October 1, 1921
Frank Fabing has resigned his position in the offices of the superintendent of the rail mill in Gary steel mills and today took over the messenger service between Valparaiso and Chicago. He will make his first trip Monday.
The committee of the Milk Producers' Co-operative company today announced that the price of milk for the month of October would be $1.75 per hundred (≅$26.75 in 2021). The price was fixed by the committee after a conference with the buyers and acting on instructions of the farmers represented by them. The price of $1.75 is for county plants with the usual difference for milk f. o.b. Chicago. The September spread has been ten percent.
October 2, 1921
Valparaiso High School gridders defeated the Hammond High School football team 6 to 2 Saturday at University Park. Valpo scored its only touchdown in the first seven minutes of play when Fred LePell ran 30 yards and plunges by Scott, Seymour, and Lembke carried the ball over. Hammond came near scoring a touchdown in the last few minutes of play, but was stopped near the goal line.
Boone Grove’s crack baseball team was defeated Sunday at Kouts by LaCrosse by a score of 3 to 1. LaCrosse was strengthened by a battery from South Bend. Walter pitched for Boone Grove.
October 3, 1921
Attorney Joseph DeMarti, of Gary, came here Saturday in company with the administrator of the estate of Joseph Cuncinello, shot to death by unknown persons several weeks ago in Portage Township, and took the big Hudson Super-Six belonging to Cuncinello back to Gary. Coroner H. O. Seipel will hold an inquest tomorrow. Mrs. Cuncinello will be the only witness.
An echo of the Tolleston bank robbery in 1919 in which cashier Herman Uecker, cashier of the First State Bank of Tolleston, was killed by bandits during the holdup, was heard Saturday at Indianapolis where the bank is suing the Ocean Accident and Guaranty Corporation of London for $10,000 (≅$152,830.73 in 2021) on a police guaranteeing protection against infidelity of employees. Large sums were obtained from 1916 to 1919 by Uecker and Charles Phillips by forging the names of patrons of the bank to loans and failing to credit deposits, it is charged.
October 4, 1921
Frank Cowdrey, engineer on the Valparaiso-Chicago accommodation of the Pennsylvania Railroad, has just received word he has been placed on the retired list of employees with a pension. Mr. Cowdrey was forced to give up his work several months ago on account of ill health. Next January he would have rounded out fifty years of service.
October 5, 1921
From nearly every part of Porter County have come reports of damage done in clover and alfalfa by the fall army worms. Every new field is infested with the pest. County Agent A. Z. Arehart has advised farmers to use poisoned bran to kill them, or else draw a heavy roller across the fields and crush them.
October 6, 1921
The personal property of the Hess-Mercury Carburetor Company of Valparaiso, now bankrupt, has been sold by the Farmers’ Trust and Savings’ Bank of Kokomo, Ind., receiver, to a Mr. Lindsey, of Chicago, for $1,365 (≅$20,861.39 in 2021). The building on Union Street has not been sold. Daly & Freund, local attorneys of the bank, received word of the sale today.
Miss May Heller, of Indianapolis, has been employed by Superintendent C. W. Boucher of the Valparaiso City Schools to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Lillian Dinius, who has been in ill health. Miss Heller was recommended by Oscar Williams, state high school inspector.
October 7, 1921
Lawrence F. Letherman, of Boston, Mass., formerly of Valparaiso, has been appointed Assistant Chief Agent of the Department of Justice for New England states. Mr. Letherman has been connected with the government in the postal and revenue service for a number of years, he was formerly a post office inspector in Indiana.
Terry’s Tea Room, located at 69 S. Franklin Street, over Doyle and Breed’s Barber Shop, opened for business today. Mr. Terry was formerly engaged in the restaurant business in Chicago.
October 8, 1921
A movement has been started to organize a golf club in Valparaiso. There are a number of people who play but have to go elsewhere. Years ago a flourishing club existed here and the sport gained great headway. A meeting will be held at the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce to discuss the plan of organization.
Frank K. Bumstead, publisher of the Valparaiso and Porter County Directory, died Thursday at his home in Evanston, Ill. Mr. Bumstead published six directories in this city and county over a period of twenty years. The distribution of his latest book had not been completed when he was stricken.
