Looking Back • June 1922

June 1, 1922

A roaring in trees in many parts of the county today sounded like the hum of factory wheels. It marked the visit of the 17-year locusts. On the William Schleman farm, near Hebron, a five-acre tract of timber was literally covered with locusts. The locusts lay eggs and the insects hatched there-from, eat the leaves, and kill the trees. No reports have come of growing crops having been damaged. Porter County Agent A. Z. Arehart has a number of the locusts on exhibition at his office in the courthouse.

Mr. and Mrs. Lauren Maudlin and son arrived here yesterday from Laffayette, Ind., where Mr. Maudlin is attending Purdue University. Mr. Maudlin is commander of the Disabled American Veterans post of the World War at Purdue University. He has been selected as a delegate to the national convention of the D. A. V. to be held at San Francisco, Calif., in later June.

June 2, 1922

The annual alumni banquet of Valparaiso High School was held last night at the M. E. Church and Lincolnway school. J. Earle Mavity, ’17, acted as toastmaster. Attorney J. S. Bartholomew, ’97, welcomed the class to the alumni association. Marian Albright responded for the Class of 1922. Helen Dean, ’17, sang two songs. Alma Curtis, ’16, gave a reading. John Fabing, ’20, spoke on the value of the alumni association. Edith Small, ’21, gave a toast to the sweet girl graduate. Charles Coyer, ’22, gave a violin solo. Superintendent C. W. Boucher made a plea for support of the alumni. Lowell Dowdell, president of the alumni association for 1921 and 1922, presided at the business session. Richard Fabing was elected president; Bessie Long, vice-president; and Forrest Jones, secretary-treasurer. The crowd then went to the Lincolnway school and danced.

Anderson Brothers, of Gary, awarded the contract for the construction of the new high school and grade building at Wheeler, has commenced work on the foundations. The excavation has been completed. The building will be ready for occupancy next fall.

June 3, 1922

Representatives of the Lansing Morgan heirs, owners of land on Lake Michigan abutting Waverly Beach, are causing the arrest of persons driving along the beach on their property. A test suit may be brought to ascertain whether property rights are being violated.

Albertus Gray, of Valparaiso, has returned from Detroit, Mich., where he attended the meeting of the Polar Bears of the North Russia Expedition. The convention passed resolutions insisting the government erect one of its proposed hospitals for the disabled in Detroit, asserting Detroit gave more per capita of its youth to war than any other American city.

June 4, 1922

The Valparaiso Mid-West League team defeated the South Bend Singers Sunday at South Bend, 5 to 4. Smith pitched a fine game for Valparaiso and was accorded marvelous support. Valpo batted Henning hard. Three thousand attended the game. Manager Deak Austin has booked Racine, Wisc., for a game there on Sunday.

June 5, 1922

With practically the entire force of the old Pitkin & Brooks Glass Factory at work, the F.W. Lesch Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of cut glass, began operations yesterday at the southeast corner of Franklin and Lincoln Avenue (now Brown Street) in Valparaiso, in the old church building. The Lesch Company is working under a contract from Pitkin & Brooks Company, and will also do other work.

June 6, 1922

Mayor E. W. Agar, who is a member of the Valparaiso University faculty, is not teaching at the summer term which began last week. This is the first time he has missed a term in 27 years. Next September he will resume his teaching. Mr. Agar began teaching in the Michigan schools 40 years ago (circa 1882). Prior to coming to Valparaiso, he was Indian agent and superintendent of the Indian schools in the State of Washington.

June 7, 1922

William Nallis, Delmore Carr, Nick G. Bulls, David R. Hoffman and Edward F. Boule, members of Valparaiso Chapter, No. 2, Disabled American Veterans of World War, will represent the local chapter at the national convention to be held at San Francisco, Calif., June 26-30. Other members of the local post will also attend.

The new hotel being erected by Charles F. Lembke, local contractor, is being built according to lines set forth in the Chicago building ordinance for reinforcement of concrete buildings. The entire construction is concrete, including footings, basement walls, interior and exterior columns, girders, beams, joists, floors and stairs.

June 8, 1922

Aaron Sapiro, Chicago attorney and marketing expert, addressed a large gathering of farmers at the Memorial Opera House last night on the new plan that will place the milk industry on a business basis and return the producer his just share of the consumers’ dollar.

Fred Weincken and Ora McNiece have returned from Chicago where they attended the reunion of the Second Division, commanded by General Bell during the World War. Both Valparaiso men were decorated with the Fourragère, a French war decoration, for distinguished service with the American Army in France.

June 9, 1922

The body of a man, apparently thirty years of age, and burned to a crisp, was found yesterday afternoon on the Lake Michigan beach, three and one-half miles east of Waverly Beach in Porter County. Malcolm Simmons, a Chicago student camping in the dunes, discovered the body. The body lay on a pile of burning ashes. A Winchester rifle lay nearby. It is believed the man was murdered.

Dr. H. M. Evans, who is connected with the U.S. Public Health Service at Washington, D.C., will leave June 17 for a tour of the world on behalf of American trade and development of the fur, seal, and salmon industries of Alaska. The party will be headed by C. H. Huston, assistant secretary of commerce. The trip will be made on the United States Cutter, Mojave.

June 10, 1922

At a meeting of the Valparaiso City Council last night, City Attorney E. G. Osborne was instructed to draw up a contract with the Valparaiso Lighting Company for the installation of an ornamental lighting system on Lincolnway.

Judge and Mrs. H. H. Loring, and son, Bruce, attended a reunion last night at Hebron of the Hebron High School Class of 1890. Judge Loring taught the class for three years.

June 11, 1922

Mrs. R. C. Wheelock, formerly Beulah Beshears, of Valparaiso, and her husband were killed yesterday in Chicago when an airplane in which they were riding crashed. Mrs. Wheelock, who for the past two years had been head of the Fine Arts Department at Valparaiso University, was married last week at the H. C. Swartout home here.

Local authorities investigating the mystery of the finding of the burned body of a man in the Lake Michigan sand dunes near Waverly Beach, are still without clues regarding his identity. A report that Chicago newspaper men planned to dig up the body caused Sheriff William Pennington and Deputy Sheriff W. B. Forney to hurry to the scene. As they arrived the newspaper men stepped from a boat. The party consisted of Austin O’Malley, D. E. Williams, E. W. Raple, Nicholas McDonald, Dr. Joseph Springer, deputy coroner of Cook County, Ill., and Darrell R. McConnaughly, a funeral director. The men told the officers they went to the place to look at the grave but disclaimed any attempt at molestation of the body. The officers did not go to the grave to investigate.

June 12, 1922

Wheatfield and LaCrosse, of the Kankakee Valley League, staged a great game Sunday. LaCrosse won 27 to 1. Myers, Wheatfield pitcher, quit in the third inning when his teammates failed to accept easy chances. It was LaCrosse’s first win following four straight losses.

A Winchester rifle found near the body of an unknown man incinerated on a pyre in the sand dunes near Waverly Beach may lead to his identity, Coroner H. O. Seipel said today. An effort is being made to trace ownership through the number on the gun. Yesterday Deputy Sheriff W. B. Forney and Coroner’s Physician Joseph Springer, of Cook County, Ill., nearly came to blows when the two men became involved in an argument over the digging up of the body of the victim by Chicago newspapermen. Dr. Springer attempted to bluff local officers but soon found out his mistake.

June 13, 1922

An argument over the slaying of an unknown man in the Dunes region of north Porter County caused a fight last night near Miller’s Station between Paul Wilson, husband of Diana of the Dunes and Eugene Frank, Miller fisherman. Wilson attempted to strike Frank and was shot in the leg. Mrs. Wilson went to her husband’s aid and was struck on the head with a gun by Frank. The three were taken to Gary at gunpoint by Frank’s father. The fight started when Wilson upbraided Frank for bringing curiosity seekers to the Wilson home while the latter was not there.

June 14, 1922

The Consumers’ Wholesale Grocers with main offices at Chicago Heights, Ill., today leased the Henry Sievers’ building on East Lincolnway for a term of five years. The company operates 35 stores in Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. The Sievers building was formerly occupied by the Kingley Shirt Company.

June 15, 1922

P. Kenneth Brock, formerly manager of the Kingley Shirt Company factory in Valparaiso, will soon commence the manufacture of men’s shirts, women’s and children’s dresses and shirt waists in the upper part of the Sievers building on East Lincolnway. The Kingley Shirt Company recently closed its factory here because of heavy overhead.

Tuesday in superior court at Michigan City, Judge Harry L. Crumpacker granted the petition filed by Attorney Mark B. Rockwell on behalf of William Smith, of Valparaiso, whereby the latter assigns and transfers his lease to the building on West Lincolnway, now occupied by him as a barber shop and pool room, to the National Tea Company. The latter company will move its store from Indiana Avenue to the new location.

June 16, 1922

The Porter County Fish and Game Club will be reorganized. Elmer Vrooman, inspector of the Department of Conservation, was here yesterday and conferred with Dr. J. D. Keehan, local club secretary. Mr. Vrooman stated this section of the state had always been active and he desired a live organization to protect fish and game in Porter County. A. J. Bodine will arrive here in a few days to begin a reorganization. Mr. Vrooman stated two game wardens would be sent here this summer.

A china factory, three times as large as the Chesterton plant, will be erected in Valparaiso within the next two years by the American China Products Company, it was announced today. The factory, when operating in full blast, will employ 1,500 people. The local unit will have 18 kilns.

June 17, 1922

Dr. Joseph Lester Gordon, of Wheeler, was graduated from the medical department of the University of Kentucky on June 8. He is also a graduate of the Wheeler High School. He will leave in a few days for Wayland, Ky., to practice his profession.

St. Paul’s Parochial School closed yesterday afternoon for the summer. There were no graduates from the school this year, but next year there will be a big class. Jean Overmeyer was high honor pupil among the first-year high pupils with an average of 96; Leonard Gannon, high among second-year pupils with 96; and Rose O’Sullivan, high among third-year pupils with 95.

June 18, 1922

Negotiations are now under way by Chicago colored people who have been figuring on purchasing Sager’s Lake for the leasing of the property for a term of 99 years with an option to buy the same. It is understood the promoters intend to lease 400 lots on the basis of 7% interest on a valuation of $400 ($6,845.33 in 2022). By this method $12,000 ($205,360.00 in 2022) would be created for the down payment. Mr. Sager said today he was still willing to sell to Valparaiso interests.

Wesley Hoffman, who obtained a degree of Bachelor of Science in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Purdue University, has accepted a position in Chicago at the Underwriters’ Laboratories.

June 19, 1922

Contract for construction of the new Valparaiso Daily Vidette building on the Salyer site, southwest corner Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso, was awarded to Smith and Smiths Company. Work will be started at once and completion is expected by Oct. 1. The building will be a two-story brick. The upper floor will contain office rooms.

Glen J. Goddard, of Valparaiso, has traded 640 acres of land near Francesville, Ind., for a store building and stock of merchandise at Lafayette. The deal involved more than $100,000 ($1,711,333.33 in 2022).

June 20, 1922

Mayor E. W. Agar and City Attorney E. G. Osborne returned today from Chicago after a conference with President Brewer, of the Valparaiso Lighting Company. They obtained the signature to a contract drawn up by Attorney Osborne and approved by the Valparaiso City Council for the installation of an ornamental lighting system on Lincolnway in the business district.

June 21, 1922

Mrs. H. M. Evans, son, Max, and daughter, Lucille, arrived here last night from Washington, D.C., and will occupy the Dr. E. H. Powell home on North Washington Street during the summer. Dr. Evans sailed last Saturday from Seattle, Wash., with Assistant Secretary of Commerce Claude Huston and party of government officials for a trip around the world to be gone until December.

June 22, 1922

Tony Massey, who conducts a barber shop in the basement of the Szold Department Store on Lincolnway, has been in his present location 56 years. In 1866, he purchased the interest of his brother, Lafayette Massey, and Anson Goodwin, in the business. On the wall of the Massey shop is a clock which survived the Great Chicago Fire in 1871. It was rescued from a pawn shop by Mr. Goodwin some time ago.

Valparaiso trap shooters who participated in the Indian shoot at Petoskey, Mich., made the following scores: Powell, 141; Hunsley, 140; Blount, 136; Gray, 136.

June 23, 1922

A road roller, belonging to Porter County, which crashed through a bridge over Salt Creek, near Crocker, about a week ago, was hauled from its position in the creek yesterday. Ernest Luedtke, of Furnessville, was driving the roller when it went through the bridge. He was uninjured.

