Hammond Times, Volume 12, Number 202, Hammond, Lake County, 19 February 1918 — Page 3
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00 Turkish Towels on Sale
Heavy Weight Material, 'IQ Regular 59c Values, at Osk As Tre have overstocked our Towel Dept., buying: theni ylien market conditions "were normal, wc are now able to offer you this item at a considerable low prico. Made of the very heaviest materials, in striked borders, plaids and checks. An opportunity that every woman should not overlook. Now is the time to lay in your supply of Towels for Sprinc and Summer, cspe- J cially when prices are this low. Great Clearance. "0c value
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Closed Tuesday and Thursday at 6 p. m.
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SATISFACTION Closed
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and Thursday A.
lo at
Chicago ave. 6 p. in.
Double Stamps Ev ery Wednesday.
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Every Day You Will Find New Bargains
DETERMINED Xot to carry over any Fall Merchandise, we have made the prices nn many lines less than the oods ran be bought from the factory. Every day finds New Bargains on our tables. Keep your eye on the Bee Hive Store. Make it your trading place. Others find bargains here WHY XOT YOl" ? The Ree Hive bought loads of goods before the advance in prices and can offer you
those same goods at
BIG SAVINGS
Remember our slogan, "THE STORE OF SATISFACTION"." We are always ready to satisfy our customers. Your money back if goods are not satisfactory. The smallest child can shop here and be just as suro of setting the same values as its parents or any grown-ups.
ADVERTISE
FA'ANSVILLE. Feb. IS. Attorneys and men connected with the liquor business today continuel 10 rii7.;:le over the efforts of the ruling of Judge K. M. Hostetter of the Vandorburg superior court, holding that the new sta'e prohibition law, which 1s scheduled to go into effort April T, as unconstitutional and void. It was rolnted out by attorneys thaat even should lane P. Csborn, prosecuting attorney, and defendant. In the three suit.", appeal without further s'ers in ' he local court, that the supreme court hardly could give a decision beforeApril In this, event 'he "dry" law would fo ln'o effect technically, while Yanderhurp county, under the opinion of local atlorneyn. would be the only legal "wet"
f pot )n t he, state, j There was another question before;; saloon men today as to whether the- de- 1 cision In the three cases would permit ; ; operation even of all the saloons in lhe;j county. They were answered by n'-jS; tornevs w ith the statement that the I St granting of injunctions to the plaintiffs ' i would proclaim the law void, and, there-' fore, all saloons in the county will be j able to operate. I Sa loon owners today began to rre-J :rj pare to advertise fnr news of their 11- j ' censes after April I. Some few saloon j keepers advertised in this manner even I SI hefote the opinion of Judge Hos'etfer j j
j overruling: 'he demurrers of Prosecutor ;
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Double S. & H. Green Trading Stamps With A.11 Purchases WEDNESDAY
S. fc? H. Stamps are an added saving on every cent you spend Be Thrifty Save Them.
Osbuin to the "dry" lawsuits.
KAUFMANN & WOLF - Hammond. Imd.
Another question that will come before j S! : th" board of count .." commissionei s her I :
I Is the problem of granting liquor licene 1 .'1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 f I Tf 1 1 11 1 1 III 1 1 1 11 1 1 P Irenes fils. In Tennessee, when the pro- . j lubitlon law was questioned, saloons' ; ! ran for two years without licenses, while i
the matter via pcrore tne supreme:
court. ! Mr. Osborn again today refused to give '
i any definite hint of his future action in !
to appeal the, cases or not. Should he II FoT $UTTllTlg EcZCTtlQ. reftise to appeal the cases local 1 :on.-r 11
interests w ill be placed in a peculiar j Greasy salves and ointments 6hould not posit'- I be applied if good clear skin is wanted. f"m attorneys sa'd th tnjunct .on. j from any druggist for 35c, or J1.0O for when issued, would he against Osborn extra larre size, ret a bottle of zemo.
! alone, in tint case local liquor itver-;when applied as directed it effectively rnieh be subject, tothe police or any j removes eczema, quickly stops itching, and j other authority, other attorneya d's-lfceals Ekin troubles, also ores, bums.
! putd this fac'ajme that any a tiempt ( xvoundsatid chahng. It penetrates, cleanses , to enforce the law m this county a f : er J and eoothes. Zemo is a clean, dependable I I in amotions have t.een issued would be i and inexpensive, penetrating, antiseptic.
