Compiled by Mary Hedge, LaPorte County Public Library
Aug. 22, 1913 — Doctors like to eat like other folks. A convention of medical men closes its labors with an elaborate feast at LaPorte’s new Rumely Hotel.
Aug. 22, 1963 — A plan calling for division of LaPorte County into four school administrative units is to be recommended to the state.
Aug. 22, 1988 — Nancy Terzino, the City of LaPorte’s first councilwoman, succumbs to cancer.
Aug. 22, 2003 — The Michigan City and LaPorte chambers of commerce will not merge, at least not now.