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3 _ LUBERTYVILLE GAS . gTATION ROBBED . ~ ~Lake Forest Has Been One of _ . ! ~Show Places For Decades. ®. «+ Melody Farm, Just West o1 ¥€ financial reverses & fow years ago but at his death still owned it. . Mr. Armour, when living at . Lake Forest commuted like any. clerk run-- ning between, Chicago and Lake For-- est. -- He always took the early morn-- ing traing in and to see him one ney-- er would realize that he was the greai power in finances and industry --that heuvnflwbe. ~ * % y (h r. Armour, especially early Mdlhm:m.fl- lond'iathroom'uotwh the first --P.. D. Armour, { of Armour & Co., who made a point of being the first person in his office in the morning and,the last to leave at nlght--noxhtc_mth'tdouno} lend itselt to social pursuits. E*4.! privilege, it has been kept --closed. The residence is one of theijargest, it not the largest in the county, the grounds are unsurpassed; the acreage is second in its total. 'The estate has always been kept up to thefinest point, although --Mr. Armour has not used it during the past.year. l:,md to be the seene of--many social af but Mr. Armour, always very simple in his ideas, took: no part in those functions. It is said that he has been willing to sell the place ever sinte his Ot Chicago's many leaders in bust-- ness whose names have been clo: linked with the city's history com-- mm:.\.ou&-u mour had, in all probability, s0o-- cial lifte than any other: , «* ~--No Social Ambitionk a "I bhave no social ambitions," -- J. Ogden Armour once said. y 'ambl-- tion is to run Armour & success-- fully and to give a great many young men a chance to make their way in the world. © My associates in . the business are my closest friends.~ If it weren't for the fun there is in work-- ing--with 'them and being with them I wouldn't stay in business" . | The Armour's home lies on the west side. of Waukegan rodad and at the west end of wwmre;u ago when it was first cor . Mr. Armour allowed the public to drive through it to view -- the wonderfual grounds and palatial home but of late Although he rarely accepted fnvita-- tions to fashionable functions, he was always an affable host to his businegs associates and a few chosen friends. In 1907 Mr. Armour's m:n »al the wedding of his cousin, Watson Armour, . caused --something . of & stir. One of --the papers of the day gaid: of "*When J. Ogden Armour got m boiled shirt and his evening and. attended the wedding of Miss Elsa Parker and Watson Armour so-- ciety ~asped. e estate in Lake county and nwm for first place only by the big-- properties at Libertyville, mfio summezs home of J. Ogden +~At ¢, ~--"It~ was the first toml' function that: the head of the t packing concern has attended since 'his own wedding fifteen years or more. ago. Mrs. Armour entretains magnificent-- ly, but when 'her husband gees preop arations going on for an *affair he scurries away to his club ?::hphy- whist or pinochle--until he--feels that he can go home without risk of meet-- ing any one loaded with small-- talk and fine clothes.' '--=<-- ------ kobbers who. broke into the Pine Tree Filling station at--Park avenue and. Wheeler --road between Liberty-- ville and Mundelein Tussday night, got away clean--with $3.50 in cath and & car load of=cigars, Cigarettes and tobacco -- according --to ~Marshal Dennis' 'Limberry ot~ -- Libertyville, who investigated "the case and ex-- :ectt to make an 'mm'"vggin B4 ours. * o . George Perejda owner oft: the fill-- ing station, lists his loss at 2 boxes of chocolate abrs, 4 boxes of cigars, 8 cartons of . snuff, ue'::u o: cigarettes and $3.50 from . eas regigter, ~He has {Nm Lim:-- berry a clew tha &M to re sult in an arrest.