The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1906-10-12
Gary News

Gary News |
DR.. walsh was in Chicago yesterday
afternoon.
Mrs. A. g Huber is in East Chicago
on a short visit this afternoon.
owing to the fall of snow the diff
ferent corps were practically unable to
do any outside work Thursday.
p l. Fitzgerald spent yesterday af-
ternoon in Chicago securing supplies
for the hotel building.
The organ purchased for the Sunday
school has arrived and will be Install
ed ready for use on Sunday.
The frame work of the second school
building is up and the work is being
pushed as rapidly as weather and slow
freight service will permit.
Mr.. Butcher, who teams for Frank
Brink, Is i'll with malaria fever. He
has not been well for several days but
has refused to give in until this after
noon.
The Hotel Fitz is now ready for the
winter the men completing today the
putting on Of the rubberoid which
takes the place of the siding that was
put on the front of the building.
Mr. Sargent of Ahlvord & Burdick,
fTa md fa- rlx re
was here yesterday afternoon looking
over the work that his men are doing.
He also made arrangements for heat
ing the quarters occupied by the corps.
The six-inch fall of snow last even
ing brought to the minds Of the dwell
ers in rag houses very forcibly the
fact that the tents will not afford prop
er protection against the winter wealth
er, no matter how much some may
argue to the contrary.
Mr. Brink is in Chicago at the hos
pital where Mrs. Brink is to undergo
an operation. The operation is to take
place probably tomorrow and the doc
tors are taking every precaution as
they seem to fear that it may not re-
suit as favorably as it might.
The school seats and desks have now
arrived and are being installed this
evening ready for use tomorrow. The
inconvenience occasioned by their delay
in coming has been aggravating but
1t seems to be the experience of trus-
tees and school boards in general this
fall.
Smith. the feed man. completed to-
day the erection of the large circular
tent he purchased recently. This will
give him ample quarters in which to
store the hay and grain that he han
dies. The business has grown so rap
idly that the quarters first erected
have proven too small.
c. L. Wildermuth, one of the teach
ers at Central spent last evening in
Chicago and on account of the inclem-
ent weather, missed his train this
Morning He was forced to wait until
ternoon session. Mr.. Widermuth had
taken care of the morning session.
a. G. Huber is doing jury service in
the superior court at Hammond this
term. Yesterday he was excused in
both cases pending. in the first because
the affair happened in Gary, and in the
second because one Of the attorneys
in the case, the one for the defendant
being Gary's sponsor, might have un-
due influence over a citizen from here
G. A. Lawson, a contractor on the
south side. purchased the cook shanty
that was moved in here some time age
by a man from Indiana Harbor Il
stood north of the Lake Shore west OF
Broadway and was mounted on a four
wheeled truck. Mr.. Lawson moved il
over to his quarters this Afternoon
where he win use it fer his men.
The long looked for drug store that
has promised to come several times ano
each time had an attack of cold feet
is about to materialize. The little
building erected between Fitzgerald
Bros hotel and the barber shop by
Jim Longmire, is to be occupied by the
store. The proprietor expects to have
his stock arranged and ready to oper
UP for business within a few days II
is to be modest affair for the present
but the owner expects to occupy the
entire opera house block with his store
when that is ready.