Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 8, Hammond, Lake County, 27 June 1911 — Page 8
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THE TIMES. Tuesday, June 27, 1911.
WEATHER
AND DEATH HURT PICNIC
(Special to The Timeb.) Indiana Harbor. June 27. Two Incidents combined to put a damper on the festivities of the Odd Fellows at the picnic griveti by the Indiana Harbor lodge at Hudson Iake. One was the weather and the other was a fact that a man was drowned in the lake near where they were encamped. The man drowned was not, however, one of their number, being C. P. World of South
Bend. .He was out on the lake in a . boat and leaned over in the act of
drinking from a bottle, when he lost
his balance and fell over the side of
the boat. He was some distance from
the shore and it was Impossible to save
him.
As for the weather, threatening as it had been continuously from the day before, it did not prevent, over 500 loyal
Odd Fellows, their families and friends
from taking a chance on it. It rained
almost Incessantly all d;iy, the longest Intermission being of about a half .hour's duration. But the picnickers managed to keep under cover in the
pavilion most of the time. They were determined to let noth
Ing spoil their pleasure, so nothing
did, and they kept surprisingly good
natured and happy throughout all the
discomforts.
As many of he contests as could be were pulled oft, but there were not so many entries in the various events as
would otherwise have been the case. Pete Peterson won the boat race, the rrlze being most opportune, a silk umbrella. The 100-yard race for men was won by Sam Black and the priie was a pattern for a pair of trousers. Mrs. Ed Sheehan of East Chicago won the big box of candy offered as a prize in the fat ladies' race of fifty yards, while Mrs. A. Newton took first honors in the lightweight race for women, winning as a trophy of her sprint a bottle of perfume. The ball game was between the Kindel Colts and the Indiana Harbor Athletic club nine and was won by the latter on a score of 4 to 3.
WELL KNOWN WOMAN IS DEAD AFTER OPERATION
(Special to Tiia Times.) Indiana Harbor, Ind., June 27. Mrs. Hannah Stephens, wife of John Stephens of Parkersburg, W. Va, former superintendent and general manager of the Inland steel plant, died Sunday morrhn gat the Augustana hospital, following an operation for appendicitis. Mrs. Stephens had for the past three weeks been visiting her children In Indiana Harbor, having come here to see her granddaughter. Miss Emma Hoch, graduate from the high school. On Thursday she and Mrs. Hoch and another daughter, Miss Carrie Stephens, who had accompanied her on her visit
from Parkersburg, started for the city with Dr. Frank Stephens in Dr. Stephens' automobile, to do some shopping. Mrs. Stephens complained of feeling not quite herself before the start as made, but she thought the slight indisposition would pass. The first stop made was at Carson, Perie, Scott & Co., and Mrs. Stephens paid she thought she would rest instead of accompanying her daughters while they made their purchases. They were gone but 'a short while, and on their return found their mother in the care of the attendant of the rest room, and very ill. She was rushed in her son's auto to the Lake Shore, where a train for the Harbor was due to leave shortly, and on arriving home became rapidly worse. Pr. Robinson was called and diagnosed her ailment as appendicitis and advised her removal at once to a hospital. She was taken by train and auto ambulance to the Augustana, where Dr. Ox-
ner performed the operation fifteen minutes after her arrival, giving up a number of other operations that awaited him, as Mrs. Stephens' condition was most critical. While under the anaesthetic the patient's heart stopped beating for four minutes, and it was necessary to resort to artificial methods to restore the organ to its function. But in . spite of this Mrs. Stephens
GARY CLUBS RUSH GAME TO ITS DEATH
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rallied surprisingly after the opeVation and seemed much better. Saturday afternoon she began to sink and at 11
o'clock that . night a saline solution was adimnlstered to revive her. She responded to the treatment and revived sufficiently to recognize her family, all but one member of whom were present at her bedside, her husband , and daughter Maude having been sent for Thursday night and arrived Saturday morning. The revival was but temporary, however, and she again lapsed into unconsciousness, passing away at 3 o'clock Sunday morning. - Mrs. Stephens was born In Lydney, Gloucestershire, England, in 1847, where she was married, and she and Mr. Stephens came to America about thirty-nine years ago. They spent many years in and around Sharon, Pa., but in 1895 they moved to Muncie, Ind., coming to Indiana Harbor in 1901, where Mr. Stephens accepted a position as superintendent and general manager of the Inland. He left the Inland in 1!05 to become general manager and superintendent of the Parkersburg Iron and Steel company of Parkersburg, W. V. Most of Mr. and Mrs. Stephens' childre have continued to reside in Indiana Harbor. Mrs. Stephens was the mother of eleven children, all but one of whom
are living. Those who survive her besides her husband are: Mrs. Emma Hoch, Fred Stephens, Carrie Stephens, Mrs. Lillian Danks, Miss Maud Stephens, Will Stephens. Dr. Frank. E. Stephens, Mrs. Mabel McCrum, Dr. Harold Stephens and Claire Stephens. Two sisters and one brother. Miss Sophie Jones, Mrs. Poly Shepherd and Herbert Jones, also survive the deceased The funeral will be held from the residence of Fred Stephens, 3310 Aldis avenue, at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, Dr. A. T. Brlggs of Valparaiso will officiate.
