Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 69, Hammond, Lake County, 8 September 1909 — Page 1

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Hammond Distillery to Install Evaporators to Do Away With Objectionable Vapors Which Arise From Feeding of Cattle.

If the people who reside in the neighborhood of the Hammond Distilling company have liad reason for complaint because of the feeding of cattle on the grounds of the distillery they need worry no longer. The feeding will be discontinued, and John E. Fitz gerald, at an expense of $50,000 to $80,000, la Installing an evaporator which will dry the slop, thus making it , possible to ship it away. The contract for the evaporator build Ing has been let to Contractor J. H. Mc Clay of Hammond, who expects to have a building, 44x50 feet in size, com pleted in thirty days. Evaporators Expensive. The building will of brick and will cost in the neighborhood of $3,400 or $4,000. The principal cost, however, will be the enormous evaporators which. It is claimed, will require 700 to 800 tons of copper for their manufacture. It is this metal that makes them the ex pensive thing about the new plan of slop disposal. The arrangement, how ever, removes all of the moisture from the slop and makes It possible to bag or bail it up and feed it to cattle In any part of the country. It is also said that there are im portant nutritious elements in the feed that are saved by this process. But from the standpoint of the residents in the neighborhood of the distillery the great advantage is the sanitary dis posal of the slop which they claim pol lutes the water of the river and make the neighborhood unhealthy. IBITULOB 10 - GIVE THEATRE PARTY Block of 60 Seats Reserved at Towle's (,for Blue Mouse. SIGN LEASE FOR NEW ROOMS Final Step Toward Securing Most Luxurious Quarters In Local Clubdom. The members of the University club of Hammond last night decided to give a theater party at Towle's Opera House next Monday evening on the occasion of the playing of the Blue Mouse. The party will be followed by an after-theater luncheon at one of the local restaurants. Today circulars announcing the decision of the club to give this party will be sent to all of the members. Manager Roy C. Emery of Towle's Opera House has promised to reserve a block of sixty seats for the exclusive use of the members of the University club, their wives and lady friends. After the theater the party will repair to a nearby restaurant for refreshments. From present indications there will be at least sixty members in attendance. R-ports from Cedar Rapids and other towns where the Blue Mouse has been playing are to the effect that, while Mabel Barrlson Is not with the company now. it is the same aggregation that played at the Garrick in Chicago and had such a successful run there. To H a Large l'arly. This is the first time that a Hammond club has undertaken to give a theater party on a large scale, and the members are pleased at Mr. Emery's willingness to reserve a good block, of seats. The meeting of the club last evening was an important one, in that the president and secretary, upon authority given them by the board of directors, signed the lease for the new club rooms in the Citizen's National Bank building. The lease is being guaranteed by a number of the members of the club, and this is the final step toward the realization of the club's project for the finest club rooms In the city. The secretary of the club was authorized to draw up a memorial thanking the Hammond business men, who donated their automobiles and made the resent trip to Cedar Lake possible, for their liberality. Farnlsnlng Homes with as is ft p clftltr. not elde line; four floor of furniture. Spiegel's. 91S3-9135 ComKrcUl aveaus, South Chicago

