Looking Back • November 1921

November 1, 1921

The Valparaiso Country Club was organized last night at the chamber of commerce rooms with the election of the following officers: J. H. McGill, president; John M. Oldham, vice-president; R. C. Breth, secretary; C. W. Boucher, treasurer. Directors are J. H. McGill, J. M. Oldham, C. E. Foster, L. M. Pierce, V. R. Despard and Harlow Smith. The club has taken an option on the John H. Kuehl property, east of Bull’s Eye Lake.

November 2, 1921

Last evening at Hebron a new council of the North American Union Lodge, to be known as Welfare Council No. 353, was instituted with fifty-four members. A Chicago degree team put on the degree and C. A. Gillespie of the supreme council of the order acted as installing officer. Delegations were present from Kouts, Chesterton, and Valparaiso. Arthur Hiatt is president of the Hebron council and Robert Taylor, vice-president. A dinner was served by Mrs. Gordon of the Hebron hotel. William Mohnssen, of Valparaiso, organized the council.

November 3, 1921

Berte D. McMahan qualified this morning in the Porter Circuit Court before Judge H. H. Loring as administrator of the estate of Martin Bernstein Goldstein, one of the thirty-seven victims of the Porter wreck on February 27, 1921. Kohy and Galvin are attorneys for the estate.

On the face of returns, Joseph A. Kitchen, former graduate of Valparaiso University, has been elected to the post of commissioner of agriculture and labor on the Independent ticket in the recall election last Friday in North Dakota. Mr. Kitchen obtained his L. L. D. and M. A. degrees at the local school.

November 4, 1921

Thirty years is not such a long time to be in a profession or trade, but it is a goodly span of years when one has worked at his trade without a letup. Lawrence Lauer, of the Louis Raymond Blacksmith Shop, has followed the farrier’s trade for that length of time. He commenced work for David Barry in a partnership and after several years sold out and took employment with Mr. Raymond where he is still actively engaged.

Homer Londonberg has resigned his position with the Commercial Oil and Supply Company and with his family will leave soon for Tampa, Fla., to reside. Mr. and Mrs. A. Londonberg, parents of Mr. Londonberg, reside near Tampa. Roy Gossett will succeed Mr. Londonberg with the Commercial Oil and Supply Company.

November 5, 1921

The Hanrahan Road, commencing at the Liberty Township line, north of Valparaiso, and extending through the hills of Liberty Township to the south precincts of Chesterton, is nearing completion. Work on the highway was commenced in June by P. T. Clifford & Son, railroad contractors, of Valparaiso. Thirty-five thousand yards of cut and fill was necessary in the construction of the road.

Valparaiso University gridders yesterday defeated the Milwaukee Tech at Brown Field 14 to 0. Rossenthal and Stepp scored touchdowns for Valparaiso and Anderson kicked both goals.

November 6, 1921

The church bells of Valparaiso will be ringing each day at noon until Friday. This is to call all the people to pause in their work and offer prayer for divine guidance in the disarmament conference which is to convene Friday in Washington.

The American Legion football team of Valparaiso defeated the Hammond Maroons Sunday at the fairgrounds, 13 to 2. Chartier and Gilliland made touchdowns and Ed Cowdrey kicked one goal. Hammond scored its only points on a safety by Chartier.

November 7, 1921

R. D. Ross, of Valparaiso, has been a member of the Old Fellows Lodge for 47 years. He joined the order at Largo, Wabash County, in 1874. In 1880 he came to Valparaiso and established himself in the hardware business. After several years he erected buildings on the site of the present federal post office building and remained there 25 years. He then sold out to enter the automobile business. Colonel Herman Hagem has been an Odd Fellow 45 years.

Ross McLellan, former Valparaiso man, who has been in Valparaiso, Chile, for the last six months, in the interests of the Westinghouse Electric Company, has just closed a contract with the Chilean railroad for the electrification of the Chilean railroad at an outlay of $7,000,000.

November 8, 1921

E. W. Agar was elected mayor, and Grace Blachly, city clerk, at yesterday’s Valparaiso city election. Agar defeated John D. Stoner 1,374 to 1,133, and Mrs. Blachly was winner over Mrs. Mary Shaw 1,568 to 714. John R. Burch and B. D. McMahan defeated Mrs. Bessie Parker and Harry Hodsden for councilman-at-large; E. S. Miller defeated Samuel Wallace for councilman first ward; S. E. Collins defeated L. T. Campbell in the second ward; Louis Gast won from Fred Wittenberg in the third ward, and W. Blaine Williams defeated Herman Ealing in the fourth ward. All the successful candidates are republicans.

November 9, 1921

Valparaiso and vicinity was visited by the first snowstorm of the season last evening. The snow was preceded by rain. Drivers of automobiles found the going difficult. The snow turned to slush soon after it fell.

November 10, 1921

The Valparaiso Country Club has filed its articles of incorporation with the secretary of state at Indianapolis. The club has no capital stock and its object of organization is for social purposes. The directors are: James H. McGill, C. W. Boucher, C. E. Foster, L. M. Pierce, V. R. Despard and Harlow Smith.

The Valparaiso city election Tuesday will cost taxpayers of Valparaiso about $1,000, or about 40 cents for each vote cast for mayor. Each inspector received $12 each; each judge, clerk, or assistant clerk, $9 each, and each sheriff, $6 each.

November 11, 1921

The Valparaiso Country Club has received its charter from the secretary of state and the organization is now ready to proceed with plans for next season. The membership committee reports that the 100 membership will soon be reached.

A fairly heavy snowfall which turned into a slush marked the weather for the third observance of Armistice Day. As a result the celebration arranged for 1 o’clock at the courthouse yard was transferred to the M. E. church. Valparaiso schools closed at noon for the day as well as business houses. Banks, the post office, and blacksmith shops enjoyed a full holiday.

November 12, 1921

Kalamazoo College defeated Valparaiso University yesterday at Brown field, 12 to 0. The game was played in a field of mud. Kalamazoo scored both its touchdowns on long runs. Captain Malcosmson and Spurgeon were best for the winners, and Evans, Rosenthal, and Hiltpold were Valpo’s stars.

Samuel E. Collins was elected councilman of the second ward by the city council last night to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Dr. James R. Pagin. Mr. Collins was elected to the position at the November election but would not have taken office until January first.

November 13, 1921

John B. Perrine, formerly of Valparaiso, is dead at Valparaiso, Florida, a town which he founded five years ago. He served as the first mayor of the town and was acting at the time of his death. He also founded the Valparaiso Messenger, a newspaper in Florida. Mr. Perrine was formerly the head of the Monarch Publishing Company of Valparaiso and Wheeler.

The Lacrosse branch of the Maxwell Implement Company of Valparaiso has been sold to Otto C. Wobith, of San Pierre, Ind. Mr. Wobith was formerly engaged in the hardware business at San Pierre.

November 14, 1921

A new carpet is being placed in the Porter Circuit Courtroom. The work is in charge of E. M. Burns, the court bailiff. Two hundred and twenty-five yards of carpet was required to cover the room. The old carpet was put down about twenty years ago.

The Valparaiso Home Water Company on Saturday completed the extension of a new main in Chautauqua Park, beginning at Campbell Street, running west on Bond Avenue to Madison, north on Madison Avenue to the city limits. Today the water company started work on an extension in the Alpen Subdivision.

November 15, 1921

The Valparaiso Lodge of Elks is moving into its new quarters in Dr. J. R. Pagin’s residence, corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso, recently purchased by the lodge. The lodge will initiate the new meeting on November 23 with a game supper and entertainment.

November 16, 1921

Dr. John E. Roessler, president of the Valparaiso Building and Loan Association, is at Indianapolis attending the annual convention of the Savings and Loan Association League at Hotel Severin.

November 17, 1921

The new school at Garyton being built by Trustee Herman W. Swanson is nearing completion. The building is 44 x 64 feet and will cost $30,000. It will be one story with a 10 foot basement and the walls will be built with double strength to carry two stories.

The murder case of Leon Cole, of Gary, has been venued here to Porter Circuit Court from Lake County. Cole is charged with the murder of Julius Gunther, a Gary policeman, on Sept. 26, 1921. Gunter was called to South Washington Street, Gary, by a report that a negro had been shot. When he entered the building Cole fired and Gunther fell mortally wounded.

November 18, 1921

That thousands of acres of reclaimed land in the Kankakee Valley may become the property of the State of Indiana and turned over to the state conservation department loomed yesterday with the visit of State Auditor Oliver to the region on a tour of inspection. If Mr. Oliver makes a favorable report it is considered probable that much of the glory of the Kankakee country as a hunting resort of Indiana and Illinois sportsmen may be restored. The state is claiming title to large tracts of reclaimed land, and if title is asserted and established old time game preserves will become the property of the state, and accessible to hunters during the non-prohibitive seasons.

Mr. and Mrs. Myron J. Draper went to Chicago today to celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. On November 18, 1896, Mr. Drapier and Mrs. Hattie Eason were married at the home of Miss Eason’s brother, Seth Eason, on North Franklin Avenue by Rev. J. Budman Fleming, of the Presbyterian church in the presence of 175 guests. A wedding supper was served at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. A. D. Bartholomew.

November 19, 1921

Valparaiso University and St. Viator College staged a scoreless tie yesterday at Bourbonnais, Ill. Both teams were handicapped by bad playing conditions, and the team work of both teams was affected. Valparaiso was also handicapped by the absence of four regulars, but played snappy ball.

The chop suey restaurant at 119 East Lincolnway, owned by J. Buck, who came here from Gary, was damaged by fire at 1:30 o’clock in the morning today. The Vesta Battery Company on the first floor owned by Vernon Barnhizer was damaged $1,500. The Buck loss was $3,000, and John Sievers, owner of the building, suffered a $1,500 loss.

November 20, 1921

Farmers of Porter County will help in the appeal for grain for the Near East relief being made by Purdue agriculture committee, headed by G. I. Christiem, which is cooperating with the relief organization. Last year Porter County was the first to ship a carload of corn to Europe.

R. D. Raymond has sold the old Jacob Chartier property on South Street to Amandus Doelling, of Dupage County, Illinois. Mr. Doelling and family will move to Valparaiso.

November 21, 1921

The new Bloch Restaurant on Lincolnway in Valparaiso, which has been undergoing repairs for the last four months, will open this evening for inspection. The formal opening is scheduled for tomorrow. The arrangements are after the style of the Child’s and Thompson Restaurants in Chicago. The improvements cost $15,000.

November 22, 1921

Attorney T. P. Galvin, of Valparaiso, and John Horn and Francis Gast, of Indiana Harbor, formerly of Valparaiso, were members of a class of 125 to receive the fourth degree of the Knights of Columbus at Hammond yesterday. A banquet was served at the Hotel Lyndora.

November 23, 1921

Mrs. Bertha Stoltz, of Morgan Township, was murdered yesterday by John Nollick, 16-year-old orphan boy who lived at the Stoltz home. Mrs. Stoltz, before she died, was able to give an account of the shooting to authorities.

Rev. Clarence Mitchell, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Valparaiso, has resigned his pastorate here and will go to Cincinnati, O., January 1, 1922, to assume charge of a church there.

November 24, 1921

The new home of the Valparaiso Lodge of Elks at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso was dedicated last night with a game supper and exercises. More than 400 members attended. J. S. Bartholomew, past exalted ruler and charter member of the lodge, addressed the gathering. Mr. Bartholomew told of how the membership, numbering 60, purchased the building on West Lincolnway, went into debt to the extent of $12,000 after paying for the building which is worth $25,000. In closing his talk he drew forth a document, the mortgage on the old building and burned the instrument.

John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, who shot and killed Mrs. Robert Stoltz at her home in Morgan Township Monday night, was captured last night when he returned to the Stoltz barn in the daytime. Mollick shot Mrs. Stoltz with a shotgun without any apparent reason. He was living with the Stoltz family. The boy was unable to explain why he shot Mrs. Stoltz.

November 25, 1921

Valparaiso’s newest and most up-to-date theatre, the Premier, was thrown open to the public Wednesday evening. T. P. Galvin, speaking for the Shauer interests, builders, and owners of the theatre, spoke of the difficulties connected with its construction. Mayor E. W. Agar was introduced and dedicated the theatre to the people of Valparaiso. A showing of “The Great Moment,” featuring Gloria Swanson, was shown. A six-piece orchestra provided music.

November 26, 1921

The muster roll of the Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 2, of Valparaiso, has been completed with a membership of 100. R. E. (Sam) Huston, a member of the local post, is state commander of the organization. Harry Hulce is commander of the new post; Edward F. Boyle vice-commander; Leon Cashdollar, adjutant; Herman Bauer, assistant adjutant; Emil Petrach, treasurer; Everett Fulton, George W. Carr, John W. Vogt, Charles Hall, Lauren (Bud) Maudlin, executive committee.

