North Liberty, Indiana · 20th century
1910s
13 dated events in 1910s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 13 dated mentions
1910s
- 1913–2026The counters North Liberty used, era by era
From 1913 into the early 1920s: the mail, and the notary channel (above). From the early 1920s through 1929: the department's county-seat counters at South Bend, at the strength reached.
- 1915The volunteer department: a 1915 founding, at its carrier's strength
The town's department is the Liberty Township Volunteer Fire Department, and its founding year in print is 1915.
- 1915–todayTelephone, electric, and the utilities as businesses
A municipal utility also stands inscribed: the City Hall building carries "North Liberty Water Co. 1915" beside "CITY HALL 1915" (the nomination), registered here for completeness.
- 1915–todayCivic buildings at anchor
Town Hall of 1915 stands in the district inventory at its Main Street address in the town's early government; the present seat of government is Town Hall at 300 South Main Street, where the clerk-treasurer's office sits (banked government section).
- 1916–1917The one hard figure class: bank capital
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1916–1917 lists the North Liberty State Bank at a capital of $25,000, with Isaac Reamer as president and A. C. Steele as cashier — the banked banks section carries the line whole, with its transcription variance.
- 1916–1917The market line: a grain buyer in town, and the South Bend market
Polk's 1916–17 directory lists Finch Bros, grain and feed, among North Liberty's businesses, with the North Liberty Lumber & Coal Co. beside it — a grain-and-feed dealer proven in town, printed as exactly that and not as an elevator; the elevator's own course is dug in the businesses leg.
- 1916–1917The first sellers: the 1916–17 census, with its count — garages 1, dealers 0
Polk's 1916–17 gazetteer's whole auto-trade listing for the town is "Barnes Roland C, garage" — and no "automobiles" dealer entry at all: garages 1, automobile dealers 0 named.
- 1916–2026The founding bankers as a roll; the modern chiefs tested
The North Liberty State Bank's documented officers — Isaac Reamer, president, and A. C. Steele, cashier, in the 1916–17 Polk gazetteer (banks leg) — are the first bank's chiefs at the strength of that line…
- 1917–todayThe North Liberty Church of the Brethren, 1917 — In the Episcopal Building
The town's Brethren congregation was separated from the mother congregation in 1917 and worships still at 201 East Market Street, in the building bought from the Episcopalians.
- 1918The Eastern Star, the Woodmen, and the orders in the wartime press
The assessment-insurance alphabet that the discipline sweeps — the tents, hives and camps of the benefit machine — surfaces for this town once in the sources reached, and vividly: the South Bend News-Times of 10 April 1918 (Hoosier State Chronicles) reports a Liberty Loan meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America to be…
- 1918Influenza 1918: the town named, the town bound, the toll uncounted
The Indiana State Archives' influenza chronology (compiled from the Indianapolis Star) records for 2 October 1918 that cases had appeared across Indiana in a list of named communities including, verbatim, "cases in South Bend, North Liberty, Walkerton, and other communities around Indiana"…
- 1918The Armistice: the county seat's scene; this town's unreached
South Bend's Armistice stands in the county seat's file at pointer: the News-Times of 11 November 1918 headlines the city joining "All America in Celebration" — factory whistles tied down for half an hour, the downtown "a seething [mass] of humanity," improvised bands and noisemaking contraptions…
- 1918–1933The dry years and the drug era: two tested negatives
That is a finding about the record reached, not about conduct in the township; the settling sources are the St. Joseph County court dockets for 1918–1933 and the federal prohibition-enforcement files for the Northern District of Indiana.