.I--,-!.- o rnntcn-.nt r. f lmillfl. 1 TV If. 33 Df NCVC IlOUllIlli yuu.li jcniamiuiw "in mis i
woodfin d. Kohinson of the legal Arm fcave ever used is as effective and satisfying, or Robinson Stlllwell. who fi'ed the j The E.W. Rose Co., ClevelaniJ, O. s lits for the hrewing companies s.t id : i "This dc:sion in our opinion is dec:?-1.
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GARY ASKS
DOCTOR MEDICS
TO HELP 0,
Capt. Metcalf Writes Stirring Appeal From Arizona Fort That More Enlist.
Capt. J. K. Metcalf, medical officers" "serve corps, has written an appealing letter to the Gnry Medical society, of f hlcb. he was formerly the president. In which he asks Gary us well as Lake county doctors to give now of their numbers to war services. The captain is new at Douglas. Ariz., with a Mexican harder guarddetachment, but he soon hopes to leave for France. His family i there from Gary on a short visit, la Disappointed. The letter, forwarded to the medical society, is as follows: Douglas. Ariz . Feb. 1, 191S.
To the Wife of One Who Drinks
I hav pn important confidential mesge for you. It will come in a plain envelope. How to coniuer the liquor haWt in 3 days and make home happy. Won ierful. safe, lasting, reliabl". inexpensive method, guaranteed. Write to Kdw. J. Woods, 1313 H. Station E. Xew ovk. T. Show Lhia to others. Adv.
"The Gary Medical Socletj. "Gary. Indiana. "Gentlemen: It is iv:th a feeling of some disappointment and chagrin that T note the apparent apathy of our members in their attitude toward servky? for the United States in this her most crucial period of distress. The number who have joined the Medical Heserve Corps and are in actual service is far below rhe percentage of most communities. It is just as much a hardship for those who have already gone in as it would be for sny of you. The remuneration is not princely, but the smallest salary paid a doctor in the army is $2,000 a jear, and we have all lived on a great leal less. "Some of us seem to forget that in war we must sacrifice. Our sacrifice is
service in the Civil Tv'ar.
7eal ever affrnard. and hi
:on on th merits of the suits we brought to test the constitutionality of the pro-
bus patriotic Ihihit ion law. It serr.s to us that any
rev erence I further attempts to question the suits
for and love of the American flag; with would b a mr attempt to hinder the
An examination or tne rumi that this stack, etill intact, came down right on top of an empty box car. passed throuch the roof and bottom of the car
enri .rmhPdded itself in the ground.,
There it stands, upright, sticking out of
frm some othr source. The legislative visiting rommittee j w ill attempt to work out a plan by which the emergency may be met withoat a special session. It is thought that this will mean that the committee representing two political parties, will
give the (jovfrnor assurances tnat ic he borrows the necessary money to put. tip the buildings they trll see to it that the legislature at the next session will maKe appropriations to take rate of the loan. There is no question
th
members o' the committee give their pledge to the Governor, for in that way the expense of the special session of the legislature will be avoided and the money will become available at once.
for a loan can be obtained at any time 1 by the Governor. !
5?. 93, !4. 95. PS. ?7. Watch for notes everr veek Mac. He makes joti smile.
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In union there is strength. Frn. Thrift Club among your associates r 5 all start together to cut out the nonessentials and buy War-Savings ai-,-t Tl rift Stamps.
WINTER IS HERE So is IVIorsc's
my own boy looking at me questioning-1 progress of tho t"st of the law. Any Jy. as much as to v. "What arp vo;i I further stit is un to tbp dcfpnsp Should
going to do." 1 could not hold-back. the defence file an sr.pwer to the om- the top of the car. The children of some of the men who plaints the cause would be set for u!nl ! BTJIIiDXWGS SIT OK TIKB.
Arguments, howev er, w ould of neces- I -i-he buildings in the. vicinity 'of the
should be -n this struge will in after years cauo much emhat rasrment w hen they ask. 'Father, what did you do in the great war?" Me Should Tight Tor XT. S. "To what extent 1 have labored and succeeded, and to what extent I am need
ed at home, you know. I hae spent! much time and energy in attaining myi present professional status. What there! is for me to do more than I am do'nc at i
the present time to help win this w-ar I
sitv be of the same nature as the demurrers."
