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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13
A FEW BENEFITS
Of RURAL ROUTES
The Benefits Are Not So
Easily Explained and
Figured as Cost.

A rural mail carrier, writing to the
Springfield Republican. says he hears
a good deal about the cost Of rural
free delivery, but hears practically
nothing about its profits. He admits
that it is no easy matter to figure up
the credit side of the business, but he
makes a pretty fair showing.
The carrier says the number of
pieces of mail matter handled since his
route was established has increased
from fewer than 5000 to more than
5000 a month. The number of pieces
of mail collected is more than three
times what it was at the beginning of
the service. His route is twenty-five
miles in length and he delivers twenty
four daily papers where no papers
were taken out before They would
not be taken now. he adds, if the routes.
were discontinued. Farm values, he
says, have been increased and while it
is not easy 10 measure in dollars and
cents the increment in value to the
service the fact that it exists makes
the farms moro marketable. He knows
that there has been increase in
the number of farmers. Moreover,
along his route there are number
of young men who have reached the
ages of discretion and decision who
are remaining on the farms" He is
confident they would not be there
if present conditions were identical
with those Of ten years ago That
all credit for this is due to rural free
delivery he does not claim, but he
thinks the rural mail route has been
an important factor in the equation
The rural mail service has served
to brighten home life on the farm, it
has served to Danish monotony, for the
wives and daughters have their daily
mail. They have their newspapers and
magazines. In fact as a rule they know
more about the world and its affairs
than the city readers, for they read;
their newspapers thoroughly. The
farmer and his sons are posted in
county state and federal affairs, they
know the market prices every day.
They know what is wanted and can
take advantage of the varying demands
| for their crops and live stock. The
ruarl mail service may cost a great
deal. but il is the best investment the
| government has made in years.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13
STIEGLITZ PARK.

Master James Hansen of Whiting
visited here yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Lock are the proud
parents of a boy which arrived at their
home Saturday.
Master Michael Bershiniski visited
friends in South Chicago Sunday after
noon.
Baby Callahan was christened Sun
day and they entertained quite a
number of out-of-town guests.
DIR. Hoskins of Whiting was here on
business Saturday.
Miss B. German shopped in Ham
mond Saturday afternoon.
Mrs. T. OBrien is visiting friends in
South Chicago for the past week.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. James were Ham
mond shoppers last evening.
Pat German went on business yes
terday to Chicago.
Mrs. Hansen of Whiting visited here
yesterday
Catherine O'Keefe was shopping in
Hammond yesterday.
Mr.. johnson of Chicago transacted
business here yesterday.
Miss Edna Evans visited in Ham
mond yesterday afternoon
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

fingers causing blood poisoning to set
in. This latter trouble has been sue
cessfully dealt with, but Mrs. Dean Is
still very sick and the needle has not
yet been removed.
Box skating party at the East Chi
cago rink tonight 13-1t
The Ladies' Aid society of the Con-
gregational church will meet tomor-
row afternoon at the home of Mrs. R.
G. Howell. on Magoun avenue, when
an election of officers will take place.
The last meeting of the year of the
Order of the Eastern Star will take
place Thursday evening. At the meet
| ing which will take place Jan. 5. 1911.
| the new officers elected will be in
! stalled
| Section c of the Ladies Aid society
| of the Congregational church will
meet with Mrs. T. D. Spencer of Sou tn
| Olcott avenue Thursday evening for
| sewing.
Get your Christmas money from the
Calumet Loan company, 212 Hammond
| building. Hammond. Ind. Phone 323
Come early. 2S-t1
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

East Hammond, had been appointed to
the position.
Miller said to a TIMES reporter to-
day, There will come a time when the
people who are responsible for this
action will regret what they have done.
Papp, who has only been in this conn-
try few years, has appointed man,
who has not yet secured his naturali-
zation papers, to the office of chief
deputy.
Together they have secured the
privilege of seining the river for carp.
The law provides that these fish must
be given away, but Papp and his dep
uty catch these fish by the wagon
load and send them to Chicago, where
they sell them
Miller went on to say, There are a
number of Jewish people who will not
buy fish unless they are alive. 1t is
against the teachings of their religion
to eat dead fish. These fish are taken
to Chicago and sold in the Jewish
quarter for fancy figures, and Papr
is making a barrel of money"
VIII Raise Rumpus.
Miller says that he is going into thi.
| matter further, and that he expect:
| to make some revelations that will
| open the eyes of the people of Ham
! mond.
| Miller resents the fact that Papp'.
ability to control the foreign vote il
| the Standard Steel Car settlement ha
won him this position over man VIII.
is eminently yal qualified for the pc
sition.
| Miller does not think that the gam
| laws of the state have ever been prop
erly enforced, and says that it will
not be long before all of the birds an,
smaller game in the county will be ex
tinct.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

