The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-11-20

clare to you that bird is either blind
or has not seen but one of the cities.
Stop trying to excuse yourself from
the Lords work, for an excuse is made
from the skin of a reason, stuffed with
the excelsior of ones own wishes,
propped up with the back bone of an
obstinate will. bearing the likeness of
some species of moral or immoral tax
iderma.
II you try to run from God like Jo-
nah you will get what he got. The
Lord gave him whale-ing. He fed
from God in merchants vessel, but
the Lord brought him back in a SUBJ
marine.
Some folks can talk more religion in
five minutes than they can live in five
years.
There are three classes OF people
shirkers. jerkers and workers. To
which of these classes do you belong?
COMMUNICATED.
Some sneak thief entered the duck
pens of ]. w. Bowman, who has
large duck farm in the northwest part
of the city, and stole five or six of his
best birds on Tuesday night. So far
no trace of the miscreants can be
found, but Mr.. Bowman has offered a
S25 reward for their detection. The
fellow evidently was an expert at the
business, no one hearing him in his
work of plundering the coops.
shoot between the Crown Point
Gun club and a Cedar Lake team cap
tanned by Jack Burke. will be held at
the Cedar Lake shooting grounds on
Sunday, and a great deal of interest
In the outcome of the match is dis
played by local sportsmen. The Cedar
| Lake bunch is composed of a lot OF
expert trap shots and will give the
Crown Point men a hard tussle to win.
The city council will meet this even
| ing in a special session to consider
some important matters pertaining to
| the citys welfare. Some complaint
| has been registered anent the pressure
| of water in SHINE of the second stories
of residences in the city and the coun-
ell members will endeavor to deter
| mine on solution of the problem IL
| possible.
| Nearly a hundred foreigners were
| brought here yesterday to receive their
first and second naturalization papers.
| which makes 1t evident that the politi-
cal parties in the north end of the
county are never at rest but are al
ways planning for future campaigns
| Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Brands will leave
today for their new home in Pontiac
| ILL.,, where Mr.. Brands has invested in
| an up-to-date meat market. Their de-
| parture from this city Is occasioned
with regret by all those who knew the
young couple.
Miss Mayme Laws is employed as
bookkeeper in the Offices of the Inter
| state Public Service company
George F. Keiser left today for his
old home at Allentown, Pa, to see his
mother. who recently suffered an acct
dent by falling and breaking her arm
She is about 50 years of age which
makes the injury doubly serious Mr.
| Keiser will spend some time in the
east.
No occasion has arisen to try our
the pulmotor recently purchased b,
the citizens of Crown Point, but ever,
one will of course be well satisfied 4
the continuance never has to be taker
down from its shelf in the offices O
the telephone company.
Mrs. George Fisher and Miss Hele,
Hand were the guests of Mrs. Ere,
Wheeler at Gary yesterday.
Clarence Kuschnick of Gary yisite,
with Crown Point relatives yesterday
William Parry was a Chicago bust
ness visitor yesterday.