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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
GRANGER GETS OFFICE
Business Agent of Carpen.
ters' Union Leases Old
Realty Office.

H. e. Granger, the business agent Of
the carpenters union, has secured a
lease on the old Hammond-Gary Realty
company's office and will use it for an
office.
The office is centrally located and Mr..
Granger will move his desk into 1t and
1t a loafing place for the carpenters.
The office will also be an employment
office and any of the local business
men or contractors who are in need
of carpenters will leave word at this
office and will be supplied.
Mr.. Granger is doing good work as
the business agent of his union and
his new office will give him the facili-
ties for increasing the effectiveness of
his office.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
$4,000 FOR HIS LEGS
Monon Engineer Settles
With Railroad Com
pany Today.

John Good, the Monon engineer, for
merly of Hammond who suffered the
oss of both legs early this year in a
railroad accident in Chicago, has Sc
cured settlement from the Monon
railroad. The consideration was $12,-
900. and was made out of court. At
torney L. L. Bomberger represented Mr..
Good in the transaction, but is non
committal as to the settlement.
Mr.. Good and his family now live in
Mulberry, Ind, but he still has many
friends and acquaintance in Hammond
One of his brothers is a frequent visitor
in this city, he being a regular Monon
brakeman.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
TOLLESTON
IN NUMBER
Many Postmasters Affected
BY Change Will Get
Christmas Present

The announcement that President
Theodore Roosevelt has, by executive
order, placed all of the third class
postoffices In Indiana under civil SER
vice aad that the present incumbents
Will hold office for life is of great in
terest to the people of Lake county for
the reason that there are twenty-six
postmasters I'm the county who viii
be affected by the order.
The third class postoffces in Lake
county which will be affected by the
presidents new order are as follows:
Gibson, ST. John, Dyer, Griffith. Aetna.
TolIeston, Cedar Lake, Miller. Aims
worth. Armour. Clark. Creston, Deep
River, Grasselli. Hessville, Highlands.
Lake Station, Leroy, Merrillville. New
Chicago, Palmer. RobS. Ross. Scherer-
Vile, Schneider and Shelby.
VIII Have Life Job.
The postmasters of each of these
cities will have life positions now and
need not fear that through the change
In the national administration they
will be deprived of tlaeir office. They
can be removed, of course, for IN
competence but that is the only rea-
son for making a change.
Although fourth class office does
rot pay a very large salary it is
considered plum in many towns. The
salary is based on the cancellations and
If a postmaster sells $500 worth of
postage stamps that is the amount OF
SConffnued on pEge g.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
WON'T GO TO DEL||.R||T DEILh|lRT
UNTIL NEXT SPRING

Judge Jordan says that he will proba-
bly, not go to Delhart, Tex, until next
spring. He says that he has not changed
his mind, but ne does not want to leave
this city until he sells his holdings
here.
He has his hotel business and several
pieces of property in the city, which
he must sell before he can pull up
stakes. He expects to take the mon
ey he realizes from the sale of his
Hammond holdings and put it into a
Texas farm.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
TRUSTEES ARE ELECTED

At a congregational meeting of the
First Presbyterian church held in the
church parlors the evening of Dec. 1
five trustees were elected. A Christmas
tree is being arranged for the children,
and committee of seven, with Mr.. F..
]. Ellick as chairman. was appointed
to cooperate with the Sunday school
in the Christmas celebration
The newly elected trustees are as
follows:
Joseph Thompson.
George Rawlings.
Otto Klooz.
J. C. Kerr.
William Stout.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
PEOPLE EXPECTED
NOTHING ELSE
Homewood Property Owners Gaze in
Astonishment This Morning When
They Witness Work Going on
"When Will Street Be Done9" Is
ow Cry.

