Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 181, Hammond, Lake County, 2 January 1913 — Page 1
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Newcastle, Ind., J an. 2. Frank Dare of New Lisbon, foreman of the jury in the federal court at Indianapolis, that convicted the thirty-eight defendants in the dynamite conspiracy trial, yesterday received an anonymous communication threatening his life. The letter was not signed and was mailed from Chicago.- It read as follows: "Frank Dare, New Lisbon, Ind.: Sir This is to inform you that you will be planted under the sod within the next three months." Mr. Dare placed the letter in the hands of H. H. Evans, prosecuting attorney Tomorrow he and Evans will go to Indianapolis and will place the matter before the federal authorities. "
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NEW YEAH FETE
Hammond Function On 1913 Eve Is Marked Success
Two hundred society folk ot Hammond, Gary and Whiting celebrated the advent of the New Year at the Hammond Country Club at what was admitted to be the most unique and elaborate social function ever given in the county. Good fellowship and bohemianlsm reigned from nine o'clock until the roosters crowed on New Tear's morning and 1913 admitted that he was well pleased with his welcome - but was somewhat sleepy. ' . . X Delightful Affair. Though formal In its physical aspect, the celebration was delightfully informal and those responsible for the celebration were unable to account for a single moment In which merriment did not reign supreme. As a big gong struck twelve on New Tear's Ere In the main banquettlng hall of the Hammond Country Club characters representing Old Father Tim armed with his scythe lead on to .the t. --Hsty rhd srlde yMith j la the guise of " the new "born' 1917 and Jftjoyous and noisy welcome the, latter received rent his ears. Every gueet at the dinner had been provided with some sort of a noise-producing Instrument from fishermen's horns to watchmen's rattles and as a scroll was dropped bearing the legend "A Happy New Year" the din was as deafening as it waa varied. Parade The Club House. Following the welcome an Impromptu procession of all the guests wound its way over the entire club and New Year's welcome greetings were exchanged before the diners found their, way to their tables again where a number of rnembers had table reservations for parties of twelve guests. Among those who had table reservations were: Table 1, E. P. Demlng and party of 5; table 2, Messrs. A. Hirsch, C. Kaufman and party of 8; table 3, Messrs. R. Mott and party of 8; table 4. X Cox and party of 8; table 5, George Locklin. and party of 8; table 6, J. F. Sawyer and party of 14; table 7. Messrs. A. M. Turner and H. E. Sharrer and party of 12; table 8, W. B. Conkey and party of 15; table 9, George Han nauer and party of 9; table 10, Messrs. Win. Crawford and Allen Graham and party of 4: table 11. T. E. Bell and partyof 4; table 12. Messrs. E. F. Johnston and W. P. Ray and party of 9; DEPOSED RECTOR TO SAIL FOR ENGLAND i t Dr. Alfred Garnett Mortimer. deposed as a priest and denounced by the dignitaries of his church. Rev. Dr. Alfred O. Mortimer of Philadelphia, who until a few days ago was regarded as one of the most prominent Episcopal ministers of the east. Intends shortly to sail for England. Further than that bis plana are unknown. Dr. Mortimer's name was linked with that of a woman in gossip. He was investigated by church authorities and his unfrocking- followed.
