Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 84, Hammond, Lake County, 28 September 1921 — Page 12

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Womau With Head Fast In Crock is Drowned WEXiSBURG. W. Vs.. Sept. Stumbling en routa to the spring house wher she was making- butter. Miss Beulah Freshwater, aged thirty-two, stuck her head la a barrel-shaped two-gallon crock filled with water anl was drowned. Her lifelejs body with hr head wedged in the crocK was found by her father, John Freshwater, prominent Brooke County dairyman, two hours after the woman left for he spring house. Her head was no tightly wedgred in the heavy earthen crock it was necessary to break the crock with a hatchet.

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- The funeral services of Glen Jones. i bo was shot 1n Crown Point last Fricay and died at the Gary hospital, wa . r eld "hero yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer Gresrr and A. K. 'Nichol went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend the annual national encampment of the G. A. R. '' Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Elision of Ke- ' -i, anna, Ind., are vlsitiner at the home "of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Black. " The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Farmers" Elevator Co.. : n .Lowell, will be held here Saturday afternoon. - Miss Ernestine Eelshaw returned to college at Beloit. Wis., yesterday. Her a ii'.other accompanied her. Mrs. Ben Lynch returned yesterday f rom a visit with her parents In. California.

COOK The teachers and chool children of the Lincoln School attended theLake

County Fair last Wednesday, also numerous grown people were present and

on.loyed the day.

Mrst Dales and children who have

been visiting- at the Thomas home, re

turned to Chicago on Saturday.

Unable to Find Lover, .. Girl 19, Attempts to

Kill Herself

CTVCIN"VATT. Ohio, Sept. The con

fesslon that things always looked

srloomy to her, even when a child, and that she has never cared whether she

lived or died, was made by nineteen-year-old Ora Cook when she was taken

to police headquarters here. An officer found her in a field, across the road from the Spring Giove Cemetery, her head bound up In a handkerchief staked in chloroform.

Stating- she had left her home, near

london, Kentucky in search for an old sweethejart, she admitted a desire to die because she could not find him Numerous attempts have been made hy the girl to end her life, she said. She was only seven years old, she declared, when she attempted to kill herself by swallowing glass. She was prevented from Jumping into the river at Omaha. Neb. Starting for the ocean

ORANGE DUVETYN MAKES STUNNING i STREET COSTUME

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This striking frock for street wear is fashioned of orange colored duvetyn with a side fastening reachinp from neck to hern and marked by frogs and cloth covered buttons. An odd yoke effect on the ekirt and the blouse and tight cuff trimming is made of striped gold ribbon. Note the simplicity of the blouse and the novel cut of the' aleeves.

OF INTEREST TO WOMEN A prominent physician Eays that by fa rthe largest number of women's ailment sare not surgical ones, that i3 they are not caused by serious displacements, or growths. Symptoms similar in character are often brought about by much simpler conditions. We "hcrefore urge- every woman who suffers from backache, headaches, hearing: down pains, side a .he, irregularities, nervous despondency, or weakness to give l.ydii K. I'inkham's Vegetable Compound a trial. It acts as a natural restorative and often prevents more strimis t rouble? .Ad v .

at Los Angeles, she said, she stopped at a drug store and tried to' liuy some strychnine. Despite the fact that Miss Cook

talked In a rational manner, police

officials expressed belief that she was mentally deranged. The girl's father. Le Cook, was notified that his daughter was being held at the Place of Detention here.

BARNES BREAKS COURSE RECORD METT YORK. Sept. I . A course record of 68 was set yesterday by Jim Barnes, national open frtolf champion, in the opening round of the Professional Golfers' Association championship tournament at the Tnwood Country Club. Barnes defeated Clarence Hackney, Atlantic City. 3 up and 2 to play. Walter Hagen, western titl--holder, and Gene Sarazen of Titusville, Pa., each had a 69. four under the former course record.

RANCHER SUDDENLY GOES INSANE tTNTCTNAT'ONAL NTWS SERVICE! MONTE VISTA, Colo.. Sept. 24. Wllltam Bailey, 40, rancher, ran amuck today with a loaded rifle and shot and seriously wounded his wife n their home. Running from the house. Eailey spel throuph the field and shot and killed Fred Skrow, a farm hand, and continued his fiifcht dwn the road where he shot and killed VA Heilman, a neighboring rancher. Bailey then fled to the hills where a posse of armed citizens and national guardsmen are pursuing him.

The man is believed to have suddenly gone Insane.

MINERS TAKE UP SERIOUS CHARGES IN-DIANAPOLIS. Ind.. Sept. 26 Consideration of the "m.'st dangerous charge" ever made against the United Mine Workers, the injunction suit filed in federal court here by West Virginia and Kentucky operators seeking abolition of the so-called "check off system, eclipsed every other question in the convention of the Mine Workers of the country Saturday.

GOMPERS SOUNDS A WARNING 1NDIANAPOUS. Ind.. Sept. 26 Warning that labor "should not overrun the race, but should go forward step by step" was sounded by Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, in addressing th,conventlon of the United Mine Workers here Saturday.

SWEARING CALLED NO CRIME f I NTER NATION AL NEWS SERVICE IO.VDON, Sept. Everybody does It It isn't a crime. Two men, arrested for swearing, were discharged by a North London Magistrate, who declares that as long as other people were not annoyed, bad language is no offense The men had merely been swearing at each other, they tostifle.d The Magistrate criticised the con

stable for making the arrest.

SPIRITISM PUT UNDER BAN BERLIN, Sept. Public demonstrations of hypnotism, spiritualistic seances and other experiments dealing with the occult are now forbidden by the police throughout Germany, because many crimes have been traced to unscrupulous hypnotists, who have used their subjects to commit unlawful acts.

WVdnpsday, Sept. 28, 1921.

The first bicycle driven by pedals was made in Paris in 166.

Nothing Hidden From X-Raya. Few organs or parts of the human body are Inaccessible to examination by X-rays. The most remarkable advance in this line was the dlsVJvery that Insoluble opaque salts can be administered to patients In such quantity as to fill the gullet, stomach and Intestines, so that these hollow organs may be studied with the rays. The' "opaque meal" shows their size, shape and position and also reveals their contractile movements.

Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Railway Company FREQUENT STREET CAR SERVICE TO AND FROM CHICAGO HAMMOND, WHITING & EAST CHICAGO RAILWAY CO.

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