October 9, 1921
For the third time this year, the Valparaiso Athletics defeated the strong Boone Grove baseball team at the fairgrounds Sunday, 2 to 1. William Peters, for Valparaiso, struck out twelve men. Ed Tofte’s steal of home in the eighth produced the winning run. Jerry Maloney and Walter Hiltpold pitched for Boone Grove.
Dr. T. C. Howard, of the state veterinarian’s office, tested 398 cows in Porter County last week for tuberculosis. Twenty-six reactors were found in the number. These animals were shipped to the Chicago stockyards for slaughter.
October 10, 1921
The Schleman-Morton Company today purchased the Fidelia Salyer one-quarter block at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso for a reported consideration of $25,000 (≅$382,076 in 2021). The property consists of six twenty-two-foot lots. Two of the lots are occupied by the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce and B. & S. Tire Shop buildings. On the rear of one of the lots is located a residential property, offices of Dr. C. R. Wickham, chiropractor.
Dr. C. F. Rickard, who engaged in the practice of chiropractics in Valparaiso for seven years and who recently returned from Pittsburgh, Pa., will open up his new parlors over Wark Hardware tomorrow.
October 11, 1921
Three Porter County men will average over 100 bushels per acre in the five-acre corn contest conducted by Purdue University. The three are J. A. Warren, Arthur Tuesburg and Seral Warren. The yield this year will not approximate the 127½ bushels per acre by Mr. Warren last year when he won second in the state.
October 12, 1921
Mrs. Emma G. Dorsey, of Chautauqua Park, left this morning for Delaware, Ohio, where she has been engaged by St. Mark’s Lutheran Church as a special soloist and organist at the centennial anniversary services commemorating the founding of the church. The annual conference of the Ohio Synod will be held at the same time.
October 13, 1921
Soldiers of the 2nd and 3rd Regiments of the U. S. Army, marching from Camp Perry, O., to Camp Sheridan, Ill., and Camp Snelling, Minn., were entertained Tuesday when they pitched camp near McCool. Housewives in the vicinity baked cakes for the men. The soldiers gave a band concert in the evening and a large crowd attended.
While enroute from his home in Hobart to Valparaiso last evening, William Laube, a deputy sheriff of Lake County, was fired upon by unknown persons three miles west of Valparaiso. Laube did not stop to ascertain who fired the shots, but drove on. His wife and two friends were with him.
October 14, 1921
The Garyton School in Portage Township will be built. The bonds for the construction have been sold by Trustee Herman W. Swanson to the Thomas S. Sheerin Company of Indianapolis. The issue is $30,000 (≅$458,492.18 in 2021), and a premium of $181 (≅$2,755.24 in 2021) was paid. Charles W. Jensen, of Chesterton, handled the legal end of the business.
H. Edward Skinner, former Valparaiso resident, was recently honored by the motion picture theater owners of Utah in session at Salt Lake City, Utah, when he was elected president of the state association. Mr. Skinner is manager of the Alhambra Theater at Ogden.
October 15, 1921
The owners of the Palace Confectionery at LaPorte have leased the Horn Brothers’ building on West Lincolnway, now occupied by the latter firm as a meat market. As soon as the Horn Brothers move into their new building the old building will be remodeled at a total cost of $20,000 (≅$305,551.24 in 2021).
Rev. B. Wilson Smith, former resident of Valparaiso, and at one time president of the Valparaiso Male and Female College, died on October 13 at Indianapolis at the age of ninety-one years. Besides being an educator, he was a minister of the gospel, and served in the Indiana legislature and was postmaster at Lafayette during Benjamin Harrison's administration as President of the United States.
October 16, 1921
Valparaiso University gridders lost to DePauw University yesterday at Greencastle by a score of 41 to 0. The veteran DePauw outfit had little trouble throughout the game and the team’s superior weight and skill proved factors that the locals could not surmount.
The Valparaiso American Legion football team was defeated at Lowell yesterday, 6 to 0. Valparaiso took the ball the entire length of the field but fumbled on the three-yard line and Lowell recovered.
