Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 20, Hammond, Lake County, 12 July 1909 — Page 4
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Monday, July 12, 1909.
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CROWN POINT'S NEXT ENTERTAINMENT.
We view with some surprise, our friends at the classic county seat, when we read that on Sunday next, the notorious black giant Hon. Jack Johnson,
champion heavy weight pugilist of the wide wide world is to box several rounds from a raised dais with another pugilist. The edifying spectacle of a courteous exchange of wallops between these gentlemen whom our friend Hash Togo would perhaps call, "honorable slug fighters" on a Crown Point
Sunday, brings forth a little gasp. Sleepy Hollow is evidently trying to cut
loose from that one-time popular appellation for the Hub of Lake County.
Evidently the people there winced long enough under the charge and have
determined since the automobile races, to asservate that there is nothing
slow about Crown Point. Of course there are a lot of people there who will
decry the hubbub, excitement and noise of a Sunday pugilistic entertain
ment, but what of them? The news that the Hon. Johnson is to exchange
clouts with the Hon. Somebody, will doubtless bring a lot of gentlemen who follow the fight game to Crown Point from far and wide and we take it that
the citizens of the pretty county seat will be vicariously entertained.
IF YOU WERE THE EDITOR. Would you always tell the truth?
When the homely daughter of an old subscriber marries a worthless
skunk of a fellow, would you praise her beauty and sterling worth and con-
gratulate her on securing a popular young man for a husband, or, would
you tell the truth? says an exchange.
When some miserly old citizen, who has denied his family for years, and
pinched his dollars until the eagle screamed, finally passes in his checks
would you refer to him as a respected pioneer, or, would you tell the truth? When some home talent entertainment rasps your nerves to the point of breakdown would you say that it was delightful and everybody acquitted
himself with credit, or, would you tell the truth?
w nen some nypocrmcai sinner, wno uses the church as a cloak for his general cussedness, gets active in some reform movement, would you
praise the efforts of this public spirited reformer, or, would you tell the
truth?
ine new papa gets "ruiiern a tick" to celebrate the event. Would you
say that he was overcome with you, or, would you tell the truth?
Seriously speaking, we believe the vast majority of newspapers strive conscientiously to tell the truth in large matters but there certainly are a good many times in which the truth and diplomacy fail to walk hand in hand. The newspaper, like the individual, would have but few friends if it
always told the truth.
Meart to Heart
alks.
By EDWIN A. NYE.
UP AND DOWN IN INDIANA 1 --
Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso
ciation. . KILLING A MOTHER. Thfc state of New York killed Mary
Farmer, wife and mother, last month.
It was a sickening story. They har
nessed the woman in a chair, having
shaved her head, and the executioner
described an arc with a lever, sending
the deadly current into her convulsed
frame.
And thenAfter examination they found that
Mrs. Fanner still had a spark of the life that God had given her, and again the electricity.
Warden Bonham telegraphed the
governor following the execution :
There were no distressing Inci
dents."
In the estimation of the calloused
warden the killing had been done with
neatness and dispatch.
No distressing incidents? Was it no distressing incident that a
wife was being killed by the state while her husband prayed in his cell; that a baby boy should be made an orphan; that every woman In the
land should be shocked at the dishonor done her sex; that society should be
brutalized by the spectacle; that the
dial of civilization should be moved
backward?
No distressing incidents? "Why, the whole life of Mary Farmer
was a distressing incident.
She was a poor, ignorant woman
who never had a chance.
Both heredity and environment com
bined to make her what she was. Her
surroundings had callonsed her heart
and stunted her mind.
Society made her what she was and
then killed her for being what she was and doing what she did I
Is that too strong? But can you expect anything but
degradation and disease and crime
from the Mary Farmers whom society feeds with the measly crumbs thrown from its sumptuous tables?
Mary Farmer went to her own place the place the world made for her.
Under provocation she did just what might have been expected of her.
To say this is not to condone her
crime, but the pity of it!
When the history of our times is read by the people of 2009 they will be horrified to learn that commonwealths officially killed ignorant and erring women Without 'distressing incidents.
