Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 9, Hammond, Lake County, 30 March 1912 — Page 4
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March 30,1912.
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POl7 FOR THE DAY
"THAT COLD WINTER..'
Back la the wlater of nineteen
twW, the eldeat lakabltaat enld
"The eold wave wn ao great that
wenrn uuir vareusn ik aaii
a my way to bed.
The naerenry froae 'ere December ir
rived i it never thawed oat until
nprlag.
And the nmoke that arose lato willow
plumes froze aad for weeks to the
chimneys would cling.
"We waded through tunnels dug out
of the snow, first the drifts were so
fearfully high.
The river frose clear to the bottom
that year we hauled up leed fish
ia July.
The eoal that, we burned into icicles turned i at night when the furnace
we'd All
We'd wrap it with rugs and hot water jugs to keep It from having a chili.
"We bought ail our anllk by the block, and we drank our beer with the aid of nn axe. Long- icicles ' frose on the sun as it rose) the darn thing was covered with cracks. You folks naay complain of this winter with pain, but if Into records you'll delve, . . Youll find there has n'er been n eold to compare with the coldness of old nineteen twelve. Peoria Herald-Transcript.
circle o friends, consisting oC. Samuel Johnson, Goldsmith, Burke, Reynolds,
Beauclerk and Bos well, that in Boswell's case at least made a great man out of a puppet.
The present supremacy of Indiana
in American letters finds some ex
planation in the literary impetus that
local association of ideas has evidently had upon George Ade, Booth Tarkington, James AVhitcomb Riley, the
McCutcheons, Eggleston, Lew Wallace,
Guy Carleton, and Charles Major; and
n financial and political circles the
connection between associations and
opportunity is so close that the forma-
ion of groups is obvious and almost
unavoidable.
Success comes from courage; and
courage for any struggle is increased
by a knowledge that the things one one desires to do can. be done, and have been done by men of ordinary
flesh and blood who eat corn, beef and
cabbage; have trouble with their feet, and manage to struggle along with two eyes, one nose, one mouth and two
ears.
Brook Farm brought together Na
thaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Emerson,
Amose B. Alcott, Theodore Parker,
George W. Curtis, and Margaret Fuller.
Concord, Mass., produces, besides
Emerson, Hawthorne and Amos Alcott, a large group of other men and women, including Channing and Louisa
Alcott; and Hawthorne, before he knew anything about Brook Farm or
his philosopher friends at Concord, had
formed a college set that included Hen
ry W. Longfellow and Franklin Pierce.
affecting land in . this county. Six hundred and forty acres valued at fully $2,000,000 was involved in the
suit.
Because of the litigation the south part of the section .which is owned by a half dozen people, attracted no respectable prices from lot buyers. The north half which front upon
Broadway near the heart of the city is the property of the steel trust and it stands today just as it did six years ago when the city was founded a woodland jungle. With the title cleared up we can expect a wonderful development in section ten. Either the United States Steel corporation will turn it into an excellent subdivision and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in improving it or it will cut the land Into small acre tracts and sell it to small industries. Scores of industries are
ready to enter Gary the minute the
steel corporation makes up Its mind
to sell suitable sites.
HEARD BY RUBE
COMING TO THE ORPHEUM THEATRE
K0ADS CAMPAIGN. The Indiana Good Roads associa
tion says that the campaign for better roads in Indiana has only commenced and that the association pro
poses to bring ths people of the state to a full realization of the necessity
and value of good roads everywhere
Among the many benefits of improv
ed roads, the association notes the
following:
Good roads are ara absolute neces
sity to progress.
Much of the high cost of living is
traceable to the loss caused in haul
ing farm products to market.
Good roads help the farmer and
the merchant alike.
Good roads make the country a
pleasant and easy place to go to.
Good roads provide a way to transport the products of the farm, as well
as the products of the store and factory, from where they are plenty to
where they are scarce.
Good roads is a question of civili
zation.
J0HNDEE AND GASOLINE. Cogitate over the fact that gasoline has gone up two cents a gallon and then read this associated press dispatch from New York: "Stock of the Standard OH company of Kentucky sold here today at $100 a share, a rise of 450 points over yesterday's low price. A few days ago this stock sold at $320." Without a doubt John D. has a
finger in the pie. A few weeks ago
when the Standard of Indiana declar
ed a big dividend John D. got his
$7,000,000. At the time the Infer
ence was that John being grateful
would reward Whiting with a sani
tary driklng fountain.
