Hammond Times, Volume 4, Number 235, Hammond, Lake County, 4 April 1910 — Page 1
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Two Negroes Splatter the Ringside , . Followers With Gore and Prize They Fought For Was $4.15
WHERE WAS MARSHAL?
Dick Fitzpatrick and Danny
Goodman Go Twenty Hard Rounds.
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FUNERAL
C.C. SMITH TOKfiORROVV
The funeral for the late Ex-County
Treasurer Charles C. Smith, has been
arranged to be held tomorrow afternoon
at the residence, 68 State street, Hammond, at two o'clock. Interment will
take place In the family lot in Oak Hill cemetery. In as much as Mr. Smith was the first president of the Citizens'
German National Bank, that institution will closetomorrow afternoon from two until three o'clock in respect to the deceased. Among the out of town relatives who are present for the funeral are the brothers R, L. Smith and F. L. Smith of Wolbach and Omaha, Nebraska respectively. A Bister Mrs. E. E. Winslow of Chicago Heights, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Morris of Providence, Rhode Island and Mrs. F. W. Cheney of Concord, New
Hampshire, Mrs. Cheney being a sister of Mrs. C. C. Smith.
GIRLS 11 lis It!
CONTEST
Lake County Annual Spell ing Contest Decided Sat
urday at Crown Point, and
Five Girls "Spell Down" Hundreds.
HOLEiOQD LADIES ARE GULLED AGA1II Periodic Trip of Smooth Canvassers Nets Them Net Sum.
There , are a great many ladies in Homewood, these days who are living in fear andtrembling lest their husbands glean information as to how the ladies aforesaid have been victimized by two smooth people who undoubtedly needed the money. A week ago one Homewood lady call-
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Republican Party of Indiana Has Made All Arrangements For the State Convention
The fact has just leaked out that a
20 round bout between Dick Fitzpatrick and Danny Goodman was pulled off in Burnt am across the Hammond line last Friday and the feature of the boxing carnival was one of the bloodiest preliminaries that have ever been witnessed in a local prize ring. -The fights were pulled off before the Crystal Club of Burnham and about 300 sports ,many of them from Hammond and other neighboring towns, were present. The fight was not advertised but the vrord was passed around that there was going to be something good on tap and the boys were all present. The fights were pulled off In a hall In the neighborhood of the interurban station. It was arranged before hand that DIclcFitzpatrick, a welterweight, weighing 142 pounds, would have to
knock out Danny Goodman, a light-
the decision. GOODMAN WIWS FIGHT. Fitspatrlck failed to knock out. his man, and Goodman got the decision. This is a big feather in the cap of Goodman, in the opinion of the local sports, and it is said that there Is no question of the merits -of the two fighters. There were two six-round preliminaries, and one of them is said to have been the bloodiest that has ever been seen -by local fight fans. Two ne-
Ruling by Postmaster General That AH Assistant Postmaster in First and Second Class Offices Be Put in Classified List. -
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HURT IN HUNTING ACCIDENT
One of the first hunting accidents of the season occurred this morning when Edward Undine of Ross shot himself Ik the foot while stepping from a boat on
the Little calumet at Black Oak. Thre,
of his toes were completely shot off and his loot was otherwise injured. The accident was witnessed by his brother-in-law Clifford Bothwell who stood on the short having Just preceeded Undine out of the boat. ' The boat was within a few feet of the shore and Undine was about to leave it. He stood to pick up his gun and did not notice that it was cocked. He is unable to tell in detail Just how the accident happened. The Injured was removed to the residence of Henry Nimetz where first aid was given him. He was later removed to his home at Ross and Dr. Iddings of Merrillville summoned to give medical attention.
Although there has been no official notification to that eeffct received at the Hammond jtostof flee, it is understood that President William H. Taft
has ordered all assistant postmasters in
offices of the first and second-class be placed in the civil service list.
This would affect the Hammond of
fice in view of the fact that the term of
Postmaster William H. Gostlln will expire the 1st of January of next year,
and Otto Rabe would hold ovr under
the postrilastershlp of his successor. t
This is In line with the policy of the postoffiee department and ofe presi
dent to place as ta an y of the employes
in the postal service under civil serv ice as possible. -. ' ' "
While it is generally understood that
F. 'Richard Schaaf is to be the next
postmaster of Hammond, it; is not known what his intentions were regarding the appointment of an assist
ant. Rnltnfc of Interest.
