Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 4, Hammond, Lake County, 21 June 1906 — Page 2

PAGE TWO THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1906.

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Frank Parker, is here from Champagne, Ill. for a few days. Dan Sexton was taken in by the police last night for being drunk and begging. Jim Cummings who is charged with horsestealing will have a heartomorrow morning in the city court. Dave Emery left on a Michigan Central train this morning for Newwhere he expects to take the Minneapolis to Europe. Mayor Wm F Hale of East Chicago went to Charleston, Ill., yesterday to look after his interests in the IlOil and Coal Co. Mrs. Hale accompanied the mayor. Abe Ottenheimer of East Chicago has gone to Milwaukee in the interof the Eagles, he being the chairof the Indiana state committee on hotels for the annual convention of that order. City Treasurer Moses Spector of East Chicago returned yesterday from Milwaukee, to which city he was sent as a delegate to the annual conof the Independent Order of Western Stars. NOTICE. To Students of the International Correspondence Schools: J. L. Ward of Kankakee has taken over the Hammond route of the InCorrespondence school formerly in charge of A. E. Carrier, and will be glad to meet former stuof the school and any new ones who desire to take up the work. He will be at headquarters in Kankakee, Ill., for a few weeks and then will make his permanent headquarters here. Meantime all communicaaddressed to him in care of the Lake County Times, will receive prompt attention. There is an excellent opportunity at the present time to enter the schools on especially favorable terms and he will be glad to give the fullest particulars to all who may be inter(Signed,) J. L.Ward. rnational Correspondence School. 22,1t How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Refor any case of Catarrh that canbe cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions, and finanable to carry out any obliga tions made by his firm. WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system Testimonials sent free. Sold by Druggists. Price, 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for cons-6-2-lmo. BLAZING METEORS. The Short Lived Splendor of a ShootStar. A small body as large as a paving stone or not as large as a marble is moving round the sun. Just as a mighty planet revolves in an ellipse, so this small object will move round and round in an ellipse, with the sun in the focus. There are at the present moinconceivable myriads of such meteors moving in this manner. They are too small and too distant for our telescopes, and we can never see them except under extraordinary circumAt the time we see the meteor it traverses a distance of more than twenty miles a second. Such a velocity is almost impossible near the earth's surface. The resistance of the air would prevent it. Aloft in the emptiness of space there is no air to resist it. In the course of its wanderings the body may come near the earth and within a few hundred miles of its surof course, begins to encounter the upper surface of the atmosphere with which the earth is inclosed. To a body moving with the appalling velocity of a meteor, a plunge into the atmosphere is usually fatal. Even though the uplayers of air are excessively atyet they suddenly check the velocity, almost as a rifle bullet would be checked when fired into water. As a meteor rushes through the atmosphere the friction of the air warms its surface; gradually it becomes red hot, then white hot and is finally driven off into the vapor with a brilliant light, while we on the earth, one or two hunmiles below, exclaim: look! There Is a shooting star. A Traveler's Tip. A guide is too often a man who tells you what you do not want to know in a language you do not understand. New Orleans Times-Democrat

