Newspaper Tidbits from Rick B Thursday, April 6, 2006 "The South Bend Weekly Tribune", Saturday, January 15, 1898, page 5 Hall's opera house at Laporte has passed to the management of Wilbur J. Hall and Dr. John L. Gish, both of Laporte. Dr. Gish, a son of C. P. Gish, of South Bend, formerly lived in Jackson Mich.