Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 14, Hammond, Lake County, 7 July 1921 — Page 1

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Senate Wrangles While h - Service Men Continue To Suffer. BT J. BART CAMPBELL TTASHINGTOX. July 7 While the rcr.ate wrangled again today over whether the country can afford to compensate financially its world war veteran?, bitter complaints continued to p.iur In upon a special senate committre from maimed and sick ex-service ro en regarding the ill-treatment they eiJtr. to have received in hospitals. Hfiltiriums and vocational education The senate faced the stark, unp.easant testimony before its committee that the number of suic:des by exservice men. unable to produce proper assistance or treatment, is increasing at an alarming rate. The testimony was given by Dr. Sal-rrj-m. 4 member of the hospitalization cmjri!ttee of the American Legion w'l' wits in chary of the shell shocked sc.ders of the A. E. F. He declared there were 400 suicides by ex-service raen !n tae New York state alone last year. Ir.q-'iry is being made by Judge Robert S. Marx, of the Cincinnati. O.. fjpifrior court, who is national commander of the disabled veterans of the world war. why but 13, 000. 000 of the $ 1 S.OOO.fOO appropriated by congress for ex-service men's hospitals has been thus fa authorised by the republic health service. It is being charged that construction of the proposed ho-pitals has been de layed by members of congress rolling the "pork barrel" In opposite directions iri effort to have them established on sites in which they or their constituents are interested locally. As the fight rated in the senate today rver the McCumber b!!l for "adjusted compensation" for ex-aervice men. democratic senators twitted the repub1 can side with the suggestion of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon in his letter to Penator Frelmghuy sen. republican. New Jersey, that congress had better direct its attention to aiding Immediately dependent and disabled rather than physically fit cx-service jr. en. The bill's supporters cited former Secretary of the Treasury Houston's avowed opposition to it toward the c'.cse of the Wilson administration to show there is nothing- new in Secretary Mellon's declaration it "could be rr.iy financed by adding to the burden of debt and taxes under which the country is staggering." They declared Mellon's position and that of his democratic predecessor to be identical. EPIDEMIC KILLS ONE An epidemic of intestinal trouble that has resulted in the death of one adult and the serious illness of many children has resulted from the continued hot weather Dr. William A. Buchanan, secretary of the board of health announced today. The health officer issued a warning to the people to pay especial attention to their health. He said tho greatest ianger at this time is over-eating and loss of sleep. "Every case of heat prostration is caused by a disordered stomach." stated Dr. Buchanan. Here :s a summary cf Dr. Buchanan's remarks : Leave Private Stock Alone. Under no circumstance drink liquor, beer or any alcoholic or alleged alcolioHc beverages. Using toffee and tea sparingly. Eat little meat and few eggs. Drink plenty of water, not necessarily ice water. Dres6 as lightly as possibly. It Is better not to wear a collar. Stay away from crowds, avoid irritation; when you feel di2zy lie down. And first, last and all time, get plenty of eleep; rot less than eight hours, preferably nine. oar-to-N"atnre Drea. Mothers should take great care in the feeding of cTrT.dren, stated Dr. Buchanan. Children should be bathed frequently and put to bed early. The health officer suggests the following menu for hot weather: rreakfast: Stewed fruit. Lunch: Cereal, milk and wafers. Dinner: Potatoe salad, a small portion of col' meat and ice tea. "Do not exercise strenuously bcause of the heart strain." he. states in conclurion. "Find the coolest spot In the house and sleep there if its in the front hall or on the perch. RUSHING TROOPS TO IRELAND DUBLIN. July 7. Despite the peace negotiations and the prospect for an fcrmistic. British troop reinforcements ire continuously arriving !n Ireland. Several thousand additional trocps have arrived during the past twer.tyteur hours and are being distributed tJircu"aout "strategic are..

