Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 285, Hammond, Lake County, 22 May 1911 — Page 6
THE TIMES.
Monday, May 22, 1911.
Crown Point Mews
Happenings of a' Day in Lake County's Lively Capital
SHUCKS
From the Diary of Si. Lence
Er Chicago paper sez thet th' absence o' "humility" wuz what kept th' death rate so low durin' th' hot spell. Ef such is th' case we hev nuthin' t fear frum th' heat in menny Lake county cities. "Th' hobble, th' tube and th' harum skirt mnst go." Fashion Xote. Yes; we saw 'em goln' yestlddy, but not all t' once.
trip from the Harbor town at home,
and with good weather , the crowd would have been a record breaker. The
game passed without any trouble or
rag-chewing and convinces the North
ern Indiana league management that with fair decisions by the umpires that
the crowd will abide by them without
wrangling, which used to be ever pres
ent a a ball game.
John and Frank Daily and families
of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs,
Warren Hayward on Main street yes
terday.
Dr. Elmore Salisbury of Hammond is
visiting with Crown Point relatives for
a few days. The alumni banquet to the graduat
ing class of 1911 will be held at the
Presbyterian church tomorrow evening,
A fine program has been prepared in
it was tne skius unoer me riaroor , conjunction with tne Banquet, and an
team for the whitewash tank here enjoyable time is expected by those
yesterday, and for nine long innings attending the affair.
"Pete" Henning. heaver of cannon balls, held the visitors to one lone hit and that could , have been copped by one Danny Enright in right field had he only started to hot foot a little sooner. It was a great game, the Harbor team following the same shutout
route that Hammond journeyed one
Oakley Morton of the Chicago uni
versity visited with Crown Point rel
atives yesterday.
Attorney Otto J. Bruce and Sheriff Grant are transacting business in
Hammond today.
The roller skating party at Central
week ao. Timely hits off Goetx of the ; music nan will take place this evening
Harbor team helped Crown Point to I instead of tomorrow night, on accoun
keep its place at the head of the league; of the alumni banquet being held at
percentage column. Henning was invincible, very few balls being knocked out of the infield, and in perfect con-
that time.
Crown Point w-as knocked ou of Its usual Sunday automobile trade yester-
trol of the ball never allqwed a man j day on account of the rain and threat to make first base by that four-ball ening weather.
route. The Hartor team played a nne i game and the rooters who came down I in six special cars have nothing to feel '.
ashamed of over their ball handlers. Two sensational plays were made, Eder and Henning getting a few screamers off the Harbor hickories. 1 The rain, wind and hailstorm which struck this vicinity amidships and almost without warning, on Friday afternoon, did considerable damage. The storm was purely local, no rain falling north or south of this place during the afternoon. The force of the wind and hail was responsible for many broken
Mr. and Mrs. David Maney , enter
tained friends from Wilmette during
Saturday and Sunday.
Mr.- and Mrs. Walter Allman enter
tained Wirt Lowther, D. D., of Fair
bury, 111., over Sunday. Mr. Lowthe
delivered the commencement address at the graduation exercises on Saturday
evening.
GRIFFITH.
Preparations are being made to re
roof the old lantern factory belonging
to Osterhout 'estate on West Main
windows and much damage to shade ' street;.
trees. The damage, however, was l Mr. and Mrs. Joe Russell were Ham
probably offset by the fact that the ' mond visitors Saturday.
accompanying rain was badly needed, i John Miller, Jr., and B. B .Potte
Enough rain has fallen within the last ' transacted business in Hammond Satur
few days to satisfy the demands. day.
Crown Point is not exoeriencine or Mr. and Mrs. Jay Kilbourn of Ross
feeling the effects of the hard times ' were here Saturday morning on their
and general business lassitude appar- wav to Hammond
ent in the north part of Lake county. Prof. Steifel of the Ross high school
and the merchants here report busi- i spent Saturday in Chicago.
ness as being good for this time of the Miss Edith Jamieson took the grad
year. Not being a manufacturing com- uation examination at Highlands
munity or being dependant upon a mill where she has been attending school payroll each Saturday night for a since her parents moved there, share of prosperity on Monday morn-! The Grand Trunk land excursion to ing, the county seat is one of the last Turkey Creek stopped here Sunday and places to feel the business depression, some of the boys went down to see the Indiana Harbor demonstrated that it ' airsMP soarwas some live baseball town vesterdav Quite a number of our baseball fans
ROBERTSDALE. The street car company will begin
to oil their part of Indiana boulevard
In a few days, it will then be up to the property owners to do - the ret. This will fill a long felt want, as the
dust is so bad the residents are obliged
to keep their doors and windows closed in the hottest weather.
