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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17

GARY SPORTS
ARE: NOT IN
On GAME
Sponsors of Athletic Exhibi-
ton Unknown and Proph-
ecy Is Made Today That
Chicago Fight Fans Will
Get Their Legs Pulled.

Gary was yesterday carded for the
athletic carnival which has been
scheduled to be pulled of in the Ma
jestic theater Monday night. An eff
fort to find out who, if any one, in
this city is standing sponsor for the
exhibition Monday night failed to re-
veal any one who had the slightest
idea what the affair would be and who
was trying to pull it off. If any of
the local sports have any inside knowl-
edge of what the Chicago men are at
tempting to pull off, they denied it
most emlhatically.
The bills advertise a boxing exhibit
ton between Johnny Coulon, bantam
weight champion of the world, and
Earl Denning, both of Chicago. For
the preliminaries there will be a wrest-
ling match between Humid Kala
Pasha and Peter Papas Willie Schae-
fer will meet Pat BANTER (whoevel
these men are) at 122 pounds, and Joe
Homeland and Johnny Dugan will fght
at 11S pounds.
Barney Green. who leased the Ma
jestic. is advertised as the director O.
the affair, and Otto Williams as match
maker and referee The prices foi
seats are 80 cents 81 and 50.
1t is the consensus of opinion in Gar!
that the tournament will be merely
ruse to rope in Chicago sports, wis
have been given to understand tina
there will be a real fight in Gary an,
/, come to this city Monday night. wher
| they will be roped in for 81 or So. n
| effort has been made to get the loca
men to attend, and it is understood
that the promoters do not care wheth
er they do or not. 1t looks like some
one in Chicago is going to get rope
in good and hard, or else it will be tn
promoter. Barney Green, whoever h
may be. Nothing is known here of tn
so-called Gary Athletic club.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
BASKET BALL At. GARY

The first game of basketball for the
season in Gary will take place tonight
at the Washington skating rink. when
the local high school team will play
team composed of young men from the
steel mill-
Coach Netherton and his men have
been practicing. hard for the opening
game, which was to have been played
with the Whiting five. They are in fine
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17

He was a brakeman and was caught
and crushed between an engine and a
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17

quests are made of Mr.. Williams he
will open the exhibit on Sunday to
such as are unable to view it tonight
and tomorrow.
In number of Instances where the
Turner art collections have been ex-
hibited, public spirited citizens have
come forward and purchased some of
the copies outright, to present to the
schools.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
SECRETARY OPPOSES
CALUMET CANAL

Washington, Dec. 17.-An adverse re-
port has>been presented to the house
by the secretary of war upon the
project to improve the west fork OF
the south branch of the Calumet riv-
er by giving it a channel twenty one
feet deep. and 100 feet wide. The
army engineers report that there is not
sufficient commerce to warrant the pro-
posed Improvement.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
Kent Hens Busy.

The eggs consumed in England last
year would fill upward of 10000 rail-
way trucks, which would reach from
London to Bridgwater, a distance of
$50 miles.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17

trim and it is expected that they will
romp away with the game tonight.
The lineup of the high school team
will be as follows: Hake and Bowlby,
forwards; Hyman, center; Kettles and
Payne, guards.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
no WORK FOR a DAM.

F. H Posey will lead delegation
of Evansville and southwestern Indiana
men to Washington on Jan. is to ap-
pear before the rivers and harbors
committee of the. house of representa-
tives on behalf of a bill for the cree
ton of a dam and locks at Henderson,
"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
Married at st. Joe.

Information from ST Joe. Mich, is to
the effect that Henry Newman and Miss
Erickson. both of Gary. were married
N the Michigan town this week.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
Always a Sure Crop.

'sThe man who scatters the seeds Nv
kindness don't need to worry about
the culteryation; the crop will take
keer Nv itself"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
UP AND DOWN IN
Ind -A-N-A
THUGS MAKE RICH HAUL.


