Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 2, Hammond, Lake County, 20 June 1911 — Page 8

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THE TIMES. Tuesday, June 20, 1911. official to go contrary to the wishes of his neighbors, and It wa-s no different In this case from any other. Wedoesdav At aay rate, the assessments are not being raised as it was figured they should and would be, and there Is every reason now to believe that the Increased tax levy will come. There is another noticeable feature to the information that' is being received from tho counties in which the assessors are at work, and that Is that the owner of a little home , worth, say, from $1,200 to $5,000, Is not being relieved from his unequal burden of taxation as it was expected this year that he would be. It has always been known that the man that owns only his home has been paying more taxes in proportion to what he is worth than the man that owns a large amount of Jand. and It was the intention this year, so tit is said, to change this system and make a more nearly equal distribution of this burden of taxation. n GROCERIES INCLUDED (Except Flour and Sugar)

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I EAST CHICAGO I - AND- - 1MB. HARBOR !

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GARY POSTAL BANK

NOW

STANDS

EIGHTH

Deposits Show Encouraging Growth in Steel City Bank.

Washington. June 20. According to n statement Issued yesterday by the postoflice department, the receipts of the postal savings bank at Gary, establised May 1. show an encouraging Rrowth. Of the forty-five similar institutions installed in various manu-f.n-turing centers throughout the varii,us states on that date Gary stands eighth in the comparative list. On May 31, the postmaster-general pavs. the books of the Gary postal savings bank sow there were sixty-five open accounts. The total amount on deposit was $2.3S1, and the average balance a depositor was $36.63. Ten dollars and ten cents worth of cardii and stamps were sold and of the former less than one-third were redeemed. The cities making the largest showing are as follows:

With members of the Valparaiso city council in attendance to see how they make legislation in Gary the common i

council of the steel city last night had its session opened with a serenade by the Boyville band and when it got down to business it ratified the amended Geist street railway franchise, heard graft accusations, Juggled around with ordinances that contemplat a drain ot $13,622.25 on the ctty treasury and then wound up by rewarding the boy's band by giving second reading to an ordinance appropriating $60 weekly to the boys so that they can give concerts' for the public. Valpo.Men Aninied. So rapid were the workings of the legislative mill that the Valparaiso statesmen, whose chief knowledge of Gary have been court glimpses of Mayor Knotts, 'Dog-Face" .Charley and others, that they stood amazed at th work before the house. One declared that the session rivaled that of the state legislature. o Auto An Yet. Incidental ordinances that were taken up Included the killing of the curfew law and orders to prepare an ordinance appropriating $200 to buy flags for tho south end citizens so that the.--

can appropriately celebrate the Fourth of July. Then Alderman Castleman got first reading on an ordinance appropriating $1,883.75 to "buy an auto-mo-beel for the city" but just who is to ride in the "auto-mo-beel" which is to be paid for by the "pee-pul" was not stated. There is a faint 'suspicion that the machine is the on which Castleman bought for 'the police department but which the safety board refuses to accept. ' Efforts to have the fire limltsextend- , ed reached a committee's hands, ana the ordinance making eight hours a day the working limit for a'.l city em.ployes got to Its third reading. Mr. Grlat Finally Get The Geist street railway franchise contract in its amended form was final

ly ratified by the council last night. Six aldermen were for It, while Messrs. Rowley, Feuer and Walsh opposed the ratification. Endeavors to have further amendments in the shape of one fare, and universal transfers were ignomlnously ignored. ' v There are some walls on the part of the uplifters today because the council killed the curfew ordinance. However, investigations showed that curfew ordinances in cities the size of Gary are neve renforced, so the counsel! took this view of it.

c c o 5 g r . . tj iS o . o o a r. g c ci -a - o z ? - & 2". o Ho n Ironwood, Mich. 62 $4,281 $69.05 Pekin, 111 171 9.C98 56.71 Manitowoc, Wis. 213 7,407 34.77 Princeton, lnd.. 82 3.4S6 42.51 Gary, lnd. ...... 62 2.3S1 36.63 Canton. 111. 83 2,278 27.44 I.a Salle. Ill 24 1.684 70.17 Decorah. Iowa.. 24 1.3S9 57. S3

Hammond's Greatest Department Store Combination Cereal Cooker Free in Premium Dept.

Combination Cereal Cooker, pail and sauce pan, 3 articles in one, heavy 3-coat mottled blue and white enamel ware. No kitchen complete without, one. An extra value Given with $12.00 in Coupons.

Wednesday's Money Saving Grocery Sale

Finest Elgin Creamery Butter, always the same high grade, ORf per pound. . . . 0U Grandma's Washing Pow

der, large 4 package I Ob Armour's Shield Lard,

guaranteed pure, per pound

Sneider's or Armour's

Baked Beans, 15c can

Kirk's American Family, Fels Naptha, Small Ivory

or Sweetheart fin r- v r- r p M VI

euap, t rars ror. .

