Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 40, Hammond, Lake County, 4 August 1909 — Page 4

THE TIMES. Wednesday, August 4, 1909.

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Heart to Heart

alks.

By EDWLN A. NYE.

UP AMD DOWN lil INDIANA

CANDIDATES BALK AT NEW LAW. One of the most heated campaigns in the history of Indianapolis has practically reached its end and on Thursday it will culminate in the first primary election under the new law, at which candidates for mayor, city clerk, police judge and members of the city council will be chosen. In accordance with the new law both parties must hold their primaries at the

same time and places. The campaign just drawing to a close was characterized by an unusual scarcity of good candidates of recognized ability for the mayoralty, and it is asserted that the new primary law is directly responsible for this state of affairs. As the law now stands it becomes necessary for every one who wishes to become a candidate for any elective office to pass through the hardships and defray the expense of two campaigns, one for the nomination at the primaries, the other for election. Business men of ability and men of affairs cannot afford to go through two campaigns and for that reason could not be induced to stand for nomination at the coming primaries. Of course, there must be candidates and. if the men of prominence and ability refuse to run, there are enough professional politicians and small men of inferior ability, who are only too anxious to become candidates and to fight for their election and should it require four campaigns instead of merely two. In the present case the result has been, it is charged by business men opposing the new primary law, that most of the candidates, on both sides, are of an inferior grade and are believed to be wanting in those essentials that would reflect honor upon the city. The candidates, knowing that they had no favors to expect from the business men, sought the support of the professional ward workers and party hustlers, to gain their object. There eeems to be every probability that the first nominations under the new law will be made not by the men who pay the taxes, but by those who care nothing for consequences so they get to shake down the plums.

A PAVING PROPOSITION THAT IS TO BE RECOMMENDED. The county is doing its part toward locating East Chicago on the automobile map. It has contracted to improve with macadam the unpaved sections of Forsyth avenue, which is the logical through course for machines East bound out of Chicago, namely from the state line to Whiting; from Whiting to the Northern boundary of East Chicago and from 151st 6treet to the southern boundary line of the city. The city council has ordered its engineer to prepare plans and specifications for the improvement of the road from 145th street to 151st street. This link of what is destined to become a continuous boulevard from Chicago to the many arteries leading toward the big metropolis from the east and south, it is plainly the duty of the property owners to improve, if it is improved at all. It seems, however, that there is doubt whether the ordinance providing for the pavement will be passed. It appears there are remonstrances in store which threaten to kill the measure Some of the property owners who have frontage along the thoroughfare between 145th and 151st street, have been hard hit by special assessments of late. Others have not, but do not care to shoulder the burden of extra taxation, any how. From a standpoint of public spirit purely, it would seem a pity to defeat the measure. As a business proposition, it likewise recommends itself. A through stone highway from Chicago, on, which would obviate the necessity of traffic of all descriptions from points north and west of East Chicago, having to go around by way of Hammond in order to enter that city, could not fail to be of benefit to the business interests of East Chicago, and the property owners who are planning to thwart the measure, would in the end profit most directly by the improvement.

COUNTRY GIRL IN THE CITY. "To stay at home is best." You may quote the homely old adage in vain to the girl whose ambitious dreams lure her away from the country place or the village to the city. And often the girl -who stays at home envies the girl who goes away. Distance lends enchantment to the view. The dream of city life Is like a glittering pageant' in the shifting kaleidoscope of the girl's aspirations.

She sees only the bright lights. More and more the city swallows up the pure womanhood and manhood of the country. Already more than half of the people of the United States live in cities, and the proportion grows larger yearly. This is how it Is: The girl of town or country grows tired of teaching district school or

clerking in the village store or staying on the farm. She goes to the city to realize her dream of life. At the first she is delighted enamored of the glare and glitter. Here, she thinks, is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things seen In her visions. Then comes disillusion. The awful loneliness of the crowd comes upon her. The sordid surround

ings of her cheap boarding house, the comparison of her frumpy dresses with the tailored suits of well dressed women these things lead to heartaches and wretchedness. She is a stranger In a strange land. Foor lassie! If she is made of strong moral fiber she will come through it all and save her womanhood and self respect, but she will also grow a little callous of heart and mind. In opposing her selfishness to the sordid selfishness of her world some of the bloom of innocency is likely to disappear. If there is a weakness somewhere in her moral armor her very virtues of Innocence and trustfulness may

lead to her undoing. To stay at home is best. To be sure, it Is quiet down on the farm or In the village, but the monotony 13 as nothing to the aching loneliness that comes in the midst of

strange crowds. And there are a fulli Bess of happy comradeship and a j friendliness of contact among the I home folks that are never to be found elsewhere.

