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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
16
Walter Hamman went to Hammond Sunday where he works with the Ried Murdock people Ted. Dillman and family who lived near Sidney moved back to this place last Thursday and now reside with William Dillman. Keep the flag flying over the wheat bin and the sugar bin.
Mrs D F Homman assisted a sick mother and sister in Sidney while herself battling influenza. Residents move in and out including the Secore and Jontz families, J W Iferverda visitors in Wabash, and many town arrivals and farewells. Ships and auctions noted with medical and social updates fill the local page.
Indianapolis firm admitted violating food regulations by taking excessive profits and paid 1000 to the Red Cross after permission. Sugar certificates limited to issue month. holders must use them then. Emma Marsh paid 25 as penalty. Gus Richards paid 15. John S. McDonald oversees Floyd county cases. Households urged to use glass substitutes for tin in canning. salting and drying promoted to meet war needs.
Promoter James Meloy urges trials of Bliss Native Herb Tablets for rheumatism indigestion and kidney derangements. Tablets left for sale at the Record Office in Silver Lake with 200 doses priced at $1.
A wounded officer with seven wound stripes returns to duty after a plaster cast fixes his broken arm. He ignores his father’s plea and insists on continuing the fight. The speech ends with a wartime appeal: nobody ever does enough and urging more bond purchases.
Gus Hill died after a severe cold while at a training camp near Valparaiso. He had returned home on furlough, was hospitalized, and passed away with his father A J Hill at his side. Pallbearers included eight camp boys from Silver Lake and others from Chicago Texas New York and Massachusetts.
Augustus Wilford Hill born October 18 1899 in Seward township died October 11 1918 at Valparaiso at 11:00 am aged 18 years 11 months 24 days He graduated Silver Lake high school class of 1916 North Manchester college earned Bachelor of English He served in World War I entering the Student Officers Training Camp and died after pneumonia contracted while in service He leaves his parents five sisters and three brothers interred in Lake View Cemetery Funeral services were led by Rev T M Hill and Rev Levi Hill from the family home
A. J. Hill and Family thank friends and neighbors for kindness and sympathy shown during the illness death and funeral of their son and brother and for the floral offerings.
Local notice urges placing ads in specified columns with the promise of low cost and proven results. Repeats call to action for readers to start advertising to attract responses.
Col S Burkhardt Jr urges support for the fourth Liberty Loan as a test of democracy. He emphasizes sacrifice at home to fund the war, noting soldiers abroad expect full participation and a strong commitment from every able-bodied person to buy bonds. The appeal ties national resolve to funding efforts against German defenses.
The Kosciusko Circuit Court appoints William H. Kern as executor of the estate of Mahala E Snyder late of Kosciusko County Indiana. The administrator states the estate is solvent. Dated Oct 3 1918. L W Royse, Atty.
John C. Hill 10-3 administrator notes the estate is expected to be solvent by September 28 1918.
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