Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 85, Hammond, Lake County, 27 September 1922 — Page 10

Wednesdav. Sept. 27. 1922

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Miami Postmaster's Job No Sinecure; He Handles Coconuts, Gooey Mangoes

MIAMI, Fla... Sept. Coconut Grove, Florid seems to have all sorts of odd jobs put up to it and, some of them are certainly corkers. First it was mailing coconuts, which save all sort of trouble because they always seamed to want to roll all over the- blooming; postofflce and even on to the main street, which. of course, would never do. But this was finally taken in hand and a ery certain remedy found for the trouble. Postmaster Smith was content for a time feeling that at last he had solved every mystery and life would be sweeter for him thereafter. But such was not to the case. The mango crop came along- and people began mailing mangoes by the scores, yes, even by the hundreds, and Postmaster Smith's troubles began all over again. Anyone who has ever sat in a hath tub and eaten a mango knows what slushly propositions they are. Now if you can imagine mailing hem then you can picture the hroposltlon that Postmaster Smith vas up against. At first it was feared that he would have to install bath tubs in the post office in order to make the mailing of the mangoes possible. On second hought, however, it was decided, hat a post office was no place for a bath tub. or rather for bath tubs,' o this solution was dropped. 1 But the mangoes continued to .-rune into the post office in all their KIWANIANS HAVE GREAT FUN OVER .... HOMER'S STUNT W. J. McAleer Principal In & Clever Ruse at Kiwanis Dinner. When George Geyer, president of he Kiwanis club of Hammond, sel ected Homer J. Postlewaite as chairman of the entertainment committee for September, he never dreamed that Homer J. would start a row that vould shake the club and then ad roitly turn the fuss into a laugh. ryer didn't realize how much orrlnallty and humor Homer's stern visage concealed. The new stunt was pulled last nijfht at one of the most enthusias tic meetings the club has ever held. jThirty members of the Gary Kiwanis club were guests. The total atren.lar.ee was 120. George Geyer. V. J. MaAleer and Homer J. were in on the "stunt" which had been arranged by PostleKvaite. When everything was serene and brotherly love in evidence, W. J. McAleer arose. ATTACKS CLUB "I have something to say to the members cf the Kiwanis club." he Ibefiran. "I want them to know how I feel about the way things have been going, I want you to know what I think of a bunch of fellows 'who will throw the club down and throw the mayor down the way you did." McAleer was shouting. He was angry. The faces of the guests from Gary reflected astonishment. The Hammond Kiwanians were stunned. "Youre're a buch of quitters," shouted McAleer. "There wasn't a one of you who closed up his place of business to go to the- county fair lat Friday. There's old Murray Turner over there in the corner. What did he do? D'id he leave at the appointed time with the Kiwanis cars? No. He wouldn't take our dust. He went on ahead and he sat in the grandstand. He didn't mix with the bunch." McAleer was shouting and waving both arms. "This is terrible." whispered Eoscoe Hemstock to Harry Folk. "I'm through with this club," yelled McAleeer. "You can all " Georjre Geyer was on his feet. "No.- man can get up and talk like tat in this .club," yelled Geyer. "There were 300 people went with the Kiwanians to the county fair. HEART AND BY MRS. Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am about, to be married and wish to know if it is proper to wear flowers and gloves when one wears a suit and is leaving immediately after the ceremony. TOOTS. It is proper to wear flowers. If gloves are worn I would suggest that you roll them back from the hand so that the wedding ring can be placed on your finger. Dear Mrs. Thompson: A neighbor boy is very sick. We have beautiful garden flowers. Would it be proper for me to pick some and take them to his home? DOUBTFUL GERTRUDE. Yes, it would be all right to take the flowers, and I all sure the boy and his mother would appreciate your thoughtfulness. Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am twenty-five years of age. My mother died when I was fourteen, when my youngest sister was born. There were three other children to take care of and as we were unable to hire a servant I had to drop my school work in the eighth grade. My sisters are now all educated, and I would have been if my mother bad lived. I have taken correspondence courses and made several other at tempts to better myself, but I have missed the things which almost every other girl has had. I long for love, romance and companion-ship Two of my sisters are happily married and the other is making $250 a month. I want to have lovers and friends. My sister has

