Hammond Times, Volume 14, Number 40, Hammond, Lake County, 4 August 1920 — Page 5

Wednesday. An crust 4. 1920.

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CHURCH IN 48 HOURS

Community to Have A New Structure to Replace One Fire Destroyed. tSPEClAl TO TH TIMES GRIFFITH, ind., Aug. 4 Building a Eaw church in a single day of eight hours Is to be the next biff event In Griffith this summer. It is acheduledfor Saturday of this week. Big things have been happening regularly In Griffith this y oar since the industrial boom set in. Factories are springing up where only rlumps of Ja.ck ta.k stood before, new homes are in various stages of construction and what was before, only a railroad junction Is rapidly taking on city airs. With all its growth Griffith could boast of no church building. The orfly r r.e tlio inn had. burned last year. People feit keenly the lack of a house rf worship, which is always pointed to is a mark of a community's rrogress. Then came It" v. P. Emmtt Snyder, '.he Christian evangelist who has had such wonderful success in other parts of t-ake ciunty. It was his work which rtsuitod in Hossville getting its first i hurch last w inter. He has been holding meetings in a tent this summer and nr-w has the majority of the Protestant cilirens of Griffith enrolled as members HFV. Ii. EJIMKTT SMDER t t!ie Christian church. Raising money for tho erection of the building was a much easier task than he had expected. Hc was surprised at the way everybody seemed to want to contribute. The lots opposite the school grrad? on Junction avenue, were purchased at a reasonable price from the Ostrrhout holdings, through A. Haddow, general panagfr cf the property in Griffith. Other details have been arranged. The McFarland contractors made concessions or. material and all work will be tforated. Promptly at S o'clock Saturday morning the signal will be given for the driving of the first nail. After that things will hapren rapidly. Eight hours later it is planned to have the building completed. In fact the house Just must be finished on time, for arrangements have ajready ben made for services that evening. Rev. C. J. Sharp, former pator of the Hammond Chritian church and now superintendent of group evangelism, is to preaoh at the meeting. He is the church's real pioneer in the Calumet re gion and the success at Griffith - is a continuation of the good work which he started at Hammond years ago. Movie camera men will be on the Job p.U day taking pictures of the construction work. Rev. Sharp plans to use these and other pictures of Lake county in his evangelistic work. -Sandwiched between the completion of the new house and the evening services will be an old fashioned open air barbecue. The pig which Is to be roasted, a monster fattened especially for the occasion has already been donated end awaits the celebration. Participation in the big fed will be free to every person w ho will lend a hand and drive some r.ails durJng the day. The formal dedication of the building will take. place on Sunday. Rev. Sharp vi!l be in charge of dedication services. "EVEN 400 ARRESTS ARE MADE An even foyr hundred arrests were rr.ade by the Gary police during the mouth of July, according to the monthly yrtport given cut by Chief cf Poiite Forbis this morning, July brcikins all records for the year. Of the iOO that wre arrested. 100 were married people and 200 were Single. Two hundred and twenty of them paid fines, .11 were bound over to the Superior cc-urt," 30 were sent to jait In default, 27 were turned over to other officers. 14 forfeited -their bonds, 36 c ases ,were nolle-proesed, 38 were released from custody and 26 cases are held pending. Of thos arrested 339 were white and fl were cc-lored people. There were 49 different crimes committed and 2S rationalities. During the month 20 jiight lodgers were booked and the police patrols made 793 runs, covering a total of 712 miles. Fine;; paid amount U- a totai of It. 27.50. Drunks were the chief offenders. S6 intoxicated people being taken info custody for the thirty-one days. 50 people were arrested for failing to have their 1920 auto license number plates and 40 others were brc-ught to the station for violating a section of the traffic ordinance covering the parsing of street cars while discharging passengers. NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL St.eps will be taken by Chief of Police Fcrbi? of Gary in the near future to purchase a "stop and go" traffic signal post, which is to be placed at the center of the intersection of Fifth avenue and Broadway, to take the place of th ebig steel trolley pole that was removed by the Gary Street Railway Co. MILLS AREJ3RIPPLED "With only six mills In operation t the plant of the American Sheet ana Tin Plate Company and the Gary works of the United States Steel Corpc-raion in a seriously crippled cendiion as a reul f the coal shortage, conditions are

