Hammond Times, Volume 5, Number 48, Hammond, Lake County, 9 December 1916 — Page 1

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JOHNSON THE BUCK TOOTHERS Gary's Mayor Once Again Pots Reverse English Qn Order and Puts It Up to Others. Alayor R. O. Johnson has decided to t a "commission" form of government try its hands in ousting vice ia Gary. The mayor has reconsidered ixia division to give the town "blue laws," to riamp down the "iid" on Sunday saltan opening'. Instead he will let tho Civic Service commission, a committee of the Gary Commercial club do things. Passfs Bork To V. S. Steel. it was the United States -Steel corporation that helped to place Mr. Johnson in office. Mr." Johnson is now passing the "buck" back to the corporation. H.' S. Norton, president of the Commercial lui and property agent of the Gary Ijnd company, appointed the commission. It is headed by IT. G. Hay, jr., president of the Gary State bank, a semi-steel institution, and also consists of W. P. Gleason, general superintendent of the Gary Steel works; C. V. Chase, an attorney; Harry I fall, a contractor, and Chester 'Wirt, a banker. The day hefore the commission was announced Messrs. Norton. Hay and Gleaawi -were in Chicago, at the steel company's general offices, it is said. Mr. Johnson announced last evening: 'I had intended to issue a closing order Saturday to take effect at once, but since learning that the Gary Commercial club has appointed a vice commission to investigate conditions I have concluded to let matters rest as they are in order that the commission may see for itself how conditions are at the present time." CENTENNIAL PROGRA The following program has been announc for the Indiana Centennial i-!'!e6i.(n at the Christian church and ' Lafa?"ette building, Dec,. 1 : r Opening Instrumental JTusic -" Introduction of Attending Organ izations Hymn "My Sountry" t Preyer .Rev. Floyd Adams Address , Rev. C. J. Shar-t Prayer Rev. T. J. Bassett ' Tei Fandams Choir Un and Raising the Flag Dfvlfcted by Rev. Geo. R. Sheets, . assisted by president, governor, mayor and several impersonators of Liberty, Indiana, Hamond, etc..) Succeeding the services in the church in in front of the school building: ! General Assembly J Address Mayor Smalley 'Star Spangle Banner" Band s Raising the Flag Over Hammond ." Salvo of 100 Guns All organizations are invited. ' The people of the city are requested to observe the day and occasion by .iisplaying the flag during the day and in the evening illuminating their buildings. !".y Order of Committee. W. H. MUIR, . M. M. TOWLE, JR.. CHIEF PETER AUSTGEN. Field Marshals. ALL ORDERS ASKED TO PARTICIPATE Ail fraternal, civic, patriotic and rei.gious organizations as well as clubs and labor unions, have been invited to participate in the centennial celebration Monday evening at the First Christian church in Hammond in observance of the 100th birthday of Indiana's statehood. George StreLer, M. M. Towle, Theodore Moore, Chief Austgen and others are on the official committee and the city council has arranged for a band concert at the city's expense. Rev. C. J. Sharp is to deliver the main address. Rev. Adams and other members of the clergy are to assist at the services. Mayor Smalley will have charge of the unfurling of the flag and after the ervices consisting of oratory and music, eaUtes and fireworks will be fired in front of the church. The various orders are asked to attend in a body and will be introduced as they are seated. If you'll advertise your holiday barbains we will tret the people to whop curly. K sn'i I he time to ftet busy.

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'""WWW-r4ti all :j .. V. -1 ? i 3 'f 5 :iRS TOWNCNP 5COTT , M55 MABEL VERNOK . LMS5- Vvs1' L CQl-T t Here are some of the ladies of the Corfgressionai Union who unfurled a suffrage banner in the House of Represcentatlves. the other day, Dec 5. when President Wilson was delivering his annual message. The banner bore the words, "Mr. President, what will you do for woman suffrage?" A page ore down the banner and the President went along with his address. SEA C11EEJ CLIMATE Venerable of Hammond's Priesthood Will Spend Winter in Cuba. Advised by his physician to seek a complete change of climate, the Rev. If. M. Plaster, popular pastor of St. Joseph's Cathofco church of Hammond. 13 on his way to Cuba to spend an indefinite time there this winter. In the meantime his parish will b in charge of his able assistants. Fathers Roederer and Scholl. Farther Plaster hoped that his health would permit him to remain in Hammond until after the holidays, but last Sunday evening he was seized with another severe attack of his old malady, heart trouble, and his physician advteed him to seek a change of clinmte and a complete rest at once. To make sure of both he decided to go to Cuba and accordingly left Hammond last Tuesday. SUES FOR DIVORCE Otis A. Putney, a stillman's helper in the Whiting oil plant, today filed suit for divorce from bis wife whom he married June 22, this year. The complaint in the superior court, prepared by Attorney E. G. Sproat. alleges cruel theatment and says among other things that Mrs. Putney spent money beyond her husband's means. Partly cloudy lonlaht anil Sunday! KlfcMi.T vrsirnie-r Stinly moderate vr. Inhle wlmfs.

