Chesterton Tribune - April 29, 1886
At Home and Abroad
Wall paper at Heffron's new paint store.
Go to Bryant, of Laporte for photographs.
Father Kroll was in Michigan City last week.
A marriage in high life is on the programme for the near future.
For sale - House and lot. Inquire of Mrs. Catherine Winters.
For sale - A good bath tub. Will be sold cheap. Apply at this office.
Chris Lambke's genial countenance was seen on our streets last Tuesday.
Lay, the restauranteur, gives the best mean for 25 cents to be found in
Laporte.
Mrs. S. A. Harper went Monday to Chicago to spend a few weeks with her
parents.
Fritz Goetzalman, who has been sick all winter, is now badly crippled with
theumatism.
One pound net was set at the fishing grounds last week. Several Sturgeon
have already been caught.
Dabbert, the Hageman Grocer, is building a brick addition to his store. It
is a decided improvement.
Supervisor Bradt has made some improvements, fronting the business houses on
Main Street this week.
Justice Blanks, Deeds, Mortgages, Notes, etc., for sale at this office.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
For Sale - A good farm mare with colt, also top buggy and harness. Call on
Albert Busse, Hageman, Ind.
Dr. Macomber, Dentist, will be in Chesterton on Wednesday and Thursday of
next week. Call and see him.
The County Auditor at Indianapolis has raised the assessment of the
telephone company's plant from $16,000 to $50,000.
There was a supper given at the Swedish Lutheran Church last Monday night by
the sewing society. It was quite successful.
Homer Tilottson was in town Monday. He will retire from business, having
disposed of his saloon interest in Valparaiso by Joseph Decker.
Valparaiso will soon have a Knights of Labor organization. Wonder what for.
There is nothing to strike at here, unless it would be the length of hours
in the school rooms.
A birthday party in honor of Mrs. Thomas Blackwell was given by that lady's
friends last Monday. Mrs. Blackwell received a number of handsome presents
and mementoes.
A large line of goods which had been held on the road on account of the
strike has been received at Hefron's wall-paper and paint store. Go and see
the new patterns in wall papers.
Mr. _______ Ekman, who tended bar in Chesterton for sometime past, will
start a saloon on his own account in Hageman, soon. This will give Hageman
four saloons. The property is already rented.
Congressman Ford is selected for the Indiana member of the congressional
campaign committee, which takes charge of the congressional campaigns for
the Democratic party all over the United States.
Judge John S. Holman, of Indianapolis says the committee having in charge
the raising of funds for a monument to the late Vice-President Hendricks is
making satisfactory progress. Subscriptions have been coming in at the rate
of $100 a day.
The Northern Indiana Editorial association will meet at Maxinkuckee Lake, on
Thursday and Friday, July 10th and 11th, 1886 at the Plymouth Club house in
annual session. This association includes all the towns located north of
the Wabash river.
The ladies of the W.C.T.U. of Wamego, Kansas, were allowed to participate in
a caucus for a ticket for city offices at the late election. They presented
a ticket which was with one exception, adopted by the caucus. At the
election four days afterward every one of the eight nominees were elected.
If a business man or woman, or a denizen of a town does some big thing, it
is expected that the home paper will give the individual a "send-off", but
if he or she should step aside from business principles, and manners
unbecoming citizens, it is expected the home paper to be as silent as a
tombstone.
A Company of Normal students will give an entertainment in this place next
Saturday. For some reason Normal shows have been in bad odor with the
people here, justly or unjustly, we do not know. At any rate the gentlemen
and ladies who will give this entertainment prefer to hide themselves behind
the high-sounding title of" Excelsior Comedy Co" than to say they are
members of the greatest Normal School in these United States.
Lent is over, and the world plunges into renewed activity. The check which
has held the conscientious and romantic girl forty long days is removed, and
she can now call for as many dishes of ice cream as her ardent lover can pay
for. The young man can take advantage of the warm weather and beautiful
moonlight nights to make up for lost time in fasting, and with his adored
one roost on one of the gables of the freight house, in safety from the
unyielding sole of an unsympathetic papa's boot and feast on the stimulating
diet of love, sandwiched with taffy and gum-drops. The young man who was
fortunate enough to own a brand new tailor-made suit, had it on last Sunday.
His girl was hung on that bran-new coat sleeve, and he walked slowly but
proudly to the cemetery. He wore a "how-do-you-like-my-new-clothes" sort of
an expression, and tread the earth as though he was afraid of hurting it.
Ah, it was happy. Yes, Lent is over.