Political aspirants stir Laporte County races
Laporte County politics heat up as party chairs file for registration clerks and candidate petitions. Primary filing opens March 8 with final day April 6. primaries May 7. Names mentioned include sheriff hopefuls George L. West Max Fischer and Samuel Lambert. treasurer contenders Lahey Johnson Lay. judge aspirants McCormick and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laporte
P. O. Small
Bielefeldt
Harry L. Marum
Imaporte
Arthur W. Taylor
Ore Bosserman
George L. West
Max Fischer
S. D. Flynn
Westville
Ihester A. McCormick
North Judson
George D. Lay
S E
Dainiel Grover
Government and the Farmer in President Wilsons Message
President Wilson highlights the agricultural sector as vital to the nation. He cites the Department of Agriculture as the world’s leading scientific body with a multi trillion dollar budget. He notes extensive college support, endowments, and the Lever Act driven workforce, urging continued credit access through the Federal Reserve and Farm Credit systems to empower farmers during wartime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers of America
Wilson
Veic of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture
Federal Reserve Banking System
America
Equipment list for infantry in France many items listed
The document itemizes fighting men gear including haversack food utensils and clothing. It notes fifty thousand coverent articles and details items such as bedrolls belts coats socks gloves shoes and identification tags along with fighting gear like helmet gas trench tool bayonet and 100 cartridges.
Snowfall figures by Indiana instructor astonish Vigo county
Walter Woodrow, science instructor at the Indiana State Normal School, estimates 84 million tons of snow fell on Vigo county. His calculation says a one square foot column would reach into space 2.5 million miles, enough to pave a 10 foot wide, 1 foot thick path to the moon. Melted snow would yield Terre Haute 3 million gallons daily for 11.5 years. a single man would take 23,000 years to shovel it all.
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Vigo County
Walter Woodrow
Indiana State Normal School
Terre Haute
Woodrow
Rochester Sentinel
Monon to Spend Real Money on Michigan City Repairs
The Monon plans extensive Michigan City improvements within 10 days costing 50 000 to 60 000 dollars. Remodeling will convert old passenger station and freight house into general offices and move the main office to the west end. A round house will be rebuilt inland near the harbor. foundation work will begin with a Lafayette pile driver. Additional sidetracks and a new 250 ton scale will be installed to centralize switching in the south yard.
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Monon
Michigan City
Michigan Central Bridge
Lafayette
Round House
Franklin Street
Schacht
Locals and visitors make weekend rounds in region
Several families traveled between Michigan City Hammond Whiting and Chicago over the weekend visiting relatives. The Michigan City Dispatch scores J Taylor for a mayoral challenge while political tensions unfold in local elections. The column closes with a call to unite and a shouted refrain to "Let's lick Germany."
War factories expand near Gary and Hammond in Calumet region
Indiana Harbor will begin turning out large caliber cannons within 30 days. Standard Steel Forging Company at Hammond, called the American Krupps, to supply cannons for France in March. Gary, Indiana Harbor and East Chicago plants employ thousands and push housing appropriations of 1.5 million dollars to house workers.
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Indiana Harbor
Lake County
Standard Steel
United States Steel Corporation
American Bridge Company
Gary
Standard Steel Car Company
Hammond
East Chicago
Aetna
Betz Surgical Instrument and Hospital
Standard
American “Krupps
France
Indiana Calumet
Congress
Terre Haute Adopts Metropolitan Police Plan To Enforce War Loafers
Terre Haute Indiana enacts a metropolitan police expansion increasing detectives from four to ten and enlarging traffic and bicycle units to enforce the new war loafer ordinance. It targets able bodied men age twenty one to sixty who do not earn enough for board, with divinity students and seasonal workers exempt. A separate disloyalty ordinance is before the council for final action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Ind
State Council
Courts to challenge bone dry law across Indiana
Reported plan to block enforcement of the bone dry law with lawsuits in Laporte circuit court and Michigan City superior court follows a Vanderburgh county Evansville ruling by Judge Hostetler. Similar suits by Evansville breweries are expected in Allen St Joseph Marion and Vigo counties within ten days.