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Good Morning, Gentlemen." VALPARAISO. IND.. Dec. 9. A little circumstance occurred in the circuit court room yesterday in the trial of Pierce vs. Atkins. Richard Hook of Highlands in Lake county, a witness for the defense, took the witness chair and straightened up. The judge requested him to address the jury. "Good morning gentlemen," he said, earnestly, and the room echoed with laughter. When asking him to address j the jury the judge naturally meant for him to face the jury so that any questions asked could be answered directly to them. UP-TO-THE-MINUTE NEW YORK STOCKS CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET. December 9. 104 T, 104 7 92 96' . . 1 1 6 4 128 ...... 12i 80' 85 644 167 61 "4 106. Si' 112 109; .' 67 27j, r 85' 37 U 179 1174 107 7 Hi 138 iiili 66 Ts S7i 109 66?8 115. 9 S 30 7i 93 202 M 145, 1244 122. . . . . . 102 61 At-chison American Beet Sugar .. American Locomotive .. Anaconda American Smelting .... American Tele. & Teleg. National Biscuit Bal d w i n Loco-mo t i v e ... Baltimore & Ohio Bethlehem Steel Canadian Pacific: American Can Co New York Central Colorado Fuel Chandler Motors Central Leather Chesapeaker & Ohio . . Corn Products Crucible Steel Erie General Electric Great Northern ........ Illinois Central Mexican Petroleum .... Norfolk & Western .... Northern Pacific Pennsylvania It. R. Republican Iron & Steel Reading V. S. Rubber American Sugar ....... Southern Pacific Southern Railway ..... Chg.. Milw. & St. P Texas Oil Union Pacific U. S. Steel Utah Copper Western Union Willys Overland CI-OSE CHICAGO GRAIN FUTURES. WHEAT. December 165 V May , 1771, July 149 i CORN. December ". 31 '3 U July 93 1 OATS. December May July- . CHICAGO I.I V E STOCK. HOGS Receipts. 29,000: market, strong to S higher; mixed. 9.25 to 10.05; good. 9.40 to 9.00; rough, 9.45 to 9.60; light, 8. S3 to 9.T5; pigs, 6. 75 to 8y63. CATTLE Receipts. 500: market, Jrteady; beeves. 7.00 to 12.75; cowsheifers. 3.85 to 10.25; stocker-feeders. 4.60 to- 7.S5; Texans, 7. 85 to 9.00: calves, 9.50 to 13 25; canners. 3.75 to 5.00; western steers, 7.00 to 10.50. CHICAGO PH03! CK. BUTTER Creamery extras, 37; creamery firsts. 35 to 06; firsts, 33 to 35; seconds. 31 to 32. EGGS Ordinaries, 33 to 36; firsts, 37. LTVE POULTRY Fowls. 12ij to 16; ducks, 16; geese, 13; spring. 17; turkeys. IS. 1 I By I niled Press. CHICAGO. Dec. 9. Wheat closed higher today due chiefly to covering by shortH. Rumors of increased exports also helped the advance slightly. Oats was stronger. Corn followed wheat. By Vnited Prf..l NEW YORK. Dec. 9. The' Xew'York Evening financial review said today. Sentiment was confused in t'oday's short session of the stock market. So far as there was any definite trend in prices the tendency was downward. Although trading was relatively light end of a more or less professional tinge., there has been to some extent a recrudesence of pool activity. The disturbing aspect of our relations with Germany, is not conducive to extensive commitments in the immediate firtuTe. There w.s a better feeling in London over the political situation although the markets there continued steady aavd without feature. The allies continue to buy steel products here with heavy inquiries for shell forging for delivery in the second half of 1?17. ' Pig iron continues to advance. The 'nittals stocks weer inclined to soft-. ! n .. United States teel ruled -l-ye-j ly around 123 fractionally lower.