So far as is known Otto Rabe would have been satisfactory to him and the
fact is generally appreciated that Rabe
has been a most efficient appointee,
yet changes have frequently been made
in this appointment by the incoming
postmaster and -a ruling of this' kind
is of Interest. Mr. Rabe said today: "We have re
ceived no official notice of such a rul
ing. I have heard that the postmaster at the Huntington, office had received
such a notice. 1 have not given the
matter of my reappointment very much
thought. If my workhas been satisfactory and Mr. Schaaf should make up hlsrnind to retain me I would probably accept the appointment." However, if the next' postmaster should want to make a change I am not prepared to say what I would do in the event to the new postmaster about the matter."
The Man of the Hour in Indiana Tomorrow
New Bridge Proposed for
Hohman Street Is . to Be ;
Sixty Feet Wide and Will Stand as Model for Generations to Come.
initlHKfiD THIS EVENING
A way has been found to build the
original specifications and etui keep' within the reduced appropriation of $75,000, which has been made by the county council. It has been erronously reported that the new bridge i3 to be only 40 feet wide. County . Commissioner Schaaf said this morning that the bridge is to be 60 feet wide and the error, probably arose over the fact that the roadway is to be 40 feet. Wide" a Street. This wil make the new bridge as wide as Hohman street and will meet the requirements for years fto come. The structural steel that goes into the bridge will not be weakened as a result of the reduced appropriation, but one of the abutments, the one on the blind
side of the bridge, will not be put in until the government requires the county to build the other half of the structure.
In this way the bridge will be built according to the old specifications in all of the essentials and the unessentials will be eliminated until the requirements of navigation make them necessary. Credit for securing the appropriation, should go to County Commissioner R. Schaaf, Sr., although the project for the building of the bridge originated with County Commissioner Oscar Krinbill. Credit should also be given to Mayor Becker, his board of public works and John Kane of Hammond, all of whom appeared before the county councilman and made arguments for the bridge. It is said that the county councilmen were far from being in a mood to make a his appropriation. Mayor Given Credit. Schaaf saw that the situation did not
look very promising, and he at once notified the mayor to come to Crown Point and help him to present the mat-
j ter to the commissioners. The mayor i and his board of public works took the j next train to the county seat and the I result was that the day was saved, al-
Hammond high school Is planning to ! though the appropriation was shaved go to college this fall and most of them by $12,000. have picked the school which they will! The appropriation of $?5.00() will attend. Some of them have not fully make it possible for the work of putmade up their minds but tentatively, ting in the abutments to begin this A 1 -3 V.. ... t . .- 1 i . , a m
LAKE CO US TV PRIZE WIXXERS. Fourth grade Ruth Perry, Center township. f Fifth Ruth Bryant, Eagle Creek township. Sixth Esther Holmes, West Creek township. Seventh Edna Piepho, Hanover township. Eighth Gladys Welsh, town of Griffith.
(Special to The Time Crown Point, ind., April 4. The girls in the common schools of Lake county are better spellers than the boys. Not a single boy carried away first honors. ; ; A spelling contest, held in the court house last Saturday, stands alone in the Jiistory of Lake county for uniqueness. It was inaugurated by the county board of education to promote the study of orthography, and it has been a big success. The contestants were to be taken from the fourth to the eighth grades, inclusive, and five prizes
were to be awarded. This big contest necessitated many preliminary contests first in the individual schools then in the townships and finally in the county. . Beat Spellers Arranged.
Each township sent its best spellers j
In each grade to the front to bring home the much- coveted prize. There were many able spellers, but of all the good spellerstat, Lake county could Waster there were but-flve7whd; coulA stand the test of rapid .fire spelling, while their nerves were wearing to a frazzle under the excitement and strain of competition. The elimination of a competitor made the burden all the heavier, and in the case of the eighth grade contest this nerve-racking eontest lasted for two hours and thirtyfive, minutes. Finally Gladys Welsh of the Griffith town school stood alone. One after another her competitors left the ranks and listened with admiration to the girl who seemed to be a walking
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BEVERIDGE TO PRESIDE No Long-Winded Speeches to Be Delivered at Meeting.
TIMES' BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITOL. Indianapolis, Ind., April 4. Interest today centers in the arrangements which are being made for the Republican 6tate convention will be held in this city tomorrow. This is the first time in many years that a state convention of either party has oc
cupied but one day, but the leaders of the party this year decided that a two days session was not necessary. They believed that all of the business of the convention could be as well done, in one day as in two, and that many Republicans from over the state would be more willing to spend one day here than more. This, it was believed, would increase the attend
ance and give the Republicans from all corners of thl state an opportuni
ty to get together and talk' things ;
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EACH BOY WILL GO
TO COLLEGE
Every boy in the senior class in the
PETITIONS
SENATOR ALBERT J BEVERIDGE.
