Hammond Times, Volume 6, Number 64, Hammond, Lake County, 1 September 1911 — Page 1

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Kvery time anything appears in the papers about the dives in West Hammond Tom Logan, a half-witted saloon bum, is sent over to ' interview Miss Virginia Broooks with the idea of intimidating- her. Miss Brooks takes It all as a joke, and is not at all afraid of him. When the expose of the dives was. printed in The Times early this week' Miss Brooks looked for the usual visit of the half-wit. Sur Knouih lie Came. . He came and made the usual threats. Mrs. Brooks determined to see where he would go after the visit at her house, so she disguised herself and followed him. The trail lead across the prairies and to one of the dives where "the boys" A patent which should prove of much interest to automottile owners and manufacturers has been granted to a Hammond man, Martin W. Thompson, machinist in the Specialty Muslin Underwear factory on Condit street in Hammond. Mr. Thompson's patent is for an improved clutch on the rear axle of an automobile, which, in his estimation, will eliminate about 75 per cent of the gearing and develop power in both rear wheels when it is most needed. His axle is one piece. imm TRUSTEE Hi WMl ESCAPE Frank Scheidt Thrown Out : of Carriage by Speeding Automobile. (Special to The Times.) f)yer, Ind., Sept. 1. Frank Scheidt, trustee of St. John township had a narrow escape from .injury- yesterday afternoon, when the bujrgy in which he and a friend were riding was struck by a speeding automobile. The buggy was demolished, but the occupants escaped without injury and hurried to the nearest farmhouse to telephone ahead to intercept the speeders, but they could not be located. The accident happened about a mile east of St. John at 3:30 while Mr. Scheldt, was on his way home from Crown. Point where ho had attended the teachers" institute. The automobile went in the same direction as the buggy. JUST HAS TO HAVE A BATH EVERY DAY-, 5 rOrsXjenevttve CbajxJ fer Mrs. Onevievo Chand. r Ptipps, Denver society woman, stopped at a Meeker, Col., hotel while on an automobile tour and registered. Sha left ten minutes later when she found there were no private baths in the place, and drove Ho miles to Steamboat Springs to spend the remainder cf the night.

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probably listened with great gusto to the story of his trip, if Mrs. Brooks really feared him she would have him undAr npflPA H.-tnHv Kut if (ou T-? i . .. I her daughter, says that any man who would, try to intimidate a woman is a cowar"d at heart and she is not afraid of him. Bl- Eipom? Promtnrd. The case of Fred Camp, the discharged police officer of West Hammond, promises to develop a sensation. Camp has given Barnie Johnson -and President John Hessler to understand that if he is not,jwinstated on the police force that he would make a clean breast of all of the grafting that has been going on in the village. Camp claims that Barnie Johnson is (Continued on Page 5. Mr. Thompson expects to put hts patent to a road test in the near future, and has unbounded confidence that it will prove a success. He has not yet decided what he will do after the. merit of the patent has been established. He will, however, sell it either outright to a manufacturing concern or organize a company for the manufacture of . the improved clutch. . He has been studying the patent a long time, working on it in his spare moments. , He submitted it to the patent office about' a year ago. P!!!GE OF That the recent change of ownership of the controlling stock in the Hammond Pure Ice company will insure to the benefit of the stockholders and to the consuming public was demonstrated this morning when announcement was made of a reduction of prices. It is expected that the Knickerbocker.Ice company will have to follow suit to the precedent set by the Hammond Pure Ice company. The Hammond Pure Ice company has been praised for refusing to gouge consumers. Beginning today the price of ice will be reduced from 30 to 25 cents per 100 pounds to saloonkeepers and butchers. and others using large quantities, and as low as 22 cents to these consum ers who buy their ice in advance by the book system. . The price to the private consumer remains unchanged, at 40 cents per 100 although the book system there also provides for aTediKtion of 2 cents if paid in advance. Are Getting Kmuita. The management ' of the Hammond Pure Ice company and the executive board ofthe Hammond Saloonkeepers association was in session this morn ing with a view of entering into an I agreement for the supply of the memDers or the association who wish to avail themselves of the local company's output. Only a few days under the energetic management of Mack Foland. who with Attorney Edward Wickey of East Chicago has the controlling interest, .has already produced unexpected results. Stock in the company has gone up as a result, and the plant which prior to the change of management was runj ning at only half capacity, is now turn ing out daily sixty and more tons of ice with ease, sixty tons being the expected dally capacity of the plant. Superintendent Foland is positive that but for a complete breakdown this rate of production can be kept up, and with this expectation he has at once lowered the cost which is now uniform with the prices of the Lake County Ice company at East Chicago, in which he and Attorney Wickey also have the controlling stock and for whose plant he is the general superintendent, Board Holds Meeting V The board of public works held a meeting this afternoon, the regular morning meeting having been postponed until afternoon. The adoption of the. assessment roll for the street sprinkling came up for adoption. Sickness Normal. The month of August was an average one for the physicians of Hammond. Inquiry among the doctors of the city develops the fact that, as compared to other years. there was no unusual amount of sickness. -

