Hammond Times, Volume 7, Number 209, Hammond, Lake County, 4 February 1913 — Page 1

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Messrs. Mayer and Drackert Again Take Holdings in the Hamjnond Pure Ice Company While GL M. Foland, Manager of Plant, Sells Stock in East Chicago Plant to President E. W . Wickey.

There have been some Important changes in the personnel and management of the Lake County Ice and Cold Storage Company. Some time ago E. W. "Wickey of that company took over the Hammond Pure Ice Company by purchasing the stock owned by Charles Mayer and George Drackert. It Is understood that the deal' Involved approximately $40,000. Subsequently Wickey defaulted In making the payments on the stock' and a number of suits were filed in the Lake Superior court by the attorneys for ; Mayer and Drackert. Matters dragged along until the first ; of the year when the Hammond Pure Ice Company was divorced from the Lake County Ice & Cold Storage Company and Mayer and Drackert took back their former holdings and will henceforth conduct the business under the former management. In the meantime there have been changes In the management of the Lake County Ice & Cold Storage Company. G. M. Poland, formerly the manager of ICE 111 HAVE HOPE OF HARVEST Ten-Inch Ice Is Reported From Lake County's Ice . Cutting Region. The present cold -snap has gives the 'lew man new lope . for a big : harvest. td another tno or three nights -will bilng the ice to the Ideal thinee of '"This cold snap Is really the llfe-eav-'er for the ice . men . hereabouts. Before it came no harvest was in sight, as' the Ice was' less than eight Inches thick, in some places even the water was sot frozen. The G. II. Hsmmond Co. has 200 men at work on Wolf Lake putting up ice. but has only begun its work. Unless these is abnormally soft weather during , the next week or two Manager Drury , expects to put up a sufficient supply w.thout difficulty. LOVING CUP FOR WILLIAM McCOMBS Wllliam F. McCombe, chairman of the Democratic national committee, is to be presented with a -large . loving cup by the members of the committee on Wednesday at Democratic national headquarters In New York. The cup is j twenty-four inches in height and mounted upon an ebony base, and valued at 91,500. It is suitably Inscribed aa a token of the appreciation of the associates of Mr. Mc Combo of his work in eormeetlon with the camplgn.Nat!oneJ Committeeman Norman E. Mack of Nw York will make the presentation peech. .. .. .. . . .

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the Hammond plant, sold his stock to E. W. Wickey. the president of the company. Charles Mayer confirmed the story that the Hammond Pure Ice Company had been separated from the Lake County Ice & Cold Storage Company. He said that Wickey had been unable to meet his obligations. He said that the company Wickey headed that had not madp any mone and had -gone further into debt. - .i:

Mayer says that the Hammond company is incorporated for $100,000 and has properties worth at least $80,000. ie says mat the company now has plans on foot for the purchase of new equipment and that it will be in a po sition to serve the people of this com munlty more satisfactorily than ever this year. . - Especially In view of the prospect of a failure of the ice crop that is usually harvested by the Knickerbocker Ice Company in this region. The plant of the Hammond Pure Ice Company is located along the Monon tracks Just south or irayette street.(Special to Thb Times.) Crown Point, , Int, Feb. 4. The work on the new county i-flnnary is being held up on account of the failure; Decembei1 and make these appropriations. The secretary of the state board of health ordered certain brick walls plastered and painted and . the councllmen made the board of commmlssioners a promise that they would meet and ap propriate the money. This they have failed to. do. The board of commissioners today heard the remonstrance by Father Benedict of Whiting and others against Frank Murin of Whiting. They urged that he be denied a saloon license be cause he frequently had women in his place and was disorderly. The board members granted the license, but enJoined Murin to be good in the future and conduct an orderly place. Richard Schaaf was the high priest who de livered the sermon. Three gravel road matters, including the Scheldt road", are to come up to morrow. The board will also taka ur the matter of letting the contract for the construction of four bridges. These are Hohman street and the Little Calu met river, . Forsythe avenue and the Indiana Harbor canal, Ridge road and the Hart's ditch, Schneider and the Kankakee river.. The One Hundred and Fiftv-Arst street and One Hundred and Forty-first street bridge contracts cannot be let until the county councllmen make an appropriation. Considerable criticism is being heard of the delay of the contractors who are working on the Chicago avenue ' bridge. It is, understood that the man ; who was awarded the contract made it with the intention of askfaig for extensions of time. The others bid with the expectation of living cp to their contracts. ' LATEST FROM THE LEGISLATURE' TIMES BUREAU, AT STATE CAPITAL. Indianapolis, Ind., Feb. Fleming introduced bill 4. Senator to re-enact -.r.i.L w, ut cc ,aw, raise cost of feeding prisoners from forty to sixty i o. t -i i , . cents a day. Senator Curtis introduced bill to empower- trustees state institutions to Contract for land for ush of such institutions. Keegan introduced bill making crime of any false advertisement or statement as to reduced price of any article In stores or else where or any false representation as to quality or quantity for purpose of misleading public. This would affect bargain sale advertisements. McCormick official loan shark bill reported for passage in senate. Also Yarllng bill to appoint commission to study good roads question two years an dreport to next session. Carter introduced . Hammond track elevation bill.. Van Home Introduced bill to allow members of county council five dollars a day for attending special sessions. Keegan dope bill under discussion in house. Shlvely public utilities bill advanced to third reading In senate. Square Deal Automobile Co., 160 Fayette st., Hammond. Lake county representative, of ; Premier, ,Moline j and Studebaker cars and . Service tracks. H. C Friederiche also buys and sells second hand cara Phone 151. Adv.1-3

