Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 150, Hammond, Lake County, 13 December 1909 — Page 4

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THE TTT.TTIS. Monday, Dee. 13, 1909.

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THE NEED OF HOMES. And while the question of the need of homes and home builders Is being discussed the fact might be pointed out that the city ordinances -which puts a tax on progrssiveness by compelling the man -who is about to build a house to pay from one dollar to five or ten for a permit is economically wrong. A great many local men, who think along these lines, are of the opinion that no improvements should be taxed. They say that the land alone should be taxed and that a premium should be put on a man'B progressiveness by exempting his improvements from taxation. But there is no question that it discourages the building of homes to

make it necessary for a man to pay a fee for a building permit the instant he begins work on the very Improvement that the business men are crying

for. It would have been better If building to the man whose home costs less than

made for permits in the case of buildings which cost more than $1,500.

But a better plan than that would Inspector out of the city treasury and cost of building inspection. Under llshed as the owners of property would burdens a much needed lift. The Duluth-News-Tribune has the

"Some time cities will develop along the lines of sanity to the point where they will consider it a good thing for the residents to build homes and

business houses. When that time comes they will encourage such invest

ments, and not begin taxing-them, with

"Then, when the buildings are erected, they will not make the owner pay r.nt to the city for living in them. As it Is now, even in Duluth, it is at least as cheap to rent as to own a home. The man who pays, say $35 a month as rent, can save little or nothing in cash by building, and the reason

for this Is not the high rate of interest if borrowed, but largely because of the

"This process begins with a building permit, which is, while first, almost the crowning absurdity of them all. When a man decides to build, he must

take bis plans to the building inspector, who estimates the cost when completed. Upon this is based a fee of $1.50, if it is the humble home of the poor man who is trying to house himself and family in two or three clean and decent rooms, to cost not over $500." . "If the cost is over that sum, $1 is added for each additional $500 or fraction thereof, so that the modest home of the worklngman, in which he will invest $1,200 to $1,500, must pay the tribute of $3.50. The same increase is made up to $10,000, and the man of moderate means, who wants a $4,000 or $5,000 home, must pay $8.50 or $9.50 for the privilege of building it." "When the class of the rich is reached, that is, above the $10,000 mark, the fee is cut to one-fourth and is 50 cents for each additional $1,000. This is but the usual discrimination against justice, which would make the fee start at the $10,000 house and produce revenue enough to leave the poor man free of this tax." "But could anything more repugnant to just ordinary common horse sense be conceived than this initial tax on building, provided cities want buildings and want their people to own their own homes? Under present conditions each structure adds just so much to the assessment rolls and the tax revenues. Why, then, discourage the increase of taxable property by this fee?"

BECKER ON HAMMOND'S ALLEYS. The TIMES has critized Mayor Becker severely for many of his official act3 but these criticisms have been made in the hope that by fearlessly pointing out what this paper believes have ben the mistakes of the administration-some of them may be avoided in the future. But the TIMES is fair enough to also point out any good moves that Mayor Becker may make and any act of his that will make Hammond a bigger, better and more beautiful city, that will give it the reputation that Gary has of doing big things, will be given the stamp of this paper's approval. At the "Get Together and Bury the Hatchet" banquet, given at the Masonic temple in Hammond, Mayor .Becker pointed out the deplorable condition of Hammond's alleys. He showed only too plainly that the business men in the mercantile district of the city have discouraged any effor" on the part of the city to pave the alleys and have remonstrated against such improvements even when the need of them has been plainly apparent. Mayor Becker said in the future the city administration expected to take up the question of paving the alleys and if the property owners oppose this improvement the city will . pave them any way. It was just such determination that is responsible for the fact that Hammond has cement walks all over town instead of the old wooden walks that once were the shame of the city. The people were forced to see the error of their ways and now there is no one who is not glad that Mayor Knotts had the backbone to force the improvement. Now if Mayor Becker forced the property owners in the business district of the city to pave the alleys, whether they are disposed to do so or not, posterity will thank him and the TIMES will give him its support in his plan to see the matter through. It is a shame that property owners who have made fortunes out of Hammond real estate should be so reluctant to do their share towards making Hammond a metropolis.

