a mass nice. „ the high school gymnasium. L their eandidate for govern- , enry y Schrlcker, was the
ipeaker.
meeting, the high
program. Call
RAZING OF OLD SOMERSET CHURCH TlLE REPORT
WILL REMOVE ONE OF OLDEST IN COUNTY i
The impending razing of the old Somerset Christian church on state highway 43, north of Brick Chapel, to make way for the erection of a new sanctuary for that congregation, on the same site, will remove one of the oldest church homes in Putnam county. The work of removal may start the first of next week. It is the plan for the congregation to construct the basement of the new building at this time, and to occupy it until they can complete the struc-
ture.
From Mrs. Daisy Davis, of- Clinton township, who is one of the oldest members of that congregation, The Daily Banner has' secured the manuscript of a paper which was prepared in 1931 by her mother, Mrs. Martha i Ferrand, shortly before her death I eight years ago, which presents the
■ histoi
rjor to the
jl band gave
; t county chairman, piesided there is no one now living who introduced party workers, in- j CO uld give that history so fully ami jjg \iiji. Lillie MoFerran, county |so well. It is as follows, in part: chairman and M s. Hoy Brack- Just a few memories of the dear of the Putnam i old church at Somerset. From what . Club. W e have been able to learn, the coninnber of county chairmen from I gregation was established nearly one district were also present as j hundred years ago. The first house
president lv Women's Democratic
of worship was a log building located on the Badger farm, probably a mile
Friends Filed Donner’s Naim'
FORMER JUDGE ON REPUBLICAN BALLOT AS CANDIDATE
FOR PROSECUTOR
_ weie some other state canoes, including Frank Thompson,
, auditor.
eodorc C awley introduced the ty candidates, all of whom were tnt. Dr. T. A'. Sigler was prebd by Mr. Hurst and he present- j Gov Schncker. Mr. Schrlcker! Is a business man of various ! said he was conducting his ! aign on a high level, one on | he could go to his opponent J k his opponent come to him afthe election without any embay- I
ent of any kind. • j mer judge speaki r reviewed the situation ' Court, on Saturday
saw it in 1932, starting with i with the secretary of state at Indibank situation, he being at the ' anapolis, as Republican candidate in the hanking business in ! f°r prosecutor of Putnam county. Ho told of the inflation ! an d his rmnie will appear ices prior to 1929 and painted ! county ticket of that party for the lure of business men and others | coming election in November. With that period and during the [ that nomination the ticket of the years of the Roosevelt admin- 1 Republican party is completed for tion. I the election. The county ticket of Schricker reviewed the farm ! th e Democratic party was complet'd campaign which included Put- i in the nominating primary, county. He said 1851 Putnam i ft is announced that, for the first rs had bonefitted by the, AAA time in a number of years, the Re"ign to the extent of more than j publican ticket will occupy the left WO He said the purchasing I hand column on the national and ;r of the farmer had been re- state tickets. The positions occupied si through such government aids b y the tickets of the respective par!w over-normal granary and the ! ties depends upon the number of conservation act. He said the ! votes cast for secretary of state ir nation of this work shows the- the last previous general election mment's interest in agriculture, i The election of James M. Tucker
foreca.d 100 years of future a! secretary
their first candidatee for
and a half north of the present site, or a half mile southeast of the Hanna
crossihg.
