Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 18, Hammond, Lake County, 9 July 1913 — Page 4

THE TIMES.

Wednesday, Julv 9, 1913.

E TIMES NEWSPAPERS By Tie Lake Canary Prlatla- see Pok. Uahlng Oonpuj, The Lake County Tlmei, dally except Sunday, "entered as second-claaa matter June tl. 146"; The Lake County Times, dally except Saturday and Sunday, entered Feb. S. 1911; Tn Gary Evening Times, dally except Sunday, ntered Oct. 6. 10; re-entry of publication at Gary. Ind., April 18, 1U; The Lake County Times, Saturday and weekly edition, er-tered Jan. 10. 111; The Times, dally except Sunday, entered Jan. IK. ltli. at the postoffic at Hammond, Indiana, all under the act of March t. 1171. Entered at the Postoffleee, Hammond and Gary, lad., as second-class anatter. FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICER. II Reotor Building - - Chicago FTJU'LICAnOX OFFICES, Hammon-d Building. Hammond, Ind. TELEPHONES, Uunmond (private exchange) ..... .111 (Call for department wanted.) Gary Office ..Tel. 1S7 Cast Chicago Office Tel. 640-J Indiana Harbor Tel. S49-M: 150 Whiting Tel. 80-M Crown Point Tel. 63 Hegewlscn Tel. 13 AlvertWnc solicitors will be cent, or rate given on application. If you hare any trouble getting The Times notify the noarit ofrfce and Stave it promptly remedied. LARGER PAID UP CTRCOT-ATTON THAN AJtT OTHER TWO NEWSPAPERS IW THB OA1A7MJBT REGION AJTONYMOU3 communications will i tot be noticed, but others will "b printed at discretion, and should be vddrearad to The Editor, Times, Hammond. Ind. 4U ' Stated meeting Garfield Lodge, No. S6. F. and A. M.. Friday, August 1. 8 p. in. No work. Visitors welcome. R. S. Galer. Sec, E. M. Shanklln. V. M. Hammond Chapter No. 117 R. A. M. Regular stated meeting, July 9. Visiting companions welcome. Hammond Commandery, No. 41, K. T. Regular stated business meeting Monday. August 4. Visiting Sir Knights welcome. NOTICE. All political n-atiees of whatever nature and from whatever party are strictly eaah. Notices of meetings, a eun cement ef candidacies, etc., aaay be Inserted la these eoiumna. Whiting. FOR MAYOR. L.ditor TIMES I 1 aaavunce herewith that I am a caadidate for the democratic nomination for mayor ef the city ef Whiting, aubject to the decision of the party primaries. J. J. DO NEC AN. Hammond. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMESi After having consulted myself, I wiaa yea wonie please announce my name for a candidate for mayor of the city ef Hammond, Indiana, subject to the decision of the democratic pri mary election to be held August 2nd, li13. WILLIAM W. M'MAHON. Dated at Hammond, lad., July 3, 1913 MAI UK. Hammond, Ind., July 5, 1913. Editor TIMESi , Please announce my name an a can didatc for the efnee of mayor of the ty of Hammond, Indiana, subject to the declaloa ef the democratic primary to be held Aag. 2, 1913. JOHN D. S M ALLEY. CLERK. Editor TIMESi Please announce that I will be a can didate for the nomination of city clerk on the democratic ticket, subject to the primary convention held August 2. I rapectfully solicit the support sf my friends and take this means of apprising those whom I may not see that I am out for the nomination. NICHOLAS LVIER. CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi You are herewith authorised to announce that 1 will be a caadidate for the office of city Judge ef the city of Hammond, Indiana, on the democratic ticket, subject to the will of the voters of this city, and . I herewith ask the support of my friends at the democratic primary election to be held en August 2, 1913. JAMES O. KOONTZ. July 2, 1913. CITY JUDGE. Editor TI31ESI I hereby announce my candidacy for city Judge of Hammond on the democratic ticket, subject to the choice of salt! party at its primary to be held oa August 2, 1013. FRED BARNETT. FOR TREASURER. Editor TIMESi Yea are herewith authorised to aanounee that I will be a caadidate for the office of city treasurer of the City of Hammond, Indiana, oa the democratic ticket, subject to the will of the voters of this city, aad I herewith ask the support of say frleads at the deme-

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cratlc primary election. Sitnrd. OTTO II. DIE1KE.