ON MAKING PEOPLE HAPPY. Don't put off your plans for making Christmastide a happy time for some

one. Make them now, make them early. If you haven't children of your own to make happy, see if there isn't some other little tots that you can make happy. See if there isn't some poor family that you can single out and give them the gladdest surprise they ever had in the world. Forget society and business long enough to come into the life of some suffering soul with cheerlness and optimism. Don't make light of the season of the year that should be given over to deeds that will make your own heart glow with the knowledge that everything in this world isn't sordid, that the pursuit of the almighty dollar 13 not everything. There are those around you whose hearts ache with the desperate pursuit of pennies that will hold body and soul togther. They are the ones you should seek out and help. Now is the time to look them up and get ready to make them remember Christmas of 1909 for years to come. Don't wait until December 24. Do it now. You 'ill be amply repaid.

permits were granted free of charge $1,500 and a graduated charge was

be to pay the salary of the building that would prorate to a certainty the that plan hose who already are estab give the man who is taking on new followingto say on this subject: the fir3t visible sign of construction. he must pay on the money invested, taxing of industry ."

RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS

NO reason dor old Jack Frost to be so rough in his play. OF course it may be proper to have the snow shoes ready. -99ONLY a few days more to do your Christmas shoplifting. 1 2 FEAR that Mr. Taft will have to forget bogey for a few weeks. a rSET a good example even if you know it will never hatch out. THERE are several grapplers in Hammond, but none of them like Zjbysko. IF the furnace goes out bottle up your wrath and then hurry up to lose the cork screw. DON'T forget the loved ones whom it takes quite a while for a Christmas present to reach. AMID it all, there is one grain of comfort. Nobody is asking "13 it hot enough for you?" THERE is something about Mr. Tawney of Minnesota that doesn't make you think of a lion. , EVERY man of course Is of some importance in the world but seldom as much as he thinks he is. IT isn't winter for you yet until the small boy has copped you behind the left ear with an extensive Bnowball. IT is not too late to do a little Christmas advertising. It is the advertiser who is getting the business. ONE of the things that some dense fellows in this world fail to understand is why their enemies have so many friends. IF language was given to one nondescript editor hereabouts to clothe his thoughts, the Lord knows he is an awful misfit. . 'TIS a pity that a man can't hear his widow telling her second husband what a kind and generous soul her first husband was. THIS is the time of the year when the lodge man gets all the excitement he wants fixing up the slate for the annual list of officers. THE modern buckwheat blankate is doing its best to imitate the old fash lond kind that mother made, but it is a dank and dismal failure. VISITORS to the White House find President Taft suffering from a cold. First time we ever heard that the President was a stylish man. WE should like to be within hearing of Gov. Marshall when that "delegation of Gary citizens" ask for permission to hold that prizefight WALTER WELLMAN says that President Taft's message is only a dull foreward. Well Wally we can't all be as good at guff-writing as you. -A KANSAS CITY woman said she had six husbands and was sick of matrimony. We still doubt however, wheth er she has given matrimony a fair trial. THE information is now being peddled around that there are scabs in religion as in labor circles. As far as that is concerned there are scabs everywhere. nijcj&ni iigntning calculators are just the ones who are most apt to get knocked over by an auto when they are crossing a street and think they can beat the auto. DETROIT News asks "How much should a man have when he marries?" Well he ought to have at least five times as much as he thinks it will take two to live on. MR. ROOSEVELT bagged a digdig and a kob and Kermit has killed a bongo, but up to the hour of shoving the fourth form on the steam table neither one of them has succeeded in getting next to a bloppo or a snigdop. A WOMAN can put no greater con fidence in another woman than when she confides to her that she has found a bed bug and when her confidence doesn't get all around the neighbor hood, she knows that at last she has found a true friend. . THE esteemed Chicago Trib in pointing out that more money was stolen from Indiana Postoffices during the last year than from any other state in the union, points out that Indiana always leads. Yes' that's a fact, in everything but orgy balls Indiana always leads.