Mrs. Laura Roe Kouns, of East Jefferson Street, received word from Washington, D.C., that she had been appointed to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

June 24, 1922

At a meeting of the Valparaiso City council last night, A. A. Hughart, cashier of the Farmers’ State Bank, was elected a member of the city board of education by the city council. He succeeds Harry R. Ball, whose term expires soon. Mr. Hughart has been an educator for many years. He served as Superintendent of Porter County Schools and later as city superintendent of the Coffeyville, Kansas, schools. Since the return here six years ago he has been connected with the Farmers’ State Bank.

The golf course of the Valparaiso Country Club, northeast of the city, will soon be ready for play. Piping of water from the main of the Valparaiso Home Water Company from the Valparaiso-Chesterton Road, three-quarters of a mile away, is nearly completed. The water is essential for the growing of grass on the greens.

June 25, 1922

Arthur S. Simon, manager of the wholesale and retail grocery department at the J. Lowenstine & Sons’ store, resigned his position Saturday to become buyer and manager for Tibbetts & Garland store on Michigan Avenue, Chicago. The latter concern is one of the largest in Chicago. Mr. Simon came here six years ago from Springfield, Ill., and has built up a large business at the Lowenstine store.

Earl J. Goheen, coach of athletics at Valparaiso University last year, has been appointed coach for the coming year. Mr. Goheen was graduated from the law department this spring. At present time he is taking a coaching course at the University of Illinois under Robert Zuppke, coach at Illinois.

June 26, 1922

Rev. Father Theodore Hammes, pastor of the Wanatah Catholic Church, has been appointed priest-in-charge of St. Matthew’s Catholic Church at South Bend by Bishop H. J. Alerding, of Fort Wayne. He will go to South Bend on June 28.

Charles White returned today to Wenatchee, Wash., after a several days’ visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. T. White. Mr. White is superintendent of the water works at Wenatchee. He has been in Hot Springs, Ark., attending the international meeting of the Lions’ Club.

June 27, 1922

Ralph J. Cory, manager of the Valparaiso Lighting Company, announced today that work on the city’s new ornamental lighting system will start in two weeks and be completed by Oct. 1 of this year.

June 28, 1922

Seral I. Warren, son of J. A. Warren, of Kouts, is attending reserve officers’ training at Camp Knox, Ky. The camp comprises 500 students gathered from nineteen colleges and universities.

June 29, 1922

According to announcement made by several members of the Valparaiso City Council, another fire truck will be purchased for Valparaiso sometime this fall. The new machine will be larger and better than the present one. The need of another truck has been apparent for some time, according to the council members.

Nelson J. Bozarth, nester of the Porter County Bar Association, and Civil War veteran, now entering his 79th year, believes he still retains his old-time prowess as a swimmer. After reading an account in an Indianapolis newspaper of the ability of Dr. A. P. Letherman, he issued a challenge to the doctor to meet him in a swimming contest. Mr. Bozarth has swum Flint Lake many times and knows its ins and outs.

June 30, 1922

Judge H. H. Loring in Porter Circuit Court today established the Smith Ditch, a drain at Wolff’s Corners. The estimated cost is $17,200 ($294,349.33 in 2022). More than 50 property owners are affected by its construction. Amos Lantz was named construction commissioner. Petition for the ditch was filed a number of years ago by Attorney Frank B. Parks for the petitioners.

Chesterton now has sufficient land for building and housing a population of between 15,000 and 20,000. Ninety acres of land, consisting of the Haslett, Cushman, Lewis, Colling, and Brown tracts has been annexed to the town. The land lies in the middle of the corporate town on its southern edge. The proposed new sewer is to run through the south part of the newly-annexed area.

Looking Back • May 1922

May 1, 1922

Robert Felton, elected Valparaiso Chief of Police by the Valparaiso City Council to succeed James A. Jones, who resigned, assumed his new duties today. Matthew Brown will take Chief Felton’s beat on night duty.

Announcement was made today that the theatrical interests of J. A. Schelling and A. F. Heineman, operators of the Schelling Hall of Music and Memorial Opera House, and the Premier Theatre, owned by Shauer and Sons, has been merged.

May 2, 1922

Nearly 5,300 votes were cast by republicans in yesterday’s primary. Those nominated were: Field Ray Marine, prosecutor; Ross C. Jones, clerk; William Pennington, sheriff; C. E. Barrett, recorder; Dr. H. O. Seipel, coroner; Fred Marquart, assessor. A. A. Coplin, treasurer; B. H. Kinne, auditor; Floyd R. McNiece, surveyor; Marion Curtis and C. E. Fifield, commissioners.

May 3, 1922

Lauren F. Maudlin, of Valparaiso, was elected commander of the Lafayette Chapter, Number 4, Disabled Veterans of the World War of Purdue University. Before going to Purdue, Mr. Maudlin attended Valparaiso University and took a prominent part in the activities of the Rehabilitation Club and Daughters of the American Revolution chapter here.

May 4, 1922

W. A. Hill, of Hammond, won the republican nomination over J. J. Overmyer and A. O. Krieger, of Porter County for joint representative of Lake and Porter Counties. Will R. Wood, for congress, will have 10,000 majority over William Anderson, of Gary, and Senator Will Brown, of Hebron, defeated Nathan H. Sheppard, of Valparaiso, by 6,000 for senator of Porter, Newton, Jasper and Pulaski Counties.

Kalamazoo College defeated Valparaiso University baseballers 1 to 0 yesterday. Adams, of Valpo, allowed three hits, while Valpo garnered five off Ray, Kazoo twirler, who struck out 10.

May 5, 1922

The general contract for the new Westchester Township school has been awarded to Joseph Ameling, of Chesterton. Only the rough work will be done this year because of lack of funds, according to Trustee J. G. Johnson and Attorney C. W. Jensen. Later money will be forthcoming to do the plumbing, heating, and ventilation.

Earl J. Salisbury, who has been manager of the Schelling Music Hall and Memorial Opera House, will go to Detroit, Mich., Sunday to join an orchestra. Roger Wilson will accompany him.

May 6, 1922

Charles Pratt Post, No. 94, American Legion, enjoyed an impromptu concert by its new band last night. The band comprises twenty members, but an attempt will be made to increase it to forty.

Shea and Company, of Hammond, which has the contract for Lincoln Highway from Deep River to Valparaiso, have commenced grading near the Tom Brown farm, west of Valparaiso.

May 7, 1922

Twenty-one acres of land north of the Grand Trunk Railroad owned by the Pioneer Truck Company was sold today at sheriff’s sale to satisfy a $4,500 ($75,995.36 in 2022) judgment of the Valparaiso National Bank. James H. McGill was the purchaser.

Saturday Supt. E. T. Funk opened the fresh air tuberculosis camp at the Porter County infirmary. The infirmary has six beds, and these were filled up with arrival of a patient from Portage Township.

May 8, 1922

A Valparaiso branch of the National Welfare Council was organized last night by members of the National Association of Post Office Clerks and City and Rural Mail Carriers associations. Harry Albery was named chairman; Ellsworth Mitzner, vice chairman, and Frank Deckro, secretary.

A total of 1,665 school children is shown in the Valparaiso enumeration just completed. The total is a gain of 71 over last year.

May 9, 1922

Valparaiso University baseball team defeated Wheaton College yesterday at Brown Field, 8 to 0. Martenson hurled for the locals and was unhittable. Thomas, for Wheaton, pitched well after the fifth inning, allowing only one hit.

May 10, 1922

Nelson J. Bozarth, of Valparaiso, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for judge of the Indiana Appellate Court. Mr. Bozarth is a graduate of Valparaiso University and the University of Indiana.

May 11, 1922

Anderson Brothers, of Gary, was low bidder at $31,574 ($75,995.36 in 2022) on the construction of the new joint high and elementary school at Wheeler, and Smith & Smiths Company, Valparaiso, was low bidder at $2,035 ($34,366.79 in 2022) on the remodeling of the Union Center School when Trustee A. O. Dobbins opened bids at the office of the county superintendent of schools in the courthouse here today.

Charles Claudy and family have moved here from Battle Creek, Mich., and are building a new home in the Alpen Subdivision. Claudy is general car inspector for the Grand Trunk Railroad.

May 12, 1922

Trustee A. O. Dobbins of Union Township has withheld award of contracts for building a new high and elementary school at Wheeler and remodeling of the Union Center school. The Wheeler bid was lower than the estimate, and the Union Center bid higher.

Robert Winslow, of Valparaiso, a student at the University of Michigan, has been made a member of the mines, music, and dramatic fraternity of the university, only a few students being accorded the honor each year.

May 13, 1922

Anderson Brothers, of Gary, was awarded the contract for school building at Wheeler at a bid of $47,500 ($802,173.21 in 2022), and the Foster Lumber and Coal Company, Valparaiso, the contract for remodeling at Union Center school at $4,500 ($75,995.36 in 2022), by Trustee A. O. Dobbins last night.

The lighting committee of the Valparaiso City Council made a report last night on plans and specifications for a new ornamental lighting system for the business district. The system will consist of 96 units.

May 14, 1922

Charles F. Lembke, builder of the Hotel Lembke, announced today he will start pouring the footings for the foundation of the building next week. Steel for the building has arrived. About 3,500 loads of dirt have been hauled from the basement.

Boone Grove made a garrison finish yesterday at Lowell by blasting five hits and four runs and winning by a 5 to 4 score. Walters, Kaleel and E. Forney was the battery for Boone Grove.

May 15, 1922

Knute Rockne, coach at Notre Dame, and Councilman George Hull, of South Bend, attended a meeting here today of the Valparaiso Kiwanis Club. Coach Rockne spoke on athletics in college, deeming it just as necessary to develop the body as the mind.

A group of members of Chapter 2, Disabled American Veterans of the World War, will attend the national convention to be held at San Francisco, Calif., in June.

May 16, 1922

Valparaiso defeated Kalamazoo College yesterday at Kalamazoo, 1 to 0. Smith, for Valpo, struck out 12 men and homered to win the game.

May 17, 1922

Charles F. Cobb, chairman of the Porter County Fair Board, has made the following appointments for the fair in September: Henry Barnett, general superintendent; Herman Homfeld, cattle superintendent; Walter Williams, horse superintendent, C. W. Boucher, school displays superintendent.

May 18, 1922

Contract has been let out by the Smith and Smiths Company for a one-story, 50’ x 50’ garage building at the Joliet Bridge by Walter M. Davis and Louis Pahl, of the Three Trails Auto Service Company.

J. F. Lininger yesterday sold the American Restaurant on Washington Street in Valparaiso to G. E. Crane, of Pennsylvania.

May 19, 1922

A lower jawbone of a prehistoric monster was found yesterday along a dredge ditch on the A. E. Upp farm in Pleasant Township. The bone was 18 inches long and contained three teeth three inches across.

Harry Herrick yesterday traded the O. P. Kinsey property on Greenwich Street for 120 acres of land near Hebron to Jerry LaFrentz, of Valparaiso.

May 20, 1922

Milo J. Bowman, Jr., has been named president of Valparaiso University by its board of trustees to succeed Dr. John E. Roessler, who resigned several months ago. Bowman is dean of the law school.

Albertus Gray will leave Wednesday for Detroit, Mich., to attend a reunion of the Polar Bears, composed of members of the United States Expeditionary Forces to North Russia during the World War.

May 21, 1922

Kouts defeated Boone Grove Sunday at Boone Grove, 1 to 0. An error and Herring’s single produced the final run. Walters pitched for Boone Grove and Chief Rainer for Kouts. Approximately 1,800 persons attended.

Mrs. Frances Anderson, employed at Lowenstines’, has purchased a half-interest in the Terry Tea Room.

May 22, 1922

E. A. Schall, for two years general secretary of the Valparaiso University Y.M.C.A., has resigned and will go to Lake Geneva, Wis., to assume charge of the summer camp.

Ray Adams, star pitcher of Valparaiso University baseball team, and Maxine Witham, a student in the music department, were married in Chicago several weeks ago, it was announced today.

May 23, 1922

Work on the construction of a new bridge over Salt Creek on the Lincoln Highway, west of Valparaiso, was commenced this morning by Cleary and Hailey Construction Company, of Cincinnati, Ohio, awarded the contract by the state highway commission. The structure will cost $27,000 ($455,972.14 in 2022).

