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3 â€" Clung to Agriculture | E‘ They have clung to agriculture. They have never turned to manufacâ€" [‘ turing. Everything that comes from & ~Geneseo comes from the soil. Cornâ€" fields are rich and productive, yet Te the people export no corn. Instead ~~*â€"â€"â€"â€"theyâ€"buy â€"corm and bring it in.â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" pl.,..~ «â€"Fing stock, _ yes, and mpuch of , it. Geneseo‘s onri railroad, tell me *J it is the largest shipping point of | cornfed cattle on the system east of the Mississippi river. _ That is II s worthwhile distinction. Stock feeders around Geneseo go west and buy catâ€" l % tle as well as corn. Here they finish t their cattle. ,, $ Dr.IRVINGC. SCHUR 16â€"18 N. Sheridan Rd. Tol. 2190 I asked them in Geneseo what they had learned of life and living in their ninety quiet and rather uneventful years. They said to me: Learn Coâ€"operation "We have learned; more than most communitics, that we can work in coâ€" operative ways. We have hereabouts a telephone organization which is unique. . Any subscribei? on our loâ€" cally owned lines can reach, without toll charges, forty small villages. "We have a coâ€"operative cream asâ€" sociation through which the dairyâ€" men market their produce. _ They have found that they can get a little more for it by selling as a unit. Our wool growers have learned to pool their clip. More money comes back as a result. The farmers have a methâ€" od of coâ€"operative seed buying. They believe they get better seed and get it cheaperâ€" "If you talk to our farmers about this you will not find them radical. They merely believeâ€"that it is good business." geurn . > I was interested in }nowinx what some of the farm items amount To, as sold through this community of 3,300 people. We went into the books for it. In round numbers, according to our check, the butter fat sold in Genâ€" eseo last year came to about $200,000; Life in Geneseo and the country ‘round has traveled on even tenor all these years. There never has been a notable boom; never any noteworthy: depression. When land values got jumpy and hectic after the World: war there was no great excitement here; hence the deflation which came as a scourge to many communities® never worked any painful antiâ€"climax. Perhaps some of the conservatism of the Yankee forbears who settled. here has had something to do with it‘| cattle and hogs, sheep and poultryâ€"l these are the byproducts _ of these postâ€"New Englanders for the stop-l pingâ€"off in New York for generations was only an interlude in the march of the pioneers. l farming land, and people of the soil. Geneseo today is a community of about 3,300 people. It is in Henry county, a‘ little more than twenty mites directly east of Rock Island and Moline. s 4 grown, somewhat, in these ninety This Congregational group, organâ€" ized, moved bodily their chattels and their goods into the Illinois prairies, built log cabins and took up life anew. And so came into being a settlement which was called Geneseo. It has had gone before and had mapped out their future. Nhnvinflm-,m:- and women, grown restive, a« a Congregational church in Genesee county, New XÂ¥ork.‘ Then in a body they took the western road. Scouts Black soil, slightly rolling, fine Sahe ¢ H. P. State Bank Bidg. 256 St. Johns Ave. Highland Park Dr. B. A. HAMILTON | "Just Grow Up" ; _ As I search towns and villages for | industries I gradually come to believe ‘that some of the best of them "just | grow up" as Topsy did. <I found in Geneseo .a little industry that has !just, grown up there; developed by [ Places are set aside for volley ball, | indoor â€" baseball. played _ outdoors, ‘ croquet and roque. In these latter ‘ years some of the oldtimers have re« | tired to Geneseo. A sprinkling of | Belgium farmers, expert agriculturâ€" ists, have come in upon the land. They | have brought with them one of their f games. They pronounce it rallyâ€"bolly. It is played with heavy wooden disks | which are rolled toward stakes, a ‘ sort of secondâ€"cousin to "horse shoes," ; alias quoits. 