Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 170, Hammond, Lake County, 26 December 1913 — Page 1
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VOL. VHX, NO. 170. A Thousand Children Over This Corner of the State Spend Happy Christmas Yesterday Because of Orak Shrine of Hammond. A thousand children buried in the dark and remote corners of Hammond, Gary, East Chicago, Indiana Harbor, Whiting, Michigan City and South Bend had a happy Christmas yesterday, thanks to the Nobles of Orak Shrine of Hammond, under the direction of Illustrious Potentate W. D. Ray. Dolls, books, toys and candy, sevral hundred dollars worth, were distributed in homes where but for these gifts there would have been little evidence of Christmas cheer. By Wednesday evening the automobiles which left the Masonic temple early in the afternoon laden with the things that bring Joy to a child's heart had returned and the Shriners who had participated in the distribution were recounting their experiences of the day. All Were Usod Fellows. Although none of these "good fellows" wanted to be singled out from (Continued on page eight.) . LITERS TO WHITING. The degree team of Court Luers, Catholic Order of Foresters of Hammond, and other members of the order will go to Whiting next Sunday afternoon for the instalaltlon "of C. O. F. court St. Julian there. The team will go to Whiting on Sunday afternoon via Sheffield avenue on the Green line, taking the first car that goes north after 1 o'clock. State Chief Ranger John Heraog of Mishawaka and members of the High court of Chicago are expected to- be out .for -the, occasion. The .-. charter member of tire hew lodge are arrangingfor a big time in honor of. the event. ',' Taxes Soon Due. Have you yet decided what you are going to do with all the money you have left over from Christmas? Poy your county taxes early! Albert J. Swanson, treasurer of Lake County, will send out literature informing property owners of the taxation for 1914, which may be paid any time between January 1 and May 4. It is permissible to pay one-half on or before May 4 and the balance on or before November 2. In Whiting, Gary, East Chicago or Hammond city taxes must be paid to the treasurer of the city, and state, county, township and school taxes to the county treasurer. The city tax levy of Hammond $1.90, the same as last year. is Make that cold room bearable wlt a Gas Heating Stove. No. Ind. Gaa dec. Co. Adv. JJtl Principals in PHCTTO A sensational attempt on the life of Charles Ailing Jr., well known in Hammond, former Chicago alderman and now attorney for the state board of health, was made yesterday in Chicago by an alleged quack medical practitioner, Frank Klimek, who then turned his pistol on himself. He died a few hours later. P. H. Schwaba, an assistant to Mr. Ailing, was slightly wounded. Ailing was shot in the right eye and Jest consciousness. The eye was removed and his recovery is expected. The shooting occurred in Alling's office in th epresence of a number of
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clients and grew out of the prosecu- health, represented by Ailing and Schtlon of Klimek for practicing medicine waba as counsel. Mr. Alling's last visit without k, license. The prosecution to Hammond waa with the Indiana sos instituted by the state board of ciety in June.
