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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
MAIL CARRIER LOSES
HIS JOB yESTESOAY
Postal Inspector Charges
That VIM. Horst Was
Guilty of Lettering.

William Horst, the mail carrier
which covered one of the West Ham
mond routes, was discharged by order
of the postoffice inspector for lettering.
1t was charged that he would loiter
on the job and then would have to lay
off day as to avoid putting in more
than the forty-eight hours a week.
Frank Grove, the next man on the
list, was appointed in his place.
The postoffice department is find.
ing great difficulty in getting people
to take the civil service examinations
in Hammond. There are a number of
clerk and carrier vacancies which are
to be filled in the near future and
there are only a few eligibles on the
list.
The fact is pointed out that there is
a good opportunity for a man who
wants god steady job providing he
can pass the examination successfully
1t is expected that the effort that is
being made to get number of addi-
tional clerks and carriers for Ham
mond will be successful. and a num-
Der of sections of the city that are not
now covered by free delivery will be
taken care Of
Next month the whole postoffice de-
partment expects to be in a great stew
for the reason that every piece of mail
in the six classes will have to be
counted.
Each piece of mail is handled sever
al times and each of these landings
will not only have to be counted, but
will have to be timed as well.
This will make the present office one
of the busiest places in the city, will
delay the mail service considerably and
Will probably come very near driving
the clerks who will have to do the
counting rs near bugs" al possible
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
PROF. WAS
GREAT ON
VIBRATIONS
Crown Point Woman Said
to Have Declared That
Affinity Loving School Su-
perintendent Alone Under
stood Her Vibrations.
Especial to THE TiMEs)

Crown Point. Ind, April 29.-wheu
Prof George l. Voorhees, former sup
erintendent of the public schools Left
the city years ago his friends never
thought he would bloom out as u
notoriety seeker That his married
life then was not the happiest and that
he had peculiar views on matrimony
was known to a few and we'll known
Crown Point woman who is said to have
told Voorhees, that he was the only man
who understood the vibrations of her
soul is now figuring in the limelight.
"Cussedness' is what Mrs. Ella
Culver Voorhees, calls 1t. meaning
thereby what her former husband.
George l. Voorhees,. terms intellectual
soulmating.
It's just pure cussedness on mis-
part" she said Friday at Sunnyside
Farm, Upper Alton, discussing voor-
hees' marriage at Chicago to Miss
Girelda Farrar.
That woman has not even been
through the common schools" she said.
AT one time she did homework for
her brother-in-law and at another time
she was a saleswoman in Chicago de-
partment store. Is that the sort in
tellectual soul mates are made Of?
did not think he would dare to marry
her.
He is stiil the principal of the Morse
School He made settlement with
me, giving me 81 900 and the Sunnyside
Farm. TO keep me from bringing out
things about him in the divorce case.
was going to offer a letter in evidence
that was written to him twenty-threo
years ago by woman at Crown Point,
Ind. in which she told him he was tho
only mortal man that understood the
vibrations of her soul He never saw
that letter. 1t fell into my hands. And
I have other letters that were written
to him.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
ATTORNEY UNDER KNIFE
CASE POSTPONED
Gary Lawyer Taken With
Appendicitis on Eve of
Important Lawsuit.

The Gary payroll cases may not come
up Monday in Judge Johannes
Kopelke's court after all Caldwell
telephoned to his attorneys, Mcmahon
& Conroy. and informed them that he
was taken with an attack of ap-
pendicitis and would be compelled to 90
to the hospital to be operated on.
This means that the Caldwell case
will be indefinitely postponed and that
other criminal cases will have to be
taken up. The fact that notice was
received today that the case will be
postponed will give the attorneys in
other criminal cases a chance to pre-
pare for trial.
Assistant States Attorney Ross said
today: "McMahon & Conroy say that
Caldwell is unable to appear for trial
and that he is in the hospital where
he expects to undergo an operation.
This does not necessarily mean the
trial of the case will be postponed We
win expect the attorneys for the de-
PENDANT to appear in court and make a
showing on this proposition.
I'VE will not take their word that
the defendant is sick but will require
that they exhibit a doctors certificate
showing that the defendant is unable
to appear for trial before we will grant
the continuance"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
.BETz WILL PUT
UP CLUB HOUSE
Manufacturer to Make Pro.
vision For Comfort of
His Employees.