May 24, 1922

The Valparaiso Electric Service Company, located at 119 East Lincolnway, distributors of Vesta Battery, yesterday was taken over by the Cook Electric Company located in the Main Garage. Vernon Barnhizer, former owner of the Valparaiso Electric Company, will be associated with the new firm.

May 25, 1922

Rev. E. J. Mungovan, pastor of St. Paul’s Catholic Church, was given a reception last evening at the Catholic Community Hall on occasion of his 25th anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood. The affair was a surprise and was planned by the Knights of Columbus, Catholic Ladies, and Oasis Clubs.

John J. Blaine, Governor of Wisconsin, and a graduate of Valparaiso University Law Class of 1886, made the address to the graduating class at the university this morning at 10:30 o’clock.

May 26, 1922

Forty-two seniors received diplomas at the annual commencement exercises of Valparaiso High School held at the Memorial Opera House last night. Dr. Josiah C. Sibley, Second Presbyterian Church, Chicago, delivered the address.

W. A. Stimson yesterday became agent for Oldsmobile in Valparaiso. He now has three car concerns, Studebaker and Maxwell being others.

May 27, 1922

At a meeting of the Valparaiso City Council last night the Valparaiso Lighting Company submitted a proposal for installation of an ornamental lighting system. The council also passed a curfew ordinance regulating the right of children under 16 years to be on the streets between 10 o’clock in the evening and 5 o’clock in the morning.

Class freight rates between Chicago and Valparaiso will be attacked by Valparaiso shippers. H. E. Fairweather, of Fort Wayne, has been retained to represent local shippers. It is expected a reduction will be obtained.

May 28, 1922

G. L. Burns of Lockney, Tex., graduate of Valparaiso University Law Class of 1922, has associated himself with P. J. Bailey. They will have quarters in the Academy of Music Block at the southwest corner of Main & Washington Streets in Valparaiso.

Frank Hull, of the Maxwell Implement Company, is moving to LaCrosse, Ind., to engage in the implement business.

May 29, 1922

Frank Rumney, husband of Mrs. Jewell Rumney, employed at the local telephone office, was killed Sunday morning in an automobile accident in Chicago. He suffered a fractured skull. Surviving are the widow, a daughter, his parents, two sisters and five brothers.

The Chesterton Bank has purchased the $150,000 ($2,533,178.57 in 2022) bond issue of the Westchester Township School in Chesterton. The bonds bear five and a half percent interest.

May 30, 1922

Lives of three persons were snuffed out at a grade crossing on the Pennsylvania Railroad on at the Porter-LaPorte County line, two miles west of Wanatah, this afternoon, when a car driven by Clarence Bailey, federal board student at Valparaiso University, was struck by the Pennsylvania Railroad milk train. Bailey was killed along with Mrs. Magdalene O’Connor Stevens and her daughter, Adeline, age 4.

May 31, 1922

Mrs. Anna E. Rose, of Valparaiso, has been appointed district deputy president of the Rebekahs of this district by the state association president and grand lodge, International Order of the Odd Fellows. Mrs. Rose has served three terms as association president of Illinois.

Looking Back • April 1922

April 1, 1922

Horn Brothers Quality Meat Market at 62 Lincolnway was opened to the public this morning. The first pound of meat was sold to Miss Ruth Buel, 153 Indiana Avenue. This arrangement had been planned in advance. On October 16, 1859, a brother of Miss Buel’s, James R. Buel, purchased the first meat sold by Conrad Horn, founder of the business. Louis and Peter J. Horn, who were associated with their father in the business, are now proprietors of the concern. Joseph Horn, son of the former, is manager.

Eight years ago in 1914, the Tittle Brothers, who conducted meat markets at Gary and other places, came to Valparaiso and established the Valpo Cash Market. The event was celebrated today with a big sale at their West Lincolnway store.

April 2, 1922

The county jail is empty for the first time in months. It is the first time since Sheriff William Pennington has been in charge that it has occurred. The last prisoner to leave was Charles Edward Conley, wanted by the federal government for violation of a parole from Leavenworth Prison. He was being held here for the theft of the James O. Cox automobile.

Forest Rexinger, age 18, was killed at Hebron last night. Rexinger, with three other boys, were examining a shotgun in the West Side garage when it accidentally was discharged. The charge struck Rexinger in the abdomen. He died a few minutes later.

April 3, 1922

Addison Emmett Woodhull, former mayor of Valparaiso, died today at his home in Chicago. He is survived by a son, Alderman Ross A. Woodhull of Chicago, and five daughters.

April 4, 1922

The Schleman-Morton Company plans considerable building in Valparaiso this summer. The company has purchased the Anna Ward Morony Building on West Lincolnway and will remodel it. A new garage is to be built on the lot west of the Zimmerman Garage. The structure will be 60 X 80 feet. Plans are also being drawn for a two-story office and business building at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets. Contracts have been awarded by the company for the erection of two bungalows in City View Addition. Other homes are to be built.

April 5, 1922

By a deal consummated today, the business and coal yard of the Raymond Coal Company at the Nickel Plate Depot was sold by R. D. Raymond to R. C. West, of Gilman, Ill. Mr. West will retain the firm name and continue the business. Mr. West has also purchased a small farm east of Valparaiso of Thomas McConnell.

Shea and Company, of Hammond, was low bidder on the improvement of the Lincoln Highway in Porter County when bids were opened by the state highway commission yesterday at Indianapolis. The Hammond firm’s bid was $157,000 ($2,651,393.57 in 2022) for the 7.6 miles.

April 6, 1922

Many farmers in Porter County are planting oats. The wet weather of the last several weeks has prevented work along this line. Last year, many fields were planted in March. In Pleasant Township, many farmers have finished planting. In Washington Township, farmers began planting yesterday. In other townships the ground is being prepared.

Contractor Gerald McGillicuddy, who has the contract for the improvement of the post office alley and the Academy of Music Block alley, will start work next Monday. Metropolitan brick will be used.

April 7, 1922

A petition asking the state tax board of commissioners to deny permission to issue bonds to build the new high school building in Morgan Township has been filed with Porter County Auditor B. H. Kinne. The school is to cost $58,000 ($979,495.71 in 2022).

The ashes of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thatcher, former residents of Valparaiso, were brought back to Valparaiso last Monday from Seattle, Wash., and were interred in Maplewood Cemetery. The Thatchers left Valparaiso thirty years ago and went to Lawton, N. D. Later they moved to Seattle. Mr. Thatcher died three years ago and Mrs. Thatcher last July.

April 8, 1922

The Valparaiso Lighting Company is making an extension of its gas mains in two parts of Valparaiso. About 8,000 feet of pipe is being used and work will cost approximately $10,000 ($168,878.57 in 2022). The mains to be laid are on Cyrus, Brick, Nickel Plate Avenue, and West Streets. Extension of gas mains in City View Addition is contemplated. Oak Street citizens are also agitating a movement for mains.

The building at 121 East Lincolnway, owned by W. G. Windle, is being remodeled by the Foster Lumber and Coal Company.

April 9, 1922

Excavations for the new Hotel Lembke, Valparaiso’s five story hostelry, will be completed by the end of this month, according to announcement today by Charles F. Lembke, builder of the hotel. Seventy loads of dirt are being taken out daily for the basement of the building. Plans are all made to pour concrete for the foundations by May 1.

The partnership of Charles S. Peirce and W. B. Forney, real estate and insurance, has been dissolved, and Mr. Peirce has purchased his partner’s interest.

April 10, 1922

Glen J. Goddard has purchased a residence property on North Lafayette Street of the Winslow estate. He will build a new residence.

Sheriff William Pennington and Chief of Police James A. Jones went to Michigan City today to bring back Charles Jerome, one of six men alleged to have held up Walter Davis, proprietor of the Three Trails Auto Service on West Lincolnway. Davis was trussed to a chair while the robbers took $3,000 ($50,663.57 in 2022) in auto tubes and tires.

April 11, 1922

The Bornholt Building, home of the Citizens' Savings and Trust Bank, is being improved extensively on the second floor. Howard Dailey and Harry Dye have leased quarters for their real estate business, and Harry Deopker, who recently entered the real estate business, has also leased rooms.

April 12, 1922

John J. Blaine, Governor of Wisconsin, will deliver the annual address at the Valparaiso University commencement on May 10. Governor Blaine was graduated from the university, attending school here in 1885-6-7. President J. E. Roessler, of the school, received word yesterday from the governor saying he would accept the invitation to speak. Ninety-seven students will be graduated from the institution this year.

April 13, 1922

Bernard L. Carpenter has leased part of the Zugbaum Building on South Franklin Avenue and will open an electric shop next week. He will have a large stock of fixtures.

President E. W. Agar, of the Valparaiso Chautauqua Association announced today that the annual chautauqua would be held June 15 or 16 and extend the usual number of days. Mr. Agar said the Mutual Morgan Bureau would hold its conference of workers in conjunction with the chautauqua.

April 14, 1922

Myron Pische, formerly shoe repair man at the Mrs. M. LaForce Shoe Store, has leased a part of the Frank Cain Building, corner Jefferson and Franklin, and will open up a shoe repair shop.

Porter County must pay $1,023,933 ($17,292,034.23 in 2022) in taxes this year. This is on an assessment of $62,376,310 ($1,053,402,212.38 in 2022). Although the last day for the payment of the spring installment is only two weeks away a very small percentage of taxes has been paid. Many loans will have to be made by farmers this year to meet the tax payments.

April 15, 1922

McNabb & Andrews, of Chicago, who leased thousands of acres in Pleasant Township several years ago, will drill for oil in the next few weeks. Machinery for drilling is being stored in the barn on the Paul Wells Farm. The first well will be named Lyon Dream Well, after Parmenieus Lyon, well known Pleasant Township citizen.

Flint Lake lacks only two inches of reaching its highest stage since 1907. The lake lacks only two feet of reaching its extreme high-water level prior to the time the water company began supplying the city in 1885.

April 16, 1922

Audrey Skomp, formerly of Valparaiso High School, but now agricultural instructor at Chesterton High School, today began his duties as official seed corn tester under Prof. George I. Christie, recently appointed state food censor.

Dr. Simon J. Young today received his commission as captain in the officers’ reserve corps. He is the only reservist physician in Porter County. He was a first lieutenant in the old reserve corps.

April 17, 1922

Valparaiso University won its first baseball game of the season 6 to 5 from Lake Forest yesterday. Marshall’s triple with two on base won the game.

The Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company is placing new cables in the alley back of the post office building and new Hotel Lembke. 

April 18, 1922

Valparaiso will be a member of the Mid-West League, composed of professional baseball teams in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, according to Deak Austin, manager of the local team. Mr. Austin says he has signed up all members of his team.

April 19, 1922

Dr. A. O. Dobbins, trustee of Union Township, will receive bids on May 11 for the repair and remodeling of the Union Center High and Elementary School. The work will cost $3,000 ($50,663.57 in 2022).

April 20, 1922

Miss Margery Ellis, a graduate of the Valparaiso High School of 1917, has been employed as French and History Teacher in the Valparaiso Public Schools. She taught high school in Hamlet, Ind., one year and then attended Chicago University for two years.

Bids opened this week by Trustee John G. Johnson, of Westchester Township for the construction of a new high school building were too high and it may be necessary to float another issue to take care of the project. The estimated cost of the school is approximately $175,000 ($2,955,375.00 in 2022). It is to be erected at Chesterton.

April 21, 1922

Mayor E. W. Agar and Valparaiso City Attorney E. G. Osborne have received word from the Public Service Commission of Indiana that the Valparaiso Lighting Company has filed a petition for a voluntary reduction of gas rates in Valparaiso of 15 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, effective after the first meter reading in May.

Charles Pratt Post, American Legion, of Valparaiso, will organize a band with Ray Marine as director. The action was taken at a meeting last night presided over by Commander Byron Smith.

April 22, 1922

Efforts are being made to organize a platoon of the Indiana National Guard in Valparaiso. Three officers of the Gary National Guard were in Valparaiso last night conferring with officials of the American Legion. The platoon, if organized, will consist of 35 men.

T. O. Dillon has arrived here to take a position as solicitor with the Charles O. Pierce Real Estate Agency. Mr. Dillon has been associated with the Continental Fire Insurance Agency. He is a veteran of the World War.

