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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1919
Page
2
A brief note describes The Indicator as a Westville based weekly paper, Republican in tone, serving county readers with home and county news and occasional critiques. It notes subscription price at 1.50 per year and envisions wide local readership.
Chief interest centers on the fall meeting of the Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations in Indianapolis. Board discussions cover organization changes constitutional revisions and a proposed ten hour workday at the state convention on November 18 and 19. Delegates from ten districts plus officers and county members plan to attend with sessions open to all farmers.
The Laporte county branch of the Indiana Federation of Farmers moves to publish a monthly home farm magazine. Directors hope the nonpartisan publication informs about local conditions and timely farming information for about two thousand members. County Agent Beuchner serves as editor in chief with R K MacDougall as business manager.
G TI Christie of Purdue Indiana is named superintendent of the international grain and hay show tied to the international livestock exposition running November 29 to December 6. He has led Indiana agriculture efforts, served as wartime assistant secretary of agriculture, and directed Indiana corn shows and Panama exhibit. The event features U S Department of Agriculture displays, Canadian Seed Growers Association exhibits, and state demonstrations for educational purposes.
The Rev Franklin P Smith of Madison announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for representative in Indiana's 4th district. He formerly led Central Christian Church in Seymour and resigned to serve as a World War I army chaplain.
Foreman Wm. Stump and an extra gang are laying large pipe in the open gutter at the Lincolnway crossing. The gutter will be filled in after the pipe is installed and drainage improved.
Indiana utilities face a fuel crisis as miners stay idle and the Public Service Commission prepare a drastic coal conservation order. W H Tobin and E J Lewis urge cutting nonessential power use, including street lighting and electric signs, with a special committee meeting to finalize plans.
Ostermann says 20 million dollars will be spent on the Lincoln Highway this year and the work will be completed by year’s end. He arrives in South Bend with Captain McMahny and heads to Detroit then Washington for government talks aboard the official Lincoln Highway car.
Louis Friedman of Muncie Indiana plans housing for thirty families for four months while reopening abandoned gas lines north of Trouts and Boone Grove. The lines, first built in the county, will be cleaned through rattlers and sent to oil fields for easing. Workers camp nearby but cold weather halted digging. Excavations require three and a half feet depth with landowners paid for fill.
Local notices describe guests visiting from Michigan City and Ken dallville Ind. Mary Jane Dorsey celebrates a second birthday. The Barnes family plans a Roxbury Kansas move. A Grange hall dance with oyster supper and free meals for soldiers is announced for Thanksgiving night with tickets at 1.00.
A civic appeal notes widespread Junior Red Cross membership from Atlantic to Pacific with 8 376 624 children joining from January 1918 to August. It recounts Florence Nightingale and Clara Barton founding acts and outlines the Red Cross relief work from wars to famines and disasters worldwide.
Roland Rohils set an aviation altitude record at 34 610 feet in a Curtiss designed wasp triplane from Roosevelt Field Mineola New York. The flight lasted one hour three quarters with oxygen used after 20 000 feet.
The passage recounts how Red Cross volunteers aided war efforts by meeting weekly to sew clothing for Belgian children, knit gear for soldiers, and prepare jams for camp meals. It notes Florence Nightingale's pioneering role, the Junior Red Cross birth in 1918, Clara Barton’s American establishment in 1881, and enduring aims to aid sufferers and rebuild after conflict.
Florence Nightingale born in 1820 in Florence begins Red Cross interest and Civil War care. Clara Barton and other women aid wounded in the Civil War as Red Cross expands in later wars and disasters. Junior Red Cross reaches nearly 10 million members guiding youth citizenship.
W L Augustine announces a sale of fleece lined garments for men with wool fleece line options, Dutch neck and sleeveless styles for ladies, fleece lined unions and two piece outfits for children, plus heavy weight rubbers and work coats with pelts and blanket linings.
The Boston Store offers a splendid opportunity for women who have not yet purchased a full suit with exceptional showing and radical reductions. National Blouse Week features a wonderful display of blouses for immediate wear or as gifts, at The Boston Store in Laporte Indiana.
Miss Alice Brooks and Mrs Chloe Palngquist visited Westville High School last week. Lawrence Morehouse left school Friday for Gary. A domestic science class dinner was served to faculty on Wed Nov 13 under Miss Mugg. Donovan Dolman gave the first rhetorical of the year on The Man Who Reached the Roof of the World. Union Center and Union Mills teachers visited on different days. The school has 100 percent Junior Red Cross enrollment. Charlotte Kalies returned after a nine day absence. Parents and Teachers Association met to discuss adding a commercial course joining the state association and the school nurse.
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