Hammond Times, Volume 8, Number 114, Hammond, Lake County, 24 October 1913 — Page 1

LAK vm TIME WKATHKK. GENERALLY FAIR TODAY AND SATURDAY. EyENING EDITION J VOL. VIII., NO. 114. HAMMOND, INDIANA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1913. ONE CENT PER COPY. (Back Numotn 2 Cents Copy.)

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CRUMP ACKER AT STANDARD Following: on the heels of the democrats, the Hammond republicans last night held a meeting in Stodola's hall in East Hammond, and according; to reports had as large an audience aa the democrats had the night before. Crowds in the Standard district are hard to hold, many of those who do not understand the language well passing; in and oat continually. It is estimated however that about 400 were in the hall. Peter Crumpacker, the mayoralty candidate, was tha principal speaker and among; the others who spoke were attorneys W. H. McAleer, I. I. Modjeska, John Bocinhanskl and several others who made short talks in their native languages. DEMOCRATS AT KAPTUR'S PLACE i Hammojid democrats held a meeting at John Kaptur's place on Hickory street last night and drew an audience of about a hundred and thirty voters according to reports. Mayor John Smalley was the principal speaker and a number of the candidates on the ticket with him also spoke. In view of the fact that the democrats had two north side meetlnss only the night before the turn out last evening is considered very satisfactory. In their meetings the democrats are appealing to the voters primarily on their past records. Mayor Smalley as a rule going further and comparing the city's financial conditions under reRACING IS ALL OVER HE SAYS Gov. Ralston Answers A. F. Knotts of Porter County Track and Declines to Give His Consent That State May Enter Friendly Suit. (Special to Thb Times.) Indianapolis, Ind., Oct. 25. Governor Ralston, acting on an opinion expressed by Attorney General Ilonanj Wednesday, declined to agree to a proposition of A. F. Knotts of Gary, where by the state and the governor would be made defendants In a friendly court action to determine whether the gov ernor had the right to call out state troops last August to stop races being conducted by the Mineral Springs Jockey club of Porter county. Tff of Hla Late. In declining to give his consent for the state to be sued, the governor wrote a letter In reply to a communication he had received from Mr. Knotts, who Is one of the owners of the race track to which both Governors Mar- - shall and Ralston sent troops because of alleged horse race gambling being promote". "When I decided to take official ac tion in the premises I recognized that Continued on page fourteen.) THE CHIEF IS PEEVED. .Alter spenayig several hours in a city-wide search lor a gypsy woman who robbed a Gary man of $20 and later arrested the woman at Robertsdale, Chief of Police Austgen and members of the Hammond department were slightly peeved this morning when the Gary department made no offer to prosecute the woman. Unable to understand the actions of the Gary police, the woman was released. DEEP SEWER TO BE REVIVED Immediately following the city election on Tuesday November the fourth Messrs. Rohde, Schroeter and Swanton, composing the board of public works, will again set in motion the $1,000,000 proposed deep sewer which has agitated Hammond for so long. Documentary evidence to that effect is to be found on the clerk's records of Wednesday's session of the board. Otto Duelke, city clerk, states in his notes that the deep sewer matter is being carried over till the tenth of November, thus leaving the impression, which cannot be gain-said, that on that day It will be revived once and for all. Peter Crumpacker will add rem a mrHlis at Slorlch hall, llftth atreet ad Lincoln avenue. Robertadale. Saturday evening, October 23. at 8 p. m. Other speakers will make addreaaea