slushiness and everybody from the P. M. himself down to the chief floor sweeper soon were buried under an avalanche of soo that only a mango eater can appreciate. Postmaster Smith has a very able assistant in the form of Assistant Postmistress Eckert, and she at last solved the mystery in a way that left little to be desired. She discovered after no end of research and study that if the mangoes were packed in non-skid, anti-bustable, waterproof and foolproof containers of various sorts that the mailing could be done without fear and trepidation. And so Postmaster Smith issued the decree that all mangoes to be mailed at the Coconut Grove post office must be so protected that not even a suggestion could penetrate the covering. And once more peaceful Coconut Grove, the home of William J. Bryand and little flies that take keen delight in doing a six-day race around the inside of a person's' nostrils, is calm and quiet. Coconuts are rolling along in a mose efficient way and now even the slushy mango is being slid through without S&ir of a premature meeting with the bath tub. Saturday night remains the regular washing up night in the village and post office employes who have handled the slushy mango all week are none the worse for wear and appearance than if they had been working in a paste factory.

As president of this club I refuse to permit anybody to abuse the members in that manner. I take this as a personal affront." "Well." shouted McAleer, "if you want to make it a personal issue, I'm ready." HEADY TO TIGHT f McAleer and Geyer started for each other. It looked like a fight! The club was in a hubbub. Then Postlewaite intervened. "Just a minute, gentlemen," .ha cried, and began distributing copies of a regulation size newspaper with screaming headlines. The headlines said: "McAleer Throws Hat in Ring and Geyer Kicks it Out." Under the headlines was a complete story of what had just happened, word for word. Then everybody knew it was a "frame-up" and the Kiwanis club rocked with laughter. McAleer and Geyer shook hands. "Well, I'm glad it came out the way it did," said Murray Turner. "If Geyer hadn't licked you Bill. I was going to try It myself." , GRAY GOOSE FLIES IN RECORD TIME From Los Angeles, California, to Detroit. (Michigan, a distance of 8.047 miles In 93 hours and 15 minutes. So Gray Goose has Just flown. In fact, this flight just completed is, in many respects, the most extraordinary feat of endurance, speed and roadabllity of the many road feats of the Wills Sainte Claire. Two men in a dust coated Wills Salnte Claire Phaeton, drove into th3 Willg Sainte Claire factory at Marys ville on September 14th. They were A. A. Stubbs. of the A. A. Stubbs Motor Company, Will Salnte Claire dealers at Whittier, Cal., and A. B. Marshall of the Troy Motor Sales Co. Los Angeles. They had come to Marysville to exhibit their record-breaking "Gray Goose" and to have the car inspected after this gruelling test of its stamina. The car was not only a standard stock oar in every partiau. lar. but it had been driven 16,000 miles before .starting on this transcontinental dash. Here are some of the outstanding facts taken from the journal of this trip. The average speed maintained for 3.047 miles was 33.02 miles per hour. The average gasoline consumption -- even at this consistently high speed -- was 14.45 miles per gallon. The oil was changed every 800 miles. Other than this, no oil was added. The longest day's run was made on the excellent roads from La Junta.-Colo., to Kansas Clty a distance of miles. This

ME PROBLEMS ELIZABETH THOMPSON

them and there is fourteen years difference between uz. I am now able to buy pretty clothes and we keep two servants. My sisters and father all say they think I was brave and good and they hope some day I will be repaid more than they can give me. They are the sweetest family in the world and don't know, as I have never told them, what I want most. I am afraid it would make them unhappyWill you please advise me in this particular and peculiar case? MARIE M. All heroes and heroines do not receive medals for their courage. It shows greater bravery to sweetly, quietly and unselfish- ri" i oneself to ones family when fate places such an obligation. Naturally your life has been colorless and lonely in a way because you have been too bu find pleasure as most girls do. Although you feel the lack of education, you suffer needlessly, because from your letter I can see that you have gone beyond the average high school graduate in your self-improvement. I would suggest that you travel for a while. You have stayed, home long enough, and although you dread going away by yourself, the experience, would do you good. You will return home with new friends and new visions and will be much more contented. Stop looking for love and romance for awhile and try to find happiness in the commonplace blessings of life. The realities of life are very interesting and colorful as soon aa a person learns how to enjoy them. Happiness is an attitude of mind. Possessions, whether they be people or riches, do not bring happiness in them.