CITY TREASURER. Editor TIMESi Yen are authorised to aanounee that I am a candidate for city treasurer, subject to the will of the democratic votera aa empressed at the primaries to be held Augnat 2nd. 1913. J. I. BRl'SEL. FOR CLERK. Editor TIMKSi Yon are herewith aothortsed to noaaee that I will be a candidate for the office of city clerk of the city of Hammond. ladlana, oa the democratic ticket, subject to the will of the voters of thla city, aud 1 herewith aak the snort of my frleads at the democratic primary election. Signed. WILLIAM KOLA rOl'SClLMAX-AT-LAIlGE. Editor TIMES j Please announce the undersigned as a caadidate for councllman-at-large in the city of Hammond, ladlana, aubject to the voters at the democratic primaries Amrant 2nd. 191S. WILLIAM B. Ml'IR. COCNCILMAV, SECOXD WARD. Editor TIMESi You are authorised to announce to the voters of Hammond ray candidacy for the no mi nation to succeed myself aa councilman of the second ward, aubject to the democratic nominating primaries oa A gust 2nd. OSCAR PLACEMAN. ALDERMAN, FOl'RTH WARD. Editor TIMESi You are authorised to announce to the voters of Hammond my candidacy for the nomination for alderman of the fourth ward, aubject to the democratic nomlaatlag primaries on Angnat 2ad. PHILLIP H. SMIDT. Gary. FOR JUDGE. Editor TIMESi Please aanounee to the people of Gary that 1 am a caadidate for the nomination of etty Judge, subject to the decision of the citiieas party con vention. H. P. SHARAVSKY. CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi I desire to announce that I shall be a caadidate for Judge of the city court of Gary, subject to the republican and progressive primaries. JOHN W. WAKE. FOR CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi Please aaaouaee te the citizens that I will be a candidate for Judge of the city court of the city of Gary, aad 00 licit thetr support at a primary election to be held by the republican aad pro gressave parties. ALBERT C HUBER. Gary, Ind- June , 1913. FOR SIAYOR. Editor TIMES! You may aanounee that I am a can didate for mayor of Gary, aubject to the derision of the republican aad pro gressive primaries. A. R. HOOVER. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMESi Yon may announce that I am a candidate for the nomination for mayor ef Gary, subject to the decision of the republican and progressive primaries. R. O. JOHNSON. FOR MAYOR. Editor TIMESi You may aanounee In your columns that I am a candidate for the nsnmla tion for mayor of Gary aubject to the decision ef the republican nnd fc gresslve prlmsriea, nnd I ask the sup port of my friends In this way. CHARLES E. GREEN WALD. FOR MAYOR. Editor, TIMES 1 Please announce 'hat I am a caadidate for the nomination for mayor of Gary, subject to the decision of the republican aad progressive primaries la July. W.P. PATTX R S ON. FOR TREASURER. Editor TIMESi Please announce to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for the nomination of city treasurer, subject to the decision of the republican-pro gressive primaries. W. D. HUNTER, Editor TIMESi Pleaae announce to the people of Gary jthat I will be a candidate for the nomination of city treasurer, aubject to the decision of the nominating con cntlon of the citizens ticket July 12. WILLIAM FEDER. FOR CLERK. Editor TIMESi You are authorised to announce that I will be a candidate for city clerk, subject to the decision sf the Gary re publican and progressive primaries. II. C FRANCIS. FOR COUNCIL. Editor TIMESi Please announce to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for the nomination of alderraan-at-Iarge, aubject to the decision of the cltlr.cn ticket convention. A. H. HALE. rt)B COUNCIL. Editor TIMESi Please announce to the people of Gary that I am a candidate for the nomination for alderman of the first ward, subject to the republican aad citizens' primaries or conventions. THEODORE VFREEBURY. Editor TIMESi Please announce to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for the nomination of alderman from the third ward, subject to the decision of the citizens party convention. ARON KOLLTJS. A WANT AD IN THE TIMES 13 WORTH TWO IN ANY OTHER PA-rER.

