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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1921
Page
6
The American Red Cross urges a broad membership drive from November 11 to 24 as it funds veteran relief. It reports nearly 2,400 chapters aiding disabled ex servicemen, with 26,300 veterans in federal care and 129,215 monthly average services to veterans and families.
The American Red Cross reports broad health education efforts through Nursing Service Home Hygiene nutrition and first aid classes. It notes wartime nurse deployment 37 787 nurses on call and 38 0 1 assigned to government service plus 1 848 employed domestically and abroad.
Harry Woodard struggled in the water as a boat overturned near Gilbert Minnesota. Roy Rhodda, missing both wooden legs, swam 300 yards to shore aided by two companions who used the legs to reach land.
Washington reports a new Pellagra outbreak in the South with cases doubling since last year. Health officials consider the situation serious and are preparing to cope with the rise in illness.
In Constantinople General Secretary Charles V. Vickrey and Harold C. Jaquith of Near East Relief are praised for rescuing 18 000 orphans and seven American workers in Alexandropol amid renewed Armenian fighting. The organization had cared for tens of thousands more, supplying food clothing and medical care across the former Turkish empire.
Amid siege and bombardment near eastern orphanages, American volunteers refuse to flee. They continue coordinating food and aid as crises mount in Armenia and Caucasus, with shipments from the United States facing delays and scarcities. A massive relief effort remains underway despite military and political turmoil.
The flamingo carries out its routine in a backward and upside down manner. It drifts with its head in the mud, resting at the stream bottom while it strains water for insects, resulting in a reversed view of its surroundings.
A Moro mother carries her children on her shoulders with one child on each side clinging to her hair. She never has a baby carriage and is unfazed by fashion. The scene portrays bare necessities and maternal resilience.
The Place ditch project faces an injunction hearing in Judge Gallaher’s court after Fred Woodward and about 150 residents filed against its construction. The case challenges extended drainage areas and remonstrance rights, tying into the Miller Salisbury ditches and linking to Wabash railroad channels. Petitioners’ counsel John O Yeagley will appeal if the demurrer is sustained.
The gospel team led by Wm. King of the Laporte Christian church will hold a service next Sunday at 2 30 p m at the Westville Christian church.
Supt Steele announced a quartette from the men’s class of the M E Sunday school will highlight the upcoming service. He aims for a 500 attendance and emphasizes advertising to reach the goal.
Chicago reports kabalistic messages from grand chiefs of the four major railway brotherhoods calling on general chairmen to withhold the Sunday strike order. The labor board and the justice department are credited with securing a workable settlement though member acceptance remains uncertain. Unauthorised walkouts are expected to be sporadic if they occur.
The piece notes that youths enjoy Halloween fun but causing property damage has decreased over the years. It criticizes window marking with paraffin as the worst act, warning that repeated nightly removals can ruin plate glass, and urges praiseworthy restraint to curb harm.
Mrs Chas E Martin of Westville was admitted to the bar in the Laporte circuit court after an examining committee praised her proficiency. She studied the past two and a half years at LaSalle Extension University.
Chicago reports that Mrs. Martin wife of the Westville Indicator editor becomes the first and only woman lawyer in the county.
Miss Ruth Dreesen from Chicago visited her grandmother Mrs. Nellie Ide this week. The county road repair crew patches approaches to Westville and street intersections as part of the current maintenance program.
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