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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
DOCTORS WIFE LOSES SISTER.
Sad News Comes from Escondid0. ReIa-
tive to Death of Mrs. ID. C. Brown.

Word was received late Saturday
night from Indianapolis that mes
sage had been received from Escon-
dido, Cal. and that Mrs. D. c. Brown
of that city had passed away. Mrs.
Brown is the oldest daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. G. H. Davis of indianapolis.
and sister to DR. J. A. Davis and
DR.. c. L. Davis of this city. The news
came as a shock to the friends and
relatives of the deceased. Mrs. Brown
leaves son, husband two brothers.
three sisters and a father and mother
to mourn her death. 1t is probable
that the remains will be sent to Indian
apolis for interment
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
TRAGIC END
EXCITES PITY
Octogenarian Brought tc
Hammond Hospital and
There He Dies.

Death came yesterday in a tragic way
20 Auuu.t KOhIhase, Chicago man
who died In st. Margarets hospital yes
terday evening from injuries sustained
in nm automobile accident.
Fate, it seems, arranged the mans
entire days program which was ended
with xohIsaat's death after he was in
iured in the very neighbOrhOod where
he was born and raised. Fate, 1T seems,
went further and gave him premOni-
tfon of what was in store for him.
Two hours before his fatal accident
happened he was permitted to gaze on
the dead features of his life long friend
Ernest Ginther of Black Oak. Ginther,
who is SO years old had been dead two
hours when the Chicago man arrived
hoping to find him alive. From the
home of his dead friend Kohlhase pro-
ceeed in company with his family to
visit other boyhood friends when fate
intervened.
Down cast by Friends Death.
August Kohlhase. who is SO years
old. encours ged by the pleasant weather
came to saxony yesterday afternoon lin
company with his son Frank, the lat
ter'3 wife and their son August They
took luncheon with Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Gastel of Hammond. He also Wis
tied Mr. and Mrs. Jarnecke, a niece
of the old gentleman, and ms
visit Yesterday was long looked for
event and the reunion produced the
best of good feeling. The old man was
happy and gay at the table and spoke
about his friend Ernest Ginther, whom
he expected to visit before he went
back TO Chicago. About one o'clock
the party started for the Ginther farm,
where they learned the sad news. The
old man received it with a shock and
was singularly quiet when they left
the home.
Accident Due TO Narrow Road.
Mr.. Kohlhase was born in Germany
and raised near To1eston, and has
relatives there even to this day
Among them are the Buses
there. There were other friends
in the neighborhood OF Black Oak that
the KohIhase wanted TO visit. and as
they were driving along the highway
between the Scheidt place and the Nick
ell Plate railroad the automobile was
compelled to pass a horse and buggy
The piece of road is very narrow and
has steep bitches beside it, The young
man wishing to give the driver of the
horse enough room went as close tc
the ditch as he thought was save but
over-estimated the strength of the curb
Inquest Held Last Night
The machine was partially demolished
the old gentleman was hurried to st
Margarets hospital in a rig which hap
pened to be on the scene. His serious
injuries and his extreme old age left
no hope for his recovery. He fingered
until $50 when he passed away sur
rounded by his son, the latter's wife
and hi sgrandson.
Mr. Kohlhase having been a widowei
for the past year. made his home witt
his son Frank at 2235 Harvard street il
Chicago.
The son is connected with the Ma
tiona1 Stamping Company. The in.
quest over the the remains was helC
last evening by Coroner Z. NJ ShankliI
III Emmerling's morgue. Later in tn,
day they were sent to Chicago 70
burial
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
Valpo Student Missing.

Professor Q. P. Kfnsey of Valparaiso
university reports that Louis Calvin of
Toledo left school on Oct. %, and has
not been heard from since He is known
to have been In Gary.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
MEDICAL
TEA MAKES
HER SICK
Hammond Lady Taken Vic
lently I'll as Result of Test
ing Sample Package of
Dope" Left by Canvas
ser on Her Doorstep.

