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The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
HOLDS CLOSING SESSION
Meeting Not So Well Attended as Pre-
viOus Ones Have Been on Account of
Weather-Last Half Hour Devoted
to Business.

The meeting of the Lake County
Teachers association came to a close
this afternoon. The attendance today
was not so large as yesterday, on ac-
count of the inclement weather. Prof
E. o. Holland. of the State university,
gave the closing talk on Teachers
Opportunities this afternoon.
The last half hour was given over to
a business session. At this time it
was decided 20 procure a life-size
painting of the late county superin-
tendent, F. E. Cooper. A collection
was taken this afternoon in addition
to the one taken up last year, netting
over one hundred dollars for the paint
ing alone. The association also ap-
pointed a committee to adopt resolu-
tions, which should be sent to the
State Board of instruction, principal
among which was one making it a
necessary qualification for a boy to
have graduated from the common
schools before he will be qualified to
take a position. This would do away
with the fourteen-year age limit and
compel children in many cases to at
ten school until sixteen or seventeen
years of age.
A resolution of thanks was rendered
to the proprietors of the Hammond
Building hall. in which the association
held its meetings while in Hammond.
The hall was given to the teachers
gratis. The chairman recommended
that the teachers visit THE LAKE
COUNTY TINES plant before leaving
Hammond.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
PRESSMEN ARE UNIONIzED:
CONKEY SIGNS UNION SCALE.
Say that Step Has Been Taken in Order
to Get Help ON short Order. Deny
Force Was Used.

The pressroom ofsthe Conkey plant
in this city has been unionized. Mr.
Conkey having signed the scale of
Printing Pressmen's Union No. of
Chicago.
The agreement was reached last
week. In this city the information was
at first received in a cynical manner
among the union men, but when it was
later confirmed all sorts of speculation
was set up as to the reason.
1t was believed that w. B. Conkey
had been driven to the compact be-
cause of the constant trouble he was
supposed to have had in his plant.
This, however, his superintendent, Mr.
Wilcox denied today. Explaining the
reason for their action, Mr.. Wilcox
said: I'VE have not been forced to this
step, but have decided on it because it
will make things easier for US when
we want an additional number of men
for a few days. Now we are able to
draw on the union for this help instead
of sending all over the country to get
it"
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
MAY PREFER GaAVH CHARGE
Gus Becker, Arrested for drunkenness,
Held for Further Evidence.

Gus Becker of this city was arrested
last night for drunkenness, but this
morning instead of bringing him be-
fore Judge McMahan on that charge,
the police were seeking further evil
dence and witnesses in order to Sc
cure a conviction against the prisoner
on the charge of attempted criminal
assault and battery.
The principal witness against the
prisoner will be Maggie Wincke of 355
Grover street.
Miss Wincke had been engaged yes
terday at the Walterscheid boarding
house in Conkey avenue. Mr.. and Mrs.
Walterscheid had Gone to town, during
which time she alleges that she was
approached by Becker, who was drunk.
She fled from the house and ran to
officer Martin for protection. officer
Martin escorted the girl to her own
home and later arrested Becker
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
BOOM PLAN Of
ANNEXATION
Business Men of Hammond
Neighboring Cities Unite
for Joint Interests.
BANQUET to Be HELD
Promoters Of Love Feast Expect It
To Be Attended By Fifty
Representative Men.