November 27, 1921

John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, was held to the Porter Circuit Court Grand Jury by Coroner H. O. Seipel today following a coroner’s inquest into the death of Mrs. Bertha Stoltz, of Morgan Township, shot by Mollick last Monday night.

Thirty-six persons were granted final naturalization papers yesterday in Judge H. H. Loring’s Porter Circuit Court. J. E. Riley, of Chicago, naturalization examiner, conducted examination of applicants.

November 28, 1921

The M. S. Sunday school, which is waging a camp for 1,000 members by Easter, yesterday surpassed the goal of 600 set by the school for that day. Six hundred and ten persons were in attendance. Dr. Bert E. Smith, superintendent of the adult department of the Sunday school of the state, was a guest.

William Flanagan, age 30 years, an instructor for the last six months in the vulcanizing department, Valparaiso University, under the federal vocational board training, was found asphyxiated this morning in a rooming house at Baltimore. Mr. Flannagan left Valparaiso last Friday for Baltimore according to Harold Sturdy, in charge of the vocational training department here.

November 29, 1921

An attempt is being made by people living in the north end of Union Township and the south part of Portage Township to create a new school district for the purpose of building a new school at Wheeler. If successful, three schools, Cherry Glen, Peck, and Gordon, will be abandoned.

November 30, 1921

Boone Grove turned on its electric lights last evening. The current is obtained from the Hebron Electric Company, which also supplies Kouts. Nearly every business and many residences are equipped. Only a part of the lights were turned on last night.

Looking Back • October 1921

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.

Looking Back • September 1921

September 1, 1921

An American Legion post has been organized at Wanatah by the Michigan City Post. Julius Richmond as commander; Frank Gruse, vice-commander; William Smith, treasurer; and Kenneth Reed, sergeant-at-arms.

September 2, 1921

Rev. John W. Newsom and son, Jack, will leave this evening for Rexford, Kansas, where Rev. Newsom will assume charge of the Union Community Church. Rev. Newsom and family have resided in Valparaiso for seven years and he has been pastor of the Baptist church for the greater part of the time.

September 3, 1921

The Premier Theatre being built by Shauer and Sons is nearing completion. Contractor Charles Lembke stated today that he is far ahead of the schedule. He said the building will be ready by November 1.

The Indiana State Highway Commission has rejected bids for the construction of an arch over Salt Creek, west of Valparaiso, on the Lincoln Highway. It will be re-advertised for next year.

September 4, 1921

Dewey Kelly, of Cambridge City, Ind., has arrived here to resume his studies at Valparaiso University. He will be associated with Frank B. Parks’ law office in the practice of law.

Miss Jeanette Finney, of Valparaiso, has just received a signal honor by being elected by the Tri Kappa chapters of Indiana for a year’s scholarship at Indiana University. She will take up her work at Indiana University the latter part of the week.

September 5, 1921

Attorneys attending the local court openings yesterday viewed for the first time the new court library in the court house. The large room, 23x37 feet, presents an imposing appearance. The new library was enlarged by the addition of the superior court chambers and the hallway between the library and superior court room. The circuit court chambers were taken over by the superior court and the stenographer’s room will be used by the circuit court judge for his chambers.

September 6, 1921

The Valparaiso High School enrollment is now 313, an increase over last year. At christmas time between 40 and 50 more students will enter, making the school rather congested. A total of 1,280 children are enrolled in the Valparaiso City Schools.

September 7, 1921

Labor Day

September 8, 1921

The Porter County Commissioners yesterday rescinded the contract awarded sometime ago to Flynn & Small, of LaPorte, for the construction of the Barnard Road in Jackson Township. The commissioners set aside the report of the viewers and engineer and referred the road back to the engineer and viewers for a less expensive road. The state tax board last week denied the petition for the issuance of $83,000 in bonds for the construction of the road.

The West Side Business Men of Kouts were hosts last evening at a chicken dinner and dance to LaCrosse merchants as a penalty for losing a baseball game two weeks ago. The Kouts merchants proved royal entertainers. The East Side Kouts Business Men will play the LaCrosse merchants next Thursday afternoon.

September 9, 1921

A charter has been received here by the local organization of Disabled American Veterans of the World War (DAVWW). Ten men, students at Valparaiso University, make up the charter list. As soon as the term at Valparaiso University commences, efforts will be made to increase the membership. Sam Houston, of the university, is state commander of the DAVWW. He was largely instrumental in getting the local post formed. Only two other posts have been formed in the state, Indianapolis and Evansville.

Pine Township, which has been the only township in Porter County without a subdivision, is now to have one. It will be called Ardendale. The tract is to be sold to persons who desire small tracts to raise garden truck (vegetables raised for market) and chickens.

September 10, 1921

The contract for erection of the New Horn building has just been awarded to Smith & Smiths Company and actual construction work will begin the forepart of the week, as the excavations are all about completed. The new building will be used for the meat market. On the second floor will be two modern flats.

September 11, 1921

Miss Margery Ellis left yesterday for a week’s visit in Washington, D. C., and New York City, after which she will sail for France for a year’s study in a girl’s Lycee at St. German, fourteen miles from Paris. Miss Ellis was awarded an exchange scholarship by the Institute of International Education while a senior at the University of Chicago.

Lombard, Kalamazoo, St. Xavier, and South Dakota have been signed for football games the coming season by Coach Harold Goheen, of Valparaiso University. Other colleges are negotiating for games with the local school.

September 12, 1921

Rev. Thomas J. Bassett, former pastor of the Methodist church here, and his wife, have decided to make Valparaiso their home. They arrived in the city yesterday and concluded the deal for the purchase of a residence. Rev. Bassett was succeeded here by the Rev. Thomas F. Williams. Since leaving here he has held pastorates at Monticello and Hammond. He owns a farming property near Wanatah.

The sale of a $300,000 bond issue of Valparaiso University is expected to get under way by next week. The bonds are a first mortgage against the school property valued at more than a million dollars.

September 13, 1921

Clyde Stratton, prison breaker, who served five years in federal prison at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary for a post office robbery at McCool, was released Monday. He was taken in charge by officers from the Ohio State Penitentiary to serve an unexpired term.

September 14, 1921

Jack Burt, formerly of Valparaiso, has returned here after a stay at Atlanta, Ga., where he was connected with the Atlanta Realty Company. He has become associated with Paul E. Marks, local builder. Mr. Burt was formerly connected with the McFetrich Lumber Company and Foster Lumber and Coal Company.

September 15, 1921

George T. Pearce, former county surveyor, who has been superintendent of construction of the Crown Point district, comprising the counties of Lake, Porter, and Jasper, for the Indiana State Highway Commission has resigned his position because of ill health. R.W. Lytle has been appointed to fill Mr. Pearce’s place temporarily.

High schools of Porter County show increased attendance for 1921, according to reports received by Superintendent Fred H. Cole. Chesterton has 109, a gain of 29. Hebron has 91, a big increase. Valparaiso has 313, an increase of 40 percent. This year, the county attendance curve is expected to show a trend upward.

September 16, 1921

The Rainbow Restaurant on College Hill, owned by Tom, Gus, and James Pappas and Mike Lambrox, was sold today to Gus Pappas, George C. Scooffakes, and John G. Pappadak.

At a meeting of the Portage Township Farming Association last evening at the home of J. S. Robbins, a resolution was adopted favoring the establishment of a milk skimming station near Chesterton.

September 17, 1921

Rolla and Arthur Specht, of Valparaiso, will establish a truck line between Valparaiso and Chicago to haul all kinds of freight. A light truck will begin making trips Monday, and later will be supplemented by a larger truck. The truck will leave here each day at 6 o’clock in the morning and return at 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon. Stops will be made at Gary and Hobart.

A large number of farmers of Porter County have filed their applications with County Agent A. Z. Arehart for the tuberculin testing of their cattle, and many others are contemplating doing so. To date, fourteen herd owners have filed applications.

September 18, 1921

The Valparaiso Tennis Club defeated the Rensselaer Tennis Club in a series of games staged yesterday at the university tennis grounds. Two double and four single matches were played. Valparaiso made a clean sweep of the contests with the exception of one of the singles.

Boone Grove lost yesterday to the Valparaiso Athletics, 3 to 2. Davidson pitched for the Athletics and although he allowed eleven hits, he permitted only two runs. Valparaiso made five hits off Jerry Maloney, but they came at the right times. Maloney struck out twelve batters.

September 19, 1921

Voluntary subscriptions to $300,000 bond issue of Valparaiso University, amounting to $17,700, have been made, the committee in charge announced today. The next week will be devoted to an intensive soliciting campaign.

Ten men of Valparaiso University met Monday night to open a chapter of the Disabled American Veterans of the World War and elected officers as follows: L. T. Maudlin, commander; Howard M. Wright, vice-commander; Harry E. Hulce, secretary; Chester Cannon, treasurer. Sam Houston, of the local post, is state commander.

September 20, 1921

Louis Holland and Ernest McBride, for several years students at Valparaiso University, who walked from Valparaiso to Washington, D.C., have arrived there and will enter George Washington University Law School. The whole trip cost the men $5 and took 20 days to complete. George Stimpson, member of university law class last year and author of “History of Valparaiso University,” will also attend Georgetown. The trio were central figures in the rebellion resulting in the ouster of Daniel Russel Hodgdon as president of the local school.

September 21, 1921

W. E. Wansbrough, of Valparaiso, who has been a salesman for the Texaco Oil Company with headquarters in Chicago has been promoted to district manager of the company with headquarters at Kansas City. Mr. Wansbrough will continue to make Valparaiso his home.

September 22, 1921

Joseph Cuncinella, Gary soft drink proprietor, was found shot to death this morning near Willow Creek, Portage Township. He was slumped behind the wheel of a Hudson super-six. Five bullet holes were found in his head. The body was brought to the Stinchfield Fehrman Funeral Home in Valparaiso.

A movement is on foot to change the routing of the National Dunes Highway. A. F. Knotts and John Bowers are backing the plan. The new routing will eliminate five railroad crossings.

September 23, 1921

Indiana has the honor of sending the oldest delegate to the mammoth convention of Odd Fellows in session at Toronto, Canada. The Toronto Telegram contains a picture and article about Col. Herman Hagen, of Valparaiso, staff officer, who is the oldest man attending the convention. He is 80 years of age and has been an Odd Fellow for 45 years.

An arrangement between officials of Valparaiso University and the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce will result in the establishment of a tourist camp site for 1922 that will meet all the requirements for taking care of a large number of tourists adjacent to Yellowstone Trail and Lincoln Highway. The ground has been donated by the university and the chamber of commerce will install the proper equipment. The site has been listed with the Chicago Motor Club for 1922.

September 24, 1921

The Franck Manufacturing Company of Kouts has filed articles of incorporation with the secretary of state. The concern is capitalization for $8,000. The incorporators are A. A. Franck, George lan, Mrs. A. A. Franck, Charles H. Cannon, and Della M. Cannon, all of Kouts. The company manufactures house aprons, dresses, men’s shorts and children’s dresses and ladies’ hats.

Superintendent of Schools Fred H. Cole is in receipt of a letter from S. B. Sinclair, inspector of auxiliary class, department of education, Toronto, Canada, asking for information regarding the education of sub-normal or defective children in rural schools. Superintendent Cole will make an address at Indianapolis next month on “The Personal Equation as a Factor in Rural Education.” The Valparaiso man is receiving much recognition in educational circles in this line of work in which he has specialized for a number of years.

September 25, 1921

Despite efforts of Sheriff William Pennington and local police, the murderers of Joe Cuncinella of Gary, killed Thursday in Portage Township, are still at large. Several clues followed up by the officers failed to produce anything in the way of apprehending the killer. Officers are of the opinion that Cuncinella was killed by a Black Hand gang.

Miss Katheryn Anderson, deputy treasurer of Porter County, will be a candidate for county treasurer at the next primary election on the Republican ticket. For the last two years she has been deputy treasurer under Treasurer J. G. Graessle. She formerly taught in the Center Township schools and during the World War was in the War Risk Department in Washington.

September 26, 1921

Emerson High, of Gary, defeated Valparaiso High 19 to 0 Saturday in the first game of the season. Rain fell throughout, making the field a quagmire. Sturtridge and Monhardt, of Gary, and Fred LePell, Earl Scott and Lembke, for Valpo, were the stars.

An old time house, known as the Crow’s Nest, in Jackson Township, burned to the ground last night. The origin of the blaze is unknown. The building was one of the old landmarks of the township. For a number of years it had not been used for living quarters. It was believed moonshiners plied their art there.

