Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 61, Hammond, Lake County, 29 August 1911 — Page 1

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A movement of considerable pro-1 portions looking towards the developments a new high class residential 'district to the southward of Hammond has developed during the past few weeks. "W. G. Paxton has purchased three pieces of acreage on ' either side of South Hohman street and has disposed of a. number of two-acre pieces to his friends. He purchased six acres In the south half of the Weis farm and'will erect thereon a suburban home to cost not leas than $20,000. He will employ an expert landscape gardener to lay out the grounds surrounding his home, and will undoubtedly have one of the most beautiful homes in Hammond. Originally he Intended to build a fine home on South Hohman street between Elizabeth and Highland streets, but he was unable to have the alley set back so as to give the lots the required depth and so this plan was abandoned. Bnyi Outlaying: Acreage. He has now purchased this unsub-

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UDDENLY Dr. W. W. Merrill, formerly a practicing physician in Hammond where he and his family were well known in the early'days, died at his home in Rensselaer, Ind., where he has been practicing medicine for the past ten years. At one time. Dr. Merrill was one of the most prominent men in Hammond. He was a member of the school board and prominent in public affairs. He owned considerable property in and about Hammond. His family, were prominent in the social life of the city. Finally he gave up th praitice of metteine In Hammond ajkd moved to Rensselaer where fie thought theve was a god field lor his ftctiTitias. - ., . t He had been, ailing of late and on Monday took a turn for the worse; He Former Official 111. j James U. Bradford, former county commissioner who is confined to his ; home on Conkey avenue with sickness, j is showing no improvement. He is able to sit up for short intervals. AVithin the past week an attack of neuralgia has set in in adidtion to his other complications. Ho is permitted to see his friends at his home. Sleeping Drunk Arrested. Joe McQueen was arrested this omrning by Officer Lamme at the city park for drunkenness. McQueen was sleeping in the park, and when Officer Lamme told him to get up and move along he cursed Officer Lamme and asked him what right he had there. He was brought to the police station, where he will be given time to sober up. ANOTHER ATHLETE IN TAFTS FAMILY WissHeleraTaifi President Taft and the boys. Bob and Charlie, aren't the only athletically Inclined persons In the "White House family. Miss Helen 'Taft, the President's daughter, was one of the trophy winners in the tennis tournament ' at Magnolia, Mass.

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divided acreage and will lay it out to suit his own orrginal ideas of what a suburban home should be. His friends were so well impressed with the plan that he purchased considerable additional acreage from the Humplier farm and is disposing of this in two-acre plots. Kicharj Winkler, of the Western Grain Products company, is one of the purchasers and Dr. T. W. Oberlin is another. Still others are Interesting themselves in the new movement southward and it is expected that within a few weeks there will be a larg colony of well known Hammond people who will have holdings in this vicinity. The reason for the movement is the fact that practically. all of the lots in Homewood have been sold out and the people are looking southward for high class residential property. , With the straightening of Hohman street and its extension to the Little Calumet river It is expected that it win eventually become a residential street throughout its entire length to the Ridge road. At RENSSELAER suffered considerably Monday night bu' towards morning told his wife that he felt better and that she had better to sleep. When she awakened he was dead. His death was sudden and entirely unexpected. It was a great shock to the members of his immediate family. Ir. Merrill is .survived by his wife and daughter Ina and Kthel. The funeral arrangements will by announced ' later. It is expected that a large number of Hammond people will attend as Dr. Merrill was the family physician for scoros of local families and loved and admired by thetn alL Later. Funeral arrangement were made' this morning at Rensselaer, and the Interment will take place in Chicago. Services will be held at Rensselaer at 2 o'clock, on Thursday. PROMISING Judging from the number of Inquiries that have been made at the various architect's offices in Hammond this fall and next spring is to see the greatest building activity that -Hammond has ever known. One architect has $200,000 worth of new work on the boards. Some of It is to be built this fall and the rest is to be corrMructed next -spring. ' Regardless of the temporary .'business depression the building- activity in Hammond is growing apace.. One architect estimates that the building In Hammond next year will amount to $1,000,000. Some big projects are In the wind. Some of them are definitely decided upon, providing they can be financed. Others are merely in an embryo stage. A lack of agitation in labor circles is one encouraging feature. The labor unions, following their arraignment last spring, have proven that they can be reasonable and people are beginning to have confidence in the prospect for a peaceful future. Materials are cheaper than they were and li Canadian reciprocity Is favored ly the people of Canada, who will soon have to vote on it. it Is believed that lumber will be cheaper than it has been In years. Although the people of Hammond know that the Standard Steel Car Co, and the Simplex Railway Appliance Co are not employing one-half of the number of men that they emplov in prosperous tlmej, prospective Invest ors Bay,' "I am not building this busi ness block for next year or the year following, but with the next twenty years In view. Why not take advantage of a favorable money market, cheaper materials, and a good labor market and build now." As a result scores of w.oi kingmen in the buildings trades who. would be idle in other parts oT " the country are employed, and that helps to make Ham - i rnond .one of the best cities In the country today. Investors are anticipating the future with the result that Hammond is comparatively prosperous. Building Permit. Lot 56, Columbia addition: 19x9x7; Wilcox and Lyman streets; Northern -Indiana Gas & Electric Co., owners and contractors i f 1.200

