Local notices and ads from Laporte area recount town visits and sales
Billy Bell and Orph Crumpacker from nearby towns visited yesterday. F P Herrold's offers Wheel Spring Drag and Corn Cultivators. Setting hens and turkey eggs advertised. C G Powell visiting, possibly enlisting. Hess heads to Indianapolis for Eastern Stars session. Clinton Twp schools host May 13 picnic at Phillips Grove Haskells. New Durham schools close tomorrow with monster picnic at Pinhook. Walkerton bank reportedly failing. former cashier left bags behind. Universal Ointment endorsed by J G Cesterman of Louisville for sale by E T Scott. L Cutter and J Wilk from Laporte say Co L reorganizing. Chicago regiments recruited. Miss Phila McClure and Samuel McAuliffe to wed in Chicago. James Mullaney to join wife in Chicago, securing temporary freedom. Knights of the Maccabees dispensation makes the order liable for deaths in service. C C Polk of Valparaiso cites Last Resort curing consumptives, sold by E T Scott. Sunday marks 60 years in county for Uncle George L Thompson, who arrived from Virginia in 1838 with Isiah. He witnessed county growth and helped shape local progress.
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Clinton Township
Phillips Grove
Haskells
New Durham
Walkerton Bank
Bird Thompson
Phila McClure
Galatia Mo
Samuel McAuliffe
Otis
Chicago
Miss McClure
Westville
Charley McClure
James Mullaney
Liberty
Mullaney
Knights of the Maccabees
Markey
United States
C. C. Polk
Valparaiso
Ind
Harry
E. T. Scott
George L. Thompson
Virginia
Isiah
Laporte
Hanna
Town election awaited next Monday in Westville
A busy notice board from Valparaiso and Westville records activity including a town election next Monday, patronage hints, social and church events, and local business notices. Betsy Collins receives widow’s pension. Charley Faulkner prepares to join the Indianapolis artillery. a bull attack on August Koenitz is survived with minor injuries.
Excursion Tickets Offered by Chicago Milwaukee & St Paul Rail
On the first and third Tuesdays in May and June 1898 the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway will sell round trip excursion tickets good for 21 days to many points in South and North Dakota and other western states at nearly one fare for the round trip. Visit and learn the vast land deals available for little money. Further rates routes and land prices available from coupon ticket agents or Robt C Jones Traveling Passenger Agent 40 Carew Bldg Cincinnati Ohio.
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Chicago Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
North Dakota
Robt. C. Jones
Carew Bldg
Cincinnati
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Promises Clean Blood
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a cosmetic aid and laxative. It claims cleansing the blood and liver removes pimples boils blotches blackheads and a sickly complexion. Available from druggists with satisfaction guaranteed in 10 25 or 50 cents.
Salvation Oil touted as timely remedy for rheumatism
An Ashland Virginia reader, Jno M Hall, praises Salvation Oil as a timely friend that rapidly relieves rheumatism and neuralgia when other remedies fail, noting relief of ankle and surrounding muscles.
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Salvation Oil
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J. C. Matotte
Oberreich & Arnold
Jewelers
Indiana
Jessup & Rehm
Westville Meat Market
Mselz
Selz
Ansley
Burcky & Milan
Ladies
South Clark Street
Lake Erie
New Dunham
Levi
Wolfe
Linton
P. R. Iseminger
Alida
Tee
Dr. Miles
J. B. Green
Billy Bell
F. P. Herrold’s
Orph Crumpacker
McKellips
C. G. Powell
C. D. Hess
Indianapolis
Grand Lodge of the Eastern Stars
J. G. Cesterman
Louisville
F. L. Cuttler
John Wilk
Scott
Goc
Elvin Link
J. N. Schwarts
Walkerton
Joseph Dolman
W.c.cole
Lacrosse
Clarence Geist
Blue Island
Miss Cannes
Valparaiso Normal
Lewis
Wm. Wilson
Wanatah
Edith Harris
Elkhart
Rev. Stockbarger
Odd Fellows
Ross & Bannister’s
Albert Heiden
Chesterton
Charles
Betsy A. Collins
Pat. Donahue
Sioux Rapids
Iowa
Minnie Bloomhuff
C. H. Geist
Monroe St
Hood
Mattie Gardner
Grand Lodge of Eastern Stars
Franklin St
Michigan City
P. Herrold
J. H. Willis
Perry
M. A. Webster
Charley Faulkner
Artillery
Charley
Jack Burke
Lew Keller
South Bend
W. O. Ethridge
Whiting
John Herrold
Ethridge
Homer Ansley
J. H. Schlund
Sawyer
L. Bloomhuff
Porter
Clara Warnka
Alice Bloomhuff
Robert Dunlap
Alfred Irwin
Oakland
Cal
Irwin
Rensselaer
Mr. Dunlap
Co. A
Indian Infantry
Charley Henton
California
Seth Way
Door Village
Ben. Meyers
Buffalo
Eliza Henton
M. Alice
Main Street
Beaver Dam
A. Miner
Boyle
Epworth Reading Circle
Clark
Ryan’s Livery
Newman
Nickel Plate Depot
Carson
Epworth League
M. E. Church
Odd Fellowship
Charity Lodge D. of R
Rebekahs
Union Mills
Rebekah
August Koenitz
Koenitz
Henry Fritz
Mr. Koenitz
Homeseekers Excursion
Beauty
Nature’s Soap
Ratilock
Feallock
China
Japan
Portieres
Nottingham
Brussels
Davidson & Porter
New Marke
Ralph Hixon
Serge Sullings
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