Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 275, Hammond, Lake County, 10 May 1911 — Page 1

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VOL. V., NO. 275. Caustic Criticism

mm h. s. pupils YOUNG ROWDIES

County High Schools, By Editor of Music Magazine

Charles E. Wall editor and pub lisher of the "Music News" of Chicago brands the feature of Lake County H. S. contests as rowdyism in a recent issue of his magazine. He pours hot shot into the music numbers given at the annual contest of the high schools in which the county high sch'ools took part and 6ajs: On last Friday evening at Hammond there was given a "rhetorical' contest" with a -musical contest" sandwiched in between the numbers. This took place at the Orpheum theater before a capacity audience, the schools participating being those of Hammond. Hobart, Crown Point, Gary. Lowell, Whiting and Kast Chicago. The judges in the music contest were the supervisor of music at Laporte, the supervisor at Oak Park, and the editor of a Chicago music paper. The first feature of this contest calling for comment is the fact that the decimations were so very far superior : .:.T?teclaI to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind.. May 10. So much' interest has been taken in the proceedngs 01 tne meettng of the county commissioners at Crown Point, and so many inquiries have been made at The Times office regarding the granting or refusal of licenses that the following list of applicants who were refused is printed All other applicants were granted licenses. William Arndt, Sharpshooter's park Jacob Bloom, Mike Frentzko. Klime Konochezick, Norbert Labovitz, Max A. Long, Sam Miljanovich, Sam Mollner. John Mailath, AVilliam Piper of Gary! Micha Povezenovich, James Quinlani Antone Ruzicnski. George Starszcick! The last case in the list has been appealed. The county commissioners adfourne. last night after a session which lasted I nearly two weeks. NO DAMAGE DONE. Defective wiring which caused a little blaze on the woodwork of the kitchen at the Hotel Majestic in Hammond brought out the fire department from station No. 1 this morning. There was practically no damage. An alarm of just as much consequence was turned In by one of the night watchmen in the Lion store. An electric iron in the ladies' clothes department had not been turned off and eventually set the box on which it stood on fire. The fire was extinguished before departments number 1 and number i arrived. TONEY ALFAON IS RECOVERING Toney Alfaon, an engine hostler on the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad, who w seriously burned while at work last Sunday evening, is recovering from his injuries at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond. His wounds were at first thought to be fatal, but his chances for recovery are now very good.

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ofWork in Lake to the music numbers. Judging cas ually, it is in mind to say that they were at least one hundred per cent better. This must certainly Indicate that more attention and better atten tion Is paid to oratory in the Lake county (ind.) high schools than is paid to music The second item calling for comment is the absolute rowdyism of the high school pupils. Each school had Its "rooter club" in evidence at the opera nouse and the noise of the "veils" was something beyond description. To tnese young people it might have seemed like "school spirit." To everv body else It was such intolerable nuis ance as to suggest irresistibly the fact that the young people have positively no regard for the rights of anyother persons than themselves. Besides being offensive in the extreme, there is another factor involved in this yelling and hooting. It wa noted that the young people who were to sing later were among the noisiest in their demonstrations previous to that attempt, and it required no great (Continued on page 8.) CHARLES VI SICKLE WEDS MISS SIEBERT i Romance Disclosed When Mother of Groom Finds Lady's Hat in Room. WEDDING OCCURS AT HUD Bride One of Hammond's Popular Girls And Cashier In Theatre. Last night Mrs. James Van Sickle of Hammond discovered a ladies hat she had never seen before in her son's room She called him in for consultation. "Charles, what does this mean," saii the good mother. "It means that I am married, mother." said Charles, "and here is my brid9 Mrs. Charles Van Sickle, nee Miss Louise Siebert, formerly cashier at the Gem theatre of which Van Sickle Is the owner was then, introduced. That In brief is the story of the culmination of a romance that resulted in the marriage of Charles Van Sickle to Miss Louise Siebert, both of Hammond. ' The story which Mrs. Van Sickle told (Continued on Page 8.) UNABLE TO ATTEND TRIAL Mrs. C. E. Stevens, who was choked by her husband yesterday afternoon on Indiana avenue, was unable to leave the house this mornig on account of the brutal treatment received yesterday. She was unable to be present at the trial, which was to have been held this morning, as she was sick in ted. A doctor was called and was found not to have been seriously hurt. Another charge has been filed against Stevens by Mrs. Merchant, with whom Stevens and his wife board. The trial will be held as soon as Mrs stv ens is able to leave her bed. . ' A

