The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-22
LOWELL.

The trustee and advisory board OF
Cedar Creek township sold district
school buildings NO. Saturday to
Carl Brownell for s46, and school build
ing No to Mrs. Palmer Edgerton for
s72 School having been discontinued
in these two buildings they were of no
further use to the township. They will
be moved to the places of the respective
buyers and utilized farm buildings.
Mrs. John Lynch, who was operated
on last Thursday afternoon at her home
for abscess of the bowels and for
whose life there was no promise of
hope. is still alive and making a fight
for her life. She Is wealthy lady and
a leader in Believers church. She is 20
years old, but has held her own so well
| that she looks to be not over so years
old. She is of very congenial dis
| position. and right up to the time of
| the operation joked with the doctors,
! and when she came out from under the
/ influence of the anaesthetics she con-
tinued to joke, although her life hung
by a slender cord and does now. If
bravery and cheerfulness has any
virtue she surely ought to pull through
and be restored to good health. One of
her sons. Fay. is in South America.
| Oscar Hill, Hammond's hustling
| horse buyer, was down in this county
| Saturday looking for some good horses,
| of which there some good ones in
! this community. and Oscar has a pc
| culiar way of getting next to them and
! you can't swindle him
The farmer responsible for the story
1 of the steer afflicted with rabies opines
that If the editor of the Hammond
s, Times. who thinks the story hot
weather one had been in his position
when the foaming, swapping and Wild
eyed steer charged straight at them
| with only a wire fence between. he
would have suffered about the same
| sensation he did when he came down TO
| Lowell several seasons ago with the
football team and stood on the Gridiron
and witnessed the beef trust" Low
ellis players. coming out of the woods
with their war toys on. which impress
sion no doubt still clings to him.
Eighth grade commencement exer-
cises were held at Egypt schoolhouse
Cedar Creek township, Saturday night
There was an interesting program and
was enjoyed by those present.
| Russell Dunk1eberger, son of Rev
Dunkleberger. is spending a couple Of
weeks with relatives and friends il
Plymouth Warsaw and other points.
VIII Hack and wife were guests O
Harry Johnson and wife of Hammond
Sunday.
NJ. Johnson who has been in thu
west for the past three years. arrived
at his home in Lowell Saturday even
ing.
Amos Brannon CT Billings, Mont, ar
rived in Lowell Saturday evening II
visit his father. Milo Brannon, hi
grandmother, Mrs. Amos Brannon, ant
other relatives and friends.
Miss Leila McNay, nurse in Wesle.
hospital, Chicago. is home visiting he
parents. Mr.. and Mrs Phillip MeNav.
The commencement exercises of TIL
Lowell high school occurred Frida.
night at Taylor's theater in the pres
ence of a good sized audience TIL
graduating class consisted of the fol
lowing young people: Agnes Berg
Hilda Bailey, Earl Bailey. Elto Child
ress, Mckinley Deathe, kathryn Ems
pahr Anna Einspahr. D. Halter. Clar
| Huebsch. Bertha Klein, Julia Nelson
Hulda Poppe. Lillian Ribbentrcp, Clar
Nitche. Ida Schilling and Lillian Schil
| ling. The class address was delivere
| by DR.. Writ Lowther of Chicago. an