Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 215, Hammond, Lake County, 1 March 1909 — Page 4
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UP AND DOWN IN KJDIAMA
VETO HITS DREAM LEAGUERS. . this part of the state is that of Edward The. Eastern Indiana Baseball league, Adkens, on his Sugar Grove farm, half
also the Indiana Trolley league, like-! a mile northeast of Carthage. The
wise the Ohio and Indiana Baseball farm comprises 198 acres, 80 of which league and several other dream, leagues j are occupied by the campagn. Mr. Adthat are haunting this part of the kins opened his camp Feb. 13, and has state, vanished Into the thinnest of made several hundred gallons of mo-
thin air when Governor Marshall vetoed the Sunday baseball bill. NEW HOTEL OPENED. Fort Wayne's half million-dollar new hotel will serve Its first dinner this
lasses.
TAKE ACTION AGAINST RENTERS. Aroused because hundreds of renters n Muncie make a habit of paying practically no rent, but "stall off" their
evening and will open Its register for i landlords as long as possible and then guests. The hotel Is eight stores high, I move to another dwelling. Muncia fire-proof and has 187 rooms, with 112 ; owners of rental property are forming bathrooms and each room is provided j an organization whose object will be to with running water and Is furnished j keep a list of persons who fail to pay In green , and red, the green being the i rent or who damage DroDertv In which
GREAT SPORT THEN.
Some suffragettes are trying to tell us that i the introduction-of woman
suffrage into this country would not necessarily alter the vote.. Well, perhaps not, but it would depend entirely on how -well a man has his wife, trained. After the first election, of course, we could-tell whether the wives of the democrats are more obedient than the wives of the republicans. Every man naturally supposes his wife would do him the honor to vote as he does. We doubt it. Just as soon as the man thinks he has "got his wife in line" the trouble will begin. No woman even wants to have the impression get out that her husband can twist her around. his finger. If woman got into politics some funny things would be happening. Along about September, every two or four years, as the case might be, father will, after dinner, gently touch on politics. About the middle of October, or as soon after the first as mother can tell from the drift of father's remarks who he wants her to vote for, she will begin a house to house campaign for the opposing candidate. Father will naturally tear, his hair for the next few days, until mother explains she needs a new set of furs. After that it will be a waste of time to mention the name of his favorite candidate until the new furs are forthcoming. Then it will be easy. It is hard to tell where It will all stop but if married life is to be made one grand muss, just give woman the power to vote. HIS LIFE SAVINGS GONE. There is nothing so sad and pitiful in this world as a blasted hope and one of the most pitiful tales comes from the prosperous farming country in the south part of this county. There Jesse Gershon had worked almost a lifetime to save up nearly two thousand dollars which he was to use in buying a farm and becoming thereby independent. The folly of saving up such a sum of money out of a bank was never more apparent, however. Gershon tucked his hard earned money away somewhere and went to count the roll of bills on Thursday he found that somebody had been to the hiding place before him and taken it all except two hundred dollars. Why the thief left the two hundred is a mystery. In the meantime the industrious Gershon is out a life's saving?, the prospect of a neat little farm is blasted and his hopes of a peaceful old age are gone. The case is a particular sad one and the unfortunate man will have the sympathy of all his friends and neighbors in his distress. THE NEW TRUTH.
"It is time to have done with old worn-out military and political ideas of distinction and see what service is worth most to the public in our own
time. There are a few congressmen, who so much deserve popular applause
as the farmer who teaches his neighbors how to double their corn yields
The scientist who makes some notable discovery Is not more worthy of
honor than the man who breeds an improved type of cotton or tobacco.
The man who gets good highways in a community where bad roads once hampered progress should have a statue in the market place as high as
that of the old-time general. And the man who founds a good school and develops the minds of boys and girls who would otherwise have walked in darkness should have the praise of men no less than if he had given us
some masterpiece of art or literature." GRIFFITH TO THE FORE.
There are a lot of people who do not know that there is such a place as Griffith on the map. Nearly two decades ago there was no doubt of its being on the map at that time and it bade fair to become as much of an
industrial center as Gary has become. When the Zimri Dwiggins boom was deflated, however, reaction set in steadily until the time came when it became the deadest sort of a place. Of late there has been a rejuvenation there and Dwigginsville is determined not to be caught drifting on the tide of oblivion but to get busy and boost. A live commercial organization has been effected and the business men there are determined to sound Griffith's
praises to the world, to point out its superior railway facilities and to use other creditable ways and means that will show a true civic spirit. All of
which is to be heartily commended. o NO SHACKS ARE WANTED.
