Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 44, Hammond, Lake County, 11 August 1921 — Page 1
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G-ennrlly fair In north ted em" tro!j probably nbowfri In trtrun south portion tonight and Krltiay i lightly cooler toaLKht In north, and Treat portions. pellwrtd by Cunui la Htnriwa and W. Simaa&l 50 pal aacnxta oa streets and aiwt standi Se pax cop 7. TTTT VOL. XT, XO. 44. THURDAY, A UOUST 11, 1921 HAMMOND, INDIANA
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Grammar School Children Under 16 Must Go In High School TIMES BUREAU AT STATE CAP1TAL1 INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. Aug. 11 Largely Increased enrollment in the public schools at '-he epening of the fall term Is expected by Benjamin JBurns, assistant state superintendent of public instruction, through the inforcement of the provisions of the new school attendance I.w. School officials hope to have ICO percent of the children of school age In classrooms at the beginning of the first school term, under the new '.aw. Mr. Burris. -who will become state superintendent of public instruction this fail by appointment of Governor McCray. is of the opinion that the increased enrollment will develop tr. both the grade and hifc-h scru.ols of the state He pointed oat that under the r.ew law children cf school age must attend school regardless of whether they have completed the ourse of the elementary schools. This will mean that all children under 16 years old who have graduated from the g-rad. schools mus-t befe'in a course in the high school. With the opening of the new school term, which is expected to begiv throughout the stats about Spt. 5 elementary schools will be under state supervision for the first time. Vnder the provisions of a new inspection law. passed by the last session o. t.ulegislature, an assistant state school inspector, S. Leroy Seeles, has beer named to assist E. C. Wetherow, state high school inspector, in making thorough investigation of school condition throughout the state during the coming school term. In the opinion of Mr. Burris the. placing of th' :ura.l and elementary schools directly under the supervision of state inspection is one of the most forward steps in educational -.natters which the state has taken for many years. Thf new school chief expects to plvi especial emphasis on the Inspection ar.d supervision of rural and elementary schools during his tenure as h'.ad of the state school system. Preparatory to the opening of the new school term, officials of the state department of public Instruction have begun a campaign of education to inform the teachers of the state of the provisions of the new laws which will govern school affairs this fall. This work Is. being done chiefly through . series of addresses by department officials which are being delivered at th-' county teachers' Institutes. The institutes are now in session In some counties and will contr.u-- for sove-mi weeks throughout the state. The corps of speakers who will explain the new educational legislation to the teachers includes L. N. Ilines. state superintendent of public Instruction, who will retire from office soon to become president of the Indiana stat normal school; Miss Blanche Merry, state attendance- officer; Oscar H. Williams, state supervisor ,-.f teacher training. Mr. Weatherow, Mr. Scoles and Mr. Eurris. REMARKAELE TONE TEST Himreoni people were given an opportunity to eit in on the remarkable tone tests which have been devised by the Ediacn Phonograph Co., through tr.e work cf Miss Mabel Wagner Shenk at the Parthenon theatre this week In a series of concert? which ended las', evening Miss Shenk sang a number of her best songs which have been recorded by tno Edison. One of large cabinet machines was on the stage beside her and Mrne after time people in the audience were unable to tell when she stopped singing and the machine took up the &r. An unusual feat was accomplished when Miss Shenk sang a duet with her own voice. The soprano record which was made under the direct supervision of Mr. Edison was played and Miss Shenk then carried the contralto, furnishing one of the most pleasing numbers cn the program. NEW YORK MAN SHOT TO DEATH PNTNAT!CNAI. NEWS SERVICE! NEW YORK. Aug. 11 Shot to death by two men who calmly sought h'.ra out in a crowded restaurant in Christie street. J-seph Presear.tlne, died early today, JSth victim of what the police believe to be a bootlegger's fued in New York's underworld. Pisaantir.e had been engaged In bootlegging operations, the police eay. after his relea-se from a nine year term in Atlanta prison. DAVISON FACES AN OPERATION NEW YORJC. Aug. 10. Henry R. Davison, partner of J. r. Morgan, faces an operation at his country home at Locust Valley, today. Four specialists are consulting. It is said that physicians fear a possible growth on the brain. It was because of Davison's illness that Mr. Morgan ast week postponed Lis sailing for Europe.