Miss Georgia Conrad returned to her
home in Fort Wayne, Ind., after a
pleasant visit at the home of Miss Jo
sephine Jewett of Pearl street.
Miss Amy Roberts of Roberts avenue
was the guest of Hammond a friends Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Eggers and chil
dren of Roberts avenue were Chicago visitors Saturday.
Edward Jewett is quite ill at his
home in Pearl street and is under the care of Dr. Kohr.
Mrs. Cowan and daughter, Margery,
of Indiana boulevard were South Chicago visitors Saturday,
Harry Stross of 116th street attend
ed the south side ball game in Chicago Saturday.
Geraldine, the litle daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Merle Gardner, is ill with
the measles. ,
Miss Helen MacLean of Roberts ave
nue visited her brother and family in
Hammond yesterday.
Ethelyn, the litle daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Elliott Aman, still continues
quite ill at their home in Roberts avenue. The pupils of the eighth grade of the Whiting school, chaperoned by Miss Josephine Jewett, enjoyed a .day's outing at Jackson Park Saturday. Freda Radloff of East Side spent the week end here with her grandmother, Mrs. Stiller of Roberts avenue. Mrs. Sellers and daughter, Gwendolyn, of 116th street were among the Hammond shoppers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. J. Fase entertained friends from Chicago at their home in Roberts avenue yesterday. The hot weather of the past few days
WHITING AND ENVIRONS
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Alberding and son of Chicago spent the week end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hemmy of Sheridan avenueMrs. Henry Gillmurray of Sheridan avenue was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. John Nyhoff, in Gary, on Friday evening. Misses Helen V. Calhoun and Ella C. Klose returned home Saturday evening from Oxford, O.. where they visited with Miss Jessie M. Curtis at the Western college. Miss Mamie Bernstein is spending a few days with relatives in Chicago.. Otto Bormann of Tolleston, Joe Goodman and Louis Bernstein of Gary visited in Whiting on Friday night, coming in the Bormann auto. Miss Mae Eaton of Chicago has been spending a few days with Miss Emma
Schwalm of Ohio avenue. Mrs. William Reed and daughter of South Chicago was the guest of Mrs. William Gainer of Central avenue. In two weeks Mrs. Reed and children will leave for Winnipeg, Man., to spend several months visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Busine.
Mrs. John M. Thiele and two daughters. Theresa and Catherine, of Central avenue have gone to Indianapolis aad Anderson, Ind., for -a two weeks' visit with relatives. Evelyn, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Tharp of Laporte avenue, is the latest victim of the measles epidemic. The Daughters of Liberty gave a pedro party in the I. O. O. F. hall on Saturday evening. The prizes were awarded as follows: Ladies First, Mrs. Rabe; second, Mrs. Frieze. Gentlemen First, Adam Dangler; second, Roy Wrolf. Rev. Sak Kee Dong of Korea was
i nrp-jpnt at linth th. vrt-n i n y n r A oven.
has brought hundreds of people to the ' , , - ,, .. . . . .. . . : w ' .ing services of the Methodist church
lake front to enjoy the cool breezes and
bathing. Mrs. John Murray of Roberts avenue was the guest of friends in Chicago yesterday. Mrs. John Soltwedel and daughter, Lilliatn, of Harrison avenue were Hammond visitors Saturday evening.
when the baseball fans from that thriving city came down six carloads strong. Threatening weather in the morning is said to have kept hundreds of fans who contemplated making the
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went to Crown Point yesterday to see the ball game.
DYER. I will have ice cream for sale every Wednesday and Sunday at my ice cream parlor during the summer. Louis Hartman, Dyer. 22-3t - Rev. Joseph Flach spent a short time with Rev. A. M. Bucheit at St. John Sunday afternoon. Henry Greiving and family were the guests of relatives at Schererville Sunday.
