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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-08-22
By Will Seaton

he returned looking little anxious.
 Hes not there," he said. He told me he'd reach here by the time the storm broke. It's letting up a little, and I'll send some of the men out soon. Though nothing could have happened to an old timer like Harry"
 Edith said nothing, but as the wind lessened she stole softly from the room and out toward the stables. Dusk was just beginning to deepen as she rode swifter out toward the stopping place of the morning.
 eff he got caught he made for that little shelter know" she said to her self. But know that that Josephine has done something, even if he is a cowboy, and it's all. my fault"
 She drew rein by the hillock. Back in its shadows sat Harry, pale, but calmly smoking, until he saw the star tied eyes of the girl. Edith gave him no time for questions.
 "Oh," she moaned. T knew Jose phine would do something!"
 Harry glanced in an embarrassed way at his ankle, about which he had awkwardly tied a handkerchief.
 "All my own carelessness," he said ''I stood in the saddle to look for the herd and if the blamed little imp didn't buck without a word of warning and
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plain, the horses taking the barbed wire fences as lightly as birds. They drew rein on a lonely little hillock, the only brake in the level of the plain for miles around.
 Look" said Harry. See how one side is scooped out? Some Indian made himselv a shelter here sometime from a duststorm. And now stand here on top for a moment and you will see why I like this place."
 Edith looked. The slight eminence gave a surprising sweep of view; the far ranchhouse with the distant graz ing herds, the blue line of haze that marked the mountains, and farther still the brown of the plain merging into the blue of the desert. Toward the desert Harry looked apprehensively.
 Miss Edith," he said, 'I believe that we'll have a duststorm here in an hour or so. The air felt like it this morn ing, with the scorching wind, and now I can see 1t gathering out there on the desert. I wonder if you would be will ing to ride in to the ranch alone while I ride out to speak to MT. Alcott?"
 Edith blushed a little. Why, yes, of course I'll go. but-but I wish, you would let me ride your horse back, MT. Esterly. I'm so afraid Josephine will buck"
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but me"
 She felt her aunt stiffen in&ber arr and her courage fled.
 "I didn't mean to listen, truly. TN never tell any one about it." she gasped and made precipitately for the door.
 Joy stood there alone in the dara for moment, her face strained and bitter.
 "F'orgotten?" she said aloud, in a queer strangled voice, utterly unlike her own. Turning abruptly, she slipped back into the other room. She bent and kissed the place where her dead child's head had lain, kissed il f1ercely. passionately.
 Forgotten" she said again with broken thrill of laughter, to the empty room, and the empty bed, and tho moonlight that streamed in so pas sionlessly, just as 1t had shone in on Honey's quiet sleeping, year and more ago.
 That was what they all thought of her then, all of them, even Tiffany and Peter, who each loved her in their way? She had hidden her own sor- row so deep to comfort them that they only mocked and said she had forgotten, she whose sleeping and waking was haunted by her loss.
 Tomorrow 1t will be better she whispered to herself. "I shall not mind so much tomorrow"
 But tomorrow is such cold philoso< phy with which to still the heartache of todayi
 She knelt on by the bed. her face hidden, crushing the roses at her l breast till their petals showered over the coverlet
 That was an emblem of all her life now, she thought vaguely, as the cool kiss of the petals brushed her fingers. Dust of rose leaves, that was all. Love and patience and work for others dust of rose leaves for herself, the Seller of Perfumes" as Tiffany had once called her, long ago.
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the teeth of wolf It pulled at her ankles as if there was a rope around them. In a minute she had been gripped at the knees. Then she caught the branches of a bush and hung on and screamed. She could save herself from sinking deeper, but she could no more pull herself out than she could fly.
 With the tall cornstalks and trees about her to smother the sounds the girls screams could not be heard 40 rods. She sized up the situation after awhile and was quiet.
 She would have to wait until they came in search of her. They would not know in which direction to search. They might not find her till next day.
 Six feet away was the bubbling spring ref1ecting the face of the man she was to marry, but she could not pass over that six feet.
 Two hours went past, and then she heard some one whistling as he came through the corn. He came with care less step. and when within few feet of her, but hidden by the corn, she heard him say:
 Hang it all, that spring ought to be right around here somewhere"
 The captive did not call out. Some one else was in search of the spring. What for? Judging by the voice 1t was young man.