Champion Pedestrian to Cross Lake County Tomorrow. Edward Payson Weston will .cross Lake County tomorrow over his old route through Highland, Hobart for the -third time. He reached Hammond this afternoo and will sp end the evening in the city. Weston did not go through Chicago fearing the crowds but hit the state line at the southern end of the city. He expects to be in Toledo next Sunda instead of , April 25, as originally scheduled. He ascribes the fact that he is so far ahead of his schedule to the fine weather he has encountered and to the fact that his expedition has been treated as a special train by the Santa Fe Road. He has had a motor car to carry his baggage and has had a copy Of all train orders uide him.
they have decided on the following
schools. Julius Meyn will go to the Wharton school of Finance, affiliated with Pennsylvania University at Philadelphia. It is his purpose to fit him selt for taking up his father work. Walter Kennedy will go to Chicago University. Carl Bauer Jr. will go to Furdue. EmilFedler will also go to Purdue. Raymond Zoll will go to Wabash or Earlham and will prepare for a course in journalism. Joe Ibach will go to Depauw from which school his father and sister have graduated. Edwin Frederichs will go to DePauw for the purpose of taking advantage of the fine course in oratory ,that is provided there. Afterwards he will take a course in law at Ann Arbor.
spring and to be completed before fall.
The new bridge will be ready next year.
Teachers on .Vacation. A number of the school teachers have gone to their homes in various parts of the country.v Miss Ann Messer went to her home in Terre Haute. Miss" Ruth Anning. is spending her vacation at Evanston. .. Miss Nora Lacey is at her home In Indianapolis. Miss Emily Crosby has gones to JanesfIHe, Wis.
DEATH OF IS. PAULNA WAGHTEL Hammond Lady Is Survived By Husband and Sev- - eral Children.
Mrs. Paulina WaAitel of 350 Alice atret, died yesterday at her home, having been sick for some time pleural pneumonia. Mrs. Wachtel was bori.
May 8th, 1853. She is survived by her husband Godfrey Wachtel. The funeral has been arranged to be held Wednesday afternoon. Short services will be held at the residence at one o'clock after which the body will be taken to the German Lutheran church on Clinton stret. Interment will be' at Concordia cemetery.
OW BEING
CIRCULATED
The work of circulating the remonstrance against the annexation of Hammond to East Chicago b-3gan today. It has been learned that the purpose of the mayor's appropriation for the taking of a census was for no other reason than to discover what were the sentiments of the 'people of Hammond regarding annexation. In this he did not take the people of Hammond into his confidence as to the real purpose of taking this enumeration. The alleged census takers did not take an actual census, but simply ascertained how many legal voters there are in the city, and discovered as nearly as possible how many of them were in favor of opposed to annexation. - The report that the census was to be
a check on the federal census is ridiculous on the fact of it. When the remonstrance Is signed the mayor will not be abfe to tell when he has twothirds of the legal voters. ;
ed up The Times' office and "declared that a young lady was making the rounds with a very natty aluminum cooking utensil proposition, that sound- j ed beautiful as the young lady unr j folded it. The reporter who answered j the Homewood lady, after being in- j formed that it was necessary to make a j cash payment down before the delivery j
of the goods, advised her to either noti- City's Leading Business and
t.y liic pvinjc yj i oci tiic uug vi cue young woman. It develops that a young man accompanied the young woman, and that a large . number of Homewood ladies
fell victims to the wiles of the due. ' ' The amcnts collected ranged all the I ' " way from 25 cents to $2. and a neat The Men's Club of Hammond is planlittle sum was cleaned ujt No cooking ring one of the most interesting meetutensils have arrived, however, and ings cf the year for tomorrow night there is little hope of any. The couple I when there will be a union meeting of have Red to greener fields and the ' the principal clubs of the city and a Homewood ladies are patiently waiting representative from each will describe until the next suave canvasser comes the superlative virtues of his organiza-
HEP'S CLUB ILI3
NIERESTfNG MEETING
Professional Men Will Read Papers.
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over.
ISO LOSG SPEECHES. ' - Another thing that was in the minds of the party leaders when they decided a one day convention was that this Is not the tlme for a lot of long winded speeches. They did not believe it would be good policy, at this time, to have a number of speeches. It Ul
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peiiE INTERESTS OPPOSING
along to collect in advance. This is only one of the many times that Hammond ladies have beenvictimized. ' - It wil probably not be the la?t, .They
like to be gulled y 'strangers, and , Miller Saengerbund Fidelia.
tion-and-the activity which it represents. " " ' The program as outlined is as follows: ' , ' Hammond's Musical Progress F. C.
their husbands can have as much fun as they desire.
