Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 132, Hammond, Lake County, 20 November 1909 — Page 4

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BREAD AND BUTTER NOT CRUSHED ROSES. We quite agree with Mayor Becker tliat it would not be the proper thing for the municipal administration to take the initiative in action which would cause the city of Hammond to lose one of its most important industries and we further believe that the people of the east side will look at the matter in that light. The officials of the Hammond Distilling company have already made public that they are about to expend a large sum of money In a system which will effectually dispose of the cattle feeding nuisance at the plant. The company officials are just as glad a3 the people of the east side that they can do this. Mayor Becker pointed out the remedy and declared that it is in the hands of the people. There is no question about that. Neither Is there any reason for undue and precipitate haste. The distilling company has promised to abate the feeding of slop on the river banks and a certain degree of patience must be exercised before it can be done. The installation of the disposal system Is entirely a matter of time, but It will and must come eventually. It is highly unfortunate that the banks of the Calumet river are used as residential sites by some people who have built their little homes there, being induced to purchase by real estate owners who never look further than the almighty dollar. The banks of a river like the Calumet ought to be kept for manufacturing purposes alone. A waterway of commerce and traffic is no place for a house and lot. The Hammond Distilling company is an important factor in the industrial life of this city and has a right to use its realty on the river banks as it sees fit, up to that point where It is not a menace to health. No ono has yet had the temerity to say that the waste product fed to cattle is unhealthful for it is the contrary. It is offensive to the nostrils of course, but Hammond is not today supporting manufacturing industries that turn out delicate perfumery. Hammond depends on industries where the hiss of steam, the clang of the hammer, the hum of the fly wheel and the sweat of the toiler, make it a highly vitalized industrial center, whose people want bread, butter and clothing, instead of cashmere bouquet baby powder.

AN IMPORTANT DECISION. An interesting decision has been returned by the Indiana courts which will have a far-reaching and most desirable affect. "A husband divorced for his own misconduct, and deprived of the custody of his children, must still support them or he may be punished for abandoning them and "contributing to their delinquency." The appellate court so decided in aSlrming a judgment of the Elkhart juvenile court, from which Clarence L. Spade has taken an appeal. Spade's wife obtained a divorce and was awarded the custody of the two children, and he was ordered to pay her $1.50 a week for the support of the children. He paid the money for eight weeks, and then refused to pay more, and his former wife thereupon deserted the two-year-old baby Bernice. In rendering his decision which is one full of interest Judge Watson said: "Two months later the juvenile court took charge of the child, and the father was arrested on the charge of abandoning it. Judge Watson said: "It is shown that the appellant, is an able-bodied man able to labor and support his helpless, dependent child. It is therefore his duty to do so under our statutes, and was so before the statute was enacted, even though there was no remedy at common law to enforce that duty. If the appellant had expended his energies ard money for the suppor af his infant child as becometh a father, which he has expended to defeat the order requiring him to do his duty by his child, it would have been to his 5 redit instead of to his everlasting shame. "The juvenile court adjudged appellant guilty of contributing to the delinquency of Bernice Spades and that he pay a fine of $100; and suspended the judgment and ordered that he be released from custody under the condition that he shall report to that court once each three months and pay the board of commissioners $1.23 a week for the support of said child.

LET THE RENTS COME DOWN. This paper has advocated in many editorials that rents in Gary should some down before the average workman can come to Gary with his family and make his home. The Indiana Steel company is each day taking on more men with the Construction of the coke ovens and the grading of the American Bridge company site and the locating of other industries in Gary, next spring, scores of workmen must necessarily come to Gary or to some neighboring city to make their homes. Is the city of Gary offering these men any inducement to locate within its corporate limits? With the high cost of living in the city can the average workman afford to pay the high rents, that are still being asked by the Gary landlords or will he locate in some other city where a reasonable rent is offered the tenant.' Indiana Harbor, East Chicago and Hammond have scores of houses or cottages that can be rented from anywhere from $12.00 to $25.00. Scores of workmen in the mills go back and forth' to" these cities every night on the trains because they cannot pay the high rent in Gary. With the Improved railroad facilities, which is offered to the workmen in Gary, it is only a matter of a few minutes ride to these neighboring cities. Would it not be to the Interest of the Gary merchant -and business man to have these men become citizens of Gary and make their homes among us? Should not the dollars that are made In the Gary mills rightfully be spent in the city of Gary? It Is not worth the effort to secure lower rents? Should their not be some conceited effort in the part of the business men of Gary to bring this about? Of course high rent is caused by the demand for houses that rent at a reasonable rate per month. The only possible way to secure lower rents is for the men of means to build houses of this nature. At present rents are paying the investor to great a per cent interest on his money invested. Let the married man build more houses that rent at a reasonable rate, than one costly flat building or house which rents for $.15.00 to $30.00 per month. Good business and good money that should rightfully be spent in Gary Is being spent in other cities. It is a question that requires the attention of the local business man. Is it worth the effort or does the Gary merchant care nothing for the business that is now going to other cities.