REPUBLIC SCENE OF DISASTER (Continued from page one)
for Colds, LaGrlppc and Headache
f F : Composed of Laxatives, pA
dL; Aspirin combination with i other well-teited remedies.
v employees with bucket, of 213 East Chicago-Indiana i . r , r . $L.uaranteed to relieve LaUnpne
Harbor Troops Faring i or a Cold in a few hours; Head-
hr.se of explosion were completely wrecked and
Before the f.re h-id
CO. L BOYS WITH HIGH
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no greater than that made by the man i do not know, but I am w illing to rn anywho enlists as a private at $30 a month, j where, at any time, and in any rapacity. Nor docs it compare with the sacrifice j because I fee! that no able-bodied man mads by the many big men of affairs, is entitled to live In our country who w ho have abandoned, their private eater-1 will not fight for it, unless clearly and prises and given their services to the; honestly exempted. Those who sri ungovernment at fl a j ear. It is much j willing to take a cher.ee with their own harder fcr these men to re-adjust their j lives, or who are unvllling to help the living to harmonize with the cha nged i gov ernment by other service, should at conditions. j lease render honest home service and Make Sacrifices. j contribute !ihc-al;y in money. "At this camp I don t lielieve there is! "The hundreds of thousands of bov s a medical officer who as a civilian prac-' actually in the fighting iin, the boys titioner did not have an income of at j who are w-illirg to make the supreme least $5,009 a jear, and several of them I sacrifice to preserve our institutions and are $19,000 and $10,000 men. I have' our homes need our nodical and surgita'.ked with them and asked them why cal skill. They do not hesitate. Why
they were in the service. The answer is. should we
were set on fire.
tamed a r. v headway, however, it was
put out b
a ter.
A good many men were hit by bricks and knocked to the ground whose Injuries were not serious and concerning whom there will never be any public record. Kx-policcman Tom Turner was . V . t u t h. hack
i cne or inese.
with a fixing riece of brlc. Anotner was h:t cn the bead but his heavy cap
saved him from serious injury.
u,.f .',! informed men say that ntij
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always the same: 'ily conscience would rot permit me to stay out.' That is the attitude of most of the medical officers throughout the army. They are patriotic men with red blood In their veins and willing to make the supreme sacrifice if necessary. "Many of us will rrobably net see service in France, then again we may all have to be sent over end a draft made of the stay-at-homes to nil th vacancies. I hope it will never be necessary to draft any members of our society. "So far as my own position is concerned, you all know whether I could afford to leave home and its comfort and enter upon duties that were new and strange and that would lead me I knew not where. W ith the memory of my father's three long and weary vears of
Indiana Harbor.
COMING! Fox's One Million Dollar Production
Annette
Ke Heman
In "The Daughter of the Gods" Wednesday and Thursday February 20th-21st Matinee Both Days. Also opening performance of Kimball Pipe Organ, which has been purchased at great rost from Stv.dcbaker theater. Chicago, for the benefit of pa- . trons of ColTimbia theater. No Advance in Price of Admission.
"Fraternally yours, "J. K. M KTCA T-F. "Capt. Medical Officers Reserve Corps.'
ITMPLEBY BOOSTS
SEVERAL OFFICERS CAMP SHEI-BY. HTTIEBUF.G. M1S5., rb. 13. The first promotions from the officers' reserve sorps s'nre a number second 1 !e; e n a r t destined to accept rommtssion in the national guard have been announced in an official order. The promotion" were mad in the 129th field artillery on th recommendations of Major L'mpleby, o' Gary, when h was in command of a regiment. The order, signed by Majortleneral Pag, camp commander, promoted. Second I.teutenati ' s Cionda. Boggs. Walter T. Hayes. Cheasle t'. Hoon and George Sutton lo be first lieutenants, and assigned them to the, ninth field aif!!ei. I..eu tenant-Colonel Columbus Iand.ng commanding. In addition to the four, two more from the officers reserve corps will be advanced to the first, grad". One is Second TJeu'enant lister Pitts, who is in the hospital, and was not able ti take the examination, but will be well in a few days te take the grad. The other is f'rond lieutenant Itobert MoKinley, who is attending school in
W tsronsin. snd who will b advanced as soon as he returns to Cauip Shelby. All of the.e men took ommissions In
nearly the entire city as windows rattied and buildings vibrated to the shock. Many arose from their beds and went out onto the street to learn the news of the catastrophe such as has seldom been visited upon this city in its whoie history. v When it became known that the accident was at the Republic where nearly a thousand men are employed, hundreds of homes were thrown into a sta'e of wild d'srrn for the safety of husbands, sons and brothers. SUIlQEirCY CALLS SKIfT OUT. The police station sent out an emerg-
! er.cy (all tor tne ampuiances. all tne physicians, the rolice patrol, the tire J engine and automobiles. The response j wa3 quick end but few minutes elapsed before doctors were giving first aid to twenty or thirty men who were being ' brought in by twos and threes, to the j -vffl( e riant whmh is on Chicago avenue
near rift il road avenue only about three blocks from the center of the business district. The floT of the office was, literally covered with groaning and dying men. As fast as the flow of blood from the wounds could be staunched, the
iniured wre limed in eutos. and am
bulances and whisked over to St. Mar
gare'.'s hospHnl, TWO XXX.X.BO AT OHCI.
