April 1, 1922
Horn Brothers Quality Meat Market at 62 Lincolnway was opened to the public this morning. The first pound of meat was sold to Miss Ruth Buel, 153 Indiana Avenue. This arrangement had been planned in advance. On October 16, 1859, a brother of Miss Buel’s, James R. Buel, purchased the first meat sold by Conrad Horn, founder of the business. Louis and Peter J. Horn, who were associated with their father in the business, are now proprietors of the concern. Joseph Horn, son of the former, is manager.
Eight years ago in 1914, the Tittle Brothers, who conducted meat markets at Gary and other places, came to Valparaiso and established the Valpo Cash Market. The event was celebrated today with a big sale at their West Lincolnway store.
April 2, 1922
The county jail is empty for the first time in months. It is the first time since Sheriff William Pennington has been in charge that it has occurred. The last prisoner to leave was Charles Edward Conley, wanted by the federal government for violation of a parole from Leavenworth Prison. He was being held here for the theft of the James O. Cox automobile.
Forest Rexinger, age 18, was killed at Hebron last night. Rexinger, with three other boys, were examining a shotgun in the West Side garage when it accidentally was discharged. The charge struck Rexinger in the abdomen. He died a few minutes later.
April 3, 1922
Addison Emmett Woodhull, former mayor of Valparaiso, died today at his home in Chicago. He is survived by a son, Alderman Ross A. Woodhull of Chicago, and five daughters.
April 4, 1922
The Schleman-Morton Company plans considerable building in Valparaiso this summer. The company has purchased the Anna Ward Morony Building on West Lincolnway and will remodel it. A new garage is to be built on the lot west of the Zimmerman Garage. The structure will be 60 X 80 feet. Plans are also being drawn for a two-story office and business building at the corner of Washington and Jefferson Streets. Contracts have been awarded by the company for the erection of two bungalows in City View Addition. Other homes are to be built.
April 5, 1922
By a deal consummated today, the business and coal yard of the Raymond Coal Company at the Nickel Plate Depot was sold by R. D. Raymond to R. C. West, of Gilman, Ill. Mr. West will retain the firm name and continue the business. Mr. West has also purchased a small farm east of Valparaiso of Thomas McConnell.
Shea and Company, of Hammond, was low bidder on the improvement of the Lincoln Highway in Porter County when bids were opened by the state highway commission yesterday at Indianapolis. The Hammond firm’s bid was $157,000 ($2,651,393.57 in 2022) for the 7.6 miles.
April 6, 1922
Many farmers in Porter County are planting oats. The wet weather of the last several weeks has prevented work along this line. Last year, many fields were planted in March. In Pleasant Township, many farmers have finished planting. In Washington Township, farmers began planting yesterday. In other townships the ground is being prepared.
Contractor Gerald McGillicuddy, who has the contract for the improvement of the post office alley and the Academy of Music Block alley, will start work next Monday. Metropolitan brick will be used.
April 7, 1922
A petition asking the state tax board of commissioners to deny permission to issue bonds to build the new high school building in Morgan Township has been filed with Porter County Auditor B. H. Kinne. The school is to cost $58,000 ($979,495.71 in 2022).
The ashes of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thatcher, former residents of Valparaiso, were brought back to Valparaiso last Monday from Seattle, Wash., and were interred in Maplewood Cemetery. The Thatchers left Valparaiso thirty years ago and went to Lawton, N. D. Later they moved to Seattle. Mr. Thatcher died three years ago and Mrs. Thatcher last July.
April 8, 1922
The Valparaiso Lighting Company is making an extension of its gas mains in two parts of Valparaiso. About 8,000 feet of pipe is being used and work will cost approximately $10,000 ($168,878.57 in 2022). The mains to be laid are on Cyrus, Brick, Nickel Plate Avenue, and West Streets. Extension of gas mains in City View Addition is contemplated. Oak Street citizens are also agitating a movement for mains.
The building at 121 East Lincolnway, owned by W. G. Windle, is being remodeled by the Foster Lumber and Coal Company.
April 9, 1922
Excavations for the new Hotel Lembke, Valparaiso’s five story hostelry, will be completed by the end of this month, according to announcement today by Charles F. Lembke, builder of the hotel. Seventy loads of dirt are being taken out daily for the basement of the building. Plans are all made to pour concrete for the foundations by May 1.
The partnership of Charles S. Peirce and W. B. Forney, real estate and insurance, has been dissolved, and Mr. Peirce has purchased his partner’s interest.
April 10, 1922
Glen J. Goddard has purchased a residence property on North Lafayette Street of the Winslow estate. He will build a new residence.
