STARKE COUNTY, INDIANA
NEWS
North Judson, IN.
Dec.
7, 1898. Jamison & Heldrich, of Peoria, Ill. Have purchased from
Danielson & Ellingson, of Hamlet, this county, 1,1890 acres of land
for $30,500. It is proposed to establish a beet sugar factory if the
coming Indiana legislature passes a bounty law. Sugar beets testing
22.9 percent, sugar was grown on this land last year. Jamison &
Heldrich have a further option on 1,900 acres owned by the same firm,
and it is said, on several thousands acres of individual tracts.
North Judson, IN.
Sept. 6,1898. The vice presidents of the Kankakee Valley Sugar Beet
Association and other interested in the development of this industry
will hold a meeting at North Judson, on Tues. Sept. 20, to consider the
best method of advancing the cause and to take up the subject of
presenting to the next Legislature a bounty law in the interests of the
beet sugar industry, similar to the one now in effect in the State of
Michigan. The session will be held at Burch’s Opera House, from 1 to 12
a.m. and from 1 to 4 p.m.
EAGLE LAKE, Ind., Aug. 20.—Yesterday the men of Winona boarded the City
of Winona and took a trip about the hike. While taking this excursion a
conference was held in which Rev. J. Wilber Chapman accepted the offer
previously made
him to become the director of the Winona Bible School for 1897. Another
conference was held aboard the boat in the afternoon by the women, Mrs.
D. B. Weils, of Fort Wayne, conducting, at which the women raised $200
among themselves for furnishing the largest of the five wings of the
Woman's Building, which Is being erected now. In this wing Is the
dining hall, capable of seating several hundred, at a time, and the
chapel, which will seat 300. This building is for women's exclusive use.
Indiana Journal June 26, 1896