Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 23, Hammond, Lake County, 8 July 1911 — Page 5
July 8, 1911.
THE TIMES.
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Already the Initial plans of the Gary Chamber of Commerce campaign to secure small Industries for the city are beginning to bar fruit. Its a Vending; Machine Concern. At the meeting of the organization held in the Gary hotel last' night represensatlvea of tho 1 W. McC&uley Universal Pencil company, makers of a pencil vending: machine, signified their intention of locating in Gary and stated under what conditions they will come. It looks a if the city will secure the Industry and President Bryan appointost Vice President William Feder, Secretary W. P. Patterson and Treasurer J. D.
Greene as a committee to negotiate with the company. Very little Is asked of the people of Gary by the company. The main points are, however: "What the Industry Auk:. The company has $400,000 invested at its factory in Los Angeles. It was established in April with a working force of S hands and now
employes 50 men. Its main offloea are In the First National bank building of Chicago. It will come to Gary under the following conditions: 1. The Chamber of Commerce, to pay its machinery freight bill from California to Gary, the money to be refunded later on. 2. Or, the Chamber of Commerce to subscribe for J1.000 worth of stock which will be redeemed later plus a bonus of 11 per cent. Ilrynn Mak.es Good Offer. In order that the company may be in
aueea to come at once Mr. Bryan, who Is the city's only millionaire. Is willing to donate the use of a building, rent
free, until the permanent factory build ing Is completed. Because of the fact that the an
nouncements of the meeting were not
issue in time it was deemed advisable not to hold the election of directors until July 14. A steady increase in
membership was reported.
HAS CO.
JULY CLEARANCE SALE
High
Class Goods Put on the
Market, Sale Beginning Next Week.
E. C. Minas announces his annual ;' July clearance sale, which will begin , July 12. This sale is being held for ' the purpose of getting rid of as much j of the unsold stock as possible before i the new lines come In. It Is the policy of the merchant never I to carry one season's goods over to the . next season, and for the purpose of fa- ' cilitating thai sale of such goods the '
prices are marked down to a figure
mat is frequently below cost.
ior this reason E. C. Minas holds two Important clearance sales. One Is held in January and theo ther In Julv.
The January tale disposed of all of the winter season's left overs, and the July sales dispose of all of the summer's left
overs.
These goods are of a high class, but
it is so much more important to eet
them out of the way and make room for
a new line that they are always sold at
a great sacrifice.
ihere are a few other trade secrtes
that E. C. Minas is willing that his
patrons should know, and they will find
them out to their profit by looking at
me remarkably low prices ef his goods
tbe conditions covered by the period; bounded by these figures are sufficient
to show whether the increased cost of
living has seriously affected the pat
ronage of the public schools.
While the school enumeration for
1907. and that for 1909, showed a net decrease in the two years of 26,622, the enrollment In all the schools, including
the high schools, showed a net decrease of only 272. The decrease was all in the enrollment in the grades, and in all the high schools an increase was shown. The total enrollment In the high schools for 1909-1910 was 61,003, or & gain Of 5,637 over the correspond
ing enrollment for 1907-1908. The to-
al enrollment in the grades for 1909-
1910 was 480,458, or a decrease of 5,909 when compared with the corresponding
enrollment for 1907-190S.
The percentage of the enrollment in
average daily attendance for 1909-1910, which was .792. was only one-fourth of
per cent less than the rate for 1907-
1908. The percentage of pupils enumerated whe were enrolled, however, showed a gain of 1.7, the rate for
1909-1910 being 56.1 per cent.
Increases in enrollment were noted
in all the four years of the high
schools. For the first year, the increase was 908; for the second year.
1,878; for the third year, 1.554, and for
the fourth year, 1,559. The rate of gain
for the high school enrollment was
12.4 per cent. The increased number
of township high schools and the tend
ency among children from the farms to
complete high school courses, is said
to account largely for this Increase.
In the grades, increases were noted
only In the first, sixth and eighth grades. All the other grades showed decreases. In the first grade the Increase was 1,273; In the sixth It was
511 and in the eighth, 945.
