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(iKKKXl’AS'l I.K, INDIANA, MONDAY, o(TnBKU 27, 1941.

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XT (l\\ KNS iCRETARY OF OST \L (;ROUP m\n honored or kin (i ,IKIi l \KKIERS’ MEET1V) . HH:I xATI RDAV

POSTAL WORKERS ENJOY BANQUET

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NAV \ DAY IS OBSERVED AT iii<;ii school

K. II. MATHEWS SPEAKS INTERESTED \l DIENT E MONDAY MOKNINO •KNOW VOIR NAVY”

PRESBYTERIAN C HURCH PRESENTED TABLET HONORING REV. ISAAC REED

s ,.si(Mi Ami Banquet Highhh of y\, st Central Distri.-t (oincntimi In I liis ( fall m. rti: of the VVest Centjtnct of liuliana State Associa- , Letter Carriers ended Saturl g ht with fine banquet aerved dinhi n of Gobin Memorurch Tins evening session was ted hy a business session held Hall at which the followelected: President, ftiompMm of Terre Haute; vicelent Hanay W. Owens of as t, retary, C. E. Wills of napolis The ladies auxiliary , t th, same time and also electlicers. banquet meeting was followed Biopram ■ f music, readings, and uaes 1. luring state and naHighlights were by Max milder, chairman of the L conn ttee on Constitution Ken Sparks, member 6f nal K\ cutive Board; and W. L cBroo!ii. inspector for the Cinarea Richard H. Whelan, lent of the local branch, acted jstm aster. partieul : inportance in conwith the local branch was WanizutiiMi of the Ladies Auxil,v stat' iganizer, Edna Boughiof Kokomo. aers elu' n were: Mrs. Harvey wens pn i lent; Mrs. Hay Hervii' president; Mrs. Cecil 1. scei el ary; Mrs. Richard H an, treasurer and Mrs. Paul aery nt-at-arms. Miss Eliza* IWanl. ii.'sustant post master, Ji.ted Ins newly organized auxwith theli charter, local branch was highly com^nted i ; the fine way in which ectiny . as organized ami carthrouyh to a successful conclujand much of the credit is due one hundred per cent hacking ? entia post office personnel, iltny r tmaster Dobbs. Assist.^ostiii.t'' : Elizabeth Ward, and lerks and rural carriers. next 1 ustrict meeting will be list Saturday in May in Leban-

S|H'< i.il Music For Occasion Played |J> II. S. Kuiirl; DePauw Also Obserxes .Navj l)a>

Richard E. Whelan, Gree.ncastle, Meitzler of Attica.

Mj\ Seiks of Kansas City, Mo., and

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Ficm left to right Richard E. Whelan, president of the local branch. Max Snider, Urba.na. 111., Albert Dobbs, Greencastle postmaster, J. L Hoffman. state president, Mr. Meitzler, retiring district president of Attica; Inspector W. W. McBroom of Indianapolis and Ben Sparks of Rushville. Mr Seiks, state president of the Missouri association and president of hi.s local

branch.

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"" \I i4M Tt-nuwwl i COLD WEATHER IS FORECAST I.) Men lra|)|)cd for early this week

In Mine Blast

Th prim? pal public observance of Navy Day in Greencastle was that i held at the high school, at which i Commander R. H. G. Mathews, of he Unit 1 I Slates Naval Reserves, wan the speaker. The auditorium 01 the school was filled by the students, and a iult persons interested in the occasion, at 11 o'clock, when the high school band, dii ected by Gene : ennington, opened the program v ith the rAidition • the "National Emblem March,” by Hadley, followed by "Anchors Awcigh,” by Zim-' merman; and "Navy Victory March, ’ Collins. Following the address, the band played Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever," and. as a finale, "The Star Spangled Banner," in the singing of which the large audience

joined.

