Mr. Wm. Hefron spent Friday with friends in Valparaiso.
G. W. Beck spent a few days in Valparaiso last week.
When you buy a pair of pants, ask for the "Bull-Dog." Swanson & Son.
Mr. H. McDonald spent Saturday last in the thriving town of Hammond.
Messrs. James Drapher and C. R. Talcott were among Chesterton's visitors
Wednesday.
Dr. Green and family, will go this week to Warren, Ohio, to spend a
visit with relatives.
Mr. Peter Marquardt, of Valparaiso, circulated among his friends in
Chesterton, Wednesday.
Mr. Pillman will give another ball at the Hageman Rink on July 3rd.
Make arrangements to be there.
Frank Beckwith, of Chicago, was in town Saturday. Frank is the same old
jolly punster. We won't give him way though.
The work on the railroad bridge at Chesterton is progressing nicely.
Work on the Ballytown bridge has been commenced.
Ed Way went to Michigan City Monday night to attend a mass meeting of
the Knights of Labor. He reports a splendid time.
Twenty coaches of picnicers from Chicago, passed through this station on
the Lake Shore road, from Chicago, bound for Laporte.
The Catholics of Chesterton have kindly postponed their picnic to be
held in Morgan's Grove until after harvest, to accommodate the Grand
Army boys.
Will Strayer took a run down from Chicago Monday night, returning
Tuesday morning. Mrs. Strayer is visiting her sister, Mrs. Frank Quick
and we supposed Will got lonesome.
Isn't it queer how little interest Sheriff Thomas takes in his
re-election. Of course he has a dead sure thing, but we have known
cases where a dead sure thing met with an accident and failed to connect
at the last round-up.
Ed Leason, who has been employed in Blackwell's mills for the past year,
returned to England, arriving there this week. He thinks there is no
place like old England and said he could do better there than here in
protected America.
Peter M. Arthur, chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, the best paid body of skilled artisans in the United States,
is an American of Scotch-Irish extraction. He is fifty five years old
and has been chief for ten years.
There is one consolation ahead of us anyhow, if it is hot now. When
those candidates and delegates start homeward next Saturday night, they
will take with them a coolness that will rank in these red-hot sun
beams, and convert them into genuine Alaska icebergs in very short
order.
Shepard Sargent, of Crisman, who has been residing in Iowa for two or
three years, returned to his home last week. He has been suffering from
an abscess for the past eight weeks, and was given up to die by three
doctors. At present he is under the treatment of Dr. R. E. Miller, who
entertains high hopes of his recovery.
The editor of the Tribune received a box of strawberries last Monday,
which for size, beauty and taste, would be difficult to duplicate. They
were of of the Marvin variety, and raised in the garden of Mrs. James
Bradley. Without exaggeration some of the berries were nearly as large
as hens' eggs.
Dr. R. E. Miller, formerly of Hobart, now practicing in Chesterton, was
with us last Tuesday and Wednesday. The Doctor looks as young as ever,
enjoys a good practice, is on the road to eminence, and no doubt will
soon take to himself a partner. He has many friends in Hobart as well
as Chesterton - Crown Point Register.
Springfield (Ills.) Daily News - W. H. Muldoon, a delegate from the
Chicago Trades and Labor assembly, and a prominent labor advocate
throughout the state, has been in the city since Saturday, and will
leave this afternoon for Decatur, where the convention will be held
during the week. Mr. Muldoon's ability and sound judgment of the labor
question will be heard and felt in convention. Mr. Muldoon is a
Chesterton boy, and we are glad to note that he is making a name for
himself abroad as well as at home.
At 4 o'clock on Thursday morning of last week a serious railway wreck
occurred on the B. and O. railroad, one half mile east of McCool
station. The east-bound freight No. 20 collided with the west-bound
freight No. 23, and wrecked two of the company's finest engines and 27
cars. Two of the cars were loaded with coal, coke, and merchandise.
The wreck delayed trains about 14 hours. The trainsmen and several
tramps saved themselves by jumping from the train.
Last Monday bright and early L. D. Forbes commenced cutting the hay in
the railroad park. Faithfully he worked at it and succeeded in getting
it almost ready to cock, when the rain of Tuesday afternoon fell on it.
For nineteen years the hay on this park has never been cut and taken
away before the rain fell on it and spoiled it. No matter who tries it
no one succeeded in saving the hay. Nineteen years ago Mr. John C.
Coulter did get the hay in barn before the rain got around, but since
that time no man can make the boast. It would seem as thought a curse
were resting on this land. At any rate it is pretty safe to bet that it
will rain when you see a man cutting that hay. This year it is
prophesied that the man who cut the hay will die before the year is out.
Just now we are ready to believe most anything.