Chesterton Tribune - April 8, 1886 cont
LAKE STATION
The regular-monthly examinations were held in our schools Friday.
L.E. Shuman and Nettie Gabsby, teachers in this place attended township
institute in Hobart Saturday.
Mr. P. Blake did business in Valparaiso on the 3rd inst.
Several families from different localities have moved into our town
recently.
Mrs. V. Behncke starts this week on a pleasure trip to California.
The Swede, Jacobson, who was found stealing a watch and other articles
from the residence of Mrs. Johnson, several weeks ago, was this week
taken to jail at Crown Point.
A Sunday school was organized in the "little church around the corner"
last Sunday. Mrs. T. E. Lincoln is superintendent.
Geo. Shuman, of the Fremont, Ohio Works, is spending a couple weeks with
his family in this vicinity.
All the fools were out the night of March 31 and our citizens had to a
general hunt next morning for wagons, buggies and all movable property.
Public School Items
Those neither tardy nor absent last month are:
HIGH SCHOOL
Jessie Beck, Minnie Babcock, Claudie Williams, Willie Babcock, Axel
Swanson, Johnny Winters.
INTERMEDIATE
Johnny Coyne, Johnny Clinkman, Ida Carlson, Carrie Brown, Mabel
Hillstrom, Cora Sherwood, Leroy Diddie, Jessie Forbes.
PRIMARY
Lizzie Knapp, Johnny Carlson, Bertie Johnson, Harry Smith, Harry Server,
Charley Gulstrom, Hattie Clinkman, Alice McHenry, Gracie Walker.
Miss Brummitt attended the wedding of her brother Mark, at New Carlisle,
Wednesday.
The gale, Tuesday rattled the tin roof so as to make it difficult to
hear in one end of the room what was being said in the other.
Mr. Porter visited the school Thurs-last.
April fool jokes were as numerous as is usual.
Through the kindness of Mr. Porter, the examination of those who are
trying for the diploma, will be deferred until May 22d.
There will be seven weeks of school exclusive of the present week.