Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 93, Hammond, Lake County, 6 October 1906 — Page 1

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Mixup in Street Nomenclature Leads to Endless Confusion. ONE STBEEU NAHES It Is Robert Here, Russell There and Kane Another Place. From the protestations that are heard, there sterns to be something wrong with the nomenclature of the Hammond streets. The most recent trouble has been stirred up by changing Russell and Roberts streets to Kane avenue. The question that Is agitating the persons who live in the newly named avenue Is whether they are living on Fayette, Russell and Roberts streets or In Kane avenue. The change in name was only made last Tuesday evening at the regular city council meeting and was duly told In the columns of The I.AKK Countt Times. Since this paper has recelived protests. Inquiries and blame for the change, some persons even paying that the wrong description of the piece of street to be called Kane avenue was given. To the last only the statement that was made in these cqlumns of the proceedings of the city council meeting can be reiterated as it was correct, towlf. That hereafter that part of Russell and Robert streets between Sohl street and Carroll street will be known as Kane avenue. The people living east of the five corners at the Intersection at Fayette street,' Russell street and Oakley avenue give one of three answers to the - .jUstkm- as to where they live. They claim their residence to be in Fayette street, Russell street or Robert street. The fact that the people who formerly lived in Russell street and Robert street between Ho hi street and Carroll street now live In Kane avenue. . The misunderstanding comes about through the Nickel Plate tracks running through this territory. Fayette street continues by its name from its beginning on llohman street to Calumet avenue when it disappears. Russell street begins on llohman street, disappears ut Oakley avenue, because of the Nlckle Plate road dies not come out again until Sohl street is reached. There it leaves Its straight eastward course to follow the railroad track in a southeasterly direction. This same street was called Robert street east of Calumet avenue to Carroll street. These two streets north of the rialroad between Sohl and Carroll streets have been changed in their name to Kane avenue. Incidentally the cry for street signs is becoming stronger with each season. "Within the past year a number of streets have been changed in this city and while the changes have been made public, still only the residents on the street remembers the change. Hammond Is visited by strangers daily who eeek the different parts of town and who are continually compelled to ask questions for directions simply because there are no street signs. It is but natural that this lack of direction should be more readily noticed by out of town people than by the home people-', i TIME AD. l'ROVKS ITS VAMX. VMlparaUo Wontnn Loea Her Watch In Hammond Restored Through Lake County Tinira Want Coin m lis. '"Take out that 'found ad' in your paper as it has served Its purpose," said Trod Carter in the office of the Lake County Times last night. The ad referred to a watch that had been lost by Mr. Cirter's tistr of Valparaiso, while visiting in Hammond. It was found py a Hammond woman who inserted the ad at the loser's expense Despite tne fact that The Times classified want column changes daily it never grows smaller. The people are beginning to appreciate it as a medium which brings results. A s Thr Lake County Times goes a!! over Lake county, tr.to Porter cour.ty and into Illinois the ads will prove of equal value to the people outside of H.tmmoiid. In fact, it is the bs; med ium for results in this part of the state. Read the ads and you will find each one a separate story. They are interesting from first to last. NEW STl'DEXTS FOR I BUSINESS COLLEGE. The jloeal Chicago business college has maidt a goodly addition this week to it"i enrollment. Those who have entered during this period for the fall term are: Misst-s May Cooper of East Chicago, Elia Sheets of East Chit ago. Gertrude Cole of East Chicago, Mary Muldjon of Roby, Joscpu llousley. Hammond; Grace Gero. Hammond; Rosio pomer. Hammond; Minnie Ripp, Hammond; Lilly Fedder, Hammond, Otto Brown, Tolleston,

Hoboes Find Liquors Cached by Car Burglars and Make Merry.