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Th boy afd t'1r -ll wi'o"-- piuiur." P PI'ear above f . tor admtUon. 'itt!i" tnuthvr ' "Uesertcd, them and thtir aunt v5:o has been carin.f for them Wants thtm adopted. They cam into. , th? ofiice of a Chicago newspaper yesterday and said: "No. I won't tell you what my name is. My husband is in business here, and it would hurt him if I gave my name," she said in answer to the reporter. "Iij fact, he has grown very fond of them, and wishes to keep them. But if anyone wants them, they tan communicate with your paper. I will return, and If they'are the proper kind of people I will let them adopt the children. E. HUBBARD PRAISES C. J TSNKHAM Crown Point Dentist Gets a Somewhat; Remarkable Testimonial. In a remarkable article on Pyorrhea Alveolaris in the "Fra" Elbert Hubbard's dignified exponent of American rthilnnnhv nnp Tike pmintv man Dr. r-v,,.,i- t , ,. ult S mentioned in connection with a numh.. , .,i., of the scientific treators , of pyorrhea in company with Younger 'Of ' Parish Dr. Smith of Philadelphia, Dr. Griswold q . New . York.; Dr. Dr. W. T. r. l-f ot nr i Robert Good of Chicago and a -number of other distinguished dentists. As the leader of the Roycrof ters' and the brilliant East Auroran is not given to advertising anyone unless he is giving them the gad, the Crown Point dentist may reasonably be proud of the mention he received in the "Fra." JUDGE KOPELKE TO TRY CASE WEDNESDAY The preliminary settings of cases in the Lake superior court, has been made by Judge Johannes Kopelke of room No. 3. On Wednesday, Sept, 6, the case of Reich vs. Reich, a divorce case, has been set. On Thursday, Sept. 7. the case of I.add vs. Smith et al, is scheduled to be tried. The judge asks The Times to announce that on Tuesday and Friday he will try any cases which tire attorneys may set by agreement. On Tuesday next, the Lake circuit. Judge Willis W. Mcilahan, will convene at Crown Point and the" first days will be taken up with naturalization matters. Judges Reiter' and Backer will not convene their courts until the second Monday. The secret of Ufe and how to prolong it has been discovered ay. Dr. RuckeL-

,"t will not let tVm pi into tpara i liomtit - hii would ;( too crui. Neither will I. let thein go into homes of people who have not enough to care for them. - People- with-. incomes' of- $200 or $300 a month can do nV better for them than I can. "There is" lot3 weaitu around the country,' and they -might as well Ijave it. ' "There have been a lot of people who wanted to adopt the children, but they either wanted to take only one of them or else their income was not what I considered sufficient. "They have."been' well brought Up and woild' fo we'll ' in atjy home"," she con-

Hammond's city officials who went ne pump ' new pump .which, -Is. .now under- conIslntrtfnn hv tln Snmr Piimn nmnflnv i - - - - - l returned this morning. Councilman : JohnanV, who was in he party coniinnea ms journey irom ttunaio iu Kingston,. Canada, where he will make I a short visit, at his former home, with ;-re'atlves and friends. In the party who returned were Mayor J. D. smauey, Adam-R. Ebert, John L- Roude, Henry I Whitaker, 'John Pascaly and' Henry i Eggers and Jacob Kas-pcr. ! The visitors found that the work on the' pump had already progressed beyond their expectations, and work will have to be hurried on the building to house the pump in order to avoid delay, as the pump is within a few weeks of completion. , . . - In making their , inspection, the city officials were assisted by the chief engineer of the Buffalo water department The Buffalo water department pumps The uBffalo water department pumps are in two unites, each having a 30,-000,000-gallon ylaily capacity, whereas the Hammond pump is to be only one unit with a 15,000,000 daily capacity.) xne city oinciais saia mat tney louna the pump to be a much larger piece of machinery than they expected to find. One piece alone weighs fifteen tons. ' -The visitors agreed f that they had enjoyed their trip very much and that the ideas they received in seeing the Buffalo Snow pumps and the Buffalo water system was. of great -benefit -to them. Pat Whalen Recovering. Pat Whalen, who was struck by a train near Buffington. is resting easily at St. Margaret's hospital, where- he was taken last - Wednesday after the accident occurred.

