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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
BRONZE TABLET UNVEILED
1t Commemorate the First Settle
ment of Massachusetts Bay Colony
k-SenatOr Lodge the Orator.

Gloucester. Mass, Aug. 16.-Men
prominent in national affairs were
among the thousands who congegated
in Gloucester for the unwilling of a
large bronze tablet concentrating
the first settlement of the Massachu-
sets Bay Colony at Stage Fort park.
The tablet is set on the face of a great
ledge overlooking Gloucester harbOr
and is near the site of the settlement
which it commentaries.
The plate, covering sixty five feet,
is believed to be one of the largest
ever cast in the United States. As a
frame work it has as an ornamental
carving two feet deep in the solid
granite, with inscriptions depicting
the marine history of Gloucester.
Senator Lodge was the orator of the
day. Russia, Italy, Belgium and Siam
were represented at the unwilling.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
SCORES ON THE DIAMONDS

Chicago, Aug. 16. - Following are
the base ball scores:
League: At Philadelphia - Chica-
go ). Philadelphia /; at Boston = st.
Louis 2, Boston /; at Brooklyn-Pitts-
burg 8, Brooklyn o; at New York =
Cincinnati 3, New York A.
American: At Detroit-New York
2. Detroit 1: at Cleveland-Philadel,
phia 8, Cleveland 2; at ago-Bos-
ton 1, Chicago 3-seven innings, dark
Less,
Association: At st. Paul-Columbus
<. st. Paul ?; Second game) Column
bus 0. st. Paul 3; at Kansas City =
indianapolis ?, Kansas City 8: at Mil
wauSee - louisville Q. Milwaukee j
second game1 Louisville 3, Milwaukee
2: at neapolis-Toledo II, Mime
apolis ?.
Western: At Omaha - Denver 3
Omaha j: at Des M0ines-Lincoln O
DCs Moines ,; Second game Lincoln
2, Des Moines s
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
DEATH IN THE MINES.
Government Takes Steps to Lessen APP
paIing Loss of Life.

paIlIn9 Loss or Life
The coal mine death roll in Pennsyl-
vania in 1906 was 800 and $50 died as
the result of gas or dust explosions.
In West Virginia in the same year
mine explosions cost Lightweight lives,
and in the early months of 1907 the list
of fatalities was increased by more
than hundred.
The appalling loss of life in coal
mines, which, instead of growing less,
seems to be on the increase, has arous-
ed the fuel division of the United
States geological survey to action along
remedial lines. An experimental sta
ton has been planned which will yerv
likely be located near Pittsburg. AT
this station tests Of the various dyna-
mite and powders used in blasting coal
will be made accurately to determine
their safety in the presence of the
deadly fire damp and perhaps equally
deadly coal gas. Explosives of all sorts
will be hurled by means of a mortar
into a mammoth cylinder which has
previously been filed with gas, and the
effects will be carefully noted. If igni-
ton fails after severe tests, the explo-
sives will be known as permissible ex-
plosives," and their use will be urged
upon the mine owners of the country.
In addition there will be important
experiments in rescue work. One part
Of station will be fitted up as a min
iature coal mine, and miners and oper-
ators will be taught to save the lives Of
fellow men. 1t is declared that in seri-
Gus gas explosions in mines hundreds
of lives could be saved were it possible
for the rescue party to enter immedi-
ately after the accidents. AS it is now
fire damp often holds the men back for
hours, while their comrades are slowly
being suffocated or burned to death.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
GOMPERS AND QUICK PRESENT
Also Perkins, Of the Cigarmakers' IN
ion, in a Conference.
ONE THOUSAND WELCOME SMALL
Procession Carries Banners Declaring
for mo Arbitration - AssG-
ciated Press Continues to
Improve.

Chicago, Aug. 16.-President Small,
OF the telegraphers' union, arrived hera
last evening. An hour and a half later
he went into conference with Samuel
Gempers; Quick, the head of the rail-
way telegraphers' union. and repre-
sentative of the cigarmaizers' union.
The conference was long and at this
writing it's results have not been an
nounced.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
JAPs PLOT A SEAL RAID
Said TO Have Planned to Loot the
Rookeries of the st. Georges
Islands.


