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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
3
Westville celebrates field days parade with civic groups and a suffragette drive. reports on residents including Mrs. Ruether Mr. Shunk and Mrs. Cotner plus local business updates and farming prospects. disaster aftermath and relocation plans described for Dodd family.
Descendants of Phillisene and Henrietta Howell the 11th gathered at Aunt Ann Slow ell’s Wanatah home with 75 relatives and guests. Speakers included John Fall Valparaiso Mrs J P Taylor Lacrosse Frank Jerome and wife Chicago. New officers chosen Bil Pianey president Roy Coulter vice president Clara Jerome secretary. Local attendees included G L Howell R N Coulter Mrs W E B Kalies and daughter Mrs Howard Herrold and two children Donald Kalies. Ancestry traces to early Westville settlers from Kentucky.
Friday’s Herrold family reunion faced poor attendance as cool weather and heavy clouds brought rain from noon Friday into Saturday. A noon picnic featured recitations by E. T. Scott and Kathleen Cornelius and music by the girls orchestra. Attendees included Wm. B. Armitage and wife from Athens Ohio and other families from Columbus Ohio Topeka Indiana Jacksonville Florida South Bend Indiana and Michigan City. Officers elected were President Thos. Herrold Laporte Vice President H B Herrold Westville Secretary Ada Brooks Laporte Treasurer J F Hixon Michigan City.
Veterinary doctor N Peterson reports recent calls to vaccinate several cattle herds including those of Harry Hutton and Roy Ailton due to sporadic blackleg outbreaks. Some calves died before treatment, but vaccination and care have checked the trouble.
For sale early varieties of peaches now with later canning peaches coming on. Farm near Waterford in Indiana. Contact N T Jenks Laporte Ind R R 9.
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