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about the umt in the Gary mills aovordlng to a canvass of the situation today. Six of the blast furnaces at the Gary works are still down the open hearths and coko ovens aro operating at a reduced capacity resulting In toe curtallmtnt of production In nearly every department of the bl mill. While not authentic It is reported that the ISO inch, plate mill, the rail miil and part of tho merchant miil are dawn complete

BAYTON GETS TROPHY Ernie Bay ton. king of the ten-pins in t Gary, and well knownsport writer, who is promoting the Fittsburg-Gary All Star game which is to bo staged at Gleason park on "Wednesday afternoon, the 18th of this month, is the proud possessor of the baseball that crashed Into the ComisUey park bleachers, netting Babe Ruth his 3Slh homo run of tho season. It has Babe Ruth's signature on it and today reposes in a Gary shop window attracting wide attention. According to Ernie tho prize baseball is to be auctioned off to the highest bidder at the big game, together with a number of j other autographed baseballs. MULLEN CHOSEN AS PRESIDENT Members of the Gary International ! Typographical union were expended the honor of holding the first meeting In the new home of the Gary Labor temple on Sixth atmue this week when memt( of local 590 assembled for a meet mg and elected officers for the ensuing F. 12. Mullen was re-elec'-cd president. Marc Morgan, vice president; Vernon Burger, recording seen tary; V. E. Huddleston, secretary-1 roasurer: and IK M. O'Brien, sergeant at arms. Koutine buiness relating to the interests of the craft were discussed. !REALTYCO.BUYS ANOTHER BUILDING I The Gary Central Realty company which was organized several months ago when a number of prominent Gary business men purchased the Reynold's building, a store and office building at 522 Broadway, added another aluable piece of property to their assets yesterday when they closed a deal for the purchase of the former C. M. Baker building at the rorthcast corner of tith au nue and Massachusetts street. From the most authentic Information obtainable, it is said that the purchase Trice was slightly below Jt5.0tH and was purchased from W. 1. Plew- and company, who bought the property for a sum close to $65,000 two months ago. The building, a two story brick, is 12a I feet by 60 feet. '125 feet fronting on Sixth aenue and 60 feet on Massachusetts street. The first floor store rooms are occupied by Paul Ihle owner of the Club cigax store and billiard hall and the east store rooms by the Stimson Furniture company. GARY'S NEW BUDGET Gary's 1321 budget will carry something like 11,000.000 in appropriations according to members of the finance committee yesterday an increase of approximately $100,0CO more than the 1910 figures. In order to raise "the million j dollars for municipal revenues it will j be necesary for the city council to tlx the tax levy at something like 7S cents on the hundred dollars, it is understood. WHITING POLICE MAKE MANY ARRESTS SPECIAL TO THE TIMES1 WHITING. Ind., August 4. The police records show that 1S6 arrests were made in "Whiting durin gthe month of July. They were largely for autoists having no licennses. reckless auto driving and fishermen not having the required licency; although the Hirt included gambling, larceny and other charges. POLICE OF TWO CITIES PRAISED Copies cf the supplemental to the publication "The Detective" a book published during the national convention of the police chiefs at Detroit, were received this morning. In a lengthy article written by Tom Cannon, Gary newspaper man, Gary's rolice department and history of the city is given apromincnt position, together with pictures of Mayor Hedges. Chief Forbis. members of the board of safety and pictures of the spot en whicji Gary was built in 1905 and a Broadway scene of today. A page is also devoted to the Hammond police department in w hich Chief of Police Peter Austgen cc-mes in for his share of the praise. SECOND PAPER APPLICANTS ARE NUMEROUS Naturalization examiners have been busy at the federal court room in Hammond since Monday afternoon getting the second paper applicants ready for the September term of Judge Hardy's I court. The examiners will remain until Friday noon. Soldiers who desire neco-nd papers may bring their two witnesses ind their discharge papers and have their preliminary work attended to promptly so that there will be no further, examination when the matter come up in court. Judge Anderson will not hold a naturalisation session this fall at Haramon.1. owing to the fact that his court date comes within the time when grant intr of papers is forbidden on ele&tion yeas. , Personal and Social News Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Gillo. of 528 State Rtrcet, hav returned from Milwaukee. Wis., where they have been visiting their son. The Mayflower club will meet tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. J. Markcll, 511 Becker street, Minnie "Weyhmueller and Hazel Hamer have returned from a months vacation spent( in Denver, Colo., and other points in the west. Paul Robinson, eon of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Robinson cf Hammond, Is visiting In Rensselaer with his grand mother, Mrs. C. B. 'Wells. The Knights and Ladles of Security will Inltiato a large class of candidates tonight, In their hall over the Lion store.