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and democratic adminlstraPROGRESSIVES ON NORTH SIDE About a hundred and twenty voters gathered at Jablonskl's hall on the north side last night for the political meeting which was held under progressive auspices. The applause that greeted the speakers and the demand for window cards after the meeting, lead the leaders to believe that the majority of those present were supporters of the tickets. The principal speakers were C. G. Kingwell. Attorneys E. D. Brandenburg, Milo Bruce and Alfred Simons, the mayoralty' candidate. Nearly all the candidates on the ticket were introduced and responded with a few remarks. The keynote of the speeches was clean government. SOCIALISTS ARE CONFIDENT The socialists in Hammond may hold one or more ward meetings next week. Thus far they have relied on campaign literature which they have distributed from door to door. While the socialists are not having any illusions about the success of their ticket on November 4th, they believe there is a strong enough undercurrent of a socialistic nature In the city to carry one or more candidates to the top. Forrest Nichols, a councllmanic candidate In the fifth ward, looms up as the best possibility on the entire ticket, it Is said. THREE DAY As the result of a fire which broke out at about nine o'clock this morning in the rear lower flat of a four flat frame building at 1S01, One Hundred and Forty-ninth, street. East Chicago, three persons, may die. The Injured are Joseph Scerda and Mrs. Joseph Scerda, In whose home the blaze originated, and their two chll dren, a boy aged six and a girl four years ot -ge. The children were so badly burned that there is no hope for their recov ery, and the mother's recovery Is doubtful. At the time of writing It was was impossible to ascertain the liret names of the children. The fire was started by linseed oil which had been placed on the stove In the Scerda flat, to heat for application to the floors of a building In process of construction next door. This building as well as the one In which the fire started. Is owned by Joseph Scerda. The oil boiled over and a blazing stream of It fell to the floor where the children were playing. It set. Are to their clothing and the" mother hearing Continued on page fourteen.) Overcome by Gas. Overcome by gas this morning at her home on Mason street Mrs. Harry M. Johnson, wife of H. M. Johnson, cashier of the Citizens' German Na tional Bank required the care of a phy siclan for some time. Mrs. Monahan a washerwoman who was in the base ment was also overcome during the period in which Mrs. Johnson was superintending the work. Fortunately nothing serious in the way of after effects resulted. Lectures for Herself. Miss Bessie Stewart Campbell eNew York City who recently lectured in Evanston for the benefit of the Frances Wllladr Hospital there will speak on "Education in the Twentieth Century" at the Hammond Chamber of Commerce on the evening of November 7. The Hammond lecture will be given by Miss Campbell Independent of any organization and not In behalf of any institution. Council Meets. The West Hammond city council met last evening and passed a memorial resolution for Florian Marcinski, fire marshal, who died recently. Routine matters of busines were handled. Back from Ohio. Dr. T. E. Bell returned from Toledo, Ohio, yesterday, where he has been visiting the various hospitals as the guest of Dr. McKesson, who was demonstrating his wonderful new nitrous ovidide and oxygen apparatus for anaesthetics. Is your house cold when you reach home? Get a Gas Heating Stove. No.