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RUSSELL WEIGLE will loaves for j Indianapolis this w eek-end where he J has employment. ' I-APCRTE superior court his ?- jurned for the summer. The next Le :n ccioer. THE Sells-FJoto circus aggregation (has p;.s,sod up Hammond this .sear and rdG -- HOW much longer is the board of i police commissioners going to insist j that the ;u!!ce swelter and suffer in coats? AS a result of his 500 mile auto tour over the Fourth Alderman Ora Highland is burned the color of a boiled lobster from ,hls waist up. GEORGE St. John is now figuring en, havins Louie Dlsbrow as on" -f the entrants in the autu races at the Roby Speedway next Sunday. HAMMOND has the reputation of having the dirtiest' bathing beach of any of the cities in the Calumet region and the wattr is a fright. EDWARD TALLO.V. age 58. a St. Jo- ! st-ph county farmer, died last wee as a result of a rattlesnake bite received while he was weeding peppermint. THERE have been few times when Hammond needed rain worse than the present. Sprinkling: is out cf the question a great doal of the time. ONE o our policemen has a peach of a system figured out to keep cool at night. He eats an vnion sandwich before retiring and sleeps alone. HUNDREDS of families were unable to obtain ice in Goshen during the hot weatht-r cf the lat three da s, the one plant in the city having broken down. CHE grand opening of the Gary Country club is slated for Saturday at 2:30. An exhibition match and general play will be held in the afternoon . LATEST information regarding John Mooney, former Tirues reporter, is that he is down in Bsrmuda doing press agent work for soma movie actress. L. T. MEYER. 51 Doty street, reports that someone stole a Colt revolver valued at $45 from the pocket of his machine as it wag standing in the g-arage. DR. MALM STONE of Griffith who was in the city today says there is a lot of intestinal trouble among the children in the couiy-y caused by the excessive heat. THE bad pavement between the street car tracks on Indianapolis boulevard will cease to bother us in a few weeks. It will be fixed before the end of the summer. THEY say Harry Mays, the "miracle man" who hunj? out his shinsic in West Hammond for a while, is thinking of putting up a big- sanitarium at New Carlisle, South Bend or Laporte. ANOTHER Hammond merchant who insists that business is preety good is Bf-die. the ph Hographer, who is up to his neck in work. He couldn't even mhake the Kiwanis luncheon the other day. WELL that little flurry about the ol-d Hohman building being safe or unsafe has resulted in the state Are marshal paying Hammond another visit today. He's looking the structure over. THE go!f players appeared in greater numbers at the Hammond country club yesterday Just after dinner. More of them every day are discovering that the course is no hotter than many other places. INDIAN'A banks had their greatest year in the history of the banking business last year, according to Charles W. Camp, chi-f bank examiner. Camp elairns -that bank deposits have reached their peak. AX Illinois Picrc Arrow car con'alning some foreigners and some moonshine aa oertu-ned Iat night near the Calumet river on the road east of Hammond and one of the occupants slightly hurt. BEACH parties, with th sand sandwich and the inevitable grit pickle, are finding favor with a large number of Hammond people these days. Pine, Miller and Waverly beaches are the favorites. I FRED LASH'S restaurant Is also closed up for a six weeks vacation and now the old patrons -with th bunch thrown overboard by the Koffee Kup, hang around the. streets at noon like a bunch of hotneless dogs. S. JHVKS of ,the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Co., who came here from Lcmdon where he was a newspaper man. is having his maiden experience with real heat, but accepts it lth tru British imperturbability, refusing to get excited over it. SCOUT EXECUTIVE SCOTT as up from the Boy Scout camp yesterday ind announced that he had billed en Arctic explorer and an aviator for the edification and entertainment of his young charge. If the Seout3 are not having a good time it isn't Scott's fault. W. H. BLODGETT, staff man of the Indianapolis News was here this week on the distillery robbery story and says: "Ths details were not made public until now." Whaddja mean, "details," Bill? Bill thinks nothing ever gets published until he geta on the Job.