RY CULL "POLICE" South Hammond Residents To Impromptu Orgy and the Tramps Take Flight. South Hammond is not exactly a treasure island but a dozen hoboes thought so when after spending half of the morning in dreaming of the happy land where booze runs through the brooks Instead of water, they found several cases of choice wines and liquors hidden away where the modern Captain Kidds had concealed them. "Send all of the police you can spare to South Hammond at once. There are a dozen hoboes and dagoes crazy with drink out here and we must have protection." This In substance was the telephone message that was received by Chief Rlmbach shortly after noon and lie accordingly detailed four men to go to the scene of the trouble and bring In the disturbers. Some time ago there wero several cars broken Into and the thieves took ull the wine and liquor that they could conveniently carry away. They hid the booty, expecting to come back later when the matter had been forgotten and divide the spoils. They had not unted,iowever,' orf the unexpected that sometimes happens and so they will never enjoy the loot they risked ti term In the penitentiary to secure. - 1 . ... Treasure Trnee. i Several hoboes in wandering arcund In the underbrush near South Hammand accidently found the plunder and a life time of dreams suddenly came true. The good thing was participated in by one hobo after another until nearly a dozen of them became saturated. There was more hilarity among the members of the Fraternal Order of Weary Willies than there has been In many a day. South Hammond is the Hyde Park of Hammond, the dry district of this city, and the people object to such scandalous actions. In fact they did not know when or where the thing was going to end and so they notified the police. When the officers arrived they found the men-were not so drunk as they had been reported to be and with an hour's start thfy had probably gone far enough to no lenger be a menace to the community and so they did not at tempt to follow them. TIMES DOLLAR VISITS MTMltEH OF HISTLINt. Ill' SI NESS PLACES. (Cock to Monon Hotel, Herendt's Mat Market, Meeker McCunc'x, Hotel Curleton. Will Mec'a Cigar Store uud the Football Game. Tub Lakh County Times circulation dollar got around to a number of bust ling business places today. Having visited the Monon hotel early this morning and findirg that things run on there in line shape, it dropped into Berendt's meat market in State street As that place is always crowded with visitors, its stay there was short. Be ing right in a good business section It went into the hands of Meeker & McCune. Although it found congenial company there, its time was limited The noon hour was drawing near and as the dollar had been at the Monon for one square meal It decided to visit the Carleton hotel text. After a good meal follows a smoke and Will C Mee's was the r.oxt place to get it Being pretty much of a football far Will Mee put the dollar in Ms pocket and the probailities are that he took it to the Harrison park football game Whether Will won or lost car. be learn ed, if he still has the dollar. The Lake County Timts circulation dollar is bound to visit every first class business pTaee in the city, and Is do ing it f&st. Help it alor.g by follow ing the instruction or. the acccm ponying cards. Fr.cr.e 11!. POEM WINS A HISBAND. rrir.cetor., Ir.d.. Cct. I. A? a resul of a poetic effort published :r. a Day ton. O.. , periodical, Miss Grace t'er r.ard of Tiffin. O.. a poet, won hersel a husband, and L. Monroe Sprcwl o this city a. so a poet, , gain a fair bride. Miss Bernard about a year ago wrote a poem that was printed in th Watchword. Mr. Sprowl read th peom and liked it. He wrote his cor. gratulations to the author and receiv ed an answer. From this a correspond ence ensued, resulting in the young man proposing by mail and bem gaccepted. He went to Tiffin last week and foe the first time met his fiancee. Today the young man's relatives received word that he was married and would live in Tiffin. The poem has been clipped and framed It was worth a husband

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LOCAL niYSICIAXS' CLOSE CALL WHEN CAR HITS WAGON. Dr. Kenwood of Ilobart anil Dr. n. I.. Smith of -tills city Come Near tiring the Victims of Peculiar Accident. Dr. Kenwood of Hobart and Dr. G. I Smith of this city had a narrow escape from death in Chicago yesterday. They were crossing the street when a street car crashed Into a delivery wagor. and sent it forward with such Aertiflic force that tne of the shafts f-ueed Its way through Dr. Kenwood's coat and then was driven tnrough-.. fence that surrcunded some construc tion work on a building near by. The two doctors were eroinir alone- to gether, Avith Dr. Smith in the lead, when the crash came. The horse was forced directly towards Dr. Kenwood and only the fact t'-at it turned slight ly to one side, saved the doctor from being impaled on the s-haft. As it was, the piece of wood struck the doctor in the side and then glanced off in such a manner as to catch the cloth of his coat and tear a big hole in it. Both Dr. Smith and Dr. Kenwood were" inclined to treat the matter lightly, until they stopped to think of the force that was necessary to .punch a hole in that board fence and then they began to appreciate how near death they had been. They got a good deal of fun but of it after all. however, for -when , Dr. Kenwood went to the taSlors to have the coat mended he . was compelled to wear a shop coat with sleeves that were much too Ion jg for him while the two went around the "city and finished their busint'SS.""" c.wx oi itnyi n a i x fa per. Only rtc oure tu Case of Libelous Pub-Iicntion-Lies in Damage Suit. Denver, Colo., Oct. 4. That a newspaper cannot be restrained from publishing matter alleged to be libelous was the gist of a decision handed down by Judge Mullins of the district court today when he dissolved the temporary restraining order issued by him two weeks ago against , the Daily Mining Record of this city at the instance of G. G. Rice of Goldfield, Nev., mining promoter. If libelous matter is published in a newspaper the only recourse lies in an action for damages at law, the judge holds. STATE BOARD REFISFS TO ADOPT "ROOZEOHT1IOG RAPHY." Fasset A. Cotton's Advocscy of Spelling Keferip Meet Witb Cold Reception Preposition Placed on Pile. (Special to Lskc County Times.) Indianapolis, Oct. 6. The Slate Board of Education, at its meeting, yesterday, balked on the new spelling, advocated by President Roosevelt. The preposition made to the board by Fassett A. Cotter., state superintendent of. public instruction to have the beard officially sanction the reform, lut the board was not ready to take the matter up. It eld not decide that the new spelling would not te adopted: ror that it would be adopted; just decided to allow the matter to rest at ieast until the next meeting. At that time it will be taken up with more seriousness, perhaps . WORK OS M. C CHURCH PROGRESSING MCFLY, The work on the Methodist Eplsco pal ehuieh is progressing so rapidly that the stone foundation is already completed. That part of the work that har been already done gives a good idea of the large proportion of the nev- oiifiee, ant? makes it evident that the church, when Completed, will be one of the best tiouses of worship in the city.