Superintendent Paul Boston presented Commander Mathews, who spoke eloquently upon the general theme, "Know Your Navy." He was accompanied by Ensign Robert Sayle, and the two officers, garbed in the handsome uniforms of the navy, gave a colorful tone to the gathering. Both are stationed at Indianapolis in recruiting work. The commanders rank in the naval listing is on par with that of a lieutenantcolonel in the army, and a commander's immediately superior officer is a captain, whose' rank corresponds with that of an army colonel. An ensign of the navy is on a par, in rank, with a lieutenant of the army. (< outiiiueil on 1’iikp I'ourl

■ An interesting feature at the clone of the service in the First Presbyterian church of Greencastle. Sunday foreroon, was the presentation to tne church by Miss Minnie Williams of tablet commemorating the life and works of her great grandfather, the Rev. Isaac Reed, who ou.ide I that church, August iz iseo, and also founded the former Presbyterian church at Putnamville. The pastor, the Rev. V. L. Raphai-., asked C. C. Gautier, member of the boar 1 of trustees of the church, m speak the words of acceptance on Impart of the church. Mr. Gautier c>.i so, in gracious words of appreciation. He spoke of the toils undertaken by that valiant pioneer preacher, who roie thousands of miles, on horseback, through unoroken forest s, to spread the Gospel. In presenting the memorial tablet

Miss Williams said:

EXPLOSION Oft I RS AT KENTUCKY COAL MINE SHAFT THIS MORNING

NORTON V1LLE, Ky„ Oct. 27--(UP) Bodies of seven miners killed in an explosion which trapped .75 men at the Daniel Boone mine four miles south of here today reportedly were recovered about three hours later.

SUM s\\||*E8 CCLVKRT IN [AI.AIt \M.\; VICTIMS DIE

I ROM BURNS

(ANTON, Ala., Oct. 27 (UP) — kne ji.-rs.iti who knew the cause :St ii ,!'s bus disaster died tobnm u, the toll to 15 known sev- ! injured, and perhaps as

as five missing.

iti'ick Aultuan, driver of the bus, of burns six hours after he "n: of the flames. He mutthat a, had 27 passengers but ^ 1 > no more. Authorities had lantc'd > if ,, n |y 22 and said that lultuan < figure was accurate, |IjM , ij been reduced to ashlars ule-swiped the wall of a ted .in i the gasoline tank was ( I "i>c.i. There was an explosion ' 111 i split second flames were F n S through the floor, between aiu'in l the seats. Only those lent i who had been seated at which happened to be open, pi'il. The others perished in the

^hio-led inferno.

DAWSON SPRINGS, Ky„ Oct. 27 (UP I An explosion locked the Daniel Boone mine of the Sterling Coal Company at 7 dlO a. m. today and an estimated 75 miners were trapped. Company of'fii Ms said that 50 of the men had been located, apparently safe, at the bottom of an air shaft but the other 25 were unaccounted

for.

Rescue parties went to work immediately attempting to clear out the mine and reach the men.

Putnam county appears to be headed for some bad weather, following a month of real Indian summer weather. The forecast for today was rain and scattered thunderstorms, followed by considerably cold weather. The winds were expected to reach a velocity of 30 to 40 miles per hour by early tonight. They may be coming from the cyclone which struck in the southwest yesterday. Last week’s weather was about as fine as anyone could wish for and it could hardly be expected to last much

longer.

ANNUAL BED CROSS DRIVE STARTS NOV.

let I wish to honor and perpetuate the memory of all of Isaac Reed’.'descendants who were members either of this Presbyterian church or of the Presbyterian church of Putnamville. Time will only permit my mentioning a few of them. “First, there was my grandmother. Lydia Ann Tapsley Reel Williams, who was a true daughter of Isaac Reed and the wife of Worth- | ington Buckingham Williams. SI j was not only known in her immedii ate family but throughout th' 1 en I tire community for her khid an benevolent deeds. Then there was my father, Worthington Augustus Williams who greatly resemble I In. grandfather both in looks and actions. My f ither served as el ler in the Presbyterian church at Putnamville for many years and also organ ized anjl was superintendent of tin Sunday School at the William

$30(1 FOB FAIR RESTORED TO COl NTY BIDUET

AMOUNT M \S ( UT BY PUTNAM TAN KFVIF.W BOARD AT ANNUAL MEETING

XCTION

STATE BOARD

The placement of this cast bronze school house. Next, my mother, Mary

tablet in memory of the Rev. Isaac Reed, my great grandfather, wi... founded this church, August 12. 1825. marks the fulfillment of a desire which I have had in mind :• >me time. I never was privileged to know my great grandfather personally. He lived much too soon. However, T have listened to what my relatives have said about him and I have read from his sermons, letters, books and liary. I have abo read what other men have said about him in their biographical sketches and I am convinced that the Rev. Isaac Heed was constantly filled with an insatiate desire to do the Master's will. Therefore, on this 26th day of October. 1941, I wish to pay tribute

Ella Williams, who was the daughter of a Presbyterian elder and a coworker and teacher in that Sunday School where my father was superintendent. She also was a member of the Greencastle church choir when

she was a girl.

