Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 32, Hammond, Lake County, 25 July 1906 — Page 2

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THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES

In Social Circles

Communications pertaining to this department may be addressed to Miss Daisy L. Emery, Society Editor The Lake County Times. Telephone 111.

Miss Julia Weis and Mary Prairie visited friends in Grassilli, today. 0 Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cohen of Chivisited here yesterday. Fred D. Waring is visiting at his home in Grand Rapids, Mich. Rev. and Mrs. L. S. Smith were Chicago visitors today. Will Mee is enjoying a weeks' outat South Haven. Miss Lena Gerhardt is visiting in South Wanatah. Mrs. Charles Kasson and Mrs. F. R. Mott visited in Chicago today. 0 Miss Etta Sheffield is the guest of friends in South Haven. Mich. 0

Miss Bertha Stevens is spending two weeks with her sister in Chi0 The St. Paul's Lutheran League will meet Thursday evening in St. Paul's school at 8 o'clock.

Miss Rose Teeple of 331 Logan street has returned from a twenty days' outing at Kankakee. 0 Misses Edna and Arlie Teach and Clara Moon will visit the White City with friends this evening. 0 Mr. and Mrs. V. S. Reiter and children will leave Saturday for SilLake, Mich, to be gone a month. 0 Mrs. S. H. Lang and two children of New York, are the guests of Mrs. G. W. Barget, 638 Michigan aveune. Miss Tillie Aulwin of Chicago is visiting at the home of Mrs. J. G. Arnold, of Lyman street. Mrs. Frank Prairie and daughter May of Chicago are the guests of Mrs. Jacob Weis.

G. Austgen at St. John. From there Mrs. Trout and Mrs. Austgen will leave for a visit at Muncie, Ind. 0 Miss Garnett Schutt, who has been the guest of Miss Elizabeth Evers

home in Michigan City this after- is employed in Tuttle's barber shop. noon.

Attorney J. G. Ibach is in Indiana

THE CITY

E. W. Stafford of Indiana Harbor

0 A theatre party will be given Thursday evening at the Colonial theatre in Chicago, for Miss Eva Moore of Rensselaer, who is visitMisses Margaret Blair and Disa Longwell.

The picnic which was to have been given at Lake Front park and party at the home of Mrs. J. B. Haliburton

by her Sunday school class yesterevening, was postponed until Thursday. 0 A picnic party at Lake Front park tonight will be composed of Misses Minnie Turner, Gertrude VanFay Campbell and Mattie Chidlaw, Messrs Mac Turner, Ralph Tennant, Harry Kirland and Earl Havenridge.

Harbor this afternoon on business matters.

Harry Tuttle is making preparafor another tournament on his pool and billiard tables.

Bailiff Frank Shine was in Gary to-

day serving subpoenas in several civil

suits.

Wednesday, July 25, 1906.

FINANCE AND TRADE

of the advance lost.

Oats. The market for this cereal ranged higher and closed with more strength than any of the other

NEW YORK LETTER.

SAGE SAFE AT CLEVELAND.

MARRIAGE LICENSES.

Edward A. Mathicen, Chicago Gertrude DeCrastos, Chicago

26 2

Fromholt A. Johnson, Chicago 22 Edith Anderson, Chicago, Chicago 19

Otto Boettger of West Hammond, who was drowned in the Calumet last Sunday was buried this afternoon. Capt. Downing at the Monon stawho was somewhat indisposed for a number of days, is able to be at his work again.

Mayor Lawrence Becker returned evening from Montana where h spent a number of weeks on his farm.

(Special Stock Service to the Lake grain options. Shorts were the principal buyers, with a scattered comCounty Times). mission buying. Provisions dull, narrow, scalping

affair without feature. Packers are about the only ones trading in pro-

visions and their trade mostly New York, July 25.--Stocks open-

against cash transactions

strong and higher, characterized by excellent buying of Canadian Paby foreign houses, and a general tendency to buy stocks both for inand short account. St. Paul scored an advance of 3 points; Southern Pacific, 2; Union Pacific, 2 1-2; Coper, 2; Canadian Pacific, 4, and even the Steel stocks, which have been laggards in this bull movement were taken up and scored an advance of 1 1-2 for the common issue and a point for the preferred. News in general favored the bull

Judge McMahan has received a letfrom Franklin H. Sage, the man who escaped from the Elgin insane asylum and made his way to Hamarriving here last Saturday morning in the automobile of his

friend, W. R. Donaldson of Chicago.