September 27, 1921

Two men Monday afternoon attempted to burn the Carver School in Pine Township. Miss Katherine Maxwell, of Valparaiso, is the teacher. Shortly after she dismissed the pupils the men entered the building and ordered her to leave. Miss Maxwell left and notified Henry Glafcke, where she stays. He and others went to the school and found the building on fire. The flames were extinguished after hard work, but extensive repairs will be necessary.

September 28, 1921

The Valparaiso Lodge of Elks is considering the purchase of the Dr. J. R. Pagin property at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets in downtown Valparaiso. The matter will come up at a meeting Thursday night.

September 29, 1921

Mae R. London, deputy county clerk, was admitted to the Porter County Bar this morning by Judge H. L. Crumpacker in Porter Superior Court. A committee composed of Grant Crumpacker, Mark B. Rockwell and J. S. Bartholomew examined Mrs. London upon her qualifications as to the law and she passed favorably.

Mark L. Dickover returned home this morning from Boston, Mass., where he attended a meeting of 33rd Degree Masons.

September 30, 1921

At a meeting of the Valparaiso Lodge of Elks last evening, a motion was made and carried that a committee of the lodge, consisting of Frank L. Faley, W. S. Lindall and Charles H. Stinchfield, be empowered to enter into negotiations for the purchase of the Dr. J. R. Pagin property at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets. The vote on the purchase of the property was seventy-one for and thirty-two against it. It is said the consideration is to be around $30,000. The lodge will retain its property on West Lincolnway.

W. A. Stimson, who has been conducting an auto sales agency in the Sievers’ building at 113-117 Lincolnway in Valparaiso, today, sold the lease on the building to the Harvil Brothers, dealers in Dodge autos. The Harvil Brothers will move their sales room at 151 West Lincolnway to the new location. Mr. Stimson will still retain the Studebaker sales agency.

Looking Back • August 1921

August 1, 1921

Ray Kenworthy of Porter Township, was named county attendance officer at a meeting of the county board of education this afternoon at the office of Superintendent Fred H. Cole. He is a World War veteran. The office pays a salary of $1,200 per year ($18,214.26 in 2021).

J. W. Brummitt and Glen J. Goddard, local real estate men, have consummated a big deal for Chicago and Knox parties. The total value of the property figuring in the deal involved $170,000 ($2,580,353.07 in 2021), and consisted of 157 acres of Porter County land, near Beatrice; 200 acres near Amber, Ind.; 640 acres near Francesville, and a hardware store near Amboy, Ind.

August 2, 1921

The Hour Committee has been appointed by the president of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce to expand the membership of the chamber. It consists of twenty men who are pledged to give one hour’s work to the chamber each month.

August 3, 1921

Earl Goheen, graduate of the Valparaiso University law school, and left tackle on the football team for two years, has been appointed athletic director of Valparaiso University for the coming year. No provision has yet been made for forming an athletic association, but this is expected to be done at the opening of the fall term.

August 4, 1921

The Town of Kouts will soon have electric lights. The poles are all in from Hebron where the town will receive current. Stringing of wires will be commenced the first of the week, and it is expected current will be available the latter part of the month. The Main Street of Kouts will be lighted with ornamental lights.

The Porter County Commissioners yesterday ruled in favor of the town of Chesterton on its amended petition for annexation of land to the town. The original petition filed sometime ago called for annexation of a large amount of acreage. Before the annexation, Chesterton had 5,000 lots or considerably more than Valparaiso. A large amount of land was cut out in the amended petition.

August 5, 1921

Lieutenant Arthur T. Johnson, Chesterton aviator, shot down during the St. Mihiel Drive, September 12, 1918, will be buried from the Augsburg Lutheran Church at Porter Sunday afternoon with the American Legion in charge. Johnson was born north of Chesterton on March 21, 1896. He graduated from St. Augustana College at Rock Island, Ill.

Although the Porter wreck in which thirty-seven persons lost their lives occurred on February 27 last, Coroner H. O. Seipel is still receiving inquiries from people over the country asking about relatives believed killed in the wreck. Two inquiries were received this week from Los Angeles and New Orleans.

August 6, 1921

A remonstrance signed by fifty-five farmers of Jackson Township was filed with County Auditor B. H. Kinne yesterday against the bond issue in the Barnard Road in Jackson Township. The contract was recently let to Flynn and Small, of Laporte, for $83,625 ($1,269,290.85 in 2021), or at the rate of $30,000 ($455,356.42 in 2021) per mile for penetration asphalt. The objectors declare the price is exorbitant.

Yesterday a deal was consummated by the O. C. Fredericks Agency whereby Harold J. Schenck traded his property on Linwood Avenue under lease to the Phi Delta Psi fraternity of Valparaiso University to S. C. Wilson for a farm property three miles east of Westville.

August 7, 1921

Captain John F. Zajicek, of the United States Army, who was a major in the World War, has written friends here of his transfer from Washington, D. C., to the Philippine Islands. Captain Zajicek graduated from the engineering department of Valparaiso University and lived here before entering service.

A number of Valparaiso young men have formed an athletic club and have obtained rooms over the Szold Department Store on East Lincolnway. Gymnasium equipment has been installed for use of the members.

August 8, 1921

Mrs. Minnie Robinson, of Valparaiso, widow of Harvey W. Robinson, Civil War veteran, has obtained a pension after seventeen years of waiting. Due to inaccurate data furnished, the pension department was unable to act.

Miss Anna Mohnssen, of the county agent’s office has been notified of her appointment to a home economics course at the state fair at Indianapolis. Miss Mohnssen’s appointment has been confirmed by State Senator Thomas Grant, of Lowell, president of the Indiana Agriculture board. The Porter County Farming Association is sending Miss Mohnssen to the school as a reward for her efficiency.

August 9, 1921

Valparaiso University will push the half-million endowment for the institution. The fund now amounts to $200,000 ($3,035,709.50 in 2021) in cash and pledges. The work of raising additional money will be pushed forward by the school through the committee composed of the faculty. No attempt will be made to commercialize it, according to Dr. G. H. Stoner, a trustee of the university, said at a talk given at chapel exercises this morning. O. P. Kinsey also gave a talk.

August 10, 1921

Everything is coming earlier this year. The same applies to auction sales, according to Colonel George Wyman, veteran auctioneer. Mr. Wyman has eight sales booked for August and September. Many families are becoming disgusted with the poor return and are anxious to sell. Mr. Wyman believes the number of sales this fall will eclipse any year.

August 11, 1921

Porter County is one of the few counties in the state not to feel the horizontal increase order of the state tax board. Porter’s assessment is that property assessments increased by $6,540,490 ($99,275,139.05 in 2021), an increase of 5.8% over last year.

Rev. John W. Newsom and family will leave the latter part of the month for Rexford, Kansas, where Mr. Newsom will take a position with the Rexford Chamber of Commerce. His activities will be confined to the religious field. The town has two churches, the M. E. and Christian, but no pastor. Rev. Newsom spent several months in Rexford last year and was asked to return.

August 12, 1921

Roscoe Pool, of Wheatfield, formerly of Valparaiso, has sold his 180-acre farm north of Wheatfield to William Brandt, residing east of Sheridan Beach, Flint Lake. Mr. Pool took, in part, payment of eighty acres of land owned by Mr. Brandt near Flint Lake. The deal involved a total of $42,000 ($637,498.99 in 2021).

The Indiana Sanitary Engineering Association will establish a school for the training of students at Valparaiso University. An agreement has been entered between the trustees of the university and officials of the state sanitary engineering association where a school will be opened in September. The association will send an instructor here to take charge of the work and will guarantee a starting attendance of thirty students. The two campus buildings will be remodeled by the school.

August 13, 1921

A referendum vote by members of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce of two propositions was as follows: For $1,200 ($18,214.26 in 2021) appropriation for city band, 72 for, 68 against; to permit street carnivals, for 34, against 106. Out of 496 ballots sent out, only 142 were returned.

The Inland Steel Company will soon begin the survey of its 640-acre tract of land in Portage Township. A large gang of surveyors will go over the property to establish boundaries of the area. The land to be surveyed fronts on the lake for nearly a mile and includes acreage around Lake Longius. Title to land around this lake has been in dispute for a number of years.

August 14, 1921

County Clerk Roscoe C. Jones left this afternoon for Indianapolis where he will receive the ballots from the secretary of state for the special election to be held on September 6, when the constitutional amendments will be voted upon.

Today R. C. Breth, manager of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce, left for Madison, Wis., where he will attend the summer school of Community of Wisconsin. He will be absent until September 1. The chamber will be in the charge of Miss Irene Thompason, office secretary.

August 15, 1921

Fred H. Cole, county superintendent of schools, was recently elected for a new term of four years, began his new term today. Mr. Cole was elected in 1908 to fill the unexpired term of S. C. Ferrell, who took a position with the state superintendent of public instruction.

When he returned Saturday morning from San Francisco, Calif., where he went to attend the International Convention of Knights of Columbus, Rev. Father E. J. Mungovan, pastor of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, was presented with a new Buick Touring Car by the parishioners of the church.

August 16, 1921

E. F. Rainier has resigned his position as instructor at the Dodge Institute of Telegraphy, and with his family, will leave Nov. 1 for Los Angeles, Calif., to reside. The change is being made for the benefit of Mrs. Rainier’s health.

August 17, 1921

Lewis E. Myers was elected president; H. R. Ball, vice-president; T. L. Applegate, treasurer, and Edmund J. Freund, secretary, of the Valparaiso Hotel Company at a meeting of the stockholders at the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce rooms last night. About fifty persons, representing seventy percent of the membership, attended the meeting.

August 18, 1921

About 10,000 ballots will arrive here today or tomorrow from Indianapolis for the special election to be held September 6 when amendments to the state constitution will be voted upon. Three boxes will be received containing 9,820 ballots made up as follows: Voters in thirty-eight precincts, 7,670; absent voters, 150; reserve, 2,000.

Farmers in Porter County are coming to realize the value of alfalfa as a crop and this year more land is being planted with the crop. The assessors’ books this spring gave the county 922 acres, but it is estimated the amount is closer to 1,200 acres.

August 19, 1921

While enroute to the Farmers State Bank on Wednesday, A. A. Williams, vice-president of Valparaiso University, was robbed of $539 ($8,181.24 in 2021). Mr. Williams was carrying the money in a sack and was stopped by several students enroute. When he arrived at the bank the money was missing. Mr. Williams made good on the loss.

Word has been received here by Attorney Owen Crumpacker announcing the appointment of Walter H. Evans, formerly of Valparaiso, by the governor of Oregon, to a vacancy in the office of judge of the circuit court of Multnomah County, Oregon, in which Portland is located. Mr. Evans was re-elected district attorney of Multnomah County at the last fall election. He is a brother of Dr. H. M. Evans, and married a daughter of Erasmus Ball, of Valparaiso.

August 20, 1921

Boone Grove was defeated by Hamlet on Sunday, 5 to 4, in twelve innings. Boone Grove scored a run in the twelfth, but Hamlet pushed across two by the aid of errors. Maloney pitched a fine game for Boone Grove and deserved to win.

W. C. Sergeant, special policeman on College Hill, equipped with a motorcycle, Saturday arrested six speeders on West Lincolnway. All were fined in Justice T. B. Louderback’s court. Sergeant was to have worked Sunday, but his motorcycle refused to work and speeders escaped as a result.

August 21, 1921

A. E. Starr has taken a position at the Longshore and McMahan Grocery Store during the absence of F. L. Longshore, who is on a vacation. Clerking at the Longshore and McMahan store brought back recollections to Mr. Starr that he worked in the same building for Frank Hunt from 1866 to 1878 and later from 1911 to 1920 for Fred Joel.

Dr. Charles Gregory, of the plant disease department of Purdue University, will come to Porter County Thursday to demonstrate the hot weather method of treating wheat for disease and also to inspect seed potato fields using certified seed. Charles Keoppen, of Union Township, has had extra good success with certified seed.

August 22, 1921

An educational campaign to acquaint local citizens with what is manufactured in Valparaiso is being planned by the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce. Newspaper publicity and an industrial exhibit will comprise the campaign. At the present time there are eighteen plants in Valparaiso manufacturing sixteen different lines. It is the intention of the chamber to put the display before the public about September 1.

Last evening at the Rose Room of the Philley Confectionery, a farewell party was tendered to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wright, who will soon leave for Texas to reside. Fifteen couples were in attendance, and following a banquet, the crowd enjoyed the evening in dancing.

August 23, 1921

Thirty-seven new houses were built in Valparaiso this year, providing housing facilities for forty families. In addition to the new homes there was considerable remodeling.