Some time later, a lot was secured and the present building was erected, in the year 1845. We have the names of a few of the old pioneers who helped organize the church, with others who lent a helping hand in building the house of worship. Some names we have heard mentioned, others we personally knew later on. Among the first we remember were “Uncle” Higgins Lane, father of Oscar and Ed Lane, who both became ministers of the Christian church; Mr. and Mrs. John Allen, parents of Aunt Dulla (Allen) Priest, who is now nearing the 87th milestone of life and has been a church member since her girlhood years. Also, Mr. and Mrs. James Allen, the former a brother of John Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Allen’s death occurred within a few months time, at a ripe old age. Funeral services which were held later were the first I remember held in the Somerset church. Uncle Corban and Aunt Fannie (Badger) Priest were old pioneer (Cootinued ou l*iiKr Two)
GIVING FACTS ABOUT DITCH
COLLISION OCCURS AT INTERSECTION
ALSO LISTS ASSESSMENTS AGAINST ADJOINING
PROPERTIES
COSTS HAVE HI I N ITEMIZED Outlet Of Proposed iDorsell Ditch Is I i Old Robards IMich; Course
Is Northeasterly
H A. Blunk. of Martinsville, en-gine.-r, and W Ibur Smith and Frank Wilcox, the viewers, appointed by the court for the construction of the proposed Dorsett ditch in east Jefferson township, have filed in the office of Homer C. Morrison, cloik of the Putnam Circuit Court, thcii report which cove s the details of the construction of the main ditch, of the one lateral, of the reiiiforcement of four highway bridges under which the ditch is planned to pass, and, finally, the amount of the assessments against the adjoining or neighboring properties and th n amount of damages assessed in fa-
vor of one property owner.
The outlet of the proposed Dorsett ditch is in the old Robards ditch and ! the course of the new drain is
PROCLAMA TION Governor Clifford M. Townsend today issued a proclamation declaring the week of October 6th to 11th Citizenship Responsibility Week, and called upon all public schools, civic and patriotic organizations to make proper observance of the occasion. Text of the governor's proclamation is as follows: "WHEREAS, many public minded groups are sponsoring throughout the State of Indiana a Citizenship Week from October 6th to October 11th for the purpose of achieving a general reawakening of all the people to their responsibility as citizens of one of the great remaining democracies, and WHEREAS, it is fitting that we call to the attention of all of our people, native born as well as naturalized, the responsibility of American Citizenship its privileges and its sacred duties. It is well that to all may bo brought full understanding of the American Meals of self-government and the American conception of democracy. It was for these principles that patriots gave their lives down the years, and R is for these principles, with an abiding faith in Almighty God, that new citizens of the present and future must be prepared to defend, if cur government by the people is to be preserved. NOW, THEREFORE, I, M. Clifford Townsend, Governor of the State of Indiana, believing a proper conception of American citizenship to be essential to our national existence, proclaim the week of October 6th to October 11th as Citizenship Responsibility Week, and request that churches, schools and civic organizations give proper observance to this week by appropriate programs.”
WILLIS MAIN SPEAKER FOR REPUBLICANS
GILBERT E. OGLES PRESIDED AT RALLY; REV. CAMPBELL GAVE INVOCATION SEVERAL CANDIDATES SPOKE
Friends of Wilbur S. Donner, for-
of the Putnam Circuit
filed his name
county, on the
of state,
mess if agriculture is left to the ! a K 0 was * be
on's public utilities. I office to be elected smee 1928.
S hiicker spoke of the intet-
THREE YEAR SENTENCE
Of government in the youth of , p c BROWN IS GIVEN
nation, saying the state instituas Wi-U as others were taking t
of the young men and women i Russ " R Drownt former pre*-
of the Fi st-Citizens Bank
the nation. In speaking of the -to progi am 0 f Indiana, Mr.
dent
and Trust Company appeared before
in Federal Court at
-ker said he was recommend-
Acontinuation of it with an i n - 1 Judge Baltzcll allowed pen- 1 lmh a » a P'>l>s Saturday noon and rc-
^ He also recommended a • coivccl a lhree yeai ' SMnence on hit ’
of guilty to embezzling slightly than $21,000, which he made good about one year ago. Mr. Brown
' entered a plea of guilty ea ly in the
week He was rcloasd on his bond of $5,000 on Saturday pending final
disposition of his case.