In the second grade the decrease was
1,849; In the third. 1.767; in the fourth. 1,552; in the fifth, 1,564; In the seventh.
2.127. The net decrease in enrollment
in tbe grades was only 1.2 per cent.
SETTLED
Two Grand Cruises
the WORLD
The First to Lear ew York Oct. 21, 1011. and the Second from Sua Krauctace Feb. , 1812. Bjlhilirj. ricvFlAJIfl ( ,70w TratiM;H i I. uLtlftLAftU Vton'sJ DURATION 110 DAYS t nCQ AND I Including all necaspary - J J U jp penses aboard and ashore. OPTIO.XAL TOURS OF 17 IAT8 IN INDIA, 14 DAYS IN JAPAN. Ini for tUoatx-atoa Booklet. KAMG-AMERICAN LIKE 4UU45 Broadtray. XEW YORK or Local Agent, PAUI, B. LIF1NSKI. A(at 000 Kofcmsn Ctreet.
DOWN VERY PEACEABLY
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84c
par week repays a $35 loan in fifty weeks.
Other amounts at aame 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 mail to us and our agent will call and explain how we loan money privately, at low rates, on personal property.
West Hammond has settled down to the enjoyment of an era of peace and
quiet that seems very strange afte
the many interesting and exciting inci
aents of the past winter.
Miss Virginia Brooks is planning no
more crusades, the West Hammond
Searchlight shines no more, people have stopped accusing each other of being grafters, politics do not interest the people, the red-light district is behav
ing itself and well (yawn here) Wet
.Hammond is trying to attain a reputa
lion for peace and quiet.
esiaie activity is not so great as it was some time back. There have been a number of inquiries and the
prospect for the fall business seem
bright, but West Hammond is resting
up now. ii is getting ready to do V.I 1 ...
mniss wnen n becomes a city this
winter.
Name Address ........ Amount wanted.
Indiana Loan Company Phone 322 Cor. 5th and Broadway 210 Gary Building, Gary, Ind.
HAWKINS WILL WAS SET ASIDE
BY COURT
The people of Hammond and vicinity have felt Interested in the Hawkins will case on account of Mrs. Hawkins having often visited In the city with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Jewell. Of the large estate involved In the will, there being 5,623 acres of land valued at approximately $800,000, the Lafayette Sunday Times says: "It will be remembered that Jane Hawkins died In March, 190S, at her home in Earl Park, leaving a will In which she gave to each of her four daughters, Abigail Hart, Minerva Ditton, Elizabeth Bond and Martha Jewell, a quarter section of land in fee simple, and then gave them the balance for life, after taking out 640 acres which
she put in trust for her garndson, James Hawkins, until he should reach the age of 30 years. "It was also provided that at the
death of these four daughters the land willed to them for life should go to the children of Mrs. Dltton and Mrs. Jewell, Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Bond having no children. "This provision of the will was not satisfactory to Mrs. Hart and Mrs. Bond, and they commenced a suit to set aside the will on the ground that It was unduly executed, afterwards adding the allegations of unsoundness of mind and undue influence. "The case, after a trial of thirty-one days, was decided in the Warren county court in favor of the plaintiffs, and the will was set aside. The defend-
BIG MILL END SALE
Next Monday morning at nine o'clock
the Lion Store opens its annual factory
and mill remnant sale to last for ten
days. Messrs. Kaufman and Wolf today stated that this sale Is to surpass all
previous ones for the amount of mer
chandise that will be on tho counters
at reduced prices. The season is being advertised as the $75,000 mill end sale. The bargains will extend to every department and the- reduction on many articles being as much as fifty cents on the dollar and on others even more. Thousands of shoppers who look forward to this event every year will throng the store, during these days and undoubtedly all will find some bargain or other.