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A table 13, Messrs. C. E. Kingwill and C. E. Bauer and party of 8; table 14. Otto Knoerzer and party of 6; table 15. Messrs. Scott and Smith and party of 6; table 16, Victor Dyer and party of 5; table 17, Karl Griffin and party of 4; table 18, Harvey Gostlin and party of 4; table 19, Harry Taylor and party of 4; table 20, George Chapin and party of 8; tatle 21, J. E. McGarry and party of 4. No Expense Spared. The entertainment and house committee had spared neither pains nor expense to make the celebration a success. , They had promised great things and gave more, than they promised. The decorations were varied and elaborate.' "Holiday greens and wreaths j were festooned from the ceiling to corners In both grillroom and main hall. Gorgeous electric center-piece illuminations were provided - for each table. Varl-colored caps were furnish ed each dinner guest, and made a scene Qf...onuiual animation,. the -olorJ scnente Tho . ttwjles were,, arrrnged I around the. two blgt rooms in aisles; leaving-the center space for the danc-! ers. Across the middle of the space a stage was built for the cabaret per-1 formers and over these in the balcony the stringed orchestra gave a continuous program. Extenftlve Dinner Program. The dinner program was proceeded by a reception and program of ten dances after the ladles had been taken on a tour of inspection in the club's famous stein room where an impromptu musical program was given by different guests. Covers were laid for nearly two hundred guests and seven courses were served, the first at eleven o'clock. The menu was: Canape Caviar. Olives. Salted Nuts. Ceiery. Claret Punch. Clear Consomme. Lobster-a-la-Newbirg. Potato Chips. Philadelphia Squab. String Beans. French Peas. Head Lettuce Salad. Roquefort Cheese Dressing.Ice Cream. Cake. Coffee. Inter-Course Celebration. During the courses, the cabaret en tertainers gave a lehgthy program of popular vocal and Instrumental selections, solos, duets and trios with piano, banjo and piccolo accompaniment. These had been proceeded with- Scotch bag pipes and Scotch dancing. Be tween courses, .the . choruses of the reigning popular songs were sung by the diners. A program of dances was also enjoyed between the tables -during the progress of the dinner. Hand some printed covered menus contain ing the songs to be sung and blank pages for the autograph signatures of the guests were distributed. The dinner and entertainment was a brilliant success from start to finish and the fun was never allowed to lag a mo ment. A number of extempore stunts were given y guests wnicn were warmly applauded. j Credit Waa Given. j Much credit for the event was given to Mr. W. B. Conkey chairman of the house committee and Dr., H. E. Sharrer of the entertainment committee (who acted as master of ceremonies in his happiest vein. Before the singing of Auld Lang Syne President A. M. Turner publicly thanked the two for their labors as a reward. The Country Club established Its popularity as a social arbiter with the function and was complimented by the out of town guests among who were Messrs. and Mesdames tV. P. Gleason and John Kirk of Gary; Mayor and Mrs. Beaumont Tarks and Messrs. and Mesdames Fred Smith and F. N. Gavit of 'Whiting; "Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dyer of Indianapolis; Mr. and Mrs. C, E. Barry of Chicago and many others. ' . Geo." Hacker Laid to Rest. Funeral services of George Hacker, 149 Indiana avenue, were held from the family residence yesterday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock. The Rev. C.s J. Sharp of the Christian church officiated and interment was at Oak, Hill Cemetery. TOBACCO. UNIO SCOUT SCRAP Is handle now by all dealers. S4 os. for Be. Save yoor tickets ud we our prcmlaa list.
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Four Seriously Injured in Accident Near Lowell; Machine Turns Turtle After Crashing Into Smaller Vehicle. (Special to The Times.) Lowell, Ind., Jan. 2. Four persons were seriously injured, five miles south of here Saturday night, when an automobile owned and drfven by John Black, a prosperous farmer of Schneider, Ind., collided with a horse and buggy. After smashing the buggy to smithereens, the uncontrollable machine, turned turtle and plunged Into the ditch with its victims who suffered broken bones, severe bruises and internal injuries. The identity of the occupants of the buggy has not been learned. The injured are JIHN BLACK, Schneider, Ind., severely bruised about body and internally injured. Rendered unconscious and is in a serious condition this morning. REBECCA BLACK. Schneider, Ind., arm broken