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* cnte ces dn ~ake | t P y# cmomaollipearnicctyt' -- t In ce *n _ TRIES TO KILL ---- JACK--O°'CONNOR AT . BLARNEY ISLAND That OConnor was not killed and that Breno Drambrofskie was Bot ------ Oitther--itlted --or--tajared--was --no fault o of Shoben's Although he fired at O'Connor® the bullet came so-- close to Bruno's head that be hbeard it whizs by his ear and saw where it _ *"*Shorty" Shoben, Long Time ~_ Prominent in Resort Region ---- Fires Shot, Misses His Man. erergg t t 2 .02 .L. sorters were going to come to visit the place as usual, it begam, to get on his nerves. At any rate after O'Connor took possession of his place in February, Shoben went up the river near the bridge and erected a smal shack" where he has been living since. his house, his e _ ing at home, and fl't#l r:awy'um where he daily gets h'is mail, it was while he was gone that Sho-- ben arrived at Blarney Tsland ac-- companied by Stamnley Robis and ben, but O'Connor says i1 bas a}> wiys been more bitter on Shoben's side because he never. maintained any il} feelings toward hbim. The resorts, both of which are surround-- d Wy watrer and were built on land lodged in the wall of the little, but rathes 'Amous Blarag© Isiand wesort vhlalbouuomnulo'mu- Lake. . TIESORTS --AAREK MERQEO Lan winter O'Connor made a dea! whereby he bought fres --Shoben the Lake county jall _after aumring ad-- mitted his rullt of attempting to kil O'Consor when arraigned be fore Justice Coulson, VOLUME XXXIII--NUMBER 15 THursday afternoon O'Connor left --. For yearse two little isiand re-- j sorts operated witWin 150 feet of each other on the west bank of Grass Lake; each was the at-- t ~-- Then along came Jack O'Con-- nor 13 years ago, anchored his boat : off shore.and----Athea.--Dbegan filling in About it angd éventualily tractive magnet for hunters in falland fishermen in summer-- there's where, in the palmy days, they used to get-- their large schooner for a dime--and in the days that now are, they have purchased ginger ale, cracker-- Jack, and what not! establish the isiand resort.--that was 20 years ago. e KC PCanr " --was-- first --to LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT _ West Ridge school is described as an institution that "looks more like a home than a school." + A striking view of the school is published, also an interior view. These pictures take prominence over others in the article. the schools through receipts from public entertainments, is also ac corded favorable comment. and gives special comment /to the The article pays this compliment to the teachers: . R new buildings which meet every re quirement. The others have been 'lghet °C arren Township high school a} so comes in for a large share of In a study of the Hawthorn sahoo!, the articles goes at length to de scribe the brigcht and breety at-- Rural schools of Lake county are: placed in the front row of Hlinois| schools In an article in the Farmer; Wite. devoted to the rural schoots The article sites Lake county as "an erample of what can be done by a superintendent whose hbeart feels for the children out on the farms and who works to supply their needs. _ _ C l SEROOLS OF LAKE ~ $ t MAICE COUNTY PRAISED _ A?f.'.',ff",:.,"i'--.'ff'i:,&imfi ESTATE OF _ f im Aokmr e e ea ce "Aurey Th¥ ) An Lt mnertand Inlk nm:l:."m:::i PROBATF COURT Superintendent Simpson Laud-- ed for Interest in Educa-- p . 2al d i tional System. _ {HE PLEASURE IS ALL OURS, MADAM place the proposition on the ballot for the voters to decide at the village election April 21. 'The question of Daylight Saving was election April 21. The matter of raising the mlnlmuml from $1 to $2 for water bills was dis-- cussed, and the ordinance relating to | this matter was amended, the change ; to take effect at the next reading oq water meters. Aink . as. & I 'The next meetifi¢g of the board will be on Thursday evening, April 23, to canvas the result of the vote at the village ejection. Mi(y road will join the pavement at* Milwaukee avenue, and will be 18 feet wide. It is proposed to widen the paving six feet on each side, thus mak-- Ing a pavement thirty feet wide. (It is understood this thirty--foot paving will extend to the line of the Brewerton property, just west of the river. 