Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 140, Hammond, Lake County, 1 December 1909 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Vednesdav, Dec. 1, 1909.

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RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

A SPIRIT THAT SHOULD BE IMITATED. The lack of anything like a epirit of progress, a desire to do things in a big way with an eye to the future, in the making of street and boulevard improvements in some of the older cities of the region is so apparent that it is an inspiration to watch the development of Broadway as a great north and south thoroughfare. The people of Gary take a real pride in this magnificent business street They laid it out 100 feet wide in the first subdivision in Gary. The pride in Broadway extended even to the people in the "Patch" and they agreed to its being widened to a width of 100 feet to the Pennsylvania tracks. The street was then laid out to a width of 80 feet south of the Pennsylvania tracks but again Gary's pride prevailed and after the curb and some of the walks were laid the street was widened to 100 feet south to the Little Calumet river. Now the spirit of Broadway has extended even farther south and an effort is now being made to widen the street to a width of 80 feet all of the way to Merrillville, a distance of eight miles from the north end of the street.

This will give Gary the most magnificent country boulevard in Indiana. In Hammond a "let well enough alone" sentiment has prevented the extension of Calumet avenue to Lake Michigan, has made it a Herculean task to widen the street to a width of even 80 feet. Other streets need widening and extending but Hammond is not being built it is "just growing" lika the proverbial milk weed. The crooked leg work on South Hohman street is only too patent. The case which involves the widening of Broadway south of the river to Merrillville will be tried in the Lake Circuit in Crown Point today. If the people do not win out in their contention now they will later on. That is the spirit of Broadway, of Gary. That is why Gary has been an inspiration to every city in Lake County, in fact to city builders all over the world. If the measure of public sentiment in Hammond could be correctly taken it would be discovered that nine tenths of the people here could not see for the life of them the necessity of widening a street to a width of SO feet, 8 miles from the heart of the city. '

AN INSPIRING MEETING. At what was the biggest and finest banquet ever given In Lake County and the most remarkable demonstration of its kind ever witnessed in this section over 400 republican workers from Hammond, East Chicago, Gary, Hobart, Indiana Harbor, Whiting and Crown Point attended a love-feast at Hammond last night. The display of enthusiasm was marked; the evidence of harmony and goodfellowship unequaled, and the spirit patent at the gathering was unparalleled. Every speaker on the program was inspired to note the proofs of republican kinship and commented upon it. It Is the harbinger of a getting together next year that will sweep the district from one end to the other. The promoters of the banquet found their fondest hopes excelled last night. They did not dream that success in such huge proportions would come to their project. The most remarkable thing about the gathering was the demonstration given Hon. James E. Watson who held his hearers under the potency of his oratorical charms spell bound and rapt. His tribute to party loyalty and to republican principle has never been equalled in Lake County. The influences that went out from that banquet in Hammond last night will be felt for years to come. The testimonials of Hon. J. E. Brennan of Gary, Mayor-elect A G. Schlieker of East Chicago and Mr. F. X. Gavit of Whiting as to the strength of the party in their respective cities provoked storms of enthusiasm. It was a memorable evening.

IT is the live advertiser who is always deadly in earnest. WELL we know some near sighted people who are mighty far-seeing. " NOTHING will bring out the republican voters like a banquet of deer and partridge. MIGHTY hard at this season of the year to keep a heating plant from over doing the thing.

SOME fellows think they are inde

pendent when as a matter of fact they

are just simply rude. 44

PITTSBURG man is the champion dress buttoner. We will be one of 200

to buy him a tin medal.

SO far no man in the Calumet region has had the audacity to spring one of those plush bonnets. OUT in New York they are trying to take a slap at Gov. Hughes by boosting Teddy R. for governor. A STRANGE! Two days have elapsed and still no word has come that Dr. Cook has been found In Laporte. j(b COL. ROOSEVELT has just shot a topi, but our snake editor thinks it is a typographical error for toper. A NOW we would be greatly in favor of the ladies as census takers. They could get the answers if any one can. 4 THIS is the season of the year when no matter how bad you feel, the chap yon are talking to is feeling just the same. sVft

UP to the hour of going to press

none of the football players have sustained fractures of the mind from

studying too much.

A WE trust that Mr. Taft in his mes

sage will not forget to tell us how we can buy $100 worth of Christmas presents for about $4.99.

ILLINOIS editor is editing his paper

in prison. Well what better protection

is wanted. He ought to be happy. No

rude persons with bills to annoy him

THEY are trying to make pemmi-

can a fad since the North Pole dis

covery. Pretty hard however, for

anyone to spring a diet of dog on the

people.