Just when the people of Homewood
were heaving a sigh of relief and were
saying to themselves, perhaps, a little
gang of workfngmen this morning
came along and started to tear up strips
of the south Holman street paving
brick ON each side of the car tracks.
1t is the elimination of a lot of
trouble over the paving of the street
which began with the very inception
of the project. It has been discovered
that so much sand and dust has set
tied between the bricks, which were
laid along the street car tracks, that
the asphalt filler will not go down in
the tracks.
Will Be Disastrous to Paving.
AS a result it has become necessary
to tear up all of the brick on the outer
edge of the car track and after clean
ing them off relay them before they
can be bound together with the asphalt
filler.
Paving contractors fear that this will
be disastrous to the asphalt paving.
When the paving was laid the brick
were snugly in place and the rolling of
the pavement bound the whole thing
together in very neat manner.
Now that it has become necessary
to tear up ell of the brick it is thought
that the best that can be done is to
make patch job of it. The compost
tion asphalt pavement itself is prov
ing very satisfactory It is so near
like a pure asphalt pavement that the
average person cannot tell the differ
ence
The trouble began with the laying out
of the street. Holman street was to
be widened and Strengthened according
to the popular impression of what the
city officials were going to do with
the street.
More Crooked Than Ever.
Instead of that it was widened in
places and made more crooked than it
ever was before While the property
owners south of Harrison park were
compelled to put their sidewalks back
to within three feet of the lot line, the
influential property owners north of
the park were able to induce the mayor
and city engineer to give them a strip
of twelve feet wide which really really
belonged in the street.
1t will be noticed that the walk in
front of the property of Lawrence Cox
and George Lawrence is way out of
line with the walk in front of the
park.
On the other side of the street the
| condition is even worse. A property
owner on South Holman street made
the statement the other day that if a
man had a rose bush on the edge OF
!, his lot and a pull" with the mayor he
could have the sidewalk built over on
the street to avoid moving the bush
There has been the rankest discrim-
| ination shown" he said, and while
some of the owners of Holman street
! frontage were compelled to sacrifice
a great deal to make the widening OF
the street possible others were permit
ted to keep their walks in the street
Stand on the west side of Holman
| street at Carroll street and look south
and it will be seen what a monumental
| botch of a job the widening of this
| street has been. The walks are as
crooked as q country COW path
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03

Thirty seven rabbits will served to-
morrow night to the friends and pat
rons of "Frenchy" Poland at his place,
22S Sibley street. The feast is free
and pieyt of the goods have been pro-
vided for the evening.-1t
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
LAKE SUPERIOR COURT.
New Cases.

5244 United Breweries company VS..
William Riley. Breach of contract.
5245. William H Rehm ct al. VS..
Frank Pudlo ct al. Foreclosure of trust
deed.
524s. VIM. W. Mcmahon vs.. Mich
ael Ormond. Civil.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
LEADER GIVES
AN INTERVIEW
Saloon Situation in Lake
County Closely Watched
By Temperance Men.

"We warned those fellows to
be good, but they thought we
were joking. Now they viii
have to take their medicine.
We have already punished Chrfs
Lassen of Cedar Lake by clos
ing his place mp, and we are go
ing after others, including
Kniser.'
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03
Friends VIII Move Along.

graduating him upon the deal In the
absence of a suitable place where the
young men of Hammond could get to-
gether for a social hour, his place has
been the only shelter for them and the
boys are always with Billy
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03

sCerti.ued on pEge 81
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03

Slowly rising Temperature
wffh fair weather today,
light soufherIy winds.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-12-03

Continued on page 5.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
AMERICA A LAND Oh BIG STORES


y NwA M
Nothing in England to with
Our Great Department Enipor:usan.
"Amerlca far silrpasses England in
n respect. at least said j. b. Fer
guson, of London. sYour large stores
are far above those which we have in
London. They are bigger, display more
complete lines of goods. and are better
arranged than any In England.
in another way. the American store
surpasses that Of England. We do not
know how to dress windows as they
are dressed In New York or Chicago.
The goods of an English store are, you
might almost say, thrown into the win
dow, and probably there are far too
many different kinds shown to attract
attention. In your big establishments
there are but few different kinds of
goods displayed in any one window"
Mr.. Ferguson is touring the large
cities of America for the purpose OF
comparing English business methods
with those OF this country. He said
the American may be a little quicker in
the transaction of business, but he does
not consider that on his side any more
good hard licks are put in in one day
han are put in in England in the same
period.
'The Englishman is conservative; he
lives well-something you do not do
in America. l have been asked If /
saw any old men in America, and have
always answered that l see 10 young
ones. / suppose the use Of .stimulants
in this country is partly responsible
for that.
II was in Cleveland during the prog
ress of the election contest between
Tom l., Johnson and Mr.. Burton. I do
not see how Mr.. johnson can carry out
his wish-I understand 1t is his wish
to have the city or Cleveland control
the tram system, | come originally
from Glasgow, where most everything
is municipaly owned. but with your
poor municipal government. in which
there is so much graft, would think
that municipal ownership would be I'M
Observation-Disclosures Post.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
WORK A DAY FOR NOTHING.
How Leap Year Cheats Hard Work
erS of Money.

