Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 90, Hammond, Lake County, 4 October 1922 — Page 6

Wednesday. Oct. 4. 1922.

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INDIANA'S OLDEST NATIVE iS DEAD Slrcng Coffee and Tobacco Foil io Keep Her From Passing Century Mark.

WASHINGTON. Ind., Oct. 4. Mrs. Sar.iU C Canan. age 104. believed by .-r :f:allve3 to have been the oldest -.ativo jor nrel3ent of Indiana, i'.ed ".litre Moudy niaX at the homo -f h;r r,!ftc, Mrs. I.ucy Tliombl-ion. I'.T Cunan, whoie maiden name fje-ii !lley. vas born TJsc. 10. 1917, . . ' . ,.VUk i - n -.iff ma rtf iVlA

Kity of :r.Sianapol!s. liar parents 'cKtiiC InJlana from Virginia a cti- :non:.he bfoi her blrta. ! The I'ar.iwy -atiB on the way to K".-'ri r--rv hul r m unriA died

ki central Indiana and the Ta-mlly stopped at what is now Indiana; o'.is to ury him. Finding the , Jocation desirable, the Elseys settled In Marion cou:ily and remained ; ihere several years before moving to Martin county. "Right living."' was Mrs. Canan's rale for longevity. "I always lived right," she would say when asked how sh lived so long. "I always vr.ado my own clothes, doins the ipinninsr myself. Until after the Civil war our home had no floor k--x.ee pt the hard earth and you might say we lived outdoors all the time. U was a hard life, but I believe it wns the risrht life." Strong coffee and - tobacco were Mrs. Canan's constant solace. She rirank one or two cups of coffee at qvery meal and sn'.oked a clay pipe airanst constantly duriny her waking hours. Until recently she used 50 cents' worth of tobacco each week. ' Mrs. Canan was descended from a family of centenarians. Her father, Edward Kisey, lived to be 102, and her mother died at the age of 103. Kwdard Elsey, a brother, age 94, is now living in Martin county. Another" brother. James Elsey, lives at Mr. Carmel, 111. "

discussion arose and everyone present, whether they liked what he said or not, could feci sure that he ws sincere. It has been this frankness that has drawn & circle of friends to the shop. And by reason of this he has not been without an influence In politics although never in the pay of any party or politicians. THE BARBER'S TOTt'E! The language In Roth's place has often smacked of the race track and men have been known to cuss there, but gossip about women has novor been countenanced. The proprietor, although a bachelor, would never permit discussion of -local scandal and this has appealed to the better class of trade. I learned that lesson when I was nineteen years of agre. "Roth said one day. "My mother threshed me for repeating gossip about a girl. I thought mother never would let up." Another rule enforced by the proprietor was that no employe could smoke cigarettes in the shop and in old saloon days whenever a barber

came to work with a liquor breath he was promptly filed. Owing to

the unsteady habits of barbers at

that time,. Roth's labor turn-over

was large.

Roth has seen Hammond in every

phase of its development and his observations have been made on the city's principal corner. As the old. est business man on Hohman street.

he is in a position to pass judgment

and it is his opinion that the community hag Improved in morals and

morale as fast as it has grown in population.

"Ever since the first edition of

The Times the paper has been in

my shop every afternoon," declared

Roth. "As many as four and five copies come into the shop at a time, I will never forget how enthusiastic everybody was the day the first Times was issued."

WATCHED HAJIMOXD CROW When Roth opened his shop In

the "Flatiron Building" in 1890, tne business district was centered on

West State street, from Hohman

Passing of Frank Roth's Barber Shop Is Blow to Hammond

Old Timers

i (Continued frcw. page one.)

iWavins? the "Barber on the Four Corners" to his reverie and we will go on with the story. STARTED AS V1LLIAGE BARBER '.; Hammond has grown from a village to a city of a hundred industries since Roth opened a five-chair Uarbershop in the "Flatiron building" at State and Hohman streets. Two years later he moved to the present location across the street. And for more than a quarter of a it ntury his shop has played no mean part in the life of the town.' ,i It was in Frank Roth's barber-'-r,n hphir.d. drawn ahades that the

Democratic ticket with Pat Rellly for mayor was selected. With one exception. Roth was always on the winner in a city election and with

bne exception he was always wrong

In a presidential campaign. fon

ics and race horses have been his rhlef diversion and although he

went broke twice once when Dick

Schaaf was defeated for mayor and

another time when the ponies were

running at Roby tne veteran Darber loves both games. He admits

however, that his bank account

started climbing when he quit reading the racing forms and so he is able to retire from business with a sizable fortune. Just the same, Frank knows local politics, past and nresent. and the horses. He can

talk entertainly about either one

Moreover, he likes clean politics

a.nd he abhors the professional gam biers and crooks who cling like par "asites to the Sport of Kings.