NEW ORLEANS has a cowless

dairy. Well after shaking up a bottle

of petroleum and getting butter out

of it, nothing surprises us this

weather. j

eari to Heart

Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.

LIFTING HIMSELF UP BY HIS BOOTSTRAPS

Uncle Joe Cannon has evidently been stung. The story that his outer Integument is as thick as that of hippopotami is evidently untrue. The newspapers have stung Mr. Cannon and stung him so badly that it is a

positive delight for those gatherings which have the pleasure of the speak

er's company to hear him rant in attempted defense of his action as czar of the House.- In piping times of peace Mr. Cannon belongs to that class of

public men who profess utter difference to what newspapers say of them; in

times, however, when newspapers voice the sentiment of public opinion that is critical Mr. Cannon and those who cuddle under the same soft covers with him lose their sense of the eternal fitness of things and stalk up and

down the country in a ferment against what they are pleased to term news

papers trusts, combines, etcetera. The newspapers of this country will still

continue to be published; to criticize and commend, wherever they see fit, the Cannon oaceholdiag clique notwithstanding. Uncle Joe may "give the boots" to the House of Representatives, but he makes a poor show of using

them on the newspaper editors.

EAST CHICAGO'S SAD CASE.

Tnere is a pitiful moral in the sad story of the eighteen year old East

Chicago girl who drank acid in a cheap lodging house in Chicago on Sunday and died later in St. Lukes hospital because of parental neglect. No other

motive is assigned to the deed. She was a good girl, respected by every one who knew her and with the proper surroundings had everything in the wide world to live for. Years ago her mother died, however, and no doubt there was the crux of the whole matter. When the mother died the family broke np. Two of the boys were put in a state institution and the father took to drink and the girl was neglected. What she as a child and as a girl and then

as a young woman suffered in all those years up to her lonely ending in that tawdry lodging house, no one knows. The average imagination, however, is able to partly comprehend the pangs and the loneliness of the unfortunate

eighteen year old girl who took her life.

It is distressing to look around us and know that these case3 can hap

pen; to know that there is anguish and broken hearts in the very people we perhaps meet every day, and nothing is being done for them; none to give

them kind words, a helping hand, a hope or a promise, oh the pity of it.

A NEW ORDER OF THINGS.

It is only a question or time wnen the blind tiger will have to go. The

government moves slowly but it surely does move. After January 1, 1910; every shipment of intoxicating liquors must bear the name of the consignee

the nature of the contents of the package and the quantity contained therein

The recent codification, revision and amendment of the penal laws of the United States, relating to the liquor traffic, make this imperative. The effect

of the new order of things will be to drive out the "blind tiger."

AN OLD WOMAN'S SAY. George Bernard Shaw Is an eccentric Irishman who writes problem plays. Once in awhile Shaw gets hold of a big truth.

In a recent play of his a scrubwoman gets up from her task of mopping the marble floor of the English war office and engages In argument with the chief of the war council. Decidedly the shrewd old woman gets the better of the war lord in the debate, which is about war and equal suffrage. The working woman very bluntly Bays that woman in childbirth runs a greater risk than the soldier on the battlefield and for a better purpose.

Which Is a poser for the general. Moreover In the course of the discussion the

plucky female says that men are sol

diers because the loss of men In war

Is less injurious to the world than

would be the loss of a like Dumber of women!

There, now. Is there not a lot of truth In the old

lady's homely statement? The more you think of It the more you are like to compare it with the boys' wad.

which, "the more you chaw it the bigger it gets."

The old, threadbare reason for deny

ing to women the rights of suffrage on the ground that they cannot bear arms in battle is rather disposed of, and one begins to see, as claimed by the scrubwoman, that the soldier Is a

mere loafer by the side of the woman

who performs a woman's function.

The soldier destroys; the woman pro

duces.

Now the statesmen of England,

whose fighting is done by proxy, have prohibited Shaw's play.

Yon see, they don't want the women

to get the scrubwoman's argument into their heads.

The statesmen want the mothers of

the common people to go down into

the valley of the Shadow of Death

about once a year in order that they

may bear sons who will be food for

the dumdum bullets of the dervish driven natives of Arabia, the fanatical

fighters of South Africa or the muti

neers in India.

The women of England and of the

world have been furnishing this battle

food for many generations, and down

through the centuries has come the

mourning wail of the Rachels refus

ing to be comforted.

When woman comes into her own.

wars will cease!

THERE are some women who are

so suspicious that when a guest kneels

down to say her prayers, they say she

does it to see If there Is any dust un

der the bed.

WEST VIRGINIA man asked to be

buried with a pair of wings so that

when the last trump blew, nothing

would miscarry. If something does

miscarry, burning feathers makes

nasty smell.

