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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1907
Page
3
A patchwork of society items, arrivals, departures, and incidents across LaPorte Indiana and nearby towns. Notables include deaths and injuries of local residents, wedding and birthday celebrations, school and church news, road work, and circulating ads. Also mentions transfers, bids, and moving picture events.
A. D. Williams of Richmond urges parsons with weak lungs to use Dr King s New Discovery praised as life saving for coughs asthma bronchitis and more. F T Scotts carries it with trial bottle offers. Indiana notes Hammond meeting dates and a lame back remedy praised. E T Scott of Noble County advertises Chamberlain s Pain Balm cited by Luke of LeGrange. Valparaiso Messenger reports race death and school depopulation tied to population drops.
Friday visitors include John Z sboroski and wife of Chester terton and John Smiley Jan returning from the Kankakee county fair. Couples like O J Sackman and Mrs Frame, and Joseph Menczwer with bride, plan new homes in Chicago. Uncle G W Shaner sold his farm to a Chicago man and moved to Weston.
Community notices highlight visits by Mr and Mrs Pash of Wanatah to C B Merriam, John Burck and Mies Evhel Schultz to Chicago, Misa Ruby Rogers from LaPorte visiting family, and George Wakeman at the state fair in Indianapolis. Local resident Howard Goldsmith returns home from Holy Family Hospital after a fall. Mrs. John Hockney is ill from rheumatism. Mrs. Jerry Schultz celebrates a birthday with Wanatah relatives.
The state docket lists 28 cases with several involving violations of liquor and gaming laws. Names include Jacob Halter Wille August Tabbott A G Larber LaPorte Garland C White Springfield Alexander Kerr Scipio Clark Bunnall Gass Arthur Roecke Jacob Burkhart Fred Ash William Baker James Buck C O Freese Leroy T Smith John F Cathcart Wao Orr Geo H Francis A T Bryant Noble Anderson Selpia and others.
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