Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Oct. 3, 1914 – A local man who ran away with his wife’s $200 dowry is arrested in Milwaukee.
Oct. 3, 1964 – Three tornadoes hit the area awaiting Hurricane Hilda.
Oct. 3, 1989 – The beautiful wood bar that graced Sage’s Ice Cream Manufacturing and Confectionery on Second Street is gone, and so too is an era in LaPorte.
Oct. 3, 2004 – The famous “Psycho” film screamer Janet Leigh, 77, dies.