Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 71, Hammond, Lake County, 10 September 1908 — Page 5

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Day's Grist in South Chicago

M. E. CONFERENCE ON SEPT. 30. Rock River Annual Sessions to Take Place In "Wood lawn Church. The Rock River annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church, composed of 350 ministeis and representing a lay membership of 62,000, will meet In its sixty-ninth annual session Sept. 30 in the Woodlawn Methodist church. Sixty-fourth street and "Woodlawn avenue. The conference includes the northern part of the state of Illinois. Bishop T. B. Neely of New Orleans will preside. The conference will continue until Oct. 8. The political aspects of labor and temperance questions will arouse interest. The Marie chapel controversy Is to he settled at this meeting. Closes Its Engagement. The "Fighting Parson" clased its engagement at the Calumet theater last night after a three night's stand. The play has been a popular one and each performance has been well patronized. 'Sure Shot Sam" is the show that is billed for the next three nights at the Calumet and will prove a star attraction, as reports from Hammond, where the company played the early part of the week, say the play was well received. v Building Permits. 129 Cheltenham place, 2-story store and flats, E. & J. Morrison $ 4,000 12036 Harvard avenue, 1-story frame cottage, T. Gale 1,950 6629 Bishop street, 2-story brick flats, R. Rice 4,200 8751 Muskegon avenue, 2-story frame flats, J. Kolewicz 2,000 10285 Indianapolis avenue, 1story frame cottage, W. E. Brooks . '. . . . 1,200 7913 Halsted street, 2-story brick store and flats, O. Miller 5,500 1428 Michigan avenue, 2-story brick garage, J. AVilson 10,000 11933 Indiana avenue, 1 14story frame store and flats, M. Tomasjewski 2,400 7220-7222 Paulina street, two 1story frame cottages, J. Carleon 3,000 Real Estate Transfers. Michigan avenue, 253 feet n of 47th street, e f, 33x161; April 16 J. II. Gilbert to Rosa . Hecht ,. $5,250 Superior avenue, 230 feet s of 89th street, e f, 25x140; Aug. 8 Heirs of John "Winston to John Convery 3,200 Vernon avenue, 105 feet nof 64th street, e f, 125x124; Sept. 4 J. V. Graham to Margt. G. Thompson 1 Howard avenue, 100 feet n of 94th street, e f, 50x231; Aug. 29 "W. P. Milliard to John B. Colby '. 900 Leave For Indianapolis. The South Chicago members of the First regiment leave tonight with their comrades for the Indianapolis .encampment. They expect to be in the Indiana capital city by tomorrow morning. Teamsters Are Exonerated. Fred Stone, a teamster, 12S Park avenue, and Anton Kenter, his helper, were exonerated by a court's jury In the" case of Henry Schweitfeiger, six years old, 7305 Peoria avenue, who was run over by Stone's wagon and instantly killed Tuesday afternoon. Holds But Short Meeting. The Cheltenham Improvement asso ciation held a short meeting yesterday evening in the offices of Charles "W, Ringer. Only business of a routine na ture was disposed of. No special pro gram had been prepared by the director for last night's session and the result was that little was done. HERE AND THERE. Miss Marie Gross of 9041 Commercial avenue has relumed from a two weeks vacation spent in Michigan. The new Manhattan Woolen Mills at MONEY LOANED on good security such as Furniture, Pianos and otber personal property QUIETLY and QUICKLY. CHICAGO DISCOUNT CO 138 -40 Commercial Ave. South Chicago Room 2C Tel. Bo. CfclcAgro 104 Open Monday, Thursday and Saturday evening until j P. M. WHISKEY There is only one BEST TYLY Old Steuben Bourbon (Straight Goods) i and agree with us that it is PERFECTION Steuben County Wine Co. Distnmnors, Chicago, ills.

HEARD BY RUBE.