Sheriff William Pennington and Chief of Police James A. Jones went to Michigan City today to bring back Charles Jerome, one of six men alleged to have held up Walter Davis, proprietor of the Three Trails Auto Service on West Lincolnway. Davis was trussed to a chair while the robbers took $3,000 ($50,663.57 in 2022) in auto tubes and tires.
April 11, 1922
The Bornholt Building, home of the Citizens' Savings and Trust Bank, is being improved extensively on the second floor. Howard Dailey and Harry Dye have leased quarters for their real estate business, and Harry Deopker, who recently entered the real estate business, has also leased rooms.
April 12, 1922
John J. Blaine, Governor of Wisconsin, will deliver the annual address at the Valparaiso University commencement on May 10. Governor Blaine was graduated from the university, attending school here in 1885-6-7. President J. E. Roessler, of the school, received word yesterday from the governor saying he would accept the invitation to speak. Ninety-seven students will be graduated from the institution this year.
April 13, 1922
Bernard L. Carpenter has leased part of the Zugbaum Building on South Franklin Avenue and will open an electric shop next week. He will have a large stock of fixtures.
President E. W. Agar, of the Valparaiso Chautauqua Association announced today that the annual chautauqua would be held June 15 or 16 and extend the usual number of days. Mr. Agar said the Mutual Morgan Bureau would hold its conference of workers in conjunction with the chautauqua.
April 14, 1922
Myron Pische, formerly shoe repair man at the Mrs. M. LaForce Shoe Store, has leased a part of the Frank Cain Building, corner Jefferson and Franklin, and will open up a shoe repair shop.
Porter County must pay $1,023,933 ($17,292,034.23 in 2022) in taxes this year. This is on an assessment of $62,376,310 ($1,053,402,212.38 in 2022). Although the last day for the payment of the spring installment is only two weeks away a very small percentage of taxes has been paid. Many loans will have to be made by farmers this year to meet the tax payments.
April 15, 1922
McNabb & Andrews, of Chicago, who leased thousands of acres in Pleasant Township several years ago, will drill for oil in the next few weeks. Machinery for drilling is being stored in the barn on the Paul Wells Farm. The first well will be named Lyon Dream Well, after Parmenieus Lyon, well known Pleasant Township citizen.
Flint Lake lacks only two inches of reaching its highest stage since 1907. The lake lacks only two feet of reaching its extreme high-water level prior to the time the water company began supplying the city in 1885.
April 16, 1922
Audrey Skomp, formerly of Valparaiso High School, but now agricultural instructor at Chesterton High School, today began his duties as official seed corn tester under Prof. George I. Christie, recently appointed state food censor.
Dr. Simon J. Young today received his commission as captain in the officers’ reserve corps. He is the only reservist physician in Porter County. He was a first lieutenant in the old reserve corps.
April 17, 1922
Valparaiso University won its first baseball game of the season 6 to 5 from Lake Forest yesterday. Marshall’s triple with two on base won the game.
The Northwestern Indiana Telephone Company is placing new cables in the alley back of the post office building and new Hotel Lembke.
April 18, 1922
Valparaiso will be a member of the Mid-West League, composed of professional baseball teams in Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin, according to Deak Austin, manager of the local team. Mr. Austin says he has signed up all members of his team.
April 19, 1922
Dr. A. O. Dobbins, trustee of Union Township, will receive bids on May 11 for the repair and remodeling of the Union Center High and Elementary School. The work will cost $3,000 ($50,663.57 in 2022).
April 20, 1922
Miss Margery Ellis, a graduate of the Valparaiso High School of 1917, has been employed as French and History Teacher in the Valparaiso Public Schools. She taught high school in Hamlet, Ind., one year and then attended Chicago University for two years.
Bids opened this week by Trustee John G. Johnson, of Westchester Township for the construction of a new high school building were too high and it may be necessary to float another issue to take care of the project. The estimated cost of the school is approximately $175,000 ($2,955,375.00 in 2022). It is to be erected at Chesterton.
April 21, 1922
Mayor E. W. Agar and Valparaiso City Attorney E. G. Osborne have received word from the Public Service Commission of Indiana that the Valparaiso Lighting Company has filed a petition for a voluntary reduction of gas rates in Valparaiso of 15 cents per 1,000 cubic feet, effective after the first meter reading in May.
Charles Pratt Post, American Legion, of Valparaiso, will organize a band with Ray Marine as director. The action was taken at a meeting last night presided over by Commander Byron Smith.
April 22, 1922
Efforts are being made to organize a platoon of the Indiana National Guard in Valparaiso. Three officers of the Gary National Guard were in Valparaiso last night conferring with officials of the American Legion. The platoon, if organized, will consist of 35 men.
