Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 11, Hammond, Lake County, 30 June 1919 — Page 10

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r tore Bona-f ide Slaughter Sale High Class ixruDa s Seasonable consisting o

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Tailor-Made Suits for Young Men, Boys and Children;Trousers, Dry Goods, Furnishings, Dress Goods, Suits and Dresses for Women, Misses and Children; Hats and Caps and Ten Thousand other articles too numerous to mention. In fact a $40,000 stock of good clean seasonable merchandise. The biggest portion of this stock being practically new on account the wholesale houses and manufacturers would not countermand Krupa's orders. On sale for a few days only at about

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Since this sale began last Thursday thousands of people have surged through every section of Krupa's Big Department Store, ISOth St. and Baring Ave., East Chicago, Ind., supplying their wants at prices they never thought possible. To those who were unable to be waited unon since this Ron.FiMp tvt T?r;-

Is' - M. A. w ' -mm . a m. m. ITAVIIV Wi. CJ P ing Sale began last Thursday, on account of the Tremendous Crowds, we kindly ask to call again as we

have added a number of extra salespeople and will be ready to serve you promptly.

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A perfect landslide of Grigantic Bargains, forty thousand dollars worth of good, clean,

seasonable merchandise will be thrown to the mercy of the four-winds. Every stitch of this fine stock is on sale. POSITIVELY NOTHING RESERVED. The Wholesale Merchants' Syndicate, the World's Greatest Bargain Givers, has instructed the clerks to sell, and sell, SELL OUT THE WHOLE WORKS IF YOU CAN VCost and Profit Will Be Forgotten. Krupa's Big Department Store at 150th and Baring avenue, - East Chicago, Ind., is one grand blaze of Wond- ( . erful Bargains. YOU -CANNOT AFFORD TO MISS THIS GREAT SALE. YOU DARE NOT MISS IT. i A Tremendous Slaughter of Modern Merchandise at such Low Prices that this section of the country has never seen or even dreamed of.

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Entire $40,000 Stock Now on Sale for a Few Days only at 150th St.

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DON'T FORGET! This is not a sale of undesirable, unsaleable merchandise, but the choicest selection of this season's productions from the world's best manufacturers, it is not necessary to go into details as you all well know the class of merchandise Krupa's Department Store carries. Their big success as merchans was only attained by giving their patrons and the public positively the best that money could buy, at the lowest possible prices with an iron clad guarantee of satisfaction in every sense the word implies. Henceforth during this great Slaughter Sale of G-ood, Clean, Seasonable Merchandise you will have the same courteous treatment as heretofore. A SALE THAT'S A WHALE. Right when you need goods most, RIGHT when other merchants are getting big profits, we place our estire $40,000 stock at the mercy of the . buying public at a great sacrifice, for a few days only, in order to raise $12,875.64. BECAUSE we are forced to unload. Remember the PROFIT IS YOURS, NOT OURS. Every article must be slaughtered in a few days nothing reserved.

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Te East Chicago Chamber of Comfneree, which is now employing a fulltime secretary, sends out the following bulletin to the member?: VALUATION'S: We have gone on recrd as believing: that the new valuations for taxation purposes ere too high. A commute has been appointed, consisting: of E. W. Wickey. A. J. Burns, and C. K. Wallace, to make further investiiration ajid V take the matter up with the county fcoard of review if reports xe confirmed. Data Is being gathered end publicity started. CANAL PROJECT: "a barge'oanal 'is jroposed. running from Fort Wayne by the southern route to the Calumet Rivor In or rear Fast Chicago. Tu'o meetings have been held and tonnage statistics .re being: prepared for use of the govcrnreent engineers. Your secretary has arranged for a Joint meeting with Hammond, and Whiting on Monday, June SOth, at a 12 o'clock lunchnon at tho Hammond Chamber of Commerce rooms. A speaker from the Central Inland "Waterway s ; Asociat ion will be present. Manufacturers are especially invited. -MEMORIAL: A petition to the city council has been prepared asking for the appointment of a committee to investigate the matter of a memorial for our returned soldiers and sailors. It 13 prorosed to make this memorial in the form cf a community building. The petition has one hundred signers and the statute makes the appointment of the committee mandatory under these conditions. The committee consists of K. D. Xorris, chairman. K. A. Bates. W. C. Davis. I.. A. "Wiltsce. E. X. Canine, R. M. Royce and Mayor McOormack. , RECEPTION" TO SOt-PIERS AND BAILORS: The initiative on this movement was taken by thjp Chamber of Commerce' and a meeting was called by the secretary. Everything . was then turned over to the officprs elegtd. Your ecretary. however, is handling the publicity and is lending the co-operation of the Chamber of Commerce in every possible way. Much interest is being shown. BAND CONCERTS: This movement, started by few interested citizens unfi&r the lead of Percy Glover, band mas

