Chesterton Tribune - November 26, 1885
In and About Chesterton
Thanks-giving today.
Insure with S.A. Harper.
Get Swan Nilson to do your painting.
News for advertisers: Christmas is coming.
Now is the time to plant your holidays advertisements.
Try A.L. Harper on Stoves, he is selling them dirt cheap.
Subscribe to the Tribune. Get your friends to subscribe.
Can't you add one name to The Tribune subscription list.
For Bargains in Hardware, Stoves, Wagons, etc., go to A.L. Harper.
Copies of The Tribune on sale at M.A. Salisbury & Co. every week.
George Brown deeded to his sons John F. and Joseph each 80 acres of land
valued at $2,400.
All those indebted to A.L. Harper will please call at once, as I must
clean up my books. A.L. Harper
Bring your job work to this office. First class facilities for doing
good work. Prices reasonable.
John Strom, Gust Widell, and John Nelson, of Chicago spent last Sunday
with friends near Burdick.
When you want elegant photographs taken, be sure to visit Bryant's
photograph gallery, of Laporte.
Justice Blanks, Deeds, Mortgages, Notes, etc., for sale at this office.
Orders by mail promptly attended to.
The six year old son of Jos. Morrical, who has been dangerously ill with
membranious croup, is recovering under the care of Dr. Miller.
Stephen Coleman, of Liberty Township, recently received back pension
money amounting to $1,300. He has invested the bulk of this in real
estate.
Cheap Ocean Tickets
Swanson & Son are agents for the Thingvalla lines and sell excursion
tickets from Chicago to Sweden and return for $52. Tickets are good
until Jan. l, 1887. Come and see us.
Mrs. S.A. Harper, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. W.C. Sherman, returned
from Chicago Wednesday. Mrs. Harper spent a week visiting relatives.
Mr. George Morgan purchased a small herd of five Holsteins of Joseph
Wolf this week. Mr. Morgan intends keeping that kind of stock
hereafter, preferring them to the Polled Angus.
A professional horse trainer interested the people of this place last
Monday. He had three trained horses with him. His attempt to take in
the almighty dollar here was not very successful.
The Hon. Jasper Packard, of LaPorte, well-known here will lecture at the
M.E. church on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, December 1st and 2nd.
All who can should go and hear him.
Ferdinand Wietz, an aged bachelor of Westchester township, has sold his
40 acres of land to Charles Kath for $100 and the further consideration
of comfortable personal maintenance during his natural life.
Packard's Lectures at the Methodist church, Tuesday and Wednesday
evenings, Dec 1st and 2d. Admission, one evening 25cts. Both evenings
40cts. Children 15 and 25cts. Of thrilling interest to old and young,
soldiers and civilian.
On Wednesday the remains of the infant son of John Nelson was brought
from Chicago to Chesterton for interment. The funeral was from the
Swedish Lutheran church, Rev. A. Challman officiating. The remains were
buried in the Chesterton cemetery.
Louis Gable has again been heard from. This time he did it with his
little pistol. Saturday he was fooling with his revolver, and in some
way it was discharged, the bullet entering the palm of his right hand.
Dr. Miller extracted the bullet, and now Louis can put in his time by
the fire nursing his wound. Revolvers are poor things to fool with.
Mr. Beery, solicitor for the Valparaiso Messenger, was in town last
Saturday and busied himself interviewing Messenger subscribers on the
condition of their packet books. Mr. Beery is a very clerical sort of a
gentleman. To describe his appearance exactly, we would say he reminds
one of a cross between a camp-meeting preacher and a travlling tooth
carpenter. A pair of spectacles hung across the bridge of his nose
lends a venerable look to his appearance. We congratulated Editor
Zimmerman on his latest acquisition in the Big Give Away.
Surveyor Rankin, and Mr. P.C. Daly, of Valparaiso, were in town last
Monday.
Wm. Chetham offers his house, barn and two acres of land at the Porter
Brick yards for sale cheap.
If you want to subscribe for any newspaper or periodical published in
America, do so at the Tribune office.
For accuracy of likeness, fine finish and general tone, Weller's Photos
are unsurpassed. Give him a call. 2 doors south of P.O., Laporte, Ind.
Mr. Charles Lindstrom returned from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving with
his family. He is a great deal better for his stay in Chicago, and can
now experience feeling in his hands to a certain extent. Dr. Gunn
thinks however it will be a year before he is entirely recovered.
Married - on Thanksgiving day, at the residence of the brides father,
Mr. Edward Hillstrom to Miss Bird Dille. The wedding was a very quiet
one, only the nearest relatives being invited. Owing to the lateness of
the occurrence The Tribune can give but a meager account of this
wedding, but will give particulars next week.
The Indians of Guiana have only four numbers in their system of
numeration. They county by the hand and its fingers. Thus when they
reach five, instead of saying so, they call it a hand, six is therefore
a "hand and first finger", seven "a hand and second finger," ten is
"two
hands," but twenty, instead of being "four hands," is "a man."
Forty is
"two men," and thus they go by twenties. Forty-six is expressed as "two
men, a hand and first finger."
The remains of old Mrs. McCool, of near McCool Station was brought home
Tuesday for interment. Some time ago Mrs. McCool went to visit her two
sisters living in Michigan. One of them living at Swartz Creek, was
stricken with paralysis, and the shock to Mrs. McCool was so great that
she was stricken down with apoplexy. Her death occurred last Monday, and
the funeral was held on the following Wednesday, the remains being
buried beside those of her husband, who died last December. She was 74
years old at her death. Mrs. McCool was a pioneer of Porter county,
living with in its borders for over 30 years. She was greatly esteemed,
highly respected and leaves many friends and relatives to mourn her
loss.