at elbow. Seriously injured. Severely bruised and hurt Internally. Taken to a Chicago hospital. ELIZABETH BLACK, Schneider. Ind.. suffering from severe bruises.; ' BELLE RICE, Momence, 111., bruised about arms and body." ' Owner Prosperous Farmer. John Black Is a well known . and prosperous farmer residing at Schneld- , Ind. With his two daughters Re becca and Elizabeth and a girl friend Miss Belle Rice of Momence, the auto(Contlnued on pagn S.) MORE 60 THE JEWELLS A Christmas stocking, worth $175,000, recently came to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jewell of Earl Park. Ind., formerly of Hammond, according to reports received by Hammond friends. The fortune was obtained through the breaking of a will, and is separate and distinct from another fortune, run ning into six figures, which was obtained last year in a similar manner. According to the news learned by Hammond friends, an aunt of Mrs. Jewell, worth a half million dollars, died. She had no direct heirs, and aside from leaving sums to her servants, gave the balance to institutions. Mrs. Jewell contested the will and a Jury In the Benton county circuit coufi at Fowler instated her In her rights to the extent of $175,000. The will " which Mrs. Jewell broke last year Involved an estate of near ly a million dollars and her award! was In the neighborhood of $350,000. The aunt whose will was successfully contested had designed her fortune to go to institutions for fallen women and their children. INSANITY BOARD FIND RACK INSANE Peter Rack, 162 Wabash avenue, Hammond, was adjudged insane before Judge Prest Tuesday afternoon by examining physicians Dr. Wels and Dr. Buchanon. The man had been violent, entertained various delusions, lived in filth, and had threatened to do bodily harm to his neighbors. Although having worked every day. Rack has terrorized the neighborhood for nearly a moYith and Monday evening was arrested, by the Hammond police, on a complaint made by Adam Kazlmlerskl. The complaining witntss testified that Rack came home from work Monday night and threatened his life. After being placed under arrest Rack became violent when placed in a cell and used his utmost strength to tear down the cell door and escape. MUST KEEP AWAY FROM DANCE HALLS Mrs. Edward Nerny of Gary, petitioner for divorce, was given Judgment by Judge Reiter in the superior court this morning, statutory grounds having been pleaded by her attorney, L. V. Cravens. She is given the custody of the children, toward whose support the father must pay $8 weekly. The mother, hewever, was given a reminder by the court that unless she stayed away from public dance halls her children would be taken from Jxer. ;
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Pictures show Invention and how It works. ; The pictures show a series of experiments made by Baron Odkolok of Paris with hla new aeroplane parachute. The contrivance weighs only twelve pounds and consists of a parachute attached to a( small cannon. A string from the cannon Is attached to the aviator. In the moment Sf danger the aviator arises and the , cannon goes off. throwing the parachute and the aviator free of the machine. The upper picture" shows the baron attaching a dummy to an aeroplane with his parachute attached. The lower p'-o to graph shows the dummy descending wl h. parachute r.fter tSoj run had gone oft. GREAT CAESAR! , ANOTHER XMAS IS COMING Those who thlak that the Chrlmtnuns holidays are done with for aaother year should panne, an more than . ear-fourth ot Lake eonnty'a population hasn't started torn celebrate ChriKtmaa at all. , V Jan. t n trl an, Cirri; Wrt SrTb BosaJaaa"?Idntear(tr1as; JtMngarT aas, Bulaariaait, Macedonian, etc., who belentr to the (ireek faith will obaerve their Christmas, DIES AS OLD YEAR TAKESJEPARTURE Civil War Veteran at Crown "Point Is Called byDeath. (Special to The Times.) Crown Point, Ind.. Jan. 2. Danlol Strong, an aged resident or this plaea and a civil war veteran died at hi3 home on North Street on Tuesday night after an invalidism of eight years, he being a terrible sufferer from rheumatism. Mr. Strong was nearly 80 years of age and was at one time a well known farmer in this region, but retired about 15 years ago. He leaves a wife and grown up children. The funeral arrangements have not been completed, at this time. BILL BACK FROM WOODS' WEDDING Hammond Man Acts as Cicerone for Bashful, Newlyweds. Will Hastings returned yesterday from Aledo. III., where he attended the Woods-McKinney wedding and assisted the newly-weds in the thousand and one terrifying little stunts that accompany a final getaway. Bill got his young charges to Chicago in tip-top fashion, steered