How Leap Year Cheats Hard Work
ers of Money.
Does 1t ever occur to people that
leap year may, and generally does,
touch their pockets appreciably? Those
wage earners who are paid every Fri
day OF Saturday suffer nothing because
they are paid for the extra day they
have to live during the year. But those
in receipt Of monthly or quarterly
checks for salary are different, for
they lose the payment for the extra
days work.
Employers are naturally ~forgetful of
such little matters and employees are
not SO long sighted as they might be,
when engagements are entered into and
contracts made for a term Of years no
account is taken Of that extra day in
leap year.
A simple calculation shows that a
person earning $1,000 a year, paid
monthly, quarterly or annually, finds
himself out of pocket to the extent
Of e JOS as the result of leap year,
and, of course, the larger the income
the greater the loss.
The chancellor Of the excheauer
dealing with millions Of the nations
money is not slow to appreciate the i'm
portance of leap year. Taking last
years budget figures as a basis, the
extra day would mea an Increase of
some f3e7,O 900 in gross revenue and Of
1889, 900 in expenditures.
Interesting, too, is it to figure out
what leap year means in regard to our
foreign trade. Taking again the figures
OF u last financial year, it will be
found that n days extra imports
amount to the huge sun of f1,544,OoO
and mi days extra exports to f1,2O2,-
600. Thus from the mere fact OF its
being leap year our total foreign trade
ought to be f2,750,Oo0 sterling greater
this year than last.-London Mail.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
HIS HEART III HIS STOMACH.
why Bullet Failed to XIII E&cntncEs,
Manufacturers I

Why Bullet Failed to XIII xcntncEsy
Manufacturers.
The Kentucky mountaineer is 4 BIZ
ped who has been considerably shot at
for a century or more. For this reason
county, who has been released from a
Lexington hospital, is of exceptional
interest to students OF the the " OF
evolution, says the Louisville Courier
Journal.
In a Lee City joint debate upon the
relative virtues Of the two great polit-
ical parties Mr.. Sebastian was shot
through the breast. X-rays showed the
ball lodged in the wounded mans lung
after passing through his chest in such
q direction that, the heart would have
been pierced If It had been In the right
place.
1t seems that Mr.. Sebastian's heart
is located near his stomach, or went
into hiding there, when the gestures of
the debaters indicated that in SO far
as the more vital organs were concern
ed discretion had become the better
part Of yaEor. In the absence of a de-
tailed report from the attending sur
geons it Is not clear whether Galloway
Sebastian's heart has resumed its nor
nal position under his short ribs or
Is still nesting somewhere between the
liver and the kidneys.
1t is impossible ever to speculate
upon whether Mr.. Sebastian is lowered
with a heart that may be thrown from
n point to another, like the voice Of
l ventriloquist, a heart which takes to
Its heels upon its own hook when a
battle is brewing, or q heart that is
permanently located in a position Of
safety.
Naturalists tell us that certain fur
bearing animals are white because the
absence of color from their coats is Il
protection in regions of perpetual snow,
and that certain other animals and
birds are colored like the cover they
seek when pursued by their natural enc
mics. The chameleon has the power
to change its color. Is Galloway Sc
bastian's movable, moving or misplaced
heart a freak of nature or has the anat-
omy Of the mountaineers at last adapt
ed itself to circumstances, and does
his heart occur in, or shift itself to,
unexpected places when debate upon
governmental problems or family az
fairs becomes SO heated that ths debat-
ers feel called upon to re-enforc. their
parts of speech with steel-jackeosd bull
let's?
These questions are respectfully sub
mitted to scientists.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
QgEQzR2SIlR!G