HAMMOND, INDIANA, WEDNESDAY, MAY

PREACHES v II COURTS

Judge Lawrence Becker Aft er Calling New Session of Grand Jury Today Wants Clothes Line Fights Kept Out of the Courts. Judge Lawrence Becker of he Lake Superior Court today charged a new grand jury with the investigation of crimes and misdemeanors in the County of Lake and he specially charged the grand jurors that it is their duty to investigate the conduct of public office. mentioning specially the county com missioners. Whether or not Judee Becker had in mind recent attemnts to force "cohhle" stone roads On the neonle and the 1. leged activity of the "slag" peopl is not known. There has been much said about re cent viewers reports and much has been I CContinued on page 8.) SUDDEN DEATH OVER TAKES ESTEEMED LADY Mrs. B. T. Hutson, 119 Fay ette Street, Expires at Supper Table. Sudden death overtook Mrs. B. S Hutson, at her home, 119 Fayette street, last evening, at the supper ta ble. , While no post-mortem examina tion has been held, it is thought that herfleath was due to a stroke of apoplexy, she having suffered two stroke about six -years ago. ! The funeral has been arraneed for Sunday afternoon, and will be held un der the auspices of the Daughters of Liberty, Mrs. Hutson having been member of Golden Rule council. The Ladies of the Maccabees will asist, she having also held a membership In this organization. Each of the orders will have, three honorary pallbearers. The active pallbearers will be selected from the membership of the Carpenters' un ion, both her husband her son, Albert, being members of the union. "Wan 3 Yearn Olil. Mrs. liutson was born near Mechanicsburg, O., 62 years ago. She was marriel in 1S65 and was the-mother of Kix children. She is survived by a wid ower and four children, they bein Albert and William of Hammond and Mrs. Crilly Waters of Chicago and Mrs. Daisy Walsh of West Hammond. The family has lived in Hammond for twen ty-two years, and has always en loved the retpect and esteem of a large circle of friends. Mrs. Hutson was devoted to her family and home and was loyal to hfr friends. Mrs. Hutson had been unwell during the past three months, but was still able to be up and around the greater part of the time. During the past week her health improved ranidlv- nni she commented about this to her hus band as he returned ' from his work about 5 o'clock last night. Mrs. Hutson sat on her porch en joying the evening breeze when her husband returned and remained there for some time to chat with him. Later she prepared the evening meal and an parently was in the best of spirits. The meal was nearly over when her fam tl f l-O - Via. ..It 1 I . j yv imi oiipjium iier cnair, neipless. Tender hands carried her to her bed, and' life was practically extinct when she was laid d6wn. The bereaved family has the sym pathy of many friends, many of whom did not know until now that Mrs. Hut son had died. in 1 the woman 3 championship

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'"o o uuo i The county cotnjlssioners vester day let the consttMjutt tif a, twentytoot wide stone boulevard across the county. The. effort that was made to have this boulevard made of water proof material' so that it would last proved to be a failure. However, it will be a eood road, as country roads go, and although It will have to be rebuilt in four or five vears. while an asphalt road would last for fifteen years It will still be a credit to the county. The road will begin at Sharpshoot ers park, Hammond, and will be constructed southward on Columbia ave nue to the Ridge road, where it will be built across the entire countv to Ho bart Three roads were turned down for the reason that John Hillman would not sign the viewers' report in which cobble stone was recommended. These are the last roads in which W. V Bridge will appear as county engineer. Although Rav Seelev has been civil engineer for nearly a year, all of the old business that was inaugurated in the Bridge regime is beinir carried on under W. F. Bridge's supervision. Seeley will get all of the new work but Bridge will be the engineer on the cross-county roads, which-will cost the county an enormous sum of money and is really the biggest project of the kind that has ever been undertaken. The county commissioners will come to Hammond next Friday for the purpose of accepting the Kennedy avenue paving. They will also make an in spection of the Hohman street bridge with the idea of accepting It DEATH OF fiSRS. MILLER Of TROMAM AVE. Mrs. Julia Miller. 559 Truman ave nue, died this morning at 2 o'clock from the effects of old age, she be ing S2 years old. She had been well for a long time up to four days ago, when her strength gave way. The remains were shipped this after noon on the 4:07 Monon train to Kempston, 111., where funeral service will be held Friday afternoon. Inter ment will be held at the family lot in the Kempton cemetery. Three daughters and three sons were present at the bedeside at the time of death. Five of them hurried herefrom the southern part of Illinois. Mrs. Miller moved here about four years ago from Kempton and has been residing with her daughter, Mrs. K. G. Gish, 559 Truman avenue. Mrs. Gisn has a large circle of friends in Hammond, who will mourn to her of the death of her mother. Mrs. Miller is survived by the folloinwg children, Klla Miller and William Miller of Denver, I.: Mrs. Julia Wejhe. Joliet, 111.; Mrs. K. G. Gish, Hammond; James Miller, Kempston, 111., and Hugh Miller, Oglesby. 111. HURT IN AUTO MISHAP. . (Special to The Tims-) Crown Point. Ind.. May 10. Irl Rockwell of Gary who was considerably battered up in a recent automobile accident In Chicago is recuperating from the effects of his numerous Injuries at the keme of his parents on Court stret.