* liber,ii policy for unemploy- ^
X compensation, due to the fact t the state' has collected some‘S like $35,000,000 more from Jicss than it has paid out in unment wages during the past
Iril years.
said the gross Income tax to- i 122000,000. of this sum, a tort Ud,105.18 was collected from ( county, vvhdc the schools were | riled «;m ,00.00. Welfare funds • Jlm S $53,820.47 were also re- | W to this i mnty. He is urging | Fedeai government pay the lr e costs of the Welfare work, | relieving the state of its pres- i *are Hi is also urging that the j 'is income tax law be modified I
‘ 5'ear in order that
WUes which
Two boys from Clinton were cut about the face and received surgical attention at the office of a physician in Bainbridge, Sunday evening, in a collision of a truck In which they were riding, going east on state road ,
36 with an automobile transport I ciency of the ditch •This." says the truck which was weing driven south ! re P° rt ' " wiI1 not b «' construed as on road 43, the collision occurring j Panting the land owners from the intersection of the two high- I cultivating their land up to the edge
JAMES DOWNS PASSED AWAY AT TERRE HAUTE The James E. Downs, 73 years old.
whose death occurred Saturday afternoon at his home in Terre Haute
northeasterly. The right of way is j j s briefly mentioned i.n the Terre to be 100 feet wide and for a dis- 1 Haute Star this morning, is assumtance of 25 feet from the top edge I c d here to be the former Greencastle of the ditch on each side the timber I resident of that name, son of the is to be cleared away excepting in late James Downs and a brother of
cases of landmarks, witness or shade , Lawrence Downs and others. Thi
trees, if not detrimental to the effi- '
ways, nine miles north of Greencastle. The transport was loaded with three new cars from Coldwatcr, Mich., and they were spilled off on-
to the pavement.
Scott's wrecker w'as called from Greencastle and State Police Officer
Greencastle former reside.nt of that name was known to his friends as “Buck," and he had been an employe of a steel company in Terre Haute
many years.
of the ditch if they desire to do | Funeral services will be held at so, neither will it be construed ti)'; 8: ; i0 O ' c i ock Tuesday morning at the prevent the contractor from depos- j home with solemn high mass at 9 iting the excavated materials more j o'clock at St. Ann's Church,
than 50 feet from the center line of
the ditch when necessary.” The bottom width of the main line
George Hecko, of the Putnamville i of the ditch will be 50 feet, will not | Etlllll' ! O
barracks, was summoned to make ' less than 12 feet for a certain disofficial investigation of the af- : tance above its' outlet, that width re-
fair.
(merman Troops Enin* Rumania
MECHANIZED DIVISIONS \ Ml FULLY ARMED INFANTRY
ON THE MOVE
Willis Pledged That He Would Never Vote To Send American Boys
Across Seas
j The crowd which packed the PutI nam Circuit court room Saturday I evening for the Republican rally was j not only complimentary in size to the Republican candidates who appeared before it but it also was complimentary in the close attention it gave the speakers and in the enthusiastic applause with which it responded to ] many of the emphatic assertions
i made in the speeches.
All of the seats were occupied, of both main floor and balcony ,at the announced time for the beginning of the meeting and when it finally began, half an hour later, many had been turned away. A number of person.'] stood and others gathered outside in the lobby of the third floor where they remained as auditors. Gilbert E. Ogles, chairman of the Republican central committee, presided. The invocation was given by
the Rev. J. G. Campbell.
Among the candidates present were Raymond E. Willis, of Kokomo, candidate for election as United States Senator from Indiana, who j was the principal speaker; Noble J. Johnson, of Terre Haute. Congressman from the Sixth district and candidate for re-election; Edgar Blessing, of Danville, candidate for election as judge of the Indiana Appellate Court; Dr. R. H. Richards, of Owen county, candidate for re-elec-j tion as joint representative from j Owen and Putnam counties; and, in addition, nearly all of the candidates on the county Republican ticket.
Urge All To Take Part In Activities
during to 10, 8 and 6 feet. The la‘eral is to have a bottom width of 4
feet.
The costs, as itemized, are as fol-
lows :
Clearing right of way, $400. ; | Excavation of earth, 88,082 cu. i
"ITIZENSHII* WEEK MEETINGS yds at 7 cents, $6,165.74.
EXPECTED TO DRAW LARGE j Excavation of . 2894 cu. yds.
