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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
HEBRON TO HAVE
a LIGHT PLANT

Grown POINT. 1nd- Jan tT.-Fe-
orou Is - last To have an electric light
plant The village council met last
right with parties from Chicago. VINO
took over She franchise Of tho Hebron
Electric Company- The same people
also purchased from George GIdley
she partially completed Heoron light
plant and tiie poles standing. which
were left unused by the original COM
pany which planned to give Hebron
electric service.
The Chicago capitalists stated that
the work OF preparing 10 give electric
service to Hebron would begin next
week. at which time wiring Of houses
etc would commence. The new con-
Germ VIII also electrify the Hebron
water plant
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
HOW STOCKS
OPENED
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NEW YORK, Jan l7--Although 3
number of stocks made substantial
gains at the opening today the tone was
unsettled ard severe losses were suffer
ed in many issues.
The Petroleum stocks were offered in
large blocks. Mexican Petroleum drop-
ping from 1se 10 I7Si5. while Texas OF
feI liz to 191 Consolidated Gas de-
cined s points 80 90
American HIDE and Leather pfd. was
one of the strongest features moving ~
rs to 31b.
tinted states steel was strong ad-
vanciug q at 9els while United Cigar
stores yielded one point TO 116h.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
$4,000 ORPHANS
HOME AT McC00L

VALPARAISO. Ind. Jan. 17.-PIans
VS. ere announced here today by Indiana
Slova.s fer the erection of a sl2Q.00o
orphans home at NcCool in Porter
county. II IS expected to open the In
ST tution next summcr-
This is tho building which was de-
scrIbed on Wednesday IN these coli
umus.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
FIRST NATIONAL
Gets NEW DIRECTORS
Sons of Well Known Men
Go on Banking Board with
Good Wishes of Friends.

at the annual stockholders meeting
of the First National Bank OF Ham
mond his week two new directors
were elected
John +. BecAman, Or the Home Lum-
Der company viii take the place Of
his father. John y. Beckman OF Cost
lin. Meyn & 60. who had resigned his
dictatorship VI. N. Towle. who is now
cashier Of the bank. was elected a di-
rector also. Dir. Beckman Is one OF
the citys rising young business men
and Nj. Towle needs no introduction
10 the public. Both men VIII add fresh
lustre TO the banks name for conser-
vatisn.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
A GREAT INTERVIEW.

The hrst interview ever granted TO
an American newspaper correspondent
by Marshal Foch. genersnssimo of
the allied armies, viii appear in these
columns tomorrow carried by its In
ternationaI News Service leased wire.
he sure to get a copy OF The Times
tomorrow.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
ARMED NEGROES
Get COLD FEET
Thee. Peterson Was Glad
When He Saw That
Auto Coming.

One os Hammond's men who had
quite roll with him last night viii
always leok on autos with favor hence
forth.
Theo. Peterson, Of 554 Cameron St.
Hammond. while crossing the bridge
on Holman street last night about
1880 o'clock was help up by three ne
groes who had revolvers.
The negroes had just taken Peter
sons pocbctbook out Of his pocket
when an automobile ran up and stop
ped near them on the bridge The
negroes became frightened. stuffed the
peck etbool into Peterson's oversoat
pocket and ran like grey hounds. It
al happened SO quickly that Peterson
didn't have time TO yell for help.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
JUST FOR THE
OVERSEAS MEN
CHICAGO CASH GRAIN CLOSE.
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EVANSVILLE. Ind. Jan. l6.-Fifty-
ono Evansville soldiers, members Of
Battery p, 139th Field Artillery. who
returned home today. after being mus
tered cut al Fort BENJAMIN Harrison.
organized an overseas Soldiers or
Eanizaton, rival 70 the World War
Veterans recently formed here. The
new organization VIII exclude all sol
diers not sent overseas. Plans are
unde~ way for tho launching Of ma
tonal vrganization and congress VIII
be asked for charter National head
quarters of both organizations WIN be
z this city.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
100000 For Lake Co. TubercuIar Hospital
PHEW! PHEWl
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WAUSAKEE. WIS, Jan. Il.
Sixty acres Of smell has been
set aside at Beecher Lake. need
less to say. in an isolated loca-
ton, for a skunk farm for the
raising Of furs for market.
Twenty skunks have been Plac-
cd on the tract and more are to
be sent there.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
New Mooney Threat.

