Hammond Times, Volume 11, Number 150, Hammond, Lake County, 12 December 1916 — Page 4

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THE TIMES Tuesday. Dec. 12, 1916 EES NEWSPAPERS SY TEE T.T. COUNTY PEI23TINO & PUBUSHTHa COUP AST.

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A PAMPERED DIET SQUAD. The Chicago diet squad closed with a total gain in weight of thirty-five pounds in its two weeks food test at a daily cost cf 40 cents each. Why not? The squad was pampered. Its last breakfast of oranges, rolled oats with dates, French toast, bacon, bread, butter and coffee was ambrosia beside the eaten scones with which old Scotland nourished a fine race. Its last dinner of soup, roast loin of pork, cranberry sauce, sweet potatoes, escalloped onions, bread, butttr, rice pudding and tea was little like the cornmeal, cob and kernel ground together that S. B. Chittenden found in a dead Confederate's haversack at Monocacy food which sustained the fighting men who nearly raided the capital. The squad were adults of both sexes at light labor. While $2.S0 tach may seem little for their food, it equals $14 a week for a family of five. Buying and cooking at less advantage, the average workingman's family cannot pay $14 a week for its food alone; far from it. Everybody knew that at a sufficient price good food can be prepared with intelligent stewardship. Like so many such experiments, the diet squad established nothing of social value. New York World. Absolutely nothing. The diet squad simply gave the Chicago newi

papers opportunity for stories galore stories that bored their subscribersstories that were silly and inane. Chicago is confronted with a host of n-.'ghfy problems. It shoves them all under the back seat with the other bundles. Chicago strains at a gnat and swallows a camel. Its present city ministration is a pitiable farce. Who cares what the diet squad ate? What good did it do? There are thousands of families who are forced to pur up with and grow fat on far less than the squad did. If Bill Hale Thompson's dietitians want to find out how cheap living can be had. let them go r.r.n to the stockyards district where the husband gets $15 a week and .-'. .o;I wife brings up, clothes, feeds and schools a family of six. ask her how she does it?

THE HOUSE of SECRETS An Adventure of Grant, Police Reporter By Robert Welles Ritchie Story by Redfleld Instils

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THE BANK A PROT ECTOR OF MONEY. Vr- u.e all obliged to carry with us a certain amount of money the 'aily necessities of life require cash. As a rule, not more than you will need fiOia day to day, for the man who carries great wads of money with him is not only taking the risks of theft and loss, but is doing himself, the bank and the community an injustice; himself in the risk he assumes and the loss of interest the bank would gladly pay; the bank in the use of the money to its profit, and the community in the loss of the money as the foundation of credit. In a bankless community the individual must protect his own money. And to protect it he hides it, often to hi3 sorrow. If there were no banks we would gravitate to a state of barbarism where strength was the only safeguard. But to the individual who has more money in hand than the daily needs require, the bank says: "It is our business to protect. For this we have strong vaults, burglar alarms and watchmen. We Epend money to protect money. We know how that is our function as a bank." You will frequently read of losses running into large figures because some one has mistrusted the bank, and assumed to be his own money protector. Merchants In bankless town3 are frequently robbed so frequently that some who have learned their lesson will no longer trust the frail iron safe that looks so formidable, but is a mere toy under the cracksman's skill, and prefer to sleep on their money. If "every roan to his trade" is a good motto, then the banker to his trade, which is. first of all, to safeguard money. True, he does not keep all he receives on deposit in cash that would be a useless and profitless taskbe keep3 only enough to do business with and loans the rest, which constitutes the second function of the banker, and that is to lend; but remember this: that the place for money you can t use today is In the bank, for this is what banks are for, and you had better find it out. You will sleep better and your money will grow while you sleep.

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porter," wrote a great man who knew, and Tommy Grant, police reporter of The Chronicle, New lork. had occasion to test the truth of the statement not two days after he had started on a well earned vacation on Long Is-

land. To be sure it was not much that aroused his suspicions, but Grant believed that everything; waa Important until he had proved It wasn't. He had been out, gun on shoulder and game bag on back, looking for quail and had broken unexpectedly through the shrubbery edging a Held into a little used country road. "Whoar yelled a rough voice the moment he appeared, and Grant looked around to see a heavy waeon pull up short fifty feet or so away. The wagon was covered with a tarpaulin, and on it were three surly looking men, each of whom had his right hand behind him in a gesture that the reporter had seen many times in his exciting career. He waved to them gaily, however, and the men relaxed. "Aw, It's only a hunter," grunted the driver loud enough for Grant s quick ears to hear, and the wagon enme on again and passed, the three watching him in suspicious silence. Grant turned and saw another man on horseback some distance ahead, who waved urgently to the cart to hurry up. "Now, what the Sam Hil d'you make of that?" he asked himself and decided to investigate. The wagon soon disappeared around a bend in the road, and the reporter followed. In a few minutes he came to a point where the wagon had turned off through a broken gate, and, pushing cautiously through the shrubbery, he ew a three story house that looked as though it had j been built for a cottage and abandoned. ! The men were already at work unloading several heavy tanks from the cart and j rolling them down through an open cellar ! door. The leader, who was dressed much more neatly than the others Grant had noted, waa not to be seen. A moment later he emerged from the I house and remounted his horse. The men !