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n"TrfcT!CN'. NEWS SERVICr) . MINNEAPOLIS, Mian.. July 7. The latest housedress is a bathing suit. Prevailing styles in costume for "doing the dishes," sweeping and dusting ihese hot summer mornings have been revealed by one of Minneapolis gas meter readers. The meter reader is welcomed at the door of many of the homes he visits by a housewife in a one-piece bathing suit. Government Leaks To Be Stopped and Huge Tax Payments Enforced. I Til' I.I-ETI . BY GEORGE R. HOLMES STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE! WASlUNfiTOV. July 7, I'erturucd by the now evident fact thnt t;ixe for the rurrent jeiir'of 101 cannot he lowered to any iiotteenhle dejsre, nrtnilnintration leaders are launching In to nn economy drive today with to definite objective In view. One i the elimination of nl! possible expenditures; the other is turr.liiK Into cash nf millions of dollars worth of urpluM and unused materials of every mart and deecription. BY W. H. ATKINS f STAFF CORRESPONDENT I. N. SERVICE WASHINGTON, July " Reduction in taxes by Jl.000.00u.000 within one year was predicted today by administration leaders, on the basis of programs for rigid overntnental economies and measures to compel tax evaders t meet their just tax liability. r.-esident Harding, after conferences with Charles G. Dawes, director of the budget. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair, is understood to nve approved plans which will moan a radical tightening up in governmental administration, not only with the object cf stopping government leaks, but of enforcing payment to the government of huge tax sums by large concerns . Since big corporations are enabled to moreiy give bond as an evidence of their good faith, to get out of paying taxes lawfully assessed, running in hundreds of cases, from $10,000 to $60,000,000 each and avoid by legal maneuvering their payments to the government there is sufficient reason for the vidgap between receipts and expenditures in the United States treasury, official. said after a study of the situation. The president and his cabinet have now decided to put the "screws" on the type of concerns which have sought to scrape up ovci y imaginable If gal device to avoid payment of government taxes, it was learned. Estimates of the internal revenue bureau today showe dthat large taxpayers have wiggled out of taxes amounting to $1.000, 00", 000 and more. The administration's confidence that within a year taxes can be lowered, is predicted upon thee suppositions: Congress will adopt a plan now being drafted by the internal revenue btureau to make the manufacturers liable for luxury taxes and thereby save the government huge losses for which the retailer is responsible. Revenue Commissioner Blair will collect within th next 12 months $1,O0f.0Oit.O00 of back or delinquent taxes, either from thoe who have claimed deductions or tlvii who have wilfully refused or aoid:d payment of their obligations. - Budget Director Dawes will slash government expenditures in a sum which may reach as high a3 $1,000."00.000 by merging bureaus, cutting out red tape, eliminitirig wasteful and reckless spending and by reducing personnel . Following his recent illness. Mayor Dan Brown of Hammond has gone to his old home town. Rchester. Ind . where he. is cooling off on the banks of Lake Manitou. His physician advised a rest of a week or ten days, and the mayor forthwith headeu ir the. downstate town like a homing pigeon. A deluge cf post cards has hit the city hall, cariying the information that he is feeling great, is. having a fine time, will be back soon and so forth. In the absence of Mr. Brown. Controller Harry Broertjes will be actins mayor. JOHNSON NOT WANTED JERSEY CITY, N. J., July 7. Th proposed bout between Jack Johnson and Harry Wills will not get a cordial welcome here. The New Jersey boxing commission made It plain today that the appearance- of Johnson in a ring contest would be derogatory to the i sport. i

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j At seven o'clock this morning. Mrs. j Trissa Kocman, 247 Baltimore street. Hammond, plunged a butcher knife ini to her breast four times. It is believ ed she, was affected by the heat. H'-r three small boys were a. leep in the next room, and her husband had stepped out of the back door for a moment. He. returned to the house to find his wife in a kneeling position the kitchen floor, her head wedged beneath a chair, blood flowing from he wounds. She died in five minutes without regaining consciousnijs. Dr. A. J. Mi'Ur was called, but could do nothing to save h?r life. Ill health is the Apparent cause for the suicide. The woman had been ill for four months, :inl had been under the care of a dactor. Thre years ago, following the birth if her smallest child, hhe underwent an operation w hich left her iu poor physical condition . Mrs. Kocman made a threat to a neighbor about two weeks ago that she would kill her two oldest boys and herself, and leave the youngest buy with the father. Nothing wes thought of ths statement at th-; time. Her sister, living in Austria, where the dead woman was born, killed herself last May by leaping from a window. Jim Kocman, the husband, went to the back yard at seven o'clock to feed Ills chickens, leaving hie wife and children in bed. He vias gone tn minutes, and when he returned, the wife was lying on the f!.