The day is past for Gary to be a city of shacks and unsightly hovels
that are an eyesore to the community and a menace to public safety. Of course no one expects the foreigners to erect mansions on their little " plats of grounds but there is no reason why they should be permitted to
build this class of structures without the necessary building permits and
in strict defiance of the law. The authorities are taking the right step In
.the nick of time. It would not be right to permit these hard working aliens
to build a community of shacks and colonize as it were, only to afterwards
tear them down or order them destroyed. Gary hopes some day to be a
city of homes as well as a city of industries and there is no time like the
present for making a good beginning. WHAT SUNDAY GOT.
Billy Sunday, the notorius evangelist, whose foul-mouthings in the puL pit have shocked thousands, was horsewhipped the other day in Illinois
Sunday is one of a type of evangelists who have appeared in Hammond and
who use language in the pulpit that goes almost to the limit for viieness
This type of men seldom hesitate to speak disparagingly of decent people
and especially of women. It is remarkable that worse has not happened to Sunday and his ilk before this. HONESTLY, THE WAY some of these suffragettes carry on makes not only members of their own sex but men blush for shame. If It was ever demonstrated that excitable women have no place in politics the suffragettes are certainly making the demonstration allright. ONE DEMOCRATIC SHEET roasts Bowser one night for voting against . the Sunday base ball blll. That was before Marshall vetoed it. The night after that, however, the d. s. praised the governor for his action. Isn't that , sickening inconsistency for you? IP MARCH COMES In like a Iamb you know it goes out like Well, rafrain. from- mora. . It Is awfully shopworn, isn't it?
tint of the carpet and the furniture
being genuine mahogany. HICKS BUSY IN LAPORTE. The Rev. George E. Hicks, of South Bend, superintendent of the northern Indiana district of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league was in LaPorte making preliminary arrangements for the campaign which will soon be undertaken here to make LaPorte county "dry." Mr. Hicks does not expect, however, that the work In LaPorte county will be commenced until the elections In Elkhart and St Joseph counties have been held. NOT ASKED TO RESIGN. A story to the effect that the, board of trustees of Earlham college at Richmond, had been considering asking the resignation of Professor W. N. True-
Wood, dean of the faculty, because of
the fact that he was not an advocate
of county local option, was denied, of
ficially today "by a member of the board.
GIRL SHOOTS HERSELF.
Nadine Kettwig, the 17-year-old
daughter of George .Kettwig, of Terre Haute, accidentally shot herself with a
revolver she was removing from her father's bed. The bullet entered above
heart and perforated the left lung.
causing what Is thought to be a fatal injury.
MULE CAUSES HAVOC. Mules,-which brought in about 85, 000,
-were sold at Columbus yesterdayafter-
noon by Wolf Brothers. One mule
broke away, knocked Daniel Baeger-
holz down and severely Injured him and then ran into Henry Foster, cutting a gash in his lip. Another mule broke loose, vaulted a fence . and turned a double somersault.
SUGAR CAMP OPENS. One of the largest sugar camps in
they reside. A permanent organization will be formed next week, composed of nearly all the rental agents and large property owners in the city. Regular dues will be charged members and. In return, each member of the association will have the privilege of calling upon the association's officers to assist him to collect his rents. OIL SITUATION UNALTERED. That there Is only a slight change in developments in all oil fields east of the Mississippi river is well known. The winter months always show a heavy decline in work, and this present winter is no exception. ACCIDENT CAUSES FATALITIES. The exploding of a B. & O. freight engine at Hoytsville, O., early yesterday morning, resulted In the death of Engineer J. L. McCullough, of Garrett, and the probably fatal scalding of Fireman Jack Schlmmons, of the same city. Schlmmons is now at the hospital at Garrett. ' SHOT BY HIS BROTHER. Clifford McKlnnon, 15 years old, residing near Watson, was accidentally shot and killed yesterday by his twin brother Andrew. The bullet struck him near the heart. The children at the time were examining two old revolvers which they did. not know were loaded, when one of them was dis
charged. ACCOUNTING ALL WRONG. Opponents. of a strict nonpartisan Inspection of the books and accounts of public officers received a setback last night when-one of the most complex sit.uatlons that has ever developed in Delaware county became public. In a story of alleged fraud that would not have been written If there had been a rigid supervision of the books and accounts of county officers.