ter, has been taken over by the Chamber of Commerce and funds will be raised to continue these concerts during July and August. OWN YOUR OWN HOME: This was started early in the spring, but other matters forced it temporarily into th.i background. A meeting will be called for Friday. July 11th. to revive this important movement. COUNTY BRIDGE APPROPRIATION: Auditor Poland is holding up his petition to the State Tax Commission for the approval of this appropriation until it has been O.K.d by tho industrial and business interests of the city. Your Chamber of Commerce has this matter

oeiore me manuiacturlng companies,

many of whom think the appropriation unnecessarily large. Each manufacturer was recently sent a detailed estimate made by the engineers and it is hoped by both city and county officials that the large interests will place their approval upon this appropriation. GOOD ROADS: This organization called a county good roads meeting at Indiana Harbor a few weeks ago, where after a discussion of the new county unit road law, a committee was appointed to confer with the county commissioners in regard to a county system and with the state highway commission in regard to those roads which we would recommend as state highways to be taken over by the state. A meeting jf this committee with the county commissioners will be held about the middle of July. DUST AND VAPOR NUISANCE: Upon petition of about one hundred citizens of Calumet, the board of directors have taken up with the officials of the U. S. Reduction Co. the feasibility of some plan to eliminate the dense vapors that frequently obscure Chicago ave., and settle down on residents of the Calumet territory. This was taken up at a luncheon meeting at which Messrs. Wenlt and Wiltsee of the U. S. Reduction Co. were present. A letter from the chemist of that concern adviss that they are studying this problem and will mat;e further effort to find a satisfactory solution. Further investigation will be made

In sixty days. The superintendent of the Buffington plant of the Univeral Portland Ccmcr.t Co. was also invited to a luncheon for a discussion of the success of the efforts of that company to reduce cement dus, In this district. The claim was mad 5 that cf the dust that was issuing from the stacks two years ago was now being collected. An invitation was extended to a committee to visit the piar.t and confirm th statement. Messrs Slocomb. Buse. Farovid and Jacks-on were named. DAILY PAPER: A committee was appointed a week ago to advertise for men of capital to come here and start a new publishing and printing plant and establish a strictly local daily paper. Messrs Roe, Burgin and Evans were named. Thre will be NO Luncheon Meeting-, Wednesday, July Ind. On Friday the :??h of June at four o'clock, a conference was called to consult with the committee of Chicago men who aro investigating this territory with reference to the establishment of a match factory within our city limits. No definite developments have been taken at this time.

bond. The witnesses were P. t. Melvy, 1124 Beach St.. Indiana Harbor; Jim Cadman, 4224 Magoun avenue. East Chicago: Milke Glatz. 52S 142hnd St.. East Chicago, and Officer Muha. John Malowski, brother of Steve, and Henry Kubic were the other occupants in the machine.

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WOMAN HIT BY AUTO IN .CONFUSION

tYhile crossing the corner of Forsyth and Chicago avenues with her sister Regina yesterday Miss Emily Ghitiu of Pullman was knocked down and run over by an auto driven by Steve Malowski of Chicago. The two women were on their way to catch a street car to Indiana Harbor and had Just come from Yhiting when they saw the Harbor car coming and ran to meet it. The worr.'n became confused and the autoist while tryin gto avoid Miss ;hitiu actually ran into her. The car had to be lifton off the unfortunate woman. Sh was given first Bid at Schlicker's drug store. She was badly cut and bruised. Officer luha who made the arrest and was also a witnfss to the affair, arrested Malowski for reckless driving. This accident happened at the time Officer YVeSnstock. the regular crossing man. was away for dinner. Malowski was released on a $d.000