August 24, 1921

Mrs. W. H. Gardner, wife of William H. Gardner, former president of the Farmers’ State Bank of Valparaiso, has brought suit in Chicago against the brokerage firm of Babcock, Rushton and Company, for $300,000 ($4,553,564.25 in 2021). It is alleged W. H. Gardner, her husband, lost his entire fortune of $138,082.50 ($2,095,891.78 in 2021) in speculation and that the bank passed from his hands when he lost his holdings of capital stock.

August 25, 1921

William M. Sergeant, who has been manager of the Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear Department at Specht-Finney Company, has resigned to take a position with the Landauer Clothing Store at Lincoln, Ill. He will assume his new position on Monday.

E. F. Rainer yesterday sold his residence property at the corner of Calumet Avenue and Institute Street to county treasurer J. G. Graessle. Mr. Rainier and family will leave November 3 for California to reside.

August 26, 1921

In the preliminary handicap shoot, one of the events of the Grand American Handicap held in Chicago yesterday, Dr. Robley D. Blount, of Valparaiso, broke 97 out of 100 targets. The event was won by M. L. Fox of Emery, S. D., with ninety-nine.

A movement has been started by W. A. Briggs, of Crisman, for the staging next year of a celebration in honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the settling of Baillytown in 1822. Mr. Briggs has lived in the Baillytown vicinity many years and is interested in the early history of the county. Baillytown was settled by French trader Joseph Bailly. For many years it was an important trading post and gathering place for holding religious rites.

August 27, 1921

Dr. R. S. McElwee, of Washington, D. C., was speaker last night at the forum meeting of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce. He spoke on the subject, “Bringing Ocean Ships to the Heart of America.” The speaker during the war had charge of much navigation for the government.

H. V. Deopker, of Kouts, yesterday purchased the Maxwell Implement Company and a stock of merchandise at Hamlet, Ind., of which he gave in trade an 80 acre farm in Morgan Township and town property in Kouts. He also purchased the Edward W. Trowell general store at Mill Creek, LaPorte County.

August 28, 1921

An Indian mound on the Charles LaCount farm in Morgan Township, excavated by the LaCount Brothers, has given up four skeletons believed to be Indians. The bones crumbled upon being exposed to the air, but the teeth were well preserved. The skeletons are large in stature. Tomahawks, pottery, and pipes were found near the bodies. The mound is twenty feet high and seventy-five feet across. The earth comprising the mound is clay texture, and proof against weathering. There are three other mounds on the LaCount Farm.

The Valparaiso Plumbing Company, owned by Lyman Dean and Sons, is moving to the Fitzwilliam building on West Lincolnway, recently purchased by the company. For thirty years the company has been located in the basement under the Meagher Drug Store.

August 29, 1921

Horn Brothers’ Quality Meat Market will have a new home. Work was commenced today by Cash Jones on the excavation of the lot just east of the present Horn building on Lincolnway for a new building. It is planned to have the building ready by December 1. It will be two stories.

Cottagers at Summitt, between Flint and Long Lakes, will have a water supply. J. D. Price, owner of many lots in the addition between Long and Flint has erected a building for housing the biler and pumping station with a pressure capacity of 1,800 gallons. It will supply 75 homes.

August 30, 1921

An American Legion post, to be known as Valparaiso University Training Post, will be established by federal vocational members attending the local school. A number of men attending the university obtained the services of Edmund J. Freund, officer of Valparaiso’s Charles Pratt Post, and through his efforts the necessary papers were sent here for establishing the post. Between 400 and 500 men are attending the local school.

August 31, 1921

The A. N. Worstell Real Estate Agency yesterday negotiated a big farm deal in which Valparaiso City Councilman A. J. Worstell sold his farm of 175 acres in Porter Township to John Rhoda, of near Flint Lake. Mr. Worstell took, in part payment, the Lake View Farm of thirty-four acres owned by Mr. Rhoda. The deal involved $45,000 ($683,034.64 in 2021).

Looking Back • July 1921

July 1, 1921

Special services were held at Valparaiso University yesterday in honor of Professor O. P. Kinsey, former president of the school. Mrs. O. E. Weaver, here on a visit, sang. Professor Kinsey spoke and reviewed the policies of the institution and how it grew into a mighty factor for education by inculcating in the minds of the students a desire for hard work and devotion to study.

The Pennsylvania Western Veterans’ Association of the Pennsylvania Railroad will hold its annual outing in Valparaiso this year. The date will probably be set for some time in September. Between 200 and 250 veterans are expected to attend.

July 2, 1921

Farmers of Pleasant and Boone Townships, Porter County, have started a movement for the restoration of the Kankakee River to its old location. A number of years ago the old river bed was forsaken and its waters diverted to the Marble Ditch. The farmers contend this agricultural move has been a failure and the ground is now worthless. Standing timber is dying as a result. Senator Harry New has been asked to assist and a government agent will probably visit the region. It is the plan of the farmers to restore the section for hunting and fishing.

The Wheeler-Lunbeck Company of Valparaiso today incorporated with the secretary of state at Indianapolis with a capitalization of $25,000 ($375,970.67 in 2021). Roy Wheeler is president; L. T. Applegate, secretary; Frank Lunbeck, treasurer; Leon Wheeler, sales manager. The company will manufacture and sell a proposed shoe form for window display purposes.

July 3, 1921

Canton Valparaiso No. 27, the Patriarchs Militant Branch of Odd Fellowship, was mustered in by officers of the state organization on Saturday afternoon at Odd Fellow hall. Canton Hammond, No. 55, conferred the degrees. Major General Landes of Indianapolis, and staff, mustered in both orders. Following the work a 6 o’clock dinner was served. At 7:30 o’clock a grand military ball and parade was held. Weed’s Band headed the procession. Harry J.Fox is captain of the canton and Sarah Ina Cunningham is president of the auxiliary.

Miss Willa Wansborough, assistant to county superintendent of schools, Fred H. Cole, was the only Porter County applicant who successfully passed the special examination for qualification of attendance officers offered by the state board in June. Her manuscript graded 100. There were thirty applicants.

July 4, 1921

Nearly 1,000 persons attended the Fourth of July picnic given by the Porter County Farmers’ Association at the country home of County Agent A. Z. Arehart at Wolf’s Corners. Pine Township defeated Porter Township in a baseball game in the morning by a score of 11 to 9. A flag raising ceremony by Joseph W. Zea and E. M. Burns, old (Civil War) soldiers, assisted by Flora Baer, was held. In the afternoon talks were made by J. T. Buchanan, president of the Farmers’ Association; Maurice Douglas, of the Indiana Public Service Commission; E. J. Freund and M. J. Bowman. The Valparaiso Athletics defeated a picked team by a close score. Races and games were also held.

July 5, 1921

O. P. Kinsey, of Valparaiso University, addressed members of the Kiwanis Club at their meeting today. He expressed the opinion the city should build a hotel at any cost.

July 6, 1921

Professor Kinsey also shared with the Kiwanis Club that he had sold his property here and expects to spend summers in Valparaiso where he consequently would like to live at a hotel.

July 7, 1921

Indignation meetings over the closing of the Flint Lake Road by County Highway Superintendent Joseph Crowe are now the order of the day. Resorters at the lakes are complaining about being bottled up by the ten-day order. A number of persons are contemplating going to Michigan City and obtaining an injunction from Judge H. L. Crumpacker, of the Porter-LaPorte Superior Court.

Major A.V. Dairymple, former Valparaiso University student, and recent federal prohibition agent for Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Kentucky, visited Valparaiso today. In company with Attorneys Grant Crumpacker and William Daly he went to Flint Lake to swim to cool off in the waters.

July 8, 1921

Neil Arvin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Arvin, of Valparaiso, was united in marriage at Lausanne, Switzerland, on June 30, to Miss Marguerite Mullere, of Lausanne. Mr. Arvin has been studying in Paris for several years, and will return to the United States in September. He formerly taught at Harvard University.

Dr. G. R. Douglas was in Chicago yesterday to meet the remains of his cousin, Captain Howard Douglas, who was killed several weeks ago in an airplane accident over Chesapeake Bay. The body of Captain Douglas was enroute to California for burial.

July 9, 1921

Sergeant Charles A. Pratt, formerly of Valparaiso, who lost his life in France on November 8, three days before armistice was signed, has been awarded the French Croix de Guerre by the French government. Pratt went to France in 1917 and was severely wounded in action in July, 1918, but recovered. John Bert Mitchell, another Valparaiso boy, received a similar decoration. He was severely wounded in action.

An ordinance was passed by the Valparaiso City Council last evening annexing a parcel of land west of the fair grounds into the city. The land is owned by F. W. Alpen and has been platted into building lots. A number of homes have been built in the addition.

July 10, 1921

George LaForce, who has severed his connection with the Lowenstine Shoe Department, and Frank James of Columbus, O., formerly of Valparaiso, will open up a shoe store in the LaForce building on Franklin Street about September 1.

Indiana Avenue and Chicago Street will soon be improved with a coating of asphalt by Valparaiso authorities. Chuck holes in the streets are being filled preparatory to the work. Other streets are also to receive attention.

July 11, 1921

The Up-to-Date Cleaners on Lincolnway in Valparaiso, owned by Gust Demos, opened its new dry cleaning plant on North Washington Street, recently built. New machinery for dry cleaning of all kinds of fabrics has been installed.

Morris Poncher, who has been connected with the W. A. Stimson auto agency, has resigned his position and taken the agency for the Mitchell auto.

July 12, 1921

Porter and Boone Township voters approved two gravel roads at elections held. The Valentine Hahn Road in Porter Township carried by a large margin, and the Frank Foltz Road by a small majority. Both townships voted on the Foltz Road.

July 13, 1921

The Porter County Cow Testing Association was organized last night at the county agent’s office. George Huitma, tester last year, will act again. Julius Turk, Liberty Township, was named president, and Everett M. Carver, Pine Township, secretary-treasurer.

July 14, 1921

The First Church of Christ, Scientist, is having plans drawn for a new edifice to be constructed upon the Sisson lot owned by the church at the corner of Calumet Avenue and Franklin Street. An architect from the Carnegie Company, Chicago, which erected the McGill factory buildings, has been employed. The building will cost $25,000 ($375,970.67 in 2021).

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Carpenter, of Brazil, Ind., parents of Rev. Guy O. Carpenter, pastor of the Methodist Church, made a recent visit here before sailing for Europe and purchased an automobile for their grandson, Guy Duncan Carpenter. This is the second automobile given to the Carpenter family in the last few months. One presented to the pastor by the congregation was stolen a few weeks after its presentation.

July 15, 1921

Only two Valparaiso boys will attend the citizens’ military training camp at Camp Knox, Kentucky, on July 21 to August 20. About forty local young men applied, but as only 400 were accepted from the state out of 5,111 applications, only two were selected here. The successful applicants are Howard C. Bailey and John Edward Middaugh.

W. J. Whitaker, who recently purchased the Willis Winninger Farm east of Valparaiso, is moving here from Francesville, Ind. Mr. Winninger was formerly connected with the State Bank of Francesville, but resigned because of his health.

July 16, 1921

Chesterton will have a building and loan association. The decision was reached at meeting of the directors of the chamber of commerce of that place. The capital of the association will be $30,000 ($451,164.80 in 2021), and it is proposed to operate as a rural association. The movement recently gained headway at a meeting of the chamber of commerce members addressed by Harry P. New, of Lebanon, building and loan expert.

The Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce membership will vote on two questions in a referendum to be submitted to them. The first question is: Do you favor the appropriation of $1,200 ($18,046.59 in 2021) by the city council for band concerts. The second is: Do you favor the chamber of commerce recommending such steps to the city council as to prohibit so-called carnivals, streets fairs or street fakirs operating within the city, based on your opinion whether such action would be good for the economic, civic, social and moral welfare of the entire community.

July 17, 1921

The Mineral Springs Race Course at Porter, dream of Chicago, Hammond, Gary and Valparaiso racing men, was sold today at sheriff’s sale by Sheriff William Pennington to Charles S. Peirce, of this city. It is said Mr. Peirce purchased the property for Charles Crumpacker. The race course consists of 120 acres, and the price paid was $9,000 ($135,349.44 in 2021). The Mineral Springs Race Course was established seven years ago and a number of races were held. It was ordered closed by Governor Thomas Marshall who sent the state militia here to enforce the order. Since then, it has been used for auto and motorcycle racing.

A number of Porter County farmers are loading wool today and tomorrow at the Pennsylvania Depot for shipment to Columbus, O. The farmers expect to fill a car load with a minimum capacity of 16,000 pounds.