BUILDING ACTIVITY

HUNDREDS ARE SPENT 01 JUNKET

Eight Experts on New Pump Built at Buffalo Take a Pleasant Jaunt on Michigan Central Pullman to Buffalo. "Junket, y. i- To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment sometimes applied opprobiously to feasting by public officers a.t"the public cost." Webster's Unabridged Dictionarv. "Junftk, n. A trip by public offi cials at the public cost; ostensibly on public business. Modern Usage. Eight city officials of Hammond, on a junket, arrived in Buffalo, N. T., this morning to Inspect the new pump now under construction for the Hammond pumping station. It is presumed that the taxpayers will pay the cost of the trip. Thanks to the solid and heavily bal lasted roadbed of the MichigarKCentral railroad the city's representatives slept well in their Pullman berths, and en joyed a well appointed breakfast be fore starting out on their onerous du ties of inspecting the pump. None of the members of the junket Ing party lays any special claims to being an expert engineer capable of analyzing the work and material that Is going into the construction of the pump. Jacob Kasper, the engineer at the pumping station, is a member of the party, and his ability to inspect the new pump intelligently is unquestioned. The other members "of the junket and their occupations which make them especially well adapted to inContinued on Page B. iFFlClALS ARE SERVED WITH WRITS The members of the village board of AVest Hammond were all served by Cook county deputy sheriffs with a subpoenae to appear on the 5th Monday in September in the superior court in Chicago and show cause why they should not set an earlier day for the city election. The case will be bitterly contested on both sides. It is understood that the village officials who have been de fying the citizens have employed the best attorneys and the citizens' com mittee of West Hammond will employ good attorneys. It is believed that the trial of the case will bring out some interesting facts about conditions in West Hammond. There may be some evidence offered to show that the present village officials are not onlx unwilling to do the wishes of the people, but are also actually grafting. These facts will be submitted as tending to show that the election be called right 'away, so that the present officials can be ousted before" they have depleted the village treasury. A big deal in Griffith acreage became known today when Anne Hyman et al, heirs of Robert Hyman, one of the owne-rs of the Mandell estate, sold to Ernest de St. Aubin of Chicago 110.1D acres near the Michigan Central and the Grand Trunk railways. Although the consideration is named at one thousand dollars the actual price is thousands of dollars above this a3 the purchaser executed a mortgag-2 for 1 8.500. - The land is in two parts and is located i:i section S, township 35 north, ra n : rc !i. i:ai. west, socond H is not known principal for what purposes the land will be used. MASONS END VACATION The Masonic vacation season . ends this week and beginning next Friday evening the lodges will again meet in thfir regular order. Next Friday be ing the first of the month the Blue loci sr e will meet and will probably ex emplify some degree work. The Com mandery meets next Monday. ' i