Besides, should the country girl be t

nble to win her way in the city and save her soul, what has she gained over the home life? Experience; that is all. To stay at home is best.

HAVE HAD NINETEEN CHILDREN. There certainly is no race suicide in the family of John Lipscomb, who resides on a rural route near Richmond. The nineteenth child, a girl, has Just been born into this family, twelve of the children being: alive. The father of this unusual family is 56 years old, while the mother is 49. AN ATTORNEY'S TRICK. Tipton people who have been wanting; to say the same words, but were backward about doing so, read with many expressions of commendation the utterances of an Indianapolis minister regarding the welcome of Noah M. Marker, returned bank embezzler, in The Star yesterday. They said among themselves that the celebration following Marker's return was worked up by his attorneys and others interested to make him a strong defense. llABl' EATS FLY POISON.

As the result of eating a portion of

patent fly killer, Josephine, the baby

daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Iouis Stumph of near Union City was taken

ill and died. The little girl pulled off one of the tufts of a fly killer under the impression that it was a flower.

which she placed in her mouth. PREVENT AN ELOPEMENT.

Quick work on the part of the Princeton police following a telephone

message from the girl's mother at Oak

land City last evening prevented the elopement of Gertrude Johnson, 15 years old. and Homer Cook, 22 years

old, both of Oakland City.

INSPECTORS WERE REJECTED. With charges of being traitors to their party ringing in their ears, nine republican members of the Indianapolis city council Joined with democratic members early this morning to reject the list of Inspectors selected by Chairman H. W. Klausmann of the republic an city committee to serve at Thursday's primaries. I. A noil LEADER THREATENED. Matthew Hallenberger. an Evansvllle labor leader, who has addressed every one of the car strikers' mass meetings in the last week, received a badly scrawled anonymous letter yesterday threatening him and his home with dynamite unless he sees that the strike Is called off in three days. RESENTED THE INSULT. Resenting aliased insults uttered by

Nigjit Marshal Alonzo Howe of Winona Lake concerning his mother, Austin Miller, 20 years old, son of Mrs. Kate

Miller of Gainesville. Fla.. adopted

"wild west" methods when he fired

four bullets into Marshal Howe's body, inflicting serious but probably not fatal wounds.

ESCAPED LUNATIC FOUND.

A sick man, semi-conscious, who was found lying by the highway near Michigantown, proves to be Frank Gal-

Isca, an escaped inmate of the Long

cliff Insane asylum at Logansport. The superintendent of the asylum said GalIsca escaped from there several days

ago. The man was nearly starved.

PRISONERS ESCAPE JAIL. A Jail delivery occurred at Crawfords. vjlle last evening when Harry Morgan of St. Louis and William Powell, colored, made their escape from the Montgomery county jail. The prisoners were in the corridor while Sheriff Ed Lawrence and Turnkey O'Connor were at work in the rear. The prisoners made a dash through the corridor and the front entrance, WATSON FAVORS SUBSIDIES. The Hon. James E. Watson, former congressman from Indiana, contributes to American Industries a forcible argument in favor of subsldi-zlng American ships. MADE DROWNING SURE. Thomas Bump, of Princeton, 60 years old, yesterday at Crawleyville, stripped off his clothes, tied a ropo around his

necke and to the other end attached a large stone and then leaped into the Wabash river and drowned. The act

was not witnessed but the finding of his clothes led to a search and recovery of the body. Bump's home was near

Crawleyville. He leaves a family. PREACHED IS A FIGHTER. The Rev. James A. Bradley of Co lumbus, was fined $1 and costs in Jus

tice Kinney's court yesterday for assault on his son-in-law, Henry Kruse. In the course of his testimony the

preacher said he was sitting on the porch at the home of his son-in-law talking to a friends when his son-in-law came out on the porch and called

him a name, which aroused his fighting blood to the extent that he would have knocked his son-in-law's brains out

had not his two daughters held him

lar to those in force in other states.

where the primary system of nominating candidates for public office has been

adopted. Governor Deneen Is preparing to make a platform campaign throughout Illinois in September and October to awaken public sentiment for the enactment of a direct primary law at the special session of the legislature to be called late in the fall. Plans have been made to launch in New York this fall a campaign for woman suffrage which its promoters say will attract international attention.

