Hammond Times, Volume 16, Number 155, Hammond, Lake County, 21 December 1922 — Page 4

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The Times Newspapers

lurid events which constitute part of the day's news, thft craiet oe2ceful lives of simrjle f?ood

ST TD XJUOS COUNTT PBT'O A PUWQ CO. I . , . , . , , . The jLjt county Tim & .Daily except Saturday people who are not chronicled, because tney &uj?&. jot " 1a"laffic ia iIamraonJ- are quite normal, quite usual. Besides all the exuVT-eth6; Htdc4 ' nws i not o evil tidin2s- Look over the same ce. Indiana, .November is, iais. paper with the desire to read something good Tha Lk County Times Saturday and Weekly , , , -n u j j Edition. Entered aj : th po atoxrtca in HammonJ. icd- about humanity, ana you will be rewarded. We rJH t head of the efforts of good and great men to Tea Gary Bvxnlngr Tim e Da'J y exoept Sunday. , ma Lh p"toffi0 m Gr icdiana. April is, consummate peace, of kindly people who are ah under th act of March 8. 1879. aa scond-cJa working for human betterment, of educators in ttoT- earnest conference, in fact of kindness, truth and n fyt8 VSSTisviNo niaRSiiwTATiOi: loyalty in high places and low. A daily reflec-

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A RUSTLING HALF BILLION Announcement that Great Britain is about

to construct two new warships under the provi-

WHERE CAN WE FIND The lady who used to be embarrassed when boarding a street car? The clothing merchant who used t. throw in an extra pair of pants? The young man who used to leara the business from the bottom up? The man who used to demonstrate suspenders in drug store wm dows? The corn doctor who used to wear a horsehair watch chain? The old-fashioned gent who used to applaud the trained 6eal acta? The guys who said automobiles would never be a success? The butcher who used to throw in a pound of liver for the cat? The old-fashioned pents who choked to death on beefsteaks? Th honey mooners who used to send postcards from Niagara Falls? The professor who was poinar to po to the moon in a rocket? The pink who used to chew a quill toothpick on the street? The usher who peddled "fans and opera glasses"? The theatrical manager wi'h the diamond horseshoe necktie pit ? The young lady who thought it was immoral to use slang? The puy who used to wear heavy woolen underwear in winter ?,

The bird who chirped. "JNo, thanks. I m on me wagon j

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manufacture of fusees will siuit January 15. according- to Manager C. J. Clark.

Conto Argentina, one of five prisoners in charge of Deputy Sheriff KUborn, nrnda a dash for l.berty while beinir taken from the train to the Jail at Crown Tolnt yesttrday. , He was recaptured several hours later near Griffith.

The Simplex Kai;-ay Appliance Co., of Hammond. 13 planning to erect a half-million dollar foundry soon, to make malleable iron castings.

The old-fashioned husband who always had a savings account at tba j

bank? The woman who used to make one set of furs last a lifetime?

! sions of the Washington agreement may recall , evening wear, but says it is all right for snorts. The thing to dc. is to bulldIngg of the nw Central

Hobart is to celebrate Christmas by turning- on the new ornamental lights which have just been Installed on three blocks of Main Street.

P'hlBIKr ou hve 10 tho P1- do not thinK to Americans a very pathetic circumstance, tart

-- - w 001 tieiii on urns. lilts ri.JJ.Jjia , , ., ., , , . . ,, ocreaed Its iDning equipnjeat and Is striving O t the pathos is the tact that it cost the Amenaarneatly to reach ita patrons on ume. Be prompt 1 j t ,( . r j ,1 Ti T in advising when yu jo 3ot get vour paper aad wi , can people a round half buhon of dollars. It lies,

'this pathetic circumstance,' at the docks of

THE DAY'S NEWS Philadelphia, and consists of as handsome a

A passage of Mark Twain's in regard to 1 fleet ol latest type destroyers as could be found

newspapers has lately been rediscovered, and is j anywhere in the world. being widely quoted. In a letter to Howells, j Philadelphia dees not want the half billion Mr. Twain wrote: dollar fleet of destroyers; neither, apparently, "I have been reading the morning paper. I ! does the nation. The vessels were built during do it every morning well knowing that I shall j the war and now steadily deteriorate for lack of find in it the usual depravities and basenesses I crews and sufficients funds to maintain them, and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civil- It is unfortunately true that a warship has ization, and cause me to put in the rest of the i to have a war to prove its usefulness and justify

day pleading for the damnation of the human i its existence. When the war ended this new

race."

It's easy enough to find all those dreadful

bob the hair every morning and then let it grow long for the evening.