SUBSCRIBER asks if we don't think

football is more gentlemanly than it

used to be. Yes, we believe it is

There have not been nearly so many

eyes gouged out as there used to be.

CROWN POINT youth who compli

mented his Inamorata on her "beautiful chestnut hair" received a terrible

chill the other night when it fell oft

her head. He had been asleep at the

switch.

INDIANA man is suing his wife for

divorce because she spends most of her time at church. He will probably have to establish the fact that his

wife attends church by other witness

es than himself.

CHICAGO woman has sued for

divorce because her husband made

her read Jesse James novels to him.

This is surely no worse than the case

of the woman who made her husband

read, Dora Thome stories to her.

THIS DATE IN HISTORY. December 1.

1640 Portugal became an Independent

kingdom and placed John, duke of

Braganza, on the throne.

1775 Arnold and Montgomery united

their forces on the St. Lawrence.

1792 Francis Granger, postmaster

general in the cabinet of William

Henry Harrison, born. Died Au

gust 28, 18SS.

1804 British ports in the West Indies

closed to American commerce.

1S25 Nicholas 1. succeeded to the

throne of Russia.

1844 Queen Alexandria of Kngland

born.

1S73 James G. Elaine re-elected speak

er of the house of representatives.

1884 President Bias of Mexico began

his first term.

190S President Roosevelt nominated Daniel J. Keefe to be commissioner

of Immigration.

THIS IS MY B5TH BIRTHDAY. Henry RiiMell W akefield.

Rev. Henry Russell Wakefield, the

eminent English churchman who was

recently appointed dean of Norwich,

was born In Mansfield, Nottinghamshire,

Dec 1, 1S54. His education was re

celved at the Lycee Bonaparte in Paris

and at the German university at Bonn.

Since 1878 he has been connected with various churches in and about London.

A man of strong character and lnde

pendent mind, the dean has spent an

unusually busy life, as municipal af

fairs have interested him as much a

parochial. In 1904 he was elected mayor of Marleybone, the largest borough in London, and was the first clergyman who ever held such an office. He is a recognized authority on education and unemployment, and is chairman of the central (unemployment) body of London.

people, the remaining $20,000 to be taken by the manufacturer. The name of the man who desires to locate here is withheld at present. FIRM t.MOMIES. Following labor troubles which resulted at one time in a general strike at the City Hall building and threatened a similar recurrence of conditions were not changed, the Painters' Union has won its fight against Fertig & Kevers, painting contractors, and

the firm has unionized its shop. SCORES YELLOW PREACHING. "That sermon was based on falsehood," declared Chief of Tolice Metzger of Indianapolis Monday night, referring

to the Rev. Harry G. Hill's criticism of

the police department from his pulpit

n the Third Christian church Sunday

evening. Chief Metzger resented

hargea of graft and inefficiency, and.

appearing before the grand jury, demanded that the Rev. Mr. Hill be eubpenaed and requested, to tell what he knows about the charges. This was done yesterday. "Talk about your yel-

ow journalism that is what I call

yellow preaching."

BIG BANKS MERGE. A deal was closed at New Albany

Monday by which is brought about the merger of the Second National

Bank and the Merchants' National Bank of this city, the former with a

capital stock of $200,000 and the latter

with $100,000. The capital stock of

the new concern will be $300,000.

RAILROADS LOSE H.'.OOO.

The railroad commission quarterly

accident bulletin for the quarter end

ing Sept. 30, sent to the printer Mon

day, shows that the steam roads' prop

erty loss for property destroyed or injurned in accidents was $45,000. This i runs the total for the two years end-

Ins Sept. 30 to $418,000 or nearly a half

million dollars. The property loss to Interurbans in the quarter was near-! ly $3,000.

STONE STRIKERS CONFIDENT. The stone operators of Bedford are

confident of the outcome of the strike

and more mills were being operated today than for several days. The anticipated return of the planer men and others did not materialize this morning, and it Js understood that they have held a secret meeting and appointed a committee to confer with the operators with a view of harmonizing all differences.

BARTENDER IS FIXED. Arthur Dagrave, a Hartford City

bartender, was fined a total of $105.20

yesterday, when he was found guilty

of selling liquor to minors. Several

other bartenders were recently fined similar amounts for like offenses.

TO MAKE SECOND SURVEY. In an effort to bring the contro

versy over the water rights of the St.