"Then 1 woul 1 mention thre granddaughters of Isaac Heed, name ly Julia Edistena Williams, Amu Gertrude Williamson, an I Marth Loomis Gilmore, all of whom were faithful attendants and loyal suppor-

ters of this church.

“In conclusion, 1 wish to thank Earl Evans, contractor, who so gia- | ciously contributed his services n. fastening the tablet to the wall and I wish to express my appreciation ! to the board of trustees for giving

to this courageous Christian travel-

ler—this intrepid rider of the wilder- line pel-mission to place it. ness, this veritable man of God who | “And finally, I am happy to

spent his entire life in spreading the

Gospel of Jesus Christ.

'Also in the placement of this tub-

pre-

sent this memorial tablet to th< First Presbyterian church of Green-

castle."

Mrs. Saiijruinet To Speak Herr NOTED HEALTH TONS! LTAN I TO ADDRESS DINNER MEETING OF A.\l \\

Mrs. Clothilde Patton Sanguinet, well-known throughout Indiana as consultant on School Health Education for the Indiana Tuberculosis Asj sociation, will speak in this city Tuesday evening at Mason Hall. She comes as the guest speaker for the annual dinner meeting of the Greencastle branch of the Ametican - Association of University Women. Mrs. Sanguinet’s distinguished work in the field of public school J health education has stretched fr<*m j New York City to the Philippine I.s-

Kire, of unknown origin, destroyed | lands. A graduate of Teachers’ Colthe farm home of Marion Ferrand, i lege of Columbia University, she

taught there following her graduation. and also at Horace M ini school.

Farm Home Is Razed By Fire

FLA Ml> DEM ROY RESIDENCE OF MARION FERRAND ON SI Nil \X MORNING

NERAL SERVICE HELD for MRS. WM. REVEAL P ln lul i vices were held in Terre t,! "Ms afternoon for Mrs. rlarn 1 baut Reveal. Mrs. Reveal, former Vova Billman, was a ■ : W-sley Hall, a M '''-relent of Cloverdale. Her ^ r Was George Billman, a broth- ^ John Billman, who resided in nt i-'we for a number of years. r 8 ' ^veal was the widow of H. ' whose death occurred in of this year. ’ Reveal leaves one daughter Harry Bartou of Terre Haute, e Rran dchildren and a sister, Horace Cornell, of Oklahoma

4 1-2 miles northeast of Greencastle On the Ba inbridge road, Sunday

morning.

The residence, a fizt-room frame structure, burned to the ground. No one was at home and the flames were first noticed by a neighbor about 8 a. m„ it was said. Some canned fruit in a cellar under a shed adjoining the kitchen was all that WH3 saved from the conflagration. Sparks for time threatened to , burn a small shed near the barn j which contained hay, but only slight ! damage resulted to this building, it | was reported. MARRIAGE LICENSE Janies Albert Ruark, machine operator, Greencastle route 3, and Mary Ann Hand, clerk, Bainbridge route 1. MASONIC NOTICE

She then became director of school Health Education for the public schools of East Orange, New Jersey. Following this, she taught for three years at the University of the Philippines at Manila. In addition to her state-wide service for school health for the Indiana Tuberculosis Association, she has taught summer school classes in th" extension division of Indiana University at Indianapolis since 1936. Her distinguished career and services in behalf of improved school health conditions, makes her appearance in Greencastle an event of particular note to the fields of interest in social welfare and education.

ORGANIZATION MFETING TO BE HELD IN CITY ON SATl RDAY El \< HEON SESSION PLANNED Session \t l irsl Christian Church For Local \nd Putiqini Campaign Workers Saturday, Novi mber 1st, is the day set for the < rganization of the annual Red Cm Roll Call in Putnam county. A lui cheon meeting will be held at 12 o'i lock in the dining room of the Firs' Christian chureh on that day where Uie work will be outlined and plan perfected for the

drive.

