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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
BEGIN WORK ON FILL
Ahlborn Construction Com
pany of Hammond Work
ing South of Gary.

Work has been started in earnest in
making the big fill on Broadway over
the Little Calumet river. The "dinky'
track has been laid, and Contractor
William Ahlborn of Hammond is max
ing rapid headway. To the ordinary
observer the work looks slow, but
with the enormous amount Of sand and
other ballast that is being dumped in,
the work necessarily takes quite a
time
The material for the fiji is being
hauled from Glen Park, which is being
shipped on the siding at that place.
Work on the concrete abutments for
the big bridge over the Calumet IS
progressing nicely. The two contracts.
it is thought, viii be completed on
schedule time.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
A Handsome Gift.

The E. c. Minas' department store
will all day tomorrow give awav a
handsome japanned mail receiver with
every so cents purchase. The article is
indorsd by all mail carriers and takes
the place of a mail box, being just the
thing Tor the placing of letters and
papers Mr.. Minas has bought hundreds
OF them and expects to dispose of them
all to his old customers and many new
ones The gifts will be handed out only
for tomorrow. Go early and avoid the
big rush there will be for them.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
TRUDELL'S REMAINS
Brought to Hammond This
Afternoon.

Undertaken c. H. Stewart this aft
ernoon received the body of William
Trudell, the young Hammond switch
man who was killed near Summit, III.
yesterday. Testimony in the coroner's
inquest was TO the effect that Mr. Tru-
dell was struck on the rear of the head
by water pipe which swung from a
tender tank. The blow knocked him
from the top Of the car, causing one
Of his legs to be cut off. The funeral
arrangements will be made this even
ing.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
ATTY. B|XBY To
GO TO HOBART
Local Lawyer Will Leave
for Greener Pastures
Soon.

Attorney Fl. A. Bixby has decided to
shake the dust of Hammond of from
his feet. He has had enough Of the
people of this and its sister city across
the line and he is going to quit US cold.
Bixby claims that he attempted to act
as Moses in West Hammond politics,
but that community seemed to prefer.
according to him, to be stepped in
iniquity and SO he has decided to get
out.
Bixby has been one of the charac-
ters Of the town ever since his arrival
here about two years ago. He took up
the practice of law here and has been
located in half a dozen Offices since his
arrival. Now he is going to greener
pastures, and to say that he will be
missed, is expressing 1t mildly.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
TIMES ON SALE AT
SEATTLE EXPOSITION

Lake county people who visit
the Alaska Yukon Worlds Fair.
in Seattle this summer, may be in
terested in learning that they can
purchase their favorite paper at
the Isserle's International News
agency on the exhibition grounds.
The Times is also on file in the
big exposition rest and reading
room.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
w. B. Conkey's Birthday,

In the Chicago Tribunes birthday
record today is found the chronicling
Of the fact that this is W B. Conkey's
birthday. The item says:
Nv. B. Conkey of Hammond. Ind.
president of the big printing plant
bearing his name, is 81. He is a native
Of the province of Ontario"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
TALK
IS GROWING
EXCITING
Betz-Stewart Auto Contest
Still Hangs Fire, But the
Parties Are Expected to
Get Together in the Near
Future.

In an effort to bring about an under
stand regarding the proposed automo-
bile race between Irving Betz and Chas.
w. Stewart. Mr.. Betz. accompanied by
Franklin Blackmun and Will Hastings.
went to see Mr. Stewart last evening.
and offered to agree to any reasonable
terms providing Mr.. Stewart would
race.
Mr.. Stewart said that he was too busy
at the time to talk over the matter.
but that he would take up the propo-
sition some time today Mr. Metz tried
to have a particular time specified but
Mr.. Stewart said that he did not know
just when he would be at leisure.
1t was then decided that Stewart is
to call up Betz on the telephone and
let him know when he was ready for a
conference. It is believed that the con-
ference will be held some time TODAY or
tomorrow.
1t is understood that both Betz and
Stewart are making preparations for
the Mr.. Stewart Is to employ an ex
pert driver. but Betz insists that he
ride in his machine during the race.
Betz will drive his own machine and
will take Franklin Blackburn along a.
his mechanic. Betz said yesterday that
he is not particular about the course
over which the race is to be run lust
SO he knows the road.
Betz drives a Standardization and
Stewart drives Winton, and it is IN
derstood that the companies which
manufactures these cars are taking
lively interest in the proposed race.
1t is proposed to start the race ar
daybreak so that it may be finished bv
$50. before the traffic on the streets
and country roads becomes too heavy.
The proposed race is attracting q
great deal of attention among automo-
bilists all over the city, and If it is fin
ally pulled off, there will be a big crowd
out to see the finish, even If it win
be necessary to get up at daybreak 10
witness it.
Irving Betz said yesterday that
neither he nor his father had seen
Stewart Sunday or at any other time
recently so that they could have an on
portunity to talk over the matter of
holding the race
Betx says he is ready and anxious n
race, and it is now up to Stewart to get
busy and agree to any reasonable terms
by which the race would be possible.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
Father Defends Son.

