The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-06-20
The City
in Brief


Maryland st. and Capitol Ave,
which will make the building prac-
tically fireproof. New floors and
new roof are being Installed.
William II. Meub, general agent
for the New England Life Insurance
Company, Boston. has been elected
president of the Indianapolis Asso-
citation of Life Underwriters. Other
officers are: Homer Day, Pruden-
tial, first vice president; w. H. Ten
nyson, Mutual Benefit Assurance
Company, second vice president;
Clarence Sweeney, State Life of In
dianapolis. treasurer, and Edgar
Webb, Equitable Life Assurance So
ciety of New York, secretary. Direc-
tors are Frank L. Jones, Richard
Habbe, A. E. Baker, Tennyson and
Meub.
The Rev. L. II. Benting, pastor,
and the building committee, headed
by George j. Mayer, conducted
ground breaking services Sunday
for the 100000 addition to st. Marks
English Lutheran Church, Prospect
and Linden SITS. Cornerstone cere-
monies are to be held Aug. 7.
the corner stone for the educa-
tional building, the new S45,0G0 adj
dition to Emmanuel Reformed
Church, Prospect and S. New Jersey
SITS, was laid Sunday. The 400 per-
sons attending the service donated
s2,782.12 to the building fund, Pas
tor Henderson l.. V. Shinn an
nounced.
Col. G.. I. Townsend, chief of staff
of the oath Division, United States
reserves, will teach military science
and tactics at Ohio State University.
He leaves Aug. /. Lieut.. Col. Will
liam =. Patterson has been assigned
acting chief mere until a colonel is
appointed to succeed Colonel Town
send.
Harold C.. Pennicke, manager of
the planning and personnel depart
ment of the American Central Lie
Insurance Company, has been
elected treasurer Of the National
Association Of ONCE Managers. Of
fcers were chosen at recent meet
ing of the organization at the Edge
water Beach hotel.
Fifty Blue Ribbon terriers, COM
ing from cities throughout the
state, were exhibited at Broad Rip
pie Park Sunday, under the direc-
ton of the Boston Terrier club.
Evans King, TO- of 2O59 Hazel ST.,
was taken to city hospital with a
Wrenched back today after the truck
he was driving on Hilldide Ave,
turned over when a tire blew out.
superintendent of the Western
and Southern Life Insurance Com
pany will meet in a conference at
the Claypool Tuesday. Superin-
tendents from a number of Indiana
towns. officers from the company's
home office at Cincinnati, Ohio,
and S. E. Johson, w. A. McGath,
A. w. Kohstaeot and Edward Shoe
maker, local superintendent, will
! attend.
Officials Of the Central Hospital
for the Insane report william Cum
bingham, 43, escaped. He wore a
blue serge suit, tan shoes and white
shirt and straw hat.
Police sought Mrs. Bertha Parker,
81, Of 668 Russell Ave, today. She
was last seen Friday when she left
her home to hunt work.
Purchase of the twO-stOry brick
building at East and Prospect SITS.
by Germania Lodge, No. 100, Odd
Fellows, was announced Monday.
The lodge now occupies q hall across
the street. A new structure will be
erected in two years. The tract was
bought from Simon B. and Bertha
Fox. SAC E. Maple Road Blvd.
Memorial services we're held Sun
day at a joint meeting of knights
Of Pythias, auXiliaries. and Pythian
Sisters in Castle Hall, 230 E. Ohio
st. The Rev. J. A. Long, pastor
of North Park Christian Church,
delivered the address.
DR.. William A. DOeppers, city
hospital superintendent, today an
nounced the psychopathic ward will
be maintained at city hospital
despite the partial withdrawal of
support from the Indianapolis
Foundation. The hospital will
maintain the regular staff and con-
tinue treating insane cases. Twenty
five patients are in the ward.
Enrolment at indianapolis Teach
ers College for the summer is
largest in the last thirty years, ac-
cording to announcement by Mrs.
Alice Corbin Sizes. president. There
are now 625 students enrolled for
the summer course. Four hundred
was the largest enrolment in the
summer of 1926.
Chicago, South Shore. g. South
Bend Railroad today filed petition
with the public service commission
for permission to issue $4,000 in
trust certificates. The revenue is to
be used to purchase equipment, the
petition set forth.
Written and oral examinations of
applicants for the five positions as
probation officers Of the county
Criminal and municipal courts will