Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 1 Nov 1928, p. 4

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Born Optimist Milton J. doesn't look or act his) eitthtrsix years. He doesn't resemble,) 1 mm who went through a war more than sixty-two yen-s also; he doesn't look like a man who has made and tight to keep going and " times it? But by way of preface it is may; sary to say that Milton J. Timberlake' probably has buzzed your doorbell, more than once. If you don't answeri the first time he rings again. If you] dont answer the second ring he just, keeps on ringing. Perhaps you come‘ to the door a little warm under the, collar. Milton J. stands there smiling.’ It's a winning smile that won't Fii'il " and he combines it with ComrerBtV', tton in soft tones that can't be resisted. i He talks and he smiles and pretty soon. you are talking and smiling too and whether or not he ”sells" you "Old Man Sunshine" steps along to the: next house. But he's left something; behind. That smile is contagious and] it lasts all day, perhaps longer. You" think of his philosophy of life. And/ that is lasting. too. I ', The cireutmstaesees under which you've met M. J. aren’t the important feat- ms of this story, so said circum- stances will be reserved for I. later may.“ Do you know Hilton J. Titrtbertaket The name Peottattly doesn’t mean Anything to u of the north shore, but the chances m that if you were asked if you knew “Old In: Sunshine” you'd immediately think of the man' whose nnme is Milton J. TimberUke.l ”mam mam”: BBatlr0mlqn'l,ttie.ii. mm y'riaxrdft--'ur Aged Bert Active Solicitor t9: the Puss Ills Fine Pu]. 080"! of Life; You MIX-ow Wm Thursday, November lst at 8 o'clock -t WOMAN’S fiJ,rJB AUDITORIUM Ito you know Hilton J TIMBERLAKE CHEERFUL lltfass. Senator Arthur Iluebseii spol Calvin Trowbridge, ' Short ! The years that followed were un- (eventful mm! he moved to the north Whore. At present he is living with a daughter in Highland Park. But Wil- ;mette, Kenilworth, Glencoe and Win- 1 nttka know him just a well as do the i Highhnd Pukers. is. Milton J. Timberlnke. the young man of 86. who just has to be doing something, is the same man who has been at your door smiling and seek- ing subscriptions, for the Highland Park Press. He's been on the job for , "My father, of course, in” a singer l: that was put of the Quaker sm- t me. Well, I wouldn’t say he um Irmuch ot n singer. He couldn't ling was at Quaker and he couldn’t sing Is , I Methodist. But, believe me, he tried ” and no one could stop him." l _ The big wish of his father's lite,1 'rl"yourur" Milton says. was to live to “have the end of slavery. And he got _ I that wish and died happily _ Started u Teacher , After I common school education, Milton Timberlake became I school V teacher. He taught at Belletontaine r' and trot $40 a month, which was the r:tirst money he ever earned. Then ’came the Civil war. With the country ‘torn by trontrret between the North {and South he and a brother, John,'. joined the army. When the wax- tune)( [to an end in 1866 they returned home. ; i He did not go back to teaching. He ( married a cousin of his hunt at [AC l fayette, Ind. The next few your: Hound him m the grain business um!“ ifor fourteen years he stuck to it.' (While selling grain there tame In onportunity to come to Chiclgog {That’s how it happens that he is now‘ f in this section of the country. f But the reader probably is anxious to be let into a littl'e secret. Here it "John was in the manufacturing business in lichen, Mich, until a tew years ago. John was talking to me one day several yours 130 and said. 'Wen, Milt, I'm 76 years old nuw and I gun-35 it's time to start saving some money for a rainy day." It wasn't long after that that John was forced to retire from business? because of poor health." "Pm a great grandfather." he says proudly. Then he roe: on to tell about his brother John. of Chicago There's a team ;ens;<; injure: about "Old Man Sunshine." Hear him all this: “M “can J. an M u on I wring an! - In a, "tr--" n. horn in Hillsborough. o. a. can. " Quake: Mock And in hin andy you: yPrteemurorthesoeistrot Friends of that denomination. AM ind: then In no W church; and Hilton became n Methodist and is not I Cowling-lint. I . Auspices Young People's Repuglican League of Highland Park “an...“ P" 1-5130)»: 'tth.stmatee Short Snappy Meeting EVERYBODY INVITED REPUBLICAN TONfrt'fiiii"'hf But akin; sulneriptimtn ibat much of n task tor TimtterUU; It's In. His experiences. n he rel-u. them, are interesting and one: human. "Lots of times it I happen to all t! a home around lunch till. I'm in- vited in to have lunch." he mute-1.1 "Often the women folks at an in 101 have tea. But perhaps the tannin! thing happened one day when 1 called at I house in Wilmette. After I nu; several times the housewife tune to the door, standing mad. ‘You've had some sort of misfortune this norm} ing, and i'm sorry, but it will Cami out a" right.‘ t told her. “lt'l -ttiaq I litu- WI. all th. ling,” In" Tint-ink. in talking about a. subscription ' “You we, may and, -- in my territory take the ”M Bet I Rap In eye on the peopl- who In 'ee in; in 3nd after I can with than "T " sub-criberl" Wynn-(“153... “SEN-9m SPEAKERS “I Bet my kick out of living and there's enough in it foe no." In W '-kedosbemetotrttoiudoot about . new mail, he'd heard had moved into his territory. That's "Old In Sunshine." to the north um.)- __ Hilton J. doe-In luck. And to nodd- (or incur Jipiiiiii; tham," eh aid. "Pm "tLid; "sramisorxmouatoeqtuei i'Inhhl-t-Ithln-t. Mandamus“... unto-khan. “W-“ [mum-.mmmm "feyied-erirtsuiiGlE “MI-Aliyah“: 'Ygldu l-tmite-tsu-Gill". ' "orerireNttde"m'." l No drinking either, {at the Candidate for State mGidiiiative Lew A. Hendee “mg #' Richard Lyons lit l I?! 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