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The assessors of the tenth district. Including the counties of Lake, Newton, Jasper,, Porter and Stack,' will meet , in Hammond on Feb. 12 for their annual meeting. The state board of tax commissioners will meet with them and the session is expected to develop some matters of great 'interest. Lake county now has a . valuation of $65,000,000 and - is the second county in the state in this re spect. Marlon county . is first with a valuation of $250,000,000. Assessor B. E. Escher of Hammond will take advantage of this meeting to point out that the inelasticity of the cities and towns law makes it impossl ble' for the county assessor to equip his office as he should. , Escher would have a set of plats made showing every block in the city and. every improvement on every lot in each block. In this way he would be able to show one man Just how his assessment compares with that of his neighbor. The meeting will be held in the G. A. R. room in the ' court house and It is expected that it will be attended by nearly a hundred county and township assessors. COUPLE DEFIES E LAW Theatrical Agent and Act ress Wed Within Year ; After Decree. Crown ' Point, Ind., Feb. , 4. Despite the stringent, laws regarding the re marrying of divorced coupleejn Illinois granting of the decree, Paul Goudron, booking agent, for. the Sullivan & Con sidine circuit, and Anita Connors, star of the Hagenebck-Wallace circus, were married in Crown Point on Saurday Miss Connors secured a divorce in Chicago Saturday morning at 11 o'clock The decree was obtained on statutory grounds. She talked the . matter : over with Goudron, a lifelong friend. The latter also is divorced for several months. "Marry me," begged the theatrical agen looking at his watch. "We've got half an hour to catch a train." They left Chicago at 11:45 o'clock and were married a short time later by a Justice of the peace here. AMAZING INCREASE AT -HADHOnp P. 0. From Month to Month Business Grows by Leaps ; and Bounds. While the F. S. Beta Co. of Hammond formerly sent out Ave and six sacks ot Packages a day through the Hammond Postfflc he is uow availing i himself of the parcels post and .is sending out 20 to 24 sacks, a day. It is a well known fact that the F. S. Bets Co. conducts a mail order busi ness in doctors' and dentists' supplies. This gives an idea of the manner in which the mail order business has prof ited by the new plan. jrtffSrr ners, but the popularity of the parcel post is proven by the way it is being utilized by the general public as well as the shippers of small packages. The receipts of the Hammond postoffice show a splenJ1(i increase. In , the month. of January. 1912. the receipts of the office were $10,537.92, and In the same month this year they were $14,931.44, or an increase of over 45 per cent. Complain of Conley. Complaining that John Roberts and Donald Hunt of Hammond stole his pocket book containing a sum of $55. Edward Conley, swore out a warrant for their arrest in Judge Prest's court yesterday afternoon on a charge of petit larceny. The arrests were made by Constable Phelps , and unable to furnish bonds Hunt and Roberts were held at the Hammond, central station over night. Their cases will be heard before Judge Prest some time today. J. Trost Still 111. News from the bedside of James Trost. 327 Indiana avenue, where he has been confined for the past two weeks with. a severe attack of rheumatism. Is not very encouraging this afternoon and it la doubtful whether he will be able to be up and around for several weeks yet.' ' ARK YOU A TIMES RKAOERT

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London la agog over the beauty and Tankee strenuousness of Miss Relet Gaudy, the charming Chicago girl who spent a part of the season at the British metropolis- Miss Gaudy has Just left London for Switzerland far the winter sports. Later she will go with her mother t the Rlveria. making headquarters at Cannes.

