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1 ‘C_:@#214%6 VYOLUME XVI Samuel D. Christopher, 712 Ncirt:‘h‘ Green Bay road, em%l:yed as a lineâ€" man by the Public Service Co., was fatally wounded by a bullet in the rfind Satyrdgy night by Arthur ine, a Cook county deputy sheriff acting as highway patrol, Christopher died eatrly Sunday morning in the Highland Park bosplith.‘ The _officer was held itoâ€"the grand jury s areâ€" sult of an inquest Mond’ry night, / Samuel D..Christopher Victim of Fatal Chase Saturday Night; Inquest Results In Holdâ€" ning at the H. M. Prior company‘s office, the shooting oécunred%hncn! 1t ‘and 11:36 o‘clock Saturday\night | near the corner of Waukegan\ and County Line roads. Two deputies, William â€" Mandernack and Artli\;l Kiline, testified that Christopher ha been halted for driving recklessly without lights and was trying to speed awny from them after being told to drive to a station. They| elaimed the chase cov three or four miles, and that Mandernack first medhhxnnatthe eeing Ford which Chfintoehn driving,, and that Kline leaving Mandernack with the: motorcyele, commandecred | aâ€"paszing car and continued the chase, and that one of the rear tires of the sedan was apparently hit by bullets, as it was partly torn off. â€" â€" â€" , _ ~_â€"AClaims He Slipped > Kline sgaid that finally, after the[ sedan had. fturned east on Cotnty. Line road, he stepped from the purâ€" suing car and fired again trying to hit the other rear tire, that he slipped. to his knee, his hand flying upward as the gun was discharged, the builet goâ€" ing <through the rear glass striking Christopher in the back of the he: The officers said they had stoppe another driver and was talking to him near| Dundee road, when Christâ€" opher drove by rapidly and nearly striking them. Mandernack "followed ‘and stopped Phristopher, he testified, and searched both the man and the car, finding no weapon, but discoverâ€" ing a bottle containing a small quantiâ€" ty of liquid that smelled like liquor. There was no cork in the bottle, he! claimed. The officer thought the man had been drinking, he said. He or; dered Christopherâ€"to drive back to Northbrook and started him ahead. Then the man speeded up and the ofâ€" Keer followed, finally firing until his| LOCAL MAN IS SHOT : â€" BY HIGHWAY PATROL .. Aceording . to ‘ testimony "brought but at the inquest held Monday eveâ€" gun was discharged. When he came back to where Kline was, Mandernack turned over the chase to the other ofâ€" fi«r:.“é: stopped William Giacoma, 106 First street, Highland Park, _ Continued on page 7 . The Ladies‘ â€" Aid of St. John‘s Evangelical church meets at the home of *r: «Geo. Williams on McDaniels ave., on Tuesday; March 9th, at 2 p. m. The program committce has arâ€" ranged to‘ ‘have a special speaker present for the afternoon. Mr. Braun will give a talk on mission work. Due to the impossibility of Mr. Braun beâ€" ing ahle: to arrange for his presence on Thursday afternoon, Mar. 11., it ig decided to have this meeting on Tue?, day, Mar. 9. After this date it is exâ€" pected the regular monthly meetings will divert back to the second Thursâ€" day of cach \month. / .. A card and bunco/ party will be fiien Monday evenh;‘, March 8th at Plymoun: C::;lt: .h s of tme Daughters of the M&h%fi : / The proceeds ~will benefit the Old Peoples Home at Riverside. nsportation will be provided from,/the North Shore depot at 7:45 p. The public is cordially invited to afrtend. Five hundred and whist will be played.. â€" LA"MES‘ AID SOCIETY TO HEAR MR. BRAUN Date of Meeting Changed From March 11 to March 9; Meets at Mrs. Williams‘ Will Benefit Old People‘s Homey Will Be Given at Martinâ€" â€" . ewmuo;m,nm_ of hias, give a card and bunco pat next Wednesday evening, March beginning at eight o‘clock at Santi Highwood. Tables will be ready for five ‘hundréd, euchre and | bunco. prites wl Do ananded and sefroshâ€" CARD PARTY TO BE / _\ CIVEN MONDAY NIGHT K.â€"P. ?mmmoo PARTY T HIGHWOOD MAR. 10 PART 1 % PARTS IN â€"H.