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1918 · time, rumour, and the celebration
In 1918 the county kept two new things at once: a new time, and a war that ended twice. The wartime clock is national law before it is local custom: the Standard Time Act, approved 19 March 1918, created the standard time zones and advanced the nation's clocks one hour at 2 a.m. on the last Sunday of March, returning them on the last Sunday of October — in 1918 and again in 1919 — the daylight saving the period itself called "War Time." The time-zone record places this county's observance with Indianapolis on the Central side until 1920. No Lakeville or South Bend record of the local clock change was located; the clock prints at national strength, its local observance an expressly stated gap.
The false armistice of 7 November 1918 is documented nationally and in Indiana — Indianapolis crowds celebrated the unconfirmed peace report at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument — but no South Bend-specific record of the false armistice was located in this section, and none is asserted for this county. The true Armistice prints at two strengths. At state strength, Greenough's Victory Loan chapter opens on the scene: bells, cannon and whistles, thousands marching, Governor Goodrich lifted onto a State House table, and William Herschell's unsigned verse in the Indianapolis News of 11 November 1918 — "It was 3 a.m. on this day of Foch…" At county strength, the South Bend News-Times of 11 November 1918 survives in the Hoosier State Chronicles portal, and its headline carries the day: South Bend joined all America in celebration, its downtown district "a seething mass of humanity." The paper's OCR is rough and the scene prints at headline strength only. Not found, and stated: no Lakeville scene of the Armistice, no township homecoming record, and no account of loyalty's edge — the treatment of the disloyal or the German-named in this township — was located in any carrier reached. The flu that shadowed all of it prints in this build's epidemics articles, where the Fourth Loan's meeting ban is also carried. The settlers stand named: the Tribune and News-Times files of 1917–1919 and the Historical Commission's county scrapbook, "St. Joseph County Indiana History European War" (State Library, Indiana Division).
Principal sources: Standard Time Act of 1918 and the tz-database United States rules (first-hand); Greenough (1922), Victory Loan chapter (first-hand); South Bend News-Times, 11 November 1918 (Hoosier State Chronicles portal, headline strength, OCR flagged).