F. s. Betz is planning to erect club
house at the northwest corner of Hen
ry and Hoffman street, where he pro-
poses to make ample provision for the
entertainment and comfort of his en-
ployea
On account Of the short noon hour
and the necessity for the employees of
the plant to set their meals nearby,
it is proposed to erect a large club
house, where large dining room will
be one of the features.
The clubhouse will be exceedingly
attractive and will add greatly to the
appearance of Henry street. Rooms
will be provided where the employees of
the plant may loaf during the noon
hour
The club will be a boon to the people
of the north side. 1t is a unique plan
and is the idea of Betz himself 1t is
understood that the new clubhouse is
to be completed before this winter.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
COUNTER PETITION IS
TO Be CIRCULATED
BetZ to Get Vote on Closing
of Johnson Street in
Hammond.

1t is understood that F. S. Betz and
those who are interested in the clos
ing of Johnson street on the north side
now propose to circulate a petition
asking for the closing of the street.
This petition will be circulated gen.
orally among the people of the north
side and merchants and manufacturers
all over the city will be asked to sign
it.
An effort will be made to get two or
three times many signers on the pc
tition favoring the closing of the street
than are on the remonstrance against
it.
1t is expected that practically every
employee of the Betz plant will sign.
This petition will be introduced in
court as evidence that the people of
the north side and the city of Ham
mond generally do not want the street
left OPEN
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
ST. JOHN MAN IS
SECOND SHERLOCK
Chicken Thief Landed in
Jail AS Result of Efforts
Of Amateur Sleuth.
(special to THR T1Mrsl

Crown Point Ind. April 2s.-If ever
Sheriff Grant. or any of the sheriffs
succeeding him in the future, are in
need of the services of a perfectly good
detective and one Adam Rolling. a
farmer living near ST. Johns is avail :
able. they will do well to employ him
without looking further. A man with :
out experience and training who can
follow a wagon track, that has been
crossed and recrossed by numberless
other vehicles on the six miles of
trailing which farmer Rolling took to
land the quarry he was after, certainly
possesses the detective instinct to a
marked degree and is worthy of some
recognition in that line.
Mr.. Rolling on arising yesterday
morning went to look over his poultry
and stock as usual. and discovered to
his amazement that three perfectly
docile setting hens had flown the
coop" This is OF course a common
happening on the farm. and Detective
Rolling thought little of it, until his
Sherlock Holmes instinct got busy with
the following deduction.
Three setting hens can fly away and
on rare occasions do so. But-three
setting hens, hardly ever more Is eggs.
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
NJ CLAY HAS NO WORRY
At ALL TO GET MEN

OF all the men who apparently are
little worried about the ultimate out
come of the open shop policy in Lake
county, j. H. McClay the Hammond
building contractor. leads them ALL Mr.
McClay is working on the assumption
that all disputes have been settled. On
contracts that he has he offers the
work to Hammond sub contractors and
craftsmen, and this being refused be-
cause of the open shop principle, he
fills the places with workingmen from
Gary.
Early this week he sent word to
Gary that ne needed plasterers on the
Dave Emery and A r. Rohrer resi-
dences IN Homewood. His wants were
supplied Immediately. but the word
spread in Gary, and all day last Tues
day there were telephone calls from
Gary and applications in person by
men seeking work. On the contracts
which he now has he has had nom
union fathers. plasterers and painters
The fathers are finished now and he
has about four plasterers and three
painters at work
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
CLASH Of
BOARD AND
COUNCIL

