The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-02-23
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chants on their harps last Sunday
AND TO think of IT. On the day of the |
big storm THE TIMES picture of |
the latest in bathing suits. This is |
nearly as vexing as having a bottle of |
Bud without an opener.
TO show you that women do change |
| their minds, out In Seattle. where they
nave votes for the ladies and the re-
call proposition, they have recalled to
office the mayor whom they recalled
from office few months ago
| A LOT of statesmen who failed to
| land jobs from Mr. Taft have taken
nigh berths in the Roosevelt commit
| tee.
GARY COUNCIL VAUDEVILLE
Mis-iss-ter May DOOR," screamed Al
| derman Castleman as he sent a stream
of BattleAxe over Alderman Feuer.s
bald top piece, thereby causing that
statesman TO take out his handkerchief
] to mop away the spray. Il tell yeyy
/ tibet the pe-pulls rights must be kun
| served. Therfur Mis-iss-ter May-o-oor.
move yew tibet the price of beer be
re-dooced and 1 therfur redooce the
liquor licenses from $500 to 5000 The
$500 tibet will be saved will go back
to the pe-pull and they will get like
they used TO. big schooner fer a
nickel. With these few remarks l con-
clude what I hev to say
"Mee-steer Knottses." answered AL
derman Simiasko, II second deese
demned motions"
q As items of municipal progress we
might mention that Chicago is to have
a $10o.0oo.0o0 subway. and East Gary is
soon to dedicate its new town hall.
OVER in Gary a negro stole a cheap
sewing machine and got ninety days In
jail. white politician stolen $4,000
! gave church and charity hundred and
. is now looking over the auto cataIogs
!, CROOK" and Cooled Serpent"
writes Marse Henry watterson now
tnat he fallen out with Governor Will
son. We heard the same thing when
Marse Homer fell out with Governor
Tom Knots when the city printing
went over the wall.
AFTER living in Chicago ~ wears
an old man killed himself. The chances
l are that he realized how long he had
= lived in Chicago and at once grew re-
morseful about il.
I LATE STORM NEWS.
Our proofreader showed up this
morning. He fell in a drift near the
b Hammond brewery.
| a
Q stranded between the Gary hotel buffet
p and the Binzenhof Hennery had a re-
: lief cargo on board and lost his port
! lights
HY BALL and Bud WISER were out
In the storm a good deal. and to avoid
: windy corners, they went in the side
: door and came out the front door and
= most of the doors weren't on drug
stores. either
SOME HOBART FLUzY, We SUPPOSE
81 From the valpo vidette.l
/ Bert Pfieffer and Jake Kimble were
n In Hobart CD Saturday night. What's
:, the great attraction, boys?"
!, OUR DAILY SHORT STORY.
:. When young Smith was graduated
from Valpo university the old folks
down at Evansville decided to let hin
carve out his own career. Smith wa.
h undecided whether to go to Brazil
n Alaska. South Africa, Gary or some
other frontier country Finally h,
chose Gary and arrived there
kf His college training got him a jol
~ in the steel mills tending clockhous,
= fourteen hours day at Is cents al
hour. He lived at the Y. NJ c. A., ant
d. after he had paid what bills he had t.
= and STAYED off the rest he managed I,
d put dollar week away in the posta
- savings bank.
:, Before We go any further we wan
to say that Smith, Reginald Smith wa
X his full name, left a girl behind hin
in Evansville. OF course she wen
when he left civilization, but now an,
=, then many looked 1T the se5 sparkle
- on the fourth finger of her left han,
ie and sadly told friends that Reggy ha,
re gone TO the far north to become a Gar,
,r or a Gleason.
.el For awhile they wrote daily. the,
= semi-weelSly. then semi monthly. an
spring came again and the ice in tn
Ohio was melting and they were hardl
writing at all. In the meantime Reg
G gy. being faithful and good ball play
er, was promoted to Is cents an hour
le SO that he could play with the stee
ed works team. Ere long he met anothe
he damsel she was a waitress in the Bin
zenhof-and in due time he forgo
Mary and was only reminded of he
when an Evansville brewery WACO
rolled down broadway.
iy1 The waitress was a sumner and ev
eel cry time that she alked down the aisl
20 at the Orpheum 400 pair of male eye
didn't rest on the stage. Mary at hon,
cried her eyes out, and soon anothe
sutton came along.
to end like any Rudyard Kipfing
ne yarns Mary didn't marry number tw,
ed and Reggy didn't settle down with til
waitress.
Bye and bye he was appointed a de
partment head at two-h fifty day. an
NO while this isn't much, it is large
wages go in Gary. and by the tin
al autumn came they had two-room fl
ire and were paying out thirty month
greedy landlord. But they wei
happy
And the waitress? oh. she snubbe
he aeess ions ago M. now ne can