them clear of the shoals and pitfalls that usually beset bashful brides and bridegrooms, and finally got the couple on the Twentieth century limited en route for New York. As a final proof of his interest in th Roscoe E. Woods' family, Mr. Hastings carefully tipped it off to a lingerie drummer Tor a big New York house that the newly-weds wanted "to get away with it" and the New York 1. d. promised to do what he could. Buried at Oak Hill. The funeral of Charles M. Dewey, 235 Indiana avenue, was held from Stewart's chapel this morning at 9 o'clock. The Rev .C. J. Sharp of the Christian church officiated and interment was at Oak Hill ecmefepy. An inquest was held over the remains yesterday and it was found that the sudden death 'was due to heart trouble. ' r
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Drunken Youths Fire 38 Caliber Guns from Rear of Flying 'Auto on New Year's Eve; Several Have Narrow Escapes. - Who were the members of the drunken auto gang that terrorized Hammond on New Year's eve by speeding over some of the principal streets firing bullets from revolvers through houses, in one case nearly inflicting death. The Hammond police had no report of the outrage and the autoists managed to keep off any cop's beat as they carried on their nefarious work. The p"" nesan iu near or tne snooting this morning and bent their efforts to learn the authors of the rough-neck work. The auto figuring in the escapade was a touring car containing four young men. The machine was seen on several2 streets shortly before midnight and the occupants who Were undoubtedly drunk, or crazy and perhaps both, were each armed with revolvers, which they fired indiscriminately. The weapons were not loaded with blanks either, but with 38-caliber' missiles. There were many people on the streets and it is a wonder none was hit. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Leslie, on Russell street, a bullet came crashing through the side of the house and was -deflected upward within a fev. inches of a bed where two of their children were sleeping. Plaster was scattered over the room und a hole in the side of the house snows plainly the course of the leaden missile. .Members of the family saw the machine go past and it was later seen on South llohman stret, where the revolvers were; used almost as indiscriminately. ... . A number "of. people who were aware of the facts are loud in tb-ir denunciation of such senseless and ilangcron ; celebration of a holiday and attribute i the cause of the escapade to liquor and I carelessness of the life and limb of citizens. It is to be regretted that the ! young men are not definitely known ; and the police yi!l do good work if i they land the miscreants in jail. THANK YOU," IS REWARD Stock Yards Employe Returns $2,900 to Owner. Lafayette, Ind,,. Jan. 2. Joseph Taylor, a wealthy Tippecanoe county farmer, yesterday lost a .pocketbook, containing $2,900 at the Lafayette stock yards and half an hour later Taylor missed the money it, was handed back to him by Marion Huffman, a workimV in the yards. Taylor said "thank you." The wallet was dropped in one of the stalls. ' ' .
Chicago Geographic Society Proposes School of Horticulture in Glacial Region
A movement has been started In Chicago for the preservation of sand dunes and geographic phenomena frequently seen in the great glacial region In northern Indiana between Chicago and Gary, and the movement now has linked with it the proposed establishment of a school of horticulture in that region. MOVEMENT IS SPREADING. Beginning first with members of the Chicago Geographic society, who have been much agitated by recent commercial encroachments In this territory so rich with material for the student, the movement has spread to many other Chicago Interests and these are begin ning a campaign of education through out Indiana to enlist aid In their work toward obtaining some official action preserving some large section of this territory In its present undisturbed natural state for educations! purposes. SOCIETY ADOPTS RESOIXTIONS. As an expression of the aim of this movement ine tmtK uv.5 clety recently adopted the following resolutions: "Whereas. Chicago and Its environs are rich In natural regions which lllusTRAIN Ml HELD UP AT POINT OF Brakeman Allows Thief to Steal Valuable When He Sees Weapon. n Tw Times.) .r-:.. uif Yrri : .mni - a holdup occurred on the milk train on Tuesday evening, the crime being consummated between Hart's farm and Schererville on the ranhandle tracks. The brakeman on the train had Just gotten off the rear end of the last coach to open a switch when he was accosted by the stockup man, who ordered him to throw up his