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Lester Norris, who as a } ferred to draw )llh.: mam town ?" see, T never had but one child and he died. I‘ll never have. another. I‘ve bere all my life.« Il live here the rest of it and die here. Why . B; J. Baker, with a whimsical smile remarked: ~ Fvk \% ements. They opened the bank the other day and I, ~reâ€"discovering Iilinvois, was there to see it. This village bank‘s home cost about $200,000. |It is of marble with beautiful bronte furniâ€" ture and tall bronze vases and amazâ€" ing equipment. It is y the mmmmm%ud bank of its size in the It is One day E. J. Baker, in from his larm.ndhishyrn-andhiqblooded stock, remarked to the village banker that the village bank might well be in Wlmm.; Agreed, but how? "Ill id you a bank," said farmer Baker. Appointments of the Ctmnnity House are as tasteful and theitapesâ€" tried and friezetted chairs and couchâ€" es as colorful as the most skilled decâ€" orators could make them. The finer and newer hotels and clubs in New York or Chicago may outâ€"do it in size or vastness but for atmo-phen and tasteâ€"ah, impossible! Â¥4 g equipping the house orie of Chiâ€" ‘s greatest furnishing houses was given the blanket orderâ€"to do it comâ€" pletely and well. The Compmunity m has a hall for enterzdmnents a dancing floor and stage, parâ€" lots,. roomsâ€" for meetings, |\kitchens, swimming pool, bowling alleys, bil> liard rooms; permanent quarters for the American Legion, Women‘s club and the Boy Scouts. eA y And as these events were taking e Henry. Rockwell Baker, only child of Mr. and Mrs. E. !G. Baker, po ors of the remaining share of the‘millions, grew to manhood. Then he became ill and died. Thus we arâ€" rhfi at the Community House. | i Give Community Hcpe. | â€" The Angells and Bakers and Nor: traveled some, got wider and r viewpoints of larger things and back to St. Charles to be among the people they knew. In memory of only son the Bakers built and esented to the people of St. Charles a C unity House costing m.ooo,â€" Mrs. Baker added $25,000 ‘as ej fund for unkeep and Mr. Baker preâ€" T the Community House with the ¢ from a twoâ€"apartment build-?J ing. * 13 | .“Rollon Angell, fairy princess of the 000,000 or so, fell in love with Lester Norris, the little boy who had > her bandage the sawdust woun*®s of her dolls in childhood, and they were married. Three years they have been married and there are lit» tle ones in their home. I { _ Come with me today and we will visit a city that believes in fairies. I surudtouy‘&mawâ€"ht&fi comes only once a year. The town ‘"that surely must believe in fairies is St. Charles. < It is a village of perhaps â€"5,000 people, about thirty miles west of Chicago. t | â€"How the millions came to St. Charles is too well known to need reâ€" ‘ . â€"Suffice to say that Gates‘ son died, then John W. Gates and his widow died. So we find it in the hands of Mrs. Gates‘ nearest kin‘ the Bakers and the Anfells. And the Bakers and Angells are wholesou!â€" ed, likeable people, the galt of the o:'tl:' who continue to shake their f1 â€"townsmen firmly by the hand. . The possessors of the fortune that is |playing fairy to St. Charles are "Bakers, the Angells and the Norâ€" tises. The money came out of the estate of John W. Gates. He made his Crarfw millions out of barbed wire. Other millions followed. He plunged in lands, railroads, everything. | He dx‘od his amazing career as a prince of petroleumâ€"The Texas company. | . A few years ago a little group of people there, interlated, fell heir to a large fortune. Just how much is ::jectm.. Some say that this forâ€" une wasâ€"$80,000,000 or thereabouts ,iltn it came to St. Charles and that it is grown now to about $100,000,000. PAGE SIX weuieg T. 2208c °o Lo on C e mt TE He t C CV e Why not‘these things for the even to machineâ€"gun emâ€" The theater is a study in Mediterâ€" ranean architecture, Spanish and Venetian with cathedral chimes. To enter you walk over "broken tile" floor in blues and greens and rose, The walls and ceilings are colorful, a "Theaterâ€"builders will come from all over the United States to see this theater before starting projects. It is a step ahead. Jt is wonderful. There is no other like it. I am charmâ€" Today he is building a magnificent theater in St. Charles. It has a standâ€" ard stage and is equipped for motion pictures. I was told that it will cost $500,000 and will seat $1,000 persons, I talked with an expert theater deâ€" signer who came to St. Charles to look it over." He remarked with enâ€" thusiasm: her dolls rather than to mess in mudâ€" pies, by evolution