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Two snapshots of British "tank" in action. The3e are the first actual photographs to reach this country showing the British "tank" or caterpillar tractor on the battlefield. A photogTapn of a tank at rest was secured some weeks ago, but until very recently allied censors refused to permit any picture of the famous tractor in action to leave France. In the meantime, however, imaginative artists were busy showing the big machines in the midst of battle.

KNOCKED DUN Ai RUN OVER BY AUTO, llfJ WALKS HOME In the snowstorm which made walking precarious and prevented her from seeing the approach of an automobile. Miss Coral Tillman, teacher at the Irving school, was knocked down and run over by a machine on the pavement of Sibley street, at its intersectaion with Hohman street In Hammond, shortly befre 5 o'clock last evening. All four wheels of the auto a Ford delivery truck driven by William Woliers, -a hardware dealer at 4S0 Hohman street passed over the teacher, who was thrown on 'her back. Two wheels left wounds on the chest and the other two bruises below the knees. Desiring to escape from the crowd which gathered. Miss Tillman, after she was assisted to her feet, walked to 103 Carroll street, where she rooms, and upon arriving there, broke down. Dr. V. H. Mikesch was called and found the patient to be suffering from shock. It is not vbelieved her injuries will prove serlous Miss Tillman is a brother of E. S. Tillman, principal of the night -school. She was carrying an . umbrella " at the time of the accident and it aided in obscuring the view of the approaching machine. The driver was intent o watching a woman and a child crossing the street from the. opposite direction and did not - see Miss, Tillman. lie stopped the auto ten . feet from where the teacher was thrown. HUNDREDS FLOCK TO SCHO F Netting approximately $500. entertaining several hundred people and solving many of the difficult problems for the early Christmas shopper in

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search of suitable presents, the first annual hih school fair at the Central school building last evening was a distinct success. 'Music was provided by an orchestra, a German band and Humanaphone, the latter played by Miss Grace Jinkins. Thre were delightful refreshments in the domestic science tea room, SplendM vaudeville, art and needlework exhibits, an acrobatic circus, an auction sale, the Den of Horrors, a fortune telling booth, "Lilly Wets," a fish pond. Miss Bassett's police court and a cleverly acted little playlet. "How The Vote "Was Won," "was the title of the farce-comedy in which Charles Hickman was the leading man. Verna MeAleer, Virgil Reiter, Mariam Pierie, Maisie Tuley, Fay Rick, Dorothy Cunningham. Eliiabeth Singer, Marjorie Ruff and Katherine Sharrer were members of the cast selected by Mis Rankin, teacher of public speaking in the high school. H. C. L. PROBE NEXT WEEK (By 1 nlted Frewn.) WASHINGTON. D. C. Dec. 9.- Special grand Jury investigation into the high cost of living will begin in Detroit, Chicago and New York, the middle o f next week. Special Assistant Attorney General Anderson, in charge of the probe announced today. PUBLIC SCHOOLS CELEBRATE On Monday. December 11. the state of. Indiana will be one hundred yeHrs old. The public schools of East Cliicgo will observe the day appropriately with pageants given in. the school auditoriums. The intention Is to portray phases of Indiana history byword, action, costume and scenery. Various classes have been assigned special parts, and much pains has been taken by all. departments to make Indiana life " real to the children. This has been more importanut than the ntertainment side and yet it will make the most elaborate show attempted by the schools fltT some time. A live newspaper for people who nre till on earth that's what THE TIMES In. -V' ' ? ! ' it V f r

