Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 1, Hammond, Lake County, 18 June 1912 — Page 8

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THE TIMES. Tuesday, June 18, 1912.

CHAS MAEF PRESIDENT OF BOARD

Defeats Thirteen Competi

tors Before Whiting City

Council for Position as

Executive Head in School

Matters. ; .

(Special to The Times.)

Whiting, Ind., June 18. The city council held its regular meeting hero last night nd. among the important

matters which were -transacted was the eleetins: of a new member of the

board of education. Never before in

the history of a council meeting has there been such a contest for the office

President of . the IJoard of Education as there were a total of . fourteen

names submitted to' be voted upon.

The main fight rtsulted in " a close

contest between the out-going presl

dent. Charles Klose, who held, the

office for two terms and Charles Maef

of Sheridan avenue the newly., elected

head. The last vote cast, stood a tie

36 and 36 and by Mayor Parks' vote it threw the three year term to Charles

Maef.

Mr. Maef is well known in this city, being a labor foreman at the Standard Oil Company and of which position he has held efficiently for a number of years. He Is also well versed In the methods of education and his many friends are looking for him to be very

successful In his new office.

HOW THE REPUBLICAN BATTLE GROUND LOOKED THIS MORNING.

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CITY LIBRARY BUILDINGS

Work -was begun yesterday on the East Chicago Library building, and to-1 day will probably witness the commencement of operations on the Har

bor library at 136th and , Grapevine streets. August Johnson is the contractor and yesterday set a number of teams at work grading and excavating on the site of the East Chicago library. It is expected that the masonry construction will be begun about next week, as the material has all been ordered. It is the intention to prosecute the work on both buildings with equal vigor, so

that they will be completed as nearly

Tfl Fl FP.T 1ST ANNUAL I U LLLU I i mini innn

terests. both democratic and republicans, are supporting the "Ridge road candidate In hVa race tor the city council seat.

AIDEIAI THURSDAY

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BY STUDENTS

The city council of Gary last night took official cognizance of the vacancy existing Jn former -Aldwrmad "Battle

Axe" Castleman's seat and

that a special meeting of the council be held on Thursday night of this week to name his successor. Eight o'clock is Ihe hour set for the meeting. County-wide interest is centered in the election. - Although In the city hall last night the 'Battle Axe" did not venture into tl-e council meeting, . to close friends he imparted the information that ha would soon be wearing an aldermanic title despite the court ouster that stands against him. Annual IMcnic for Voters. Col. Tim Englehart was also at the meeting, and he, too, said that he would soon have to be addressed as Alderman Englehart. It is understood that if elected alderman Englehart will

give an annual picnic or excursion to his constituents, and that it will rival anything that a Tammy alderman ever gave. There are eight votes in the council and of this number four are said to be lined up for Englehart and four for Castleman. This will permit Mayor Knotts to cast the deciding ballot, and if predictions are anything,. he will cast it for Castleman. However, should Englehart line up one more aldermanic vote the Job will be his. Business ln-

"The Lotus," the flst high school annual ever Issued In the Twin Cities, has been delivered, fresh from the hands of the publishers. It' is issued

by the senior class of the East Chicago high school and is v a volume which reflects credit upon the editors and the school. The book contains .something over a hundred pages and

directed i ls bound in maroon " and white, pre

senting an appearance of dignity and importance.

The staff of writers is as follows: Editor-in-chief Lester ' A. Ottenheimer. Assistant editor-in-chief Alta B.

take that was made appears to have been in the number of copies printed, '

the demand far outnumbering the sup ply.

J. Hi. CALL TO REMAIN GARY'S P. HL

Specter.

Assistant editors Literary, Edith

Berglund, Will Collins, Ralph Canine; athletics. Earl Bunting; jokes, Tom O'Connor; diary, Gwendolyn Williams, Ruth Jernberg; business manager. Will Gardner; artist. Jack Johnstone. The frontispiece is a picture of the high school ,and the volume is dedl-

John W. Call, postmaster at Gary

for the past four years, yesterday afternoon received advices from Washington stating that President Taft had re-appointed him as postmaster for a four-year term. The job now pays $3,000 a year. When Mr. Call took office in 1908 the job paid $1,400 a year. Mr. Call is a veteran of the civil war and was formerly city Judge at Elwood. His son, Harry Call, is a member of the Gary law firm of Greenlee & Call.

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as possible at the same time. Oct. 1 is

set as the time for the buildings to be ready for occupancy. Originally the contract called for their comple

tion Sept. 1 but the time was extended a month as Sept. 1 would scarcely hare allowed sufficient time for a thorough Job. The Boston Library Bureau, a concern which deals almost exclusively In equipment and the fitting up of libraries, has the contract for the Interior furnishing which includes tha book stacks, tables and all the paraphernalia incident to the furnishing of a thoroughly equipped and up to dat , library.

of a coat In which was a pocketbook containing considerable money.

The man was arrested In Chicago a

few days ago and held at the Des Platnes street station. The Chicago

police and the police of this city got together and discovered in the prisoner the man who had robbed Lonstiskl.

The prisoner will be given a preliminary hearing In , the city court today.

