Local notices and town news from Michigan City area
Community announcements list meetings, shop promotions, and personal updates. Scattered notes cover parades, club gatherings, sales at Davidson Porter's and Low's Clothing Store, hospital and school preparations, local accidents, court actions, and upcoming fairs with mentions of residents, visitors, and regional businesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte Fair Association
Laporte
Longcliff
Logansport
Edmund Ethrington
Merton Marston
Ghaporte Herald
Klondike
Michigan City
Weatville
Lakeside
Hattie Clark
Hattie King
Mamie Bierman
Amy Munson
Miss Munson
Resort
M. Cg.news
Superior Court
Tuthill
Oleming i
Porter County News Aids Local Notices And Accidents
Local reports cover health issues, repairs, and social events in Porter County. Notable items include illnesses in families, farm and business notices, a Lincoln Club date change, agricultural fair plans, and injuries from a gravel train mishap near the Wabash line.
Valparaiso News Highlights Local Visits and Weddings
Local items report Bertha Wall visiting relatives, Elam Reynolds in town, and the Hall Auglin Martin reunion on the Valparaiso college campus. Notes cover renovations at the high school, typhoid illness in Chicago, and upcoming G A R National Encampment travel plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotts
Jesse Dolman
Waukegan
Bertha Wall
Valparaiso
C. EF. Herrold
Chicago
Davison & Porter's
Terry
Laporte
R. H. Joseph
Elam Reynolds
Kingsbury
Martha Standiford
White
Snyder
Stark County
Robt
Ansley
Hall-Auglin-Martin
Jennie Bradford
Janesville
Bloomhuff
Bell
Minnie Bloomhuf
Hammond
Nickle Plate
Ft. Wayne
Ind
Union Veteran Legion
C. A. Asterlin
Local Store Expands Basement Sales Area and Lunch Room
Public notice announces a Valpar city retailer enlarging its basement sales room and adding a lunch room for shoppers. The store touts improved lighting ventilation and a broad fall and winter stock including dress goods clothing boots and shoes and furnishings. The message invites customers to visit during the busy fall season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iany
Valpar
Aiso
Waist price tiers listed in old advertisement
An old classifieds snippet shows waist sizes with single price points: fifty cent waists at 39 cents, eighty five cent waists at 69 cents, one dollar waists at 79 cents, and dollar fifty waists at 1.19 dollars.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rough Riders
P. Q. Doran
Westville
Indicator Office
Davison & Porter’s
E. E. Nichols
Low
Jennie Loomis
Kansas City
J. V. Cattron
Miss Rose
C. E. Herrold
Chesterton
Herrold
Otis
Alice
Valpardiso
Main Street
S. J. W. Cole
Chicago Heights
Kansas
Walter Melton
M.D. Rahl
E. E. Weir
Ransom Post No. 46
St Louis
G. A. R. Post
Tim O'Conner
J. E. Shultz
John Zaws
J.C. McCord
Blue Island
Mr. McCord
Orr
Michigan
Chas. Malchow
Henry Malchow
Shultz _sgain
First, National Bank, “Vaiperaiso i
Japan
Severance
Near
Beatty's Corners
Wm. Gust
G. L. Thompson
Martha Herrold
Davidson & Porter
E. H. Ines
Harvey, Ill
E. A. Herrold
Elkhart
James Thomas
Monon
Indianapolis
Odd Fellows Black Drug Store
C. Dils
Whiting
James Dils
J. R. Pagin
Silver Star Lodge D. of R
James Reed
Chamberlain
Scott’s
Fravel Scott
Mother
Fravel
Lincoln Club
E. Eldeane Small
Wood
Deep River
Porter County
Waterford
Small
Lawrence L. Letherman
Post Office Department
Porto Rico
Letherman
Postal Service
J.H. Shreve
Arkansas
Samuel
Rush
John McCord
Here
McCord
Indiana
John Wall
Scott
Scipio Township
Laporte Fair
W.H. Reynolds
Osborn
Tillie Jane Brewer
Epworth League
Flint Lake
Mesdames Webber and Miller
Carleton Eaheart
Texas
Barnard
Carleton
Mary Burner
Jacob Herrold
Wanatah
Gertie Mack
E. Ansley
Mr. Cole
Frank
E. S.smith
Hale Williams
Brooklyn, N. Y
Mrs. Ramsley
Ruth Barnard
Washington, D. C
Milton C. Barnard
Charles Malchow
Michigan Street
Elma Baldwin
Circuit Court
Mar
Brayton
Door Village
Rolling Prairie
Charles City
Iowa
9Th
Illinois Cavalry
Fao
Arnold
Oberreich & Arnold
Laporte, Indiana
Maud S. Windmill
STEEL
Specht, Finney & Skinner
Wex
Avery
Hive Laporte
Hale Price
Michigan Avenue
Julius Barnes & GO
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