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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1917
Page
1
Helen faces a domestic crisis when maid Dora overuses lemons for hands and clashes over rigid discipline. After weighing quitting against the cost of a new maid, Helen amid a looming dinner plans learns Dora may stay, lifting her mood as tension eases.
Indiana food administrator Herbert C. Hoover’s representative H. E. Barnard urges way side markets at every farm to cut transport costs and middleman profits. He proposes signs on roads directing buyers to farm produce including apples potatoes greens berries eggs and smoked meats. Central creameries support the idea and urge cooperative buying by housewives to lower living costs.
Cass and Fulton counties petition for a Rochester to Kokomo market road. Evansville sells coal mine. Monroe county fair set for Oct 1 through 19. over 100 boys join the Boys Working Reserve in Sullivan. Indiana Home Guards organized in Bloomington and Goshen. Marion marks 100th birthday of veteran Charles Wagner. Kokomo wife of farmer reports husband’s threats over military service exemption. Huntington and Muncie report accidents and resignations. Ft Wayne hosts district short horn breeders sale. county eduation to start district schools in September. Various notes on milk prices, road work, a library contract, bank leadership changes, and local incidents across Indiana.
Gov. James P. Goodrich addressed Indiana Firemen’s Association, praising ongoing fire prevention work and urging extension. Resolutions pledged support to Wilson war measures, advocating pension laws and standard hose couplings. Terre Haute to host next year’s meeting.
Ten Indiana National Guard outfits approved by Adjutant General Harry B Smith and Col E A Root to be sent to Camp Shelby Mississippi to aid in preparing the site for further troops. Units include Company F First Infantry Gary Company B Second Infantry Terre Haute Company F Third Infantry South Bend Company B Fourth Infantry Rushville Battery BE Indianapolis Troop A First Cavalry Evansville Battalion Headquarters First Battalion Engineers Indianapolis Company A Engineers Battalion Terre Haute Company C Engineers Battalion Indianapolis Field Hospital Company No 2 Frankfort. War department may call these units into federal service soon. hospital companies not requested but field hospital company certified and likely to be sent early.
The state council of defense accuses pro Kaiser forces in Indiana of misrepresenting the United States Boys Working Reserve. Reports circulated by Germans in sympathy with Germany claim the reserve is not intended to supply the nation’s needs.
The account recalls William of Normandy’s conquest and the 1066 Hastings clash. Harold Godwinson’s forces failed after Hardrada’s Norwegian invasion as Norman cavalry and archers overwhelmed the Saxons, Harold wounded by an arrow in the eye, leading to Norman rule and later constitutional shifts.
A historical discussion defines thrift as the pursuit of peace of mind and life satisfaction through happiness in days, efficient work, and emergency provision. It expands thrift beyond money to time, labor, education, and wise investments, including Savings, insurance, and home ownership.
The New York experiment station reports average annual goat feed cost near 11 dollars. Goat milk yields about 1.27 cents per quart at peak production, is palatable and nutritious, and does not transmit diseases such as tuberculosis to children when properly produced.
A fragmented notice discusses themes likely to circulate among people about a European visitor in a Zala village, the opening of a railway, and potential topics such as war famine plague and pestilence used in songs by chiefs.
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