That the aims and interests OF the
cities of the Calumet region are iden-
ticai. that the question of locating an
additional superior court is not so
much a geographical one as an econ
omical one, that Hammonds past and
future support its logical claims for
the additional court, but that its peo-
pie are seemingly disinterested in the
vital question was a gist of an inter-
view that Attorney Joseph Conroy vol
unteered today on the court question.
In speaking on the subject, Mr.. Con-
roy said he is voicing the sentiment
of those who have already given
thought to the subject.
The situation now is similar to one
that existed in Lake county in 1895 and
whereabouts, when Crown Point, the
county scat. first realized that Ham
mond had grown up in the north end
of the county as rival for Crown
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

instrument manufacturer since he
came to Hammond, has developed an
enormous mail order business. His
concern is so busy that it is compelled
to have extensions to the plant under
way all of the time. Business was new
err at the Betz plant
Georg Locklin, who has recently
bought all the stock of the Enterprise
Bed company, reports that business is
rushing and orders are coming in as
fast as they can be filed.
No shut Downs Here.
The Champion Potato Machinery Co,
concern that has been built up by
the genius of two Hammond inventors
and which has paid dividends of from
rs per cent to $50 per cent annually
during the past few years, has more
orders on hand than it can convenient
ly FILL The excellent crops over the
country insure the prosperity of this
concern.
The Reid Murdoch company. a con-
Germ which cans preserves and pickles,
fruits and vegetables, has never had
a shut down since it located here 1t
has given employment to large mum
Der of people
| other Smaller Industries.
The Federal Cement Tile Co. the
Stewart Machinery company, the Ham
mond Boiler works. the McIlroy Belt
/ ing & Hose company, the Straube Piano
works. the Hammond Machine & Forge
| works, the Hammond Brewing com
pany, the HirshStein Co, manufac-
turers of starch. fertilizer and glue; the
| Hammond Glue company, the Western
| Grain Products company. the Lake CO
Printing and Publishing company, ant
| scores of other smaller concerns hav.
never known shut down, and are do
ing bigger business than they eve
did.
This is the reason for Hammondt
optimism; Hammond's confidence in tn.
future.
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HAMMOND
OUTLOOK IS
SPLENDID

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EAST CHICAGO.

Mr. and Mrs. John Haugh were shop
ping in Chicago yesterday.
A. H. w. Johnson, w. c. Bailey and
Alfred Berquist attended the Orak
shrine meeting in Hammond last night.
Five-mile team race at the East Chi
cago rink Thursday night Dec.
18th. 13-3t
Mack Foland's greyhound has taken
up his quarters in the police station,
belieing that it is warmer than the ice
plant.
The Tuesday Reading club will meet
as usual in the rooms of the East
Chicago club and the study of Julius
Caesar will be resumed.
While washing a piece of cloth a
few days ago Mrs. Riley Dean of
Grasselli ran a needle in her hand,
which later worked it's way into the
casing around the bone in one of her
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+. G. MILLER NOW i
ON WARPATH

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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

ARE YOU TAKING THE TINES.
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Guests at PARTY.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew E. Thornell.
who were married last Saturday at
Charlottesville, Ind. and who are now
in Chicago, will be the guests of Mr..
and Mrs. L. l. Bomberger of Ham
mond at a dinner party to be given to-
morrow night.
Mrs Bomberger is a boarding school
friend of Mrs Thornen, who was for
merly Miss Sarah Yount of Crawfords-
vile. Mr.. and Mrs. E. E. Ames of
Charlottesville will also be guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bomberger. Mrs. Ames
is related to Mrs. Thornell. Mr.. Thor
nell is well known by the Hammond
students who attended wabash college
five or six years ago, and is now a
praeticing attorney at Sidney, Iowa
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