 "Of course, it's all nonsense, but I'm going to have a look just the same"
 The owner of the voice moved to the right and halted. Then he moved to the left and halted. The luxuriant cornsalks made 6 jungle of the place. "Td better stayed away and looked in a glass or fe1eoxAde for the Scs. Ii I were a farns1 And had a snrinR !
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tub. and with an uptilt to her beauti- full head that would well give a thrill of pride to any man on whom she be- slowed her friendship.
 ''Is that Josephine?" she called to Harry as she drew within hailing dis tance.
 "Yes, that's Josephine" answered Harry, batting the smaller horse Isn't she a beauty"
 She is indeed" said the girl smoothing the soft nose of the pretty mare. Are you sure she isn't part broncho? Brother Jim says that if a horse has ever so little a drop of broncho blood in him, ever so far back, he's bound to buck, at least once in his life. And I don't want to be the one to discover that one drop!"
 Harry shook his head. well, of course" he said, its hard to pick up a horse around here that you can vouch for. But really, Miss Alcott, think Josephine is as safe as a cradle. "
 Edith hung her whip on the saddle pommel and motioning away Harry's offered hand swung herself into the saddle.
 This morning." he said, I'm going to take you to my particular pet spot. It's only half an hours ride from here"
 Out they raced across the dusty
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be funny, wouldn't it?'
 And at the end of half an hour she went home to finish her packing, and she actually whistled as she packed!
 Miss Mira found herself glad to be out in the country. Not so much on account of the spotted COW and the .creek that didn't ba bble, but while she laughed over what the woman. had told her on the park bench, down in her heart she almost believed it.
 She waited three days and then ask ed the farmer:
 Do you grow corn?"
 Lands, yes!" he replied.
 Where is it?''
 Right in front of your eyes. Don't you see that 1O-acre field?"
 Why, I thought corn grew on trees!"
 The field fronted on the highway and ran back to the woods. If there was a spring anywhere around it would be back there. . Had the girl asked the farmer he would have told her exactly where it was. and at the time given her a eau tion, but she imagined if she asked he would suspect the reason and poke fun at her. Thus she wandered of by her self, and it was two hours before she came upon the place she sought.
 Yes, there was the spring and a lit tie rtvulet flowing away from it. The ground around was damp and soggy, but Miss Mira took little notice of that.
 If the woman had been right about the spring. why not about the face Two steps more and she could kneel and look. Then she stepped upon a wet and sandy spot and was pulled down.
 OnicksandI Ii Rrinned her feet like
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sThe sound of your running feet that
 like the sea-hoofs beat A music by night and day, Ely, on the
 sands of my heart, my sweet, The song was a favorite with Sir Peter. Honey had loved it best of all. with the odd instinct of a child for sorrowful things. Tifie wondered how her aunt could sing that song, though her loss was now year old. The song went on:
 Ely, Ely. Ely, put of your wee hands
 from the heart O me. It's pain they are making there, where
 no more sorrow should be; For little running feet, and wee white
 hands, and croodlin' as of the
 sea,
 Bring tears to my eyes-tears, tears,
 out O the heart O me.
 Then there was silence for a minute, broken by laugh from Joy. It jared on Tiffany. To her it sounded only mocking, heartless, utterly unlike the aunt she adored.
 Soon after the guests went away. She could hear Sir Peter telling his wife not to wait up for him as he had work to finish that would keep him up late.
 Silence once more, the garden dreaming in the moonlight, the beat of waves breaking below the compound wall hushed and mysterious-like a child sobbing in the dark, thought Tiff fie, with flash of poetry unusual for her.
 She reused herself to go in. The servants had all gone to bed except the Hamal, who waited patiently till 1t should please Missie to come in, to close the doors.
 Sugar crept away to her bed in the veranda. But Tiff1e decided that she was not at all sleepy, and that she ab- solutely must find her aunt and tell her the news. Aunt Joy was just too
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 were all beautiful in her eyes. If you had told Edith that this strange fascination was due to the undeniable charms of a certain tall cowboy, who had recently been made foreman of her brothers ranch. she would have tossed her pretty head at you and denied your insinuations scornfully.
 'What!" she had exclaimed when her sister-in-law had slyly remark ed on the regularity of Edith's morning rides under the forema1's tutelage. What! 1 have more than an ordi- nary interest. founded on curiosity. for a cowboy! Why. Alice. you forget where I was born and bred"
 At this pretty Mrs. Alcott had laughed merrily.
