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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-22

For Saie-Red River Early Ohio seed
potatoes. fine quality and priced right.
Oppice Frui. Company. Marshalltown.
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-04-22

For Sale-A full blood Esquimo pup
ply. cheap. 103 Bromley street.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
ELECTION
FOR VILLAGE
IS CERTAIN

1t now appears certain that the
via.axs board Of Vest an..nonds wsl l'
go ahead with the city election on April
18TH The fact is plain that either a
voltage or city election must be held
on this date.
The board of trustees are to decide
this question. and their decision is fin
al. 1t is said that there is no question
but that the board will decide that the
city, not the village, election will be
held and the same election officials
that were chosen in the recent primar-
les will serve during the coming cleo
ton.
Next Tuesday, April 4, there will be
a township election in West Hammond
at which the citizens of the village
across the line will aid in the selection
of a supervisor and a highway COM
miss foner
week from Tuesday. April IL. there
will be primary election to determine
the candidates for the office of circuit
and superior court judges in Cook
county.
Since the population of West Ham
mond has been announced and it has
become known that West Hammond is
the largest village in Cook county, If
not in the entire state of Illinois. and
that it has over 500 votes. il is being
given much more consideration by the
politicians of Cook county
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
NEW WAGE
SCALE IS IN
EFFECT TO-DAY. 0. D ! !.

Today. April i. is the day on which
the union carpenters expect their new
wage scale TO become effective in Lake
county Their demand in the future
will be sixty cents an hour. an increase
of three and three-auarter cents an
hour over the scale of last year
It does not appear. however, at this
time that the new scale is to be ac-
cepted by the Contractors association
as a sweeping agreement The latter.
while still adhering to the open shop
principle, are said to have recognized
the demands of the union men only TO
the extent of agreeing TO pay sixty
cents an hour to the best of the men.
Should this policy be adhered to con-
flicts may be expected.
Another demand which the carpen-
they be paid in cash instead of by
check as has been the custom in the
past The workmen complain that a
check payment necessitates cashing
the check in place where it is ex-
pected some of the money should be
spent for the cashing, or that this will
have TO be delayed altogether until on
Monday morning when the banks are
open. nearly all the banks being closed
on Saturday afternoon. The Saturday
afternoon closing of the banks is not
the only complaint along this line. an
other being that cashing of checks is
occasionally delayed because the con-
tractors overdraw their own accounts.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
GETS FINE
AND JAIL SENTENCE
Check Forger Is Found
Guilty by Judge Bar
nett Today.

The trial of William Everett, charged
with cashing a stolen check on March
23 belonging to the Schmidt bakery.
came up this morning before Judge
Barnett.
Everett was given fine of $40 and
costs, amounting to $50 and ten days in
jail. He could not pay his fine and
will be taken to Crown Point tonight
to lay out his fine
George schmidt, the complaining wit
ness IN the case. was not present, and
had he been able to give his testimony
Everett would have probably been
bound over to the superior court
One of the statements given by a
clerk in Schmidt's bakery to buy some
rtlls. and having to so back into the
bakery, left Everett alone Everett
claimed first he got the check from
another man and later gave the story
that he found the check in the Bag
wiIts~ri4e rolls.
The check was missed the next morn
ing and was ordered stopped at the
local banks, but Everett signing
-Sehnidt's name on the check. cashed
it at Levins liquor house. on State
street The check was for $34.6e.
Attorney Robert McAleer acted as
prosecuting attorney and Attorney
Boone pleaded for the defendant.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
EXODUS REGARDED AS
+ SIMPLY PREPOSTEROUS
Miss Brooks Motives Made
to Appear in Silly Light
by Chicago Papers.

