The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-07-18
INDUSTRY
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Columbus-Matt Lindsey, manager
of the Lyric moving picture theater
here, has leased the Seymour theater
and has placed M. H. Luther in charge
as manager. The house will be run as
La one-night stand and stock company
house during the coming season save
when there are no engagements, then
it will be run as a moving picture
house.
Milton-The new grain elevator
building at Beesons station. built to fill
the place of the one destroyed by fire
few months ago. before 1t was entirely
completed. has been finished and has
already received a large amount of
grain for shipping.
Evansville-The county commission
ers of vanderburg county will ask for
bids on eight ten-year -old bonds of one
Thousand dollars denomination. The
money raised is to be used in paying
for the First avenue rock roads extern
sion.
Hartford City. The last natural gas
pumping station in Blackford county is
| to be dismantled and shipped away
| the same fate that has overtaken no
less than a half dozen similar and cost
| ~ gas plants. The last one to remain
| Is that of the Crescent Gas and Oil
Company, which is directly west of this
city and bordering on the Blackboard
and Grant county line. 1t was at this
giant that the of William Sutton
lost his life. and where Ed Ayres was
seriously injured in an explosion that
wrecked the building.
| Huntington-The county board of re-
view Tuesday abandoned its figure of
IS per cent. for assessing banks and
lowered the figure to 20 per cent. which
seems to be the prevailing figure
throughout most of the counties of the
state The plan of listing corporations
BILE property and their capital stock, as
required by the recent laws, was also
largely abandoned. it being found that
most counties were listing the corpora
lions merely on their real estate and
personal property. as had been the GUS
| tom in previous years.
| Clinton-State Senator j. ]. Higgins.
OF Clinton. and o. Martin, of Rosedal.s
both of whom have had experience in
the mining business, but not in recent
lyears, have bought several hundred
acres of coal land on the Chicago, Terre
Haute & Southeastern railroad, form
erly the Southern Indiana. eight miles
west of Clinton, and. after drilling. have
let the contract for coal mine to be
sunk. Charles walther. a local con-
tractor. will begin the sinking July is.
A street carnival company is in posses
sion of Clinton's principal streets for
a weeks stand, and the business men
are expressing the opinion that this
fought to be the last "offense" of this
kind. They say 1t hurts the regular
run of business and brings in an I'M
desirable element Local promoters got
a donation of about $500 from the sa-
loon men and had the project launched
this year~before the other business men
| were consulted.
| Connersville-The new postonict
building has been kept open day, night
and on Sundays ever since 1T was oc-
lcupied. but the doors will probably be
shut after s p. m. hereafter. all on ac-
lcount of chewing gum. Unknown per-
lsons left the top of a highly polished
mahogany desk, which sits in the corri-
DOR thickly studded with Jumps of
abandoned chewing gum, and in the
morning when the janitor removed
Them some Of the finish accompanied
the gum. Postmaster DeHaven says