In his letter which was written from the Young Men's Christian associain Cleveland. Mr. Sage says he is all right and expresses his thanks

operators.. Russian situation being

to those in Hammond who assisted

him on his way.

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Family Theatre.

H. BROOKS,

Proprietor and Manager

4 Bragdons 4

Alexander. Chalke of East Chicago who was seriously injured yesterday by escaping steam in the Republican

Iron and Steel Works at East Chi

William John Hood, Omaha, Neb 41 cago has shown a little improvement Mary Hatton. St. Louis, Mo 31 at St. Margaret's hospital today.

Patrick J. Jennings, Montague, Mich.

innie Turner leaves next

for an extended visit in West y, Iowa. 0 Herman Zerline of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting George Raymus for a few weeks. 0 Misses Fanny Ruhstadt and Jessie Flemming of Chicago Heights will leave soon for Petosky, Mich. Mrs. P. J. Henry is back from an extended visit in Marlon, Ohio. Mr. Henry is expected to return from California this evening. 0 Andrew McElvain and family moved to Florida today where Mr. McElvain has a fruit farm. Mrs. Clinger accompanied them. 0 Mrs. Henry Huber went to St. John this morning to stay until Sunwhen Mr. Huber will go down in his automobile. 0 Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Ambrose and son Eugene of Denver, Colo., and Miss Daisy Darlington took a lake trip to Michigan City today. 0

Miss Goldie Donnelly of Michigan City who was the guest of Hammond friends for some time, returned to her home yesterday. The Colonial club was entertained this afternoon by Mrs. Harry Petyt at her home in Auburn Park. Seven ladies attended from Hammond. 0 Clarence Atwood viewed the solat Shelby Saturday. His daughter Clara of Hammond joined him at Lowell and accompanied him to Shelby.--Lowell Souvenir. The Misses Agnes Teeple and Rose and Agnes O'Neill leave tomorrow-

over the Erie for Decatur where they will be the guests of Miss Teeple's parents. Mrs. A. W. Hartman will enterthe Deborah and Martha soof the Christian church Thursday afternoon at her home 423 Truman avenue. 0 Mrs. Max Moreau accompanied her nephew William Hoehne who was visiting her for some time, to Milwhere she will spend some time with relatives. They left this morning.

Mrs. O. C. Trout,,

venue will leave tomorrow morn-

ing for a visit with her mother Mrs.

29 20 29 35

Jennie Emond, Montague, Mich Wm. Vatter, Chicago Mary Finn, Chicago Alex Becker, St. Louis, Mo Jennie Kaufman, St. Louis, Mo

Abel L. Porter, Chicago 22 Dorthy Isaacson, Chicago 22 Edwin S. Humprreys, Chicago 24

Jennie Cora Buchanan, Chicago Richard W. Henderson, Chicago Laura R. Gold, Chicago Herman Nieman, Chicago Susie Gertel, Chicago

Roman and John Bonger, 418 Inavenue left for the Dakota wheat fields yesterday morning where they will put in the remainder of the summer. Their many Hamfriends hope to see them rewhen the harvest days are over.

ABSTRACT COMPANY PROSPERS. The Lake County Title & Guaranty

company has recently completed a set of abstract books. The company is

young as abstract work goes, but nevdoes an enormous amount of business. Its business last month

exceeds that of any month previous

BUY GLASSES TO SEE FLIM FLAM. Hammond people who have been buying spectacles of the smoothindividual who has been canthe town, can see now that they have been flim-flammed. But they had to buy spectacles in order to see it. The smooth talker has taken all the orders he cares for and is headsouthward on the Monon. While here he made a good cleanup going about the work very scientifically. Knowing the weakness of the general public and knowing that it is easy to make the average person believe that something ails him he had no trouble in convincing them that

something was radically wrong with

The Sherwin Williams Paint comof Chicago ran an excursion to Cedar Lake over the Monon. One Hammond man in trying to flip the moving train, came very near under the wheels and was only saved from injury by the presence of mind of Henry Huber who drew him away from the track as he fell.