Rookeries of the st. Georges
Islands.
Seattle. Wash. Aug. 16.-A Japanese
plot to raid the Sea&tle rOokeries of the
Pribyloff islands and to loot not only
the rookeries of @re seal herds of St.
Paul and st. George islands, but also
the salt houses where the North Amer
lean Trading and Transportation COM
pany, lessons of the Pribyloff roOkeries.
have a large number of pelts salted
awaiting shipment, has been discov-
cred. AS a result the United States
government has decided to dispatch
the cruiser Buffalo to Bevic.
The news was brought here by the
sealing schooner Vera that an arrange
had been reached by a number of Jap
anese sealing schOoners, each of which
carried, besides their usual armament
used in hunting. one or more machine
guns, to unite in making a concerted
raid on the islands. The guards are all
too weak to resist such an invasion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
NEW MAN ON THE JOB &
Major Harry F. Hodges Is Now Pur.
chasing Agent for Isthmian LII
Canal Commission.

lanai COMMISSION
Washington. Aug. 16.-Major Harry
f. Hodges, Of the army, has entered
upon his duties as purchaing agent Of
the isthmian canal commission, with
headquarters IN Washington. succeed
ing David w. Ross, who had occupied
the place for about two years. At the
same time President Roosevelt's order
putting into effect Secretary Taft's
plan for the reorganization of the ad-
ministration of the canal commission
became operative.
According to that plan much of the
work done in Washington heretofore
will be transacted on the isthmus,
where the Office of the secretary of the
commission will be. The reorganization
plan provides for the office of eXamin-
er Of accounts and a disbursing Off
Ger on the isthmus, with an assistant
examiner of accounts and a disbursing
officer for the commission in Washing
ton
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Chance to See the Home.

Marion, Ind, Aug. 16.-The forty
fifth anniversary of the first day OF
the battle of Chiekamauga will be OBJ
served Sept. 10 as Soldiers Day at
the Marion branch, n. II. ID. Y. S., and
at that time there will be excursions
to the Marion Soldiers Home from
all parts of the state. Governor Steele
proposes to make the event an &C.
casion when all soldiers of the state
may make themselves acquainted with
the national home here.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Their Summer Home in a Treetop.

Worcester, Mass, Aug. 16.-Mr.
and Mrs. Frank d. Fellon have opened
a unique summer home in the tOpmosr
branches of a willow tree, thirty feet
from the ground. The house consists
of two rooms, one a sleeping apart.
mentand the other a sitting and dinin G
room. The roof and walls are entirely
Of duck, so that on warm nights the
roof can be drawn up. Both Mr.. and
Mrs. FELTON, are believers in fresh air
as a preventive of all ills.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17

Chicago, Aug. 16.-Decided improve
ment has been made in the condition
Of the Associated Press wires. The en-
tire leased wire circuit between San
Francisco and New York has been
placed III operation. the wires having
previously terminated at Denver. A
number OF operators who went out on
Monday returned to their work during
the day.
Board of Trade Report Resumed.
Telegraph keys clicked on the Board
Of Trade floor for the first time since
the regular operators were called out.
There were six instruments working
in the big telegraph section at the west
end of the exchange floor, but they
made merry music in the ears of small
er commission firms. whose business
had felt the strike most. Thirteen men
were at the keys. Both the Western
Union and Postal Telegraph floor man
ayers said they expected to add few
men daily to their working force, and
the feeling on the board was CORE.
spondingly more cheerful.
Gompers Said To Be Offended.
President Gompers has to leave Chi
cago to attend a meeting of the ex-
ecutive council of the Federation Of
Labor on Monday at Washington. La
bcr leaders, however, declare that
Gompers is offended at the attitude
of the striking teiegraphers in refusing
to accept arbitration and demanding
that the only way in which they could
be induced to return to their places
is through the telegraph companies
meeting the demands of the new wage
scale. Shortly before noon President
Gompers met the national executive
committee of the keymen in the Mo-
non building. The meeting was at
tended by all the executive committee
members in Chicago and General Sec
rotary Russell, but what was done is
a profound secret.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
German Press Men to Meet.

