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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1916
Page
4
The speaker vows sincere wishes for healing and offers candidacy to help the ticket. He suggests credit for aligning Republican wings, places personal success second, and supports nominating the better candidate. He calls for harmony and joint action across Indiana Republicans and Progressives.
The Bank of Westville offers 15.00 for best ten ears and 10.00 for second best ten ears, delivered by March 1, 1916. Entries from New Durham and nearby townships grown in 1914 or 1915 become the bank’s property. Entries judged on ten ear quality factors. contest open to all ages in several townships. Highly endorsed in local newspapers for Chester A. McCormick’s nomination bid.
A public meeting backed a waterworks installation for Westville with a 12000 dollar plan to build a 25000 gallon pressure tank, lay mains and connect fire hydrants. The proposal promises reduced fire insurance, convenience, and town growth while offering to take over a gasoline fire engine.
At high noon Miss Sadie Wallace and Clarence Brown were married at the bride’s parents home in Westville. Minister D. W. Shepherd officiated with only close friends present. The couple, well regarded locally, receive best wishes for a happy union as Westville also anticipates new industrial growth with Emil Rotzein’s mill and associated ventures.
Hank Granger known as royal host to millionaires and foe of game wardens died at his resort near Thayer on the Kankakee river Monday at nearly 60. He hunted and fished along the Kankakee and was a friend of Gen. Lew Wallace. Granger’s hunting fame dated to the seventies and his passing ends a storied Hoosier resort era.
Fire swept three floors of the woodworking building at the Studebaker plant in South Bend Indiana today. Officials cannot account for the origin though believed to have started beneath the first floor planking. The blaze burned supports in the northwest corner and weakened suspents, threatening belting and machinery.
H J Ikerd has resigned as justice of the peace after about a year serving Westville on the Democratic ticket. He transferred records to Mr Kline of Otis who was recently appointed. Westville loses a court and drops to one remaining justice while the township should have three. Ikerd’s tenure was marked by unmet expectations and disillusion with office perquisites. He plans to spend time in a radish patch and occasional fishing on the Kankakee river this summer.
Students in manual training made a jardinierre stand and a tabourette sold at a PTA supper. Civics class held an election. results suggested socialistic leanings. A speaker, Mr Knoll, talked on George Washington Tuesday morning amid community debates on child behavior and home life.
Knox Indiana February 14 1916 circular letter from the Smith For-For-Senator Club endorses Oscar B Smith for joint-senator from Laporte and Starke counties. It highlights Andrew J Hickey as unopposed congress candidate and urges Republican voters in Laporte Starke to support Smith with veteran support from local officials and citizens.
Mrs Emma Dessa Duncan Strible died at her home on Saturday from dropsy and hemorrhages. Brief services were held Monday at the house by E T Scott. The body was shipped to Monon for funeral rites and burial. She had lived in Westville about two years, came from Monon, aged twenty one last April, married to John Strible November 14, 1914. She is survived by her husband and parents Mr and Mrs Duncan and three brothers.
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