June 1, 1922
A roaring in trees in many parts of the county today sounded like the hum of factory wheels. It marked the visit of the 17-year locusts. On the William Schleman farm, near Hebron, a five-acre tract of timber was literally covered with locusts. The locusts lay eggs and the insects hatched there-from, eat the leaves, and kill the trees. No reports have come of growing crops having been damaged. Porter County Agent A. Z. Arehart has a number of the locusts on exhibition at his office in the courthouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Maudlin and son arrived here yesterday from Laffayette, Ind., where Mr. Maudlin is attending Purdue University. Mr. Maudlin is commander of the Disabled American Veterans post of the World War at Purdue University. He has been selected as a delegate to the national convention of the D. A. V. to be held at San Francisco, Calif., in later June.
June 2, 1922
The annual alumni banquet of Valparaiso High School was held last night at the M. E. Church and Lincolnway school. J. Earle Mavity, ’17, acted as toastmaster. Attorney J. S. Bartholomew, ’97, welcomed the class to the alumni association. Marian Albright responded for the Class of 1922. Helen Dean, ’17, sang two songs. Alma Curtis, ’16, gave a reading. John Fabing, ’20, spoke on the value of the alumni association. Edith Small, ’21, gave a toast to the sweet girl graduate. Charles Coyer, ’22, gave a violin solo. Superintendent C. W. Boucher made a plea for support of the alumni. Lowell Dowdell, president of the alumni association for 1921 and 1922, presided at the business session. Richard Fabing was elected president; Bessie Long, vice-president; and Forrest Jones, secretary-treasurer. The crowd then went to the Lincolnway school and danced.
Anderson Brothers, of Gary, awarded the contract for the construction of the new high school and grade building at Wheeler, has commenced work on the foundations. The excavation has been completed. The building will be ready for occupancy next fall.
June 3, 1922
Representatives of the Lansing Morgan heirs, owners of land on Lake Michigan abutting Waverly Beach, are causing the arrest of persons driving along the beach on their property. A test suit may be brought to ascertain whether property rights are being violated.
Albertus Gray, of Valparaiso, has returned from Detroit, Mich., where he attended the meeting of the Polar Bears of the North Russia Expedition. The convention passed resolutions insisting the government erect one of its proposed hospitals for the disabled in Detroit, asserting Detroit gave more per capita of its youth to war than any other American city.
June 4, 1922
The Valparaiso Mid-West League team defeated the South Bend Singers Sunday at South Bend, 5 to 4. Smith pitched a fine game for Valparaiso and was accorded marvelous support. Valpo batted Henning hard. Three thousand attended the game. Manager Deak Austin has booked Racine, Wisc., for a game there on Sunday.
June 5, 1922
With practically the entire force of the old Pitkin & Brooks Glass Factory at work, the F.W. Lesch Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of cut glass, began operations yesterday at the southeast corner of Franklin and Lincoln Avenue (now Brown Street) in Valparaiso, in the old church building. The Lesch Company is working under a contract from Pitkin & Brooks Company, and will also do other work.
June 6, 1922
Mayor E. W. Agar, who is a member of the Valparaiso University faculty, is not teaching at the summer term which began last week. This is the first time he has missed a term in 27 years. Next September he will resume his teaching. Mr. Agar began teaching in the Michigan schools 40 years ago (circa 1882). Prior to coming to Valparaiso, he was Indian agent and superintendent of the Indian schools in the State of Washington.
June 7, 1922
William Nallis, Delmore Carr, Nick G. Bulls, David R. Hoffman and Edward F. Boule, members of Valparaiso Chapter, No. 2, Disabled American Veterans of World War, will represent the local chapter at the national convention to be held at San Francisco, Calif., June 26-30. Other members of the local post will also attend.
The new hotel being erected by Charles F. Lembke, local contractor, is being built according to lines set forth in the Chicago building ordinance for reinforcement of concrete buildings. The entire construction is concrete, including footings, basement walls, interior and exterior columns, girders, beams, joists, floors and stairs.