ti !i , l'iiking at it e s, ii v.: i n i-iX carefully aprra!alng them. . '"Tve taught J,h little girl music! She fias.loYs of clMiracter and knows how to read people. . Just look at her eyes and tell me if you don't think sh has. ;"lt would be selfish for me to keep them, though," she said further. "I've a- boy of my own and I'm seeing that he is given the best kind of an educa

tion. .. Anything I did forthese cjiildren-j would be taken away from him. "Then, I can't afford to bring them up the nay they ought to be. You've tin idfa how much it costs to take care of a. little girl like that, and the strain is too great. 1 simply can't stand it." WORTHY OF SUPPORT OF TRADES IK1 S Labor Day Edition of Advocate Is' Fresh From the Press Today. The Labor day issue of the. Lake County Labor- Advocate, the official journal for the Lake County Trades and Labor Council, . is a credit to F. L. Meriam, the. editor and publisher of the monthly ' and to the subscribers who support the publication. In addition to the official minutes of the Lake . County Trades and Labor Council and the Chicago TradeV Union Label League, the booklet contains numerous articles of deep interest to the workingman, especially the union man: A stirring Labor day, editorial by Carl P. Morgan and a condensed history of Gary by Alfred Jones fire features of extraordinary merit. The whole issue breathes a spirit of the Labor day holiday, and the cause of organized workingmen. The Ad vocate is certainly worthy of the patronage of the vast army of union men in the Calumet region. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE CALLED A '1 J! How - would you like to be called a "moak." That is what started a big row in Wesrt. Hammond. Leonard Czezhwski had an altercation with Mrs.i John Skawskl, ad in the course of the conversation m called her a "moak," meaning in Polish a devil with nle heads. Mrs. Skawskl would not stand for 1t, and . had hzczhwski ..arrested on . they charge of disorderly conduct. The case will come! up in' Judge Frank Green's court in West Hammond. It 'is understood that "John Skawskl also had Mr. ad Mrs. Leonard Czezhwski arrested. . .The case of Mrs. Minnie Fritzinger, who. has charged Dr. Lorenzo Jackson with a number, of offenses, has been postponed until a week fran next Sat-

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Nine Years of Age, Found Spending Money Like Water; Alleged to Be Guilty of Burglaries Galore. ' Two youthful criminals, aged 7 and 9 years, twith a police record that will surpass that of many older in crime, were arrested and held at the Standard Steel Car works in Hammond yesterday after being suspected, for spending their money like two millionaires. They were then brought to the police station by Officer Lamme. The young lads are brothers and sons of Jacob Filas. a carpenter at 38-15ath street. West Hammond. Their names are Edward, 7 yeafs old, and Thomas, 9 years old. They are the youngest criminals the Hammond police have ever arrested. The boys have a bad record, not only with the- Hammond police but also by the West Hammond authorities.. The lads have een brought to the Ham mond station at least A dozen times for petty offenses, and are known to have entered two Hammond homes last Wednesday, taking money and watches from both. At the station yesterday they admitted entering the office of the Hammond Lumber company, ' Wilcox and Oakley (Continued on page 8.) G-E1D - BALL YARI (Special to Ths Times.) Indiana Harbor, Sept. 1. V, (t.ia. is to say your correspondent) have, (or has) been requested to pen an advance baseball story "something new." Aft er having composed masterpieces along this line since the season opened, It' is more difficult .than would appe&r to the layman who fails to take this fact into onsideration. Inspired, however, by the suggestion "something new", we, (or your cor respondent, whom we will eajl here after we" in consideration of space.) were fain to suggest that the end o the season is close at hand. Remember lng that It was "close at hand"- las week, however, we hasten to change the idea to the bright gem of though (Continued on Page 8.) TWO YOUfIG LADIES HAVE HARROW ESCAPE Reckless Hebron Autoist Collides With Buggy in Heart of Crown Point. (Special to" The Times.) ' Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 1. The two daughters of Mr. Schneider living on th Sauerman farm' northwest ' of Crown Point, met with a narrow escape, from probable; serious injury yesterday aft ernoon when they were driving hdme after coming to. Crown Point to take music lesson. The two girls were driv ing on East Jolict street, near the Thomas Hote-1, .when 'tnc" Rice of Hebron ran Into the rear,of the rig with his automobile, breaking the rear wheel and shaking the ocupants of the buggy considerably. It Is said that Rice was driving at a good ate of, speed and had not time enough to .get th automobile under control, before the accident occurred. It is said a damage suit may result from the accident as Mr. Rice jran into the rig from the rear and evi dently was at fault and responsible for the damage to the buggy. The two girls escaped uninjured. Court Opening Not DelayedIn the" heading of the court story in the early part of the aeek. this paper ladvertently stated that the opening of -Judges Relter's ' and Becker's courts would be delayed until the second Monday, thereby giving rise to the supposition that the courts should ha.ve opened on next week. Such- is not the.Aase. The law creating a superior court 'fof Hammond provides that the September term opens on the second Monday, as the body of the article; read. .- ... - . - -

