Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 27, Hammond, Lake County, 20 July 1911 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. Thursday, Jnly20, 1911. TIMES NEWSPAPERS Scenes on Hilly Indiana Farm Designated by Census Bureau 'as Center of U. S. Population . INCLUDING TRE GART EVENING TIMES EDITION. THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES FOUR O'CLOCK EDITION, THE LAKE COUICTT TIMES EVENING! EDITION AND THE TIMES SPORTING EXTRA, , ALL, DAILY NEWSPAPBH3. AND THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES IATCRDAT AMD WEEKLY KDITION, PUBv , LIBHEP BY THE LAKE COUNTY PRINTINO AND PUBLISHING COMPANY. The Lake County Times Evening Edition (dally except Saturday and Sunday) "Entered as second class matter February S. 1U. at the postofflc at Hammond. Indiana, under the act of Congress. March 3. 1179." Th Gry Sven,n Times Entered as second c!a matter October B. 1909, at the postofflce at Hammond. Indiana, under the act of Congress. March 8, 1879. . The Lake County Times (Saturday and weekly edition) "Entered aa second class matter January SO, 1911, at the postofSce at Hammond. Indiana, under the act of Congress. March S. TS79." IKAKLY HALiT YEARLY. . SINGLE COPIES... S3.SO $1J50 ..ONE CENT LARGER PAID UP CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN THE CALUMET REGION.

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TO SUBSCRIBERS Reader ef THE TIMES are rm.rd to favor tbe mamCrenteat my repartlag any lrrevularltlea la arllveriaK. Conmnaicate wttk the Clreulattoa Depmrtnieat.

COMMUNICATIONS. THE TIMES will print aU ewmsaaateattoae om anbjeets ef (rami Interest PFlS waa aaca eaaanaaatcetloBa are alaraed ar the writer, feat will reject all coauaualoatloaa aot ImJ, mm natter what their merits. Thla prrcautioa la taken tm avoid aal8nrentatoaa. THE TIJIKS 1. p.hllahed In the beet l.ttrmt ( the people, n.d Its ntterwaya Intended to promote the areaeral welfare of the public at largo,

LAKE COUNTY'S WEALTH. A few years ago Lake county was considered one of the leanest counties in the state in point of valuation of its taxables. Today its valuation is exceeded only by that of Marion county in which the state capital is located. Then the sloughs and sand ridges of its northern portion were valueless and Its farms, located in the central and southern part of the county, pro

vided most of the taxables from the In the last fifteen years, following

velopment ,the valuation In the northern part of the county has Increased

to a marvelous extent.

In a recent report to the state board of tax commissioners the Lake county board of review indicates that there will be an increase of 32.6 per

cent in Lake county's valuation. This Increase has taken place in

was made. It is expected that in another four-year period the present valua

tion will be doubled. And these figures are. surprising Hnfi1n O" Anl4itA oV a e,-o i a remamaDie northern part of tt e state. Lake county can point to them ixiajr come oi jus locality will want to call upon putting through some of the big projects

A MARKET FOR GARY'S MORTGAGES.

0 jr.iei uttrriea company is planning to locate in Gary. f!IP UntriTnnnJ Ttl I A.1

"ttUUU,"'u. Yvuiutg ana lnaianapolia moneyed men will be the found-

Trrnd . "2e liew' institution. tivri- The fact that a new bank is to be

nuenuon to ine steel city nas eight of them already, rot counting the postal savings establishment. But a trust company, such aa was outlined in these columns Is potential with possibilities. According to the promoters the new bank will have the largest capital and surplus In the city. Its backers claim that they win be able to enlist eastern Insurance investments. If they do so Gary first mortgages wijl find a ready market in new fields. There is no reason why Gary bonds and mortgages should not be in steady demand. The security is gilt-edged and whafs more the interest rate is most attractive. Perhaps after the new bank starts the money stream flowing there will be n lack of Gary mortgage buyers. If, as it is claimed by some, that eastern insurance companies have passed over Gary investments because there was no large trust company to guarantee the interest payments that claim will be tested out when the new bank is started. Should there come all that its promoters claim for it the new institution, instead of cutting in on the business of present banking houses, will rather tend to increase their volume. Any new enterprise that can attract loan money to Gary will be welcomed by the banks for it will mean much to all of them.

