Nail on the Head Tools for Business and Ham
A fragment notes a request for tools for business use or a ham for use around the home. The text is incomplete with no clear event, date, or proper nouns to identify.
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Newspaper
Hobart News
Location
Hobart, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1910
Page
1
A fragment notes a request for tools for business use or a ham for use around the home. The text is incomplete with no clear event, date, or proper nouns to identify.
The Valparaiso Chautauqua Association opens its fifth annual program at University Park with a full week of lectures concerts and plays. Notable participants include Prof Arthur MacMurray Gov Herbert S Hadley and Mrs Leonora M Lake, with performances by The Strollers Lipskis Hungarian Orchestra and The Strollers Quartet.
Hobart residents note visits from Mrs. Wm Biederman Eddie Sauter and Harry Parker plus Mrs Geo Roper returning from South Bend Miss Ruth Nitchman from Chicago and others. A German band played for a Lutheran picnic and dance events draw crowds at Odd Fellows hall and local venues. Henry Walters Merrillville and John Schnabel are among regulars in town as fishing trips and boat house construction appear. The town eyes a July Fourth celebration with Hon John B Peterson slated as orator and Hobart mourns drowning victims while public notices of municipal power and local business shifts appear.
A public dance will be held Saturday evening July 2 at Odd Fellows hall Hobart with music by Sterling's orchestra. Tickets cost 75 cents for gentlemen or unaccompanied ladies pay 15 cents.
Kelly's Seed Store showcases best grades including buckwheat and timothy as Miller and Kelly's catalog notes seed quality and supply.
At a stockholders meeting in Chicago on Monday Makutchan Roller Bearing elected W. H. Makutchan as president E. F. Coulur as vice president and directors R. W. Makutchan J. E. Shafer and W. J. Schroeder. The new officers visited Hobart on Wednesday to review plant progress and conferred with News press hour about incorporating under Indiana law.
Manager Henderson promises a strong line-up for two upcoming baseball games. Sunday Hobart Grays meet Chicago Ripmores and Monday the local team takes on the Independents. Fans can expect two solid contests.
The Burns ditch hearing faces another delay and will not reconvene until late September or early October. A review of benefits and damages was conducted. Ditch forces produced strong witnesses and the assessment roll examination boosted prospects of a win.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad proposes more than five million dollars in improvements and a complete route change in the west end of Lake county. Car shops are expected to move to Miller as part of the project.
The adjourned town board meeting reviewed bids for installing new boilers at the power plant. Brownell Co of Dayton offered 6 089 dollars and Erie Iron Works of Erie Pa 6 250 dollars. Action on the boiler bid was postponed to the next meeting. Alexander and Gerber won the contract to run a new tile connection to Duck Creek.
Hobart makes progress on the new school with plumbing sewerage and drainage contracts awarded to P. E. Kalles of Hobart and other low bidders. The board delayed blackboards and wiring awards pending price checks. The Lake County fair premium list for 1910 is near ready, listing 125 pages.
Martin Swanson of the whip factory entertains Charles Sauppe Wm A Giesecke Albert E Sass George H Glaeser and Albert F Wittman all of Chicago. The party traveled by auto Sunday enjoyed fishing and boating with plans to visit Twin Lakes Wis next Saturday and Glidden Wisconsin for a two week vacation starting August 15.
News editor encounters M. H. Smith near Banks' schoolhouse in Hobart. They worked together in Hartford Fire Insurance in Chicago four to five years ago. Smith now runs a small farm and pursues an insurance business in Chicago in spare time.
Indiana counties will administer their own high school entrance exams instead of a single state wide test. The change aims to address disparities in courses and texts across counties and standardize reading material by selecting nine state standard books for all schools.
Rudolph D. Raymond of Valparaiso known as Duffy a pugilist elocutionist actor and amateur plays promoter has announced he will become an evangelist after twenty seven years of wild oats. He plans to dedicate himself to preaching and aiding the salvation of his fallen brethren.
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