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Circuit
Laporte
Superior Court
Michigan City
Vanderburg County
Evansville
Hostetler
Laporte Argus
Evansville Breweries
Allen County
Ft. Wayne
St. Joseph County
South Bend
Marion County
Indianapolis
Vigo County
Terre Haute
Petition Required for Ditch RecLean in 1918
Farmers seeking any ditch cleaning from 1918 onward must petition county commissioners for allotment of ditches before township trustees act. Twenty percent acreage signers trigger survey by county. preliminary work due by June 1, 1918. Afterward, ditches are recleaned by landowners as before 1915.
Couple Turned Back From Indiana Marriage Permit
Leo M. Seiser and Miss Lovern Coburn of South Bend came here to marry this morning but were told by Clerk Fern Bahringer they must return to St Joseph county for their license. Indiana requires the license be issued in the bride’s home county if she resides in the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M.C
Leo M. Seiser
Lovern Coburn
South Bend
Fern Bahringer
St. Joseph County
Indiana
Laporte Forms New Band Under August B. Yenn
Laporte will be well supplied with music this year as a new band forms directed by August B. Yenn, a noted Laporte and Michigan City violinist. The Laporte Liberty band has 22 members and aims for Laporte summer concerts, including several former Laporte City band members once led by Yenn.
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Laporte
August B. Yenn
Michigan City
Mr. Yenn
Laporte Liberty Band
Laporte City Band
Married man seeks to rent a farm near Chicago
E A Hyndman of 7615 Cottage Grove Avenue Chicago Illinois places a notice seeking to rent a farm. Interested landowners or agents should contact Hyndman at the listed address.
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E. A. Hyndman
Cottage Grove Ave
Chicago, Ill
Big Herd Depletion War Meats Demand Europe War
The United States Food Administration urges American stock breeders to conserve flocks as Europe demands more meat. Germany trails in livestock supply while England reduces her cattle with low price ceilings. France loses cattle and milk. Denmark and Holland sell dairy herds for beef. The future U S meat supply hinges on raising meat animals and dairy stock postwar.
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Europe
United States Food Administration
Germany
France
England
Denmark
Holland
Food Administration
America
British bread program subsidized by government
The article explains that Britain sells cheaper but poorer bread with government subsidies totaling 200 million dollars annually. It notes the state buys all grain at fixed prices, purchases imported wheat, and resells to mills to keep four pound, two pound, and one pound loaves at low prices. It compares with France where similar arrangements yield a four pound loaf at 16 cents.
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England
Great Britain
France
County awards contracts for three roads to Ackerman and Smith Co
County commissioners awarded two road projects to Jacob Ackerman and one to W F Smith & Co. Ackerman will construct the Albert F Rosenbaum road in Hanna township for 14900 dollars and the H H Rosenbaum road in Cass township for 6440 dollars. The Smith Co will build the August Schirr road in New Durham township for 12375 dollars.
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Jacob Ackerman
W. F. Smith & Co
Ackerman
Albert F. Rosenbaum
Hanna Township
H. H. Rosenbaum
Cass Township
Smith Co
August Schirr
New Durham Township
Death of Young Cecil King at Mill Creek
Cecil King, seven years, seven months, and seven days old, died at his Mill Creek home after a yearlong diabetes illness. Funeral services were held at the Bailey home south of town with the Presbyterian minister from Valparaiso presiding. Burial followed in Westville cemetery as Mrs. Elizabeth King receives widespread sympathy. Mary Jerome returned today from an extended visit with her son Welcome Jerome in Detroit.
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Mary Jerome
Welcome Jerome
Detroit
Mich
Cecil King
Mill Creek
Elizabeth King
Valparaiso
Westville
Cecil
Rural seed potatoes offered by Indicator editor
The Indicator offers a limited supply of Rural potatoes for seed. Order early or they will be marketed on April first. Price 1.50 per unit. Seed treated for disease. inspected by the government and praised as top quality. Wintered and sound, not germinated. sorted by size. government ordered them saved for seed. Seed houses quote 200 to 300 per bushel.
Wilbur Benson and the Indicator Feud of Luck and Horses
The piece portrays Wilbur Benson as a homebody recent arrival in town with harmonious home life and an upbeat mother. It notes Mrs Louise Hollenbeck’s vigilant subscription habits and Bert Topper, real name Englebert, a longtime horse trader who combines farming with trading bets on horses and wonders what he will do when horses go out of fashion.