Wagon Was Wrecked. A wagon belonging to the Woodhull Ice Cream company, 61 State street; broke down at the corner of Sibley and Hohman streets about 7:30 o'clock thts morning and delayed street car traffic for nearly fifteen minutes. The wagon was loaded with a quantity of 'ice cream, and as the wheels struck the Btreet car tracks the avel on the rear wheel broke, causing the wagon to tip and scattering its con

tents about the street. The street cars were unable to pass until another wagon was secured and reloaded. No damage was done to the Ice cream. ' Special Council Meeting. K.i special council meeting will be held tonight and many important matters will be discussed and disposed of. Each councilman has been - notified to be present, as the meeting has been specially called to ratify the pump con tracts. Will Build Bungalow. Miss Frances MUay, a teacher in the South Chicago high school, has purchased a lot in West Hammond from Miss Virginia Broooks and will erect a bungalow upon it. She expects to Hv in West Hammond and teach school in South Chicago. Fitzgerald Still Weak. John E. Fitzgerald is still weak as a result of the attack of typhoid fever from which he suffered some time ago. but he is getting better and hopes to make a complete recovery in a few weeks. J. M Bradford, who has been laid up with an attack of neuralgia. Is still con fined to the house and is not at all well. He is also troubled with a catarrhal condition which seems to be chronic Reports Are Discouraging. Reports from the bedside of M. F. Pierce of Merrillville, who is seriously ill at his sister's home in Cleveland, O., continue to be discouraging. He Is In a comatose condition neatly all the tftne. His daughter, Mrs. A. O. Merrill, 60V Michigan avenue, has gone" to his bedside, ' " t Caso Is Dhnti'-"'4; j - v; '-. : The ,itt-:cae"-rs - V ;'..' with-iiaviag,-"soi4'"-','-ejJpSi" weigbt. ia- m. purchase ifnctit!'.'. . terday afternoon after thf" defendant was found not guilty. Undine is said ." to have used a galvanized bushel measure which City Sealer Friedman is op- " posed to. It was brought out In the trial that while Undine' did. give a fullbushel of -potatoes that' tljey-did not weight fsfjty pounds .according,' to weight.' Undine also testijled that he had always used this kind, of a bushel measure and that ie had- never been charged with short weight before. Hunters Get Busy. Local duck hunters were out bright and early yesterday morning, but thera were few that came back with mors than a meal. About thirty-five hunters were reported scattered about Mud lake, who only saw two flocks which were out of ; gun range. -The- docks have not be-' gun to come in yet, but befor very ' long the crack shots hope to get some good shooting. Last year local hunters received some good shooting In the vicinity of Lake George and Mud lake, which is reported fine feeding places for the water fowl.. Elks Meet. ' The Elks held their t regular Thursday meeting last night and nothing important took .place and the lodge was closed - after the regular routine'' work was' disposed of. No candidates appeared for initiation and a social hour was held. , MARQUIS GETS JOB -ON CHICAGO PAPER MARQUIS OP QUEEXSBERRV. :The Marqris of Queensberry, lata of London, Eigland, has become assistant iporting editor of a Chicago . morning paper. The marquis, whose j. father drafted the. ring rules- still In use, left Kngland to make hia living in the United States.