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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30

In the investigation made by the various COM
panies, it has been found that they are unable
to contract, except at a great advance over
normal prices, for these various materials,
and from statements frankly made by num-
Der of companies selling such supplies there
is absolutely no hope held out for lower prices
during the continuance of the war. Even
where contracts exist it has been impossible
in great many instances to secure the de-
livery of the commodities contracted for,
necessitating purchasing on the open market,
to prevent being compelled to close down
plants, at prices in some cases as high as the
following:
Gas Coal, $500; Steam Coal, $475; Coke,
$3.50; Gas Oil, "a cents per gallon.
The percentage of increase OF prevailing
prices over those of normal times of the prin-
cipal supplies, materials, ETC., required to
operate, show an approximate average in
crease as follows:
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30

GAS COAL. In coal gas works secured
principally from West Virginia and Ken
lucky is the largest item of cost, and while
the average per cent. of increase shown
above is 233 per cent, with probabilities of
further increases in the future, during the
past winter some companies paid at times as
much as 800 per cent. increase over normal
prices.
GAS OIL. No one can tell what the price
of gas oil is going to be, and delivery is more
or less uncertain. Many companies are al
ready considering the necessity of having to
double their storage capacity to guarantee
the necessary supply of oil for continued
operation. This entails not only an additional
and unusual investment unnecessary under
normal conditions, but at cost of at least 100
per cent In excess of former prices.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30


Service
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30

COMPANIES REPRESENTED.
Consumers Gas Co.
Citizens Gas & Fuel Co.
Columbus Gas Co.
Central Indiana Lighting Co.
Evansville Public Corporation Co.
Elkhart Gas & Fuel Co.
Franklin Water, Light & Power Co.
Goshen Gas Co.
Greencastle Gas Co.
Huntington Light & Fuel Co.
Hydro Electric Light & Power Co.
Indiana Public Service Co.
Interstate Public Service Co.
Laporte Gas Co.
Northern Indiana Gas & Electric Co.
United Gas & Electric Co.
Rochester Gas & Fuel Co.
Valparaiso Lighting Co.
Warsaw Gas Co.
Washington Gas Co.
Lawrenceburg Gas Co.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1917-07-30

CITIES REPRESENTED.
Aurora Jeffersonville
Bluffton Lebanon
Bedford Logansport
Bloomington Laporte
GAINESVILLE Michigan City
Charlottesville Mishawaka
Columbus New Albany
Connersville Ossian
Decatur Peru
East Chicago Princeton
Ekhart Plymouth
Evansville Port Fulton
Franklin Rich Valley
Fort Wayne Rochester
Frankfort South Bend
Goshen Terre Haute
Greencastle Valparaiso
Hammond Warsaw
Huntington Whiting
Indiana Harbor Washington
indianapolis Lawrenceburg
Very respectfully submitted
THE INDIANA GAS ASSOCIATION.
James W. Dunbar, By E. J. Burke,
Secretary, President.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
"The vaIkyrle Of the Plano"

Teresa Carreno was an extraordi-
nary artist, and the appellation COM
monty linked with her name failed to
do justice to the softer, gentler, more
intimate aspects of her art, says a
writer in the Philadelphia Public
Ledger. She was one of the few mu-
sical artists of South America who
have satisfied the critical standards Of
Europe and the United States, which
demand a patient submission to
drudgery on the part of genius itself.
Nine. Carreno, a native of Venezuela
and composer of the national anthem
Of that country, was of fiery mettle as
artist and woman, and her temper was
quickly mobilized on occasions. But
her playing was electric and inspir-
ing and never humdrum. Her pic
turesque and fiery personality would
have made her an outstanding figure
in any gathering without the voice Of
the plano to speak for her. From the
concert stage there will be missed an
artist of authentic gifts, whose in
cisive character and diversified expe-
rience were inseparable from her mu-
sical performance.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Gardner's Address.

Gov. Gardner, in a speech at the
annual roundup corn show, told the
farmers that he was proud of the way
they had come to the front and done
their duty in the great national crisis.
Gardner, accompanied by Col. Ben
G. Brinkman, member of his staff,
came here to attend the celebration
participated in by thousands of farm
ers. He took issue with the Chicago
banker who said that the farmers of
the country would neither fight, pay
taxes nor buy Liberty bonds.
Dean F. B Mumford, head of the
college of agriculture at the Univer-
sity of Missouri, and state food ad-
ministrator, addressed the farmers.
Other speakers on the program were:
Uel w. Lamkin, state superintendent
of public schools, and Senator Reed.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
PLANNING Legislative Work.