Peoria, H., Aug. 16.-The second an
nual convention of the German-Ameri-
can Press Association of the North
west and the German American Press
Association of Illinois will be held
in Peoria for three days beginning
Sent. 90
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Destructive Hail in Dakota.

Grand Forks, n. d.. Aug. 16.-Hail
fell in many sections Of North Dakota
and added to the already enormous
losses this season from this source
The storm started near the Canadian
boundary. A strip a mile wide was
hailed out at Sarles. Many farmers
lost all they had.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
THE WEATHER

Following is the official weather
forecast up to 8 o'clock tonight:
Illinois and Indiana-Fair in south.
showers followed by fair and cooler in
north portion.
Lower Michigan - Showers and
probably thundersqualls; cooler.
Wisconsin-ShowerS and thunder
storms: cooler.
Iowa-Fair and cooler. = - Il
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Many Russians ExiIed.

st. Petersburg, Aug. Lett is re.
ported that 274 persons throughout the
Russian empire were exiIed for politi-
cal offenses during July. 1t is also
stated officially that fifty-four Russian
officers and ninety-five privates were
killed and forty-seven officers and
fifty-twoprivates wounded while main
tanning order during the month.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
1t Is All Right When Cooked.

Kansas City, Aug. 16.-City Food In
spector w. P. Cutler has notified the
national government that his test of
California and Arkansas died fruit
cured with sulphite shows that the
fruit is entirely wholesome when
cooked. Kansas City will accept the
sulDhite fruit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17

Berlin, Aug. 16.-A dynamite fac
tory at Doemitz, grand duchy of Neck
lenburg- Schwerin, exploded. One life
is known to have been lost, eight per-
sons are missing and are regarded as
killed, twenty persons were danger
ously injured and sixty were slightly
hurt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
exc Stolen Pigeon Returns Home. I'M

Warsaw. Ind. Aug. 16.-Winona, an
English homing pigeon belonging to
Harry Lathrop, of Warsaw, which
was stolen from the Adams Express
Office at Randolph, Tex. while on the
way to Abilene, Tex, a year ago. has
put in an appearance at the Lathrop
home, having gone 500 miles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Rookbinders Admit Women.

At a recent meeting of the Indian
apolis Bookbinders' union 103 women
bindery workers were admitted. The
extra effort for the organization of the
bindery women is to strengthen Tire
position Of the bookbinders in their de-
mand for an eight bour day on Oct. I.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Bottle Blowers PROSPEROUS.

The Glass Bottle Blowers association
has a membership Of 1900, and its
assets are approaching the million dol
lar mark There have been no strikes
for fifteen years, and that body is now
one Of the strongest labor organizations
in the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17

Winter wheat by sample: No ? red,
s33s0S4szc; No. 8 red, 817s@S2Ac;
No. . hard, S034 0S3Ac; No. hard,
77A 0S2c. COMFY sample: No.
yellowfi 56A 05615c: No. 3, $500
53s4c: No. white, 54s4c: No. yellow,
&c: No. 4. 50M52c.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Live Stock, Poultry and Hay.

Onlcag0, aug. 10.
Hogs-Receipts $4,000. Sales ranged
at $6.1O@6.3O for good to prime heavy,
S6.2506.35 light mixed. $5.5O@5.75
rough heavy packers, $5.60@6.50 poor
to prime pigs.
Cattle-Receipts $500. Quotations
ranged at S6.75@7.6o for prime fat
steers, $4.OO@5.OO good to choice cows,
$4.0005.00 good to choice bulls, $3.50
assoc good to choice calves, $4.65@
900 selected feeders.
Sheep-Receipts 1900 Quotations
ranged at S5.50@5S5 for good to
prime native wethers, $5.25@5.a5 good
to prime native ewes, $1,000 7.2J
choice spring lambs.
Live poultry-Turkeys, per 10, lie;
chickens. fowls. Haze; springs. lac;
roosters, &C.
Hay-Choice timothy, S20.OO@21.5O'
No. /. S1S.5O@19.50; No. 2 and No.
mixed, S16OOQ1SO0. Illinois, Indiana
and Wisconsin feeding prairie, choice,
SS.5OG9.00.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
Burglars Get Away with $4,000. /

CrOokston. Mimi, Aug. 16.-RObbers
blew open the safe in the Farmers
State bank at New Folden, a small
town near here, and stole $1,000. The
robbers escaped.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
East Buffalo Live Stock.