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East Chicago's New City Attorney. rr t f - f yt X t - y i Vo. B. L. D. Glazebrook. Attorney B. L. D. Glazebrook of Indiana Harbor, who was appointed city attorney by Mayor-elect Frank Callahan the other day, came to East Chicago from Knox, Starke county, entering thlaw firm of Hembroit Erothers after the death of T. M. C. Hembroff. He is a native of Starke county, his father, Dr. Lorenze D W. Glazebrook, having been a practicing physician and surgeon. Mr. Glazebrook, the younger, read law in the office of Judge George W. Beeman of the circuit court at Knox and was admitted to the bar in February, 1S94. He served as deputy prosecuting attorney for Starke county for four years and as county attorney for four years, and for a number of years concurrently with these terms in office, held the position of town attorney for Knox. He was twice -elected prosecuting attorney for the forty-fourth Judicial circuit, which embraces Starke and Pulaski counties, and he was sergeant-at-arms and principal doorkeeper in the house of representatives of the 1893 state legislature. Mr. Glazebrook has also done somewhat In Journalism, having been a reporter on the old Chicago Times before he studied law. afterwards In company with M. T. Stokes' having founded, the Waukesha, Wis., Dispatch, which is till in existence. He has always been associated with the democratic party politically, although his democracy . is along the lines of conservatism. EMBEZZLER GIVES SELF UP Confesses to Taking $900 More Than Charged. Harry E.' Graff, a former bookkeeper for the West South Water street branch of the G .H. Hammond company, meat packers, well known in Hammond and Whiting, who is wanted by the Chicago police on a charge of having embezzled $800, has given himself up to the police of Detroit, Mich., according to a telegram received by Captain Halpin of the detective bureau yesterday. Detective Harry Gorman will leave tonight to bring the man back to Chicago. He confessed to stealing $1,700. Loop Tragedy. if 4 4'P&TER' 'SCH WABA
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HAMMOND, INDIANA, THE STORY Ames Avenue Family Roy ally Treated by Ham mond's Charitable When Story of Folk Their Plight Is Made Known. Anionia bwlczynsko is a small and vivacious woman who conceals her ad sanies Dy smiling and patching. And because she does both so well people cannot be blamed for not have known until Wednesday evening when they read Thb Times that Mrs. Swiczynskl ana ner three bright-eyed, brown haired baby girls were going to be cold and hungry and miserable all day nrisimas unless people who had plenty gave them coal and food and wished them a Merry Christmas. Sophia Goes For Santa. Sophia who is eight years old, Helen who is four and Anna the baby cried when their mother's smile faded the day before Christmas. In the front room of the two roomed house in 566 Ames avenue. East Hammond, they de cided that Sophia, the oldest must 'go ror Santa Claus. Only Sophia of the mrre iiaa practical ideas concerning hanta Claus, Helen's conception being more or less fantastic and Ana's rather vague. Wise beyond her years Sophia forbear details and struck out upon her mission. THE TT3IES Is Called t pos. mat little story about the drearv Christmas at 666 Ames avenue ac (Continued on page seven.) ORPR EHEHT , II SUCCESS The Orpheum benefit for the poor of Hammond, conducted Wednesday by Mrs. J. F. Reilly of the Settlement House and Manager Louis Rommel of the Allardt staff, was surprisingly successful, owing to the generosity of the Allardt's, the Elks the K. of P.'s, the K. of Co.'s the Woman's club and individuals who bought and distributed a great many seats. Six hundred children saw the matinee of "The Only Son," and probably not more than a hundred paid to get in. They had been" given tickets. Over $300 was turned over to the Settlement House as the total receipts of the day, the Allardt's paying all expenses of the house and show. Of the 600 youngsters at the matinee there were some that had never before seen the inside of a theater and it is said a few who had never even visited a nickle show owing to paternal objections. Although a great many could not catch the drift of the drama they thoroughly enjoyed it. The lights, the music and the mere fact that they were in a theater was enough. Manager ' Itommell provided as an addeji attraction a program of moving pictures ' which Interested the kinds as nothing I else could. ; The Elks purchased 250 tickets for ' the matinee and distributed them .through the public schools. The Allardt's bought a like number from Mrs. Reilley together with a check for $25. The Knights of Pythias and the -. Knight3 of Columbus both bought 200 ; tickets for the evening and distribiffed 1 them. The Woman's club purchased fifty which they gave away. Many individuals bought quantities of tickets. The Settlement House is exceedingly grateful to the Allardt Brothers for the kind generosity which is almost without precedent in Hammond. The Orpheum in turn says tltat "it was a I pleasure." j "The children were well behaved," ! said Manager Rommell, "and they j showed plainly that they were well I trained in the schools." DEATH OF FORMER RESIDENT Following a lingering Illness extending over a period of nearly a year, George R. Peterson, a well known and former resident of Hammond, died at the Chicago State hospital Thursday afternoon. Funeral services will b6 held at Neidow's chapel Monday afternoon and interment will be made at Oak Hill cemetery. Mr. Peterson was 45 years old and until recently was employed at the Western Steel Car works at Hegewisch. Besides a wife he is survived by three children Mrs. Louise Cobb, 2kUs Ella Peterson and Elmer Peterson. . : ., Breltung-'s L Venda Cigars srs tfe algheat class la all ita sisea, A4t. ti