MR. ROCKERFELLER has given $1,000,000 with which to fight the hcok-worm. We do not counsel any of our people to get the hook-worm with the hope of landing a few of Mr. Rockefeller's golden shekels, however. ; a . . "GOOD ROADS lead to good times," is the way a southern paper put it And after traveling them a fellow isn't so completely out of breath that he san't enjoy 'em.

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RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

AND next month we have congress on our hands again. The Finnish diet has been dissolved. No relation to the Diet of Wurms. WE read that the U. S. will push the sugar cases. Push them off or on? ZELAYA finds that there is something back of the Taft smile after all. A GOOD cure for fighting most evils is backbone simple spine and nothing else. ji THE pictures of some men, in some g.'rl's boudoirs, look almost like a rogues gallery. M COLLEGE professor killed himself because his baby cried. If well, dead men tell no tales. EIGHT bankers were indicted at Indianapolis yesterday. There 18 seme class to that. WE find the great trouble with the milk of human kindness is that a great deal of it tastes of the can. SOME men get weary of work and weary of play, but they never get weary of drawing their pay. ALPHONSO of Spain, is another chap whose lambrequins are giving him a great deal of trouble. 4 THE fag end of the football season brings out the fact that the injuries are piling up faster than ever. MOVING pictures of the way blind pig cases at Gary are not prosecuted would be extremely interesting just now. TWO-TONED stockings are the latest. It will be impossible to play much of a tune, however, on a pair of socks. ANDREW CARNIGE refuses to go up 1ft an aeroplane, says he'll wait for his own wings to grow first. Canny Andy will never fly it is thocht. ASUFFRAGETTISM doesn't worry the ladies around here. What bothers them is how to make the increasing prices of steak fit a flat pocket book. sV HALLEY'S come will not be visible to the naked eye until next spring, says an exchange. Well, will it be visible to the eye that wears clothes? PERHAPS if that crowd of Hammond men had done a little more walking to Robertsdale before election the result would have been different. A DEMOCRATIC paper says, that prosperity has arrived. It takes some democratic . papers just about that length of time to find out important news. CHESTERTON pulled off a little bank robbery the other day. But $40 in pennies was taken. It would be well for all the babies there to hide their banks. A BROTHER Wheeler of the Star says that there is a great scarcity of hogs in Lake County. Bro. Wheeler, we fear, has not ridden recently on our East Chicago-Hammond car about 5:30 p. m. FRED LANDIS may be a candidate for the republican nomination for secretary of state. We shall have to find out whether Fred Is wearing his hair as he did when he was congressman before he gets our support. A GOOD many Lake County places are losing chances of getting free advertising these days. Is no one going to offer anything for the Jeffries-John-sing scrap? It doesn't make any difference whether you have the money or not? JEFFRIES says he doesn't know how a man has the strength to go through a political campaign. If Jeff will stop off in Hammond a few minutes we can show him a few men who didn't have the strength to get through. ft AFTER a man has notified the garage, and made his way home on a traction car it is not so hard for him to understand why somebody broke up an automobile and chucked it into the Kankakee river up Hammond way. Indianapolis News. Only they chucked it into the river, down. THE Hammond TIMES man says: "It must be awfully dry for Attorney Matthews, of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league at Valparaiso." There is no danger of Bro. Matthews becoming thirsty if he looks around. All he reeds is to produce the dough. Valparaiso Messenger. Well, he will look around all right enough, don't you worry if he is with some one who has the dough.

