Local notes recount moves and misadventures across Fort Wayne area
Numerous brief items list moves births illnesses and community events. Highlights include a February birth to Mr. and Mrs. Garland Marks of Pinhook, Mrs Electa Daggy recovering after sickness, postal lineman Ed Wallace taking charge in Albion, a St Patrick day dance planned by Harry McKellips, and Sheriff Carl Ahlgrim's family preparing for infantile paralysis treatment for their son Jimmie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burns
Ruth Ines
Whiting
Garland Marks
Pinhook
Electa Daggy
O. A. Shunk
Rollo McKellips
Laporte
Rebekah Lodge
Ed Greening
John Krantz
Edna
Westville
Sarah Carpenter
Michigan City
Ed Wallace
Albion
Postal Telegraph Co
Harry McKellips
Powell
H. T. Terry
Nappanee
Coburg
Gus Bowman
Ed Link
Chicago
Charles Wolfe
Mollie Webber
H. P. Cole
Reed Hubbard
Robertdale
Cicero
Mary Forester
McGill
Co. B
Virgil Spitzer
Carpenter
Virgil
Topeka
Wabash Company
Ohio
First Creditors Meeting for Carence F Carson
The first meeting of creditors for Carence F Carson a voluntary bankrupt of New Durham township is set for Monday March 5 in the federal court room Hammond. Creditors will choose a trustee at this session and details of assets and liabilities remain unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carence F. Carson
New Durham Township
Federal Court Room
Hammond
Carson
Physician Stricken With Smallpox Sparks Tracy Quarantine
Another smallpox case arises in Tracy as Dr. Webster contracts the dread malady. He is now in quarantine while vaccinations proceed for neighborhood children and precautions are intensified to stop further spread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tracy
Webster
William Curran of Brule Wisconsin Dies at 54
Mrs. Albert Brown learns of the death of her father William Curran of Brule Wis a former Michigan City resident in Superior Wis hospital. Heart trouble and dropsy caused his death at age 54. He was brother of Mrs. Alice Boothe who died Wednesday. Survived by widow and three children Mrs Albert Brown William and Carrie Curran. Burial will be in this city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Brown
William Curran
Brule
Wis
Michigan City
Superior
Curran
Alice Boothe
William and
Carrie Curran
Well Known Monon Agent Takes Indefinite Leave
Sol A. Coles, longtime Monon City agent, has been granted an indefinite leave of absence. Richard J. Drake will fill in this week as agent during Coles’s absence. Coles and his wife plan a southward trip starting in days, visiting Florida and returning via New Orleans. Coles began as a clerk and rose to local agent over 30 years with the Monon, earning patrons’ respect and friendship. Mrs. Coles is Maud Terwilliger, daughter of Mrs. Wm. Terwilliger of Michigan City. The family lived in Westville for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sol A. Coles
Monon
Richard J. Drake
Coles
New Orleans
The
Maud Terwilliger
Wm. Terwilliger
Michigan City
Westville
Local subscribers and new readers boost the Indicator
Ed Jardine ships two wagon loads of murphies and hauls gold home then updates his Indicator subscription. Mrs. Burns and Mrs. Fehrman renew promptly from Valparaiso and Westville. Frank Welch and Dave Pesten are noted subscribers with praise. new subscriptions reach Matt Howell of Debworth Ky and H Ruggles of Michigan City. For sale a Belle City 144 egg incubator by J C Matotte Westville phone 55.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ed Jardine
Valparaiso
Mary C. Fehrman
Dave
Matt Howell
Debworth
H. Ruggles
Michigan
Ruggles
Indicator
Thomspon's Claims On Tree Eradicator Questioned
In Laporte county a man calling himself W. C. Thompson touts a powder claiming to erase tree scale and destroy germs. County agent L. B. Clare reports letters from Purdue official C. G. Woodbury calling Thompson a fake and from A J Patten of Michigan Agriculture failing to confirm a license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Thompson
Laporte County
Thompson
L. B. Clare
C. G. Woodbury
Purdue
A. J. Patten
Bureau of Agriculture
Michigan
Death of Mrs Alice Ann Boothe in Coolspring Township
Mrs. Alice Ann Boothe dies at 9:45 p.m. at her home three miles south of Michigan City after a year's illness. Born August 31, 1856 in Cool spring township, she married Martin Boothe 42 years ago. he died in August 1905. Survived by six children, a sister, a brother, and 10 grandchildren. Funeral Sunday afternoon at 1:15 in the Presbyterian church in Michigan City with Rev. W. L. Geston officiating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Ann Boothe
Coolspring Township
Michigan City
Alice Ann Curran
Martin Boothe
H. C. Wolford
Otis
James Friday
Chesterton
Carrie Boothe
Robert Shoemaker
Pink Shoemaker
William Lawrence
Brainerd
Minn
William Curran
Wisconsin
Presbyterian Church
W. L. Geston
New Church of Christ Organized at Jackson Center
A Jackson Center assembly convened on Thursday night February 15 to establish a new Church of Christ. Charles W. Shull of Chicago delivered the principal address, with Rev. P. Y. Pendleton guiding the organization and H. K. Brown of the university speaking. The public was invited, county Church of Christ members attended, and a free luncheon was served by Specht Finney Co of Valparaiso.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson Center
Church of Christ
Charles W. Shull
Chicago
P. Y. Pendleton
H. K. Brown
University
Specht-Finney Co
Valparaiso
Laporte Churches Plan Six Week Religious Campaign
Six Laporte churches launched a campaign to recruit members through six weeks of citywide religious activities starting the first Sunday in March. Six Sunday schools organized at the Y M C A will be joined by a Friday night meeting to appoint a permanent chairman and secretary. A high profile finale may feature a national speaker, with William J. Bryan among names mentioned. Meanwhile police in several northern Indiana cities search for an 18 year old missing from Miller station since February 8 after last seen on an east bound South Shore car with a stranger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Liddell
Laporte
Sheriff
Carl Ahlgrim
Jimmie
St. Louis
W. R. McLean
Michigan City
May Smolk
Westville
Opera
William J. Bryan
Indiana
Miller Station
Miller
DeHaan
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Down
Bloomington
J. E. Payne
Emerson
Payne
Ross Beach
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Rollo
Rand
Margery
Thomas
Maud Hyde
M. E. Hyde
Wanatah
Ed Slocum
J. F. Cathcart
Phil Bongert
Standard Oil &Co
Harry Warnke
Montana
Harry
West
Chamber of Commerce
National Dunes Park
E. D.crumpacker
A. F. Knotts
Porter County
Lake Michigan
United States Steel Corporation
Swede Lake
Burdick
Daniel Worrell
Hunter and Trapper
Lester Olson
Worrell
Frank Fosdick
John Kerr
Olson
Gus Dolk
J. C. Matotte
Lacrosse Man
A. B. Kellogg
LaCrosse
Monticello
Kellogeg
Hilda Cochran
Kellogg
Brookston
Death
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New Church of Christ At
Esie Dinsmore
India
Silk and Dress Goods
Davidson & Porter
Irawi
Valpapaiso
Dan Cupid
Augustine Bros
Mobile
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Galveston
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Pallas and
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California
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