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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1923
Page
5
An apparent Klan gathering occurred Friday night near the Joshua Leffel field just north of town. Masked guards protected the site as a cross was burned and a dozen or more initiates were said to be brought into the hooded order amid a crowd of onlookers. Officials could not confirm identities of those involved.
Last Saturday a group of stockholders filed for the appointment of a receiver for the R. L. Collings Company, which operates with many officers across the central states. The company president, based in Philadelphia, said the action surprised him and no statement will be issued until the books are reviewed. Local interest is noted, and the outcome is undetermined.
Miss Summe returns home after a week in Marion visiting her father. Mr and Mrs Walter Tridle travel to Indianapolis for a two week visit with relatives. Mrs Fiora Zile from Warsaw visits Earl Zile and family. Catherine Hay visits in Warsaw over Sunday with relatives. Shoes repaired at Kissinger barber shop. Artie Carr and family enjoy Sunday at Culver. Mattie Hardin visits from Blooming ton. Frank Summe visits from Marion to local Summe homes. Harvey cigar selling strongly with dealers claiming leadership. Rev O B Wells from Columbia City stays several days west of town. Charles Stevens and family visit Elmer Laughman. Stevens and Laughman sisters spouses from War saw. Dane Quay and Ed Quay visit Bert Fisher’s east of town. Fort Wayne and Laporte connections noted. Wilford Homman and family from Elkhart visit his father A D Homman. Mr Homman ill for over a week. Frank Dradge and family visit J W Yates home from near Burket. Hol Quay and others join at Yates home. Harvey cigar promoted as good value and widely sold. Raymond McKrill and sisters visit Bara Bee Lake. Irvin Parker ships two carloads of livestock from stock yards. Mrs R M Frye and daughter visit Warsaw. EB Baker visits Warsaw to see Vernon Marsh injured in auto accident. Subscriptions urged to REcord.
A family gathering last Sunday at the Amanda Rhodes home in the east part of town enjoyed a lengthy reunion with twenty five attendees. Participants included Artland Purde and family from Panama New York Mr and Mrs Merland Heller from Fort Wayne James Needham and family Wallace Dillman and family from Roann Clarence Hill and family and the R M Self family from this place.
Retiring Monu ment business veteran H D Pontius sold his Monument Plant to Ralph Erns berger of Mentone. The transfer is effective immediately with Pontius staying on briefly to train his successor before retirement. Pontius has spent about forty five years in the monument trade locally and in Mentone since leaving an earlier partnership with James Decker around 1875 to 1880.
Robert Olinger, infant son of Mr and Mrs Cheater Olinger, three miles south of town, nearly suffocated last week. A doctor diagnosed a severe cold, but on Saturday the mother felt a pin in the babe's mouth and removed it, finding an open safety pin that had scratched his throat.
The Silver Lake ball team will travel to Pierceton on Sunday to face the local team in a scheduled game.
Fairview Ringlets reports Mrs Delphia Hoffman visiting relatives in Warsaw over the weekend. Miss Lucile Regenos returns home from Lafayette after employment there. Wincheater Bradys condition remains steady. Golan and Graden Regenos attended the O E Convention in Syracuse. John L Parker and wife visited Andrew Taylors home on Sunday. Lester Regenos, patient at McDonald Hospital, expects to return home soon. Mrs Mary Parker and children, after visiting relatives here, return home to Niles Michigan.
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