In South Chicago the weather man 13 giving the people a fine Imitation of summer. Three puffs of a cigar put a New Tork contractor to sleep for a week. Come to South Chicago and try a little of our mixed variety. Anything from I. C. smoke to a tug boat. Another example of the home sav ing bank was found by the South Chicago police yesterday when a 16-year-old lad, vammoosed with $206 belonging to his employer which he found under his pillow. The oyster has made Its annual appearance In South Chicago and Is creating quite a stew. It Is said the Groucho club is gaining in membership each day. South Chicago merchants are putting away their flimsy materials and are hauling out the woolen blankets and felt boots. The story in the Chicago papers last night of the police rounding up 27 mad dogs in a cellar was almost as bad as the one of a few weeks ago when 47 hoboes were arrested in a box car. South Chicago will be represented by five young men belonging to the 1st Regiment, who will take part In the manuvers at Ft. Benjamin Harris next week. Times may be hard in some quarters but from the way a certain gambling house in South Chicago is seeking after the infants there seems to be a boom on. Never mind Willie the first week of school will soon be over. The everhandy rolling pin did good service early yesterday morning when a whack over the head of a burglar by a Muskoegan avenue woman made him think better of taking the family jewels. Returns of the Gans-Nelson fight were received at several of the local saloons last night. It is said there was quite a little money placed on the Hegewisch fighter last night by South Chicago lovers of the fistic art. If you want to keep a friend don't tske him a ride on the South Chicago City Railway company. 91'25 Commercial avenue, owned byMessrs. Berndorf & Schwartz, have opened their place of business and are prepared to take orders In anything in the line of tailoring. The Catholic "Woman's Aid society gave a card party yesterday afternoon at the Lmon Bank hall. The affair was well attended and a neat sura was realized as a result. Mrs. James ScanIon and Mrs. A. J. McCarthy were the hostesses. The marriage of Miss Helen Heath of 9041 Exchange avenue to Mr. Victor Gage of Wilmette will take place in South Chicago on September 23. Both are well known in South Chicago. The Barancik department store on Buffalo avenue is undergoing extensive improvements in the way of interior decorations. Mr. Barancik is rearrang ing his store preparatory to receiving his fall goods. Mr. and Mrs. E. Tolf of 9717 Avenue L have returned from their vacation spent at Benton Harbor and St. Joe. John J. Poulton, 913 Exchange ave nue, was in Peoria, 111., on business yesterday. Mr. J. Mersey was In Chicago on business yesterday. ' Mrs. Frank Ramsey, 246 Ninety-fifth street Is visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Faltner of Highland Park, 111. Mrs. E. S. Edman is visiting her par ents in South Bend, Ind. She will be gone for two weeks. Mr. John Creswell of Calhoun avenue left yesterday for Colorado. He will be gone for two weeks. CURIOUS PAPUAN LAWS. Tribe Where Sisters' Children a Man's Property. Inherit A Methodist missionary in British New Guinea now known as Papua Rev. V. E. Brownlow, has added to the world's knowledge of the curious and little known races of the great north Pacific island by the discovery and partial taming of a new tribe. The race In question consists of about 20,000 blacks, living at a place called Dobu. The customs of the race are must curious. The immigration policy is more drastic than that of "White Australia," for all strangers have either to become full members of the tribe or be eaten. When dealing with Mr. Brownlow, however, the difficulty was got over by making him a father of the tribe. Each tribe and each family had their own land, and no portion is allowed to go out of their possession except as a loan for a season's crop. The men marry out of their own tribe and on their death their land becomes the property of their sisters' children. Women have great influence in the affairs of the tribe, and their duties are quite distinct from those of the men. - The men clear the bush and dig the ground, then the women prepare it and plant yams, the crop being theirs. If a man wants any yams lie has to ask for them. The banana patch, however, is his own property. Wives are obtained by purchase. If a man pays well for his wife he can thrash her occasionally, but she could leave him if she did not like it, and go back to her own village. Their heaven is a place where the healthy, strong and good-looking go. All the others go to hell. London Chronicle

