The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-01-25

Charles E.. Greenwald and daughters
Dorothy and Gertrude spent yesterday
visiting with Whiting relatives.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Church OF Christ viii meet Thursday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. Russell
Wilkinson of oliver street.
Miss Edith Collins and sister, Mrs J.
Johnston of Indiana Harbor were the
guests of Whiting friends on Tuesday
evening
Mrs Allie Acker of East Chicago Wis
tied friends here yesterday
The funeral of Dorothy ID. Pritchard
of 436 sheridan avenue, whiting, was
held yesterday afternoon short serv-
ices were held at the family home al
1880 p. and at p. m the services
were held in the NJ. f. church. The SER
mon was preached by Rev. G. Hartman
Bright of the NJ. +. church, assisted by
Rev ]. c. Carswell of Chicago. who was
formerly of Joliet. ILL.,, and who had
baptized the deceased in rher infancy.
The funeral march from the house to
the church was very pretty. Eight lit
tie girls. friends of the deceased acted
| as honorary paltbearers. These little
| girls dressed in white. ma rched TO the
| church. They were Helen Griffith. Ger
trude Greenwald. Margaret Atkin, LII
Sarah Arundel and Florence Moore. The
active pallbearers also marched to the
church. These were Misses Hazel Cam
eron. Helen Condor. Pearl Traverse.
| Vera Krout, Lucy Hatch and Elsie
Trowe The church was crowded with
| sympathetic friends. and the sermon
preached by Rev. Bright was very con-
| soling to the wounded hearts. The in
| terment was at Oak Hill cemetery,
Hammond. Dorothy Davis Pritchard
| was the youngest child of Mr.. and Mrs.
| David Pritehard, and. was born in Joliet
| ILL.,, on March s. 1904 She came to
Whiting with her parents in June. 1907.
! At the age of she entered the Whit
ing public school kindergarten. and al
1 the time of her death she was in the
| second grade. She was the sunshine
| in her schoolroom, and her classmates
are much grieved over her loss. She
was also a member of the Light Bear
| ers, and also the Junior League of thu
NJ f. church, where she will also be
greatly missed The tragical ending
| of the little girl has been crushing
| blow to the Pritchard family. On las
Friday she and her sister. Mrs. Eliza
beth Gray went to Blue Island to re
main over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs
James Conlisk. The little girl had beer
making great plans for good time lit
tie realizing that such sad ending
would be hers. A very sad feature b
the case was the fact that she had gon'
to the store on Saturday morning. ant
purchased a number of post card
which she had writteN to every mem
Der of her family and to few of he
friends. On every card it spoke OF TIL
good time she was having. She had
however. forgotten to purchase stamp
and when she met with her acciden
she was on her way to the store to bu
candy and also to get stamps wit
. which to mail her cards. The facts of tn
accident were learned last evenin
when the family returned home. Littl
Kenneth Conlisk. who was with Dor
othv on her Inflated trip. consente
for the first time to talk of the acct
dent The details as told by him wer
| TO the effect that he and Dorothy an
another little girl came to sort of
hill on the way to the store. The 9th
| er two children were in the habit c
coastfnr and two would go down at