eart to If ear t Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE.. THE VILLAGE OF EOPE. Over the hill to the poorhouse I can't quite make it clear. Over the bills to the poorhouse It seems - so horrid and queer. The poorhouse, often the dreariest place in every countryside, was so called in the old days, when paupers were treated as little better than beasts and all insane people were put in irons. It was a name that spelled terror to the unfortunate. Now there is being built at Oak Forest, about eighteen miles from Chicago, a real home for the poor of Cook county. It stands on a high tract of rolling land in a fine grove of oaks and will cost when completed 52,000,000. It is not named poorhouse. It Is called the Village of Hope. That strikes a new note in humanitarianism. It proposes to put hope Into the hearts of the hopeless. This new home is a real village of streets, each cottage by Nitself. Old married couples are not to be sepa rated into wards, but will occupy the rooms together, where they can help and comfort one another. Life will be made worth while by broad, open porches, recreation rooms, a chapel, an artificial iake and all sur roundings of comfort. But will it pay? That is the question the taxpayer asks the county commissioners. The answer is: "Yes. It will pay. even in dollars and cents." There is a fine farm, with barns, Im plements, tools. The people will be glad to works best they can under such conditions. Those who cannot work on the farm can do housework or go Into the shops. ' The people will be kept happy by being kept busy and under conditions that will pr6mote self respect. If they work for their living they are not paupers. It 13 claimed that with pleasant homes and cheerful surroundings the workers will support not only themselves, but will in time repay the $2,000,000. That is the experience at Cleveland, O., where a similar experiment has been made. The world moves. The time is coming when the grim, prison-like, dreary quarters of the county poorhouse will give way to villages of hope. Society owes its aged and unfortunate a chance to live out their lives not only In peace, but In comfort. Most of them have already done their share of the world's work. "THIS DATE IV HISTORY," December IS. 1S16 First savings bank in the United States opened in Boston. 1S37 Wilson Lumpkin elected United States senator from Georgia. 1850 Nearly 100 lives lost by an explosion on the s teamboat Anglo Norman at New Orleans. 1S62 Confederates victorious at the battle of Fredericksburg, Va. 1886 Charles M. Crocwell, seventeenth governor of Michigan, died in Adrain, Mich. Born in Newburg, N. Y., Oct. 31. 1825. 1S91 The Konovo bridge across the Ohio river above Cincinnati opened for traffic. 1898 Sir William Vernon Harcourt resigned the leadership of liberal party in England. 1899 Sir George Kirkpatrick, former lieutenant governor of Ontario and speaker of the house commons, died in Toronto. "THIS IS MY 53RD BIRTHDAY," Abbott Lawrence Lowell. Abbott Lawrence Lowell, president of Harvard university, was born in Boston, Dec. 13, 1856, graduated from Harvard college in 1877 and from the Harvard Law school three years later. He practised his profession in Boston till 1897, when he became a lecturer on government at Harvard. In 1900 he became a trustee of the Massachusetts Intsitute of Technology and of the Lowell institute. The same year he was elected permanent professor In the science of government at Harvard, which position he continued to hold until last January, when ho was elected president of Harvard university in succession to Dr. Charles W. Eliot. Dr. Lowell is "the author of "Governments and Parties of Continental Europe," and of several other well-known works on the science of government. UP AND DOWN IN I N-DIA-NA HEAD OK DUEWIXG COMPANY DIES Following an illness of three days August Hook, president of the Home Brewing company, Indianapolis, died at 7 o'clock' Friday morning. He had lived in Indianapolis twenty-nine years, his home during the last few years being at 2510 Central avenue. BARELY RSC.4PKT) DT5ATH. Mrs. Fitch of Rushville, while standing in front of an open stove in a grocery store here today. Her clothing caught fire and she barely escaped death. MAYOR VETOES ORDINANCES. Mayor Bookwalter of Indianapolis Saturday vetoed the ordinances providing salary Increases for firemen and policemen, which were passed at the las meeting of the city council against his advice. An effort will be made to pass the ordinances over the mayor's veto, but there is some doubt as to the success of such a move, as It la be-