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THAT SOME one ought to start a campaign to lessen the smoke nuisance at Monnctt's , DID you have enough pressure for sprinkling Tuesday evening? Neither d.J anyone else. RAILROADS are discharging the old men at the watch towers and employing young men. THE W. C. T. V. has adopted n new slogan, according to report, which is, "swat tho (bar) fly." JOHN S1TRGEO.V is rapidly recovering from his severe illness to the satisfaction of his many friends. "AIX'T we got Fun" is the slogan of the Hammond kiddies at the bathing pod in the old Hammond Athletic Park. WEST HAMMOND'S asphalt macsdam streets are being smoothed over by patching th? holts by the cold ratci method . V,"KAT became of Hammond entrants to the state golf tourney at Chain O' Lakes In South Bend this year? THE Chicago Heights Country Clu golf team is coming Saturday to loer; horns with the Hammond Country Club team. TO add to the festivity a Roselanej bus with passengers waj seen on thv streets yesterday. Who ays Hammond isnt a shopping center? ATTENDANCE at the bathing beach has fallen off owing to the cold weather. The fish restaurants have nothing to complain of, however. WE have it now the Ford whic.-. Harry Rimbach discovered was stolen was Immediately returned to thj ownerNow lay off, will you Harry? ONLY" a few months ago post office employes and school teachers rt looked upon as poorly paJd. Now they are considered In the "privileged class." J. O. BODEGRAM of the local post office postcards from Kansas City, wh-sra he Is looking at the high buildings ar.d visiting friends on a vacation trip. TEN" bankruptcy cases were filed tr the fedora1, court at Hammond during July. This is the high record fur thi. fifteen years the Hammond office ha.been established. THE four corners are gradually assuming a dressed up appearance cn account of the new front on the Hohman building which is slowly but surely being completed. ONE of the sad features of the reniodellng of tho Hohman block is that lowering the roof will hang crepe or old poker deri which has tea t n i.-sc- for so many years. AN old timer wants to know wh remembers when the Green line car;sed to make the loop around Sibley ft . Oakley ave. and back on State st for the south end of town. THE Hammond Kiwams Club wir have Hon. Lee I. Of born of the Inlana Taxpayers Association, of LaPorte, to speak at the regular week! luncheon next Tuesday afternoon. WILLIAM H. WOLTER writes thsh is now well established at West Palm Beach. Fla. and that the famil; ;s feeling fine and everybody Is weli satisfied with the Florida climate. MATOR DAN BROWN'S crowd ha; officially opened the city cam pat g with "Brown booster" posters on bJlboards about town. The posters arlecoratlve ar.d attract a good deal of ittention . RAIN put a crimp in the plans o: the Masons for the red fire automobile parade which was to have been stage lat night to advertise the Hudson Lake picnic but the enthusiasm is being saved for Saturday. CHESTT over their success In tTlmmlng the bankers, the Times baseball team In arv similar office or shop team in the world. However. they would prefer to meet the Hammond police or fire department first. GEORGE HANLON has returned from Milwaukee where he attended convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters. The report that the popular police officer went to Milawukee t. work cn a case has been den!eJ. ONE Hammond bootlegger report, that he can't even dispose of a quart of whiskey at J 12 . "Everybody'..) bootlegging ajid nobody buying." he. groan. "Iva tried to eel! ths perfectly good booze to every man In town except Pete Austgcn and Ova Simons. " WEST HAMMOND people are wonderinr how long !t will be yet before the contractor staj-ts repairing the Indiana, side of State Line st. The See Teaming Co. was supposed to begin work over a weelt ago. In the meantime all traffic Is over the Illinois half of the street. HARRT MOROANEAr who had charge of the prizes which were award ed at the Shrine picnic regrets thai he was unable to furnish a list of th.wlnner3 . He says he waa working horthanded and had to use a club to keep the crowd from trampling him to death. There was r.o time for boo. Uevplng.
