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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1895
Page
2
The Westville Indiana weekly lists its publishing details with a 100 dollar annual subscription, obituary charges, and advertising rates. It invites reader attention to the issue's advertisements and notes mail handling and pricing for notices and professional cards.
Reports cite a farm land sale bill for street commerce and a proposal to transfer gubernatorial appointments to a three member board. Other items include a law punishing exposure to diphtheria and remarks on living beyond means. The navy yards prompt claims of higher costs than private builders.
The South Bend Times rebuts a claim that work for others is slavery and working for oneself is freedom. It argues most people work for others or profit and many wage earners enjoy more personal freedom than employers. It notes employers carry daily business cares beyond a single day’s labor.
At a recent township meeting the trustees were urged to end the road supervisor post and vest highway oversight in trustees, while opposing a new school book law. A general superintendent would direct township superintendents and road taxes should be cash financed. Senator McDonald seeks to curb railroad relief associations, criticizing the B and O fund as unfair and misused. Rob Ingersoll comments on urban migration and rural social needs, urging farmers to reclaim rural life.
The piece argues the Democratic charge of a billion dollar Congress was political hype. It contrasts Republican era finances with later deficits, noting tariff revenues fall and the gold reserve dwindles while spending rises. It criticizes the Democratic pledge, cites Senator Chandler, and ends with an unrelated testimonial for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
The LaPorte city hall hosts a two day farmers institute on Feb 15 and 16. Speakers include W A Banks J A Mount Aaron Jones John Terry E E Slick mistress and maid Mrs W W Stevens Eugene W Davis and others. Topics cover organization Purdue University farming future spraying stock raising gardens and general interests. Music will intersperse sessions.
Mrs. Phoebe Thomas of Junction City 11 was told she had consumption and no hope, yet two bottles of Dr. King's New Discovery cured her. Mr. Thomas Eggers of 189 Florida St San Francisco suffered a deadly cold and approaching consumption, bought one bottle and recovered in two weeks. Also offered are free trial bottles of E T Scotts. Regular sizes 50c and 1.
Washington Letter reports that Sherman and West confirm silver advocates control the Senate finance scene. The House considers Cleveland’s funding plans while administration plans a new 30 year bond issue. Teller signals silver Senators would block any rider on bonds or tied finance. Public Printer figures reveal scale of government printing costs and vast blank book production for Congress.
The New Durham township Teacher's Institute met at Westville on February 28 1895. Miss Rose Cattron opened with a paper on The Strivings of Man's Spiritual Nature and Prof. Cattron explained Tompkins Philosophy of Teaching. Papers covered Arithmetic by Miss Pearl Posten Concentration by Mrs Layton Ruskin's Essays by Miss Flora Winters Athena in the Art by the group Educational Reformers by Mrs Ora Baird and a humorous selection Kept in at Recess by Bob Burdette. The day closed with a summary by Miss Mary Cole and plans to meet March first Saturday.
The Gold Flower Hypericum Moserianium, grown by M. Moser of Versailles, is described as a low hardy plant with bright golden blossoms two to three inches across. It is offered at 25 cents per plant with a 10 cent guide order bonus from James Vick and Sons, Rochester, N Y, plus a $300 prize for a new double sweet pea name.
A meditation on the inner drive to form a personal ideal across business moral and spiritual life. It compares human self development to an acorn growing into an oak, stressing daily self betterment, environments, and the divine inner consciousness guiding one toward higher possibilities. Gossip About the Girls then surveys regional social traits of teen and young women in Indiana towns.
Warsaw girls enjoy the summer resort season and flirta tions as Logansport girls rival Chicago sisters. The piece notes Trilby feet in Indiana and hints at social scenes during the open resort period.
A county gentleman praises DeWitt's Little Early Risers as a remedy for constipation dyspepsia and liver complaint. Dr Miles Nerve Plasters are sold by all druggists. E T Scott and Lowenstine's advertise special bargains.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages. The company claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces cures the constitutional disease. They offer 100 dollars to anyone it fails. Send for testimonials. sold by druggists for 50 cents.
A Victorian catalog pitch from James Vick's Sons Rochester New York touts Vick's Floral Guide 1895 with tinted ink plates and a full vegetable fruit and flower garden list. It markets Sweet Peas at 40 cents a pound and announces a special 3200 dollar naming offer for a new Double Sweet Pea, urging readers to request a copy for 10 cents now and deduct the amount from first orders.
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