The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-11
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The Hobart Township GirIs.
Alice of Deep River Is rudy and pretty,
Ethel of Ainsworth my arms would
entwine.
Lulu of Liverpool would shine in the
city,
And Amy is as rare as the comet wine
Kitty of Hobart is saucy and sweet.
The Aetna belle she is nigh, fairy,
Blue-Eyes of Miller is dainty and neat.
But hest of all is my Nell in East Gary.
-HENNERY CoLDBoTTLE-
IS it possible that some swell East
Gary wren has charmed Hennery. or
has he tasted the comet wine? II Hen
merry starts any affinity racket his wife
won't do a thing 20 him.
HOTEL GUESTS IN 100000 FIRE
PANIC" read newspaper headlines.
wonder If it feels any better to be in a
million dollar fire panice
THE national democratic committee
conference was nearly as harmonious
as meeting OF the Gary regular and
the unindicted democracy.
NO wonder that they desert from the
navy. The name of the new surgeon
general is Doc Blue.
Abe Martin Sea.
THIS years crop o. furnace jokes is
way below tn average, an O. exceed
| in'ly poor quality. Never take a ham,
| mer t banquet"
| SHAME on Munster. Highland and
| Griffith. Little East Gary gets a car
line and now they won't be satisfied I'M
til they get one.
| WE realize how small our Lake coun-
| ty towns and cities are only when one
of those New York skyscrapers burr
up and the loss is s1s,o00.00o.
| Edelweiss. Budweiser or Schlitxe
| (Grifhth correspondence to THE TIMES
SOME of our citizens report havins
seen large and very brilliant meteo
| Sunday evening which traversed tn,
whole extent OF the heavens from south
west to northeast. A popularity OF 1
was that when nearly overhead IT dis
charged a ball of fire at right angle t.
its course. and which disappeared il
! the northwestern sky
The Cruise of the Water Wagon.
| FOURTH day-Frozen pumps and to
much near beer started Hennery Cold
bottle to writing poetry last night To
| Uay the water wagon leIt East daT
with Hennery, Hy Ball, Bud Wiser an
our proofreader on board. They heade
for Porter county, but upon arrivin
there Hennery learned that temper
ance crusade would not be needed. H
Ball overheard a farmer say that Their
: are some blind pigs in Liverpool $
a the wagon was then turned around an
the horses started in that direction
| However, fate turned a new trick an
just as the merry crew were nearin
the NJ. c. tracks they noted that til
freight train came in with that Ion
n delayed carload of beer which John Mi
!, Ter ordered three days ago. Owing
the bad weather and the high wine
and the fact that the people of Ea:
Gary would now need temperance lie,
lures more than ever. Captain Coit
bottle gave orders that his good ship
o Prov be headed for the nearest 20
c (not wine). which happen1d to
Johns stable. Tomorrow Hennery wi
take a run down to Hobart to loo
over the field. He will judicfously di
tribute a few temperance tracts ar
n call upon some old friends.
8 THIS is only one of dozens of sim
lar instances every week. where rea'
ers of the Gary Tribune get the late
news of the day in this paper in IN
q paper. far ahead OF all competitors"
Gary Tribune
Well. with the old United Press a,
other things they have, the early a
pearance of THE TIMES last night saw
lem
Is CHICAGO woman became angry b
acause her husband couldn't get wor