Then came mmors that the winter
having been a hard one John felt that
he could not afford It this season
Coal bus been high, etc. However here is a ray of hope. One more Whiting is to be envied. No one
wishes more than we do that the hot torn doesn't fall out of this hope.
GREAT MEN IN GROUPS.
Washington Jefferson and Patrick
Henry lived within a few miles of
each other in Virginia.
Elbert Hubbard has beautifully
told the early relations of Oliver Dit on, Patrick Healy and Oliver Optic
From the autocrat of breakfast ta
bie we learn of the mutual admiration society of Shakespeare, Ben Johnson
ind Beaumont and Fletcher; of the
ipectator Group of which Ad
lison and Steele were the center; of
the cordial relations of Vemlanek
Jrjant and Sands; and of that large
HARD TO KEEP UP. Just as we thought. The inevit
able has happened. Read this:
"With Easter only a little more than a woek distant. New York tailors and dressmakers' unions are preparing to declare a strike at a time when every fashionable woman will feel it most keenly.
There's never an Easter any more
without a tailors' and dressmakers
strike, a hot summer without an Ice
men's strike ,nor a May moving day
without the moving van men's strike
Festive occasions now days without
strikes would make life a mere ribbon of sordid monotony.
THE gladdest message that the
cities of Hammond, Wrhltlng, Indiana
Harbor and East Chicago can possib
ly hear is that the war department
can't see anything but a harbor for
the Calumet region.
NOTHING wth a great deal of in
terest that Miss Eleanor Sears has denned riding breeches in California.
We wonder what she will spring for
Easter?
ANOTHER great peril confronts us. There is a shortage of white hose for the June bride crop. Well girls wear half sox and be done with it.
UP to the hour of going to the press-room for the first copy nobody from Laporte has claimed to be the author of the "houn dawg" song.
THIS is th time of the year that the rabbit begins to lay Easter eggs. POOR old Teddy! NEW way to get rich: Start a blind pig and then when you're convicted have.
Mayor Knotts give you an Immunity bath or have Governor Marshall writ out a pardon.
B. S. C. WE don't know whether
you could pull oft a bank robbery with
the same good results, but don't over- I
work the getaway racket. I
a ihjjsakt subscriber writes to ask! whether it feels any different to sleep I in a nighty that has one's Initials embroidered on it. EVEN if you don't liko him you got to hand it to Senator Lorimer for being a good scrapper. A GIRL, looks pretty in a dancing frock at a ball, but if you were her papa you would scratch your head a couple of times when the bills roll in at the end of the month. THEN again Roosevelt could rent some nearby hall and hold a national convention of his own in Chicago next June. EVANSVILLE COURIER speaks of a man being arrested for hitting his wife in the west side and it laments the good old days when courts dared not interfere even when a man hit his wife In the southwest peninsula, OUR idea of an ideal courtship: "Dr.
Holmes says that after meeting his future wife on the steamer they corresponded once a month for about two years during which both grew fond of each other." News dispatch. HENNERY COLDBOTTLE is now engaged in studying the deep problem as to who is who will mind the baby when wlfy goes to the polls.
AS it is now it looks as if the Turks have managed to get on the good side of the war correspondents, seeing that
the dispatches have 3,f00 Italians kill ed In a single battle In Tripoli.
A GARY furniture dealer says he has 100 go-carts on hand. Either he. has an advance tip or else he has made a
bad mistake!
THE witty New York Sun now refers
o T. R. as the spoiled child of good
fortune.
DOCTORS now say that skunk odor
is iieauny. Tnis is probably so, as such of us who have been living
around the glucose factory and the
Globe station smellery have very little
need of doctors or Peruna these days,
I r might have been worse " Some
of the republican candidates.
SUCH of us who are not thinking
about buying an automobile are at
east entertaining the hope being able
to afford 6 cents' worth of green onions
once a day after May 1.
thk inevitable once more: Regular
s. N. bath.
ARE YOU A MEMBER?
Everybody who owns stock in the
city of Hammond ought to be a mem
ber of the new Hammond commercial club for this organization, acting In
conjunction with the city officials, is
the board of directors of the city of
Hammond.
