Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 273, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1913 — Suggests That Lake County Be Divided Into Two Counties. [ARTICLE]

Suggests That Lake County Be Divided Into Two Counties.

Lake County Star. The Gary Post, in an editorial, wants Lake county split in two and make a new county running south from Lake Michigan six miles, and names it “Calumet County.” They are spurred to this action by Gary’s casting 9,000 votes at their last city election, and perhaps 6,000 of them were carpet-baggers, who never voted there before, and never will again. Of course the state constitution will have to be changed to. make the change and iLHammond, Whiting, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor are willing it might go through easy. The south two-thirds of the county have but little to say in the Way of voting, and the majority may feel that it will be well to dissolve, but it may be a long time before it is done, if ever. The Post sometimes jcounts their ducks before they are hatched, especially during campaigns.