Maxinkuckee Snipets Miscellaneous Newspapers etc.
1879 - Jul 5 - Two fine club houses have been built this season at Lake
Maxinkuckee and handsomely furnished. Ther have also been two or three
sailboats put on the lake. The two clubs have already extended about $5,000.
- Bristol Banner
1879 - Oct 9 - Attempted Incedniarism - Marmont, Marshall co. In. Oct 8 - An
unsuccessful atempt to fire th dry goods store of A Speyer was made night
before last. This is the second attempt. - Ft. Wayne Daiiy Gazette
1880 - Apr 16 - It will be good news to some of out people who are fond of
jerking the finny tribe. to know that new accomodations in the shape of club
houses are to be built on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee, near Plymouth,
Indiana. - Noblesville Ledger (Indiana)
1880 - Apr 21 - Important improvements are to be made in the vicinity of Maxinkuckee
lake this spring. Club houses, cottages and watercrafts of all dimensions are in
contemplation. - THe Republic, Columbus, Indiana
1880 - Jun 11 - The season at Maxinkuckee will open about June 15th, and from
July 1st to September 1st the majority of those who expect to visit the new
Indiana summer resort will be there. Mor visitors are expected this year than
for any three years past. - Bristol Banner (Indiana)
1881 - Jun 30 - Lakr Maxinkuckee is the resore to unuseal numbers this year.
Hotel accomations have been exhausted and tenting on the beach is the order -
Monticell Herald (Indiana)
1885 - May 8 - A resturant, skating rink, and lodge house is to be built at
Lake Maxinkuckee the Nickel Plate Resort- Ft. Wayne Sentinel
1885 Jun 30, 1885 -THE twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Indiana State Dental
Association will be held at Lake Maxinkuckee, commencing Tuesday, June 30,1885.
The State Board of Dental Examiners will also meet at the same time and place. EW
YAN VALZAH, Secretary Terre Haute, Ind. - The Dental Cosmos a monthly record of
dental science (Philadelphia, The S. S. White Dental Manufacturing CO. 1885) Vol.
XXVII
1885 - Apr 6/9 - Potter Palmer, of Chicago is building a fine hotel at Lake
Maxinkuckee Ft. Wanye Sentinel / Bristol Banner NOTE: this turned out to be
a false rumor floating in various newspapers
Chesterton Tribune, April 29, 1886
The Northern Indian Teacher's Association will meet at Lake Mainkuckee [Maxinkuckee],
July 30 and 31, and August 1. A programme has been arranged that includes a number
of prominent educators and the meeting promises to be an unusually interesting one.
1887 - Jun 18 - The Maxinkuckee Monoitor, a new paper which has just been established at
Marmont, this eounty, with Amos Hunt as publisher, comes to us this week. It is well supplied
with local news and advertising, and is a credit to that place. - Bremen Enquire
1887 - Oct 15 - A cottage belonging to Sant Davis of Terre Haute and situated at
Long Point Maxinkuckee was burned last Thrusday afternoon. The loss was
$1,200. -
1890 - Dec 19 - The citizens of Marmont and vicinity, this couuty, are making a move to build a
grist mill at that place.Bremen Enquirer
American Druggist and Pharmaceutical Record American Druggist Publishing Co., 1901
Page 30 - Chicago...O. T, Eastman, secretary of the Searle & Herein Co., Is spending
his vacation at Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind., with his family, golf clubs and fishing tackle.
Diary of Hiram A. Pratt, Waveland Barber (Standard Diary #31)
Hiram Austin Pratt Diary - "bought of Thomas BURRIN Jan 2, 1903. Waveland, Ind HA
Pratt".
August 1903
Monday August 10 -- $4.60. Paid 6.60 for oil and gasoline. Gave Eva 25 because she
cleaned up the litter on the walk in the barn bought her two pr of hose for 25 c and
a box of hair pins for 5. Paid for cheese 25 for crackers 10 for beef dried 25. We
are contemplating a trip to Lake Maxinkuckee tomorrow. It is 110 miles to the lake.
The Indianapolis Star
July 11, 1915
Page 30 Column 7
SHELBYVILLE.
William Maholm spent the latter part of last week at Lake Maxinkuckee.
Jun 20, 1920 - square has as her guest Mrs. Ilan Pauline Frost of Riverside, Cal Mrs.
Jenes end Mr. Foat wll spend the at Lake Maxinkuckee - Chicago Tribune
1922 May 28, 1922 - Six hundred pilgrims of the Indiana Society of Chicago held their
annual summer outing here today as guests of the Culver Military Academy. The banks
and waters of old Lake Maxinkuckee never held a gathering of more spright-... From
INDIANA SOCIETY ROMPS ON MAXINKUCKEE'S BANKS chicago tribune
1923 Jun 11, 1923 - Malcolm N. Fay of the Ambassador departed Saturday for a three weeks
visit to Ita1y and Lake Maxinkuckee, Ind. Chicago Tribune
The following is taken from a letter we received from Rev. J. E. Young, who is engaged
in laundry, cleaning, shoe repairing and variety goods at Culver , Indiana: "Please
credit me with another year's subscription. We are engaged in business and getting along
fine. The ice harvest is in full blast here on Lake Maxinkuckee and is of good quality
Always glad to receive the news from home throughvyour paper." Ridgeville News, Friday,
January 27, 1922, Ridgeville, Indiana
Jul 24, 1923 - Mr. and Mrs. Macolm N. Fay are leaving on Saturday for a month stay at Lake
Maxinkuckee, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Fay has been at the Ambassador for several months, but can.
return to their apartment at. __rst Division upon their return. chicago tribune 1885 Jun
30, 1885 -THE twenty-seventh annual meeting of the Indiana State Dental Association will be
held at Lake Maxinkuckee, commencing Tuesday, June 30,1885. The State Board of Dental Examiners
will also meet at the same time and place. EW YAN VALZAH, Secretary Terre Haute, Ind. - The
Dental Cosmos a monthly record of dental science (Philadelphia, The S. S. White Dental
Manufacturing CO. 1885) Vol. XXVII
Jul 7, 1926 - Indiana, has gone to Indians and Is with friends at Lake Maxinkuckee for the
remainder of the From Sally Picks Guests Tomorrow for Party at Chicago - Chicago Tribune
1937 May 29, 1937 - junior William R. Odells, to spend the long weekend at Maxinkuckee Lake,
Ind. All will be guests of Mr. Hord's mother, Mrs. Francis Hord, who has a summer home on the
lake. chicago tribune
1938 Jul 10, 1938 - The annual picnic of the Junior Trafic Club of Chicago will be hold next
Sunday at Culver , Ind., on the shores of Lake Maxinkuckee. The group will travel by special
train, via the Pennsylvania railroad. In addition to the usual picnic entertainment there
will be a dress parade of the ... From JUNIOR TRAFIC CLUB PLANNING Culver OUTING chicago
tribune