July 18, 1921

J. E. Oliver, of Chicago, who took several leases covering about 2,000 acres of land in Jackson Township, Porter County, is expected to begin drilling for oil within a few days. His drilling outfit, which was to have arrived several days ago, has been delayed. He will go down to Trenton rock.

Lives of Edward Zugbaum and his two-year-old daughter, Josephine, were snuffed out today when an automobile in which they were riding was struck by a Baltimore and Ohio passenger train one mile west of Suman. Harry, age 13, who was in the auto, miraculously escaped with a broken leg. He was carried 200 feet.

July 19, 1921

At a meeting of the faculty of Valparaiso University, President J. E. Roessler announced that many inquiries had been received at the college office from all parts of the country in regard to the fall opening in September. Indications are that the enrollment will be the largest enjoyed by the school in many years. President Roessler said that Professor O. P. Kinsey would conduct chapel exercises on Friday morning.

July 20, 1921

The first wool pool shipment by Porter County farmers left this morning over Pennsylvania Lines for Columbus, O. The car contained 18,569 pounds of wool. It will be stored in the warehouse at Columbus and sold to best advantage.

July 21, 1921

The machinery to be used in the training of federal board students at Valparaiso University arrived here today over the Grand Trunk Railroad. It was purchased at Cleveland, Ohio, and consists of 25 pieces, lathes, drills, presses and planers. The aggregate weight is 58,000 pounds. Training of the men has been held up pending the arrival of the machinery scheduled some four weeks ago.

Rollin C. Higley, general secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Greensburg, Ind., has resigned to accept a position in the local office of Lewis E. Myers and Company. Mr. Higley’s family will move to Valparaiso on August 1. They formerly resided here.

July 22, 1921

The Foster Lumber and Coal Company has commenced work on several factory buildings for the U. S. China Company at Porter. The aggregate cost of the buildings will exceed $140,000 ($2,105,435.75 in 2021). The local firm also has the contract for $20,000 ($300,776.54 in 2021)  in government construction for the remodeling of buildings at Valparaiso University for federal board students training. The work must be completed within thirty days.

The treasury of the Porter County Red Cross was enriched $453.73 ($453.73 in 2021) by the baseball game played recently between the Kiwanis and Rotary Clubs at Brown Field.

July 23, 1921

The Lowenstine-owned building at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Franklin Street in Valparaiso has been leased to Doyle and Breed, barbers, who have been occupying the LaForce building, formerly occupied by the George Knoll Confectionery. The LaForce building will be occupied by Frank James and George LaForce for a shoe store.

According to a report compiled by County Agent A. Z. Arehart, fifty-eight percent of the farmers of the county belong to the Porter County Farming Association. There are 1,591 farmers in the county farming five acres or more. A total of 929 belong to the association.

July 24, 1921

County Agent A. Z. Arehart was re-elected for another year at a meeting of the county board of education Saturday. His second year of office dates from August 1. Mr. Arehart made a report of work done by his office for the last eleven months.

Bruce Loring, son of Judge H. H. Loring, of the Porter Circuit Court, today opened an office for the practice of law in a room over the Valparaiso State Bank. He was graduated from the University of Michigan last month.

July 25, 1921

The Smith and Smiths Company of Valparaiso, has been awarded the contract for the erection of a cow barn at the Montdale Stock Farm, east of the city. The building will be equipped with the latest devices The Montdale Farm has acquired an additional herd of Ayrshire cattle for its milk trade.

Twenty-five acres of land within a short distance of the concrete road at Waverly Beach is being subdivided by S. Freund, proprietor of Sheridan Beach, Flint Lake. The property was offered for sale Saturday. Attorney E. J. Freund, of Valparaiso, is handling the sale. The property consists of 103 lots.

July 26, 1921

The office of the American Railway Express Company may be moved from its present location on Indiana Avenue to the Pennsylvania Depot. Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroad were here today in conference with express company officials. If the move is made, the office will be under the supervision of E. D. Hodges.

July 27, 1921

The county commissioners awarded the contract for the construction of the Barnard Road in Jackson Township to Flynn and Small of LaPorte for $83,325 ($1,253,110.24 in 2021). The road is to be macadam with an asphalt binder. The cost of the road is over $30,000 ($451,164.80 in 2021) per mile. Ray DeMass, of Chesterton, bid $86,000 ($1,293,339.11 in 2021) on natural asphalt.

July 28, 1921

The Alpha Epsilon fraternity of Valparaiso University has leased the O. P. Kinsey residence on Greenwich Street and will occupy it as a home. It is the intention of the fraternity to remodel the building.

Philley Brothers, who conduct a confectionery and news stand in the Schelling Theatre building, have leased the corner store room in the new Premier Theatre being built by Shauer and Son. The firm will retain its location in the Schelling Music Hall.

July 29, 1921

Harry Herrick, who has been manager of the Specht-Finney Company grocery for the last three years, has resigned his position and will sever his connection with the firm on August 1. Mr. Herrick has accepted a sales position with the McMahan-Wood Company. He has been in the grocery business in Valparaiso for twenty-five years.

At a special meeting of Valparaiso Lodge of Elks last evening, the proposition of remodeling the present quarters was discussed by the membership. A motion was adopted authorizing Exalted Ruler Charles H. Stinchfield to appoint a committee to take up the matter of remodeling with architects in club construction and getting plans and figures for cost of the work.

July 30, 1921

Richard Lieber, head of the department of conservation of Indiana, visited the sand dunes in north Porter County yesterday in company with representatives of the Indiana Editorial Association which met at Gary. State Senator Will Brown and Representative J. J. Overmyer were in the party. Mr. Lieber was enthusiastic over the establishment of a park in the dunes but said nothing definite had been decided upon by the state department.

A complaint alleging that the Great Lakes Sand Company has damaged the State of Indiana $50,000 ($751,941.34 in 2021) and is asking a temporary injunction, damages, and temporary restraining order against the company taking sand from Lake Michigan off the Lake, Porter and LaPorte County shores has been sent to Lake Circuit Court by U. S. Lesh, Indiana Attorney General.

July 31, 1921

Charles Chester, W. W. Bozarth, George Burke, and Garland Reynolds caught ten wall-eyed pike, weighing from four to six pounds, and a number of pickerel at the Kankakee River, south of Kouts. The fish are biting good because of the low water.

Fully 150 took the July examination for teachers’ licenses at the Central school in Valparaiso on Saturday. This was the largest number for several years according to Superintendent Fred H. Cole and brings back the old times when the number ran over the 400 mark.

Looking Back • June 1921

June 1, 1921

A big road grader, the largest ever brought to Porter County, arrived here today. It weighs four tons and carries a twelve-foot blade or scoop. It will be used on construction work for a big fill near Deep River on the old road, which was shifted 100 feet. George T. Pearce, county gravel road superintendent, and Joseph Wilgen, assistant, are in charge of the work.

June 2, 1921

The Chatfield Grain Company, of Chatfield, Ohio, which recently purchased the old Valparaiso Grain Elevator on South Washington Street, has begun work on the remodeling of the structure. An Indianapolis firm has the contract. The Chatfield Grain Company will deal in coal, cement, feeds and grains.

The directors of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce today decided to offer R. C. Breth, of Canton, Ill., the managership of the local chamber for one year. Mr. Bret stated he would come to Valparaiso, but asked for a three-year contract. If they accept his offer he will take up his duties June 15.

June 3, 1921

Rev. Charles E. Burns, new pastor of the Christian church, arrived here yesterday with his son, Earl, and are occupying the parsonage on Franklin Avenue. Rev. Burns has been instructor of bible literature at Milligan College in Milligan, Tenn. He will preach his first sermon Sunday. He went to Chicago today to meet Mrs. Burns and six children who have been visiting there.

The Olympia Confectionery on Lincolnway in Valparaiso, owned by Peter Brown, was purchased today by Charles Thune, who will remodel the interior for a first-class drugstore. Mr. Thune has been manager of the College Pharmacy in College Hill.

June 4, 1921

Valparaiso authorities have taken a determined stand against pool room owners allowing minors to frequent their places of business. The pool room owners had a verbal agreement with the police board to keep all minors out. An affidavit was filed by Councilman B. D. McMahan, chairman of the police board, against a local pool room owner, following a raid by city police in which four minors were found in the place.

The Gary-Valparaiso Interurban is planning a one-hour service to Gary this summer for the first time in its history, President C.W. Chase announced today. The service at present is hourly on Saturday and Sunday, and two hours every other day. Last year was the first time hourly service was tried on Saturdays and Sundays.

June 5, 1921

Wheeler, in Union Township, seven miles west of Valparaiso, will soon have electric lights. A contract has been signed with the Calumet Electric Company of Hammond, which recently installed a line from Long Lake to McCool. The work of wiring homes and business houses is now going on.

A large crowd attended the services at the Christian church, Sunday to welcome Rev. C. E. Burns, the new pastor. John R. Burch announced during the morning service that the church indebtedness had been lifted. The children’s day exercises in the evening was largely attended. A free-will offering for foreign missions was double that of last year.

June 6, 1921

Fred H. Cole was re-elected superintendent of county schools by election held this morning at the office of County Auditor B. H. Kinne. Charles H. Reider, principal of the Liberty Center school, was a candidate. Each received six votes. Auditor Kinne broke the tie.

The dedicatory services commemorating the 30th anniversary of the dedication of Immanuel Lutheran Church (now Heritage Lutheran Church)  was largely attended yesterday. Rev C. W. Baer, the pastor, spoke in the morning, and Rev. O. W. Linnemeyer, of Goodland, Ind., in the evening. The cornerstone of the present church was laid in June, 1891.

June 7, 1921

R. C. Breth, secretary of the chamber of commerce at Canton Ill., has accepted the offer of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce to become manager. He will arrive here June 15.

June 8, 1921

The Monterey Light and Power Company was granted a franchise Monday night by the Kouts Town Board to build a lighting system in Kouts. The Monterey Company at present supplies the town of Hebron. Daly and Freund, of Valparaiso, and T. E. Crowe, have asked the county commissioners for permission to erect poles between Kouts and Hebron.

June 9, 1921

Wayne Lewis, who has been serving as deputy county clerk under G. E. Bornholt, will soon enter the practice of law in Valparaiso. Mr. Lewis has been admitted to the bar. He will have an office with Judge A. D. Bartholomew and J. S. Bartholomew in the Valparaiso National Bank building (later occupied by First Federal Savings & Loan before being demolished) on South Washington Street.

The forty-seventh annual commencement exercises of Purdue University were held at Fowler Hall in West Lafayette yesterday. Among the 400 students who received diplomas were Max Evans and Earl Mavity of Valparaiso.

June 10, 1921

The Valparaiso Kiwanis Club defeated the Valparaiso Rotarians in a baseball game at Brown Field by a score of 12 to 6  yesterday afternoon before a crowd of 1,000 people. The proceeds went to the Red Cross. VonDoehren, Sandy, Ealing, J. Griffin, Wilson and Blount were the batteries for Kiwanis, and Hayward, Meyers, Moreland and Siemetz were the Rotarians’ battery.

Leroy Brown, of Wheatfield, has leased the Lightcap building on College Hill, formerly the Dutch Kitchen, and will open up a restaurant. He is installing a new oven and doughnut machine.

June 11, 1921

The state convention of the Indiana Elks may meet in Valparaiso next year. Julius Albe, Charles Chester, and Glen J. Hardesty returned from Evansville, Ind., last night, where they attended the state meeting. They reported prospects for bringing the convention here next year are unusually bright. The place will be selected at a meeting of the state organization to be held soon. Mr. Albe was elected trustee of the state organization for three years.

Councilman B. D. McMahan last night filed an affidavit with Mayor P. L. Sisson asking revocation of a Lincolnway pool room. Recently the owner of the pool room pleaded guilty in Justice T. B. Louderback’s court for allowing minors to frequent his place of business.

June 12, 1921

A big baseball game will be staged at Valparaiso University’s ball park Thursday afternoon between the employees of the Lowenstine store and the Specht-Finney Service First Club. The proceeds will go to the Salvation Army. W. B. Forney and Dr. E. H. Powell will umpire.

Porter County farmers held a meeting at the office of County Agent A. Z. Arehart last night and named a committee to take charge of pooling wool. J. C. Meister was named chairman, H. I. Barnett, secretary, and William St. Clair, manager.

June 13, 1921

John W. Moreland, registrar at Valparaiso University, will leave the university in August for Monmouth, Ill., where he will act as registrar at Monmouth College. He will attend the University of Chicago this summer to obtain his degree of doctor of jurisprudence.