-tr in a pi. of of blood. His crys brought Tom Gurak. a neighbor, and the two men picked up the almost lifeless woman and placed her on the bed. She died before the doctor arrived. Jim Kocman has been an employe of the Boti plant tor nine year. The neighbors spoke well of him and the dead woman, and there was apparently no trouble between them. The children are: Jim, seven yfcfers. Frank, six. and Eddie, three. Funeral arrangements have not been rfade. IE MAY BRING NEW RESULTS Through efforts of the Hammond Chamber of Commerce and the Hammond Manufacturers' association some of the restrictions placed on the use of twenty-five mile ride commutation ticket books may be eased so that more, people of the Calumet region can enjoy the low rates instead of the few under the present rules. Committees from the two Hammond organizations met with reprerentati ves of the Central Passenger association at Chicago yesterday and talked over the matter for several hours. At present the railroads have taken off the old. books and ar issuing twenty-five ride family .tickets good j for ninety days. The usage is ;o lim- j ited that only people making frequent! trips to Chicago are purchasing them! and as few care to pay the regular fare, they have the choice of staying at home or using the street cars. Railroad traffic has suffered and the street cars have benefited. The railroad officials agreed to recommend the issue of family tickets good for twenty-five rides on ail rail roads for a ninety-day period. They will rlso recommend the issue of tenride individual tickets good for t'rjirty days and on all roads. These, however, will not be transferable. For the benefit cf people who make the trip daily it is also planned to icsue, if possible, fifty ride monthly tickets, good on all roads instead of (n!y one. as has been the rule. These tickets will b sold at the rate of oniy "7 cents per rid? from Hammond. It now costs IS cents to make the trip from Hammond by j-treet car or C6 cent? to go by street car and elevated. HEAT CAUSES BIG PLANT SHUT DOWN Imp ossible for Workmen to Stand Superheated Foundries. CHICAGO. July 7. Excessive neat today forced the closing down of eight of the shops and foundries of the Crane company. giving 5,000 workmen an enforced vacation. J. B.' Berryman. an official of the company. said it was impossible for the workmen to withstani the superheated foundries. One man. supposedly craied withVhe heat plunged to his death in Lake Michigan today and Ave others have died within the last twenty-four hours from causes attributed to the heat wave. Dozens of prostrations have occurred. Although no official order opening the parks to the public has been issued, police did not interfere with thousands who made the parks and beaches their sleeping place during the night.

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it wher I on "I rd i jct.p from the movies tv.-o automobiles, halting at a 5ict i-n th-" nil R-ad in -the brush country south of Tolleston. discharged Vir gun toting passengers who in turn spread out in a skirmish lin.; and started, on a stealthy scouring "f the wild land west of the road. This was ;.4trday afttrjuona. The grim looking skirmishers were Chief Cus Simons and Ed. Berwangcr from the federal prohibition office with half a doz.-'n members of the Hsmmond police io'rcc. They were expecting trouble but it tailed to mat"iinli-:e. Probably 500 yards from the road they found two men working with pipe wrenches and pulling up a well point from the ground. They were sweating for it was hot as Arizona in the woods. Near the men was a place where the fide of the hill has recently been dug up. Inspection brought to light a dugout nearly fifteen feet square and eight feet high. A ventilator had been construtted so that its outlet was concealed under a bush some distance away. The cave was empty. The men who gave their names as Peter Slade. 936 Broadway, Gary, and Cheslet, Ciesla': also of Gary. Insisted they knew nothing of the. cave but had merely come to get the well points which a friend had noticed. . The party started back to the machines. Probably 300 ' feet from the fl."t .ne, the officers spotted another place where a hillside had been disturbed. Punching a wrench handle into the. sand revealed a board roof which was quickly uncovered. Another dugout w3s' found, also empty. On its sand floor the imprints of five barrels were found. The officers with the prisoners reNO RELIEF PROMISED riNTERNT'ONA'. NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON, July 7. With many deaths and heat prostrations reported from all over the country, Jie United States Weather Bureau could offer no hope for early relief today. No break in the heat wave is in sight, it wm stated. Forecaster Mitchell said that the leather will remain warm generally ;ast of the Mississippi river for the next 36 hours at least. Some slight relief may come by Saturday, he said, although no prediction was made. 52 Hurt When Bus Overturns INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE NEW YORK. July 7. Fifty-two persons were injured, two of them perhaps fatally, when a sight -seeing bus ."kidded and overturned early today near Coney Island. Twenty-seven women, numbered among the passengers, suffered shock and hysteria." The accident occurred when the bus chauffeur, John Callahan, made, a sharp turn to avoid collission with a touring