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+ ); hC L is eA In m:m.mn-ag arrived in Chicago accompanied b his wife and four children; the youngest,a baby of six months. It had taken them six weeks w'lm the journey on & vessel from the eastern pofl--:lth%flmo: and right glad we can imagine they "were to walk on solid ground again. But their journey was not finished yet, for the father had come to Ill}-- nois to take up government land, and as there was plenty of it to be had in the extreme northeastern part of the state, they still must tnvel.omromnnooorlobyu team to reach their destination."So with two other families, the Alfords and the Paynes, they set out *for their new home in the wilderness. That six months old baby who m--ile the trip from Buffalo to Chi-- ez ~0 in the early fall of 1837, is now Mrs. Sarah Stafford of 213 © North T:ica street, and the following ac-- count of life, in what was 'tken & vilderness, is practically told in her own words. e spe Cld When the three families, the AI-J fm~ds, Paynes and Blanchards,.' Ar-- rived by oxr team at what is now Curnee, they found a block house where the grade school now mi They all moved into it, and wete no ssoner fairly settled than all "took with the ague." This disease was common in the early day, due to the swamp land and lack . of drainage. They were all very, very sick--so s'ck that they could not even take care of one another. All the famil-- i~; remained in the black house that t --st winter, and the next spring the P'--nchard~family. located in a ker b=«e about a mile west of Gurnee. "mring the winter many Indians of the Pottawattamile tribe passed the block house on their way from ¥'!--aukee to Chicago, and Mrs. S:»'ford relates that her mother szid their condition was many times very nitiful, as they appei@red poor and unnrotected against the severe eold. They had their old, sick and tl'td with them, and these helpless me~*~rs added to their ? cond'tion. At one time the 0')1 one of these parties rode tfl" besgzod the "whites'" to put bot-- ti>« out of sight before the other mewbors cam wb, as the sight of a boitle made some of the "braves" trazy. (And this was long before the days of Volstead or the 18th Amerdment.) +4 * €outh Port (now Kenosha) is an older city than Wankegan, (origi-- nally called Little Fort); and if any of the settlers' wivres wanted a sn~~' of thread they had to send to South Port for it. We often ride | Government CamP LUMBer | ! "--'T."m'iii"?fi'"""" ¥nda St. Gate to NMavail tion ® 0 ememene c tagron a wan EARLY® PIONEERING The Daughters of the American Revolution ' HISTORICAL COMMITTERE MISS LOLA A. SHEPARD,.CHAIRMAN MRS. E. 0. LaCHAPELLE -- MRS. C. W. SOWLES £ ts * tnktre better?! --_ ; The BlanchardA lived in their log house for some twelve or thirteen mvhnlr.fim"mloldhh land and they all re! to the east to live. But the spirit of the wilderness was in his blood, and after he had been in the east < a short time-- he said he-- wouldn't !Hive there if they gave him the land.'" So back he came to lllinois. This time he located a little nearer the lake shore, and purchased Jand on what is now Sheridan Road.. The site has <~been known for over seventy-- tive years as "the Blanchard farm." Mr. Blanchard was always --#& staunch 'Republican, and ;after they had been" here some twelve years, and while still living in the log house west of Gurnee, there was a big Republican convention held at Eilgin. A flag was promised to the locality sending the largest delega-- tion. Mr. Blanchard went around to all his neighbors, urging them to' attend; he gathered coutheru:ood! sized delegation, and they made the trip to EKlgin. When--they returned they had the flag with them,--a large, silk flag, and made by the mtdbmdn,m This flag, a+ h"mtymdd.hnmmmo family. ..Mrs. Staftford ~well remembers sbeing many of the neighbor : men start for Califtornia with their ox teams and covered wagons, in the gold rush of '49. Her father was a school teacher hefore coming west, and during the winter he took up that work again. He. taught at Burlington, Wiscon-- sin, making the trip to and from on horseback. Sometimes he could not get bome for weeks at a time, and the mother was left alone with her little children. Mezy a time they «wakened to find th« snow, that had fallen during the night, almost--sov-- ering the cabin; then it was u> to the mother to shove: a way out and keep a path clear to the wood pile 'und the barn and out buildings: fiov&:'ifigu attend the theater, but " of walking, or making the trip with an or team, to purchase a spool of thread for your wife, One wonders if the husbands ever failed to --get a good .match as to color, and were sent back to try and do Bread was baked in a big iron dish like a Dutch oven, in front of the fireplace on a bed of . conls, raked out for that purpose. When eve thinks what those ploneer wom-- en went through, and compares their makeshifts with the convent-- ences of our day, one car't help wondering what thosa women ~did with all their spare time! ---"ifi"-"'&'h:lhw AEW DORNIER HYDREOPLANE, just completed in Germany, has idea in water plane construction, E_'E'L!.':!fififiiw?flmflu'-inum"unumdmm Asmcmmmz--nqudnhdmhu-mumw. at Houston, canaling gsift to Republicans, by National Confectioners'® Asnociation. © i. t wl 35 29 Cotton Aber is stronger when it wet ; wool Aber, when: dry, 'The Latest Model in Fiying Boats' a 0nc ult Filds To DEMUCRATS BY _ _ By GEORGE R, HOLMES _ jandustries, of the plight of the agri-- SamMouston Hall, Houston, Tex., record with that of the Wilgon ad-- June 27.