FOR COUSCII Editor TIMES Plenae announce to the people of Gary that I will be a candidate for the nomination for alderman-at-large, aubject to the convention of the cltlaeaa party. BOLICE SZYMAXSKI...

East Chicago. REPUBLICAN CALL. A maim meeting of all repabllcaa voters and ail others dcMtriag to affiliate with the republican party of the city of Eant Chicago, will be held In the Indiana Harbor auditorium on Turaday evening, July loth at 8 o'clock p. m. for the purpose of electing precinct committeemen and to transact such of the business na may come before the convention said committeemen to have charge of and con duct the affairs of the re-publican party in the coming city election. W. B. VAN HORN E, 9-0 City Chairman. FOR CLERK. Editor TIMESi Please announce that I will he a can didate before the Eant Chicago repub lican primaries for the nomination of rlty clerk on that ticket, at a date to be decided later. JOSEPH J. FREEMAN. CITY JUDGE. Editor TIMESi Please announce that I will be a can didate before the East Chicago repub lican primaries for the nomination of city Judge oa that ticket, at a date to be decided later. GEORGE E. REILAND. FOR COUNCIL. Editor TIMES: Yon will please announce that I am eandldnte for the office of council man at large for the city of East Chi cago, subject to the republican primaries. WILLIAM WEISS. JAPS WANT WAR. The government is having difficulty breaking up anti-American meetings. The younger element is busy denounc ing the Japanse Cabinet, which they declare has failed in settling the Cali fornia question. They say the time has arrived for the people to assume a more determined attitude and extend the national prestige. It has been decided to continue the attempts to arouse public opinions by further anti-American meetings and the distribution of manifestoes. The speakers who advocate the most radical measures toward the United tSates were the same men who have daily tried to stir up the Jap anese public during the last month. PREDICTS BLINDERS FOR MEN. The modern tendency of women to dress Immodestly has brought forth a prediction of woe for them from the Rev. Frederick E. Heath, pastor of the Warren Avenue Baptist Church, in Boston, who says it is only a question of time before men will insist that women be shut up at home. He says it is going to be a choice between blinders for men or veils for the women. "I have been most reluctant to speak about this," says the pastor, "but the time has come when the men of America must rise to their plai.i duty. The women have gone too far. Young girls are walking up snd down our streets every day so apparelled that the right-minded citizen feels nothing but disgust for them. "And the end is not yet. Now they tell us we are about to see a Paris offering called the 'expose toilet. I understand the hobble and sheath skirt will be tame beside it. 4I blame society, which sets the modes for the rest of us. And I declare that if the thing continues man will have to assert his manhood." PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH. An automobile containing four people was wrecked and the occupants injured Sunday night at the Clark road crossing of the South Shore Railway. One of the victims may die, a $5,000 car was destroyed and there will be some hospital bills. This is an accident that -should not have occurred and it Is a miracle that death did not attend it. Had the interurban company obeyed the Gary city ordinances and installed electric bells the autoists might have had some warning, for sand bluffs block the view from either side of the road. It would have cost the South Shore Company a few dollars to provide protection at this crossing. Instead, there was none, and the company faces possible damage suits that will cost it thousands of dollars. Every unguarded grade crossing In his entire region is a death trap. many of. them stained with blood of more than a score of victims. Yet despite this, transit corporations continue to hold life cheaply and no aplication of the law punishes them for it. HAVE IT YOUR OWN WAY. The Lake County Times says that Ida May Tarbell has come to Gary to "write the town up." The Times will discover that the word "up" in