lieved the councilmen -who opposed the ordinances when they were passed, -will not change their positions. KILLED BY EXPLOSION. Edward Kurtz, 45 years old, a farmer near New "Winchester, was Instantly

killed Saturday night by the explosion,1 of a gas plant at his home. ROSE POLLY WAXTS MEET. Carrying a bid to the Indiana OdIlegue Athletic league to hold Its annual track meet in Terre Haute next spring, Frank P. Mooney of Rose Folly will leave for Indianapolis today to attend the annual meeting of the league. Kose Polly has never had the meet alone and as the school is now equipped with one of the best athletic fields in the state, there is a chance the meet will be brought here. ProfessCr J. P. Kimmel, athletic director at the state Normal school, also will attend the. meeting. SEW OIL FIELD OPENED. Drilling was begun on the farm of T. K. Shircliff, east of "Washington Saturday by J. M. Pringle and C. O. Potter, contractors, and representatives of local capitalists who oil field. Five wells will be drilled immediately In. that section of the county. BARS AGE.NTS IX SCHOOLS. ' Robert J. Aley, state superintendent of public instruction Saturday mailed to the county superintendents all over the state a notice of the meeting of the County Superintendents' association qn Dec. 27-28, and incidentally called attention to reports from various parts of the state that agents are interfering with the work of the schools by soliciing business during school hours. It appears In some cases, said Dr. Aley, that the teachers have been victimized. SHOW GIRLS ARRESTED. Blanch Vantz and Dorothy Ingersoll of Chicago, who formerly dazzled audiences in a barn-storming company, playing "The District Leader," which fell by the wayside at Bluffton, were arrested last night on the complaint of James D. Brooks, a traveling salesman from Detroit, who said the. girls had stolen $25 from him after he had befriended them. MAN FROZEN TO DEATH. William P. Dekalb, 65 years old, missing from home since laat Wednesday, was found Saturday in a gravel pit, where he had been -frozen to death. Articles of Incorporation. Articles of incorporation have been filed in the office of the secretary of state for the following: The Sun Printing company. Mount Vernon; capital stock, $3,500; general printers and publishers; directors, W. E. Hastings, a J. Miller, William G-on-nerman, W. M. Ford, E. II. Fulmer, F. P. Leonard and Christian Manzles. The South Bend Live Stock InsurI ance association. South Bend; mutual; no capital stock; officers, president, C B. Crumpacker; vice president, L. H. Orvis; secretary-treasurer, W. G. Oliver. The Cartersburg Milling company, Cartersburg; capital stock, $1,000; sawmill operators and lumber dealers; Incorporators, B. N. Anderson, Otto Lowe and J. E. Prewltt. The H. C. Whitmer Medicine company, Seymour; capital stock, $25,000; manufacturers and compounders; directors, W. P. Masters, Emma Masters, W. G. Masters and Albert Loetz. The Gassman & Asersohn company, Indiana Harbor; capital stock, $4,500; retail clothiers; directors, Edward Gassman, Jr., May D. Asertohn and Max Gassman. The Sanitary Screen company, Indianapolis; capital stock, $10,000; manufacturers; directors, W. C. Davis, J. H. Jordan, Rosa B. Lewis and C. L. Clancy. Times Pattern Department LADIES' HOUSEDRESS. For wear in the house a dress of this kind has many advantages over a waist and skirt. The garment is in one piece and buttons all the way down at the side front. Checked blue and white gingham is the material with plain blue bands. This pattern is cut in five sizes, 32 to 4-0 bust measure. Sir 3G requires 10 1-3 yards of 27-inch material. Price of Pattern 4o8 is 10 cents. No. 45S. Name Address Size Fill out blank and send to Pattern Department of this newspaper.