Dltton and Mrs. Jewell will receive
1,20 Oacres of land and the grandson,' James Hawkins, will come In as an equal participant with the four daughters in the balance of the land, and that made the chief variation from the wishes of the testatrix, because It lets the land get out of the family. The family agreement contemplated that the Lafayette Loan and Trust companny, executor of the will and trustee for the children, would consent to the setting aside of the will In order that the family agreement could be carried out, but the Lafayette Loan and Trust company was both legally and morally obliged, as the representative of Jane Hawkins, to defend the will and carry out its provisions and consequently refused to concur In the family agreement. It did, however, point out a way by which the family agreement could be carried out In every main feature by
letting the will stand, providing the mothers of the children would concur and this those mothers, who were the guardians of the children, could not do, and that produced a deadlock which lasted from April until last Thursday, when the case was called for trial in the Benton county court at Fowler. "It was put at issue by filing the family agreement which asked for an order of court compelling the executor and trustee to comply with its terms, which meant a consent to the setting aside of the will. The court granted that order, but the executor and trustee denied the right of the court to
lots ,and of these two hundred and twelve have been practically spoken for. The only delay in selling them Is due to the fact that the thirty acres had to await platting. The intermediate stakes will be set next week. i The State line frontage between Carroll and Williams street has all been sold to Chicago and Detroit parties who were eager to get their hands on the state line property. Among the Chicago holders are Henry R. Wallabrlght, J. W. Dunsmore, and Harry L. Whitehead.
The Detroit holders are Wllford Ii. Thompson, and Harry M. Stevens. The
biggest individual order for lots in Brookfield Acres is for eighteen lots. The idea that Brookfield Acres Is to the part of the West Hammond Homewood, and the fact that it is the prop
erty now farthest south on the market
account for the demand of the lots. The plans provide for sixty foot street and good sized alleys.
ants were Mrs. Ditton and Mrs. Jewell compel It to comply with the family and their children and the Lafayette j agreement, and thereupon the case was
BOY SCOUTS AT I INDIANA HARBOR V. I (Special to The Times.) Indiana Harbor, July 8. There was a meeting last night of the Boy Scouts,
a non-sectarian organization under church auspices which has for Its object the uplift of the boy. There were
not enough members present, however, to make a quorum so no business was transacted outside of the preparation of a postal headed "Boy Scouts of America," and calling attention to a
meeting which Is called for the Chicago council of Indiana Harbor to take place Friday evening, July 14, 8 o'clock, at the Commercial club rooms. The notice is signed, committee on organization. The members of this committee are Fathers Stachowiak, Wakefer and Day, Rev. Crboks, Messrs. Carpenter, Ford, Bowen, Fowler, Lundquist, Marcovich, Riley, Woodbury, Glazebrook, Carpenter, Farovld, Lukens, Fish, Hand and Hulsh.
Loan and Trust company, wblch was executor of the will and trustee. The case was arpealed to the supreme court and the decision of the Warren county court was reversed and it was
sent back for new trial.
submitted to the court on the evidence produced at the trial in Warren coun
ty, and after the allegations of unsoundness of mind and undue influence had been stricken out of the complaint and Judge Sanderson set aside the will
"This decision cleared the way f or and that put the family agreement Into
sustaining the will at the second triai, ' effect, over the objection and resist-
but the family agreed on a settlement ' ance of the Lafayette Loan and Trust
which seemed to be an impossibility j
before the decision of the supreme court was rendered. According to the family agreement the children of Mrs.
company, which was compelled by duty
to defend the will, and thus another
famous will case was brought to an
end."
NO DECREASE NOTED IN SCHOOL
ATTENDANCE
j TIMES UlTREAC,
AT STATE CAPITAL.
