Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 70, Hammond, Lake County, 10 September 1917 — Page 6

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General business is improving. The stream of yellow gold that finds its way into the pockets of the army of men employed in this region is knocking at the door of profitable investments. There is no safer investment than real estate! NOW is the time to BUY and BUILD. IN ANOTHER TEN YEARS you will count the wealth of this district by the billions and the people by the millions.

Cement Work GET OUR ESTIMATE ON AMOUNT OF CEMENT NEEDED FOR THE JOB. -

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Hiss Leila S. Gordon. I Her clothes ere Chinese .And the pose 5s putely riental, but yet this gill Sittf.ig crohs-ieeged on the table isn't Chinese at all. She is Miss Le.la S. Gordon and the daughter of Mrs. George Barrett of Washington, the wife of Major General Barnett. The photograph was taken at the annual costume ball at Narragansett Pier for local charities, which accounts for the Chinese attire..

RED CROSS TO CO-OPERATE WITH WAR DEPARTMENT WASHINGTON, Sept. . Red Cross chapters in many cities hav completed their preparations to serve light refreshments and emergency rations

to the troops of the National Army.

who will be traveling- to the cantonments today. The Red Cross will co-operate In every way possible with the War Department, both in caring for the comfort of troops at mobilization points and at stations where the troop trains are scheduled to stop, and in supplementing the service of the rail

roads by having reserves of food ready for use in case of any accident

or delay which disarranges the plans for feeditg the men en route. In many places the chapters have actually been doing this during the past week. Their machinery is in good running order for the heavier demands "which will be made when local quotas of the 20P.000 men who will be mobilized during the next few daysatart to move.

Call at our show rooms where you will find on display the largest selection of fixtures in northern Indiana. HOUSE WIRING Get our estimate for wiring your house". It will increase the rent income. Open Evenings. Phone 710 for Service .

Preparing for a Bs Dofl. A nouvcan rtche who was noted for his misuse of the king's English Is quoted by an exchange as dilating on the cost of the kennels for his new country place in these words: "It's Just throwing money Into the fire. We haven't an animal on tbe place worth 2; but the way those architects are fitting up those confounded kennels anyone would think that they expected them to be occupied by the Dog of Venice himself I"

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Pleasantly 8urprleed. After a long car ride Betty arrived at the home of a friend, with whom ehe had Janch. She ate heartily, for she was hungry. After lunch her hostess aslied If she had had enough to eat, to which ehe replfed: "Oh, yes, I had more than I expected.

The Secret of Buying Lumber Lies In carefully selecting the best wood for each purpose. Buy your lumber not solely on its appearance but for the particular purpose for which It la to be used- - And remember that sound knotted lumber of a good wood will give you infinitely better service than clear lumber of a wood that will warp and twist and spread at the Joints and rot only after a few short years of service. For all uses out-of-doors WHITE PINE has for three centuries been the preferred wood. We have a large stock of this old reliable wood on hand and will be glad to get for you any items we haven't in etock. The satisfaction it gives makes it a pleasure for us to sell White Pine the one wood which for Biding and outside uses never warps or twists or rots and always stays in place. Remember that we are at your service in selecting the best wood and the proper grade for your particular use.

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AMERICAN ENGINEERS ARE BLAZING TRAIL TO FRENCH FRONT

(By United Fr. WASHINGTON. Sept. 8. Romance, mystery and peril blend in the tremendous task of "the army ahead of the army" which today is blazing a trail to the French front for America's million men. Ifs the job of the n?lneer; and It means that every step of the barren way from French port to French front roust ba modernized Into an elongated American city. - First off. they must macadamize the liirh'ay, every foot of it. And over an erea of several miles in the vicinity of the port and behind the front an intricate system of perfectly paved streets and avenues must be built. Winding In and around both these terminals the engineers are fashioning a

complicated systems of railroads, both narrow and standard gauge, for switching, transferring and caring for troops and supplies. Connecting these two webs Is a ribbon of track paralelling the miles of raved roads, with branches and spurs shooting off here and there on both sides. Every tie. every rail. every spike, every engine and every ear for this fiystem of railroads. Is being taken from this country. Not ona bit of material, not a single man. is being supplied by Frano. x Great wooden camp cities are rising at both ends of this line, rower houses, permanent repair gang caraps. houses for maintenance of way officials, water reservoirs will be strung out along the lina and at the terminals. The lumbor

for these structures Is being hewn from the forests of Franca by regiments of American foresters. Other reglmenTs are rebuilding and enlarging docks and wharves at the , port of arrival, and dredging and opening new approaches In the bay for the big gray transports. Sawmills carried from America are springing up in the French forests. American-made well digging machines dot the line of communication. Electric light plants are blossoming forth to supply the trenches, dugouts, storehouses and cantonments with illumination. Miles and miles and miles of water pipe are being laid. Special regiments of American miners picked from the star diggers of every state in the union are In charge of the American system of trenches. Baps, transverses and approaches. Expert companies of electricians are putting in an Intricate system of battlefield Illumination, Including searchlights, trench lights, glarelight apparatus and great piles of star

bombs and rifle grenades. But none of this complicated system of communication and approach must be visible to the enemy. It must be dug in, buried or concealed by camouflage. The highways must be neutralized in color to blentt with the landscape. The railroad tracks must not glisten. All buildings must be ha2f burled in the ground and the above ground portion disguised wiW bushes and shrubs and neutral colotings until, they are invisible. This is where the American artist does his bit. A number of well-known American masters of color-combinations are employed to precede the engineers and study out the problems of obscuring our operation., our troops and artillery and our lines of communication from the enemy. The actual work will be done by American sign painters and soldiers trained la the craft.

Aeleral. Acieral Is the name given to a newly discovered metal alloy prepared by a French Inventor. It contains 90 or more per cent of aluminum. It has the advantages of strength, lightness and freedom from corrosion. It is being used for military helmets, and is said to be adapted to airplane and engine construction. Properly tempered acieral has, a tensile strength of 75,000 pounds to the square Inch,

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Power. i Thst he can produce one horsepower for each pound his engine weighs Is the claim of a Trench Inventor of a motor depending upon the explosive force of gunpowder for power.

Lunar Craters Not Volcanlo. Volcanic craters upon the earth are mnali, deep pits at the summits ol lofty cones. The greatest Is not more than aeven miles in diameter. Lunar craters are saucer-shaped depressions In the surface of the moon. The two types are as unlike as possible. It is very difficult to see how such craters as we find on the moon could result from volcanic action.

I can't beat "Tears cannot reetora him, therefore I weep," says a correspondent, but the following pithy epitaph on the tomb of a doctor (?ivea me, I hasten to say, by a medical man) comes near it: "He survived all his patients. -Manchester Guardian.

Find Inspiration In Sheep, In the highest of fine art, la the most appealing of poetry, sheep have been the Inspiration for lnnomerab'e of the greatest attainments of prose, rhythmic and canvas. The Immense horse pictures of Rosa Bonheur, the cattle pictures of Paul Potter, have never had the tender consideration that Is given by the populace to small canvases by Jacque and Mauve, always dominant In sheep. Exchange.

Debt to Civilization. "Every savage woman, we understand, wss wedded to some man, and, here is cae great difference between her and her civilized descendants. The full, independent life of the single woman belongs to the present day."

To Attr3 Your Country Calls.

Make It The Last War.