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Newspaper
Silver Lake Record
Location
Silver Lake, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
4
Community column urges residents to report visits and visitors for accurate local records. Residents are invited to telephone the newsroom with names dates and details to improve public notices and stop misinformation.
Mrs. 8 F Mericll visits Elkhart with Hazel Bloom family. Raymond and Marijorie accompany. Tipton county apple crop noted as small during visits from R M Tucker near Tipton to Richard Davis home. Various trips include Mr and Mrs Boyer near Perriston, George Ayres family in LaFayette, Rev O B Wells with Lake Ton, and Mrs Carrie Hunt from Kokomo to see Charles Snyder. Notary services offered at Record office. health notes: Mrs W W Hamman critically ill, Mary Meek improving, Mrs M D Yotter improving, Allie Fowler employed in Warsaw. Joel Arnold and wife visit Claypool family.
The bimi, a lowly wood collector who makes kindling from demolished buildings, returns amid growing construction. With no capital or tools, bimies smash wood with paving stones to sell bundles for 10 cents in the past, now 20 cents postwar. Hundreds are seen in vacant lots, supplying a ready market for their wares.
Dr. C F E Van Orstrand of the United States Geological Survey reports inconclusive temperature evidence from 107 deep wells. He says the gradual rise in heat may slow just beyond one mile, challenging estimates that Earth's center reaches 180000 degrees Fahrenheit. Further investigation is needed.
An elephant at the London Zoological Garden balked at using new riding steps and would not leave her pen. After attempts to coax her, a mahout from India arrived, calmed her with familiar language, and guided her with a rope around her neck. The elephant had been gifted by the Maharajah of Cooch Behar.
A memorial garden to honor 63 Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille who died in World War I is planned in France near Verdun. Each flyer will receive a place, with remains moved or names inscribed if no exhumation is possible. The garden, designed by French chief architect M. Alexandre Marcel, eschews a traditional shaft for a unique layout.
The British safeguard act described as a war baby by a Canadian official drew protest from a British MP who called it a foundling. The British Board of Trade may levy duties of 33 1 8 percent on imports to shield industry, now applied to fabric gloves glassware for table use glassware for lighting and aluminum and enameled cooking utensils.
In Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and the Caucasus Russia region, boxes of American grits pass as currency. About 120000 laborers work on roads farming and sanitation for two and a half pounds of grits weekly, deemed more valuable than a basket of rubles.
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