Elkhart County Obituaries and Local Notices Collected
Northern Indiana items report the death of eight year old Bera Collins at Elkbert and other regional deaths including William Tester aged 70, George Harter 72, Mendon Meade 71, and Mrs. Benjamin Vanator 78. Local notes cover school openings, church calls, railroad work, bonds sold, legal actions, and civic events across Kendallville Bluffton Huntington Wawasee and surrounding towns with numerous brief confirmations of appointments, arrests, and community announcements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bera Collins
Elkbert
Pecatur
William Tester
Bluffton
George Harter
Churubusco
Mendon Meade
Kendallville
James O’niel
Hartford Township
Adams County
G. B
Noble County
Albion
Benjamin Vanator
Warsaw
Co. HB. Cluff
James O. Ball
Deccatur
Lagrange
United States
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Washington Township
Huntington County
Rock Road
D. L. Downey
Lake Shore
Elkhart
Toledo
Syracuse
Reynolds Heater Company
John Stetler
Austin Flinn
Wabash
Indiana
Illinois
Wawasee Protective Association
Wawasee Inn
Kosciusko County
T. & C. Interurban Company
Woman’s Missionary Society of the Evangelical Association
Oakwood Park
Lake Wawases
Roepkin
Dayton
Ohio
Andrew Kramer
Indianapolis
Miss Speicher
St Joseph's church to be remodeled at La Porte
News and Gossip item lists local happenings including a $10,000 remodeling for St Joseph's Catholic church at La Porte, new management at Angola Wire Mattress, a fatal crane accident in Plymouth, a gas plant startup, a late 19th century class reunion near Montmorency, and various deaths and civic notes across northern Indiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
Laporte
Angola Wire Mattress Company
M. A. Hansen
Garrett
George W. Kichler
Churubusco
Ila Orndorf
Angola
Plymouth
C. H. Geist
South Bend
Decatur
Monmouth
Harry Lang
Syracuse
Elsie Jones
Monroeville
Kendallville
Matthew Lynn
Wabash County
Bolivar
Lagro
C. G. Powers
Redkey
Keystone Schools
C. E. Haegler
Ossian Schools
Monarch Iron Works
Edward Zumbaugh
Clara Baumgartner
Toledo
C. A. Reeve
Roy L. Lingrey
Laketon
North Manchester
St. Joseph County
Perry Mumaw
John Zerland
Flint & Walling
William Korporal
van Buren
Albion
Marie Cook
Multiple Indiana town notices and accidents reported
A long list of incidents and local notes from Indiana towns includes deaths from illness and accidents, injuries from machinery and fires, foreboding legal actions, reorganizations of companies, and community events from Fort Wayne to Huntington. Names include Valparaiso Albion Auburn Decatur Goshen Warsaw Elkhart Mishawaka Columbia City and more with details on unions schools rail lines and local authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Gownn
Auburn
Lucinda Owen
Kendallville
Amos Miller
Churubusco
Philip Erlenbaugh
Huntington
Frank
Orin Fogle
Gandy
Rev. &. Gump
Bluffton
Fort Wayne
Ossian
Levi Jarrett
Warsaw
Thomas H. Andrews
Adams County
Decatur
Boundary Line Church
Wabash
Wabash County
R. C. Roal
Albion
North Manchester
Cc. C. Weingart
Harry D. Bodenhafer
W.S. Osborne
Alexander
Larwill
S. W. Byall and
Baker & Reader
Charles H. Moore
Columbia City
Fire Damages Alarmed Buildings Amid Incendiary Suspicions
Fire scorched elevators and the Methodist church among other structures but units were saved. D A Shoemaker sues Huntington to collect a 1889 judgment of 1040 against Joseph Engelman for personal injury from a past altercation during a house build, alleging Engelman struck him with a maul after drinking hard cider. The blow fractured a leg and nearly killed him, leading to the judgment and accruing interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. A. Shoemaker
Huntington
Joseph Engelman
Engelman Place
Engelman
Plan weed cutting device for lake at Rome City
Cottages at Rome City held a meeting in the island auditorium with E H McDonald presiding to discuss clearing lake weeds. Experts from Washington said chemicals won t fill the weeds. a flat boat with cutter bar and gas engine was proposed to cut weeds beneath the surface. Lot owners to pay 5 each and the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad may donate. Weeds grow mainly from seeds, so cutting two to three times a season could rid Sylvan lake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome City
Island Auditorium
E. H. McDonald
Agricultural Department
Washington
W. S. Sponhauer
Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad
Record Interurban Run Sets Fast Auburn Fort Wayne Time
Three traveling men, unnamed, sought a $250000 deal and chartered a special car. They required arrival before 6 pm and paid $32.50 for the run. The car delivered passengers in forty eight minutes, a record pace for the Auburn Fort Wayne interurban line, with fare about 10.83 per passenger. The strangers praised the service and promptness in completing their business ahead of time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Auburn Courier
For Wayne
Knapp
Fort Wayne
Auburn
Here
Golden Thoughts For The Week Card Carousel
Weekly inspirational notes outline daily maxims on letting go learning action wisdom and self reflection. The passages advocate balance between desires and needs and urge thought before deeds as guidance for personal growth.
