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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
Whiting
And Its
People

Buy . $4,000 rIpsrry BOND. Bank Of
Whiting, open 9 a. ~ to 8 D. S-2l
Thursdays picture at the Star Thea
tire viii be the great wonder-play Of the
war Bridges Burned" featuring Nine.
Petrova- This picture has been substi-
tuted IN place of the Tides of Fate"
as announced on the program. 1854
Mrs. Henry Behrens and son Gilbert
OF this place. have been spending a few
days in Chicago visiting her sister.
r. Bau1ngarten Of F'ischrupp avenue.
has returned home from St. Bernard 5
hospital in Chicago where he under
went a very serious operation.
Prof. santi Of woodlawn. has been
appointed French teacher for the Whit
ing public night school About forty
registered for this course on Tuesday
night. There viii be a Tuesday and a
Thursday night class.
Al Italian grotto. No. 66. will give a
Columbus Day ball at the Slovak home
tomorrow evening. The grand march.
at p. m. viii be led by Monarch and
Mrs. Abe Ottenheimer OF East Chicago.
Five hundred invitations have been ex-
tended. The grotto orchestra will furn-
ish music with the band IN attendance.
Frank Duggan and Frank Greenwarld.
members Of the signal corps Of the l..
S. navy. have left for a two weeks
cruise, at the end OF which they ex-
pect TO be called into active service
Mrs. J. T. Graves and children of AT
Sheridan avenue. have gone to SAN
Francisco. Cal. where they win spend
several months visiting her sister. Mrs
J. Mckenzie. and friends at Point Rich
mond, Cal.
There VIII be s. meeting OF the Red
Cross at the high school auditorium at
o'clock tonight. at which all members
are requested TO be in attendance. Five
new directors are to be elected.
The public night school opened on
Tuesday night. at which over 200 en-
rolled. Over sixty enrolled for COM
merciaI work and forty signed UP for
French. The shop work is also an at
tracttve feature for the men and many
are taking advantage Of this The night
school IS being held In the high school
building on Tuesday and Thursday
nights.
AIr. and Mrs. Floyd Banks nee Orvflla
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
DYER

The funeral Of the infant son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Peter Scheidt OF Chicago
Heights. took place Thursday after
noon here. interment at st. Joseph's
cemetery.
A large number from here went to
Richton. Tuesday forenoon, where they
attended the funeral of the late Jacob
keilman.
The regular monthly meeting Of St
Josephs court. c. O. F.. took place
Monday evening at their hall and was
largely attended.
a week from Sunday the bazaar for
the beneht Of St. Joseph's church will
take place at the hall The women
who have charge of the affair are work
ing hard to make it a success.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11

ed home after a weeks visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Congor OF Myrtle ave-
nue..
Mrs. Jake Wickhorst of Indiana
boulevard. returned home from Coloma,
Mich. after a weeks visit with her
sister Mrs. Fred Lingham and fam
lily.
Miss Genevieve Harmon Of Gary, Wis
tied Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Harmon, last
evening.
Herman Rognier has resigned hts
position as conductor on the Hammond.
whiting & East Chicago car line and
has accepted one at the 5. .. Con pany,
Mrs. Henry Harmon of Indiana boule-
ward. was a Chicago shopper Tuesday
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
ST. JOHN

Mrs. Andrew Boiling spent Tuesday
with her daughter at Dyer.
Peter Thielen and Jos. T. Gerlach, Jr
made business trip to Laporte or
Tuesday.
Mrs. Jos. NJ Gerlach visited Tues
day and Wednesday with relatives at
Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Spanier attended
the funeral OF Mrs. Spanier's brother
at Chicago Heights. on Tuesday.
John Miller, John Stark and Ben
Klein spent Wednesday at Shelby. fish
ing.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
Saving His Feelings.