BEGINS SINKING

FUND TO RETIRE GARY BONDS City Comptroller Melton of Gary will invest city sinking funds, provided to

retire bond issues, into securities ranging from government bonds to state, county, city and local improvement boo'l Heretofore the money has been drawing a ' low rate of Interest from the banks, but under the new rule Interest ranging from three to six per cent will be derived and if improvement bonds are purchased at 90 the. city will benefit all the more, but cars will be taken to see that none of the street contractors load their bonds upon the comptroller. Authorization to do this has been given the comptroller by the city courti cil, acting upon the recommendation of its finance committee.

lander, church at Highlands this after

noon at 1 o'clock. Interment will be

made at the Munster cemetery.

For a year Mr. Wlersma has not

been in the best of health, but during the last few weeks he was feeling somewhat better and was able to be up and around as was his custom, he took his morning exercise, and after returning home he passed away suddenly at 11 o'clock. Mr. Wlersma was 71 years old and was one of the most well-known farmers in the vicinity of Highlands. During late years he has been . unable to work on account of his old age.

COOKIES TEMPT BOYS: FACE REFORM SCHOOL

(Special to Thb TlME8. , Whiting, Ind. June 18. Three of

cated to H. H. Clark, the principal. AjWhiting's young delinquents were takgroup picture of the editors adorns en to Crown Point to appear a in the one of the first pages, and portraits of Juvenile Court, In an effort to learn Superintendent Canine and of the . what can be done with them. The

The Gary police intend to enforce the 1909 ordinance passed by the old

town board regulating the sale of fire arms and fire works in the city in connection with July Fourth celebrations. Chief Martin stated today that all dealers will be warned at once and that the sections of the ordinance must be strictly abided by. , Sale of fireworks ls prohibited upon the stret, sidewalks or alleys; the sale ls prohibited in any store where oils or varnishes are sold, where drygoods

are sold, in carpenter shops drug

stores and where the ilumination is other than y or electricity. Hospitals Are Protected. Sections of the ordinance also cover the discharge of firecrackers before Monday July 6. Every person is prohibited from discharging artillery, pistols containing real or blank cartridges, toy cannons, firecrackers more than 2 Inches long and M inch thick, loud detonating canes, placing caps upon traction or railway tracks, building bonfires in street, alley or vacant lot. And in no case may 1 there be noises of any kind within two blocks

FUGITIVE RETURNED TO EAST CHICAGO

Sergeant llke Gorman of the East Chicago police station went to Chicago yesterday to bring back Rodavlch Devorich, whom the police have sought since last March, when he robbed Vossa Lonstiskl, a saloonkeeper at Cedar street, between 137th and 138th streets.

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members of the board of education fol- bovi are Steve Purtvo. asre 14. Andv

lo wimmediately after. (Furtyo age 8, both sons of John Furtyo ' th Mercy, Gary General and United

A number of cartoons by the staff and Martin Beazina, age 12 years, artist add humor and interest to the I The three lads have been wayward

publication, which traits of the high

of the members of the class of 1912 and of the other classes at present in the high school. There are many meritorious articles and poems in the lighter vein, and altogether the annual s one of much merit in every respect. The only mis-

also contains por-jfor some time, having played truant

school faculty and. for a number of days at a time from

States hospitals.

TAKE A LIVELY INTEREST IN POLITICS AND WOULD LIKE TO CO TO BALTIMORE

school. Their latest adventure Is of robbing the grocery store of the Furtyo boys' uncle, Andrew Furtyo, on East 119th street. They gained entrance to the store through a hole in the floor and their plunder consisted mainly of good things to eat, such as cookies, canned ' sardines, salmon and everything which struck their fancy and which they could eat without being cooked. . Police Find Clew. ' Mr. Furtyo noticed upon entering the store that his stock looked pretty small and soon came to the conclusion that he had been robbed. He reported

the robbery to the police and Sergeant Collins went down -to investigate. It did not take long to get a clew,' for

they found.' all the missing articles stored under the building. It .then developed that the Intruders had enter-

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It was learned yesterday that the Inland Steel Company is preparing to place a new issue of bonds - on v the

market to provide for the retirement of -a prior lien of $3,000,000 S per cent

bonds maturing In 1928. The new

issue is to have a restriction providing

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ed the store several times, but as theyinai me nrst z,6uu,uuu soa may oe took an extra lot on the last occasion ! U8ed fo" new Improvements of- like the proprietor discovered his loss. cost, but additional bonds may be is-

It .is not yet .known -what will be 8uea oniy up to 80 per cent or tne cost

done with the lads but as they have oi improvements. The capital stocK or caused, the police -considerable trouble .the company has recently . been ,ln1t is thought thev will be sent to the 'creased to $10,000,000. Of that amount

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CODIFYING

GARY LAWS

Mr. Champ Clark and Mrs. James H. McDowell,

In a short while Indiana cities that want to .know what kind of ordinances

Gary has many send to the clerk a copy.- - By direction .of the council all ordinances are to be codified and $800

has been appropriated for this purpose. This money.-, will, be used to pay

one of the faithful for the codifying

an dthe rest will go towards the print lng of the book.

The need of a printed code of the city laws has been felt for a long time In the city court and in the police department. A printed code of building ordinances has been Issued for the past five years but it needs revision.

$1,000,000 will be used at

. IVIERSMA BURIED AT .MISTER TODAY

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Well Known Highland Man Died . Suddenly Last ; Saturday.

(Special to The Times.) Highlands, Ind.? June 18. After taking his usual morning walk and in the best of health that he has experienced in some months, Minne. Wlersma, one of . Highland's pioneer and respected citizens, died suddenly after returning to the home of his son at 11 o'clock Saturday morning, death resulting from heart failure. The funeral wag held from the Hoi-

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