CHICAGO, Jan. 17.--A general strike
Intended is tic up all business i'm the
United States. unless Thomas j. Moon
ey, labor leader charged with pra-
ticlpation in tho san Francisco pre-
paredness bomb outrage s. released
from prison. loomed UP as strong
possibility at the laber congress In
session hero todav.
Whle the delegates are nos ouited
on the day for tho general strike most
~ them favor calling it Jult
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
Battle Is Renewed.
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ZURICH, Jan 17--The DEAN y harl
LiebRnerht and Rosa LuXuWoerS re-
suited in a renewal OF aehtlrg iu the
suburbs Of Berlin and elsewhere ae-
covding to Information rcce rcd here
TINS afternoon.
Spartacidcs attacked the hrflpD gun
works at Essen threatening 10 destroy
The place but were repulsc9 hE tbs
aeve3nn1ent troops
4 battle woe s@id 10 be iu pv Er ass
ina ono suburb III Berlin.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
CATHEDRAL BURNED.

MONTREAL. Jan. I7-The Catholic
cathedral at Chicoutimi IN the Lake
St John district. was destroyed by fre
today which threatened the Presbv-
cery and other adjoining buildings
The damage was $4,000
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
RCyLI0rHCyNGyR
es2ssassaeszIpp,sz ! i; :, r ! gE-'sssgassgSsssa

Gen. Pershing officially reports
the death of George Z. KuehI OF
Crown Point in today's casualty list
and his Is the only Lake county
casualty reported. The death has
been reported IN The Times By rela-
fives Of the decedent.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
Committees Hold Their
First Sessions Today to
Discuss Platform Meas
ureS.

~ Internat.onal &c. seruio.1

(By International News Service)
INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Jan. IA
measure providing for woman Suffrage
or presidential electors was introduced
in the house Of representatives Of the
indiana stas legislature today. Rep
Charles A. johnson, OF Gas City, intro
duced the bill which grants the right
to all women over 81 years to vote for
the electors.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
BIG FIRE AT
ANNAPOLIS
6Rv International News serricsA

(By Intern1tionRl News servioeD
ANNAPOLIS. Nd. Jan. II.-F5re
broke ont here this morning has al
ready destroyed tho Colonial theatre
and four other buildings adjoining and
threatens the Masonic Temple and 9th
er property. The loss has already
reached 500 oo0
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17

MADISON, WIS, Jan. 17.-rhe Wis
constn Assembly today ratified the pro-
hdbitiou amendment So to 50. It had
previously been ratihed by the sena-e.
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WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. II.
World wide prohibition is now
the aim of the "drys" and the re-
sources Of the powerful prohibition
organizations in this country, prin-
cipally the Anti-Saloon League Of
America, will be thrown into the
fight for this end.
This was announced here today
by Edwin c. Dinwiddie, legislative
representative of the league, fol-
lowing the great accomplishment
Of the dry" forces yesterday in
the completion OF the ratification
Of the national prohibition amend
ment providing for a dry" United
States in one year.
GETTING INTO RIG FIGHT.
we are now going TO give all the as
sist ance we can in the fight for prohioi-
ttan throughout the world, said Din
viddie.
said DinwIddie.
The league and other prohibition or
Fanizations viii aid prohibition organi-
xs1ions in other countries 70 re-organlze
and VIII stimulate the organization Of
Continued on page eleven)
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
THE HOPPER STARTS TO
GRIND At STATE CAPITAL
BY THE LOBBYIST.

