Hammond Times, Volume 1, Number 31, Hammond, Lake County, 2 September 1911 — Page 1

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Labor Day

WEATHER. FAIR TODAY AND BtTNQAY; MODERATE, SHIFTING WINDS. LAKE COUMTY TIE 4 i J L3 EDITION mm . md VOL. I., XO. 31. SEPTEMBER 2, 1911. EIGHT PAGESSATURDAY AND WEEKLY EDITION.

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West Hammond Cops Arrest Five Last Night. Pick out the Least Offensive

Place. Blast.

Other Dives Running Full Citizens say Raid is Joke

The Colonial hotel, one "of the notorious resorts In West Hammond, which Is aid to be leased by Con Moore and tt be run by a woman by the name of Kendall was raided by the West Hammond police headed by Barnie Johnson last night and the following arrests were made: Mrs. Kendall, proprietor, an inmate. Miss Mable Davis, an tninaca. Miss Fay Kendrlck, an inmate. Dave Spenoer of Gary. IuU Kies of Grand Crossing. Walter West of West Hammond. KAID FOLLOWS EXPOSE. The raid followed the expose in THS Times last Wednesday and according to Captain Barnie Johnson other placeju woma nave been raided had It not been for the fact that the raid was tipped oil In advance so that the inmates of the place had a chance to escape. Judge Frank Green of the Justice court In West Hammond happened to be at Gary attending the prizefight thero but he was notified and returned, to the HAMMOND WOMAN IS HONORED Mrs. -George K..Strceter of Hammond " .h e, "elected vice' preufdt nt of the" Alumftl association of the Old New Carlisle Collegiate Institute, of which both she and her "husband, the Rev. Streeter, are members. The association' held its meeting at South Bend this week. C. G. Folsom of South Bend was re-elected president, L C. Egbert of New Carlisle, secretary, and E. Harris of South Bend, treasurer. More than one hundred and fifty students attended tha reunion. CIRCUIT COURT JURY Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 2. The following Jury has been chosen for the September term of the Lake circuit court and called for Sept. 7: James Gill, Hobart; Clarence Lamberg, Crown Pointy James Love, Winfield; Frank W. Roth, Hammond; Henry Kehe, Koss"; Henry Daugherty, Highlands; Ed Batterman, Hobart; Henry Piepho, Hanover; Frank Morton, Hammond; William Seehausen, Hanover; Matthias Brueck, St. John; William Demmon, Ross. - ARREST GEN. OTIS AND HIS EDITORS Gen. Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of the Los Angeles Times, with two of his editors, has been arrested charged with printing obscene matter in their paper. The complaints were based upon articles about the Claudia Hains divorce and the Beattie murder trial.

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village hall in time to enable the prisoners to give bond for their appearance in his court next Wednesday. The raid was mad at 11:55 p. m. last night when Captain Barnie Johnson,

John Okray and John ivutezyk entered the jace and took every one in the resort into custody. SAYS SHE WAS RESPECTABLE. According to one story the women were not inmates of the place but came from Gary In company with two Of the men arrested. It is said that one of the women demanded to know why she had been arrested. "For being an Inmate of a house of ill repute." wa4 Johnson's reply. "Why I'm a respectable woman, from Gary," is said to have been the woman's declaration. She was booked nevertheless and will have to appear for trial. A number of people in West Hammond refuse to take the raid seriously. They say that it was Just a bluff and a pretense at law (Continued on Page 8.) With the purchase of a large num- ; ber of two- acre plots for residential purposes, the movement to straighten ! and widen Hohman street south of the old Chicago, Cincinnati & Louisville has received a new impetus. It is expected that the movement I to have the street' extended through ; to the Ridge road south of the Little Calumet river will be inaugurated in the near future. ' The street, according to the profiles Lthat are In the office of the city at torney, is to be made 84 feet wide throughout Its entire length and Is likely to become one of the most attractive residential streets in the city of Hammond. The proposition to have the street Improved was held up by the opposition of certain property owners. But it is understood that this objection is Tftow removed and that there will now be no obstacles to its early improvement. A number of other streets in the neighborhood are to be straightened, according to the plan. It is understood that the old Humpher road, which runs in a northwesterly and a southeasterly direction is to be changed so that it will run directly north and south. In fact, the whole neighborhood will be made over to prepare for the development of a residential district in that direction. t ' HOBART TO ' OBSERVE DAY (Special to The Times. ' Hobart, Ind., Sept. 2: Hobart will have an extensive Labor day picnic next Monday and provisions have been made for a big celebration, at which hundreds of workers and their families will make merry. A ball game is one of the features, and a bowery dance. Sues for Wages. Charles Dowdell appeared before Judge Ames this afternoon and started suit against the Indiana Harbor Belt railroad for wages. The trial was set for Thursday, Sept. 7, at 1 o'clock, and entered a complaint for $87.70. La Vendor Cigars are pronounced exceptionally good by all smokers.

