The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-06-01
THE HOPKINS WEEKLY
Prop, I'd. s Pub.
Subscription, Advertising and Circulation
Statement Subject to Search Warrant.
At the Jamestown Exno.,,,on

proud or the art and industrial ex- /
hibit made BY Pembroke township. OF
which Hopkins is the commercial and
social center.
The Pembroke exhibit is housed in
the Illinois building. Jake Whites fat
hogs and the fancy poultry raised by |
Kenaga Kershaw necessarily being /
shown in the stock department.
Among the exhibits are two Jugs OF
Joe Benns celebrated sorghum, Mrs +
Arabella Pratts self-rising bread AIRS. /
Gabe Gorrelrs dill pickles in jars Miss
Daisy June's portfolio Of picture postal /
cards, and Mrs. Armand kutshot's /
hand made doilies copied from But
terlock's designs.
A creditabIe exhibit Of drawings and
sketches made by Hopkins high school
pupils is attracting attention. The
best of these is the handiwork OF our
promising young artist, Miss Amelia
Kutshot, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Ar
mand Kutshot. 40 Hay Press avenue.
Miss Kutshot comes naturally by her
talent. She inherits it from her moth
er. Miss Kutshot's forte is drawing
cupids and other aerial vagabonds
without visible means of support.
| The local progress for the last thirty
years is shown by two models in min
iature, loaned by the Historical So
ciety for the Pembroke township ex-
hibit. The first is a dugout. which
was the main means of getting around
during the swampy period. The sec
ond model shows the modern dredge
boat, which drained this country and
made agriculture possible.
Charley Kile's crayon portraits of
deceased relatives attract attention.
Likewise Sam Templeton's automatic
hay press feeder and Bob McKay's
pyramid of baled hay, the chief prod
uct Of this fertile township. the pro-
duct which has brought fame and
funds to Pembroke.
But the most striking exhibit that
is, the one attracting the most atten-
ton, is the Watson department store
ledger of unpaid accounts. Hopkins
people are much interested in it. Even
strangers are attracted by the novelty.
Oddly enough Bill Bunkers, who was in
the first batch of Hopkins visitors to
the Jamestown exposition, saw his
name in the list Bill owes Watson
for a pair of overalls and slab of
bacon. The last time Bill was dunned
he claimed to be out of money, yet
somehow he found enough to carry
him to Jamestown and back.
Nothing Lost for Us.
1t was a standoff last week. We lost
four old subscribers and gained four
new ones.
Our readers will recall the account
in last weeks Hay Press of the run
away accident in which Miss Angel
ina Ames Busbee, the trained nurse,
was thrown from a buggy and landed
in ditch. There was three feet of
water in the ditch, from which Miss
| Busbee was fished out, soaking wet.
We appropriately headed the item: "A
Wet Nurse" Miss Bushels parents
promptly Cancelled the Hay Press sub
scription.
This was the first fade away. No.
2 was ST Simmons. We jocularly said
that ST had recently come home with
a fiat wheel and beat his wife. We
didn't mean that he beat his wife with
the fiat wheel. The fat wheel express
sion was only a polite way of saying
that 81 was drunk. AS 81 owed us
back money that we couldn't collect.
we are not grieving over the loss of
his subscription.
No. was Bug Brown. Bug took
offense at our mention of his custom
1
check slip in his hat a couple of days
after he returned to town, to show
the people that he had been travelling.
AS Bug is in the same class with 81
Simmons, his loss is no hardship.
Fade away No 4. Last week we
said that Rufe Richards intended get
ting himself an electric runabout. Our
comment was that Rufe didn't need
| haf no
now: that his wife was the liveliest
runabout in town. Rufe. who enjoys
a joke even if it's on his family, didn't
want to stop the Hay Press, but his
wife made him.
Our first gain was Jake Jenkins,
whose artistic kalsomining Of the par
lor in the Blowkey residence sky
blue to match the walnut woodwork
we deservedly praised.
| The second new subscriber was Lafe
Lydecker, whose carload of hogs top
ped the Chicago market, at least, we
said they did. Lafe was flush and paid
a years subscription in advance.
The third was Abe Akron, whose re-
pairing of the cupids on the city foun-
tain we commended.
The fourth was sam Snedecur. At
ter our mention last week of his pass
ing around the wheeling stogies in
celebration of the birth Of twin sons,
we added that we hoped they would be
as smart as their father and as good
looking as their mother. This pleased
Mrs. Snedecur immensely. She insist
ed that her husband stop the Weekly
sandbur and. subscribe for the Hay
Press instead
a Real Estate Failure.
The subdivision laid out by the
Knight Keys syndicate west OF town
two years ago has petered out for lack
Of buyers, and the council has
been asked TO vacate the plat The
subdivision was ambitiously named
HOPKINS on the Hill 1t is now called
Hopkins on the Bum.