Things Are Rotten Says Bootlegger Declares That Too Many Dubs Out of Work Have Tried to Break in Game. Pity the poor bootlegger. The industrial depression has hit him at last anil he U suffering from it like the rest of the people. His business continued good after other lines had pulled in their sails bui the time finally carat when the ready moniy upon which t lit; gam thrives became- scarce. "Things are rotten." said a Hammond man who dabbles in illicit liquors yesterday as he stood forlornly a.t the Four Corners and watched a score of equally forlorn looking fellows standing around. "The old game has a bad crimp in It and unless it picks up retty soon I'm gonna smrl looking for a Job." you soe." he said, lowering hirvoice as a policeman stroileJ by, "it wouldn't be so bad if so many dubs hadn't tried to break in when they lost their Jobs. They Just smothered tho business. Believe me, it's discouraging to pick out a prospect, pull him off to one sid and start talking sale and then find that the bird has a pint on his hip and was figuring on selling to you. It seems like every fellow 1 tackle is a bootlegger ano of course we can't bell to each other." Then he looked towards West Hammond and gnashed his teeth. "Ovei there's another place that Is queering the game," he continued. "They'rt dealing out moonshine at fifteen cents per and fellows with not much money will buy It instead of paying us boys L'ur just price for good liquor." "I'm figuring on some way of unionizing the bootlyeggers." ho confided. It 11 have to come to that so w can work out our new rates to- meet competition across the line. We've got to wear some kind of a badge so w( will know each other instantly. 1 could pick up several eases of liiiu'-r .it reasonable prices but I'm not going to tie up any more money with all these freelances running wild. It's getting as bad as the ijtney bus business."
MEAT PRICES SOAR; "PUBLICTO BLAME" Hammond Meat Market Man Says People are too Persnikity. ''Buy the cheaper cuts of meats." This advice wu given today by a Hammond market proprietor who at"ributed the increased cost of mea' "o an over-supply of cheaper cuts. "When the public will buy only the -iioice cuts of beef and pork," he paid ihey create a surplus of the less de--ired cuts and fewer cattle and hog ire butchered with a consequent aise in price. Despite unemployment and hard men the people are still demanding 'he fine cuts of meat and refusing f -jy seconds on whice there Is prac ically no advance. I canot under--'and why men who are out of work nsist that their wives have sirloin anc r orterhouse steaks and pork tender-i-.n for dinner. The people haven'' attempted to lower their war-time f'a.ldard of living, except when thev are actually broke. "Although it is true that owing tc the extreme hot weather shipments o.' cattle and pork to the stockyards were c-r.slderably off. the fact remains) thathe public itself 1s responsible for the high wholesale and retail price of the tiat grades of meat. That is why sirloin steak Is up to 44 cents a pound The old law of supply and demand rule.in thia business the same as in anether. "Potatoes and other vegetables ar: eolr.g up again owing to the fact that truck gardens have been burned up by the extreme hot weather and lack of rain. That car.not be helped. Nevertheless there are fewer small gardens than In a number of years. The passion fo, gardening which was born during the war seems to have dted out. "What we will have to hare In this country is thrift. Even people that can afford the bert grades of meat will find as much nourishment in the other cuts. The retail merchant is tired of being blamed for conditions that are due largely to the public's over-sensitive appetite." DIES IN HER NINETY-SECOND YEAR (SPECIAL TO THE TIMES? CROWN POINT, Ind.. Aug. Mrs. Susanna. Schmidt, one of Lake county's oldest pioneers, died at her home on TCest street here this rooming of old age and complications. Her husband. Mathlaa Schmidt, died 26 years ago. The decedent wt born in Trier. Germany. Nine children survive her. The remains will be taken to the horns of her son Henry J. 8chmidt and the funeral will bo held on Saturday morning at 9:5 0 from there to St. Mary's church. LOST Hub caps for Marmon car, at corner State st. and Morten Court. Reward for return to Overland Fudge Co.. 74 BtaU t Hammond. -$