SCHOOL BOOK TRUST

PUTS OIJTHE SCREWS The South Chicago Children Must Pay More Than Hoosiers. THE PARENTS BULK AT PRICE Tarr & McMurry Geography Costing 48 Cents in Illinois, Can Be Had for 30 Cents in Indiana. "Will South Chicago school children have to pay 18 cents more for their school books than the children in In diana towns across the state line? This is the question that the South Chicago parent is asking himself today. An ingenious deal in school books, bzy the operation of which all Chicago school children are asked to pay 48 cents for the Tarr & McMurry Introductory geography, published by McMillan & Company, and sold under the Indiana State law in that state for 30 cents, came to light today. rarents Refuse to Buy Them. Many South Chicago parents are refusing o buy their children the necessary school books on account of the outrageous prices charged. ""Why we should pay 18 cents more for the same geography than the Indiana pupil does, is more than I can understand," said a South Chicago man this morning. "I will go over to Indiana and get my children's school books before I will be robbed in that manner." The books are distributed in Chicago by the C. M. Barnes-Wilsox Company, 262 "Wabash avenue, and it is believed there ar-j several other distributors. uiJira oi me dooks are to be had from school supply dealers in outlaying parts of the city for the same price paid for the authorized version of the Tarr-McMurry geography, and dealers are being charged the same price by the distributors. Special Chapter on Indiana. It is urged by the dealers that. the book on sale is identically the same in text as the authorized version furnish cU u.mcr me scnooiooard contract with Mcmillan & Company made four years ago, except that It contains a special chapter on Indiana. The discovery that the Chicago mar t.i liuuucu wun me nuiana edition of the geography, and that Chicago children to the number of 15,000 were proDahly overcharged to the ex tent of 18 cents a copy when the rush saie or school books began on Tuesday, is engaging the attention of the ovuuui management committee of th scnooi board today. WRITES NOVEL IN TEN DAYS. That Is Feat of Popular F. Crawford. Marion The popular American novelist, F. Marion Crawford, has a beautiful villa in Sorrento. The villa, on the edge of rich brown cliffs that fall sheer, like a wall, into 'the blue waters of the Mediterranean, offers a superb view of the shining sea, off Capri, of Naples and Vesuvius. Mr. Crawford has written an in credible number of novels. Indeed, it is said of him that he can, without difficulty, write a long and really quite readable novel in ten days. Hence it is not strange that with his wealth and fame he should be the lion of Sor rento. In a Sorrento hotel sat a group of American tourists. "The natives here," said a tourist from Duluth, "talk of nothing but Marianna Crawfoot. I have found out at last what they mean. They mean, by Jove, our great American novelist, F. Marion Crawford." "Crawford is a wonderful writer, Bald a tourist from Boise City. "He thinks nothing of turning out a novel In three days." "I doubt that," a tourist from Balti more said. "Yet it is true that Craw ford has written a great many books over 100, I think the figures stand. And he is still young, remember. He may yet break all records." "I don't believe any, man living ever read all Crawford's books," said a tourist from New York. A tall, broad-shouldered gentleman, who had been listening on the out skirts of the group, with something like a sneer lifting his sweeping mus tache, spoke np impatiently at this Juncture. "I hava read them all," he said. The tourist looked in surprise at the stranger. "Have you, eh?" said a Chicagoan. "And who, may I ask, are you?" "I am Crawford," was the reply. A Life Job. "I want to put an ad. In your paper. said the weary looking man. "Make it: 'Wanted A situation, any old job."' "Shall I say 'wages no object?' suggested the clerk. "No, make it 'object matrimony.' If I could get acquainted with a decent job I'd be willing to marry it for life." Catholic Standard. Italian Proverb. Oil and truth will get the most at last upper-

Morris Weil Finds That His Shipment of Machines is Not Up to Standard.

GALL AUTOS PiLE OF JUNK Consequently Opening of Gary Man's Garage Is Sadly Delayed As a Result. The story circulated yesterday that the four "White Steamers which Mr. Well had purchased from a defunct garage In Fort Wayne, were ordered shipped back because of the nonpayment of the first instalment, is false, according to a statement made to The 'Iimes last night by Morris Weil. Mr. ! Weil intended to open up a garage in this city at once and was awaiting the ecessary repairs on the machines at Hobart, where they had been consigned, when suddenly the machinist at Hobart informed Mr. Weil that they were a lot of junk and absolutely ireparable. Said Ue Wouldn't Accept Them. It was then that Mr. Weil wrote to the garage company who had attempted to put one over on him and said that he would not accept the pile of unk under any consideration, and that e was shipping them back to Fort Wayne, freight, unpaid. The next heard' of the matter was when Judge Aiken, formerly of that city, appeared n the scene to claim the machines. which" Mr. Weil willingly acceded to. Worst He Ever Sow. They were the worst looking mabines I ever say," said Mr. Weil. You couldn't make any of them run block if your life depended on it. There was no hood, no radiator, no coiland half a dozen other things that re essential in the machine. I never could conceive of their sending me uch an awful pile of junk, so I sent them all back to them with my regards. When a purchased the machines they were as good as new, but were greatly altered before they were shipped to me." Mr. Weil will now look about for another machine which he intends to buy so as to start his business at once. This time, however, he will purchase , brand new outfit and will have his roubles' eliminated for a while, at least. He has not yet decided which make he will procure. DATE F0RG0NGERT SET Gary Band Promises to Show Its Appreciation of Its Citizens. The date for the next concert to be given by the Gary band has been set for Saturday night at 7:30 on the corner of Fifth avenue and Broadway. The plans of the Gary band is to give concerts as often as possible during the warm weather. The boys are desirous of showing their appreciation to the citizens of Gary for their generous contributions for the support of the band, by giving them these free concerts as often a possible. Tlfe political clubs should take ad vantage of this organization to put life into the campaign and assist both of them. There is no question but what the leader is doing everything In his power to make it a success and he should be given all the assistance possible. It is expected that a larger crowd than ever will attend the next concert, as they have now made several appearances before the public and have proven their worth. Singing Mice of China. No one has ever accused the China man of being songful. Nevertheless he has a peculiar musical taste of his own. he is cnarmea, ior instance, dv the singing of a peculiar breed of mice which he has especially cultivated, and which a German scientist, Dr: Eichelberg, who spent a term in a Chinese prison, declares capable of producing vocal harmonies quite equal to those of the canary. The structure of a mouse's throat is shown, moreover, not to be much different from that of the little yellow bird, there being likewise a distinct physical an alogy between the two, even to the pe culiar nibbling manner in which they take their food. Philadelphia Bulletin. Trie Shah's Jewell It is no small wonder that the shah guards his gems so jealously, for they are absolutely unique. His greatest treasure is a sword whose hilt and scabbard are incrusted with diamonds of marvelous sire and brilliancy worth 300,000. The imperial crown contains a ruby which is regarded as the finest In the world. Such a one could not be bought for 150,000. There are in the vaults the girdle of state (which is heavily Inlaid with diamonds and emeralds) and an Immense Eilver vase thickly overlaid with pearls and turquoises. A remarkable cbject is a terrestrial globe with the land worked in enamel and jewels; the rivers are made of diamonds, the lakes of turquoises and the mountains are raised and contoured In beautiful gold work. Detroit News-Tribune.