The advertising that a certain medi-
cal tea Will get I'm Hammond as a re-
suit of leaving sample packages on the
dOOrsteps, will be of an exceedingly
doubtful character, when the expert
ence of Mrs. Charles f. Ault, the wife
of the yardmaster at Calumet park and
who lives in 355 South Holman street,
becomes known.
Mrs Ault was made violently i'll by
taking dose of a certain medical tea
according to the prescription on the
sample<paekage whiel, was left at her
door She found the package wednes-
day. took teaspoonful of the tea that
day as a laxative. was thrown into con-
vulsions that evening, and is still in a
dangerous condition
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
Doctor Is Called.

DR. Campbell called Thursday and
found his patient in a dangerous con-
dition. He questioned her about what
she had eaten and she told him about
the medical tea.
The package was unbroken when she
took part of it and she does not believe
that any foreign poison could have been
put into it. Today Mr.. Ault was inter
viewed about the matter and said that
it was unquestionably the tea which
caused her sickness She said that she
had been badly salivated in addition
to being poisoned. and she believes that
she had a narrow escape from death.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
OFFICIALS HAVE
BEEN WORKING QUIETLY
First Shipment of twenty-five Cars
Will Be Made This Week and Shop.
ping District on Saturday Night
Shows Increase in All Lines Of
Business.

Most people In Hammond are un-
aware of the fact that there are now
being employed at the Standard steel
Car company in the neighborhood of
1,2O0 men and that by the middle of
this week there Will be 1,50O men en-
pIOyed at the big East END works.
What Is still more surprising is the
fact that unless some of the plans of
on account of the lack of materials, the
first shipment of twenty-five ears will
be made at the end of this week.
So quietly have the officials of the
company been working and so little
noise has there been made over the
opening of the concern, after nearly a
years idleness, that this news viii be
a surprise to many.
In fact the only indication to the
Hammond citizen that the plant is real
ly open and employing 1900 men is the
fact that the streets are again fire.
quented by groups of foreigners, who
come downtown to the business dis
trict and get the few necessities they
need.
Foreigners Come In.
Business activity in Hammond was
greater than ever last Saturday For
the first time in months the stores
were crowded, and it now appears that
the old prosperity of the city is being
restored
From dozen sources comes the in
formation that there is a seaxcity of
men. Several contractors have had
difficulty in securing enough laborers
to say nothing of the skilled working
men.
1t will be the policy of the officials
of the Standard Steel Car company in
this city to make the work, which is
now on hand, last as long as possible.
While there is no question that there
will be many new orders in the near fu-
ture yet as long as the orders have not
actually been received it will be the
policy of the men in charge here to
string the work over as long a period
as possible until new orders are re
ceived. and then the work will be
rushed
1t is a known fact that all of the
railroads have had their equipment
in the way of rolling stock, greatly
reduced during the period of financial
oppression anu lndI II Is HOW urgently
necessary for all of them OF buy new
cars and prepare for the rapidly in
creasing volume of business which the
railroads are now doing.
Building Passenger Cars.
Another surprise is the fact that
the Hammond plant of the Standard
Steel Car company has become a place
for the manufacture of all-steel pas
senger cars.
A sample car has been constructed
and ten more of them are to be built
and shipped at once. 1t is generally
believed that the steel passenger coach
will rapidly supplant the wooden cal
and the significance of this small start
is hardly appreciated by the people Of
Hammond.
At the time the plant was located ir
Hammond there was an immense
amount of land purchased, and curl
/ osity was expressed on all sides thai
the company wanted so much ground
but as the big plans of the company
/ are gradually evolved it becomes ap-
parent that HAMMOND will, in a few
/ years. have one of the largest ca
/ building plants in the country.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09
Oscar Plageman and Carl
Anderson, Enthusiastic
Bryan Men, Pay the Los
er's End of Wheelbarrow
Bets Yesterday.
BIG CROWD
SEES THE SPORT

Gay Calvacade Follows Wheelbarrows
Down Holman Street While,
Cheering Crowds Look on at Sport
Winners and Losers Enjoy 1t
Alike.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09

Try a want ad IN THE TIMES.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09

Try a want ad in TIE TINES.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-11-09