Next Thursday evening the village
of West Hammond and the city of
West Hammond will clash at the city
hail. There will be the regular meet
ing of the village board which was
elected year ago. and there will also
be the regular meeting of the city
council which was recently elected.
The city council will meet on the
main floor of the city hall and the vii
lage board will meet on the main floor
of the village hall But the city hall
and the village hall are one and the
same building.
The funds of the village are still in
lage. but it is within the relm of pos
draw a number of warrants on the VII
lage treasury.
1t is believed that it will be sever
al weeks before either the city or the
village will be able to pay any war
rants for the simple reason that it is
not yet known whether the village
treasurer or the city treasurer has a
right to the POUNDS
II is believed that both the city of
fcials and the village officials will
make an effort to have the matter set
tied as soon as possible. for they both
realize that great confusion will result
until the matter is finally settled
1t is understood that the meeting
next Thursday will be made the basis
for the legal action that will finally
settle the whole CONTROVERSY as to
whether or not the village has become
city.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
WILL DEVELOP HENRY
ST. ON NORTH SIDE

Gostlin Meyn & Co. are making ex-
tensive preparations for the develop
ment of Henry street, on the north
side. They expect to have a twenty
four,foot street run down the center
of the street, twelve-foot grass plot
on either side and five-foot walks.
The grass plot will be studded with
tree to every twenty foot lot. and
it is believed when all of these i'm
provements are made that the street
will be one of the most attractive in
the city.
Gostlin. Meyn & Co. report the sale of
a lot and a half on Highland street
to Nettie Steinkamp of Hammond
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
lee HAD
FRIENDS
GALORE
TINES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.

indianapolis, Ind, April 29.-It is
understood here that the Senate will
within the next two or three days con-
firm the appointment of Edwin NJ.
Schmidt, of this city, as United States
Marshal for Indiana. The appoint
ment was sent in by President Taft
several days ago, but it was held up
in the senate because the Judiciary
committee, to which it was referred.
had not been organized. This has been
done now, however. and there is moth
ing in the way of the confirmation.
Schmidt will assume the office soon
after he receives his commission.
Schmidt will start in on his service
in that office under a handicap with
which some of the other candidates for
the appointment would not have had
to contend. He is not we'll acquaint-
ed with the Republican leaders
throughout the state. He is well
known in Marion county. because he
has always lived here and has for
years been prominent in local politics.
No republican is better acquainted in
Marion county that Schmidt. But this
will not do him much good out IN the
state, and IT will be up to him to pro-
coed at once to get acquainted with the
leaders, at least.
1t is generally felt that Schmidt will
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
RETURNS ON MONDAY

Final returns on the annual school
enumeration were made today and by
next Monday the statistics must be
forwarded to the county superfntend-
emit The amount of the appropriation
depends on the number of pupils in a
community, and Superintendent C. NJ
Mcdaniel Is hoping that the returns
will show a substantial increase. The
compilation of the figures will not be
complete until some time on Monday
forenoon.
The census was taken by the Rev. p.
Well. Reinhardt Elster and John Wor-
ley. During the past week Isaac
Stanford, the truant officer. also as
sisted in the world, while Mrs. P O'Con-
nell assisted in the office
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
ASK FOR
THROUGH
SERVICE

/ Through service to Indiana Harbor
via the South Shore Route is the re-
quest that the North Side Citizens As
ISOLATION of Hamond is making of the
Chicago. Lake Shore & South Bend
Railway Co
AT the present time the cars on the
feeder line to Indiana Harbor go as
far the Hammond East Chicago city
limits and then stop. The people of the
north side are trying now to convince
the officials of the line that there is
enough Hammond business to make it
worth while for the company to run
these Indiana Harbor-East Chicago
cars 10 Hammond.
Then it would be possible for Ham
mond people to get one of these
cars at Holman street and go an of
the way to Indiana Harbor without
change.
There are a large number of business
men, lawyers and others who make fire.
quent trips between Indiana Harbor
and Hammond and they are all agreed
that it would be great thing IL the
through service could be established.
Question Too Hot: Dropped.
The South Shore line is now COM
PEELED to make numerous stops in
Hammond with it's fast through cars
which the northsiders conceed is not
necessary.
They expect the local cars to stop at
all Of the street Intersections but they
are willing to have the express cars
stop only at Holman street and Calu-
met avenue providing the company will
extend the Indiana Harbor service to
Hammond.
The question Of the closing of John
son street came up on the motion of
eter Smith that the North Side Citizens
Association reconsider its action favor
ing the closing of the street.
The arguments finally became so
heated that 1t was decided to drop the
matter for fear of disrupting the or
ganizatfon. The fact was clearly de-
monstrated that 1t is not the unanin-
Gus opinion of the members of this
organization that this street be closed
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
MUSIC RANKING.