ZIMMERMAN OUI FOR COLLECTOR
CI Crum-
Social Side of Club Life F,
packer University Club. Hammond's Juvenile Citizenship Rev. W. F. Switzer Men's lub. The City Beautiful; A Method of Accomplishment W. C. Belman Hammond Business Men's Association. Athletic Hammond Dr. H. C. Groman Hammond Athletic Association. The music for the evening is to be furnished by the members of the Stengerbund Fidelia and Director Stew
art of the Hammond Athletic Associa-
Hammond and Whiting Officials Hear Striking Statements Made at Chicago City Club Relative to Calumet Drainage.
WeSO XLiXmillVLLU. VUUtlttUUUJ. ,tlcn ut some of the citizens of Ham
monds Boyville through some of theu
BUYS NEW HOME.
Fred Carter has just purchased the residence in which he lives at 384
Contents in Township Election.
athletic drills. There will be a general social good time and refreshments will be served to those presen. The meeting will be open to the members of the Men's Club and also to anv member of the clubs which
Augusi iuiimciiua.., are represented on the program, mond contractor, is a candidate for, The meetlng has been arranged only collector in Thornton' township on the ' &f ter considerabie work on the part of citizens' ticket. An election will be t, rnmml.P(, and after several con-
nMES BUREAU, 4.T STATE C-4P1TA1 Indianapolis, Ind., April 4. The state board of health Is arranging to establish a temporary laboratory at Hammond to make tests and reach conclusions regarding lake water polluted by sewage from Hammond, Whiting, Gary and East Chicago. This Is result of a conference in Chicago on Saturday of the mayors of Indiana cities concerned.. The laboratory is to be established soon.
heia in Thornton township tomorrow i,, tv, rerrsntttves of
South Hohman street from D. H. Sueph to fill the offices of commissioner, col- the various ciubs of Kewanna, 111., for a consideration of j lector, road supervisor, justice of the '
'a"1'- - peace and assessor. The two tickets Mr. Carter rented this place about a ln the flelJ are the republican ticket year ago and liked the location so well j and the citiZens- ticket, that he decided to purchase the troo- i . . . . . '
erty. This is one of the important real estate deals of the week.
DEATH
OP MRS. BORMAN
Mrs. Dora Bormann, wife of Mr. Fred Bormann, a laborer living at 139 LaSalle street died yesterday afternoon at three o'clock, her death being due to an attack ' of pneumonia s having been sick only a week. The deceased lea-es a husband and t j'O year old child.
"We hold the balance of power ln
West Hammond," said Judge Frank Green today, and I hope that the West Hammond people will turn out to help to elect their fellow townsman, Mr. Zimmerman. He has had no time to get around to make a campaign, as he was notified of his nomination only last
! Saturday. If we all get out and vote
we will be able to elect him."
THERE IS ALWAYS A "BEST PLACE" TO BUY. TIMES' ADS TELI. YOU tVUKItS. ...
Officers to Be Installed. Local Elks are looking forward .to a big night next Thursday. The officers for the ensuing year will be installed. Folloving this formality there will be a social sessn and an hour of entertainment.
Want Street Widened. It is understood that the East Side Improvement Association is going to take up the question of the widening of Calumet avenue. The same sort of a botch of a Job has been made in the widening of Calumet avenue that was made in the widening of Hohman street, and it is understood that it isthe purpose of the property owners along this important thoroughfare to have the
street made a uniform width of eighty
feet at any cot.
At the meeting held the other niarht
there were many matters of importance
taken up, among them the questions of
beautifying the yards and lawns on thaj
east side.
ADVERTISE A'U 1GAIX IX THE TIJIES.
ADVERTISE
That powerful private interests, who
exploit the Niagara river water power are opposing the opening of the Sag
and thus prevent purer wter in the Calumet region was one of the striking statements made last Saturday noon when George M. Welsner, chief of the sanitary district, addressed the City club in Chicago. Mayor Becker and Dr. W. D. Weis. secretary of the board of health, and Mayor Parks of Whiting and Dr. A. J. Lauer. the Whiting secretary, were guests at this luncheon. Mayor Becker having been on the program to address the club as to whether it would be desirable from an Indiana viewpoint to have the Sag channel opened. Becker Speak for Dintrict. Mayor Becker said the Indiana cities
would be glad to co-operate with Chicago in an effort to build the ' canal nd keep the sewage out of the lake. "Any influence was can bring to bear (Continued ci page live.)