Indianapolis, Ind.. July 8. Accord
ing to reports received at the office of
the state superintendent of public Instruction from all over the state, the high cost of living has not caused any decrease in the attendance of pupils in the public schools. In spite of conditions which might, in theory, make it necessary for boys and girls to become wage earners, incident to the solution of thu problem of the high cost of living and of rearing families, the tendency, as shown by the figures, has been toward an increase in high school and eighth grade attendance. The earliest figures obtainable, by which years, are for the school year of 1307-1908, a-id the latest are for the year 1909-1910. However, persons who are Interested in statistics as Indicators of the effects of changed Industrial and economic conditions say that
J. IDZOREK IN BAD SHAPE John Idzorek, who was taken to the Kenilworth sanitarium last week, will
be removed tomorrow to the sanitarium maintained by the Alexian Brothers at Oshkosh, Wis. Dr. Sanger Brown, who had charge of the unfortunate man at Kenilworth, Is quoted as saying that Idzorek's case is hopeless. He gave it as his opinion that Idzorek would not live another year, probably not a half a year. The many friends of the patient are very sorry to hear this discouraging news about the young man and are still hoping that eventually he will take a turn for the better. Chief Austgen and Edward Burns, members of Unity council. K. of C, of which Idzorek is also a member, will
accompany him to Oshkosh.
THE
STREETS!
Beer on His Foot. Julius Lessner a saloonkeeper at One Hundred adn Fifty-fourth Place, West Hammond, met with a painful accident yesterday when a beer wagon driver accidentally let a barrel of beer fall on Lessner's foot for a distance of seven feet. The heavy cask hit him above the right ankle and caused an ugly wound which will confine him to
his home for an indefinite time.
disposed of. On account of the warm
weather there were no candidates.
INDUSTRIAL AND
BUILDING EVENTS OF THE WEEK First of Amercan Bridge company's 236 houses completed. Successful completon of general work on first concrete house of 200 for American Sheet and Tin Plate company employes. Construction outnd on new Feeley and Savage buildings and new synagogue. Gary Commercial club announces program for next week's opening of its $25,000 home. . Survey plans for proposed lake front park at Miller beach completed. Announcement made that new Gary axle mill will go Into commission for the first time next
week with an operating force of
300 men.
Gary postoffice report shows offlce now In first class line and
that receipts increased 34 per cent
in one year.
United States Senate passes bill deeding two miles of the Grand
Calumet river to the U. S. Steel
Corporation in lieu of the corpora tion's constructing a canal.
Game Tomorrow. Tomorrow the Gary Works nine will cross bats with the American Bridge company boys. The game will be played at the steel company park. An admission fee of forty cents will prevail for boxes, thirty-five cents as general admission, and ten cents for children. A large crowd of rooters from both plants are expected to be on hand.
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John Is Fined.
The case of the state against John
Blck was heard before Judge Prest this afternoon and Blck was fined )lj and costs. Victoria Kossakowski, the complainting witness, claimed Bick1
tried to beat her out of his board bill which she was unable to collect from him.
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Today and ToefigM and Sunday. A Musical Comedy Company, Tonight and Sunday Night at the Theatre.
Clark Road and 15th Ays., Gary, ind.
First Band Concert.
The second Saturday night band con
cert of the season will be given by the
State street merchants tonight. The band stand Is located next to E. C. Minas' store, and it Is expected that it will attract as large crowds as it did last Saturday night.
These concerts serve to get the peo
ple out of their homes and are very
enjoyable affairs. Two concerts in the
city serve to add greatly to its gayety and bring hundreds of people to town.
The State street merchants are being
congratulated for their enterprise In
SIX WANT
THE SHERIFF NOMINATION (Continued . from Page 1.)
lie Is strong-minded enough to do as he thinks best regardless of the con
sequences, and many Hammond people
are of the opinion that Austgen would
make a mighty good sheriff.
Last year Joseph D. Martin of Gary
made the race against Tom Grant, but
he did not make a good enough show
ing to warrant his re-nomination, and
the recent grand Jury Indictments and
the trial of these cases have revealed
things that lead many people to be
lieve tha he would not be a safe man.
Gary Mnat Be lltpognliffl. There is one element of strength in
the candidacy of the Gary men. That
is that Gary will demand some berths on both tickets. Just what will be giv
en to Gary is a matter of conjecture.
The democrats last year made the
mistake of making up their entire county ticket with Gary men. Tom Knotts made so many promises of what
he could do If the democrats would
Just hold down the rest of the county
that he secured more places on the
ticket than Gary deserved.