No now laws will be considered at
the special session Of the legislature,
which meets here next May, unless
they should be needed to assist in
the war
Gov. Gardner gave out this official
announcement. He has been be-
sieged with requests from Misourians
and lawmakers to request special
bills, such as workmen's compensa-
tion, code revision and other meas
ures which went down to defeat in
the last session of the legislature to
be reconsidered at this special ses-
sion.
It is possible that the legislature
may be asked to make provisions for
the Missouri council Of defense, and
to make an appropriation for this or
ganization, which can be strictly con-
sidered military.
The expense for this council is be-
ing betrayed by private loans and the
philanthropists advancing this money
will be repaid by a special appropria-
ton to be made by the legislature
when 1t meets in regular session in
1919.
Frederick N. Judson of st. Louis
and other authorities on tax meas
ures have suggested to the governor
TO have the special session Of the leg
islature consider some additional reve-
nue. measures for passage.
Advocates of a workmen's compen-
sational law have called upon the gov
ernor pleading with him to have this
bill reconsidered for passage at the
special session of the legislature.
During the last session Of the legis-
lature about 1000 bills were present
ed for passage. OF that number about
80 per cent failed to become laws. The
authors Of the measures defeated are
asking the governor to have them re-
considered at the special session.
1t can positively be stated that none
of the bills will be introduced next
May. The men sponsoring their pas.
sage will have to wait until January,
1919, to present them at the regular
session.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
PRODUCERS CONFER AND URGE
v. s. TO SET MINIMUM
PRICE.
MUMFORD MAKES ADDRESS
Necessity for More Pork Evident, as it
Is Soldiers Meat--Profits Of Pack
ers Limited and Business
Under Rigid Control.
Jefferson City, Mo.

Two hundred pork producers of Mis-
souri, met at the College Of Agriculture
TO consider measures for relieving the
shortage of pork, and adopted resolu-
lions that price should be fixed by
the food administration guaranteeing
TO the producers as much money for
every 100 pounds Of hog on foot as
they could get for IA bushels of corn.
A further resolution asks that sub
stantial premiums be paid for heavy
hogs, to stop the selling Of immature
animals.
The ratio of 100 pounds to IA bush
els was suggested by F. B. Mumford,
state food administrator. Though 10
or IL bushels would make 100 pounds
of meat, he thought that the better
ratio for the producer was justified to
cover interest on investment and loss
es by disease.
Dean Mumford, addressing the dele
gates, emphasized the need of increas-
ing pork production. Pork, he said,
has been called the ideal soldiers
meat, because 1t can be readily cured
and transported.
In the face of decreased production
of pork, there has been in the United
States 10 per cent increase in con-
sumption among the civilian popula-
ton.
He believed the conduct Of the war
would be seriously handicapped unless
American swine breeders rose to the
emergency.
He read telegram from Food Ad-
ministrator Hoover, as follows:
"The profits of meat packers are to
be limited and their business rigidly
controlled"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
NATURAL GIFT TO WOMEN
Extraordinary Intelligence Displayed
Even by Youngest Mothers in
Handling Own Children.

She was little mite of q thing. not
much larger than the big, bald-headed
baby she carried in her arms. although
she was the mother Of the child. She
could not have been more than twenty
years Of age, and had probably had no
experience with children. But she
got on the car, dropped the ticket into
the box and sat down and adjusted the
infant to a comfortable position for
It and herself with all of the ease
and grace one might expect from a
person who had devoted lifetime to
handling babies.
The fellow who sat in the seat with
me studied the child and mother for q
few minutes, then turned to me an6
said:
Now, just look at that; there's a
girl brought up in a family where
there were no children. She never
had any experience whatever with
them. But she was married a year or
30 ago, and there Isn't a mother any
where who knows more about babies
than she does. 1t just seems like
something tells a mother what to do
with n kid; she doesn't even have to
have ordinary intelligence"
The fellow in front of us resented
the last sentence and turned around
mo, she doesn't have to have ordi-
nary intelligence" he said to my
friend, "but she has to have extraor-
llnary intelligence, and God gives her
that when he gives her the baby"
And none Of us had anything further
to say, for the simple reason there
wasn't anything further to be said /;
he had said it all.-Columbus Dis
patch.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
To Increase Assessments.