ALWAYS SHAVED THE MAYOR - Ever since the days of M. M. Tow fc-Roth has shaved the city's mayor, Including Pat Rellly. Judge Becker, John Smalley and Dan Brown. Whenever Becker stops In

Hammond on his way from Wash

Kngton,.D. C, to his ranch In Wyoming he Invariably makes a bee-line

for Roth's shop to talk politics for

an- hour. Mayor Brown, C-lty engineer Bridge, County Recorder BllIjiRose, Dr. W. F. Howat and other mn prominent In political life art to bo Tcrund in the shop several times a week. . Kotn is whole-souled and outspoken. Ho makes warm friends and bitter enemies. Business policy has never softened the wind to the' shorn lamb in his place. Being an old-fashioned barber who talks while he works, he has always exUJXSsed his convictions whenever a

street to Morton court. The feed i store where the Citizen's Bank building" stends today was the end of the Hohman street business district and Borchert's saloon and dance hall at State and Sohl streets were "out of town." Roth was one of the young bloods of the town then and every night they gathered at the counter In the Erie depot restaurant for a piece of pie and a cup of coffee. "You hadn't been out at all unless you went to the Erie restaurant for a piece of pie," declared Roth today. K1KST PATROXS "I knew every man in town then." said ltoth. "We had a volunteer fire department and whenever there was a fire we all dropped what we were doing and went. Among my customers when I opened my shop were M. M. Towle. Tat Rellly, K. IT. Bell, and Rev. E. II. Cross. Mr. Cross had the hardest head of hair I ever tried to cut in my life. I used to say I would rather give him a dollar than cut his hair but he wouldn't let any other barber cut It.

"My first political activity was to help Pete Meyn when he ran for city clerk. Mr. Meyn was elected. "When W. J. Bryan came to Ham

mond during his campaign for presdent we met him at the Pennsylvania station on the north side. We unhitched a team from the rig in which he was riding to the hall for the meeting and pulled It ourselves. Hammond was strong for Bryan and the gloom was a foot ttflck after the election." Other events that Roth likes to a,lk about a-e the big packing house fire which burned for five days, the railroad strike of '92 when one striker was killed and others wounded by U. S. troops, the Billy Sunday meeting, the time Alexander Dowle was stoned and the burning of the gas company's building on Hohmaa street. WHES DOWIE WAS STOXED "When the crowd formed to get Alexander Dowle I grot my fill of mobs." said Roth. "I hope I never

see another mob bent on destruction. That mob tried to swing the bridge so that the street car in which Dow', le and his choir rode would go into the river. Every man and woman on the car would have been killed. As It was the mob stoned Dowle." Roth began business In the days of the bicycle craze and the horse and buggy and he Is retiring In the days of the automobilo and the aeroplane. "I'd like to go back to those days Just for a day." he declared. "I like to go down to the Calumet river on a summer morning. "The river was pretty, then. The banks were lined with masses of roses. The air was fragrant. The kids would be there swimming and there would be men fishing. When

I was a boy the only Industry in Hammond was the stockyards and it was small. It grew to be a big Industry and then the city got its second plant, a spring factory. Next M. M. Towle built the wagon-works." It was in Roth's shop that the face massage for men was Introduced Into Hammond. The innovation was crude but patrons thought It wonderful. The process consisted of applying grease freely to the face and going over It with a cone siwpe glass to which a rub

ber bulib was attached. Holding the open end of the glass tight against the skin and squeezing the bulb the barber produced a suction which was Intende I to draw the Impurities out of tho skin. The next part of the performance was to rub the skin briskly with a, soft brush. "At the time I thought this system of massage was wonderful," paid Roth today, "and my customers were delighted. But I know now It wasn't worth a whoop." Roth still has the first tube and bulb and brush that he usod in those days. While Mr. Roth was telling about the early cays a customer entered his shop. "Hello, John," said Roth. "I want to give you your mug, They're tearing down the bulldlnfr and I'm

going out of business Saturday." The barber went to the rear of the room and got a shaving mug with the name "John Schweitzer" in gilt letters. Schweitzer looked troubled. "Frank, that's been here over thirty years, hasn't It?" "Just about thirty years. John." "What'll'I do with it? Where'll I go? I've been coming here so long now it's second nature.". "Aw phut nr." Kiiid Koth. "I've

been handing, out those mugs all day and I'm ec sick at heart I feel like death. You ask me what you are going to do? What am I going to do? Answer me that? I've been on these corners since I was a kid. Where-do-ya suppose I'm going to go?

The United States Is the world's largest consumer of crud? cocoa.

First in Wealth, 2d in Cabarets; California Claim

INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE IX)S ANGELES, Oct. 5. First in wealth and second in cabarets was the way IjOS Angeles and California were placed by the Federal tax collections in a re

port from Washington which la in the hands of Internal Collector of Revenue Goodcel. The report showed that th Los Angeles district paid more Federal Income tax per capita than any other section in the country, and that In taxes collected for roof gardens and cabarets California ranked only second to New York.

YOUR DOCTOR WILL rTELL YOU i that modern sanitary .plumbing hurts his business fvhile the old style helps it. In ether word;? modern plumbing i5 a preventer of illnes:, while the old kind it'. Think it over and then see us about making your plumbing modern and doctor's bill reducing.

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