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Grace: "Why is she having ber portrait painted?" Helen: "She has reached that age when she doesn't look

it ilflSS S1PPIN6" HIS UNDOING John Slone Mourns the Loss of Two Cracking Good Mules. ASKS THE COURT" TO HID Roadster Received In Trade Is Long On Good Looks But Short On Disposition. "Hoss swappin" has added another victim to its already long list and the superior court of Eake county has been invoked to see that jusettce is distributed among the parties to the deal. Attorney W. J. McAleer filed the pa pers in the case this morning in behalf of his client John S." Slone, foreman for O'Brien's section camp near the W. B. Conkey plant. The defendant is T. J. Gormley who runs the camps at Gary. The', "bill of complaint set' forth . that Slone is the, owner of "one brown mule' about. 18 years old and weighing 1200 pounds, 'with slight blemishes on one front foot; also one bay mule weighing' 1200 pounds, five years old, no blemishes." The bill then goes on to state that Gormley two days ago took possession of the mules and the plaintiff asks that the court not only restore to him his property, but award him $500, to bot as a lotion to his injured feelings aril as damages for being kept out of the possession of his property. Whether "hosa" trade or society scandal, there are always two sides to every story, and the complele fact in relation to Slone vs. Gromley are as follows : Gormley os something of a connoisseur when , it comes to horses. He knows the difference between a Percheron and a Hembletonian and he would rather swap horses than gi fishing. Hp heard that-Sloan - of O'Briens' had a couple of like'' mules that he would trade for a fine roadster. Having scented the possibility of a dicker. Gormley -allowed no timothy, to crowunder his feet before he was speeding away to sae the oner of the likely mules. -Mules are quite handy to have about Gary and on one knows this "better than Gormley. He took a squint at S.'one's mules and they looked good to him. . "I've got .iust what you want. I've got a fine pacer that'll pass any animal between Hammond and Crown Point." he declared with pride in his eye and in his voice. "And when it comes to style'. Say, he's a pippin: There ain't no horse In Lake county that can hold a candle to him. Oh. 1 say, " It was simply Impossible to say it. Words failed Gormley who is fairly eloquent at that, so he contented himself with an expressive gesture that was fully more convincing than the average sermon. When the horse appeared he certain'y was all he had been cracked up to be In point of appearance. He put everything that happened to pass along at that time on the bum. Gormlejwas astride the noble animal which showed spirit but at the same time had a gentle eye. Everybody about the place who had come to size up the noble charger said he was the goods and after feeling in kfcis mouth, and venturing a few guesses