= _ 0 ----' LIVED © -- SIMPLE LIFE VOLUME NUMBER Xxxv--63¢ <-- SECTION TWO _ LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, AUGUST i8, Kews of Mr. Armour's passing cast a~ paill of gloom over Chicago vh:{o 64 his . > e TO BURY ARMOUR ALONGSIDE FATHER 'hose death Tu shocked the nanciat and Mm world, ~ Mellody--Farm, just west of <~Lake COUNTY HOME IS FINEST IN COUNTY LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT €:4 «. 5> 8 % ' o ic:. . ons * D * E 3 ¥ 4 k C > > e ¥ € %% l & 336 ® x PCs¥ P & i . '.,:' f a w\ ." '%' & ' A s Only about one--fifth to one--fourth of the cora .in Hlinois is far enough along at the present time to mature a crop before the normal date for the tirst killing: frost, while --about two-- fifths--of the acreage is hopeless, even should--the first killing frost be de-- estimated --today by crop 8 of the--college of agriculture, Univer-- sity of: Iilinois. -- C ey 24 1. J. Ogden Armour, head ot big packing 'ocmpany, died in London Tuesday, according to private advices to his Chicago office. Mr. Armour had been 'il1 of Typhold tever, His wife and daughter were at his bed-- «--Farmers_who have relatively early planted corn that promises to mature at about the normal date should be-- gin m=sking preparations for storing large quantities of it, because there seems to be little chance of getting satisfactory seed from a large pro-- portion :of the fields in the state, It was recommended. paign, Douglas, Coles, Moultrie--and Shelby counties by J. D. Bilsborrow, assistant state lqader of farm. ad-- visers. All of theso counties are either in ~or near the heart of the IMinois corn belt. . . * s . _ Survey Growing <Crop The estimate of <thecrop's pros-- pects is based upon counts made last week on 654 fields in McLean, Taze well, Peoria and Fulton counties --by J. C~ Hackleman, crop extension-- spe* Of the 654 fields covered in gount' made by: Hackleman, only 124, or 20 per cent, were in tassel at the time the count was--made last week. Nearly onethird of the fields in the remaining 80 per cent will requive from--two to three weeks longer be-- fore the corn in them will be in tas-- sel, while another third of the fields will require even longer before tas seling, as the corn in many of them is him even knee high, Hacklemin Ha r ¢ e BUT LITTLE OF ESCAPING FROST cialist of the college, and upon simi-- lar counts made during the last of *On 'the basis of. time required fot maturity and the normal date of the first : killing ~frost, 'only those . fielde that. were --in tassel--at the. time the count was made.can be considered as relatively certain of maturing a crop, Hockleman pointed--out.© After: tas-- FARMERS FEAR BIG LOSS "These were the first casualties ro-- 'ported in connection with the gath-- 'ering here. CC l * en t seling,. corn requires from 60 to 65 days to mature a crop. (The average date of the first killing froet is Octo: ber 15 thru central northern Illlinois and October .16 thru. central lilinois, he said. $ . * C $ Whila only about one--fifth of the corn in the--countéd fields can be con-- sidered reasopably cértain ot making a crop, there is another fifth that may come through if"the weather is favorable. for=--corn growing between now and the normal date of the first killing frost, Hackleman said. There is another fifth of the acreagethat will have to have favorable growing weather and a delay of tworto three Selore i can bo qepected 40 hatire At can a crop. > The remaining . two--fifths of the--screage is thought to be hope-- less as far as a crop of mature grain is concerned, he said. -- 2l RUN OVER 3 GOLDIERS ' Wheéeler Field, Honolulu, Aug. 17.-- Three soldierg sleeping on the road near. here.were run over by an am-- bul > v and. VCE x flme.wnn #lya ,h-.cnba ."'