BOOSTING ICE PRICES. "If there is one thing above another calculated to make the average man sanction mob-law, It is the sordid story, too often told in the press dispatches here of late, of the increase In the price of 'ice. Its cost to the consumer has been advanced all the way from twenty-five to fifty per cent in some Indiana cities, and that, too, without the shadow of an excuse save that which is conceived in selfishness and brought forth In pure hellishness. The dealers have merely taken advantage of the necessity of the people and in raising prices have been guilty of the most shameful and brutal form of extortion," says the Fort Wayne News. " Hut; whines some hypocritical dealer, 'our supply i3 hot equal to the demand and we must do something to protect ourselves.' Very well But a dealer to protect himself does not have to rob his neighbor and oppress the poor. He does nt have to make the price of Ice prohibitive to the parent of the babies In the sweltering tenements, that lie wailing and ill thd whose milk must in some manner be kept untainted. To place the price beyond the reach of these poor who need it most is nothing short of a heinous crime. It la murder foul. And to so advance it that the poor can buy the article only by galling sacrifice is on offense only slightly mitigated. For It Is coining dollars from the blood of suffering women and children, dollars that should burn in the pockets of the pirates taking them like disks of phosphorousblistering and roisoning the flesh, and making life a burden. "To assert that the dealers are obliged to advance prices 'in order to protect themselves, is impudence that is peculiarly offensive. For the statement Is manifestly false. The ice that is stored in January is no more expensive to the dealer during a hot July than during a cool July, nor is It any more costly a process to manufacture ice at one time than" another. The cost of its distribution is the same whatever the weather conditions for the consumer is made to bear the burden of the shrinkage that comes through melting on the route. The dealers' expenses are not Increased during hot spells except as there comes an increase in demand for his ice which naturally means for him additional profit even at the fimre he had originally fixed as a suitable one for the disposal of his product. If the supply Is not equal to the demand the difficulty should be adjusted by a limitation in the amounts allowed consumers and not by an advance of prices, for the advance of prices strikes hardest the poor who most need ice to protect the lives of their little ones.

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public revenues were derived. the beginning of its Industrial de the four years since the last valuation the people of Indiana who are just be - development Is taking place in the with pride. In fact It wants to call at in me near future when the people the state for financial assistance in which it has in mind. me announcement that a new trust Information available indicate that started in r.arv hco w f wv-u u w v hui avk uiui;u

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7 :Ht 4 -rj RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS DOG days have arrived, as if there hadn't been any around here lately. WE suppose you know that you can be arrested and fined for permitting weeds to grow about your place. ALDERMAN Castleman Is doing some fine and lofty tumbling when you take the weather into consideration. NO wind could be invented that would keep Hammond from getting some kind of a smell from some factory. IT is refreshing these hot days to think of some of these cool custom ers, how they do what they do and get away with it. TRAVELER reports that the Eng lish women are distant and cold. That's so, they are about three thous and miles away. EXCHANGE tells of a man who was badly cut on a broken plate. Show that to your wife when she asks you wash the dishes. THE Indianapolis Star also advises the governor to whip the babies and pardon the murderers. And yet he wants to be president. ITALIAN physician says that work makes people ugly. Now you know what makes so ugly. (Supply name you have in mind.) NO use talking, life is just one thing after another. When the Gary cops do try to pull oft a commendable stunt, they are bit by a street car. ONE kind of financial embarrass ment that would never worry us would be to have so much money we didn't know what to do with it. WHAT always' worried us is how a man gets sunstruck when he is at his work, yet he can swelter playing ball or golf and it will never feaze him. mi, who has three punctures and two blow-outs In an hour and can keep the emergency brake on his temper is a good candidate for the minstry. i IF you have any old letters saved up, for pity's i;ake don't stow them away wrapped up in pink ribbon, use a piece of horsehide than she won't suspect. HOW would you like to be married by moonlight in an auto standing in the road? Laporte Herald. Wouldn't mind it as long as the carburetor was working all right. ALEX Tensen said that the balloon he noticed passing over Kouts had a man, woman and a little girl in the basket. Others thought the balloons had stopped in the vicinity of Baums Bridge to take on more ballast. Kankakee Review. , As none of the balloons carried women it is probable that Alec had just come out of one of those lemonade parlors along the river '