Joseph river to an end and thus set

tle difference between the Olivers and

Eberharts, the two wealthiest manufacturing parties in this part of the state. Judge Vernon Van Fleet has ordered a second survey of the St. Joseph river, and it will be taken next Saturday night and Sunday, covering

twenty-four hours. GIRL STABBED TO DEATH. Miss Etta Burba of Vincennes, 20 years old, was stabbed to death last

evening by her sweetheart, Oscar Sav

age, in her own home. She was preparing supper for her father, Jasper Burba, a miller, when the latter, it is alleged, was attacked by Savage, who had been drinking. DRYS ARE CONFIDENT. Probably in no other county has there been such indifference in the local option election as has existed in Warren county throughout the present temperance campaign. For more than

a year the entire county has beenj "dry" and the majority of the people of the county have been so well pleased with the experiment that there is no j question about the result of the election.

BURNHAH. Phillips Pratt and family moved away from Burnham today to Chicago, where hey came from last summer, he

having taken a new position there.

J. L. Smith was in Hammond on

business yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wittenberg are the proud parents of a baby girl. Moth

er and daughter are doing- nicely.

A. W. Hunter was in Hegewisch on business last evening. Quite a number of the property owners are having the water and sewer connected this week. Mrs. Rein Rau was in Hammond shopping today. Dr. Kelly of Hammond was In town

on business yesterday afternoon

Johnny McPherson of Indiana Harbor spent the day with Clark Station friends. H. Berghoff of Fort Wayne, Ind, was visiting- here a few days. Not a "Cure-All"

Separate Remedies, Each j Devised for the Treatment j of a Particular Ailment. j There is no "cure-air among the . Rexall Remedies. There are different and separate medicines, each one devised for a certain human ailment or 'a class of ailments closely allied. For instance, Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets are recommended for the positive relief of stomach irritation. indigestion, flatulency and dyspepsia. They are rich in : Bismuth-Subnitrate, Pt-psin and Carminatives. They are prepared by spe-

rlnl rtrfwpsfliie a- i 1 , - i nnrf . r t anil , r

-Mrs. Mamuel Furner was In Hammond hance the great remedial value of these shopping yesterday. well-known medicinal agents. This "" " remedy sells for 25 cents, 50 cents, and CLARK STATION. $10 rer Packae- Every one suffer,r ing from stomach disorder should try Mr. and Mrs. Sanford La Bounty are Rexall Dvppep8,a Tablets, inasmuch as the proud parents of a 10-pound baby they cost nothing if thev do not sat. boy. Both mother and child are doing jsfv nicely. , Remember, The Lion Store Pharmacy A. F. Hartigan claims he has about is the only store in Hammond where a year's work around In the grading these remedies may be obtained, anl line now. every one in need of medicine is urged Mr. and Mrs. E. West and children of to investigate and take advantage of Park Manor spent a few days with rel- the frank and generous manner in atives here. ' which they are sold.

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UP AND DOWN IN INDIA-N-A

CARNEGIE is to give a million to eradicate the pellagra fever. Rockefeller ha3 given a million to fight the hookworm. Now if somebody will only

toss out a package to fight the Christ

mas present fever, all might yet be wel.. . THE only alarming feature about all those additional big plants for Gary is that they may make the place even more Garyish. Indianapolis News. Well, we don't worry brother, why should you fuss. HAMMOND lady who was told by her new girl the other day to water the gold-fish, was calmly informed that "they hadn't drunked up all she gave them the other day yet!" And it is a hard matter to get hired girls, too?

SHOT PHONE SAVES LIFE. While playing with cartridges, Emil Wretz of Evansvillej 14 years old, exploded one and the ball went through his cheek. Nearly unconscious from loss of blood the boy reached a telephone and called a physician. He was alone at the time. He will recover. HOG BIRIED IX HAY.

From Ladoga, ten mile south of

Crawfordsville, comes the story of a hog that lived since Aug. 23 covered by several hundred bales of straw so

that it could obtain neither food nor water. The hog was found last week by George Jlimes and James Davis. The hog was burled when the straw was stacked In the barn. Nearly a bale and a half of s'J aw had been eaten by the hog, but it was almost famished for water. AFTER BtGGY FACTORY. A new factory, with a capital stock of $50,000. for the manufacture of buggtes and wagons, is the latest proposition that has come before the Commercial club. The chances of Crawfordsville securing the factory are very favorable. It is necessary that $30,000 worth of stock be sold to local

EMPIRE DRESS. The girdle of this modish dress is a little below the normal waist line in front and curres up in Empire effect at the back, the side and back seams being curved in a little at the waist line. A bias band of the material is used on the skirt, and pipings and buttons of black satin complete the trimming. This pattern is cut in five sires, SJ to 40 bust measure. Size 36 requires 9 yards of 27 inch material. Price of pattern 461 is 10 cents. No. 461.

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Gary Needs

Hundreds of

lr tt

eaper iiomes

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 -sach. Houses accessible to the wors 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 $15 00 "r 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.

r HIS Company will pave every rj 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

ow as $375.00 each.

Gary

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