The Hammond Daily News in its is
sue of yesterday published exclusively
in Lake county. an article to the effect
that an active movement is on foot
looking toward the absorption of Whit
ing, East Chicago and Indiana Harbor
by the city of Hammond. The state
ment is made that the desire for an
nexation is shared by representative
men in the four cities affected and that
a love feast is being arranged at which
1t is planned to bring at least fifty ad-
vocates of the proposition together to
boom the project over the festive board.
The banquet idea originated with j. b.
Mailing of Indiana Harbor
THE LAKE COUNTY TIMES is heartily
in favor of the idea and thinks it
worthy of wider circulation. 1t there
fore gives the project the benefit of its
five thousand nine hundred and ten
regular subscrltion roll and in further
ance of that idea reprints today GER
tain portions of the News article. as
follows:
where this most important meeting
(the banquet) will be held has not yet
been determined upon.
When the News" proposed the an
nexation of whiting and East Chicago
before the foundation Of Hammond was
laid, the project, though favorably i'm
pressing the professional and business
men of Hammond, met with scorn when
suggested to Whiting and East Chi
eago people and they laughed at such
a proposition.
Since that time, however, the years
have brought about a revulsion OF feel
ing in the surrounding towns and cities.
Hammcnd,s- future is assured. Its re-
markable growth during the past f1ve
years has turned the eyes of the world
toward 1t, and Whiting. East Chicago
and Indiana Harbor have looked to-
wards Hammond with envying eyes,
realizing that its growth was not
ephemeral. but that its natural ad-
van. ges and remarkable railroad IA
q les will eventually make 1t the gil
gantic center OF the entire manufac-
turing district of the Calumet region
Since 1t has become known that the
Standard Steel Car Foundry company
of Butler. Pa. has decided to locate its
tremendous plant in Hammond, the
outside world has looked al this city
with new eyes During the
past few days Hammond business men
have visited Whiting and East Chicago
business men there with the views OF
annexation ane were surprised to find
that leading business men of both
places were favorably impressed with
the idea of becoming prominent parts
of a gigantic city, rather than strug-
CLING along alone. THE MEN WHO
WE'RE APPROACHED ARE LEAD
ING MEN IN THE CITIES MENTION
ED AND MADE NO HOMES ABOUT
SAYING THAT THEY WOULD LIKE
TO SEE THEIR CITIES ANNEXED
TO HAMMOND.
Local business men intend to seize
the opportunity to strike while the
iron is hot. An aggressive program
of advertising and agitation is to be
formulated and the doctrine spread in
Whiting, Indiana Harbor and East Chi
cago until 1t is taken up and decisive
action obtained. The banquet idea
suggested by J. b. Mailing of Indiana
Harbor is a most desirable one and
should be carried into effect immedi-
ately"
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
THE CLoTHEsPIN INDUSTRY.

'Toothpicks and matches are pretty
big industries to be sure" said dealer
in household ware, but there is moth
ing so very slow about the clothespin
business either. 1 happened to take a
trip to Maine last summer. and I learn
ed few things about clothespins. Not
less than S75.000000 Of them are made
in this country every year-most OF
them in Maine, out of birch wood.
One man who started in with $500
turns out $4,000, ,0o0O0 a year. and
about as many wooden handles for
buckets.
This all takes machinery invented
for the purpose, and the problem of
doing the work rapidly has produced
some gigantic operations.
After being made and shaped the
clothespins are bleached with sulphur
and polished with wax in huge re-
volving drums to make them more
waterproof. They are packed in boxes
holding five gross each"
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
GONE CRAZY
OVER DIRT
Real Estate Bug Seems to
Possess Everybody in
Hammond
C NJ BLING IN LOTS
Poor Trying to Grow Rich, and Rich
Grow Richer, in the Real
Estate Market.

The people of Hammond are going
real estate crazy. There is hardly a
man who can get together few
hundred dollars who is not buying
property or securing options on lots or
acreage that he expects in a short time
will enable him to double his money.
1t is not only the locating of the
Standard Steel Car company that is
causing all OF this real estate activity,
but it is generally known that there
are two or three other plants that are
soon to locate that will mean as much
to Hammond as the car works.
The interest in Hammond realty is
not confined to the people Of this city
The eyes of hundreds of outside invest
ors are now fixed on Hammond and
they are hocking into this city by the
dozens looking for good things in the
way of lots and acreage.
swamped by Purchasers.
The local real estate firms have al
ways done good business, but now
they are simply swamped with pur-
chasers who are looking for something
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
POOLING THE EARTHwoRMs.

Let me give you tip" said a fish
erman to a group who were busy dig
ging in an open lot near the East
River, looking for earthworms.
They were all willing to listen, for
their labors though in a promising
spot, had resulted thus far in the cap
ture of only two starving specimens
of bait.
Get some soapsuds. boys, and sprin-
kle it on the ground" was the old
salts advice.
The boys did as directed waited a
while. then dug again. The result was
amazing. Every shovelful now con-
tanned at least a dozen fat and plump
wrigglers.
Its simple enough" explained the
fisherman. "Soapsuds are to earth
worms what molasses is to flies. II
araws them. A weak mixture Of blue
Et6rioI and water will do just as we'll"
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
JEROME ELLIS ARRESTED;
TROUBLE WITH POLICEMAN.
Would Not Wait for the Passing of a
Lengthy Funeral ProcessiOn-WOuld
Ride Through With His AutOmobile.

