Hammond Times, Volume 15, Number 342, Hammond, Lake County, 18 April 1922 — Page 6
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April 18. 1922.
WEATHER RECORD .
WORST jN 50 YEARS
Fifty Dead, 300 Injured,
Hundreds Homeless in Middlewest Basin.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, April l$V-frhriugh
out of the- vast basin drained by the
Mississippi river and Its tributar
ies aa Inventory Is being made today
cr the toll of life and property taken
by wind and flood in the most severe visitation of the elements this sec-
Hon has known In fifty years. The record this morning showed fifty, known dead, more than 300 Injured, hundreds homeless and In some sections menaced by famine and damage to property almost inestimable, but certain to run Into the millions. The death list and the damage are expected to grow as wire communication to stricken areas Is restored and relief agencies complete their Inventory. The tornado that bounded across Illinois and Indiana took the heaviest toll of life and property damage. Best available records today show the following fatalities: Irvlngton, 111., 7; Centralia. Ill 4; "Walnut Hill. 111.. 1; Lake Centralia. 111.. 1; Hidalgo, III., 2; Rose Hill. 111., 1: Newton, 111.. 2; Ogden,
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111.. 2; Fithlan. I1L, 1; Hedrlck. Ind.
10; On Farms near Hedrlck, 5; Al-
erandrla, Ind., 2; Brooks, Ind.,.2;j
Orestes. Ind., 2; Summitvllle. Ind., 4; "Willlamsport, Ind., 2; Warsaw, Mo.. 2. In Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado a blizzard raged. As far north as Au Reglna and Moose raw In Saskatchewan, the blizzard covered tha ground with a foot of ,now that will delay planting of crops for several days. Floods in Iowa. Illinois and Missouri still menace many communities and have Inundated vast areas. Railroad facilities are crippled and
telegraph and telephone wires are In
a tangle that will take days to
straighten out.
While the fury of the tornadoes apparently has passed the flood dan
ger is ever increasing. Reports from
weadrstown, HI., early today said water was pouring through a break
In the levee of the Illinois river and flooding the country for miles in
every direction. Every building in
Beardstown is flooded and the danger o ffamine became a very serious one today because of the blocking of railroads and highways t traffic.
PAR
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TWIN CITY WATER
RATES LOWERED TO
PERMIT SPRINKLING
INDIANAPOLIS, April 18. Tho
public service commission has Is
sued a new schedule of water rates
for the East Chicago and Indiana Harbor Water Company, effective for the months of June. July, August and September. The old schedule of rates Is. to remain In force during the the months of ' the 'year and the reduction mad in the new schedule Is done to encourage sprinkling of lawns and gardens. The new "lawn sprinkling" rate, which goes Into effect June first, necessarily reduces the rate On all water used over and above 5,000 gallons. The new rate follows: Consumption - Per 1,000 Gal. Per Month Gross Net For the first 6,5?9 gal.$.35 J. 315 Forthenext 10,000 gals. .15 .135
10,000 gals. .25 25,000 gals. .20 250,000 gals. .15 700.000 gals. .10
For the next For the next For the next For the next
For the next 2.000.000 eals. .08
.215 .18 .135 .09 .072
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WORKS WITH TURNERFIELD New Acreage Acquired For
Athtetic Field; Other Matters Taken Up Purchase of an additional acre and a quarter at a cost of $2,TC0; erectioni of wire barricades along the river bank; construction of a grandstand and bleachers with a seating capacity of 4,500; and actual laying out of a diamond ' and play ground are some of the things the Hammond park board is contemplating or has completed In connection with Turner Field, at Calumet and the river. Purchase of tho extra land has been completed. The strip containing more than an acre situated at the north boundary of the park was bought last week from Mrs. R. F. Storrer. of Whiting, for $2,750. H Is part of JSohl's Addition. The board did think of buying also a strip of mround extending the length
of the .park and bordering it on the
south. There are about a dozen houses standing on the tract.' The price asked was in the neighborhood of $:7,000. This the board con-
cidered out of question. Success in
th present project however may
uiumaieiy enmuse the city administration to a point where the purchase of additional ground may be thought feasible. The mot fecent acquisition augments the former tract of five acres with a fctrlp approximately 134x390 feet. It will probably be used as the site of the grandstand. As contemplated now the batter would face the southeast, standing some SO feet from the river line and in the northwest corner of the field. Work of making a "1111" In Che river Is progressing rapidly. This provide additional epace on which the park board expect to erect huge wire barriers to guard against long flies (which probably most often, because of the lay out of the diamond, would be foul balls).
