The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-12-12
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TODAY you write write it 12-12-12.

TODAY you write write it 12-12-12
PRESIDENT of the county board at
Chicago is object Of custer proceed
ing charges because he lived too long
In indianapolis. All of which is suf-
hcient grounds for an custer suit.
WRITER in newspaper protests
against popular actors who die or get
killed in the play to come back and an
swer curtain calls, thus boring the
spectators. One would think the way
T. r.. got slaughtered last month at
the polls that he wouldn't be making
curtain calls at the bull moose side
show
PULLMAN women going shopping in
Chicago demand that railroad install
extra coach as nursery for babies. Fort
unately for the railroads the introduce
ton of bridge whist among the ladies
OF local towns will preclude them from
demanding nursery cars from the rail-
way officials
WITH MAYOR KNOTS IN CUBA.
tBy our special correspondent, Hennery
Cofdbottle.)
Havana. Dec. l2-Al Havana, in
Guiding the alcade of the city and the
president of the republic was on hand
to meet our party when the Santiago"
steamed into port. The alcade present
ed Senior Knots with the keys of tfhe
city and President Gomez. afNr being
assured through an Interpreter that
hizzoner's mission was neither to start
a revolution nor to form a combine
among local contractors. advanced and
presented the Gary executive with a
big bunch OF roses
We are now putting up at the presi-
Dental palace.
In company with local newspaper
that Bud sells at a little higher prices
here than it does In the states. Ha-
vana is said to have the best breweries
in Cuba. one good thing about this
Cuban trip said the mayor. is that ]
won't be in court at Crown Point on
Dec 8 in the matter of Senior Tom
Deans 5000 pesos. Senior Dean can
/ wait a little longer"
Beyond a cable from a friend saying
that the Gary park board met just as
| soon as he got ought of town, which
| caused hizzoner to remark that some
| thing might be put over during his alb
! sence no other word has come from
home
| Hizzoner is addressed on all sides as
| your excellency." H. c.
| UNCERTAINTY OF OBSCURITY."-
| TINES editorial heading. Luckily fol
| the Hon. AL. Beyeridge that obscurit,
has its good side-uncertainty.
1T was sweet Of the D. A. r. to pre-
sent the Carnegie library at East Chi
cago with an American flag. Judgine
from the various languages you heal
in the East Chicago streets the stranger
would think that he was In Wallachis
Tor Moldavia. The grand old nag wav
ing at the library top will convince hin
that he still is in the good old L. S. A
| vCoNGRESSMAN- ELECT J. B. PET
ERSoN still is at Washington gettins
used to treading the congressional car
pet."-Crown Point correspondence t
THE TINES. No doubt John BIS mali
purpose for lingering on the banks o
the Potomac is his fear to return t
this grand duchy and face the hungr
horde of off1ceseekeN.
]. PIERPONT MORGAN Is to Civ
out to his rriendsXmas cards costinl
an even hundred. Owing to the har
times your Uncle Jawn d. Rockefelle
| VIII give out AIndS Cafos coStaHe tcut
apiece and il he can afford 1t each o
the faithful workmen at the Whit
ing refineries will receive one.
VARYING accounts appeared in tn
: Chicago poipers yesterday regardin
the attempted taxicab robbery of $50
900 from cashier. The 'steeme
; Tribune stated that the cashier save
the money by throwing it into tn
+ street. the 'steemed Examiner said the
he threw 1t behind pole, the 'steeme
Rcord-Herald printed that he threw
lup an alley while the 'steemed inter
lOcean recorded that it was thrown a
a telegraph pole. No wonder that tn
poor bandits couldn't find it.
j SCIENTIST says that the best hubb
! has blue eyes Hennery has brown one
+ but Mrs Coldbottle says that just q
soon as she can get hold of him upo
hi return from that Cuban trip ths
he, too, will have a nice pair of blu
! ones.
THE trouble with lot of folks VIII
break into society is that they IA
. through in very short time.
e 1T is quite appropriate OF the secr'
e | tary of the treasury to reduce the sis
= of paper money. He has a good sens
| of humor. High prices will not be tt
. only thing to remind the poor Marie
q Imam that the purchasing power I
money is smaller.