The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-09-23

las purchased a residence in kcnwood.
THE Northern states Life bunch of
Sox fans arc on tho anxious right these
days but you have "a give 'em credit
for being cocky and fun of confidence
THE firm name is now Ibach. Gavit
Stinson 6. Gavit. The addition TO the
firm is Bernard Gavit son Of John Gavit
one OF the old timers in the law or
gunizatiOn.
RESTAURANT advertiscs business
lunch for nifty five cents. recalling the
old b. J. which used to be had for
fifteen cents. and which included huge
stein of suds.
THE Sunshine Club is reported 70 be
missing Billy Bridge. who hasn't put in
an appearance for d month of Sundays
and Secretary Otto Gersbsch is some
what puzzled.
ACCORDING TO the weather man aut-
umn is late this year and did not arrive
officially until 2:20 a. m. this morning
whereas the equinox generally arrives
on September 2l
e. X. FINNEY. one Of valparaiso's
big merchants, well known here as a
member of the specht-Finney stores in
th- Porter county capital died this week
and is to be buried this afternoon.
THE jsnitor Of the Lafayette school
has asked the police 10 settle the young
sters OF that part Of town who have
been climbing over the roof of the build
ing and crawling in through the win
dows.
e n. BUNNELL believes that IL coal
operators and others who near the pro-
ffteering line were to follow Henry
Ford's example and do little price
cutting It would be & pretty good old
world TO live in.
AID. CHARLEY LUTHMAN thinks
the city should contract for lot of
those concrete park benches. They
won't cost US anything and they are a
whole lot better than nothing. s We
are now fixed" he says.
ATTY. FLOYD MURRAY Is getting
perennial Joy by getting out at the high
school athletic field these afternoons and
putting budding linemen on the foot
ball squad over the jumps and they say
he IS getting results. too.
OLD-TIMER wants to know II we re-
member when you could go into Pop
Clabby's for e juicy steak. a stein Of
beer. ticket on the ball pool and a
ticket for the fight that night and dis
cuss little Of everything besides?
MRS CLARA CURTIS. mother-in-law
Of Mayor Brown. will testify hat TINES
want ads pay The other day she lost
800 on the streets. She inserted a lost
ad and the next morning man from
East Chicago brought 1t to her home
PETER L DAVIS. who has just re-
turned from a swing around the state.
says he never saw politics so dull. NO
body seems to know how he is going 10
vote" says Pete. and nobody seems to
care as far as I was able 10 find out"
THE recent activities Of the police
in enforcing the parking ordinance is
bringing dozens of Hammond's most
prominent citizens to the police station
these days. IT'S the first time I ever
was pinched. is the common expression.
CAPITALISM tried it's best TO poster
Kirkpatrick, the socialist speaker last
night II sent train after train down
the Michigan Central tracks and num-
erous street cars on State St. making
the speaker pause right when he'd be
going coed.
Country Club and Senator F. y. Gavit
while in Hammond yesterday in discus
sing the club were Of the opinion that
the name Of the club might be changed
to the Lake County Country Club and
said that it already has large wait
ing list.
HAMMOND plant head did his best
TO keep an appointment with a friend
in Chicago the other day. But when he
ent up in the elevator his friend went
down in another And when he started
down his friend started UP. When I
started UP again I lost track of him. \
said the H. r H. Il think he quit and
I don't blame him"
IN one OF the city schools there is a
Cox. and one day admitted the fact. She
had occasion 70 leave tho room for a
minute and in her absence about forty
young republicans hastily wrote vote
for Harding all over the blackboards
What the teacher thought when she re
turned deponent sayeth not
4 drummer az a local hotel was talk
ink with another about the eldest jokes
and claimed that the oldest joke is the
one about the school teacher who was
giving the class q lesson in American
history One boy was busy playing with
hy that he had caught and he paid lit
tie attention to what was going on. Sud
denly the teacher said to the boy: Tom
my. where was the declaration OF IN
dependence signed" Tommy starmer
ed for moment and then replied: AT
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