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Wilbur Benson
Wilbur
Louise Hollenbeck
Bert Topper
Englebert
Bert
Arthur F Heiden Discharged From National Army Service
Mrs A F Heiden permits reading of the discharge for her husband Arthur F Heiden private Co C 309 Engineers National Army. He is discharged due to physical disability contracted before draft in obedience to paragraph 1 S O 122 Headquarters 84th Div Nov 17 1917 exempt from further draft given at Camp Zachary Taylor Ky Dec 26 1917.
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A. F. Heiden
Arthur F. Heiden
Co. C. 309 Engineers
National Army
U. S
84Th Div
Camp Zachary Taylor
Kentucky
Sarver Reopens Hotel to Boost Town Business
Isiah Sarver now located at the hotel in this place and has reopened the house for business. Mr and Mrs Sarver should be able to build up a nice business. The opening of the hotel is desirable to the town and traveling public.
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Isiah Sarver
Ramble of George O Leary Ends in Pursuit Across County
George O Leary, a Michigan City prisoner jailed for drunkenness, attempted to escape the Laporte bound yard. With two dollars in his pocket, accomplices urged him across the street. Fosdick pursued him, catching him in Wanatah after several hours. He possessed 15 cents of another inmate’s money.
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George O'Leary
Failor
Michigan City
Laporte
Turnkey
Fosdick
O'Leary
Charles Feldenauer
Burkhart
Michigan Central
McDougal
O’leary
Wanatah
John Augustine Pilots Buick for Summer Road Trip
John Augustine pilots a handsome Buick as he plans a summer gasoline fueled adventure.
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John Augustine
Flynn and Dodd Seek Republican Nominations in Local Primaries
Westville officials Flynn and Dodd announce Republican bids for county treasurer and New Durham Township trustee, respectively, contingent on May 7 primary voters in Westville. Herman E Leveren z seeks Republican nomination for Laporte County Auditor, thanking past supporters and urging party unity for a likely win. Also advertised: Coppes Brothers and Zook seek saw timber suppliers in Nappanee, Ind.
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Westville
S. D. Flynn
New Durham Township
W. L. Dodd
Laporte County
Coppes Brothers & Zook
Nappanee
Ind
Shoes Repaired at W L Augustine Store
William Tolton offers prompt shoe repairs if customers leave their work at the W L Augustine store for service.
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W. L. Augustine
William Tolton
For Sale and Spring Apparel Ad in Westville and Laporte
For Sale The John Hilton residence at corner Plane and Washington West ville is for sale inquire Roy Hilton West ville New Spring Apparel includes coats suits dresses waists and millinery New arrivals daily Johns bus delivers to Spees s 622 Lincolnway Laporte
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John Hilton
Plane and
Washington Streets
Westville
Roy Hilton
John
Spees’s
Lincolnway
Laporte
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Otis
Leroy
Chicago
Moroski
Cook
Emil Rotzein
Frank Wiesman
Myron Rodgers
Arthur Fausch
George Frame
John Slomki
Sam Sibbrell
John Goodwin
Max Bennethy
Willard
Ernest Rotzein
Arthur Essling
Willie
Thomas Gill
Whiting
Ben Sibbrell
Lester Bellows
Chesterton
Mabel Rotzein
Caster Mazurkewicz
Michigan City Dispatch
J. Taylor
Fred Miller
Taylor
Miller
Dispatch
Grorron
Sam
The
United States
Mr. Taylor
John Faulkner
West
New Ditch Law
Organization of the United States Food Administration
U.S. Food Administration
Eve
W. H. B. Items
Westville High
Madge
Glee Club
Elizabeth
Herman E. Leverenz
Boston
Laporte, Ind
Ve Darrow & Rowley
Masonic Temple
New Durham
Paul Hannon
J. N. Kelly
J. Vene Dorland
First National Bank
Fairview Farm
J. BE. Payne
Frank E. Osborn
Lee L. Osborn
Kenneth D. Osborn
Osborn & Osborn Lawyers
Nat'l Bank B’ld’g LaPorte Ind
John W. Rogers
Herald Bldg
Interurban
H. B. Hayward
Associated Physicians
R. M. Martin
Westville, Ind
Kryptok
Oswald
Franklin St
H. W. Sallwasser
Lincon Way
Court House
Henry Gortz
Jafferson
Phono
ST. John's Shoe Hospital
Nvwd
Rumely
Leon Simon, M.T. D
Michigan Ave
Ethelred Curtis
Bank of Westville
Howell Farm
Implementsville, Indiana
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