600 worth of revenue stamps a day.
That's going some.
w. B. Conkey. the head of one of
the largest printing establishments in
the world, says that business in his
Hammond plant was never better. Or
ders are hand for enough work to
keep the plant busy all winter. No
more orders are being solicited at the
present time.
F. S. Betz, the millionaire surgical
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

strength Ia year or two o>take what
rightfully belongs to Hammond.
From now until the legislature ad-
journs it behooves Hammond to awak-
en- to its possibilities and set the ex-
ample for the other cities in the Calu-
met region from whom aid is expect
ed
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13
Stores Open Evenings.

beginning tonight all the stores of
hammond Will be open in the evening
until o'clock and 10 o'clock on Sat
urday nights. This arrangement will
be in effect until Christmas
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13
Cases Continued.

The case Of the state of Indiana VS..
Oscar Herring and the case of the
state against Frank Gross. were both
continued in Judge Ames' court this
afternoon
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-13

DOUBTERS ARE BEING CON-
WINGED that the Walk-Over way
is the only way to spend A Merry
Christmas. Walk-Over Shoes for
comfort always.
ORTT and TOWLE, H. ss',s;a.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
ACCUSES BALLINGER OF
AIDING ALLEGED FRAUD.
GIavis's Attorney Makes Spe-
ci6c Charges.

WASHINGTON, Ian. 27.-Just wha
the charges are that Louis r. CLAWS
upholds against Richard A. B~allinger,
secretary of the interior, We're finally
made clear to the congressional i'm
~Yestieating committee before its first
session adjourned yesterday afternoon.
Louis d. Brdndeis. of Boston, special
counsel for CLAWS, Informed the COM
mittee of the specific nature of the al
legations, though maintaining that it
was not any II act, but a series OF
acts and circumstances upon which the
charges were based.
Particularizing, Nv. Brandeis said
that Mr.. Ballinger had acted as an at
torney in drawing up am agreement in
escrow and deeds in the Wilson Coal
Company eases in Lewis county, WASH
lnston, these cases being an alleged
fraud upcn The land laws, this being
pegore Rallinger entered the govern
ment service and his name not ap-
in the court records of the
case.
AS commissioned of the land office
in 1907, BraIrdeis said, Ballinger did not
due diligence in investigating al
lesed frauds connected with the Cum
ningham coal land cases in Alaska, and
was otherwise involved improperly
therein.
CLAWS was before the committee. and
Doth he and his attorney were closely
questioned by its members. The hear.
ing VIII pc resumed tomorrow.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
BUILDING TRADES ELECT
FRANK FETERIDGE HEAD

Frank Feteridge, of the Lathers'
Union, was elected president of the
Building Trades Council last night.
with r. w Losaw, of Electrician Union
No. 81, as vice-president. The other
officers elected were William Camp
bell, of the Tin and Sheet Metal work
ers' Union, financial secretary; Will
lam Lang, of the Structural iron
Workers, treasurer, and Philip Terrlli.
of the Hosting Engineers, sergeant
at-arrns.
The trustees are Henry Sands, of the
TIA Roofers; John Wilton, of the
Painters Union, and Terrence j. Ken
nedy, of Steam Filters Union No. 4o.
II was the largest meeting that the
council has mad in a long time, n all
OF the delegates reported that the pros
poets for a good spring trade were bet
Ter than they had been for years.
The painters delegates announced
that in a week or so every painter
would be employed In the different new
buildings that are being erected.
In speaking about the council being
likely to be merged with the ESSEX
Trades Council. Terrence j. Kennedy, OF
the trustees. said: THAT is not very
likely to happen, as it is better for the
building trades unions to be entirely
separated from the miscellaneous
trades. which comprise the Essex
Trades Council.
"At present the Building Trades
Council Is in better condition today
than it ever has been,' said Mr.. Ken
nedy, "and therefore l do not Sc why
we should be affiliated with Essex
Trades Council, with al due respect to
that organization
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
CANARY'S CALL SAVES
HOUSE FROM A M

