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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1903
Page
8
At Monday night session the LaPorte city council decided to pave a number of streets and alleys with brick and macadam. The minority of local details include property, contracts, and a bridge over Roeske's as part of the Pere Marquette line extension.
The corrected weekly Westville Market lists live weight prices for eggs, potatoes, lard, wheat, tallow, bacon, chicken live weight, turkeys live weight, butter creamery, ducks live, clover seed per du, and butter per three pounds, with figures like 312 and 2.200 reflecting price per unit and quantities. Prices shown include various items with per unit rates and notes indicating market openness and standard market entries.
Dispatch notes Judge Jont W Crumpacker recovering from a long illness and hopeful for a full return to activity. The piece also promotes Bucklen Arnica Salve as a universal healer for burns sores bruises cuts boils ulcers eruptions and piles priced at 25 cents by E T Scott druggist.
M. M. Austin of Winchester Indiana helps his wife recover from severe stomach and liver trouble after using Dr King s New Life Pills. The home remedy relieves her symptoms quickly and the pills are sold at KE T Scott s drug store for 25c. The ad claims the tablets superior to pills for gentler relief and natural bowel movement.
Notice that Daniel I L Pompacker is named executor of the last will and testament of M Wood of Laporte Indiana. The document states the appointment occurs at LaPorte on April 1, 1903, and designates the executor in charge.
Washington state farmers have formed crow hunts to reduce crop damage from infesting crows. The article notes agricultural action amid rural efforts and mentions historic golf references to King Edward VII, though the details are fragmented.
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