car. BALK m THE CONDITIONS Well the- carpenters and carpenter contractors grt nowhere in their little get-together meetings yesterday. The last meeting of the day wai held after 10 o'clock last night and after some argument the session gradually broke up without anything being decided upon and without arrangements for further meetings. Five representatives of the Carpen ters District Council and five reprjsen- j tatives of the carpenter contractors of J the Building Trades Employers Association were present. It was first proposed to sign an agreement whereby both sides would accept the wages and wr-rking conditions laid down by Judge Latidir, in Chicago. The craftpnien balked on this . . Apparently they were willing to go back to work at S1.J3 an hour for an indefinite period, but they w anted no strings attached. Then it was suggested that the con-" tractors sign up to pav the rate and observe the pi me working conditions a.; in the Chicago territory and that the unions defer signing until a referendum vote could be taken, the men working meanwhile at J1.2S. The carpenters committee would not agree to tilts because thev did not know the new

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scenario turned to Hammond and late last n'.ght feinae decided to explain It ail. In a statement made to Chief Simons he said he built the lai-t dugout found about June 24. On the. following night he brought live barrels of moonshine mash and hid them there. Later he intended to set up a still and go into business. On the following Tuesday when he visited his cache three of the barrels were missing and he knew his dugout had been found. He started looking for a new location and spotted an old dugout, the first one found by the officers. Hasty repairs nlade it as good as new. He was working on it Sunday when five men suddenly sprang from the bushes ana told him that unless he came aToss with $100 they would turn him over to the police. H? had no money and they went away promislrg to get him later. They made a similar threat to his brother who runs a soft drink paTlor in Tolleston but without results. He has already sunk the well points intending to attach a pump to them to provide water for his moonshine out fit and when he found that others knew of this dugout alo ho decided another move was necessary. Yesterday he and Cieslak returned to the cave to get the well points and were caught. blade wad for four years a member of the Northwestern mounted police. and also spent four years on the police force of New York City. He claims that he his been rut of work and living elf. his brother so long that he picked on the moonshine road as the only means of getting some money. He i3 held under bond. Chief Simons and Berwar.ger revisited the wooris this afternoon and destroyed both dugouts. Latest 'Bulletins BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. July 7 Presi- ' dent Harding has sent the peace resolution which was signed last Saturday to the attorney-general for'an opinion as to its constitutionality and the action which may be taken under its authority. it was announced at the department of justice today.. BULLETIN' INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE) WASHINGTON. July 7 William Howard Taft, newly appoired chief Justice of the United t4ates supreme court will take the oath of office Monday. Attorney-General Iaugherty annmincc-d today. Chief Justice. Hoehiing of the supreme court of the District cf Columbia will administer the. oath. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SEPVICE1 WASHINGTON. July 7 Secretary of State. Hughes positively declined today to make- any comment on the statement of Premier Lloyd George in the house of commons' that an important statement regarding the renewal of the An-Klo-Japane.se alliance hinged upon 'replies received from the United States and China." BULLETIN T INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! MCNCIH, IND.. July 7 Mrs. Harry Stall today wvts suffering from burns which probably will prove fatal and four others had lesser injuries as a result cf the explosion of a gasoline torch in Stall's un shop l;tat night. A four year old son was seriously burned and Stall. Sam Crawley and another sor. of Stall, aged 7. were injured severely. BULLETIN INTERNATIONAL NEWS SFPVICEi NEW YORK. July 7 With boated delegates from eiry quarter" cf the slob arriving on every train and steamship, the sixth world's Christian Endeavor convention got und'-r way today with a program of prayer services at the New York's leading churches. More than 10.000 delegates have already arrived but the leaders of the convention expect that the number will be nearer -n.000 before the close . (mn.r.Tiv) t INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! JACKSON. Mich . July 7. All Jackson thea'r-s closed their doors for a m nth totlay because of the intense neat. One pro.-t; ation occurred Wednesday when the mercury touched 102. (BVU.ETI.t 'INTERNATIONAL MEVS SERVICE' LOCK PORT. N . ... July 7. John B. 1'elirk. "'. farmer, of the town cf Hart land v..-,s fornd unconscious undr a trc- last night. It-.- die.-l two huus ia'cr at the city hospital here. It is believed t h man w s k.Iled by di inking cold water while overheated . BELFAST, July 6. Two pilicemen were seriously wounded in an out-! break cf fighting here tMay. Sinn' Feir.e.r? attacked a freight train at Pcaeroy burning 16 cars.