"TWO HENRYS" BURNED UP. The old scow Two Henrys which has for years been anchored back of

Nick Kahl's pavilion on the Calumet burned to the water last night. How the fire was started is a mystery but no attempt was made to extinguish the flames as the barge was perfectly useless. Firemen, however, were on the seene to prevent the fire from spreading to the surrounding build-

a little less alarming than reported

yesterday. Continued good crop news from the northwest, was one of the bull arguments on Northern PaNorthwestern and Canadian PaThere was scarcely a stock on the list which did not participate in the advance, even stocks that have not moved for a month, such as Kansas City Southern, Texas & Pacific, Den- & Rio Grande, Republic Iron & Steel and Colorado Fuel, all advancon an average of a point and closstrong. The entire market main

tained the advance to the closing

bell.

Description.

STOCK MARKET.

Closing

Open High. Low. July 25 July 24

Atch 88 3/8 90 3/8 88 3/8 Amer. Sugar 134 1/2 137 134 Amer. Car 35 1/4 35 1/2 36 Amal. Copper 97 5/8 9 97 3/8 Amer. Smelter 14 3/4 146 5/8 145 3/8 Am. Ice Sec's 62 3/4 63 1/4 62 1/4 Am. Locomot 70 1/4 70 3/4 70 Anaconda 245 3/4 24 1/4 245 1/2 Am. Tobac pfd 99 7/8

Am. Woolen 33 7/8 34

117 3/8 117 7/8

6 3/4 67 1/4 74 1/4 75 7/8 17 17 1/2 55 3/4 56 3/8

33 7/8

117

74 17

POLICE PICKUPS. The police reported last night that there has been no light on the pile of lumber and concrete in front of the new house at. the corner of Sumand Charlotte streets.

The two men who assaulted the train crew of a Hammond street car,

are being jailed In lieu of $1,000 bonds.

Crowds of curious spectators

gathered in the police station last

night after the arrest of the street

car Fighters and listened to the evi-

NEW CASES FILED.

dence of the witnesses who had been

their eyesight. Few human eyes are been summoned. perfect and some glasses will fit to

read at a certain distance. The vicis easily convinced that he needs that pair of glasses and buys

a number of dollars Chas. Woodin vs. I. H. R. R. and

C. I. & SO. R. R. Co

gold frame which, however, is only gold washed. The purchasers have Stani Lulu vs. Rep. Iron & Steel

found out now that their glasses are

good only at a certain distance and,

that after using them they begin to

Co.

hurt their eyes. The smooth-tongued fellow, however, is making an easy living.

Conrad Seipp Brewing Co. vs. Geo.

John Orb vs. Easter Glick and Glick her husband. John McPhearson vs. I. H. R. R. and C. I. & So. R. R. Co.

B. & O. Biscuit B. R. T C. G. W C. & O C. & A. com

C. F. 1 49 Col. So 34 Corn Products 19 1/4

Cotton Oil Can. Pac 161 1/2 164 Coast Line 136

Cent. Lea. 36 7/8 Denver com 40 1/4 Dis 57 Erie 40 5/8 Ill. Cen. 179 Interboro 37 Kan.C.So. com 25

" prfd 52 L.& N 139 3/4 141 1/2 139 3/4 Mex. Cent. 20 20 1/4 20 M. K. & T com 33 1/8 33 7/8 33 1/8

prfd 67 1/4 Mo. Pac. 91 Nat. Lead 74 N. Y. Cent 132 Nor. & Western 87 Ont. & Western 46 Pacific Mail Peo. Gas 90

Penn

Pressed Steel

34 3/8 19 3/4

36 7/8 43 41 3/8 38 1/4

48 5/8 34 19 1/8 161 3/8 36 3/4 40 1/4 40 5/8 37

Reading

74 87 3/4 87 1/2 46 3/8 46 34 7/8 34 90 3/4 90

127 1/4 128 3/8 127 1/8 46 46 1/2 46

Rep. I.&S. 26 1/4

Do Pfd 96 Rock Isld com 24 prfd 62 1/4 Rubber 42 3/4 So. Pac 71 3/4

South. Ry com 34 3/8

124 3/4 123 1/2 124 1/4

97 24 6 44 73 5/8

96 24 1 3/4 34 5/8 179 1/4 21

St. Paul 179 /4 181 1/4 St. L. & S. W. 21 1/4 22 3/8 St. L&S.F.2dpd Texas Pac 31 3/4 32 1/8 T. C. & Iron 151 1/4 U. Pacific 147 1/2 149 1/4 U. S. Steel 35 1/4