stands well with the sheriff, but is frowned upon by the mayor of the tow& Another set stands well with the mayor, but is in disfavor with the sheriff. Promoters With Hammers. And there is a merry clang of the hammers on the anvil as a third promoter, building a second "gigantic open
air arena," gets Into the game in a
town already overburdened with nov
ices at the poor old overburdened sport, and worse much worse. The club that is deciding the Thompson-Brown clinching match is the one that promoted what had all the earmarks of a raw fake a short time back between a man widely spoken of as the "come-back champion," and Young Fitzgerald, a one-time good boxer from Milwaukee, but who couldn't at that tlme'command a 120 preliminary in his own town, so badly gone was he. There were many murmurs of dissent at the transparent nature of this "contest." And it has been discussed and torn apart ever since. But nothing ever crept into print about it until now. Bright young men, these, foisting such affairs upon the public and yearning for more of the soft money in the new Gary arena. Hashing Game to Death. They are rushing the game to certain death not only in Gary but in the entire Chicago ' dlstrlcf. Perhaps it's as well that it be closed now, anyway, since boxing has small place among the hot weather sports. It is a game that needs rehabilitating now and then, needs resting up. Gary depends for its boxing life upon the Chicago patrons. Locally it will not support a bout, or didn't the other night, when McGoorty and Mahoney put up, one of the best battles of many months and drew only $300 or so in at the gate. The steel city must be fostered and nursed as a boxing center. In ' the hands of the men who are promoting bouts there now it is due for an early death. And in the present hands that's what it Reserves.
THERE ARE MORE THAN THREE TIMES MORE TIMES CIRCULATED EVERY DAY THAN ALL THE OTHER DAILY PAPERS IX LAKE COUNTY PUT TOGETHER.
84c
per week v repays a $35 loan In fifty weeks.
Other amounts at same proportion. Any amount from $5 to $100, one month or one year. Loans on household goods, pianos, horses, wagons, etc., without removal. If you need money fill out the blank below and moll to us and our agent will call and explain how we loan money privately, at low rates, on personal property.
Name
Address ........ Amount wanted.
Indiana Loan Company Phone 322 Cor. 5th and Broadway 216 Gary Building, Gary, Ind.
DATE SET FOR CLUB
OPENING
The formal opening of the Gary Commercial club's new $25,000 home will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday
July 11 and 12. This much was decided
at a meeting of the board of directors
held last night at the Elks club rooms
and the following is the tenatlve program: Tuesday afternoon and evening. Banquet for members of club only. Prominent out of town speakeis will be present. Wednesday reception and inspection visits. Open to the public. President H. S. Norton was empoweredto appoint committees to take charge of arrangements, invitations, the banquets and other details. It is expected that the opening will be made a gala affair. ,
WHITING MAN TRIES TO TAKE HIS LIFE
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Wfoman Wko Sliot W. E. D. Stokes. ' I ' ' j t 1 T ' " ' -4. . - . 1. UJ I J f' h $rS if 3 C5 f U , I v - 's?' jrv' x '
sued Sass, threatening to do him bodily harm. It was necessary for Sass to
have him put under peace bonds. Biastick heretofore bore a good reputation, but recently has name has been frequently linked with that of Mrs. John Kankovitch of Olark street. It has been a dally occurrence for Mrs. Hankovitch to be out meeting Blastlck while he was at his work and there has been much gossip going around. Blastick's wife evidently learned that her husband had become afflicted with the affinity fever and just while he was in the midst of all his other trouble Mrs. Blastlck swore out warrants for both her husband and Mrs. Hankovitch, charging them with adultery. The Sass case against Blastlck and also the latter case against him both came up in Judge Atchison's court on last Saturday night, but were postponed until tomorrow night. On Sunday, according to the supposition, Blastlck had been thinking over his wrong doings and seeing that the odds were, against him decided to end it all. He went to the barn evidently about 6 p. m. and tied a rope to a beam in the barn and then bound it safely around his throat. A little later his son, Mike Blastlck Jr., had occasion to go to the barn to give the horses their evening meal and was horrified to find his father hanging there. He. not losing 'any time, pulled his knife from his pocket and cut the rope, letting the almost strangled man to the floor. His face was already as black as coal and it was necessary to carry him into the house as he was too limp to stand on his feet. A physician was summoned and all during the night It was thought that he could not survive. Yesterday he continued to be In a critical condition, but this morning it was reported that it was possible that he would recover.