URO^VDS; PARADE FRIDAY I shale, at 50 cents, $1,347.00. * , I Corrugated pipe, etc., $315.00.
Citizenship Responsibility the price of liberty! (
Open On Nov. II!
HUNTERS PERMITTED TO KILL HEN' PHEASANTS UNDER NEW REGULATIONS
Damages, $300.
Total cost. $8,927.74.
Alpha B. Alice, $815.00;
r
Kilo On Tuesday
Services Tuesday l or Mrs. Maude Ash
PASSED AWAY SUNDAY MORNING; FRIENDS MAY ( ALL
AT RECTOR HOME
Mrs. Maude Ash, age 54 years, | wife of Fred Ash, passed away at
*4 wni are now being nen- ' her home northeast of Barnaby's I' s ^ not be in the future I Mil1 carI y Sunday morning. Death
I was due to a heart attack. Mrs. Ash
This week the theme of Citizenship | Alpha B Allfc $H15 0(J; A , bcrt
Week will bo emphasized to all first
voters and every citizen of the' «('«ntlnup<i •>n Paste Tiir.ei United States residing in Putnam j _
'ounty. The meetings, which acted |
I!i ; mvnin<r
will bo resumed this week wifh the first meetings of the week taking |
nlace tonight. ! ___ * On Friday of this week there w: " j PASSED AW SUNDAY MOKNv a parade which will be one ol the IN<i vr II|V , HOME; SERVII E arg"St ever staged in Greencastle.! Yj. RECTOR HOME At ihe end of the parade all the j ____
marching groups, as well as many | t ; oorRO F> Browning, age 81 years, hundreds of citizens and public mind- I passed away Sunday morning at 9 ed people, will assemble in th" j 0 > c | fM , k |,j s home at 607 east WalGreencastle high school gym whe e j nut s t re ,.t. He had been in failing
The open season for the hunting | of pheasants this year has been fixeo ! at November 10 to 20 inclusive, ac j cording to Game Warden Victor W'al j ter-, whd said many inquiries about i this year’s pheasant regulations hav<
been received.
He pointed out. however, that November 10 and November 17 fall on Sundays, leaving only nine actual hunting days in the period. Heretofore only cock pheasants could be killed, but this year the bag limit is two birds, one of which may j be a hen pheasant. ! A hunter may have in possession jnt any one time four pheasants, two ! of which may be hens, the game war-
Jdon said.
I Open season on quail and rabbits I also falls on Novermber 10. Reports 'indicate that there will be plenty of game for the hunters this year, the
game warden said.
BUCHAREST, Rumania, Oct. 7 (UP) German troops are in Rumania and additional units are expected today or tomorrow by airplane, usually well informed sources
said today.
The troops brought motorized
equipment.
Informants estimated that approxi- j mately 15,000, or one division, would j arrive by tomorrow. There were un- ! confirmed reports that two more!
divisions might follow.
It was reported that the Rumanian government had agreed to the entry j of German troops, both to guard the I
oil fields and to aid in training and | Seated on the platform, in addition reorganizing the Rumanian army, ] to the candidates, were other dis-
there will be a mass meeting anil an address by a nationally famous speaker, Raymond Sehutz. president
health for some time and he became seriously ill three weeks ago. Mr. Browning was born January
of the Standard Life Insurance Com- | jy, ik59, the son of Isaac Browning
and Amanda Steers Browning. He
pany.
Starting tonight of th's week there will be three mee’ings In townships scattered throughout the county. These meetings are scheduled to s'art at 7:30 and will be held in Russellville, Belle Union and Clo-
possibly with the cooperation of 1 Italian units. Confirming also that arriving German troops were fully armed and had motorized equipment, the Rumanian legation said that this was at the request of the Rumanian gov•rnmont which aske i the Germans to instinct its army in the latest
methods.
tinguished visitors, among them loint Senator Bruce Lane from Bainiridge; Byron Jones, of Lebanon, Republican Sixth district chairman; Mayor Tiffee, of Brazil; George Craig, city attorney of Brazil; Mrs. Cecil Harding. Covington, district
vice chairman; and others.