..;l.'m.. um _ rowing ~Grain Requires : 6 DaysAfler%tola' ture in Hlinois. } Need 65 Dayg --After Tasseling Packer Dies wa Sap had --seen Sorengon, : Litchfieli® and t his wife had seen Sorenson alter receiving the letter but this was also stricken from the record. ; That Hall hope@ to win the issue "bafore the justice is apparent thru the fact that Be brought out his full defense. It is frequent practice in cases--of this nature for defense coun-- sel to force statements from as many state witnesses as possible and then waive defense. --The justice needs but a prima facie to bind over a: de-- fendant.. s until after & jury trial which would come if the justice holds the man to T ining t i e 4 L m a= the <way of a mys-- tery developed"today when a woman shorthand reporter made hér appear-- ance.. --She refused to »~divulge who sho was preffring the record for but a guess made by one of the officials in the court was that she had been sent there by the Leohman's who are said to employ Sorenson. + AUIBI DENVING RAPE OF GRL With the testimony concluded about noon court adjourned and ar-- guments were set over until* three o'clock Saturday afternoon. Hansen -- stated> that the girl was the ~county : jail . by deputy _ United States marshals and taken to Chica: go where it is said that he will stand trial on a charge of violating the im-- Oritiz was arrested a week or more ago . by -- ;fifl men and police and then --held in the county --jail. The warrant with the specific charge of entéring the country illegally was re ceived today by Deputy. Thomas Ty charged he attacked her. -- > The first he heard of the story, he gyaid, was when he received a letter from Attorney Herman Litchtield in examined by D¢; Bracket and Dr. Callabhan and thut these men had found she had been attacked. They were --not called to the stand. While Ingpector A. E* Germer, of the --U. 8: --Postal Service, retused to nm.m-gtutohh'tmfi to the. governm p mmmmmuh-m in law whenever ha chose:; Sherwood, through his testimony and that of his--father, mother, and a Chicago woman camping on Cedar Lake, proved that he was working on the construction of a spring board ~Jesus Oritiz, MeXxican living on Mar, kot street, today was removed from States ORITIZ TAKEN -- TO V. S. COURT TO STAND TRIAL Oritiz has an unusual defense.--Hle claims(that he <entered the countfy ;'rcnfl! nw '::n,: resident 'ow ~~some < He charges that t agents were looking for oonfi'ot!jet Mexican and took him by --.mistake. He is the father of several children, one report W that there are {ive in hi# family.""~.. s::;;--..:c* . > Denying, detail for detail! the story told by Laura Sorenson, 15, of Lake Villa, --Postmaster. Claire: Sherwood, of Lake Villa, today completed his teatimony beforo Justice ~Hervey Coulson offering an alibi defense wilh a hint of 'blackmail' on the charge o!Tr;.u. mald in his home, bad a i¥ chruffiu..w had gent his wite to work at the postoffice, sgent his child to the store to make a pur-- chase, and then subdued her after a hard fight. --He had said, she charged, that he was JAntimate with his sister-- Attorney Albert Hall, defense cour sel, offered the letter in evidentse but an objection -- from -- Assistant Friends of his have made efforts to secure his release. Oritiz has /Aliv-- ed here in the --same house® for <the past two years. Mexican Arrested-- Two Weeks Ago For Violating Immigra-- . ARGUMENTS _ CONTINUED SAYS HE'S WRONG MAN Produces, Witnesses sto : Show He : Was Away at Time: of Alleged Attack on Maid. : SHOOTS MAN ON . _ 'PORCH FOR THUG Chicago, -- Aug. 147.