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FLOCK TO Eighteen members of the Northern Indiana School Superintendent's Association arrived in Hammond last evening for an inspection of the Henderson night school system which characterises Hammond. Together with the McDaniel's half and half time system It has brought distinction on the schools of this lty. Led by C. M. McDanlels, president of the association, superintendents visited outlaying schoos this morning and downtown buildings in the afternoon. At four o'clock the assembled for a regular meeting. The congress will adjourn this evening. Educators are present from Gary, South Btnd. Michigan City, LaPorte, East Chicago, Whiting and neighboring cities. TANGO DEAD AS PUBLIC DANCE Dancing Academy Puts Ban on Public Tango. The tango as a public dance in Hammond as far as the DaPron Academy is concerned Is under the ban. Prof. DaPron having stopped the tango at his regular Tuesday and Saturday night dances hopes to appeal to the better sensibilities , of the dancing public. The tango as properly danced under standardization Is really a fine dance but It came too soon after the death of Old Man Bear and his klnfolk seemed to think It a resurrection of the dead. After complying to the popular de mand of the dancing public for a period of six weeks, the profeBor found that the tango was not appreciated hence the discontinuation. . These regular dances will in the future be conducted the same as before the popularisation of the tango. HAMMOND LADY IS HONORED Goshen, Ind., Oct. 23. The thirtyfirst annual meeting of the Woman's Synodlcal Society of Home and. Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian church In Indiana-ended here this af ternoon. Speakers Included Mrs. A. L. Berry, Mrs. F. F. McCrea of Indianapolis, Mrs. C. E. .McKeehan, Miss Su san Hardy, Mrs. Rufus Dooley, Mrs. W. H. Hubbard, Mrs. S. A. Bormer and Mrs. Julian B. Shaley. Officers were elected as follows: Presidents Home. Mrs. F. F. McCrea of Indianapolis; foreign, Mrs. W. P. Sidwell of Frankfort. Secretaries Home, Miss Isabelle W. Cooper of Lima; foreign. Miss Emma A. Donnell of Greensburg; Toung Peo ple, Miss Alice Butler of Marshall; Westminster Guild, Miss Mary E .Holllday of Indianapolis; Literature, Mrs. J. C- McClurkin of Evansvllle; Mission Study. Mrs. H. M. Klngery of CrawfordHvllle; Bands. Mrs. L. E. Mlnard of Hammond; Recording, Mrs. W. O. Willliams of South Bend. The 1914 convention will be hedl at same city In the Muncie Presbytery. Practically all of the 150 delegates have left for their homes. Makes Many Arrests. Officer Fred Fandrei, traffic policeman at the corner of State and Hohman. caused a wholesale number of arrests last night. Three of the arrests were for intoxication while two other were taken to the Central station on the charging of fighting and using obscene and indecent language. They were arraigned before City Judge Barnett as: Edward O'Brien, 502 Hohman street, intoxication. Fined $11. Michael McCarthy, Wilmerdeer. Pa., fighting and profanity. Fined a sum of $15. Joe Morgan, 504 Hohman St., fighting and profanity. Fined $15. Robert Mesnard, 615 State Line St., intoxication. Fined $11. Dan Howard, 747 Sohl St.. Intoxication. Fined $11. -' Expects Big Contract. W. B. Conkey, the printer-publisher, Is in New York, where it is expected that he will iand another big bible contract. The Conkey plant has a country-wide reputation for bible work. It is well known that Conkey would rather print and bind bibles than any thing else, although the margin of profit is no greater. Tobacco Agent Here. C. Bockstanz representing the American Tobacco company was in Hammond this morning calling on dealers to introduce the "Mecca" cigaret. For the next few days a free package of listerated chewing gum Is to be given away with each package of the smokes. Will Fight Murphy. Eddie Clabby and "Dad"' Clabby left this morning for Indianapolis where Eddie will face Jimmy Murphy Saturday night in a ten round go. Hard gym work has put the clever Hammond light-weight in great condition and when he bad his friends farewell at the Monon station, he wa; confident that he was going to give the much touted Murphy one of the hardest battles he has ever had in his career. Hammond fight fans are eagerly awaiting the outcome of the battle and a number of Hammond fans will leave for the capital tomorrow to be at the ringside.

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A daririg attempt to escape from the hands of the Gary police was made today by a negro, arrested as a murder suspect, who dropped from the second floor court-room of the Gary city headfirst. The negro's skull, narrowly missing iron impalings. knocked a sixinch hole into a flower bed. But ne arose '"Jniured and ran with the speed of a deer only to be intercepted by speedier policemen. Charles White, alias "Charles Evans," thirty years old was arrested several days ago and fined on a minor charge. A few days ago he was. picked up in connection with a Memphis murder and this morning was arraigned in police (Continued on page four.) SATISFIED As government records of the Indiana-Illinois state line over-lap seventeen fet from State street for several hundred feet south a compromise has been affected Id the building of the new State Line street pavement. Not everyone is satisfied though the majority Is, according to engineers. In straightening the ' street it has been necessary to abandon an- old road and donate extra frontage to property own era. ; This s'u per fruo-' land Vf cocs goes to. abutting property and lies out of the lot line between the sidewalk and -the curbi. where 'It is of me least use.Ahlborn Lownt Bidder. ' The job of paving the street is di vided into two parts on the Indiana side, the "biggest end going to the coun ty. William Ahlborn who has the coun ty job is the lowest bidder on the city contract which calls for five feet of pavement from Plumer to Ogden streets. This extra is charged to make the avenue a boulevard. "" The paving of State Line street means everything to property owners on bof.k sides of the state line. It is as Important at State street as It is at the Country club where an exclusive neighborhood is fast building up. W. H. M. S. MEETING Fifty women from the twelve large cities of Northern Indiana are In session this afternoon at Baptist Hall in the Rimbach block. It is the opening meeting of the Women's Missionary Conference of Northern Indiana and will be devoted solely to business. Following the election of officers and the passim? of resolutions a trip willJ be made to East Hammond where at at Baptist Mission Julia Horvath Is to speak. Miss Horvath is a missionary of the society. Rev. Floyd Adams will talk tonight in Baptist hall on the "Problem of the Foreigner In Lake county." The publie is invited to this service which will close the convention. The leading movement before the meeting is the matter of placing a missionary in West Hammond and Burnham. Mrs. Floyd Adams, wife of the Hammond pastor. Is president of the association. She occupied the chair today. HOLD ' HEGVLAR 5lEETIXG. A meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of the Monroe street Methodist Chapel was held yesterday afternbon at the home of Mrs. J. M. Bradford in Monroe stret. The members made arrangements to hold a food sale In the building next to the Superior court house, Saturday, Oct. 25. There will be many articles for sale and the QHbllc is Invited to attend. The proceeds of the sale will be used by the society for the benefit of the church. The next regular meeting of the society will be held in two weeks at the home of Mrs. Junk in Harrison st. Following the business meeting yesterdav a social hour was enjoyed. The