RACE PROGRAM READY. The automobile world has for months i been discussing the new Indianapolis motor speedway and it will now have an opportunity to pass Judgment on the first program of auto races arranged for the new course. The official program for the initial meeting of three days, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Aug. 19, 20 and 21, has just been received from the printer. TELLER STEALS S7.S00. Edward N. Detzer of Fort Wayne, age 31, and- for twenty-one years a trusted bank clerk, is under $3,000 bond to await a grand jury investigation on a charge of embezzling the funds of the First National Bank to the amount of $7,800. Detzer confessed last night. He was paying teller at the bank. DISCLOSE BOOK COMBINE. It developed Saturday that at a spe
cial meeting of the township trustees
of Wayne county, held In Richmond, sensational disclosures were made with
reference to the alleged combine of
ndiana school supply companies to
keep up high prices and to throttle those concerns -which do not do the
combine's bidding.
JOKES AT DEATH COMES.
Alone, far from any relatives, if he
has any, but not neglected, Eddie Pow
ers, a "black-face" comedian, died in
Muncle hospital. He was 30 years.
old. Heart disease claimed him. rowers had made thousands laugh, and to
the end he was faithful to his role, refusing to regard his condition as serious and jesting with those about him.
ELMORE WRITES NEW POEM. 'The Street Vender" is the title of
the latest poem from the pen of James
B. Elmore, the Bard of Alamo, who
lives near Crawfordsvllle. The poem
was written Monday afternoon by the
poet after be had cut wheat all morning and had been compelled to cease work in the harvest field on account of the rain. STRIKERS THREATEN TROUBLE.
The striking employes of the Ameri
can Sheet and in Plate company at Elwood are becoming restless and the
good conduct committee is having lis hands full in keeping the men in linn and out of trouble.
SHUCKS
From the Diary of Si. Lence
IT WAS NOT IN HAMMOND.
Prize fighting is on again in Indiana and there was a peculiarly dis
gusting and brutal exhibition at Hammond Monday evening. This disgraceful affair was given an added touch of ferocity by the fact that the ten-year-old son of one of the combatants was allowed to sit in his father's corner and shout encouragement. It is said that this feature made quite a hit with the audience, and it probably did. The sort of an audience that would gather at Hammond for a prize fight would hardly
see the pathetic element in such an incident. Fort Wayne Daily News. That above is what the Chicago papers are doing to Hammond which has never yet permitted nor will ever permit a prize fight within the city limits. It is disgusting and humiliating to think that Hammond has to bear the blame for the slugging matches that take place in West Hammond, 111. Of course if our contemporaries want to be malicious and untruthful they can keep on disgracing Hammond and Indiana. The fight mentioned in the News took place in Illinois, and not in Hammond, and Fort Wayne ought to have the decency to correct its error.
A'terney Boggs hez quit ther law
business an' started runnin' a junk wa
gon. Guess Boggs'll make a success o'
the latter fer I've heern tell he wus al
ius possessed with an abundance o
brass. There's menny a good scout thet I've seen unable ter find his way hum.
A DEMOCRAT IN NAME ONLY. When such strong democrats as Senator McEnry of Louisana vote for the Aldrich bill and such republicans as Senator Beveridge vote against it, we may well ask what there is in a name. Perhaps the Huntington Democrat is right, when it says: Senator Beveridge voted with the democrats on the final vote taken Thursday night on the tariff bill which was made in the interest of the trusts. One democrat, McEnery of Louisiana, voted with the republicans. Senator Beveridge is to be congratulated and Senator McEnery condemned. He is a democrat in name only.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. July 12.
1654 A full court of commissioners
met at Warwick, R. I., and signed
articles of agreement.
1779 Americans made an unsuccessim
assault on the British works at
Stony Point.
1804 Alexander Hamilton, American
statesman, died. Born Jan. 11, 1757.
1817 Henry D. Thoreau, American au thor, born. Died May 6, 1862. 1855 -A convention of the friends o slavery met at Lexington, Mo. 1862 Confederates captured Murfrees boro, Tenn., after a severe fight.
1870 New harbor and docks at Cape
Town inaugurated by the duke o Edinburgh.
1895 Much damage done by forest fires
in northern Michigan.
1908 Senor Jose Domingo Obaldia
elected president of Panama.