Tavern had a favorite plate, from
which she always liked to eat. One
day her father accidentally broke it.
He had to tell the bad news to his
little daughter, and was so penitent
that her love for the plate was over
shadcwed ~ sorrow for him, and she
said "Oh, that's all right. papa. was
going TO break that myself yesterday"
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
THIS WEAK,
NERVOUS WOMAN
TOOK VINOL
It Made Her Strong and
Well

Ssrneveld. wis.--"I was in a weak.
nervous. rundown, anaemio condition.
so that my housework was = burden.
Ninoi was recommended. and Ii made
me we'll and strong 1t Is certainly the
oest tonic and strength creator I have
ever tGken."-AIrs. John Lewis.
Ninol is a cod liver and iron consti-
tutional remedy for weak. nervous.
rundown conditions OF men. women and
children. Your money VIII be return ed
II 1t does not help YOU
Joseph w. Weis. Druggist; L. Harry
Weis. and Norris Phcy.. Hammond. and
at the est drug store IN every town and
city In the country.-Adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
Not a Corn or
CaIluS on Feet
Apply few drops, then life
them off without pain.

A noted Cincinnati au-
thority discovered a new
ether compound and called
it freezone and it now can
be had in little bottles for
a few cents from any drug
store.
You simply apply a few
drops of freezone upon a
tender corn or painful cal
lus and instantly the sore
ness disappears. then short
ly you viii find the corn or
caIlus so loose that you can
lift it of with fingers.
No pain, not bit Of
soreness, either when APP
plying freezone or after
wards. and it doesn't even
irritate the skin
Hard corns. soft corns or
corns between the toes, also
toughened calluses. just
shrivel UP and lift off so
easy III is wonderful IT.
works like a charm. Try it,
W o m en- should keep
freezone on their dressers
II a corn ache twice.--Adv.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
Word rnceived from the soldIer boyg

Word received from the soldier boys
at the various training camps is to the
effect that they are well pleased with
the treatment received and that they
like it better every day. Outside Of the
fact that they had to leave home. they
are well satisfied
Yesterday afternoon the directors of
the First National bank here held their
regular monthly meeting.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
IN nEEnroRTAM.

@N 4~14AO64AA
In sad and loving remembrance Of my
dear mother and grandmother. AIber-
tina Earth. who passed away one year
ago yesterday. Oct. 10 1916.
Days of sadness still comes Ger US.
Tears Of pity often flow
When we think Of how you left US
Just one year ago
Like ivy on A withered oak.
Wnen all things else decay,
Our love for you viii still keep green
and never fade away.
Daughter and Grandchildren.
1o-1l-1 MRS. H WUESTENFELD
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11
Daily Thouoh4

There is but one straight road t.
success and that is merit-Bourk.s
Cochran.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-10-11

Lady Crosfield, who is the wife Of
Sir Arthur Crosfeld, Bart, is the
commandant of the Red Cross hos-
pital which she has established at
Hampstead. Lady Crosfeld is also
opening a new branch very shortly
in the same district. Before her
marriage she was Miss Domini
Elliadi, eldest daughter of Ellie IL.
Elliadi Of smyrna
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24

clamor of the paclfists, contending at
once that to prepare to resist agrees
sion was to invite aggression and that
the defeated invasion had been mere
ly a minor skirmish between cow
punchers and Mexican raiders. an af-
fair exaggerated beyond reason; the
simmering down of popular interest;
the return of the common apathy; the
renewed reign of lethargie indiffer-
ence to the need for preparedness !"
And so she began to understand
that the victory of that day was but
a barren one; that she had fought and
endured and sacrificed lives and hap
piness and treasure to no end what
ever, but only to be beginning; that
the battle, the battle of her country,
the battle of common sense patriot
ism, was merely beginning; that he
who would save his country in spite
of itself undertakes labor as unend-
ing as it is thankless.
Nevertheless, to this plough she had
set her hands; and there could be no
turning back.
She must fight on and on and on,
shoulder to Donalds shoulder, his
hand in hers.
Bending forward Patria tenderly set
her lips to the lips of Donald Parr,
dedicating anew her life and his, that
was hers to do with as she willed, to
the service of their country, that it
might be saved.
(THE END.)
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24