Glazed kid is coming into popular ia
vor as shoe leader.
Secretary C%ortelyou's raven pompa-
dour is getting streaked with gray.
Three carloads of honey have been
exported recently from Texas to En-
gland.
Orchard grass is richest in protein,
being 40 to a 100 pounds, almost lou
BILE that of timothy.
The value Of the potato crop OF 1907
was $19O,OOO,O0O, or 2 per cent above
the average for the five previous years.
Wire hairpins were first manufactur-
ed in England IL 1916. Before that time
the hair was held in place by fine, wood
en- skewers.
The softest-spoken Senator is Martin,
Of Virginia. He rarely does anything
but whisper, and he is the Democratic
boss of his State.
The measures and weights which
early in the present dynasty, are again
to be put III force IN China with slight
notifications.
Ex-senator Chandler, Of New Hamp-
shire, who has been in public life for
almost fifty years., has kept a series OF
diaries covering that entire period, and
has set down much OF the secret politi-
cal history of the country.
Signor Enrico Toselli, the music
teacher who married the Countess Mon
tignoso, the divorced wife of the King
Of Saxony, is writing a comic opera,
and says he intends later to publish
some curious and important news
which would astonish those who are in
terested in public life.
Harry Malcomb, e%x-deputy game war
den, sends to the Sun a photograph of
a remarkable n%ine-barrel gun with a
single trigger, which has the effective
ness of a Calling gun in slaughtering
ducks. A single pull Of the trigger is
said to rave killed 1S9 ducks. Mr.. Nal
colin arrested a party of hunters who
were using the gun to the great detri-
ment Of the wild duck hunting sport
on the Potomac River.-Baltimore Sun.
The island of Malta liz the only
known spot where the remains of dwarf
elephants are found. There are several
| places on the island where the bones OF
these miniature pachyderms have been
unearthed, and hundreds of skeletons
have been secured in whole or in part.
One Of these was a full grown speci-
men, less than two n a half feet in
| height, arc could not have weighed
over 600 pounds when in flesh.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
Lincoln,s Rules.

kWNNtHNN
On n occasion President Lincoln, on
entering the telegraph Office Of the War
Department, writes Mr.. Bates in Lin
coin and the Telegraph Office" was
heard to remdrk to Secretary Seward:
by jings, governor. we are here at
last!!" Turning to him in a reproying
manner, Mr.. Seward said: "Mr. Presi-
dent, where did you learn that inele-
CANT expressions Without replying to
the Secretary, Lincoln addressed the
telegraph operators. saying:
Young gentlemen, excuse mo for
swearing before you. by jings Is
swearing, for my good old mother
taught me that anything that had a
by before 1t was swearing"
One day Secretary Seward, who was
not renowned as a Joker, said he had
been told that d short time before, on
d street crossing, Lincoln had been seen
to turn out in the mud to give y col
ored in a chance to pass
Yes said Lincoln. st has been a
rule Of my life that if people would
not turn out for me. would turn out
for them. Then you avoid collisions"
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27

Oomc tima--I know not how or whom
This weary road 1 journey on

0ome tima--I know not how or when
This weary road 1 journey on
Will lead through lands that I hav
known,
And ! shall meet my youth again--
Thro' some old wood my childhood knew
The road. at length, Will bring to view
~ cottage in a lonely glen,
where \ shall meet my youth again.
Where \ shall greet beside the gnte
4 hoy whose ~unforgotfen face
VIII glad me with Its tender grace
OF artIess life and love eiate;
NV soul will sparkle In his gaze
The whila his sunburnt hand | raise
Against my lipa in silence. then.
Where I shall meet my youth again.
And yet tho Ind Of whom ! dream
May know me not, for ! shall be
10 him a d%esp'nins mystery
OF things that are and things that SEEM;
From these old scars OF time and toll
His heart, albeit, may rccoil.
A. children's often ID from men,
Where ! shall meet my youth again.
But he shall know me at the last,
And creep into my arms and weep,
Al 1 shall Iull his lids to sleep
With stories of the changed past
And ere the morning breaks upon
tls twain. orr souls shall be ns one.
And time shall breathe n soft Amen
Where I shall meet my youth again.
-Roston Globe.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
Fun OF Rcminiscence.