Leaders of the movement estimate that they will spend $100,000 or more in the metropolis during the campaign. The senatorial deadlock which demoralized the Illinois legislature during its last session has aroused the people of the state to the necessity of adopting some other plan for the selection of United States senators. When

the legislature meets in special ses-

lon this fall to draft a new primary

lection law, a strong fight will be

made to obtain the adoption in Illinois of the so-called Oregon plan for the

lection of United States senators.

SAID V MAN WE KNOW, THE OTHER DAY. HE HAS A SICK WIFE.

SHUCKS 1

From the Diary of Si. Lence

Jess Schreechcr's got a remarkable range o' voice. T'other evenin' Maria an' me heard her sing frum th orchestra pit and yestiddy durned if she wusn't piping out from the choir loft. Took my buzz waggln' souvnlrs yestiddy an' bought cr washringer.

OUST THE UNDERWORLD FROM LAKE CO. The flotsam and jetsam of the onetime Gary underworld, have no place in Hammond, East Chicago or Whiting. They will do well not to stand upon the order of their going. Lake County doesn't need them. There place is with the element in Chicago from whence they came. The police of the various cities where they have appeared since being deported from Gary will hasten their departure and make it Known to them very vigorously that they are personae non gratae. It will be useless for them to stay in this region, or to ever come back to it. The reform wave will not ebb and flow. Gary is purged of vice and vicious resorts. No citizen of Gary who has the good of the community at heart, will ever want to see the indescribable scenes of shame that have occurred to ever be repeated. It is impossible of course to institute and carry-out reforms without hurting some one. Threats of revenge are idle. Boycotts are boomerangs. The criticisms that are being vented on this paper and its employes are many. They are regrettable because in the long run, they will be regretted by their authors. Vice should never have any upholders, but it is one of the remarkable things in this world that there are those ostensibly possessing decency who will do battle with those who are fighting the forces of evil.

"A MAYOR WITHOUT A SPINE." The mayor of Gary did not enforce the laws because the saloon keepers had bought real estate on payments and "needed the money" which they could make by operating blind tigers and otherwise ignoring legislative enactments. Burglars and holdup men ought to add this plea to their theory of defense. A noble precedent the Gary mayor has established. The founders of the town fried to abate the crimes due to liquor by putting anti-saloon clauses in titles to lots, but the saloon crowd, of course, bought up suburban lands and immediately set about to destroy the purposes of the founders. They can not or will not keep their hands off other men's enterprises. We hope, jf necessary, that the militia will be used to protect Gary, not against the saloon keepers as such, bu against law-breakers and the mayor's spineless course. The new town might as well be started right even if it takes the militia to do it. Indianapolis News.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY. August 4. 1S06 William Aiken, governor of South Carolina, born in Charleston. Died Sept. 7. 1SS7. 1 S 12 Americans routed by a force of British and Indians at Brownstown, Mich. 1S14 A British fleet landed troops at PensacoJa, Fla. 1S16 Russell Sage. America nfinancier, born. Died July 22, 1906. 1S59 William II. Underwood, a noted lawyer, who was leading counsel

for the Cherokee Indians in their

difficulties with the state of Georgia, died. Born Sept. 13, 1779.

1SS4 Reception of the survivors of the

Greely Arctic expedition at Ports

mouth. X. II.

1SSS Samuel J. Tllden, American statesman, died. Born Feb. 9, 1S14.

1S87 Collapse of the wheat syndicate

in San Francisco. Loss, $6,000,000.

1S89 Spokane Falls, Wash., nearly de stroyed by fire.

1S91 The twenty-llfth national en

campment of the Grand Army op ened in Detroit.

1900 Jacob D. Cox, secretary of the

interior in the cabinet of President

Grant, died at Oberlin, Ohio.