Geral s Wife By.. IZOLA FORRESTER Copyright, 1906, by Ruby Douglas Broderick swung off the 4:35 exwalked quickly up the steps leading from the railroad platform and took his first look at Pineville. Those who lived in Pineville proper were conto call it Pineville. Gerald had written that they did not live in Pineville proper, but in Pineville-by-the-Sea, otherwise Pineville improper. All that Broderick saw were pines, plenty of them, a flat white ribbon of roadway and a bit of a postoffice, roughly shingled, in the midst of the nearest clump of pines. He stepped into the postoffice as the central spot of civilization. Some one was stampletters behind the glass inclosure, a girl with smooth dark hair. Beatrice had smooth dark hair. He watched the girl stamping letters with interest and wondered why some one did not tell her to wear her smooth dark hair in two soft braids around her head, crown fashion, as Beatrice did. "Where do the Vaughans live, please?'' he asked finally, when the stamping ceased. "The Vaughans? Oh, Mr. Gerald Vaughan and his wife? It's a brown house down near the shore, with a wide veranda and a funny roof. About a mile straight down the road." A wide veranda and a funny roof. That sounded like Gerald. He wonhow Gerald's wife liked it. Beawas artistic, but not artistically eccentric. She had a horror of things odd, bizarre, so called bohemian, and yet she had married Gerald. And Gerbrother knew that Gerald was utterly odd, bizarre and bohemian, so called. He walked on down the flat white ribboned roadway and wondered whether he would find her like the girls Gerald had always admired. A lithesome, limp, blessed damozel type, with close silky gowns and loose floppy hair. Last summer she had not been that type. He thought of the trim girl figure holding the rudder of the Water Lily that last day. She had been more than the sort of a girl to fall in love with. She had been a good fellow, a stanch friend. And as he watched her he had stopped rowing, and they had drifted slowly in the sunset glow that flooded the lake while he told her. There had been no actual engageHe had nothing to reproach her with. He had not been in a position to ask her to be his wife then, but he had thought a girl like Beatrice had meant more by a kiss, a hand clasp, a few vague words of understanding, than other girls. He had thought she might wait until next summer. And now, in April, he had returned to New York to learn that Gerald was, in disgrace, had married on nothing, eloped to PineN. C., and his wife was Beatrice Stafford. Gerald's mother had said they were penniless. Gerald's father had remarkthat he didn't give a rap. They could exist upon love and art. More or less for Beatrice's sake and a little for Gerald's, Gerald's brother had taken it upon himself to visit the bridal couple and help Gerald. Smothhis own love, he had made up his mind that as long as Beatrice had married a Vaughan she should not suf fer from it. There was no bell at the door of the little brown house with the funny roof. It was merely a bungalow in weathershingles, and he pounded on the door lustily until it opened and Beastood before him. She was not the blessed damozel type yet. Her smooth dark hair was wound about her head in just the same crown fashion, and she wore a short dark blue linen skirt and a white shirt waist. The sleeves were rolled to her elbows, and from her finger tips to eldimples there was flour sprinkled. He had not expected to see her face to face so soon or alone. Neither had he expected her to act as she did. The color rose in her cheeks, tipping even her ears with pink. It was an old habHe remembered it. "I thought you were in London," she said. "You don't give a fellow a very dewelcome after he's traveled from London to this wilderness to say conHe stepped into the hall after her. She hesitated and laughed, looking at her floured hands. "I can't shake hands with you, and and the biscuits are in the oven. I shall have to watch them. Do you mind coming out to the kitchen?" He didn't mind. There appeared to be only three rooms-the studio-sitting room, the dining room and the kitchen. Collapsible ready-in-a-minute studio diwere in the sitting room and dinroom in lieu of bedrooms. It was all charmingly, most uncomfortably odd. bizarre and bohemian. "Where's Gerald?" he asked when he had found a chair in the kitchen. Beatrice knelt beside the stove to look at the biscuit. He could not see her face. "He went to the postoffice for the last mail. You must have missed him." "Well, what ever made him come to this lost corner?" "Oh. because it was the chance of something definite, you know! Don't you know?" she added quickly, seeing the puzzled look on his face. "Well, Gerald's chum, Netherby Ames, broke all to pieces last fall from overwork and so on, and he was ordered down here. And he couldn't afford to come and stay indefinitely, so he pulled a few wires, and things happened. He

was made postmaster here at PineAnd he got lonesome and healthy and workful again a month ago, so Gerald's in his place, and he's in New York. Don't you see? It was really very definite and businesslike and right under the circumstances." "Oh, certainly, under the circumagreed Broderick. "So old Gerry's postmaster instead of artist." "Both," she corrected. "He has lots of time to study, and it's good for him the responsibility, I mean. You wouldn't know him." "I suppose not," assented Broderick uneasily. He tried to reconcile his litcircle of the universe, to make the chaotic jumble fall into place and har monize. Gerald, Gerald the helpless, erratic, fantastic, irrational, joyous hearted, penniless artist, a person of matrimonial responsibility, a postmasBut then he remembered the young smooth haired person stamping letters. Of course Gerald had found his usual way out of the difficulty. He had hired some Pineville lass to do the heavy work, and he drew the salary. It was like Gerald. But there was Beatrice, Beatrice making biscuit. He looked at her with troubled eyes, seeing endless vistas of Beatrices making biscuit throughout the years. "Don't you miss New York?" "Oh, so much!" she said. "I'll never be happy until I get back."

