The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-08-22
GETS CHILLY
RECEPTION
Mrs. Stohl, Lecturer, Thinks
Hammond Most Unhos-
pitable Place, Until
ALL IS EXPLAINED
Well Known Temperance Worker I'm
Intentionally Snubbed by Local
w. C. T. u.

Mrs. StohI, of Indianapolis, lecturer,
temperance worker and prominent in
w. G. T. q. circles, was the heroine
in a comedy Of errors yesterday, which
would furnish the plot to a play. To
day she is laughing over the circdrl-
stance, but for a while she was in
clined to think that the members OF the
local w. c. t. L. were the most dis
courteous of women and Hammond the
most inhospitable place on the map of
Indiana.
AS result of her experience the w
C. T. L. women of this city are cha
grined and disconnected, though the
mistakes incident to Mrs. Stohl's visit
happened through the fault of nobody
here.
The story is as follows:
The state secretary of the Indiana
W. c. T. U, Mary z. Woodward, of
Foutain City, Ind. became aware of
the TACT that the we'll known lecturer
was spending a week in Chicago and
thought that the people of this section
of the state would be pleased to listen
to a discourse by her. Therefore she
wrote the president of the local orga-
nization that the latter would be pro-
vided with a lecturer yesterday and at
the same time she wrote Mrs. Stohl
that the Hammond society would be
pleased to have here come. The latter
received the letter but the former did
not and thereby hangs a tale.
The lecturer arrived in town as sche-
duled but was amazed to find that no
reception committee was at the depot
to meet her according to the usual
custom She was therefore forced to
wander about town all by her lone
some and attempt to find the house OF
the president as best she could.
| The local w. c. T. u, however. dis
claim all responsibility for the treat
ment of the well-known lecturer as
they had no chance to reply to the let
ter OF the state secretary before the
entertainer appeared. Imagine heI
chagrin upon arriving here in an abb
solutely strange town with no one to
take care of her or show her where
she should go. From the moment
she alighted from the train her trou-
bles began and the farther she got
away from the depot the more intri-
cate they became.
4 All the names she knew in connec'
ton with the society was that OF the
president. Mrs. Eta Bloomhoff. OF
South Holman Street and some klnt
stranger was considerate enough tC
give her steer in that direction Al
ter much cropping around she succeed
ed in finding the right house and foun'
at the same time that Mrs Bloomhof
had gone several hundred miles ava,
on a vacation and would not be bacl
for several weeks at the least A
she turned from the door in discour
agement she asked as a last resort t
be directed to the Methodist parson
age. where she hoped to at least find
kindly soul. She was taken in an
given a cheering reception by Rev
Smith and her spirit had almost re
gained its normal condition. An ex
PLANTATION meeting was arranged for
with Mrs, James Whitby, an officer o
the organization and this was pulle'
off yesterday afternoon. The facts o
the case were gradually brought t
light and every thing satisfactorily ex
planned so far as the Hammond end o
it was concerned. Mrs. Woodard o
Fountain City. however. remains TO b
heard from on the subject.