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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1915
Page
3
Community notes from Laporte Indiana cover visits by residents to Benton Harbor and St Albans college, band director changes, road work on Monon Ry crossings, and local council actions. The piece also mentions hospital stays, Elks lodge admissions, and school subjects expanding with chemistry and zoology offerings.
Bonds for the erection and furnishing of Clinton township's new high school were sold Saturday to Fletcher National Bank of Indianapolis at a premium of 597 dollars. The building contract was let to Lewis & Spore of Knox for 12 225 dollars. Trustee J C Loomis expects foundation work to begin this week and favorable weather should push progress before winter.
Westville enjoyed a third balloon ascent during the recent field day events led by G A Maxwell. Aeronaut Robert Masterson, with about 1000 ascensions in nine years, notes work across the U S and abroad including Porto Rico and Argentina. He once broke in a South American fall and was hospitalized. Masterson lists Whiting Indiana as his home.
Friday afternoon a cyclone tore through rural areas west and east of town, uprooting about fifty trees near Ed Greening’s grove and injuring the E. S. Smith farm. Four large Crumpacker barns suffered severe damage while twenty trees fell. A courthouse-like repair effort follows as James Thomas and A. J. Remmert work to restore buildings. Mrs. Allan Barnard recalls a column of coal smoke describing the cyclone.
Two men named Mike and George from Westville and Gus who run a popcorn stand planned to join the Greek army but were turned back in New York as the expedition was canceled due to submarine fears. Mike was later injured in a hit n run in Michigan City while seeking work on the Wabash. An upcoming temperance meeting in La Porte on September 22 is noted with Judge Gallaher mentioned.
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