Buettner's father denies that he has
ever been in the reform school, all
though the boy admits that he has been
under arrest before. The police officers
say that Buettner has so little regard
for himself and personal pride is so
much thing apart from his makeup
that he seemed to be perfectly happy
when he was on the way to Crown
Point
His actions are so pecunar-in fact
that 1t is doubted by some that he is
normal man. In spite of the fact that
the boy was arrested to prevent him
killing his father, the elder Buettner
is outraged at the sentence which has
been imposed upon his son.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
LARGEST
FINE EVER
ASSESSED
In a Lake County Munici-
pal Court Is the One I'm
posed on John Buettner,
Charged With Pointing
Gun at an Officer.

The fine which was assessed by Spe-
cial Judge Henderson against John
Buettner. charged with pointing a gun
at Officer Herman in the vicinity of
Buettner's home on Michigan. is the
largest single fine that was ever as
sessed in Lake county municipal
court
Buettner was fined 1910, and this will
make it necessary for him to remain in
jail over seven months. Buettner is
apparently an incorrible and. far from
having a respect for the courts and the
officers of the law. he was openly de-
fiant
The fine was assessed largely be-
cause Buettner deserved all that he
got for his conduct in court and be-
cause it was thought he should be CIV
en- enough punishment to make 1t ap-
parent to other young toughs in Ham
mond that they cannot defy the police
and insult the court without having to
suffer for it,
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13
" EATLER,

Generally fair tonight and
wednesday, slightly cool
er.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-07-13

Continued on Page Two.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14
Mr.. HOke Smith and the atlanta
Journal

When editors make plumbers, as all of us
do, prompt and manly acknowledgment is
the proper way to take the sting out.
This simple, honest, courageous principle
would have saved Mr. Hoke Smith and his
atlanta Journal pot of ink, mile of edi-
torials, and bewildering maze of prevari-
cations.
The Journal editorially informed it's read
ers that the new registration law "automat-
ically registered" the voter upon his payment
of his taxes
That was one of the biggest blunders
newspaper ever made 1t was calculated to
do immense harm. Every man who read it,
and put faith in it, was in danger of losing
his vote.
Therefore, the Macon Telegraph did the
people a service of great value when it cor
rected the Journals mistake. After the Te1e-
graph had shown to the Journal that it had
made statements that were likely to disfran-
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWELVE
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14
The Alabama Situation

The wisdom of those who preci plated the
fight for the Constitutional Amendment may
we'll be doubted. The legislature had already
enacted the Fuller law, and it would seem
that it deserved a fair trial. To propose the
Amendment to the Constitution argued
distrust of the people. | have never known
county in Georgia to give prohibition real
trial and then bring the barrooms back
never.
But since the issue has been sprung, /
WOULD, were [ entitled to a vote in Ala
bama, Support THE PROPOSED
AMENDMENT.
/ find that the Alabama law on search
warrants differs materially from ours, and
that the Fuller act makes no change in it.
A reading of Section l of the Amendment
prevent the citizen from having and keeping
beer, wine and whisky in his dwelling, pro
yided they are not kept for sale
While search-warrants issue on slighter
grounds in Alabama than in Georgia, the
person who swears one out maliciously and
without probable cause is severely penalized.
Mr.. j. F. Thompson, in the Progressive
Era, clearly demonstrates the fact that under
the Fuller act and under the proposed
amendment, there is and will be no greater
danger to the "sanctity of the home" than
there has been in Alabama ever since 1852.
That puts an entirely new face upon the
situation, as discussed in this paper last week.
The Fuller law has been badly and widely
misrepresented.
It looks all right to me.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14