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Howard Gescheidler, 411 East Sibley street was removed to St. Margaret's hospital Tuesday evening and on Wednesday was operated upon for appendicitis. He has been seriously III but today it was reported that he was doing nicely. A republican meeting will be held at Kaptura hall. Hickory and Coatlln street, Saturday night. October 25, at 8 p. m. Kngllah and foreign speaker will make addrcr Adv. 2-4-2 MrHle's Canadian Club at 19 eeata per can. Kothlaa; better. Ktne coupons rUI u-et von a aafet Trior. Adv.

BAD FIRE AT HOBART. (Special to Tub Times.) Hobart, Ind., Oct. 24. Hobarfs Catholic church was partly destroyed by fire at noon today at the close of a three days' bazaar. The prompt response of the volunteer fire department saved the building from total destruction. The damage is estimated at $1,000 to $1,200. The blaze started In the basement of the church and burned quickly when it reached the booths stalls of the bazaar. The church building is less than a year old.

BUSH GLAD TO GO BACK Sheriff Martin F. Crain of Mercerberg, O., arrived in Hammond with requisition papers this morning and left on the 11:50 train with Arthur B. Bush, alleged minister and embezzler, who was arrested hy the Hammond police at the Carleton hotel, where he was laying plans, preparatory to his fleecing the people of this city. Bush is wanted at Sharon, Pa., on a charge of embezzling his employer out of nearly $500. It Is also thought that Bush cashed a number of checks belonging to his wife, the exact amount having not been learned. Sheriff Crain found it was needless tto use the req uisition papers as Bush was willing to accompany him back without them. According to Sheriff Crain, Bush was employed at a manager for a shoe store. He was formerly a minister, and posed as a sincere church member in order to work his game. He attended every church meeting and in the meantime was embezzling his employer. Fearing that he would be found out. Bush suddenly left and came to Hammond intending to work a new field. The police received a tip from Sharon authorities that Bush was In Hammond and to cause his arrest. He was found at the Carlton hotel, enjoying the best of life. Although he had been here a little over twenty-four hours. Bush had secvired employment at the country club, arTd Tuesday had arraigned to meet at Hammond business man to look over a $35,000 piece of property. On this he claimed he was going to launch a $r.0,000 sanitarium. CONSTABLES IN GARY RAID " ' (Special to The Times.) Crown 'Point Ind., Oct.' 24. Constable Claude Nicholson and a number of deputies swooped down on a gambling den-at'"" 921-WashVKton street, Gary, last night, arresting three Inmates and confiscating - a; roulette wheel and a number of other gambling devices. Although business was ' not rushing at the time the arrests were made it is said that the gambling house was being run wide open. James Murdoch and Peter Kress, proprietors of the place, were arrested. They were brought to Crown Point and ararigned before Judge Atkins. Each furnished $100 bonds and will be tried tomorrow morning. W. H. GOSTLIN IN OKLAHOMA Harvey Gostlin, realty salesman for Gostlin, Meyn & Company is in Oklahoma the land where there is but one business, and that the real estate business, where cities are built on the sub divided plans of boosters and wherj the amber liquid floweth not. Mrs. W. H. Gostlin, jr., has received several messages from the traveler from as many cities. He left Tuesday and will be back within two or three weeks. After a survey of Oklahoma Gostling will go south to Mineral Springs, Texas. Visiting Lafayette. Samuel , A. Crow. the Hammond switchman, who drew the $10,000 prize in the Montana land drawing last month, has been spending a few days with friends here. He is still in the employ of the Monon. but will leave next April for Montana to take up his claim. Lafayette Courier. Will Open Office. Georsre Gauthler, 34 Webb street formerly In the Orpheum box off ice, has entered into the tea and coffee business. He has worked up a route and intends opening an office. Board Meets.

