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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1905
Page
4
The Westville Indicator announces weekly publication with Thursday release in Westville Indiana. Subscription is 1.00 per year in advance. Obituary notices over ten lines cost 1.00 per line and poetry 10 cents per line. Professional cards 3.00 yearly or 8.00 six months. All items to reach by Wednesday noon.
A compilation of items from Valparaiso and northern Indiana covers health ads, reunions, and obituaries plus local crime notes. Highlights include the Valparaiso university reunion, 142d regiment gathering, a suicide near Portland Maine, botanical pest concerns, and rail expansion plans for the New York Central and Lake Shore lines.
C H Geist president of the Michigan City and Northern Indiana Gas company completes a merger uniting fifteen Luzerne county electric and gas firms into one company with 1 000 000 capital. Officers named include Geist of Philadelphia Noble of Detroit and Kelsey of Grand Rapids.
Fourteen year old Lillie Sult daughter of Jacob Sult from near the Kankakee river region was found guilty of thefts and running away. Judge Richter at Laporte ordered her committed to the reform school for girls at Indianapolis until she reaches adulthood, unless parole is granted.
William D. Jones is appointed superintendent of transportation for the Monon railroad with headquarters at Lafayette. He succeeds L. H. Parker who resigned June 30. The superintendent of transportation will oversee the telegraph system and all local and overline equipment as the office is abolished.
The Galena township Old Settlers annual reunion elected President Mrs. C. D. Merrill Vice-president Mrs. S. Copeland Secretary Mrs. Welker Treasurer William Barnes Executive committee Mesdames Warner Mayes Vernon Taylor Nettie Merrill. Charles Schindler aged 43 died at his Laporte home from a stroke. He worked for Rumely and is survived by his parents and a brother. A theft notice seeks return of mileage books numbers 019506 and 597660 to C. C. Heaton Westville or O. L. Rash Lafayette with reward.
Frank Pratt a 49 year old blind resident of Woodville drowned at Lake Michigan near City West Porter county ten miles west of Michigan City during a Sunday picnic. About 150 to 200 mourners searched with lines and a boat but undertow carried his body to deeper water until it was found later that evening twenty rods from the site.
Frank J. Cheney of F. E. Covene y Co. of Toledo swears as senior partner in a 1886 oath promising one hundred dollars for every catarrh case uncured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The notice claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers testimonials.
Governor Hanly’s commission lists Huntington, Winamac, Mishawaka, Monon, Monticello, Spencer, Crawfordsville, Rockville, Loogootee, Shoals, Henryville, Paoli, Santa Pierre, Hamlet, North Judson and Connersville as potential sites for the proposed epileptic village funded by the last legislature. The piece notes a shift from historic rail fences to wire mesh as the dominant fencing method, reflecting broader farm modernization.
report from the Indianapolis News notes rising river tales as floodwaters bring fish stories from the Kankakee river bottoms. A farmer says carp ate seed corn stored for sheep and a man found a large pickerel in a barn feed trough while another hauled eight channel catfish from a haymow.
The Laporte County Teachers Institute draws over 200 attendees. Prof Pattengill discusses plant food and pronunciation, stressing leaves produce starch, soil supplies nitrogen potassium and phosphoric acid, and the importance of proper cultivation and uplifting music education.
A historical note touts H B Herrold Lump Jaw Remedy claiming a universal cure. The advertisement markets the patent medicine as guaranteed and effective for jaw pains, with no further clinical details.
Chattanooga invites veterans from twelve states to Chickamauga National Park for a three day reunion September 18 to 20 1905 marking the forty second anniversary of the Battle of Chickamauga. Notices urge public travel at low one cent per mile and promote educational value for youth with battlefield tours and marker explanations.
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