----Considerable oil was pout-- ministration, ed today on the troubled Republican _ But it was on prohibition that he waters through which the Demo-- dwelt most. There appeared, he as-- cratic national convention is sailing serted, no prospect of repealing the toward decision on candidates and Highteenth amendment "for many platform.-- _ years." --That being the carze, he &ar-- SBen. Joe Robineon, of Arkansas, gued that it would be futile for the himself & likely running mate for Democrats here assembled to incor-- Gov. Al Smith, assumed command of porate a wet plank in the platform, the convention as permaneat chair when by so doing they might "Grive man and his first act was to make a out of the party many who favor forceful plea to the delegates not to prohibition and are unwiliing to repenst the great blunder at Madison yield their views." SBquare Garden: Peace on prohibiton, and a unit-- "United we can win," was the bur-- ed attack on the Republican record den of his speech. ~It reflected the of fraud and corruption during the sober, contemplative judgment of a , past seven years was his advice to majority of the Democratic leaders | the convention assembled. who <are determined hbere that Convention Resumes there shall be no division over the| It was 11:45 before Chairman only real controversy that besets | Claude G. Bowers' gavel fell a--bang-- this convention--prohibition, ing. At this time the hall was jam-- "The Democratic party is not a| med, packed and perspiring profuse Likely Running Mate For:. Al Smith Urges Delegates NOt (support trom the tarmers by ather-- _ o hmttnt Pn Pars rure CONVENTION -- ~RESUMED gacious," and in support of his con-- this convention--prohibition, ing. At this time the hall was J@MW| home with fist in paim as he swung *"The Democratic party is not a|med, packed and perspiring profuse--| into his speech They listened to prokbibition party," he < asserted.| ly. Sixteen thousand people even| him closelq. His booming voice "Neither is it an anti--probibition | in a hall as big as Sam Houston's | carried to the furthermost limits of party. Democrats have always Gi;| arepy't conducive to refrigerating the | the hall, in contract to some of vided on the question of prohibi-- | atméosphere; _ + % those who had preceded him on the tion." _ + 5 i% The Rev. Cartis Gilmore, »ncleri--| plattorm. ;i:c'dogmqnuuon of prohibit. n."* * In this eituation, he the: mumumrmmm do is to "demonstrate their . willing-- ness to enter into honorable com-- promises and to make personal sac-- "The Republican party." -- he charged, "has betrayed the farmers of the United States and now seeks again to deceive them with new meadure for farm relief pledged by ab fence shows cannot be effective. "The economic equality 'of agricul}-- | turé with other industries may> be | promoted by réducing the tariff on . manufactiured articles consumed by \ the farmers: by a system of export Ahe Kansas City is . in M'Wdum cxper gebenturs; or by the adoption ol the principle of the McNary--Haugen "This convention should invite support from the farmers by adher-- ence to these principles." & tention he recited a long list of bank tailures, of depressions in individual 4udustries, of the plight of the agri-- Kremer finished with a rush and Bowere put he q@setion on the adop-- '%tion of the report, which was uni-- formily favorable--to the Smith dele gates. There was a chorus of ayes and a few scattered noes. At this point Col. Carl Ristine of Lexington, CA + 9 ho o » ioi M had already adopted & port, Bowers waved the. maguris torward. s P ) Palk P iges mamsm'mh% his ter diness by saying that r tials commfttee had met until 4 a m. and that even now the mivority report was not sign :d by all the dis senting members. He promised, however, .Bat the #ignatures would be forthcoming and 'he proceeded th: 1 to outline hig case. Louisiasnsa contests. B 9 Bowers again put the question and the Kremer report wes adopted with a chorus of "ayes." That tlear-- 1. exceeded the scattering noes, It :u:fldlnbnllyomwug recognized and proposed --Benator Robinson as permanert chsirman. When the question was put it went over with a whoop and unamimous-- Iy. Robinson took over the gayel. Most of the delegates gave thenks since with an experienced parlia-- mentarian in the chair, they expect-- ed the convention to click & little & linen suit, a block bow tie. He loomed large and powerful on the platform, standing four sequare to the crowd and driving 'his points home with fist in paim as he swung into his speech They listened to Senator Robinson at one point in terpolated his prepared speech with the vigorous assertion that: "The farmers won't vote for Mr. Hoover. He has consistently led the forces that have opposed the ef-- fective solution of their problems, nd he has boidiy challenged the forces that have honestipy striven to reach a solution." Claude Bowers for "so clearly and brilliantly" outlining the path for democrats to follow in this cam-- paign. He repeated some of Bowers' fiery accusations of fraud and cor-- ruption, declared it to be the biggest issue in the campaigu. Erperiments with gas as an i}-- luminant were made in the latter part of the Kighteenth century. William Murdeck, a Scoteman, fArst used gas to illuminate his home in 1779.. .Its general use, however, did not come until very much later, & roll --call nor a demand for Illuminating Gas W. Durbin of Oblo was was attored 'in