WATCH OUT FOR FAKIRS. A worn in who has been selling copies of a publication called "Children's Charities" has been exposed in a Michigan town as a fake. She has often visited cities in the Calumet region. There are a number of other young women who claim to be connected with another publication devoted to orphans, charity, etc., who rake in shekels in this territory about once a month and it might be well for those who are Importuned to buy from them to examine their credentials. Their manner of soliciting is not at all reassuring and they have not been able in some cases to convince those who deal with them, that they are what they claim to be.
SENATOR BEVERIDGE'S home-coming to Indiana today is being made a festal occasion at Indianapolis and republicans from all over the state are sending him congratulations. In Chicago the Union League Club is dining and wining Senator Dolliver. Yet, Aldrich and the "upward revisionists" think that the insurgents are trying to organize a new republican party.
RETURNS FROM VACATION.
Governor Marshall arrived home Sat-J
urday night from a week "out on the path" in Steuben county, and he said when he arrived at his office this morning that he would probably have to lay off a few days and rest up from his vacation. However, he dug into the work that had pilled up during his absence, and by noon had cleared away a bunch of it.
HEART FAILS AT NINETY-NINE.. Henry Hawkins, of Princeton, age 99.'
years, fell dead of heart failure Satur
day at his home, near Fort Branch. He
was active to the last. He came to Fort Branch from the south as a boy, more than eighty years ago, and noth
ing was ever heard of his relatives if he had any. BEVERIDGE APPRECIATED.
A reception is to be given . Senator
Beveridge this evening at Tomlinson hall under the auspices of the Indian
apolis Taft club as a mark of appreciation of his work in the United States senate during the consideration of the the tariff bill, which he voted against.
DIVORCEE SOON MARRIED.
Nine hours after his wire had se
cured a divorce and the custody of their children, James M. Wynn, of I Shelbyville, took another bride. Miss
Maude Powers, who resided east of this city. Mrs. Emma Wynn applied for a divorce some time ago, the
charge being cruel and inhuman treat ment and desertion. BIG DAY" AT VALPARAISO.
Saturday was one of the busiest days
Valparaiso has experienced in years
More than twelve thousand people were
in the city to attend the opening of the Valparaiso Chautauqua, which has a ten days' session, and to see Buffalo
Bill's wild west and Pawnee Bill's far
east shows.
LOSES HAND IN CORN SHREDDER.
Phyllis, the 4-year-old flaughter o
Gerald Billings, of Chesterton, while
playing with her 2-year-old brother,
putting corn Into a corn shredder, put
her right hand into the machine while
it was running. The hand was so
badly injured it had to be amputated.
might feel every
threatened to go mother.
time his home to
wife her
That gallant old ped, Edward Pay- . i i3 I
son Weston, is still merruy nooimg down the Pacific slope, dodging snowsheds, pebbles and old tomato cans.
WHO
T OT OF NICE PEOPLE
LAMENT FORGET THAT THEIR "CAREER" IS NOT WHAT THEY MIGHT HAVE DONE, BUT WHAT THEY ARE DOING.
Jemima's Lid.
Jemima wears a stylish lid, that's
fashioned like a bowl, and she can only
j oYta nroes for a
see tne grounu vuci stroll; the birds may gambol in the
trees, the lambs upon the fiat; Jemima
knows it not, for she can v Bee Uc,u
her hat. She knows not if the skies are blue, or dark with threat of rain; for her the gaudy apple trees present their bloom in vain; all nature is a charming sight, but she'll have none of
that she might as well be blind, for she can't see beyond her hat. Next year the bowl she calls a hat she may turn upside down, exhibiting a vacuum where once there was a crown; then
she may watch the little birds, the calves and lambkins fat; she'll hail the day when she may see some feet beyond her hat. WALT MASON. Copyright. 1909, by George Matthew Adams.
THE CREAM OF THE Morning News
I. N. G. soldier at Elgin set uoon an
seriously hurt by several civilians, in
eluding an ex-convict. Gunner's mate shot while fixing gu
ior target practice
Nashville
on training1
and dies soon after.
ship
There are Iota of women who have maids who till do all the heavy work about the house. They make the puddings.