"THIS DATE IN HISTORY November 20. 1606 James I. Issued instructions lor the government of Virginia." 1733 General Philip John Schuyler, revolutionary hero, born In Albany, N. Y. Died there, Nov. 18, ISO 4. IS 12 Fort Niagara bombarded by the British. 1841 Sir Wilfred Laurier, premier of Canada, born. 1852 William Schley, eighteenth governor of Georgia, died In Augusta. Born in Maryland, Dec 10, 1TS6. 1866 First national encampment of the G. A. R. assembled at Indianapolis. 1S93 Great earthquake at Kuchan, Persia, 12,000 deaths reported. 1903 Francis M. Drake, ex-governor of Iowa, died at Centreville, la.

THIS IS MY 58TH BIRTHDAY" Margherita of Italy. Queen Margherita of Italy, mother of the reigning monarch, Victor Emmanuel III., was born Nov. 20, 1851, the only daughter of the late Prince Ferdinand of Savoy, Duke of Genoa. In 1868 she was married to Humbert of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont, who became king of Italy in 1878. After the occupation of Roma by the Italian government in 1870 Marpherita took up her residence in the Qulrlnal palace, where she has lived ever since. She has been a widow since July 29, 1900, when King Humbert was slain by an assassin at Monua. The Dowagw Queen is very popular among all classes of her Italian subjects, and she has the respect and veneration of every crowned head In Europe. "THIS DATE IN HISTORY" November 21. 1789J North Carolina ratified the Constltutlon of the United States. 1840 Princess Victoria Adelaide, eldest daughter of Queen Victoria, born. Died Aug. 5, 1901. 1856 Western section of the Grand Trunk railway opened to traffic. 1871 Grand civil and military recep tion of the Grand Duke Alexis in New York. 1874 Mariano Fortuny, celebrated tSpanlsh painter, died In Rome. Born at Reus, Spain, June 11, 1838. 18S5 Elizur Wright, who devised the plan of business on which life In surance companies are now con ducted, died In Medford, Mass. Born in South Canaan, Conn., Feb. 12 1804. 1892 Japanese cruiser Ohishlma sunk in collision with the steamship Ra venna in the Gogo Shlma straits. seventy-five lives lost. 1S93 Jeremiah M. Rush, former secretary of agriculture of the United States, died at Vlroqua, Wis. "THIS IS MY 44TH BIRTHDAY," Hugh M. Smith. Dr. Hugh McCormick Smith, deputy commisioners of the United States bureau of fisheries, was born in Wash Ington, D. C, Nov. 21, 1865. and re celved his education in the public schools of that city and in the medical department of Georgetown university He entered the fish commission In 1886 as an assistant, and through various promotions attained his present office in 1903. He was director of the fish commission's laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., in 1901 and 1902 and was one of the special agents in charge of fishes in the tenth census. He has general charge of the biological survey of the Philippine waters and la familiar with fishes not only from a scientific stand point but from every other standpoint having visited many foreign countrle to study fisheries and represented the United States at various fishery con flresses. A IHorr in the Hack. An overcoat is a necessary nuisance and the tendency to take it off on warish days In late autumn and winter is as strong as it is unwise. A treacherous wind hits you in the back and the next morning you have lumbago. Rub well and often with Perry Davis' Painkiller and you will be astonished to find how quickly all soreness is banished. UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A PICKPOCKET IS FINED. William Bennett, alleged pickpocket, arrested at the Knox county fair in September, was Thursday evening fined $1 and costs in a pury trial in the circuit court. Friends of Bennett from Danville, 111., paid the fine. When arrested Bennett possessed a complete list of fairs In Indiana, Ilinois and Michigan and a map of President Taft's recent itinerary. BADIT'S FATHER COLLAPSES. The strain under which ho has been kept since the murder of J. Hangary l-"aweett by his son. Thomas Jefferson Hoal .the boy bandit, has resulted In the collapse of William J. Hoal at his home in Ixnilsville. His condition is not considered serious, however. MILE'S KICK FATAL. While William D. Copple was in his field in Hanover township near Shelby, ville husking corn Wednesday a mule kicked him in the head. He was unconscious for three hours. When he regained his senses he went home. Complications have developed and he may die. GINNESS VICTIM IDENTIFIED. Another victim of Mrs. Belle Gunness, arch murderess, of LaPorte, was identified Thursday as Tonias Peter Lien of Rushford. Minn. Samuel P. Lien, who recently returned from a sea cruise of three years, yesterday Identified a watch found in the ruins of the Guness house as that of his brother Tonias. "LTTI.E GIANT" DEAD. The Allen County Bar association met yesterday morning and passed resolutions on the death of Henry Colerick, the "Little Giant," which occurred Wednesday. The Coleriek family was deluged with letters and telegrams expressing the deepest sympathy "with them In their bereavement. CONFER DEGRESS ON The final event In three days' ceremonies connected with the. dedication of the new $200,000 Scottish Rite Cathedral at Fort Wayne came last evening when the thirty-second degree.

