Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 77, Hammond, Lake County, 18 September 1922 — Page 6

AGE SIX

'THE TIMES Monday. Sept. 18. 1922.

W. C. T. U. MEETS

TOMORROW

The W. C. T. T7. rnnv.ntln. ,!,.),

w ill be held all day tomorrow at the I Tresbytcrlan church, w ill have the !

following interesting day: 10:30 a. m. Bong service with Mrs. "William McOmber. at the piano. Devotional In charge of the East Chicago "W. C. T. V. Address of Welcome Mrs. Roy Cameron, of Hammond, South Side W. C T. U.. president. Response Mrs. L. C. Johnson, county president. The ladies will then go to the public library where they will present the library with a picture of

t ranees Wihard. their respected J founder. Mrs. George Streeter will!

be master of ceremonies when tSe picture is presented. Crusade Psalm and Trayer, by the Rev. J. C. Oranger. Song, "Wind The Ribbon Around the Nation.-' Presentation Speech Mrs. I. A. Grlndle. of 'Whiting County Christian Citizenship. Song America. The ladies will then return to the church where lunch can be had for thirty-five. The meeting will begin at onethirty with the following program: Song Service Selected. Devotional Mrs..' John Leonard, County Superintendent. Solo Miss Rachael Knuth. Report of the Presidents of the count. v

Short talk and demonstration by !

Miss Sophie Fishback, who Is connected with the Community Service Committee. Election of County Officers. Address by Albert Baumberger, Community Service Director. Reading Miss Dorothy Strong. Reading Mrs. John McXeil. ' This will close what is anticipated to be an inspiring convention.

ENTOMBED MINERS, SNAPPED AS TRAGIC FATE AWAITED THEM

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Co, and now superintendent of the Indianapolis I. O. O. F. building, was a visitor in East Chicago Saturday.

Group of the unfortunate

Little did these mlne-e realize that the grim hand of fate was bout to snatch them "rom their families and the lig' t sunshine to en torn L them deep in the bowels of the Argonaut sold

miners taken by movie camera al mouth of Argonaut mine.

mine when they ,-csec willingly as extras for a re. r '.ion picture concern at the mine a few days before they were tapped in the mine by fire and cave-his. A '.lm company starring HoLart Bosworth arranged to take a mine

ncene there and engaged the miners to add real "color" to the picture. A few days lati.- fello -workmen began a frantic effort 1x3 tunnel through hundri .'j of feet of rock to the men to rescue them from death-

v -FLOYD WILLIAMS, well known Gary undertaker and politician who also owns a string of fast stepping hosses" has entered part of his strinp in the races at the Lake Co. Fair this week.

JTMS POLICE EEPOSTIS

Teerless. He and his wife were din1 ing in a chop suey restaurant in State street. When they came out

trie car was gone.

Officer "Skinno" Sommers is hunting1 squirrels today Detectlve Sergeant Ed. Warner is laid up. "William C. Huber. 905 Chicago avenue, cast Chicago undertaker, reports the loss of his seven passenger

RUPTURED? GET RID OF IT! H. H. HINDS Chicago's Ruptured Expert 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE la" Charge of State Rupture Institute WILL BE AT Hammond Hotel Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday September 19th, 20th, 21st To demonstrate in person his Patent Rupture Reducer. No charge for consultation or advice. No knife, no cutting, no absence from work or pleasure. Hours, 9 a. m. to 8 p. m.

nolire recovered a German Luger revolver stolen from the garage of ; liobert Lewis, 432 Michigan avenue.

When a tire on the flivver dri-en by John Makus, 1S3 Gostlin street, blew out Sunday afternoon as the Makus family was driving in Gostlin street, the car skidded nearly one hundred feet, plowing over the sidewalk and through a fence carrying withit the frightened form cf Stan-

, ley Marengo. 144 Dearborn st. John Vozinka, C04 Torrence avenue, walking with Marengo, was injured also. Neither man is seriously hurt. I Vergil BrooHiover, 554 Michigan avenue, is booked on a charge of wreckless driving. This after he had driven his taxi northbound in Hohman street in front of a street car, smashed into an auto belonging to Fred Granger and then recapitulated into the path of the street car. The accident occured between Truman and Michigan avenues. These are named as witnesses: H. L. Peterson. 354 Johnson st.: Arthur Lorens, S17 West Sibley st.; Mrs. L. Martinson, 124 Condit street. m

Morris Pelzman. 5 Doty street, suffered a cut over his left eye when Ire stepped in front of a north bound auto in State street Saturday afternoon. The car was driven by Cornelius G. Blackoy. 432 Elm street.