1~***~_ > Hennepin Canal |_ It is fed from a manâ€"made stream which gathers its waters from the IRock river just above a dam which stands between Sterling and Rock Falls, in Whiteside county. The water comes into the ‘main channel of the Hennepin ‘canal at its highest point From here the canal is "stepped ‘ down" through locks to. the Rock river on the west and the Illinois on | the east.â€" Traffic on this canal? +Very 1little today. Between Sheffield and Geneseo considerable gravel is moving {in barges. But all in all theâ€"canal is a great investment.in disuse. | _ French priest, with his voyageurs{the corn it is examined and tested, traveled the streams of the upper| each ear by itself. The kernels at tip Mississippi valley way back in the latâ€"| and butt are removed. After it is ter 1600‘s, he saw many things. He| shelled it is mechanically graded, a was an enthusiastic storyâ€"teller and | rather delicate machine taking out a)} he took some remarkable yarns back | offâ€"sized kernels. to France. Science ll'A&rk-nm People suspected that the daring Each year the impany imports priest dealt in fiction and that he had | "new blood" which is seed bought at a never seen many of the things he told| premium from other expert growers about and that others of them, perâ€"| in other comm@flities spécializing in haps, did not exist. So.Father Henâ€"| this "pure bred" corn. And the net nepin comes down in history as a| result isâ€"more bushels of better corn gifted liar. to the acre. .Science is coming more What stories might this saintly|and more into agriculture. It may Jesuit tell without romancing at all| surprise you but this Geneseo seed if he returned today? Just north of| corn has been shipped to places as far Geneseo flows the Hennepin Canal,| away as China! w named in his honor. The main canal Geneseo, they told me when I got runsâ€"between â€"Rock â€"Islandâ€"and â€"was just an orderly little Illiâ€" Salle.. And it flows .both ways fro is commupity with "noâ€"stary 3 .. Bai Near the little town of ‘Geneseq the canal widens. Here is a sort of bay. On its southern bank â€"the people of Geneseo have built a ‘country club. Produce man, doctor, telephone man and lumberâ€"man get out and play their foursomes on the green grass. What stories might this saintly Jesuit tell without romancing at all if he returned today? Just north of Geneseo flows the Hennepin Canal, named in his honor. The main canal When Father Hennepin, the good French priest, with his voyageurs traveled the streams of the upper Mississippi valley way back in the latâ€" ter 1600‘s, he saw many things. He was an enthusiastic storyâ€"teller and he took some remarkable yarns back to Franee. | _ _ _ People suspected that the daring priest dealt in fiction and that he had never seen many of the things he told about and that others of them, perâ€" haps, did not exist. So.Father Henâ€" nepin comes down in history as a gifted liar. doing considerable rebuilding and apâ€" ’-nblhom Citizens asâ€" sured me that it was. Lines into town are in cables and are buried. There is little of the spectacular in Geneseo. The people are not built that way. They mostly own good homes. A dollar does Trojan work here, as compared with the larger cities and so mpdéest income may mean a pleasâ€" ant abiding place. The Geneseo. Coâ€"operative Teleâ€" phone , which has toll > mmwmm.uo‘::. ed by 529 local stockholders. â€" It is 1 M (0Z Td Experience ° All work guaranteed. Charges Reasonable. Estimates Free 15 Years‘ ’ & THE Service rendered our Policy Holders has made this the Agency of Insurance for this comâ€" munity. ** 2. P :A NO TU NE R e Telephone 574 â€" 1046 > .0 â€" Room 3, State Bank Bldg. ~â€"_|__ Highland Park, HIl. PIANO TUNING Central Insurance Service ubout $275,000; e $100,000. The sglary list for H. F. PAHNKE When better insurance is written we will write it. . St. Johns Ave. Highland Park, Illinois Office Hours: Daily 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. National Association Phone: OFFICE HIGHLAND PARK 2048 At the request of the General Fedâ€" eration of Women‘s Clubs, Dr. Louise Stanley, of the bureau of home ecoâ€" nomics of the U. S. department of agriculture, has drawn up a program on nutrition. This