Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1911 — Irving Betz, of Hammond, Has Another Automobile Accident [ARTICLE]

Irving Betz, of Hammond, Has Another Automobile Accident

The following account of an automobile accident at Hammond mentions injuries sustained by Henry Whittaker. Mr. Whittaker formerly lived at Wheatfield. Young Betz*seems to be a reckless driver judged by the frequency of his accidents. The Valparaiso Vidette says: An automobile accident in which fatalities were narrowly averted, occurred at two o’clock Saturday morning on Sheffield avenue in Hammond when Irving Betz, son of Frank S. Betz, who was driving south in his machine with three passengers\struc> a buggy going in the same direction The injured are: Irving Betz, bruised and scratched about the face, head and arms; Henry Whittaker, ligaments in left arm torn, and bruised and scratched; Carl Ames,*ankle dislocated, slight scalp wound, and other bruises; Franklin Blackmun, scratched and bruised about the face, head and body; Theodore Haehnel, driver of the rig, bruised about the body.

Probably the most demoralizing in - fluence in northwestern Indiana is Cedar Lake, with its wide open saloons seven days out of the week, its dance halls, which are frequented by immoral women and girls from Chicago and its general debauchery. Rensselaer yoWg men go there during evening and on Sundays. Through the week the ..conditions are ’iqt, bad, but on Sunday excursions frpin .Chicago dump, a bad set of people there and it is a disgrace that the place is permitted to operate in total disregard of the law. Parents should learn where their sons go on Sunday afternoons and some should take it up with the authorities and find out by what right the saloons bordering Cedar Lake run open on Sunday.