Pelzman was knocked to the pavement. The accident was witnessed by Johnny Killigrew and A. J. Swan-son.

Did You Hear Thai

NEW TE4rf5 for 'ht J v. eh p?o- ! 1 starts ivis ut Soptemlir 22. ai J cont'n :s tj and including the ?.t!. Met - than lO.iOO Jnwit n l!i CiiU met lii.' tt will .jbs-rve these b. i?ays.

GEORGE II. Lewis the nwly elected president of the Chamber of Commerce, announces the election of a new board of directors at the meeting of the Chamber next Wednesday noon.

HEADS of plants here announce that the slack as the result of Ford closing down Saturday will be absorbed by a rush of other orders now coming in and that present operations will be affected.

EAST CHICAGO is the home of the second nationally known concern to have merging plans now under consideration. The Cudahy Packing Co.. it is reported, may be consumed in the $536,000 flve-pacing combine headed by Armour and Company. Consolidation of the Inland Steel with Republic and Mid-vale Is the other East Chicago concern.

today attending the annual state convention.

FOLLOWING the decision not to put an Independent ticket In the field Gary and Lake county democrats plan to start their campaign immediately.

GLEASON ROAD has now been graded from Lake avenue westward to Blankville. The road may be closed to traffic for several months, It was understood today.

that are of benefit to the community, the state, the nation," from a circular letter by J. E. Masters, grand eralted ruler B. P. O. E.

Defends Booze, Gets One Too Many and Is Burned in Apartment PA'RIS. Sept. -France ts a free country," M. Rohl told his friends. "There never will be a law 'here takInjr away a man's cognac."

IN the neighborhood of 500 men

100 teams and a half a dozen mons- i

ter steam Ehovels are now at work grading and transforming the sand dunes into the site for the proposed Gary tube mill.

Wheheupon M. Rohl ordtred another. When the time came for him to go to his home on the Rue des Beaux Arts he had difficulty in finding the keyhole. He had even more difficulty in lighting the kerosene lamp with which he lighted himself to bed. But most difficult of all was remembering with his feet how wide the steps were. The Are was put out without much endangering neighboring apartments. But M. Rohl's ibody was found burned to a crisp.

MAYOR and Mrs. R. O. Johnson and family returned from Madiscn, Wisconsin, yesterday, where they accompanied their son Roswell, Jr., who will take up his sophomore year at the University of Wisconsin.

Gary NEW high speed elevator costing In the neighborhood of $25,000, are being installed at Goodman's department store.

HAMMOND golfers had their inning at the Gary Country Club on Saturday when they defeated the local players In a match tournament.

SEVERAL dozen loads of Gary business men will make the "Good Fellowship" tour which will be made Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

E. Chicago THE Fall drive for new members of the East Chicago Club has started.

IN the neighborhood of 100 mem bers of the Indiana Association of Park Superintendents are in Gary

FRANK BLOCKER, well known grid star and football mentor from Hammond, will havj charge of the coaching of Gary Elks' new football team. First practice wil be held at Emerson Tuesday evening.

AFTER being cut on strike since July l, over three hundred members of the shopmen's local in Gary, returned to work at the E. J. & E. Kirk yards this morning. According to officials all grievances have been settled.

WITH the firing up of number five blast furnace, eight blast furnaces out of a total of twelve at the Gary Works of the Illinois Steel company are now in operation. This is the first time number Ave blast furnace has been In operation since the Industrial depression.

"BEING an Elk means being a citizen who serves his city worthily. Every Elks lodge should interest Itself in civic affairs and take a leading part in all movements

DR. G. W. SWEIGART. member of the park board, has returned from the Red Men's convention held at Boston.

WHILE not receiving any injuries when he slipped bak Into a new.y constructed concrete sidewalk Go. Hartley h.is found himself a little be h:r d in his v .-rK.

MEMBERS of the common council will meet this evening. Many Important issues were discussed at a caucus yesterday that are to be passed upon tonight.

IN a carefully mapped out eojourn of Eastern parts, Sergt. Donald McIver of the East Chicago station included a Canadian stop-over while away on a two week's vacation.

