Chesterton Tribune - May 6, 1886
Crisman has one of the neatest depots in Porter County. It is a little
beauty.
Last Sunday was confirmation day at the Lutheran church. The services
were very impressive.
Emil Swanson spent Sunday and Monday last in Chesterton, with his
parents. He is now employed in Chicago.
Burr Robbins' circus is advertised to be at Michigan City on May 12th.
It's the same old show, with the same old elements.
C.A. Anderson commenced the manufacture of cigars last Monday. The
editor smoked one of the first cigars ever made in Chesterton.
The Laporte Dispatch is a beauty, typographically speaking, well edited,
and as all-around model sheet. If Laporte will support anything, she
must support the Dispatch. We wish the editors the success their
enterprise merits.
Oscar Field, Esq., of Crisman, Ind., advertises the services of some of
his blooded stock. Mr. Field has some of the finest blooded animals on
his farm in the country, and those who desire to improve their stock
will do well to see him.
An elegant granite monument has been erected to the memory of Minnie A.
Kettle, wife of Chas. Turner, in the Chesterton Cemetery. The lot is
enclosed with a beautiful iron fence, and the grave shows the strong
love for the deceased by her family.
Dr. H. Greene was suddenly taken ill Sunday night, and grew worse so
rapidly that Dr. Rose, of Laporte, was telegraphed for. Dr. Rose
arrived her Monday morning. Dr. Green was suffering from acute catarrh.
On Wednesday he was able to resume his duties above the store.
Any one taking a stroll about the south side of Chesterton cannot but
stop to admire the flowers now in full bloom in Dr. Green's yard, as
well as those which cover and adorn the grave of their loved and lovely
daughter who in life was such a devotee to flowers. Long may they bloom
in memory of Florence.
Everybody is not united even on the eight-hour movement with eight hours
pay. Workingmen are not all united on it. At Sandusky, Ohio, a day or
so ago, when the proprietors of the Daily Register announced that they
would introduce this movement in their office, their men notified them
that if they did the men strike. They have been expressions in various
places that proved very many mechanics and laboring men are not only
willing, but anxious to work ten hours a day for ten hours' pay rather
than be put on eight hours and short rations for the benefit of some
outsiders who do not want to work even eight hours a day, if they can
avoid it.
A copy of the Solomon Valley Mirror, published at Minneapolis, Kansas,
is on our table. We quote the following: "Fathers, mothers, here is a
land in which to rear your boys. Here they are free from those
temptations so dazzling and so fatal - the saloons. They have no
example set them by their superiors that will lead them into the
clutches of the tempter. Come and see. Some ask: Why isn't it **
prohibited entirely? Dear Sir: your laws prohibit murder and punish it
by death instead of a find of $100. Does that "prohibit" murder
entirely in your State? Every year the number of those favoring the law
is largely increasing. The boys of four years ago are men now, and what
is more they are prohibitionists. They were not lured in their youth,
that period when the greatest majority are snared. Now they are sage.
The great object of prohibition is to "Save the boys." Are they not
worth saving? A few short years and they must fill our places and run
the world. Will they be better fitted to take their positions by
drinking liquors?"
Our public schools will soon close its term for the season, and I cannot
resist the impulse I feel, to bear testimony to the efficiency and zeal
of its present corps of teachers. Prof. Phares has chosen a most useful
and honored profession and one for which he is well qualified. Miss
Brummit and Miss Murphy are too well known as successful teachers, to
need any commendation from us. Miss Miles who is young in her
profession, has been Mr. Phares' pupil for five years and has been
wholly prepared for the position she now occupies by him, and will no
doubt succeed in her new vocation. Every step in the career of Prof.
Phares has been characterized by zeal for is profession, tempered with
the knowledge of what was his duty, and most faithfully has he performed
that duty. His moral character is without a blemish, genial, and kind,
as well as just to his pupils, he has won the hearts of parents as well
as scholars. If our new Trustee consults the wishes of a large majority
of the citizens he will secure his services if possible for another
year, though he has been offered a position where the remuneration is
much larger than he receives.
The following are the names of those pupils who were neither tardy nor
absent during the month of April.
High School
Jessie Beck, Anna Carlson, Minnie Babcock, Nona Williams, Willie
Babcock, Anna Brown
Intermediate Room
Cora Peterson, Arthur Beck, Cora Sherwood, Ida Carlson, Eddie Campbell
Primary Room
Johnnie Carlson, Robert Milne, Harvy Sover, Charley Gulstrom, Alice
McHenry, Esther Swanson, Grace Walker,