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they 'did in the amailng time of 19 hours flat. The only trouble of any kind whatever encountered in the entire trip of 3,047 miles was a single juncture. That, however, Is not entirely accurate. A wild teer on the plains of Colorado voluntarily supplied a little incident that might be construed as trouble -- at least for the steer. Evidently, the steer didn't like the looks of the Gray Goose. Maybe he had appointed himself as a local traffic officer. Anyway, he charged them at full speed. There was no turning or ducking on the narrow road, and the Wills Sainte Claire was doing about fifty miles an hour. The only chance was to "step on her" and try to get past the beligerent steed before he reached the car in the center of the highway. They didn't Quite make it The steer, head down, struck the rear fender. The Wills Sainte Claire didn't swerve. But that particular steed will never have, in this life, another run-in with a Wills Salnte Claire. That, at least, was definitely settled. The history making Wills Sainte Claire, driven by Messrs Stubbs and Marshall, was taken into the service garage of C. H. Wills & Company and given a thorough inspection. Not only were no repairs of any kind necessary, but, literally, not even an adjustment. After filling the car with gasoline telling their story and receiving the congratulations of Marysvllle. the trans-contlnental flyers turned Gray Goose westward and headed for home. JUDGE AFTER DRUNKEN SPEEDER Jail terms for speeders. City Judge Henry Cleveland believes that's coming. If the present flagrant violations of city traffic laws continues the court may punish speeders with jail sentences, he intimated this morning. One of the most frequent violators of highway safety lately is the drunken motorist. This morning, Judge Cleveland found another guilty. In passing sentence the court admonished the driver and deplored the insufficiency of the state statute which fixes the maximum penalty for driving while intoxicated at S50 and costs. There's no jail sentence possible under the charge. "Moonshine muddled motorists are causing thousands of dollars loss annually in auto accidents and are an increasing menace to the life and limb of street pedestrians and fellow motorists," Judge Cleveland said. Conviction on charges of speeding and reckless driving may be punished with jail sentence in addition to fines. The court may ask co-operation of the county prosecutor in changing charges of driving while drunk to that of reckless driving. "A few days in jail will make the speeder repentant," said Cleveland. BRIDGEPORT, CONN.. Sept. 27 Recalling a nightmare in which she declared she saw her husband standing before a trunk in which was a woman's body. Mrs. Lydla W. SpaldIn, now employed as a nurse here, who said her husband, Robert Spalding, is now held in Peoria, III., for murder, told the police today, according to Supt. Patrick Flanagan, that she believed he might have had some knowledge of the murder of a woman, whose body was shipped in a trunk from Detroit to the Grand Central terminal in New York City in July, 1920. Supt. Flanagan has telegraphed the facts obtained from the woman to the Detroit police and offered assistance in further investigation if they deem it desirable. The discovery of Mrs. Spalding's shattered romance became known here through the filing of a suit for divorce against her husband, alleging desertion cf herself and her five year old daughter. She told the police she was married to Spauldinga in 191S. Later Spalding went to Detroit and was arrested there on a trivial charge. Mrs. Spalding went

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HER BROTHER ARE DUAL MURDER PROBE