The county is mganized with the following chairmen for each of the townships: Ivers Bain, Russell; Mrs. Madge Skelton, F. C. Etcheson, Franklin; Mrs*. I « Rooker, Mrs. J. L. Thompson, Elza Page, Jackson; Sanford Romine. Clinton; Claude Etcheson, W. T. Stewart, Monroe, Miss Ella Hazel Pickett, Miss Ader, Floyd; Mrs. Cloyd Hall, Mrs. Ida Shetrone, Madison; Mrs. Robert Shetrone, Madison; Mrs. Robert Hoffman, Greeneostle; Amos Hunter, Miss Mabel Joseph, Marion; A. L. Evens, Warren; Mrs. Lee Clark, Jfferson; Mrs, Verner Houck, Wasaington; Mrs. Eva Cohn. Cloverdale. The residential district of the city will be canvassed by the Delta Theta Thus under the direction of Mis. (Continued *•» I'uku Four)

SCOUT COUNCIL TO MEET TUESDAY IN TERRE HAUTE The Wabash Valley Council, Boy Scouts of America will hold its annual meeting Tuesday, October 28, •at the Laboratory School and Shrine Temple. The afternoon session will start with a reception for both the ladies and men at 3:00 p. m., and at 3:30 p. m. the men will go to then conference sessions while there 1 will be a tea for the ladies. The main feature of the entire annual meeting will be the banquet at 6:30 p. m. in the Shrine Temple with Walter W. Head of St. I»uis as the

principal speaker.

R(‘(ls \rr lloldiiiii On Moscow I ronl

FIERCE AMS PRESS! RE IN DO NETS BASIN ADMITTED BY RUSSIANS

Eskimo Will !>r (lliapel Speaker A.M ATA, NATIVE OF BAFFIN LAND, ON DEPAUW UA.MP1 S Tt'ESDAY

20 Years Ago

IN GREENCASTLE

ELKS MEETING

There will be a 1077, Greencastle

wUl' r!mfe, L the e E NO A 47 d^gree"^ this | evening, October 28th.

evening at 7:30 o’clock.

meeting of Lodge Elks, on Tuesday

Mr. and Mrs. Thad Jones spent Sunday in Hazelton, the guests of the latter's sister and her husband, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Phillips.

LEGION NOTICE

American Legion Post No. 58 will hold Its regular meeting tonight at S o'clock

Millard King went to Princeton, 111., to reside. Fred Reising was in Indianapolis. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Cannon returned from a visit at Rushville. "At last, after years of bickering,” said the newspaper, a contract was let by the city council for the pacing of Seminary .street. The dlsagroo ment was as to the kind of material asphalt or cement. Alvah Bryan received a dislocatio. of the shoulder while leading a calf Into a truck. The Presbyterian church- remon strated to the city council against the use of city streets by carnival companies.

KUIBYSHEV, Oct. 27 (UPl A Red army counter-attack regained ground on the Central front defending Moscow, dispatelies reporti | today, but it was acknowledged tlret fierce Axis pressure continued in the Donets Basin. Adequate British and American aid to Russia has become more and more urgent becau • the German offensive is now in a decisive stage ie the industrial heart of the Ukraine Soviet official soure < s said. On the Moscow front, tin enemy offensive continue i to pound at the Red army lines but all thrusts were said to have been checked in the vital sectors, while counter-blow regained some ground in the Ma

zhaisk area.

Many villages changed hands re-

peatedly after severe street fignting, the dispatches said, but in the vicinity of the town of “B" the Germans were forced t>> fall back after a panzer attack led by dive-bombei

failed to capture the town. The Russians were reported hold-

ing Kalinin, but dispatches admitted a grave situation in the South

Ukraine.

Final Word On County Levies For Each Taxing I nil Received At Vuilitnr s Office

At the office of the auditor of Putnam county Eddie H. Buis, there has been receive'1 a communication from the St ite Tax Board giving the final word on the tax levies which will be m force in each of the taxing units of the county, in the year 1942. One interesting item is the restoration. by the state board, of the item of $300 foi assi-dunce of the Putnam County Fair, which was on the original budget of the county but which was deleted by the County Board of Tax Review. The representative of the state board when here not long ago heard representations from intere sted persons asking that the item be restored to the budget. Tlie tax rates as approved by the state Ijoard are considerably reduced ,n some instances from the rates ask1 in the budgets. This pertains cspeciaJly to the rates in the townships

for poor relief.

