The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1921-05-28

RESTAURANT labor Is $50 per cent
higher instead of IS per cent as was
stated by error. che restaurant keepers
state.
KID Cordrey and DR. King. are
some welterweighta according to ref
cree Clinks Meyers-they fought a good
! draw.
SPEAKING OF mixed foursomes. golf
ers saw John Beckman. Carl Kaufman
John Fitzgerald and Gus Bereolos bat
ting around the other day.
AS soon as the Holman street road
race is over. this paper expects to star
4 Jay-walkers contest which will be full
ly as exciting and nerve-rackins.
HAMMOND has no representation
among the officers appointed from LAX,
county civic bodies 10 have charge oi
Lincoln highway.
ENTRANCE Of a bath tub" in tn.
Holman street auto race is reported
today The tub is reported to have
reached the 40 mile speed when first
seen and going on two wheels.
HEssvILE's school census increased
IL per cent. last year. Carrying this
increase 10 the total population and ad-
ding It to Hammond's estimated popu-
lation gives q grand total OF 1855
A new pool has appeared in towr
whereby you draw a certain number OF
minutes and seconds. The one which
has the correct time that the Carpenter
Dempsey hsht ends. will win $500
IT'S getting about time for the an
nual nip-up between the city OF Ham
mond and the street car company re-
garding fares and wages and profits. If
any, before the Public Service Commits
sion
DIR H. J. WHITE VIII attend the
American Medical Association meeting
at Boston which opens next Friday
Following the convention he will 20 tc
New York for three weeks OF hospital
work.
HANK GABLER says thu reporter
pegged him wrong when he thought he
saw him on the merry go-round at the
West Hammond carnival. Il never
rode on one OF those things in my life
says Hank.
IN the squib about conkey avenue
the other night in this paper, ths com
positor made IL read that the avenue was
being Sacrificed" when it should have
been 'scarihed" The street was sac
rifced several years ago.
CoHEN's Variety Store. the house Of
a thousand bargains" has wound UP its
| closing out sale and has moved from
2o4 State street to It's new quarters a,
692 South Holman street, four blocks
south of the Court House.
POSTMASTER Rohde has received
word from Postmaster General Hays re-
garding the establishment of a govern
mental bureau Of information in the
postoffice department building where
visitors vii be taken care Of
REPORT hath it that Charlie See
our portly and genial police secretary
has purchased a bright and shining au.
tomobile. Everything Will be to the
merry till Charlie tries TO get under
EVERYBODY was pleased with the
| Accommodations at the East Chiragc
| arena and the way in which the enter
tainment was run off. The fans were
satisfied that the management made the
strongest match possible for the opener
DIR. II. S. SHARRER and several 9TH
| er members of Hammond's new court OF
the Royal Order Of testers went TO Chi
cago last night to be present when the
charter was delivered to Court No. As
at that city. a big banquet was en-
ioyed after the ceremony.
1T is worthy Of note that none Of tho
protests against the living corset mode
which appeared at the Weserveu Shor
last Saturday came from the men. The
girl in the window was one of the Choir
US from the Orpheum stock company
The show has left town.
LAY NELSON. erstwhile bank at
tache. claims to be the champion form
golfer at the Country Club this year
Having wintered In the South. he has
the edge on the other fellow through
experts. The Western car ait Hege-
wisch disputes the claim, however.
ELEVEN out Of the fourteen orna.
mental light posts on State street. be
tween the State Line and Morton Court
have no lamps on them. The council
talked ono time OF moving these posts to
South Holman street because the people
nothing came of 1t.