Preposterous is the word that de-
scribes the possibility of an exodus
frtm West Hammond as proposed by
some Of the followers of Miss Virginia
Brooks
Miss Brooks herself in statement
to TIMES reporter yesterday discussed
the possibility in all seriousness and
ended by saying that it would be the
only solution in the event she fails in
her fight But" she added in hurry,
I'VE won't. fall
In Chicago paper yesterday MORN
ing it was said in effect that all arr
rangements had already been made to
put most of the houses on the south
side in West Hammond on rollers and
move them across Burnham avenue by
next Monday to found the new town If
Brooksviile.
Too Much Press Work.
The statement has been made. and
probably correctly so, that the assess
ments in West Hammond are equal to
rs per cent of the value of the prep
-erty. That being the case. in vacant
property it would still be poor policy
to desert it, but to- abandon improved
property or incur a $500 expense for a
new location for the house TO avtid a
$500 assessment. that, IN the op1noln or
any one who thinks seriously, is pre-
posterou..
Stories of this Kind in the Chicago
newspapers have caused many of Miss
Brotks' admirers and followers 10
shake their heads in doubt at the Sc
riousness of her purpose 1t has been
noticed that very consistently her ev-
cry move and expression has been noted
III the Chicago papers and very fire.
qaently as in The house moving pro-
posal. her whole reform movement is
made tt appear ridiculous
nespise all this she is receiving cred
it fbi- having stirred up thirgs IN West
ffrinmond. which cannq - aaeip te
,sase a beneficial effect %4xs.o - zs.sssser
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
], 70, | Be PAIO
At STANDARD
Passenger Car Department
Is Running at Full
Force.

There will be a pay day at the Stand
ard steel Car company a week from
Saturday. when something in the neigh
borhood of $4,000 will be distributed
among the empltyes of the plant.
Those who are under the impression
that the Standard steel Car company's 8
plant has closed down will be surprised
to find that its payroll is still one of
the large payrolls of the city
The passenger car department is
running with full force and this is
what has saved the situation. The
demand for steel passenger cars has
been good in spite tt tf-i reluctance of
the railroads to buy es Gpment.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
REUNION
TAXES PLACE
IN THE JAIL
Especial to THE TrMEs.)

East Chicago, April There was
nice little family reunion at the East
Chicago police station yesterday. con-
sisting of William Landers, his sister,
Mrs. Frank Kominski. and Frank ko-
minski.
The relatives met purely by chance
in the bastile. In the first place the
astute eye of Officer Joe Barney de-
tected I4anders, who used to live In
East Chicago but is now of the uni
verse at large. in the act of what In
police parlance is called mooching-
.Mooching" be it known is the act OF
working" the workers. Landers oc-
casionally honors East Chicago with a
little visit, for he is not proud despite
the fact that he has been elevated to
metropolitan life. and does not like to
forget old neighbors. Also their mon
ey, when easily acquired. is as good as
anothers.
When officer Barney saw Frank
"mooching'' then he promptly hauled
him in.
Mrs. Frank Kominski, the sister O
I.anders, lives with her husband OF
the north side. About that time tina
William was being ..pinched' she cam
into town from Gary, somewhat tn
/ worse. ii is. alleged, for having i'm
bibed too freely Of cheap Gary whisky
|
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
CHIEF AUSIGEN SAYS
NO MORE LIKE THAT
Sports in Future Will Have
to Keep Within Bounds
of the Law.

There will not be another boxing
match like the one under the auspices
of the II. A.. A. last Thursday II
there will be any more sport along
that line in Hammond in the future it
will positively be under the strictest
construction of the law" This was
Chief Peter Austgen's comment this
morning tn the two knockouts at the
club last Thursday night Anton Tap
per- president of the board of police
commissioners, was in the chiefs office
at the time the statement was made
and sanctioned it.
The situation seems to me o be this" "
said Mr.. Taper, I'VE have in Hammond
hundreds of men, some of them our
best citizens. who love to see athletic
sport, and who above all like to see a
clean boxing match. But there is al
ways the danger of overstepping the
bounds as was the case last Thursday
in he meantime of the direc-
tors in the III. A. A. who could be
reached have been called on the car
pet in the office Of the chief of po-
lice. They succeeded in establishing
an alibi in answer to the charge that
they wero attempting TO pull off a
prize fight and they are born out in
TINS contention tHe spectators VINO
did not go there expecting prize fight
and who did not regard the exhibition
in that light
The fact of the matter was that the
two boxers who too .kthe count were
so badly outclassed that they had no
business to enter the ring.
In Indiana Harbor Al. Lewis and at
Gary Nick Collins were regarded as
whirlwinds. When they got into the
arena they were fiat failures Where
the directors of the H. A. A. were at
fault was in permitting these men to be
matched at all
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
-Ex 7 RA-
APRIL LIST
Warrant For Lund.