grinding sugar-cane; others until cotton
picking was over. One man was so unreason-
able as to beg me not to fire on Fort Sumter
until he could dispose of nine shares of stock
In Percheron stud horse.
| considered that equivalent to motion to
lay the whole thing on the table, and SO I
ruled the brother out of order
Tom Paradise, of Lincoln county, was
about the only man | could find who was will
ing to back me up; and as | did not think
ION Tom army was quite big enough to whip
the Yankees, | reluctantly abandoned the
idea. Temporarily, at least
But these introducers and the introducers-
of-the- lntroducers make case that is more
serious Every living soul that has ever
knocked me down. to an audience thinks
he was in my mind and that the shaft was
aimed at him.
AS to the miserable wretch who was
picked out by the committee to tell the au-
dience who it was that was going to tell
them who [ was,-his passions are Just sim
ply FIERCE.
Little did | think that things would ever
come to this pass. Little did think that one
poor joke would do such havoc.
And it all comes of forgetfulness, on my
part. Should have done as we used to do at
school, after drawing some animal on the
blackboard, or on our states. No one could
misunderstood what we meant after reading
the sign:
"This as coao."
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14
Watch Ont, Farmer!

The papers announce that the nine thou
sand depositors who got caught in the failure
of the Neal Bank, Of Atlanta, will soon get
another dividend. The bank bursted some
two years ago. All this while the nine thou
sand depositors have been out of the use of
their money. Some were well-off, and were
able to stand it. Some were poor, and suf
fered
What caused that smash-up?
A certain Atlanta lawyer rOped certain
officers of the bank into a Cuban land deal,
which did not pan out as expected.
What business had the officers of the Neal
Bank to put the money of those nine thou
sand depostors into a Cuban land specula
ton?
None whatever The men who did it ought
to be in the changing.
But the smooth talking, crafty-minded
lawyer took the bank officers up the mountain
and tempted them with the prospect of big
riches. The result was a bursted bank and
nine thousand victims.
The Atlanta papers, at the time, described
the pitiful crowd of depositors that gathered
around the bank on the morning when it
closed doors.
Now, farmer, the LARGER qoh0 qcreched that
bank and brought noe to nine thousand de-
pOsitOrs-and acute Suffering to hundreds of
homes Of the poor people Of Atzanta-is the
|'aationaz attorney of the Farmers Uniom".
If you've got to have such an officer, don't
you think the Farmers Union might have
picked one whose record is not connected with
dubious speculations, Interpretations of
trust funds, bursted bank, and nine thou
sand victims?
Lookout, farmer If the Typographical
Unions were choosing delegate to represent
them, at any convention whatever, they would
not select a farmer. They would send a
printer Nobody would expect them to do
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14
Socialism to SMbblamt Religion

Herr Bebel is the greatest living Socialist
He is their leader in the German Reichstag,
and has been for generation.
lie understands what Socialism means, if
any one does.
On page 800 of his work, "Woman Under
Socialism,, Herr Bebel says that, under the
Socialist regime, "1ezigion ocW gradually
U0nish."
The Socialist agitators don't talk that way
in Texas, do they? Nor in Oklahoma Nor
in Missouri or Florida.
But to prove to you that the Socialist agi-
tators who are introducing this nasty foreign
doctrine into America are capable of duplic-
ity, [ cite you to the case of Mr.. Gaylord
Wiltshire.
This gentleman publishes Socialist mag
azine in New York. He has circulation that
exceeds one hundred thousand For many
years he has been preaching the gospel of So
cialism. He offered Bryan ten thousand dol
lars to debate with him. Also, he was kind
enough to propose to pay my expenses If
would travel to New York and meet him in
a wordy combat.
Some one sends me marked copy of Mr..
Wilshire's magazine for September, 1909.
The first paragraph of the marked article
contains the statement that, since the editor
of the Neao World has called attention to the
fact that Mr. Wiltshire advertises Tom
Paine's cage of Reason" for sale, and lauds
Paine as probably the greatest man this
country ever produced, he (Wilshire) will
confess that "for maa'ay gears he has studious
1y endeaoored to conceal" his 'VIRULENT
ENTITY TO RELIGION AND THE
.CHURCH"
Wiltshire goes farther than Herr Bebel.
The great German founder and expounder
merely offers the opinion that, under Social
ism, "rezigi0n aci1 gradually 09nlsh."
/ told you that they were fooling you, as
to what Socialism really means, and here
YOU have evidence of it,
Herr Bebel is honest, candid, fearless; he
tells the whole world, in his book, that So
cialists mean to abolish religion as we'll as
the State He also argues for communism
and free love-
Yes; under their system, Church and State
would disappear. So would home-hfe SO
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14
PAGE NINE