--Bernard _Col-- lins, 25, shot and killed a man known only as "Shapnon" whom he discover-- ed upon his rear porch today. _ R&_ captured °§,' poli !J!';o?ltnl: tuz'oommm ::',hd his wfig and were hot burlhrllma: mwfim The latter was Attorney tion Act is Gone. *\ ENT -- ---- Lake County's Bie Weekly 4 wleire my marriage certificate to prove it," she said. "I was martied,. when.yery young, to George Anderson in New Onleans in 1915 He didn't support Mrs. Tilliman claims she has prop-- erty enough in her own name to sign her own bond, and she is making an attempt to go before Justice of the Peace Hervey Coulson to sign anoth-- er bond for her appearance betore the 'grand jury. s i _ At one time it was claimed tha' Mrs. Tillman was the beneficiary in a life ingurance policy on Tillman and that she would use the insurance money to help Robinson free himacelf from the clutches of the law. Her Tillman' was killed on May 19 and Clifford~Robinson--was chargead~ with the murder.. It was claimed that Rob-- inson was with Mrs. Tillman in Rob inson's homewhens Tillman came to the place, apparently to see .if his wife was there. -- One bullet: from a .22 calibre revolver ended his life:--and the body was found in an alley at the rear of'the Robinson wm y > Robinson is in the fall await-- ing hearing before the grand jury on a charge of murder and. Mrs. Tillman was rcleased-- on $1,000 bonds as an accessory and..witness. w B : Tillman, murdered, and that her real husband, George Anderson of New Orleans and Chicago, is in the city in her behalf. A§ts y With the: appearance of Anderson, her first husband, Hill feared for tha safety of his bond. Mrs. Tillman was locked up and is at present attempt-- ing to arrange for another bondsman. In her cell in the county jail, Mrs. o ol e ces oo airande Tor 2 ed, was anxicus to arrange for a Jail this afternoon when Donny Hill, who had been on her bond, withdrew from the bond, claiming that Mar-- ~*"I was married t> Georges Tillman in Chicago in May of 1921 and' have ing u\':eemory after the-- fact of murder in the death of the man with whom she had been living in North Chairman -- of directors --of U. S. Steel Corporation passes away in New Y&rk;-néw-' km quiet ;tor- hours : to prevent pani¢c on stock market. s trile me and was not a good husband so I got a divorce. I have my dfvorce at home now to prove that." . . WIFE OF MURDERED -- NEGRO HELD WHEN -- BOND IS RECALLED appearance, even in the county jall would indicate that. she has an in-- come from some sort, as she 4s weli dressed and doés not appear to have : Springtield, HL, Aug. 17.--The U. S. department of--agriculture, <<weather been working. FIRST HUSBAND APPEARS Margaret Tillman Denies She . Was Common--law Wife of -- WEEK TEMPERATURE BELOW NORMAL bureaun, . today --issued -- the : following syropsis of -- weather cand--crop con« ditions in thestate < for-- the week ending Aug. 16: _ --. v3 Ag . " --"Corn made normal progress;.the crop:< temains, uneven; -- some fields are tasseling m"&:hqgun'em while others ._are -- little more than knee high; a large 'portion is three weeks later than normal. -- * wet 1 *"Temperature for ~the vzoek';%nrg' aged slightly below ,normg. '«Moie ture was 'sufficient: except : t 'the ex: treme north; drought in the extrems northwest® is forcing feeding ~of: cat-- tle *Threshing is incomplete . in. the north, ~while in the. central portion of the state eo:'lgdembh grain re-- -- --"The second--crops 'of. cl'o%and. alfalfa aré ripening or. have been cut. The heaviest .crop in years has been harvested. _ s Cor ie n ie t Marggret Tillman, charged with be-- Judge Gary Dies 's Big WeekD -- WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN uo Opinion was in @answer to a --utery from the stato's attorney of Edgar county. --The state's attorney ldoclan_d, in his letter that the state mw for 10 years to pay its one-- of the aum needed for maintain-- ing the road, as provided by law; that «+ State aid roads, those buillt jointly by the state and county, may not legally be abandoned, Attorney Gen-- eral Carlstrom :. said in two opinions mace qublic today. *~_"her--the county nor the state "__~--~m of, highways have the legal 4ity to abandon such a road, the ney general said, One' opinion was in answer tn a CANNOT ABANDON STATE AID ROADS . --CARLSTROM SAYS Attorney General Makes Pub _ Third lic Opinion in Two Cases ofll?n'mer Dispute. * Gem Polish mops .absorbent, clean. and polish all finished linoleums, _ etc. > A. quality surfaces, --:floors, -- woodwork, product Sale Priced. August Sale of Housewares ._---- BREAKFAST SET _i .. @6--Piece Semi--Porcelain .' With -wcafnln lined covers and rubber rings m?'""