WhAT'S NEW IN THE WORLD OF SWEATERS AND SCARFS
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Ing at 8 p. m. tomorrow. They'll form apcrmanent organization. They are going to ine called the Ex-service Men's Political Association. W. E. Long, young and enterprising Hammond merchant, is temporary secretary of the association. He says commltees appointed to confer with republican organization leaders In reference to appointments of delegates to the state convention will make thelf report tomorrow. Other committees to confer with democrat leaders will be chosen. The association comprising members of every party reflects all political sentiment. Its pressure, however, will be brought to bear on candidates only in-so-far as their efforts are conducive to, or deterrent to the interests of the ex-service men. It is hoped to make the association a powerful Influence In deciding the primary elections. All ex-service men are Invited to attend.
Shart tijrht sleeves and loos nie ones art both shown in tl,e voters designed for summer sr. Here are two elip-over otipJs. brfth made of red and
white yarns and each one featuring new sleeves. In the center is shown on of the popular fib-r silk scarfs which is worn with cither a sweater or auit. Tha
colors o?ed harmonize to .l.at they i j well with any cf the new spring shades. Sweater costume promise t h more fashionable than ever this summer.
Most of the grading ha3 been finished. City engineers have completed paper work for the diamond and play grounds and, all that ia necessary now to iinal realization of the wonderful project is pcrsPvrfil pupervision In the matter of the liner dptails by an expert in work of this kind. This man, the board expects to acquire in Chtrago. It has not yet been decided what sort of grandstand to erect. The board ia torn between a. desire for economy and the exigencies of a shallow city treasury and the hope of something permanent and artistically in harmony with the plan of the park builders. Whether the stands will be of concrete and Hteel or of wood is a matter of conjecture. Likewi.se the question of a wood cr wire fence. Hut all that will be threshed out in good time, say board members, and the park
should be ready for use by the lat-
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K GOLD BRICK always loots gooa. It fias,to. Its promising appearance is it sole virtue. Looks alone will not sell goods today. MercKanclise wltH a name the name of its maker has the call. For only the maker of worthy goo'ds can long affor'd to advertise. At the HigK Court of Public Opinion any other sort is soon
condemned.
fvm merchants' an3 manufacturers seeK trie goo3 papers to tell tKe story of their wares. iThe publishers seelc the reputable advertising for tKe readers gufdance. The well-informed Buyer seeks news of good merchandise through tKe columns cf the Home paper. rTrn proves tKe value of a3vertising. NeltKer aHvertiser nor pubKsKer can prosper without your patronagew Therefore, it is to their advantage to cater to you. They do it, too.
SnH it is clistmctly to your advantage to Ke guIHeH Ky the message tKey lay before you the advertisements. Read tfiem regularly!
ter part of ne: month. OPTIMISM OP YOTTH One of the most satisfying sidelights on the Turner l-'ield project Is conversation an observer is likely to run into among the youth of the city. Any reference to the venture, first of its kind in Hammond, immediately opens a fiov of bub
bling optimism about what may be
, expected at Turner Field . Tho j school children of the? city know all about it. They follow with keen Interest the day by day transforma
tion of the stretches of waste land of briars and bushes, knolls and ruilies, into a yotently beautiful piaj ground that is to all their very cwn. iWt hthe certitude of time itself, Turner Fieid gradually eineiTes under the scalpel of the landscape art'sts from a dreary uninviting tract ti o proypeet of flowering shrubbery, verdant, grass!, wide play grounds, and about and through it all shouting, laughing children. And that is the children's vision. Even now in its primary stages of development they can visualize the ultimate. And Tony, his sweat scented body
oending beneath the strain of the
.unresponsive clay as his shovel
sinks deeper into the river bank
smiies dhck to the confident, expectant eyes of a watching youth
and feels a .little what ' the ver
great, ver' famous KJctielangelu' must have felt. '
when a team or two is pulled off the work and put to other Jobs like haul ing coal for city buildings or repairing streets the alleys soon clutter
up with dirt.