JeromesA. Ellis, the man who was
recently divorced and attempted a Sc
cret marriage in this city several
months ago, is again in trouble. After
a controversy with a policeman at
State and Washington streets in Chi
cago yesterday he was arrested and
accompanied by his wife, was taken
to central station.
Ellis became involved in an alterca-
ton over his right to pass in an auto
mobile through lengthy funeral pro-
cession and at the station gave bonds
for his temperance for trial.
Ellis was recently divorced from Mrs.
Alice Ripley Ellis. the daughter of the
president of the Santa Fe railroad. A
fey days later he married pretty
manicurist.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
W. M'aU1sToN on WAY HOME.

Wilson McQuiston. former cashier
in the South Shore gas office. is ex-
pected to return to Hammond this
evening. Whether he is coming dead
or alive has, up to o'clock. been a
matter of doubt with his family and
friends in Hammond. They received
a telegram from Denver last Thursday
where he had spent number of
months for his health, that he was
not expected to live.
McQuiston caught a severe cold last
January at the South Shore Gas fire,
which soon turned into consumption.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
KAISER GOOD EXAMPLE.

During his school career the kaiser
was a model of the studious German
youth. He took his place as an ordin-
ary pupil in the public school at Cassel,
and studied and played with the other
scholars. At the final examination he
was, indeed. only tenth in the list; but
then he was two years younger than
his companions, and was rightly con-
sidered to have done so we'll that his
tutor was Immediately decorated.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
in MinnsapoIis Journal.

Mr.. Wilcox strenuously denied that
any other part of the plant would be
unionized. At present there are over
thirty five regular pressmen, who work
on the fifty-six presses that are sestab-
lished in the plant.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27

Wilton Laekaye appears tomorrow
night at Towles opera house in the
play called The Law and the Man"
This time the managers of Towle's
opera house have left no stone unturn-
ed in advertising the play. 1t promises
to be a good one. and no doubt there
will be a crowded house to greet the
star actor.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
NOW ROGERS AND BURGE.

The livery and feed barn on West
State street, run by John Huber and
c. Rogers, changed hands today, Huber
selling his half interest in the barn to
Harry Burge. The new firm will be
Rogers &. Burge.
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
RACING RESULTS AT LAToNIA.


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Fourt race B.,
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27

on the inside and who have plenty OF
money to spend. Owners of property
which is not on the market have been
approached with nattering offers and
although there has been raise of from
five to twenty per cent, a great deal OF
property is changing hands.
When Indiana Harbor was built in
vestors looked this way. but seemed
to be of the opinion that it was merely
a corporation boom from which the
East Chicago company and the East
Chicago company alone would reap the
profits.
When Gary was built they looked
this way again, and although their
eyes We're wider open and they began
to see the wonderful advantages of the
Calumet region. they again shook their
heads and said Gary will be another
Pullman. a one factory, one corporation
town. and they realized that the plums
would go to the men who were on the
inside the officials Of the steel cor
poration.
Then came Hammond's boom. This
evidently was not the work of a giant
corporation which intended to hog all
the profits and absorb all Of the mar
gins Of increase in the value Of real
estate.
There was some reason outside Of
the lust of corporation officials for
gain that caused the Standard Steel
Car company to locate in Hammond,
and they We're not slow in realizing
what that reason was.
Hammond. with its wonderful rail-
way facilities, with its splendid city
already built, with its homes already
occupied, had been unheard from be-
cause the din of the building of other
cities around it.
Impetus to Boom.
Then Hammond made a little racket
| of its own. 1t secured the Standard
Steel Car company. concern that will
build a s5,000.0O0 plant and hire 5000
men. 1t is making a strong bid for
| other concerns that will in the aggre-
+ gate. mean as much for Hammond as
the Standard and then with its splen-
did start. it does not take a farseeing
man long TO see that Gary will never
catch up with it
So the buyers are pouring into this
] city where they can buy property
without having to pay the United
States Steel company a big margin OF
| their legitimate profits, and they are
going to put their hearts where their
pocketbooks are and whoop for Ham
mond along with the rest of US who
have been whooping for Hammond all
these years
The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
RACING RESULTS AT JAMAICA

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The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
LAST MOMENT FLASHES
MURDER SUSPECT HELD

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The Lake County times., 1906-10-27
THE WEATHER

Threatening and colder tonight. sun
day fair and cold.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
MUST HEAT CARS
City Council Passes an Ordinance Requir.
 ing the Citizens Light and Transit com- < panv to Provide More Comfortable Cars a3
 for Patrons of the Street Gar Lines.