The meeting of the Christian Moth
ers' Sodality took place Sunday after
noon. Several new members were initi
ated. Mr. and Mrs. P. T. Puckett and children spent the week's end with relatives at Hammond. Henry Schumacher of Schererville was a business visitor here Saturday. Edward Thielen of St. John made a short visit here Sunday afternoon. After a week's visit with relatives at Chicago, Mrs. Anton Kaiser returned to her home here in Dyer the latter part of the week. Miss Minnie Wolter of Chicago was the guest of friends out here for several days. At last the long-looked-for rain came in drenching showers, washing off the dust from the grass and trees.
yesterday. Rev. Dong spoke on problems relating to that remarkable country. He has been in this country for five years, and is at present finishing his course at Evanston. He was a very eloquent speaker, and the members of the church considered hearing him a real treat. Roy Rftfferty, an employe in the car
LOWELL. The trustee and advisory board of
Cedar Creek township told district school 'buildings No. . 2 Saturday to Carl Brownell for $46, and school building No. 1 to Mrs. Palmer Edgerton for $72. School having been discontinued in these two buildings they were of no further use to the township. They will be moved to the places of the respective buyers and utilized as farm buildings. Mrs. John Lynch, who was operated
on last Thursday afternoon at her home was full of fine thought and advice. The
poisoning as the result of a nabscess
under his arm. Mr. Nolan underwent an operation ' and is now reported to
be improving -rapidly.
Robert Crowe has returned from Cal
ifornia, where he has been for several
months.'
Atkin & Tharp p 'of "119th street and Sheridan avenue are putting an addi
tion to their "grocery store.
While in- school on Friday Georgie
Roe, aged 7 years, the little son of Mr.
and Mrs, George Roe Of Davidson place took a collarbutton from his waist and
inserted in his notril. The youngster began to-cry, and upon inquiry told the teacher what was the source of his pain which he was suffering. He was immediately taken." to the office of Dr. Doolittle, but upon probing found the button had already lodged in his head. Dr. Dewey was also summoned to assist Dr. Doolittle, and after administering an anaesthetic- they were finally successful in extracting the button. Charles-' Spurrier and Miss Mabel Wickey ef East Chicago were Whiting visitors Sn last Friday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wesley R. Jenkins of Woodlawn " were the guests of the latter's' parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hannephin, 'yesterday. The death of Howard J. Vater, the 3-monthB-old -son-of. Mr. and Mrs. C. VateiTof Central avenue, died last even-
) ing of spasms. The little fellow was a twin, but his' brother 'is quite healthy, j while Howard has been ailing more or less for. several weeks. The funeral will be. held tomorrow afternoon. InI terment will be at,-Hammond. Sullivan Bros.' Wild West and Vaudei ville Hippodrome will show In Whiting I next Wednesday evening. There will be a big parade at 5:80 p. m. i Ge.orge Hilliard. Jr., entertained Kenneth & William Bailey of East Chicago yesterday. -j Mr, and Mrs. Calvin McClellan of Hammond spent yesterday visiting the former's parents on Clark street. The Whiting Masons went to South Chicago on Saturday night, where they did the degree work for the South Chicago team. An elaborate banquet
followed the;-,meeting. - : i .a - i v. a ;
HEGEWISCH. I Miss Irene Beckman entertain a few
of her friends from the senior class of
the Bowen high school of South Chi
cago and her ulster. Miss Inex Volleen
of Roseland last Thursday afternoon and evening. ' The girls spent the aft
ernoon in a violet hunt In the woods near Hegewisch, returning with large bouquets of violets, about 6 o'clock, to
the home of Miss Beckman's aunt, Mrs. V. A, Beckman of Superior avenue, where they we reserved a very dainty course luncheon in the dining room, which was beautifully decorated with
flowers. After luncheon the girls were received into the parlor, where the remaining part of the evening was spent In music and pleasant conversation. At
an- early hour the girls departed for their homes, thanking Miss Beckman for the good time they had enjoyed in the afternoon and evening just spent.
Charles McRlll and family of Ontario avenue are moving from here to
Chicago Heights this week.
Pupils from the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the Henry Clay school, took part In the singing at the "child's
welfare exhibit" at the Coliseum Sat
urday morning. V. A. Beckman returned home Sat
urday evening after a week's business
trip In and about Washington, O.
Miss Edna Oder was a Chicago visitor
last Friday. The Pythian Sisters held their regu lar meeting at Jordan's hall last Thurs day evening.