Partly cloudy and colder
today and Tuesday; fresh
northweat winds.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
CONVEYING LOBSTERS IN
FISH TANKS TO EUROPE
Kaiser Wilhelm II Carries Three Hum
dred Choice Specimens to Be
Usel in Acclimatization
Experiment

NEW YORK, May 27.--An invasion
of European waters by the American
lobster has begun. When the Kaiser
Wilhelm II steamed for Europe yes
terday she carried in her fish tanks 300
choice specimens of the lobster species
The trip will determine whether they
can be kept alive until they are land
ed in Europe. AT present the lobster
is only found along certain portions OF
the European coast, for the most part
difficult of access.
The Kaiser Wilhelms tanks have
pipe attachments which supply fresh
water with pure air by patented
process and the fact that fish have
been easily kept alive in them through
out a transatlantic voyage leads to the
belief that the Holsters will survive the
trip.
Another improvement which the
kaiser has undertaken is that of trans
ferring two live frogs to Germany with
view of breeding for the German
markets. They were taken from New
Jersey swamps and will be placed in
BaVarian waters.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
TRACE BOOKS TO
SEEK THE DEAD
HEALTH DEPARTMENT MEN
END SUSPENSE
BESIEGED WITH QUERIES ABOUT
MISSING ONES
From All Cities Letters Come, Asking
That Lost Relatives Be
Traced Through City's
Records

One of the many duties exacted of health
department officials for which they get
little credit at home and yet which bring
solace to many aching hearts and end the
suspense of many worried ones is that of
answering inquiries IN regard to dead or
missing persons who supposedly have drifted
TO Los Angeles.
Hardly a day passes in which some
anxious friend relative fails to make in
quiry about missing one, involving some
times hours of search through old records.
Secretary Hugh M Love, Clerk William
ii. McGil and Mortuary Clerk Henry Sef
divide this work between them. looking
after it during spare hours.
few recent queries, picked at random
from Secretary Loves files, show the tenor
of the requests.
Mrs. William Chappele of North Bedeque.
p, e. l., Canada, received tidings concerning
her daughters death.
She wrote Secretary Love that she re-
ceved word from Charles Ludke her SON
in-law, that his wife Harriet Cher daughter)
had died the previous July % in Los An
geles, but could not find out anything con-
corning her sickness burial, although she
says she wrote to Ludke.
The records show that a Harriet Ludke
died July 49, 1901 at 902 West Ninth street
of chronic CASTRO enteritis under care Of
DIR. w. S. Philip. She was cremated at the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
TO PACIFY INVESTORS OF
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL

NEW YORK, May 27.-President J.
T. Harahan of the Illinois Central
sailed today for Europe on trip which,
according to reports, is intended at
least in part to bring about friendlier
relations between the Illinois Central
and some of it's stock
holders among whom an anti-Harri-
man campaign was waged during the
contest over the last annual election.
1t was pointed out yesterday that
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28


Undertaken w. II. Sutch.
Traces Old Housekeeper
Mrs S. T. Hoagland of Eflngham asks
about a late friend, Mrs. Elizabeth e. Gill
roy, housekeeper at the Natick house, who
she heard had died
The only Elizabeth E. Gilroy found in
the record was 50 years old, divorced ma
tive of Missouri, daughter of j. Essey of
England, housekeeper by occupation. She
died at the Deaconess' hospital March %.
1908, of pneumonia after an illness of Ave
days, DR.. George w Lasher attending her.
She was buried at Rosedale March &c by
Undertakers Peck & Chase.
The data was given by Robert Gilroy of
Searchlight. New.
Mrs. 8. j. zimmerle Rosh or Rash wrote
from the east that George T. Zimmerle died
February rs, 1908 in some Los Angeles
hospital. and as she holds insurance
policy she is anxious to make proof of
death.
The records show that George T. zim-
merle died February rs. 1908, at Asa West
Forty-thrd street of pulmonary oedema,
under the treatment of DIR. william Duff
field He 81, married native of Ili-
nois. He was prepared for burial at Calls
berg" (probably Galesburg) by Undertaken
W. II. Sutch.
Mrs. A. j. Turner of asa West Forty third
street gave the data.
Probably in San Francisco
Mary ]. Drake or 9ss Monroe street, Chi
j.
Greig. who at time lived at 121 Mont
gomery street and was last heard from in
1856 He has been dead for years and
sister of his some time ago tried in vain
to trace decedent. The writer seems enx-
ious about the funeral expenses If they
still an obligation on the heirs.
The officials suggested that 1t might re-
fer to a death at Montgomery street, San
Francisco, as there is no street of that
name in Los Angeles. Unfortunately the
big fire destroyed the records there and
searching is difficulty.
Mrs Catherine Mccartney or McCortney
of 301 West Forty-fifth street, New York,
writes that she Is the wife of Albert Nc
Cartney who died in Los Angeles about
August, 1906. or 1907, and asks for GER
ti1cate. He is supposed to have been killed
by motorcycle.
Search reveals no Albert McCortney or
Mccartney killed here since February !.
1904.
Postmaster Motley Flint referred letter
from Mrs. w. r. Godin, Rochester N. Y,
asking about Manly Peterson, who a year
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28