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Alter short business meeting there will ho ooen house for ntnliers and I their friends, and 'dancing and refresh ments will be enjojed A national officer w ill be present and nil :m mbers are urged, to come and bring the.r friends. Emma Mann ili entertain the Sigma Theta Gamma Thursday otrinp, Aug. 5. Mr." and Mr: Charles Green, and Marion Green of 4 Warren Mreet saw "Buddies" at Woods theater, last night. Mrs. O. M. Daughcrty and daughter Grace of 1S3 Truman .avenue, returned I i yesterday from Whoshaw lake, near j Peoria,- 111.- Grace Paughrrty has been' visiting friends there for the past month t Mid her mother j"inci her a w , k ago. Mr. end Mrs. O. Kansas City, Mo., of August. Parry motored to spend the month L. C. B. A. had a meeting last night for the installation of candidates. During the evening plans ere made for a picnic to be held at Lake Front park on Aug. 12. The Kings Daughters of the Christian church will meet Thursday afternoon in the church parlors. Mrs. Edward Unnewehr will entertain tomorrow afternoon at her home 132 Sheffield avenue at a Silver Tea. for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Centenary M. E. church- All members and friends are itivited. Mrs. Grace Xordyke and Uro children are visiting with her sister, Mrs. .T. AV. Carmen and family in Rensselaer. The Golden Rod Social club will meetj u.i inc oonie vi irrs. lj. iiancnroru, iza X. Jtohman street Thursday. Aug. 5. All members are requested to be rresent. Delighted with the beauty and wonderful hospitality of Hammond's summer colony at Lake "Winnebago. "Wis.. Mr. and Mrs. John Schmuesscr and Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Brinken of Blue Island, formerly of Hammond, after a two weeks visit there, have Teturned to Hammond. They were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. tVm. Kleihege, who are summering at tfkir cottage at Lake "Winnebago. Mr. M". M". Towlqs returned from his cottage at Dewey Lake, to spend a fewdays in Hammond. Miss B. M. Goodlaad of th Lake LIVE LOCAL NEWS "ADS" BUTTON COVERING HKnSTITCHlNW IX ONK DAV Pleating, braiding, sewing- machines at bargains, all kinds of repairs: all work guaranteed. Call on J . Waseey at 91 State at.. Just west of Hohman st. Phone 446-Hu.mmond, Indiana. 7.7 NOTICE Auto owners Try Led wick Bros, for high grade auto rainting and trimming. All work guaranteed. 234 Plumiaer Ave., Hammond, Ind. 7-27-3 Phone 3728. NOTICl FOR SALE Sweet coin. Ernest Gunther farm. Black' Ouk road and Saxon avenue, Hessville, Ind. No delivery. Phone 1377-T4. 8-3-4 NOTICE Auto owners Try Idwick Bros, frr high grade auto painting and trimming. All work guaranteed. 234 l'lummrr arr., Hammond, Ind. 8-4 Phone- 372S EXPERT p'ano tuning and repairing. Carl Heinz, phons 1320-M. 4 Elm St., Hammond. 8-4 CALL 623 GARDNER Taxi Service Dodge Sedan service at reasonable rates. Special rates for funerals, weddings and christenings. S-4-tf SEWING MACHINES All kinds of sewing ""machines repaired. No agency. Work guaranteed. Call even'nsr. Phone 2570. Jas Fanta. B3S Injgraham ave.. Hammond,

