Valparaiso area notes and courthouse updates
Valparaiso chautauqua season tickets priced at $1.50 with a $2 opening day. county fairs in Laporte Porter and Lake counties noted. Legal notices include divorce suit for Nora Rambaugh against Harvey Rambaugh and title actions in Emerson Nichols v Orange Lemon and Rehm v Rehm. Local events feature Schelling’s theater, a moving cowboy display, and the 1000 mile Wallis Cub tractor tour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jennie Sager
Chicago Heights
Alice Mundell
Hobart
Mina Hilton
Valparaiso
Tragic Wagon Collision Claims Life of James A. Hamilton
James A. Hamilton, 48, was killed when the wagon he rode into was struck by a Grand Trunk train at Stillwell on Monday. Two mules pulling a corn load were unharmed. the wagon was demolished and corn scattered for hundreds of yards. Hamilton recently moved from Springfield to the Ludlow farm area near Laporte, left to town with corn, did not see the train in time, and died from his injuries that night. He is survived by a wife and four children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James A. Hamilton
Grand Trunk
Stillwell
Mr. Hamilton
Springfield
Ludlow
Laporte
Wm. Hens
Hamilton
Obituary for Harvey William Knapp of Haskell's Station
Harvey William Knapp born December 12 1846 in Bradford County Pennsylvania died June 17 1915 at his home in Haskell's Station aged 68 years 6 months 25 days. He married Mary Jane Seely on July 4 1873 and had four children three living Frances Gurnsey Ida Haskell Montie. A member of the 84th Pennsylvania Infantry he served to the war's end. Funeral at 10 o'clock Sunday June 20 BE Scott officiating burial in Westville Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvey William Knapp
Bradford County
Haskell’s Station
Knapp
Mary Jane Seely
Frances Gurnsey
Ida Haskell
Chicago
Montie
84Th Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
Union
Haskell
BE. T. Scott
Westville
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eavetroughs
Bugsies
Emerson Cultivators
Oberreich & Arnold
DR. Curtis
Des
Oswald
Franklin
Michigan City
Sol Crawford
Crown Point
Valparaiso Chautauqua
Ellen Culbertson
Laporte County
Porter County Fair
Lake County Fair
M. BR. Lowenstine
Ind
E. T. Scott
Lowenstines
E. W. Agar
Fravel
Herbert Ray
Scotts
G. G. Flegel
Richard Imes
West Main Street
Adam Everhard
Pullman
Imes
Carr
Gary
Drusilla Carr
State Supreme Court
Dan KE. Kelly
Valparaios Chautauqua
H -H. Martin
Chase
Garwood
Henry Rozein
G. C. Flegel
Laporte Gas and Electric Company
Hugh Edgar
Bernice
Earl Conners
Geneva
G. L. Howell
C. D. Herrold
Richard Shuler
Howell
Ora Bosserman
Weatville
Lincoln Highway
Agunos
Cleveland
Fremont
Neb
Frank E. Osborn
Lake Shore
South Bend
Marr Will
Osborn
Oliver Hotel
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Bright
Indiana
Rancho
John
Sullivan
Falco
Schelling
Ite
Rome
Jerusalem
Jericho
Circuit Court Notes
Nora Rambaugh
Harvey H. Rambaugh
Rambaugh
Emerson
Nichols
Orange
Lemon Et al
Florence A. Rehm
Harley Rehm
Pauline Laymon
Roy Laymon
Davidson & Porter
Michigan
Madras
Ringo
H. M. Fetters
Fetters
Main St
Laporte Ind
Bank of Westville
Gowan’s
Outfitters
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