Chesterton Tribune - August 18, 1885
In and About Chesterton
Get Swan Nilson to do your painting.
Go to Ed Ways for a good clean shave.
For a first-class quality of Calcimine got to Dr. Green's.
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Go to McLellans, at Valparaiso for photographs. He is the best in town.
Fred and Jim Moroney went to Englewood Saturday on a visit with
relatives.
Sam Masser, of Valparaiso, was visiting friends here the fore part of
this week.
Do you smoke? Well, drop into Ed Way's and get a good cigar. He keeps
nothing but the best.
Thos. Bowers passed through this place last Tuesday with a drove of
stock for Michigan City prison.
Justice Blanks, Deeds, Mortgages, Notes, etc, for sale at this office.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
Cream, cream, Ice cold cream,
For a dish of that cream I scream.
Lemonade too, I(s) cold for a glass,
And get it when Johnson's Hotel I pass
Not selfish am I, for with my lassie,
So pert, bright, pretty and sassy
We all stop in and leave our tin
For refreshments at Mrs. Johnson's.
James McGillicuddy was in town Monday. This firm are doing a large
amount of tombstone work for this section.
Mr. F. H Beckwith made Chesterton another pleasant visit last Monday.
He is always welcome among our merchants.
Born - Sunday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Gust Johnson, a son. Weight, 15
pounds. Mother and child are getting along finely.
Mr. Wm. Quinn, the veteran cooper of this county, now located in
Valparaiso, was in Chesterton Tuesday. He came on business.
Lytle Jones, of Valparaiso, was in town Monday on business. Lytle is
one of Porter county's shrewdest legal lights, and a pleasant gentleman.
N. Demass was awarded the contract last Saturday, of building a new
bridge in place of the old one known as the Howe bridge at Balleytown.
Swan Nilson, the painter, is the man to leave your orders with when you
want a first class job of painting. His work is universally admired and
recommended.
Chas. Hylander and daughter, returned last week from their western trip.
They report a pleasant time, and mention a number of pleasing sights
seen on the way.
C. O. Hillstrom went last Thursday to Michigan on business, and while
there was taken quite ill. He returned home Saturday, and is now much
better. His ailment would be called "Meat poisoning" by some, and by
others "epidemic dysentery".
Mr. Frank Wieseman, of Burdick, left his order at this office for quite
a large lot of printing. He is a heavy dealer in wood, and ships an
immense quantity every year to Englewood, South Chicago and Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hendricks left this place Sunday for Warsaw, where
they will very likely make their home. While here this family have made
warm friends of all their acquaintances, and their departure is greatly
regretted.
Saturday night and Sunday the peace and quiet of Chesterton was
disturbed by Jack Leahy. As our time and attention has been absorbed by
the Porter "epidemic" this week. Mr. Leahy will please excuse us for not
giving him an extended notice. However, we will endeavor to make up for
it next time.
Nick Olson, a Dane, late of Chicago, who has been in town for the past
week, started on foot for South Bend Monday night about 11 o'clock.
Before starting, he got intoxicated, and in this condition got on the
Lake Shore track. When just on the bridge, right in town, he saw the
fast mail, going west, almost on him. He had presence of mind enough to
let himself drop through the bridge, and thereby saved himself from
instant death. He escaped with a few scratches.
Miss Georgia Ellis, of Valparaiso, gave a lecture last Sunday evening to
a large audience in the M E Church of this place. Her subject was on
the Distribution of Bibles, and was ably handled. She is agent for the
American Bible Society, and gave a history of its work. The work of
Miss Ellis is to distribute the Bible among the families of the country.
Those who can not afford to purchase a copy are given one free of
charge. Miss Ellis made a very favorable impression while here and is
successfully pushing her work.
Last Monday the oldest son of Wm Messer, a German, living one mile east
of Cole's school house, was taken to the County House. This boy, about
twelve years old, is suffering from inflammatory rheumatism of the most
malignant type and had been confined to his bed for some months. The
parents are very poor, and could not give him the proper treatment
needed. They were loth to send him away, but neighbors seeing the
necessity of removing him to a better place, laid the matter before
Trustee Hall. It is not probable that the boy can recover.
Last Wednesday a special train arrived at Hageman, on the Michigan
Central, with a number of railway officials on board. There were, E. E.
Tory, Superintendent of Telegraph; A. G. Daly, Sup't of tracks, Mr.
Hupts, Civil Engineer, G. W. Doliver, Division Supt, west division. L.
D. W. Van Vliet,
Chief Dispatcher, J. C. Lee, Ass't Supt. and J. W. Marsdon, Accountant.
While at Hageman, these gentleman, made a thorough investigation of the
sanitary condition of the railroad grounds, with a view of putting
things in repair, if necessary. They were all very pleasant gentlemen.