11k

13c amily, Ivory

Fancy Peaherry Coffee, always fresh roasted, special, per OAn pound Lrth Fancy Valencia Oranges, vei'3T sweet, QEif per dozen .OC

Fancy Messina Lemons,

large and juicy, per dozen

Best Lump Laundry Starch, . 'Iflf 3 pounds for UU Washburn Crosby's Gold Medal Flour, 4-barrel sack 1.45 Vi-barrel sack 73c

28c

Fancy Cream Brick Cheese Holstein brand, regular 20c value - i - per pound - I rU j&itchen Klenzer Scouring Powder, 2 5c Q packages 'L Red Cross Macaroni or Spaghetti, per pack- Q age OC Large Tumbler Mustard, regular 10c seller, Q--. at....... OC Rex or Fort Dearborn Syrup, as good as any on the market, 1 Rfk 5-lb can v. 1 Uu

On July 1 it will be possible for depositors to convert their savings account Into United States bonds, bearing 2',4 per cent interest. Many applications for the bonds have ben received. V - ' ' " :

S0UTH3I0ERS OF GARY TO HOLD OLD-TIE 4TH

Gary Land Co. Donates Site

For Splurge on Independence Day.

STATE TAX INCREASE IS : CERTAIN (Continued from Page 1.)

EAST CHICAGO. Mrs. J. 8. Dewey and daughter, Hernloe, of 141th street are visiting Mrs. Dewey's sister, Mrs. Caroline Tabor, in Beividere, 'III. From Ilelvidere they will go to Rorkford. II!., for a visit with Mrs. N. 1J. Martin, another sister, and then to L?na, 111., where they will visit Mrs.' Dewey's parents. They will be gone about three weeks. Edward Hedrlck of the law firm of Sears, Meeker & Whitney, " Chicago, delivered a lecture at the Congregational church Sunday evening on' "The Trial of Christ from a lawyer's Standpoint." The difice was crowded and

the lecture a most instructive and eloquent one. Mrs. George Bicknell was taken to a hospital in Chicago last week. It Is understoood that she la to have an operation performed tomorrow. Miss Florence Heath of Chicago spent the week end with her sister, Mrs. Joseph J. Freeman of Beacon street. Mrs. C. D. Dunlap tpent yesterday afternoon in Chicago shopping. Mrs. J. G. Allen will leave day after tomorrow for Seattle, Wash., for a visit with Mr. Allen's relatives. An important meeting of the Alumni association of the East Chicago high school will be held at Superintendent Canine's office in the city hall, tonight. All members please attend. The regular meeting of the Royal

Neighbors of America will be held In Weiland's hall this evening. All members are requested to attend as business of importance is to be transacted. Dancing at East Chicago Rink every Saturday night. DeBraie Orchestra.

Wednesday's Great Bargain ' Sale

Dry

Unbleached sizes 20x:?7, quality for. .

Price for

, Turkish

goott heavy

INDIANA HARBOR. The , value of advertising in The Times has been demonstrated once more. . The Beacon Street Improvement association last week' advertised for a missing - lawn mower and C. A. Westberg, seeing the- ad, acted Immediately and produced the . mower. The gratitude of th.e associat ion is extended to Mr. Westberg for supplying the much needed machine. Mrs. Witte of Guthrie street and the baby are visiting relatives, in Elcatur, la. Mr. Witte will join his family there In a short time for a ten days' vacation. The Sunday school of St. Alban's Episcopal church is holding a picnic at Robertsdale today. The dust allayer which was put on Michigan avenue, from Guthrie street to Grapevine, a couple of weeks ago seems to be doing all that was expected of it. Since the Btreet was treated with Salvay there has been no dust at all in the block, where it was used, and so far it is a great success. Dancing at East Chicago Rink every Saturday night. DeBraie orchestra.

What has become of the old-fashioi-ed Fourth of July celebration of flags

fire works, parades, red lemonade arid effervescent orators swearing by the

constitution and the old red, wliite and

blue?

The old-fashioned fourth hasn't been

lost. There will be one of this kind ir the South End of Gary this year. It

will be under the auspices of the South

Side Citizens Club and in addition to

being a big affa'ir it will also be a sane one. Through the courtesy of Captain H. S. Norton, general manager of the Gary Ian dcompany, the steel company property at Fourteenth avenue anl Broadway has been secured free of charge for the main part of the celebration. Col. A. C. Mayo and others are working out the details for the fireworks, tho parad and the speeches. The whole- south end will be decorated and $200 appropriated by the city council will be iisad to buy flags. Further arrangements regarding the affair will be made tonight at the Garden hall meeting of the South Side Citizens club.

