1933 | 75 years ago
The first loan to be granted in Lake county under the provision of the Federal Home Owners Loan act will be signed today in the Hammond office of J. Clinn Ellyson. The loan will go to the Mulligans for their home at Eighth and Wisconsin in Hobart.
Enrollment at Valparaiso High School this year is 551 or 10 less than last year Supt. Roy B. Julian announced. Enrollment in other departments is Junior high 225; Central grades 205; Gardner 212; Columbia 191; Banta 148.
Prosecutor Robert B. Estill openly alleged that beer is being bootlegged by Barney McCarthy. prominent republican and Legionnaire who heads the Gary Beverage Company, a firm to which a wholesalers beer license has been granted by the state.
The Grand Trunk railroad agency at Sedley, seven miles west of here, was discontinued. L.W. Miller, agent at Sedley for 39 years and employed by the company for 42 years, has been retired on pension.
Two notorious Chicago gunmen who boasted that state's witnesses never appear against them, found their nemesis in Judge William J. Murray of the Lake Criminal court in Crown Point and were sentenced to 20 years each at state prison for robbery.
The Chesterton annexation matter, which has run the gamut of the courts for the last 10 years, is to be appealed to the Porter circuit court for a decision.
1958 | 50 years ago
The building committee of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce has recommended that the 55-year-old Hammond Superior Courthouse at Hohman Avenue and Rimbach Street be sold and a new building be put up on a different site.
Donation of a new velour act curtain and numerous drapery panels for dressing the stage of Memorial Opera House in Valparaiso was announced by Marshall Weinstein, chairman of the Community Theater Guild. Donor was Sievers Drug company.
Awarding of the general contract, plumbing and electrical contracts for the new Munster junior high school is expected to be done by the board of school trustees Monday.
Bids for rolling and folding bleachers for stage at Boucher gym were opened at a meeting of the Valparaiso Community School Board. The low bid was $2,254 and the high bid was $4,918. Half of the cost of the bleachers will be paid for by the school city and the other half by the Valpo High School athletic department.
The Chicago Merchantile Exchange has announced an injunction that will ask to prevent the enforcement of the law to ban futures trading of onion commodities. Onion growers argue that futures markets have rigged prices to their disadvantage.
A $225 tape recorder was presented by officials of Valparaiso's Delta Theta Tau sorority to Vale Day private school for trainable children and the school system's educable class, both occupying rooms at Northview's new addition.
1983 | 25 years ago
If you are the high bidder between 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. Sunday, when the Northwest Indiana Symphony Society holds its art auction at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Merrillville, you could win the opportunity to conduct a symphony orchestra.
Mary Ellen Ziherl is the 1983 Popcorn Festival queen following her coronation at Valparaiso High School.
J. C. Penney's wants to move into Calumet City's River Oaks Shopping Center, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
Returning letter winners are expected to spark the Valpo Volleyball team to another successful season. They are Anne Kuuskvere, Peggy Ohm, Nancy Dorris, Mary Palm, Julie Pekarek, Kim Boyd and Laura Hoffman.
Conrail is willing to sell abandoned track and railroad right-of-way on the site of a proposed lakeshore housing development in Whiting.
James Ellsworth, executive vice president of Northern Indiana Bank and Trust Co., has been named general chairman of the Valparaiso Community-University Campaign.