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gets her envelope for writing things down and not up. Ida May Is our principal muck merchantess. She hasnt dug up any more scandals than plenty of other women have traded over the back fence .but she has a much larger circulation. Muncie Press. TUT! TUJ YOU SARCASTIC THING. Vice President Marshall remarked in a recent address that he was even happier when he was trying dog cases in Columbia City than he is as Vice President of the United States. Men are usually happiest when performing those tasks for which nature has best Qualified them. Muncie Press. MORE HEAT MORE AVARICE. "In a corner of the plaza three wallowed in the baking hot dust, their wings flutering, clucking comfortable." Frank Norrls. That is a comforting sight to country people. In town we have less scurrylngs and shoutings of the small boy to remind us that activity Is a fine way to fight the little dancing devils of heat. Spend two hours at golf on a hot afternoon and no one will hear a word of complaint from you during the evening. Summer offers free the best of tests of how you've looked after your bodily machine. Under the sun it should run smoothly) frlctionless. Don't curse the heat take exercise, cut out fattening foods, and leave alcohol to those who have definitely abandoned the fight to keep fit. That's common sense advice. Isn't It? Everywhere the sun, radiant heat, and complaint on a torrid day in July. That Is your first Impression. Then you discover drafty passages, and cool open places. Next you meet people who seem to jog along quite cheerfully. Some one out of the crowd is apt to look mere bored when you interrupt his work to utter ancient plaints or feeble jests about the weather. Tou go swimming or to a ball game, crowd jostled, and give up finally to the actual stimulation, the tolerant cheerfulness of summer. Bad? Why, It's good for you to sweat. Norris did a public service by telling of the example of the hens. Don't you remember the bleak, cold days last February, when you really suffered In the icy blasts, cold drafts and changing temperatures? Wei, why not be satisfied with the weather you longed for then? Re sign from the anvil chorus and brag about the weather we's having. NOW DOESN'T IT! THINGS have got so bad in Lake County the grand jury has had to ask for a special prosecutor in order to get Indictments returned and a gambling joint at Cavanaugh raided. At that the "raid" was only a farce, three hangers-on being arested, while the proprietors were permitted to go free and the gambling continue. South Bend Tribune. It also begins to look as if something else beside the raid was a farce. A FEW QUESTIONS. Are we mad only for a little term and will we return to serenity after the fever passes? Shall we turn from the clatter df these days, the temporal displays, the unreal values set on position and success, the scorn of what Is simple-minded and generous, the haste and noise that drown out all gentle voices? Sometimes one wonders if the world has forever lost its sense of peace and beauty, if we are to whizz and yell and advertise till the end of time. Will simple pleasures always seem tame and quiet way3 unsuccessful? Isn't it time to recover our knowledge of the wind on the hills, the silent passge of a summer's day, the swift wind-swept procession of autumn clouds, the lake in calm and storm, with the breaking waves that wear away the beach? Fewer flsh suppers with beer and more honest, home-lunches might help hasten the day. BULGARIA'S MANY FOES. Whether" or not the fighting be tween Bulgarian troops on one sida and Servian and Greek forces on the other goes on until it becomes a general war, there is no doubt that the largest and most powerful of the four Balkan states which waged victorious war against Turkey is beset by many foes. If the great powers bring about the settlement of the boundary questions by arbitration or by mutual concessions, still the Bulgars will be forced to contend against the inuence of Servia, Greece and probably Montenergro combined. Moreover, Roumanla, larger than Bulgaria and with resources untouched by war, will surely take part