I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! NEW YORK, June SO. There was no change of speculative conditions as the result of the signing of the treaty on Saturday at the opening cf the stock market today. Nearly everything traded in made some gain during the first fifteen minutes. Specialties again raovtJ up wih a good deal of violence, the best gain being in Ajax Rubber, which rose 7-2 points to 106'i Steel common moved up lj to 10S. and other steel industrials were genrr ally from fractions to over one point higher. Pittsburgh Coal moved up 2' to GS. The Petrolccm stocks were generally strong and some of the other industrials including International Paper made good gains. The copper stocks failed to share in the upward movement, v-crro de Pasco ro?e 1 to 6S51, but qufakly dropped tc 6 3 'i. American Smelting and Anaconda both yielded about Ji. Central Leather rose 2 points to 10S.

PREPARES TO ADDRESS CONGRESS f Continued lYom paire nm; l with them the original terms, so that they can be compared and in order that

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I INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! ATHENS, via London. June 3 0. Several clashes have taken place between Turkish and Greek troops in the region of Smyrna in which the former were dispersed, it ws officially announced today. The Turks were reported to have concentrated 40,00ft soldiers in the vicinity of Smyrna. On June 23rd the Greeks attacked the enemy, pushing them back,, towards Ahmdah. There were subsequent encounters.

U. S. "army posts" along the Mexican frontier. Completion of forts and housing: accommodations along the Mexican border, recently undertaken by the war department for the comfort and rrotection of American patrols, will eive th United States its fir.t real fortified frontier.

However, it is stated as a postive fact that the United States will not accept the pact of London as a basis of settlement in any manner whatsoever. (The pact of London was drawn up among Grea.t Britain. France and Italy by which territorial concessions were promisedto Italy in the event she entered the war on the side of the entente. The United States was never a party to this agreement. It Is already regarded as certain that the president will denounce efforts to nullify the -.reaty through the passage of resolutions similar to that of Senator Fall's. Such action would he characterized as taking the side of Germany. However, it is likely that a great portion of the opposition will disappear

American peace commissioners re-' whereal! of the facls have been presentmaining behind will not recede f rom J pd to the American congress and the the position taken, upon the Palmatinn ' American public. question. j jn addition to beinp a presidential

(The Dalmatian question involves ter-j ship, th" Gerge 'Washington might be

ritory upon the Adriatic claimed by both t'rrwd a ' bridal boat" as she is carrythe Italians and Jugo-Slas.) mg seven French brides to the United Secretary Lansing has been directed States. These young women married to handle the American side of the j American soldiers just before sailing, negotiations and he will keep th presi-j dent posted upon ail devo,oPmn-s. it, n't throw youi paper away is generally expected ihnt a way cut of' the difficulty will fmaiiy b evolved, without reading the want ad page.

PIONEER WHITING LADY PASSES AWAY 1SPECIAL TO THE T!!E3! WHITING. Ind., June 30. Mrs. Dorothea Harms, age 79 years, one of Whiting's pioneer residents passed away at 11 o'clock yesterday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Augusta Lindert, 4S63 Forsythe avenue. East Chicago. The deceased hat been a sufferer from palsy for a number of years, she having fallen down and broken her hip two years ago. Since this time sne had been practically an invalid. The deceased is survived by three daughters. Mrs. Lindert and Mrs. Clyde Biddinger of East Chicago, and her daughter and son. Mrs. Robert Harke and Henr" Harms of Whiting. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon from the home of Mrn. Lindert in East ''hicago at 130 p. m. At 2:30 the funeral service will be preached by Rev. Bopp at the Evangelical Lutheran chir-ii in Whiting. Interment will be at C'akhiil cemetery, Hammond.

BIG COMMUNITY WORK That is a good way to get garden results says the National War Garden Commission, of Washington.

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OH SAY CAN YOU SEE Next winter you will look at that Victory Garden with glee.- Get the garden bock by sending a two-cent stamp to the National War Garden Commission, at Washington.