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showing a satisfacory Increase this year over last. In all of the buildings there Is something of an Increase shown. This is an Indication that the re gion of the city's greatest development is in the Standard district and in B.ob ertsdale. The following is the enroll ment last year and for the present school year. This will be greatly Increased by the addition of a number of tardy students. ; row I h la High School. The high school had an enrollment of 180 last year and has enrolled 198 this year. In the Central building there are 354 students this yean, as compared with 320 last year. In the 'Wallace school there are 19T students this year, as compared to 125 last year. In the Lafayette school there are 434 students, as compared with 425 last year. In the Irving school there are 228 students this year, as compared to 1S5 last year. This is one of the most substantial increases shown. In the Riverside building the enrollment this year is 232, while it was 225 last year. The Franklin school shows an in crease of 36 students, there having been an enrollment of 160 students last year, as compared with 196 this year. In the Lincoln school the enrollment was 220 last year, and it is 246 this year. In the Wilcox school the attendance is very small. It was 15 last year, and it will be 18 this year. This is also the case with the school at Gibson, where the attendance was nothing last year and is 10 this year. Altogether the enrollment of the Hammond schools has increased from 1,855 last year to 2,111 this year. ISSUES CALL FOR TEACHEB! MTITNTP jfUiilUBU (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Sept, 7. County Superintendent Heighway has called Preliminary Institutes as- follows: Teachers of Hanover twp., Cedar Creek twp., West Creek twp., will meet at Lowell high school building on Thursday, Sept. 9. Teachers of Kagle Creek, twp., Winfield, twp., Center, twp. St. John, twp., will meet at the office of county superintendent on Friday, Sept. 10. Teachers of North twp.. Calumet, twp., Griffith, Munster, Tolleston, will meet, in the high school building at Hammond Saturday, Sept. 11. All meetings will be called to order at 9:30 a. m. GE IS BnCHfllS PORTION Comrades Overwhelm With Council for His Guidance. William Bachman's departure from the fire station this morning was the occasion for the outpouring of advice from the old heads, enough to last the intrepid young man a life time. William Bachnian,-who the redoubtable engine driver for the Central department, left this morning for Chicago, where he will be married this evening to Miss Ernestine Otto. His bride-to-be has been in Hammond a number of times, and those of Mr. Bachman's friends who had the pleasure of gaining her acquaintance congratulate the groom. AWARDS WALTER ST. PAVING CONTRACT The board of public works this morn ing at its regular meeting awarded the contract for the paving of Walter street to the Ahlborn Construction Co. The contract, as let. provides for Westrumite pavement at $1.87 a square yard. The resolution for the North Hohman street walks was taken under ad visement until Sept. 10. A resolution providing for bids for the Alice street walks was accepted. The inspector's report for tl.e Williams street pavement was accepted. .The plans and specifications for the Highlands street sewer were accepted, but the matter of opening Highlands street was taken under advisement until Sept. 10. C. Hubbard, sr.. was appointed in spector for the Walter street pave ment

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Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 8, 3 p. m. (Special.) The Lake county council today passed the appropriation granting $60,000 for the remodeling of the Lake superior court house at Hammond with a whoop and only one member, Henry Batterman of Dyer, voted against it. , The real significance of this action on the part of the county council is that the Lake superior court house will be provided with two court rooms of magnificent proportions, necessitating only the appointment of a special Judge to give Lake county the extra court facilities that it so sadly needs?. The appropriation provides for the entire remodeling of the whole building. The court house is to be made square, the roof is to be renewed, the heating plant replaced, the. floors relaid and the building refurnished. When completed, the building will meet the needs of Hammond for years to come, and its total cost to the county will be in the neighborhood of $175,000. It will be necessary to advertise for bids for six weeks, and the architect estimates that it will take seven or eight months to complete th e work of remodeling the building.

Remonstrances Against Lowell and Whiting Liquor Dealers One License Granted Others Under Advisement. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 8. The county commissioners yesterday re ceived remonstrances against six Lake county saloons. Two of these were in Ixjwell and four in Whiting. Wassl Soroko, of Whiting, against whom a remonstrance was filed, was granted" a license and the cases of the others were taken under advisement until today. Among those against whom remon strances have been filed are: Jasper Hull of Lowell, Walter Butowski, John Cahal and Frank Zachar of Whiting. The remonstrances are all based on certain technicalities or are filed where the opponents of the saloons find that the saloonkeepers have not obey the law. It is the old fight that Is being waged by the representatives of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league against every saloonkeeper in Lake county who is not living up to the letter of the law. Today at 10 o'clock the county com missioners will make a trip to the count' poor farm to check up the man agement of that institution. This is the work of the commissioners each quarter. Yesterday the commissioners heard the above remonstrances against the saloons, allowed certain bills and let the contract for two small bridges, the largest of which was a bridge to cost $1,000, which Is to be built over Cedar creek. FEW WEEKS TO WAIT. Cannot Set Date for Opening of Lion Store Addition. The date for the opening of the Lion store, which is being looked forward to by everybody in Hammond who has watched the building of the new ad dition to this already large store, has not been set. It is expected, however, that the proprietors. Kaufman & Wolf, will make an announcement of the date as soon as they can see their way clear to do so. The work that is now in progress will require several weeks for its completion, and at that time it Will be possible to tell Just when it will be possible to hold the grand opening. ADVERTISE IX THE TIMES.

Naturalization of Foreigners Again on Tapis as Campaigns in Lake County Cities Begin to Warm Up.

