Chesterton Tribune
April 15, 1886 cont
August Schultz is now a resident of Hammond.
Easter comes on the 25th. Save up your eggs.
One anxious soul was planting potatoes last Monday.
Dennis Riordan is down with an attack of lung fever.
C.O. Hillstrom and Wm. Slont left last Monday for Europe.
Mr. Jno. T. Taylor went to Laporte on business last Tuesday.
The drummer drummeth our merchants, but doeth lots of drumming for
little business.
Miss Coyne, of Chicago, spent last Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Bartly Coyne.
Mr. Patrick Handrahan starts next Saturday for California, where he will
spend the summer for his health.
The rain of Tuesday night was much needed. Pasturage is good, and the
farmer and the kine feel glad.
FOR SALE - A good farm, mare with colt, also top buggy and harness.
Call on Albert Busse, Hageman, Ind.
Valparaiso Vidette - The friends of Nelson Barnard, of Jackson Township,
will present his name shortly as a candidate for the legislature.
Martin Young is building a neat slaughter house on his land, south of
town. It will be furnished with all modern appliances for butchering.
The county campaign will soon be inaugurated. The Tribune will work for
A.J. Bowser, this time. It pays better than to work for love or glory.
Mr. A. G. Sword sent tickets this week to Sweden to bring his brother
and his brother's wife and child to Chesterton. They will come via the
Inman line, and will arrive sometime in June.
Those parties who stopped this paper through the post-master, had better
settle up their back subscription at once, for all such unsettled
accounts will be sued next week. A word to the wise, etc.
The incorporation gag has again been sprung. We fear that the chief
movers will get too much interested in the county election, to think
about the town of Chesterton this year. Some other year.
Laporte money lenders are getting a strong grip on many farms in this
township. Thousands of dollars have been lent by them of late. It's
getting to be pretty hard times when a plaster has to go on the old
homestead.
Mr. N.P. Rogers, the Sec'y and Treasurer of the Haskell & Barker Car
Co., Michigan city, wants a good girl to do housework. This is a
splendid place for the right party. Apply immediately, and mention this
paper.
Mr. Peter Cooley holds more concentrated happiness inside his clothes
than any other man in Westchester at the present writing. The reason
for all this is that Peter has a little son and heir, born last Tuesday
night. Both mother and child are doing well.
Complaint is made that the carcasses of two horses lying in the south
part of town, stink so badly as to be almost unbearable. The remains
have not been properly buried, and have been torn up by dogs, until now
they are strewn on the ground. The parties who hauled these dead
animals there will do well to go and properly bury them.
Mr. Edward Schaper, the Jeweller, is refitting his store in elegant
shape. Two new show windows have just been put in for silver ware,
which greatly add to the appearance of the place. He has also just put
in a large regulator, which is one of the finest in the county. The
walls and ceiling is also being paper. When completed, Mr. Schaper will
have one of the neatest stores in town.
Steps are being taken to fix up the Catholic cemetery, south of this
place. Two weeks ago, Father Kroll announced his intention, from the
pulpit, of having the cemetery cleaned up, and asked those of his
congregation, who could, to lend a helping hand. Many have responded,
and much work has been done there, but there is still much to do. A new
fence will be put around the yard, as soon as possible. It is a work
that was sadly needed, and cannot be finished to soon. And by the way, a
number of people have complained about the protestant cemetery. There
is no roadway, by which teams can go into the cemetery and get out
again, without driving over graves. It is suggested that the trustees
of the cemetery turn their attention to the general condition of the
place, and see that this little city of the dead is put in better shape.
An exchange gets off a good one and hits some folks right between the
eyes in the following manner: After you get upon your ear and make up
your mind to "stop" your paper to make the editor feel humiliated, just
poke your fingers in water and pull them out and look for the hole.
Then you will know how sadly you are missed. The man who thinks a paper
cannot survive without his support ought to go off and stay awhile. When
he comes back he will find that half his friends don't know he was gone.
The other half didn't care a cent, and the world hadn't kept any account
of his movements whatever. You will probably find some things in your
home paper you can't endorse. Even the Bible is rather plain and hits
some hard licks but if you get mad and burn your Bible the hundreds of
presses would go right on printing them, and if you were to stop your
paper and call the editor all sorts of ugly names, the paper would still
be published. And what is more, you will sneak around and borrow a copy
of it every week from your neighbor. It is much better to keep your vest
pulled down and your subscription paid up.