Sidelights on Gary's "Big Municipal Meeting Which Are Timely

All Hail City Dads. City dads are greatly in the majority at the twenty-third congress of the Municipal League now in full swing. They out number mayors, city engineers, commissioners and health officers, four to one. They dominate the convention numerically and it may seem strange that they have the least to say in the meetings of any one class of city (JfTicials. But in the lobbies of Broadway hotels they are once the most talkative. Jovial and interesting of the delegates. They swarm together, men of all types, farmers, tradesmen, business men and public spirited citizens of means -all pals for the time. In a story telling contest at the Gary Hotel last night John White of Madison, Ben Leffman of Lafayette, F. M. McCoy of nymouth and E. B. Wusmantel entertained a vast audience. McCoy won by the recital of a story which he claims that a mayor told him In the afternoon. It concerns a country hotel, the proprietor, a traveling man and a million or so flies that tormented the commercial salesman to death while he was taking a bath. He made a complaint and here comes the laugh was told to bathe at the dinner hour when they (the flies) would all be in the dining room. Pointless? Well something may have been lost In the recital. They Knew The Times. Thb Times was read with interest by delegates at the afternoon meeting yesterday. The convention extra came Just at the closing of the brief introductory programme. Copies were presented to every man and the delegates read the first story of the convention. All were more or less acquainted with the paper before coming to Gary bowever. Dr. Hurty's Strong Figures. Sickness costs Ind.. 121,000.000. "We spend $7,000,000 for doctors a year, another $7,000,000 for the drugs they prescribe and lose at least that much money in our business or work by being sick," said J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health In his speech last night. "A million for cure to every thousand dollars spent for prevention is a piece of Judgment," he continued. "It is good business to raise the average of health and to build a fence around the cliff Instead of maintaining an ambulance in the valley below to care for those who fall off. Mayor's Fine Address. Mayor Tom Knotts read a flowery speech at the welcome meeting in the auditorium of the Commercial Club yesterday. The session was not begun until late and only twenty-five were present to hear the mayor's address, It seemed a pity to waste so . many high-sounding words on so few people but it had to be done. The omnipresent Thomas's address was not only flossy but meritorious as well. He told of how Gary was conceived In a Wall stieet director's meeting, cradled in the- jungles and etc., etc. He stated that the city has 4.000 buildings and 40,000 people and CINCINNATI has an ice strike bnt the saloons and breweries are sup plied. Well, the necessities of life hav to be taken care of first. YOl' might aot believe It but It' true that 3,000,000 quarts of Ice cream are eeaaumed la Milnaakee every year. GIRL in Paris killed herself in order to see what death tasted like.. Yet women are not curious. OTE that when the Imperator came over the other day It was commanded by five captalna. Evidently the onera feel that they will be secure even If two or three of tbe raps drink wine at the Brat-cabln balls. r.DEIlSTAn that sixty per cent of the Chinese, who adopted modern diatom, have retnrned to their native drew. Yon can't blame the male Chinese after be saw what his womea folks would have to wear or rather not wear If they eontinned to be modern. FISH down at Marion died when beer was emptied into the river. No wonder, when one considers the brand of beer in that part of the state. CONGRESS has also ordered prayerbooks printed for all of Its members. In the concerted effort to cut down the Bulgarian share of the territory conquered from the Turks. If the lately allied Balkan kingdoms engage in a fierce conflict among themselves and the Turks venture to re open hostilities it is a foregone con clusion that they will strike the Bulgarans first and hardest. The Bulgars alone are in a position exposed to the full weight of a Turkish ad vance. These conditions create a grave situation for the hard-hitting and courageous Bulgarians to face. They are inferior in numbers and material resources to the Greeks and Serbs combined and with Roumania in the field the numerical odds against Bul