The contract for construction of the Grassmere Land Company Ditch in Pleasant Township was awarded Saturday at the office of county surveyor Floyd A. McNiece to Walter Hygema, of Wakarusa, Ind., for $23,365 ($348,587.53 in 2021). The construction calls for the excavation of the old Reeves Ditch south of the Panhandle Railroad in Pleasant Township and runs ten miles in a southwesterly direction, emptying into the Marble Ditch. The Reeves Ditch was built in 1880 and was the first dredge ditch built in the county.

June 14, 1921

Joseph Crowe, county highway superintendent, and a force of men commenced work today asphalting the Valparaiso-Chesterton Road. The work will begin at Chesterton and proceed to the B & O Railroad. Last year the road from the B & O bridge to Wauhob Lake was asphalted.

June 15, 1921

Clarence Burmeister, one of a gang which attempted robbery of a Grand Trunk merchandise train west of Valparaiso, was brought here and placed in county jail. He was receiving treatment in a Chicago hospital for a gunshot wound received in a gun battle with a Grand Trunk detective. He posted bond for his release. Three others are also at liberty on bonds.

June 16, 1921

Wayne A. McDaniels, who resigned his position with Lewis E. Myers and Company last week began the practice of law in Gary today. He will be associated with Thad Menczynski, who is a graduate of Valparaiso University.

The Mutual Chautauqua to be held June 17-21, will open tomorrow at Valparaiso University’s ball park. The afternoon sessions will be devoted to a junior frolic and a ticket hunt for juniors will be a feature. The tent and other equipment arrived yesterday.

Note: A chautauqua was an adult education and social movement in the United States, highly popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Chautauqua assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s and brought entertainment and culture through speakers, teachers, musicians, showmen, preachers, and specialists of the day.

June 17, 1921

Harry R. Curran, owner, and L.W. Hart, manager of Montdale Stock Farm, have returned from Springfield, Mass., where they attended the Ayrshire Breeders’ Association meeting and national sale on June 7. Mr. Curran purchased seven head of fine registered stock.

The Rev. Father Griffith, priest-in-charge of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, will begin his thirty-eighth year in the ministry today. Next Sunday being his first in the thirty-eighth year, he has invited his parishioners and friends to worship with him at 9 o’clock in the morning.

June 18, 1921

The U. S. China Company will expend nearly $100,000 ($1,491,921.79 in 2021) on its plant at Chesterton. Theodore Dittell, head of the company, is awaiting untangling of certain legal matters before awarding the contract. The present force of twenty-five workers will be increased to 300.

The drought of the past two weeks is raising havoc with the oats crop, and even with heavy rains little benefit will accrue. Small fruits are also suffering. The corn crop is still holding its own, though the rain is badly needed. The crop shows the best prospects in years, it is said.

June 19, 1921

R.C. Breth, of Canton, Ill., today assumed the secretaryship of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce. This week he will attend the first directors’ meeting when the active program of the community service will be outlined.

Willard Hall, located on East Monroe Street in Valparaiso and owned by Charles Hershman, is being changed from a students’ rooming house into a light housekeeping apartment.

June 20, 1921

The annual recital of music pupils of St. Paul’s Academy was given last evening at Community Hall. The pupils were assisted by an orchestra composed of Charles Coyer, E. J. Salisbury, Charles Whitehead, Richard Fabing, William Johnston, Edward Auzola, Mr. Lewis, and Bernard Finnegan.

June 21, 1921

A carload of tubercular cattle, twenty-five in number, were shipped to the Union Stockyards, Chicago, today. The cattle are reactors under a recent test for tuberculosis. They will be slaughtered under government inspection. The owners are compensated by the government and state up to $130 ($1,939.50 in 2021) and salvage for purebred and up to $65 ($969.75 in 2021) salvage for a grade.

June 22, 1921

The wool committee appointed by the Porter County Farmers’ Association has announced that enough wool has been listed to make a minimum load of 16,000 pounds. Bags will soon be distributed to the shippers.

June 23, 1921

The electric lighting equipment at the Pageant of Progress given by the American Legion at the fair grounds was put out of commission last evening at 10 o’clock when one of the transformers burned out. It was necessary to go to Michigan City for repairs. The burned transformer was one secured for Valparaiso University to provide additional light for the new vocational training students.

Funeral services for Charles F. Weiseman, of Furnessville, who died at Comercy, Grance, January 6, 1919, were held at the Lutheran Church at Porter, Sunday, in charge of the American Legion. Weiseman was born at Furnessville on December 5, 1892. Surviving are a widow, whom he married before he left for camp, one sister, and two brothers.

June 24, 1921

Valparaiso Odd Fellowship will stage a gala event here July 2 when a canton and ladies’ auxiliary will be mustered in. Valparaiso years ago had one of the largest cantons in the state. The organization finally disbanded and the members affiliated with the Gary canton. The local canton will consist of thirty members. A parade and military ball in the Valparaiso University gym will be features of the meeting.

Ben and August Koselke have leased oil rights on their farm in Jackson Township to Chicago men who will begin drilling two oil wells. Oil was struck in that vicinity several years ago. The Chicago men expect to go down 1,200 feet.

June 25, 1921

O. P. Kinsey, of Valparaiso, has made a gift of a free public library to the city of Freeport, Ohio, where he formerly lived. A property in Freeport has been purchased for a site for the library building. Mr. and Mrs. Kinsey and his sisters, Sarah and Arminda, have had in mind the building of the library in Freeport for a number of years. It is their intention to deed a home and 300 acres of land for the maintenance of a library. Large coal deposits on the farm make the land valuable.

Charles Chester, who has been assistant superintendent of the factory for the Pioneer Truck Company, has been promoted to the superintendency of the local plant. The company is expecting to reach the peak of construction of trucks inside of a few weeks. During the last two weeks many machines have been shipped to Chicago.

June 26, 1921

The state appellate court has affirmed the decision of the Lake Circuit Court in the case of Charles F. Leeks and others, of Boone Township, Porter County, against William Schleman. The plaintiffs brought suit to enjoin the defendant from building a channel from the Breyfogle Ditch to the Phillips Ditch and diverting the waters of the former ditch to the Phillips Ditch. They contend the waters from the Breyfogle Ditch would, in time, clog up the Phillips Ditch. The case has been in litigation for three years.

The Pageant of Progress given by the World’s Fair Shows under the auspices of the local American Legion post last week was a financial success. Toney Poleria, federal board student at the university, won the Ford car. Robert Louis, seven-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Farrington, won the baby contest. Miss Margaret Timmons was queen of the pageant.

June 27, 1921

The annual meeting of stockholders of the Altruria Dormitory Company was held last evening. The following directors were elected for the ensuing year: Peter Schuldt, E. W. Chaffee, Mrs. Anna Morony, C. W. Benton, G. M. Dodge, W. A. Hoffman and A. W. Williams. Officers named were: G. M. Dodge, president; Anna Morony, vice-president, and C. W. Benton, secretary-treasurer.

June 28, 1921

The Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company is installing one of the largest cables ever used in Valparaiso. The cable is twice as large as any heretofore used and contains 804 wires. The cable runs underground for several blocks in the business district.

June 29, 1921

Joseph Leurs, proprietor of the Kouts Department Store, yesterday sold the business to the Shutske Brothers, of Pleasant Township. The Schleman-Morton Company of Valparaiso engineered the deal, involving $30,000 ($447,576.54 in 2021). Mr. Leurs took, in part, payment of an eighty-acre farm. The deal is the third in Kouts this year, including W. S. Bush selling his hardware and lumber yard to H. G. Spencer, and J. T. Cannon and Son selling their general merchandise store to Hammond parties.

Fishing in the Kankakee River is no good, according to reports brought here by Deputy Game Wardens Gregg Stansell and J. H. Randall. Mr. Stansell, who was formerly police chief in Valparaiso, stated that the change of the river course by dredging has ruined the former abodes of fish. He said the Tippecanoe River is alive with fish at the present time.

June 30, 1921

A horseshoe court is being installed on the vacant lot just east of the city hall in downtown Valparaiso (present-day location of Aster & Gray and the MUG). Edward Cowdrey, champion of the steel company at Gary, will meet all comers. Mr. Cowdrey played a series of games yesterday at Gary and made 111 points, 105 of which were from ringers.

A Valparaiso citizen has suggested that the school board sell the Wolf property at the corner of Washington and Chicago Streets in the downtown and purchase the Porter County Fair Grounds for a building site for a new high school.

Looking Back • May 1921

May 1, 1921

The Valparaiso Athletics blanked the Boone Grove baseball team Sunday at the fairgrounds by a score of 4 to 0. Sides pitched for the Athletics and Maloney for Boone Grove.

The riot cases against Thomas Dandalet, Arthur Engstrom and Baldwin McLennon, star athletes at Valparaiso University, growing out of a row between opposing factions at the university over President Daniel Russell Hodgdon, were dismissed in Justice T. B. Louderback’s court today. The three defendants and Frank W. Thomas, the complaining witness, were in court. Following a conference between Prosecutor J. S. Bartholomew and Thomas the cases were nolle prossed (dismissed).

May 2, 1921

At a meeting of the official board of the M. E. church last evening the proposition of building an addition to the church was discussed. A committee was appointed to formulate plans. The addition if built would be constructed on the north side of the present structure and would include space for a gym. The improvement would cost $20,000.

Charles L. Jeffrey, Mandel R. Lowenstine, and George F. Beach returned this morning from Washington, D. C., where they went last Friday to confer with the government federal vocational board in regard to closing a contract to bring 500 students here to the university for training under the vocation board act. The contract is expected to be closed within a few days.

May 3, 1921

E. W. Agar, city attorney of Valparaiso, won the republican mayoralty nomination yesterday. He defeated R. D. Raymond and Eugene Hodges. John R. Burch and B. D. McMahan were nominated for councilman-at-large; E. S. Miller, first ward; S. E. Collins, second ward; Louis Gast, third ward; Blaine Williams, fourth ward.

May 4, 1921

Charles L. Jeffrey, chairman of the board of trustees of Valparaiso University, announced that the contract between the university and the government for the training of 500 students under the federal vocational board act had been accepted, according to a telegram received from Washington. A government representative will be here in a few days to make arrangements to remodel the buildings and install the necessary machinery. It is said the government will spend $100,000 in providing equipment for training the men. The contract runs for one year.

May 5, 1921

The Kiwanis Club reported today that a wonderful battery had been uncovered for the coming clash with the Rotary Club at Brown Field. The Kiwanians refuse to divulge the identity of the two star players discovered, it is said, during a recent dinner. O. F. Helvie, of the Rotary Club, on receipt of the news wore a worried look. E. D. Hodges, Dr. Stoner, W. J. Morris and other heavies of the Rotary Club are losing weight over the Kiwanis find.

S. J. Brown, of the Chatfield Grain Company, of Chatfield, O., is in the city making arrangements for the remodeling of the old Valparaiso Grain Elevator building on South Washington Street at the Pennsylvania tracks. The Chatfield Grain Company recently purchased the building and will remodel it. The company will sell coal, cement, and fertilizers.

May 6, 1921

Charles Specht, owner of Burlington Beach, Flint Lake, has sold his property to John Kostjal, of Gary. The resort consists of 32 acres and a number of buildings. The place has been in the Specht family for 25 years. Mr. Kostjal for a number of years conducted a resort at Miller Beach.

Several representatives of the government were here from Washington yesterday inspecting buildings at the university for the purpose of drawing plans and specifications for the alteration of the structures for training of 500 men to be sent here under the federal vocational training act. An army physician and nurse will be sent here by the government for active duty.

May 7, 1921

A photograph was taken this morning at university ball park of students attending the university. The picture was panoramic view and also included members of the faculty. The large number in the picture occasioned surprise for many people who witnessed the photographing. The students stated that everyone in the picture was one hundred percent American.

County Superintendent Fred H. Cole has been distinctly honored in the book: “Who’s Who and Why in After War Education,” published by the Institute for Public Service, New York City. The Valparaiso man’s sketch is included in the book and a good-sized space is devoted to his accomplishments. Only 1,800 names are listed in the book, persons who have been responsible for forward steps in education.

May 8, 1921

E. W. Agar, republican nominee for Valparaiso mayor at the recent primary election, has received a letter of congratulation from United States Senator Harry New. Senator New expressed the hope that Mr. Agar will be successful in the November election.

Melvin J. Stinchfield, a former Valparaiso boy, who has been connected with a Pittsburgh construction concern in Chicago, has been appointed by Governor McCray as assistant date engineer with offices in the state building at Indianapolis. Mr. Stinchfield left Saturday for Indianapolis to assume his new duties.