Mr. Craig spoke briefly but very i energetically and effectively, on the
me legation said that nothing was j m>UUcal situation in the nation and
known of reports that German troops ( , n the state
A-ould guard oil fields and air |Kjits. i Mr. Blessing said he had spoken
|.-|lt|,- \’r M \RTT\s\ lilt many times in that court room, hut MARTINSVILLE, Ind., Oct. 7.—i alwa - vs - b,,fon ' Saturday evening, he (UP) Fire causing damage esti- had faced the other way addressing mated at $.'!00.0()<>. destroyed the ' tb< ' an< ! juries. He called at-
warehouse ' tention to the fact that Mr. Ogles.
i the chairman of the meeting, was • himself a candidate for re-election as auditor but had not mentioned the fact. Mr. Blessing also spoke of the ! high standing of his fellow-attorney,
fused all comment until an investiga-j Greincastle, Marshall D. Abrams,
. candidate for election as judge of the Putnam Circuit court. Mr. Biess-
main packing plant and
,)f the Van Camp-Stokeley Co., her-
last night.
Sheriff W. U. Rainwater said that the cause of the blaze had not been determined. Company officials re-
verdale. The leaders will be Profes- I Greencastle.
was a member of an old pioneer family and was born and reared on a farm two miles cast of Greencastle. j Mr. Browning lived on this same farm until about twenty years ago when he retired and moved into
hricker also mentioned the
trance
! had been in ill health for some time
WtS m t a ,f e C possibleJ,y the j but death came suddenly. She was
savings'* made
by the lowering of utility j cs by the Public Service Com■’on savings about $8,000,000 an*V, the tax limit law which will * budgets of local units about
MOOOO this
Ubor
year; the department
f and otber things the state ^ cal governments are doing. ^ t0 th e injustice of the '" llt adoption law, he urged Udr, X h ,0|<s for Indiana school 3 i (s ‘ ancJ ‘be adoption of the C J a n °n-partisan committee. Jool h 80,116 s P e ciflc instances in 0,! ma ‘iers which the pres-
‘ law
yih' tlle aclo P‘ lo n
> ‘his year.
Wl11 not permit. One of
of a geogrn-
TheJtv' N< IL T ° MEET ie SS l on uncil will meet In reguliock. thls
evening 7:30
able to be up town Saturday evening and on Sunday morning she was getting breakfast when stricken. Mrs. Ash was born and reared In Putnam county and had spent prac-
tically her entire lifetime here.
She is survived by the husband and nine children, Mrs. Louise Aubrey of Madison township, Clyde, Claude, William. Clellan, Ralph, Rujsell and Allison, all of Greencastle. ! Funeral services will be held : Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Rector Funeral Home, in charge of Richard Whelan. Burial will be H Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may
call at the Funeral Home. CREDIT ASSOC. TO MEET
The Putnam County Credit Association will meet this evening at 7:30 o’clock in the office of the First-Citizens Bank Building. All members are urged to be present.
sors C. G. Pierson, H. T. Ross and W. W. Carson respectively. Tuesday evening of this week the -neetings scheduled will take place n Greencastle, Fillmore, and Reelsville. There will also be a Lions Club meeting on Citizenship at Roachdale and round table discussions, at special high school assemblies, in the Greencastle and Belle Union high schools during the day. Many local clubs will devote a part of their dscussion, at their weekly meetings, to citizenship and what part a good citizen plays in his government. To become better informed on what a democracy means, how it may survive and what is expected >f each and every citizen in a democracy, attend these meetings which have been arranged for you in th" various townships throughout Putnam county.
Survivors include the widow and three children. Miss Amanda Browning of Indianapolis, Franklin of Hudson, N. Y., and Glenn S. of Greencantle, two brothers, William Allen Browning and Scott Browning, both residing east of the city. Funeral services will be held at 10 o’clock Tuesday morning from the Rector Funeral home. Dr. W. S. Rader will be in charge of the services. Burial will be in Forest Hill cemetery. Friends may call at the
funeral home.