Naturalization of foreigners will be the order of the day again as the various city campaigns in the Calumet region warm up. Since foreigners in this county can be naturalized only in the circuit court or in the office of Charles Surprise, deputy United States clerk in Hammond, the bulk of the work of naturalizing the foreigners will fall on the young Hammond man. Already a score have been brought in from East Chicago and made their declarations of becoming United States citizens. Applicant Mnt Make Out Own Papers. Clerk Surprise has inaugurated a radical change in his office this year regarding the applications. Hereafter every foreigner will have to make out his own applications by filling out the blanks. These blanks are quite lengthy and while their filling out is little work for the individual a large number of them stack up a mountain of work for the clerk. It is the intention of the law in the first place that the applicant make out his application. If he is too ignorant to do this his political friends who want to see him naturalised can help him. Crop Not Large Thin Year. In the national campaign last fall Mr. Surprise kept experts and an extra force busy helping out at his own expense. On all sides it was said that he was reaping a harvest, but the fact of the matter was that he was glad to break even after he had divided part of the profits with the deputy United States clerk at Indianapolis, not to count the hard work and long hours that he put In. It Is not thouerht that there will be a big crop of naturalizations this year, a?v the district had been thoroughly canvassed in the last campaign. The return of prosperity, however, has brought new foreigners to the region. and it is not unlikely that before the various campaigns are over several hundred more voting citizens will have been added to the United States from this locality. H. H. Halsey in Town. H. H. Halsey. one of the old-time Hammond boys, is in Hammond this week distributing and advertising the Blood Berry gum. He has been with the company for a year and giving it the benefit of his forceful personality

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Wanes When Tolleston Light and Water Franchise Petitions are Tabled Tax Levy Fixed for Ensuing Year.

(Special to The Time&) Tolleston, Ind., Sept. 8. Excitement which was expected for the Tolleston town board meeting yesterday afternoon, was kept in the back ground when the various franchise petitions to furnish the town with light and water were tabled. The contest was first thought to lay between the Gary Heat, Light & Water company and the Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Light company, but petitions from two other sources were handed in. J. C. Walcott, claiming to representing eastern capital, and the law firm of Ballard & Stanton, representing the Citizens' Lighting company, also made application, but little or nothing is known of the backing of the last two applicants at this time. The principal reason for tabling the franchise question yesterday was due to the fact that the Gary Heat, Light & Water company did not have its petition in he desired shape. Probably the most important matter In the session was the fixing of the tax levy for the ensuing year. The taxes, according to this levy, will be assessed as follows: General fund, 50 cents; street and Alley fund. 25 cents; lighting fund, 12 cents, and bonded indebtedness fund, 10 cents. ( By a resolution, which was adopted yesterday, steps were taken to annex the thirty-one acres directly south of Tolleston, known as the Koepke addition. The plat for the Randall fifth addition to Tolleston embracing five acres was also accepted. GETS HORSE BACKLiveryman Would Like to Find Man Who Hired It. Ex-Sheriff Fred Carter last Monday recovered one of his livery horses which had fallen into the hands of reckless and possibly desperate drivers. The 1 horse was found tted in a copse at 'Griffith, where twe? young desperadoes had placed it last Sunday night. They hired the rig, and upon enuring Griffifth acted in a strange manner. The town marshal, Mr. Taylor, watched them and when they abandoned the rig he notified the owner. The horse appears to hav been plentifully abused. Free automobile ride around Gary, Ind., with compliments of U. S. Land Co. Machine meets all trains.

Criminal negligence may be charged against the Monon railroad because of the death of Ernest Schmitt, 1171 West Lake street, Chicago. Schmitt died in the baggage coach of a picnic train which arrived in Hammond about 9 o'clock Monday night, and eyewitnesses, according to David Schmitt, a brother of the deceased, say that the man was permitted to lay beside the tracks for nearly an hour without any attempt to give him comfort and that the train which struck him did not stop to take film jilnner to Hammond, where his life