Unfortunate Young Indiana Harbor Man a Victim of Melancholia.

PIGTURETATTODEO ON HIS ARM Was Young Man of Exemplary Habits and Has Relatives in Sweden. m (Special to The Times.) Indiana Unrbor, Ind., Sept. 10. Coroner E. R. Gordon, of Hobart, yesterday conducted an inquest over (be body of Axel Kjellberg, who committed snirlde In bis homo Tuesday nlsht. Immediately following; tbc inquest, Coroner Gordon declared that bin verdict would likely be one of "suicide nnperindnced by melancholia." The inquest was held in the parlors of Mortician Teal on Michigan avenue and the depositions of Mrs. Kjellberg, the young: man's mother, his sisters and brothers and several neighbors taken. They were alike in detail and told of the finding by the mother of the bloody form of her son. The head was face downward and a bleeding hole above the heart told the tragic tale. Was a Quiet Young Man. "My son was always a quiet young man," said the heart-broken mother, 'lie never ran about nights with other young men and preferred to go to bed and read till late hours." A strange feature of the tragedy was that Kjellberg was reading a; humorous book but half an hour before his life was sacrifled. On one arm is tat tooed a picture of the "Crucifixion" depicting the death of the Saxiour. The work was done in read and blue infls, and where the heart is shown bleeding and torn, there flows a stream of red. The picture is almost a duplicate of the tragedy of Tuesday evening, a mark above the heart being almost a replica of that In the tattoo. The resemblance was noticed by nearly everyone who saw the body in the Teal morgue and it was marked that the plotting of the tragedy was effected through this medium. Many Friends See Him. A constant stream of the unfortunate young man's fellow workmen . poured

into the morgue last evening and many advertised for. The matter of the buywere thft sincere exnressions of re-1 ing of voting machines for the com-

"t 1 .IT 1 I . j grei expressea oy mcse euem muure. Kjellberg was held in high esteem by his friends and will be sorely missed from his usual place in the Standard Forging's plant. Kjellberg was 32 years of age and is survived by six sisters and three brothers, some of whom reside in Sweden. The family, including the aged parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Kjellberg, moved to Indiana Harbor about two years ago. They are of the sturdy, industrious type of citizens and are deeply sympathized with in their sorrows. The victim of the tragedy was a young man of excellent physique and is mourned by many friends. He was a member of the Scandinavian Brotherhood of America, who will have charge of the burial. Funeral arrangements have not yet been made, but will be completed through Mortician Teal this afternoon. Interment will probably be made in Chicago. HEW BOOKS If! LIBRARY Whiting Institution Gets Many New Volumes on Various Subjects. Whiting, Ind., Sept. 10. (Special) The regular monthly addition of books were put into circulation at the "Whit ing public library today. The collection this month is excep tionally good. The adults list consists of books on philosophy, religion, socio logy, useful arts, fine arts, literature, description, travel and fiction. The children, too, have a fine lot of new books at their disposal, their as sortment consisting of books on mytho logy, fairy tales, fables, useful arts, literature history and several stories. With the beginning of school, the boys and girls will begin to use the li brary more frequently, as it is a well known fact that less reading is done during vacation, than when they are busy with their school work. The boys and girls of Whiting can always find an assortment of good wholesome literature at their disposal, and parents should use every means of getting their children to use the public library. Mothers in Factories. Ignorance, no doubt, accounts for much of the waste of infant life, but Lancashire's Industrial conditions give her her bad pre-eminence. Mothers who work in the factory cannot rear their children naturally, and the care and the skill and the attention neces' sary for successful artificial feeding are beyond them. Manchester Guar dian.

