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Thursday, Dec. 25, 1930 BRIEF NEWS ITEMS _ FROM LAKE COUNTY! Interesting Happenings in This Part of North Shore; Counâ€" ty Seat Doings Another daring house burglary is being investigated by Libertyville poâ€" lice, with the report last Aveek that the home of Dr. C. H. Betzer, Lange court, Libertyville, had been ransackâ€" ed and robbed of $400 in jewelry. Contributions totaling $700 a month will be made to the fund for relief of unemployed in Waukegan and North Chicago by employes of the American Steel and Wire company plant, it was announced last week. Burglars, who last week broke through a window in the George Efinâ€" ger. Hardware store in Lake Villa, carried away $250 in guns and watchâ€" George Heckinger, former Waukeâ€" gan policeman and deputy under Sheriff L. A. Doolittle, whose appointâ€" ment as a patrolman on the Waukeâ€" gan police department was announced last week, is now on duty. Mrs. Mary Martin died last week at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Lena Bidinger, 426 South Genesee street, Waukegan, at the age of 89 years and 6 months, Judge Ralph J. Dady last week inâ€" spired 66 new voters, 19 women and 47 men, to become good citizens in a stirring address to Lake county resâ€" idents who received final citizenship papers at the reception given at the county . building by the American Legion, the auxilitry, and the Daughâ€" ters of the American Revolution. Plans for a three story $200,000 ofâ€" fice and apartment building to be erected by J. Blumberg on the site of the fire ruined Central Hotel buildâ€" ing at Genesee and Water streets, Waukegan, were announced last week by Morris Blumberg, just one month after the hotel was destroyed by fire with a $50,000 loss. William Best, 49 years old, of 2736 76th street, Elmwood Park, died last week at the Condell Memorial hosâ€" pital in Libertyville where he had been rushed the day before after he had fallen from a scaffold at St. Mary‘s of the Lake seminary at Munâ€" delein. s Improvements lfiafined in Joliet State Prison Contracts for two construction jobs in connection with the new cell house construction at Joliet, one for a sewer system at Black Hawk park and anâ€" other for a vacuum pump, to improve the system whereby the executive mansion is heated from the central power plant, near the capitol buildâ€" ing, have been awarded by the state department of purchases and conâ€" struction. . The four jobs total about $7,000. ,Building Total Is Increased Last Week ‘The total building volume for Highâ€" land Park was raised $67,200 in the last week or so when permits of that amount were issued from the office of Commissioner Sidney D. Morris. Julius Rosenwald was isswed perâ€" mission to remodel his Ravinia home at Sheridan road and Roger Williams avenue, at a cost of $15,000. Recent Proceedings in the Probate Court Recent proceedings in probate court, of interest in this part of the county, are reported as follows: Mary Caball, Lake Forest. Petition for Probate of Will filed and set for hearing January 5th. L â€" Carsten Nickelsen, Deerfield. Exâ€" ecutor authorized to pay costs of foreâ€" closure proceedings. aonens in -"'I-‘lâ€"zb;ar ~M. â€" Anderson, Highland Park. Fees of executor and attorney, fixed. â€"Emma Moran, Lake Forest. Just and true account approved. Petition for sale of real estate filed. Commerce Commission Authorizes N. S. Plan The Chicago North Shore and Milâ€" waukee Railroad company was authâ€" orized by the Illinois Commerce comâ€" mission last week to issue and sell its $2,500,000 income debentures, Series A, so that the company can refund certain notes maturing January 1, 1931, says a report from Springfield. The income debentures were ordered sold by the commission so as to net the company not less than 90 per cent of their face value. Authorization for the temporary installation of a radio set in the new seven passenger Cadillac cruising car maintained by the sheriff‘s office was given. 60 N. First St. Highland Park FITTED CASES $15.00 to $200.00 J. SMITH wew voen tot 1889 JUNK TELEPHONE 410 Dealer in THE PRESS en1CAGO A & P FOOD STORES FOR THE HOLIDAYS Friday and Saturday December 26 and 27 Mixed Nuts * 23¢ HEAD LETTUCE .... CABBAGE .. NEW APPLES GREENING THE GREAT ATLANTIC & PACIFIC TEA COMPANY Foods Fancy Budded Wainuts Canada Dry Ginger Ale White Adriatic Figs . Sliced Pincapple bk"mow Hershey Cocoa . . . Bokar Coffee . (M) The food you buy at A&P stores has stood the test of wide popular approval. It has been tried and found good by millions of customers. Every day millions of them come back for more. Food that does not measure up to this standard A" has no place on A & " shelves. Fresh Fruuts and Versetab MIDDLE WESTERN DIVIS!ION DROMEDARY Pitted Dates» RED SOUR PITTED Cherries . 8# 23¢ NONE SUCH Mince Meat & 14¢ LARGE S1Z6 1VY Size 48 woue. n 14¢ P 2 iadt 3 n.. 19¢ 2 n Iict Ib. 35¢ ue 35¢ 21¢ Pad