â€"P. HOSPITAL uver n (N¢{ _Mr. Powell and his family came to t by Afih\}"l Highland]Park almost ftmr years ago, puty sheriff livgng t on Laurel avehue and then ._Ch““toPh“} in their (own home on, Park avenue. ing in the| For the last twentyâ€"five years Mr. The _officer| Powell has been the Chicago manager iry @s aA T¢â€"| of the Préferred Accident Insurance y night. company of New York. ‘He was a‘ my "brought | member of the Chicago Athletic club! Monday éveâ€" | and for some years before coming to | x c%pnny’ */ Highland Park had been president of | ved "Fe the board of trustees of a Congregaâ€" urday \night | tional ‘church on the south side. Very! jukegan\ and : soon"q!te‘r arriving in our ,com‘muni-‘ vo deputies, ty Mr. Powell was stricken with the: ind Artfius | beginning of the illness which brought | istopher had | about his death, but within the limâ€" | 5 recklessly\ited opportunity of his activity hgl trying to ‘aillied himself with the good influences, after being our city. We all know that he tion. â€" They | & for the highest qualitiesyof citiâ€" three or zenghip. * § rmack first| | Thoase who had the privilege of eeing . gord,menE owithin the circle. of Mr.| {Powe‘t!?t influence appréi:iared his rare and\beautiful character. ‘Those | | who: were most cldsely associated | with ~him in business in Chicago: realized thnf\l he was able ‘to infuse into his work the atmosphére that made for character and inspiration.| Quietly and without any ostentation | he gave a helping hand to many. Re-: | fined, cultured, dibfimilil;ed ‘in np-l pearance he possessed also a human| touch that gave him a sympathetic} understanding of others and ,especiul;l ily bf those much younger than himâ€"<, self. Through the months of his afiâ€"i fliction he uttered no complaints and : constantly :ixhibitnd a brave ~and> cheerful spirit. All through life he, never put himself first and the conâ€", sequence is that in these days. when he has passed from us there are many | who realize how ¢Qa.t‘ is their xxbfl to him. Such a manâ€"as the late 'l-f liam C. Powell leaves a heritage that j |cannot well be meéeagured. Our comk\i munity is much the poorer in this Miss Helen Freund, who is sharing the program with h;(':'/7fleu, Sunday afternoon at the Elm,/ Place A:?lt,or- ium, is the youn member the Chicag6 Civic Operd Company and is finishing her second season with m this year. Miss Freund has retur; thisâ€"week f the Chicago Comâ€" pany‘s eastern tour. ( /0 . \ }~ It is interesting to learn that Mary Garden, after hearing Miss Freund sing, has taken a special interest in her career,/ Miss Freund made her debut wri::ethe Civic Opera Company in "Werther" with Mary Garden. In the time Miss Freund has been before public she has gained wide y, and, enthusiastic . praise fromy the critics. . tps C ‘The Highland â€" Park, Theatre will present the following pictures next kv‘e“ek: Tonight, "His Jazz nfil» with Marie Prevost and Matt Moore; Friâ€" day and -‘Sq‘turdny‘, Richard Talmadge in â€""The Blue Streak"; Sunday and Monday, "If Md‘n-im Fails" with Jacqueline Logan, Clive Brook and a splendid supporting cast; T&edday. Wednesday, Thursday,"Lady Winderâ€" mere‘s Fan" with ‘Ronald (Coleman, Irene E&éh, . May McAvoy.â€" and Bert ‘Lytell; ‘Friday and Saturday, Wilâ€" liam Desmond, Helen Holmes in "Barâ€" riers of the Law", Matinee Saturday. See ylrokram on Irack page ; of this paper. « i 1 l‘\ «: l%’fhuud-y evening Mr. William C ell passed away at his home, 328. Park avenue, after an illness of two years. ‘The service in his memâ€" ory was conducted at the residence on Saturday afternoon and the interâ€" ment took place at the North Shore cemetery, His pastor, the Rev. Frank Fitt, officiated. â€" Mr. Powell is surâ€" vived by his wife and. daughter, Miss Gwendolyn James, to whom the heartâ€" félt sympathy of many friends is ofâ€" fered. â€"> « f adame Herman Devriss, who will a pany Miss Freund on Sunday, as been her sole instructor. ; RICHARD TALMADGE IN "THE BLUE STREAEK" Friends of the Highland Park fire department are planning to turn out in large numbers for the eighth anâ€" nual Firemen‘s dance, to be given on the evening of Wednesday, Marth 17, BSt. Patrick‘s day, The\dance promâ€" ises to be one of the very best which the firemen have ever sponsored and that is saying a