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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1905
Page
1
Assistant Secretary of State Frank I Grubbs reports many private bankers advise incorporating their banks as state banks. Law requests focus on statutes governing state banks and the new private bank bill. Auditor prepares printed copies of both laws to issue after acts go into effect about May first.
A Crocker correspondent reports two men broke into a merchandise car while a Wa bash train drank water. The conductor spotted them leaving the car and found about 200 in goods missing. Two nights later the pair were seen near the railroad grounds attempting another break in. Weekly losses include chickens and meat, with locals warned to beware.
Attention farmers solicitations for next season potato contracts. State lowest price per unit, kind, and amount you can render. Address E. K Massey 218 East Slat Street Chicago with offers.
Frank H Spearman wrote a vivid series on great railways in the Saturday Evening Post now in book form from Scribners. The Chicago & Northwestern chapter is issued by the line for general distribution as a pamphlet. Requests via mail cost 20 cents including postage.
L Rennewart trustee of Railroad township Starke county filed a petition for a bridge over the Kanakakee river on English Lake road. The board ordered to share the cost with Laporte county and directed the auditor to send a copy of the order to Laporte county commissioners.
Will Blank son of Mr and Mrs William Blank of Springville nearly drowned returning from creasing Vail's mill pond when the ice suddenly gave way forcing him to swim for his life.
Laporte county man Truman J. Smith arrested on counterfeiting charges in Hammond. his $85,000 bond set by U S Commissioner W S Reiter for federal court appearance. Secret service believes he leads a counterfeit gang with bogus dollars dated 1883. Smith moved to Indianapolis to await grand jury action.
J B Ganna of Cleveland and C E Bailey of New York visited Laporte as part of planning the South Bend South Shore and Chicago electric line. They described starting work on the South Bend end when weather allows with a large force by early April and emphasized thorough construction and robust equipment.
Lake county clerk Harold H. Wheeler reports that a codification commission bill lowers hunters license fees for non residents from 25 to 15 dollars. An emergency clause is added to this section though not to the entire bill. Nonresident fines stay 25 to 100 dollars, but jail terms rise from a maximum 30 days to a minimum 30 days and a maximum 60 days.
J. W. McKinnon of Talladega Springs Alabama credits Dr King's New Discovery with curing pneumonia after two doctors failed. The remedy treats consumption sore throat bronchitis and coughs. Guaranteed at E T Scott's drug store 50c and 1.00 Trial bottle free.
A commission including Dru Campbell Hollenbeck Kelly and Justice A M Brewer declared Mrs A W Ballau insane on Tuesday. An application for admission to Longcliffe asylum will be made at once if she does not become violent. she will be kept at home pending hospital acceptance. The elderly widow is described as a hard working woman deserving of commiseration.
Justice Beahm presiding in Laporte last Wednesday joined Herbert W. Brant of Michigan City and Misa Pauline Zehlke of Chester ton in marriage. The pair had a pending charge after Zehlke filed an affidavit naming Brant, and rather than face trial they wed quickly with a license secured that day and the judge's blessing.
Judge Tuthill denounces selfish pleas as George Van Riper twenty three and Thomas Buck sixteen are arraigned in Laporte county court for the February Lake station robbery. Buck receives ninety day jail and ten dollar fine while Van Riper gets five months in jail after claiming to be drunk. The pair fled after taking the station agent’s money but were cornered by a posse and a Michigan City police squad.
The Indianapolis News argues high school spending is excessive with limited benefits. It contends many people are unaware of current developments and that taxing others for the few who attend is unfair. It calls for greater focus on quality and value in common schools.
O E S in Westville held a Thursday banquet at the G A R hall with about seventy attendees. R C Gaston of Bogue school received the degree from the home staff and Mrs Anna C Banes Grand Matron gave a warm address, followed by speeches and a social departure.
Mrs. Spider informs Mr. Spider they must relocate from the dry goods store shelf as the shopkeeper begins advertising. The scene unfolds with concern and slight humor amid the store’s ordinary bustle. The setting appears in a Somerville Journal context.
A warning against mercury based catarrh treatments urging prescription use only. Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure from F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as safe, mercury free. Claims it works on blood and mucous surfaces and is sold by druggists for 75 cents per bottle.
Joint Agent Norton, representing twenty St. Louis terminal lines for the World's Fair, reports that one fifth of tickets passing through the validating office were Wabash tickets.
After graduating from Michigan Law School next June, Congressmen E D Crumpacker's sons Fred and Owen of Valparaiso will form a law partnership in Hammond. They will begin the practice of law there, adding to the noted Crumpacker family of lawyers.
The court holds that a debtor may prefer creditors including his wife when owed money, noting honesty is essential. If funds are borrowed from the wife, even belated discharge may allow conveyance of property to her to settle a twenty year old debt, despite irregular methods.
George A Cribbs a former Laporte hotel landlord now Bremen resident attempted suicide Friday night by carbolic acid. Wharton saw him writing farewell letters, removed the poison and dissuaded the 80 year old man who lacked money and friends.
Advertisement extols Foley's Honey and Tar as a quick cure to prevent pneumonia and consumption from a hard cold. Claims it soothes inflamed lungs and promotes healing. Sold by E. T. Scott.
Charles Winters son of Mr and Mrs G W Winters was acquitted yesterday by a Will County circuit court jury of horse theft after a day and a half trial. The case stemmed from Winters being a stranger in Portland and charged following a night ride with a horse and cutter amid eyewitness claims he was not drunk. Defense by Reynolds Purkhiser argued wrongful accusation and Winters was released. Also noted is the death of Dr Horace Wardner a longtime medical authority in Illinois.
The college leader asks for donated secondhand dress suits for students. He notes the need to learn proper dress and gracious behavior, and urges congratulatory support for the program.
Mrs. Ganns Crawford aged 92 died Sunday at her Laporte home from infirmities of old age. A county resident for fifty eight years she left nine children twenty six grandchildren and thirty two great grandchildren. Burial was in Door Village cemetery beside her husband who died in 1887. She was mother of Mrs Albert Cole and Mrs Andrew McClellan.
Mrs James Cape died Wednesday at her Michigan City home of blood poisoning at age 37. She leaves her husband two young children three siblings and two brothers and a sister. Daughter of the late Leonard Hill of Jackson Center her body was interred there Saturday near her birthplace.
Geo Traver owner of the Blue Front hitch barn on East Main Street Valparaiso died Monday evening. He leaves a wife and one daughter.
Mrs. Bridget Kane aged 70 died Saturday at her Laporte residence. The obituary notes her long life and local ties. No funeral details are provided in the readable text.
The Laporte Herald disputes a $2,260 equipment figure for a paid fire department. It notes that a three‑company full paid system would cost about $8,135, with possible reductions to 6,635 by remodeling the current engine and ladder truck.
The piece touts high death rates from appendicitis and peritonitis and promotes Dr King's New Pill as the sole remedy. M Flannery of 14 Custom House Place Chicago endorses their efficacy for constipation and biliousness. Druggist T Scotts offers the product.
The sermon Sunday morning will be The Secret of Christian Victories. Evening services will be led by the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society with Mrs. Worthly of Michigan City delivering the address. Special music and the annual thank offering will be received. Epworth League evening topic is Temperance a special meeting to which all are invited.
A historical note touts H. Herrold's Lump Remedy as a guaranteed cure. The short line advertisement promises universal effectiveness with bold assurance.
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