Chairman Roach of the state tax
commission expressed the opinion that
The total vaIuatIOn OIL III. s,atc l,r
next years taxes will reach $6,OOO,-
100000, and may run as high as S.
OOO,OO0,O0O. The commission has not
enough data yet on hand to make an
accurate prediction, the chairman
said. The present valuation of all the
property in the state is less than
$4,000, 100000.
The annual revenue of the state has
never exceeded $6,000,O00 in the past,
and if the estimates of the commits
sion are fulfilled as to a total valua-
tion of $6,000,00O,OOO the reseipts will
be intreased next year to something
in the neighborhood of $21,OOO,OOO.
This will be the result of cash valua-
tions of all classes of property for
next years taxes. On the strength of
this Gov. Gardner says he will con-
vene the legislature in special session
next spring to reduce state levies. The
expenditures of the state at present
are about $S,OO0,OOO a year, or not far
from this sum, and $21,OOO,OOO would
be away ahead of legitimate demands
and if handed over to some legisla-
ture would have a tendency, it is be-
lieved, to induce the passage of laws
creating more offices and wasteful ex.
penditures in many ways.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Grand Jury Resumes Work.

The Cole county grand jury has re-
convened to finish its deliberations.
The term Of the present grand jury
ends Nov. II, but an adjournment or
another recess must be taken when
Judge Slate is absent from the Cole
county court. Several weeks ago the
court ruled the grand jury could not
continue its inquiries during the alb
sence of the presiding judge.
The grand jurors probably will de-
vote the remaining days of their in
quiries to hearing further evidence re-
lating to the prison scandals.
During the recess of the grand jury
the attorney-general's office and the
prison board, which has control Of the
affairs of the state peDitentiary, have
been trying to ferret 4Sxv iurther dis
crepancies of the former management
of this institution.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
IreIand's Poetry.

Padric Colum, one of the young Irish
revolutionists now in this country, has
this to say about Ireland's poetry !:
"The new Irish poetry is the most
democratic that is being written-it is
democratic not only because it deals
with the folk of the country and the
town, but because it attempts to give
everyone voice and because 1t is
written out of recognition of the fact
that in every life there are moments
of intensity and beauty. 1t may be
that this feeling for spiritual democ-
racy manifested and propagated by the
poets and dramatists is preparing Ire
land for new crystallization Of ideas
"a crystallization that will have an
effect on her social and economic llfe."
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Health at Camp Doniphan.

With only go names on the sick
list from among the 1856 men in
camp, the health of the Thirty-fifth di-
vision was pronounced exceptionally
good in a report made to division
headquarters.
Three hundred and twenty of the
cases of Hines are of such a nature
that they are being treated in the
quarters of the men, 261 are at the
base hospital and are more serious.
Eighty-seven men are being treated
at the different regimental infirma-
ries.
Physical examination of the 5000
national army men recently imported
from Camp Funston, which has just
started, revealed that from $50 to 200
of the men will have to be returned
home as physically unfit. Three men
have already been recommended for
discharge, and others are expected to
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Coal Prices to Be Riaht.

Coal Administrator Crossley, after
having appointed a full list of com
mittees to see that the public gets a
square deal, says he is confident that
prices on fuel will be somewhat re-
duced over last winter, and that he
will not permit profiteering.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

st. Louis,-Hay-Go high-grad
timothy is worth $2S@31 and lowe,
grades in proportion. Straw, $3.50.
Potatoes-Potatoes are higher an
are quoted at $1.4O@1.5O for bes
grades.
Eggs-Fresh firsts, S5h@36c, !,
shipping order. Cases returned, ",
ass,
Butter-Creamery extra, 43@431kc
firsts, 41c; seconds, S9c. Packing
stock, 34c.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Names Defense Council.

Gov. Gardner has appointed c. P.
Walbridge, president of the Merrell
Drug Co. of st. Louis; L. c. Hamilton,
president of the Empire Trust Co. of
st. Joseph; Paul w. Brown, editor of
the West at Work, st. Louis, as mem
bers of the state council of defense.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Camp Persiflape.