lot, for Mx;‘h;eu ody Boys, a sixâ€"piece orchestra, and :"::e time is jpromised all who atâ€" MISS FREUND SHARES / PROGRAM WITH MR. HESS FIREMEN‘S gNUAL DANCE MARCH 17TH . ~C. Pomll-Qiéé’At j His Home: Thursday Funeral on Saturday _ The cell, in question, is occupied by James Gordon Miller, who was conâ€" | vi ml the October term of court along with Jack Durand on|a charge | of bery, and Frank Walkowski, | alias Kasper, an exâ€"convict, awaiting ' trial here on uobbery éhatgfi | | + __|â€"Take Body From Lake . ; ’(‘hj waters of Lake Michigan on | Sunday gave up the body of David “Hflifi Hess, the famous violoncelâ€" list," who is to play a concert here Sunday, March 7, at 3 p. m., in the Eim fiue auditorium, under the ausâ€" pices of theâ€"Arts committee of the Woman‘s Civic club of Rayinia, "h surely a message to give with l:; music. : The fortunate possessor of one of the finest instruments in the world, and gifted as only a few initl;iu world are ‘gifted, with years of devotion to his art, is master of muiers among the contemporary cellists of the day. Prone as we are to judge by what we hear daily‘ and giving allfdue credit and |gratitude for the preciation whith makes us proud of the praducts of our own locality, we mverthqlui have to hear the finest occasionally in order to realize just what music really meansg. To the musician it is an inâ€" spiration; to the music lover it is one Shertfl Edwin Abhlstrom on ‘Monâ€" day announced discovery of a supposed Tht of two prisoners in the county jail to oyerpower either the day or night turnkey and escape. The plot was discovered ‘within the past week, A knife and two clubs, the latâ€" ter made out of tin foil and weighlng about two pounds each were found in a cell on the first floor by Carl Ahlstrom, day turnkey, A wholesale jail delivery may have been foiled by discovery of the 'fieapons,/ the sheriff said. % T. Long, 37 years old, exâ€"chief yeoman and mental patient at the Great Lakes naval © hospital, who was reported missing on December 9 of last year. The body was found partially. enâ€" cased in ice inside of the breakwater a few feet south of the main enâ€" trance to the Gréat Lakes Naval staâ€" tion boat house/ by a boat house atâ€" tendant. (t 3 } + FIND WEAPONS IN CELLS : DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS "The Pelican" by F. Tennyson Tesse and H. M. Harwood is to be the third production of the North Shore Theaâ€" tre Guild‘s fifth season.. The play had a great success and a long run in London last year and produced this ffi by A. H. Woods in New York with Lawrence in the leadâ€" ing role. |Dates have been anâ€" nounced. â€" It was through the kindne s of Mr. A. H. Woods that the Theatre fid obtained ..e rightg to produce this play for the first in America by any save the original any. . > An inquest was held Sunday and a v'erdrct of "death by drowning" reâ€" turned‘by the jury. Commander Conâ€" ger presided at the inquest.. Construction of a new station for the Chicago, North Shore and Milâ€" Continued on page 7 JAIL DELIVERY IS _ MRS. JOHN ROUSE Is NARROWLY AVERTED . _ PNEUMONJA Â¥ICTIM "THE PELICAN," NEXT â€" > THEATRE GUILD PLAY HIGHLAND RARK, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1926 i ~ HansHeH;:bViolanéellis't neert‘ Here Sunday Afternoon March 7th m Park Press Mrs. Margaret Rouse, wife of John Rouse, and a well known resident of Highland Park for a quarter of a centqrfi died on Thursday, Feb. 25, 1926, at her"home, 324. Central !laveâ€" nue.. Death was due to pneumonia and followed an illness of only a few hours. AR Lived Here 25 Years: . _ She was married in Chicago twenty five years ago last October, to John Rouse who survives her, and they came to. Highland Park to reside shortly after. their marriage. This city his since been their home. . Margaret Murphy was born May 27, 1878, in Wexford, Ireland, and came to the United States when she was 17 years of age. She lived for a time in New York and later came to. Chicago where she remained for several years. P . Had Many Friends Mrs.