The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-12
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The cold north winds are blowing,
Fresh eggs are ~ a dozen.
The coal bill keeps on growing.
And all the water pipes are frozen.
But / am quite happy and now so free,
Things are not just as they appear,
For my wife is away in the country
And l have a lot of good lager beer.
-HENNERY COLDBQTTLE.
CHEER up. Only nifty more days to
spring.
MONEY rates are easier" says news
paper headline. Rates may be so. but
the coin is hard to get ever.
N.Y. How high our Indiana Harbor is
turning up her nose.
]. u. H.-Another way in which a
bachelor can keep his feet warm is to
buy one of those ss.ss bed warmers.
PEOPLE kick when they don't get
vacation twice year. Old Tom Edi-
son is taking his first one in twenty
two years.
Good For Hot Waves Also:
Dear Rube: They tell me that one
way to keep warm on these cold nights
is to use eiderdown blankets. You only
need one. and it is so fluffy that you
feel like you have nothing on. What
would you advise? LULU.
HAZEL MUTT. our household editor.
says that she hasn't tried EN- yet, but
that your second sentence ought to in
dictate that they might be good in hot
weather
FIVE thousand dollars was paid in
Boston the other day for a rare book.
Come to think about it T. B. Dean re-
Gently paid that amount for a dandy
photographic treatise
| ONE good thing about the latest
styles in high vests is that you can use
up all your old bow ties as four-in-
! hands.
TOLD you not long ago that we had
the industry itch around here and that
we would catch one very shortly
Gary's New Song.
oh, Calumet, of you we are quite jeal-
Gus,
Since you landed your locomotive prize
/ But now our labors will be so Jealous
That soon we will make you open your
eyes.
The Cruise of the Water wagon.
hours permitted Captain Hennery Cold
bottle and his brave crew to cruis,
down to Hobart. where they hope t,
give many temperance lectures Fear
full of storm en- route First Mate II,
Ball saw to it that all precautions a
to needed stimulants were on boar,
should any shipwrecked friends b
encountered The wa er wagon crey
left East Gary with many fond re
membranes. for while not very man,
temperance converts were made. the
were royalty entertained while there
, As the water wagon rolled over tn
country roads the crew were in an un
: usually happy frame of mind and Blu
Wiser lead the singing. While no pro
visions were board the crew wer
/ not hungry. Captain Coldbottle. be
fore they left Gary, had purchase
a number of compressed tea tablets 3
eating these the crew were cheered jus
as much as If they were drinking tn
tea out OF steaming cups. At time
: Hennery would appear to be sad an
: the proofreader joshed him about tina
o swell wren in East Gary. Just befor
. nightfau the jolly bunch arrived in He
/ bart town. Headquarters were estat
I lished at John HilIman's and for tn
!
left at Frailey's livery stable. Tomol
n row we shall tell of their strange a6
t venturers in Hobart.
& HEADLINES read steal COURTEOUS
:, radiator Then again may be it VIZ
such an Internally cold one that the
threw 1t out the window.
WONDER ifsAIr. Baukus in his hidin
place knows that he has been ex-con
ID municated
q TIMES says: building operation
o tied up in Gary" We might say rigl
o here so YOU won't blame him that tn
is not a case of too much Knots.
ALDERMAN CASTLEMAN who HI
game foot, says that he will after
the Gary council meeting IL he has
- be carried there on stretchers. n
IL let the common pee-pul carry their b
1t loved statesman upon their brawl
shoulders
WELL. has any one been around
see you about investing your bal
r dividends?
n ONE thing about living at a boardil
:, house isNhat you get tapped for dc
= lar To buy a present for every maria
imateh it makes