President Harahan already has had a
conference with a number of New Eng
land stockholders, who upheld Stuy-
vesant Fish, and that these stockhold-
ers at a recent special meeting APP
absorption of several subsidiary COM
panies and the issuance of $30,000,000
additional stock.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
Shoes Half Price and Less

Over two hundred big display bargain
tables are displaying shoes for men,
women and children. on sale IL many
Instances for half price and less. Con-
vince yourself and CONS to the
MAMMOTH SHOE HOUSE.
S1s South broadway.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28

ago came to Los Angeles for his health. A
doctor said Peterson died here. She had
written the Los Angeles police a month
previously but got no reply. The mans
wife is reported in poor health, hence for
her sake Information Is asked.
No record of Peterson or Peterson was
found here.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
You can DO BUSINESS
THROUGH THE WANT ADS.

plenty Of it, Of many kinds, at
the smallest possible cost of pro-
motion"
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28
races Old Housekeeper

Los Angeles crematory under the charge of
Undertaken w. II. Sutch.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28

the 5000 Send in all subscriptions
ceved for this not club offer like the presented last week.
Remember six months subscription will
point points, points, three six
points, four years, eight points; FIVE ten points
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28

brought into the contest department of The
until the close of the contest June TO- will receive
the following Three months 400 will be
allowed months 1905 year. 30o0 two 7OoO three
years. 1sooo FIVE 2oooo ten $4,000
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-28

Onealf will be allowed old SUBJ
scripon six months subscription will count
as one points, points, four points, three
years. points, four eight points, five years. ten points,
ten years, twenty points.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
Rural Schools.

After the pilgrim fathers had land ed in 1920. the very first act of the English colonists was 10 establish a high school, but these were for very few people In 163G Harvard was founded, and soon after that Yale and Princeton. About 150 or 160 years after that Thoreas Jefferson, who was the father of the country school sys- tenn; Washington. the great promoter, and Alexander Hamilton, the great teacher, gave time and thought 10 thls cause, and made it possible for education to reach the masses Of ;he people. Washington said: Lay broad and deep, then, the foundation of the general diffusion of knowledge The old method of teaching is pretty near ly eliminated. The education of to- day has come 10 our homes through the rural schools Very often the rural school children do not go to high school or to college: therefore, We must give our rural school child- ren every advantage.
 We believe that the country schools ane doing a great work. but We must add domestic science and agriculture. Good results will come then through the little school house in the country, aEd it will bring sunshine, prosperity and good citizenship into the future homes of these children.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
Agricultural Statistics,

This is very pretty story, very in- teresting,-this report of the govern ment on the conditions of other peo. ples' crops and prognostications ot good yields; but the bureau of the Department of Agriculture which gath CTS and issues the information Is a large and expensive bureau. and some may ask. what is the real use of it? How does it help the farmer? Well, We all know about the ''pit-the corn pit" and the wheat pit in Chicago and elsewhere. where they get cor ners on grain and other commodities and maintain the prices to the detri- ment of both the producer and the consumer Were it not for reliable government statistics on crop produc- tion, the manipulations would be far verse than they are, and at certain seasons the big speculators would get together and practically fix the prices. The official statistics keep them largely in check If there were no gov efnment statistics, the spectators would simply agree on policy and then manufacture crop statistics to enable them to carry out that policy and the farmer and the bread winner of the country would suffer
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
Story of Rural Revolutionist.