mmtttwMtmimmmi main a A SwS County Times, and Miss Mary Roach, left this afternoon for a trip througli the wist. They will take the northern route, stopping at Banff and Lcke Louise. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Brooke of Chicago. Mrs. J. Arvin and Mr. H. Youglove of Valparaiso, Ind.. spent ycstrrdy in Hammond, the guests o Mrs. P. II. t "rutnpackrr. They were, motoring from Valparaiso to Chicago. Mrs. Arvin will return to Hammond Thursday, to spend several (lays with her daughter. Mrs. C. VatiSchaack of 1008 Hyslop place. . Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Tennant and children of "Warren street, will leave the last of the week for Grand Beach to spend a week or fen days. The following people will have a beach party tomorrow night at Pine beach: Mr. and Mrs. Chas. C. Joner. Marion Doming, Margaret Pirle. Katherine Sharrer, Edward Horr. Charles Dtmir.g and .Mr? Carr of Philadelphia. Mr and Mrs. Tloy M. Fudge will leave tonight for Toledo, Ohio, to be gone for two days. The members of the Ladies' Aid society of the St. Paul's Lutheran church will have their annual outing- at Harrison park tomorrow. Light refreshments will be served," and friends of the members are invited. The FaithfuJ "Workers of Dorcas Jtebckah lodge will meet at I. O. O. F. hal ltomorrow for an all day meeting. Members are urged to be present. . - The League of "Women Voters will meet tomorrow evening at S:00 o'clock in room No. 1. of the Lake Superior court house. Mr. "Whinery will teach a class in citizenship and an Invitation is extended to "all women interested in politics. New Interest is being shown by tho women since it is known that they will be able to vote for president this year, whetherthe national suffrage amendment Is ratjned or not. Mr. and Mrs. William Hart announce the marriage of their daughter. Mayme O'Connor, recently of Hammond, to Mr. William H. Groat of Dixon. II. The wedding took place a.t St. Mary's church at Dalton. 111., Monday, the second of August at 4 o'clock. The bride was beautifully attired In a blue stilt with a hat to match and carried a shower bouquet of brides roses and lillies of the valley. Mr. Groat and his bride left during the evening for Milwaukee. Zancsvilie and the Dells, Wis. After September 1st they will reside at Dixon, LI, where Mr. Groat is employed as manager of the Woolworth store. - Mrs. Rosebraugh has returned from Bloomington, Ind., where she has been spending the summer, to the home of her daughter," Mrs. Marten Sullivan, S3 Highland street. Mrs. Rosebraugh will remain In Hammond until the first of September, when, the will return to Elocmington. COURT David Nichols, proprietor of a grocery and meat market on Hoffman st., Hammond has filed suit for "cotle'ctSon of an account against Minton Newryan through Attorney John M. Stinson. After making the rounds of the Justice courts of Judires iTest. Frederlch and Kernp, the suit of T. Edwin Bell against Jose Wilcockson for possession of the store room which he occupies on State street, has landed in the Ham mond superior court. Judge Kem.i ' ruled in favor of the plaintiff whereupon WilcoeKwn took an appeal. John Ahlborn vs Ray S. Dorton et 1., is the title of a Suit to foreclose a! mechanic's lien which has been filed by Attorney M. M. Bruce. ' Selma Neison. 90 Sheffield avenue, was released on 150 cash bail this morn ir.g to appear in the city ccrurt August 6th. to answer was sworn out by herh'Jsband. Thomas, who, himself, was arrested whtn the wife saJd he had threatened her llfo.wiih sun. Ho put up 150 cash bail to appear Friday mornlr.3. He Is charged with pointing fifirms,. Art Uesenfclt, 64S Stats Line street,