THIS IS MY" OOTH BIRTHDAY. William Osier. Dr. William Osier, famous as a phy
slcian and educator, was born in Te cumseh, Ont., July 12, 1849, and recelv
ed his education at McGIli university,
Montreal. For ten years he was a mem
ber of the faculty of McG'.ll university
In 1881 he left that institution to be come professor of clinical medicine a
the University of Pennsylvania. From 1889 to 1905 Dr. Osier was professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins university and since 1905 he has been reglus professor of medicine at Oxford university. Several years ago Dr. Osier had fame thrust upon him by his reported declaration that sixty years was the limit of man's usefulness. Subsequently, however, he disclaimed having ever made such a statement.
You cannot help feeling kindly to
ward Senator Aldrich after all. We note that radium, worth several million dollars a pound, has been put on
the free list. Some men always wenr a Worried look, when They are Invited Out to dinner, Especially until after It Is H over.
Sweeping grand jury invest! era frn
the gambling bombs is predicted, fol
-.....a me arresc of the Atlman
urocners.
Cook county democrats tn , iD
islators to ratify income tax amend-! ment if submitted.
President Taft, in speech at Mr,.,
stone laying in Washington pays trlb-
ul to tnose federal employes who work for small salaries. United States Commissioner Herbert Knox Smith, in a report made public at Washington, declares inland water ways fail to carry their proper share of traffic because they are not unified like railroads. Travelers from the west to Chicago are delayed at Kansas City by floods. Trains are being detoured to Chicago. Steamer to New York brings cargo infected caterpillars to kill gypsy moths in New England. One seaman is killed, two other sea
men and two passengers injured by
cumulative wave sweeping over ship
inquiry into the sanity of Harry Thaw, slayer of Stanford White, will ge fought out today before Justice
Mills at White Plains, N. Y. Chancellor von Buelow at the re
quest or emperor imam, suggests
his successor. Dr. von Bethmann-Holl weg.
Unsettled weather of last week de
lays grain marketings and advance
prices for July delivery. Financial, industrial and agricultur
al conditions are regarded in Wall
street as giving promise for an ad vance in the values of stock.
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I tatcen into custody are all Italians, and I ' . s A
Mrs. Dominico Ricci. The husband of I - 1 Vs?, " ll n the latter woman, whom they all ac- - ' 3-v' II
I cuse of being the istigator of the IL' , " f II
scheme, is in Italy, whither he went, JL -' V "..i l It is said, for the purpose of obtain- IK. ? " - ' ' , l
ingr a fresh supply of the counterfeit : '" M " I bills. An effort mnv h mails t eon- ll . -vt'- - . f l
tne liostord Park gang. iTrsr?iiv''''"iMi JuTs1 rrrrrryd
"INDIANA authors no longer taking to verse?" Nonsense! A few operators in the cities and larger towns may be cultivating prose because of the greater profit, but the heart of Indiana is and ever will be true to song. Chicago Tribune. Name of song, please?
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
And then again the uncertain weather may have something to do with the fact that Hammond, Gary and East Chicago will have elections this fall.
It mny be all right to ask a woman to remove her hat In ehureh, but where In the world could they put them unless they had a special church for large hats.
There is no need for anyone to be idle these days. There is plenty to do swatting flies and mosquitoes.
IN THE MEANTIME the Rev. James Snodgrass, whoever he is, is requested to remember that there are other suckers in the sea and that he shouldn't let a little thing like being jilted at the alter cause him to miss a night's sleep.
FOR ONCE the weather man smiled sweetly on Hammond when the city, had arranged a big public gathering, but if he couldn't do it for a hosrjlta. and on Sunday, he never could be expected to do it
Kissing through a veil is not worth while, says an exchange. Why Isn't It, If you con kiss clear through?
Siberia averages sixty days' rainfall each year, but we fail to see where Siberia has anything on us in rainfall.
The man who was asked to explain his grief over the death of his mother-in-law, admitted that it deprived him of any satisfaction ha
Kansas farmers have $175,000,000 in the banks, so that there doesn't seem to be anything the matter with Kansas at present. De patient in a few short weeks the coal scuttle and the snow shovel. - The farmers are so busy tainting men to harvest the hay crop that they may have to call on a lot of Maud Mullers.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES You are autborlied to announce my name as a candidate for the republican nomination for mayor of
Hammond before the republican nom
inating convention, whose date Is to be decided upon at a later date. ROBERT KIDNEY.