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as to his age, expressed themselves to the effect that Slone could not do better than to freeze onto the equine. He froze, and when Goimley took his departure, he was riding one of the cracking good mules, that had been Slone' and the roadster was being led to one of the humble stalls up to that time occupied by the off mule. Besides the horse, 'Slone had been paid the sum of $100 as the difference in value between the horse at a great bargain, and the mules. The next day Slone hitched his new purchase to a trim little runabout worthy of the new charger's style and mettle. Mr. Slone. mounted to the seat. "Gittap," he said gently. Apparently the horse was a trifle deaf. 'Gittapl" repeated Slone in a little louder tone at the same time flipping the lines a bit over the roadster's back. Still no results. A buggy whip was brought into play, but nothing doing in the gittap line. The new horse simply would not gittap. "Back up there then!" commanded Slone. But still nothing doing. Pushing, pulling, coaxing were equally ineffectual. The new horse refused to budge. "Slone borrowed a horse devoid of style and called upon Gormely with a demand that he return him his mules. He tendered Gormlyy the $100 and assured him that he could have the roadster as soon as the animal could be prevailed upon to leave its present quarters. "Ge hence" laughed Gormley with a dry metallic laugh. "I am a horsetrader. The horse and the hundred are yours. I own the mules." So Mr. Slone brought suit to recover the mules and $300 besides. SEVERE WINTER COMING. Weather Sharps Say vrc Are to Have a Long, Ilnrd Winter. There are many signs that next winter, tinlike last winter, will be unusually severe. In the first place there are bushels of nuts on the' trees and bushels in the surrounding country. This is said to be nature's way of providing food for the birds, and a big crop of nuts means a long severe winter. This prediction is supported by the statement that the cron husks are much thicker this year than they have been for a long time. Still another sign of a long and cruel .winter is found in the activity of the barn mice. These little animals have already begun - the . work of building their" nests and observers agree that they are making them this year unusually cozy and warm. Last year they seemed to give-little attention to the building of their winter homes, but this. year they are not .cnly. beginning to build them unusually early, but are giving remarkable attention and care to their construction. All of which signs point to a severe winter, and there are many people who place as much confidence in these homely pre dictions as they do in tlie reports of the weather bureau. HE XEVER TOLD A LIE. Columbus. Ind.. Oct. 5. Steve Owens, aged "S years, who died yesterday at his home north of this city, will be re membered by his neighbors as the man who never told a lie. Owns was born in thi3 county and spent his entire life as a farmer, aside from some work during the summer season for several years with a thrashing outfit. Owens had a reputation all over the county for truthfulness. It was often said that he would not have tDli a lie if his life depended upon it, and his word was al ways as good as his note. THE WEATHER. Fair and cooler tonight wilti probably littkt frost Sunday fair and warmer.

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Batteries Swormstadt. Peterson; For additional sporting DIVORCE ILL sooyRiis Severance of Marriage Bonds Object of Many Recent Suits. WHITING HASHER QUOTA Most of the Cases Brought by Wives Agairist -Husbands One Exception to Rale. There are quite a. number of divorce cases which will come to an issue in superior court during the October term Among those which were filed within the past few days pre suiti by Mini Gehrke vs. Herman Gehrke; Minnie Cox vs. William H. Cox; lnola B. Payne vs. Thomas Payne; Mary McCarthy vs. Patrick McCarthy, and James Willard vs. Delilah .Willard. Mini Gearke was married to Herman Gehike in April, 19C1, and lived with him until Sept. 8 when the bill declares he drove her outof his house and told her , he was through with her for all time. Both parties to the marriage contract had been married before and had large families of children, Mrs. Gehrke having six by a former hus band, and Gehrke five by a former wife. When the eleven children got together there was trouble and the fur began to fly in all directions. Mrs. Gehrke asseits that her husband took a dislike to her brood Immediately af ter her marriage and, "apparently," he put his own children up to annoy her and "make her life miserable as they possibly could." She charges that they refused to obey her in her most reasonable demands, and that while, her own children were always obedient to their step-father and duti ful as children should be, he abused them so cruelly and used such vile language in their presence that it was all she could do to keep them from leaving home. On Sept. S Gehrke is cha'ged with having choked his wife and ordered her from their home. Tioiible In Payne Family. Enola B. Payne asks release from her matrimonial bonds on the grounds of cruelty. She and her husband, Thomas, live in Whiting, of which town Mis. Payne has been a resident for ti iiteen yrnrs. She asks the court to award her alimony as she says her husband Is capable of making enough money to support himself and contribute toward her support. The McCarthys are also Whiting people. They were married Nov. ?. 1I9S. and the charge in thin case is cruelty. Mrs. McCarthy asks $o00 alimony. The . nly esse filed recently in which a man seeks to divorce his wife, is that of James Willard vs. Delilah Willard. The bill asserts that they were n.arried Sept. 26, 1??9 and lived together until August 4. 1906. Willard cnarges infide'lty, abusive language and he also claims that on two occasions hi? wife caused his arrest for alleged abandonment and non-support and in both cases he was found "not guilty." GLE.?f RELEASE! FROM HOSPITAL. Paddy Glenn has been released from the local hospital where he had been in charge of the sisters. From Ham mond he went to Chicago and has received further medical aid in the County hospital there. Suspicious of his bullet wound the Chicago authorities notified the Hammocd police. Glenn, it will be- remembered, was shot In Smita's saloon.