"Come, come, Triggers" snapped
the instructor as the recruit shot wide
of the mark; 81 don't believe you
could hit n furniture van"
"Well, you needn't say anything"
retorted Triggers; you missed train
yesterday"
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
No Reason for Increase.

rThere is absolutely 40 justification
for the recent increase of price on coal
granted by Fuel Administrator Gar
field.
81 feel sure he is sincere in his
work, but the information he acted
upon as to the cost of production is
not correct, and the prices he has fixed
for coal should have been less"
Thus declared Attorney-General
Frank w. McAllister, after he had
held three hours conference with
State Fuel Administrator Wallace
Crossley.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
French Fisties Preferred.

Daughter-Now, don't start any
thing with Percy, dad. He's so quick
that you can't lay a glove on him.
Father-I won't try. l don't wear
gloves on my feet, anyway.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

Another dlsagreeable characteristic
of plantlice is that they like the things
that are most popular with the war
gardener.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

AS the Romnnofrs read the news
from their old home town they must
be glad they are in that second-story
fiat back in Siberia.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

Don't wasteI is the federal slogan
emblazOned in electric signs. But
how much waste of coal and current is
there In the warning2
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

Things are never as bad as they
might be-. For instance, the hard
kicking army mule is not proving 80
very fatal.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

The war gardeners have done sorns
good, but they are only camp follow.
ers compared with the real farmers.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Woman Found lnsane.

Gov Gardner directed the transfer
OF Mary Oliver of st. Louis, an inmate
of the penitentiary, to the criminal In
sane division of the Fulton asylum.
The prison physician certified that the
woman was insane. She came here
In April, 1913, under a sentence of
fifteen years for murder in the second
degree. She and a companion killed
q man at Third and Convent streets
In a drunken quarrel. Her companion
received q sentence OF twenty-five
gears. The pair were known to the
police as dope fiends.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

Gov. Lowden has issued on the gov
ernor of Missouri, asking for the re-
turn to Quincy, ILL.,, of Ludwig Per
hdo, who is charged with breaking
into drug store and stealing drugs
at Quincy. Perfido is said to be un-
der arrest at st. Louis.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15
Coal Contract.

The state prison board has entered
into a contract with the Southern
Coal and Coke Co. Of St. Louis to
supply the penitentiary with coal at
S3.45 a ton on the tracks here. The
prison consumes about 60 tons of coal
every twenty-four hours, and the Off
cials have not been able for the last
six weeks to get a good supply ahead.
Mexico Missouri message., 1917-11-15

The postoffice announces that if
interested parties desire to send
Christmas presents to the boys at the
front in France packages must be in
the hands Of the authorities by Nov.
IS. The weight is limited to seven
pounds and goods must be SO packed
as to insure easy inspection.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-05
Simple Laxatiue Remedy
>>..'::':: Best for Constellation
Or. caIdwelI's Syrup Pspsin Gave Sat
isfaction When Nothing Else
would

Dr.. CaIdwelI's Syrup Pspsin Gave Sat.
isfaction When Nothing Else
Would. Ill.,.
Nearly every one: at one time or
another, suffers from. constipation, or
inactive bowels, and one Of the few
conclusions upon which the doctors
agree is that regularity Of the bowels
is an essential to good health.
In the family medicine chest OF
most well.ordered households will be
found one or more Of the various
remedies recommended for the relief
of constipation. In the majority of
homes today the combination Of sim:
pie laxative herbs with pepsin known
as DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is rec.
ognized as the standard laxative
Druggists everywhere report a con-
stantly increasing demand for this
splendid remedy, which is sold for
fifty cents a bottle.
=: Mr.. James Ash, 1902 Green St., Cum
berland, Md, wrote to DR.. Caldwell
that he, found DIR" Caldweil's' Syrup
Pepsin the most effective remedy for
he had ever used and
tfIHt he always Keeps a bottle of 1t on
hand for use when necessary.
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is :
mild laxative, and does not grippe or
strain but acts gently and brings re-.
efinSan easy, natural manner. lta
freedom from opiates or narcotic
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-05

ing the house committee on rules
which is one OF the most important
relationships Speaker Wood has to
give cut.
Born in Russia.
Representative Fl. A. Mack0ff was
born in Russia, near Odessa, in 1888.
He came to New York in 1900 and re-
manned a citizen of the metropolis un-
til 1908, attending while there the Col
lege OF the City of New York. In 1908,
he migrated to North Dakota, where
he settled on a Mcintosh county farm.
After two years farming, he became
country school master and then
took up law course at the University
OF MOI tn Dakota, receiving his deeree
in 1912. He was admitted to the bar
and made an American citizen on the
same day. There followed a years
general practice at Herreid, S. D.,
where Mr.. Mackoff was also assistant
prosecuting attorney. In 1913 the jun
ior representative settled in Belfeld,
where he has since resided
No, Mr.. Mackoff is not married
He hasn't found any time to do his
counting since he first set foot on
American soil.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-05
BISMARCK CLERGY WHO
ARE TO 0FF|C|hTE. FOR
LEGISLATORS 81 SELECTED
Six Capital City Clergymen Will
Oficiate Alternatively Dur.
ing Session

