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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
2
The Indicator is a Westville Indiana weekly published Thursdays as second class matter. It boasts many county readers and describes its Republican stance and focus on home affairs with occasional broader commentary. Subscriptions are $2.00 a year.
At a Thursday meeting of township trustees and assessors in the courthouse, officials expressed concern over potential state legislative action. They cite a push by educational interests to abolish the assessor role and transfer school oversight to trustees or the county superintendent to raise rural schools to city standards. They warn such radical changes are unlikely to occur quickly and that assessors are not in immediate danger of losing their jobs.
The Schlene case at Valparaiso struggles to secure a jury after a week of effort and courtroom drama. R N Smith of Laporte defends a client dodging the noose as fisticuffs flare and furniture rattles in a scene of newspaper notoriety. The write up hints at adverse fates aiding his cause amid the sensational legal salvos.
Gustaf Adolph Kuehn died after a Ford left the road and struck a telegraph pole while he and Miss Bonnie Hawkins and the Glassman boys rode home from Laporte. Hawkins sustained a broken leg and bruises. her account follows a moralizing, troubled tone about liquor and reform.
The passage questions whether legal strictness in Laporte cracks under moonshine enforcement. It contrasts possible rents in the Seine with rumors of excess among elites. It ponders national habits from hootch making to mockery of leaders, then dismisses the need for further speculation.
Westville Public School held an outdoor Christmas celebration beside the building as pupils marched in from classrooms to sing around a cotton decorated tree with electric lights and a straw manger. Shepherds, a devout scene, and a lively Santa distributed gifts to a cheering crowd on a snowy night.
Ford in Detroit suspends operations with a plan to reopen late in the year leaving about 50,000 workers idled. The shutdown affects the city’s automobile industry and regional economy.
The completed jury for the murder case against Edward Shiene was accepted yesterday forenoon. Jurors include Frank Swanson William Koester Don Richmond Peter Hallberg William Kenworthy W A Shook Porter Emery White Herbert Anderson Edward Maxwell Frank Pressell Morgan Emil Lawrence Washington Charles LaForce Center and others.
Lester Bellows made a flying trip to Westville Tuesday evening. B. L. Cory spent Xmas with his family at Bronson Mich. Mr and Mrs Raymond Rotzean and Orvill Fausch spent Christmas with their parents at Michigan City. Mrs Anna Dorsey and family went to Laporte for Christmas with her son O D Dorsey and family. Frank Dreyer and wife returned home Tuesday from Texas. Wm Ritenour of Chesterton called on old friends here Tuesday. Mrs C E Pratt spent Xmas with her parents in Laporte.
Five bandits from Chicago rushed the Culver bank at 10:30 a.m. yesterday armed with guns and masks. Citizens intervened, four robbers were captured, one escaped toward Chicago after a running battle to Knox. Wechiel and Swaise of Culver were shot and seriously wounded. A Knox driver, Joseph Byers, 20, was wounded. Marmon touring car stolen at Lafayette was riddled by bullets. Others named are J. J. Fox, 38, J. R. Burns, 30, and J. S. Fibler, 35, all of Chicago.
Christmas Eve features include Lutheran church exercises to a large audience and Alfred McCarty losing a horse. August Bergholtz dies at his home southeast of town. The Westville lodges install officers and serve oysters. A New Year’s Eve party plans at the Wilkinson home. Snow, cold snap, and social visits across towns with many named residents attend festivities.
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