INDIANAPOLIS IND. Jan. H.
Many balls and measures which were
introduced at the last session or the In
diana state legislature. but were lost.
aro being brough up again All the pres
ent session.
Crippled and disabled soldiers from
Indiana viii have a chance to learn bow
10 make their own living at the Walter
Reed Memorial Hospital at Richmond. If
a bill backed by the American Recrea-
tton Association and the state board Of
education is passed by ,he legislature.
"A cuganics measure. which would re-
quire o. physical examination before the
ISSUANCE of q marriage license. is advo-
Gated log The Indiana state Civic Union.
a public hearing on the Indianapolis
school tax bill introduced by the senate
Viii be held hero this afternoon.
Five more persons have registered as
lobbyists with she secretary of state.
san platform measures come up heated
discussion is expected. both IN commit
tee and on the floor Of tho house
with the Goodrich conservation com
mission bill one of the republican plat
form measures. now in tho hands of the
senate committee on natural resources
tho first real work Of the upper house
Of the Indiana state legislature has
started. Other measures are expected
q be I'm the hands Of Committees today
and hearings on them started.
Although strong opposition is ex-
pected 20 show itself against the cen
tralization plans OF the state admins
tration, Governor Goodrich has won his
first point in the fight. through has az
pointment of representatives os three
state institutions to serve as a oentraliz-
cd purchasing committee to buy all
staple supplies for the eighteen penal.
corrective and benevolent institutions or
Indiana.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
SPARTACUS
GROUP MAY
Be ENDED
BY H ]. GREENwAY
Exclusive Gable BY the international
News Service and The London
Daily Express0

BERLIN, Jan. 1.-THE death of
Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxem-
burg is probably the tragic end of
the Spartacus group.
Other leaders may try revival Of
activities. but Berlin is occupied by 40
600 troops and there arc field guns at
a1 the intersections of the main streets.
Every bridge is held by troops with ma
chine guns. The postonice. where this
dispatch was filed is filled with machine
guns mounted on tables behind which
the clerks were working
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1919-01-17
THEY BITE
OFF 4 Bic
JOB NOW
Drys Will Start Fight to
Make the Whole World
Dry, Says Anti Saloon
League.

CEy international News Serv1ee.)
MADISON, WIS, Jan. 1.-The wis
consin Assembly today ratified the pro-
h5bitiou amendment So TO 50. II had
previously been ratthed by the sena-e.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
Pioneer Legislature Tried to Change
Name Of the Mississippi River
to be the opossum
River.
1T PASSED BOTH HOUSES
But the Governor Never Signed It and
Its Subsequent Fate is Unknown
at This Latter Day Of
Digging.

Some shark for finding queer
things in the sea of original sources
of history has dug up something
located right here in the city of Keo-
kuk.
1t Is a proposal by the Iowa legis-
lature to change the name OF the
Mississippi river from the mouth of
the Des MONIES southwark and to call
1T the Opossum branch of inc Des
Moines.
1847, a joint resolution was i,.lIo-
duced in the house of representatives
by S. B. Olmstead which designed to
change the name of the Mississippi
river, at the point where it en.ecs
the Des Moines river, to that Of the
Opossum Fork of the Des Moines
river"
Never Became a Law.
This somewhat pretentious resolu
ton was adopted by the house on
the day of its presentation by a vote
of seyesteen to fifteen and by the
senate on the same day by vote of
eight to seven. The later history
of this resolution is not recorded; it
does not appear among the joint
resolutions signed by the governor
and published with the laws of the
session.
Whether the whole thing was a
broad joke of the humorous pioneer
legislators. or inspiring for some
creek running into the Des Moines
river somewhere Is subject for a
guess.
seek to change the name of a river
from the point at which it leaves
the state on to Louisiana, is the
most curious part of the resolution.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
NEW INTERURBAN
ILLINOIS FARES
State Utilities Board Approves Raise
of Rate Between Hamilton
and Warsaw and Inter
mediate Points.

The Illinois public utilities board
has approved raise of fares between
Hamilton and Warsaw for the trolley
line which was held up for investi-
CATION some time ago, when the Keo-
kuk-Illinois new rates were proposed.
The latter are interstate, but the
Hamilton Warsaw rates are entirely
within one state, and hence the
state board had to authorize the new
rate.
The fare between Hamilton and
Warsaw is now twelve cents, and be-
tween Hamilton and Cedar Glen is
seven cents. From Hamilton to the
railroad station the rate is five cents,
and the same rate applies between
the junction and Cedar Glen, and be-
tween Cedar Glen and Warsaw.
The company asked for rate of
fifteen cents between Hamilton and
Warsaw, but the state board made it
twelve cents.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
the Chicago and st. Louis highway
from Chicago to ST. Louis, AMI he
road from Chicago to Waullegaa.'
HESSI. MS ARE
GOOD PATRIOTS
Well Known Physician, Formerly OF
Hamilton, Returns For Little
Visit to His Friends
Here.