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XOTICE. ' In accordance wltu tbe usual enntora THB TIMES will observe Labor Day an a holiday and there will he no edition of tbe paper on Monday nnie-Ks the -Importance of atm warrants It. p

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Hammond and Lake woods Park Will Get a Lot of Gary People on Labor Day; Socialists to Picnic at Prak. ' Although Gary is one of the big industrial centers of Indiana it will not make much observance of Labor Day for other than regarding it as a holiday. The customary street parades that lent color to Broadway for four years will be absent although the socialists are planning some kind of a demonstration. Miliratik.ee Mayor Here. A picnic at Lakewoods park, golf and tennis at the Lake Country club and a basebal game at Gary works park will be the events of the day. As the American Bridge team is in Pennsylvania the (Oontf-itl on Page 7,) TRUSTlEErriC7 COFMYvPRICES Hammond Co-'s Cut Is Followed by Slash From the Knickerbocker. The Knickerbocker Ice company today, following the Hammond Pure Ice company's annourtcemeiit of lower prices yesterday, made a material reduction to saloonkeepers and butchers, and promises another reduction next week for the platform trade. The price for small butchers has dropped from 30 to 20 cents for 100 pounds of ice, while the price to saloonkeepers has dropped from 30 to 22 cents. Thus it appears that the Knickerbocker people have thrown down the gauntlet to the Hammond Pure , Ice company, who have the temerity to d?monstrate that they can make their plant a sueeess. E. W. Wlekey of East Chicago, who with George Foland, also of East Chicago, recently bought the controlling stock In the Hammond Pure Ice company, stated to The Timks yesterday that - bis Company would not enter into a cut price war with a competing company; that the reduction announced yesterday was as low as could be made, to allow profit for the company. The Hammond Pure Ice company's price for Ice to the business man Is 22 cents per 100 pounds, provided he pays in advance for a book, the reduction having been made from 30 cents. To business not paying for a book in advance the price is 25 cents. The Knickerbocker Ice company, according to its4 announcement today, rrtakes a flat rafte of 22 cents. Simplex Gets Orders. It is reported that the Simplex Railway Appliance Co. has signed up some good orders of late. It is known that a number of the railroads are in the market for equipment and the rumor Is that the Simplex got a big order for bolsters that are to be used on cars for the Harriman lines. Hope for Recovery. A. O. Merrill of Michigan avenue yesterday received a letter from Mrs. Merrill, who is at Cleveland, O., t the bedside of her father, M. F, Pierce, the news being to the effect that Mr. Pierce had rallied and that there was now hope for his recovery. His condition a few adys ago owing to his sudden illness was very critical.