Representative Crumpacker has Introduced a bill to pay his secretary Nelson Jacobson, $300 for extra clerical service rendered during the pres
ent session on the bill providing for
the taking of the census.
Representative Barnhart has received
word that Gilbert Ray Warren of New Carlisle, successfully passed the mental
examination and then failed on the phy-
i sical test at Annapolis. The young ! man was held to be color blind. Ant
other young man will be appointed
from the Thirteenth district.
Assistant Secretary of the Interior
Jesse E. Wilson and family have gone
to Atlantic City to spend a few weeks
Representative Barnhart has wired
the commissioner of immigration at El
lis Island to hold Etima Vaneiste and not deport her until he can obtain a hearing on the case. This foreigner
was en route to South Bend, Ind., to make her home with Joseph Vandevoorde and family, who are her relatives, and she was detained at Ellis Island on account of defective eyes and was ordered deported to her native land. The postoffice department announces the appointment of Jacob T. Huff, Orris G. Gardner, Clarence A. Becker and Frank B. Livingston additional city letter carriers at Gary. Postmasters appointed: Omo, Hendricks county. Loren Hadley, vice T. Mendenhall; Orestes, Madison county, Lyman C. Thornbursr. vice B. M. Reece, resigned.
LET GARY BEWARE!
Editor Says City Should Not Try to Surpass Pittsburg in Scandal
We notice a newspaper article to the!
effect that Gary, Ind., the site of the United States Steel corporation's gi
gantic new plant, is expected to surpass Pittsburg in the near future.
We trust that Gary will think twice
before it does that. It is all right for
it to turn out mora steel products than Pittsburg if it can and wants to. But
an effort to surpass Pittsburg in general would tend, If successful, to impair seriously the reputation of a growing Indiana city, which has no past to be ashamed of.
No true friend of Gary could view a
concerted movement to establish thers a social organization with sensational
features superior to those of the Duquesne club with anything but the deepest regret. It would not only give the city much advertisement that it could well dispense with, but would also Increase the demand on the vigilance of the police to such an extent as to Injure the efficiency of the police service at other points. The effort to produce a variety of social scandals worthy to take precedence over the finished Pittsburg product would also be a great mistake. It would absorb nervous energy and intelligence that could better be employed in developing the growing city, and thus prove a positive handicap. Gary should remember, too, that Pittsburg's proficiency in scandals did
not come about in a day. Back of it are the long years of experience that
a new town necessarily lacks.
Furthermore, a wellwisher of Gary we have no hesitation In urging most strongly that no effort be made, for the present at least, to interfere with
Pittsburr's lead in the business of
furnishing millionaire husbands for New York chorus girls. For a long time Gary will probably need all the millionaires it can rake and scrape to help the town in its business. To attempt to supply the needs of the stage before its own needs are met would be sheer folly. We might dwell on other points wherein Pittsburg is pre-eminent and Right. "What is a chauffeur, Hans?" "A chauffeur is a man who is smart enough to run an auto, but too smart
to own one'." Kansas City Journal. Wrong Iiagnols. Many a girl thinks she has broken her heart when she has onlv sprained her imagination. Life.
should be left pre-eminent by a town with a care for its reputation its ebon
skies, its stogies, its brand of municipal corruption, etc. But we have said enough to Illustrate the Inexpediency of attempting to surpass Pennsyl
vania's most famous city all along the
line. May these well-meant words of advice fall on fruitful soil. May the stage be left to elevate itself, the chorus girl be abandoned to her own spinster devices, the wine agent be as if he were not, and the divorce scandal be kept afar off as far as Gary i3 concerned. Chicago Inter Ocean.
Times Pattern Department
She Didn't I nderstand It. "Is this the balcony from which you see the eclipse?" "Yes, madame. But you are too late."
Xeat and Appropriate. "How shall we print this essay on liberty?" "I think it ought to be in Roman csps." Baltimore American.
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