This board of directors usurps its authority, it ia true, but It holds it by that right which comes with the assumption of certain responsibili
ties. It enforces its mandates by the
big stick public opinion.
Who are the people who own stock
in the city of Hammond? They are the people who own a plot of ground
with a cottage on it, no matter how
completely that property may be
mortgaged ;they are the people who are conducting the 75 grocery stores,
the 20 meat shops, the 100 saloons the 10 or 15 barbershops in commer
cial Hammond, they are the real es
tate dealers, the bankers, the manu
facturers, the doctors, the lawyers, the contractors, the carpenters and the other artisans.
In-short everybody who has an In
terest In Hammond that can be measured by dollars and cents is a stockholder in the city of Hammond.
He may have only one share of Ham
mond stock or he may have a million.
And whether his holdings be large
or small he has a right to be heard.
He has a right to representation on the board of directors. He may assert that right or he may let it go by default.
The organization of a commercial
club will crystalize public opinion according to the judgment, not of the
few, but of the many. The greater the membership the more nearly will the club's view be representative of the whole city; the composite view of
the city.
So when this new organization is formed and takes up the grefit problems of city building which confront
Hammond and solves them according
to the wisdom of the best minds; the
stockholder of Hammond, Inc. who
does not have a voice In the direc torate has only himself to blame.
"MARY Garden has come out for the colonel," says an exchange. Well the last time we saw Mary, she was almost out then of her clothes.
WE trust that our friend Thoa. Bauer will not feel so badly about It
that he will want to head any ex
peditions to the South Pole.
THE morality and decency of the world rests on the shoulders of the
young men of today but many of
them refuse to admit it.
BABIES of candidates for offices
on the county ticket will have an ex
cellent opportunity to see what
father looks like tonight.
WE move to appoint a commission
to find out whether , the Gary & Southern is really after the business
or doesn't it care for any.
SEVERAL of our well known crooks and bad men are decidedly
against the third term they are serv
ing in the penitentiary.
jujjtiti nas decided tnat a man
and wife need not reveal their past
lives to each other. Lordy jedge who
said we had to?
SEEMS to be yet a matter of
doubt whether we should pick out the spring oxfords or another pair of
snow shoes.
WASHINGTON man got appendi
citis from dancing the turkey trot.
Guess that will make it popular with
out a doubt.
KANSAS philosopher says that
nothing will make a girl more anxl
ous for a career than a stack of dirty
dishes.
SECTION TEN. Section ten of Gary has figured in the courts these six years that Gary has been existing and the ruling of the Indiana supreme court upholding the title of the steel trust and other owners of land is one of the mo3t Important realty decisions ever made
HOUSTON Post grins and says that T. R. stands for Tommy Rot which
is an absolutely unkind cut.
THERE are' still men who think
that a bungalow is something to eat
or drink
E strongly advise against the putting away of the two extra
blankets.
tion was received principally at the
University of Toronto. For nearly I
twenty-five years, beginning In 1872.1
he was a member of the Ontario legislative assembly, and during much of that period he was the leader of the Opposition. In 1904 he was appointed to his present position on the bench. Recently Sir William was Intrusted by
the Government with the Important
task of drafting a worklngman'c compensation bill for consideration by the Ontario legislature.
Congratulations to: Andrew Lang, eminent English
poet and critic. 68 years old today.
Claude A. Swanson, United States
senator from Virginia, 50 years old today.
John Hays Hammond, noted mining
expert and capitalist. 7 years old today.
George P. Graham, former member
of the Dominion cabinet, 63 years old
today.
Pasquale Amato, the celebrated Ital
ian baritone, 34 years old today.
The Day in HISTORY
"THIS DATE I7f HISTORT March 30.
1282 Massacre of Sicilian Vespers at
I'alermo.
697 Hannah Dustin, of Haverhill,
Mass., killed her' 12 Indian guards
ana escaped.
ie jonn Sevier inaugurated first
governor of Tennessee.
1837 John Constable, noted landscape
painter, died. Born June 11. 1776
!83 Br Charles Metcalfe annolnte.l
governor of Canada.
1870 Congress readmitted Texas int
the Union.
1S03 Statue of William E. Gll.nn
erected in Westminster Abbey. "THIS IS MY 72.ND BIRTHDAY" Charles Booth.