Two Dead Men. Two men are dead in our little town, ind one with money was loaded down; nd one was of the good long green a humble cog in the big machine. Of what avail are the rich man's rocks? They'll nail him down in a costly box; and gorgeous garlands the heirs will bring, and the priest will preach and the choir will sing, and prancing horses will haul the hearse the price will come from the dead man's purse.

But not a mourner is really sad; the eyes may weep when the heart is glad. The dead man never had in his soul another wish than to swell his roll; he

lived to gather the shining bones; he

pinched a dime till you nearu na groans. The other man who has crossed the line, and whom we'll plant in a box of rine, was ever ready to help or cheer when old Miss Fortune was

camping near; to help the troubled to soothe their pains he'd go right down in his old blue Jeans; "to help a neighbor's a pleasure, sure" and that was the logic that kept htm poor. He's dead and gone, and the. people grieve; and they shed real tears not the make believe! WALT MASON. Copyright, 1909, by George Matthew Adams.

THE CREAM OF THE Morning News

SOME MEN IN THIS WORLD, AND NOT SO VERY FAR FROM HENCE, EVIDENTLY THINK THEY CAN

HAVE THEIR CAKE AND EAT IT ALL

AT THE SAME TIME.

Oh, Fair One! Yea, it is often quite possible to become blind from a fall. i. e.. if you fall in love the right way you will be blind.

The average girl would rather be In love than be happy.

TWO MORE LOSE LIVES. Two more souls were hurried into eternity, yesterday, in Lake County by drowning. The circumstances were tragic. One man fell out of a boat through its rocking. A second life was lost by a boy falling off a pier into the water as he was watching men drag the lake for the body of the first drowned man. It seems to be utterly useless to warn people to be careful when they are on or near the water. Fourteen lives have been lost already this season in this region and it is just about half over.

THIS IS MY HTH BIRTHDAY. Ebenezer J. Hill. Ebenezer J. Hill. representative congress from the Fourth district

Connecticut, was born in Redding, Ct., August 4, 1S45, and received his education in the public schools of Norwalk and at Ynle university. Ie joined the Federal army in 18rt3 and nerved until the close of the war. Returning to Norwalk in 1S65 he engaged in business in that city. In the course of a few years he became a leader in the commercial life of Norwalk and was also rrominent in public affairs, filling a number of city offices. He was a member of the Connecticut senate in 1SS6-S7, and served one term on the republican state central committee. Mr. Hill was first elected to congress in 1894, and has been seven times reelected on the republican ticket.

We know men who have an idea that people consider them frugal and Industrious when, as a matter of fact, somebody is always saying of them, "Holy smoke, what a tight-wad."

RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

Ask a small boy to do unmet hi ug nnd he'll soyt "Just wait a moment." Auk a man and he will say, "Juwt wait till next week.

"Twenty years from now we will be flying," said a scientist, lately. Yes, if he is a good boy he may fly; if not he may go where wings won't last.

WASHINGTON.

"Range" senators accept modification in tariff bill and measure will be voted

upon finally on Thursday.

President Taft's western itinerary partly arranged; speaks in Chicago on

Sept. 16. DOMESTIC.

Indianapolis councllmen attacked by

mob after being accused of trickery in

political appointments.

Mayor Tom L Johnson's pet street

railway scheme beaten In Cleveland

referendum election by 3,982 votes.

Head of Matteawan insane asylum declares Thaw is crazy yet; says his

liberation would be public menace.

Mount Vernon woman confesses murder, saying husband forced her to kill

his supposed rival.

Parents of Italian children kidnaped in St. Louis are ready to pay $25,000

ranson demanded of them.

Governor Johnson in speech at Seattle

advises that west throw off yoke of

eastern states. LABOR. Simultaneously with predictions o

vote tor street car strike tomorrow

state arbitrators and city officials con

sidered peace moves.

Wives of street car union officials

say husbands must earn money or suf fer dietary reduction. CHICAGO. v

Thousands poke their noses t prove

their sanity.

Municipal officials hastening back to city for conference with Mayor Busse

regarding traction wage crisis.

Mrs. Frances Trego Montgomery, ere

ator of "Billy Whiskers," obtains quick

divorce. Cardinal Gibbons says divorce 1

arch enemy of religion; urges total ab

sti nonce.

Catholic total abstinence convention

begins sessions today.

FOREIGN.