'The question of Daylight Saving was The quarantine at Great Lakes has been lifted, according to word received at the Waukegan Y today from-- the commandant of the train-- for a short time. ~| _ Sustice Ferris called Constable Lim-- | berry and charges were preferred agrinst Peddicord. At a bearing on Tuesday, he agreed to settle for dam-- ages to the Ritzenthaler anto, and the Case against him was disamissed. . After tTheir return to Libertyville, a Jamboree took place on the street; and | two or three o the crowd amused themseives by knockin@ down one of | their companions and walking on his neck and face. -- No serious casumities are reported from this fracas. ' A petition was presented praying Emily D. Wade, Denver, Colo. Peti-- for paving of East Park Avenue, from tion to establish heirship Aled and set Milwaukee Avenue. . This is to be a for hearing April 16th. widening proposition, similar to tbe' Minnie Rosenberger, Foxr Lake. Let-- one on West Park avenue. The new | ters of ddministration issued to A. F. PETITION FOR PAVING PARK AVENUE PRESENTED TUESDAY Trustee It seems that three or four fellows were passengers in a car owned by "Red" Peddicord, who is employed at the Kroll gas station, in the south part o town. They drove to North Chica-- go, Highiand Park and other places, and were returning by way of Half A number of young men about town went out for a liitle automobile ride Monday night, which came sear. re-- sulting fataily for one or two of the party. As it turned out, nqthing more than a few bruises resulited. LIFT GT. LAKES QUARANTINE ». Entersd at the Postoffice at Libertyville. Ulinpig, as Second Class Mail Matter., Lake County's Big Weekly Cmm . * g u04 * * --~--~ velferesas For Trusteees--Warren W. Grum mitt, 0. J. Boschm and Al Johnson. Monday of this week another peti-- tion was filed with the Village Clerk asking that the following names be placed on the ballot under the party name of Indapendent ticket: _ . For Trustees--Joseph Hart, Chris Hapke and Edw. Schneider. * Thers will also be two directors of the Library Board, elected this year On a separate ticket the names of W SECOND TICKET FILED TO BE VOTED AT VILLAGE ELEL,ON For President of the Boatd of Trus-- teeas--Geortge B. Mason. There wWill be two full ticLets placed ' on the ballot at the annual village | election to be held on Tuesday, April 2lst. A week or so ago the Progrese-- Iveo Ticket was filed, with the follow-- ing names: -- -- f For President of the Baard of Trus toea--Jease 8. Hyatt The estate of Homer: Cooke, for yunotoofthcbutbgnmm In the state, and dean of the Tilinots Close Several Estates in Busy Session Before Judge Deck-- M w % vienavem repndlin & --Mese s ~_~ er Thursday. l moieed 2P their Ceraned SOK Arca®y Farm is fortunate in having the new laboratory located at its plant as it will give erxcellent facilities for a Mojonnier Tester electrically operat-- ed, which is the most accurate known method of making butterfat deatermin-- ations. _ AM electrical incubator for growing bacteria cultures and determ-- ining the bacteria content of *dairy products A chlorinizing outfit for making disinfecting solutions largely used in modern dairy plants. Another product of the laboratory will be a fat frea milk cultured with Baciilus Acid-- profession for some years and found to be very efficacious in the correc-- tion of certain fTorms of digestive dis-- apb&,ns. a comparatively new product in joago, but known to the medical 'hck service to and from Chicago of-- .ers unusual transportation facilities for the new l@aboratory, as samples must be collected each day from the business places of clients and trans?"-- ferred to the Taboratory under refrig-- eration. : _ The Jaboratory 6 es | -- Amundsén had been--in the company |"" '»,1""'; 10! Leo--Ebel, of Barrington, and had 'c*'.'.'A'b':" | been driving alonk the Belvidere road f dol ut through Hainesyille.» Prouts, mlnz'&f'?:' ;:o: ! wesl, was ~Wumm.u:.mtm.m,'z. he told the sheriff that he noticed it in' s o slow up and pull to the .side..of .the N;\OF ABEYE .. «Af _« PBD: "bfl? > -- Pm the car and walked into the path of "h. "the Prouty car, he said. . W'"'zno"; ! _ Deputy WcMilian stated that m' wg 'Prouty car had gone 200 feet after P°" ing bitting the man, dragging him that j oo far. ° * -- | Bouth" 1 NEW LABORATORY FOR TEST-- INC MILK S LOCATED HERE _ Hans Amundsen, 45, of 2233 Somah avenue, Chicago, who was struck by '_a car driven by Mrs. Mary B. Prouty, , of Winnetka. Sunday at Hainesville, died shortly after the accident. ' Amundsen, who bad been going to Twrin Lakes with Theo. Kbel, of Bar-- r1gton, got out of the auto on Belvi-- passing in front of the machine to go Into a farm yard to inquire direcstions. it was as he passed in front of the car Hans Amundsen of Chicago, |.Victim of Mrs. Mabel Prouty | _ Sunday at Hainesville. Inquest into the death of Hans Amundsen, 2233 Loman avenue, Chi-- cago, killed Sunday at Mainesville when he was struck by an automobile dtiven by Mrs. Mary B. Prouty, wife of former justice of the peace Cariton ' Prouty, Winnetks, rewulted in the er--| onoration of the driver and bringing | a verdict of death due to injuries re-- tvetved from the crash a; the Holland morkue in Waukegan Monday night. Dr. J. L Taylor, the coroner, stat-- ed that the only disagreement came over the speed at which the Pr~~+*~ car was travelling. It was estime 1 that it wes going all the way from 2) to 40 miles an hour at the time it hit the man. » that t Prouty machine struck him He died two bours later in Waukegan It was reported that Amundsen | was going to walk into a farm nrd' to ask directions, and in doing so | passéd in fronnt of the automobtle and into the road. -- -- Joseph Petroskius.