GAS METER TAPPER

io Annnriirtn

HIT rvLliLllULLI

this Increase in the state tax levy was

for the county boards of review to raise the assessments on the lands of the -various counties, thus giving a higher valuation on which to levy tho tax. It has been estimated that in order to a void' the making' of an increase In the tax rate .it. would be- necessary for the c&unty boards . of , review all over tho state to boost the assessments not less than fifty per cent above the present figures.' Real estate is . appraised every six years, and this is the year for th "-e-appraisement. But from the best information obtainable at this time the boards of review are not making the Increase which they were expected to make, and-this fact joints to a higher state tax levy. The real estate appraisements are made by the township assessor. The

assessor sends his appraisements to the started,

board of review, and tho board has authority under the law to change them as it sees fit. WThen they are fixed by the board of review that settles it. The township assessors of the state have an association, and this association met here last spring with the members of the state tax board. At that time It became apparent that the state was going to need a larger amount of money- to run its business, and the subject was discussed by the assessors. It was agreed at that meeting that the assessors should this year make a uniform increasa in the assess, ment of 'real etate. and that this In. crease should be fifty per cent. The assessors went home with this agreement. But it develops now that the assessors have liot carried out that plan. Information has been received from between forty and fifty counties in the

I state since the re-appraisement was

and In these counties the

greatest Increase made on any piece of land was thirty per-eent. In practically every case the Increase . was almost nothing. It was not enough to amount to anything. The township assessors had not carried out their agreement to make an Increase of fifty' per cent. When the attention of some of these assesors was called to this failure they said they had no intention of carrying out the agreement. "We don't care anything about the agreement.", some of them said. "When we got back home we.xhanged our minds. If the county board of review wishes to raise our figures it may do so, but we are not going to do it." The fact is, according to the best Information, that when these assessors reached home and started to talk about increasing the assessment fifty per cent they were met by their neighbors with a manner which told them that they had best not do anything of the kind. It is next to Impossible for a public

Terror of Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co. Lands in 'Jail.

(Special to The Times.) Crown Point. Ind., June 20. Probation Officer Thomas Piatt nabbed ono very bad juvenile at Indiana Harbor yesterday and if the stories that the police and his pais tell about him are half true, the youth in question has followed the crooked path for many years. Tapping gas meters and extract the quarters that thrifty housewives have inserted for their allotment of gas is the specific charge on which John Gall, the youth in qupestlon la wanted, and the "peaching'" of hig pals now confined in the county Jail Is responsible for his apprehension. The gang which is said to have spread terror in their Indiana haunts will b remanded to the juvenile court for trial and it looks very much like PlainfiQld for. one or more of them. . , .'.

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Towels,

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White Mercerized Poplin, per yard White Organdie, 30 inches, per yard Dimity Check, 26 inches", per yard

Notion Department Specials

Black Silk Thread, 100 yard for 5q Crimped and Straight Hair Pins, neatly boxed, 10 pinsto each box, 10 boxes for Qq Safety Pins, 3 sizes, On dozen or 3 dozen for

15c

9c 10c

Ladiss' Lisle Gloves, imported German make, come la

black, tan and gray, made pearl button wrist, very special, pair only

2,000 Yards of Mercerized Foulard, coin spots and fine

colored batiste, extra values for, per yard , ' (See Big Window Display.)

19c

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Ready-toWear Specials

Middy Waist, Copenhagen blue, collar and tie, kimono sleeve, piped with Copenhagen blue; a Waist that is very attractive.

sizes 34 to 40, very special only ,

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1.50, very special for

85c

Ladies' Cilored Lawn Dress, of very fine quality fabric, square neck, kimono sleeve and the fit absolutely guaranteed. Will make a good 4 r vacation dress, each for only... j

Ladies' Plain Tie Apron, made of genuine amoskeag

gingham, sizes 36 inches long and 37 Vz inches wide, very special , (Limit one to a customer)

I5c

Misses and Children's Velvet Pumps

Tan and Black, very pretty styles,

Sizes 5 to 11 at. Sizes 11 to 2 at

75c 89c

Girls' Oxfords and Pumps, in Tan, Ox-blood asd Patests, sizes 8 to 2, values

up to 1.75, special.. . . . . . .

Children's Roman Sandals, 4-strap, all patent colt, hand sewed soles, sizes

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Sandals, t colt, , sizes 75c in Tan 39c

Ladies' Tan Pumps, ankle strap, sizes 2

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Men's Elk Skin Shoes, 2 full elk soles, the Marion double wear kind, all sizes

very special at

Boys' Oxblood values up to. 2.00, for

1.85 Oxfords, 98c

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"Kazoo'r Suspenders for Boys,

and the stockings too, all sizes, pair at

Men's Shirts with soft attached collars In medium

and light striped tan and blue ginghams and 5 1 percales, worth 50c, big value at .'. ajiJC

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summer complaint,

size

Dr. Graves Tcoth Powder, 25c size . .

Hardwater Castile Soap, 3 cakes for Tiz for tender feet, 25c size for. . . .

15c 15c 10c 19c

HARDWARE DEPT. SPSIALS

Wash Wringers, the Grand No. 110 has 10-inch rolls, hard wood frame, regular 2.50

value, special at

1.89

Gas Mantles, Welsbach up

right or inverted, re? ular 10c kind, 2 for.

15c

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Alabastine for walls and ceiling, will not ruff off when properly applied, 16

snaaes, o-pouna pac-Kage

Liquid Wax, furniture polish, leaves a

sott, velvety polish that stays,

regular 25c cans at.

19c

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