to that city, she said. She was convinced that her husband was insane and asked the police to have him examined but they refused. She said, according to the police that he had threatened to kill her on several occasions and when an attempt was made to draft him into the army he had threatened to kill several persons and himself. He had also threatened to kill his mother, in Peoria, Mrs. Spalding said. Mrs. Spalding is now living here with her daughter and is employed as a nurse in a local department store. NEW YORK STOCKS CLOSE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Allis Cnaimti's American Steel Foundry 43 1/4 American Tel. and Tel 120 3/4 Anaconda 51 3/4 Baldwin Locomotive 131 5/8 Bethlehem Steel B 74 1/ California Petroleum 62 Canadian. Pacific 143 1/4 Chesapeake and Ohio 72 3/4 Chicaco and Northwestern ... 89 5/ Colorado Fuel 33 Consolidated Gas 135 1/8 Crucibld Keel 85 1/4 General Motors 14 1/8 Lackawanna Steel 79 Lehigh Valley 66 5/8 Mexican Petroleum 185 Mid vale Steel 33 3/4 New York Central 96 5/8 Northern Pacific 84 1/4 Pure Oil 31 1/4 Pacific Oil 55 1/8 Railway Steel Springs .117 1/8 Reading 76 1/8 Republic Iron and Steel 63 1/8 Studebaker 125 Texas Co 47 U. S. Steel 101 1/8 Willys Overland 6 3/3 Sinclair Oil 33 1/8 CHICAGO CASH GRAIN WHEAT No. 3 red $1.12; No. 2 hard $ 1.08 1/4 @1.09; No. 3 hard $1.07 3/4; No. 1 northern spring dark $1.30 1/2; No. 2 mixed $1.07 1/4; No. 3 spring mixed $1.07 3/4 CORN No. 2 mixed 64 1/4 65 3/4 c; No. 2 white 65@ 66 1/4c; No. 2 yellow 64 3/4 @ 66 1/2 c; No.. 3 mixed 64 1/4 @651/4: No. 3 white 64 3/4 @ 651/2 c; No. 4 mix 64 @ 65c; No. 4 whfte 64 @ 65c; No. 4 yellow 64@65 1/4c OATS No. 2 white 41 1/4 @ 42c; No. 3 white 39 3/4 @ 41 1/4c; No. 4 white 40. CHICAGO PRODUCE BUTTER Receipts 5.118 tubs. Extra 41c; standard 37 1/2c; extra firsts 37@40c; firsts 331/2 @35c; packing stock 25 1/2 @ 26 1/2 c. EGGS Receipts 444 cases. Miscellaneous 27@28c; ordinary firsts 25@26c; firsts 28@35c. LIVE POULTRY Chickens 18@ 21c; springs l9c; roosters 13c; geese 18c; ducks 32c. POTATOES Wis. sacked and bulk [email protected] cwt.; Minn. Sandland Ohio $ 1.00 @ $1.05 cwt ; S. Dakota sacked and bulk [email protected]. VEAL 50 to 60 lbs. 10 11c; 70 to 80 lbs. 12@13c; 90 to 110 lbs. 14 15c; fancy thick 16@17c; overweight, 130 to 175 lbs., 6@8c. CHICAGO LIVE STOCK HOGS Receipts 16.000. Market slow, about steady, on desirable weights, others weak to lower. Bulk $7.80 @ 10.60. Top $10.70. HeavyGORLIS' BUS LINE BETWEEN GARY AND HAMMOND Bus leaves every hour from State & Hohman, Hammond And every hour from Fifth Ave. & Broadway, Gary PROMPT EFFICIENT SERVICE Waiting Room at 11th and Broadway, Opposite GaryValparaiso Station FARE City limit 10c To Hammond 25c To Gary 25c

weight [email protected]; medium weight $9.90@10 .65; light weight $10.30 @ 10.65; pigs [email protected]. CATTLE Receipts 15.000. Market steady to strong. Beef steers, choice and prime [email protected], medium and good $7.60 @ 11.00, good and choice [email protected], common and medium [email protected]; butcher cattle, heifers [email protected], cows [email protected], bulls $3.75@ 6.40. SHEEP--- Receipts 16.000. Market steady to strong, feeder lambs higher. Lambs, 84 lbs. down, $13.40@ 14.75; lambs, culls and common, $3 @13.25; yearling wethers $9.25 @ 12.25. EAST ST. LOUIS LIVE STOCK CATTLE--- Receipts 8.000. Market steady. Native beef steers $8.25 @ 11.90; yearling steers and heifers $9 @11.90; cows $3.007.00; stockers and feeders $4 [email protected]; calves $4.00 @8.00; caners and cutters $2.25@ 2 50. HOGS -- Receipts 12,500. Market 15c lower. Mixed and butchers 10.25 @10.40; good heavies $10. 30J 10.40 ; roughs [email protected]; lights $10.25@ 10.35; pigs $10.00 @10.25. Bulk 10.30 @10.40. SHEEP Receipts 2.500. Market steady to strong. Mutton ewes $4 @6.00; lambs $12.00 @ 14.00; canners and choppers $ 1.00 @ 3.00. EAST BUFFALO LIVE STOCK CATTLE Receipts 250. Market slow. Prime steers $9.00 @ 9.75; shlplng steers $9.00 @ 9.75; butcher grades $7.25 @ 9.00; heifers $5.25 @ 8.00; cow $s2.00 @ 6.25; bulls $3,75 @ 5.00; feeders $4.75 @ 6.35; milk cows and stringers $25 @ 115. CALVES Receipts 200. Markets slow. Cul lio choice $3.50 @14.50. SHEEP AND LAMBS Receipts 1.000. Market slow. Choice lambs $15.00 @ 15.50; cull to fair $7,750 13.75; yearlings $7.75 @ 11.00; sheep $3.00 @ 8.00. HOGS Receipts 1,600. Market slow. Yorkers $11.10 @ 11.16; pigs $11.00 @ 11.10; mixed $11 00 @ 11.15; heavy $1O.50 @ 11.00; roughs $8,00@ 8.50; stags $5.00 @ 6.00. SOUTH OMAHA LIVE STOCK HOGS Receipts 7,500. Market light butchers steady, ther grades week to 15c lower. Bulk packing grades $8.10 @ 8.60; pound butchers $9.00 @ 10.15. Top $10 20. CATTLE Receipts 8.200. Market, strictly good prime corn fed beeves steady to 25c higher, others slow. Top $11.35. Few head $11.85. Bulls weak, other classes of stock steady. SHEEP Receipts 22.000. Market slow. Fat lambs 10 @ 15c lower; bulk westerns $13.75 @ 14.10; sheep steady; ewes top $6 25; yearlings $10.50; feeding lambs strong to 15c higher. Bulk $14.00. Top $14.15. SIOUX CITY LIVE STOCK HOGS Receipts 6,500. Market, lights steady to weak, other 10@ 15c lower. Range $7.50 @ 10.10. Bulk $8.00 @ 10.00. CATTLE Receipts 2,000. Market steady. Feeder tseers and yearlings $8.00 @ 10.60; feeder heifers $7,000 10.00; grass steers $5.00 @ 7.60; grass butchers $4.00 @ 7.00; canners and cutters $2.50 @ 3-75: stockers and yearlings $4.00 @ 7.25: feeding cows cows and heifers $3.00 @ 5.50. SHEEP Receipts 1.000. Market steady.