Hammond and Whiting carried of the
lions share of the honors in the annual
declamatory and musical contests held
by the Lake County High schools at
the Orpheum in Hammond last night
Whiting won first place in oratory and
Hammond second and then just to show
there were no hard feelings Hammond
took first place in music and second in
oratory.
The decision of the judges with
reference tosthese places received tacit
acknowledgment. oscar Ahlgrep,
Writings representative as a declama-
tor was perhaps the most natural AMI
magnetic speaker who has ever ap-
peared IN any of the school contests
He has the salient points of the born
orator. Elliott Conroy the Hammond
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
HAS The
SEARCHLIGH1
SNUFFEO OUT?

The people of West Hammond are
wondering what has become of Miss
Virginia Brooks and the West Ham
mond Searchlight. If the Searchlight
still exists its radiant beams were
snuffed out last Saturday. for it failed
to appear.
Miss Brooks is out of the city a
great of the time, and there is report
current on the south side that she in
tends to move out of the village.
At any rate very little is heard of
Miss Brooks these days, and the cru
'sade which she started some time ago.
with the aid of the newspapers. car
ried on in such a spectacular manner
seems to have come to an end
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
WIN. DIETEL RESIGNS

William Dietel. day clerk at the Ho-
tel Carleton, will give up his position
on June 1. Mr.. Dietel has been with
the Mees for eleven years and intends
to take a good rest before deciding on
what he shall do in the future. In
his many years in the ohtel business
he has made many friends who will be
sorry to miss the ohliging clerk at the
Carleton.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
BUYS THIRD INTEREST

George Elder has purchased third
interest in the Schneider Potato Ma
chinery company, which Is capitalized
at thirty thousand dollars
Although Industrial conditions are
all more or less depressed all over
the country. the local plant is running
well, with prospects for a good season.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
POTHUNTERS BUSY.

Lake county game hunters, the real
sportsmen, are aroused over the prac-
tice of irresponsible hunters who con-
tinue to go duck shooting The sea-
son has been closed for some time and
the ducks are getting tanner. Hun
dreds of them are staying in the
marshes along the Little Calumet river
and reports are coming to Hammond
nearly every day about somebody be-
ing out on the hunt for them
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Especial to THE TINES )

NoptCIdI 10 THE IIMESJ
Crown Point, Ind, April 20. - The
following marriage licenses have been
issued here:
William III. Green. Chicago; Grace e.
Croker. Chicago. George Bunnell Ell
gin, ILL.,; Pearl Hall. Elgin. Ill Louie
Green. Chicago; Noeie Lernan, Chicago.
Guy NJ. Daily. Chicago: Grace Funke.
Chicago. Richard C. Gorrie Aurora.
ILL.,; Gertrude ]. Berger. Naperville.
Ill. Arthur William volk. Crown
Point; RUBY White. Crown Point
Charles +. eating. Chicago: Elsie An
ma Smith. Chicago. M c. Wilson, Eng
lewood, Ill: Minnie Johnson, Engle-
wood, Ill. Charles Hohl, Chicag go;
Freda Hecht. Chicago
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
LATEST NEWS

Pougkeepse, N. Y, April 2s.-A
forest fire is devastating the lower
Catskill ranges between Lloyd and
Loke Mohonk. A feminine Paul
revere, riding ahead of the rapidly
advancing flames, warned people
sleeping The family of Wilbur
Stark. living near Lloyd, was saved
In the nick of time by this young
woman. The town of Lloyd appeared
doomed.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
Especial to THE TIMES. }

Crown Point, Ind, April 29-What
Lake county people have been looking
for and expecting when the time for
the Gary election cases approached for
trial. occurred yesterday when Attor-
neys w. McAleer and Armanias Knots
appealed before Judge McMahan yes
terday asking for a change of venue
IN those cases, to another county,
claiming that the defendants could not
get fair and impartial trial in the
courts OF Lake county. The regular
change of venue affidavit. appended by
lengthy reasons of counsel for the
charge and signed by number Of citi-
zens whose opinion concurred with the
defendants alwayers, was presented to
Judge McMahan. To add further
strength to their argument, perusal
of the document showed 1t to be signed
by mostly democrats and those appar-
entity in sympathy with the defendants
in the case and their alleged nefarious
work on election day at Gary
The popularity of and influence of
Sheriff Grant and Clerk Shortridge, who
(Cnntfn1fad nm Do
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