MocKiinim taces general labor wa

and soldiers are encamped in city ready

for trouble.

Greatest battle of Riff campaign ex

pected near Melllla within a few davp

NEW YORK. Mrs. Sage buys site on which will b

erected model Homes lor iamilles o

small means.

Former wife of manufacturer allfge

juggle In divorce proceedings agams

her.

Refore you wed the girl .he will ImprfM yon an having a light appetite when you buy for her, but afterward, gee, Hhl, how be will eat when yon take her to n restaurant.

IN POLITICS

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMES Y'ou are authorized to

announce my name aa a candidate for the republican nomination for mayor of Hammond before the republican nom-

natlnv convention, whose date la to he

decided upon at later date.

Higher Courts' Record-

SfPRKMK COURT MINUTES. 21411. In the matter of the estate ot Bayard Gray, deceased, ex parte F.dwin S. Jaqua. administrator. Marion S. C. Appellant's petition to vacate order of dismissal under rule 21. Petition granted and dismissal set aside. Appellant granted extension of time to Nov. 1. 21464. Minerva H. Dutton et al. vs. A. H. Hart et al. Warren C. C. Appellants' brief. NEW SUPREME COURT SUIT. 21520. Western Union Telegraph Co. vs. Chicago, Lake Shore & South Bend Railway company. Laporte S. C. Record. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond. 21521. Robert J. Ruf et al. vs. Claudia Schrelber, now Claudia Mueller. Lake S. C. Record. Assignment of errors. Praecipe. Notice to Lake county. APPELLATE COURT MINUTES. 7305. Andrew J. Bailey, administrator, vs. Joseph Miller et al. Marion P.

C. Appellant's brief. 16S. Lewis A. Shutt et al. vs. Edward Smith. Huntington C. C. Appellants' amended brief. Appellants' reply brief. 256. Averett Halstead vs. Samuel M. LaRue. Newton C. C. Appellant' brief. NEW APPELLATE COURT SUIT. 351. Lake Erie & Western Railroad, Company vs. Thomas C. Oland. Randolph C. C. Record. Assignment of errors. In term. Bond.

WE CERTAINLY congratulate the Wrights on their victory over the air and their acquisition of $5,000 cold plunks from Uncle Sam, but it takes a good deal of pleasure out of the thing to know that they have not invented an airship, that we could in the course of time come to buy with tra'Qg tamps.

We get free hides, but as clothing will be higher they will skin us anyway.

Extract from "The Pa try of an Outraged Wife:" "This morning, by tho mail which arrives at breakfast time, came a number of dressmakers' and milliners' bills, and he didn't swear or

rant a bit over them. Oh. relentless

skies, how long am I to endure this cankering Indifference?"

"THE BACHELORS AND OLD MAIDS POST KNOW WHAT TROTH LE IS,"

Ift It naa only an hard to harrow some people' fetlng aa It la to harrow aome cloy CeliU.

An organization called the "Sane and Sound Iifague" is beir.g formed in Alabama for the avowed purpose of combating the further progress of prohibition laws in that statt. Former Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri, who Is filling engagements this summer as a Chautauqua lecturer, declares his intention to remain In politics and says he expects to contest for Senator Warner's seat in the United States senate next year. The democratic party of Pennsylvania will hold its state convention in Harrisburg on Wednesday, Aug. 4. Candidates will be named for state treasurer, auditor general and Justice of the state supreme court. Ohio Is to have its first trial of the direct primary next month. The pro-.-i.Tlcr.a of the law in general are slml-

Gary,. Nee

Hundreds of

Cheaper Homes

H OUSES which will rent for 23 from $15.00 to $20.0 per

month. Houses which can be sold with profit to the builders for from $1800.00 to 2500.00 each. Houses accessible to the works of the Indiana Steel Company, the American Locomotive Site, the Coke Ovens, the Schools, and the business center of the town.

The man who pays $f5.00 per month rent, is as much

entitled to sewerage, paved streets and water, as the man who pays $50.00 per month. The renter or prospective buyer demands all of these improvements.

This Company will pave every

-a. street in the First Subdivis

ion. Sewers and water mains are now in every alley in the First Subdivision. The prices of lots in the First Subdivision include the cost of paved streets and sewers.

ANY very desirable residence lots may still be had for as

low as $375.00 each.

Gary

Land

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