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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1907
Page
2
The Westville Ind newspapers lists publication terms including weekly issues every Thursday, rates for obituaries over ten lines and obituary stories, professional cards, and six month and yearly options. It notes all items must reach the office by Wednesday noon and invites reader attention to advertisements within the issue.
Miss Bess Rambo plans an elocutionary event at the schoolhouse next Friday with admission one and a half. A box social at Gestry's Corner netted 17 dollars last week. Several local mishaps include a barn loss near Oris, a broken ankle on a fall, and a fatality of Mrs. Fargher. Fire damaged Dorng & Son mill in Laporte with heavy losses and suspicions of incendiary origin.
A Laporte resident named Shnson was laid to rest in Carmel Cemetery according to a brief obituary notice. The scant text confirms burial took place locally with no additional details on family or service.
Through the cooperation of the Manon railroad Purdue Experiment Station and the State Dairy Association a special dairy train will run over the Manon lines in Indiana. Short stops will be made at various stations with illustrated tasks by experts. Focus on dairy herd improvement and improved household dairy methods. All interested in dairy work urged to attend. Schedule announced later. For further information address Purdue Experiment Station Lafayette Indiana.
The Monon Railway will run a dairy special train arriving at Westville on December 12 at 9 25 a m departing at 10 00. It will be a large equipment train including baggage car two day coaches sleeper and diner. Experts in dairy business will discuss the subject with interested men.
A partial OCR fragment reports changes to a train timetable and mentions the Blue Bird train, with a revised time near 5 338 p m and another at 11 45 a m as usual. The text is garbled and hard to interpret, but indicates schedule adjustments and routing notes without clear dates or destinations.
Florence Stewart Barry longtime Evans ton School teacher and sister of D G F Barry died suddenly of apoplexy Thursday evening at Mrs MacLean’s Wilmette home. Born in Chicago and a Smith College graduate, she taught at Evans ton and later New Trier High School. Member of Wilmette and Chicago Women’s clubs. Funeral held Sunday at 1145 at Mrs MacLean’s Wilmette home, with interment at Oakwood.
Judge Reuter opened the December term and heard reports on estates while several complaints were tied. Attorneys Travis and Irwin represent multiple parties in quiet title and mortgage foreclosure actions alongside administrator J M Seidler in estate matters.
A satirical rhyme advises returning home in every mood from fatigue to joy. It mocks self reform and urges domestic settings to display one’s best self. The piece promotes Chameroemarian’s Cough Remedy as a quick cure for a cold.
S. Wovdever of L Reaysville, N Y, proclaims Bucklin’s Arnica Salve cured his piles two years ago and can heal any sore burn or abrasion. Darl atk TF. S.otw’s drug store.
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