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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1916
Page
10
Notice is hereby given that on the 22nd day of July 1916 and from day to day until sold sealed bids will be received at the Trustee's office in Silver Lake Indiana for road grading work.
W B Kissinger and family spent Sunday evening at the T S Keller home southeast of town where a large quantity of ice cream was served. Vint Taylor and family from North Manchester visited Mrs Taylor's parents Mr and Mrs T C Johnson on Sunday.
Mrs. Princess Cook of Warsaw visits at the L. W. Myers home. Rev. O B Wells of Fulton calls on friends. Evard Maggert and families dine with A J Scott west of town. Subscriptions urged for magazines at the Record office. Will Smith visits Marion. Jontz and Yetter with two Misses motor to Kendallville. Harold Meek takes temporary job in Akron Ohio. Tornado insurance urged as prophesied storms approach. Fern Morris of Menomina visits. Mrs. Albert Able of Washington DC guests at Undertill home. Aland Ramsey visits Rose Hill. Atwood Elder of Claypool visits. Old papers available at Record office. Fern Gall goes to North Manchester. Magazines and newspapers subscriptions urged at the Record office.
Invitations printed at the Record Office in Silver Lake have not yet been sent. The bride to be or groom to be are invited to visit and view specimen cards to make a selection while prices are stated as very low.
The Silver Lake Indiana board authorizes building a sidewalk along Walnut Street south side passing lots 17 to 20 with costs assessed to abutting real estate under municipal law. Owners may build to town grade per standard sidewalk resolution if completed by August 4 1916. W F Helser president Urias B Oline Emery Shuaitt trustees
The board of trustees of Silver Lake Indiana invites sealed bids for best grade sewer tile in sizes 20 inch 18 inch and 16 inch. Bids due by 6 p m July 21 1916. W F Helser president J D L Oline clerk.
Silver Lake residents praise Adler-i-Ba a laxative blend of buckthorn bark glycerine and other ingredients. One spoonful relieves constipation sour stomach and gas while a few doses may ease appendicitis or chronic stomach trouble according to J R Norman druggist.
The board of trustees of Silver Lake Indiana will open bids at 7 p m August 4 1916 for underground drainage along about 2200 feet of Main Street to be completed per town plans. Bidders must file by 6 p m and include a certified check equal to at least two percent of the bid. checks forfeited if a contract is not signed and a bond posted.
The board of trustees resolves to grant the owners of real estate along Elm Street and Wella Street a proposed sidewalk along the west side and north to meet the walk, under the municipal corporation acts. The action covers Lots 5 and 6 in Rager and Hammon's addition and aligns with sidewalk construction under existing laws.
A resolution notes the need to lay out and plat part of the town to install sidewalks where needed. The land to be platted is owned or occupied by F D Hayman William Colbert Charles Hammon and Ezra Hamman. Costs will be assessed on the platted real estate per the General Assembly Acts.
The board approves construction of a sidewalk along the north side passing Lots 57 and 58 in Paulus addition. The action complies with municipal corporations laws and sidewalk standards, to be completed on or before August 4, 1916, with officers W F Helser Urias B Oline and Emery Shuit presiding.
The board of trustees invites bids for building street and alley crossings designated in the improvement resolution A through E. Sidewalks must be four feet wide six inches thick, slushed, with Portland cement surface on a four to one base, plus eighteen inch continuous approaches. Main traveled portions will use heavy bricks set in cement at twenty foot intervals.
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