Joseph Tinkelstein, IS years old, a
stock buyer of Chicago, was slugged
and robbed of s1,165 in currency in
Plymouth at o'clock Tuesday night.
Tinkelstein had just arrived from Chi
cago on the Pennsylvania railway, and
wishing to take short cut to the
Ross House hotel, walked around the
front of the train and entered dark
street east of the depot.
no WORK FOR A DAM.
F. H. Posey will lead delegation
of Evansville and southwestern Indiana
men to Washington on Jan. IS to ap-
pear before the rivers and harbors
committee of the house of representa-
tives on behalf of a bill for the erec-
ton of dam and locks at Henderson,
KY.
ANOTHER BOY DIES.
Eldred Mahan, II years old, of Laf-
ayette. who was injured in the fatal
coasting accident Tuesday night at CO.
iumbia street crossing of the Wabash
railroad, died at o'clock Wednesday
evening at st. Elizabeth's hospital. He
was the smallest boy on the Inflated
rack, and was found unconscious near
the engine pilot after having been car
ried more than block in the wreckage
of the rack.
CAN'T GET ENUMERATORs.
James W Sale supervisor of the
census for this district, declared that
be is experiencing considerable diff
feulty in securing applications for. the
positions of enumerators in FIT. Wayne
and Allen county. There are about six
~ to seventy positions of this kind to
be filed in this county and, so far, he
has not received more than ten Oh
twelve APPLICATIONS In other parts OF
the district he has been nearly over
whelmed with APPLICATIONS.
FAMOUS PRISONER RELEASED.
Shirley Doyle. who has spent th'
greater part of the last thirteen year.
behind prison bars End who was tn,
central figure in one of the most sen
sationaI criminal trials ever held il
Anderson, returned to Anderson Wed
nesday, having been paroled from tn
reformatery at Jacksonville.
GETS GOOD ELK APPOINTMENT.
Joseph Millspaughs exalted ruler o
the Anderson lodge of Elks, wednes
day received from State President Low
enthan OF Evansville the appointment
as state treasurer of the Elks lodge t
succeed the late Senator G. x. Nc
Cullough, who died six weeks ago.
NOTIFIED OF ACCIDENT.
Mrs Leo A. Sherman of Indianapolis
while visiting in Michigan City. wa
notified of the death OF her husband
L A. sherman of Indianapolis VIII
was killed Wednesday morning in
railroad accident at Mobridge. S. 1
Sherman was for several years a LAX
Erie brakeman and is a son of Mr.
Ida sherman, who moved from Indian
apolis to Chicago after her sons dc
parture for the west two months ag
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17
TRAIN WRECKS CAR.

he was q brakeman ana was caught
and crushed between an engine and a
car
TRAIN WRECKS CAR.
DIR. W. I. Stark was instantly killed
and three persons seriously injured
when south bound VandaIia passenger
train No. 43 crashed into a street car
at Sixth avenue, in Terre Haute, Wed
nesday night. The car was wrecked. 1t
is said that the crossing gates were up
and that the train was running fast
to make up lost time.
TO INCREASE ENDOWMENT.
A movement to increase the endow-
mcnt fund of DePauw university from
100000 to $1,000, 900 within the next
two years and hold a jubilee then on
the institutions seventy fifth birthday
anniversary was launched Tuesday at
the semi-annual meeting of trustees
in the Union Trust company's Offices
Hugh Dougherty, president of the
board; DR.. Francis ]. Mcconnell, presi-
dent of the school, and DR.. Salem B.
Towne, field secretary. were named as
three memoirs of a committee which
shall have the campaign in charge.
DECLARES HIS INNOCENCE.
IT am innocent" was the declaration
of Charles Cole Wednesday morning as
he left the court room in Washing
ton in the custody of Sheriff Colbert
after Judge Houghton had placed his
bond at $4,000 on the charge of hav-
ing been accessory to the murder of
George Cole, by his father, Stephen
Cole, who was held without bond in
i the habeas corpus proceedings which
! they fled to gain their liberty from
the Daviess county jail.
SURPRISES THE UNDERTAKEN.
Edward Murphy of Terre Haute APP
parently is on the road to recovery
Wednesday. although his relatives had
expected a funeral. He had been Sc
riously i'll for some time and early
Wednesday morning the nurse an
nounced he was dead. Undertaken Bal
was called and had prepared to lay
out the body when Murphy rose uI
and announced that he felt much bet
ter. He was surprised to see the un
| dertaker.
GUILTY OF BIGAMY.
Julian NJ. Hopkins, formerly of In
dianapoIis, who married three times
and who recently had three wives ap
pear against him in the city court
Wednesday pleaded guilty to a charg
of bigamy in the circuit court an,
liJudge Dehart sentenced him to two t,
five years in the Jeffersonville reform
| aforv
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-17