CLASSICAL. DANCERS TO SHED CLOTHES? THA rs WHA T RUTH SAYS WE'RE COMING TO

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Cleveland, O., Sept. 2. (Special) There are no classical dancers who have anything on Ruth St., Denis. In fact, Ruth has very little on herself. But ehe isn't ashamed of her lack .oXw-iotJrps'.' Its ta" tbOitteJ wTjo rlticiKC her that are wrong, she" says, and the human body-is right. ' She h3s. been giving her views to- the press- at intervals be-tweem the "Garden of.- Allah" dances in which she- is- showing; here how far one may go without frcally being undressed. - ' - "The time is coming,'' she says, "when It will be perfectly possible for women to dance in the nude .without conveying anything suggestive to the audience. This falseness In concealing the human body has -goTto pass away. Our bodies are the most bautiful things In thU AUTO ACCIDENT Oil BUSY STREET Blackmun Auto Damaged by Brahos Delivery-Truck-SEASON'S ALTO ACCIDENTS IN REGION AUTOS WRECKED . . . . .43 IXJLRED IX REGION.... ....... .47 V Another minor automobile -accident took place on Hohman street yesterday afternoon., when the Berelos Bros. Ice cream truck skidded in "front of the Majestic hotel and struck the J; S. Blackmun automobile. The truck was going north on Hohman street and the driver in trying to get out 'of the cai tracks turned his car short, causing It to skid on the rlippery pavement. " It barely missed another car and in trying to avoid -the macnine the tuck skidded again and struck the Blackmun car standing in front of the hotel. The truck was not damaged but wheiv. it" hit the Blackmun car it struck the rear hub and smashed it. The damage is not known as Mr. Blackmun did not know whether It bent the axle or not. Following this accident an unknown horse came galloping down Hohman street and was stopped at the scene of the auto accidenj They 'Need Not Come. County Commissioner Richard Schaef says that the saloonkeepers who are looking for renewals of licenses need not come to Crown Point on next Mon day. He says that the commissioners will meet and then adjourn and look over a number of county roads. He says that the saloon licenses will be taken tip on Tuesday following Labor day.

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5 fit world. The Greeks found .it. out thous ands of years ago, and we , are Just awakenine to a knowledxe et the tact. . "'Undoubtedly my dances are th roost daring on? the stage if yo,u .consider merely the, question , of drapery I mean by Miiiv-tliat I- wear !Mi' -t!oti,e tUr. Isadora Duncan, Maude Allen or any of the other interpreters . of Greek dancing. In my Temple dance I wear with the exception of trunks, absolute ly nothing but Jewels and flowers. Tha Is all the. idol really wears, and to put other things on. would seem to me to be prudish, If not prurient. , "As the race moves upward: the minds are going to realize that ' evil exists' only in the mind nowhere else. What is there wrong about your body? God made it; would He make anything wrong? Indeed, not!" Capital of Township Hungry to Become Town With, Live Board of Trustees ; and a Marshal for the Joy , Riders. Special to The Time& ' St. John. Ind., Sept. 2. Unanimity and harmony characterize the proceedings now under way for the incorporation of St. John as a town, and the indications are that the election next month n the question of incorporating will result in a vote without a dissenting voice against making St. John the peer of its neighbors. Dyer and Schererville, who have already incorporated. Seherervllle voted on the question of incorporating a week ago yesterday and returned a vote of seventy-three for the town government and two against. The St. John petition for incorporation already contains sixty-seven names and ' this number Includes practically every voter In the community. . Hit 350 Population. V The territory to be incorporated includes four square miles, sections twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty-two and thirty-three. The northern boundary line is quite well established by what is known as the Austgen road. (Continued on page 8.)

ITTII IN BAilnuON

Union men representing organized i labor throughout the whole Calumet district will parade in Hammond for