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY. March I.
1732 William Cushing, the first rep
resentative of New England on the supreme bench of the United States, born in Scltuate, Mass. Died there Sept 13, 1810.
1776 South Carolina instructed her
delegates for independence.
1803 Ohio began its state government. 1809 Territory of Illinois formed.
1815 Benjamin Conley, thirty-ninth
governoi of Georgia, born in Newark, N. J. Died in Atlanta in 18S5.
1832 Blrst issue of the "Newark Ad
vertiser."
1S37 The United States senate re
solved that the recognition of Texas an Independent nation was proper and expedient
1845 The president approved a bill for
the annexation of Texas.
1S65 United States senate passed the
$600,000,000 loan bill.
1867 Nebraska admitted to the Union. 1879 President Hayes vetoed the Chi
nese restriction bill.
1SS7 Score of lives lost In the burn
ing of the steamer W, II. Gardner near Gainesville, Ala.
THIS IS MY 5 ST 1 1 BIRTHDAY. General Arthur Pageit.
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Henry
Paget of the British army, was born March 1, 1851, the son of General Lord
A. II. Paget. General Arthur Paget's
military career has been exceedingly
distinguished. He entered the Scots
Guards in 1869 and reached the grade
of lieutenant-general in 1906. In 1878
he was married to Miss Mary Stevens
daughter of the late Paran Stevens of New York. Five years before his marriage Lieutenant Paget had received
his baptism of fire in the Ashanfee war
and he has taken part in every impor
tant conflict In which his country has engaged during the last thirty-five
years, including the South African war.
He received decorations for his gallant
services in the Soudan in 18S5, in Bur
man in 1837, and again in the Soudan
in the campaign of 1888.
RANDOM THINGS AND FUNGS
Anyway, the drinking water doesn't smell half as bad as some of the per
fumery used around town.
The girl who won't flirt la Somebody's infant Daughter, FInnnel-sktrted and in a cradle.
Lake county Imagines it has had a lot of trouble with the court question
Pshaw, we don't know what trouble
Is. Wait until the suffragettes begin
organize.
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The conservation of forests doesn't Interest a lot of peonle half as much as the conservation of the doughbngs.
Are back at work. It would be Terrible If There Was any strike On Just about the time The fair sex needed Ita Easter Bonnet.
With The Legislators
Breaking a Record.
Grandpop Gorgan had his first auto
ride today. Jake Kippert run him around at fifty miles an hour. It was the first time on record that grandpap ever swore, being the contribution box
passer of our Methodist church. Lees vllle (Col.) Light
The averaare girl ls far more Interested fn knowing whether the powder has come off her nose than she Is In what she Is going to eat for dinner.
ine weather man still enjoys his
snow or his rain Joke.
This month will only have on holi
aay in u tnat newspaper men can't
have.
MllK JUS WHO MARRIES HIS LANDLADY RATHER THAN PAY HIS BOARD BILL, CERTAINLY PAYS
DEARLY FOR HIS LODGING.
Cordial Invitation. Though Editor M. L. Moore of Bow
den flits to and from Bowdon to Carrollton, yet it has never been my pleasure to lay my binocles on him. See here, editor, the next time you heave into this port, look me up; I've a gallon'ceramlc full of nepnethe that hasn't Ion ceramic full of nepenthe that hasn't four years. Carrollton cor. Newcomb (Ga.) Herald and Advertiser.
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Poor "Soph."
A sophomore at college was trying to work his way through by tutoring, doing odds and ends of newspaper
work, in fact, attempting anything that came along, in order to make both ends meet. Wandering into the city editor's
room at an opportune moment, when
the regular reporters were off on as
signment, the editor shouted to him as
he wandered aimlessly about: fr . , ......
vn, aiu.iSiuu; win you looK up this wedding at Divinity church? Get all the details bride's gown well, you know "bout half a column and hand
it in to me."
Aimi virringion was never meant
to ne a journalist" subsequent facts proved. Returning to the office he
settled himself with a book, and. light
Ing his pipe, he waited developments
and his call to another assignment.
The city editor, sighting Carrington
rushed upon the "cub" demanding in no gentle tones, "why in thunder he hadn't
turned in the story of the wedding?'
"Wedding," stammered the bewildered youth, "why, there wasn't any. The
groom didn't appear!" Nothing changes. It was "rocks" that the mythological
sirens got the sailors Into trouble with.