Rt Hon. Charles Booth, an English
man of wealth who has made a special
study of problems affecting capital and
labor, was born in Liverpool, March
tfu, 1840. For tufty years he has been
a partner in one of the great mercan
me ana steamshio coitimniM tnr
which Liverpool is famous. At the
same time he has devoted much of hi
attention to the solution of problem relating to the public welfare, and ha
written extensively on pauperism an
the condition of . the working peoDle
old age pensions, and kindred subjects. Mr. Booth was appointed to the Privy
uouncll in 1904. He Is a Fellow of the
Royal Society and has received
honorary degrees from Oxford. Cambridge and Liverpool universities.
Congratulations to: De Wolf Hoper, for many years a
star in comic opera, 54 years old today.
rrederick W. Hamilton, president of
Tufte College, 52 years old today.
Hon. Peter Talbot, member of the
Senate of Canada, 58 years old today.
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Scene from "The Flower of the Ranch ' at Orpheum Theater, Starting Monday.
Up and Down in INDIANA
"THIS DATE IX HISTORY" March 31.
1816 Francis Asbury, pioneer Method
ist bishop in , America,
Spottsylvania. Va. Born in Eng
land, Aug. 20, 1745.
1S31 First postoffice In Chicago es
tablished in a log-store.
1850 John C. Calhoun, statesman, died
in Washington, D. C. Born In Ab-r beville, S. C, March 18, 1782.
1S55 Charlotte Bronte, author of
"Jane Eyre," de B.dlron "Jane Eyre," died. Born April 21. 1816. 1S63 Beginning of the three days' sanguinary conflict between the Union and Confederate armies near Petersburg, Va.. 1867 Lindell Hotel, St. Louis, destroyed by fire. 1S11 James A. O'Gorman elected United States senator from New Tork. -THIS IS Sv 73-"D BIRTHDAY" Mr . W illiam Meredith.
Sir Willi-m Ralph Meredith. Chief
Justice of Ontario, was born in Lon
don, Ont., March 31. 1840. His educa-
IIOINDS TRAIL MAN TO ROOF,
Climbing to the roof of his home and
making a pretense of making necessary repairs. William Sparks sought to
evade bloodhounds. A robbery of a saloon near Or a. Ind., waa made and the
hounds of Sheriff "Tilden. of Laporte
were called. Striking the trail after it
was eighteen hours old, the hounds led
the deputies to the home of Sparks,
two miles away. Realizing that denial
would be ineffectual. Sparks surrend
ered and confessed.
BICKSELL TO HAVE SALOOXS
In local option elections held Thurs
day the city of Bicknell voted "wet
by 220 and the township of Vigo outside of Bicknell and including the in
corporated town of Sandborn and the
towns of Edwardsport and Westphalia
voted "dry" by 1!)2. In Bicknell a largo
vote was polled. The vote follows
Bicknell, "dry," 385; "wet," 605. Vigo Township, "dry," 386; "wet," 194. This will give Bicknell four saloons to be
picked from a field of twelve appll
cants who have advertised for license.
MARRIES HER FATHER-IJf-TuAW
Mrs. Hazel Phipps, of Columbus, 17
years old, widow of Frank Phipps, who died suddenly two months ago, was
married last night to her father-in
law, John Phipps, 65 years old. The
Rev. John Stltt performed the cere
money. This Is the third matrimonial
venture of Phipps. COJiFKSSES FL.IM FLAM ACT.
That one of the two men caught
working the short change racket a
Shelbyvllle Monday night had a police
record at Terro Haute was revealed
yesterday. He had given his name at
Charles Jones and his home as Marlon
Wednesday he refused to testify be
fore the grand jury, but he and his
companion, Samuel Wildly of Ander son. were Indicted for petit larcenv
Information from the Terre .Haute
chief of police shows he Is Maynard
Williams, wanted in that city as a Jail breaker. He escaped Jail Jan. 2, while serving a sentence of sixty days, following conviction for . working the short change trick there. He now admits his identity and will likely be indicted for grand larceny. BER SHORTAGE THEATEXED. As a result of the strike of 103 employes of the South Bend breweries,! which went into effect Thursday, the number of saloons in South Bend will be greatly reduced. According to Joseph Obergfell of Indianapolis, state nrnnlior for the National Order' of
This Week's News Forecast
Washington, D. C, March 30. The Wisconsin primary election Tuesday
is expected to furnish the leading subject for political discussion of the week. Delegates to the national conventions of both parties will be elected in the
primaries, under the new Wisconsin law. The best impartial Judges of the
situation In the Badger state concede that La Follette will .carry the majority
of the state delegation, with delegates reported In many rases lo favor
Roosevelt for second choice. The state Is strongly progressive. The Tatt
men are active, but their hope apparently Is not to get a majority of the dele
gation, but to prevent La Follette from having a unanimous vote from the state.