Nothing but pressing business wasjsuperior court through her attorneys,handled by the board of public works J McAleer Brothers for $200 as damages this morning. The contract and bond: against the Nickel Plate railroad for of Newell Brothers for Florence street ' alleged injuries which she says shn walks was accepted, the inspector's re- ; received on August thirteenth of this port for Moss avenue walks was filed, ' year. along with a similar report for the. ! The complaint states that she was Thornton street walks. The contract i walking along the station in Hani-

of Newell Brothers for the Kane avenue walks was accepted. AJi AFTERNOON PARTY. A very pleasant meeting of the R. A. E. Club took place yesterday afternoon ess at a thimble party and her guests spent the hours until four o'clock with their needle work after which they were served with a dainty two course luncheon. The tables were decorated prettily with flowers. The election of officers was a feature of the afternoon and it resulted in the election of Mrs. Yohn as president and Mrs. Frank Smith for secretary and treasurer. Mrs. Yohn was named as the next hostess and she will entertain the members of the club at her home, S82 Calumet avenue on the afternoon of November 6. Smoke McHle Caaadlaa Cluh Mix-ture-For pipe er cigarette, beet that leaf ana aklll can produce Adv.

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(Special to Thb Times.) Dyer, Ind., Oct. 24. Miss Alice Gerhard, 24 years old. of Algona. Wis., who was a teacher in the Garfield public school at Chicago Heights. 111., was Instantly killed at midnight last night, when her companion Ralph Johnson a Chicago Heights business man accidentally drove his powerful Hudson automobile In wh-ich they were riding, into a ditch a mile south of Dyer. JO HIV SOX SLIGHTLY IXJIHED. Johnson escaped with slight Injures. Not until he had tramped a half mile through a foggy night In search of a farm house and summoned help to remove the car under which Miss Gerhard was pinioned, did he know positively that she was dead. The inqueBt this morning held at Michael Fagen's morgue by deputy coroner Dr. Houck of Crown Point developed the fact that her neck had been broken. She was caught under the steering wheel and apparently hit the ground with a terrific impact. Johnson Is a member of the John son Brothers Oil Refining company of Chicago Heights, he having charge of The verdict expressed by Chairman Elbert H. Gary and thirty presidents of subsidiary companies of the steel trust at their meeting at the plant at Gary yesterday was that there is every prospect of a revival in the steel business next spring or earlier, and thereafter a continuance of big business. The meeting, which was held in the administration .building of the plant at Gary, lasted one hour and ten minutes, and was strictly private. No' one not even Subordinates of the company was allowed inside ;or -near the doors. At the close of -he day's tilp Judge Gary made the following statement:,. Judge Gary's Statement. The only topic, taken tip for con- ; sideratlon at the meeting . of the presidents of the subsidiary companies was the general state of business,- manufacturing conditions and future trde prospects. The presidents of the subsidiary companies were asked to give ex IDENTIFIED AS A The remains of the dc,ad man who was found on the banks of the Calumet river near Black Oak yesterday noon have been identified as John Psrcrta, 65G Walter street, Hammond, who mysteriously left his home on the morning of October 16- and had- not been heard of until he was discovered by a hunter. His remains are being

