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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1919
Page
2
The Indicator reports strong local readership and notes the publisher claims a wide county reach. Announcements include residents visiting relatives, sailors returning from overseas, and families moving residences and attending gatherings around Westville Indiana and nearby towns.
Miss Adele Huckins slowly recovers from illness. Mr. and Mrs. Kirby move to Pine Lake with Kirby taking charge of the Pine Lake cemetery. Mrs. Bess Rambo Lyle of Montana visits with Aunt Mrs. FE H Kimball on a North Carolina trip. Keith Tesoard recently returned from camp visits D J Keith. Edith McLellan of Chicago training school spends weekend with Mr. and Mrs. E T McLellan. Mrs. Julia Kimball and BE WW Kimball attend Edwin Markham lecture in Laporte. Four Laporte girls Maury Elizabeth Jack Mary Elizabeth Travis Jane Millie Tallant bicycle visit Marian Egbert.
Burdick notes John Knilola and family move to Michigan City while new Chicago owners take possession. Several households host visitors from Gary and Elkhart, with outings to Chicago. A correction: a mare ages four years, not fifteen.
The senior class bought a forty foot steel flag pole for sixty one dollars funded by lyceum earnings. Parents Teachers Association met Tuesday afternoon at the school house to discuss needed improvements. Monday night a men’s meeting is planned at the library. Art classes are making posters for a gymnasium project to be funded next year.
P O Small of Laporte who chairs the Republican county central committee has been appointed a deputy soil inspector by Marion Caldwell head of the state inspector department. Small will cover Union Mills Laporte Hebron LaCrosse New Carlisle Pinola Michigan City and Porter with a term until October 1 when the unit merges with the state food and drug department.
Immigrant women in the United States receive English lessons and social support from the YWCA. An International Institute trains workers to aid foreign mothers, translating bulletins into many languages and supplying interpreters at factories. Hostess houses provide home comforts near camps and trains, with 92 houses aiding soldiers and families, while anti exploitation measures and public morale efforts accompany wartime relief.
A long low frame building with wide verandas presents a homelike camp scene. Flags hang outside, including Stars and Stripes and a blue triangle Y W C A, as sunset nears on a crisp fall afternoon. Through front windows the scene unfolds.
A thrift message urges buyers to purchase War Savings Stamps and hold them as a duty. It stresses saving money now to support the war effort and insists that ownership alone is not enough. Citizens are urged to retain the securities until maturity and contribute to the nation.
Isaac Iseminger and wife of Wheeler visit his mother here. Miss Martha Davidson visits in Laporte. Mrs. Mary Jerome returns from Detroit. Pinhook M E church serves chicken supper tomorrow evening for 35 cents. Warren L Myers wife and daughter die in Nickle Plate crossing crash near Wheeler while returning from Hobart.
Attorney Earl Rowley and L H Wright outline a state highway scheme to bisect Laporte county with two wide roads from South Bend to Valparaiso and from Michigan City to Knox. The plan ties roads to county seats and towns over 5000 population, with limited annual funds. Local chambers push for fair Laporte funding in the budget.
United States Senator Harry S. New of Indiana declares he will never vote for a league covenant that surrenders U S rights to decide on war immigration commerce expenditures and defense. He says no surrender of U S sovereignty is acceptable.
Word reached Michigan City that Joseph Allie’s father mother and sister died of influenza in Syria. His son serves with American forces in France and the bereavement was conveyed to him. Miss Lucile Hixon, a science teacher in Sturgis High School, is visiting her parents at 11 Woodland Avenue.
Lloyd Herrold, once an instructor of bookkeeping at the local high school and recently honorably discharged from military service, departed today for Madison Wisconsin to enroll in the university there.
Washington D C. Commissioner Daniel C Roper assures that income tax returns are protected by abatements refunds and appeals. Every taxpayer is guaranteed a square deal with no one paying more than their share based on net income for 1918. Abatement petitions are handled openly and refunds issued when tax is erroneously collected. The Income Tax is on the level throughout.
Lemuel Allen 73 of 12 East Broadway South Bend died Monday at his daughter Mrs KE Sherman’s home after nine weeks illness. Survived by wife Alice two daughters Mrs George Myers and Mrs I A Sherman son Walter sister Miss Fannie Allen Laporte three grandchildren. Born in Virginia came to South Bend 32 years ago from Laporte a Civil War veteran member of West No 3 Allen G A R. Funeral Wednesday 1 30 p m at Mrs Sherman’s 1217 Haney avenue Rev B D Beck officiating burial Pine Slake La Porte. Ave visitor Westville friend of Cathcart.
Chris J. Bielefeldt clerk of the LaPorte Circuit Court records a formal notice from the State of Indiana in LaPorte County. The filing confirms registry actions and official court clerical postings.
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