Do Pfd 10 1/4 104 3/8 103 1/4 Virg Chemical 34 7/8 Wabash

Do Pfd 45 7/8 Wis. Central 23 1/2 prfd 46 Western Union

Money closed 2 1/4%

Total sales 764,000

46 46

31 3/4 147 1/4

45 7/8 23 1/2 46

137

62 5/8 248 1/4 99 7 34 117 66 74 3/4 7 1/2 56 1/4 19 3/4 164 135 1/4 36 3/4 42 3/4 57 41 3/8 179 37 25 52 141 1/2 33 3/4 68 1/ 75 133 1/2 46 1/8 34 7/8 90 3/4 46 1/2 97 24 3/8 63 44 35 3/8 32 104 1/4 34 7/8 46 3/8 23 7/8 46 1/2

134 34 5/8 97 145 62 5/8 70 244 17

48 18 5/8 3 1/2 160 135 3/4 40 40 3/8 36 5/8

139 3/4 20 32 7/8 74 132 87 34 89 1/2 126 7/8 8 124 25 1/2 95 62 42 1/2 71 1/4 178 3/8

31 1/4 151 146 5/8 35 103 1/4 34 7/8 19 45 1/2 44 7/8

$250 SHE SAID; $8 IT WAS.

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY.

There is a vast difference between WANTED--Man or woman to do the contents of a woman's pocket canvassing. Call at Kolb's drug book after she has mislaid it and store, 151 South Hohman street, when she has found it again. A 7,25,tf. middle-aged woman on an incoming Michigan Ceutral train this morning FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN--One complained loudly to the conductor stiff leg derrick--25 tons capacity, and train hands of having lost her Mast 35 feet high, boom 52 feet purse which she declared contained long. Hammond Boiler Works, $250 in money and three diamond Hammond, Ind--7, 25, lw.

rings, it was round after a dillisearch, under one of the seats. Here's what was in it. Eight dol

lars, a railroad ticket, a sample of

FOUND--A brown horse south of Hammond. Fred Weinand, 305

GRAIN

Month Opening Wheat.

July 76 3/8

Sept. 77 1/4-3/8 Dec. 79 1/2-5/8 May 82 5/8-3/4

Corn.

July 51 7/8

Sept. 51 1/2-3/4 Dec. 48 3/4-49 May 49 1/8-5/8 Oats. July 35 3/4

ept 33 5/8-34 Dec. 34 3/4 May 36 1/4-5 Pork, July 18 0a Sept. 1730 Jan. Lard. Sept. 887 Oct. 902 Jan. 835b-37a Ribs. Sept. 930 Oct. 902 Jan. 777

High Low 76 1/2 75 3/8 77 5/8 76 3/8-1/2 79 7/8-80 78 3 1/8-1/4 82 1/4

MARKET

52 50

36 34 1/4

51 1/2 48 3/4 49 1/8

33 5/8 34 1/2 36 1/4

1730 1710

8 7 902 835 930907 7 7

892 832

897 775

Closing July 25 July 24 75 1/2a 75 7/8a 76 5/8 76 7/8-77b 79 79 1/4a 2 1/4b 82 3/851 1/2-5/8 51 1/8a 51 5/8a 51b 49-1/8a 48 3/8 49 1/2 5/8a 48 7/8b 5 3/8b 34 1/2b 33 3/4 33 3/8-1/2 34 1/8b 36 1/8b 1800b50a 1900a 1722n 1732n 1460a 1470n 892 897a 832 837n 17-20 927-30 897-900 905b 780-2

Coincidental with the letter from Mr. Sage, came one addresed to him. which was delivered to Judge Mc

Mahan, who is acting for Mr. Sage, having been given power of attorby the refugee upon his leaving Hammond. This letter is from Mr. Donaldson and contained a money order which he had promised to send to Mr. Sage when he left him here and returned to Chicago. In his letenclosed with the money order, Mr. Donaldson addresses the refugee as "My Dear Mr. Sage," and conwith "hoping this will help you to escape further unjust imprisThe language of this letter shows what Mr. Donaldson thinks of the man whom he has beand contradicts the alleged statement of the Elgin officials to the effect that Mr. Donaldson had dismissed Mr. Sage from his employ because of his lack of reason and would have nothing to do with the old gentleman.