sneiby' Ind, April 1.-Deputy
game wardens are scoursno n.
woods here for Eric Lund, a Ham,
mond contractor, who suddenly
disappeared last evening. for cruel
" to animals and killing more game
than the law allows. 1t is CHARGED
that lund basged twenty-six brant
by first winglng them with a sIino-
shot and then clubbing them to
oeasn. warrants will be sworn out
against him in Hammond, where he
us said to be disguised as Tom
Ricketts,.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
Knotts Resigns.

Gary, April 1.-(2 a. m.)-Mayor
Thomas e. Knots resigned his Of
nee this morning and W. (. Croljus
was appointed his successor. Mr..
Croiius said that he simply hated to
take the job away from Mr.. Knots.
IN stepping down and out Manor
Knots wiped the tears from his
race and said: ~ feel that leave
the offlce in safe hands. God bIes.
you Croiius."
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
.y'EET|NG
IMPORTANT
AFFAIR
Coming County Board Meet
ing at Grown Point Will
Be One of Most Interest
ing and Vital Had in Many
Years.

The next meeting of the board of
county commissioners at Crown Point
will be very important one. Among
the matters of Importance that are to
be taken up are the following:
l. The granting of saloon licenses.
:. Hearing the report of the view
ers on certain North township roads
3. Take up the question OF building
Two bridges over the Indiana Harbor
canal.
a. Take up the quetsion of appro-
priating 10000 for an aims house.
5. Ditch and other miscellaneous
matters
II Is expected that the granting of
the saloon licenses will take two or
three days at least. There are a num-
Der OF vexing problems that are yet
to be solved and the granting of IL
censes now is a tedious matter any
way.
The board OF county commissioners
will authorize the building OF two
bridges over the Indiana Harbor canal
and will ask for a preliminary appro-
priation by the county council of $500
to defray the expenses of plans and
specifications.
The state board of charities has
made certain recommendations in re-
gard to the building of a county in
Urinary and these recommendations |
viii be taken up by the commissioners |
with the idea of determining whether
or not to authorize the construction of |
= new aims house on the poor farm.
The county council will meet next /
Tuesday and Wednesday and this body
OF seven men Will have demands made |.
upon i that Indicate the growth and I
: yss.fsrdsy ana todzy as -rne -xsssxr=nrte
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
Greenwald Gets Gift

Chicago, nd, April L..
People saw z huge moving van leave.
this cry this morning for Whit.s
ing containing gigantic bunch Of
spring vioIets and roses, the gift of
Mayor A. S. SchIieker, Of East Chi
cago, to his warm friend. Prose-
cutting Attorney c. E.GreenwaId, of
Whiting. Mr.. Greenwaid was deep
iy overcome by the gift and said to
a TIMES, reporter: ~ do not know
how to thank my kind friend
SchIieker for the gift 1t certainly
shows how much he thinks Of me-"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
TEACHERS
ARE HAPPY
TO-DAY

Today the Hammond school teachers
will have between $500 and $4,000
to spend among the merchants of the
city OF Hammond This is the amount
of the monthly payroll of the schto1
city of Hammond
The kinde rgarten teachers are hte
only ones who will realize on their
increase in pay this month The others
will have to wait until next year in or
der TO get the coveted increase.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
Saloons Ousted.

Crown Point, Ind, April AT
torneys Bruce and Matthews have
discovered a scheme to run all of
the saloons in Lake county out of
business and expect by night to put
the lid on the entire county.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

I Fort Warns, 3u r1f{ sslIs1
Rohner. one of two fl9sS61i3:er BOYS
said to have stolen IS Issop IN cash
and $4,000 in valuable papers which
he was conveying from one>banls to
another at Hoboken, N. j.. in Jan-
uary. stopped the chief of police,
who was in plain clothes, on the
street here and asked him for the
price of meal. The chief recognfz-
ed the lad from descriptions. and the
boy confessed. Rohner is sixteen
years old and was trying to beat his
way back home He burned the pa-s
pers in Denver on his way West. and
had spent every cent of his half OF
the money. The two boys stopped in
Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Chicago and
Denver. and lived high as long as
their none; lasted.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
NEWS