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LETTERS TO SANTA CLAUS Wliat the Little Friends of The Times .Want Good Old Santa to

Bring Them Hammond. Ind., Deo. 11, 1909. TlMn Santa Alalia- T V, A ill , T w.,.c iaua. a UUyC U U Wlli iV1 a toy Dian and a do11. a Ht- . tai, iiuin ana canay, ana mat s 11. Your loving little girl. o,e r, RUBY LONG. 83S Fort Wayne avenue. "Whiting. Ind., Dec. 9. 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I think I am big nough for a bicycle as I am six years - ' . v . it'.: v t J ' . pun ui I uuuer uihjis to wade in the water. Bring me a little train like the one in the White City ei a can let au tne Kids ride. Do you keep goats and little wagons? If so ukc iu our uaseraeni. i. want alive. Mamma coaxed papa to put up the storm windows. Yours truly, ABE. Hammond. Ind., Dec. 10, 1909. Dear Santa: Mahle, wants a doll buggy and a doliie with a tin head, and a net of dishes, and a pail of candy. This will be all for this Christmas. So goodby. dear Santa, MABLE HART. 36 State street. Crown Point, Ind., Dec 8, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I am seven vears old. If you please I wish you would bring me a doll buggy and a box of candy. Your friend, HESTER DAUGHERTY. Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 8, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I am nine years old. If you please, bring me a doll, a doll buggy, a pair of hair ribbons and a story book. Jr'lease don t forget mamma and papa. x our loving rriena, KATHERINE DAUGHERTY. Crown Point, Ind., Dec. 8, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I want a little tool box with some tools, a pair of rubber boots, a Christmas tree and a box of candy. Please Santa, and I will thank you before I get them. Dictated by Charles Evans Daugherty. I also want" a rocking horse. Aged 5 years. Hammond, Ind., Dec 9, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I am glad Christ mas is soon here, so I thought I would ask you for a few things. I want a big doll with a red silk dress and red stockings, and a gocart and a doll's nign chair, and that is all I want this Christmas. I am nine years old. From your little friend, MARGUERITE LONG. Crown Point. Ind., Dec 11, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I want a doll with clothes, and a watch and chain, and some nuts, and some dishes, and a little broom, and & little stove. Please don't forget all the little Door children. I am eight years old. Tolleston, Ind., Dec. 12. 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I hone you are well and coming down to my house. tor Christmas is coming soon. i$ut when you come down to my house I wish you would bring me some presents. We are having a song about you now In school. Dear Santa Cl.ius when you come down my stockings will be nanglng by the stove. If you will be so kind this year and bring me some presents. I do not want very much; this is what I want. I want an engine and a little wagon and some candy. I hope the snow will not be too cold for "you. Both of my brothers wish you would come. Dear Santa, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. your rriena. MAURICE GORDON. Hammond, Ind. Dec. 7, 190!). Dear Santa Claus: I thought I would write you a few lines to let you know what I want for Christmas. I want a writing desk and a doll. I have a lit tle brother four years old. He wants a wagon. So that is all this time. Goodby. Yours sincerely. Burnham. 111., Dec 13, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I am afraid you may forget us this year because we are strangers in Burnham, so I am going to write to you in care or ihe hues. V I 1 J W LI jJ,TTiSO "una 1 " V e L ' ' ii , a little stove, a big doll gocart and if It isn't too much to ask for. I would like a doll and my stocking filled. Goodby, Santa Claus, wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. From a little girl 8 years old, IRENE SPENCE. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 9, 1909. . Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy of nine years old and live at 81 State street. I want to tell you what I would like to have for Christmas. I would like to have a small automobile, a canary bird whistle, a nickel savings bank.'a checker board, a pair of skates, a shooting gallery, a comical ladder, a small house and a stocking full of nuts and candy. Your friend, RAYMOND BECKMAN. Hammond. Ind., Dec. 13, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: As Xmas is almost here and I know you are very busy. But I know you have a little time to read my letter. I don't want much. Just bring me a dolly and a flat iron. That Is all I want, but please don't forget the little boys and girls that have no mamma and papa. Please remember them and grandma, too. I almost forgot about her. This is all. My name is Dollie Green. I live at 618 Truman avenue. A merry Xmas to everybody. Hammond, Ind., Dec 10, 1903. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl of eight years and have been thinking of you. Dear Santa I would be very much pleased if you would bring me a nice doll and a postal card book, candy and nuts, and some for little sister Margaret. "With love from, IRMA "vTILSON. 542 North Hohman street. Hebron. Ind.. Dec. 13, 1909. Dear Santa: I thought that I would write and tell you that I would like to have a ring with red sets in it. and a pair of dull black shoes that have buttons on them, and a pair of black leggings and a dark red hair ribbon. That is all I want very bad, so wil closp with best wishes to you for a Merry Christmas and a Happy Npw Year. ZORA T. DUNN. Griffith, Ind.. Dec. 10. 1909. Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas is soon coming I will let you know what I want for Christmas. I am twelve yars old. I go to school. I want a postal card album, a muff and fur, a pair of gloves, a box of candy and nuts. I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, (lear Santa. Your dnr friend, GERTIE SCHOON. Box 36. R. R. No. 1. East Chicago. Ind.. Dec. 10. 1909. Dear Santa Clans: I am very glad that Christmas is coming. Mamma and papa have bfpn reading in the papers of the r0(r 1 i 1 1 1 children whore fa'hfrs were killed in the mine at Chprry. IM., i and hopp that you will not forget to make them happy. I remain vour loving rripnrt, EDNA OSTERBERG. 444 Forsyth avenue. I Hammond, Ind.. Dec 10, 1909.