the grimest determination on both
sides. But wherever the tanks
moved-and nothing served to swerye
one of these from whatever course it
chose to take-the ranks of the enemy
melted into disorderly rabble of panic
stricken rugitives.
A shell from the howitzer found the
Claiming hacienda and iaid it in
flaming, smoking ruins about the ears
of Huroki and his staff.
Thirty minutes after the tanks had
lnaugurated the offensive, the inva-
sion had been turned into a rOut. The
roads beyond the border were choked
with fugitiyes Huroki and his per-
sonal aides forced their armored motor
car through the milling mob upon the
bridge at the border and regained
Mexican soil bare minute before an
other howitzer shell destroyed the
bridge utterly, and with 1t hundreds of
fleeing Mexicans and japanese.
The last action of the battle was an
engagement between American rough
riders and Mexican cavalry, in which
the latter, attempting to cover the rear
of the defeated army. were vanquisbed,
dissipated. sent scurrying into the
south in disorder as great as that of
their comrades and allies whom they
had sought TO save.
But in this engagement Rodman
Pillsbury fell, killed instantly in ac-
ton.
Ordering her batteries up TO the
boundary line, Patria instructed them
to shell the fugitives mercilessly. Fur
Their than this line she would not per-
NIT them 10 move. Nor would she per-
init one of her decimated little army
to carry the war into Mexico.
In defending her own property
against aggression she had acted with
in her rights as a private citizen. If
reprisals were to be visited upon the
aggressors, that was the prerogative
of the government of her country-not
her prerogative.
Thus the invading army of Baron
Huroki and his dupes and allies melt
ed away into those sun-baked plains
and arid hills of Mexico, and was no
more-like the army of u dream.
SAMURAi.
In the heat of that GREATNESS after
noon the armored motorcar, a grim
gray unit of mechanism rendered only
the more grim and gray by it's heavy
coating of dust and the evidences of
hard usage it wore, lunged heav-
lily around the wide curves of the
military road penetrating The secret
heart of those Mexican mountains. de-
bouched on downgrade with the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24
FIFTEENTH EPISODE
The Sting of Victory.
DARK HOURS.

ft was shortly after sunrise when the
first shots signaled the attempt of
Patria Channing's little handful of pa
triotic adventures TO stem the inva-
sion of American soil by the allied
force of Mexicans and japanese COM
manded by Baron Huroki.
Patria's first move. then. was to dis
patch kilograms to the nearest post of
the United States army as well as to
Washington. giving notice Of the inva-
sion ard asking for help.
Within an hour japanese field bat
teries. Smelling with shrapnel the adj
vanced trenches which commanded the
international boundary line. had rem
dered them untenable and japanese
infantry had swarmed over them in
pursuit Of the retreating defenders.
At the same time Baron Hurokf and
his staff. taking possession of Patria's
hacienda. had converted it into field
headquarters. From it's patio HHroH
directed the efforts of his troops to
overcome the resistance of the de-
Tenders.
The latter had meanwhile occupied
their main intrenchments, far strong
er position furrowing the ridge Of a
range Of low hills lying back of the
hacienda and something slightly less
than a mile north of the border line.
Here they took root stubbornly. De
spite the disparity between their num-
bers and those Of the invaders, they
threw back charge after charge Of
japanese and Mexican infantry. with
ering and blasting them with the ma
ehine-gun fire which sprayed the ter
rain with death as garden hose
sprays lawn with life; while their
batteries, cunningly secreted back of
the hills and directed in mastery fash
ion, kept the guns of the invaders too
busily on the move 70 permit their do
ing much damage to the trenches.
But if the defenders fought with I'M
shakable determination and fearless
ness, they fought with despair In their
hearts. For their commanding eleva-
ton permitted them to overlook all
the land between them and the bound
airy, and they could hardly help being
appalled, by the flood Of allied troops
which was sweeping across the bor-
der and arraying against them.
Again urgent prayers for aid were
dispatched to the authorities.
As before, they gained no acknOwl-
edgment of any sort.
Failing to take the main line
trenches INV aeqnuff IuroLJ prstarad
his forces to fail back and dig them
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24
At the Wedding Feast.