\Rouse‘was a memiber of the Imma¢ulate Conception chufch and of the Tabernacle society of that church. She was a woman'.;nghoknown and highly regarded by all her because of her many mkgg:'qul- ities, and ‘there is widespread sorâ€" row at her death. The family has the deep sympathy of a host of wprnx friends at thisâ€"time. y k of, those beauties|. of lif§ which alâ€" though he cannot copy, he can absorbh and be the better for the experience. Like all true artists, Mr. Hess in buildâ€" ing his: programs, prepared bers. which would appeal to everxre. If one did not care particularly for the stately konnets of Covelli, or of the Lalo concerto, displa: the marvelâ€" ous technic of the player;; there were still those shorter Hap#e’nli'ng numbers which show perfiaps more than any the interpretive powers 3 the artist. Even without: the ability® to analyze the form or to distingugsh'th& types of numbers, one could not help but enjoy the veritable masit{:!khd music, that superb melody and heavenly tone which is for every: one who desires < Their f,‘nily of six wchildren are all at home and consist of four sons and two daughters, Charles, John Jr., George, Francis, Mildred and Kath-') ryn, (Two brothers of the decedent, Edward and P. J. Murphy, live in the east, the‘ former in New York cit"y and the latter at Arlington, N. J, Two sisters are dead. A niece and a nephew, Mrs. T. P. Clark and Charles Murphy, are residents of Highland Park. :;.> / s ‘ to hear and to call his awn.‘" â€"Reâ€" printed from the "Beaumbont (Texas) Enterprise." Nes pask T4 Well ~Known Woman Passes Thursday of Last Week; Fuâ€" neral . Service Monday; Many Yeirs Here BENEFIT CARD PARTY | TO BE GIVEN MAR. 15 Sheridan Rebekah Lofge No, BO1, will hold a benefit caivdl party, Monâ€" day e~ening, March 15, in Odd Felâ€" lows‘ 1 1. Euchre, five hundred and bunes .. J played. ments will ‘be urzd and prives: awarded. All mersbers and their friends are invited t ttend.= _( <~ ol Continued on page 7 l Wanda Landowska, an artist who is world famous and different in that | she has chosen the harpsichord as her | instrument," will be heard Saturday night in the Lake Forest college chapel in the third of this : ‘s Subscription Concerts given s Lake ‘Fomt School of Music. Mme. Lanâ€" dowska will play both piano and harpsichord.© Her engaging program, her â€"nimble and flawless .dexterity, and her musicianly charm will make . the loveliness of the eighteenth cenâ€" tury very real to her audience. Every music~student and: lover of music should grasp the opportunity of hearâ€" ing thhngem artist. . The proâ€" | gram reads: Harmonious Blacksmith | by Handel; Sonata‘ in A major by ‘Mozart;~J, S. Bach‘s_Capriccio on.the Departure ; of his {Beloved Brother; Dances Allemandes by Haydn; Inviâ€" ‘tation | to the%nee by VonWeber; g by Vivaldi; the Hunt, and 3 for Crossed Keyboards by Bearlatti; and LeCoucou, by Danquin, Next week the following program will: be zown at Pearl Theatre: Toâ€" night and tomorrow ‘might "The Merry Widow" with Ma¢ Murray and John Gilbert; Sltq';d‘y. "The Roarâ€" ing Rider" cwith Wally Wales and Kiddies Charleston Contest; Sunday, "Lend Me Your Hnahad" with Doris Kenyon, David Powell, Burr x Intosh and Dolores Casstnelli; "Signal Fires"; Monday and Tuesâ€" day, "For Woman‘s Favor" featurâ€" ing Elliott Dexter, Wilton Lackaye and Seena Owen; Wednesday, "Youth For Sale" with May, Allison and Richâ€" ard Bennett; Thursday and Friday, "The Police Patrol" with James Kirkâ€" wood. Matinee Saturday. See proâ€" gram on, back page of this paper. . â€" WANDA LANDOWSKA HEARD SATURDAY Famous _ Harpsichordist _Will Appear In Lake Forest : School Concert ~ The regular monthly meeting of the Woman‘s Auxiliary of the Highland Park hospital will bol;old’hhity Episcopal parish house on Wednesday, whnhw.?mo'eheklnhm to the money in either case. An acâ€" counting from both Paul and Holmes is required, according to the bill. éir:llddifion.bt; t:e suit flkg&q& C t court . ttorneys 2 Jackgon representing Olaf: Lindblom, against V. C, Musser, an ‘employe in the. office of the city clerk, two other suits inyolving city ofid‘lao;lso have been, Aled, one against Corporation Counsel Samuel Holmes and the m asks ftfr an injunction restra the. city.treasurer, Harry Paul, from paying ; Holmes â€" additional