At the different army stations in the
West 1t is the practice for tie officers
on leaving their post for some distant
station to sell off everything they do
not care to keep. In connection with
this custom In "Reminiscences OF a Sol
'dler's Wife, Mrs. Ellen Biddle tells an
amusing story.
There was a very estimable woman
living at the garrison, a veritable Mrs.
Malaprop. She told us of some jewelry
she had lost. and among the things was
a topaz chain with a beautiful ''pendu-
lum."
The lady held an auction before she
left, after her husbands death, and
when some silver-plated knives were
put up for sale. she rose, and in a sob
bing voice said: 20 dear, no.. / a n
not sell them! They have been in dear
Iahn,s month tSor ,,fstrY1 :. 7sS5-4M
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27
II s.,o meant that for : rebuke. /,

n sho meant that for . rebuke, !
missed fire.
"There, DR.. Wilby," exclaimed Lorna
isn't that nice OF herr She isn't real
" Jealous of mi a bit. Thank you s.
much. Mrs. Martin. We're both goIn,
to church tonight! That's what's go
Ing TO happen, and you are requested
~ rejoice"
II think ! can manage 1t; and She
80 very insistent,' put in Wilberforce
almost as II he owed his housekeepel
III apology,
Indeed, sIr!" said Mrs. Martin !; ant
she left the room with no more rejoic
Ing than that.
Lornn's amusement afterwards made
the doctor feel uneasy. 1t was true he
had not gone to church for many weeks
But he knew just what Mrs. Martin
would think. She would think he had
no principles Of his own, and that ii
was disgraceful that he had to be led
even towards good things, by a mere
designing iJttle chit like his poor friend
Toms daughter.
He did not feel happy, even In
church. Half of the parish would be at
gossip about him and the girl after
wnrds.
II he felt violently uncomfortable
after supper when the little witch must
needs put her arms round his neck
when he was nestled at his ease with
his pipe. and whisper that he was an
old darling.
Sue an old darling, Wildly, thai one
OF these days I'm going to tell you
something
He flushed and turned quickly to-
wards her. with al eye for the Loo ut
the same time.
II don't think. my dear Lorna" he
said, "%you-that is, you are not TO
Irvine yourself into my life, inextrica-
bly, You don't know what you are 10
Ing
.Oh, YES. ! dow she said; and she
stroked his grcying hair. II know you
80 well as you do yourself"
In that ease--'
but there's no hurry-no immediate
bury. ] mean to shy. It's something
I'm going to confess TO you when I've
seen Just n very little more OF you,
Wilby.'
For the first time In his life Wilber-
force trembled beneath the gaze of a
pair OF beautiful eyes. He tIembled,
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-03-27

hid his pipe on the floor, stood up. took
the girls pretty head in his hands, and
burned her face towards him.
.I0rna... he whispered.
well, sir she said, defying his
gravity.
sYou do SO remind me OF your father.
IIc was just MS impulsive and generous
and,
No" said she, .I'm not generous
only selfish. | know you'll think I'm
horribly selfish and scheming when I
tell you; but we're made SO differently
over there. We grow up quicker, for
one 4 hing - y Idd know eur ewSn i;ii iiiisas
sooner than you do. There's Mrs. Mar
Tin. One would think she's going to
live hundreds OF years. she seems 50
content to drag along always the same,
day after day. And you. too, Wildly
dear; though, of course, you're a saint.
To-day's Sunday. Yes, I'll tell you on
Tuesday. And-you may Hlss me good
night, Wildly, Just this once. You look
50 dreadfuily die-away and-old. poor
dcar.!"
Wilberforce kissed her forehead.
Goodnight. my DEAR he said, ..and
remember / feel quite rs old as / look
Sire caught his hand as 1t dropped
from her.
.sNyho cures what you look like, Will
by she demanded, impetuously.
You're she patted his hand-esplen-
did-good and splendid! Night.night,
dear z.
SHE swung away with a cool young
iaush and shut the door upon him.
Wherefore sat on a long time with
remembering his pipe. He didn't
know what to think. He didn't dare
give rei, to the most ciamorous of his
thoughts but II mot tShat. what? He
said it shouldn't be and couldn't be-.
Yrt by and by he went TO bed with his
blood ptlslng Id him MS If he were 20
or 90. Instead Of n tired 40.
He felt more and more at skies and
sevefss with Fate.
When lie looked In his glass be saw
an una~ttractive. wnather-beaten Old bur
fer. aud could onsy laugh to scorn the
notion that Lorna had taken q fancy to
hun and was on the eve OF telling him
80. But there was no getting away
from the kindness In her eyes and her
afectionate little ways.
And SO this greas day opened with
sunshine as bright as I1orna's w eyes
when they met him in the breakfast
room.
well nv denrs Ia said. win, q