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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1915
Page
3
Community briefs report residents visiting family and moving homes, along with illnesses and medical visits. L. R. Cass collects $3,000 for the county. O. Dunham injures a foot in a ladder fall. Local editors, stores, and a court suit are noted, with regional travel and a car accident near Wanatah.
Charles D. Davidson of Gary was Saturday appointed receiver of the Gary and Interurban Railroad by Judge A B Anderson in federal court. Davidson’s bond was fixed at 50000. Central Trust Company of Chicago applied for the receiver and holds a first mortgage of 1000000 with three or four other issues against the Gary company. The trust company says the Gary company is one year behind in interest on the first mortgage.
Chesterton Citizens and People's tickets propose candidates for trustees in First and Third wards, clerk and treasurer, marshal. Henry Gotens and John Pillman lead Chesterton tickets alongside A L Blachly and Al Tillapaugh. In Chesterton there are two tickets with Joseph Isaacson Albert Swan son H Cal Nichols and Oscar Edmond. Porter Citizens list Roscoe Huff and F Kemp for roles. Porter People's ticket names J P Carlson for trustee and R E Busse for clerk and treasurer with Emil Carlson as marshal.
In Valparaiso on October 18 Detective J A Jones arrested Charles Warren and his wife Beulah Youse Warren for forgery linked to Fort Wayne. The couple, married in Michigan City last Friday, were seized while waiting for a Pennsylvania Railroad train. The man denied the charges. the woman claimed ignorance of the alleged forgeries.
Various town updates include Dutcher moving to the Ansley property west of J C Matotte residence Cogent notes on a new steel gasoline tank from Coulter Bros to be buried per state law A C Johnson road work delayed by tardy stone and ground broken for a Bluhm Henton blacksmith shop on Valparaiso Plane streets plus railway talks with Monon Ry officials in Chicago about Railroad Street issues
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