- <Putin your supply now--priced as Oollows: > / Lyan ntgees $ed LAW ----FOR . ACTION ~-- GEM OIL MOP > 'saie Pricea."""""~_~-------- . Iridescent Salad Plates DUTCH CLEANSER . § t e e Lt + _ '--_, Jelly Glasses | ELECTRIC IRON Mason Glass Jars = For Canning Time Ideal cleaner for Sinks and Toi-- let Bowls. Cleans and. opens drains and will 'not harm por-- celain or <plumbing=of any kind. 'The Best Stove -- On the Novth Shore" Exq 3 Fo!:'l.l.s Beautiful Sets of white _ Semi--porce-- lain, of véery. fine quality. -- Breakfast Service for six peo-- ple. This is an ex-- ceguonl value. $2. 98 Ai-- $ .19 '«~The other answered a letter from the state's attorney _ --~of © Lawrence county. ~ There, the state ~planned abandonment of a state aid route in favor of a new routing, and residents along the old route protested that the ed when she attempted to fight ef-- forts of the robbers to take her dia-- mond rings. BEATEN <AND ROBBED Chicago, Aug. 17. --Mrs. J,. R. Bar-- ron was beaten with the butt of: a revoirer and her. husband and an-- other couple were robbed of jewelry and money of more than $3,000 here today when accosted by two masked bandits in the vestibule of the Bar-- virtually the same in both cases, A search of the state road lawse, Carlstrom replied, failed ~to disclose any authority for abandonment of a state aid road after that road had been improved. © Furthermore, the law state should legally maintain , the the county assessment,;, was insuffi-- Clent to maintain the roads; that they were falling into disrepair--and that the--county board. of supervisors had voted to abandon the route. 19¢ ypiiiWap=¥t ¥¥%6 & m: )r. ¥ *Made -- with "pail =»shelf--of Belected Aumber and . fully rodded =for safety usa.-- 4-- foot: high. Extra value. Beautiful glass, Iridment\fleet Salad Plate-- Specially prited for this selling only. Pyrex glass pie plates hold heat much longer and after years of use still look like new. 'They never craze, never discolor. --Rare value for limited time Entire Stock of high--grade Lawn Mowers --now offered at 25% reductions_rather than to carry them over: for next season--woell known makes-- in all sizes and Bali--bearing. «This is one excep-- tional selling. f R § ~ ~GARDEN HOSE® > A Tese es 3 j# inexpensive and attractive. main PYRET PIE PLATES ~-- Entire Stock Of . LA WN MOWERS * .19 $1.:50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE on bond." ~. * ""This the chief refused to do peni-- ing a mentals examination. Chargis .Of carrying a gun were set several weeks ahead to allow Dr. Williar: Hickson to conduct a thorough er-- amination of McGurn. > ing a program inaugurated by Chief ot Police Michael Collins. "I think gil gunmen .@are insape,.* said Chief Hughes. "If this can be proved we'll put the bad men away in--a sanitarium instead of releasing them 'upon habeas corpus writs to again terrorize innocent citizens." --~*"I'm alli --right. 'There's nothin® wrong with my mind," protested MMc-- Gurn. "Book me so 1 can get out alleged gun--toting gangster, was to be examined"by city psychopathologist here m to his sanity follow-- ing -- a inaugurated by Chief Street Jooraal, EXAMINE GUNMEN FOR INSANITY Exery cosmetic dealer knows that aman's face:, is his {fortune.--Wadr Chicao, Au.--17.--Jack McGurn, an White enameled-- on hearvy steel. Every kitchen needs one.> This is anotber un-- usual value. _ . moulded garden hose of _ ~extra' quality, < complete '"--~"with couplings. Big val-- 4 Ball Croquet Set--well «constructed and finished ----complete ~ in " C ase. ESplendid -- outdoor game for young and old.. Yery | Third T wo F ortunes $