LEAGUE. 56789 10 11 RH E3 0 O E3 O B tm m n tc m tr ri r"'' rift f-i m-t . o i -l t m i w Clark. S3 m 0 0 El t.j m mm r, Schmidt. - wisi Hkv ihMa mm- mwv it-infirmir m Pay no. Hughes. Thomas. news seo page 7. . RACING RESULTS. i Brighton Beach. Oct. f. rirst race Tiling, first1; Bell of Inxiuois, seconds ltussell T. third. Seond race Jimmy I.ene, first; Cal ler, second; Oro: third. Third race Belmere, first; Annetta Lady, second; Mandurin, third. Fourth race lloltchtr, first; Filp Flap, second; Proper, third. Fifth race Arimo, first; Baring, sec ond; Fish Hawk, third. Louisville, Oct. 6. First race Potter, first; Orderly, sond; .Matador, tidrd. Second race Charlie Eastman, first; Invincible, second; Marvel P, third. . Third race Creolln, first; Dr. Keith, second; Madoe, third. X ODTIIALI, JIFKI LT. : The results from.-the eastern foot ball fields are as follow: Al Piovldence .tilrst "half ) Lrown, 17;W'tslyan, ). At Philadelphia Tensylvanla, 6j North Carolina, 0. At New Haven Yale, i8; Syracuse, 0. TIE GAME OX LOCAL FIELD. The game between tWr. Hammond high school and the Eat t Chicago Tigers at Hariison paik this" afternoon resulted In a tie, the sore being 5 to 5. IXDIAXA, lj WAHUH, 0. Special to l.akr County Tltnei.l t'niH forl llle. Inc., Oct. (. lit a bard fight between the tno lennia here HiIm afternoon Indiana iiniverally defeated Waltnoh College Uy the crrj of 0 to 0. The Knnte nnm played on lugnlla Mild before a crowd of nearly 3.IMKI spectator. The flrnt half ended 0 In O mid In. dlann unable to eore again la the aeeoud. WAS SOUGHT IIEKE; FOl.NH IN LAFAYETTE Arthur Germain of Bloomlngton, III., who was looked for in Hammond, was captured in Lafayette yesterday afternoon. He is wanted at his home for stealing money. HELD LIABLE FOIt DELAY. Weteru Union Loae ThrouKh Derinioi of the Appellate ( onrt. A judgment holding the Western Union Telegraph company liable to the statutory penalty for delaying txc hours before sending a message which was handed to Its agent at the Union, Mation in Indianapolis- was affirmed. by the appellate court yesterday. Charles F. McChJiand was in eiiaige of a funeral party on th way flora Asheville, N. C. .to Danville, when a washout made it necessary for a midnight train on the Big Four to run over the Y3nd.ilia road. lie pent a message for carriages to meet the party at C'aytmi, and by reason of th delay it was 3 o'clock on a stormy wintry morning before the carriages arrived. The court say that the message showed on its face that it was urgent and that there was no excuse for not getting it to tho oTice uptown, fiom which It could bo sent to Danville. The plaintiff testified that when he handed his message through the window, just as the train was about to stait, the operator put it aside, leaned, tack and went on reading. TOM HAXXAX TO MICHIGAN CITY, Tom Hannan was tak n to the Michigan City prison today for the murder of Jack Eannlng, w hem he shot at Gary. Attorneys W. J. MeAUer and Joseph Conroy made a motion for a new tiial last Thursday which was overrule'! by Judge McMahon. The judge, however, promist-d that ir his mittimus h woulii reeornmend tnrcy for the prisoner, which, if observed, may giv Hai.r.an only a tfrm of Eeven years. His sentence, if carried out to the letter, calls for life imprisonment. Hannan's attorrej-s may d-ciile to take the case to the supreme court, for which they have a ilmu of sixty days.