! might have been saved in the hospital, i The brother also complains about the J lateness of the hour at which time the ' family was notified, saying that word ! was received In Chicago yesterday fore noon, whereas it should have reacnea him 'Monday night at 11 o'clock at the latest. The dead man carried an envelope bearing his name in his pocket. The inquest will be finished tomorrow. The body was taken to Chicago today for burial next Friday. The deceased leaves a wife to mourn his untimely death. JEW FIRE 8IATI0I1 IS OKID TO-DAY Robertsdale Department Occupies Its Recently Erected Structure. Robertsdale's fire department, composed of four men, including Captain Ryron, occupies its new station today. The men are nroud of their new home and are now comfortably housed for many years to come. The building adjoins the old building, which will be turned into a police station and jail and is 32x60 feet. Like the old build ing, the new structure Is two stories in heisrht. In finish the apparatus room ranks probably as the best among the four fire stations in the city. The new fire buildine cost approxi mately $5,000 and was-built by Parker & Spafford. The plans were drawn oy Architect BacTurner. PAVING SENTIMENT GROWS IN FAVOR Petition Being Circulated for Improvement of the State Line Roadway. Sentiment in favor of improving State Line street, both on the Indiana and Illinois sides, has grown to such an ex tent that a petition i3 being circulated on the Indiana side asking the board of public works for the improvement The Indiana side is open from Sibley street to the city litntis, but it is the aim to have it opened as far as Plum mer avenue north, and the property owners in this neighborhood are said to favor it. West Hammond, in general, too, real izes the advantages of such an ex cellent thoroughfare as is evidence by the fact that the village administration has asked for a conference with the Hammond board of public works. "DEESTRIGT SKULES" TO OPEN SEPT. 13 North Township Instituttions of Learning and Teaching Force. The North township Fchools will begin the 1S09-10 season nvt Monday, Sept. 13, with the following teaching corps: First district; Central school Annab E, Emery, principal and teacher, sixth, seventh and eighth grades; Eva B. Wilson, fourth and fifth grades: Clara Mathies, first, second and third grades. Second district: Highland F. W. Love, principal and teacher sixth, seventh and eighth grades: Brffie Mayes, fourth and fifth grades; Minnie Schultz, first, second and third grades. Third district: Saxony Edith Carter, fifth, sixth, seevnth and eighth grades; Laura Newcomb, first, second, third and fourth grades. Martha Schaaf, music in all schools. Peter Tanis Loses Bicycle. Peter Tanis of SIS Summer street reported to the police that his bicycle had been stolen from In front of Mueller's hardware store, on Sibley street. The bicycle was afterwards found near the Monon freight house.

Bereolos Brothers to Re model Their Holdings, Making Great Improvement in Appearance of Mercantile Center.

New changes are to be made in the business district of Hammond that will greatly add to the appearance of the town and make several places of bus iness in the heart of the city look mora up-to-date. The changes are all planned by Be reolos Bros, and will tend to improve their holdings in this city. The work of remodeling the old AVondei land the ater building and opening it through to the Palace of Sweets is going forward rapidly, and the proprietors say wnen the improvement is completed they will have, the finest confectionery and soft drink emporium in northern Indiana. The floor of the Falace of Sweets is to be covered with tile and a new modern front Is to be put in on the Hohman street side. The State street ide is already being Improved. In addition, the Bereolos Bros, are to put in a modern store front m J. W. Millikan's novelty and sporting goods establishment in the Central block. Want Place Improved. Dan A. Shuck, the proprietor of the Bank saloon, has asked the landlords to make some Improvements . in his place, which is in a bad condition of repair, and he is of the opinion that for the sake of the appearance of the building, if for no other reason, that Bereolos Bros, will make the necessary repairs. Other improvements are to be made in the Central block until this building, which was in a tunible-down condition at the time it was purchased, will be converted into a fairly respectable business block. " When these Improvements are completed about the only places of business in the heart of the city, outside of the Flatiron building, which will be glaringly in need of remodeling, will be Sommer's saloon and Meeker & McCune's place at the corner of State and Hohman streets. It is understood that the proprietors of these places would be only too glad to have improvements made if the landlords could be induced to get busy. TO RESUME FIGHT AT VALPO. SEPT. 30 Gary Saloon Cases to Be Brought Up in Superior Court in That City. Judge John H. Gillett. chief counsel for the Gary saloon cases, stated this morning that the fight of the saloon men for licensed saloons in Gary would be resumed in the superior court at Valparaiso, Sept. 30. at which time Judge Tuthill set the cases for trial yesterday. The latter part of this month is the earliest that it could have been hoped that they would come to trial because of the fact that the jury cases are given precedence in making up the calendar. Great interest in Gary will be taken in the last fight of the saloon men for existence. The remonst rators have now been placed on the defensive by reason of the fact that the saloon men are tryIn to prove that a certain number of the f-igmitures were obtained by fraud and therefore would Invalidate the entire remonstrance. TREY PROTEST AGAINST OUST Hammond Council Accepts Petition of Property Owners. Very little business was transacted at the regular meeting of the Hammond city councij last evening. The petition of the 103 property owners in the neigl tjorhood of the Coal Storage plant remonstrating against the dust emeriatir.g from tint plant was accepted and filed. A motion was adopted providing for the refunding of license money ti Joseph Kaszenskl for his unexpired saloon license. The naloon had been destroyed by fire before the annual license had expired. ADVERTISE AXD ADVEHTTSB AGALV IX THE TIDIES.