The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-08-05

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Did You
Hear That
THE second lap Of the coroner's in
quest into the West Hammond automo-
BILE accident j. being held today
CHARLES PITzELE OF East Chicago
will buy Judge Cohen of the East Chi
caso city court a new suit Of clothes
if Cox IS not elected.
4. II TAPER and his troupe OF
automobile tourists de luxe are back in
Hammond after their trip through Min
nesota and Wisconsin.
THE band stand has been erected for
the Saturday night concerts which are
% be given BY South Holman street
merchants
DIR. H WHITE has slipped away
on ten-day vacation. turning his
deputy corner duties over TO DR.. E s
Jones.
OLD JULIUS TAUssIG IS going to
let his constable business go to smash
for a couple Of days while he enjoys
a little outing at West Baden.
JUDGE Dresser OF the State Indus
trial board IS holding court in Ham
mond since Monday afternoon. 1t will
be a two-weeks session this time as the
board has not met here since Juae.
IT is said that there vas grand
exodus or still owners Bearing their
homemade devices with them last night
late after the West Hammond police
rounded UP Joe Koszuka.
PAUL BENNETT, assistant naragcr
of the Orpheunl theater. visited Tues
day with his sister at Rockford. Ill
"Thatll about be the extent Of my va
cation this year. I guess" says he.
F. L. JOHNSON. the progressive
Highland street grocer WI worry no
more about ice for his big meat re-
frigerator The new ammonia refrig.
erattion plant IS at last Installed and
working fire.
WEST HAMMOND police and fire.
men defy the district to point out a
prettier bunch Of flowers than their
gorgeous row Of four-o clocks which
are nov in full bloom around the sta
ton.
LATEST information Is 10 the effect
that the policeman salary increase or
dinance was not signed BY Alderman
Bruce after all. At the eleventh hour IL
Tell to the lot Of Pat Reilley 10 father
the bill. He signed it Willingly
HERB WHEATON, who saw Babe
Ruth pound out a homer the other day
made a startling discovery. Ruth bats
Just like me-left handed" said Herb
today as he demonstrated with a rule.
a the clerks Office.
DR.. ". g. MILLER OF this city ac-
cording to Rensselaer, reports. has pur-
chased a dental Office in Indianapolis
acquiring a large practice Mrs. Miller
IS visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs
7. H. Hamilton in Rensselaer, TOR a few
days.
ARE THE Herbst fats still on South
Holman stseet" asked motorist the
other day II seldom use the stree;
and when 7 do I have to keep such a
sharp lookout for holes that / have no
time TO look around. Come to think
OF It ! haven't seen Harrison park in
wceiss."
THE Calumet avenue bridge over the
Grand Calumet in Hammond was closed
to traffic for several hours yesterday
while workmen sawed off the ends OF
the street car rails. The bridge was
to lower X. 1t was found that the tracks
had suddenly become too long.
EAST State street business men are
now scurrying around III an effort Ia
dig UP some counter attraction for Sat.
urday evenings now that the Holman
street boys are going to have band con-
certs. When each square has It's band
Or vaudeville act the town viii take
on a carnival air
MARTIN CUNNINGHAM took a
couple Of friends to Sox park Sunday In
hts machine. After Ruth's home rur
they started to make theirs. but found
that someone had beaten them to the
car. In order to be sure that they
we're getting Mart's machine the thieves
also stole three others that stood along
side his.
RIDING down Logan street late last
night. Ed Kroer suddenly found him.
self and automobile on the Michigan
Central passenger tracks. Investaya.
ton showed that the wire fence along
the right-of-Hay was responsible and
1t had fallen from the posts and caught
the hub Of his front wheel. Fortunatel,
no train was near.
RED and Tom Febeck. returning
from a Hurley CWis) hshing trip with
a case OF goods in their car. were
halted in zion City BY a COP and asked
the reason. Hell We Amt dong moth.
ing" said Red. Two charges agains,
YOU. said the cor. smoking and swear.
ing 1t took an hours pleading ia
make the cop relent. Gee If he had
searched the auto" said Red. y CUES
wc'da been hung