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Hotel Registers do not Show That She Visited This City May 12th as Diary Said. Mad.ilynn Obenchaln. the pretty divorcee held with Arthur C. Burnch tn the J. Uc'ton Kennedy murder mystery at Los Angeles, did not register at a Hammond hotel the night ot May 12. According to the printed diary of the woman she visited Hammond on that day. It could not be determined today that she had friends In this city and her name does not appear on tiie May Uth registers at tho Lyn'ora. Mee, Majestic or Hammond hole's. Nick Scofes. manager of the Majestic Hotel, stated however that a styli--:-ly dressed woman came to the hotel onr day in May, carrying two heavy suitcases. She checked the baggage at the desk, inquired about the best place to eat and did not return for return for several hours. Late )n the afternoon she left without having reglstehed. She wrote several letters in the second floor parlor. "I cannot say that she looked llko the ricture of Madalynn Obenchain." said Mr. Scofes, "because I don't remember, except that she was a handsome woman and wore a fashionably tailored suit. I remember the incident because her actions were mysterious. She used both telephones several times, presumably for long distance calls. "Her -oice was modulated and she talked intelligently. But she wa nervous and worried and it seemed to me that she was trying to hide frorr somebody. I was Inclined to belicvthat the suitcases contained whiskey because they were so heavy, but dismissed that as improbable because 1 the woman's refinement. "She was evidently between twentyfive and thirty years of age, and haS dark hair. I do not recall the color of her eyejj. If my memory serves rrright she called a taxlcab company, inquired the rate to Chicago, and then ordered a machine." "Sure, I remember her." said Kenneth Ray, the bell hop. "I luggo those grips around half a day and she gave me a dime." WEST TO HAVE BONO West Hammond which has been operating for years with a bunch of oid debts hanging over it. is preparing to clean the slate and start all ever again. Next Monday a special election will be held in which the citizens will -ote upon the proposition of issuing $60,000 worth of bonds. The funds reallied from the bond sale. If authorized, wili be used in retiring some old bonds outstanding against the city and for paying special assessments and court iudgments . Until recently West Hammoni's bonds have been looked on with disfavor by persons who make sueu investments. Some which were issued years ago and which were never retired because of lack of funds, have been lost track of. Occasionally City Clerk Andrew Stachowicz receives m inquiry from some person In a remote part of the country who happens to be holding on to some of them. The difficulty In the past hae beer, due to the fact that street and sewer assessments were made against property which belonged to out of town prople. These people had acquired the lots In same of the early booms and had later become dlsguested with their purchases. Tajces were not paid on the land and of course the ipecial asressments were also passed up. P.ond Issued to pay the contractors for the work would read that they would be retired when the assessments wcr' collected . "What we want to do now," sayF Clerk Stachowicz. "Is to clean up all these bad debts with one good bond Issue and try to re-establish West Hammond's credit. We want the bankers to pay a premium for our bonds Instead of discounting them." During the last few years before national prohibition became effective West Hammond, because of its proximity to dry Indiana, received thousands of dollars from saloon licenses. Many old debts were cleaned up then and it Is ald that If the condition could have continued a year or two longer, the city would now b tn l.s fet financially. Muh improTement work has been dona Jtt the city in recent years and home builders have been attracted there because of the comparatively low tax rate. It la be lieved that the $60,000 bond iesua car. be retired promptly. Gas and Electricity for The Water Gardens Mr. Toung, the representative ef the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, met the Water Garden restdents at th Richardson home on 119th street and agTesd to furnish gas and iafitrlelty under certain conditions whlsh Involve tho raising of a fund of money. Msrrlll Adams, chairman of the meeting. Is acting in co-operation with It. 8. Pavldsoa to raise the amount r.eersrcry. An immediate driv is being opened for the building ef new houses and the sade of additional lots so that the Water Gardens will be on the map more aggressively than Tr before. . 1-11-1
