The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-08-07

MARTIN HESS or the Main Produc'
company, is sporting a new Auburi
Beauty Six car these days.
RALPH c. PIERCE leaves for his an
nual fishing trip to Wisconsin toiuor
row and viii use his utmost cndeavor:
not to do any fancy speeding this trip
c H FATE. Grown Points hustlini
boniface and amateur journalist. wa:
here yesterday. He is planning a new
series Of letters which will occasion tn
use Of shock absorbers.
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FRANK MARTIN left last night fol
indianapolis where ne joined the Demo
cratic clubs train for Dayton TO par
ticipate in the. Cox notification cere
mcnies.
FORMER District Democratic Chair
man. Herman J. Lehman OF Crown
FONT is moving to Florida to make his
future home and Indiana democrats viii
thereby lose a faithful worker.
LOCAL golfers are expecting to ser
some great stunts pulled off when I'd
P. Deming returns from the state golt
tournament at kokomo. which he has
been attending
HAMMOND man tells about his little
daughter looking at herself in the mir
ror and saying: I don't know why Coo
made me so homely when he knows In
so perticuler."
MRS. w. c. REILLEY has been ten
l.
take the place Of Mrs. Myrtle PETER
who resigned to accept a Chicago posi-
ton as store detective recently. Mrs
Reilley IS considering the offer.
SCAFFOLDING vas removed from lr
front Of the business rooms of the new
Gregory theater building. That part OF
the block has been refaced and is now
one of the handsomest pieces of archi
lecture in the city.
IF your mail gets TO you late during
the next few days just blame IL TO base
ball as the post Office attaches are still
using the arnica to reduce spavins and
curbs which developed in Thursday cvc-
ning's game.
Hammond police left yesterday on his
two-weeks vacation. John Is heading for
Minnesota and expects to bring back at
least the stories of some wonderful mus
kellunge hshing.
SOME meddlor cut the air on an Erie
freight train the other night. causing the
train to stop so suddenly that a steel
gondola buckled in the middle near the
Holman street crossing. The eastbound
track was blocked for several hours.
SEVENTEEN Hammond people are
without water today because the water
department found them sprinklng out
of hours. Plenty Of warnings had been
issued and the citys says the practice
must be stopped
HARRY GARDNER has a handsome
now taxi Says Ben Winters to him:
Why. YOU don't need a horn on that
car. Harry" Harry answered. III bite. -
Haven't you got a sign on it saying
Dodge brothers," said Bon. They
elf you get it don't you?
THRILLING stories come from Shis-
hibogawa Lake. Wis. regarding an hours
fight with a huge muskio had by Fred
Crumpacker and his. two sons. the other
lay that arc hard to believe. but we
know the boys are truthful. Anyway
they caught the old warrior.
ED NEE. one Of Hammond's old-tlm.
ers. who has been suffering from rheu.
ratism for so long. was the guest OF
friends here yesterday. lie is living or
the north side in Chicago. and says that
Miss Nee has sold out her roomine
house.
CHIEF WILLIAM MILL Of the Ham.
mond fire department is back at his post
after making a vacation trip through
Canada. Pennsylvania. New York and
Michigan. AS luck would have it he
struck a Pennsylvania city just as they
were finishing up on a fire which wiped
out a whole block.
ATTYs. Albert Grinths and H C
Cleveland were out speeding in Grifiths
machine last night. Albert is just get
ting the hang Of the thing "Crossin ne
500 feet ahead" yelled Hank as sign
fitted past. "Anything coming?" asks
Al. Nope says Hank. looking over
his shoulder at the track far behind
FOR the first time in six years the
offices of McMahon < Conroy in the
Hammond building were closed yester-
day. once neighbors were all excited
until they learned that Conroy had gone
on a Plutoing trip to West Baden and
Judge McMahon was enjoying a few
Gays in Michigan.
HOWARD GESCHEIDLER vows he
can recruit a baseball team from bank
ing circles which can defeat The Times
gang. Let EN- come" says WoEgles. I
never saw Messrs. Turner. Swanson. Bel
man. Paxton or Meyn in action. but I'm
sure it will he more one-sided than the
P. o. game
E y. BUNNELL tells about a young
fellow who went UP in an airpIane and
paid sl5 for Is minute ride The
chap kicked on the price but was bound
to have ny When he came down he
said he had gotten the best of it after
all. The aviator had difficulty in land
Ing and tho fellow was up in the plane
10 minutes.
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