 Born and bred" she had repeat ed My dear child. when you come
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By Elsie EndicoGt

Browns"
 'I am sure I am most grateful fo your coming"
 Don't mention it. I'd do as much for any girl I was going to ;narry!"
 "You-you-"
 70, the woman was right enough, only she didn't mention the quicksand. Of course, we shall marry!"
 She had to be won in the customary way, however, but she was worth the trouble. She doesn't call hello" to him, but makes 1t dear"
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"It did"
 Same here, again. Are you stopping at Brown's?"
 Yes"
 Just got there after you left. was in such hurry to get to this spring that I didn't wait to unpack."
 And aren't you going to look for it?" laughinEly queried the girl.
 "No use. I'm looking at 1t right now, and so are you I'll retire to the depths of the corn for ten minutes while you give ourselves away at
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Some Wrinkles

amusing experiences incident to some what limited means and total inexperi- ence. Last Saturday there was hitch in the delivery of the marketing, and Sunday found them with a practically empty larder. When dinner time came the young wife burst into tears.
 "Oh, this is horrible!" she wept. Not a thing in this house for @ dog to eat! I am going home to mamai"
 "If you don't mind. dear" the hus- band exclaimed, as he visibly bright ened and reached for his hat. I'll go with youi"
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She had skimped herself for weeks to buy few extra things.
 None of the other telephone giT1s at her station was going along.
 There would be cows and pigs and sheep out there. but what of it?
 There would be a meadow and brook. but it would be just a common meadow with an old spotted COW in it. and was that anything to enthuse over?
 The book if thero was one, would ho about as big as a cent. and instead of bab'ling it would be as dumb as an owl by daylight.
 There would be hill som mewhere ground. but a girl would be an idiot to climb a hill when she might walk on level ground.
 Very possibly there might be a syl- ven grove. if the farmer hadn't sold 1t to the Lumber Trust. or the worms eaten up the leaves. but the palm trees on the roof garden beat a syl- van grove all hollow.
 There wcusd be a girl there from a separtrs.eut sto.e-the one ct the no- tion table--ah6 every day she would be brxgg1ng of the tremendous sales she had made and how she froZe the kooEG 0ksr when he got too EsaRS.
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pretty, laughing woman, whose wide black hat shadowed a charming piquant face. whose light-hearted chatter kept the whole group amused and interested.
 Tiffany sat apart, watching rather wistfully She was hardly a social success. this quaint, prim little girl but that was not her beautiful Aunt Joys fault, as Tiffie herself would have been the first to admit
 Joy had done her best. and it was Tinany's own fault, her queer. shy ways, her self-consciousness her un- expected bursts of candor, that had made women vote her stupid and men pass her by for more congenial part ners.
 Tiffany's own ambition had been to do mething"-something real and vital-to study. work. train for a nurse or a teacher. But Tiffie's uncle and guardian had sternly pooh -poohed the idea and carried her off to Bombay and round of gaiety utterly uncon- genial to her.
 The girl adored her aunt. The one puzzle of her existence was how any one so perfect had come to marry so very ordinary man as her Uncle Peter. For Joy Seatoun was perfection in her niece's simple eyes.
 Then, too. till year ago. there had been little Honey. Joys child. Tiffe's eyes filled with tears as she thought of her lost idol. Honey had been quick to find out Tiffe's genuine worth. as children will, and Tiff1e, who had nev- CT had much love in all her humble
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Edith's eastern eyes the ranch was a most fascinating place. The wide. rolling stretches of plain, flat and brown under the autumn skies; {; the lean cottonwood s chose sCant shade was a mere joke. and the ranchhouse itself, rnnnnx- IAur ovA Nrrlxr
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1nday passed, Tuesday rolled around, and still his tall form did not loom in the vestibule when the cuckoo clock was sounding 8. Thursday he came, and the beautiful girl was burn ing with wrath.
 50 this is the way you neglect me-" she hissed. What have you to say for yourself? Why didn't you come?"
 'I couldn't" faltered the youth. 'I had dyspepsia and the doctor advised me not to come"
 What? The doctor told you not to come to see me because you had dys- pepsia?"