Threatens To Leave Wife Over Molders Strike
August Rutt told Mayor Hosey he would abandon his wife and let the city care for her after saying he came to work at the Bass foundry during the moulders strike but had not been given work as promised. The mayor replied the city would not support him or his wife and that he could find work if he tried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Rutt
Bass Foundry
Hosey
Reunion at New Haven veterans to hold joint meeting
Surviving veterans of the 88th and 142nd Indiana regiments plan a reunion at New Haven on August 29. Nickel Plate and Wabash railroads will run hourly trains from the city for the event. Memorial services are set for the afternoon, followed by a joint campfire. Captain Scott Swann leads the day as president, with Colonel M M Thompson as secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Hover
Clay Township
Lagrange County
Wells
Keystone
Simonson
Old Fifth Indiana Battery
Columbia City
Doty
Milford
Kosciusko County
Grant County
Octogenarian Club
Soldiers’ Home
Marion
James A. Taylor
Elkhart
Barden
Ralph
Charles Whitney
Larwill
Simpson
Myrtle Walters
Churubusco
Garrett
Q. Briggs
A. S. Nowels
Otto E. Grant
Mack Weber
Albion
George Middleton
North Webster
Ben Johnson
Middleton
Decatur
Portland
Holthouse
Lorin Berry
Lucille Jane Kneipple
St. Joe
Mich
Berry
James H. Johnson & Sons
James E. Watson
Charles S. Bush
Fort Wayne
Lakeside Park
Mt. Pisgah
James 9. Dodge
Garnard
Stroh Band
Stroh Quartet
I. Residendien
Ohio Street
Elyria
Lake Shore
Reichendhen
DeKalb County
Auburn
A. J. Ralston
J. Howard Wagner
O. H. Widney
Sol Barney
J. A. Provines
Spencerville
G. F. DeLong
B. F. Blair
Newville
Michael Long
L. J. Diehl
Sol Casebeer
Jacob Chrisoffel
Butler
O. P. Leonard
Hamilton
Ab Kelley
Frank Willis
Waterloo
Milo J. Thomas
J. H. Knauer
Corunna
W. H. Jane
Sedan
John Bell
John Hathaway
Garett
Ed Jolly
van Wert
Sam Jolly
Sam
Fayette ‘County
Ohio
Ignatius Myers
Avilla
Mary B. Aldrich
F.J., Aldrich
Lagrange
Benjamin Dygert
York Township
Steuben’ County
Angola
Newton Compton
South Whitley
Milton C. Parker
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Churebusco
A. L. Tilman
Wabash
City of
Ollie Long
Paris Green
A. J. Isbacher
Kendallville
South Bend
Whitley County
Lickey’s Grove
A. H. Woodworth
Whitley County Fish and Game Protective Association
Tri-Lakes
Sweeney
Conrad Neale
Anderson
Winona Lake
Neah
Neab
Winona
Martin Gackenheimer
James Smith
Howard
Manchester
Andrews
Chautauqua Park
Harry L. Hawks
St. Joseph
Harold J. Shasberger
DeKalb
Physicians’ Protective Association of
J. B. Casebeer
C. S. Stewart
J. C. Baxter
Butle
Ashley
Concord
Koontz
Roanoke
Coesse
Whitley County Court House
Old Settlers
Kil-so-quabh
Coesge
Kil-so-quah
Eighty Eighth
One Hundred and Forty-second
Indiana
New Haven
Nickel Plate
Eighty-eighth
Scott Swann
Col
M. M. Thompson
Fort Wayne Veterans to Attend National Convention
A group of prominent Fort Wayne members of the Sons of Veterans plan to attend the national convention to be held in Dayton from August 19 to 22. Included in the local delegation are Col. T. W. Braig Capt. W. F. Geller H. D. Miller and Ed C. Close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Wayne
Sons of Veterans
Dayton
Col
T. W. Braig
H. D. Miller
Ed. C. Close
Also Mentioned on This Page
Northern
Henry Outkelt
Johu Outkelt
Rollin Ellison
Colorado
Ellison
Hillison
Walkerton
Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company
Murdock Syndicate
Godfrey Shearer
C. F. Boyd
Markle
Markie
Jacob Weigle
Weigle
Come Outers
T. F. Scollard
John Stoneburner
Gottlieb Smetziey
A. D. Crowe
D. Marion Swinehart
Mishawaka
Civic League
Harold Luckey
J. E. Lucky
Wolf Lake
Lake Wawasee
Advance
Scott Baker
U. S.A
West Point Military Academy
Fort Russell
Wyo
Norman N. Lanz
Topeka
G. W. Lackey
Co-Operative
Dean Cochran
Ligonier
Judson Menges
Pleasant Lake
Leas
Jacob H. Leas
Hudson
John Leas, Jr
Steuben County
Thomas Daniels
Daniels
Flint & Walling Factory
Delma Edwards
Tat
Walter Penfield
William L. Penfield
Washington, D. C
Georgian Hospital
Goshen
Joseph Green
Ezrail Beard
Edward Becker
Huntington Rubber Co
Kenton
Bingham
Attorney General’s Office
Old Kentucky
Wikhart
Walker Wills
Wills
Roswell O. Johnson
C. C. Brawand
Monroe
Catherine Worman
S. A. Worman
Bethlehem Cemetery
George R. Harrison
Twenty-fifth
Colored) Infantry
Philippines
Caroline Wade
Charles Wade
Free Methodist Church
Obediah Wade
Thorncreek Township
Charles Elmore
Irving Long
Isaac Halderman
Halderman
Thomas A. Arnold
Mr. Arnold
Fred Murdick
Samuel G. Allison
Mary Allison
Parker
Detroit
George Hepler
Leesburg
Dora Hepler
Grace Hospital
Miss Hepler
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Everett Rindfuz
S. W. Byall
Otis’ Brunner
Brunner
George Ream
Tim
Fort Wayne Sons of Veterans
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