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Every person, man. woman or child, who thinks he or she is some whakes as a foot racer, oarsman, swimmer, caster or what-not will be given an opportunity to show off Saturday when the Masons of Lake county hold tht-lr big picnic st Hud;-on Lake. Tho entertainment committee will see that no one is slighted. The fir;'t anuii picnic is going to set a precedent which will make a!l future eents go some to beat It. Everywhere the committee has met with hearty co-operation and the plans have worked out in fine shape. "Tell them to leave their pocketbooks at home and come prepared to have a good time" was the Invitation extended by R. H. Oisen who is delegated to work up sentiment for the picnic in Hammond. "This is not a money making affair, " he continued, "so all that they need to do is pack a lunch and get their tickets over the South Shnre "
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(BULLETIN) INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE' NEW YORK. Aug. 11. The mysterious "woman beater" who has for some days terrorized widely separated sections of New 'Yorkmade his appearance in the noonday crowd on Wall street today and iciousIy attacked and beat up a woman and then fled. A near panic was caused by the woman's shrieks, joined in by the screams from woman spectators. Before men witnesses could lay hands on the maniac he had vanished. A short while afterwards a woman was attacked at Battery Place in a similar manner, presumably by the same man. The latter again eluded all pursuers. (BULLETIN) nNTruN!!""' N E A S StPViCE) WASHINGTON. Aug. 11. President Harding today invited Senator Borah. Republican of Idaho, to confer with him at the White House. There was no state1 DAY FOR ,1L "Special for Saturday only." "Sounds like a department store ad doesn't it? But It Isn't. It's Just the plan whrch Roy Fudge of the Overland-Fudge Co. ha-s adopted for getting rid of his stock of used cars. He wants to clean out the bunch in a hurry and he's doing it Just like In the other stores. He'lt be using the Limit one to a customer" next. Fudge has been enojying an unusual run on his line of Overlands and Willys-Knights. Buyers are keeping him acd bis salesmen working night and day. All sorts of used cars have been turned in on the new ones and the boys have been so busy talking their own line that they haven't had time to even try to sell the secondhand ones. Next week a big shipment of new machines is due to arrive in Hammond j and Hoy finds that unless he makes a cleaning of his stock of used cars he will not have room for the newcomers. Hence the sale. Saturday is the big day. The sales force will all be called in and turned loose on the array of second-handers . Not a car wjll be sold before then it's no use to try to talk business before Saturday. Fudge claims there are some good values in the assortment. All of the machines have been overhauled and placed in first class condition. The force s expecting a rush when the doors are thrown open. N SPECIAL TO THE TIMES) CROWN POINT, IND.. Aug. 11 Roland. 13 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wheaton. was reported to be very much better today. He was injured a week ago -while swimming at Cedar Lake when he dove into shallow water. A Chicago specialist who waa called by County Clerk Wheaton to examine the boy tentatively diagnosed the Illness as infantile paralysis but could not And the germ. It is now believed the lad is merely suffering from Injuries due to the accident at the lake.
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The program cails for a baseball game in which Jack Doll's team which whipped the Gary Elks at the Shrine picnic will take on another Lake county team. Merchants of the county have donated ever fifty handsome prizes which will be awarded to winners of the different games and contests during the afternoon. There will be boat and canoe races, foot races, swimming and diving contests and even the fishermen will be given a chance to show their ability at casting. Delegations will be there from Hobart, Crown Point, and Lowell, the majority of them making the trip by automobile. Masons of the north part of the county will take advantage of the low rate over the South Shore. Two special trains will be furnished. They leave Hammond at S:4." and 12:3: East Chicago at 9.00 and 1:00 and Gar; at 9:13 an d$l:lf.