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State Board of Tax Commis: sioners Overlooked Gary & Interurban for Two Years; May Now Bring Suit Against Company. . Since the interest aroused by the capitalisation of the Gary & Interurban at $1,000,000 and its absorption of a number of its subsidiary companies an investigation has been conducted as to the amount of the taxes scheduled by the Lake County traction giant. j . In the first place it should be noted that the state board of tax commissioners entirely overlooked the fact that" there was such a railroad as the Gary & Interurban in Lake County for a period of two whole years. , ' It is further ; understood that the board will commence an action against the road for back taxes. But the Interesting thing labout the first annual return made by the Gary & Iinterurban railroad is its modest estimate of its value. The Gary & Interurban officials report that they have 14.67 miles of main track in Calumet township valued at $58,680: 5:07 miles of main track in North township valued at $20,280 and 7 miles of side track In Calumet, town(Continued on Page 8.) Council Meets Tonight. A meeting of. the Hammond city council Is scheduled for this evening, and it is probable that among the matters of business for the evening two ordinances will be introduced, both of them timely and meritorious. One of the ordinances provides that street cars stopping in Hammond shall stop at the near side of the crossing, while the otheif provides that railroad companies must keep the toilets in their passenger trains locked while passing through the city limits. M'HIE'sliUWIOW SCOUT. The foremost t'hewlag tobacco ef the 2Hh century ts .appreciated by the en-

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L ESTATE The story that the property owned by Ben Hayes of Crown Point and located next to the Lake superior-court house, in Hammond, has been sold to Chicago parties has been made out of whole cloth. J. S. Blackmun of J .S. Blackmun & Co. had a Chicago party interested in the deal, but he flunked. After Blackmun left he asked A. M. Turner of the First National bank. In Hammond, to see if he could, not dispose of the property. Mr. Turner could not find any one who ahd $22,500 to invest Just at the present time. So the property has not been sold. The dream about the fourstory building has not materialized. Similarly with the report that Judge Johannes Kopelke will build on his South Hohman street property. Judge Kopelke stated positively that he would ' not build this year. He said that he had postponed building until 1914. An Old Offender. Martin Lesnak of East Hammond waa arrested by Officer Strong on Hohman street last night, where he was found In an intoxicated condition. This being his third offense during the past year Lesnak was taken before City Judge Bamett this morning and fined $15. Lesnak pleaded that he only had two glasses of beer and one w,hlsky and that he could not ge intoxicated on that amount. Unable to pay, he will be taken to Crown Point in default of. payment. Peter Korslck. another East Hammond cltixen, was arrested by John Yunovich of the Standard police on a charge of drunkenness. He paid a fine of $11 before Judge Bamett. Saloon Is Raided. Con Moor's saloon in West Hammond was raided today and Moor himself is to be arrested on the charge of running a blind pig. ' The raid is the result of an investigation by the police which led them , to believe that Moor was selling liquor unlawfully in his "soft drink" emporium. The raid resulted in the confiscation of two barrels with quantities of whiskey in them, wine, champagne, ginger. Rex bitters, creme de menthe. and other intoxicants. ' The raid of today followed one of yesterday in which three, men .were found asleep In In Moor's place. .

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Cost Is To Be Divided Now Between Lake County Ind. and Cook County Ills.