October 17, 1921
A stolen airplane was recovered last night in Morgan Township by Sheriff William Pennington. The plane was owned by the Johnson Airplane and Supply Company of Dayton, Ohio, and was stolen in West Virginia, while in the charge of Marvin Headley, of LaCrosse, Ind.
The Valparaiso Standards won a silver loving cup at North Judson Friday and Saturday at Wheatfield by defeating Wheatfield 3 to 1 and North Judson 6 to 4. Wheatfield had stars from Boone Grove, Union Mills, Wanatah, and other places. North Judson had Pug Cavet, from the Indianapolis American Association team, Nespo, from Michigan City, and other stars. Sides, for Valparaiso, struck out 16 North Judson batters and allowed only four hits.
October 18, 1921
Two frame buildings, housing the Poncher Brothers auto accessories shop and a quantity of merchandise of the Bryant, Dowd Company at Hebron, was destroyed by fire this morning at 3:30 o’clock, entertaining a loss of $8,000 (≅$122,264.58 in 2021). Meyer Poncher, who lived in the rear of the store, narrowly escaped with his life. Valparaiso and Kouts fire departments sent assistance.
October 19, 1921
Sale of the Clifford School, west of Valparaiso, scheduled for October 22, has been called off by Trustee Charles Crisman, because the law requires that two-thirds of the voters of the school district sign a petition for the sale. The Clifford School was abandoned a number of years ago, and the pupils now attend the school at Cook’s Corners.
October 20, 1921
James A. Jones, of Valparaiso, member of the police department of the Pennsylvania Railroad, today received a copy of the fingerprints of President Warren G. Harding. The prints were taken when the president was an honored guest at the convention of the International Association for Identification held last month in Washington, D.C. Copies were mailed to all members of the association as souvenirs.
R. E. (Sam) Houston, of Valparaiso, state commander of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War, has received word from Raymond A. Lasance, of Cincinnati, Ohio, national adjutant of the organization, that the proposal to cut pay of federal board trustees would not be made at this time. The government has been discussing the matter for the last three months, cutting pay from $100 (≅$1,528.31 in 2021) to $80 (≅$1,222.65 in 2021) per month. A survey was made and it was claimed the cost of living had been materially reduced.
October 21, 1921
At a meeting of the Portage Township Farmers’ Association at McCool Methodist Episcopal Church last night, the members voted favorably on holding a county fair. Seventy-five people attended. A committee, composed of H. T. Lenburg, Ross Crisman and Glen Robbins were named to attend the regular meeting of the Porter County Farmers’ Association in Valparaiso on October 29. The fair proposition was introduced by County Agent A. Z. Arehart.
Julius Schultz has conveyed 146½ acres of land in Morgan Township to John Schultz for $15,025 (≅$229,628.17 in 2021), according to a deed filed in the office of the Porter County Recorder.
October 22, 1921
Valparaiso taxpayers will pay at the rate of $3.32 per $100 in 1922 (≅ $50.74 in 2021), according to a compilation made by Porter County Auditor C. A. Blachly. This year the rate was $3.06 (≅$46.77 in 2021). The increase is due to a lower property assessment for next year.
Ben H. Urbahns, formerly of Valparaiso, deputy state treasurer, was given an increase of $1,500 (≅$22,924.61 in 2021) by Governor McCray in a readjustment of salaries of officers in the statehouse at Indianapolis. Mr. Urbahn’s former salary was $2,500 (≅$38,207.68 in 2021).
October 23, 1921
The Valparaiso Country Club, the result of a meeting held two weeks ago to form a golf club, has obtained an option on a piece of ground near the city and will build a course this fall so that it may be in shape for play next July. The location of the property purchased will be announced shortly.
A ninth inning rally in which two runs were scored enabled LaCrosse to defeat the Valparaiso Standards at Kouts Sunday 4 to 3. Kellar, of South Bend, and Jimmy Middleton, of the Detroit Americans, pitched for LaCrosse. Carter, of Chesterton, starred for Valparaiso, with a homer and triple.
October 24, 1921
A class of twenty-seven men were taken into the Disabled American Veterans of the World War at a meeting held last evening. The post will hold a dance at Armory Hall on November 4.