On the democratic side, Wisconsin seems to present about the same sit
uation as Oregon and Nebraska, all being primary election states with three tickets In the field. Harmon is supposed to be stronger in Wisconsin than in
the other two states and, backed by the solid conservative vote, it Is thought
possible the Ohio governor may wln.orer Wilson and Clark, who will have
to divide the "radical" vote between them.
Democratic primaries will be held in Alabama Monday for the selection
of delegates to the Baltimore convention. The voters will express their
preference for president in the primaries, but the delegates will be named later In the state convention. There Is no doubt but Alabama will gl-e a decided vote for Oscar D. Underwood, and the delegates will be positively instructed to vote for the southerner first, last and all the time. At the same primaries candidates for congress will be named, also minor state officers
to be voted for next fall.
The tours of the presidential aspirants will be watched with interest.
Col. Roosevelt lsi to be heard In several cities in the middle west, while Sena
tor La Follette plans to invade New England. The reception of tie Wisconsin
senator in New England will afford an opportunity for an Interesting comparison, as both Taft and Roosevelt recently visited that section.
Champ Clark has accepted an invitation to speak at a democratic ban
quet in Louisville Saturday night, while William J. Bryan and other party leaders will be heard at a similar gathering in Des Moines.
Also of political interest will be the local option elections In Illinois and
Michigan, the municipal election in Milwaukee, where ,. the ...socialists ar,e
fighting for a continuance of power; the aldermanic elections In Chicago, and the republican district conventions In Maine, Missouri, Iowa and several other states. ,
Some important decisions are expected to be handed down by the supreme
week's recess.
Political New Tork Is awaiting with much Interest the trial of former
City Chamberlain Charles H. Hyde, which is scheduled to begin Monday. Hyde
was indicted for alleged bribery In connection with the financing of the Car
negie Trust company and the Joseph G. Robin banks. He will be the fourth
of a coterie of prominent politicians, bankers and promoters to be tried on charges growing out of the failure of these institutions.
A large number of officers, directors and employes of the National Cash
Register company of Dayton, O., have been ordered to appear in the United States court at Cincinnati Tuesday to plead to the indictments charging
them with conspiracy to obstruct and monopolize the cash register business, in
violation of the criminal provisions of the Sherman anti-trust law.
The launching of the torpedo-boat destroyer Henley, which is to take place at the Fore Rivers yards on Wednesday, will be of considerable importance in naval circles because of the fact that this ship will be the first, of the destroyers to be fitted with both turbine and reciprocating engines. Other events of the week will include the celebration of the Jewish feast of the Passover, the annual convention of the American Cotton Manufacturers' association in Washington, the situation with regards to the coal strike, the annual conference for education in the south, at Nashville, 'and the observance of the semi-centennial anniversary of the battle of Shlloh
and the death of the confederate leader. Albert Sidney Johnston.
Coming To The Hammond Theatre
died In! Brewery Workmen, many of the. sa
loons, especially those using South
Bend beer, are being operated in violation of the Proctor liquor law and It Is these places that will probably be clos
ed. - Pickets have been stationed near
each brewery to see that non-union
men are not taken into the employ of the breweries. Police are also on duty
to see that no damage is done tho plants. The refusal of a wage demand
caused the strike.
THAIV VICTIM INTOXICATED. In returning lis verdict on the killing of Chester West, the 19-year-old son of Milton West, whose mangled remains were found on the Vandalia railroad tracks a mile west of Clayton last Saturday morning. - Coroner Allred finds that the young man was intoxicated and that he was in the company of a man 40. years old who had obtained the liquor for him. He
recommends grand'-Jury investigation.
The tragedy has aroused much indignation in southern Hendricks County
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Scene from "The Lion and The Mouse" coming to Hammond on Sunday and recognized as one of the most powerful and most interesting plays ever staged. Manager Kingwill speaks well of the advance sale but advises patrons to buy their seats early and avoid the rusk.