A. ment forthcoming from the White House as to the nature of the conference, but rumors arose that Borah might be asked to represent the Senate on the American delegation at the Disarmament Conference. It also was pointed out that Borah has been one of the chief opponents of the administration giving Secretary of the Treasury Mellon wide authority in refunding the foreign debts. (BULLETIN) riNTEPNATlOA'. NEWS SERVICE KENOSHA. Wis.. Aug. 11. O. H. Gregory. 37. a clothier of 204 Lyceum building. Pittsburgh, is being returned to Fond du Lac today to face a charge of manslaughter as a result cf the death late yesterday of Clarence Butterfield, an insurance man of Fond du Lac. Gregory is said to have run down Butterfield in his automobile. He was arrested at the request of Fond du Lac authorities, who claim he was driving recklessly. "EXAMS" FOR Will Be Held in Both Ham mond and in East Chicago. WASHINGTON. August 11. The civil service commission has announced the following third-class postmaster examlnations in Indiana, September 1C. Ajrvboy, salary $1,100; Arcadia. $I.C0; Chalmers $1400; Chesterton $1900: Clark'9 Hill. $1100; Clermont $1,-0C-0. Earl Park $1500; Fortvll'e $1$00 Greenwood $1700, Hagerstown $2000 Hobart $2100. Lacrosse $1400; Marshal! $1200: Morgantown 51700; New palestine $1,000; Otterbein $1600; Plttsboro $1000, Reynolds $i:oo. Examinations wi'.l be held in the following cities: Anderson, Fowler. Franklin. Hammond. Indianapolis. Lafayette, Laporte. Martinsville Monticello. Noblesvil'.e. Peru. Richmond. Rockvlile and Winamac. The commission also announced an examination at East Chicago September 6 for pos'master at East Chicago. The salary is $3,300. BALDWINS TO GIVE MEXICO A LOAN PAN ANTONIO. Teias. Aug. 10 Arrangements have been made by the Baldwin Locomotive works of Philadelphia to loan the Mexican government $2. 500.0C with a later loan of an ejual amount according to word received by Mexican Consul Enrique RuiE from the Mexican capital. Four fifths of the loan Is to be used to rehabillate the rolling stock of the Mexican railroads and the balance to be used in repairs to the read. OPENING OF STOCK MARKET NEW YORK. Aug. 11. The stork market was irregular again tms morning. Baldwin was down H to j T 3 1-2 . Mexican Pet. eieclined l1 toi 96'4. General Electric lost to U1. t.'. H. .Steel declined to 73 . Sears j Roebuck was off to SH1. Studebaker advanced ' to 73a. Anacemrta j gained to 35. Famous Players de- I cLined 54 to 4?. Crucible Steel declined H to 53, Northern Pacific receded - ti 75',i and Inspiration Coppr declined V to 3L.
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Represent Expenditure of $80,000. An e nt of intense interest through out Lake County iraurnal circle be held i:t t Saturday afternoon i'' the eornfr stone- of the new E'.' r.-n-pic on Jilniuich a ttiUe, Hamnu-n-J will be laid and diaries A Whsti President of the Lincoln State Hank Chicago. Past Exalted Kuier of tlo. Chicago Chapu r of Elks, past Treasurer of the Grand Lodge, will deliver an oration, whic:., according to ad- ' ance notices, will be on of the best heard in this city for a long tirns. The beautiful building is not an A'laddin's castle, constructed overnight It is the result of twelve yea r of effort on the part of the Hammond lodga to have a fitting home. Tiie ElkV liu tiding Association way f -unded in 1903, and incorporated for iiv,fi0 for the purpose of f.r.i-ricing and bu.ldir.g a suitable club house. The Association bought the Kimoacli avenue location, w iie re the tiinvie :; n-ov under tonsirucUon, and ha.- I. en v.;.;t:ng for the opportune time at hi:ii t build. The cor tracts- w r- let in Aoil. ii-l, at;"l we,: k h:i projjtri Ssed f ir.o. that iiif. S!;a.ji i-i.-i Wail w. re a -a ardeo .;.( !-.:, sai coii-.r.n-t. tiv- i'nite J rii.ii- .. ii :.::- ..I,. I I' -y r .; :; ra i tc . 1, J P. i '.