April 23, 1922

Charles Deardorf, a Wheeler resident, received a check for $100 ($1,688.79 in 2022) and a letter of thanks from the Nickel Plate Railroad for saving the Nickel Plate Freight Train from being wrecked last week. Deardorf heard the swish of waters coming from the railroad tracks. They entered his yard and flowed into his basement. Investigation revealed that the roadbed was washed away for a distance of sixty feet. He notified railroad authorities and a fast freight was held at Hobart until the damage was repaired. Three carloads of cinders were required to fill the washout.

Miss Ruth Brown, of Valparaiso, is one of the singers broadcasting over the Chicago Daily News Radio Station each night.

April 24, 1922

Dr. John E. Roessler, who has been president of Valparaiso University, tendered his resignation to the board of trustees of the school yesterday. The trustees refused to accept it and asked President Roessler to reconsider. The school, since Dr. Roessler assumed charge following the dismissal of Dr. D. R. Hodgdon, has prospered in every way.

April 25, 1922

James A. Jones, first chief of police of Valparaiso, has tendered his resignation to the Valparaiso City Council and will sever his position May 1, it was announced today. Mr. Jones’ successor will be Robert L. Felton, desk sergeant. Mr. Jones will return to his former position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department.

April 26, 1922

Morgan Township will have a new school building. The state tax board yesterday approved a $58,000 ($979,495.71 in 2022) bond issue for the erection of the school. The board ordered that the issue bear 5% instead of 5½%. A hearing on objections to the bond issue was held in Valparaiso last week.

Thirty-five members of College City Camp, Royal Neighbors, went to Wanatah yesterday and instituted a new camp of Royal Neighbors. Mrs. Ollie Montgomery, oracle of College City Camp, assisted by local officers, had charge of the work. Mrs. Hanna E. Hauff, of Valparaiso, state vice oracle, gave the obligation to the members. LaPorte Royal Neighbors installed the newly elected officers. The Wanatah camp will be known as Maple Leaf Lodge.

April 27, 1922

Work was commenced this morning on a large siding for the Nickel Plate Railroad, three miles west of Valparaiso. The siding will accommodate 180 cars and will be used for storage and switching. P. T. Clifford & Son, of Valparaiso, has the contract. Work is to be finished by June 1.

The Main Garage on East Lincolnway, owned by G. H. Claussen, has been sold to Cook Brothers, of LaCrosse. The new owners took possession Monday.

April 28, 1922

Judge A. B. Anderson, in a final decree at Indianapolis yesterday, awarded thirty acres along Lake Michigan, near Gary, to Charles Stebbins, of Chicago, and John Putney of Concord, N.H. The decision was the final word in the case that has involved years of litigation over land once considered worthless, but now said to be valued at $2,000 ($33,775.71 in 2022) an acre. The land is commonly known as the Carr Estate.

Work on the golf grounds of the Valparaiso Country Club, east of Bull’s Eye Lake, is progressing rapidly. A force of men are employed. Inside of a few months the greens will be in shape to withstand the tramp of the golfers’ feet.

April 29, 1922

The new public library at Hebron was dedicated last night. Open house was the order of the day. In the afternoon Miss Root, of Indianapolis, spoke to three gatherings of school children, and also at the dedicatory exercises in the evening. Miss Carrie Nichols, formerly of the Hebron Library, made the dedication speech. The Hebron Orchestra furnished music. The building cost $15,000 ($253,317.86 in 2022), of which the Carnegie Foundation furnished $10,000 ($168,878.57 in 2022). The circulation of the library is 1,600 books. A number of new books will soon be added.

John N. Hardesty, well-known Union Township farmer, was accidentally killed last night about 6:30 o’clock when a large log fell on him at the Don Richard Saw Mill in Wheeler. He was hauling a log into the yard when the wheel of the truck struck a saw dust pile and caused it to overturn. He was caught under the log and crushed.

April 30, 1922

Maurice Simon, brother-in-law of Boris Kozlenko, of Valparaiso, Saturday purchased the David Poncher Shoe and General Store on Indiana Avenue. He will take possession May 15, when Mr. Poncher will become a teacher in the federal vocational board school at Valparaiso University.

Prof. R. E. Schenck, of the Manual Training Department of the Valparaiso High School, has received the appointment as commanding officer of pursuit flyers in the Reserve Air Service. Mr. Schenck was a first lieutenant in the aviation branch during the World War. There will be a 15-day training course for reserves on June 1 either at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, or at Fort Thomas, Ky.

Looking Back • March 1922

March 1, 1922

Valparaiso University defeated Wheaton College at University Gym last night, 37-12. The locals’ played without the services of Andrew Evans and Walter Hiltpold. Cadwallader with five baskets was high point getter for the locals. Sawyer played a fine guarding game and also scored a long shot from center of the floor.

The district conference of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the M. E. Church will be held in Valparaiso on March 9 and 10. On Thursday morning Bishop F. D. Leete, resident bishop of Indiana, will address the conference.

March 2, 1922

John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, who shot and killed Mrs. Robert Stoltz, in Morgan Township last November, was found guilty by a jury in Porter Circuit Court yesterday afternoon and sent to prison for life. Mollick lived at the Stoltz home. Attorney P. J. Bailey, counsel for Mollick, filed a motion for a new trial and Judge H. H. Loring will rule on it tomorrow.

The Pitkin and Brooks Glass Factory will discontinue operation on May 1 and Frank W. Lesch will continue the industry in a new location. He will manufacture under a contract for Pitkin and Brooks. He will employ the same working force which calls for an annual payroll of $23,300. Machinery now in the factory at the Joliet Bridge will be moved to the White Church on South Franklin Avenue, where manufacturing will be carried on.

March 3, 1922

In the opening games played in the sectional basketball tourney at University Gym today, Valparaiso defeated Hammond, 19-14; Lowell nosed out Hebron, 9-8; Rensselaer upset East Chicago, 15-14; Crown Point disposed of Lowell, 25-12, and Brook ran rings around Remington, 34-5.

R. D. Ross, aged 68, for many years engaged in the hardware – and later the automobile business – in Valparaiso for many years, died last night at St. Petersburg, Fla. He was the first Ford agent in Valpo.

March 4, 1922

Rensselaer and either Froebel or Whiting will meet tonight in the final game at the sectional basketball tourney at University Gym. Valparaiso, which defeated Lowell 19-9, lost to Rensselaer 7 to 5, and failed to reach the finals. Other scores were: Whiting 12, Emerson 11: Kentland 28, Boone Grove 2; Froebel 34, Goodland 5; Rensselaer 19, Crown Point 16; Froebel 14, Kentland 8.

The site and building of the old Clifford School west of Valparaiso was sold today by Charles H. Crisman, Center Township Trustee, to John A. Prentiss. The school was abandoned a number of years ago.

March 5, 1922

Whiting won the sectional basketball tourney held at University Gym by defeating Rensselaer, 25-9. Whiting won its way to the finals by defeating Froebel 18-14, in a game in which many thought the refereeing favored Whiting to a marked degree. Whickhorst of Whiting scored twelve of his team’s points with free throws. The tourney was a financial success, the proceeds amounting to $2,500 ($41,837.50 in 2022).

Charles F. Lembke, local contractor, will soon begin work on the new Valparaiso hotel building at the corner of Lafayette and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso. Some equipment has already been moved to the site.

March 6, 1922

Frank W. Morton, of the Schleman-Morton Company, suffered severe injuries to the right arm this morning when he fell down cellar stairs into the basement of the old Salyer residence, corner Washington and Jefferson Streets in Valparaiso. The elbow bone was fractured.

March 7, 1922

The spring term of Valparaiso University opened this morning. The enrollment promises to be unusually large for the term. The faculty will hold its regular weekly meeting this evening.

March 8, 1922

John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, sentenced to life imprisonment at Michigan City Prison for the slaying of his stepmother, Mrs. Bertha Stoltz, on November 21, 1921, entered the prison yesterday. Mollick appeared at the prison in knee pants, being the first life prisoner to enter the institution in short pants. A number of editorials have appeared in newspapers in this section scorning the Porter County court for its action in dealing out a life sentence.

Valparaiso University girls’ basketball team defeated the Hammond Nets girls team last night, 13 to 3. The result was a surprise as the Netz team is one of the strongest in this section.

March 9, 1922

The Schleman-Morton Company today announced it would erect a business building at the corner of Jefferson and Washington Streets on the old Salyer property purchased some time ago. The building will be two stories with business room below and offices above. Chas. F. Lembke, local architect, is drawing plans.

March 10, 1922

Otis Sanford, of Valparaiso, and student at DePauw University, tied for second place in scholastic honors in the freshman class of 500 students the last semester. He is an Edward Rector student and is working his way through school.

The conference of the South Bend District of the M.E. Sunday School which was convened in session here yesterday, closed at noon today. The attendance was the largest of any conference in this district in many years. The church was crowded to capacity to hear Bishop F.D. Leete, of Indianapolis, who spoke Thursday night.

March 11, 1922

The Foster Lumber and Coal Company, of Valparaiso, was awarded the general contract for the construction of the new Morgan Township School today when bids were opened by Trustee John W. Bell at the office of Porter County Superintendent Fred H. Cole. The local firm’s bid was $39,000 ($652,665 in 2022). The cost of the building will be $55,000 ($920,425 in 2022). The building will be two stories, 65 by 86 feet, and situated on the Joseph Crowe Farm, between the Adams Church and Malden, on the Valparaiso-Kouts Road.

A delegation of farmers living near Valparaiso appeared before the Valparaiso City Council last night to protest against charging a fee for the privilege of selling milk and milk products in Valparaiso. A set of resolutions passed Saturday at a meeting of the directors of the Porter County Farmers’ Association was presented to the council. The farmers claim the ordinance will cause them to go elsewhere to sell their products and do their trading.

March 12, 1922

Dr. A. P. Letherman has received word from his brother, Lawrence L. Letherman, at Boston, Mass., announcing that he has been appointed special agent in charge of the New England Bureau of the U. S. Department of Justice. Mr. Letherman has been in government work for 33 years.

Whiting, representing this section in the basketball tourney at Lafayette last Saturday won an easy victory from Decatur team, 26-6. Wickhorst, of Whiting, caged six field goals and six charity tosses.

March 13, 1922

The new school at Garyton, in Portage Township, was opened yesterday. Only part of the structure is available at the present time. The building cost $30,000 ($502,050 in 2022). It is a two-story school with auxiliary rooms. Trustee Herman W. Swanson had charge of the building plans and the work was done by a Gary firm.

March 14, 1922

Harry and Carroll Hayes, of Valparaiso, were instantly killed Sunday evening when their automobile was struck by a Pennsylvania Passenger Train at the Franklin Street crossing. Both were World War veterans.

March 15, 1922

Through efforts of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce, an office of the Hoosier State Automobile Association, will be established in Valparaiso. The new office will give an up-to-date touring department for accommodation of the public, membership in the American Automobile Association and a state automobile licensing department. At present time automobile owners must go to either Lake or Laporte Counties for licenses.

Joseph Montgomery has purchased a new residence in the Alpen Subdivision on North Franklin Street of F. W. Alpen.

March 16, 1922

Twelve operators of hotel experience have made overtures to Charles F. Lembke, who will build Valparaiso’s new hotel. When a selection is made of a man to conduct the hotel, Mr. Lembke will begin excavation for the building.

Miss Mayme Salisbury, who has been engaged in concert work with the Keith Sisters, has returned to Valparaiso to remain with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Salisbury.

March 17, 1922

The School of Sanitary Engineering was started at Valparaiso University this week. The Indiana Sanitary Engineering Society has been urging the government to approve a course in sanitary engineering at the university for the vocational training of students under federal jurisdiction. The Indiana Society this week at its meeting at Indianapolis contributed $1,100 ($18,408.50 in 2022) for the aid of Valparaiso University students in plumbing.

A new traffic signal was installed yesterday at the corner of Lincolnway and Lafayette Street by the Valparaiso Lighting Company. The signal is different from others in that there is no post and it is only six inches above the pavement. A red light glows in the signal at all times. Another signal will be installed at Morgan Boulevard and Lincolnway.

March 18, 1922

Excavation work for Valparaiso's new hotel will be commenced Monday, according to an announcement today by Charles F. Lembke, architect and builder of the hotel. A large force of men will be employed. By the time the excavation is finished, Mr. Lembke hopes to have selected an operator for the hotel.

J. H. Allen, of Chicago, lighting engineer, was in Valparaiso yesterday and made a trip for a preliminary survey of the lighting system. Later a more comprehensive survey will be made to determine a plan for better lighting facilities.