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The Day in HISTORY THIS DATE IN HISTORY. July 20. 1S11 Earl of Elgin, who served uovernor-General of Canada, born in London. Died in Indian Nov. 30, 1904. 1850 Daniel Webster of Massachusetts became Secretary of State. 1863 In Columbia county, .Ohio, Gen. Morgan surrendered to General Shackleford. 1865 Southern war prisoners released. 1866 Austrlans defeated the Italians at Lisa. 1880 Gen. Manuel Gonsales elected President of Mexico. 1897 Jean Indelow, noted poetess, died In London. Born In Boston, England. In 1820. 1888 Gen. Leonard Wood appointed Military Governor of Santiago de Cuba. 1903 Pope Leo III. died. Born March S, 1810. 1906 Honduras. Gautemala and Salvador concluded a peace treaty. 1907 Thirty persons killed and many injured in a railroad wreck near Salem, Mich. THIS IS MY GSTH BIRTHDAY. Bishop Worrell. Rt. Rev. Clarendon Lamb Worrell, Anglican bishop of Nova Scotia, was born at Smith's Falls, Ontario, July 20, 1853, and received his education at Trinity School, Port Hope and Trinity College. Toronto. In his early career he engaged in educational work and filled positions at several prominent Institutions of learning. Including Bishops College and the Royal Military College at Kingston. In 1880 he was ordained a deacon of the Church of England and four years later came his ordination to the priesthood. During the succeeding ten years he occupied pulpits in several cities and towns of Ontario. In 1896 he was appointed chaplain to the Archbishop of Ontario. After an Interval spent as rec tor of St. Luke's church, Kingston, he became Archdeacon of Ontario In 1900 and four years later was appointed to the bishopric. j VOICE OF : THE F E O P L MUNICIPAL ICE PLANT. Hammond, Ind.. July 20. Editor times: While the people of the Calumet region have, during the recent not spell, suffered from lack of ice. It strikes me as rather strange that The Times has not seen flt to suggest the only remedy for a condition which entails positive loss, inconvenience and uttering upon so large a percentage of our people. A municipal Ice plant? Yes sir, that's the ticket, exactly. We have our water plant, ought to have our own gas and electric plant, ana certainly shoulJ at once take steps to place our people beyond the greed of the ice trust by the establishment of an adequate ice plant owned ad operated by the city, not for profit but for the future health, comfort and convenience of the people. Now is the time to take this matter under consideration and do something, and The Times should be the pioneers In the movement. Don't get scared at the thought of what the Knickerbocker folks or the other Ice companies may do. The people are back of you and anyhow you will bo on the right track. H. W. MARDEN. (Incidentally It might be said that public and private grievances against th ice companies of Richmond, Ind.. resulted In an investigation by the mayor and city attorney. They learned that the city could operate an Ice plant with the surplus power of the municipal light plant and produce Ice at 19 cents a hundred for general public use. The plan Is being further consiaered Editor.).

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18 years old, awoke yesterday morning ' DUUt al lerro Haute. iz reet long, to find that she was totally blind. Sholwi11 havo ,ts own Powr' but will be

had suffered with her eyes the evening nerore to some extent, but was wholly unprepared for the shock that cama with her awakening this morning. Two years ago, while a student in the high school, she lost the sight of one eye, but the blindness was only temporary

Physicians believe her present troubla'1" chargo of Assistant Engineer George

will not be permanent, as the blindness is caused by nerve paralysis. LEAPS INTO AVTO. IS SAVED. Peter Phillips, of Columbus, saved himself from probable death yesteruay

morning by leaping into an automobile ' years old' was save1 3"st"day by placwith which he collided. He was riding lns him under "n anesthetic and induea wheel and in turning a corner collld-'1" hlm to Pel four fa,se teeth, which ed with an automobile running t I he had swallowed in his sleep. Milllron

high rate of speed. When the machin struck his wheel he sprang from th latter into the former, thus probably saving his life, though he was severely hurt. WIFE WILLING SAM GOES. Standing at her full hight and with a ring of independence in her voice, Mrs. Samuel Girton. of Indianapolis, 1014 West Morris street, told Jud' coiiins to nave no hesitancy about sending Sam to the workhouse. "But how will you take care of yourself?" questioned the Judge. "Like I did when he deserted me over the washtub.- replied Mrs. Girton, and with vigor that was convincing of her ability to do it. "Nu ft sed." returned Judge Collins, and he stamped the "drunk" affidavit in a manner that meant fifteen days for Samuel. I-AYS SI2CO FOR RIVER PEARL. Samuel Kutner, a Parisian pearl buyer, yesterday bought of George Morgan of Carmi, 111., the finest pearl that has reached the Vincennes market. It is a twenty-one grain, perfect ball pearl, of unusual luster, for which Kutner paid $1,200. Morgan found the pearl on the river bank as he took his team to water. TO SURVEY THE WABASH. The surveyors, crews of the boats. cooks end waiters for the United States rmy engineer corps party which will