times sADs1 ARE CUISINES
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
the Walker County News.

From the Walker County News. Candidate Weakley is reported to have explained CD Section of the proposed constitutional amendment in his political speech delivered last Sunday at Carbon Hill thus
 Judge Weakley fully explained Seetion of the proposed amendment to the con- stitution. He said that he was the author of this amendment, and that Section 2 was put there to meet the exigencies brought about by a decision of our su- preme court which gave the soft drink stands and clubrooms the right to store liquor there, and that this section was in- tended to obviate that right, and that 1t did remove 1t, and that it did not ap- ply to private homes and residences and that no one knows this fact better than the liquor men, who were misrepresenting the facts and the law"
 Now be. it remembered that Judge Weakley is a candidate for office and a politician, as well as a lawyer and an ex-chief justice of the supreme court. He knows law when he meets 1t, but seems, for prudential and other obvious reasons,
 
 know the meaning of plain English, when 1t is written down in white and black and know its binding power especially when it is so engrafted In the constitution Here Is what Section of the proposed | amendment plainly says:
 Section 2. Nothing in the constitution of Alabama shall be construed to prevent the legislature under the police power from designating places where such liquors may not be stored or kept"
 The inference is that the present con- stitution of Alabama 'does" prevent the legislature from designating places where such liquors may not be stored; and that this proposition gives full authority to the legislature to say that not one drop of liquor or wine or beer, for any purpose or use, shall be kept on the premises of any private individual-no matter how re- mote from drug store-not even in the dresser drawer of Walker county wife or mother.
 Nobody knows this fact better than the astute lawyer, Samuel D. Weakley. "who misrepresented the facts and the law" at Carbon Hill for political effect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27

thing for which the Board of Revenue is in nowise responsible. namely the poor condition of certain thorough fares in outlying municipalities which will soon become a part of the city of Birmingham. In getting out of the city to reach the excellent road lead ing to Springville, popular motor car route, one must pass over misera- ble roadbeds. The farmers who drive to town in buggies or wagons and who haul their crops to market most com plain of the bad highways over which they pass in what Is to be known as the Greater Birmingham. The people of the rural districts of the county and the people of Birmingham are alike entitled to good streets or good roads through the suburbs. It is especially desirable that improve ments should be. carried forward be- fore the rainy season sets in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
AldrlCh'S Monetary Commission

Out of the Is members of the none tary commission not over two or three are fitted by study or experience ot any kind for the task assigned to them. Aldrich, who is at the head or il. is not a student of the science of economics or the underlying principles of government. He is not student at all His earlier years were spent in the grocery business, and his later years in practical politics, much or It of the vilest sort. He early allied himself with the money power. He has served it, and it has served him. The traction interests of Providence and the nearby towns are controlled bv him. The head of the House dele gation is Vreeland, rural banker from western New York. The town he lives in and studied all the finance he knows in may have 5000 popula- ton. The rest of the commission Is similarly made up, and the trip that some of them made to Europe in the summer of 1908 did not probably add to their stock of information.
 From a commission devised and selected by Cannon and Aldrich noth- ing is to be expected. It's plan mas not been announced beyond the state ment that it favors the establishment of a great central bank at Washington. The country will not accept the gift' There is too much centralization ai- ready. and anything additional at the hands of Aldrich and Cannon will incur opposition from the outset such plan cannot be jammed through by the two bosses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
The FOrtieth Anniversary