Complaint was again made about cotton being left on the streets, and in reply to this Mayor White said that he could not afford to be harsh in the matter, for it would mean a loss to the merchants, but that the matter would have proper attention.
 A report was read from the light and water company stating that the company had completed the eXten- sons ordered by the council on Main street from Seventeenth to Twentieth.
 An ordinance vas read compelling the street car company to keep the cars heated and in comfortable con- dition and providing fine of not less than $25 nor more than $50 in case of the company's failure or neglect to do so.
 The rules were suspended and the ordinance read the third time and passed.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
SECRETARY OF
 STATES REPORT
 
 Show That 749 Foreign Corporations Are Doing Business in State. SEVERAL COMPANIES HAVE WITHDRAWN. But the Great Majority of Foreign Corporations Are Still Represent.
 cd in the State.
h PINE BLUFF WELL
 REPRESENTED BY AGENTS.
BY MARION B, BUCKLEY.
The Graphic Bureau.

Little Rock, Nov. 20.
 The biennial report of the secretary of state which will be issued in a few weeks will show that there are at present 749 foreign corporations do- ing business in the state of Arkansas. certificates to that effect having been filed in the office prior to October 31, 1906, from which date the report is complied Of this number several are old line insurance companies which have since withdrawn from the state and are not now transacting any bus mess in Arkansas, but the great ma jorty of the foreign corporations are still in active business and represent .-.Apy duly appointed agents in Ar TNas This list includes nearly evyry large city in the United States and the agents of the corporations re- side in Little Rock because this city is the capital of the state and service is easily obtainable here. but Fort Smith, Hot Springs. TeXarkana, Pine
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20

What is pronounced by mary old-timers to be the worst rain storm in several years, has been @ 5ing at intervals throughout the -ounty and surrounding country ger since last Saturday, with no signs yet Of abatement.
 One of the hardest rains fell last Saturday night, when great damage and consequent suffering was done the cotton crop of the county. ( ton was beaten from the open bolls into the rain and mud, and it is not possible yet to form any accu- -ate estimate of the actual loss sus- tained.
 Since Saturday night, conditions nave grown steadily worse, for with every additional hard rainfall the
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20

F VYhe city council met in regular ses- sioh Monday night. All the members were present except Alderman High tower
 MT. Nichol called attention to con- ditions on State stfeet and Fourth avenue, and said the Consumers oil mill had offered to supply cinders for street repair free; that the only cost to the city would be in hauling. On motion the city engineer was instruct ed to take the matter up and have the cinders hauled at cost not to eX- ceed twenty-five cents per load.
 Mayor White called the councils at tention to the fact that the city had but very little money He had been informed that the suit instituted against Mr. J. Gould had been dis missed and that the city would re- ceide 5000 from that source Tuesday.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
No Effect i'll Arkansas.

It has been announced that the resolution adopted by the National Daughters of the Confedarcy at the meeting at Gulfport, Miss, that no sponsors and maids of honor be appointed for annual reunions will have no effect in Arkansas. Spon- sOrs and maids for the Arkansas di- visions will be appointed as hereto fore. Officers of the state United Confederate Veterans will recognize only the orders of the commander in chief of the veterans.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
DEAD IN CHAIR UPRIGHT, WITH EYES STARING AND MOUTH GAPING. ERNEST BARS\f,NS WAS FDlND Bruises About His Head Lead to the Suspicion That He Was Murder
 ed for Money.
BY MARION E. BUCKLEY.
The Graphic Bureau,
 Little Rock, Nov. %.