Jefferson City, Mo-, April by ,
decision OF the Missouri Supreme.
Court yesterday fraternal beneficiary
societies are made liable for the pay
ment of policies of members engaged
at the time of death In occupations
prohibited by the bylaws OF the So
ciety, where it is shown that tho
dues were accepted from the insured.
The court held that Mrs. Ida Mat
thews of Kansas City, Mo-, who sued
the Modern Woodmen of America
was entitled to judgment for $4,000,
the amount of insurance carried by
her husband, who became barten-
der, an occupation in the prohibited
class, after he joined the society.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
New Depot for Hammond

Hammond, Ind, April Cap
tain !. c. Downing, agent Of the
Monon here, received orders this
morning to arrange for the removal
OF the old Monon shack. As work
will begin this afternoon on = new
depot, forty carloads of material
were shipped here this afternoon.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
CONFIRMS DECISION

Attorney Matthews today Informed
THE TIMES that the supreme court to-
day confirmed the Scanlon decision in
the lower courts. This-,was the case
(which 4he Gary remonstra cases
hingeu s1.s-s-~ confirmation was ex-
pected. A@s 81
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
Duck Shed Disappears.

Hammond, md, April 1.-The
people Of Homewood awakened
this morning to find that Harrison
Park Custodian Fox had moved his
monkey house and duck shed in
rear Of Charley Friedrich's house
on Webb street.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
Moves Village.

West Hammond, H., ApriJ..1.-
me citizens awakened-tais morn
Ing to find that Miss virojnia
5rooks had moved the village across
5urnham avenue during the niqht.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
FATHER AND.
DAUGHTER HURT
Especial to TIE TrMlss. )

tSpeelaf 10 1HE AiM1s -
Lowell. Ind. April 1.--While Charles
Bailey was. bringing his daughter, Mae.
to Lowell in buggy to take a train
for Bloomington. where she is attend
ing college, the horse became fright
ened, ran away and threw them out.
bruising them up some and breaking
the buggy. The horse was stopped. An
automobile Was sent for and they
reached Lowell in time for Miss Bailey
to catch the train.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

Chicago, April 1.-Wage differ
ences between the Illinois Central
railroad and its telegraphers We're
adjusted yesterday and the keymen
win an advance in salary approx
mating 500 man a year The total
increase. granted is $79.2o4 yeas'.
which, it was stated at the railroad
offices,. would be about evenly di-
vided between the 1900 telegraphers
working for the road.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

New York, April 1.-bec'arins
that the statute of Liberty is in al
most constant danger of destruction
from the accidental explosion of
dynamite stored near by, Prosecutor
Pierre Garven of Jersey City will
undertake to attain united action By
the states OF. New York and New
Jersey to prohibit the storage Of ex-
plosives in the upper part OF New
York harbor. According to- the
prosecutor information. there is
more than thirty-six tons OF dyna-
mite on storage scows within few
hundred feet of the statute OF
Liberty.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

NOTHING IS OF GREATER IMPoR-
TANCE TO YOU THAN TO KEEP
POSTED ON PASSING EVENTS IN
YOUR LOCALITY Ey READING THE
TIMES EACH EVENING.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

IS GIVEN
JUDGMENT
Especial to THE T1nEsl

Crown Point. Ind. April 1-Attornev
everett Guy Ballard. of Gary. general
counsel In Indiana for the America n
Federation OF Labor. who has been
jailed on two occasions and whose
family was evicted from their home
after their furniture had been thrown
into the street as a result of his per-
sistent enmity to the present admin
istration In Gary turned the labels on
MS oppressors last night and dealt
them singing blow when a jury in
Judge Kopelke's court awarded him
1000 damages for malicious prosecu-
ton and restitution of the premises he
once Occupied. The judgement is di-
rected against Safety Commiss x,ner
Emmett White. his law partner Sea-
bright and Mrs Eva Goodwin. clients OF
the attorneys and owner of the house
from which the Ballard family was
evicted.
Defendants Expected Verdict.
The award is in the shape of tort
Judgment and those against whom II
Is levied can not claim the statutory
exemptions that prevail in the ordi-
nary contract judgement Ballard car
ievy first upon tbs. personal and then
upon the real property of any one or
all OF the defendants
Attorney Henry MacCracken. chf,f |
y counsel for the defendants, stated |
ast night that he would file a motion
Tor new trial before seeking an an
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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01
CORNELIUS BURNS IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT
North Side Improvement
Assn. Holds It's Annual
Election of Officers.