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rrr t.n go down the Wabash from Terre Haute to make a survey of the river preliminary to the work of Improvement by which there can be slack water navigation for goats which use the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, began arriving yesterday. Some surve-ying will be done at Terre Haute this week ana h' the first of next week tne flset !wlH Etart down-stream. The big boat j towed, as will be two houseboats. Three gasoline tugs have- arrived. They are twenty-five feet long. Six long rowboats also came from headquarters of the division at Louisville. There will be seventy-five men in all when the work is under way. The survey will be Walbrecht, of the government survey staff. SWALLOWS TEETH IX SLEEP. After an hours hard work the life 'of Arthur T. Milllron, of Kokomo, 30 awakened from a bad dream to find that he could scarcely breathe and that I he was in deep pain. His condition at-i tracted the attention of the household,! and physicians were summoned. soon relieved him by means of an emetic JEALOUSY PIIOMPTS SUICIDE. Mrs. Marie Lewis Nowlin, of Indianapolls, 29 years old, who, after embracing her husband and expressing her affection for him, swallowed a large quantity of carbolic acid yesterday mornong, died last night at the City hospital. Mrs. Nowlin was the wife of C. H. Nowlin, 818 North Harrison street. Nowlin conducts a laundry at 764 Indiana avenue, and Mrs. Nowlin went there yesterday, she is Bald to have accused Nowlin of paying attention to other women. The4n vowing that she loved him regardless of her accusations she attempted to swallow the poison. He prevented her once, but placed the bottle on the table within her reach. Her second attempt to drink the acid was successful. FALLS ON LIGHTED LAMP. While carrying a lighted lamp last njght, Oro Anderson of Logansport, age twenty-two, stenographer In the office of John Harvey, county assessor, fell down a flight of stairs sn her home and was seriously burned. The lamp broke and a jagged piece ef glass cut a wound In her thigh. Her head and shoulders were deluged with burnins

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3 oil, and she lay In semi-conscious condition, unable to nght the flames. Her mother was attracted by her fall and dragged her from the place and smothered the fire, which had burned her hair and blackened her body almost to the waint. Her condition today is critical and physicians have no hope of her recovery. POUND WEEK AFTER DEATH. The body of John Campbell of Riverside, who has been missing since July 11, was found beneat1-. a tree on ths Gormley farm, eight miles northeast of Attica today, by Ralph Morgan, while hunting. He had been killed by lightning when It struck the tree under which he took shelter during a heavy thunderstorm last Tuesday. Campbell formerly lived In Clinton county and It is said went under the name of Montgomery there. He was thirty-six years of age and unmarried. INDUSTRY irs INDIANA Tipton The drug store of Tom Mor-

who,ris. at Atlanta, five miles south of this

city, has closed. The closing of the as the cause. J. E. Morris, father of plate mill and other business is given the druggist, is In charge. T. E. Morris has left Atlanta. Franklin Ixjcal business men have formed an association to promote the exchange of bislneshs Ideas and arrangementg have been made to conduct a midsummer clearance sale in all the business houses, opening the sale on Friday, July 21, and closing on Saturday, Jiy 29. Huntington The city council has let the contract for a ten-ton garbage incinerating plant. The contract went to an Oklahoma firm and the cost of the Incinerator complete, with building and stack, is $2,750. A site has been selected on the Erie railroad.... Appliances are being put In at Warren, whereby day current will be obtained from the M., B. & E. for commercial use In town. The municipal plant works only at night. North Vernon The merchants of thl city will hold their fall festival September 28, 29 and 30. St. Paul A new gas well was brought in Monday on the farm of James W. Reed, near here. The well tested a pressure of three hundred pounds immediately after being ho4.