 Well. he told me to keep away from all sweetA"
 And the parlor sofa was tenanted.
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IE was going to the country for two weeks. but she was not e n { h u s i a S { i c about it. She felt that she would rath- CT go to bed and sleep for a fortnight.
 She had found. cheap board at ' farmhouse.
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Neighbor-Every time you feed your dog he brings the bones over and gnaws them on my premises. Isn't there some way to stop itr"
 Owner-"Suppose you feed him thereafter, and then he will probably bring them over and guaw them on uy premisea.
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There is in Brooklyn young, recent ly married couple who have been hav- knktAs ususi half pathetic and wholly
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FFANY sat in tss,. warm dusk of a Bom- bay winter twilight. idle and silent amid all the talk and laughter about her. Ii was mail day. and society had collected at the yacht club.
 The guests at Tiff fany's table had drawn in about one
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-08-15
ORDINANCE No. i545.


AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE
sPRINKLING OF LAWNS N THE
CITY OF HAMMOND. AND PROVID-
ING 4 PENALTY FOR VIOLATION
THEREOF
Section /. BE IT ORDAINED. by the
Common Council of the city Of Ham
mond. Indiana. that 1t shall be unlawful
for any person. firm or corporation 10
use the city water for the purpose Of
sprinkling lawns at any other time Of
day or night than hereinafter designated:
Section ?. That the city Of HAM
mond. Indiana. for the purpose Of sprink-
ling lawns is hereby divided into two
zones. known as North and South Zone.
Webb street is to be and IS hereby the
Meridian Line dividing SAID zones.
Section 8. All persons residing North
Of the Meridian Line or Webb street IN
said City arc hereby prohibited from
using the City water for sprinkling
lawns except from 3 to a. m and from
10 7 p. m. each day and night.
And ali persons residing IN the South
Zone or South Of the Meridian Line or
webb street are hereby prohibited from
using the City water for sprinkling
lawns except from to s a. m. and from
10 II p m. during each DAY and night.
Section 4 Any person. firm or corpor-
alton violating any provisions Of this
Ordinance shall be fined in any sum not
exceeding $500.
Section 5. This Ordinance shall be in
full force and effect from and after its
passage. due publication and approval
by the Mayor.
DANIEL BROWN. Mayor.
Attest: WILLIAM c. ROSE,
City Clerk.
Passed BY the Common Council Of the
city of Hammond. Indiana. on the 5th
day of August. 1919. and presented 10
the Mayor for his approval or rejection.
and approved by the Mayor on the 9Th
day OF August. 1919.
WILLIAM c. ROSE.
S-g-15. City Clerk
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CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS THE TINES ARE WORTH TRYN

paving the roadway with Plan i. Type
20 creosote wooden block pavement,
Plan ?, Type 4" vitrihed brick pave
ment. Plan 3, Tyne *" asphalt maca-
dam pavement all on a inch concrete
foundation. Plan 4. Type N" one course
concrete pavement Plan s. TYPE e
penetration asphalt on new macadam
base. 1900 lineal feet Of cement curbing
100 lineal feet OF q inch lead water
services. ~ corporation cocks. stops and
boxes. 200 lineal feet of 1740 square feet
Of cement sidewalk. six feet wide. on
Atchison avenue. from the southerly line
OF Indianapolis boulevard 10 the north
line Of i21sr street. authorized BY Inn
provement Resolution No. 73f as speci-
fed In the plans prohles and details now
on file.
All bids shall he accompanied BY a
certified check for not less than two
and one-half per cent Of the estimated
cost OF said improvement
The Board reserves the right to reject
any and all bids.
G. H HUFFMAN.
.. +. HIGHLAND.
W. G HAMAN
s-s-15. Board of Public Works.
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WANTED-Night cook: man or woman.
Phillips Hotel E Chica 20 S-14-2t
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FOR RENT-Light housekeeping rooms
116sR a-I5-2t
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FOR RENT-3 or 4 rooms for house
keeping; beds. Phone HAMMOND
19ls. o-9-u +
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PIANO BARGAINS

One new $3.50 player pl-
ano rolls, bench and equip
ment. used short time, 1910.
One like new, Weber pi-
ano $40.
One like new Weggman
piano 800.
One fine Bauer piano in
splendid condition $500.
One Jesse French fine
condition $4,000.
Two used pianos, guaran-
teed $50 and $50.