The national prohibition party has never been strong in popular vote, but the leaders who gathered in Chicago Friday and Saturday to celebrate the party's fortieth anniversary were full of enthusiasm, full of that aggressive spirit which usually counts for some- thing. and full of confidence in their ability to capture the government in the not far distant future. MT. Chain, presidential nominee in 1908, who was one of the speakers at the banquet, said: We have a party that cannot die and will be in existence until we absolutely drive out the liquor traffic .
 No man who keeps up with political events or the tendencies of political movements can fail to have noticed the prohibition party's scheme to dis rupt the republican party in republican states and the democratic party in democratic states, through the Anti Saloon league A strong effort will be made to secure the electoral vote of at least one state in 1912, and the state sought will be Alabama. The head of the Anti-Saloon league here wishes to make it appear, for obvious reasons. that the connection between the Anti-Saloon league and the prohi- bition party is only minute but any one who reads the reports of the pro- hibitionists assembled in Chicago will see how very closely related are the two. The Anti-Saloon league had conspicuous part in the Chicago pro- gramme; and If the prohibition party in Alabama, built up by the Anti Saloon league, could succeed in carry ing the proposed amendment, it would not require much imagination to see Alabama carried by the prohibition candidate for President in 1912.
 The national prohibitiNn party seems to be something like patch work It embraces anti-saloon leaguers, socialists and laborites. It teens with disgruntled politicians, but no one who had been prominent in either the democratic or the repub- lican party participated in the Chi cago festivities.
 The democrats of Alabama who still believe in the principles of the demo- cratic party and who still love the name would be sorry indeed to see the old democracy absorbed by the prohibitionists; and they can be de- pended, on to do all in their power to prevent the ratification of the amend ment, for the amendment would only strengthen the movement to turn Ala bama over to the national prohibition narty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
Jefferson's Roads,

'1 had the pleasure today of going out over 26 miles of Jefferson county roads with Mir. George W. Harris,'' said j.. Hampton Rich, field editor of Garage" of Atlanta.
 ''I am sure your roads would be ideal with good coat of oil every six months. They raise very fine dust which would readily succumb to a coat of oil as a binder. This oil coat also makes the road impervious to water and causes holes to occur less frequently in winter, and when soaking rains come.
 From my observation of roads and road building over the country in north Ala bama. with her chert beds and sag, and south Alabama, with her clay and sand, there could be built as fine system of roads as there is in the union at much less cost than in the sections where rock ma- cadam has to be used.''
 MT Rich took number of photos of the roads for Garage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
THE COUNTRY EDITOR

not designate as quotations. assuming that every one would recognize them and ad- mire the fitness of the words, as well as his taste in selection.
 The proclamation meeting the eye of democratic editor he bounced upon it at once, and declared that he had read 1t be- fore. He could not say exactly where, but he would take his oath that 1t was a. down-right plagiarism from beginning ty end. That would have been a pretty fair joke, but the next day a republican editor came out valiantly in defense of the governor, pronounced the charge i- belous, and challenged any man living to produce one single line of the proca- nation that had appeared in print be- fore.
 The independence of the editor has been potent agency in political and govern mental reforms during the past decade. He no longer follows his party right or wrong. The fear of party ostracism does not make him afraid. The courageous edi- tor has taught general recognition of the doctrine that political parties can no longer thrust upon decent constituency disreputable candidate or dishonest public measure.
 To last long-to last with liberty and wealth-is the greatest problem to bo solved by the modern state, and the news paper is and always will be in the van of progress That the moral uplift every where apparent has reached higher and more general recognition away from the great centers of population is a tribute to the power of the country newspaper. Out in the purer air, away from the strife and struggle of city life, the people have more time and better opportunity to measure the problems that vex and fret.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
Making a Southern Farm Pay