March 19, 1922

Maurice E. Crumpacker, former Valparaiso boy, and son of ex-Congressman E. D. Crumpacker, of Valparaiso, is a candidate for the congressional nomination on the Republican ticket in the Third Oregon District, which includes Portland. Mr. Crumpacker is connected with the district attorney’s office at Portland as assistant district attorney. American Legion and ex-service men are backing his candidacy.

Kouts citizens and business men are planning to have a baseball team this year. Attorney T. E. Crowe was selected by the citizens to manage the team, and $600 ($10,041 in 2022) has been raised. Mr. Crowe has signed up Chief Rainier, pitcher, and Waite, shortstop, of Michigan City; Carter, outfielder, of Michigan City; Frank Maloney, second baseman, of Boone Grove. Arrangements are being made to form a five-club league with Kouts, Lacrosse, Wanatah, San Pierre, and Boone Grove as members.

March 20, 1922

News was received here of the death at Bakersfield, Calif., of Otto F. Brandt, formerly of Valparaiso, and first agent of the Nickel Plate Railroad in Valparaiso. Mr. Brandt died in a court room at Bakersfield after giving testimony in an auto collision case. A heart attack caused death. He was vice-president of the Title Trust and Insurance Company at Los Angeles.

March 21, 1922

The contract for the construction of the new high school building in Morgan Township, awarded to the Foster Lumber & Coal Company, of Valparaiso, for the general contract; Deal & Company, of Sturgis, Michigan, for heating and ventilating; and Wyman Electric Company, Valparaiso, for lighting, is one of the four lowest to come before the state board of accounts for some time. The construction cost of each room figured $5,906 ($98,836.91 in 2022).

March 22, 1922

Plans for a new high school building for Valparaiso took on serious aspects today when it was announced that the school board had taken options on two parcels of ground owned by P. L. Sisson lying south of the Grand Trunk Railroad, east of Washington, west of Franklin and north of Park, in the north part of the city. Some time ago the board took an option on the L. D. Wolf property at the corner of Washington and Chicago Streets. This site will probably be sold.

Dr. Brunson, of Indianapolis, representing the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Husbandry, and Livestock Sanitary Board of Indiana, is in Porter County making retests of herds for tuberculosis. Thirty-three herds are due for retests, but Dr. Brunson will not be able to complete one half of them. More than 200 applications are pending in the county for tests.

March 23, 1922

At a meeting of the board of trustees of Valparaiso University yesterday it was announced the school would soon receive $25,000 ($418,375 in 2022) of machinery for the training of federal board men at the school. The government will also send a large number of new students here for training.

Joseph F. Crowe, Porter County Road Superintendent, has been appointed by Governor McCray to represent Indiana at the U. S. Good Roads Association’s tenth annual convention at Phoenix, Arizona, April 24-29.

March 24, 1922

Mrs. Gennis Hillard, who has been matron at Altruria Hall for two and one-half years, resigned this week. Miss Brown, who has been acting as assistant matron, will have charge until a successor to Mrs. Hillard is named. Mrs. Hilliard expects to go to California.

March 25, 1922

Last evening at the Lincolnway school building, the Junior class of Valparaiso High School entertained the members of the basketball squad. A program was given. Margaret Timmons and Clarissa Ely gave readings. The Sedgwick twins played two numbers on pianos and drums. Coach R. E. Schenck made a talk.

The City of Valparaiso will handle its own garbage collection. The street committee was authorized last night to buy a team for the work. Recently bids were asked but only a few informal ones were received. These were declared too high.

March 26, 1922

Nick Sudovich, convicted of manslaughter by a Porter Circuit Court jury in connection with the slaying of Uron Marovich, rival beer lord, at Indiana Harbor, is enroute to Yugoslovia. He left Chicago with 135 aliens deported by the government. He got out of prison last summer after serving two years.

The recent sleet and snow storm early this week wreaked havoc with Porter County’s road system. Shoulders and berms on a number of roads were washed away by melting action of snow and ice. Culverts were frozen up and this prevented the surplus water from making a get-away.

March 27, 1922

Craig Church, of Valparaiso, who was shot by a holdup man in Gary, is slowly improving in Mercy Hospital, Gary. A metal clip carried into his liver by a bullet from the robber’s gun is causing trouble.

Flint Lake is still rising from recent rains. Since last fall, the lake has risen eight feet. At present, the lake is at 170 datum plane.

March 28, 1922

William E. Urschel, of Valapraiso, has just received three patents on fruit steaming machines. Two interferences were fought with California interests. The applications have been in the patent office for four years. N. S. Amstutz conducted all the proceedings for Mr. Urschel.

C. H. DeCook, who recently purchased the Andreas Crawford Store in Hebron, has disposed of his interests to his brother, John DeCook.

March 29, 1922

Lewis E. Myers and Company is completing this week the removal of its Canadian factory from Woodstock to Toronto. The company has taken a lease on a large manufacturing building in Toronto. The chief reason for moving from Woodstock to Toronto is to combine the executive offices with the factory. Charles E. Eveleth, formerly of Seattle, Wash., is general manager for Canada, and George Hauff, of Valparaiso, is superintendent of the new factory at Toronto.

Auditor B. H. Kinne received word today from Indianapolis that the state tax board had approved an issue of bonds in the Foltz Road in Porter Township. A remonstrance was filed by taxpayers of the township and a hearing was held before a tax board representative in this city recently.

March 30, 1922

Charles Edward Conley, of Chicago, arrested here by Chief of Police J. A. Jones and Sheriff William Pennington for the theft of the J. O. Cox automobile, is wanted by federal authorities. Conley violated his parole from Leavenworth prison where he was serving time for cracking a government safe. Fingerprints of Conley were sent by local authorities to various parts of the county.

Last evening at University Auditorium, the Valparaiso University band gave its second concert of the year. William Diercks and Robert Davidson favored with a delightful clarinet duet. Miss Tama Lyke was vocal soloist. Adam Lesinsky directed the band.

March 31, 1922

A flat building at 303 North Washington Street, owned by Ralph Humphrey, of Malden, was purchased yesterday by William H. Nuppnau, who with his family has been occupying one of the flats. Mr. Nuppnau will remodel the structure.

Valparaiso is in the midst of a building boom. A new fifty-room hotel, a new business building on Lincolnway, across from the post office; the Schleman-Morton building on Washington Street; the remodeling of the Ruge building on Lincolnway; the Longshore grocery building at Franklin and Chicago Streets and contracts for a number of residences are a few of the numerous projects now in process of construction.

Looking Back • February 1922

February 1, 1922

The Valparaiso & Northern, operating from Valparaiso to Chesterton, and leasing the Gary Connecting Line from Woodville to Gary, was sold yesterday in Chicago by Stance C. Mosser, of Bolger, Mosser and Williams, Chicago bankers, chairman of the bondholders’ protection committee, to Frank J. Baker, for the sum of $32,250 ($32,250 in 2022). The Valparaiso & Northern was purchased by the bondholders at a sale four years ago. The gross earnings of the road have increased from $88,000 in 1918 (1,624,806.36 in 2022) to $132,000 in 1921 ($2,055,970.06 in 2022). The appraisal value of the property by the public service commission is $284,000 ($4,713,081.43 in 2022).

The Porter wreck cases, growing out of the Michigan Central and Lake Shore train crash on February 27, 1921, will be called for trial in Porter Circuit Court on February 7. W. S. Hart, of Lansing, Mich., engineer on the Michigan Central train, charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of thirty-seven persons, will be tried first. Prosecutor J. S. Bartholomew said the state was ready to try the case but the outcome will depend on the presence of three witnesses from Michigan.

February 2, 1922

Jack Rose, well known singer in vaudeville theatres in the United States and famous as a song writer, and Janet Lawson, whose stage name is Jeanette Odette, a Ziegfeld beauty and member of the “Follies” were united in marriage by Justice W. W. Bozarth here today. Rose is a native of London, England. Recently Miss Lawson sued Rose for $50,000 ($829,767.86 in 2022) for breach of promise, but the suit was later dropped.

R. W. Lytle has completed the filling of his huge ice houses at Flint Lake. It is estimated that about 8,000 tons were harvested. From all reports all persons storing ice this year got a good supply.

February 3, 1922

Edward A. Mitzner, of the Mitzner & Greiger Grocery, has purchased the Maxwell Implement Company building on South Washington Street in Valparaiso, occupied by the McMahan Grocery.

Valparaiso University girls’ basketball team defeated Hobart last evening at University Gym, 5 to 4. The locals’ lineup comprised Deinger, forwards; Detman and Bowman, centers; Brady, Blacher, and Pike, guards.

February 4, 1922

By a deal made last night the Mitzner & Greiger Grocery purchased the Specht-Finney Grocery and will take possession on Monday morning. The business will be conducted at the Specht-Finney building. The Mitzner-Greiger grocery will be continued and probably converted into a cash and carry store. If business does not warrant its retention it will be merged with the Specht-Finney store.

At a meeting of the Porter County Realtors Association last night a resolution was passed putting the association on record as opposed to the new federal judgeship to be created in Indiana. Copies of the resolution were sent to the United States Senators, all congressmen and Congressman Volstead, who is chairman of the committee.

February 5, 1922

St. Paul’s quint, of Valparaiso, defeated the strong Hammond All Saints’ five Saturday opening on the Hammond floor, 20-13. Bud Gannon started the scoring for the locals, and Captain Nolan and Finnegan followed with well-placed shots. Valparaiso led at half-time, 17-5. Kinder and Hall did fine work at guarding the Hammond players.

E. F. Rainer, who left here last fall with his family for California for the benefit of his wife’s health, writes to friends here from Whittier, Calif., that Mrs. Rainier has practically regained her health.

February 6, 1922

Dr. J. E. Roessler, President of Valparaiso University, and Mrs. Roessler, left today for Indianapolis to attend the inauguration of Robert Judson Aley as president of Butler University. Mr. Aley was a classmate of Prof. Roessler and was graduated from the scientific department of Valparaiso University in 1880.

Mozart’s “The Impresario,” was presented at Valparaiso University Auditorium Saturday evening under the personal direction of J. William Wade Hinshaw, of New York City, former teachers of voice at the university. Percy Hemus, one of the best baritones in America, sang the principal role, supported by an All-American cast.

February 7, 1922

John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, who shot and killed Mrs. Robert Stoltz in Morgan Township on November 22, 1921, will go on trial February 22 in Porter Circuit Court. P. J. Bailey has been retained by relatives of the boy to defend him. A plea of insanity will probably be filed.

February 8, 1922

Albert Holloway of Yeomans, Ill., was yesterday awarded the contract on three gravel roads by the county commissioners as follows: Valentine Hahn Road, Porter Township, $64,904.74 ($1,077,117.34 in 2022); Frank Foltz Road, Porter Township, $29,100 ($482,924.89 in 2022); Jerry Garvey Road, Boone Township, $8,683 ($144,097.49 in 2022).

February 9, 1922

Parent-Teacher Associations for Central, Gardner, and Columbia Schools were organized at mass meetings held at the Central School last evening. A. A. Hughart, former school superintendent, presided. Chairmen were elected as follows: Mrs. Mynnic Gordon, Central; Mrs. J. G. Kenan, Gardner; Mrs. A. R. Putnam, Columbia.

Charles Sheffield was elected chairman and John R. Burch, secretary, of the Porter County Fair Board at a meeting held yesterday at the county clerk’s office. A committee was also named to look over the fair grounds and ascertain what repairs were needed for the fair in September.

February 10, 1922

Six big freight cars piled up across the tracks of the New York Central Railroad at the exact spot where the great Porter wreck of February 27, 1921, occurred when thirty-seven persons lost their lives. The place presented much the same sight as one of a year ago, but no lives were lost.

Another attempt was made to burn the Carver School in Pine Township. Kerosene saturated rags were placed in the building but failed to burn. Last September two men tried to burn the building after being ordered away by Miss Katheryn Maxwell, of Valparaiso, the teacher. Nearby farmers saved the building.

February 11, 1922

Valparaiso High School lost to LaPorte at University Gym last night, 18-15. Wise and Boardman did fine work for LaPorte. G. Douglas and Lembke, forwards; Seymour, center, and Scott and Leetz, guards were the local lineup.