DEATH OF LOUIS KOLLWITZ Xouis Kollwitz. a retired business; man of Hammond, died last night at 11:50 o'clock at his home 192 North Hohman street Mr. Kollwitz has been a resident of Hammond for thir ty years. He leaves a widow. M;- Albrrine Too Late To Classify FOR SALE Slightly used Buick roadster, A-l condition. Five passenger Buick touring. Dodge sedan. Oakland roadster. Oakland touring. Ford touring. SNODGRASS AUTO SALES Oakland Agency 302 East State st. Hammond. 9 :27 :1

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Kollwitz and the following daughters: Lillian. Anna and Mrs. Albertine Dunn. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the late residence and interment will be in the cemetary at Oak Glen.

DIVORCE PROCEEDINGS For nearly a year John Buwit's curiosity has been at fever heat. Nearly every week-end his wife, Bessie, has slipped away from her home in Hammond. She would leave on Friday evening and return late Sunday evening or Monday morning. Every now and then John would ask her where she had been, but Bessie wouldn't tell him. He probably would have followed her except for the fact that he worked steady as a machinist's helper and had not time for running around. Then too, she always left the three children at home for him to look af ter. Today he filed suit for divorce in the Hammond Superior court. He says that Bessie generally goes to Chicago on her little trips and is entertained by another man while there. He hasn't been able to learn the name of the man. He also says that Bessie gets angry every now and then and calls him vile names. He asks for the custody of the three children. Sheerer and White are his attorneys. GIANTS LOSE FIRST NEW YORK. Sept. 27. The Giants lost the lrst game of a double-head. er to the Phillies today in the tenth inning, 6 to 8. Johnson, a rookie, pitched for McGraw's men and was hit hard in spots. BIG FIRE AT NEWPORT [INTER NATIONAL NEWS SERVICE] NEW PORT. R. I., Sept. 27 A serious fire is raging here this afternoon. The city's entire fighting force, aided by apparatus and men from neighboring towns are fighting the blaze. More than a score of buildings have already been destroyed or badly damaged. BOILS! Natures Way of Warning O you that your blood is impure Boils are unnatural and offensive ! Don't take a chance that all your blood impurities will force their way through the skin. Take S. S. S. and watch your skin clear up and your blood made rich and pure. The power of S. S. S. is an acknowledged fact. Right off, it clears the skin of boils, pimples, blotches, acne, eczema, rash and other skin eruptions and does it thor-oughly. Mr. V. D. Sehaff. BS7 15th St. Washington. D. C. writes : "I tried for yars to get relief from a bad case of boils. Everything- failed until I took S. S. S. I am now absolutely cured, and it was S. S. S. that did it." Any good druggist can supply you with S. S. S. S S. S Tmaeks you feel like yourself again SPECIAL SALE Combination Spot and Trouble Light 1

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(BULLETIN.) LOXDOX, Sept. 27. Premier Lloyd George has summoned m meeting; of the cabinet for 7 o'clock to discuss the Near East developments precipitated by the abdication of Kins; Constantlne of Greece.

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