C. H. REID, former master mechanic of the IT. S. S. Lead Refining

SPECIAL Regular 5 COMBINATION SPOT AND TROUBLE LIGHT Equipped with Nitrogren Bulb

and Six Feet of Cord $3.19 Just the One Automobile Accessory You Have the Most Need For NOW S. & S. GARAGE AND SALES

State Line and Sibley Sts., Hammond, Ind. jj

No. 546 BANK STATEMENT

ANTON H. TAPPER. President ENGLEHARDT ULLRICH. Vice-President

THEO. MOOR. Cashier

Report of the Condition of the

State Bank of Hammond A State Bank at Hammond, in the State of Indiana, at the Close of Its Business on September 15, 1922

RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $155,809.68 Overdrafts 214.27 U. S. Bonds , 23.333.60 Other Bonds, and Securities 35.839.89 Furniture and Fixtures -. 1,000.00 Due from Banks and Trust Co.'s . 20,209.1 1 Cash on Hand 5,760.06 Cash Items 566.92 Current Expenses r 172.57 Other Assets 3,917.25

Total Resources ... $246,823.35

LIABILITIES Capital Stock paid in , -. . .$ 25.000.00 Surplus ... 10.000.00 Undivided Profits 246.21 Demand Deposits , $150,832.90 Demand Certificates 1.495.09

Time Certificates -., 1.095.00 Savings Deposits 45,019.64 Certified Checks

Cashiers Checks ......-c 2,863.01 Bills Payable 1 0,000.00

198,442.63 271.50

Total Liabilities . .-. - $246,823.35

STATE OF INDIANA, COUNTY OF LAKE, SS : I, Anton H. Tapper, President of the State Bank of Hammond, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true. ANTON H. TAPPER. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 18th day of September, 1922. My commission expires April 20, 1923. GERTRUDE E. CLAUS. Notary Public.

Combined Statement of Condition of

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AVM IBANK

Formerly Lake Cosinty Sayla23 and Trust Company

HAMMOND. INDIANA

OFFICERS PETER W. MEYN President JOS. W. WEIS Vice-President DAVID T. EMERY Secretary-Treasurer CHAS. H. WOLTERS Asst. Secy.-Treas. DIRECTORS J. N. BECKMAN W. C. BELMAN FRANK S. BETZ DAVID T. EMERY ALBERT MAACK J. H. MEYN PETER W. MEYN A. M. TURNER JOS. W. WEIS

At the Close of Business First Trust & Savings Bank RESOURCES Loans and Discounts $1,494,146.15 Liberty Bonds 356,154.00 Stocks and Bonds V 90,285.23 Furniture and Fixtures ' 9,000.00 Real Estate 9 9,408.09 Cash and Due from Banks.. 220,395.68 Accounts Receivable 64,842.31 Overdrafts 817.88 Other Assets 30,386.19 $2,285,435.53 LIABILITIES Capital Stock' $ 125,000.00 Surplus.... 40,000.00 Undivided Profits . . . : 42,037.28 Deposits 2,072,604.03 Reserve for Taxes and Interest 5,794.22 Bills Payable...

September 15th, 1922 First National Bank RESOURCES Bills Discounte'd $1,819,088.13 Overdrafts 5.43 Cash and Due from Banks 1,179,279.07 U.S. Bonds 983,493.37 Stock and Bonds 807,674.59 Real Estate and Fixtures 10,000.00 $4,799,540.59 LIABILITIES . Capital Stock....,: $ 250,000.00 Surplus 125,000.00 Undivided Profits 1 '46,577.82 Circulating Notes 250,000.00 Deposits 4,120,042.59 Reserve for Taxes and Interest 7,896.18 I Jnnaid Dividends 24.00

OFFICERS A. M. TUER President JOHN E. FITZGERALD Vice-President WILLIAM C. BELMAN Vice-President WM. H. RIPPE Cashier JOHN A. RIPPE Asst. Cashier JOHN E. MYER Asst. Cashier DIRECTORS JOHN F. BECKMAN W. C. BELMAN FRANK S. BETZ J. E. FITZGERALD CARL KAUFMANN OTTO KNOERZER PETER W. MEYN MNNAUER MER

$2,285,435.53 THE STOCK OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK AND

$4,799,540.59

OF THE FIRST TRUST & SAVINGS BANK IS JOINTLY OWNED

On the Strength of the Above Statement, We Solicit Your Business

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