June 8, 1922
Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney and marketing expert, addressed a large gathering of farmers at the Memorial Opera House last night on the new plan that will place the milk industry on a business basis and return the producer his just share of the consumers’ dollar.
Fred Weincken and Ora McNiece have returned from Chicago where they attended the reunion of the Second Division, commanded by General Bell during the World War. Both Valparaiso men were decorated with the Fourragère, a French war decoration, for distinguished service with the American Army in France.
June 9, 1922
The body of a man, apparently thirty years of age, and burned to a crisp, was found yesterday afternoon on the Lake Michigan beach, three and one-half miles east of Waverly Beach in Porter County. Malcolm Simmons, a Chicago student camping in the dunes, discovered the body. The body lay on a pile of burning ashes. A Winchester rifle lay nearby. It is believed the man was murdered.
Dr. H. M. Evans, who is connected with the U.S. Public Health Service at Washington, D.C., will leave June 17 for a tour of the world on behalf of American trade and development of the fur, seal, and salmon industries of Alaska. The party will be headed by C. H. Huston, assistant secretary of commerce. The trip will be made on the United States Cutter, Mojave.
June 10, 1922
At a meeting of the Valparaiso City Council last night, City Attorney E. G. Osborne was instructed to draw up a contract with the Valparaiso Lighting Company for the installation of an ornamental lighting system on Lincolnway.
Judge and Mrs. H. H. Loring, and son, Bruce, attended a reunion last night at Hebron of the Hebron High School Class of 1890. Judge Loring taught the class for three years.
June 11, 1922
Mrs. R. C. Wheelock, formerly Beulah Beshears, of Valparaiso, and her husband were killed yesterday in Chicago when an airplane in which they were riding crashed. Mrs. Wheelock, who for the past two years had been head of the Fine Arts Department at Valparaiso University, was married last week at the H. C. Swartout home here.
Local authorities investigating the mystery of the finding of the burned body of a man in the Lake Michigan sand dunes near Waverly Beach, are still without clues regarding his identity. A report that Chicago newspaper men planned to dig up the body caused Sheriff William Pennington and Deputy Sheriff W. B. Forney to hurry to the scene. As they arrived the newspaper men stepped from a boat. The party consisted of Austin O’Malley, D. E. Williams, E. W. Raple, Nicholas McDonald, Dr. Joseph Springer, deputy coroner of Cook County, Ill., and Darrell R. McConnaughly, a funeral director. The men told the officers they went to the place to look at the grave but disclaimed any attempt at molestation of the body. The officers did not go to the grave to investigate.
June 12, 1922
Wheatfield and LaCrosse, of the Kankakee Valley League, staged a great game Sunday. LaCrosse won 27 to 1. Myers, Wheatfield pitcher, quit in the third inning when his teammates failed to accept easy chances. It was LaCrosse’s first win following four straight losses.
A Winchester rifle found near the body of an unknown man incinerated on a pyre in the sand dunes near Waverly Beach may lead to his identity, Coroner H. O. Seipel said today. An effort is being made to trace ownership through the number on the gun. Yesterday Deputy Sheriff W. B. Forney and Coroner’s Physician Joseph Springer, of Cook County, Ill., nearly came to blows when the two men became involved in an argument over the digging up of the body of the victim by Chicago newspapermen. Dr. Springer attempted to bluff local officers but soon found out his mistake.
June 13, 1922
An argument over the slaying of an unknown man in the Dunes region of north Porter County caused a fight last night near Miller’s Station between Paul Wilson, husband of Diana of the Dunes and Eugene Frank, Miller fisherman. Wilson attempted to strike Frank and was shot in the leg. Mrs. Wilson went to her husband’s aid and was struck on the head with a gun by Frank. The three were taken to Gary at gunpoint by Frank’s father. The fight started when Wilson upbraided Frank for bringing curiosity seekers to the Wilson home while the latter was not there.
June 14, 1922
The Consumers’ Wholesale Grocers with main offices at Chicago Heights, Ill., today leased the Henry Sievers’ building on East Lincolnway for a term of five years. The company operates 35 stores in Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. The Sievers building was formerly occupied by the Kingley Shirt Company.