T. O. Dillon has arrived here to take a position as solicitor with the Charles O. Pierce Real Estate Agency. Mr. Dillon has been associated with the Continental Fire Insurance Agency. He is a veteran of the World War.
April 23, 1922
Charles Deardorf, a Wheeler resident, received a check for $100 ($1,688.79 in 2022) and a letter of thanks from the Nickel Plate Railroad for saving the Nickel Plate Freight Train from being wrecked last week. Deardorf heard the swish of waters coming from the railroad tracks. They entered his yard and flowed into his basement. Investigation revealed that the roadbed was washed away for a distance of sixty feet. He notified railroad authorities and a fast freight was held at Hobart until the damage was repaired. Three carloads of cinders were required to fill the washout.
Miss Ruth Brown, of Valparaiso, is one of the singers broadcasting over the Chicago Daily News Radio Station each night.
April 24, 1922
Dr. John E. Roessler, who has been president of Valparaiso University, tendered his resignation to the board of trustees of the school yesterday. The trustees refused to accept it and asked President Roessler to reconsider. The school, since Dr. Roessler assumed charge following the dismissal of Dr. D. R. Hodgdon, has prospered in every way.
April 25, 1922
James A. Jones, first chief of police of Valparaiso, has tendered his resignation to the Valparaiso City Council and will sever his position May 1, it was announced today. Mr. Jones’ successor will be Robert L. Felton, desk sergeant. Mr. Jones will return to his former position with the Pennsylvania Railroad Police Department.
April 26, 1922
Morgan Township will have a new school building. The state tax board yesterday approved a $58,000 ($979,495.71 in 2022) bond issue for the erection of the school. The board ordered that the issue bear 5% instead of 5½%. A hearing on objections to the bond issue was held in Valparaiso last week.
Thirty-five members of College City Camp, Royal Neighbors, went to Wanatah yesterday and instituted a new camp of Royal Neighbors. Mrs. Ollie Montgomery, oracle of College City Camp, assisted by local officers, had charge of the work. Mrs. Hanna E. Hauff, of Valparaiso, state vice oracle, gave the obligation to the members. LaPorte Royal Neighbors installed the newly elected officers. The Wanatah camp will be known as Maple Leaf Lodge.
April 27, 1922
Work was commenced this morning on a large siding for the Nickel Plate Railroad, three miles west of Valparaiso. The siding will accommodate 180 cars and will be used for storage and switching. P. T. Clifford & Son, of Valparaiso, has the contract. Work is to be finished by June 1.
The Main Garage on East Lincolnway, owned by G. H. Claussen, has been sold to Cook Brothers, of LaCrosse. The new owners took possession Monday.
April 28, 1922
Judge A. B. Anderson, in a final decree at Indianapolis yesterday, awarded thirty acres along Lake Michigan, near Gary, to Charles Stebbins, of Chicago, and John Putney of Concord, N.H. The decision was the final word in the case that has involved years of litigation over land once considered worthless, but now said to be valued at $2,000 ($33,775.71 in 2022) an acre. The land is commonly known as the Carr Estate.
Work on the golf grounds of the Valparaiso Country Club, east of Bull’s Eye Lake, is progressing rapidly. A force of men are employed. Inside of a few months the greens will be in shape to withstand the tramp of the golfers’ feet.
April 29, 1922
The new public library at Hebron was dedicated last night. Open house was the order of the day. In the afternoon Miss Root, of Indianapolis, spoke to three gatherings of school children, and also at the dedicatory exercises in the evening. Miss Carrie Nichols, formerly of the Hebron Library, made the dedication speech. The Hebron Orchestra furnished music. The building cost $15,000 ($253,317.86 in 2022), of which the Carnegie Foundation furnished $10,000 ($168,878.57 in 2022). The circulation of the library is 1,600 books. A number of new books will soon be added.
John N. Hardesty, well-known Union Township farmer, was accidentally killed last night about 6:30 o’clock when a large log fell on him at the Don Richard Saw Mill in Wheeler. He was hauling a log into the yard when the wheel of the truck struck a saw dust pile and caused it to overturn. He was caught under the log and crushed.
April 30, 1922
Maurice Simon, brother-in-law of Boris Kozlenko, of Valparaiso, Saturday purchased the David Poncher Shoe and General Store on Indiana Avenue. He will take possession May 15, when Mr. Poncher will become a teacher in the federal vocational board school at Valparaiso University.
Prof. R. E. Schenck, of the Manual Training Department of the Valparaiso High School, has received the appointment as commanding officer of pursuit flyers in the Reserve Air Service. Mr. Schenck was a first lieutenant in the aviation branch during the World War. There will be a 15-day training course for reserves on June 1 either at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indianapolis, or at Fort Thomas, Ky.