The Valparaiso Lodge of Elks, which recently purchased the Dr. James R. Pagin property, corner of Jefferson and Washington Streets, will move in a short time to the new quarters. The Pagins will move into the William Krudup property which they recently purchased.
October 25, 1921
Contractor Gerald McGillicuddy started work today on grading the Charles W. Hall Road in the north part of Valparaiso. The road continues Lafayette Street to Evans Avenue, and then runs westerly to Campbell Street.
October 26, 1921
Rev. Guy O. Carpenter was elected president of the Valparaiso Ministerial Association last evening. Rev. C. E. Burns was named secretary. It was planned to hold special services on Armistice Day and Students’ Day. It was decided to ring the church bells at noon beginning November 6 to remind the people to offer prayers for the success of the disarmament conference which meets November 13.
October 27, 1921
The tower of the Valparaiso Baptist Church was struck by a bolt of lightning yesterday afternoon during a storm. A big wooden beam in the top of the tower was splintered and set on fire. The fire department was called and extinguished the blaze. This makes the third time the tower has been stuck. In 1896, the tower was stuck and burned to the top of the building. Four years later in 1900 it was struck again.
The Delta Theta Tau sorority sprang into the limelight of public discussion yesterday when the posters advertising their Halloween dance were issued, containing the phrase, “Sh-h-h-h- Antique Cider.” Anxious mothers conferred with anxious mothers. Mr. Stoner, lessee of Armory Hall, where the dance was to be held, made inquiries. President John E. Roessler of Valparaiso University, issued an order against the students attending the dance. The officers of the Deltas declared the anxiety of all concerned was unnecessary. Delta dances are always adequately chaperoned, they say. They have cancelled the cider order and will substitute lemonade to set at rest certain minds who have worried over the affair.
October 28, 1921
The Hillcrest Association at the west side of Flint Lake is making a number of improvements in the bathing facilities at that place. Sand is being brought from the south side of the lake. At present time there are fifty buildings at Hillcrest with more contemplated. W. J. Henry is president of the association.
Hebron will soon have a North American Union Lodge. William Mohnssen, local organizer, has been working in Hebron for some time. He has secured about fifty applicants for membership. Next Tuesday night, James Downey of Chicago, and a degree team from Chicago, will confer the initiatory work on the new class.
October 29, 1921
Among the interesting things to come before the Valparaiso City Council last night was a petition presented by representatives of the Mothers’ Club requesting the curfew law be enforced. The petition was endorsed by clubs, societies, church organizations, the general public, and other organizations. Mayor P. L. Sisson seemed to favor the move and said the court house bell would be rung. The curfew law was passed in 1898 and for a number of years was enforced. No persons under 16 years of age will be allowed on the streets, alleys, of public places of Valparaiso between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. from April 1 to November 1, and from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. from November 1 to April 1, unless accompanied by parents or guardians, or holding a written order, or engaged in any business requiring their presence on the streets.
The town board of Kouts last night ordered all public places, including public gatherings, churches, and schools, closed beginning Monday on account of the scarlet fever epidemic raging there. The ban will remain in force indefinitely. Dr. P. D. Noland, deputy county health officer, ordered the closing. There are twenty cases of scarlet fever in Kouts.
October 30, 1921
The old Salyer house at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso, purchased by the Schleman-Morton Company, has been sold to A. H. Reading, who will move it to North Washington Street to be used as a photographic studio. The Salyer home was one of the original landmarks of Valparaiso and half of it was moved to Chautauqua Park for a home.
Rev. C. B. Cromwell, former pastor of St. Andrew Episcopal Church of Valparaiso, and who since leaving here, has been pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, Logansport, has resigned his pastorate there and will leave this week for New York where he will assume charge of a large Episcopal church.
October 31, 1921
Valparaiso will have a modern fifty-room hotel of six stories. Charles F. Lembke, well known Valparaiso architect, has submitted a proposal to the Valparaiso Hotel Association to build a hotel. Construction of the building will begin March 1, 1922, and will be completed by March 1, 1923. Mr. Lembke proposes to erect the building without issuing bonds or stock.
William Sergeant, who was formerly with the Specht-Finney Company and later went to Lincoln, Ill., to take charge of the ladies ready-to-wear department of a big store there, is now connected with a store at Hammond, Ind.