The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-08-14

| DICK WINCkLER doesn't believe half
/ the fsh stories he hears and has gone
TO Wisconsin to get some first hand IN
formation.
/ SUMNER is fast waning. oscar Kim
| bell Is cultivating his winter lettuce
| which is considered a dead-open-and-shut
| sign on Warren street.
/ BOONE GROVE. another farmer team,
/ tanned GrifIiths hide to last Sunday
and the Kaseys Of Hammond refuse 10
( shed a tear
| OLD LAKE county huns with music
! these days. Four cities have contracted
the band concert habit. Crown Point.
Gary, East Chicago and Whiting.
DUKE VAN DYKE Of Chicago heads
a party Of young hustlers who are in
Producing Spur" cigarets IN Hammond
This week.
NEGOTIATIONS were concluded yes
terday for an inter-clty goif match be
tween members of the Chicago Heights
and Hammond Country club at the
Heights next Saturday afternoon.
l1ESD WOLF ana Joe run Jo4AN SoDA
sootchmen that they are, have dug up
some classy knicAeroocNer suits with
which they are showing off when on the
golf links.
THE question which everybody was
asking Thursday night and which is still
unanswered vas who could be sending
sid Kaufman that bunch OF roses Sid
received them right after his solo and
Immediately responded with an encore.
BOTH sides of the Holman street
pavement are repaired as far south as
the park. The job looks good, but lot
of small holes were passed up which
will be as bad as the old ones before
next winter is over.
WORD comes from Ben Bell at Win
nebaso Lake that he has offered $50 re-
ward for the return OF some snake bite
cure which he had hidden in a woodshed.
II was stolen and Ben believes that
some Of the Hammond people know more
than they care to tell about it.
Ed MoRRIsEY. 4915 Magoun avenue.
Las: Chicago. surely doesn't come 70
Hammond often. This morning he tele-
phoned the Hammond police station that
an l. H 3. train had held up the Calu
met avenue crossing from 6.25 70 $50
and that eight street cars we're waiting.
MEMBERS of the crown POINT ". c.
T. L. sniff suspiciously and a hard CLINT
appears in their eyes when the rccen.
banquet At the Chamber OF Commerce
is mentioned For once Judge Smith
was absent and didn't have a hand in
the affair.
HARRY VOORHEES, is going it single
handed these days in selling Kelly
Springfield tires His partner. Dan
Brown is up in Wisconsin fabrioating
fish stories and dodging the game war
Gens. As Yet Harry has seen nothing
Of a box of hsh which was promised
for early consumption.
EBEN BUNNELL walked into bank
yesterday and carclcssly remarked TO
another man who asked about the Ford
business, that nc could sell him q dozen
cars if he wanted them. Well it's hard
10 believe. but Eben actually strolied
out ten minutes later with orders for II
Fords in his pocket
TT MAJ not be true but they saw that
while Sam Postlcwaite was on his va
cation al Flint lake. he arose enc morn
ing and accused every man around with
stealing his clothes. Later it developed
that he was so sleepy after tho stud
gIme The night before that he had pulled
on his pajamas over his other duds and
slept in all of them.
JULIUS TAISSIG returned last night
from West Baden in worse condition
han when he left While there he and
another prominent Hammond man were
induced by the D. m. ms wife % bring
hungry dogs to be fed al tho hotel.
One Id crippled hound alone gave them
two-hours chase before they could
make him come and eat.
JOE TRATEBAs. Lake front bath
house custodian. reported To Charley
See that nc had been unable to fnd his
sons Ingersol warch. which was lost on !
the beach You didn't expect to nnd
it where the kid lost it did vou7" asked
Jimmy frost. Didn't YOU hear tho
boy say it was running when he dropped /
tt?"
HAMMOND man Just back from his
gacation tells Of an Irishman who won't
into a restaurant on Friday and asked |
Have ye any stewed whalec' The reply
was Ne" Then he asked for fried shark
and fying hsh and beng told neither
was Procurable said. We'll, ye can give