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John B. Kravcik. 14-laoth street, XVst Hammond and Ben Buda of the same city were arrested yesterday by officer H. Ray Bell on charges of driv ing with open mufflers. Three. Chi- i ragoans were arrested by the otTicr TO the same charge. Tax Board Notifies Auditors State Body Acts on Legalization, Horizontal Increas es are Made Necessary. CROWN POINT. IND , Aug. 4 A Statement was received by County Auditor Mac Poland yesterday by the state board of tax commissioners reaffirming til the horizontal tax increases. The action was taken after a special meeting of the board, as directed by the Tuthlll-Kiper act. tn which the board reconsidered all Increases and found them necessary. The order of the board pointed out that these valuations are necessary in equalizing the 8 sseesmen ts cf the counties and townships with each other and with assessments made by the state board st the time they were issued in 1919. The message to the auditor ssid: "Pursuant to the provisions of the Tuthlll-Kiper act, the board now considers and reviews sll and each of said orders made relating to the equalization of the aggregate assessments of the various counties, townships and other taxing units of the state, and takes into consideration the av Pffsmcntu of all property assessed by the state board of .tax commissioners at its seviral sessions in the ye ir 1919. and the necessity that oth?r property p-ssessed by local taxing officers in 1919 be assessed In the aggregate on an equality with each other and with assessments made by the state .board and now concludes and P.nds thalt was necessary In 1319 to make and promulgate its orders -l equalization' as made and in reconsidering its said orders the state board of tax commissioners now concludes that in order to secure an equitable and Just equalization of all the property within the various counties, townships and "other taxing units with the property In other counties, townships and other taxing 'units within the state tor the year 1919, including the assessments made by the state board of tax commissioners, that H Is now necessary to ma,ke the said orders of equalization dated August 23. 1919. and hereinafter set out, or a-dopt such orders that In the aggregate will not change the total assessed value of property in all the counties for an amount less than such orders would produce." coi'XTY nonns to meet As soon as the orders are received, the county assessments and taxes as they see fit. The state board has th aye i y. of i-iiCiWii' mwiiapvWBiJiaWiWI &FWm.r i i.l

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MINSTREL SHOW - FEATURE A STAR One of the bi features In "The Jolof 1920" whioh the A-merlcan Legion will stage at the Orpneum thea- j tn on. Thursday. Friday and Satur-j lay niihts, August 12rh, loth and 14th J w ill be a musical comedy sketch which comes in the second part of the show. This sketch which is ca'lel "The Intide Inn" has a cast of eight principal and sixteen chorus people. The cast will be as follows: Trlxie, a telephone operator, Maude Biirke; Butems, a hell boy. RuMy Monberg; Sylvia Madeline Ripley, the village gossip, Louise Stevens; Archibald Doolittle. a gentle hotel clerk Kenneth Mauck; Will B. Dunn a theatrical manager, J. M. Valentine; Billie Barton, prospective purchaser of the Inside Inn. Margaret Lamprell; Vivctte, her maid. Katherine Sharrer: Jazz Johnson, the colored porter. Marold Gilles, a director of the Joe Bren Production, who are staging- the shofor the American Legion. The rehearsals are coming alor.g In wonderful rhape and the committee in charge feel wire that they will offer the Hammond theatre going public the very finest home talent show that has ever been staged in this city. The sale of reserved seats will begin Monday morning, August 9th, at 9:00 o'clock at the Orpheum theatre box office, at which tTme the advance tickets no wbeing sold by the members of the Legion and their friends must be exchanged for reserved seats for any of the three performances. WAS DYER. THEIR DESTINATION Three speeding touring earn loaded with hundreds of. dollars worth of ICc 1-ly-Soring-field tires stolen from freight cars in the yards of the E. J. & E. j railroad at Joliet, 111., were fired upon j by Chicago Heights police last night t. Gs the automobiles roared through th city bound west for Dyer, Ind. The Chicago Heights police had been notified cf the theft. It is said and we-e on the watch for the bandits who eluded the police completely. RED ARMY IS IN FULL SWING (Continued from page one) rrtmier Lloyd George at London which' led to reports that an Immediate conference of the Anglo-French premiers and" possibly other allied statesmen would Je summoned. CITS VACATION SHORT Premier Millerand is now on a vacation but" Is expected to cut It short in view of the Berious turn, of affairs in Eastern Europe. The French press Is unanimous 1n the belief that the Bolshevik demand upon Poland for an immediate peace conference behind the battle lines is the death knell of the proposed parley in London . ENGLAND TO MAKE DEMAND Premier Lloyd George is already on record as demanding that the soviet Your

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