To have many Of his best patients
and families leave him and employ
another doctor when his son came
home from camp in an American
uniform, was the experience Of DR..
P. ]. Hession, formerly Of Hamilton
and well known in Keokuk, now of
Graettinger, Iowa.
DR.. Hession went from Hamilton
to the Iowa town with the umlaht
name ten or twelve years ago, and
has been very successful there. He
came here for few days visit to
his old friends and was in keokuk
last eevning.
His son, Captain T. j. Hession, bad
charge of all transportation at Camp
Dodge for year, and for the last
eight months has been in France
with the SSth division. 1t was when
he came home from the training
camp that the practice of his father
fell off markedly.
The Hessions are Irish, and the
loss of income did not worry the
father a bit, but caused him to dis
play his own patriotism in every way
possible.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
HIT WHILE IN
MAIN STREET
colored Baptist Leaves Church Late
at Night and StroIls Where
Automobiles
Run.

Strolling in the roadway of upper
Main street at II o'clock at night,
deep in meditation after leaving
church, Fred Thomas was hit by an
automobile which turned out Of Six
teenth street upon him.
Thomas was knocked down and his
head was cut above the right temple
and his left hand and arm bruised.
The driver Of the automobile
stopped, picked the man up and took
him to ST. Joseph's hospital
Thomas had been at a business
meeting at the First African Baptist
church at Seventeenth and Main
streets, and was returning to his
home at Sixteenth and Blondeau
streets. Just why he walked in the
street instead of on the sidewalk he
doesn't know. He is sixty-nine years
old and mixes mortar for Oscar
Swanson.
The old colored man is pretty bad
ly bruised up, but was able to come
to the doctors office this morning at
o'clock to have his wounds dressed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
ILLINOIS ROADS
NOT TILL FALL
No Contracts Near Here VIII Be Let
This Summer, and the First
Work VIII Be Else
where.

That none of the new hard roads
under the Illinois bond issue will be
tracted this summer, and work on
them will not begin until next year,
is the information coming from the
director OF the state department of
public works at Springfield
mo work will be done this sum-
mer in building any roads In Illinois
except the federal roads" said Mr..
BENNETT. "These are the Dixie high
way from Chicago west to Fulton on
the Mississippi river: the Lincoln
highway from Chicago to Danville;
The Old National Trail highway from
Terre Haute, Ind. to East st. Louis;
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
tack, which resulted in many casual
ties
PRISONERS ARE
NOT MISTREATED
Americans Captured by Bolshevik'
Have Freedom of City and Not
Quite Enough to Eat
Always.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Seryice.1
PARIS, April 5.-Lincoln Stefens'
writer and personal investigator, who
recently returned from Russia, told the
United Press today that some Ameri-
can soldiers captured by the bolsheViki
informed him they were better Off
than those not yet captured
81 do not believe the capture or
American or British soldiers means the
untold horrors that have been limited
at" said Steffens.
81 saw several American prisoners
taken on the Archangel front when !
was in Moscow week before last. |
asked them how they We're being treat
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05

ed and they said they had no com.
plant. l talked with them privately,
VI hich was easy since they have full
fl eedom Of the city, being required
only to return to their barracks by
nine p. III.
"They said they had not received
enough food, but that they got as much
as their guards got and when the
guards got an extra allowance they
likewise got more TO eat. Some OF
them said we are better off than the
fellows who have not yet been cap
tured'"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
Raises Large Amount Of Money to
erect New Building for an
Automobile Tire Re.
liner Plant.
MONEY IS sAFEGUA RDED
everybody In City Across River Help
ed Put over a Rather Remark
able Bit Of Financing
In a Hurry.