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that it "has been grossly maligned by senseless and unjust attacks but is

nevertheless more endurable than Babel and a greater city than Rome." "Gary Is an object lesson in civic progress," said the mayor. "You are here to gain an insight into Us civic and material aspect, its wonderful educational system, its collosal Id- 1 duatries and to learn How we turned 30 square miles of uninhabited swamps and jungles Into this beautiful city in! seven years." Did You See Pat? Pat Crowe, the ex-train robber and one-time desperado is said to have visited the convention and to have shaken hands with the mayor. Patrick did not stay for any of the sessions however. Wanted To See Streets. The Aurora delegation, consisting of T. C Carmichael. mayor; Dr. James A. Treon, health officer; Paul Tresten, alderman, and Daniel B. Teaney, alderman, came for the express purpose of finding out how Gary built ber' 100 miles of paved streets as the city of Aurora is to let contracts for 4 miles of pavements next week. Judge George E. Downey of Aurora was the organizer and first president of the Municipal League of Indiana. He la now Controller of the Currency at Washington having been appointed by President Wilson. Hit Storm at Crown Point. The Montlcello delegation, T. N. O'Conner, mayor; L. A- Young, S. W. Thompson and E. R, Gandlner, councilmen, came In a machine. They were nearly ditched when the big storm bit them south of Crown Point and thought that they were doomed to miss the Municipal League meeting. Storm Hurt Attendance. A severe wind and rain storm which disrupted traffice on the street railways of Gary last evening had almost a like effect on the evening session of the Municipal League meeting in the auditorium of the Commercial club. Less than a hundred were in attendance. Though no Gary counc!lmenand few other city officials were at the afternoon reception quite a number turned out in the evening helping to make the crowd respectable in siie. The tie-up of traffic killed the attendance, keeping delegations already arrived In their hotels and holding others on their way. Today was the big day anyway. Short Talks by Citizens of Gary Capt. H. S. Norton, president Commercial club. Mr. W. P. Gleason, superintendent, Indiana Steel Company. Mr. C. M. Mayne. superintendent T. Mr-C. A. Mr. A. B. Keller, cashier Gary State bank. Judge V. S .Belter, judge superior court. Shank Sent Annis. Annis Burd. secretary to Mayor Shank of Indianapolis, came to the convention aa an envoy from His Should of had them long age. READ that they are going to have lady cops In Chicago. It will be worth while getting arrested In Chi. after this. GREAT CAESAR I So much of the1 time of one part of the Senate andj Lower House members is taken up' now days investigating the other, part that it might be well to have a! third house, tbe functions of which! would be merely to investigate the' other two houses. SAD ri.ICHT OK AN rtDIATTXY BACHELOR. (From the Remington Press.) John L. Turner was In town today from his farm of SO acres about half way between here and Remington. He came In to try to find a woman to do some repair work on his clothing, there being a few rips and tears and worn places and an occasional absent button. He done even better tha finding a woman, ' as some kindly disposed person gave him some very good second-hand clothes. SECRETARY Bryan says that the Commoner is to be a monthly Instead of a weekly. Is Editor Bryan trying to get into the htagasine class? DELEGATES If yott don't see what you want ask for It. Tom Knotts. garia, even if the Turks did not fire a shot. Yet Bulgaria may risk the issue of so one-sided a struggle. There Is deep and" bitter resentment against Greece and Servia and Bulgaria has long disliked Roumanla. The Bulgars have suffered much in the war against the Turks, but they have also made great gains and their confidence is as high as their fighting blood la hot. . Statesmen, not the populace, will prevent war If peace has to be bought by giving up any of the Turkish territory which Bulgaria now claims. If yon are a Judge ef quality tr a La Vendor cigar. Adv.

Honor. Burd spoke briefly in the usual manner of secretaries making apologies and he made quite an impression. After the meeting he was the center of a large circle of mayors and their retinues.