became an artist. For a time he drew that comic upâ€" andâ€"down strip in the Chicago Tribâ€" une that "grades" the vaudeville acts. He drew other things, too. : w Ne at Order The Chicago Daily News _ delivered to your home CHICAGO DAILY / NEwYs . x# / was Fill out the coupon below and mail it to The Daily News today. _ ts f No matter what kind of news or type of feature interests you mostâ€" 2 Simply telephone or write to T‘he Daily News, 15 North Wells Su'cet,Chicago,Illinois,and you will receive Chicago‘s home newspaper every afternoon by supper time. A in a town. Thousands have already welcomed this new delivery service and are receiving The Daily News every night. For seventyâ€"five cents a month you can have The Daily News delivered to your home. : Now you can have T)jxé Chicago Daily News delivered to your home even thou__gh you don‘t live in Chicago or right And now St. Charles wants a new hotel. â€"~ E. J. Baker has agreed to that, too. ~He has bought a site on the river banl& just where the water tumbles over the dam. He has taken over a helterâ€"skelter of rickety boatâ€" houses and shaky landings and has kicked them out. The hotel with an acre of riverâ€"frontage for promenade, preliminary estimates say, will cost For punctil*onl perfection in furâ€" nishing, down to the last detail, for service and taste, I have seen none that surpasses it. It is a delight. blazing of English vermilion, cobalt blue, coral, gold and other radiant hues, All these are being "antiqued" to make them blend harmonionsly. Talk started in St. Charles regardâ€" ing plans for a country club. Shortly the Bakers, Angells and Norrises agreed to flnnpcc it. Nine holes they have, very sporty, with builtâ€"inâ€"water hazards that mesmerize your ball, I have visited many eountry clubs, some of the finest, yet this I will sayâ€" THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS You will find it in ‘Bt. -F;ry’l academy has opened its new |:$200,000 school.. â€" Nor would the picture of St. Charles be quite comâ€" plete without mentioning that not many years ago Charles Haines, bachâ€" elor znd friend of children, I&t a third of his fortune of $350,000 for the adâ€" vancement of the affairs of the school children of St. Charles, j $ Game Farm _ * Out in the hinterland beyond St. Charles we find thé Wallace Evans Game Farm. Here deer roam the hills, swans swim in little lakes and What does all this mean to St. es ? â€"Aye, that‘s the thing. An example or two. The Sprict garage a few months ago was a tumbledown frame thing.. The owner shook his head as the bank went up next door. Today the garage is of red faceâ€"brick. A half plock down the street Harold Colson, clothier, has moved into his brand new store. The new $500,000 theater is going up on a spot that was a dump behind a tightboard fence that had lost its tightness. Within the last few weeks Lo Enough for boys to eat!? Ten hogs a week out of the farm‘s pens in the weekly kill. ‘Beef and other meat is bought. The bread baked? Four hunâ€" dred twoâ€"pound loaves and 200 oneâ€" Eight hundred boys on 1,200 acres. Neither a wall nor a barred window. The boys are divided into 23 "famâ€" fHlies" scattered about in eight colonâ€" ies. Sixteen school teachers teach eight grades; in all 130 employes. It is a pleasant place for boys even to lake and park and zoo. Its health deâ€" partment includes two nurses, a docâ€" tor and fullâ€"time dentist. Nearby we ‘find the St. Charles School for Boys, state institution for delinquents; frankly, a reform school. But you‘d hardly recognize it as such. Col. Frank D. Whipp, managing ofâ€" ficer, acted as host and guide. This is the picture. wood duck and mallards and canvasâ€" backs green in the watercourses. Peaâ€" cocks spread their fans ‘and pheasâ€" ants, gaily colored, march in their enâ€" closures. Y # _ c}":‘o‘?’ s Cfi*’ ‘N&.&a ."," y phones as Norway. It is to these workers and thei children that the r r | atmeosph the colorful and beautifulâ€"the C munity House, the hotel, the theater, the country club, the hotelâ€"thatâ€"isâ€"to be, all have come or are| coming Charles must believe in fgirles: ; _ innutherable for boys are boys. | ‘ One . moment â€"for l iBt. Charles.. Here is the gtdat man hm mon o ie onl ten ts pany; home f ‘comâ€" :"ny, stringed instruments and the ewcombeâ€"Hawley _ smdio horns. Two plants | ight Mxâ€" tures, another hammock} = ture, fishing nets, etc. | ; Mo Malleable. Iron Works 1 p malleable castings of all ; That‘s Charles. .X C 1 & THURSDAY, NOVEMEBER 18, 192 pound loaves a day. Copkies"? 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