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Peep. a canary,
rave an alarm of fire early today, and.
according to the fremen, saved the five
story tenement at 421 East Ninth street.
Mrs. Kate Noll, the janitress, smelled
smoke and ran upstairs. AT the third
floor she heard Peep peeping at the top
of his voice. She called to Mrs. Rose,
who owns Peep, and getting no re-
ponse ran downstairs n into the
back yard. Climbing the fire escape
she broke a window and got into the
Rose fiat. The janitress found a dress
and a chair ablaze near an ov~erheated
stove. She put h fire out with a pail
of water.
Peep was in a<cag above the chair.
Mrs. Rose and her three children were
out at the time.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
TRIAL
OF DR.. DILL AFTER
LAWYERS APPEAL
Chandler w. Riker Is Unable to
Appear Because of Case
in Another Court.

Owing to the professional engage
ments of Chandler w. Riker, counse
for DR.. Daniel nj. Dill, charged with
acknowledgement of the affairs of the
Hospital for the Insane, there was no
hearing today beforerthe county super
visor, Frederick L. Baldwin, but it was
decided to let the matter go over until
Riker can be heard.
He was represented by Cecil H. Mac
Mahon. connected with his office, who
told the supervisor and County Counsel
Joseph L.. Mum, who were at the Court
House to hear the case, that Mr.. Riker
was engaged in a trial in theN cour.
and was unable to be On hand to de-
fend DIR. Dill.
Well" remarked Mr.. Mum, Il thinS
that the next meeting should be held
at the asylum in overlook. 1t is a
matter of serious Inconvenience to
bring the books here to the Court
House and have the witnesses brought
down from the asylum"
Mr.. MacMahon then made his sug-
gestion that the matter go over until
tomorrow for a formal opening, and
said that the time and place for the
actual hearing could then be fixed. II
is likely that all that will be lone to-
morrow Is to set the date and place 70
the hearing, although it may be that
the taking of testimony will be begun.
There is no disposition on my, part
nor IN that of the committee to take
a harsh attitude in this matter re-
marked Mr.. Mum. 1T is an important
matter and n of great public concern,
and I am willing to come here tomor-
row and open the case if Mr.. Riker
desires that course to be pursued. l
don't feel that ] want 10 resist the
application for a p-ostponement and l
don't want any needless delay about
it,
Supervisor Baldwin added that he
would be glad to postpone the opening
of the case until tomorrow morning,
so that a time and place for the hear
ing could be fixed. He said that he
would be willing to sit day J night to
finish the cob and stated tn a session
at Overlook may DC among the posi-
bilities of tomorrow afternoon.
DR.. Din and the stenographer for the
Board of Freeholders were the only
persons present besides those already
named.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
HALTS WEDDING
TO ARREST YOUTH
She CALLS J|LT
Girl Causes Sensational Scene
in Bayonne Church at
Marriage Ceremony.
Especial to the Newark start

lEHtilui y ~
fsAYONNE, Jan. 27.-Arrested at the
affair was the experience today of An
tonic Lombard. a W%ell-known young
mar of Bayonne, whose marriage to
Miss Anna Cresh, u pretty girl of his
city, was stopped by the police and the
BRIDEGROOM locked up on charges made
against him by another young woman
Lombard, who is 26 years old, n
lives at 50 East Twenty-frst street
lately wooed Miss Cresh and Won her
consent TO marriage. The couple went
before Father Swider, of the Nit. car
n1cl Il. c. Church, and asked that he
marry them. Lombard was tittingly
dressed for the occasion, and the bride
was also in wedding regalia. The
ceremony proceeded with usual dignity.
AS the priest was about to pronounce
them man and wife, a policeman
Thomas Melando, who acts as court
officer in Judge Mara's court mere
burst In through the church door, close
~ followed by Miss Sophie hatchoh'
Il young woman of comely appearance
who cried Out that Lombard had Jiiteo
her, and should be her husband instead
OF marrying someone else. Lombard
was astonished, as was his prospective
bride.
Court officer Melando told him ne
was under arrest. Protestations were
of no avail and the bridegroom was
marched off to Jail. He was held IN
$500 bonds by Judge Mara on a serious
charge preferred against him by MISS
Katchon, who stopped the ceremony.
The affair has aroused considerable
interest here, and h solution OF the
affair is awaited by many friends OF
both parties.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
RUNAWAY BOY FOUND DEAD
IN N. Y. POISON MYSTERY.