Dear Santa Clans: Thinking I would drop you a couple of iines of what I wish for Christmas. T am sending you this little letter. I am a girl of six years old and want a piano, doll, and and a pair of slippers. My little sister wants a doll, bugy an,j candy and nuts. Shf is thrw years "Id. Hoping you will nOt forgot me Christmas eve, I remain your loving friend. EM E LIE HUCK. 115 Hanover street.

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Hammond, Ind.. Dec, 9, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: For Christmas I want a big doll and doll cariage; that is all. I am six years old, and I want some nuts and candy, too. Don't forget to come and see. me this vear, Santa Claus. From, MABLE LUTE. 844 Towle street. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 11 1909. Dear Santa Claus: I am a little boy one year old and I want vou to bring me a gold ring and a Teddv Bear and hobby horse and a stick of candy. Goodby, Santa Claus. from little RAYMOND QUINN. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 10, 1909 Dear Santa Claus: I thought that 1 would write you a brief letter. As you ask to name the gifts we should or would like to receive, es it Is I am nit used to receiving gifts. I hope yov will not forget us. I close with wishes that the letter will not be thrown In the waste basket. I remain your friend, ,., MARGERITTE DONAHUE. 217 State Line street. Whiting. Ind., Dec. 10, 1909. c. al itun. .now are vou tanta? As Christmas is nearly here I thniicrVit- T ..-,.1,1 i i . .. . i' . - t,vVyou what 1 want fr Christmas. v.,,.,, a. ui.,u, a. ring, a sewing rni.V' 7 v-imii, a ynir oi gloves. Thin la il fhio r-v,-i. t when Christmas comes. I am eight years old. I am in third grade. I like to go to school. I like Miss Bonham. Good bye, Your trulv. GENEVIEVE LAWRENCE. Whiting, Ind.. Dec. 10, 1909. r.v .a.r Santa Claus: Pretty soon FJlr , :mas will come and I have been thinking about you for quite a wh'le. I am a little girl and would like to have a nice dolly, a story book, perrume, a stove and some fineries to wear maybe a. diamond ring and kid gloves. Also bring my Mamma good health if you please. Yours verv lovlnglv, ak . CATHERINE KOCH. 4S5 Oliver street. Hammond, Ind.. Dec. 10, 1909 Dear Santa Claus: Christmas will be here soon, so I will write you a few lines and tell you wl?at I want for, Christmas presents. I want to have a 4 sweater and a pair of skates, and a4 nice sled, and a great big doll for Christmas. Bring them. all. Goodby. Your friend. . . , LOUISE HATT. Robertsal Hotel, Hammond, Ind. Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 10, 1909 Dear Santa Claus: I would like to have a bicycle and an air rifle and a story book, and I have a little sister and she likes a tea set and a table and chairs and a doll buggy and a sewing maohlne and a box of bon bons and fni?Kr, T Your mtle friends, PAULINE and WILLIAM PIERCE. 44 Condlt street. Age 8 and 3. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 10, 1309 ,r.,?anta Claus: I suppose you would like to hear from me too, and hope you will not forget me. I want a little chair, doll, go-cart, doll bed, a cupboard for my dishes and a story book that will be all for this Christmas. I live in West Hammond this year Your dear little friend a-hx r. - PEARL KIMLING. 429 Garfield avenue. Mhlting, Ind., Dec. 10, 1909. Dear Santa Claus: As Christmas Is close at hand I will write to vou and ask you to be sure and not forget to come to our house, 435 Oliver street. I would like a nice sled, a fiiddle. story book a Christmas tree and some goodie a.t-R.eJlember my PaPa and mamma. CATHERINE and ALBERT WITH. Hammond, Ind.. Dec. 10. 1909 Dear Santa Claus: I thought I would write you a brief letter. As we thought that Santa Claus wouldn't come to us any more as our dear mother died one year ago and we are now left orphans, as Santa Claus you must know what a home is without a mother. I hope that this letter will not be throwed in the waste basket. I remain vour friend. EVELYN DONAHUE. 217 State Line street. Hammond, Ind.. Dec. 10, 1909 Dear Santa riaus: As Christmas Is drawing near I thought I would write you a few lines and tell vou what I want for Christmas. Please bring me a story book, a game o' Business and a sled. Don't forget mv little brother, he is two years and I am 10 years, he wants a rocking horse and some nuts and candv and a v.mao T rem Your dear loving friend. S9Q t v WILHELM KUNDE. 829 Indiana avenue.

Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 10 1909 Dear Santa Claus: I am a little girl nine years old. I would like some things for X-mas if you have them to . spare I would like a pair of gloves, a J pair of shoes, a toy of some kind and nuts and candy. Your little friend. 26d Fayette street.

East Chicago, Ind., Dec 10. 1909 Hello My Dear Old Santa, how are ycu for I am well and hope you are the same. I am a boy of 11 vears and go to school overy day and would like to have you to bring me a pair of skates, end a sled, candy, nuts, fruit and don't forget my sister and brother as the world wide knows you to be our faithful Old Santa Clans. Thanking you for jour kind attention, wishing vou a Merry Christmas and a Happy NewYear. So Goodby. I remain as ever vour faithful bov GEORGE BURKE Hammond. Ind. Dec. 9, 1S09. Dear Santa Claus: I am 10 vears old and go to school in room 7 and In grade 4a. Please bring me a Christmas tree and some mit and candy and apples. Bring me a poem book written by Longfellow. Bring me some piano pieces named Rainbow Her Wing, If I Only Had a Home Sweet Home. If Every Star's An Angel and Burning of Rome, bring me a metronome, a tidy for the music cabinet, a pair of shoes and over shoes and a pair of stockings. Bring my mamma a nice winter hat. My papa some nio over shirts. Hope you did not forget that I live at 528 Calumet avenue and I now will close and I wish .vou a Merry X-mas and a Happy New Year. Goodby. Your lovlnglv afTe tiop.ate friend FLORENCE GRUB. Hammond. Ind.. Dec. 11, 1909. Dear Santa Clans: I am a little boy five years old and I would like to have a little motor loat and a pair of new shoes and a Xmas tree.. I am your good boy, goodbv. CLARENCE MARCH ANT. P.S. : A Happy New Yar. Hammond, Ind.. Dec 1, 1909. Dear Santa Clans: I am a little boy four years r id, I want a table and two chairs and Sfime new shoes, also a little air ship. I am a good boy and wish you s Happv New Year. Your little friend. WILLI K MARCH A NT. S20 Wilcox avenue.

nciliHliun'j, Jiiu., l ei:. 4 u. liiyj Dear Santa: Christmas Is almost here. I will tell what I want this Xmas. j I want a book of Aesop's Fables, a Billikin. a story book, some nuts and candy and some anas for mv four vear old doll Dorothy. Please bring some poor children some presents too as well as me. Yours slncerlv, NELLIE. 346 Alice street.

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