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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1905
Page
4
July events and community updates from Westville Indiana including births weddings visits and travel notes. Reports mention hotel plans in Michigan City workers leaving for Kankakee and local church calls along with regional rail and health news.
Indianapolis Aug 11 Internal dissension rather than Governor Hanlys drive against gamblers appears to have closed the French Lick casino. The ousting of lessee Al Brown and settlement of 35000 in furnishings preceded a rent shift to Ed Ballard of West Baden as part of a larger dispute over the property and its management. Governor Hanly had two representatives at French Lick gathering evidence for possible prosecutions.
A bulletin from the interstate commerce commission reports over 15 000 killed or injured in U S railway accidents in the first quarter of 1905, a 60 000 annual casualty rate, with calls to improve safety over merely increasing speed. The piece also notes Col Isaac Washington Brown’s bird protection work funded by Helen Gould and comments on President Roosevelt's stance on large families and societal values.
Marshall O Leighton head of hydrography in Washington and Dr J N Hurty will survey Indiana streams to assess water quality and determine suitable uses for municipal and industrial needs. They cite severe stream pollution and plan to study how to handle trade wastes while avoiding nuisances. They begin in Indianapolis travel to Vincennes then north to other cities.
Dr. R B Short of Union Mills M C Croup of Laporte RB Croup of Wellsboro and Allen McPherson of Minneapolis form a land purchase team. They have closed a deal for 3180 acres of tillable land in Bayfield County Wisconsin.
Frank J. Cheney senior partner of F. K. Cheney & Co. of Toledo swears the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason witnesses the oath dated December 6, 1486. Hall's Cure is taken internally and acts on blood and mucous surfaces.
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