The question of paving State Line street, a problem which has concerned the people of Hammond and West Hammond for at least two years, has been settled at last and it is the best piece of news THE TIMES tonight can give to its readers. The east half of the street is to be paved by the Lake County commis sioners. The highway commissioner of'Thornton township, on the Illinois side of the line, is to look after the paving of the west half of the street. A COTItOlS PAVEMENT. The street will be paved between T1 timmor avpniiA rin the north to the Humpher road 'on the south adn this will make a continuous paved through. fare between Lansing and Munster and Hammond. The Lake county commissioners have indicated that they will be very lib eral towards the project, realizing the fact that It is one of the most import ant highways in the entire i county. It Is understood that if the Thornton township ! highway commissioner will agree -that the road on both sides of the line will be built of asphalt macadam. ' " . , WILL. BCTLOD A Ct'RB. At the suggestion-of Dr. William IXWelR 4f s. understood that.thBs eilJL of Hammond (wllf build a curb for the street and that the cost will be asSTATE BOARD USES HOAH'SJK CENSUS Computes Gary Death Rate on Absolutely Unfair Basis. Lake county cities, particularly East Chicago and Gary, are again made to appear aOnormaliy unneaitny Dy tne monthly bulletin which is issued regu- I Iarly by the Indiana state board ot heal.h. The November bulletin, which is just out, has the following figures relating to Lake county: Lake county population, 87,361; death rate per thousand population, 14.4; average for northern counties, 11.2. Hammond population, 21,779; death rate, 8.9; average for third-class cities, among which Hammond is counted in this report, 12.6. East Chicago population, 19,666; death rate, 17.9; average for fourth, class cities, among which East Cbcago Is rated, being credited with less than 20,000 population," 13.2. , Gary, which is classed with East Chi cago In the report. Is credited with a population of 17,802, and an average death rate of. 17.1. Whiting population, 6,847; death rate, 10.6; death rate for fifth-class cities, among which Whiting is classed, . is 14.7. Crown Point population, S.545; death rate, 14.3.. Classed among the fifthclass cities. I Although the populations are given as estimates, there is no reason why a city like Gary should be credited with having only 50 per cent of the popula-, tion it really has, and thus charging it with a death rate twice as high as it really is on an average per thousand population. The same complaint holds true of the county as a whole, and most of the cities in it. Fund Managers Meet. I The Hammond police pension fund held an interesting meeting at the city hall yesterday afternoon and besides a number of business transactions six members were nominated as candidates 1 of trusteeships. Of the six candidates j

who wer nominated (wo of the num- BohotnU Mlchalek of th ber will be voted upon to act as trus- Mlchalek Master School for Violintees. They are Officers Kuns, Stelow. 8ts. Chicago, went to Europe to Wallak, feorchert, HorWrlch and Lamme. study music he found other things

Will Continue Sjervices. At the regular meeting of the Hammond Ministerial . association next Tuesday! the ministers will discuss the advisabilty of. contnulng the Sunday afternoon fellowship services for men! A service of this nature held some time ago drew a very ' giood attendance. Among other things) the association will also plant, to -take some steps to promote the T. M. C A. spirit in Hammond.

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sessed against the benefited property owners. The same will be done on the Illinois side of the line. Thus as exceedingly vexatious quesi!nn he settled and a street that has been wrongfully closed for years will again Become a great tnorougnfare. SICCESS CROWNS EFFORTS. i One of the men prominent in negotiating for the building of the street is Charles Friederichs, who has property over in Illinois that will be benefited. It is understood that Highway Commissioner Millehand of Polton and Mayor K. M. Wosczynwki of West Hammond have been prominent in promoting the success ot the project. The pressipg need for this street will become apparent when It Is seen how much traffic it will divert after it is paved. It is even expt-cted that It will develop into a second-class business street. , PRTITIOX FOR IPHOVEMEXT. This announcement, made exclusively in The Times, will have the eflfee4, of booming property along the street for the reason of its new importance. It is also expected to boom property on West State street, which has lain dor- . mant for the past fifteen years, while East 'State street has been going forward. , - Acting on the suggestion of, the Lake county "commissioners the petition for beinai .circulated!: Hammond.: , A .Hammond. - A BULL ISOOSE FEE1 (Special to Thb Tjmrs.) Lowell. Ind., "eb: 4. -The ' progressives of Eagle Creek township" and vtcinlty are invited" to a -supper at the home of Thomas 'Turner, near Center school house, on Friday evening. Tlfu 14. All who expect to attend Will please notify Thomas Turner or' C. IS. Black, and the committee would like a big attendance. . Will Move in March. Otto Nesrele. the Hohman stre't I drueeisUexoects to move Into his Calumet avenue store some time early , next month. He will abandon his HohIn his new , place, tr, Negele will have three times the room that he has in his present location." As an east side druggist he is a pioneer, but he is confident that his new place will be a paying venture. "DEAREST KITTEN' . JILTED, BECAME CAT Mr. Henrietta Stmeoek. wmcn interested him so less profoundly. ' Among them waa Mrs. : J Henrietta' . Simecek, keeper of the pension, where be lived in Prague. To her Blmeeek poured out bis pas sionate . artist's heart. , and she in " turn poured out the contests of her purse at his feet. He got .$3,009 of her money; she got a promise of mar-. riage.) - Mlchalek always referred ta her as his "dearest golden kitten." Oa returning to America, however, hs forgot her. , AC least until a few days ago, when her breach of promise suit was heard tn ClUoago and aha wa warded $5.000..

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