Labor Day next Monday, and after disbanding at the Hohman street bridge go to Kindel's Grove with their families to spend the day at a big picnic for which all kinds of amusement have been provided. Games for which cash prizes will be offered, races, dancing and refreshments and plenty of good music will beamong the usual features for. the event. The East Chicago and the Hammond city officials will take part in the parade and will appear in the first division The parade will be divided into three divisions, the first forming on Michigan avenue near Central Park, the second on Truman avenue, and the third including the floats on Indiana avenue. The marching will begin promptly at ten o'clock. Going south on Hohman street from the starting point t Cen tral Park, the marchers will go as far as Condit street, then counter march to Sibley street, on Sibley street to Sohl street, north on Sohl to State stree. west on State street to Hohman, north on Hohman street to the bridge where the parade will disband. Llne-np of Marchers. The line-up of the various unions in the parade will be as follows: First division led by Grand Marshall LET OUT il E. CIIICiiGU (Special to The .Times.) East Chicago. Sept. 2. Milt circles are more or less exercised over the "clean up' at the Interstate, which ahs resulted in half a dozen of the big men of the working force severing their connection with the mill. The men include tho night supe"rUijtendent and three bosses, besides others of lesser importance at the plant, The night superintendent who quit, is Joe Herod, w. Hutt Olds and Fred Daniels, puddle bosses, and Fred Johnson, boss bricklayer, are others affected. .Herod's place has been taken by Theodore Luerkey. Whether the men left of their 'own accord on account of dissatisfaction, or whether they were let out, has not yet been explained. Some of those who know the true "Inwardness" of the situation are out of town, while others could not be found, and still others refuse to talk at the present.' It is understood, however, that the end Is not yet. The men have all been regarded as valuable merf at the plant, and their relations in the past with the heads of the mill seem to have been most friendly. .... "' In any event the deflection has caused no end of gossip and speculation, and East Chicago is keen to know "the answer." - - MARRIAGE LICENSES (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Jnd., Sept. 2. The following marriage licenses have b'een issued here: Charles C. Robinson, Chicago; Narcissus Garrett,. Chicago. Harry X. Hoffhelmer. Chicago; Margaret Voltz, Chicago. Archibald F. , Fox, Denver, Colo.; Mildred Salisbury, Denver, Colo. Charles H. Telchluter, Chicago; Mildred Hale, Chicago. David F. Hochbaum, Chicago; Jennie May Mills, Chicago. Jacob Schmelz, Hammond; Margaret Briggs, Hammond. Henrj' Brinkman, Chicago: Esther Mysted, Chicago. John Sharp, Elgin, 111.; Florence Murphy, Calhoun, 111. Sam Wolf, Indiana Har. bor; Emma Lewin, Indiana Harbcfr. NEW CASES IN CIRCUIT COURT (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind., Sept. 2. The fol lowing new cases f have been filed in the circuit court here: 9115. 'Phoebe Slade vs. John Hall and Lillian Hall. Injunction. 9116. Wtllard B. Van Home vs. Alexander G. Murray et al. Quiet title. 9117." Julius Frankel vs. Joachim Voss et aL Ejectment,

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B. A. Carter City police, city official of East Chicago, city officials of Ham mond, street railway men, amalgamated association of Iron and steel workers, barbers, machinists, stationary engi- , neers, stationary firemen. . ,: Second division, led by. first assistant Grand Marshall W. T. Glnn Band. painters U U. of Gary, Painters L. U. Of Hammond, plumbers, sheet metal workers, plasterers, lathers, hod carriersand building laborers," cement workers, bakers, news boya union. Third division-led by second assistant Grand Marshall Thomas Harle Band. teamsters of Hammond, teamsters of East Chicago, teamsters of .Whiting, teamsters of Gary, mounted teamsters. cigar makers float, stage employes float. electrical workers' float, advertising floats. "o Charge for AdmUsloa. There will be no charge, for admis-' sion to the grounds, and ample provision has ben made for street car service to the picnic grove from all directions. latest mm MINISTER GOES TO E0CK PILE. r Iola, Kas., Sept. 2. The Rev. Hood Line, who waa convicted in the Municipal court here last week, ot immoral conduct tipon charges brought by Mrs. Ella Rees, the womahv whoai Judge Smeltzer sentenced to work ou the streets, decided last night to work out his 550 fine on tbe municipal rock pile. - He bad glveaJvVe of ap-y ' pa : it thi "CirseiV w-Sb&i.332 get. out . and ,. worktfiait: sf ay! o, ; iiEf pending : my ' appeal' he- told th.4 police. He was put to work today.'-. " BANDITS ROB TRAIN. Redding," Cah, Sept. 2. Three robbers, one a negro, held up the southbound Oregon express train on th Southern Pacific railroad a mile and . half north of Lamoine forty miles north of Redding, at 9 o'clock last night They blew both safes in the express car, rifled them and escaped. I In their escape the three me were accompanied by two other robbers, who had been riding on the roof of the car. No one was hurt. The value of the booty has not been learned. The robbery was reported at Delta,' Cal., by Conductor Dickey within fiften minutes after it occurred. SOCIETY NOW TAKES UP "GRIZZLY" DANCE Joseph The "grizzly bear" dance is the V newest thing in society. Joseph' Leiter, one of the guests at a Newport dance given by Mrs. John R. Drexel. New York social leader," was much enamored by the "griz . zly" number, which was the lea- j" ture of the program. He danced , it with Mrs. Drexel.

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