"Can Gomez play Diaz?" asks Henry
Watterson from Cuba. Don't know
uon t care. un he play the Tama
Yama waltzes or "When the Sunset
Turns the Leaves to Gold."
Nashville, Tenn., March 1. President-elect Taft could not please the people of Tennessee or the south more
than to stick to the slate on which Judge J. M. Dickinson of Nashville is named for secretary of war. Judge Dick
inson is popular in Tennessee and all over the south, and his ability is fully recognized in this section. He was
born in Columbus, Miss., Jan. 30, 1857. but most of his life has been spent In Nashville, though he has recently
spent much time in Chicago, which city also claims him as a resident. His appointment, of course, will-be credited to Tennessee.
The accompanying picture, in which President-elect Taft appears with Judge H. H. Lurton of the United
States Court of Appeals and Judge Dickinson, was taken in front of the home place, the famous Belle Meade farm, now owned by Judge Dickinson, when Mr. Taft visited Nashville to address the Tennessee Bar association last
summer. The three distinguished men were there the guests of Judge Dickinson's son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. J. M.
Dickinson Jr., who are the masters of the Belle Meade farm at present.
Belle Meade became the property of Judge Dickinson three years ago when he and President Stuyvestant
Fish and then Vive President J. T. Harahan of the Illinois Central bought the property for ' $150,000. Later Judge Dickinson bought out the other partners and ls now sole owner of the place, for many years regarded the finest -of stock farms.
Judge Dickinson still retains his citizenship in Tennessee, and often says that when he retires from active
business he intends returning to Nashville to spend the closing days of his life at Belle Meade.
The professional Juror got a hard
Jolt, Saturday, when the house passed a bill abolishing him. You have all
seen the hanger-on in the court room who is always there when court ls in session. He ls there, of course. In the
hope that there will be a vacancy on a Jury and that he will be called to fill It. He is usually a man who can be bought or handled by any person who has business in court and In many Instances he is there because some corporation or some other person Interested in a law suit has hired him to favor it in case he gets on the Jury. This picture ls not overdrawn In the least. The professional Juryman is a menace to justice and always has been. But this bill puts him out of busiess. It was introduced in the senate by Senator Harlan of this county, and it provides that whenever there is a vacancy on a Jury the jury commissioners shall draw names to fill such vacancies. This does away with the professional Juryman who stands around and waits to-be called. Lawyers of the state will appreciate what the new law means. Many persons believe fhat Governor Marshall will not sign any kind of a bill to legalize Sunday baseball, but the general opinion is that he will. It is pointed out by the former that in his veto message of the baseball bill the other day he did not touch on the question of whether he thought such a law would be constitutional, but decided to veto it on other grounds. They say now, that he is of the opinion that a bill to legalize baseball on Sunday cannot be made constitutional and that the governor will so state. However ,the new bill is going along and will probably be enacted before the session closes.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
There is a movement on foot among the officers of the State Federation of Labor to organize a party of their own and get into politics. It is said that a meeting will be hrld in Indianapolis during this week for the purpose of outlining plans for the organization of such a party. Disappointment over the failure of the democrats of the house to pass a number of bills which labor asked for is the cause of the move. The labor party will take part in the Indianapolis city campaign first and then get ready for the next state campaign.
ENDS LIFE FOR RELIGION
Anderson, Ind.. March 1. While temporarily insane today over religious excitement. Mrs. Mary Coburn shot and fatally wounded herself with a revolver owned by her husband. Patrolman Charles Coburn of the local police force. She said she attempted suicide because her children were methodlsts and her mother a Catholic. Mrs. Coburn and her husband lecently joined the Christian church.
W. Vernon Booth, Indicted head of defunct fish company, is in semi -seclusion pending surrender on bond today. Cook makes a mistake of one egg In an order, so a waiter kills him with a knife, but police philosopher blames accumulated "grouch" for tragedy. J. Eads How forms Chicago Association of Unemployed and will urge city to continue street work appropriations. President Gompers of Federation of Labor ls confident of the Justice of his cause when reviewed by the higher courts. Inspection of ice cream on sale in Chicago is to be Inaugurated by the health department. President Taft will expect every member of his cabinet to be actual head of his department and to speak his mind freely at the councils, only appealing to the executive when absolutely necessary. Washington already is filled with throngs to see the Inaugural, and a record-breaking crowd is expected. President and president-elect attend services at their separate churches and then hold conference in the White House. Little besides appropriation legislation is expected in the short session of congress just closing. Speaker Cannon, angered by attacks upon himself and the house rules, defends the latter and denounces critics. Self-confessed negro slayer of Ottumwa girl fears he will be lynched and begs to be guarded. Both sides in the Cooper-Sharp trial at Nashville spend a busy day in preparing for the next developments In the famous murder case.