LOOKING FOR "GOAT" IN CASES
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the case look as if it is going against them the principal defendants will center their energies on one or two of their numbers thus making some one pay the penalty for last November's crimes. According to the story told if the worst comes to the worst City Health Inspector Charles Mullen Is to be tha man to go over the road. Mullen, so it is claimed, was one of the three who went to Chicago and hired the sluggers and repeaters that came to Gary on election day and caused so much bloodshed including the death of one citizen. The IHr One to be- Protected r , Some of those on the Inside, it is averred, say that the "big ones," those
j who planned the importation of the sluggers who were In Gary on that day, ;are to be protected at any cost and if , recessary the guns will be turned on one or more of the defendants posses
sing the least Influence and money. Mullen who has already spent some time in jail is to be the sacrifice offered up to appease the law if the gossip In Gary's political circles is correct. He has already "done time" In Jollet for bank robbery which also included killing of a policeman.
SLAPPED WRONG SIDE OF HIS FACE
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spot chosen for the attack, that same having been the side of his face from which a South Chicago dentist less than an hour before, had extracted a pair of aching molars. Rotrusty boarded the car Sunday evening in South Chicago informing the conductor that he wanted to get oft at Whiting. Then he fell sound asleep. When the OH City was reached the conductor undertook to aws.ken Rotrusty, by shaking him by the shoulder. Rotrusty slumbered on obvious to everything. At East Chicago the conductor determined now to arouse his passenger, gave him. a sharp slap with his open hand, across the cheek. It was then that Rotrusty awoke and proceeded to make things lively for the conductor. In court yesterday he exhibited a swollen Jaw. He explained the presence of the swelling by saying that the night, before his experience which haa gotten him into trouble with the conductor, he had lain awake all night with the toothache. He went to the dentist's to have his aching Jaw attended to, and the gas administered Dy the
dentist, together with his wakefulness
the night before, had combined to make him enormously drowsy. He had fallen asleep and the conductor had slapped the wrong side of his face. He explained that he did not resent the slap, but what he did object to was the fact that the conductor in administering it, had not used better judgment than to slap the wrong side of his face. lie was fined $1 and costs by Judge Riley.
EASTERNERS BUY G. & I. BONDSJ. 200.000 Ask for Literature Regarding Steel City from Commercial Club Secretary.
PRECAUTIONS AGAINST DOGS (Special to The Times.) Crown l'oint,. Ind., June 27. Crown
Point residents who value their pet j
dogs are taking particular care of them during the hot weather, since the agitation against allowing them to run at large was started. One good way to avoid the necessity of a muzzle is to keep your pet dog tied up at home, with plenty of cold water and access to a cool place. With these directions followed out there is little danger from a dog's attack, but the safest way is to resort to the muzzle during the hottest days. .The town authorities should see to it that all homeless and ownerless dogs should either be muzzled or disposed of In the most humane manner possible. The necessary precautions taken in time may be the means of avoiding all the terrible consequences and results from a mad. dog's attack.
Advices received by A. 1. Schaeffer of the Gary Commercial club are to the effect that Poe and Davis, bankers and bond dealers of Baltimore, have purchased for eastern clients more than $1,200,000 of the Gary and Interurban railway's $10,000,000 authorized bond issue The information in a letter which contained a request for literature regarding Gary. Copies of The Times' special editions and the Economist, a Chicago financial publication, which Issued a Gary edition, were received by prospecti-e clients, and- the details of Gary's present size and its future posibllities procured a ready sale fo rthe bonds. It is understood that the Gary and Interurban now has a half million dollars in Its treasury. Double tracking of the West Fifth avenue division which connects Broadway with the American Bridge company plant is underway and the company is ready to proceed with the East Fifth avenue or coke oven extension as soon as franchise tangles are cleared ur r-
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E. C. MINAS CO. Hammond's Greatest Department Store
srilliant Colonial Water Set Free in Premium Dept.