1! if believed that Kerekis ?nd T5;sh
la't wei e Killed at fr.ee. The unidenti-' fed man d-ed at the bopitaI w ithin a couple of hours and John Burnett, a' watchman, was found dead among the:
rums this morning. The boilers that blew tip t ere of the tubular variety and a great deal of won Cerment is expressed by ciMrens and engineers that a boiler cf this type should explode )n this manner with su li vio
lence. These boilers were n"t rented in! - connection with the operation of the si- :TMFS m n Fl M' teen in-h mill, whih has not recently , S-4TE cPITI-. been working but were Ufd as emerg- ' indisaPOI-TS, IXD., Feb. IS. It is ency st-am boilers to supply steam thouKht "lh8t Governor Goodrich will when other boilers were low. All iave- fnd a w,v hy .hich he can avoid Clin both boilers must in some unaccount- ,,n(? a gr(.c!ai session of the legislature able maner have be-n closed to cause ' appropriate money twith which to
. th.s eTplo-ion. 1 vecenstruct the buildings that were deI INJTJBIXa CAtTSrn t STEAM. Lrroyed by f.re a few days ago at the I The injuries were caused by the en-j jnd janll Reformatory at Jeff ersonville. cape of the fupe-hrated steam and bv ; u v,a railed a meeting for two o'clock
Well, Says Lieut.
Lieut. A. H. Dreesen of Co. I,. 151st infantry. CamD She'.bv. Hattiebure
Miss., which is made up of East Chicago- ! i Indiana. Harbor cuardsmen. hn t Home : s
There is r.o way of getting any an- . - . ,, ; ' ' I
. . : t V. a 1 a invrti v (1 1 .
thentic miormiuon v. .. . . questions of twin cities people. They
ache in a few minutes. Quick, pleasant and efficacious. A trial will convince.
thousand dollars Is a conservative esti
mate. ONE TEA&rVILT BTJKIHBC One of the men most seriously injured
I was neorge Schilling. -Norm .ii'i
avenue. He was thrown across some white hot iron and fearfully burned. It is understood this morning, however, that he will rrobably rull through. The riant will be crippled for some time. Doubtless it will take several weeks before the debris is cleared away and anything like an actual damage in figures arrived at. Superintendent George Paris and his office assistants together with is force
of men are already at the job and will , fhe comranv wMch Js shyrt
restore order out 01 cnaoj as uu possible. The sisters at St. Margaret's hospital in Hammond workins without rest handled the situation efficiently.
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mm moid
SPECIAL
SESSION
want to know all about their boys, who left for the south last August in command of Capt. A. P. Twyman. Oorapaaj Has Grows. It gives thq lieutenant pleasure to ve-
ort that t!ie company won honors at
ine corneal range, where battie conditions are simulated. When the company left here it had 3 officers and 147 men.
Now fhe Quota is 6 officers and 213 mpn
it should bo 2 0. Capt. Twynian'a officers are three first lieutenants and tw second lieutenants. Lieut. Drcesen is the senior first lieutenant and the second in command, being attached to the headquarters platoon. Lieuts. Michaels,
.ay ana . unmngtiam are at tached to
n officer.
Dreesen has been an instructor ai divisional school. Way Promoted.