Nearly all the loot stolen from the Three Trails Auto Service shop a month ago by five men has been recovered at Chicago Heights, Ill. Fifty-eight automobile tires, and fifty-one inner tubes, comprised the loot. Walter Davis, proprietor of the Three Trails, went to Chicago Heights today after the loot.

February 12, 1922

Walter D. Schundt has gone to East Chicago where he will give a specialty act in the annual Elks’ show. This is Mr. Schlundt’s fourth consecutive season in the East Chicago show. He will be assisted by Boyce Gumbert, pianist of the Keith and Orpheum circuit.

William Schleman, of Valparaiso, now sojourning in Florida, was a member of a party of fishermen which captured 900 pounds of fish on February 11, near St. Petersburg. He won first prize by capturing a nineteen-pound red snapper. O. H. Powers of Evanston, Ill., and W. H. Noel of Jamestown, N.D., former Valpoites, were members of the party.

February 13, 1922

The proceeds of the Hinshaw Opera Company concert given on February 4 at University Auditorium amounted to $1,320.60 ($21,915.83 in 2022). This amount goes to the university. Professor J. E. Roessler, president of the school, today extended thanks to the public and others who assisted.

Westchester Township farmers have petitioned the county commissioners for the opening of a new road fifty feet wide, between the Westchester and Pine Township line to tap Lake Michigan. Last summer trouble resulted at Waverly Beach when a landowner placed a restriction on persons camping there. The township expended a large sum in concreting the road to the beach and a landowner is claiming the land abutting the beach and is causing trouble for persons who visit the lake.

February 14, 1922

The Foster Lumber & Coal Company was yesterday awarded the contract to remodel the Ruge building on West Lincolnway occupied by the Peoples’ Lunch Room. A new copper front will be installed, and new cement sidewalk built in place of the old stone walk. James Pappas, owner of the lunch room, plans a number of improvements. The upper part of the building will be remodeled and accommodations made for fourteen rooms.

February 15, 1922

The Valparaiso Woman’s Club celebrated its twenty-seventh anniversary in the M.E. church parlors last evening. A four-course dinner was served at 7 o’clock. Members of the Literature, Home Economic Civic, Art and History Departments provided program of the evening.

February 16, 1922

The Gary and Valparaiso Interurban yesterday filed notice with the secretary of state at Indianapolis of an increase in capital stock of $140,000 ($2,323,350 in 2022).

Between 75 and 80 persons have signed up for memberships in the new country club now being formed in Valparaiso. It is expected about a dozen new members will be obtained from Chesterton.

February 17, 1922

A number of citizens of Morgan Township residing in the southeast end near the LaPorte County line are agitating for a division of the township. The movement is believed due to the fact that other citizens have petitioned John Bell, trustee, for the construction of a new high school building. The question of dividing the township is up to the county commissioners.

Mrs. Minnie Kindt and family have moved from the Kindt Farm in Washington Township to Valparaiso, and are occupying the property at 506 East Institute Street, purchased by Mrs. Sutor.

February 18, 1922

Earl Warren Sherwood, 27, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Sherwood, of Valparaiso, and a junior in the civil engineering department of Purdue University, drowned yesterday in the Memorial Gym swimming pool at Purdue University. His body was found by Wilbur Dittrich, a Purdue freshman. Besides his parents, he is survived by four brothers and two sisters.

Valparaiso High defeated Whiting High last night at University Gym, 21-17. Ernest Lembke was high-point man for Valparaiso with nine points, while Earl Scott’s work at guard was high class. Whity Wickhorst was Whiting’s best with nine points. Seymour showed to good advantage for the locals with three baskets.

February 19, 1922

Porter Township property owners have filed a remonstrance with the county commissioners against a bond issue for Porter Township’s share of the cost of the Frank Foltz gravel road between Porter and Boone Townships. It is contended the bond issue is excessive, that the road will not serve any householders and that the building of the road should be postponed until material prices are lower and the need is more urgent.

Mrs. Lewis E. Myers was notified yesterday of her election as delegate of the Chicago Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to the continental congress at Washington, D.C., April 19-23. Mrs. Myers will attend a meeting of delegates of the Chicago Chapter in Chicago tomorrow.

February 20, 1922

The Volunteer Rescue Army is now located on the second and third floors of the building occupied by the Szold Department Store. Major James J. McKenzie, in charge of the mission, today announced that the home is open to any person who may be down and out. Since February 9, the army has assisted 55 men, 33 of them ex-soldiers.

John Bell, trustee of Morgan Township, today gave notice that he will receive bids on March 11 for the construction of a joint high and elementary school in Morgan Township. The estimated cost of the building will be $55,000 ($912,744.64 in 2022).

February 21, 1922

Rev. E. P. Westphal, who was extended a call by the Presbyterian church of Valparaiso, preached last night in the church and he and Mrs. Westphal met the members of the church following the service. Before leaving for his home in Fulton, Ill., today he did not state whether he would accept the call but said he would take it under advisement.

February 22, 1922

More than 150 local stockholders of the Co-Operative Society of America met at Armory Hall last night and heard two field men of the company tell of the affairs of the company. They said the company was solvent, despite the bankruptcy proceedings now pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals, which they claimed was started by Chicago attorneys for the purpose of getting big attorney fees. The local stockholders were informed that the reason some of the stores of the company were sold to the National Tea was that a profit was realized on stores that were not profitable. Ninety-eight were sold to the National Tea, fifty-eight were discontinued and twenty-six are now in operation. They assured the stockholders that every dollar invested by them was safe. 

February 23, 1922

Miss Mary Monohan and Miss Margaret McKezie, of the National Delphian Society, are in Valparaiso to organize a local chapter. The objects of the work is personal improvement, social progress, and higher education.

All records for the warmest Washington birthday since the Valparaiso Home Water Company started to keep water records at Flint Lake was tabulated yesterday when the mercury crawled up to sixty-nine degrees. Today Valpoites are again enjoying winter.

February 24, 1922

The body of Hasan El Maghrady, an Egyptian student at Valparaiso University who died last Friday night, will be shipped to New York City by C. W. Bartholomew, local undertaker, where it will be transferred to a steamer sailing for Cairo, Egypt.

Actual work on Westchester Township’s new high school building will commence April 1, according to J. G. Johnson, trustee. Plans for the building have been completed by Herbert Erickson, of Gary, and have been submitted to state officials for approval.

February 25, 1922

Valparaiso was rocked last night when 30 tons of dynamite exploded in a stone quarry near Argo, Ill. Many homes were shaken.

East Chicago high school defeated Valparaiso High School last night at University Gym. The score was 18-13. George Douglas caged three of the four baskets for the locals.

February 26, 1922

Valparaiso University defeated Lake Forest College at University Gym last night, 20-15. The locals were minus the services of Hiltpold and Evans. Glen Thistlewaite, new football coach at Northwestern University, refereed the game.

Valparaiso is to get better street lighting. The city council at a meeting last night authorized the lighting committee to employ the services of an expert lighting engineer to make a survey of an entire lighting system of the city. 

February 27, 1922

The case of John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, charged with the slaying with a shotgun of Mrs. Robert Stoltz, of Morgan Township on November 21, 1921, was called for trial today in Porter Circuit Court. The boy has been living at the Stoltz home. Otto Bruce, of Crown Point, and P. J. Bailey, of Valparaiso, are defending the youth.

Daly & Freund today received word from the secretary of state at Indianapolis that the Morgan Township Co-Operative Farmers’ Elevator Company had been given permission to increase its capital stock from $15,000 to $35,000 ($248,930.36 to $580,837.50 in 2022). The company will soon begin work on construction of its new elevator to handle the grain crop this fall.

February 28, 1922

Valparaiso University defeated Wheaton College at University Gym last night, 37 to 12. Cadawaller scored five baskets for the locals. Sawyer played a nice guarding game.

The district conference of the Northwest Indiana Conference of the Methodist Church will be held in Valparaiso on March 9 and 10. Thursday morning Bishop F. D. Leete, resident bishop of Indiana, will speak.

February 29, 1922

A contract was entered into yesterday at the law office of Daly & Freund between Charles F. Lembke, local contractor, and the Valparaiso Hotel Company whereby Mr. Lembke will erect a modern fifty-room hotel on the site of the corner of Lafayette and Jefferson Streets. Louis J. Gast, president of the hotel company, and E. J. Freund, secretary, signed the document for the company. Work will be started within a few days and the building will be completed by March 1, 1923. Mr. Lembke posted a $15,000 ($248,930.36 in 2022) bond whereby he agreed to build the hotel and maintain it for a period of twenty years.

An echo of the wreck on the Michigan Central and New York Central Railroads at Porter on February 27, 1921, was heard today in Porter Circuit Court when B. D. McMahan, administrator of the estate of Mrs. Martha Goldstein, filed suit against the two railroads for $10,000 ($165,953.57 in 2022) damages. Kelly & Ryan are attorneys for the administrator.

Looking Back • January 1922

January 1, 1922

Porter County Treasurer John G. Graessle entered upon a two-year term today, being the only county official to be affected by the New Year.

January 2, 1922

No new faces greeted visitors at the county building (courthouse) this year as is generally the custom when the New Year is ushered in.

The Sisson city council held its last meeting yesterday evening and the Agar council came into power today. James A. Jones, for a number of years with the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department, has been appointed chief of police.

January 3, 1922

Four hundred and fifty-two persons were housed at the Porter County Jail during 1921, according to Sheriff William Pennington. A large number of tramps, housed for the night, were not included in the figures. During the year twenty-three automobiles were stolen and twenty of these were recovered by the sheriff’s office.

January 4, 1922

Sheriff William Pennington and Valparaiso Chief of Police James A. Jones returned early today from Chicago Heights where one of the three men implicated in the robbery of the Three Trails Auto Service Shop at the Joliet Bridge last Thursday night was apprehended. A quantity of stolen automobile tires were recovered.

January 5, 1922

Valparaiso University was defeated at Kankakee, Ill., Saturday night by St. Viator College, 30 to 18. The winners staged a basket shooting spree in the last five minutes and hit from all parts of the floor.

January 6, 1922

Valparaiso Mayor E. W. Agar yesterday appointed Dr. C. H. DeWitt as city health officer to take the place of Dr. G. R. Douglas, who refused re-election. Dr. DeWitt’s appointment was in line with the county commissioners who also named him county health officer. Mayor Agar did not name a city engineer. The council will probably hire a man on a per diem basis.

C. Ross Gay, of Morgan Township, today announced his candidacy for the nomination of county commissioner in the south district on the Republican ticket. The term of Marion Curtis in the south district, expires on January 1, 1923. F. W. Alpen in the center district entered upon his new term of three years on January 1, 1922, and Herman Pollentzke, representative from the north district, will serve until January 1, 1924.

January 7, 1922

John Pillman is the new president of the Chesterton Town Board. He was selected at an organization meeting held January 2. The board is composed of Mr. Pillman, John E. Hjelm and Charles S. Kline. Carl Nelson has taken over the office of town clerk and treasurer. Al Tillapaugh is town marshal; C. W. Jensen, town attorney; Dan Cole, street commissioner, and Jerry Marquart, fire chief.

The Express Company, which has been located on Indiana Avenue, will be moved February 1, 1922, to the Pennsylvania Freight House where quarters will be fitted up for an office. Harry Johnson will retain the agency of the company.

January 8, 1922

N. H. Sheppard, of Valparaiso, today announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for joint senator of Porter, Jasper, Newton and Pulaski Counties. Mr. Sheppard will announce his platform later.

By a deal consummated yesterday, Frank L. Longshore disposed of his interest in the grocery store on Washington Street to his partner, Zenas McMahan. Mr. Longshore will engage in business elsewhere.

January 9, 1922

Valparaiso was one of thirty-two cities awarded sectional basketball tourney centers in the playoff on March 3 and 4, according to word received by Prof. H. M. Jessee, from Arthur Trester, permanent secretary of the Indiana High School Athletic Association (IHSAA). Teams from Lake, Jasper, Newton, and Porter Counties will compete.

According to the Indianapolis News, Senator Will Brown, of Hebron, and Dr. J. E. Roessler, President of Valparaiso University, called on Governor McCray Saturday. Senator Brown is interested in filling the vacancy on the state board of education. Fred H. Cole, Porter County school head, has been mentioned for the appointment.

January 10, 1922

Valparaiso High School five defeated Washington of East Chicago at Boucher Gym, 24 to 21. Long shots by Gray and Powell won for Valpo.