DR.. w. J. Hutcheson, secretary of
the Bismarck Ministerial association
advises Senator Gibbons, chairman of
the committee on employment in the
upper house, that the following sched-
ule for the services of capital city
clergymen as chaplains in the house
and the senate was adopted at re.
cent meeting of the pastors:
January 3-10-Rev. E. F. Alison,
senate: Rev. r. Strutz, house.
January 1017-Very Rev. NJ. J. Hit
ner, senate; Rev. H. c. Postlethwaite
house.
January 17-24-Rev. DR.. w. J.
Hutcheson, senate; Rev. Bruce Jack.
son, house. ,1 ,5 Il
January 24-31-Rev. Olaf r. Svore.
senate; Rev. Henry Hirsch, house.
January 31-Feb. REV. Strutz, SEN
ate; Rev. Alison, house.
February 7-14-Rev. Postlethwaite,
senate; Rev. Hiltner, house.; q;
February 14-21-Rev. Jackson, sen.
ate: Rev. Hutcheson, house. !"
February 21-2S-Rev. Hirsch, sen.
ate; Rev. Svore, house. /
Under this arrangement, II the ses.
sion lasts the usual 60 days, each pas.
tor will have an opportunity to Off.
ciate ten days in each house.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-05
VALUED INSURANCE
. Il BILL NAY f|NO|| WAY
!. INTO NEW. SESSION
Representative Mackoff of Bel
. field, Interested in This Spec
ial Piece of Legislation

That bill will be introduced at
this session CT the legislature which
will aim to settle The value of prop
erty at the time the policy is written
and the premium is paid so there
shall arise no difference as to the
actual value after the destruction of
1.-THE property, now seems certain.
Attorney H. A. MackOff of Belfield,
chairman of the rules committee Of
the house, is interested in this partic-
ular piece Of legislation and sees the
need of such law thru matters which
have been brought to his attention in
dealing with insurance litigations in
which the agents agreement has not
been binding
Representative MackOff is now
working on a draft and will in all
probability introduce valued insur-
ance bill within the next two weeks.
TO gain more intelligence on the mat
ter he has been communicating with
the insurance commissioners OF sew
eral states.
Another legislator interested in this
piece of legislation is E. E. Cole, own.
err of the Cole hotel and the MetrOpole
at Fargo.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-05
Of CAUCUS
AGAINST COMMITTEE
ANNOUNCEMENTS TO-DAY
Not To Be Made Public Until the
Entire List Has Been CON-
pleted, Says Wood

The caucus held last night in the
auditorium of the old Northwest by
members OF the Non-partisan league
and several Equity heads, decided
that no committee announcements of
the house will be made today, con-
trary to the statement made at the
afternoon session Of the house yes
terday afternoon by Speaker Wood.
The committees will not be annOunc-
ed until the entire list has been COM
pleted, stated the speaker this noon.
The matter of completing the mem
bership of the some as committees is
proving a tedious task. The chair
men for the most part have been Sc
lected and passed on by the members
of the committee on committees.
Names have been buffeted from one
committee to another. The speakers
room is mass Of typewriter cop
les which are plowed through in max
ing up committee. Letters have
also been received from different
legislators requesting places on COM
mittees in which they are interested.
1t is believed that c. A. Ward of Ha-
ZeltOn will be made chairman of the
livestock committee, and it has been
rumored in secrecy that Attorney A.
G. Divet of Wahpeton will be chair
man Of the judiciary committe of the
house. He is now serving his third
term.
J. NJ. Baer, cartoonist for the Nom
partisan league publications, enter
tanned the caucus members for ten
minutes with a chalk talk Discus
sion was held as to the methods of
procedure in order to expedite the
business of both chambers of the as
semhly.