< who rushed to ; the scepne in his ambulance, narrowly | averted a smashup in Waukegan | when hbe locked fenders with a milk truck. Damage was slight. ' The skull of the victim was badly fractured and hisleg was broken. He was unconscious when picked up by the ambulance agd remov@& _ to the Victory Memorial hospital, where he died shortly aftéer noon. two hours after the aceident. -- --_.--_._. Carlton Prouty, former justice 'D! Winnetka, accompanied by Deputy | Allan McMillan, of Grayslake, repor't-1 ed at the sberiff's office after the ac.| cldent. and after he gave {Wentjfica-- | tion was released without bonds thru | the order of States Attorney A. V.| MAN DEAD FROM INJURIES; RUN . DOWN BY AUTO WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN ;:';: "About_the 20th of December it was |pg | C001 enough for a little fire, for a vyery few Hays, and 1 "$5.00 for about * 3150 worth of waed? which was used ,, in an open fire place, where a g0od _ Y>q@ 00 * Jr e Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received at the office of the undersigned at the Court House in Waukegan, Illino#s, until 1.30 P. M., onday . Aprit 2?0th, 1925,. by the Road and Bridge Committee of Lake Coun-- ty, for the improvement of the Volo Fox lake road, designated as SEC. R15d and extension thereof, approxi-- mately five (5) miles in length, as follows : * 60,342 Cu. Yds. Earth Excavation. 2457 Cu. ¥ds Class "A" Concrete. 80 Lin. Ft. 15--in. Sewer Pipe. 50 Lin. Ft. 12 in. Sewer Pipe. -- Certified check for 5 per cent of the amount of the pfwcgll. made payable to Ira E. Pearsall, County Treasurer, ;mn accompany éach bid. Right re-- served to reject any and all bidn For further information apply to the undersigned. Dated at Waukegan, I!linois, this 3rd day of April A. D. 1925. _ & apr y Ts **~~Ca. gupt. of Highways« }b'n' aHndese won for the boys. Fior ence Hook for the girls and Gail Gai-- loway for ihe boys wan the prizes for the most beauntif,! costumes. The program opened with all the contestants lined up in a double row ipnho. Ind., where a number of us attended school during the early 80s. \ Hiéppernied to see him in a waiting line |at the bank window. They line up at the banks here same as they do up there at 1 un.onmr'fitpflon Thursday of the county . -- Miss in the gym while the king and --queen, Lancills Golding and~ Kimer Hoendse paraded between the rows of their subjects. The Oriental Syncopators, the high school orchéstra, furnished the> music while tumbling, wand drills, borse stunts, games and drille, a spanish dance by 40 girls, parallel bars competition and red and white sword drill, a duet dance by Blance Trigge and Fliorende Hook, John Col-- by starring in the pyramid building, the parade of the wooden solMers, tvof? drill and finally the pafade of foats. After _ the _ entertainment, dancing was enjoyed by the erowds. The students "of the IAbertyvilie high school' entertained a full house at the high school gymnastum Thurs day and Friday nights, at the annual Mard! Gras and gymnastic carnival & Pflu-broouu-n-.::fl mnntwmtm and Charles Land! second, Herman Boy-- son third and Eugene Hendes fourth. The best fioat prise was won by the Girlk' Dramatic club, tbe Nautiles Five second, and the Freshman Class | purchase. to STUDENTS GIVE A FINE EXHIBITION AT LIBERTYVILLE "Another thing that is sure to hayp pen at the rate northern peéople are coming here: The socalled "Solid Bouth" i svery liable to slip a cog at the next presidential election: At any rate, it is only a matter of 2 few years when Florida will be a Republican state. Right here some of the fellows up there from "the best place on earth" will say that the "heat must be going to my head," or worse. Maybe so,. but---- . "A little circumstance which will in terest some of the old boys in Liberty-- ville and Lake county, was the acci-- dental meeting and recognizing of "Bay, do not forget that we look for the old home paper with much inter-- same date, is also