hurriedly finished their work and got into the wagon, and they rattled away at a

smart trot down a faintly marked roadway towards the sea shore, a mile or so away. At the same moment Grant became aware of a curious, rhythmic sort of cross between a crackle and a roar. He puzzled over its vague familiarity for a moment, and then looked up wHh a start to observe a set of wireless antennae strung from a flagstaff on the roof of the house to the cross arm of a telegraph pole in front. With a quick catch cf the breath he understood, and after listening for a moment (for an outgoing wireless message is perfectly audible for some distance around the sending station) he hid gun and game bag and hurried toward the house. The invisible operator had not seen fit to use a code. After trying door and windows in vain. Grant made a quick survey and saw a second story window that was open. Some vines, the clapboardlng. a window ledge and a rain water pipe proved to be a sufficient ladder, and in a few momenta the reporter had pulled himself inside the house. H listened and heard the roar of the cp ark a overhead. Cautiously he ascended the stairs and pushed open a door. Before him, seated at the apparatus, was a powerful looking, black haired man with a wireless head piece on, listening for an answer to his message. As softly as possible Grant withdrew and hurried downstairs. He must get to a telephone as soon aa It was humanly possible. Perhaps he could open the front door from Inside. But just as be reached the landing

"Halt! Hands up!" commanded a voleo above him crisply, and he turned to see the man covering him with & pistol. "is-ext time you go poking your nose into other people s affairs, remember to beware, of mirrors. Mr. Spy." Mld th. Zf? n evil grin. His left arm .hot out to roorVa" tlir moment'tht chesndns'!0 10 bther heAcon7rivi!d? Just abo him. and tu us feet were against it Ha kirk.

risrht T . . in ana stand up-tnroua-h th . moment h had sawed hr S a rpe around tIa wrists on the sharp edges of the broken glass in the Window frame. He knew he could not have been unconscious long, for he pohM rlhlCnth'r"! ot the lM overhead renort"0bh,h!.b,f.k n making a yanked .wi'1 , tf,rUgh th thJ ! " , r ,ron "rtl"- hd was In the open air once more. Without stopping for breath, he hurried to his ''ladder" JnH was soon back inside the second f floor wlnhta mrt!T-n T UI?derstoxi reason for d for tU.nn,nS fa,K A lining trap Uio cell, qU'ety drPped ta ar ,WUnff "round th ho'o to the ataira and again was "all but caught napping Hearing a slight noise behind him m he upward, he turned and dodged Just in time to escape the clubbed plsiol in the hands-of the black haired man. Instantly the reporter grappled with him. TherWa. a grim, silent etruggle. and the man waa heaved up and shot over Granfa shoulder to disappear down (he open trap door. upstairs It waa not for nothing that he had spent three years at a telegraph kev. Ten seconds later the operator at the Brooklyn Navy Tard was receiving a message that started a United 8tates dae. tor th8 nearty ay at top speed. But Grant wa nf ... - .1 1. . .

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and all but brained a handsome young woman in riding habit and puttees. The leader of the wagon! At the point of a revolver he backed him into a cupboard. He thrust his foot in the way as she slammed the door, caught her weapon and promptly overpowered her and locked her in. He heard

.vxcuea anours outside and the pounding of feet on the Stairs and took to the roof. Several men in the uniform of a foreign navy were below, as also the black haired man, who looked very aick. There waa a yell of rage aa they aw hsm and a fusillade of shots. Some of them whistled uncomfortably close. Then the captain in charge gave a command and the firing ceased. They wanted him alive. But Grant thought he saw a way of escape and snatched at It. He ran to the flagstaff and swarmed np It. Holding on by one hand, he got out a knife with a stout and serviceable nail file blade. With this he notched and snapped off the wires leading from the wireless aerials, unhooked the latter from the flagstaff and. taking a firm grip on them, swung out Into midair. While the men below yelled in amazement he swung through a great arc of a circle and landed Itl 9 tr.A fa Kivnnil .Via 4.1 - - V. 1 .

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SOMEBODT says the V. S. is headed for war. Not a bad move. If we can get into a big fracas maybe we can get food prices as low as they are in England or Germany.

AFTER the way Indiana acted in the recent national election is it any wonder that the state isn't going to get the government armor plant?

APPLY EARLY AND DON'T CROWD. For Sale Suitable as old paper; an excellent supply of editorials on the need of suppressing gambling and other vices, also a few chips suitable for poker, markers, etc. No deliveries. Apply at the Gary Evening Tost.