anything else
But the Birmingham convention of the
Farmers Union chose an atlanta printer to
represent the farmers at the Toronto conven-
ton of the labor organizations. That's fun
ny, isn't it? Haze are not got q single farmer
acho IS fit to go to Canad0 and represent the
Farmers UniOn?
The Typographical Unions would not adj
NIT a farmer into their organization. They
wisely restrict membership to printers. Yet
we find a member of the Typographical
Union high in the councils of the Farmers
Union and the official delegate of the Farm
ers' Union to Canadian labor convention.
How does that happen? U'ATCH OUT,
FARMER!
Hon Samuel Gompers, of the Federation
of Labor, is keen for the Pearre bill. He
made Bryan subscribe to it. Or, at least he
bound Bryan so hard and fast that the peer
less dared not answer President Roosevelt,
when the President asked him how he stood
on the Pearre bill.
The Pea1Te bill proposes to deprive the
courts Of the poecer TO protect y0@ IN yom'
business.
Mr.. Gompers hates the blacklist, but loves
the boycott. One of these brutal methods is
as bad as the other. In principle they are ex-
actly alike
Suppose you 60 carelessly along and help
Mr. GOmperS get the law which Will put every
city mans business at the mercy of the Labor
Union,-hoec long acW 1t be before the negro
secret societies aciU dose y0u on the same
medicine?
If Nh. Gompers can succeed in taking
away from the courts the power to protect the
business of the city man, where will you be!
Farming is your "business" Your land is
worthless if the negroes can put you out of
'business''
Under the Pearre bill the negroes could 90
on a strike-quitting work at the most critical
time-and could boycott you, making it i'm
possible for you to hire other hands. and
YOU'D BE RUINED.
Watch out farmer!
Notice where you're going. The first thing
you know you will find that the schemers
whom [ have in mind will do worse than load
you up with shares of stock in Percheron
stud-horse.
P. Sit is with the utmost reluctance that
| enter upon this series of warnings to the
farmers. In the most earnest way I have
tried, by private conversation and private cor
respondence, to make such editorials unneces-
sary. A stern sense of duty compels me, at
last, to speak out The trick that was turned
in that Galveston convention was the one
straw too many.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1909-10-14
0be Jefferson,an

would marriage, as we know it. AS to morals,
"us" and the goats would be about seven
Steven"
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-27

memorating the one hundredth ami
versary of the birth of Admiral Ra-
phael Semmes. the distinguished Con-
federate naval commander who was
born September q, 1899.
Admiral Semmes commanded the
Alabama, the vessel fitted out under
British auspices in July, 1862, to prey
upon the merchantmen of the United
States Having espoused the cause
of the Confederacy, Semmes placed
himself under the Confederacy's or
ders. 1t was his not to ask the reason
why, his but to do or die. That he
performed his duty as he say it is in
stanced by the charge made by the
statesman Golden against the British
nation on May Is, 1864. You have
been, he said, carrying on HOSTILE
ties from these shores against the
people of the United States, and have
been inhicting an amount of damage
on tnaC country greater tidn WOulu
be produced by many ordinary wars.
1t is estimated that the loss sustained
by the capture and burning of Ameri-
can vessels has been about s15,000,000.
or nearly G3,OO0,000. But that is a
small part of the injury which has been
inflicted on the American marine. You
have rendered the rest of her vast
mercantile property for the present
valueless."
That the indictment against Great
Britain of Corben was deserved is
shown in the decision of the arbi-
traitors at Geneva in 1872, by the terms
of which England paid SIS. 100000
damages to the United States.
Undoubtedly no soldier in the army
of the Confederacy nor sailor in it's
navy contributed as much to familiar
ize the inhabitants of the globe with
the Stars and Bars, the flag of the
Confederate States, as did the COM
mander of the Sumpter and the Ala
bama Brief was the life of each of
these vessels, but the life of each was
full of strenuous action, and the skill
full way in which the great naval lead
er managed all matters whether as
expert in admiralty. aDle seaman or
daring commander, reflected the high
est credit on his abilities and added
luster to the cause he represented.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-27