BOARD; WILL BUILD 20 FT. ROAD

10, 1911.

AND POLITICAL SUCCESS qShivel-v - , ... o his wire. YOUNG ATHLETES READY FOR SOJEND MEET On Showing Made Saturday Depends Entrance in State Meet. The local high school boys are. out practicing daily for the northern Indiana track and field meet at Sdiith HpiwI Saturday, and hopeto make a . good showing. The high "school tok some of the honors last year and ex-pect to do likewise. If a good showing Is made at the me-?t Saturday Coach Buck will send a team of six men to the state meet. The entries for the state meet to be hell at Fort Wayne has been sent in, and are now waiting for the results of Saturday's meet. All arrangements have been made for the trip to South Bend and most of the students will leave Hammond in the morning. A special rate of $1.40 for the round trip has been secured, and a large crowd is expected to take advantage of this. The tickets will be good on three morning and three night trains. Including a special train leaving after the oratorical contest in the evening. The following entries and events have been sent in: f 1. Discus Graves and Plumb. 2. 100-yard dash Crumpacker. Weimer and Jones. 3. 120-yard hurdle Crumpacker, Jones and Van Gilder. 4. Mile run Gavit, GescheMler and Van Gilder. 5. tenot-put Graves, Plumb and Taylor. 6. 440-yard dash Minard. Weimer and Amoss. 7. Pole vault Taylor, Weimer and Jones. . 8. 220-yard dash Crumpacker. Weimer and Jones. 9. 220-yard hurdle Crumpacker, Graves and Van Gilder. 10. SSO-yard run Gavit, Amoss and Minard. 11. Broad jump Graves, Gescheidler and Crumpacker. 12. Relay race Graves. Weimer, Minard, Crumpacker, Amoss and Gavit. BOARD AWARDS STREET CONTRACT The board of public works at . its meeting this morning awarded the contract for the Condit street pavement to the Ahjborn Construction company. The street Is to be paved with asphalt macadam. The contracts for the sewers, sections B in Becker and Bauer streets, was awarded to W. F. Brunt. Notice was ordered sent to the (Jary & Interurban railway ordering it to begin to sprinkle Sibley street and to complete its paving at once. An electricians license was granted to Fred Juergens and application for a license was made by F. Jarvis. GETS NEW ORDERS. The Simplex Railway Appliance company is in receipt of a number of fair ly good sized orders which will keep the plant running for some time. It is expected that more orders of this kind will be received in the near future and that business conditions in general will improve. H. B. Douglas, of the Standard Car company, said today that the report that the company had received an order for 1.200 cars is 'not true. He said that the Pressed Steel Car company had received an order .for that many cars, but jhat so far as he knew his compalny had not received any new orders. If you smote a La Vendor once you rlH always call for them.

