Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 14 Aug 1930, p. 24

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Wife of County Supt. of Schools Finds Her Ancestral Home in East "Id picture " the only identifying the boyhood f her father, Mrs. T. A. te ut the county superin- (hurls. w“ able to Inc-to 'V in Vermont um! in " ht. opportunity of talking resent occupant of the i” PI w The reception hall is a convenient place for an ex- tension telephone So many times, you or your guests want to make calls on entering or just before leav- ing your home. And. for privacy in telephoning, you may have it readily with this extension tele- phone just a step from the living room but far enough away to make your conversation quite out of the hearing of others. The cost is small. ILLINOIS BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY BELL SYSTEM One Policy . One System . Universal Service plue. it was learned today. Her father, Byron Colby, who makes his home in Libertyville and here with the Simmons. is 94 years 1M. and he left his birth place " yuan am. when he was nine years old. When Mr. and Mrs." Simpson map- ped out their vacation. this year it was found that they would enter the state of Vermont. This give them an "pportunityit look for Mr. Col- hy'x old hunw s" the aged picture Wan' when " me. The best inforrntr just ml! our Business ogre I'll Pill! tion that he could Iriv.e was that the house was located in the vicinity of Topston, a very Vsmn_ll hynlet.. ' On uriving in Topston inquii'ies were made and one man stated that he thought such tt place could be found several miles from there. Ev. entually the' home was located und there waf no change from the pie- ture of it, Mrs. Simpson discovered. “The p/esent oswuiuot has lived there years and is confident that the home, which is in In excellent state Artist's drawing of a reception bull in a tomfartubl) modem Jive room bom of repair, is more than 100 yen“: old And unchanged from the time it was built. The Simpsons were shown through all the home but were unable to walk over the farm as a driving rain had started to fall. A great-nephew of Commodore De- catur. just deceased, has devised to the United suterNaval academy a swprd that was presented by the city of Philadelphia to the famous Amer- iean naval oftker. The brave, romantic and genius-en- dowed Decatur remains one of the must attractively striking characters in the history of the nation. His sword very literally carved a new avenue Crt. the onward march of Christian civilization, giving to the United States a sea prestige which struck terror to its foes and stirred the envy and anxious thought of Eng- land and other sea powers. Deeatur's famed toast: "My coun- try, may she always, be right; but, right or wrong, my country!" has stirred the soul of patriotism through all the years since his day. " has been criticized by moral controversial- ists, but its essence too deeply is im- planted in the American heart ever to be dimmed to lesser luster, for it was born of a very passion of patri- otic devotion - as though one had said: "My family, may it always be right; but, right or wrong. my fam- ily." . . II 2, at... .....'..." Deeatur's Famed Toast Sensibly Discussed by Cincinnati Enquirer ..,. . Far better and nubler is the spirit, and implied intent, incorporate in the great sea captain's immortal declara- tion than the saccharine silliness of man) modern pacifist slogang, which wnuld transmute it to 'menn some- thing like: "My country, may I be permitted to serve and defend her, if Europe and the rest of the world be willing that I should do no!"- Cincinnati Enquirer. be received tut the cum-(m null". pipe "(tendon wm hula and htldwll in Class City of Hiahlnnd Plrk. Cou sum " lllinoil. u I Wh! with' the urdingnce theretor, Slid bids will be Revived by Local 'mprovrrnentr' at in mm Hull. Hiuhlnnd Park, Illinois. u nn the 25th day of Augunt. 1 time Ind plsee they will he a Ind rend. _ . ' The "trelies'" " be hafnium-d It the a lac-I Improvements in Cit}. id! BOARD OF LOCAL tMPRovF:MF.t0s or' THE CITY OF HIGHLAND PARK NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that bids will 1 received fur the eortwtrueutrn ot tb norm um. pipe rxtemlun wlth cunch mun- ;leu and hudwul in clnvey Bald. In thr in of Highland P-rk. County of lake. um! mm at llllnoil. " I whole in securdnnee Thursday, August Bani ot Local Ttnvrnvenwnhs ot the City nf "(HM-ad Plrk. m und blank prnpnuln will the one: of the Bond nt m in the City Hall " nit! WM. J. BROWN. LYLE GOURLEY W. M. REAY, J, H. ZIMMER. waived by the Band at at in: omen In the City Illinois. until 7M5 p.m. August. 1980, " which will he pulxllely opened 14, 1930

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