. j The Tacna-Africa conference i3 said to have been successful and, in the fulness of time, maybe somebody will tell us what it was all about. , j CONFESSIONS OF A CYNIC 1 I believe there is one thing to be said in favor of the gunman. Ha always yells, "Your money or your life." A bootlegger wants both. I th'nk the local nursery firm that is advertising for grafters might get returns by putting their ad in the Washington, D. C, papers. I am convinced that moth balls are effective in getting rid of i

moths, if you can throw straight. I don't belie - any woman should talk about her ancestors. Tluy never Baid anything about her. . believe a lot of people are already beginning to forget what a flapper looked like. . 1 am of the opinion that the women will wear knickerbockers Just so long as anybody says they can't, but no longer. I have one young friend who was warned to observe early hours and he has done so. He turns in every morning about 3 o'clock. I see they have formed a Better Speech Association and I hope it takes effect on banquets at once. I believe a man may be brave enough to hold four aces in a game

with strangers, but I shall always maintain that discretion is the better

Railway Signal plant at Hammonrt hsv bPn rnTmptfH arid

Ethel Rodman, seventeen-year-old orphan of Hobart, committed suicide by Jump.n into the lake at Michigan City yesterday. It is thought she was despondent because of her inability to scrape together enough money to buy Christmas presents.

troiit door of her home, aroused Mrs. Arthur Ronbeaux, of Whiting last niv-ht. When she started to investigate the intruders fled

The Heesvllle school property was sold yesterday at auction to Fred Bundc, for $1,110. Crown Point business men are agitating the installation of ornamental lights a.-ound the Court House Square. They also think lights should be placed on the tower so that the clock faces will be illuminated at night. The E. J. & E.. Railroad is building a new depot and office building at Griffith.

Tinkling- cf Japanese chimes :n the hallway, caused by the draft when burglars opened the

STORE OPEN E v e ry Evening from Now Until Xmas. FRIDUSS FURNITURE & CARPET CO. 243 E. State St. Hammond

j"-' ssscsaTf It's MUSIC Stop at Straubft's zaiagaagasagaEi

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employment for them and, sadly enough, the j i insider one of the greatest penalties of wealth Is being obliged

things in any daily paper. The columns of $500,000,000 they represent could find no way j to go to some resort to ena tne summer. newspapers are the abiding places of numerous to transmute themselves again into good tax- Added to Europe's other troubles she now has the McCormick-Osei

stories of crime and dishonor. Some days they ! money

are appallingly present from all points cf the compass. All are there, the unhappiness, depravities, cruelties. They are prominently displayed, too, in this and other papers, because tby are apart and different from the usual or normal course of happenings, and hence constitute news. After reading them avidly some people speak sneeringly of these awful papers,

while others, like Mr. Twain, mourn the failings

of the human race. It's a little more just to blame humanity than the newspapers, since the latter are but mirror. But we think old Mark must have been having an off day even so. His vivid imagination surely could have let him see, behind all the

The least the government can do is to declare this huge fleet a national reserve, and encourage Americans to view the rusting dollars and decaying currency represented in the most extravagant folly ever devised by man for robbing his own pocketbook.

IF they called out the different movements in the modern dance, like they did in the oldfashioned quadrille, the caller would be arrested

The Californian who was elected mayor of a town that does not exist is better off than the town that elects a nobody for mayor.

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OX7B frlcpd Abo Ujirtin EXAJSONS that nowadays it requires JL lot more sense to live decently THAN it does to HATTX a couple of million dollars. SFECTCZB of Missouri is said TO bo the only Senator who owns ANI operates a Ford row TICAT Newberry doesn't count a.ny longer. WE cannot aee much Improvement HI the postal service, the bills still ABJBXrE on time and the checks A week or so late. WHIN we overhear a man NOW speak In laconic but FEXErrDLY fashion of a ledger WE hardly know whether he refers TO ie Individual -who Is FEJEPAEsED to aupE.!y It by the case OB a rolled down your.gr lady. WE don't know much but we DO know that It's all right TO have close frlend3 PB.OVTDED they loosen up occasionally. OX7B thoughts recur to that MOST extravagant dresser in the world wo wonder whether ah rHTD3 it any more comfortable TO sit on her diamond button! THAU we do on the horn ones THAT 'accompany our own Btepins. WE esteem it the KIQHEST mark of confidence WHIN a neighbor woman tells TJS that the change of the weather WA3 such that she had to pull an EXTRA blanket over . HEESELT during the night.

ASrOTHXB of the few ad van t Ages OP poverty la a poor mail's liberty TO attend any kind of a party BOB wishes, coon or midnight WITHOUT fear of having to pay $100,000 hush money to any PBOPESSI03TAI. aauawkera who MAT he la the crowd. WB understand that the . new nightgowns ABBXYXrr0 from Paris ABE knee length ITOW ahotrt the only way a girl may tell WHXTKXJt ahe'a dressed for bed or for a PABTT !s by her shoos.

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BOSTON BAGS $1.59f0$12

GLADSTONE BAGS $18.00

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