Lots of Newspaper Men. The Gary Times, the Lake County Times, the Gary Post, Gary Tribune and other dailies of northern Indiana are well represented. When Carl Coper and Carl DennlwiU of the Tribune, Wilbur Wright and Lawrence J. Avery of the Post and The Timxs men surounded a mayor be is sure to be asked six different questions at one and the same time. Card Game First. Mayor Knotts and three city officials opened the convention at 3 o'clock with a game at cards which broke up without an argument when the first delegates arrived. It looked like Rhummy, it sounded like Rhummy and It must have been Rhum. Lafayette Shows Up WelL Lafayette with nine at bat and three on deck has the largest delegation at tbe convention. Btn Leftman, presi dent of the board of health in that city promised on oath that some one of the delgation would turn in a good story before Wednesday night. All Were Busy. Ed Aubrv. the Hammond fitv eon. troler. was unable to arouse eleventh hour enthusiasm among city fathers and other officials that he reached by phone yesterday mornig. Many however exDresed their intention of at tending the meeting today and were sorry mai ji naa escaped tneir minds. Hotels Crowded. Hotel acomodations were going fast last evening as delegation after delegation arrived, boosting the attend ance . from a hundred at tn openig, te a h end red and fifty at the close. Tbe hundredth man came in at mid night. He was C. J.' Dole, an alder man from -Batesville. Capital May Get It. It looks as if Jndia.11a.poHs would get the next convention unless Lafayette with her big representation bids for it. Four majors were present at the opening of the first session yesterday. They were Dr. J. L. Puckett, of Kokomo: F. E. Field. of Kendallville; Thomas J. Carmichael of Aurora and Mayor Knotts of Gary. Amazed at Broadway. Despite the fact that Gary is re nowned from one end of the state to the other for Broadway the last word in main streets visitors gasped when they beheld its beauties. The decora tions on the exterior of the Commerce building are as elaborate' as those on a battleship in parade. " Delegates found the interior of the club to be as elegant and comfortable as the big club rooms of Chicago. It at least beats anything in the state they say. At midnight 16 cities were represented by a hundred delegates. UP AND DOWN IN I-N-D-I-A-N-A DROWXED AT GRAVEL PIT. Lewis Wright, 18 years old. eon of George Wright, who Jives on a farm near Octagon, was drowned last night in the gravel pit on the George Washburn farm, ten miles northwest of Lafayette. Wright had worked all day on his father's farm and this evening went to the gravel pit to cool himself oft. He was seized with cramps and Went down in ten feet of water. None of his companions could swim. The body was recovered half an hour after the young man was drowned. POSTOFFICE CLERKS MEET. The Indiana Association of Postoffice Clerks met In convention at Loganspprt today. Frank Rogers of Chicago, national president of the association addressed the convention on "The Condition of the Parcel Post and the Fight for it in Washington." Another interesting address on how the postoffice clerks can give material aid to the success of the parcel post system was delivered by E. J. Galnor of Muncie, vice president of the national association. S TUBUS TOE ; SWALLOWS QUARTER. Mrs. Eugene Hune gve her 9-year-old son, Walter, a quarter and told him to go to a nearby pharmacy at Richmond to get some ice cream. For safe keeping Walter placed the quarter in his mouth, then stumbled. Doctors have not yet been able to recover the coin, but they do not think the boy will suffer any 111 results. PLEADS SELF DEFENSE. A plea of self-defence was made at Evansville today by the defense in the oase of Parley King of Grand View, on trial in a special session of Circuit Court for the murder of Samuel Koehler. conductor on , a Rockport interurban car. Attorney Chris Mason oLRock port declared the defense would prove King's apology for trouble created on an interurban car was refused by the conductor, who then abused him. Homer Ellsworth, ferryman at Grand View, who was on the traction car and later saw the crime committed, said that Koehler interfered when King created trouble on the car coming into Grand View. When the conductor stepped down to the platform at Grand View, Eellswrth says. King seised him and, calling him a vile name, stabbed him repeatedly. SOW WAS THE OXLV VICTIM, Don Glenn, t years old, son of Mrs. R. R, Glenn, president of the safe and sane Fourth movement at Huntington was the only person injured in today's celebration. His arm, was burned slightly by a fire cracker.