ANNOUNCEA1ENT ' We wish to announce to the people of the Calumet district that we, the undersigned, have formed a. partnership and in the future will be able to care for all classes of Painting, Decorating: and in fact, anything- that's fit to paint. We have leased larg-er quarters and would be pleased to have anyone cal" and inspect our work. BLAND & GOLDBERG, Artistic Painters'

8933 Commercial Avenue

Phone 86 J. J. DEALER HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS GENERAL 144-146 S. HOHMAN ST. COUNTY 8QDIES HAVEADJOUBHED The County Commissioners Transact Imoprtant Business. NO VOTING MACHINES NOW Adverse Sentiment Against Machines Help Commissioners to Make Up Their Mind. (Special to The Times) Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 10. The county commissioners and the county council finished a two days' session at the court house today and according to reports, transacted business that in earlier days would have taken a week. The time was taken up making out the different attropriations for coun ty offices, viewing of roads, inspecting the poor farm, court house and the improvements on the county jail. Fifty Licenses Granted. About fifty liquor licenses were granted. Five new bridges are to be )mV TO- OC . Tl CI i i 7 (1 1 ing election was considered, but as there has been much adverse sentiment concerning the using of these new election contrivances, the commissioners decided to shelve the matter for the present and no machines will be purchased or used this year. Wonld Take Much Time. This will cause quite a little time and expense in redisricting the county. which would have been necessary had voting machines ben purchased. Several changes were made in plans for the sidewalk construction on the court house premises, and work will be started at once on them. Cogressman D. E. Crumpacker Will Make Principal Address. (Special to The Times.) Whiting. Sept. 10. The Republican campaign will be opened in Whiting tomorrow night, where Conbgdessman E. D. Crumpacker will give rousing address at Goebel's hall at 8 o'clock. The affair has been well advertised and the hall will no doubt be filled to its utmost capacity. A brass band has been engaged to assist in livening things up. Whiting can boast of a goodly num ber of republicans, and all will turn out to welcome this noted speaker, and help make the opening of the '08 cam paign one long to be remembered. Oil HIS Oil PEGS NOW Wellington Milligan Has No More Use For His Cane. The lawsuit of Wellington Milligan, in which ha sued the city of Whiting for $5,000 damages for injuries which he was supposed to have received by falling through a sidewalk, is now being discussed freely by those who have noticed that Milligan Is walking around town without the aid of his cane. During the trial and before it began, the cane seemed to be his main supporr but many are now wondering how it all came about so suddenly, that he can walk as good as anyone, having evidently disposed of his walking stick. The judgment for the money was awarded to Milligan, but the- city of Whiting asked for a continuance to the next term of court. The case will be remembered as one in which bribery charges were alleged.

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Too will readily ee wh we make the statement as the illustration speaks for in popularity, however wo desire to call your attention to the importance of its use. Eery housekeeper knows how readily dirt accumulates in the corners ot stairways, also it ii a well known fact that it is impossible to sweep or scrub ont without first dieting it oot with the fingers or some other way and this is very unsatisfactory. We make the following claim for the Dslsy Stair Corner. Fits Perfectly. No Opening lor d'rt to gather. Easily Adjusted. Absolute Protection, Last a Life time. Recommended by all up-to-date Housekeepers and without a doubt the only Sanitary Corner ever produced.

Residence Phone 270 RUFF IN HARDWARE nm 0ILS nd GUSS HAMMOND, INDIANA. CHICAGO, LAKE SHORE & SOUTH BEND R. R. S3 Time Table in effect Sunday, September 6, 1908. Trains leave for East Chicago and Gary:

5:10 A. M. 2:10 P. M. 6:10 A. M. 3:20 P. M. 6:50 A. M. 4:10 P. M. 7:30 A. M. 4:50 P. M. 8:10 A. M. 5:30 P. M. 8:50 A. M. 6:10 P. M. 10:50 A. M. 7:10 P. M. 11:50 A. M. 7:50 P. M. 12:30 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 1:10 P. M 10:10 P. M. 11:30 P. M. Trains leave for Michigan City and South Bend: 6:10 A. M. 4:10 P. M. 8:10 A.M. 6:10 P.M. 12:30 P. M." 7:10 P. M. 2:10 P. M. 9:00 P. M. 10:10 P. II.

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