East BuHaIO, y. j.. aug. Il.
Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock
Commission Merchants, East Buffalo,
y y. quote as follows: Cattle-Re-
ceipts . cars; market steady. Hogs
Receipts 20 cars: market lower: heavy.
$3.50: workers, $40; pigs. S7.25. Sheep
and Lambs-Receipt 3 cars; market
steady; best lambs, 1926: yearlings,
$3.50; wethers, $5.75; ewes, S4.75@
500. Calves - Market lower; best,
$4.50@750.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17
THE MARKETS
Chicago Grain:


Chicago, Aug. 10.
Following were the quotations on
the Chicago Board Of Trade today:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1907-08-17

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
WHENCE DO THE
STRANGERS COME
Throngs That Crowd the
Gary Streets the Won
der of Citizens.

Gary, Ind. Oct. 3O.-The throngs of
strangers that crowd the streets of
Gary at the noon hour are the wonder
of even the people of Gary themselves.
Where do they come from" is
question that is asked a hundred times
a day.
1t is easy to account for the working
class, for there are camps in such
widely separated locations that it is
not surprising that new faces are seen
every day.
It is the man of affairs, however,
who is Gary's mysterious visitor. He
comes and goes. sometimes revealing
his identity and sometimes not. FIRE.
quently the streets and town have the
appearance of a worlds fair site and
the many interested spectators and
strangers are looking on in the same
manner that they did on the fair
grounds in SO.
Gary has been so widely advertised
and the railroad facilities are so good
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
NEW SCIENCE AND MEDICAL BUILDING.

the city will be as attractive as any
in the state"
The demand for improvements did
not end there, however. The next
thing to be taken up was the matter
of sidewalks. The old brick walks
which have been worn out and which
were a failure anyway, were torn up
and all over the city cement walks
have taken their places.
With a prospect for good streets and
walks, the whole city seemed to become
imbued with a spirit of progressive
ness. Houses were repaired. fine resi-
dences We're built over on the hill, the
appearance of the city was improved
by the erection of dormitories and col
Iege buildings. although this activity
can hardly be attributed to the build
ing of walks and streets in the town
proper.
The outcome of it all will be that
Valparaiso of year hence will be so
improved over the Valparaiso of a year
ago that the occasional visitor VIII
hardly be able to understand it.
That a city should have existed for
twenty-five or thirty years without i'm
proved streets and then within year
should pave every street in the city,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

that very frequently the business or
the travelling man on his way to or
from one of the hundreds of cities
nearby, stops off just to secure more
than a feeting glance of the great
activity that is apparent from the car
window.
A great many of the men, If the
question were put to them, would say
that this is their first visit to Gary in
spite of the fact that they have made
several trips through the city.
There is probably not a project of
purely private nature that has at
tracted so much attention over the
country, and although 1t is no little
matter to stop over for the next train,
great many people do so and that &C
counts for the crowded streets during
the middle of the day and the throngs
at the depots for the most convenient
of the suburban trains.
Next summer these crowds will be
increased greatly and doubtless one OF
the attractions, one of the show places
of the state, then viii be Gary.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

Is so rare an occurrence as 10 attract
attention everywhere
1t is an example for such cities as
whiting that are stiu uncertain and
wavering regarding the matter of i'm
provements. In fact. Valparaiso de-
serves the commentator OF the whole
northern part OF the state for its pro-
gressiveness, and the people OF that
fortunate city have Mayor Williams
and progressive council TO thank Tor
registering their will in the matter
In addition TO street improvements
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
Valparaiso TAUGHT THE
VALUE OF GOOD ROADS
County Bouevards Extended to Gates of City Before
People Became Aware of the Narrow and
Dusty Streets Buildings Keep Pace.

