Newspaper Tidbits from Rick B Monday, April 3, 2006 "The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, January 15, 1898, page 5 TIPS FROM TALKERS. "While in New York recently," said Will Stover at a late meeting at the Historical society, "I stepped into a store to make a purchase and incidently let drop the fact that I was from South Bend, Ind. The clerk who waited upon me said he was greatly interested in South Bend through reading articles in the New York papers about the old St. Joseph-Kankakee portage and the visit of LaSalle here in 1679. He was glad to learn that a historical society had been organized here and had taken the matter of raising a monument to LaSalle in hand. So you see," added Mr. Stover, "our fame is spreading. This region occupies a very important place in history."