sublime prince of the royal secret, was conferred upon & class of 298 candidates. The conferring of this degree, for the first time In the state outside of Indianapolis, also came as the cul

mination of a strenuous days' work for all concerned. RIOTERS WAIT FOR VERDICT. The hearing of evidence and the ar guments In the case of twenty-two Elwood tin plate strikers, charged with rioting, were completed before Justice Klmberlin at Anderson Thursday and court adjourned at 5 o'clock pntll 6 o'clock this evening, when a verdict will be rendered. The strikers contended that they picketed the tin plate mill, but that at all times they con ducted hemselves In a peaceful manner and did no act of violence. DIES IN FAMILY' PRESENCE. In the presence of her husband, her daughter and her four grandchildren, with one hand clasped in that of her husband, Mrs. Joseph W. Bldwell, of Wabash, 51 years old, Thursday committed suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. CONVTNTION BIGGEST EVER. Expectations will be fulfilled In the fortieth annual state convention of the Y. M. C. A. at Kokomo having the largest attendance In the history of the association. Delegations began to pour in and an enthusiastic prellminary meeting was held In the Grace M. E. church, convention headquarters, yesterday afternoon. OPTION CAMPAIGN ON. The arrival in Auburn Thursday of three men, three typewriters and three women typists put new energy into the "wet" and "dry" campaign In Dekalb county. The local option election will be held Nov. 27. PIANO STOOL KILLS MAN. Lawrence Plnkerton, of Marion. 27 years old, was accidentally killed Thursday while at work In the factory of the Butler Piano Stool and Chair company. The bursting of a piano stool that was revolving rapidly on a lathe machine, caused a piece of the wood to be hurled with a great force, and it struck Plnkerton in the temple, crushing his skull and causing almost Instant death. CONDUCTOR WAS ROVGIL Michael Tresh of Clymers has filed suit against the Fort Wayne & Wabash Valley Traction company for Injuries received by his daughter, Estella Tresh, demand $2,500. He alleged that the conductor of a car in assisting her on to the platform was so violent that he threw her to the floor. Miss Tresh was attending high school In Logansport. HOBART. Mrs. C. Siegler visited at South Chi cago yesterday. Miss Hilda Lingren transacted busi ness In Chicago yesterday. Mrs. George Wilson was & visitor in Valparaiso on Wednesday. Tba Unitarian Ladies" Aid Alliance met this afternoon with Mrs. George Pedersen. Messrs. Rudolph and Lotta Van Loon will open a pool room and bowling alley in the Black building, opposite the Hobart House, in a few days. The building is now being repaired and will be ready within a few days. The Liverpool school will have a box social on Tuesday evening, Nov. 23. No admission will be charged and everyone is cordially invited to attend. The Woman's Reading club will meet next Monday afternoon with Mrs. Wil liam Krausse. Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Banks are spend ing a few days with their daughter and family at Chelsea, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Halsted have moved into their new home In Joryville. Mr. Dewlre is reported to be very sick at his home. The ladles of the M. E. Aid society are thinking of giving a bazaar some time in December. A large crowd from here attended a skating party last night. Mr. Miller of Valparaiso transacted business in town yesterday. Scheldt & Keilman have purchased a new counter for their grocery depart ment, which greatly adds to the ap pearance of the store. Miss Laura Diessig is clerking at the Feister store. The franchise for the Gary-Valpo electric road, which was granted for one year, expired yesterday. A new company Is thinking of taking It up and finishing the construction, so the town board will be consulted on an extension of the franchise and will be asked for a reasonable time. The question of an electric road from Gary to Hobart seems a positive fact and every effort will be made by the citirens to put it through and get a company with a flnancal standng back of It. High School Notes. At last a gymnasium is in sight. Thanks to the promoters. Misses Theresa Mayhak and Julia Fleck visited school lata week. Several of the seniors are wishing for a post-graduate course. There will be no school on Thursday and Friday, owing to Thanksgiving Day. The third -year English commercial class are reading Shakespeare's "Henry VII I." The sophomores finished reading Milton's 'Macbeth.-' and will now take up Milton's "Minor Foems." One consolation the Juniors will have one year In the new building. Wonder If the seniors are disappointed? SOUTH CHICAGO. In a riot at Eighty-seventh street yesterday Samuel I'.ego. 25 years old. 7532 Dolsen avenue, was struck on the head with a shovel and a severe scalp wound was inflicted. The trouble orig inated when an irate Italian, who was ; almost intoxicated, struck Rego with his shovel. "The Sport and the Girl." which opened at the Calumet theater yesterday, was Immediately canceled after the first performance. Manager J. T. ; Conners said the show was unfit for j South. Chicago patronage, and the show i was misrepresented to him by the management. The remainder of the week will be vaudeville and the fight pictures of the Johnson-Ketchel fight. Clyde Henniston, 10124 Avenue J, and Daniel Ertckson, 10616 Ewing avenue, were badly burned about the body while at work at the Euffington cement