IKE NUMBER OF COPIES OF THE
TINES SOLD on THE STREETS
ALONE EXCEEDS THE ENTIRE CIR
cJLATIoN OF ANY OTHER PAPER
N THE CITY.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
VENUE IS
SOUGHT
FROM CO.
Attorneys in Gary Election
Riot Cases Appear in
Crown Point Circuit
Court and Pray Judge
McMahan For Change.
(BULLETIN.)

Crown Point. Ind, April eft is ex-
pected that Judge Willis c. McMahan
Will rule on the question of granting
the petition for a change of venue in
the cases of Mike Boasich and Mike
Yokonovich (Dog Face Charley Mon
day.
This decision will determine whether
or not the first of these cases are to be
tried at once or are to be taken up
later in another court.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

San Francisco, Cal, April %
The San Francisco labor council last
night adopted resolutions declaring
that the arrest of John j. Mcnamara
in connection with the Los Angeles
dynamiting case was a plot to dis
credit and destroy union labor, and
denouncing the mode of arrest as IAN
outrage upon American manhood and
a violation of constitutional rights. :"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

THE TIMES is TRYING HARD To
MERIT THE SUCCESS IT Has
ACHIEVED.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

New York. April 29.--Mrs. Mar
garet DAILY Brown, daughter of the
late Marcus DAILY, died today at her
mothers home in 5th avenue, day
after ending a fast trip across the
country from Montana to reach medi-
cal specialists.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

Allentown, Pa, April 29.-Tryins
to pick a dynamite cap with a hair
pin, Mrs. Rose Schultz of Guth's Sta
-tion was SO torn by the explosion
which followed that she died in AL
lentown Hospital. Her little boy had
found the explosive when playing
around mine and taken it home for
a plaything. The mother tried to
find out what 1t was
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

POSSIBLE SHOWERS
TODAY AND
TOMORROW.
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CONTINUED on Page 10
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29
WHITING
LANDS THE
FIRST PLACE
Defamation Honors Go to
Whiting, While Hammond
High School Wins Prize
in Music; Annual Contest
Spectacular.
DECLARATION RANKING.

Schools. Judges.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-29

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The daily sentinel., 1911-12-20
z MORNING FIRES
Department Answers Alarm on the
Fruita Road.-Six Children Are
Aroused from Beds.-Fire at
Clifton Drives Out Hoboes.

Fire was discovered at 6 O'Clock
this morning in the old Danny Null
len home on the Fruita road, about
? 1000 feet outside OF the city limits,
partially destroyed the two-room
house and put Mrs. James Chance and
her six children out in the cold. The
fire department answered the alarm,
but being outside the fire limits water
was unavailable and the chemical
was used. The children were cared
for by neighbors in the vicinity OF the
house. There was no insurance.
Previous to this alarm, Chief Hynes
was asked to take his truck and men
TO Clifton, where is was reported that
the Grand junction Fruit Growers
association building was in flames.
This however proved to be a burning
box car. occupied by six hoboes who
started fire in the car to keep warm
by during the night. The car was
near the association building and by
the aid of an engine from this city,
was pushed away and allowed to
burn. The hoboes have not been
found.
Fred jenkins, secretary of the de-
partment. had the pleasant exper-
ience Of crawling from his dpwny
couch early this morning. missing
the truck, and running all the way
to the Chance blaze in his heavy fire
fighting clothes.
The daily sentinel., 1911-12-20
OURS is THE XMAS STORE.

The Christmas spirit is everywhere.
Our footwear is Christmas footwear.
Our shoes possess all the daintiness
that an Xmas gift should possess, and
best of all they are the most valua-
BILE and lasting present you can give.
They are constant reminder of the
giver for months to come. When you
see what we have in store for you in
the way Of bed room slippers for men
and women you will be delighted.
MCCONNELL AND LOWE.