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Left to right: New Tork, Dec. . 26. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her niece. Miss Margaret Roosevelt, ho sailed with the colonel on his South American lecturing and exploring trip, have left him to iroam on while they have returned to New Tork. Tha two women disembarked with the colonl-t--Rt iiivJaneiro-ani Jnad the trip with him through Brazil, Argentina and part of Chill, parting from DIVORCE CASES BEFORE Four little children, one a girl whose sight and hearing is defective on account of scarlet fever occupied the attention of Judge Becker in his court this morning. The father Charles Reed an East Chicago constable and his wife were In court too, the' wife suing for divorce on the ground of cruel treatment. Judge Becker allowed her the divorce, but now he will have to find a home for the children as the mother says that the husband is not fit to have them and she is unable to care for them. Judge Becker has taken the disposal of the children under advisement until January 6. The husband did not contest the suit.. Mrs. ABOMINABLE STREET CAR SERVICE One Kind of Service. From 6:30 til 7:10 on Christmas eve a Times representative waited for a north bound street car at Warren and Hohman streets, when one came the motorman, though signalled, refused to stop, however, and went by the street corner at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Hammond is being treated these days to the most abonimable street car serv- j ice ever inflicted on humanity. On Christmas eve the Standard Steel j Car Company dismissed its employes at 4 o'clock so that they might make the best use possible of the early hour in preparing for the holidty. The first crowd to reach the corner of Morton and Columbus avenues was just In time to catch a car. The car soon filled and started on Its- way. An hour and twenty-two minutes later it arrived at the four corners having gone at the rate of a mile in forty minutes. Passengers stated that twenty or twenty-five minutes of this delay was raused by an argument between the crews of two cars that met mid-way between switches. Each crew demanded that the other back up. Consequently neither made any progress. Oaly a few days back a motorman
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htm at Santiago, Chili, on November 26. He went south to Valparaiso, while Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Margaret came up the west coast by steamer. They arrived from Peru on December 8 at Panama, where they were met by the members of the Panama commission on their launch. there was detained at quarantine until the next day." They remained at that COME UP JUDGE BECKER Reed was represented by Attorney G. C White of Hammond. Mrs. Sophia Lander and Steve Kowalskl, both of East Chicago and represented by Attorney Abe Ottenheimer were each granted a divorce fro mtheir respective spouses on the charge of desertion. - The state was represented by Deputy Prosecutor I. I. Modjeska. Mrs. Nelson Daniels of Hammond has filed suit for divorce in the superior court through her husband John M. Stinson, charging her husband with drunkenness and cruel treatment. She asks the custody of their four year old boy. They were married in 1906. who it is claimed was intoxicated, engaged in a fistic combat with a passenger. OCCUPANTS OF BUGGYHIT Reckless Auto Driver Runs Down Lowell Couple. (Special to Thb Times.) Lowell. Ind., Dec 26. While Henry Hoshaw and wife were driving home in a buggy about 8 o'clock Wednesday night, an automobile struck their buggy, but did no great damage. The rear axle of the buggy was considerably twisted and parts of the running gear were broken. The auto was going toward town at a high rate of speed and Mr. Hoshaw turned out on to the dirt road, but the auto hugged the north side of the stone road, which caused the collision. The driver did not stop to ascertain what damage he had done and disappeared in the darkness instantly. The collision frightened the occupants of the buggy for a while, and the wonder is that they were not thrown out and badly hurt The horse, being a good old family horse, while she showed signs of fright, did not attempt to run away. It is hot known who the parties were in the automobile. It would seem that drivers of automobiles ought to have enough decency about them to give part of the road to people driving horses. Visiting Relatives. City Judge Fred Barnett and familyleft for his home near Clinton, 111., on Wednesday afternoon, intending to pay a short visit with his parents and friends. He will be absent from Hammond about a week. Attorney A. L. McKinney acting as special judge in the city court. Breltanc'a La Venda Clears i co Idered supreme by the best Judges. A4T. H