A recent bulletin of the agricultural department at Washington presents the results of seven years of good work on a cotton farm in South Caro- lima. When the present owner LOOK it in 1902 it was in a deplorable condi- ton. It had been cultivated in an un- skillful manner 80 years. The present owner began to bring it up by deep and thorough cultivation of the soil, bv the use of barnyard manure and some commercial fertilizer, by rota- tion of crops and by industry and good judgment on his own part.
 It is a farm of 132 acres, one-half of which is planted. The titled land was divided by the present owner into three equal parts, on each Of which he raises in succession corn, oats and cotton. He keeps "A head of native cattle. These cattle yield small profit, but they also yield the fertilizer that is the hope of the farm.
 This is what he accomplishes year after year-he gets PA bales Of cot ton, S4 bushels of corn and 80 bushels of oats from an acre. This farmer gets no more from his land than any other farmer can get if he will adopt the scientific methods taught by the. de- partment of agriculture. The bulletin that furnishes this information is enti- tied "A Profitable Cotton Farm" by c. l.. Goodrich Any farmer can pro- cure copy of 1t by asking the depart ment of agriculture to forward it. Thousands of such farms are needed in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
Road Work Should Be Pushed

The Jefferson county Board of Rev. enue has accomplished exceedingly we'll in the matter of road construc- ton within the past 12 months, but it should start out now to make a new high record. Nothing contributes so quickly to the upbuilding of the county as good roads. Values are directly en- hanced and the social and educational benefits are incalculable. There must be no Tagging or waning of interest in the good roads work on the part of the board. There is hardly man or woman in Jefferson county but who appreciates what has been done; but the work must be pushed until not a single piece of rough road will be seen on any frequented route.
 No important highway should be left unmacadamized, and in order to satisfy the public the board must keep right on and make all possible haste with its good roads building. In this connection attention is drawn to some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-09-27
THE MOBILE CASE.
From the Talladega Reporter

From tne Ialladega Reporter,
 There may have been circumsta nces and evidences to warrant the sherifr's q entry and searching the private residence of a citizen in Mobile this week. but if so, 1t has not been given out The only evidence seems to have been the finding of one half pint of whisky; which in the face of the outrageous Fuller bill was no violation of the law, so long as it was in the residence
 And yet, in view of the strong advocacy of the constitutional amendment, there are plenty of people who justify the act of the sheriff. and indorse the affidavit of the individual who swore out the in- formation. which proved purely misin- formation.
 And this is liberty loving Alabama! The home of the brave and the land of the free!
 We are no alarmist The Reporter has been here and fought the battles of its constituents for over 60 years, and 1t has been the witness of but few such cases. That was in Mobile" some ono will say.
 Well. may not the next case be in Talla- ueSd, or III Ialla0eRd county? Why not ? May 1t not be in your home, or my house. on the transformation of just such an individual as the one in Mobile? Why not?
 In. any light such procedure under the constitution of our country and state,
 until a very recent date, this would have been an outrage. Is it any less so now, although 1t has the sanction of the Fuller
 bill? How many more such cases are there likely to be, although they also be outrages forced on unwilling officers who must obey their duties, even on the l false affidavit of vagabond or personal l enemy?
 | In the light of such case, isn't it time | the good-yes and loyal prohibition peo- ple-should wake up and ask whither | are we drifting? Can Alabama stand l it? The home Is considered every mans
 castle, no matter how humble it be. Can such invasions go on without bloodshed! l What would you do in such case? 1 And yet in such case, as in the case of the man in Mobile, what could you
 do? What could be your remedy agains' 1 vagabond, or even against an honest 1 informer, who simply acknowledged that | he was mistaken? Is there any remedy that can adequately repair broken home
 even though no guilt be established, ex- l cept a shotgun, which some less delib- crate individual may not be long in in- yOkfng?