REFERRED TO MAYOR JOHNSON. X woman has been elected mayor of Umatilla, Ore. The New York World telegraphed the mayoress and asked what her honor's views were concerning the conduct of her office. She replied by wire: I favor no particular features more than a rigid enforcement of the law and a general curtailment of expenses. Thank you. MRS. E. E. STARCHER.

U. S. HAS SOME THING TO LEARN. The government is advertising for men to take the examination for the position of laborer in the custodian service at the Federal building in Gary. The laborer is to get 50 a month. When industries at Gary are paying from $l,0Sd to $1,400 a year for laborers at Gary and some earn as much as a lieutenant in the army we fear the government job will keep on looking for an occupant.

FEDERAL courts have wide nower.

Why doesn't Judge Anderson instruct

the receiver ot the tiary & Interurban system to allow no garlic-eating; passengers to ride on the cars?

Brougelac, Esplnoir or de Chauvigny. Nivelle Is the only name we can pronounce correctly when in high brow society. i

SATS the Gary Times: "Mr. Ford has shown us how to make autos cheaply. Why can't he go into the flour business?" We wouldn't want any tin bread in ours. Nor are we very fond of biscuits that rattle when they hit the plate. Muncie Press.

NOTE that the kaiser says he wxm tho Roumanian battles with God's assistance. Kaiser must not be as cocky as he used to be for in the old days God got no credit at all.

IF" OLD Noah had kept that pair of poultry off the ark we wouldn't be havingall this rumpus now about the high cost of eggs.

IT MUST cheer the cockles of our Herr Ludwig's heart to note that the Indiana Society of Chicago banquet listed champagne as well as the now costly sauer kraut.

WE HAD intended to put at least 10 in the bank this month but some one has gone and taught the baby how to say , "Shanty Cosh."

IF they really have o fire General Joffre -n e are in favor of Gen. Nivelle getting his place instead of Gen. Petain.

BMLESTATETRAHSFEBS EAST CHICAGO. Le. 33, 35. iZ, 48, Champion Add. Julian H. Touche to Clarence C. Smith $1.00 L C, B 5; L 11, B 5, East Englewood Add. Hoy D. Davis to C. Oliver Holmes Jl-00 GART. L, 6. B 6. Davis & Holmes' 1st Sub. Hoy D. Davis to C. ' Oliver Holmes : $1.00 Vs. 29, 30. B 2, Lincoln Park Add. Martha Golnik to John Kozakiewlcz $1.00 L 38, B IS, Broadway Add. Albert Dabath to Antone Lewandowski - ?100 Ls. 29. 30, B 2, Condit-McGin-nity's Tth Add. Condit-McGin-nity Realty Co. to Genevieve Monsch $1,000.00 Ls. 27 to 31, Gary Bond & Mtg. Co.'s 2nd Add. Gustav Tiske to Carolin L. Dickinson $1.00 CROWN POINT. Ls. 3, 4. B 2, Railroad Add. Zions Church. Crown Point, to Julius L, F. Schroeder $4,000.00 Pt Middle 1-3 W AVi SE SE 1-36-10.' Henry R. Criffi to J. S. Blackmun Co. $2,500.00

GART. L 6. B 45, Gary Land Co.'s 1st Sub. Gary Land Co. to Suburban Bldg Co. $475.00 L 4, B 65, Gary Land Co.'s 1st Sub. Gary Land Co. to George Mack $699.60 L 26, B 13, Gary Land Co.'s 1st Sub. Gary Land Co. to Chas. H. Johns $607.50 Ls. 17 to 21. B 5. Godiar Park Sub. Hammond Finance & Development Co. to John Plachy $40.00 L 21, B 3, Kelley-Semmes Blvd. Heights Add. Gary Heights

Realty Co. to Adele M. Chase $1.00 L 37. F. C. Hall's Add. So. Side Tr. & Sav. Bank to George Spess ' $147.71 S 23.25 ft. L 33, B 103. Gary Land Co.'s 1st Sub, easemt N 1.75 ift. CJary Land Co. to John A. Greenberg $375.00 L 34, B 103, Gary Land Co.'s 1st Sub. Gary Land Co. to John A. Greenberg $700.00 Ls. 4. 5. 6, 7, 8. 9. B . Ridgewood Add. Albert Paul to Nick Stoisor $1.00 Ls. 7, 8, 9, B 4, Ridgewood Add. Nick Stoisor to Albert Paul $1.00

Ls. 4, 6. 6. B 4, Ridgewood Add. Nick Stoisor to Roil Ursui $1.00 TOLLESTON. L 20, B 4, 2nd Logan Park Add. Clarence Bretsch to Ignata Gubernat . $35.00 L 1, B 1, Pridmore. Orr & Ullrich's Sub. Belle R. Loen to Mike Frankovich $1.00 Ls. 29, S6. B 19, Co.'s 6th Add. Frank B. Downing to C. Oliver Holmes - $100.00 Und L 7. B 4. Carlson's 1st Add. Hans Wold to Frank J. Kluge $100

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