plant. Both boys were oiling some machinery and had finished and were washing the grease off their hands with kerosene when the kerosene became

ignited by a torch, burning their hands badly. The waitresses and cooks of South Chicago are to organize a union. An enormous meeting will be held next Tuesday fnight and extensive arrangements have already been made for the event. The Girls club of South Chicago held a farewell party at Calumet hall last night. Last night the St. Patrick's Alumni club gave their hop at Lincoln hall, which was excellently attended, and everybody was loud in their praise as to the way the affair was attended. "RTJENHAM. Mrs. Ed. Rau returned home Wednesday from Valparaiso, Ind., where she has been taking care of her daughter, who has been ill at that place. Mrs. Luke Reed is suffering considerably from rheumattPni and has also had a very bad cold. Mrs. S. P. Furner was in Chicago

Does not Color the Hair Averts Hair Vigor is composed of fSSSS Show this to your doctor. Ask him if there is a single injurious ingredient Ask him if he thinks Ayer's Hair Vigor, as made from this formula, is the best preparation you could use for falling hair, or for dandruff. Let him decide. He knows.

Gary N

Hundreds of

Cheaper Homes

H OUSES which will rent for 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 ach. Houses accessible to the wofs of the Indiana Steel Company, the American Locomotive Site, the Coke Ovens, the Schools, and the business center of the town.

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HE man who pays $15.00 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 improvmients.

I HIS Company will pave every

street in O .

ion. oewcrs ana 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.

M ANY very lots may ow as $375.00

Gary

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Thursday, attending church. Mr. Colar of the Hammond Gas Co. was in town yesterday getting some more contracts signed for lighting houses here. This makes quite a number of homes that he lias received contracts for in Vae last month, and everybody is we;l pleased so far. T. J. Cullman was In South Chicago on business Thursday.

IANSING. There will he no school at the Lan sing public school on Friday. Mis E. Swanson and Miss D. Walkerly will attend a teachers' meeting at Harvey. I1L The Misses Vansteenberg and J. E. Morgan, principal, will attend a meeting at Blue Island, III. W. Int Hout, who has been spending the past few weeks at the home of his parents, will return to his duties in a few days. Miss E. Vandenberg was a visitor in Blu. Island yesterday. Rev. Brunn was a visitor in Chicago yesterday. Mrs. W. Kline and son, Frar.klin, spent Thursday In Ijansing at the home of Mrs. Kline's parents. eecls the First Subdivis1 desirable residence still be had for as each. MPANY

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