-..ak r:r, Si:u:tii and S.r.k- y, t.. and ti'.az.i.. t i..etricu, . ..r. v . i ! :r:vf;l ur.u thi ,,t niCf Woi ks, mi et ia- ij; i.. tii.ee f.i,-r all ti.s-. iKv.-.le Thf p.'.,.-. Co , tn .io , i n ; r u c - i 1 .i 1 1 1 . r. o n d iff. rrc-asurer; i '. Atk K. C. Slater, 1. ri Mih Ins, Frank u'lfu: k.1 , i ;i i , -J ! I . Cudthe .ipital . ease 3 ire , rev-, had charge oi tli.- :,!:, con rac's It was at t'.-ii, time thru t stcck of tiie iiss c: at ion us to $ s '. $ " . ! i'i aoidti.-ii;.; red s'Ov.1: b.-ir.x iss'iod. The building, when cir.pleted 'fr .-escnt an expenditure f a-b u! $.'. ". ' X o r h i i g -.v i ! i b e ' u r- r ..- ; v- n -,v i I i tod to the comi'ort and c n --er. : r. e of the i.-.fmi.fr". The iaftiii'-;:: vill ii:-Ij.'b:-clul rooms, j-ho-ver ioil'.-, low'Ir.s alley:- and card rooms. ' :i th.Irst floor, front, will br- the r- -eption . o.-m and ladies' parlor, e wc-1! c- the iary's o ee I,, 1 C e In r a r . th0 lodge room will be located. The sscor.d floor will contain the dmlr.g room and kitchen, with complete and handsome-equipment Meals wili be served here at all times for members, their families and guests. It is planned to maintain the- room as a modern American plan restaurant. T'.-.e program for the corner stone 'aying of this splendid i-iuld.ng w!i! i--- started at 2.30 Saturday afternoon with a parade which wili furrr. it the present Elk home. The line of r.iafch will be Sibley to Oakley, to State. t.Konman, to Rimbach. "Amrici" will be sung ensemble, accompanied by the tveU known Saxaphone band cf the Gary Elks, after which Mayor Laniei Brown of Hammond will deliver th" address of welcome. The laying of the corner rtone will be done by the officers with the ledge .itual. and after a selection by the Elks band, Mr. White will deliver his mes-e.-ige to the Elks of Hammond and Lnkcounty. The ceremonies will start at 3:00 ''clock, and In order to find a su'tahb p ace from which to view the proceedin ss and hear the speaking, the people ire- urged to arrive early, as an immense crowd will be there. PROJECT TO SUPPLY L New Proposed Corporation To Supply Power to Ninety Cities. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Aug. U. A $20,000,000 financial project whereby it .s planned to supply electrical energy ver high tension wirer from Indiana coal ef.'.ds to more than ninety cities, towns jr.d villages covering a territory of & million pe pulation W3S revealed today in the filing of a petition before the Indiana Public Service Commission by the Indiana Electric Corporation asking for the merger of seven public utilities throughout the state of which the merchant Heat & Light Ccj., is to be the principal unit. The syndicate which Is headed by Joseph K- Brewer of Grand F.apidi. Mich., president cf th? American Public Utilities Association, calls for the absorption of the M'-rchants Heat A- Light Co.. of Indlanapo'es. the Elkhart Gas & Fuel Co. the Valparaiso Light Co.. t'.-.e Indiana Railways and Light Co., of Kokomo. Ind. the V.'abas-h Valley Electrical Co . the Putnam Electric Co., and the Cayuga Electric Co. The Indiana Electric Corporation filed articles of incorporation simultaneously with ths filing of the petition with the service commission. The capital stock listed was only $10,000 but if the service body gives its approval to the merger, articles are to b re-filM with capital nwuntring into the millions WANT NEW ROAD 120 FEET WIDE When members of the Gary Plan Commission take action on the new road running between Fifth avenue in Gary and parallel with the Pennsylvania railroad truck to the P. jffington Cement Co. plant at Indiana Harbor they wili rrimrat r.d that the .-t-c-r be made 120 feet wide instcid cf r feet as is being planned. mbe.-s of the commission say th.it if th- roa l is onlv made 6S feet wide a big mistake will be made. Representatives of the Joint railroad board will soon meet with the commission to work out a plan for the construction of the road.
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