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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1918
Page
4
Clarence Hamman is asked about a silo or rental housing location in the northwest part of Silver Lake. The inquiry seeks specifics on property use, availability, and ownership details.
Chester Bashore and Ebert Ferree from Chicago visited the A Metzger home area this week. Misses Freda Tucker and Eunice Martindale also returned from Chicago. Seed corn for sale at the elevator with 90 percent germination. Several measles and chickenpox cases reported in town.
Names and addresses of Silver Lake residents serving in the U S Army are published. Entries include Guy H Aker Ernest Arnold at 122nd Squadron Camp Vail New Jersey and several others stationed at Camp Meade Camp Shelby Camp Taylor Great Lakes and Washington D C with unit details and care of addresses.
Kystacy Russel and Miss Valera Self from Chicago visited with their party here on weekend. Artie Rhodes went to South Bend last Saturday for employment. Abe Johnson sent an apple to the office, stored in the orchard all winter. Joseph Anderson of Logansport visited his sister Mrs Emanuel Leckrone. Mrs Alfreta Taylor and family came from Warsaw to visit Sunday. Mrs Lottie Breremann was in Warsaw Tuesday on business. Miss Marjorie Meckrill has chickenpox and is improving. Mr and Mrs H B Jones visited Mentone to see Mildred Jones who is quite ill.
Dr Harry E Barnard federal food administrator for Indiana reports corrections to the servicemen list with addresses. He discusses fair price committees and ice pricing, college women organizing for food program, cash and carry grocers in Lawrenceburg and Aurora, and wheat flour donations from West Baden Springs Hotel. The piece covers flour relief, Bring-in-the-Wheat week, storage reporting, and sugar rationing policies for manufacturers and households.
Mrs J W Walburn travels to Indianapolis for a several day visit with sister Mrs Willis Maples and family. Mr and Mrs William Secore visited Myers home. Mrs Salema Myers, aged, keeps to household duties amid age. Home Missionary Society met at Mrs Sarah Wisner's home this Thursday afternoon. Oliver typewriter ribbons and old papers offered at the Record office.
A brief ad notes that Silver Lake residents should use buckthorn bark and glycerine mixed in Adler-i-ka to flush the bowel and supposedly prevent appendicitis. It claims one spoonful relieves sour stomach gas or constipation by removing foul matter, with dubious medical authority cited as J J Norman and others.
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