"Have you given up your work?" "Only for the time being. I take it up again, of course. I own shall shall have to." Bioderick's hands tightened in a sudgrip. So she was to work again, turn out her endless succession of little wash illustrations for second rate monthly magazines. Gerald would not mind, would not see the point. He would think he was being broadmindand bohemian to let his wife carry on her own art irrespective of him. But Beatrice saw the point. He rose from his chair suddenly, his face white with the anger and love he had smothered. Before he could stop himself the words came leaping to his lips: "Why did you do it?" "Do what?" She stood beside the little bare kitchen table, her face raised to his, her eyes bright with startled wonderat his tone. "Why did you marry Gerald?" "Marry Gerald! I?" Some one was coming along the white roadway. From the kitchen window two figures could be seen, and she pointed to them. "There is Gerald, and that is his wife, my sister Barbara. I am merely atstar to the honeymoon, They brought me along to-well, to make the biscuit." A minuet later and Broderick met the bridal couple on the wide veranda under the funny roof. The bride was the girl with the smooth dark hair who had been stamping letters, and she laughed at him. "I knew who you were, but I wantGerald all to myself, and I knew Beatrice would take care of you." "She did," answered Broderick hapand as the rest went into the house he paused to brush off traces of flour from his coat collar. But Beaburned the biscuit The "Father of Leprosy." The gecko belongs to a family of thick tongued lizards, which are wide ly distributed over the tropical and subtropical countries of Europe and Asia, and in all countries where he is known he is thoroughly despised. Be cause of his repulsive appearance he is called the "father of leprosy." Down to times comparatively modern it was firmly believed that contact either di rectly or indirectly with the little rep tile was sure to communicate leprosy The investigations of modern zoolo gists have proved that the little animal is undeserving of his name of "father of leprosy" and that he is indeed a most harmless and useful creature. Since the old belief in the ability of this reptile to communicate leprosy to any human flesh which might come in contact with his warty, sore looking skin was exploded he has retained his objectionable name solely on account of the bad appearance he makes. His skin is one mass of scaly and tuberexcrescences that cover his body from the tip of his tail to the end of his nose. Every quarter inch section of this repulsive looking body has a general resemblance to the thickened, callous protuberances that appear on the human body in cases of leprosy. On this account and no other the harm less little gecko was given the name of being the progenitor of the worst form of disease. Ugly Athenian Coins. It is little surprising that the Athenicoins are less beautiful than some others. They always preserved an afof archaism. The Attic drachbore the head of Athene and on the reverse an owl often standing on a lyre, the whole in a myrtle wreath. Plutarch in his "Lysander" tells an amusing tale how Glippus had been sent to Sparta with a great sum of money as a bribe and how he unripped the bottoms of the sacks and stole large sums, sewing up the sacks again, not knowing that there was a writing in each sack saying how much coin it held. On coming to Sparta he hid his plunder under the tiles of his house, showing the Ephors the unbroken seals on the mouths of the sacks. When the Ephors opened these they were In great perplexity, but Glippus' servant betrayed him, saying ''that under the tiles roosted the owls." The consternawas great. Glippus fled, and the stern Spartans declared that for the future they would use iron coinage made redhot and quenched in vinegar to make it hard and unpliable. In the laws of Solon, 600 B. C., the punishof death is recorded against forgthe coinage.

BANK STATEMENTS

FIRST NATIONAL BANK

Report of the condition of The in the State of Indiana, at the close

Resources. Loans and Discounts, Overdrafts ,secured and unsecured U. S. Bonds to secure circulation, U. S. Bonds to secure U. S. Deposits Premiums on U. S. Bonds Bonds, Securities Furniture, and fixtures Other real estate owned Due from National Banks (not reserve agents) Due from State Banks and Bankers

Due from approved reserve agents Checks and other cash items Exchanges for clearing house Lawful Money Reserve in Bank Viz: Fractional paper currency, nickels, Specie Legal- tender notes Redemption fund with U S Treasurer

Due from U. S. Treasurer, other thanthan 5 p. c. redemption fund 200.00

Liabilities Capital stock paid in Surplus fund Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid National Bank notes outstanding Due to Trust Companies and Savings Banks Individual deposits subject to check Demand certificates of deposit Time certificates of deposit Certified checks United States deposits Deposits of U. S. disbursing officers Total Deposits