In some parts of the country 1t is
the custom to send congratulatory tele'
grams to friends at distance who are
being married That is, the message
is timed to arrive just after the cere-
mony, and during the feast which US
ually follows.
Now, a certain man, large farmer,
was about to be married, and shortly
before the time he heard that one of
his cattle had strayed. 1t being a
valuable animal, he told his bailiff to
let him know at once when it was
found. The bailiff, being an econom-
ical man. combined the two affairs,
and the happy bridegroom received the
following message just as they all sat
down to dinner:
Congratulations. The beast is
caugnt!''
1t is fair to conclude that the tele-
gram afforded at least as much graft
fication 10 the assembled guests as to
the actual recipient himseh.-Tit-Bits.
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manded the wandering interest Of his
tagged staff with a single glance, his
pose gestureless. With a single i'm
pulse they stiffened 10 attention.
After a moment he addressed them
in a level and toneless voice, with
the manner Of one imparting informa-
ton concerning a person of particular
unimportance.
Gentlemen" said Baron Huroh, lit
becomes my duty to impart to you GER
tain advices. have here a message
from his majesty, the emperor"
He paused to make obeisance to the
effigy symbolized by that name.
81 need hardly remind you that, up
on the untimely death, day before yes
terday, of the late commander in chief,
Count Nogi, /. acting on authority
vested in me by his imperial majesty,
assumed the functions of commander
in chief. and in my supreme discretion
initiated that invasion of the United
States which was the ultimate pur-
pose of our presence in Mexico. For
this action assumed, protested. and
accept full responsibility.
''That my action was ill-advised is
beside the point. alone was, and am,
liable for its consequences. The onus
of failure rests upon a single head,
my own.
by my lack of sound judgment, my
haste and rashness, have brought
down defeat upon our forces, have
needlessly sacrificed unnumbered fell
low servants of his majesty. the en-
peror, / have wrought confusion with
his imperial designs, 1 have set at
naught his ends.
$50 be it. / explain without attempt
to extenuate the consequences of my
madness. / accept without protest
the penalty of failure.
1.-THE command of our scattered and
shattered forces / resign to your
capable nands. You are instructed
to reorganize them as quickly as
possible and withdraw from this
part of Mexico, marching westwards
TO effect a junction with the army en-
camped at Magdalena Bay. This you
will do not only with all possible eX-
petition, but with all feasible secrecy.
II have one request to make of your
pity; if it be within your power,
would like my dlsbonored body to be
conveyed to Nippon for burial.
Gentlemen, / go to join my fore
fathers, in full confidence that the
honorable fashion Of my death win
secure for me the freedom of their
company"
Huroki ceased to speak, drew him
self up, and saluted his staff. That
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24

swiftness of an angel of death into
the great valley devoted to the allied
encampment, and drew up sharply, as
if checked by some invisible but inn
movable barrier before the adobe
building dedicated to the uses of the
commander in chief and his staff.
Half a dozen men. worn, haggard, ST.
lent, in uniforms stiff with sweat and
dust, aIighted from the car and weari-
ly threw themselves, rather than
walked. up the steps to the veranda
in front of the headquarters building.
Deepest discOnsolation was the key
note of their common demeanor.
In the lines that currowed their dust
masked faces, il those red r:1Ined
eyes which stared out of them, despair
was written pIainly-the despair of
gamblers who have staked all on a
single throw and have lost.
Foremost In their number was Baron
Hurold, that arch-conspirator, that
gambler incurable-a presence of COM
handing distinction even in the shad-
Ow of defeat, disgrace, and death.
Al his heels moved his shadow, that
one whose devotion and loyalty 10 his
master passed even that devotion and
loyalty which was the due of his en-
peror-Huroki's aid dc camp of today,
his body servant of yesterday. his IA
millar spirit of all days, that japanese
who answered to the name of KatO.
Their four companions were officers
Of high rank, subordinate only to the
commander in chief of the army which
Japan had thrown into Mexico TO CO.
operate with the native troops in that
great drive" designed to split the
United States asun5er by invading the
Mississippi valley via the Southwest
ern states, leaving thu Pacific slope de-
/ fenseless against invasion by way of
Lower California and the sea.
As Huroki moved toward the door of
the adobe building, a japanese orderly
came out. paused. saluted stifiiy, with
n countenance expressionless, and
proffered a folded paper.
/ Huroki recognized the form on
/ which incoming telegraphic dispatches
we're Transcribed. He could have
hazarded a shrewd guess at the ma
ture of this communication If put
to it. could have foretold it almost
word for word.
None the less he extended steady
hand to accept it, unfolded the paper
read it without permitting the slight
est phase of his emotions to be re
flected in his face. and deliberately re
folded ii.
At pause before the doorway, he
rounded smartly on his heels and com
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24
Proverbs.

