Sugar Beet Industry Highlighted in Local Talk
Community column reviews the sugar beet sector, discussing growers, processing, and market conditions. Mentions local farms, cooperative efforts, and anticipated crop cycles shaping regional agriculture.
06 Dec 1900
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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
1
Community column reviews the sugar beet sector, discussing growers, processing, and market conditions. Mentions local farms, cooperative efforts, and anticipated crop cycles shaping regional agriculture.
Walkerton Independent reports a cautious, data driven view on beets as a new crop. Trials since 1888 show soil and climate suit the region but deep planting and weather hindered yields. Some farmers, like G W Hartman, show potential savings and closer to break even, while the Purdue station plans to publish a beet culture treatise in 1901.
An advertisement promises improved stomach and liver action boosting strength and ambition. It claims a 25 cent box creates a keen clear brain and a sense of a new being, sold by E. T. Scott druggist.
Sensitive teeth sufferers can reduce decay by nightly use of milk of magnesia. After brushing, rinse a minute to coat enamel, protecting it for several hours. Dentists also advise rinsing with a bicarbonate soda solution after eating acidic foods to counteract enamel erosion.
The Best Plaster. A piece of flannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bound on the affected parts is superior to plaster. When troubled with lame back or pain in the side or chest, give it a trial and you are certain to be more than pleased with the relief which it affords. Pain Balm also cures rheumatics. One application gives relief. For sale by E. T. Scott.
Wabash Railway announces a one fare round trip excursion to Canada for points on the Wabash system to Canfield Junction and specific Canada East routes. Details include Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific coverage with exclusions. Inquiries directed to A A Rosa for further information.
Rosz Carreron replies to Mrs. Kave Cattron and Laporte Argos Bulletin readers defending her brother Roy Catron while he remains missing. She argues sympathy tends to favor women and blames the media for prematurely judging men, urging fair treatment and charity for an absent young man.
Resolutions acknowledge gifts from the daughters Mary B. Barry and Jamie E. Boyeson of portraits of late instructors Dr Fravel and Mrs Fravel. The portraits will be hung in the church to inspire the Sunday school. The group extends sympathy to the bereaved family and entrusts them to God. Frank F Herbold, Committee Chairman.
The county board led by James H. Taylor John R Weaver and William Steigley met for the regular December session Monday. The Sellers Way contested election case was continued for one week due to attorney absences and will be heard next Monday with several days of evidence. The board approved numerous claims and granted liquor licenses to Wm Otto M Gaibbs Buehring and Sarver Fred Umlauf Gustave Paul Levi Lagesse Max Hirechmann Paul Nast and Curtis Bender.
Readers are told that ITall's Catarrb Cure can cure catarrh at all stages. The ad claims a constitutional treatment taken internally that acts on mucous surfaces to destroy the disease's foundation and aid nature, offering a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure.
Hammond reports Miss Cynthia Tuley Taley aged 50, once treated at St. Margaret's after a Wednesday accident, died Tuesday afternoon from injuries. She underwent surgery to stabilize her condition, did not regain consciousness until after, and the body was sent to Wanatah for burial in Union Chapel after a Tuley family funeral at Bigelow. She leaves five brothers and two sisters.
Mrs Ollie Rambo and daughter Rose spent Thanksgiving with Mr Rambo at Union Mills. Notices of deaths illnesses and social visits fill the week including the death of Leo Reglein from quick consumption, funeral at his home and interment at Beatty cemetery.
Reports from Michigan City and Laporte accuse Westville resident John Arndt of insulting two women Mrs Schmidt near Beatty's Corners and Miss Yergin Curran school while driving a livery team. Witnesses say he was under liquor a claim he denies. He left the silo job Wednesday night and reportedly went to parts unknown after threats from local residents.
Mrs Jerusia Brooks an aged resident died after a brief illness and was buried Sunday afternoon at 1 30 in Carter cemetery with Rev Um blebly officiating. She was near 85 and an early pioneer, survived by two children John Brooks and Mrs David Reynolde both of this place. She lived with her son’s family in her later years and was praised for her exemplary life.
Mary Price returns from Englewood as sister Kate fights meningitis. Several residents travel to Valparaiso. Miss Maud Conboy hosts Chicago guests. Dr Fisher and Gertrude Mack bring adopted daughter home. Herman Wagoner and Leta Werner wed at the Lutheran church. Mrs Schwartz visits South All. Railroad crews return from Michigan for cold weather. Frank Gross stays to work in Donalghe restaurant. Mrs Webber bitten by dog. minister previously bitten. Mrs Bernhard Wagoner returns home. Mrs Lennick ill with appendicitis. Emil Grieger ill with brain fever. N A Osborn sells his matched team for 250 dollars. Koselke plans move to Michigan City for business opportunity.
Wm. Topper, last seen in town pursuing an ice cream stand, returned Thursday bearing lilac side burns and looking hale. He vanished over a year ago while reportedly traveling to Chicago on business. He lived last summer in Jewell county Kansas near the Colorado line and recently declared his shift from Branism to Republicanism in a letter to a local friend.
The Jackson Center community plans for winter with parched corn meals around the range. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hill raise a boy and girl. Thanksgiving featured ducks and chickens. a boy aged nine broke his leg in a cellar accident. Miss Dodd organized a school event netting 829. A cake auction raised 1315 dollars awarded to Mrs. Jeanie Barnard. Residents travel, concerts entertain, and daily chores weave through the week.
Wabash Ry will sell on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month one way fare to Seath and Seeth East Points. The notice outlines regular routes and schedule details for passengers.
Squire Terwilliger presided Saturday over a case where Chas Rotsein sued B F Reed over a threshing bill. Reed had Miller thresh rye and wheat. weather delayed work and Miller returned later. Reed claimed damages to his grain as offset. judgment for Rotsein was $30.98. Reed to appeal to the circuit court.
Mr. and Mrs. G L Thompson celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary at the Wolfe homestead northeast of town. Mr. Thompson remained mostly bedbound due to feebleness since early month while Squire Nichols, a local farmer on Theodore Armitage’s land, attended the observance.
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