At least ten teams are required in the summer to care for the garroago disposal. That leaves seven teams for street repair Jobs. Four men usually make up the complete-
ment of the repair gang. One Is. on
the wagon. Three work with the
asphalt kettle.
Some streets in the city are brick
paved. Notably those running west from Hohman street. They need repairs also. But it Is presumed
those streets will have to wait un-
Hi the asphalt repairs' have been
made.
street Commissioner Norman had his gang out early last week filling
in a bit In South Hohman street.
Rain. Kal.n, that should have come
in January, February and March, and didn't. Is coming now. How unfortunate. Mr. Norman had to call off his workers.
on, tax-payer say a prayer for
dry weather.
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vve cant work while it rains."
That's the answer A. J. Swanson
president of the Hammond Board o-
-uwio works, oilers taxpayers of
the city while scores of streets
; oany Become more impassable and j mortoists begin to wnder whether ( it is safer not to drive and cheaper
to leave the car In the garage.
swanson says that virtually 90 per cent of Hammond thoroughfares must be repaired with asphalt and
that asphalt repairs can't be made
in wet weather. The mild winter
days of the. past two months slipped by unobserved apparently by the board and now city streets begin to take on the aspect of shell torn highways through battle scarred France. But the board admits that perhaps it will spend as much as $50,000 for street repairs before the year is out. Maybe more. Probably a lot more, rijger holes take moro sisphalt. Also more time. Also they mean new streets at premature tlages. Anyway that's the situation. Motorists, taxpayers, property owners have been asking what is ggfng to be done. There's the answer right
from Mr. Swanson: AVhen the weather drys up wc wiil start our program of $r,0,0C'0 worth of street repairs." That's
tho biggest repair job this city ever laced. City council meets onlght. Maybe some of the city councilmen will mirror the perplexed and furrowed faces of their constituents and ask the board what's what in city improvements. Here are some other things about which fho city dads can ak questions of the. city administration. These are taken from the notes of observant police officers who keep their eyes open while walking their
'beat." "There is a big hole In the street flt the corner of Monroe and Con-
key."
".Sewer blocked n corner of Becker end Calumet." "Resident at 83 Michigan avenue reports that some people are dumping refuse and dead animal matter In rear of 285 Michigan avenue." "Sidewalk broke down at 650 Suhv mer street." "Alley between "Williams and Doty streets west of Hohman street in bad shape." (This sort of report is frequent). "Hole on Kennedy avenue about 50 feet south of the M. C. railroad. Reported this twice. The road Is
undermined and the top is fallen In." "Garbage cans are scarce and the alleys need cleaning !i the Homerwood district." "Bad leak in the water tap on the corner of State and Maywood ets." "No lights on two piles of sand on Carroll street in front of house at No. 36." There are others, too. The city now owns 17 teams of horses. Most of these are employed In removing ashes, garbage and refuses to the dumpn. It requires virtually all of their time. At
that the work piles up rapidly and
HE COVERS
TOO MUCH TERRITORY
Examiner in Anderson's
Court Gets Over Into Springfield With His Questions
Citizens are being made In rapid
succession in the federal court of Hammond today. Residents of
German and Austrian birth, classed as alien enemies during the war. are at last getting their naturalization papers after waiting several years. Judge A. B. Anderson s inclined to be lenient with the applicants and those who hovered around the outskirts of the crowd expecting to hear some of the boys razzed about their war records are being disappointed. - For instance, Frederick Sommer.
of Hammond, of Renin hint.
brought a substitute witness into court. His regular witness was
called away to attend a funeral. Ex
aminer Blazer objected to- the su1stitution because if was only temporary but the court ruled that where It was shown that the wit
ness was out of the district, a sub
stitute was permitted. He was
particularly impressed when Mr. Sommers said that he had twelve children and that six of his boys
served In the United States Army.
only two cases had been dismissed up to noon. In one, the applicant had died and In the other it was shown that the witnesses had not known the applicant long
enougn.