hands and keep quit. The command was enforced at the point of a revolver. A watch and chain and some money were" taken from the railroad man and he was ordered to get on the train Just as it pulled out. the robber making a successful getaway before he could notify the train crew o f his loss. The authorities were notified and a search instituted for the thief, but without success. POOLROOM CRUSADE IS BEARING FRUIT Times Man Takes Stock of Reduced Number of Minor Frequenters. The poolroom crusade, which was started by Chief of Police Peter Austgen of Hammond some months ago, prohibiting minors to frequent such places of amusement, has already borne result" A careful investigation was made last week by a representative ot Tus Times and by the police, and it was found that a majority of the poolroom owners in Hammond are making an effort to keep boys out of their places. There are still two poolroooms in Hammond whose owners are paying but little attention to Chief Austgen's warning and unless they change tneu tactics in the near future they wsll be arrested and punished. One of these places in particular is tho hangout an! loafing place' 'f school boys, ranghig in affe from 14 to 1 years. .They are not only allowed to play pool as long as they have any money, but arc ptrriiitted to loiter around without any effort being made to causo th. m to leave the lace. Chief Austgen has allowed these two poolroom owners all thee-ope that he. i going to and unless conditions charge In the very near future warrants, will be sworn out for their-arrest. In a statement made ly 'Chief Austgen several weeks ago he said: "Poolrooms make loafers out of young men and idleness makes crooks, so. If I can do anything to change existing conditions I am going to do mo without feai or favor." Oh, What a Difference! v The new vear entered 'AVest Ham mond in a decent manner yesterday. I The police did not, find it necessary to ; make a single arrest on account of too ; much celebration. The event was a marked contrast as compared to 'former years, when the "underworld held high revelry in the red light district on State street. .
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adaptation of life to earth conditions, , which have been within the rech of all students until a very recent time, and , ',' "Whereas, the sand dunes along the south shore of Lake Michigan . which graphically illustrate the work of wind are in danger of becoming inaccessible, and, "WAJiT TO PROTECT THEM. "Whereas, the rock canons which are the records of running water on limestone, located in the neighborhood of Lemont and the Sag, have nearly all been put out of the reach of students, and, . - ."Whereas, the ravines along the north shore, which show processes of valley making in unconsolidated rock or clay, exhibit the work of waves along the coast and expose excellent examples of glacial drift, are beingwithdrawn from public use, and, "Whereas, Stony Island, a fold of rock rising twenty-five feet above the. surrounding plain, located at Ninetythird street and Jackson Park avenue, the remains of an old coral reef, the (Continued on page I.) RECEIVES GOLD STAR: FRIEDLEYJpiSED New Deputy Sheriff .Honored by Friends He'w 8 Year's Eve. Fred Friedley, ot Hammond," who .n- . . . .a ' w: .t , ..... u ! V icraay, is mspia jttns: Wi.rr uruxa. i idc. i gold star which waa presented him j at a auipnnc pun -nrnr in TU3 nonir on rse.w itars eve. - 4 The token of good will and esteem was given him by his friends - who gathered in the office of Attorney W. J. McAleer in the Hammond btiildiny for the ceremony, Atty. Vernon McGirr. officiating as master of ceremonies. ' Friedley had been summoned'. to the gathering under a pretense, which McGirr explained today "was innocent and without malice aforethought" and" was completely surprised when he learned that he was the principal for' the occasion. Attorney McGirr made a fitting presentation speech, and the recipient answered In a talk that would have done credit to a barrister. The star is Inscribed: "Fred A. Friedley, Deputy Sheriff." All the republicans in Lake county are agreed that Sheriff V'hitaker could not have appointed a more popular or deserving deputy. Mr. Friedley wil make his home In Crown Toint during the time he holds office. MAY BE THE NEXT ; ; .'FRENCH PRESIDENT Raymond Poincalre Premier Raymond Polncaire is a randidate for the presidency of Trance at the coming meeting of the French nationj.1 assembly at Versailles. otv January 17. The assembly Is composed of members ef the senate and cl.nmber 01 deputies, and will choose a successor to President Fal-lierejf
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