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and Sirs. Derby (formerly Miss I port as the guests of Secretary Bishop of the canal commission for two day and sailed from Colon on the Santa Marta on December 11. Mrs. Roosevelt looks remarkably well, her trip having heightened hr complexion. She was met on her re turn by her daughter, Mrs. Ethel. Der bye. wife bL Dr3itohJtra perb:?il;ly4 her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. nin mi is ACCUSED OF FORGERY Thomas Tolme Arraigned Before Judge Atchison This Week. . (Special to Thb Times.) Whiting, Ind, Dec 26. Thomas Tolme, age 65, was arrested in Whiting on the charge of forgery, he having swindled several business men out of sums of money. Tolme secured the I i money by a rather clever ruse. He for a time resided on Sheridan avenue, having married a widow, Mrs. Rose ; Bohmer, who was at that time conductI' ing a boarding house. In the same fiat as that occupied by the Tolme's lived Mr. and Mrs. Van Kleek. Through a streak of 111 luck, such as sickness and other handicaps. Continued on page eight.) Among the photo-play houses of Hammond competition is keener perhaps than in almost any other business. So far it has been neck and neck with first- one house and then another giving better jvalue for the money. When VanSickle of the Bijou, combined the Universal and Mutual program and startled Hammond with six pictures for five cents, it seemed as if the end of the strife had come. Now the iGumbiner Bros., of the DeLuxe, arise1 to announce that they he secured exclusive first rights of the Mutual program and will show the entire release of that combine, tweijty-eight pictures in all, while at the same time no other house in Hammond will have any Mutual pictures but repeaters. Of course, there are other programs that are sensldered Just as "good by many. VanSickle has a contract to the contrary, complications may ensure. It looks like the Gumbiners have put one over on Van, but you never can tell. He with the auburn thatch Is an aggressive, original individual and you can safely place your money on him to get in with a winner. Alt is fair in love and business. Meanwhile, Hammond is seeing the best proto-plays for less money than Is charged in other towns. Through the ast the good houses have 15 and 25 cent admission fees
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ONE CENT PER COP Y, (Sack Number 1 Ccata Cy.) DEBT Mass Conventions to Be County Held Over Lake Tonight; Chas. Murphy of Brookston Holds the Edge in Lake County. Democratic .mass conventions are scheduled for the various Lake county communities to be held this evening for the purpose of selecting delegates to the tenth district convention, which meets in Hammond next Monday. The Lake County meeting are to be held in the following places: Hammond and North township, Jefferson Club rooms, 10 delegates. Whiting, town hall, 2 delegates. East Chicago, Schreiber's hall, 4 delegates. Gary and Calumet township, S delegates. Hobart township, town hall, 2 dele gates. Center township, court house, 2 dele4 gates. , St. John and Hanover township. Hammer's hall, St. John. Ross and Wlnfleld townships, Alnsworth school house, 1 delegate. Eagle, West and Cedar Creek town(Continued on .page eight.) SUES FORSLAirDER. Charging that she had been sland ered by a neighbor and whipped by her credulous husband, Mrs. Teresa Pendenk of East Hammond has brought suit against her alleged accuser, Steve Haraszty, through her attorney, Guy C. White. In her complaint Mrs. fendenk says that Haraszty assailed her morality, and that" her husband, . believing the report he heard concerning her and another man, had chastised, her by giving her, a. whipping. She .y further that owing to the report 'the reputation' of her boarding house had suffered so that she 'was, compelled to Bell out at a loss. She asks $2,000 In damages. Sneak Thieves Busy. Some time during the early hours of this morning sneak thieves gained entrance to the grocery store of W. T. Busch & Co. at 45!) Logan Btreet, and after rifling the cash drawer made their getaway with $5 in change. The police were notified, but no trace of the thieves have been found. ONE OF THESE MAY BE CHIEF OF STAFF 'ftmtm i in iiHlimsw v1- . t i "It I rr-s- ..:::u. !;M' - -"'ft.' ') 4 tA;."('. Major General Arthur Murray (top) and Major General William W. Wotherspoon. Washington, Dec. 26. With the recent shakeup in the army and the announcement that Major General Thomas H. Barry, who had been looked upon as the logical successor to General Wood as chief of the general staff, is to be the commander of the Philippines, and all the other generals disposed of. General "VYot herspoon and Generay Murray are th- candidates. The former is now assistant chief of stac and - the latter commands the western division of the army with, headquarters at San Fran.cit.co.
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