Txaminer Blazer challenged the witness of a Whiting man because
ne had ben guilty of violating the
closing laws while ru.nnig a saloon
"Why hold it against the petitioner?" queried the Judge. "There are
a. jot or violations by the saloon
men. That's why we have prohibi tion ow."
ciazer naa trouble keeping his
r-earings when questioning applicants on their knowledge of gov
ernment. He would forget that he
was in Indiana instead of Illinois.
"What does the legislature meet
at fcpringneld for?" he asked oi man.
ow look here," interrupted the
jutige. it a hard enough for these people to answer the questions about Indiana without asking them to explain the actions of the Illinois legislature which even Illinois people can't understand.' It was expected that the entire list of sixty-nine applications would be gone over and disposed of before evening. Tomorrow Judge Anderson win take up the clvid court docket and hear motions and arguments in several canes.
VETS ORGAjNIZE TOMORROW EVE. Hoosierlzlng politics! Bringing back the good old national game of domestic state craft to its previous acceptable standards. Putting a conscience Into the contest of candidates. That'll be the aim of ex-service men meeting tomorrow night. Between 200 and 300 world war veterans will gather for their second
meeting at the Superior court build-
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EW YORK STOCKS CLOSE Allis Chalmers 4SH American Steel Fcrundry 37 American Ttl. and Tel. ; 120 Baldwin Locomotive 115H Uethlehem Steel B 7714
Chesapeake and Ohio 65 Chicago and Northwestern .... It
Consolidated Gas 1124
Corn Products 102l
trie 13
Lehigh Valley 62
Mexican Petroleum 129
Midvale Steel 34 N. V. Central 91 Northern Pacific 7714 Pure Oil 33 4 Pressed Steel Car 774 Railway Steel Springs lj Reading 76 Republic Iron and Steel 64 Stude'baker 116T4
Tens Co 46 U. S. Steel 974 Westlnghouse 61 Willys Overland 8 Sinclair Oil 30 CHICAGO CASH GKAIV
WHEAT No. 3 red $1.31)4; No. 2
hard winter $1.41 3AZK : No. 3
mixed $1.374; No. 5 mixed $1.24.
CORN No. 2 mixed 604 60 c; I No. 2 yellow 6061c; No. si
mixed 6963c; No. 3 white 60
ic; o. 3 yellow 6960c; No. 4
mixed 68H59c; No. 4 yellow 69( 69 'c.
OATS No. 2 white 39i40c; No. 3 white S7?440i4c; No. 4 white
36?i(S37c.
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN CLOSE
WHEAT July $1.37; May
$1.49B. CORN July 854e; May 51S. RYE July 92B; May 56UB.
OATS Sept- 36c; July 34B;
May 32B.
FLAX July $2.65 H; May 2.66 MB. CHICAGO PRODtCE MARKET
BUTTER Receipts 8.751 tubs.
Creamery extra 37c; standards 36;
firsts 3o(g'36c; packing stock 17
!?18c.
14 EGGS Receipts 47,021 casta. Mis
cellaneous 2323c ordinary firsts
!22c; firsts 2324c.
LIVE POULTRY Turkey 30C;
chickens 24c; broilers 4050c; roost.
16c; geese lie; ducks 30c.
fWAiuLS iieceipts 42 cars.
Wis. round white $1.S01.65; Minn.
round white $1.501.60; Idaho rur-
als $1.601.70.