the country boulevards into the city.
When the narrow pavements were laid
in the center of the streets and We're
put to use it was in the nature OF re-
preach on the unprogressiveness of the
people
They began asking themselves why
it would not be q good plan to put
in concrete curbs and pave the street
through its whole width. Every one
seemed to favor the Improvement and
as there We're practically no paved
streets in the city at the time. it was
decided TO extend the Improvement over
the whole city.
The result" he continued. has been
very satisfactory. Instead Of having
a few streets paved at a time, as is
the case in most cities. Valparaiso had
practically purchased streets for the
entire city and when they are all IN.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

and would be neither contributing their
taxes to the city nor their wages to
Hammond merchants.
ON the Whole Hammond Rejoices.
1t is not altogether desirable that, all
at once, a large foreign laboring ele
ment should have been added to the
population of the city for it viii be
harder to assimilate them than it was
in the past when the foreign element
was sprinkled about the city and not
segregated as they are east of town.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
Especial to Lake County Times1

Valparaiso, Ind. Nov. 1.-Valparaiso
Is an example Of a city that has been
taught the value OF good roads by
the township Northern Indiana. ia
nous for its country boulevards. wit
messed the extension of them to the
very doors Of the city Of schools and
churches" before that city finally be-
came convinced that its own clay or
gravel streets were not becoming TO a
city like Valparaiso and the transfer
nation that has since taken place was
made possible.
Mayor Williams. under whose pro-
gressiye administration an expenditure
Of over s100,o GEO is being made for good
streets. was asked why it was that
the people of Valparaiso had been
caught in an epidemic of Improvements.
THE township, said he, extended
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

of the Standard Steel Car company
have been a new fire station and a new
school building. Both are a credit to
the city.
Had it not been for the fact that
there are larger projects going on
around Hammond which overshadow
the building of the Standard Steel Car
plant and its settlement, it would be
attracting attention all over the state.
AS it is, Gary is getting the at
tention of the public and such little
things as the building of $4,000, 600
plant and a city with 5000 inhabitants
is too small Calumet region project
to attract attention.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

been so apparent as in the settlement
at the end of the street car line. It's
building was made possible by COM
bination of circumstances.
Morris Executes Coup.
Joseph 0. Morris discovered the fact
that the company proposed to erect
some twenty tenement houses. each
containing apartments for ten famil-
les of foreigners who would be en-
ployed at the plant
This meant 200 families and in the
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

than 10 arec,.u.+. 49,.
years ago, after a wide i'm other CItIes
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

six or eight months after the land was
purchased every lot was sold on CON
tract or for cash and Mr.. Morris had
cleaned up in the neighborhood OF $780,
600 clear profit on the deal.
That was the beginning Of the Stan
dard Steel Car settlement and that is
the story of the addition of some 5000
people to the population of Hammond.
Hundreds of Houses Built.
Since then the men who bought his
lots have built houses on them. Hun
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

acres of land has been leveled off and
covered with buildings and for the
past three or four months steel cars
have been turned out and shipped to
the places where they are most needed
to supply the car famine.
And every day since the plant has
been in operation the people of this
city have become more and more con-
WINGED of its Importance to the city
and especially to the east side.
But nowhere has the development
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01
ONE YEARS PROGRESS At
STANDARD STEEL PLANT
Wonders Have Been Achieved Within the Twevernonth
Since the Beginning of Which, Work on Site
Was First Begun.

neighborhood of 1900 people. Mr.
Morris was wise enough to see that
this would be quite a substantial com
munity to start with, and so he bought
the acreage on the other side Of Co
lumbia avenue and subdivided it.
There has probably not been a more
successful real estate deal in the his
tory of Hammond realty and within
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-01

It is only a couple of weeks over
year since tho people of Hammond
heard the glad news OF the location OF
the Standard Steel Car company east
OF this city. and in that brief period
not only has monster plant been
built but a small city has been erected
along side Of it.
The undulating surface of some $50