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

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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

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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)

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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

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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)

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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 - Monticello Herald (Indiana)

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1882- Jul 26 - Lake Maxinkuckee, on the line of the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, is destined to become the most popular pleasure resort in Indiana. It is situated about sixty miles west of this city, and in charming in its appointments. The banks of the lake are dotted by cottages and club houses, and in the waters of the lake the most valuable specimens of the finny tribe can be found. A private excursion to the lake will shortly be given, and as THE SENTINEL staff is invited, we will be able to speak of the lake and its surroundings at length, Upon the completion of the new road excursions will be run from this city to the lake. -- Fort Wayne News And Sentinel

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1882 - Aug 5 - The City... A party of leading citizens went to Lake. Maxinkuckee this afternoon, via the New York, Chicago and St. Louis railroad, It is probable that they will purchase a site" and erect a substantial club house. -- Fort Wayne News And Sentinel

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1882 - Aug 11 - Plymouth Democrat:... several other prominent citizens of Fort Wayne came over to Maxinkuckee lake Saturday night on the first passenger train ever run over the New York Chicago & St. Louis rail road, now about completed. They were on a tour of inspection, and expressed themselves surprised and delighted at the beauty of the lake and its surroundings, and were of the opinion that the road bad made a mistake in not making the lake a point on the line. The nearest point on the road to the lake is about two and a half miles. The company will undoubtedly make a flag station there in time if nothing more.

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1883 - May 14 - A correspondent from Lake Maxinkuckee writes that the lake is to be the popular resort of Indiana the com ing heated season. More parties than ever before, from Louisville, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis and other large cities are making arrangements for. quarters the coming summer. Edward Morris, a land owner there, has laid off the whole of his lake front in lots of 1000 feet by 125 feet in length, and is offering them for sale.Fort Wayne News And Sentinel

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1885 - May 8 - A resturant, skating rink, and lodge house is to be built at Lake Maxinkuckee the Nickel Plate Resort- Ft. Wayne Sentinel

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1882 - Aug 6 - Lake Maxinkuckee, Indiana, is lovally termed the "Long Branch of the West". Evansville Journal

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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

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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

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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.

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1884 - April 30 - In the region of Logansport, Ind., a recent wind storm unroofed several houses and blew cars from the track. Two new esteamers on Lake Maxinkuckee were demolisbed -- Olney Times, Olney, Illinois

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1884 - July 29 - A violent storm passed over the Southern part of Marshall county, Indiana, uprooting trees, leveling corn to the ground and demolishing a large number of the cottages on Lake Maxinkuckee. -- Chattanooga Daily Times, Chattanooga, Tennessee

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1884 - Jul 30 - Violent Storm in Indiana

Loganport Special. A violent storm passed through the southern part of Marshall county last sight. Trees were uprooted, wheat in the shock carried away, and the corn in many places leveled to the ground.

The storm struck Lake Maxinkuckee and utterly demolished one of the steamers, and badly damaged a number of the cottages.

No lives were lost. The running of trains on the Vandalis road was seriously interrupted. -- Nashville Banner, Nashville, Tennessee

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1886 - Jul 3 - A party of Terre Haute gentlemen have just returned from Maxinkuckee, where they were taken by President McKeen, of the Vandalia road, to look for a site for a hotel. It is proposed to form a stock company hotel, and erect big summer resort after the style of those at the lakes of Wisconsin and Minnesota. -- Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

1887 - Mar 10 - The South Bend Times makes the remark that Maxinkuckee will boom more this year than ever before. There are $50,000 worth of buildings in contemplation at that delightful resort, and lots are now selling at $25 and $30 per foot front at the lake-- Bremen Enquirer

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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

The Marinkuckee Monitor, published at Marmont, Ind., adorns our exchange and table. It is new, bright newsy and booms that popular resort, Lake Maxinkuckee. Amos Z. Hunt, son of Z. Hunt, of the Camden Exposison, edits it. -- Idaville Observer Jun 29, 1887

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. -

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1890 - Sep 5 - Lake Maxinkuckee bids fair to become a much more important pleasure resort next year than heretofore. Wealthy citizens, of Chicago have, proposed to Nickle-Plate that if it will build a four-mile branch from its main line to the lake they will erect some fine summer residences there, and as the Nickel-Plate can build the four miles at small cost, comparatively speaking, doubtless the arrangement will be made. -- Bremen Enquirer

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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

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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.

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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.

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The Indianapolis Star
July 11, 1915
Page 30 Column 7

SHELBYVILLE.
William Maholm spent the latter part of last week at Lake Maxinkuckee.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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