The white potato, often known as
the Irish potato. is grown to some ex-
tent in every state in the union. 1t
plays an important part in farming,
however, in the northern states only.
The leading potato growing states of
the country, those where the crop is at
home, and where it forms an import
ant farm crop, are the two northern
tiers of states east of the one hlnd-
redth meridian. Besides this region
there are several states growing large
quantities of potatoes, but none at all
comparable to the section mentioned.
There are several states along the
Atlantic and gulf coast where potatoes
are an important crop. but in those
states they must be classed as truck
crops in the majority of cases rather
than a geenral farm crop. In the
western states the white potato figures
largely as an irrigated crop, but on
account of the restricted localities
where irrigation is possible here again
the potato crop must be classeG as a
specialized industry.
The potato crop holds the most i'm
portant crop place in the general
farming of the northern states as a
whole in point of cash returns to the
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-27
With the Small Farmer
Something About Raising Potatoes

acre. The potato thrives best in the
time it is very productive where the
climate almost forbids corn growing.
where live stock farming predOmin-
ates, the potato is likely to be the one
crop grown to sell, all of the other
crops being fed to stock.
The highest standard of potato cul-
ture exists in Maine. ArOoStOOk is the
largest potato growing county in the
United States 100000 bushels being
grown there in one season, with an av-
erage yield of 275 bushels to the acre.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-27

companionway. There were the Wild
est cheers from the passengers on the
tug, the steamship and the steamboat
Grand Republic when the intrepid ex-
plorer appeared beside his wife Mrs.
Cook was so overcome at the meeting
that she could not keep back her tears,
and the. little girls wept aloud with
sheer joy at seeing their father again.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-27
By...
Ruth
Cameron

Afterwards l was comforting with
the anxious little chairman. Anyway
Your candy table is safely arranged
for" | reminded her comfortingly.
\ wrinkle came between her brows.
Il don't know" she said. Mrs L. is
one Of those women who is always
willing to promise anything. She is
a very capable woman and people are
always asking her to take some re-
sponsibility and she never refuses. She
is willing to do the work, but being
human, she can't do more than a GER
tain amount and that quite frequently
means that at the last moment some
one has to step into the breach and
do the things that she honestly meant
to do. but simply couldn't"
Ever meet Mrs. l.?
Doubtless YOU have. for she lives in
every community in the land She
means so we'll that you canont be an
CRY with her. but Oh the trouble she
causes.
Honest refusal to take responsible
ity that YOU know is too much for you
is far more praiseworthy than TO ac-
cept it and thenl fail to do it justice.
The club woman, the church worker,
the eager philanthropist must all learn
to say, Mo- as we'll as those who are
tempted in less admirable WAYS.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-09-27
EVENING
|CHT-CHAT

're YOU king in the kingdom of
your m:n2@
II other words can YOU Danish any
th-usht that you decide for some rea-
Ne cement of eft possession is any
greater :nan that and the sooner any
orc vino 'acks it starts in to cultivate
ii the better for him.
Perhaps YOU think that it is a per
fectiy easy thing to stop thinking on
any subject. If you do. it is probably
because YOU have had no reason to try
it. Make the test some day and see
if YOU don't change your mind
Some day when YOU are we'll
launched on some particular train of
thought-plans for your next winters
rows work or pretty dreams about a
more distant tomorrow-say to your
self. Il am not going to think about
this any more"
If il comes easy. If the thoughts
obey your mandate. very well. If they
rebel. look out for trouble
Wilful thoughts make woeful minds.
why, surely III take charge of the
candy table, said the lady promptly.
when the chairman of the committee
asked if she thought she could take
that responsibility. "Pn be delighted.