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ACCUSED If FIND WEW II

James Finneran, indicted by the Cook county grand jury and under $3,500 bond pending his trial for a criminal assault upon a 15-vear-old e-irl-and Martin H. Carmody and Robert u Connors, members of the same union, charged by the same girls with having attempted a similar crime upon them, have found a bondsman to o-na rantee their appearance next Friday in the Lake circuit court at Crown Point, when arguments will be made for a new trial on the charge of riot, for which they have each been fined S200. The necessary $500 bonds for each were furnished by the Bankers' Surety company of Cleveland, of which John Morthland is the district representative, ample security having been up to secure the bondsmen. J. J. Ruff, who was on Finncran's bond, informed the sheriff yesterday that he desired to withdraw. Finneran was in Hammond last night, but could not be found by the deputy sheriffs. Having heard, however, that he was being sought he went to the sheriff's office this morning ready to deliver a new bond, and presented a new one for Carmody and another for O'Connor to procure the later's re lease, he having been at the county jallsince last Monday night, because Geo. Eder, his bondsman, had withdrawn. George Bder was also on the bond of Carmody and found it necessary to attach Carmody's bank account to protect himself. OH.- GRAVES CHAGED WITH THREE CRIMES Employe of Hammond Man Gets Into Trouble at Whiting. 5 William Graves, 'a Hammond man, was arrested in. Whiting yesterday morning for trying to cash a check for $40 in the saloon of John Klein at l'lst street. Mr. Klein suspected the check did not belong to Graves and notified the police, who came and placed Graves under arrest. . The case came up before Judge Fetterhof in the Whiting city court last night. He was charged with three feloniesforgery, grand larceny and robbing the mails, the latter being a government and penitentiary offense. The case was nolle prosed bv Prose cuting Attorney Charles E. Greenwald, as he said there was not sufficient evi dence given to convict Graves. Graves may be brought before the grand jury today, as was stated byJudge Fetterhof. If the case is filed hewill be charged with forgery and robbing the mails, which he took out of a letter belonging to his employer, the letter being found in Graves' over alls. Graves is employed by L. C. Roberts, 1S4 Truman avenue, Hammond, who runs a boarding stable. He has worked for Mr. Roberts since the first of the year. During that time he was employed to do little odd jobs around the place. Mr. Roberts said this morning that he had been expecting the check from the Darling Hide and Bone company of Chicago for a week, and Saturday the check came while Roberts was out Of his office. Graves, he says, came in ! and stole the check out of the envelope and then sealed the letter again. The check was not missed until' Saturday evening, when Graves had gone home. Roberts noticed the letter was gone, and when Graves did not show up for work Monday he suspected Graves. Graves went over to Whiting Monday and it has been learned that he tried to cash the check in several other places before he was caught. Graves was mixed up In a shootI Ing scrape here some time ago, but nothing was done to Graves. He has one son and two daughters, his wife having died ten years ago. Roberts claims that he was not subpoenaed In time to give his evidence. RUFF BEGIN WORK ON HEW BUILDH6 J. J. Ruff has begun the excavations for his new three-story business block at the corner of Hohman street and Muenich court. It is expected that in a short time the walls of the new building will begin to rise. Otto Knoerzer will build on his corner lot next year. Dr. H. C. Groman and Gus Muenich are huilding a three-stor-building a little farther south on Hohman street. August Jarnecke says that he will build on the vacant property next to the Eder building within a few months, and if he does not change his mind that will add another fine building to thosewhich are already started. In fact the entire aspect of the city in the vicinity of the "Broken Corner" will be changed. , 1

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EDITION 0NCENT PER COPT, (Back SJombera Cent! Copy.) LATEST NEWS El Paso, Te., May 10. Intrenched in separated strongholds, the Mexican federals fought on desperately today against the rebel hands that swarmed the streets of Juarez. From the walU of the cathedral, the the'ater, the custom house, a hotel and a school house rifle volleys and occasional discharga of machine guns still held Madero'a wearied forces in check. Atlanta, Ga., May" 10. A resolution looking toward the withdrawal of the American Federation of Musicians from the American Federation. of Labor was introduced at yester day b business session of the musi cians' annual conventon The reso lution, which was offered by the delegates from the Dayton (O.) local, was referred to a committee, which will report later in the week. No reason for the desire to withdraw was given. Los Angeles wants next year's convention. A committee to investigate the proposed affiliation with British musicians was appointed. : White Haven, England, May 10. Forty miners were entombed in the pit shaft of St. Margaret s coal mine, near here, today by Are. The flames, which burst out in the shaft cut o:t the exit before the men could get t.j safety. Vhite Haven is at the end of the Cumberland coal Melds Edingburgh, Scotland, May 10. Eight bodiea have been recovered thi morning from the ruins of the Empire Music hall, which was burned lat night. The bodies so far identified are those of "Lafayette, the Great," and "two members of his company, Alice Dale, who . impersonated the "Teddy Bear" midget, and Joe Coster. Two bodies are those of members of the orchestra, and three others have not been identified. Denver, Colo., May 10. Reports have just reached here that a Denver & Rio Grande passenger tram wai held up late in the night near Salida and two or three persons killed. , POLICE AS MOTORISTS. The police department Is considering the purchase of a couple of motorcycles, to be used in place of bicycles heretofor used. One was received this morning and will be tried and if successful another one will be bought. The machine Is the latest model, one. cylinder, Indian motorcycle. It will be kept at the station and will be used In case of a hurry call. Captain HanIon gave the machine a lryout this morning, and said it was jutt the thing for that kind of work. ALFONSO AND BABY SON IN ILL HEALTH tUWiJU, King Alfo.nso, of Spain and his second son. Prince Jaime, are in delicate health. The kirsg it is feared has developed tuberculosis. The prince is to be operated on at once for an Impediment in his speech. His throat is also affected He has never been strong.

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