here. Met a feMNow yesterday who had been to many trap shoots with the Graham boys--think his bothe is in Peoria. "As-- 'E'J the various papers, and | especially 'the New York papers, 1 find | many items regarding Florida, and as yet have never seen the place over; estimated, as #*"place to live, and firm-- | ly believe the trend of the tourists | toward Florida is just getting surtsd.! As some evidence of that I will say ; when selling a place--I1. had just fln-g ished, in one day there--were thrée couples who were here for the first' time, who were going to make this ; city their permanent home. On the ; same day two couples from Los Ange--| les were going to locate here perm_l-g nently, one of which had spent three | as "climate" is about the only asset I can see, but many do not stop at that. SEELEY GRIDLEY SAYS FLORIDA WILL BE--A REPUBLICAN STATE Seeley Gridley has fallen hard for the sunny state of Florida. In a letter received the first of the week he says: NOTICE ROAD GRADING ANO CULYERT Ruth eJnkits won the prize for the T ncbpwor be aante o W metectocr~ * m OOR B 4 e over: Discharged After Battle for 49 _ tourisis: Hours; Vote 11-- to 1--for= 23 ~--*morring on thet date. :4 * ~ _ har|, _ __ . TOOK 350 BALLOT§& _ _== 6 Ar€! «The jury teok 274 ballots up until 'Bolld / Sunday when they quit counting, og at l They stated that after that point that t 207 / there were many more and that the ,.'.:.r:'?'.""b"-?.' ballots probably reached ~ige ¥@rm > on w Time after u-blteodlhnus be carried a prayer on his Hp8, several times he made his way to Immaculate Conception church to "We will go back harder than aver. This will mean no halt for us,"* ant States Aitorney Block saaid a ment after the court hbad. sot date for the new trial. wd But one railroad detective, M number interestod in the cas . Mrs. Edward J. @mith, and hbet three children, who had been in tendance since the trial started, Sunday and were not in court the jury was discharged. Mrs, mother of Bernbhardt Mylin, was court, but showed no emotion.. has kept to herself, talked with always communing with hberselt. = and Mre. Edward Smith, are loft titute. Court attaches and spectators have contributed to thek wants for two days L > w + Mts. Raiph McKee was not in court, having been absence for a week from an attack of intestlional iffAnenta, but hi# brother, Harold, kept constant vigil and turned away in sllence Mt er the jury had been discharged. _ -- The 'fAiu' even resched the ranks of Attorneys, and Edward Curiey, who defended Mylin, was at his home in Milwaukee, where he has been i1 for three days. . 2 * £" Ry: SBunday evening, and mm'u§ moved to another room where scould e of a cot and. vote. -- D#®. Charles Lieber, county 4 was admitted to the jury room at time-- to perscribe tftof him at the C man were on & olm.flcthl-: in which they--went for 49 out, sleep and submitted to constant deliberation. 'They but.:::o:,ldm-.':lonh jpry most a month ago, when the trinl started. * RELATIVES NEAR COLLAPSEK Conu.thvl:n.'h'h"hn" the begina Bergt. Theodots Amith, father of Bernard #mith. Ones be had collapsed, and scveral Mmeas Bunday it looked as if he would bave ~JURY IN DICKEY === _ CASE DISAGREES; |_ NEW TRIAL APR. 27 _ Court came into session at 'fil' o'clock but the jury did not cor-- (n until 15 minutes later. turn was asked by the court If t# dict could be reached. The « responses were identical, Bs their deliberation would be fort and that they were deadlocked. a, s Gusa Krummery, of a a ight from the cog t it + could be returned for two % disagreement on the other W#K6. ** > 340 or 350. R ' 4 _ ALMOST-- HANGING VERDICT _ Atone time it had--stood 11 to 1 for hanging for Bernbhardt Mylin, 1 ed--ot --the --kiHine. and tor m Smith, pointed out as the the gang. f At no time, it was reported, Ralph McKee, the errand boy R Bernard Smith, the Chicago +et man, charged With being the-- </»C away," voted guilty. + e It w:&w by several | had st 6 to.£, for acg K guilt in Bernard Smith's case, #* to 3 for ecquittal for Ralph MeRoew Uune report was that the 5th & voted guilt to Mylin and be decided. His statemenrt regst on onme o¢césion that the con:'zwn--- to 1 for banging in each case. | ---- ~ the jury States Attorney Smith ,""-f_-: maended ~trial a week from '%'.{_{;' Defense counsel were prompt in jecting. some asking that the second tria!l be put as fer in advance as-- leas 1. /ApFIl 27 was agreed upon and set -- by the court:for the new trial, and $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE _ Hanging, Two Claim. ,' ' + Abe ez .---- Kach--m»~ 4A + court it 3 4. _ The loal, tes id be * a rere * :# ty ++ U e a d Wu Um# 41.« Sh