The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-10-12
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SHOOTS AT HIS NEIcHaoR


each other got them into serious trouble
saturday night. at indianapolis, when
| they were both arrested after one of
them had taken two shots at the other
Lora Banter, twenty years old. BIG
Leeds avenue, was arrested charged
with lettering. and his next door neigh
Dor. George Thayer. forty lone years old.
314 Leeds avenue. was slated as a
'peeping Tom" Thayer was released
under $500 bond and BANTER was re-
leased by Superintendent Hyland
Banter told the police he had seen
Thayer on number of occa sions Creep
ing about his back yard, and so bought
a revolver-to scare him in case he
tried it again. BANTER said that Satur-
| day night he lay in wait for Thaver in
his woodshed and when the latter came
| into his yard and started to peeD
through a side window he ran OUT of
the woodshed and shot twice at him.
Thayer told the police that he was
standing in his own yard when BANTER
| hred the shots at him. Both men were
positive in their statements. and they
were sent to police headquarters Tho
cases were continued in police court.
MAKES LAWN INTO GARDEN.
]. r. Gilbert has shown Richmond
people that 1t is not necessary to get on
large tracts to do interesting garden
work, and his yard surrounding a mod :
ern city home has some examples of the
art OF growing fruits and vegetable
that are attracting attention The lasi
addition to Gilbert's novelty group is
the Giant Himalaya. blackberry vine
that grew this summer from an i'm
| ported sprout less than four inches
long The vine has attained a heirh4
lof thirty feet since May 20. Next sea-
son IT will bear fruit
Gilberts tomato plants were the won
der of the neighborhood
ANIMALS CAUSE PARALYSIS.
| DR.. w. F. King, assistant secretary
of the state board of health. who has
resumed his study of poiiomyeIitis. or
fnfantile paralysis, and has reported
feighty-one eases to the board since July
I, has discovered that the cases have
almost without exception, followed
some disease in animals about the farm
Tor house. which resulted in their being
paralyzed. Because of the dHficultv IN
studying the cases the authorities are
not vt prepared to say positively that
the disease is transmitted from animals
Ito ehildren. Serums from animals
suspected of injecting children with the
disease have been sent to the Flexner
institute. in New York, but no reports
on the institute findings have been re-
lceived.
BOY Is FOUND.
| Mrs. F. NJ. Calbert of Shelbyville
yesterday received a letter mailed at
Toledo, o., informing her that her son
Harold and two other boys had been
discovered in camp near Toledo.
The letter was signed Hobo King.
and brought the information that the
king had persuaded the Calbert boy
to return to his home, and that the
king" is bringing him home They are
riding. he said. on the slow freights and
will arrive at Shelbyviile Saturday. The
| king says he did not know the
lCalbert boy had left until Saturday
evening. The three boys said thes-
were on their way to New York The
boy was supposed to have been induc-
ed by the hobo king" to leave his
home at Shelbyville.
BOYS START CHURCH FIRE.
Fire prevention day brought forth a
good example of the danger of children
playing with fire when the barn on the
property of st. Paul's Episcopal church
at Richmond was partly destroyed,
lcausing loss of several hundred dol
lars.
Two boys carrying improvised torches
imade from cat tails saturated in gaso-