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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1916
Page
8
Invitations printed on special stock will be sent to friends after posting. The bride and groom to be may visit to view specimen cards and make selections, with prices stated as very low.
Rev Speicher and Mr and Mrs Dunkelberger were in a Speicher Ford returning from Warsaw to Claypool when Dunkelberger attempted to pass another car and lost control. The vehicle rolled into a ditch. Mrs Dunkelberger suffered a broken arm and Rev Speicher sustained severe bruising. Dunkelberger was unharmed.
A report from the Interstate Commerce Commission shows hours of service in railroading have fallen to a near minimum. Only about one in five hundred enginemen worked over sixteen hours in a day during the year ended June 30 1915, with total excess cases at 61247 down from 157439 in 1914 and 270827 in 1913.
Congress directs the Interstate Commerce Commission to study and report on how railroads are paid for carrying mail. The commission will test payments by weight and by space, aiming to fix fair rates. Railroads claim underpayment and substantial losses under the present system.
The piece argues that if conditions compel the government to regulate rates, it must also regulate wages. Economic analysis supports this move, and once one step is taken, the other follows. The logic of events pressures government to act for the public.
Mrs. William Kemp of Logansport spent last weekend with her daughter Mrs. Ennis Norman at the J. R. Norman home. She was accompanied by three daughters. Ralph Dowell of Hartford City also transacted business in the area on Monday and Tuesday.
Local column notes several visits by residents including Harry Way and Ed Cauffman. Advertisements invite subscriptions to Ladies Home Journal and other magazines. Public notices urge sending the Record to absent friends for a year at one dollar.
Notice is given that on August 19 1916 bids will be received at the trustee office Silver Lake Indiana for driving several school routes in Lake township. Bids accepted until nine o'clock p m that day. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. M Paulus Trustee Lake Tp.
Public notice for sale bids to clean and repair the William S Paxton Ditch in Seward Township Kosciusko County Indiana bids accepted until 2 00 P M August 1 1916 sealed bids to be opened at the Trustee's office at the Trustee's home plans on file at the office and home A J Hill Trustee Seward Township
The plaintiff by John D. Widaman and Bachbach Sloane files a complaint to quiet title on real estate in Kosciusko County Indiana. Unknown defendants include Harmon Hickox Isaac D Bailey Catharine Hutchens Rebecca Rickel Lydia Rickel Michael Rickel Calvin Burt Caroline Burt William Burt Sarah Burt Jacob Hoover and others with unknown spouses heirs and claimants. The action names non residents and seeks resolution of all claims to the property with appearance due by September 18 1916.
Notice to landowners assessed for the George Cook ditch in Chester Wabash and Jackson Kosciusko counties Indiana that a petition was filed August 9 1916 by interested landowners as required by Section 4 of the Act General Assembly concerning maintenance improvement and betterment.
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