Total State of Indiana, County of Lake, ss. I, W. C. Belman, Cashier of the swear that the above statement is and belief. Subscribed and sworn to before CorrectCITIZENS' GERMAN NATIONAL BANK. Report of the Condition of The CitGerman National Bank at Ham mond in the State of Indiana at the close of business June I8th 1906. Resource Loans and Discounts 52,361.90 U. S. Bonds to secure Cir culation Premium on U. S. Bonds Banking House Furniture & Fixtures Due from Approved reserve Agents Checks and other Cash items Fractional paper, currency, Nickels and Cents Specie Legal Tender Notes 25,000.00 968.75 977.27 0,484.76 9,452.50 835.58 11,205.00 1,000.00 Redemption fund with U. S. Treasurer 5 p. c. of circulation) 1,250.00 Total $143,535.76 Liabilities Capital Stock Undivided profits, less Exand Taxes paid National Bank Notes OutIndividual deposits subject to check Demand, Certificates of deTime certificates of deposit Certified Checks Liabilities other than those above stated $60,000.00 625.01 3,500.00 53,244.05 50.00 16,741.70 25.00 9,350.00 Total $143,535.76 State of Indiana County of Lake ss I, Geo. M. Eder Cashier of the aboved named Bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Geo. M. Eder, Cashier W. D. Weis, M. D. Charles C. Smith John C. Becker, Directors. Subscribed and swear to before me this 20th day of June, 1906. James K. Stinson (SEAL) Notary Public My Commission Expires Nov. 2 1908. COMMERCIAL BANK Hammond, Ind. Thos. Hammond, President Chas. E. Ford, Vice-President. Jno. W. Dyer, Cashier. Report of the condition of the Commercial Bank at Hammond, in The books of the city clerk and treasurer of East Chicago will be aunext week. The work will be done by Jones, Caesar, Dickinson and Wilmot of Chicago, whose experts will start the work on Monday. CIRCULATION LOOK FOR TIMES!

First National Bank, at Hammond, of business. June I8, 1906.

$551,197.37 2,162.59 100,000.00 150,000.00 8,000.00 98,184.03 2.000.00 2,176.10 23,358.96 29,924.64 119,546.82 406.46 1,015.84 368.65 23.208.70 and cents 21,208.70 2,000.0 (5 p. c. of circulation 5,000.00 1,116,850.16 100,000.00 25,000.00 8,816.97 100.000.00 22,259.50 455,941.59 19,393.98 230,133.13 5,305.49 145,259.36 4,740.14 883,033.19 $1,116,850.16 above-named bank, do solemnly true to the best of my knowledge W. C. Belman, Cashier me this 21 day of June, 1906. William J. Koencke, Notary Public - Attest: A. M. Turner Peter W. Meyn E. C. Minas Directors. the State of Indiana, at the close of business on June 18, 1906. Resources Loans and Discounts $638,578.25 Overdrafts, 50.04 Stocks and Bonds 10,097.14 Furniture and Fixtures, 4,000.00 Due from Banks, 139,698.84 Cash on Hand, 16,456.38 $808,880.65 Liabilities Capital Stock, $100,000.00 Surplus Fund, 25,000.00 Undivided Profits 161.56 Discount Exchange and Interest 13,356.02 Certified Checks 106.67 Deposits, 670.256.40 $808,880.65 State of Indiana, County of Lake, ss. I, John W. Dyer, Cashier of the Commercial Bank, Hammond, Ind. do solemly swear that the above statement is true. Jno. W. Dyer Subscribed and sworn to before me this 21st day of June 1906. Walter H. Hammond [Seal] Notary Public My commission expires Dec. 11, 1906. LAKE COUNTY SAVINGS AND TRUST CO. Report of Lake County Savings & Trust Co.-Bank at the close of buJune 18th, 1906. Resources Loans, Furniture & Fixtures, Cash on hand and due from other banks $170,815.74 7,000.00 33,313.57 211,129.31 Liabilities Capital Stock Undivided profits less expenses and taxes paid, Deposits $50,000.00 5,789.46 155,339.85 211,129.31 I, Peter W. Meyn, of the above named bank do solemly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. Peter W. Meyn, President Subscribed and sworn to before me, James K. Stinson, a notary Public, in and for Lake County and State of Indiana. James K. Stinson Notary Public My commission expires Nov. 12, 1908 J. W. Harrington is traveling in the West looking after his wheat in terests. The name of the Erlebach Plan ing Mill is changed to the Invalid Appliance and Cabinet Mfg. Co. 408-410-412, Indiana Avenue. Teph one 1871. 6-21-t

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