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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 04, 1915
Page
2
Obituary notices and poetry lines offered in the office for perusal. The text mentions prices per line and per year, with notices and advertisements available. A deadline is noted as Wednesday noon and attention is called to seating for readers.
Westville residents met at the Carnegie library Thursday with 32 attendees to discuss measures boosting local interests. Committees were formed to coordinate with the telephone company and address hitching posts while plans supported the girls band finances led by W L Dodd. A Lincoln Highway update notes spending of about 2,250,000 on the transcontinental road in its second year of progress through 1915.
The article surveys Lincoln Highway marking from New York to San Francisco noting New Jersey perfect and Pennsylvania nearly so. It cites state expenditures in 1915 18 months and bonded funds for Ohio Indiana Iowa Nebraska and other regions with concrete and seedling miles and local upkeep by state patrols. It also recounts local election outcomes in Westville with Marshal and trustee races.
Mrs Fedde died Sunday evening at her home in Momence Illinois. She was advanced in years and had fallen about two months earlier breaking her hip. Her daughter Mrs A Olds, who lived west of town, had been at her bedside most of the time since the accident.
Seven Chicago auto bandits five men and two women were captured north of Merrillville after a running gunfight led by Sheriff Whitaker and Deputy Friedley. They fled in a stolen limousine from Tolleson and burned a Winton car near the Grand Trunk railroad, with arrests after a chase through Gary and Lake County.
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