Miss Hazel Livings spent Thursday afternoon at home here with her moth-
alumni will be held at the high school
building on Tuesday evening.
er.
Miss Ella Hohwy spent Saturday evening and Sunday with friends at
Valparaiso.
Mrs. Malmstone returned to her home
in East Gary last Friday afternoon aft er spendfng a few days with -he
daughter here.
C. R. Reed and Miss Tillie Berg of
Chicago attended the exhibit at the
Coliseum last Saturday evening.
ST. JOHN. ,,, The Rev. Father A. Heitman IsMn'at
present and is confined to the bed ami
s under medical treatment. Rev. Heit-
man was for a long time the priest of
St. John congregation and resigned the
rectorship about four years ago on account of his advanced age. Being al
most 80 years old now there is not
much chance for him to recover his former health. He has always been of
robust health and athletic stature.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Berg spent Sun
day with relatives in Klaagvllle. -
Joseph Scheldt visited Sunday with
relatives in Chicago.
Miss Frances Boecker of Chicago was
the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. Boecker, Sunday. '
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Newcomb of
Shelby were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Emll Larson Sunday.
Miss Margaret Ludwig of Chicago
spent Sunday at the home of hef parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Ludwig.
Mrs. P. Schmltt of Chicago was the
guest of relatives here Sunday.
Ben Hilbrich was the guest of relatives in Hammond Sunday. Mrs. B. Pfeifer and son from Whiting were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John
Pfeifer Sunday. . ,
hop at the Standard Oil Co.. pas moved churcheg wm engage in aball game
from South Chicago to "Whiting.
The two eighth grades from the public school had a picnic at Jackson park on Saturday. They were accompanied by the teachers, Misses Mabel Barnhardt, Grace Chapman and Josephine Jewett. John Nolan of Davidson place Is at St. Anthony's hospital, Chicago, where he has been suffering from blood
tomorrow afternoon at Forsythe ball park. In .honor of the event the stores and the public school will be closed.
HOBART. A pretty wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Nitchman at the hour of five on Saturday afternoon, when their youngest daughter, Ruth, was united in marriage to Mr. Schweim of Chicago. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Servles in the presence of relatives, the ring ceremony being used. The bride wore a beautiful gown of white embroidery and carried lilies-of-the-valley. The yciing couple left on the 7:35 train. They expect to take a short trip, after which they' will begin housekeeping in
Chicago. here on Sunday between the Hobart Grays and Garden Cities of Chicago was cancelled on account of rain. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mellon of Hammond visited friends and relatives here yesterday. About twenty-five men and their wives from the Russell Packing company of Chicago came out on Sunday and drove to Deep River from here to spend a day's outing. A meeting of the Hobart high school
HIGHLANDS. Mrs. B. Munster returned home today after visiting with Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Daugherty. ' Mrs. Grimmer was a Hammond shopper yesterday. R. Hartog of Schererville was here on business yesterday. - ' , The commencement exercises of the Highland school will be held Thursdaysevening May 25th. Judge V. S. Relter will give an address and the graduates will also take part in the program.. , Anna Melcher will complete the remainder of the school term in the Chicago schools.
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Ivan Caryll, the English composer, is at present working oi an operetta, entitled "Sweet Pansy," which is to be produced next season by Klaw & Erlonger. '
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for abscess of the bowels and for whose life there was no promise of hope, is still alive and making a fight for her life. She Is a wealthy lady and a leader in Believers' church. She is 70 years old, but has held her own so well that she looks to be not over 50 years old. She is of a very congenial dis position, and right up to the time of the operation joked with the doctors, and when she came out from under the Influence of the anaesthetics she continued to joke, although her'llfe hung
by a slender cord and does now. It I
bravery ana" cheerfulness has ' any virtue she surely ought to pull through and be restored to good health. One of her sons. Fay, is in South America. Oscar Hill, Hammond's hustling horse buyer, was down in this county Saturday looking for some good horses, of which there are some good ones in this community, and Oscar has a peculiar way of getting next to them, and you can't swindle him.1 The farmer responsible for the story of the steer afflicted with rabies opines that if the editor of the Hammond
Times, who thinks the story a . hot weather one. had been in his position
when the foaming, snapping and wl!d-
eyed steer charged straight at them,
with only a wire fence between, he would have suffered about the same sensation he did when he came down to Lowell several seasons agn with the
football team and stood on the gridiron
and witnessed the "beef trust, '' Low
ell's players, coming out of the woods with their war togs on, which impression no doubt still clings to him. Eighth grade commencement exercises were held at Egypt schoolhouse, Cedar Creek township, Saturday night. There was an interesting program and was enjoyed by those present. Russell Dunkleberger, son of Rev. Dunkleberger, is spending a couple of weeks with relatives and friends in Plymouth, Warsaw and other points. Will Hack and wife were guests of Harry Johnson and wife of Hammond Sunday M. Johnson, who has been in the west for the past three years, arrived at his home in Lowell Saturday evening. Amos Brannon cf Billings, Mont., arrived in Lowell Saturday evening to visit his father, Milo BrannonT his grandmother, Mrs. Amos Brannon, and other relatives and friends. Miss Lei a McXay, a nurse in Wesley hospital, Chicago, is home visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip McNay.