Week in Wall street sees a violent
readjustment to the new conditions in the steel trad e. High prices stimulate immense marketings of grain, despite bad roads and unfavorable weather. Wheat situation much like that of year of Gates deal.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
W'm are glad the striklnjt halmiktr.
Duty as Teat of Capacity. Goethe: Endeavor to do thy duty and thou wilt know thy capacity.
"The Sister States.
A curious inquirer wants to know!
"what are the sister states," and the Fairfax Forums answers: We should Judge that they are Miss Ourl, the Misses Sippl, Ida Ho. Mary Land, Caille Fornia, Ala Bama, Louisa Anna, Delia Ware and Minne Sota. Kansas City Star.
Lenna Dur. the Washington dancer, will enter vaudeville following her
present season with "Little Nemo."
Charles Dillingham is soon to launch In Chicago a new musical comedy with
the title. "The Candy Shop."
William Collier has written a book
on etiquette called, "Don't do That,' and dedicated it to "Mr. and Mrs. Audi-
ence. Dorothy Donnelly is to have an important part in "The Sins of Society," which will shortly be produced in Chicago. Isabelle Irving will star under the management of Charles Frohman, and play in London this spring in a new play by Maugham. Fanchon Thompson, once a member of Henry W. Savage's grand opera company, is to sing the principal role In "The Merry Widow" when it ls given In Paris. Henry E. Dixey, who Is starring In "Mary Jane's Pa," Is writing his memoirs. They promise to be interesting.
The Day In Congress
(Sunday, Feb. 28. 1909.) Senate and House. The sixtieth congress will come to an end next Thursday at noon with the inauguration of Taft and Sherman. Until thot time business in both tha senate ond house will be In a hurlyburly condition with conference reports on appropriation bills the principal order of business. All of the big supply bills have been passed by the house and all but the sundry civil, military academy and general deficiency bills have passed the senate. The supply measures in conference are the legislative, executive and Judicial; the pension, army, agriculture, fortifications and rivers and harbors appropriation bills. An effort will be made in the senate by Senator Heyburn to have the conference report on the penal code bill adopted, but some opposition is expected. In the rules to establish a cale:car day for tn consio'oiation of bill.-, will be taken up on Mcnday and on Tuesday an effort will bo made to pas the seno.. bill prcvid ns for the g.-aptmg of sub ,-ensions to mail carrying vessels between United States ports and South America, Japan. China and Australia. The passage of the bill will be ptut'unly resisted The Applachlan and White Mountain forest reservation bill will r'ceive first attention from the house Monday. The senate will moet in special sess'on on Tuesiloy to consider presidential nom-inotions.
as Mr. Dixey has had il years' experience on the stage. "The Gates of Eden," a drama written by the Rev. William Danforth, a Chicago minister, is to be put on by the Woodward Stock company of that city in the near future. Charles Frohman's next American production will be Guy Du Maurier's new play, "An Englishman's Home," which is at present the leading sensation of the English stage and playing to capacity houses. May Irwin has been engaged by Mr. Percy Williams f appear in his vaudeville theaters in George Ade's one-act comedy. "Mrs. Feckham's Carouse," which sh produced earlier in the season under Charles Frohman's management. Frank Sylvst-r. Helen Macbeth, Arthur Maitland, Marion Bailou, Josephine Brown. Austin Webb, Addison Pitt and Mark Smith are some of the players who have hoer. engaged for Mary Manneriiig's new play. "Step by Step," to be produced svon. Forrest Halsey, author of "The Panic," has just .rnpl't" i a new novelette. He has already si!d the dramatic rights to Klaw & Erlanger, who. it Is said, will us1 it some time in the future as a rnedi mi for Fannie Ward. Lee Arthur will aid in the dramatization. "La Femme X" is the latest sensational play which is r.ow all the rage in Paris. It is announced that Henry W. Savage intends to t ring that drama to tliis country next season. The feature of the play is a murder trial. The leading feminine part is said to be highly sensational.
Hamilton, Can., ha3 3tarted a benefit fund for Its firemen by appropriating $50'