Local notes on campaigns and business in Indiana county
Notices detail formation of Republican youth groups and rough riders for parades, a Westville meeting on Aug 16, and plans for future organization. Also includes ads for Scotts coffee and Davidson Porters, coal shipments, clothing sales, farm equipment, wind mills, a typhoid case, a court sanity exam, railroad passenger counts, Boer War news, and community miscel any updates from Wellsboro, Wanatah, Winamac, and Laporte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rough Riders
P. Q. Doran
Westville
Local Notices and Ads Span multiple Indiana subjects
An amalgam of notices, ads, and brief items from Indiana sources. Items reference Agnew and Kelly Attorneys, Westville and Valparaiso addresses, farm equipment from H F Draves, Deering corn binders, Monon railroad excursions, prison payrolls, local fires in Portage township, a Lake Shore freight fatality, Wabash sand and gravel pits, and various medicinal and consumer goods marketed in 1900.
Local notes include visits, sales and school plans
In town visits come from Wm Wilson Wanatah and Irving D Clark Gloversville NY. Mrs Mina Lloyd and Miss Dell Snyder return from Chicago. Rev Stockbarger heads to Battle Ground board session. Local merchants promote hats coal and fall sales at Davison Porter Scott and others. The Laird school reunion seeks basket donations and extra copies of the paper. A swindler selling pet gur rights is reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mina Lloyd
Chicago
Davison & Porter's
Mabel Young
Susie McAlpin
A. W. Fehrman
Andrew Young
S. P. Shinabarger
Robert Sheeler Campbell
Christian Church
Hedrick
Town
E. T. Scott
Laird
Barnard Family Reunion Set for August 27 1900
The Eleven Branches of the House of William Barnard will hold their annual meeting at Maple Arbor on Nelson Barnard’s farm west of this place eleven days hence. The program includes papers songs and music with grove refreshments. Last meeting totaled 122 members with six deaths and 116 living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple Arbor
Nelson Barnard
Barnard
House of
William Barnard
Obituary of Mary Margaret Ruddles
Mary Margaret Ruddles died aged 75 years seven months and seven days. She was sister to M. W. Robertson of this place and had lived with relatives in Charleston Indiana and Frankfort Indiana before settling with her sister here. She suffered a fall last March and could not walk. Funeral was held at the house and Rev. Stockbarger officiated. Burial was in Weatville cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellsboro
Ind
Ollie Peterson
David Condon
Laporte
Wanatah
Winamac
Manitoba
Pulaski County
Mary Margaret Ruddles
M. W. Robertson
Rebecca Harbison
Charleston
B. Ruddles
Frankfort
Lost mare seeks owner near Westville
Taken up. A black mare weighing between 1200 and 1300 pounds arrived at a west area location Tuesday morning with a halter. Owner must claim the property and pay advertising and trouble. contact Frank Smith one mile east of Westville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Smith
Westville
Barbers Union Sets Fixed Prices in Westville
Westville barbers sign an agreement listing services and charges. Hair cut 25 cents shave 10 cents children’s cut 25 cents sea foam 10 cents whiskers trimmed 10 cents shampoo 25 cents tonic 5 cents razor honed 3 cents. A five dollar penalty applies for violations to fund a charitable purpose. Signed by E H Tnexs, H Stewart, WAM Williams.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westville
Rural inspector proposes new Laporte mail routes
Alfred Hammer announces two routes from Laporte to open within a month. Four post offices will close: Condonville Dewey Door Village Hesston and Hatch's Mills. Carriers Abe Mandeville and John H Marr will operate. steel mail boxes cost seventy five cents each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred Hammer
Laporte
Condonville
Dewey
Door Village
Hesston
Hatch’s Mills
Abe Mandeville
John H. Marr
Mr. Hammer
Michigan City
Bryson School House
Squatham
Westville-Michigan City Road
Kiesel’s Corners
Chas. Baird’s Corner
Joliet Road
Laporte Teachers Institute Session Planned in August
County Superintendent Zeigler releases the program for the Laporte county teachers institute beginning August 20 for four days in Laporte. Instructors include Sherman Davis of the Chemical Institute University of Indiana M O Shea of the University of Wisconsin and Carrie B Adams of Indiana State normal school. Nickel Plate offers a one cent per mile rate to Chicago for G A R encampment with tickets sale August 25 to 29 return by August 31 or deposit to September 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zeigler
Laporte County
Teachers’ Institute
Laporte
Sherman Davis
Chemical Institute
University of Indiana
M. O'Shea
University of Wisconsin
Carrie B. Adams
Indiana State Normal School
G A R encampment ticket sale announced for Chicago trip
The Nick el.Plate road offers tickets to Chicago for the 34th annual G A R encampment from August 25 to 29 at one cent a mile with return by August 31 or deposit until September 30. Contact nearest agent or C A Asterlin of Fort Wayne Indiana for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
G. A.R
Inc
C. A. Asterlin
Ft. Wayne
Ind
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Nia
Obehreich
Athe Jir
Ivelers
Indiana
Oberreich & Arnold
Main Street
Indiana AV
Laporte, Indiana
Mauds
STEEL
E. E. Nichols
E. S, Smith
Souse Tba
Republiccans
Bargins
Scotts
Davidson & Porter's
H. F. Draves
E. E. Nicholson
Sabinski
Holmesville
Maggie Bruner
Charles A Nichols
C. B. Ruddles
Frankfort, Ind
Low
Bert Topper
San Culbertson
Wm. Trost
Wm. Warnock
John Herrold
Montana
John Livingston
Chart
John
Aerometer Works
Charley Kalies
Allis
Valpardiso
Wm. Shreeves
Bessie
Boon Grove
Indianapolis
Chas. Freeman
Charles
Major Davidson
Washington
Repaira
J. H. Doak
Williams
Oregon
Chamberlain
Scott's
Kalies
Agnew & Kelly Attorneys - AT - Law
First National Bank
Valparaiso
Japan
Wm. Gust
Niagara Falls
Odd Fellows Black Drug Store
Toronto
Ont
Alexandria Bay
N. Y
Monon
W. H. Whittaker
Indiana State Prison
Mort Atcheson
Acheson
Scott’s Drug Store
John Rich
Portage Township
Lapore
M. C. Herbert
Lake Shore
Herbert
Air Line Junction
Ohio
Wolcottville
Calumet
Deming
Mony
Pote
Beecher
Carrie ‘Eeman
Phineas’. Freeman
Mme,‘Beech
Or, JR. Pagin
Wm. Wilson
Dell Snyder
Mrs
Peter Snyder
Miss Pearl Moore
A Jerome
Milton Lewis
James Thomas
Kankakee River
Irving D. Clark
Gloversville
Stockbarger
Battleground
Board of Examiners of
Orlando M. Packard
Capital National Bank of Indianapolis
Bank of Westville
Sppere
Sneak
Barnard Family Reunion
Will
Barbers Union
E. H. Tnexs
H. Stewart
Teacher's Institute
Reece
Michigan
Avenue
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