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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1921
Page
2
The Indicator, Westville Indiana, is a weekly paper published Thursdays with a Republican stance. It claims readership above fifty percent of the county and offers yearly subscriptions at two dollars until further notice.
A detachment from Camp Grant Illinois moved through Westville Tuesday forenoon en route to a Michigan point. About thirty wagons of equipment followed by three hundred troopers. Infantry trailed, then disappeared toward Laporte as the force camped at Frank Tilden farm near La Porte and previously at Ross Jones place near Valparaiso. Camp Grant is to be discontinued.
William Olem ing and William Wolff drew grand and petit jurors for the October term of the superior court starting next Monday. Names include Frank Gill Dewey Charles Ames Frank Danielson B F Heckman I D Gagner Frank Bolka EF QC Chapman Charles Barnes William Slattery Arthur Eddy George Hock C P Garner Jr R J Krueger A T Dester H T Baske George Donnelly Christ Kay M A Baird R L Jesup Carl Munster among others from New Durham Center Hanna Laporte Michig an City Scipio and Galena.
The county commissioners let contracts for five bridges including Saugenny culvert, Foltz, Maurer, Flagle and Liberty Trail. Cook Brothers win Saugenny culvert at 1826 and Maurer bridge at 541. L. V. Barcus gets Foltz bridge at 1950. H A Wilhelm wins Flagle bridge at 574 and Liberty Trail bridge at 525.
Miss Catherine Maxwell of Valparaiso faced two unknown men at the Carver school four and a half miles southwest of Michigan City. The intruders poured kerosene inside, lit a match, and fled after ordering her to leave. Neighbors extinguished the blaze with little damage. suspects not yet nabbed as Gary Valparaiso and Chesterton alerted. John Seberger dies at 64 in Miller Lake County. long time Aetna Powder Co. employee. funeral at Pinbeck church. Northern Indiana Gas and Electric surrenders local franchises under Indiana Public Service Commission supervision affecting thirty nine municipalities including Michigan City.
The Indiana State Tax Board, at Indianapolis, set aside approval for a $125000 cross road bond issue for Laporte County and granted a hearing on Friday October 18 in Laporte. The move comes amid ongoing circuit court litigation and two actions to set aside the bonds. Attorney J B Dilworth represents contractor Stephen Flynn who questioned the board's surprise reopening.
R. H. McKellips and his wife spent Sunday and Monday in Chicago visiting relatives.
The M. E. conference in session at South Bend assigns W. K. Ingalls to the Westville charge. O. L. Chivington leaves after three years to Culver in Marshall county. Ingalls comes from Stockwell near Lafayette with a respected record and a family. Several local appointments follow with ministers named for nearby towns and districts. Brazil, Indiana, selected as next Northwestern Indiana conference site for 1922.
Analyzed beer samples confiscated on the tug Bill Eddy show illegal alcohol content. Captain Nelson St. Peter and engineer Joe Pauley, both Chicago men, are jailed after Coast Guard and prohibition agents seized seventy five barrels and sixty half barrels of beer dumped into the harbor. Prohibition officers say two strangers hired the tug to haul beer manufactured in Michigan City, loaded at Seventh Street dock, and a soft drink outlet proprietor bought the cargo for 1000 dollars.
D W Griffiths spectacle Way Down East, drawn from the New England play, plays five days at Memorial theatre Valparaiso Ind beginning Tuesday Oct 11.
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