NEW YORK, Jan. ~27.-Joseph War
rick, II years old, who a away from
his home at 459 Boerum street, Brook
lyn, a month ago, vas found dying,
presumably of opium poisoning, in a
lodging house at 434 Hudson avenue,
Brooklyn, and the police are today con-
Quoting an investigation to determine
how he came to obtain the poison that
caused his death a few hours later in
the Brooklyn Hospital. In this connec-
ton Samuel Conway, So, who lives at
1856 Hudson avenue, neX door to the
house where the youth was found, was
taken into custody.
The police were notified that a youth
supposed to be Joseph Young had been
i'll for several days in a room at 43i
Hudson avenue and had had no medi-
cal attendance. DIR. Asquith, of the
Brooklyn Hospital, found the boy I'M
conscious and was unable to revive
him. The physician expressed the be-
lief that opium poisoning had been re-
sponsible for the death. The police
learned hat the youth had been way
ward and had frequented questionable
resorts of Brooklyn.
Els mother, Mrs. Josephine Warricl,
identified the body, and said that when
her son ran away she had no idea
where he went or whom he had chosen
Sor his associates. The autopsy today
il expected to throw further light on
the case.
Detectives are trying to learn from
whom the youth ecured the poison
and to determine whether he commit
ted suicide or died as the result of
having become a victim to the use of
the drug.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
POSTAL CLERKS AND
CARRIERS TO MEET HERE.

Postal clerks and letter-carriers from
every section of the State are TO as
semble in Newark for the joint owen
ton of the New Jersey State Associa-
ton of Letter Carriers and the New
Jersey State Association of Postoftice
Clerks, which is to be held in Kruger
Auditorium May 30, 1910. Members of
the joint convention committee are
Moses Gansler, chairman; John +.
Kelly, treasurer, and James +. 'Flana-
gan, secretary.
Branch II of the United National
Association of Postotfice Clerks. and
Branch Ss, National Association of Let
ter Carriers. the local orders, Nare to
be the hosts for visiting employees OF
the postoffice department. and prepare
tons for the interesting event are al
ready under way.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
N~ICARAGUAN AGENT HOLDS
UP MAIL TO GET PAY.

MANAGUA. Nicaragua, Jan. 27.-The
British inc Italian consuls today made
formal protest against the holding up
of incoming foreign mail. Two steam
ers arrived from Panama, one on Janu-
airy 10 and the other on the oath, both
without their mail, which had been de-
tanned at Panama.
1t is said that the mail was held up
by Isidore Hazera, the N~icaraguar,
postal agent, who took this way to
force. if possible. the payment of his
salary overdue from the N~icaraguan
government.
Hazera is a Nicaraguan whom former
President Zelaya sent as minister to
the United States, but who was not
recognized officially at Washington.
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-27
PUBLIC SERVICE
ORDERS 100 CARS
TO help TRAFFIC
Company Also to Build
Big Addition to Power Plant
on Meadows.

The contract for the building of 100
way Company has been awarded to the
Cincinnati Car Company, which has in
the past built a great part of the roll
ing stock of the traction company. A
representative of the company is In the
city today in conference with the Of
ficers in regard to details Although
nothing can be stated with certainty
as yet, it is probable that the first of
the cars will make their appearance
on local routes in the summer months.
The new type of cars Is said to repre-
sent the most advanced ideas in cleo
trio traction eXtant today. Nine cars
of approximately the same character
were recently completed at the Plank
road car shops, and are known as 1900
cars. The conductors stand Is so
placed that passengers pay within"
the car, whence the name of the type.
In connection with the addition to
the rolling stock of the company, the
announcement this morning that d
contract for the erection of a IS-1S0
foot addition to the power plant on the
Hackensack meadows at Marion had
been awarded to the Hedden Construc-
ton Company, substantiates the claim
of the p. S. r. hat it is making
strides in equipment fully compatible
with the growth Of the territory it
serves. The building will be 10 feet
high, and win be built to accommo-
date the huge generators.
The power from the additional plant
which will supply $4,000 kilowatts of
electricity, equivalent to "a, 000-horse-
power, will be available on any of the
lines of The traction company. The
system of power supply now in use is
so arranged that the power a be
shifted to the point most in need.