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CROWN POINT, Ind. Dec 2.
M. T. Hart, of this city, a member of the firm of Miller & Hart packers, of Chicago, has started a new enterprise on his farm at Hartsdale, this county. He is raising skunks for the market. He now has a great many, and by spring expects to have one corner of his farm filled with them, as they multiply very rapidly. The animals are fed on rats, which they like better than anything else. It is a very profitable business. Their hides sell for $1 to $2 each.
[Source: Indiana State Journal December 9, 1896 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]


CROWN POINT Ind. Feb. 2
The Supreme Court of the Independent Foresters held its annual meeting in this city to-day and elected the following officers: High chief ranger. F. E. Cooper, Crown Point; vice chief, M. D. Crume Wabash, Ind., secretary, Frank Klein, Valparaiso: treasurer. J. Lowensteln. Valparaiso: medical examiner. Dr. P. G. Moore. Wabash. Tonight a banquet was held for the visiting delegates, which numbered 250. and toasts were responded to by prominent members of the order. The organization seceded from the Illinois Foresters in 1893. [Indiana State Journal, 9 Feb 1898 - Submitted by Barb Ziegenmeyer]

Gary, Ind., Dry by Seven Votes
Laporte, Ind., January 15 - Four months more "the steel city" of Gary will continue "dry" -- and by the rule of a majority of only seven votes. Judge Tuthill, of the Superior court, today handed down a decision in favor of the Antisaloon League in a suit brought by saloonkeepers of Gary to contest the result of an election held 20 months ago. [16 Jan 1910; Paper: Baltimore American - Submitted by K. Torp]

Gary, Ind., "practically dry for more than a year" as the dispatch states, is to have 138 open saloons. Licenses for them were authorized last Monday. People there seem to prefer that the burg be "regularly wet" than "practically dry." [4 May 1910; Paper: Idaho Statesman - Submitted by K. Torp]

STATE ROUTE INN, PUT UP IN 1832, BURNS
GARY,Ind., Dec. 14.— The old Centerville Inn, at Merrillville, five miles south of here, built in 1832 by Myron Pierce, and a famous stopping place on the old Chicago-Detroit stage route, was destroyed by fire last night. Many famous men, including Daniel Webster, John A. Logan and Stephen A. Douglas, had been sheltered in the place. In Civil war times northern Indiana troops were mustered in at the station. [15 Dec 1912; Duluth News-Tribune - Submitted by K. Torp]

Gary, Ind., Growing Up
Gary, Ind., April 21 --- This city, the home of the Steel trust, the mushroom of Indiana, voted itself from a fourth class to a second class city, under powers granted by the legislature. It is just nine years old. [21 Apr 1915; Paper: Wilkes-Barre Times (PA) - Submitted by K. Torp]

GARY BANK CLOSED.
GARY, Ind. — The Northern State bank was closed by order of the state auditor Monday. The bank is said to be in an insolvent condition. According to the last statement, deposits total $655,423 and the liabilities amount to $822,450. The capital is $100,000. [27 Aug 1918; Paper: Idaho Statesman - Submitted by K. Torp]

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