BRILLIANT COLONIAL SET OF FINE CRYSTAL GLASS. THIS SET COMPRISES A HALF GALLON TANKARD AND 6 THIN BELLED EDGE TUMBLERS, MAKING A
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Wednesday's Grocery Sale QReat Savings
Elgin Creamery Butter, always the same hisli grade, per lb. . . Ij Minas Blend Coffee, best value in Hammond, Oil ft per pound LT"C lVlaconochie's Mackerel, in tomato sauce, a ( 4 Qf great delicacy, can. B UU Kitchen Klenzer Scouring Powder, Q2 cans Ob Good Quality Q Tomatoes, per can u(i
Washburn Crosby's Gold Medal Flour, -bbl. TFOf sk., 1.45; -bbl. sk. Ob Alphonso and Gaston brand Olives, OQf 20-oz. can wC Pet or Beauty Brand Evaporated Mlik, JP. 6 small cans. . . . UU Best Large Laundry Starch, 1 flo 3 pounds IllU Karo Corn Syrup, n rt 2-lb can 2C
Fels Naptha or Kirk's American Family Soap, with grocery order, OOft 7 bars Z3b Maconochie's Imported Herrings, 1-lb tall 1 Cn can. I UL Fancy Valencia Oranges good size and very QQf sweet, per dozen.. .Ou Snider's Tomato Of) a Catsup, 25c bottle. ZUU Angora Brand Pork (Jand Beans, 2-lb can. . Jb
Wednesday's Great Bargain Sale
Shoe Dept. Bargains
1 a nf ants' and Children's Patent and Kid Slippers, with one and two straps, fancy patterns, sizes 2 to 8, regular 1.00
value, for this sain..
59c
GIRLS' TAN PUMPS, fine quality hand turned soles.
sizes to 2 and Young Ladies sizes 2
to 5, values up to 2.00, very special, per paii
;r..98c
THE BEST BAREFOOT SANDAL value in Ham
mond, the Elk Sole Sandal, the kind that wear, all sizes, 59q and
49c
SHINOLA OUTFIT, including Brush, Dauber and Box Shinola, the outfit worth 35c, 4 rj special at.. JjC
Clothing Dept. Bargains
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MEN'S UNION SUITS, fine, gauze balbriggan, with short sleeves and
long drawers, in ecru only, special
59c
MEN'S COLORED HOSE, In tan, helio, wine and navy, fast dye and
seamless, splendid wear, 2 for 25c quality, special..
8c
MEN'S HANDKERCHIEFS, plain and colored border styles, nice soft quality, full size, 3 for 25c 4
suu
quality, special, 3 for. .
BOYS' BLUE CHAMBRAY SHIRTS with high, close-fitting collar, closed with pin, French turn back cuffs
for summer wear, one pocket with
button flap, fine vacation shirt, worth 7;c, special..
50c
Ready to Wear Bargains
LADIES' TUB SKIRTS, a neat, plain model, made of extra fine quality linene
suiting, comes In both r.an and white, very special value, for. . .
1.48,
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LADIES' DRESSES of sheer white lawn. jt
a few of sky blue, all slightly soiled, sizes 36 to 42, selling regularly at 5.00 up to 10.00, while they last you can buy them for one-half regular price.
LADIES' CHAMBRAY DRESS, square neck and threequarter length sleeve, neck and sleeves trimmed with check gingham, open back style, a very practical and serviceable dress and has considerable style, 4 a a special.. I .an 50 DOZ. LADIES' FINE CAMBRIC OR MUSLIN CORSET COVER, neatly trimmed with lace, all r" sizes 34 to 42, very special, each I UC
Dry Goods Bargains
REAL LINEN TORCHON LACE In the heavy or light weight, 1 to 2 inches wide, lace insertion to match, just right for your sum
mer lingerie wear, per yard 12 yards for
5c 50c
BLACK VELVET PURSE, with brass mountings, 44-inch frame, long silk rope handle, black only, regular 25c, double 4 a coupon price fQ
STERLING HOSE SUPPORTER, with rubber tip, comes in four sizes-7 to 9; 10 and 12 If inches long, black and white, any size IJJJ BLEACHED CRASH, 17 inches wide, all pure linen, very closely woven, regular 10c, double coupon "7 price, per yard... f8C 72-IN. BLEACHED CHEESE CLOTH for table f covers, regular 19c, double coupon price, yd yC
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Hardware Bargains
Garden Hose, ? . I tin ri Vt c
Garden Hose. rm " 1"' ' afcivtfffi with brass
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COMBINATION ICE SHAVER AND PICK, heavily nickel plated, at I tjU WIZARD CARPET CLEANER, cleans and brightens carpets and rugs, regular 25c package 4 at ISC WIZARD OIL FLOOR MOPS, for painted and hardwood floors, also tile and linoleum, will retain its dust absorbing qualities for one year, fKf special at Owl
Drug Dept. Bargains
COLGATE'S TALCUM POWDER, 25c size PALM OLIVE SOAP, a cake
RED RAVEN APERIENT WA
TER, for constipation, a bottle TOOTH BRUSHES, 25c value
BLACK FLAG INSECT POWDER, 25c size LYDIA PINKHAM'S TABLE COMPOUND, 1.00 size.., ,
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