June 15, 1922
P. Kenneth Brock, formerly manager of the Kingley Shirt Company factory in Valparaiso, will soon commence the manufacture of men’s shirts, women’s and children’s dresses and shirt waists in the upper part of the Sievers building on East Lincolnway. The Kingley Shirt Company recently closed its factory here because of heavy overhead.
Tuesday in superior court at Michigan City, Judge Harry L. Crumpacker granted the petition filed by Attorney Mark B. Rockwell on behalf of William Smith, of Valparaiso, whereby the latter assigns and transfers his lease to the building on West Lincolnway, now occupied by him as a barber shop and pool room, to the National Tea Company. The latter company will move its store from Indiana Avenue to the new location.
June 16, 1922
The Porter County Fish and Game Club will be reorganized. Elmer Vrooman, inspector of the Department of Conservation, was here yesterday and conferred with Dr. J. D. Keehan, local club secretary. Mr. Vrooman stated this section of the state had always been active and he desired a live organization to protect fish and game in Porter County. A. J. Bodine will arrive here in a few days to begin a reorganization. Mr. Vrooman stated two game wardens would be sent here this summer.
A china factory, three times as large as the Chesterton plant, will be erected in Valparaiso within the next two years by the American China Products Company, it was announced today. The factory, when operating in full blast, will employ 1,500 people. The local unit will have 18 kilns.
June 17, 1922
Dr. Joseph Lester Gordon, of Wheeler, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Kentucky on June 8. He is also a graduate of the Wheeler High School. He will leave in a few days for Wayland, Ky., to practice his profession.
St. Paul’s Parochial School closed yesterday afternoon for the summer. There were no graduates from the school this year, but next year there will be a big class. Jean Overmeyer was high honor pupil among the first-year high pupils with an average of 96; Leonard Gannon, high among second-year pupils with 96; and Rose O’Sullivan, high among third-year pupils with 95.
June 18, 1922
Negotiations are now under way by Chicago colored people who have been figuring on purchasing Sager’s Lake for the leasing of the property for a term of 99 years with an option to buy the same. It is understood the promoters intend to lease 400 lots on the basis of 7% interest on a valuation of $400 ($6,845.33 in 2022). By this method $12,000 ($205,360.00 in 2022) would be created for the down payment. Mr. Sager said today he was still willing to sell to Valparaiso interests.
Wesley Hoffman, who obtained a degree of Bachelor of Science in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Purdue University, has accepted a position in Chicago at the Underwriters’ Laboratories.
June 19, 1922
Contract for construction of the new Valparaiso Daily Vidette building on the Salyer site, southwest corner Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso, was awarded to Smith and Smiths Company. Work will be started at once and completion is expected by Oct. 1. The building will be a two-story brick. The upper floor will contain office rooms.
Glen J. Goddard, of Valparaiso, has traded 640 acres of land near Francesville, Ind., for a store building and stock of merchandise at Lafayette. The deal involved more than $100,000 ($1,711,333.33 in 2022).
June 20, 1922
Mayor E. W. Agar and City Attorney E. G. Osborne returned today from Chicago after a conference with President Brewer, of the Valparaiso Lighting Company. They obtained the signature to a contract drawn up by Attorney Osborne and approved by the Valparaiso City Council for the installation of an ornamental lighting system on Lincolnway in the business district.
June 21, 1922
Mrs. H. M. Evans, son, Max, and daughter, Lucille, arrived here last night from Washington, D.C., and will occupy the Dr. E. H. Powell home on North Washington Street during the summer. Dr. Evans sailed last Saturday from Seattle, Wash., with Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston and party of government officials for a trip around the world to be gone until December.
June 22, 1922
Tony Massey, who conducts a barber shop in the basement of the Szold Department Store on Lincolnway, has been in his present location 56 years. In 1866, he purchased the interest of his brother, Lafayette Massey, and Anson Goodwin, in the business. On the wall of the Massey shop is a clock which survived the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. It was rescued from a pawn shop by Mr. Goodwin some time ago.
