The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-16
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OH, you Bull Moose!

THE good ship A f. Knots is headed
up Bull Moose bay for Port Congress.
put from advices wirelessed in we fear
/ that the rocks along the way will make
the voyage sad but interesting one
| WILL some one. please. remind the
| Chicago Trib. that a few other paper.
had something to do with the unglu-
Ing of Brother Lorimer?
HOOKING up Mrs. Lake County is
some job, as she has grown to be quite
| stout parsonage. but the traction
promoters seem to have difficulty In
getting the far parts together.
| SEE that the governor of South Caro-
INA has been tangled up with dicta-
graph. sympathy and flowers from
| Gary.
WHAT'S this? Battleaxe Castleman
president of traction line. The pc
pull are deserted!
EXPRESS rates are to be reduced.
This ought to cut down the hi kost of
drinking in such arid states as Kansas
WEST HAMMOND now claims to
have taken a bath and says that it is
an Utopia sort of model city like
Gary, Ell? Some one. please, cable Gov
ernor Marshall.
INDIANAPOLIS preacher who got
sore at his fiock and who quit to take
a job as prison chaplain used this as
his parting text: Il go to prepare a
place for you that where 1 am there We
may be also"
PHAROAH days of Hammond:
Hammond people were surprised
Friday to see the streets overrun with
frogs. Real frogs, too as Charles
Strauch, Jr., and Curtis Bauer caught
quite bagfui and took them to Chi
cage and sold them.-Black Oak corre-
spondence to THE TINES
MAYBE after all it's a good thing
that the dictagraph wasn't invented be-
fore the Gary blind pig days.
EVERY time big railroad has
wreck nowadays the division superin-
tendent loses no time in issuing
statement blaming the engineer. This
ought to be great consolation to the
relatives of the deceased
OUR special correspondent Hennery
Coldbottle, who covered the annual pic
mic of the Gary bartenders at East
Gary last Sunday. is still suffering from
the rheumatism. 1t may be possible
that Hennnery will have to go to Mil
''~~tN~S W nav HIS <tfkiueAt treated.
NO doubt the newspaper writer's who
had to cover the national prohibition
party convention last week must feel
themselves to be a much improved set
of men.
MR.. LORIMER shouldn't take it SO
much to heart. The down and out of
office class has long and exclusive
list For instance, there is Mr. Rosen-
felts, Mr.. Gift Pinchford, Mr. Battleaxe
Castleman and man Others.
1T may be that some of those stories
about the cruelty to the ANA zon rubber
gatherers are stretched little.
THAT Hammond moving picture
show that is Keeling the Holy City"
ought to be more explicit about 1t. Is
West Hammond referred TOT
WATER carnival is showing in Gary.
This ought to satisfy the 'steemed In
dianapolis News that all Gary carnivals
aren't as 1t imagines-beery ones.
IN our town last night when the
shivery lake winds came the most of
us went in for the heavies and dragged
out flannel blankets from their hiding
places For the lack of a better name
the breezes ought to have been called. |
The Breath Of Autumn"
NO doubt some of the thirsty folks
down in the Lowell drylands are quite
eager to see that interurban line ex-
tended down their way. With Crown
Point lager but ten minutes away life |