At the meeting of the North Side
Citizens Improvement association last
night the following officers We're elect
ed:
President-Cornelius Burns.
Vice observation-disclosures Jcwctt-
Secretary. K. Markey.
Treasurer-Conrad Markmueller-
Executive .beard--R- l. Fowler. Nelse
jacobson. Jacob Schroeder, J. L Walker
and ]. ApoIl.
II. & Betz' annual donation Of SIS
was received and a vote of thanks Civ
en- the manufacturer for his good will
and his substantial evidence of the
same.
Another meeting Will be held on
April 2Sth. at which time Nelson Jacob
son will address the association on the
north side and its. possibilities Mr.
Jacobson who was until recently Con-
gresham Crumpacker's private secre-
tary. has always maintained his resi-
dence on the north side and kept in
touch with it's affairs. and will be in a
good position to speak on the subjeci.
The membe rshfp Of the club is grow
ing daily and numbers now about
eighty persons
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

Kiel, Germany, April 1.-Three
bluejackets were killed and four
others injured In an explosion OF
methylated spirits aboard the IRON
clad cruiser Yorcl of the German
navy today.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

Chicago. April 1.-The mighty battle
for the election of a mayor of Chicago
4pr the next four years is nearing its
I'D. On next Tuesday approximately
1900 voters will go to the polls and
@fster their will as to whether Carter
xEteOn, four times mayor of the
Nl1 for a fifth time be given.
~ Chicago's destiDies or wheth-
344ofS Edward Merriam, professor
lN economy in the University
shall be instrusted with
NJ pf the cfty's affairs.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-04-01

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-26
LIFE OF A JOKE

From Tit Bits.
 I am born. My creator chuckles, slaps himself on the knee, roars and calls his wife. Am read to the authors wife. She smiles, kisses him and wants to know how much he thinks I will bring. I start on journey Am read by an editor. He laughs and reads me to the office staff. My creator gets check and more kisses from his wife.
 I appear in print. Thousands read me and laugh over me. The editor gets many new subscribers. Reader tells me on the street and gets cigar. Tells me again and is invited out to lunch. Newspaper copies me and also gets new subscribers Comedian cracks me on stage in a music hall turn and makes a hit
 Politician uses me in speech, claiming happened back in his boyhood, and gets elected. Lecturer uses me on platform and gets return date. Minister works me in sermon for illustration and gets call to other town with higher salary.
 Am worked to death. Everybody, every where uses me, in season and out of sea- son. I become a chestnut. new gen. eration comes on, and am forgotten.
 Fifty years pass by I am resurected from an attic. Am cut out and started on another journey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-26
The Merger Company

'The combination of the Southern Iron and Steel company and the Alabama Con soldated under the title of the Alabama Consolidated Coal, Iron and Steel com pany will undoubtedly be a fine thing for the Birmingham district'' said man who has had large experience in industrial life. 1T own some valuable mineral property which I tried to sell to the merger peo- pie, but failed to interest them. Know ing as I do, however, the value of my lands I am content to wait. MT, Grenfell and the bankers who are working out the merger scheme do well, perhaps, to con- solidate only the two companies named at this time.
 Tn times of prosperity both the Ala bama Consolidated and the Southern Iron and Steel could be operated as money makers, but we have had very bad times of late and I dare say that it was as much as either of these concerns could do to make both ends meet. But merged. the economies will be obvious and think the merger company will make money even in dull times.
 ''I expect to see some day merger of all the independent companies in the Bir- mingham district, if not in the United States. Such a merger would be a splen- did enterprise, and would result in great good to Birmingham. In the meantime this district is going right ahead"