The state levy of 11 cents stands. The county general fund levy of 28 cents was approved, it being a reduction Of Jour cents from the original request. The county unit road bond levy of 11 cents was approved, that levy being for the purpose of further reducing the principal and interest due in 1942 on the outstanding bonds for the construction of a number of principal roads in the county, a score of years ago. The county hospital bond and interest rate is four cents, tlie county hospital maintenance rate of three cents is approved, the county welfare levy of 25 cents stands, and also tlie rate of five cents for the county jail bonds and interest. No levy is made for a township general fund in Russell township, which of course, removes that levy in Russellville, also. Also, there is no township poor fund levy made in Franklin township (nor in Roachdale) and none in

Floyd.

The total tax levies for 1942, for the taxing units ol the county, together with the total poll tax in each unit, as finally approved to be the basis of the taxes collectible in 1942,

are as follows:

Jackson township Total tax,

$1.90; poll, $3.50.

Franklin township

$2.12; poll, $3.50.

Roachdale town Total tax, $3.24, (Contluiied on Pnirc Four)

Total tax,

For John Harris

WELL KNOWN KEIIKED FARM ER DIED SATl KD.\\ AT HIS

LADOGA HOME

Anuata, an Eskimo woman horn in Baffin Land will be the speaker for a lengthened chapel at DePauw University Tuesday morning in Gobin Memorial church. She will talk on tlie life and customs of the arctic peoples under the title “The Land of

the Good Shadows.”

Anuata appeared in Greencastle several years ago in a public lecture

and delighted her audience with her j

graphic word pictures of her people

mid her land. Born at the north tip: I ..rel ||(>|<] of Baffin Island, (00 miles from the j A-KtSl lAJ (A n ill HI

North Pole, she was reared as a nomadic Eskimo. She came to the United States as the result of an amazing series of adventures. The initial motive for leaving her I native land was the search for relatives of an orphaned Scotch baby that had been born in her commun-

ity. The child's mother died shortly

after its birth and its father, along with Anuata's husband, lost their

lives when their canoe capsized in

Hudson bay. She was persuaded by

the captain of a trading vessel to

bring the orphaned baby to its grand-

parents at St. Johns, Newfoundland. Anuata had three small daughters of her own who accompanied her on the

trip.

Once away from her native land she decided to travel and came to the United States. When the money she had received from the sale of furs was exhausted she worked in an Indianapolis factory to educate and support her children, taking lecture assignments whenever possible to increase her earning power. Anuata and her daughters are said to be the only Eskimos living in the United

States.

Anuata describes Baffin Land as land that knows no time. When (C'uuXuueil fruiu I'uge Two3

16 known Dead Alter Tornado STRUCK AT W IDEM SEPARATED SECTIONS Ol ARKANSAS SI NOW NIGHT

MEMPHIS, Tenn Tornadoes struck separated sections night and early

Oct. 27 (UP) — at two widely of Arkansas last, to lay, leaving at

dead and more than

Dardanellc and Arkansas river the vicinity of ttlement in

John Harris, 76. retired farmer of Ladoga died Saturday evening of

complications at his home.

He was born April 3. 1865, in Fincastle, the son of Elizah and Catherine Mangus Harris. On March 19. 1891. he married Dola M. Cheshire at Roachdale. He was a member of the

Ladoga Brethem church.

Surviving are two daughters, Mr Jessie Swartz of Evanston, 111., and Mrs. Nellie Jacoby of Ladoga; thro brothers, George, Elmer and Walter, and a sister, Mrs. Doris Long, all of Ladoga, and another sister, Mrs Daisy Scott of Jamestown, and a granddaughter He wa.s preceded in death by his wife, a grandson, an infant daughter and three brothers

and three sisters.

Funeral services were held Mon day at two o'clock at Ladoga. CIRCUIT COURT NOTES Walter R. Matkins vs. Jacob R. Walter, damages, dismissed.

least 16 persons a score injured. Six were killed at

New Bethel, in the valley, and 10 in

Hamburg, a tiny

southeast Arkansas. Nine whites were incluled in the list of victims, first reports said. Heavy rains uccompann I the storms and the wind reached a velocity of 20 miles an hour in Memphis. The tornado which struck Hamburg apparently was not a part of that which ripped up the Arkansas river valley in the Dardanellc area.

■:> © & \‘ji Today’s Weather 0 0 and 0 0 Local Temperature 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Clearing tonight, preceded by drizzle in extreme northeast portion early tonight; Tuesday fair; much colder tonight, freezing temperature by morning in north and central portions.

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