Valparaiso City Police will soon be equipped to hear police reports from other large cities. A short-wave radio has been presented to the department by the VanNess Electric Company.

January 11, 1922

Dr. L. L. Weiss, a graduate of Northwestern University, has associated himself with Dr. J. R. Pagin in the practice of dentistry in Valparaiso. Growth of Dr. Pagin’s business was given for the addition of Dr. Weiss to the firm.

The Chatfield Grain Company, of Chatfield, Ohio, which recently bought the Pennsylvania Elevator, has purchased the William Harbeck flour and feed store, corner of Indiana Avenue and Washington Street. Mr. Harbeck will retire Saturday from business which he has conducted for twenty-five years.

January 12, 1922

The old wooden tower at the Valparaiso Fire Station, built a number of years ago to dry hose following a fire, is being dismantled. The tower has not been in use for some time as firemen are employing a new method of drying hose.

The big snowstorm which tied up traffic for a week occurred four years ago last night. The snow began falling in the evening and continued until noon the next day. Trains were halted for three days and no Chicago papers were received during that time. Factories and industries were hard hit by the failure to receive materials, coal, and by irregular attendance of workmen.

January 13, 1922

The widespread controversy over the building of a school at Wheeler is not settled. The north and south factions of Union Township had almost reconciled their differences at a meeting held in Valparaiso recently. At the time it was virtually agreed that suit pending in the courts against Trustee Dobbins enjoining that official from building a school at Wheeler would be dropped. However, the suit has not been dropped, but simply continued. Portage Township was about to combine with Wheeler to build a school and a remonstrance was circulated putting a deadlock to the proposition. Portage Township wants a two-room school in the south part of the township. Garyton School will be ready February 1. Remodeling of the Crisman school will be begin in the spring.

The Public Service Commission has authorized an issuance of $35,000 (≈ $576,227 in 2022) common stock of the Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company at par for the purpose of reimbursing the treasury of the company for money expended in betterments of the plant and paying various notes and trade acceptances due given for making capital additions and betterments. The company petitioned for an increase of $50,000 (≈ $823,181 in 2022) in common stock.

January 14, 1922

Valparaiso University defeated Loyola University of Chicago last night at university gym, 33 to 11. Loyola started strong but soon wilted under the strong play of the locals. Valparaiso used two teams during the game.

The following teams will take part in the sectional basketball tourney to be held in Valparaiso on March 3 and 4: East Chicago, Hammond, Whiting, Lowell, Hobart, Crown Point, Emerson and Froebel of Gary, Rensselaer, Wheatfield, Fair Oaks, Remington, Valparaiso, Hebron, Kentland and Brook.

January 15, 1922

Emerson of Gary defeated Valparaiso High at university gymnasium Saturday evening, 28 to 18. The score at half time was 12 to 7, Emerson. The second half was a nip and tuck affair with Emerson having a slight lead.

Representatives of the Federal Board for Vocational Training visited Valparaiso today for the purpose of conferring with Valparaiso University President J. E. Roessler in regard to installing a number of trades for federal board students. A course in watchmaking will be among the trades to be placed in operation. A two-year course in agriculture added to the university curriculum. The first of the year has increased the enrollment 400 percent. The course is under the direction of Professor G. J. Borum, a graduate of Purdue.

January 16, 1922

Valparaiso University Gym, in which university and high school basketball games are played, was imperiled by a fire today at 4:20 in the morning. A furnace was the cause of the fire. Firemen chopped holes in the floor and fought the flames with two lines of hose. The damage was not large.

The improvement of Lincoln Highway through Porter and LaPorte Counties will be urged by the joint action of Valparaiso and LaPorte Chambers of Commerce. Late this afternoon the Roads Committee of the two bodies were conferring here relative to the improvement of the highway.

January 17, 1922

George W. Ferguson, former owner of the Lincoln Theatre in Valparaiso, who sold his interests to Walter Bush, is now at Fairmount, Ind., where he owns and operates the Royal Theatre. His family has moved there.

January 18, 1922

Prosecutor J. S. Bartholomew has returned from Hot Springs, Ark., where he has been taking treatment, and is partially assuming his duties in connection with the prosecutor’s office. He is feeling improved in health.

January 19, 1922

Kalamazoo College defeated the Valparaiso University basketball team at Kalamazoo last night, 21-14. Walter Hiltpold caged three baskets for the locals, and Anderson scored one and four foul casts.

E. D. Hodges was elected president of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce at a meeting of directors this noon. E. L. Loomis and Dr. Mox Ruge were named vice-presidents; E. J. Freund, secretary, and L. T. Applegate, treasurer.

January 20, 1922

During the night the thermometer dipped low enough to touch the zero mark. Some gauges showed as low as five below. On January 14, the thermometer at the Valparaiso pumping station showed one below.

Valparaiso University basketball team lost at Kalamazoo to Kalamazoo College last night, 30-21. Andrew “Andy” Evans, star of the locals, was out of the game on account of injuries. Millard Anderson and Walter “Hippy” Hiltpold played well for Valparaiso.

January 21, 1922

Liberty Township is at peace again. A black family from Gary moved in and purchased land in a proposed colonization scheme has sold out to Ira M. Biggs and returned to Gary.

R. E. (Sam) Huston, state commander of Disabled American Veterans of the World War, will leave Valparaiso next week for Toledo, Ohio, where he will take placement training with a large firm.

January 22, 1922

Country roads in many places throughout the county are drifted full of snow as the result of the last few days of precipitation. The roads, which are graded, are said to be worse than the hollows.

A. W. Coplin, of Valparaiso, Saturday announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Porter County Treasurer at the May primary. William L. Maxwell and Miss Kathryn Anderson announced some time ago.

January 23, 1922

The Grassmere Land Company ditch bonds, totaling $20,062 (≈ $330,293 in 2022), were delivered today to the Valparaiso State Bank, which purchased the issue some time ago from Porter County Treasurer J. G. Graessle.

Andrew Bickle, ex-county commissioner, died Saturday evening of a heart attack. He served as commissioner from 1904-1910. In 1911, he was elected president of the Porter County Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Company.

January 24, 1922

Valparaiso University defeated Arkansas Agricultural College 30 to 17 at the university gym last night. Millard “Andy” Anderson and Robert “Caddy” Cadwallader scored four baskets each.

January 25, 1922

Frank Cowdrey, of Valparaiso, engineer with a record of forty-eight years of service on the Pennsylvania Lines, is included in the list of eighty-two men retired by the Pennsylvania Lines since December 1, 1921.

January 26, 1922

Hearing of remonstrances against the petition for construction of the McDonald Ditch in Pine Township is being held today in the Porter Circuit Court before Special Judge A. D. Bartholomew. The ditch was petitioned for two years ago by Henry R. McDonald. Fifteen farmers affected by the improvement filed the remonstrance.

The Catholic Ladies’ Club was hostess to their husbands and friends last evening at the Catholic Community Hall. Bunco and cards were the chief diversion and prizes were awarded to Roy Beckwith and Mrs. Joseph Murphy. Fred Hartig and Miss Emma Mungovan won the booby prizes.

January 27, 1922

The Indiana Public Service Commission yesterday denied the petition of Etta Des Elms and others for authority to construct a highway across the right-of-way of the Pan Handle Railroad in Boone Township, Porter County. The commission found that the dangerous character of the grade crossing overshadowed the public necessity.

The Spring Water Ice Company today completed work filling the ice houses at Sager’s Lake. The ice measurers from eight to eleven inches in thickness.

January 28, 1922

Officer Charles Chester figured in a gun battle about 3 o’clock this morning on Indiana Avenue with two men. The officer was enroute to the Valparaiso Police Station when he noticed two men in the alley between the State Bank of Valparaiso and the Charles Martin Pool Room. One of the men shot at him when he decided to investigate. He returned the fire. It is believed the men planned a robbery.

Valparaiso High School reserves basketball team was defeated at Wanatah last night, 20 to 5. Larson bagged Valparaiso’s only field goal. Larson, LePell, Ellis, Spooner, Seymour, Gordon, Simon and Shurr made up the Valparaiso seconds.

January 29, 1922

Valparaiso High defeated Froebel High of Gary at university gym Saturday night, 27 to 16. Froebel led at half time, 10 to 8. In the second half, DeForest Seymour, Ernest Lembke and team captain Earl Scott staged a basket barrage. Lukats and Rukivana were Froebel’s stars.

Valparaiso will not entertain the Indiana Association of Elks this summer. The main drawback to bringing 2,000 visitors here is the cost of $5,000 (≈ $82,318 in 2022) for the convention, lack of suitable place for a meeting, and inadequacy of hotel accommodations.

January 30, 1922

G. Leonard Maxwell, of Valparaiso, was elected a director of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce for 1922 at a meeting of that organization held last week. He has accepted the election and plans to participate fully in the plans of the state organization. Up until a few weeks ago, Mr. Maxwell was president of the Valparaiso Chamber of Commerce.

Misses Elizabeth Patton and Nellie White, teachers at Valparaiso’s Central School, have resigned their positions. Robert H. Walker, of Oklahoma, and Miss Gladys Barker, of Chesterton, have been employed by Superintendent C. W. Boucher as their successors.

January 31, 1922

The Valparaiso & Northern, operating from Valparaiso to Chesterton, and leasing the Gary Connecting Line from Woodville to Gary, was sold today in Chicago by Stacey C. Mosser, of Bolger, Mosser, and Williams, Chicago bankers, chairman of the bondholders’ protection committee, to Frank J. Baker, for the sum of $32,250 (≈ $533,560 in 2022). The Valparaiso & Northern was purchased by the bondholders at a sale four years ago. The gross earnings of the road have increased from $88,000 (≈ $1.62M in 2022) in 1918 to $132,000 (≈ $2.05M in 2022) in 1921. The appraisal value of the property by the public service commission is $284,000 (≈ $4.7M in 2022).

Looking Back • December 1921

December 1, 1921

The Valparaiso School Board has leased the upper floor of the Elks’ Lodge building on West Lincolnway for school purposes. Congestion at the Central School was given as the reason for the step. The fourth and fifth grades of Central will be placed in the lodge building, giving two rooms for the high and junior high schools.

The Reveille, official paper of the Disabled American Veterans, Chapter Number 2, of Valparaiso, is being circulated today for the first time. The publication consists of a 26-page booklet and contains news of many local organizations. Edward Boyle is editor; F. A. Piasecki, managing editor; John W. Ray, business manager; Frank Baines, treasurer; Miss Lucas, city reporter; Peggy Brady, campus.

December 2, 1921

Professor Meyers E. Zimmerman, of Valparaiso University, has again scored with another musical composition. His latest is a waltz ballad, “You’re Still My Most Wonderful Pal.” Mr. Zimmerman’s latest fox trot, “LaVon,” has been a favorite with local dance orchestras for the last two months.

The old Uncle Al Brown farm, four and one-half miles east of Valparaiso, on the Lincoln Highway, consisting of 158.5 acres, was sold yesterday by Charles Link, commissioner, to Niles L. Fisher.

December 3, 1921

The foundation for the community building being erected at Boone Grove by citizens living there was completed yesterday. The Smith and Smiths Company of Valparaiso will begin erection of the building proper next week. A gymnasium, meeting place, opera house, dining hall, etc., will be included in the building.

The American Restaurant at 18 Washington Street was sold today by Mrs. Anna Williams Christian to J. F. Lininger. For the last four years Mr. Lininger has been in charge of the lunch and confectionery business at Sheridan Beach, Flint Lake.

December 4, 1921

Judge H. L. Crumpacker in the Porter Superior Court today granted a continuance in the case of William S. Long, of Jackson, Mich., Michigan Central trainman, charged with manslaughter in connection with the deaths of thirty-seven persons in the Porter wreck on February 27 last. Grant Crumpacker, special counsel to Prosecutor J. S. Bartholomew, filed a motion for continuance on account of the illness of Mr. Bartholomew. The court continued the case until February 8, 1922. Ralph N. Smith, attorney for Long, objected to delay.

Forty-six reactors were found last week in the seventeen herds tested for tuberculosis by Dr. C. T. Howard, state and federal examiner. Three hundred and eighty-two cattle were examined for the initial test. This makes thirty-seven herds tested so far.

December 5, 1921

Thirty-nine head of reacting tubercular cattle examined last week by Dr. C. T. Howard of the state veterinarian’s office, were shipped today to Chicago where the animals will be slaughtered. The owners will be compensated by the state and government.