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held at Emmerling's morgue awaiting j has been received at the Hammond funeral arrangements. I country club to be distributed - to tht Psrcztas death was in all probabili- ' season's winners tomorrow ev.-ning at ty. caused from exposure, aa he was the annifal golf and season tennis dinfound with no clothing on but his un- j ner- The reservations which are alderwear. How he came to be robed 1 ready In give promise of one of 'the that way has not been learned and al- , most successful affairs of the whole though an effort has been made to find season. With coming of the cold the balance of his clothing no trace ' weather it has been found possible to of his garments have been found. secure a fine lot of young turkeys, and His body "was found in a desolate ' tht committee announces turkey as the spot on the river bank a mile from any leading feature of the menu, house. He was seen loitering .aj-ound '. After the dinner. In place of the Black Oak -for several days, and al- customary spech making". ' ilarry' M. thought residents tried to learn what , Scott of Chicago, a well known enterhe was doing there they gained no in- tainer. will take th floor and cive the

formation. It is said that the man was slightly demented and not responsible j tor his actions, j wife. He is survived by a Sues for Damages. Lola Bowman represented by Millie Bowman has - brought suit in tho mond, and that she was struck by some projection extending from a passing car which was going in the same direction in which she was walking. The piece of Wood or Iron is said to have extended from the car for a distance of two and a half feet. Competes in Games. Johnny Gill, one of Hammond's prominent athletes, will take an active part In the indoor games at the National airy Show in Chicago next Saturday afternoon. Gill will fly under the colors of the C. A. A. and has entered in the standing and running high jump. The Hammond boy first won distinction for himself when he entered a number of events in the A. A. U. National games at Grant Park this summer. Smoke McHle Caaadfan Clan Mixture. For pipe- er cigarette beat that leaf and skill can produce -Adv.

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the agents. He is twenty-five years old and single. His brother James who was at the Inquest spoke for his brother to a Times reporter about the accident. TELLS OP ACCIDENT. "My brother and Miss Gerhard," said Ralph Johnson, "started ou for an auto ride last night about half past eight o'clock and went as far as Crown Point. They returned via St. John following the new road between St. John and Dyer which strikes the Joliet road a mile east of Dyer. The fog was heavy, and my brother Instead of going, north as far as the Joliet road turned west on what Is known as the Hoffman road, a mile and a half north of St. John and followed this evidently thinking he was on the Joliet road." The Hoffman road runs Into the Dyer-Kreutzburg road and ends there. Johnson undoubtedly realized this too late in the fog. His brother says he was "not going so very fast," but one Johnson desperately turned his machine to the north. With the front Continued on page fourteen.) T pression to their respective views of conditions and prospects and this was done. The general opinion seemed to be that while there haa been some, .though not a great, recension la bnslnesa and though this might be ripeetcd to continue for a abort period, there is every. prospect : that we shall experience In the early Spring, If not" before that time, a good and satisfactory and continuing volame of trade. In our inspection today of the , plants at Gary and South Chicago I we jTound the mills 'in fine condition . and entirely tip to date We con-' ferred on various Improvements and extensions yet to be made and our trip; was fruitful and most Interesting. As to the reports that we have been or'are contemplating the laying off of large numbers of men Continued on page fourteen.) AND TANGO FOR GUESTS i A beautiful array of cutis and medals members the benefit of his best wit and humor. After the presentation of tbe- prizes won during the toasoii.the j floor -wilt be cleared for dancing to j music which will be furnished by the j committee. Altogether it promises to be a delightful evening for the mem- ; bers anJ tneir families. ; NOV. 27 IS FIXED AS THANKSGIVING DAY Washington, Oct. 24. President Wilson today issued his Thanksgiving day proclamation, setting Thursday. November 27, as the day on which the PeoP,e of the MUBt7 Bna11 ofrer thanks for the blessings of the year. MAN'S MANGLED BODY FOUND ONJt.R. TRACK . Edward Sweeney of 11E08 South Michigan avenue, a foreman employed in the Western Steel Car & Foundry company, was found dead on the tracks of the Nickel Plate, near East 136th street. The. body was manglHi and the police believe that he was struck by a passing train. It was taken to Korthouse's undertaking rooms at 1330 Brandon avenue. Peter Crumpncker and other apeakera will address a meeting at the store room at 344 ladtana boulevard. Bear Hobj, Friday evealnn;, October 24. at 8 p. m. While this meeting la to he addressed by. republican peakera, votcra f all parties will be welcome Adv.

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