BIG SEAL IN GRIFFITH ACREAGE

AUTHOR WILL ASK DIVORCE; SAYS POET INFLUENCED HIS WIFE TO GO OAT STAGE

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Upton Sinclair, aotbor. socialist Bays bis; wife Jias left him to go on for influencing her to do so. He says divorce. -Tfeey - were married eleven TROLLEY WIRE SNAPS, LIVES ARE ENDANGERED Unusual Atcident Happens Last Night on H-, W. & ; E. C. Line. The lives of a number of people were endangered about 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon when a south bound Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago car broke the trolley wire just, -south of the Hohman street bridge. As the feed wire broke and hit the ground it made a great display of fire "works. A crowd gathered around the wire which , was taken care of - by . the motorman and conductor until the wrecking crew arrived. ' ' The accident was peculiar as the car was barely moving when the wiro snaped which was due to a defect : in the line. .- The wire was torn down for nearly 3 car lengths and delayed passage for nearly half n hour. ALLEGED BIGAMIST IS ENGAGED TO 300 n pkms Peter Paul Apkins, of Chicago, Is held at Lexington, Ky., charged with bigamy. His second wife died after he had taken her to a Cincinnati hotel, according to her ante-mortem statements, drugged her, and robbed her of her jewels and money. When arrested he had 300 love letters from women and ir's all over the country, indicating that he was engaged to them.

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and tounder-of Utopian colonies. the stage. He blames a Kansas poet he intends to sue immediately for years ago Gary is to have another big industry employing at the outset five hundred and later on one thousand girls. This morning Paul H. Hirschhorn, vice president of the United Cigar Manufactur ing company, Xo. 10 Twenty-second I avenue. New York arrived in Gary to look over a site. Temporary quarters will be secured at first. ' The company is capitalized at $20,000,000. It makes up well known cigars, "Robert Burns," "Tom Moore," "Owl," "Henry George." Twenty factories are operated in the east. It is .believed that Gary, will be a good distributing center. . The temporary factory will be in . operation in thirty days. ti l PIERCE kV VERY ILLJNGLEVELAND Well Known Lake CountyMan Stricken With Apoplexy. M. F. rierce of Merrillville formerly a county officer of Lake - county and internal, revenue collector for this district under the Cleveland administration is believed to be dying at Cleveland, Ohio. He left Hammond last Saturday to visit his sister there after being a guest of his daughter, Mrs. A. O. Merrill on Michigan avenue and word was received today that he had been stricken with apoplexy and was very critically ill. Mrs. Merrill left im mediately for the Ohio city. Mr. Pierce Is 71 years of age and has not been In the best of health for some time. ; Case Is Continued. The state vase vs. Undine was again continued in Judge Ames court this morning and was sf-t for Thursday afternoon at 1 o'clock. .Undine is charged with selling a customer short weight, having sold eleven Bushels of potatoes for thirteen.

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Judge V. S. Reiter and Judge Lawrence

Becker will Delay their Court Openings after Vacation until Second Monday in September

The Lake circuit court at trown Point will open for the term on next Tuesday, Monday being Labor day, and the first thing on the program will be the call. On Wednesday and Thursday the court will take up a large number o naturalization matters which have come up before it. On account of the strict inspection of all applicants for second papers by Judge A. B. Anderson of the Hammond federal court, a num ber of applicants have taken the alternative of making application in the Lake circuit court. Accordingly, Judge McMahan will spend Wednesday and Thursday of next week in passing upon scores of applications for second papers. There will be no court on Friday and Saturday and the first real trial business will be gin the following Monday. Judge Joh?nr.as Kopelke wrote to Deputy Clerk Car Ames a. letter In But Joseph Kubisz of Indi ana Harbor Refused1 tO Squeeze Out a Single Tear Because of the Loss of His Eloping Wife. Some men certainly think a whole lot of their suitcases. Joseph Kubisz of Indiana Har'oor. 1 . 1 . . A e,,Wy,nCA at r A b n A ' lost a niie nuu . ? ouiLaoc o-v v. lha camtt timA Siimiav morninsr. Joseph Kubisz s wife eloped with hU brother Stanley, twenty-one yers old. The suitcase went with the elopers. Xow, Joseph, Kubisz did not care u r .i, t vi. i,um..t verv much for the loss of his helpmeet. but he did mourn the loss of his $5

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suitcase. The more he thought or tn,was Killed.