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Come Up WayShe Went Down. (By Vnited Press.) CHICAGO. Dec. 9. Pretty little Mrs. R. Mayne Luther, 20, has climbed back up the ladder she climbed down in het elopement two years ago and today is back with Mother, waiting for the trial of her divorce suit, some day within the next two weeks. Ever since the then Miss Dorothy Klewer climbed out of her bedroom window into the arms of her 23 year old lover it has been stipulated by her parntc tViaf c Vi irM 1 1 rl Tetnm nr.lv by climbing back up the ladder and begging forgiveness from the window sill. Weary of dancing school and cabaret life in Denver, and her honeymoon long since waned, she finally gave up and did it. : VERV LATEST ' :VU NEVUS' . (By 1 nlted Tress Cablegram.) "" lJKrRO(iR.VII. IJec. . nussian" troops have Hslods;ed the enemy from the two hciahts west and south of Vnleputnn, taking SOO prisoners, tnd-y's orfldni1 statement Kalrf. ix machine sunn, one can. nan ami (no bomb mortars were hImi capturrd. On hotli linnkn of the TehehfB. Inch, the statement said, the Hussion advaace continues. southwest of 'nlta, repeated en. t-nij- attacks foreed abandonment of the heights oevnpied rterdaj. In the wooded Carpathians, the state.mrnt said. the st-uscle for a hrlshth south or Jakorlka, died alown and the Russians retired to their own entrenchments. outh of I'omorwln In the region of Konlmikbl scouts broke through the enemy's entanglements. ' BKItl.lX la Wireless,) Dec. The Roumanians arc In complete retreat before the advancing; Dan. ubc and the rlerht German army wlnjt In Routnanla, today's official tatrmrnt asserted. Since December the Roumr.niaos lost ocr 70,tUHt mca taken by these two armies with 1H4 ennnan aati machine guns. Several of these, included a force of Roumanians ' which endeavored to make thelc way from passes northeast of Sinaya. toward the southeast. ' Many cannon were also captured from them. Discussing the number cf prisoner"and cannon taken, the official tatcment declares: 'The sics of these fljrures admits of complete conclusion as to the ed hy our troops and shows to what by onr troops and shown to what extent the Roomunian army Js In confuKiou. Tlie losscn tn dead and wounded "corresponds to the number of prls. oners. The amount of the boothy and war material Is incaluable. DEATH OF MRS. RUTAN V"ord lias brer, received, in' Hammond of th- death of Mrs. Ruih Miller Xtutan at I'l-ankfort Ind.. ,'r., e.-iy a kinder--i :i .ir-acifi- U ihe Hcn-ond. public .f'i ji.i! Mrs. - C;i!fr, '';' ntirviveff by a widinv'.-.r t n d a litui-iutr, ag-d IT inonih.?..

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Great English Editor Says If Allies Are Beaten It Will be I). S. Turn Next. Following Is the moat remarkable tory that has (one oat of the great crtala In Brlriab poUtlca an inside an. alyala of the mnalns situation which haa suddenly changed the whole gov. (mm,nl, written by the man who made l poaalble if.rd .Northchllle. In It Xortholiffe predlrts that Lloyd Ceorgre will first dlreot the winning; of the war, ettle the Irish question and maintain good will between Great Britain and tha initfd States. It Is aomethlniE more than an official statement KOITO 11. . - ' BY IjOE.33 KOBTHCIiZXTS. Copyrighted, 1916, by the United Freis. Copyrighted la Grsat Bntam. Copyrighted at the Department of Agriculture in Ottawa. ti mted Press Cablegrram. LONDON, Dec. 9. The personality of David Lloyd George is for many reasons interesting and "important to the United States. He is one of the fw Britisn statesmen understanding the difnrulty and intangible psychology. He is important to America for another reason. He is now the head of the five British nations engaged in war Britain, Canada. Australia. New Zealand and South Africa together with India. AVinning of the war now primarily devolves on these nations. If they and the allies are beaten it will be America's turn next, for Ger-rr.-iiiy's plans in South America and Germany's hatred of the United States should be known to every American who reads the anti-American propaganda Df the German government. Events made him prime minister a position as powerful as that of your president. But his desire was that this flistlnction' should be conferred on another. Indeed, for some hours it looked as though it would be the Scotchman, Honar Law, rather than the Welshman Lloyd George. He went out into the wilderness alone, so far as his own party was concerned. He had as a supopposed him on practically every phase of politics, and an outside helper in Sir Carson, whose Irfth policy was diametrically opposite. These three with Lord Derby, have produced a miracle whereof ajl the world Is talking. In a few days they have formed a government marred it Is true by inclusion of some notable former failures, but enriched by tha brains of business men and new politicians. At the beginning of the week his political opponent did not seem able to make a government. Now they think it won't last. I hold a different opinion. I believe he will be . tia head of the -government that wins the war. BRITISH SOLDIERS STAGE FAST SCRAPS British soldiers boxing. Boxing matches go big with the British soldiers and there is frequently ft fast little scrap put on to entertain the Tommy Atkins. The picture shows a fast little mill in progress on a transport carrying boys to the trenches. Quite a few

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