May 9, 1921

Waverly Beach, Lake Michigan, where many drownings have taken place, will soon be equipped with a pulmotor. The boy scouts of Porter are behind the movement to obtain one for emergency purposes. Sunday the boys took up subscriptions from persons visiting the beach, and probably a hundred persons contributed from fifty cents to one dollar.

Deputy Sheriff Gust Long, who has been deputy under Sheriff William Pennington since the latter took office, will resign his position tomorrow and take a position with the Foster Lumber and Coal Company.

May 10, 1921

The pickle factory building at the Grand Trunk station owned by Reid, Murdoch and Company, has been sold to Mark Palmer, local Ford auto dealer. He will use the building for unloading, storing and assembling Ford autos, tractors and farm machinery.

May 11, 1921

The Foster Lumber and Coal Company was yesterday awarded the contract by the government for alteration of buildings at Valparaiso University to be used by 500 students to be sent here for vocational training. The appropriation calls for an expenditure of approximately $35,000. The repairs cover Heritage Hall, Lembke, Domestic Science, Elocution, Commercial Hall and the medical building. The government will spend $100,000 in alteration of buildings and installing new machinery and other changes. The work must be completed by June 1.

May 12, 1921

Three hundred and ninety-five boy scouts of the scout area, comprising LaPorte and Porter counties, will again join the South Bend scouts in summer camp, according to a decision reached at the area meeting at the Rumely hotel at LaPorte Tuesday afternoon. The committee is comprised of W. B. Brown, Michigan City, chairman; Earl V. Smith, Valparaiso, and J. V. Dilworth, of LaPorte. The South Bend camp, Camp Bryan, is located near Wakeklee, Mich.

Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce through its board of directors today took action to assist the city administration in bringing about a solution of the pressing and disconcerting downtown parking problem. A committee was appointed to look into the feasibility of purchasing or renting a centrally located lot for parking purposes, and two or three were submitted for consideration. The chamber is committed to some program that will afford accommodations to motorists. Through the new parallel parking ordinance affecting the north side of Lincolnway through the business section the congestion problem has become even more annoying.

May 13, 1921

Gus Demos, proprietor of the Up-to-Date Dry Cleaners, announced today that the new building on North Washington Street would be ready inside of three weeks. The building is of cement block and is being built by Paul E. Marks. Mr. Demos came here from Cincinnati O., following his discharge from the army.

Chesterton is to have a new library to open in September. Trustee G. J. Johnson and Superintendent, F. M. Goldsborough have been working on the project for several years and enough money has been procured through taxation in the township to provide for its establishment. The location of the new library has not been determined.

May 14, 1921

The St. Michael’s American Russian National Orphans’ Home and Institution are selling lots to Russian members of the organization in the tract of 1,355 acres purchased by the society of the Robbins estate in Portage Township. The land cost the society $200,000. Yesterday twenty deeds were placed on file in the recorder’s office. The east half of section 29 in Portage township was subdivided by the society into lots for building purposes.

May 15, 1921

A big steam shovel, weighing thirty tons, and equipped with tractor wheels, is being used by P.T. Clifford and Son in the construction of the Hanrahan road in Center and Liberty townships. The Hanrahan road is six miles long and more than 38,000 cubic yards of dirt must be moved. A number of hills are being cut down along the route.

Valparaiso High School did not score a point in the Northern Indiana Track and Field meet at Notre Dame, South Bend, Saturday. Coach R. E. Schenck took three men to the meet—Thomas Clifford, Charles Riddle and Herman Mohnssen. The competition was too stiff in the events the men were entered and none of them was able to annex a point.

May 16, 1921

A white frost last night did incalculable damage to garden truck and small fruits throughout the county. Garden truck was sipped, strawberries and other small fruits were damaged. Hardy garden crops escaped.

Valparaiso University defeated Kalamazozo college Saturday afternoon at Brown Field, 3 to 2. “Iefty” Higgins, on the mound for Valpo, beat Fenner, Kazoo pitcher, given a tryout last spring by the Chicago White Sox. Higgins allowed but four hits. Gilbert’s work at third base featured.

May 17, 1921

The Inland Steel Company of Indiana Harbor, yesterday placed on record in the county recorder’s office deeds to 335 acres of land in Portage Township, purchased of the Crumpacker estate of Hammond. The consideration was $103.50. The land acquired is south of 219 acres purchased by the company quite some time ago. 

May 18, 1921

A “History of Valparaiso University,” has just been completed by George W. Stimpson and will be ready for distribution next week. The history commences with the founding of the school and traces its development down to the present administration. The most interesting feature of the book is the chapters on the recent revolution. Mr. Stimpson was on the inside of the revolution and knows many things not known by the average student.

May 19, 1921

Dr. George Keogan, acting director of athletics and coach at Valparaiso University, for the last two years, today tendered his resignation to the board of trustees of the school and the same was accepted. Before coming here Dr. Keogan was coach at St. Thomas college, Great lakes Naval Training station, and Allegheny College. He has received several offers to coach, including one at Notre Dame.

An architect from the M. E. church Sunday school board of Chicago, was in the city today conferring with a committee on improvements of the local M. E. church. Some time ago the church organizers decided on enlarging the present structure to make more room for the Sunday school quarters and installation of a gym. The possibility of obtaining these enlarged quarters either through use of present basement or through an addition on the north part of the lot will be considered by the architect and building committee.

May 20, 1921

L. R. Gignillant, state commander Indiana American Legion, and Frank McHale, chairman of the Americanization committee, may make an investigation of reports of radical tendencies on part of persons attending Valparaiso University, it was learned today. Dr. Daniel Russell Hodgdon, president of the school, after resigning his post, asserted the school was a hotbed of radicalism.

G. G. Shauer and Sons yesterday awarded the contract for construction of the Premier Theatre on the site of the old Hotel Spindler site to C. F. Lembke and Company of Valparaiso. Work will be commenced tomorrow. The structure will be 72 by 132 feet, and will contain an auditorium seating 1,032 persons, two store rooms, and six suites of offices.

May 21, 1921

Grand Trunk trainmen frustrated an attempt to rob a merchandise train at the Clifford Crossing, west of here. The robbers out an air hose. When trainmen went to repair it, the robbers fired on them. A detective on the train replied with a volley of shots.

H. Leigh Lawrence, rector of an Episcopal church at Menominee, Mich, is here visiting his parents, Mr. an Mrs. J. A. Lawrence.

May 22, 1921

Fred Marquart was appointed Saturday by the county commissioners as county assessor to succeed Ezra Brody, deceased. Mr. Marquart has been acting as assessor during Brody’s illness. He formerly served as Center Township assessor.

 After laying dormant for 18 years an oil well dug by W. J. Henry, east of Woodville Junction, has been uncapped and Mr. Henry and Mark R. Palmer will give it a thorough pumping to ascertain whether it will produce in paying quantities.

May 23, 1921

J. M. Wilcoxen, of Hammond, won the registered shoot held at Flint Lake yesterday by the Valpo Gun Club. He broke 142 of 150. Dr. E.H. Powell, Valparaiso, and Bert Lewis, West Alron, Ill., pro, broke 140. W.H. Hunsley broke 139, and Ora Gray and Sol Freidheim 138 apiece.

Three of five men who attempted robbery of a Grand Trunk merchandise train west of the city, were captured in Chicago Saturday when Clarence Burmeister, one of the men wounded in a gun battle with a railroad detective, applied at the Jefferson Park hospital for treatment. Two men who took Burmeister to the hospital for treatment. Two men who took Burmeister to the hospital were also arrested. The trio were brought here to Porter County Jail.

May 24, 1921

George Downing, operator of a garage and auto repair shop at Garfield and LaPorte Road, will open up a restaurant and grocery in a new addition next to the garage Mrs. Downing will be in charge of the new business.

May 25, 1921 

The Valparaiso Auto Sales Company has leased the R.D. Ross and Son building on West Lincolnway, formerly occupied by W. A. Stimson agency. Possession will be taken over on June 1. The company will move there from its present location on Washington Street across from the chamber of commerce.

May 26, 1921

The Valparaiso Kiwanis Club received its charter last night at a dinner meeting held at Altruria Hall. More than 100 attended, 58 being members of the club. Col. J. L. McCullock, of Marion, presented the charter to President George R. Douglas of the local club. Mayor P. L. Sisson gave the welcome address.

Joseph L. Doyle, former secretary and clerk of the Porter County Draft Board, said there were only three evaders of the select draft in the county. Twenty men were listed as non-wilful deserters, but a number of these enlisted elsewhere. 

May 27, 1921

Memorial Opera House was filled to capacity last evening by friends and patrons of Valparaiso High School who gathered to honor the class of 1921. The address of the evening was delivered by State Superintendent L. N. Hines. There were forty-one graduates.

The Valparaiso Lighting Company will try the new McDonald process of manufacturing gas at its plant June 1. The plant was constructed by Mr. McDonald who has been working for a number of years.

May 28, 1921

Joseph Demarggio, of Gary, who has operated the Red Bus Line in Gary, for the last seven years, will start a line between Valparaiso and Sheridan Beach. He will operate a Packard bus seating between thirty-five and forty persons. Trips will be made between the city and lake every half hour.

C. R. Bret, secretary of chamber of commerce at Canton, Ill., may be employed as manager of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce. E.D. Hodges will be retained as manager. The appointment will probably be made at a meeting of the directors next Wednesday.

May 29, 1921

The ride tickets to Chicago on the local steam roads, transferable will soon be a thing of the past. On July 1, only 25, 46, and 54-ride tickets, good to individual purchasers and his family will be sold. 

Attorney Ralph N. Smith, of Laporte, will return from Hot Springs, Ark., the coming week to prepare the defense of Engineer William Long and Fireman George Block, charged by Coroner A. O. Seipel with responsibility of the Porter wreck in which forty persons lost their lives. The case is set down for trial June 6. The defense will try to place the responsibility on the towerman at Porter.

May 30, 1921

On May 30, 1901, eight students of Valparaiso University, who sat at the same table in one of the dining halls, agreed to meet on the west steps of the court house on May 30, 1921. W.C. Mulroy, of Ponca City, Okla., was the only member signing the agreement to show up.

May 31, 1921

A big road grader, largest ever brought to Porter County, arrived today and will be used on a big fill on an old road near Deep River, which was shifted 100 feet. It weighs four tons and carries a 12 foot blade or scoop. George T. Pearce, county road superintendent, and Joseph Wilgen, assistant, are in charge.

Looking Back • April 1921

April 1, 1921

Funeral services for Martin J. Gabel, who lost his life in fighting in the Argonne during the World War will be held in the court house yard Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock. The American Legion will be in charge. Rev. Guy O. Carpenter who served in the navy during the war, will officiate. A military funeral will be held. The body of the dead soldier arrived here last night and was met at the depot by a guard of honor of the Rehabilitation Club of the university, and representatives of the American Legion, and escorted to the home of Gabel’s sister, Mrs. Jerome Spencer. A guard will be maintained until the body is removed to the court house tomorrow where it will lie in state until the funeral.

W. B. Forney, who recently completed two terms as sheriff of Porter County, has formed a partnership with C. S. Peirce in the insurance, real estate, and investment business. Mr. Peirce established the business in 1915. The new firm will be located at 6 Michigan Avenue.

April 2, 1921

County Treasurer J. G. Graessle today sold four issues of gravel road bonds. The $140,000 ($2,057,092.74 in 2021) issue in the Arthur Hanrahan Road was sold to Straus Brothers of Ligonier. The Valparaiso State Bank bought two issues in the B. F. Williams Road in Washington and Morgan Townships for $78,200 ($1,149,033.23 in 2021), and also the $34,800 ($511,334.48 in 2021) issue in the Galbreath Road in Morgan Township.

Joseph F. Crowe, county highway superintendent, has been appointed by Governor McCray as one of the delegates to the ninth annual convention of the U. S. Good Roads Association convention to be held at Greensboro, N. C., on April 18 to 20, to represent the State of Indiana.

April 3, 1921

Valparaiso paid tribute Sunday to Martin Gabel, one of its sons who gave his life in France during the World War. Funeral services were held at the court house lawn at 2 o’clock. Three thousand persons attended. Lincolnway was full and many buildings held persons. A quartet composed of Arthur and Carroll Schneider, Mrs. W. T. Conklin and Mrs. Emma Dorsey sang. Rev. J. A. Lord, pastor of the Hebron M. E. church, gassed in France, gave the text; Rev. John W. Newsome, army chaplain, the prayer: O.F. Helvie, commander Charles Pratt Post, American Legion, the post commander ritual for the dead, and Rev. Guy Carpenter, pastor of M.E. church, and navy chaplain, preached the sermon. The pallbearers were Gust Long, Don Herrick, Justin Shauer, Claude Beach, Edward Abel and Peter Young. Following the services the city band led the procession to Maplewood Cemetery. A firing squad three volleys over the grave. Fully 1,500 persons accompanied the body to the cemetery.