Proverbs have not always been an
unmixed benefit to the world. There
are several very mean and malignant
proverbs em5odying the wit of one
man and the Immature, not the wis
dom, of many men. One of the worst
of these proverbs is. 'There is no
smoke without fire"-a proverb which
has lent its aid to thousands of gross
calumnies. Perhaps we might ven
ture to adopt a counteracting proverb
which has at least as much truth,
physically and metaphysically. as the
foregoing one. 1t is: THE lsss fire
the greater the smoke."-S:r Arthur
Helps.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-10-24

OF that little room In the adobe build
ing in the mountains of Mexico.
There was neither hesitation nor
mutiny in his temper. but only repin-
ing that his efforts in the service of
his emperor had been so Inflated.
He would have been glad of long
er life if that permitted him to repair
the errors of which he had been guilty.
But he had had his chance, and had
failed.
What must be. must.
With a sudden. swift turn of his
hand this unhappy gentleman of ia
pan reversed the point of the dagger
and drove it in toward his diaphragm.
THE COST.
When Patria appeared in the door
way the nurse rose and with friend
" and reassuring smile slipped out of
the room.
Donald Parr lay moveless on his
cot, asleep. The girl sat down on the
chair by his side and gently dropped
her hand upon one of his that lay
outside the sheet, dark, strong hand
That seemed, in her sight. to dwarf
and render altogether puny and in
significant the slender white grace of
her own.
Still Donald did not stir. She was
content with that. Sleep was what
he needed, the best of all medicines
for his hurts. She asked for herself
no more than this. that she be per-
United to rest little by his side, to
touch his hand, TO know that, though
his wounds We're grievouS, he would
live, and in a day to come be whole
and sound once more-and hers.
She was very weary. The need to
rest oppressed her like a heavy bur-
den. Yet she did not dream of clos
Ing her eyes in sleep. She had too
much to think about, the victory of
the day to contemplate, its cost to
reckon. Her brain seemed to burn
with thoughts, doubts, fears, regrets.
memories; the screen of its vision re-
Elected in endless succession flashing
scenes from the splendid, awful
pageant of that day and night of
fighting.
1t was three o'clock in the after
noon. The last shot at the routed and
fleeing armies of invasion had been
fired hours ago. The last fugitive had
long since disappeared The last
stricken horse had been killed, the last
wounded man had been found and
cared for, the last dead man buried.
Remained only the stricken field,
blOodied and defiled and trampled and
furrowed almost beyond recognition;
the consciousness that the day was
won, the invader disastrously defeat
ed, the country saved in spite of it
self; the bitterness of victory.
Sitting there in that close little room
that reeked of iodoform, with her
hands touching the hand of her be-
loved. the girl abandoned herself to
reverie, her dark eyes fathoming inn
measurable depths of thought.
UncOnsciously she began to con the
toll of victory: Donald wounded nigh
unto death, Rodman Pillsbury and
Bud Morgan dead-and these but the
beginning, names that headed the hun
dreds upon the lists of casualties
merely because they were most init
mate to Patria; the hacienda wrecked
beyond repair, the fair countryside
that surrounded it turned into stink
ing shambles, a great treasure expend-
ed in ammunition and the business of
-
war.
And all to what end?
She foresaw quite clearly what
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would happen within the next few
days and weeks; the storm of popular
Indignation; the massing Of troops
along the border; the Interchange
of diplomatic amenities; Japan's stu
diously polite disavowal of HurOki
and all his alleged works; Mexico's
disavowal of the part its troops had
played IL the conspiracy and the at
tempted invasion; the administra-
TONS grudging acceptance of both;
demands for measures of prepared
ness" voiced in congress; the shrill