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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1895
Page
3
The message emphasizes locating trustworthy groceries to avoid anxiety and secure moderate prices. It urges limiting confidence and patronage to reliable outlets and promises relief from worry when the right store is found.
Corrected weekly market prices cover wheat oats corn and livestock with per unit rates and a for sale notice listing 100 acres east of Fort Wayne area near LaPorte including orchard timber and cultivated land, plus a first class house and barn. Mason Chapter 138 O E S holds meetings on the second and fourth Fridays. Ross Catron is secretary.
Local notices list the county fair dates Sept 24 27 with news items from Laporte and surrounding towns. The piece mentions vendors drugs and tobacco ads and various residents including Ansley Payne Young and Crumpacker, plus updates on property tax values and local events.
Local items report visitors and travels such as John Small in Wanatah and Charley Miller in the county capital. County fair attendance, pump repairs at township schools, and ball games in Westville and Laporte appear alongside brief notices on thefts, sales bills, and DeWitt's remedies.
The advertisement boasts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces, promises strength, and offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure, with testimonials available.
The Northwest M. E. Conference at Valparaiso ends an eight day session with Bishop Steven Merrills presiding. Officers' reports adopted, ministers placed on the superannuated list, and new deacons and elders ordained. Women admitted to conference. Terre Haute chosen for next meeting. numerous district appointments listed for Brook-Sawyer to Wolcott.
New storefront Wo A Punsky reports daily arrivals of fresh stock for customers. Local shoppers can expect steady imports of boots and shoes as the business opens.
Progress continues on the Valparaiso road west of town with stone culverts slated for completion by week’s end. After that grading and graveling from F Matotte’s to the county line will begin.
George Lepell an electric lineman at Valparaiso was repairing a break when the current was mistakenly turned on. He was hurled fifteen feet to the ground with the wire wrapped around his hands and would have been killed if a fellow worker had not knocked the wire loose with a board. He remained unconscious for a time.
John Meyers led a gang of tramps who attempted a Lake Snores train hold up near Laporte in July. A circuit court jury yesterday afternoon sentenced him to two years hard labor. Meyers is the son of Mrs. Trayer, a Benton Harbor social figure, who had been unaware of his whereabouts for a year. Six gang members are already serving penitentiary sentences.
Saturday J O Burner and his four year old son Jimmy drove to Wellsboro for wildflowers. Returning near Webster farm the horse bolted and in grabbing the lines J O Burner’s left forearm fractured in the wheel. Young Jimmy ran about forty rods to summon help. Dr Hollenbeck set the fracture. recovery will take time.
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