 Sitting upright in a chair, with staring eyes and gaping mouth, the body of Ernest Barsness, a white man, was found in the rear of the saloon of Adolph Kahn in Argenta yesterday morning. Over his right eye was a small bruised place and there was d similar mark over the left temple which would lead to the belief that the man met death by foul play. He was formerly a bartender in Hot Springs and was known as White Top Kid, but had lived in Little Rock for some time The man seemed to have no occupation while here and had been ill for some time. 1t is thought that Barsness had considerable money and the police have a sus- picion that he was killed for money. No arrests have been made as yet The inquest will be held tomorrow morning.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
AT THE Y. C. A.
Despite the Rain Large Crowd Attended the Reception, Marking the Close of the Second Years Work in This City..-TaIk by A. G. KnebeI.

In spite of weather mud rain and thunderstorm, q large crowd braved elements and helped celebrate the second anniversary of the local Y. M. |C \. al he hall Monday night. Ev- erybody WAS welcome, and if it hadn't been for the exceedingly bad weather nearly everybody would have been there.
 Booths were stationed at sever al parts of the association building, where some of Pine Bluffs fairest daughters served delicious refresh ments in such a graceful man ner that many were the compl mentary remarks paid them by those in attendance
 Everything went off smoothly and each committee did it's work well, not d single hitch being pereeptible in the entertainment of the delighted l guests of the occasion.
 The following is the program Piano selection, by Miss Langford. Solo, Mighty Lax Rose, by Mrs 1 w. D. Ferguson, accompanied by Mrs w. B. Saunders at the piano. Piano, Miss Grace Anderson. Solo, Face to Face,' by Mr Schramm
 Recitation, Why Not Skate by Little Miss Vera Clements. I
 After the rendition of the above pro- gram, Judge James Gould, chairman of the board of directors of the asso- citation. in his happy way introduced MT. A. G Knebel of New York who talked for thirty minutes on the work of the association in the United States, saying in the course of his remarks that Pine Bluff had just come to be l proud of her association, it being the largest combined city and railroad association in the world, while on the other hand it was the fourth largest railroad association of the world.
 Mir Knebel brought home to his hearers the necessity of a suitable building for the use of the local asso- citation in a forceful and attractive manner, calling the attention of his audience to the fact that Denver had raised 100000 for building in thirty days Dayton raised 420,000 in the same length of time for third build ing ill that city Houston raised 20O,- 900 in ten days and Lynchburg, Wa.) in a similar time accumulated 90,000 for erecting building at that place for the accommodation of it's young men.
 Then MT. knebel told of the won derful growth of the association over the world, telling of the work among soldiers, sailors, students, negroes and everyday walks of life, stating l that the United State3 had stTe2 tle work it's stamp of approval, when the president recommended that S5O0.000 be appropriated for the erection of
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
Bluff, Helena and other points art we'll represented.

Bluff, Helena and other points are we'll represented.
 Of course, most of the foreign capi- tai doing business in the state is To- cated in the United States but much of the business comes from across the great waters Edinburg, Scotland, is represented in the list with eleven corporations having their home office in this city, while London, England, comes a close second among the for eign cities with ten companies. Liver pool, England, has four companies :; Manchester, England, two; Toronto Canada, tEo; and the others are To- cated at Hull, England; Norwich England: Hamburg. Germany; Basic Switzerland: Addersfield England Erfurt, Germany; St. Gall, Switzer- land; Amsterdam Netherlands; The Hague, Holland; Stettin, Prussia On tario, Canada; Gothenburg. Sweden and Maydenburg, Germany
 The exact amount of foreign capital represented by these companies is not stated in the report but it will reach billions of dollars.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1906-11-20
WORST TN YEARS
Terrific Rain Storm Continuing at Intervals from Saturday To Tuesday, Causes Dam' age and Suffering to the People of Jeff. erson County. Accompanied by Gold

cotton has been the more suscepti- ble ,d. rom this source.
 Monaay night the rainfall seem- ed T z r, if anything, than that of S. day night, and throughout the da1 Tuesday it continued at in- tervals
 A &pnying the rainstorm was % ava, which carried sutel ing quarters, for many cit izen~ "ina Bluff were unpreparod for if lot having the needed fue' even who were able to pay for it fo' 'i eu'tv in getting it after the r".1f*or'n came, for all fuel deale~ wore Overstocked with or dors, drivers found the greates difficulty in delivering 1t, so inclem ent was the weather.