"nerve" of the elopers In running away with his cherished article of baifRune tne more anygry he grew. Then he I went on the run to tne ponce station. My wue ana my oromer nave run away together'." he shouted. "They've gone to South Chicago. I want them arrested!" . The eloping pair was arrested on aiighqng from a train at South Chi - scago. A litle later Joseph Kubisz ap - peared at the police station. "What charge shall we make against

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He stole my suitcase! Charge him with robbery:" said Kubisz, pointing to his brother. Not a word against his wife. That's why the eloping wife was freed and that's why the brother must stand trial on a charge of larceny. POLICEMAN PUT UNDER PEACE BONDS Fred Camp, a West Hammond police officer, was discharged from the force by Chief Barnle Johnston, arrested on a warrant Issued in Judge Frank Green's court, charged with disorderly conduct. prosecuted in Judge Charles Wittenburg's court In Burn ham, where his wife told of his cruelties, placed f under peace bonds for one month and forced to pay the costs in the case. That is -"the result of charges which were brought against him by his wife. The evidence which was brought out in the trial of the case indicated that Mrs. Camp had been the victim of inhuman cruelties' and that she was compelled to stand for them on account of her religion which prevents her from getting a divorce Under the circumstances she took the only course that was open to her and had her husband placed under peace bonds. Those who are acquainted with the case, say that it is a pitiful one. TIIKKK'S A t'HAXCE THAT VOV OUGHT AOT TO POSTPONK THAT "JHOPPIXC ; A XV I.OXfiEH. READ THE TIMES' ADS ASO.SUE JF THIS IS XOT SO.

which he said that he would conven court on next Monday, notwithstanding the fact that it is Labor day. Revise Plans. He said that all that would b done the first day would be to go through the call, and that the attorneys would still have considerable time for th celebration of the holiday. He thought this would give the attorneys an opportunity to be in Crown Point for the opening of court there. There was considerable objection to this, however, and this morning Judge Kopelke stated that he had reconsidered his plan and that he would not ask the lawyers to come into court until the following Tuesday. Judge Kopelke will open court in Hammond. Judges Lawrence Becker and Virgil S. Reiter will not convene court until the second Monday in September, or a week after Labor day. This is 'in accordance with the law which created the Lake superior court in Hammond.

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INSANITY BEATTIE'S DEFENSE. Chesterfield County Courthouse. Va., Aug. 29. Insanity will be the defense of Henry Clay Heattie, Jr., on trial for the murder of his young wlf e. It was understood in ' court at the hour of resuming the crossexamination of - Paul Boattie today. This was learned just before ihe defendant and his course.! motored 'In from Richmond," where they, had oen in an all night conference devising ; means to break down the damaging statement of raul Beattie, cousin of the accused, that the latter had confessed to him. SEVEN LOSE LIVES. Charleston, S. C, Aug. 29. Seven persons known to be dead, many injured and property damage of more than $1,000,000 as far as can be as certained, is the damage wrought by i 1 m terriffic storm which struck , Charleston Sunday afternoon, Isolating j the city from the rest of the world. . Tbree men and one woman are known . . . ito nave drowned, a man and a woman J ' were crushed by roofs and one man HILL SAVES PASSENGERS. Pittsburgh, Pa., Aug. 29. Passenger train Kn c - tho .,..,... r.Mn , ,r , , I"""au Vuuu" nom iew iors to Pittsburgh, met with an accident last night at Round Bottom Terrace, fortvsix mllea east of here. The wreck Is I "UM,uereu iui"uleu luai. no passengers were lnjurea. Three trainP'"B"eu uowever. remained uprignt. ' : - ; GETS VAST FORTUNE FROM DEAD FATHER JohwWGafesJr: Justice Henry A. Gildersleeve, of New York, who drew the will of John W. Gates a year ago last sping, estimates the fortune he left at between $30,000,000 and $40,000,00i. All except a million dollars of this is bequeathed to his widow and his son Charles G. Gates, whose engagement to a Minneapolis girl was recently made knows.

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