The Worlds Work: Ii is hard to bring home" to the readers of print ed pages the extent and full mean ing of the work that is going on in the United States to build up rural Iife-to make farming pay; for this is a kind of work that man must see 10 understand it, to measure it's full value, and 10 know what it will mean ill the near future to the peo- pie. Here, for example, is little story from life:
 The best small farmer in this neighbofhood sent his only son to an agricultural college. When the boy had finished his studies he had a plan to go away and 10 begin life for him. self, but his father was eager to keep him at home. He would stay only if his father would give him complete control of the farm. Since the old man himself was the best farmer in the boys wish, with reluctance, but he yielded.
 NOW what do you suppose John did?9 he asked as he told the story. He hitched all three of the mules 10 one blow. l had never done that. but l pretty soon saw that he was right. Then he spent a lot of time and care in selecting seeds. I had never done that so thoroughly, but l soon saw that he was right" and so on, isem after item.
 The result was that, although the farm had for years made larger yield than any other in the neighbor- hood, the yield the first year of the young mans management was 90 per cent larger than it had ever been be- fore; and the second year 50 Der cent larger. Within a few years the meth cd of farming in the neighborhood had become so much better that the farmers now receive S50,000 more a year in cash than they received be- fore John took his fathers farm in hand
 Similar changes are taking place in many parts of the country. The difference is the difference between life of hard struggle and life of independence, between good roads and bad. between good schools and bad, between hard lives for women and comfortable and refined lives, the diff ference between stolidity and a glad intellectual existence.
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
WHEN YOU GET RICH.
Only Then Are You Appreciated for
 Your True Worth.

Upton Sinclair, the novelist, was talking about wealth at Lake Pla- cid
 Tt is pleasant to be rich he said. Nobody can deny that Many of the pleasures of wealth, though, are false and mistaken ones
 When l was making my living by the composition of blood and thun- der tales for boys-and 1 could turn out my 5000 words a day 1 knew a pale, bent, inkstained old chap who wrote love stories.
 His stories did not pay; he was very poor but an aunt died, and sud denly the old fellow found himself a millionaire.
 way. He stopped his red car and we chatted about old times.
 And is it pleasant to be rich?' asked.
 Yes, it is,' he answered, as he lighted a Vuelto Abajos and handed me another And do you know what is the pleasantest thing about it? You have an opportunity to make real friends, friends who can understand you. You get at last to know people capable of esteeming you for your own qualities alone. You find, sir, that you are at last appreciated
The Green Forest tribune., 1908-09-25
Who SaYs Hard Times ?

Chief Statistician Clark of the agrf cultural department estimates that the ninth successive good harvest Is practically assured to tine American farmer and that the crops of 1908 will be worth nearly $S,000,000, 900.
 Eight billion dollars would pay the net interest bearing debt nine times over
 Or it would pay the national debt and leave enough to buy at par the stock of all the railroads in the country.
 It would nearly pay off the entire bonded debt of every American rail road
 At assessed valuations it would buy every acre of land in New York City and replace every building in it with a little remnant over equalling the combined assessed valuations of Chi cago, New Orleans, St. Louis, Seattle and San Francisco, says the New York World.
 Corn does not travel far from the place where it is raised, which is lucky, as there are not enough rail roads to carry it.
 A crop of 2,700,000,000 bushels would load 2,520000 thirty-ton cars, 540 more freight cars than there are in the country of every sort.
 The freight cars of all the world would not carry out wheat and corn.
 If there were cars enough and 1T the wheat and corn were loaded into thirty-ton cars, forty to a train, and trains were run at two-mile intervals at speed including stops of thirty miles an hour, night and day, 1t would take nearly six months for the procession to pass a reviewing stand.
 A bin built the size of a city block, G00x200, would need to be more than six miles high 10 hold this wheat and corn alone.
 The hay and cotton crops and the stupendous annual egg yield of the American hen are in bulk and value equally amazing.