At the conclusion of the morning service Sunday at the Baptist church a permanent call was extended by the congregation to Rev. Clarence Mitchell, acting pastor of the church for several months. It is not known whether he will accept the call.

April 4, 1921

E. W. Agar and E. D. Hodges Saturday filed their declaration of candidacies for the office of mayor, making three now in the republican race for the office. John R. Burch, who filed for mayor, but withdrew, filed for councilman at large. A.L. Lebrercque also filed for councilman and large, and Fred Comstock filed for councilman in the Third ward.

Father John Quinlan, rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at Fort Wayne, and a native of Valparaiso, died Sunday morning at 7:25 o’clock. He was born in Valparaiso on April 19, 1858. He was a relative of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Clifford and Mrs. Mary Stokes, of Valparaiso.

April 5, 1921

The old frame building on Lincolnway next to the Horn Brothers’ meat market was sold by its owners, Horn Brothers, to Edward Jones, who will tear it down and use the materials to build summer homes at Flint Lake. James M. Sheldon, owner of the flower shop, is negotiating for the purchase of the William Pennington flower shop on Indiana Avenue, owned by Lauren Maudlin.

April 6, 1921

“Five Hundred” night was observed last night at Masonic hall by Porter Lodge, No. 137, Free and Accepted Masons. The Master Mason degree was conferred on one candidate, bringing membership up to the 500 mark. More than 400 members attended the meeting. Westville, Chesterton and Hebron had large delegations. The Apollo Quartet furnished music. The dispensation of Porter Lodge was granted on June 25, 1850, and the charter was dated May 27, 1852.

April 7, 1921

Joseph L. Doyle, who served as secretary of the Porter County Registration Board during the draft, is assisting ex-service men in obtaining information regarding their order and serial numbers. Before sending the list to Washington he made a copy of the data.

J.M. Sheldon, who has been conducting a flower shop on Lincolnway, has bought the Lauren Maudlin flower ship on Indiana Avenue. Mr. Maudlin will enter Valparaiso University under the Federal Vocational Board Training Act.

April 8, 1921

A meeting of K. of P. lodges was held at Hebron last night with 228 members from Hebron, Valparaiso and Chesterton attending. The third rank was conferred upon five candidates. The next meeting will be held in Valparaiso in May.

A.R. Hardesty was elected president of the Valparaiso University Alumni held at Million Dollar headquarters last night. Other officers named were: R. D. Raymond and Mrs. Mary Stiles, vice-presidents; Paul Marks, secretary, and Earl V. Smith, treasurer. 

April 9, 1921

George Huitema,  official tester of Porter County Testing Association, has gone to his home at New Paris, Ind., to recover from an attack of the mumps. County Agent A.Z. Arehart is attempting to obtain a substitute tester.

Constitution and bylaws of the Porter County Realtors’ Association were adopted at a meeting last night. Ten members signed up and others signified their intention of doing so.

April 10, 1921

The Charfield Grain Company, of Chatfield, O., may establish a flour mill here. The company has made a bid on the old Valparaiso Grain and Elevator building on South Washington Street and if acquired will remodel it and install machinery for the making of flour. The Chatfield Company owns a number of mills and granaries in Ohio and Indiana.

The Bogarte Book Store on College Hill was burglarized last evening and loot valued at between $500 ($7,346.76 in 2021) and $1,000 ($14,693.52 in 2021) taken. The principal part of the loot consisted of special drawing instruments, valued as high as $30 ($440.81 in 2021) per set.

April 11, 1921

John D. Frechete, of this city, has been granted a patent on an easy walking shoe by the Canadian patent office. The shoe absorbs shocks and prevents moisture from penetrating from the bottom while permitting absorption from the inside.

The Valparaiso Kiwanis Club at its meeting today effected a permanent organization by electing V.R. Despard president; L. H. Trott, secretary, and T. L. Applegate, treasurer.

April 12, 1921

A struggle for supremacy between two factions of university students has resulted in the principals getting into court. Frank W. Thomas has filed an affidavit in Justice T. B. Louderback’s court against Baldwin McLennon, Arthur Engstrom and Thomas Dandalet, charging assault. Many students and faculty members have been subpoenaed for the trial set for Saturday.

April 13, 1921

A suit brought by William Muster against J. O. Ellis, county fair promoter last year, is still pending in the courts. Muster sued for $175 for services in connection with the fair. A writ of attachment was obtained against Ellis’ trunks. A cash bond was put up and the trunks released. Yesterday a change of venue was taken from Justice Louderback’s court on the ground that he is a material witness in the case.

April 14, 1921

The Chatfield Grain Elevator Company of Chatfield, O., has purchased the old Valparaiso grain elevator on South Washington Street, for $1,710 ($25,125.92 in 2021). The structure will be torn down and a new one erected.

Arbor Day will be observed at the Pinney-Purdue Farm, near Wanatah, tomorrow by the planting of 500 trees. Maples, Birch and Ash found along the Kankakee will be planted. They will replace a grove that has died.

April 15, 1921

Fares on Gary and Interurban from Valparaiso to points north of Sheridan Beach, Flint Lake, were reduced by directors of the road yesterday. The rates were cut from 21 cents to 15 and 19 cents. The directors also decided to operate cars on the Chesterton division. A one-man car will be operated between Woodville and Chesterton.

The Farmers State Bank today received 200 safety deposit boxes. The boxes on hand have all been rented.

April 16, 1921

The first of the claims growing out of the wreck at Porter in which 37 died was settled at Michigan City yesterday when Lynn Kramer, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Barney Kramer of Michigan City, settled with the Michigan Central railroad for $7,000 ($102,854.64 in 2021).

Cases against three students of Valparaiso University, charged with assault and battery on another student, were continued in Justice T.B. Louderback’s court today. It is believed the case will be settled.

April 17, 1921

The Knights of Columbus degree team went to Mishawaka yesterday where it conferred upon a class of candidates for the Notre Dame Council. T. P. Galvin, district deputy, was in charge. Thirty members of the local lodge attended a banquet at the Oliver hotel after the work.

The McMahan-Wood Company, on East Lincolnway, is enlarging its building with the addition of two stories and a basement. The company now has 25 jobbers in five states on its cereal products.

April 18, 1921

Freezing weather over the weekend did damage to the fruit crop in Porter County. Saturday the temperature registered 25 degrees above. Snow fell and ice froze in many places. Cherries were practically killed and peaches suffered. Grapes are gone, but plums, pears, and apples were not injured.

The Bloch Hotel on Lincolnway is being improved. The pool room in the rear is being removed and the restaurant will be extended to the full length of the building.

April 19, 1921

Broncho John Sullivan, of this city, was given a feature writeup in the April 4 issue of the Florida Times-Union, published at Jacksonville. He recently visited Jacksonville after an absence of 23 years. Mr. Sullivan was chief trainmaster at Camp Cuba Libre, Jacksonville, during the Spanish-American War.

April 20, 1921

Valparaiso University enjoys the unusual distinction this quarter of occupying the front page of the American Magazine, published by the American Historical Society. The article is written by President Daniel Russell Hogdon, and comprises 13 pages, with profuse illustrations of the school buildings.

April 21, 1921

Henry Pahl, who was appointed third commissioner to act with county ditch commissioner Andrew Bickel in the Smith Ditch, qualified yesterday and the work of getting the ditch ready for construction will proceed. The petition to establish the Smith Ditch was filed three years ago by residents living around Wolff’s Corners who have complained of lack of drainage.

The Notre Dame University Glee Club made its second appearance here last night under the auspices of the Valparaiso Knights of Columbus Lodge. A large crowd greeted the entertainers. “The Soldiers’ Chorus,” from Faust was one of the best of the glee club members. Walter O’Keefe supplied the specialty numbers which were thoroughly enjoyed.

April 22, 1921

The elevator at the Aylesworth Switch in Boone Township has been sold by Charles Ray, of Kouts, and William Dahl, of LaCrosse, to the Farmers’ Equity Union of Hebron, made up of Boone and Porter Township farmers. The capacity of the elevator is 18,000 bushels. It is located along the Pan Handle Railroad.

Prof. Rolla A. Tallcott, Dean of the Department of Expression at Valparaiso University has tendered his resignation and will go to Indianapolis about June 1, to engage in chautauqua work this summer. In the fall he will give part of his time in instruction at Butler College and Indiana College of Music and Fine Arts.

April 23, 1921

The Farmers’ Equity Union of Hebron, composed of farmers of Boone and Porter Townships has purchased the Hebron elevator of D. A. Fisher & Son. This makes the second elevator purchased by the society, the one at Aylesworth having been purchased last week. The Farmers’ Equity Union will also build an elevator at Hurlburt, plans for the building having been drawn by the Alliance Company of Indianapolis.

The Porter County War Memorial Building Board met Saturday afternoon at the county commissioners room in the court house. Members of the board were present. The members in the north and south parts of the county were in favor of deferring action until a later date. The present high taxes was advanced by out of town members for postponement of the building.

April 24, 1921

Odd Fellows and Rebekahs yesterday observed the 102nd anniversary of the founding of Oddfellowship in United States. One hundred and fifty persons attended services at M. E. church and listened to a sermon by Rev. Guy O. Carpenter. Clarence Field acted as marshal of the day, assisted by G. G. Sherwood in charge of the Rebekahs. A dinner was served at Odd Fellows Hall after the services.

Valparaiso University defeated the House of Davis team of Benton Harbor at Brown Field yesterday 14 to 0. Adams and Higgins pitched for Valparaiso with Tree catching. The university scored seven runs in the seventh inning on five hits and three errors.

April 25, 1921

A new gas-making device is being installed at the Valparaiso Lighting Company on South Napoleon Street, John W. Wood, of Indianapolis, and W. D. McDonald, of Chicago, are the promoters of the experiment. The plant to be erected will cost $25,000 ($367,337.99 in 2021). If the plan proves successful, the local company will take it over. The new plant makes gas out of coal, leaving no by-products.

At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Valparaiso University today at noon, Dr. Daniel Russell Hodgdon resigned as president of the school. John E. Roessler, for nearly thirty years an instructor in the school, was named as acting president. A. A. Williams, another instructor, was named acting vice-president.

April 26, 1921

The long line of living ex-sheriffs of Porter County was broken last night when Charles W. Dickover was claimed by death. Porter County has the distinction of having men living who served as sheriff for 45 years back. James Malone, oldest living ex-sheriff, served two terms from 1876 to 1880. He was followed by C. W. Dickover, Elias Thomas, Shedd Herrick, Joseph Sego, Heber Stoddard, Charles Green, Charles LaCount, Lewis Green, Clayton Wood, W. S. Lindall and W. B. Forney.

April 27, 1921

The Windle building, 122 East Lincolnway, occupied by the Valparaiso Auto and Carriage Trimming Company, will be remodeled by its owner, W.G. WIndle. The building will be occupied upon its completion by W.G. Windle & Son, grocers, now located in the Urbahns’ building. The Valparaiso Auto and Carriage Trimming Company will move to the Valparaiso Electrical Sales Company next door east.

April 28, 1921

Officers of the Rehabilitation Club, Valparaiso University, have issued a statement declaring that recent newspaper account picturing Valparaiso University as a hotbed of bolshevism and communism is pure bunk. The origin of the news articles is believed due to the recent breach between President D. R. Hodgdon and students, which resulted in the president’s resignation.

Porter County will have twelve entrants for the state five-acre corn contest. J. A. Warren captured the honor last year with 127.75 bushels.

April 29, 1921

Charles L. Jeffery, M. R. Lowenstine and George F. Beach, trustees of Valparaiso University, will leave today for Washington, D. C., to confer for representatives of the government board for vocational training. A contract is expected to be signed which will bring between 5,000 and 10,000 men here for training at the local school.

The annual Valparaiso High School play, “Boomerang,” was given last night at Memorial Opera House. Miss Beulah Bondy directed the play. Players taking part were Tom Morony, Bartlett Marimon, Stephen Corboy, Jr., Bernard Finnigan, Harold Wood, Phyllis Stinchfield, Bessie Long, Edith Small, and Dorothy Bartholomew.

April 30, 1921

Members of the American Legion were called to the university this morning to notify men in a rooming house that a red flag containing a skull and cross bones be taken down. When a second visit was made to the place the flag was missing.

An involuntary petition in bankruptcy was filed at Indianapolis Thursday against the Hess Mercury Carburetor Company of Valparaiso and Kokomo. Creditors who filed the claims allege the company owes them $2,482.93 ($36,482.98 in 2021).