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Planned For Next Tuesday Over Proposed Sale. There promises to be a hot sesj-ici. of the members of the Ha.mmoud Country club at the club house nex: Tuesday evening at which the membership will make an effort to protect its right under a lease from the HartmonJ Country Club association from forfeiture as a result of tiie prospect that the country club grounds will be sold to the Cook County Forest Preserve. i When the Hammond Country clu'o was organized the land was purchase! for $Zj) an acre by what is known as the Hammond Country Club association. This association comprised thirty members who. Item motives of civic pride, each put up $2,000.00 with which the country club grounds were purchased from the H. G. Chase estate. Then instead of organizing the clu on the basis of the membership ownttig the land to that the increment would go to the membership and enhance lt value; the original thirty built the club house and leai-ed it to another organization, entirely separate from the flrut. known as the Hammond Country club. Give Twenty Year Lae. The club membership demanded that !t be secure in its rights for a reasonabje period of time and accordingly a twenty year lease was executed with the. Coun'ry Club association as the lessor and the Hammond Country club as the lessee. This was tea or more years ago. In the meantime, durlsg the war period, the interest In the Hammond Country club waned, the ground rental remained unpaid, bills' piled up and the club was threatened with insolvency. In this emergency- B. J. Steelman was elected president. - With characteristic vigor he set about to get the club out of debt. Public-spirited citizens were appealed to from tiie standpoint of civic pride and were asked to make liberal donation.5 so that the club could pay its debts and be saved as a priceless civic asset. When Steelman had finished with t'a Job the balance due for rent had been compromised and paid, every dollar tf indebtedness had been paid off and th" credit of the club had been restored. It then took a new lease on life. Interest ireotet Ever. This year the support of the club has 'been enthusiastic. .Record crowd have thronged the links. The administrations that succeeded Steelman have followed his policy of keeping the club debts paid. There is. however, some question as to the true status of the lease. Now that the Hammond Countv Club asso ciation has given the Cook County Forest Preserve an option to purchas the club grounds; the nierbership nat urally desires to know to what extent their rights under the lease hae been safeguarded. One story is to the effect that at the time the club compromised with the association in tho payment of back rent that the lease was terminated" and , that the club has been going on sine; that time on a year to year least-. If this is the case and a membership in the club :sj but a year to year propotion. the next question that arises is what right has the rlu'o to accept initiation fees of seventy-five dollars from i dozen new members, recently, whe.i the rights of the club under that leasmay be terminated at the pleasure cf the association? And if the recently paid imtiat'cvt fees were to be refunded, what about the scores of members' who have not only paid initiation fees when the cl'Sii was organized but who have paid th" dues for months at a time when then' was n; aciivity at the club an.', they iot nothing for their money? Club Iny (arrjlng Charge. As things now stand the Hammond Country Club association has made a leal with the Hammond Country clui by which its investment in land ha.' been carried for ten years by the club members looking forward to the time when the members nf the associntion could get out from under at a handsome profit to t hemse! . es. Th civic aspects of the siiuition dwindle into i n si a n ; fi s a nee in the face of the opportunity of the member of the association 'o .eH. It is stated that a year or two ago the members "f the association would have bee willing to take par for tb-ir stock or $2,000 for each one .thirtieth interest, 'in the basis of the present da! it i.i 'fdorstcod they aie to eet ft.fli to ' i . " 1 for each share. Ti.e object of tile meeting Tuesda" s to learn the facta and take step?, by legal action if necessary . t ;: . t-ct the interests of the clui. i nnnriT llrlAL uUUKI SETTINGS JULY 11 specul to the t'mes; CROWN POINT Ind.. July 7. In tha criminal court of Lake county W. O. j l nomas. u':;oi:y p, o.- in;; n j. j hag made the f 1'o-a hk- settings for I the week of July 11. l'.2 : Monday, July 11 ' 1316 State s. Edward F'ilas. ; If'SS State vs. Elmira. The.nipjon. j 1 2 4 State vs. Em. ry F . Purely. Tuesday, July 12. 1TI2S State vs. John l.erin.-ki. 104" Stale vs. Nick Andru.. WrdnrndJiy, .fuly 13. 1931 State vs. John Conley tnl Maxie Dunbar. ThurnlHT, July 14. 1055 State vs. Walter Stroud. l?5t State vs. We?ley Andrews. 1033 State vs. Edward Cotton. Frldsy, Ju?y 15 1544-1323--State v: -State vj Jim Jackson. Will Blacker.

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