Wheat Seed Trial Shows Red Rock Outperforms Harvest King
Erickson Brothers in Kankakee Township report a fertilized Red Rock wheat yield of 33 bushels per acre over a 56 acre field, versus 8 bushels for Harvest King under the same conditions. Red Rock was planted on a corn and pasture field while Harvest King went into oat stubble. County Agent Treuchner arranged demonstrations to improve Laporte County farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kankakee Township
Erickson Brothers
Red Rock
Agert Treuchner
Laporte
Community Notes From Westville and Nearby
Daily life in Westville and surrounding towns with glimpses of residents in Gary Chicago Heights Michigan City and Laporte. News covers visitors births and visits, local calls to duty, school faculty changes and road improvements.
New Durham Township Faculty for Upcoming Term Announced
The New Durham township announces the coming term staff led by Superintendent Scott C. Knoll. Principal for the high school is M. E. Hyde with Miss Smick and Miss Ruth Mugg as high school teachers. Junior High will be led by Miss Kate Hannon and grades 5-6 by Miss Virginia Baird. Elementary instructors include Miss Lois Brown for 8th and 4th, Alta Herrold and Rosalia Sidell in music, Miss Nada Wright domestic science, Laone Dennison art, Mary Kalies at Otis school, and Russell Palm at Durham. The Pinhook school award decision is pending Saturday. Miss Veola Dachwald has been offered Rolling Prairie. Trustee Herrold will announce the final decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Koontz
Chris Koontz
Temeheck
Westville
S. J. Crumpacker
Chester Crumpacker
South Bend
Jack Phillips
Howard and
Marion
Alberton
Krahling
Berenice
Lois Roemer
Waukegan
Arthur Rentlinger
Jos. Dolman
Rollo Link
Marvel
Rollo
D. L. Crumpacker
Monon
Ad Weard
James Petro
Charles A. Passell
Milwaukee
Manchuria
Michigan City
Hannon
Pinhook
Dewey
Basil Rottein
Roy Leets
Mary Ruth Mugg
Westville School
Miss Smich
Indiana
New Durham Township
Scott C. Knoll
M. E. Hyde
Smick
Ruth Mugg
Kate Hannon
Virginia Baird
Lois Brown
Alta Herrold
Rosalia Sidell
Nada Wright
Laone Dennison
Mary Kalies
Otis
Russell Palm
Durham
Veola Dachwald
Have You Any Rats The Indicator Traps Arrive For Readers
The Indicator offers free wire traps large enough for about twenty four rats. Readers may take traps home to clear premises of rats and disease. Names are recorded, traps issued in three month periods, then passed on. No charge, and the program follows a governor proclaimed campaign in Indiana.
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Indiana
Two Valparaiso Girls Run Away Over Airplane Ride
Two Valparaiso girls aged fifteen and sixteen fled home after being refused permission to fly with Miss Collison's brother, an employee of a Kokomo taxi- plane company. They were traced in Lafayette and then returned home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valparaiso
Louise Collison
Katherine Ellis
Miss Collisan
Kokomo
Lafayette
County Commissioners Let Two Contracts
The county commissioners approved two contracts in a regular session. Details indicate project scope and bid results were reviewed.
Bridge contracts awarded for Starke Laporte counties
Contracts yesterday split the joint bridge project with F N Hoffman of Rochester landing the bridge superstructure bid at 8479 dollars while A W Taylor and Co of Laporte secured the abutments for 2900 dollars. Chesterton Tribune reports Henry Greening's Ford stolen Saturday night and missing car not yet found as Sheriff Forney investigates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starke
Laporte
F. N.hoffman
Rochester
A. W. Taylor & Co
Chesterton Tribune
Henry Greening
Greening
Sheriff Forney
Also Mentioned on This Page
Westville Lumber & Coal Co
Westville, Ind
Ance
Kellings’ Shoe Store
Ind
G. L. Howell
Shoemaker’s
Pt Ua
Moritz & Son
Franklin Street
Thos. Hannon
Gary
F. Kalies
Chicago
Byron “Poston
W. L. Augustine
Lucy Herrold
Clarence Warnke
Alden Beahm
E. C. Link
A. T. Rogers
William Krahling
J. Brody
John Bauer
Frank T. Rain
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
Rain
Daisy Rozein
Singsbury
Rottein
Charles Phelps
William Shady
Cross Huckleberry Marsh
Snook
Phelps
Cloverdale
Robert
Howard Brown
Buster
Charles’ Brown
P. L. Brown
Bobt
Howard
Lake Road
Bob
Basil Rotzein
France
Aiio
Rouen
Lille
Dunkirk
Ft.Thomas
Camp Hancock
Liverpool
Eng
South Hampton
le Havre
Basil
Brown
O. Yost
Laporte County
E. P. Egbert
Mr. Yost
Egbert
United States Grain Dealers Association
New York
Europe
Ernest Walsh
Albert Powers
San Francisco
Messrs
Walsh
Powers
Far West
California
Lincoln Way
Specht-Finney Company
Bank of Westville
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