~ hamilton is going to have an
;,Nnortant new factory, with the $685.
ann carefully safeguarded by good
lawyers. -,
unar for automobile tires, an indus
NV which is believed to be one OF
~. u most important adjuncts to the
motorist purchases in the future.
The $4,000 is to be all spent for a
factory building which will remain
the property of the subscribers until
Il is purchased by the factory people
by repayment Of the cost price with
interest.
The subscriptions came from Ham
,lton people of all classes and both
sexes, adjacent farmers who are that
friendly to Hamilton, and few keo-
kuk persons who recognize that
state line and big river do not DIS
connect two cities as close together
as Hamilton and Keokuk.
Loyalty to Hamilton.
There are at least five unmarried
Young women in the list OF subscr1b-
ers. Two of them are man and his
wife both reared In Hamilton, who
have been living in Chicago for years.
Roth lumber companies head the list
with the largest subscriptions, $1,100
each from the Hamilton and the
Taber Lumber companies. e. S.
Phillips gave $500 to the fund.
The money goes to three trustees,
Fred Twesten, supervisor from that
township on the county board and
prominent business man; John A..
Gordon, lifelong prominent citizen
and merchant there. and E. l.. Han
son. president of one of the Hamil-
ton banks.
The contract is being drawn by
O'Harra. Wood and Walker, attor-
news. and it will, keep the money in
the control OF the trustees until 1t is
spent on the building.
Building to Be Good One.
This building will be on the blum
side of the street in which IS the
street railway track from the station
to the foot of the Broadway hill, and
lust below the curve of the track up
the Broadway street hill into Hamil-
ton.
A switch track will be built into
the new plant, and work on this is
already beginning.
The building will be ninety by one
hundred and forty feet In dimensions,
two stories high and will have 25,00o
square feet of floor space.
The factory will use it and pay
back the $4,000 in seven years with
interest. making payments annually.
When the entire $4,000 is repaid.
the building will belong to the oper-
ating company.
Substantial Subscriptions.
There were seventy-five subscribers
to the fund The largest subscrip-
ton was that of ]. P. Guthrie for
1880, and next came the lumber
companies with s1,100 apiece. Four
others gave $1,000 each. Sixteen sub
scribers between $500 and $1,000.
Thirty-one persons subscribed over
$500 and less than $500. Twenty
persons subscribed 500 each, and
one person, girl, added $50 to the
subscription.
The Hamilton citizens are natur-
ally iubilant over their success In
landing this factory, and The Press
comments.
"A city of $4,000 people to do in
proportion to Hamilton in this in
stance would have to raise Sl87,50O.
and this large amount of money
would have to be raised in the space
of few weeks"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
State Sank of North Dakota.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
BISMARCK, N D., April Bis
marck will be the seat of the State
bank of North Dakota.
The industrial commission late Fri
day selected the capital as the site
and will begin Immediately the work
of establishing the institution. James
H. Waters, state bank examiner, was
chosen to head the bank. 1t will
handle pra ctically all state funds and
act as reserve banker for over 100
state concerns.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
SUPERVISORS IN
HANCOCK COUNTY
Thirteen Elected at the Election, But
Only Three of Them Are New
Men on the County
Board

Not much interest was shown gen
orally in the election in Hancock coun-
ty this year.
Thirteen townships in the county
elected supervisors. The present in
cumbents We're returned In all except
three: John McKelvie from st. Marys,
Jacob George from Pilot Grove and
Ed. L. Charpentier from St Adams.
The democrats gained two. Jacob
George and Ed, l.. Carpenter. The
board now stands sixteen democrats
to nine republicans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
White Men as Dummies.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.-That
Japanese are organizing corporations
with white men as dummy" incor-
porators and thus evading the pro-
visions of the alien land law is the
charge made by United States Sena-
tor James d. Phelan today. Phelan
in statement declares he has made
an investigation through the corpor-
alton commission and urges repeal Of
the law section providing aliens can
form corporations if the majority of
the incorporators are citizens or ell
gible to citizenship.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05
German Troops Attack.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.J
VEVAY, Switzerland, April "a
dispatch from Laibach today reported
that German troops had attacked
Jugo-Slav forces on the north front.
Infantry and machine gunners We're
said to have participated in the at
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-05

It samehom a $ }"
charging fla att interest an o to