Farmers of Porter County have been asked to contribute two-and-a-half carloads of corn to meet the appeal for grain for the destitute peoples of Russia, Armenia, and other bible lands. The corn will be gathered during the week of December 19 to 24.

December 6, 1921

Fully two hundred people, chiefly parents of school children in the Valparaiso City Schools, attended the mass meeting held last evening at the high school auditorium in honor of educational week. Speakers included C. W. Boucher, Judge H. H. Loring, Porter County Superintendent Fred Cole, and Mrs. A. R. Putnam. Musical numbers were provided by Robert Wilson, Charles Coyer, and Carroll Schneider.

December 7, 1921

The Joliet Bridge over the Pennsylvania Railroad on Lincoln Highway will be rebuilt by the railroad. The contract has been let to Smith and Smiths Company. The timber construction is to be reinforced to twice its present carrying capacity.

December 8, 1921

Herman Ealing, of Valparaiso, has been appointed district grandmaster of Odd Fellows, by George Hershman, of Crown Point, grandmaster of Indiana Odd Fellows. At a meeting of the Valparaiso Lodge Monday night, Mr. Ealing presented buttons to members of thirty-five years or more standing. Brayton L. Keene received a thirty-five year button, and Herman Fromuth, Charles Ludolph and G. G. Sherwood twenty-five year buttons.

The H. B. Brown residence at the corner of Jefferson, Morgan and Chicago Streets, has been leased to the Sigma Delta Kappa Chapter of Valparaiso University. The organization is a legal fraternity and has about thirty-five members. Mrs. Nellie Meagher, of Valparaiso, will act as chef of the society.

December 9, 1921

Word has been received here by local railway agents that beginning Jan. 1, 1922, all war taxes on freight and passenger traffic will be discontinued. All taxes on telegraph, telephone, and steamship lines will not be lifted.

Arthur W. Marks was host to the Valparaiso Fire Department at a raccoon supper served in the men’s quarters in the rear of the Valparaiso City Council chambers last night. A sixteen-pound coon was served.

December 10, 1921

Valparaiso University basketball team opened the season at university gym last evening by defeating Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago, 29 to 3. The score at half time was 10 to 3, Valpo. The visitors failed to score a point in the second half.

Valparaiso High School lost to Froebel High of Gary last night 19 to 8 at Gary. Valparaiso lost many opportunities to score baskets by missing easy shots. Froebel, on the other hand, was able to cage some long ones. The score at half time was 5 to 3, Valpo.

December 11, 1921

The Lincoln Theatre on Franklin Avenue was sold Saturday by George Ferguson, owner, to Walter S. Bush. Mr. Bush recently came here from Kouts, where he conducted a hardware store for many years. Mr. Ferguson has been owner of the Lincoln Theatre for two years, coming here from Wheatfield.

J. A. Warren, of Pleasant Township, won the Porter County five-acre corn contest, with a yield of 114.5 bushels per acre. Seral Warren was second with 111.4, and A. C. Tuesburg third with 107.3 bushels.

December 12, 1921

Robert Winslow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Winslow, of Valparaiso, is a member of the University of Michigan Opera Company that is scheduled to give performances in Chicago at the Grotto Theatre next Saturday and Monday. Mr. Winslow has a leading part in the production. He was a member of the troupe last year.

About thirty-five men, mostly engineers, and interested in gas and electric plants in various parts of the country, visited Valparaiso today to inspect the experimental process in manufacturing gas now being conducted at the Valparaiso Lighting Company plant on South Napoleon Street. The men backing the experiment have spent $50,000 (≈$772,594.97 in 2021) in erecting a plant to demonstrate their theory of making gas out of garbage and wood.

December 13, 1921

Chesterton will build a fine new high school building next year. J. G. Johnson and architect Herbert Erickson, of Gary, have agreed upon plans for a new structure 140 by 180 feet. The building will be two stories and basement, and cost $150,000 (≈$2,317,784.92 in 2021). It will be equipped with a large auditorium and gym. A five and one-half acre site has been secured.

December 14, 1921

Letters and sweaters were presented at chapel exercises at Valparaiso University this morning to sixteen members of the football team. Dean M. J. Bowman, chairman of the athletic board of control, made the presentation. Mayor P. L. Sisson donated the sweaters. Those receiving letters and sweaters were: Hiltpold, Payne, Hunt, Stepp, Bauerly, Lane, Lindgren, Evans, Smith, Rosenthal, Anderson, Cook and Sawyer.

December 15, 1921

S. C. Bouzeans, of Chicago, is here today to let the contract for the remodeling of the Horn Brothers building on West Lincolnway. Mr. Bouzeans has leased the building for a confectionery store. As soon as Horn Brothers move to their new building, work will begin. A new front, tile floor, new ceiling and other improvements will be made, together with fixtures. The cost will be $25,000 (≈$386,297.49 in 2021). Mr. Bouzeans formerly owned the Palace Confectionery at LaPorte.

Valparaiso University basketball team defeated the American College of Physical Education 23 to 19 at university gym last night. Evans, Cadwallader, Anderson and Sawyer played well for Valparaiso, while Johnson, forward for the visitors, scored thirteen of his team’s nineteen points.

December 16, 1921

The Valparaiso Standards have signed Dave Black, formerly Chicago Federal League pitcher, and catcher Ernest Dennis, of the Chicago Logan Squares, as battery for the coming season. Two other men whose names are being kept under cover have also been signed. In event the locals do not join the Northern Indiana League, games will be played with Fort Wayne and other fast teams.

The Smith and Smiths Company was today awarded the contract for remodeling the Horn Brothers’ building on West Lincolnway to be occupied by S. C. Bouzeans, of Chicago, as a confectionery and ice cream parlor.

December 17, 1921

Valparaiso High was defeated by LaPorte High School last night at LaPorte, 22 to 16. The game was fast throughout and was featured by the fine work of Earl Scott, floor guard of the locals. Scott accounted for ten of the sixteen points scored by his team.

At a meeting of the Charles Pratt Post, American Legion, last evening, a resolution was passed by the post condemning the distribution of pamphlets reflecting against the Greek citizens of Valparaiso regarding their patriotism and in a business way.

December 18, 1921

Valparaiso University defeated DePaul University here last night, 27 to 14. DePaul was held to one field goal. Captain Anderson and Cadwallader were Valpo stars. In the curtain raiser, Valparaiso high defeated Lowell, 30 to 18. The visitors held the locals to a tie count, 11 to 11, at half time. In the second half, Valpo pulled away from the highly touted Lowellites and scored at will.

Ben Hirschland, manager of the ladies’ ready-to-wear department at Lowenstein’s, has resigned his position and will go to Bloomington, Ill., to take a similar position with a large department store there.

December 19, 1921

The LaPorte Argus praised the work of Earl Scott in the LaPorte-Valparaiso game last Friday as follows: “The star of the evening was Captain Scott, of the Valparaiso quintet. He played on every part of the floor and was the mainstay of the university city’s machine. Scott caged only three field goals for his side but broke up the LaPorte offensive time and time again. In fact, Scott was too fast for his teammates, who could not keep pace with his speedy dribbling.

The Horn Brothers’ Quality Meat Market today shipped a carload of wool to Philadelphia. The carload weighed 20,000 pounds and contained wool of this and last year’s crops.

December 20, 1921

Professor W. A. Hoffman, for more than twenty years in charge of the penmanship department at Valparaiso University, has tendered his resignation to become effective within thirty days. The trustees of the school have elected Myers E. Zimmerman, head of stenography and typewriting department, to take Professor Hoffman’s place. The later has accepted a similar position at Bowling Green, Ky.

December 21, 1921

Coach Earl Goheen’s Valparaiso University five defeated Lewis Institute last night, 27 to 6. Cadwallader and Anderson led the locals’ attack with four and five baskets respectively.

December 22, 1921

The remodeling of the Joliet bridge on Lincoln Highway over the Pennsylvania Railroad in the west part of Valparaiso is completed. The structure was reinforced to twice its former capacity. The work was performed by the Smith and Smiths Company and required eight days. During the work the bridge was closed to traffic.

Thomas Clifford, former Valparaiso man, has just received another promotion from the Standard Oil Company. For several years, Mr. Clifford has been assistant manager for the company of the South Bend division, and now has been given the managership of the Decatur, Ill., division, embracing one-third of Illinois.

December 23, 1921

The Pitkin and Brooks Glass Factory closed down today until January 7, for the purpose of taking the annual inventory. The company has enjoyed a good business the past year and is looking forward to an increased activity next year.

Leo W. Friday, a Porter County boy who gave up his life in France during the World War, was buried with military honors from St. John’s Evangelical Church in Chesterton this afternoon. He died at Bordeau, France, October 5, 1919. Services were in the charge of Chesterton Post, American Legion.

December 24, 1921

The City of Valparaiso and Porter County Commissioners have come to an agreement regarding the settlement of a bill for asphaltic oil furnished by the county for a number of streets about the city. The bill rendered by the county was $7,500 (≈$115,889.25 in 2021), but the settlement figure was $4,500 (≈$69,533.55 in 2021). Last spring, the city and county entered into an agreement whereby the county was to oil and put stone on certain approaches to the city. Later the city ordered oil on Chicago Street and Indiana Avenue. Two coats of oil were applied instead of one originally planned. The city council was divided on the payment of the entire bill.

The Porter Circuit Court Grand Jury was empaneled yesterday afternoon by Judge H. H. Loring to investigate the case of John Mollick, 16-year-old orphan boy, who shot and killed Mrs. Robert Stoltz of Morgan Township. Members of the jury include Ross M. Crisman, John W. Rigg, William D. Schmell, Andrew W. Shurr, John T. Kuehl and Norman Eggleston.

December 25, 1921

Valparaiso Street Commissioner William Arnold has closed the East Indiana Avenue hill against traffic so that the thoroughfare can be used by the kids for coasting. Thursday evening the police were forced to stop the children from using the old Main Street (Lincolnway) hill because of the danger of collision with automobiles.

December 26, 1921

A. W. Reynolds and Son have received a report from the thirty-one reacting tuberculosis cattle shipped by them to the Chicago Livestock Exchange for slaughter. Only five were tanked as unfit for food. The cattle were condemned recently during tuberculosis testing in the county.

December 27, 1921

Wheeler and Union Center School patrons held a meeting at the office of Superintendent Fred H. Cole on Monday evening and settled their differences in regard to a new building program at Wheeler. It was decided to go ahead with remodeling plans on the building instead of building a new structure. Dr. A. O. Dobbins, township trustee, called the meeting of the two factions.

December 28, 1921

County Agent A. Z. Arehart and a representative of the Near East Organization from Indianapolis went to Kouts and Hebron this morning to make arrangements with farmers and elevators for gathering of corn for the Near East Relief Fund. Other parts of the county will be visited this week.

December 29, 1921

Twenty couples attended a dancing party given last night by the Valparaiso Dancing Club at N. A. U. Hall. Music was furnished by Miss Bess Dickover, Harry Albe and Wallace Philley. A lunch was served.

Members of the Valparaiso High School basketball team have been invited by the management of the Premier Theatre to be guests of the Premier Theatre on January 4. The members are also privileged to bring their lady friends.

December 30, 1921

A gang of five men held up Walter Davis at the Three Trails Auto Service Station at the Joliet Bridge last night and escaped with $3,000 (≈$46,355.70 in 2021) in loot. Mr. Davis was just closing the place when the robbers entered. He was gagged and bound to a chair. Most of the loot consisted of automobile tires.

Yesterday afternoon in Porter Circuit Court, Ora L. Wildermuth, special judge, found for the defendants in a petition to dissolve a lien for attorney fees in the sum of $15,000 (≈$231,778.49 in 2021) in the case of W. J. Whinnery and John D. Kennedy against twelve bankers and stockholders of Hammond banks. The defendant bankers’ holdings were tied up by the plaintiffs for fees claimed in the case of the Manhattan Lumber Company versus Peter Crumpacker and others growing out of the old Mineral Springs Race Course at Porter.

December 31, 1921

Miss Jessie Philley, employed in the office of M. J. Drapier, abstracter, has announced her withdrawal as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Porter County Recorder. Miss Philley has accepted a position as stenographer with Porter County Clerk R. C. Jones, succeeding Miss Kathryn Kirkpatrick.

Valparaiso University defeated the Indiana University Law School at the home gym last night, 28 to 11. Valpo led at half time, 20 to 4.