Misses Irene Brlggs. soloist, and Lillian Grant, pianist, of Chicago, provided the music for the occasion. The exercises were interesting throughout.
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SOUTH CHICAGO. In a letter he left before he committed suicide, Steve Mishkovich, 8954
Greenbay avenue, willed his wife to
Sten Pocuea, a personal friend of his
Mrs. Mishkovich, widow of the de
ceased. Is prostrated with grief and
cannot account for the freakish "will." 1 Pocuca is a member of the firm of Sabat & Pocuca labor and steamship agents, and is well known throughout Hammond. Whiting, East Chicago and Indi- ! ana Harbor, and is an adorus of the i Servians of South Chicago. . ( Henry Hanson, the Stoney Island butcher, who shot and killed J. L. Fitzgerald in the former's meat market last year, was sentenced to serve from one to fourteen years in the penitentiary for the slaying of which he was found guilty. i Owen Rogers, 8930 Commercial avenue, was bitten on the leg by a dog while in the A-icinity of 8Tth street yesterday afternoon. Rogers was rushed to a nearby doctor's office and the wound cauterized. xThe dog escaped. ; Miss Stella Daley, a maid employed at the home of Mrs. John H. Jones, was arrested on a charge of stealing a
diamond ring from the dresser in the Jones home. , Miss Daley's home is in DeKalb, 111. Mirs Ethel Eberhardt, daughter of J.
B. Eberhardt, the jeweler, entertained a number of friends at her home "Friday afternoon, and while everything was going along nicely the engagement of Mis Ethel Eberhardt to William ' Draper 'was announced and was a great
surprise to the crowd. Sam Wah, the Chinaman who was arrested by Detective Eugene O'Connor, who allege the chinaman did not put one of his shirts in the package after . it had been sent to the laundry, was fine $1.50, the price of the shirt by Judge Frye.
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BURNHAM. Mrs. Sarah Wilder is spending a few days in Crown Point with her daughter. Mr. George Mills of Pullman avenue was a Chicago business visitor Friday. Miss Myrtle Gustafson was a Hammond visitor Friday afternoon. T. J. Cullman of Hobart, who has
bjcen staying here a few days, return-
The commencement exercises of the ed home yesterday. Lowell high school occurred Friday! Mrs. C. W. Neel of Pullman avenue
night at Taylor's theater in the pres- ( was a Hammond visitor Friday.
Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. Hammond, " Whiting, Ea, Chicago, Indiana Harbor
ence of a good sized audience. The i
graduating class consisted of the fol-' lowing young people: Asrnes Berg, Hilda Bailey, Earl Bailey. El to Childress, McKniley Deathe, Kathryn Einspahr, Anna E'.nspahr D. Hatter. Clara Huebsch, Bertha Klein, Julia Nelson,
The Daughters of the King met at
the home of Estella Mills Friday evening Mr. Nelson of Hegewisch is having city water from Hegewisch connected to his farm on Howard avenue. Mrs. E". R. Peterson of Chicago spent
Hulda Poppe, Lillian Ribbentrop, Clara Friday evening here visiting with her Nitche, Ida Schilling and Lillian Schil- mother. ling. The class address was delivered ' - by Dr. Wirt Lowther of Chicago, and . TIMES' ADVERTISING COUNTS.
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