VEAL 50 to 60 lbs. 78c; 70 to
80 lbs. 89c; 90 to 110 lbs. 9llc;
fancy 12 13c,
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK
HOGS Receipts 17.000. Market
fairly active, lights weak to 10c
lower, others mostly steady. Bulk
$9.80 10.50; top $10.60; heavyweight $10.00(f 10.30; medl-um weight $10.25
S 10.50; light weight $10.3510.60;
pigs $9.0010.26.
CATTLE Receipts 12,000. Market
slow and weak and 25c lower. Beef
steers, choice and prime $8.759.40, medium and good $7.50$. 75,v good
and choice $8.30 9.00, common and
medium $6.60 8.30; fcutcher cattle.
heifers $5.S08.50, cows $4.507.25,
bulls $4.10(6.50.
SHEEP Receipts 8.000. Market
lambs strong to 25c higher, sheep
steady. Lambs, 84 lbs. down, $11.50
13.75; lambs 85 lbs. tip, $11.00
13.60; lambs, culls and common, $9
11.25. EAST ST. LOCIS LIVES STOCK CATTLE Receipts 8.500. Market
steady. Native beef steers $9.30
9.00; yearling steers and heifers $1.35(59.00; cows $4.006.25; stockers and feeders $5.50$; 7.00; calves $3.25 8.50; dinners and cutters $2 3.50. HOGS Receipts 1,100. Market steady. Mixed and butchers $10.35 (S10.65; good heavies $10.25 10.45; roughs $8.7569. 00; lights $10.3Sff 1055; pigs $9.83g?10.00; bulk $10.40 10.55. SHEEP Receipts 70ft. Market steady. Mutton ewes $8.00 8.50; lambs $12.0015.75; canners and
choppers $2.505.00. EAST BrPFALO IJVB STOCK CATTLE Receipts 150. Market active. Snipping steers $$8.65; butcher grades $7.50 8.60; heifers $5.50t7.75; cows $2.256.00; bulls $2.605.25; feeders $5.00(3 6.00; milk cows and stringers $26120. CALVES Receipts 175. Markets active. Cull to choice $3.50 10.00. SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts 1.800. Markets active. Choice lamb $14.00 16.00; cull to fair $6.00 13.60; yearlings $7.0011.00; sheep $3.00 8.00. HOGS Receipts 800. Market active. Torkers $11.25 11.40: pigs $11.2511.40; heavy $11.00011.23; rourhs $ft.0.1(f?9.2S: staes $5Jf6.50.
Garbage Cans A Sale $1 oe Mainr r! ." I T - f
' j i'uiu iron uarbage
-ans, corrugated all around, with heavy angle irons on sides, capacity about 15 gallons. $1.25 10 gallon size $1.49 Heavy Corrugated Galvanized
uarbage Cans as illustrated. 15 rvalUM 4T f
20 gallon size, $1.98
l Fence Cans
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Made of heavy galvanized
iron, complete with fixtures.
ready to put up regular $3.50
ir- $2.49
CLOTHES WRINGER-Wood
frame, with' 10 in. rolls,
guaranteed quality. $6.00
value,
at
$3.98
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UPHOLSTERED CHAIR
SEATS Black Spanish leatherette. Your choice, 12-
m. at
13-in 14-in.t
25c
Rice Root SCRUBBING BRUSH With solid square back, 20c value
10c
LUSTER WOOL The modern cleanser for aluminum ware, 10c package, EJ
Lawn Mowers
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Easy running Lawn Mower, with three knives, 8-inch drive wheels, double geared $6.75 Specially priced. . BALL BEARING LAWN MOWER With best quality steel knife, hard wood roller, 8-in. drive wheel, fully tfQ QC guaranteed, at... Screen Wire
r,i,M-.iJ" A,6& Cm
Painted black, standard mesh in all widths from 18in .to 48-in., in full roll lots, 100 lineal feet, per OJiT square foot. POULTRY WIRE 2-in.
mesh, well galvanized, 72-in.
hig, 150 foot long, per roll.
$6.95
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BEDROOM PAPER A big selection, of high grade, bedroom papjers, in floral stripe and all-over floral patterns. 20c and 25c values 1 O per roll .