funds, which it is alteged ‘he is not entitled to eollect and asks the court to order the city treasurer to make an acâ€" counting. } The suit against V. C,. Musser, charging that he received:certain fees iWegally, was reported last week, The others are summarized as follows: Suit Against Holmes ; Robert R. Cowie was â€"named ag plaintiff in the suit against Corporâ€" ation Counsel Samuel Holmes, which also names Treasurer Harry Paul, and the City ofâ€" Highland Park as défendants.. Attorney Leslie Needâ€" ham filed the bill. ® The bill states that the salary, of the corporatio coun#él ‘is fi*d"by ordinâ€" ance ‘at. :#,400‘ ‘a .year, ‘no further compensation to if (allowed this officâ€" er. Itiis charged that in a mandamus suit started against the City of Highâ€" land Park by At‘omey Needham, Corporation Counsel Holmes repreâ€" sented an official involved. The bill says that the law firm of McNab, Holmes and Long, was allowed a bill of $1,225.46 for services rendered in the case. It is ch“”g‘ that ‘ the money was paid out of the general fund and that. Holmes\ received a portion of the money, contrary to the law.. An: accounting is asked to deâ€" termine the compensation of Holmes, and the attorney made to return his share to the city. | ; f NEXT WEEK‘S PROGRAM . AT PEARL THEATRE Monday, Tuesday "For Woman‘s Favor"; "The Police Patrol" _ Thursday and Friday HOSPITAL AUXILIARY . TO ME&XWEDNESDAY The bill says that from May, 1924, to Abril 80, 1925, Holmes received $3,663.51 for work WM to have been done on special assessments. It is further charged that Holmes durâ€" ing this same period received) aâ€"fee of $4,299.:45 on another special assessâ€" ment job and that he was not entitled City Officials Are Made Defendants In More Suits in Court The Club will have the rare privâ€" ilege of hearing Monsieur Henri Corâ€" revon, a native of Switzerland, who will address the members on Acclimaâ€" zt!on and use of Alpineâ€" Flora in r gardens. The lecture promises to be most interesting andâ€"will be iusâ€" trated by Lumiere: Plates. A lunchâ€"om will follow the meeting. ns is Miss Viols Miller, home. on #urâ€" sionary and a Chicago girl, ‘h a message from China worth hearing. lhtkmerbxomzd.tdm'l. E. church on N avenue, Sunday evening, March 7. Everybody is welâ€" ‘ The following pictures .will. be shown at Aleyon Theatre next weeky Tonight and tomorrow night William 8. Hart in "Tumbleweeds;" Saturday, Reginald Denny in "What Happened to Jones"; Sunday, "The Palace of Pleasure" . with Betty wmd.l Edmund Lowe; Monday Tuesday, "The Johnstown Flood" with George O‘Brien; Wednesday and Thursday, Elinor GIYN‘s "Soul Mates" with Ailéen Pringle and Edmund Lowe; Friday, Thunder the marvel dog in "The Phantom of the Forest", also Charleston cuTt«t, Saturday; Norâ€" man â€" Kerry ,n "Under â€" Wextern Skies". See program on back page of this paper, Thwinhrfi-fl} of the North ghorcflndenc:nb 1 ‘be sheld on ‘riday, March eleven a‘clock t'ttheanql!ot&;’ 4 MISS VIOLA MILLER . .TO SPEAK ON CHINA Hee(hgéog’eflfllhrdlzu e Hot I prake Hole Caipeeo) mc "The old frame house whic 15 Farmer ‘plans b,,,n-,lflg.., f gite it has held so long, wasâ€" sbout forty years ago by C, G. Hamâ€" mond, according to the M of George Brand, well hmgmc resident. Mr. Brand recalls also that before this house ‘was erected there stood on the same site an older dwellâ€" ing which was originally built of logs before the advent of the first railway here, and when there were but three or four houses in the pioneer comâ€" munity.© This first house was later enlarged and remodeled into a frame structure, and when the present house was to be built, the older building was removed to a location on McGovern ~â€"_ Continued on page 7 . Wednesday, Thurkday, *"Soul Mates";."THe Phantom of * ‘the Forest" Friday N. 8. GARDEN CLUB TO HEAR HENRI CORREVON "THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD® .. . AT" ALCYON.,THEATRE ‘Early.removal ot -n-dl}dd landâ€" mark in Highland Park is indicated len ATGREEN BAY & CENTRAL McKillip to Erect Threeâ€"Story Structure; Old House Is To Be Removed By E. E. Farmer . NEW BUILDING TO REPLACE LA NDMARK PART 1 2 PARTS NUMBER i