DEPAUW’S CINEMART WILL OPEN TUESDAY
Extensive plans arc now being made for the opening of Cinemart’s 1940-41 season next Tuesday. "The Birth of a Nation," universally acclaimed as the greatest film ever produced, will be shown at 3:30 p. m. and 7:15 p. m. on that day for sub-
scription members only.
New sound film equipment for the Little Theater has been purchased and will be installed in a few days. Musical accompaniment for the Griffith movie-epic, one of the few silent pictures on this year’s series, is being arranged by Henry Oakes. Cinemart musical director, from the film’s original score by Joseph Breill.
tion is made.
The fire was discovered in the west
wing of the plant by two janitors '"K pleaded for the citizens to undershortly after closing time. j s tand that the responsibilities of
government are in their hands, not in the hands of a select few in the nation and state. Mr. Blessing introduced Noble J. Johnson, candidate for re-election as Congressman. Mr. Johnson, responding to the greetings from the audience, spoke , briefly. He said, among other
I tilings:
| “This is an election we had better I not lose if we lost this time, we are
Nazi Airplanrs Slab \l London
GERMANS RENEW AERIAL AT-
TACKS ON CAPITAL OF
GREAT BRITAIN
WILLIE SLY CHARGED WITH INTOXICATION
20 Years Ago Q( GREENCASTLE
CORRESPONDENT IS EXPELLED ROME, Oct. 7 (UP) The official Stefani News agency issued a communique today announcing that Herbert Matthews, New York Times correspondent, had been expelled from Italy.
( Mrs. Fred Thomas was the “gen- ) ial and appreciative hostess"—the 1 newspaper said—for the meeting of the Locust Street auxiliary of the W. F. M. S. Mrs. Sarah Wright, president, presided; Mrs. J. E. Courtney was secretary. Mrs. Ewan was alternate delegate to the district meeting.
Willie Sly, negro living on south Illinois street, was arrested by city police Saturday night charged with intoxication and assault and battery Sly, according to Police Chief Ed Maddox, has been drinking and threatened to shoot his wife. He struck her on the head with the gun the officer stated, and it was necessary to take her to the county hospital to have her Injuries treated. Sly was nabbed at his home qy the police and placed in jail pending filing of charges. Sly. it is said, is a brother of Jack Sly wanted by the Greencastle authorities for a recent razor attack on Pete Worrall, also colored.
LONDON, Oct 7 (UP) OiTmau airplanes returned with renewed ‘erocity to their attack of London today, the ."1st day of terror raids. Due partly to bad weather, partly !o stronger defenses, not a German bomb had been dropped on Central j London since dusk last night; not a gun was fired in the central district
luring the night.
Single-flying German planes renewed the attack in mid-morning ana one, playing hide-and-seek in broken clouds with the guns, dropped bombs on southeast London before it fled. Just before noon big formations began arriving with a clearing sky. Twenty-four bombing planes, escorted by more than 30 fighters, crossed the southeast coast and headed r or London only to be driven back by fighter planes which met them half way and sent them fleeing In broken formation. It was believed that one crashed Into the sea. A second formation of between 30 and 40 planes flew in high over the Kentish coast. A dozen raiders appeared suddenly over a southeast London residential district and dropped a dozen bombs. They turned
southwestward.
Another dozen German planes flew over the area, but were turned back | without dropping their bombs.
have entirely cast aside the fine old American way of life and have entered upon a new and unsafe way of
living.
“This warm spell of weather wo are having reminds me,” said the Congressman, “of a story they are telling about Washington. A prominent citizen of Texas had been in the national capital and on his return home he was asked by a friend how (Continued on I'Hite Four)
*5* Today’s Weather O <H and • O Local Temperature <1 Fair tonight and Tuesday; Cooler
tonight.
Minimum 57 6am 57 7 a. m 58 8 a. rn 89 9 a. m 59 10 a. m V 60 11 a. m 83 12 noon 63 1 p. m 65 2 p. m 65