Valparaiso trap shooters who participated in the Indian shoot at Petoskey, Mich., made the following scores: Powell, 141; Hunsley, 140; Blount, 136; Gray, 136.
June 23, 1922
A road roller, belonging to Porter County, which crashed through a bridge over Salt Creek, near Crocker, about a week ago, was hauled from its position in the creek yesterday. Ernest Luedtke, of Furnessville, was driving the roller when it went through the bridge. He was uninjured.
Mrs. Laura Roe Kouns, of East Jefferson Street, received word from Washington, D.C., that she had been appointed to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
June 24, 1922
At a meeting of the Valparaiso City council last night, A. A. Hughart, cashier of the Farmers’ State Bank, was elected a member of the city board of education by the city council. He succeeds Harry R. Ball, whose term expires soon. Mr. Hughart has been an educator for many years. He served as Superintendent of Porter County Schools and later as city superintendent of the Coffeyville, Kansas, schools. Since the return here six years ago he has been connected with the Farmers’ State Bank.
The golf course of the Valparaiso Country Club, northeast of the city, will soon be ready for play. Piping of water from the main of the Valparaiso Home Water Company from the Valparaiso-Chesterton Road, three-quarters of a mile away, is nearly completed. The water is essential for the growing of grass on the greens.
June 25, 1922
Arthur S. Simon, manager of the wholesale and retail grocery department at the J. Lowenstine & Sons’ store, resigned his position Saturday to become buyer and manager for Tibbetts & Garland store on Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The latter concern is one of the largest in Chicago. Mr. Simon came here six years ago from Springfield, Ill., and has built up a large business at the Lowenstine store.
Earl J. Goheen, coach of athletics at Valparaiso University last year, has been appointed coach for the coming year. Mr. Goheen was graduated from the law department this spring. At present time he is taking a coaching course at the University of Illinois under Robert Zuppke, coach at Illinois.
June 26, 1922
Rev. Father Theodore Hammes, pastor of the Wanatah Catholic Church, has been appointed priest-in-charge of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church at South Bend by Bishop H. J. Alerding, of Fort Wayne. He will go to South Bend on June 28.
Charles White returned today to Wenatchee, Wash., after a several days’ visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. White. Mr. White is superintendent of the water works at Wenatchee. He has been in Hot Springs, Ark., attending the international meeting of the Lions’ Club.
June 27, 1922
Ralph J. Cory, manager of the Valparaiso Lighting Company, announced today that work on the city’s new ornamental lighting system will start in two weeks and be completed by Oct. 1 of this year.
June 28, 1922
Seral I. Warren, son of J. A. Warren, of Kouts, is attending reserve officers’ training at Camp Knox, Ky. The camp comprises 500 students gathered from nineteen colleges and universities.
June 29, 1922
According to announcement made by several members of the Valparaiso City Council, another fire truck will be purchased for Valparaiso sometime this fall. The new machine will be larger and better than the present one. The need of another truck has been apparent for some time, according to the council members.
Nelson J. Bozarth, nester of the Porter County Bar Association, and Civil War veteran, now entering his 79th year, believes he still retains his old-time prowess as a swimmer. After reading an account in an Indianapolis newspaper of the ability of Dr. A. P. Letherman, he issued a challenge to the doctor to meet him in a swimming contest. Mr. Bozarth has swum Flint Lake many times and knows its ins and outs.
June 30, 1922
Judge H. H. Loring in Porter Circuit Court today established the Smith Ditch, a drain at Wolff’s Corners. The estimated cost is $17,200 ($294,349.33 in 2022). More than 50 property owners are affected by its construction. Amos Lantz was named construction commissioner. Petition for the ditch was filed a number of years ago by Attorney Frank B. Parks for the petitioners.
Chesterton now has sufficient land for building and housing a population of between 15,000 and 20,000. Ninety acres of land, consisting of the Haslett, Cushman, Lewis, Colling, and Brown tracts has been annexed to the town. The land lies in the middle of the corporate town on its southern edge. The proposed new sewer is to run through the south part of the newly-annexed area.