suggested plan will be distributed to the state chairmen of the department of the American home of the federation, and by them passed on to the leaders of the local clubs. These local chairmen will in turn shape it to meet conditions in their communities and present it to the other members. Three million women will thus be enlisted in carryâ€" ing out a program for better nutriâ€" tion based on better food selection and better food habits. As one means of "getting over" this nutrition program, brief outlines are given for talks on such topics as "The undernourished person carries â€" a heavy handicap thru life" and "Feedâ€" ing our families for â€" eficiency." Sources of reference material, inuch of which is obtainable free, are cited, and coâ€"operation withp ublic agencies in local and national demonstrations is urged. For instance, child health week, home garden week, better homes week, can all be turned to good account in pointing out the defâ€" inite relations betweenâ€"food and health and in furnishing theâ€" ways and means for better nutrition of all members of thefamily ~beginning with the children. : NUTRITION_ PROGRAM FOR WOMAN‘S CLUBS there are some points of interest and some lessons that can be learned. Great caution is used to get diseaseâ€" free, laboratory tested seed. It is grown by specially selected farmers under strict observation. It is sackâ€" picked and hung on wire hangers in rooms where artificial heat is used. It is dried out in a dryingâ€"vault. Air flows about every ear, due to the arâ€" rmmtth‘dthhmm, l‘:l: keeping nblnei‘thfiu never permitted to freeze. natural evolution. ~It is a house speâ€" cializing in seed corns wE ~This modest institution, known as fiol.l.'Mm.i-: year sold enough seed corn to . 47,000 gcres. . The business is fourâ€" teen years old. It grew out of a fixed belief that better corn could be grown by scientific selection. # When the time comes to "work" Classified _ W. A. Noerenberg Co. CEMENT WORK CONTRACTORS 614 Glenview Avenue Highland Park 32 N. First St. Tel. H. P. 1234 _ Opposite Northwestern Depot Autolite_Bosch Delco Remy ] Cement Work & Grading Contractor Highwood Fuel, Feed Hardware Co. ari 5* BERRARDL tor SERRERAL HARDWARE __ Waukegan Ave. Highwood, I1l Phone M. P. 391 Estimates on Request PHONE H. 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FROST Sievers and Cervi No Job Too Large or Too Small 318 North Green Bay Road CEMENT PRODUCTS Chicago Motor Club Service Station BUTTER AND EGGS LARSON BROS. Highwood & Palmer Ave. _ Bosch Deloo Remy Dyneto Stromber ‘Philcs® Diamond Orid Batteriss * . P. 266 _ â€" 11 8. SECOND 87. BRAND BROS. 516â€"518 Laurel Avenue CEMENT BLOCKS Phone Highwood 1344 P. UGOLINT Percent Work a Specialty 685 Central Avenue DECORATORS C. B. Hansem Rented and Repaired Building Blocks Hunging QunÂ¥es, §unites ang Paver a ‘Wall Pager â€" Window 819 Ridgewood Drive Painting Paper Hcvn" â€" Interior Decorati 221 North Ave â€"___ Estimates given on request . Established in Highland Park since 1908 Tel. H. P. 245 Res. 606 Onwentsia Av. Tel. H. P. 924 _ Estimates Furnished ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS RADIO AND ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES Plowing, Ezxcavating, Gravel, Sand, Black Dirt, Manure n â€"halorc. _ . toâ€" o EP ; PR TN Slindny and holidays by appointment Tel. H. P. 2832 Railroad Ave. 688 Central Ave. Tel. H. P. 939â€"2028 ERNEST H. KUEHNE C. V. NICHOLS, D.D.S. 688 Central Ave. _ Tel. H. P. 2443â€"989 Estimates Furnished ‘Tel. H. P. 772â€"J Mason and Cement Contractors . 656 Deerfleld Ave. Highland Park Interior Decorations, Window Shades Lamp Shades and Draperies : _ Furniture Painting and Decorating GENERAL MASON CONTRACTOR ~~ â€" Masonary and Cement Workâ€"â€" 320 North Ave. â€"Phone H. P. 2301 HIGHWOOD, ILL. Phones Highland Park 2358â€"824â€"J PHONE HIGHLAND PARK 2222 ERWIN F. DREISKE VETTER ELECTRIC SERVICE Joseph Cabonargi CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER INMAN BROTHERS ELECTRICIAN â€" RADIO SHOP AT â€" UR â€" DOR . 591.GLENVIEW AVENUE â€" Telephone Highland Park 2180 W. A. Noerenberg Co. DR. GEORGE J. 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