Promotions have come to several efi
men. josepn -say, wno left a ser-
S'ancy in Co. F of Gary to become sec- ;
ond. lieutenant now wears the silver bars ! of a first lieutenant. Lloyd Finch. ! formerly a corporal in the Gary com-i
pany and until recently lop sergeant of: 'apt. Tw man's outfit has been made a'
second lieutenant and is now attached to
hpadquarters company, l"rnd infantry. John H. Kettles, formerly of C". K is the ' new top sergeant. j Lieut. Dreesen also had good w ords j for Co. F of Gary, commanded y Capt. j
ii.ney, Tormeny ine command or J. A. A j 1- J? iLmrleby. now a major of artillerv. Th. I Opens tBCj flOOT tO,ttVUSlC tOT bOV:
lieutenant, who is the son of J. P.; Dreesen of the A'Js apartments, will leave for his post on Saturday. Irom Camp Paper. The current issue of "Trench and ' Camp", the weekly paper Issued at Camp . 5helby. has the following: to say cf Com-'
pany L:
Ewiiji ipi itm it mnum) wjyni I m. mi nipuii.jwu'syil ii irtm -1MH'-"- - ' ' fctatfcf. "1 pj.iM!i.fp uwmwjwwi- jwmpwEepwswm 'S sw..wsafwa fcn ruin nliiiTmnn inn - i it i arififr r "
the national guard when General Sag !
j bricks, pieces of iron and other debris
the rr e n-. -
next Monday afternoon
.h. r.o ,.., .v,,. a i that were thrown all over tb- mill whenl k-,, cf the legislative visiting com-
MaiorGeneral Page, on Major I'm- I xh cxrlcs,on or.-urred. Arms and legs , m .
Major General ?age. on Major
pleby's recommendation, promoted Second Lieutenants Travis and Whitsel. of Wabash, and Kmil WagnrW Columbus, to be first liulennti in the ISSlh ti.M artiiler"-.
Your Liver has important work to do. Under favorable conditions it docs it well If sluggish, relieve it with
lAFiatl Sale ef AT Medicine ia the WarUL takl tr7wkr. Ia besaa, 1 0., tk.
were broken and nociiej, battered by these flying missiles. There are stories on every corner tfiis morning of the narrow escapes with which many were fa voi cd. One nf the peculiar incidents connected with the explofion was graphically te;d this morning by ex-po icerr,m Mike Gorman who is now chief watchman at the plant of the Graver Tank Co. He said that he happened to be looking toward the r.epublic when the explosion occurred. GtAPHIC DESCKIPTXOIT OF BLAST. Immediately following the deep, heavy rumble of the bursting boilers he saw, rising to a height of sbyut two hundred feei jn the air. a tail something which Her i' roved lo be the smoke stack cn these boilers. Following it and light ir.g
for the purpose of considering
the subject. This committee is composed cf Senator Walter MeCooaha, of Richmond, and Representative Charles MrGoragle. of Muncie. both Republicans, and Senator Walter 5. Chambers. cf Newcastle, and Kenresentath e .lo?eph M. Grains, of Madison, democrat. Iv is the same committee that n-ade a tour of the various state institutions just before the 1917 session cf the legislature and prepared an estimate of their financial needs for the nest two years. The committee made a detailed report to the leglslatute. which was made the basis for the appropriation bills passed at that session. It i estimated that it ivil! .-05? something I'ke oi'ft.0"n to replace the burned building. There is available at
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tip the heafn was a sheet of flame! this time in the special e met gem y fund which enabled him to see the huge . tack a ppt -pria ted for the insi ttui ions by r;se to the highest poini, waxer, topple, (the last legislature about Jinn. 009. and straighten up again and descend almost the remainder of the mney must come . -- r ..---vr.--t ' "SL.ffSi!'""" "ii'
Co. Is, 151st Inf. Br "ICac." Our company was on guard Wednesday when out of the night came the call of "Corporal of the Guard." The corporal was "K'tnkle" 7,immermann. He went tip to the man and asked "what's the trouble." The guard said: "Mule on my rost and he won't get off." "Kinkie" is in the hospital trying to get a horse sh"e out of his stomach. The boys gathered around the bulletin board. There was a poster reading: "Murphy of Co. L will bu !o-8ti-i, of Company K." Mike who was sf an ding with Murphy sa id : "He's a tough boy and you better be careful." Murphy replied: "That isn't anything. I can stop all his blows with my face."' The kid is right. Mike sa.vs the other n ght when be was up town he saw a girl winking at him. KImer Pair, of the M. P.'s asked. "Weil what followed." and Mike said, "I did." Fair is now viatohing for the girl. The mess sergeant nsll 'Vok Fox if the "Mam was fresh." 1 'onk Fox said, "It hasn't spoken to me yet - The roll of honor ef Co. L: 80, 91, -' Mftiy "7t. I?"?--
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