We are compelled to sell
or send these pianos to stor-
age. Will guarantee money
back on any Of above pianos
You must call at once if YOU
are looking for snap on high
Grade piano.
J. MI. Wilcockson Music Co.
145 State ST.
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sS15
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FOR SALE@Staver auto. 1905 Barring
ave. phone z. Chicago S47J. S-I2-2t
FOR SALElStudebaker 6-cyl; winter
and summer top. is series DR.. 7. ".
Oberlin. Hammond. S-12-tf
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LEGAL NOTICES.

NOTICE
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS.
CITY OF HAMMOND. INDIANA.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
You are hereby notified that the Board
OF Public Works of said City will re-
ceive bids up 70 August 27th- 1919. CT
ten o'clock A N for the grading and
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WANTED-Girl for general house work:
small family no washing. Phone
Hammond 3366 S-14-4t
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PHONOGRAPH y Family
will sell beautiful new
Photograph. used ONLY few
weeks, at big sacrifice if ia
ken at once: call 40 Plum
Nor Ave. Hammond. s-1s-f
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FOR SALE-Scralch Pods by the pound. |
Various sizes. Times Office. Room PA, |
Hammond Stiff. |
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For Rent Furnished Rooms

FOR RENT and ) housekeeping rooms
and rooms for bachelors. Inquire l5S
Plummer ave. Hammond f-Z4-if.
FOR Rent 4 3 room suite for light
housekeeping, strictly modern. oSl
Michigan ave, phone Hammond 1915.
FOR RENT-3 or 4 rooms for house
keeping; beds. Phone HAMMOND
1915. o-S-t1
FOR RENT-Furnishe fat; 367 Tru-
man ave. phone $500. Call at S7S
Michigan ave or 164 E. Plummer ave.
Hammond. S-S-lt
FOR RENT-Niceiy furnished strictly
modern Groom cottage; rent by the
mo. with chickens and garden TO sell.
Phone Hammond 1868. s-ll--t
FOR RENT-Furnished house in E. Chit
cago to couple without children. Ad-
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Times. E. Chicago. S-12-tf
FOR -RTNT-I.arge front room: suit
able for gentlemen. 1853 State st.
Hammond 80.
FOR RENT-Furnishe sleeping rooms.
62l State Line st. phone HAMMOND
3l'S. 80
FOR RENT-Very desirable furnished
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phone Hammond 219o. s-l4-2t
FOR RENT, 3 or 5 office rooms and
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Bank Hammond. 6-14-3t
FOR RENT modern housekeeping
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10 couple who can furnish ref Phous
Hammond 1927 S-14-tf
FOR RENT-PerfectIy clean light house
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KEEL req none ne ~ '''''' S-14-st
FOR RENT-Large sleeping room with
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ADDRESS L. c. Times 400 Chicago ave.
z Chicase ~
FOR RENT- summer cottage at ono OF
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ADDRESS c. j. Nyman. Grown Point. Ind.
R. r. 80 80
FOR RENT rooms furnished for
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r Chicago. 80
FOR RFNT-Furnished room for 1 or
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o-lo-I'
FOR RENT-Rooms for light house
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FOR RENT-F'urnished rooms for single
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FOR RENT-Furnished room for gen
tleman. steam heat. S6 Condit st.
Hammond s-l9-lt
FOR RF:NT-Light housekeeping rooms
7s5 S Holman St. phone Hammond
ileek -
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FOR RENT - Furnished room with
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For RENT-Furnished rooms; s11 per
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FOR RENT-Modern furnished rooms
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trio 43O Indiana ave. Hammond. s-lS-l
FOR RENT-3 rooms furnished fer light
housekeeping electric and gas. TO man
and wife Is Condit st. Hammond
-
housekeeping 244 Michigan ave. cor
Oakley Hammond s-l5-1t
FOR RENT-s nicely furnished rooms
for light housekeeping: with all con-
veniences. Ref req. So OGDEN st: also
for particulars S-lS-lt
Waniad 10 Rent.
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WANTED-Men for I'M
loading; tonnage basis, a
good proposition. Metals
Refining Co., Osborne. In
diana. s15-tf
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. on
tank and steel plate con
struction work. Also me-
chanical craftsman; apply
Engineering department of
VIM. Graver Tank Works,
East Chicago. sta