Making five complete changes in act Most costly and elegantly dressed act in vau-

Willi

ams & Gordon

Singing, Talking and Dancing ComeExtra clown.

Illustrated Songs; moving pictures An All Star Show.

THE STAY AT HOME.

Let others go For pomp and show Where ocean beats or mountain towers. I'm glad I've got A homelike spot To rest in after working hours. My wife and I, Contented, sigh For nothing that the haunts of pleasure By sea or lake Could add to make Our joy in life of greater measure. Good food to eat (Despite the heat, I love my meals, and so does Kitty) And not a care What clothes to wear! We're quite contented In the city. Although to stick Where walls of brick Encompass one in all directions Is hard, we've got A cinch. That's what! We're sponging on my wife's connec- ! --T. A. Daly In Catholic Standard and Times.

10=15

20c

He Never Tumbled.

"Whew!

reckon."

This is a tough bit--oak, I

State Line.

7-25-tf

dress goods and a powder rag. And the woman was perfectly satisfied.

LETTER LIST.

The following letters remain un-

CAR THUGS' VICTIMS IN BAD WAY called for at the Hammond postoffice

Miss Hattie Barnes (2).

636 Truman

The latest reports from the bedside of the conductor and motorman

who were, beaten up by two South Chicago toughs, reveal the extent of the injuries they received. MotorBaxter suffered a broken nose

and a fractured jaw and will be infor work for several weeks. The conductor's face was pounded to a pulp, both eyes being

closed. His case is serious and should complications set in, his inmay cost him his eyesight or perhaps his life. Conductor Young's home is in Kouts, Ind.

1906:

Mrs. J. A. Brown. Mr. Jos. Bonner. C. H. Hammond. Mr. Geo. E. Leville. Mr. Matt H. Martin. Mr. J. Maxwell. Ed. Nicksch. Fred Pecceny. Miss Grace Stapekemper. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Smith. Miss Georgia Savage (2). Stetson Lumber Co.

Miss Mary Anna Wolf.

A Shuttered Romance. "Yes, we were at the play this afterAll the girls think Lester Scraggs is just too lovely for anyWhat was the play about? I don't know. We were too much abin watching Lester to pay any attention to the play. He looked just too killing in a yellow wig, with a blue plush cloak hanging over his arm. And he had the sweetest jeweled sword! "After the play we all went around to the stage door and waited for him

to come out. And, say, he isn't the least bit handsome when you see him close. His face is awfully flabby, and his hair is short and thin and kind of sandy. There was a fat woman in a freak hat came up just as he started away and took hold of his arm, and they walked along together. 'I wonder who that woman is?' I said to Jane Snooply. A coarse looking man near

the door heard me. 'That's his wife,'

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Chicago, July 25.--Wheat. Early foreign markets were a trifle strongand started our market off a shade

lighter. Reports from South Da

kota were of a rather discouraging he said.

nature and claimed that the crop was "Then we all went home."--Cleveland deterioratmg, but this was later de- Plain Dealer. nied by houses with northwestern connections. The early advance was Bound to Be Comfortable. not sustained, however, liberal offer- A Philadelphia man went to Maine ings by elevator houses and profit on his vacation, and he found the nights taking by longs who bought wheat very cold and bedclothes scarce. "Are these all the bedclothes you around 76 yesterday eased off margive?" he inquired of the chambermaid. ket, declining a full cent from the "This is all that goes with one room," high prices reached early in the ses- she replied. sion. The close was weak with the "Then give me a couple of rooms," bear operators inclined to press their said he.--Philadelphia Press. advantage.

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Corn higher early in the session on the continued bad crop news emanatfrom southern Illinois and some sections of Kansas. Later in the day when wheat showed such markweakness, there was an effort to

Setting Him Right. Borroughs (angrily)--When Markley lent me that $10 I thick I overheard you remark that you wondered when I would pay him back. Kandor--No; you're mistaken. Borroughs--Oh, I guess not!

Kandor--Yes,

take profits on long corn, resulting

Kandor--Yes, you are. I didn't sa H. GOSTLIN, Postmaster. in closing the market soft with most when," but "if"--Philadelphia Press

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