The result was that the plan to carry
Gary with a Gary ticket failed miser
ably, and Knotts was a distinct disap
pointment. While Gary will undoubt
edly be treated liberally by the two parties In the rest of the county. It Is not believed that it wRl be given so many places on either ticket as the
democrats gave them last election.
EAST GARY.
Roy Hansen has been visiting with
relatives in Chicago. Mrs. K. Scanlon was a Chicago shop per Friday.
Mrs. M. Dore and children are guests
at C. Fabians.
J. S. Cohen of Chicago was a busi
ness visitor in town Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. McDonald and children are visiting with relatives in
Gal i en. Mich.
J. F. Wessels, third trick operator
and Miss Anna Erlandson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Krlandson, were mar
ried in Chicago Wednesday, July 5.
They will commence housekeeping in the Harrison apartments as boon as
the rooms are ready.
Groman in Grand Rapids. Ralph Groman, who left on Wednesday for Grand Hanlds and Macatawa
Park for a week's end automobile trip, is expected back tomorrow. Mr. Gro- I man is accompanied by his family and ,
expected to combine pleasure on the trip.
business with
Meet Tomorrow. A committee meeting of the members who have charge of the vario-us arrangements of the coming. All Saints parish picnic Is called for tomorrow morning to b held at All Saint's flail after early mas3. The pijnic will be on Saturday, July 22nd.
Dr. Lane Is Dead. Dr. Lane who a number of years ago was a prominent dentist in Hammond died at South Bend and was burled early this week. Many of his friends here remember
him as a man who was pleasant to meet
following the lead of Kaufman & Wolf and are sr""y to hear about his untime-
on Hohman street, who are pioneers in this work.
Finds Gold Watch.
August Marsitc, 117 Sheffield avenue,
reported to the police this morning that he had found a gold watch charm with the" initials A. L. J. The owner may have same by calling at his place and describing the charm.
death.
Board Bill Suit.
Victoria KossakowskI appeared be
fore Judge Prest yesterday afternoon and had John Blck arrested for de
frauding his board bill. The case will
be heard before Judge Prest some time
this afternoon. Attorney McMahon will act for the defendant.
Compromise Offer. Another offer to compromise, with the second offer nearly twice as large as the original one, which was for ?17 a lot. will be discussed at a mass meet-
i intr of West Hammond nronertv owners
at White Eagle hall tomorrow evening. The question involved is the high assessment for the pavement on One Hundred and Fifty-fifth place and
street. The contractors originally offered to compromise on a reduction basis of $17 a lot, and this having been rejected, a second offer was made to Miss Broooks and her followers at $33. a lot. Whether this offer shall be accepted or not win form the basis for the discussion tomorrow night.
Realty Market. .
The real estate market in Hammond
has been quiet during the past month on account of the hot weather. It is
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"Brookfield Acres." "Brookfield Acres" as the subdivision recently opened In West Hammond by
believed that this fall when the people' Miss Virginia and L. E. Blackmer is get through with their vacations and, known will be put on the market next when the weather Is more suitable to I week and Judging from the Inquiries
that have been received it will be one of the fastest selling subdivisions In this neighborhood. The subdivision contains two hundred and eighty-four
carrying on the business, that condi
tions will improve.
Leave for Convention.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Retlly and
Mayor John D. Smalley will leave this
afternoon on the Chicago special at 3:30
for Atlantic City to attend the ""Elks grand lodge meeting to be held there next week. They will arrive at Atlantic City tomorrow afternoon and expect to return in about ten days. Mr. Reilly will represent the Hammond lodge of Elks, No. 485. A number of other Hammond Elks expected to make the trip, but were unable to leave on account of business matters. A number will go from Whiting, East Chicago and Gary.
Return from California. F. S. Beta Is expected back from California about July 15. Irving Betz is back and Frank expected to return today, but has been delayed en route Mr. A. II. Rohrer reports that Betz' health Is very mttch improved.
Blue Lodge Meets. The Blue lodge held Its regular meet
ing last night. Nothing important
came up and the lodge was closed aft
er the regular routine business was
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