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& ~----_.~_ Company Prepared for Big ¢ Year in 1924 Ts + -- TELEPHONE GROWTH IN «'~~ ~ILLINOIS FOR 1923 BREAKS ALL RECORDS a'@ . * t E glar corne «zlnd t ;m«l 1 f r "tan s issui ~-- Reprcsentative Bandy denied any knowledge of the liquor and alleges that the. arrest was the result of a Marton, I!1., Dec. 29.--State Rep-- h"i:!: v@ mu':h'cz ve & part-- in th._'fmbnl for the Lqwor raids made last Saturday, was arrested and held in the county Jall for two hours last night upon charges of hbaving liquor in his pos-- session. He was released on parole to Cireait Judge D. T. Hartwell STATE REPRESENTA-- some station ~would bmw the barking of dogs through night," M#. Bairstow said. y¢ lar wave length began broadcasting news <bulletins. . Mr. Bairstow after calming dow desided that the radio will event: Iy solve the burglar problem. o Mincis Bell Adds 73,000 Stations---- 'Me had gone to bed after one sta tion had. signed off, forgetting to turn out the tubes.. The strange sounds began when another station of simi-- By*N. K. ABBOTT President, HWiincis Bell T clephone Company Amginofnmtdmm in 1923 in the terri served by it i The record of the Iimons Bell Telephone station growth were broken in the new mark--set by the company. The 1923 Sigure was 13.3 per cent greater than compuny made a tot! of 197.901 uie «. m. last Thursday Jowett dve , Waukegan, shouted for his t ho one Apap :du"z & Zlat, w was ~dy & 1 eorner 'of the m%& help ved they -- found: Mr. Bairstow _ in one corner of the room, revolver in hand, while the "C gasps" which bhe had heard w issuing from a 'bullet punctured radio loud speaker. * fila&: 4,081 telephones. . : «* in n $1.001. At the erni of the your the During 1923 the company spent for $12000.000. For 1921. for umilar work. . For 1924, for similar work, amguwbywmcpend:mnmdy additions necessary to meet fi&mandcofu':'publk,mdnhoto Ecmo(oddgdmo(daetdephoue. 1922 the daily average number of «alls handled by the company was fitfi:fl. 'This was increased to a #nahvet?:e of 4,635,101 in 1923. . ' added te stations be pmvndedm plant. Efiq new telephone must have facil-- -- The year has been an active one i m&;mm gotoutb\unal.'" Th: mfoflh as outlined above has ofot'l'nm most a_cuv:';ork on the fi Degmflm .;'3 the increase in the number of our telephones h%s nat-- urally brought increases in the Traffic, ployees in telephone wor fi% is steadily increasing. The f Bell now has on its pay rolls . than 24,000 persons. 2 anithough the station growth and the num ; were large, nmmwfihgm, ities for connection with every other =mmwmmm¢umme. been good throughout the year. _ Big Program for This Year First Machine Switching of telephones in Chicago was come into a houss ILLINOIS T. 8. CAMPAIGN RAPID. LY PROGRESSING Tilinois now has th« :argest program for the erad'cation of tuberculosis of any state in the union according to M. H. Petersen, in charge of T B erag_ ication work for the 'llinolis Agricul-- tural Association. Lake County farm ers are vitally interested in seeing this desease cleaned up and the county in actively supporting the campaign. Mr. 0. B. Kent, of Chicago, formerly of Cornell University gave interesting demonstrations omw. type and breeds, also on product.on fypes and problen.s. He gave valuable infromation on bre~d »oints that will help our poultry breed-- ers select better birds. § The Farm Bureau Poultry Day last Friday, December 28, was an interest-- ing affair and drew a good crowd at the Town Hall at Libertyville and th= large display coops used by the Fair Association, showed the birds off to good advantage. The Committee hand-- led a affair very efficiently and 131 birds, mostly purebreeds, were sold by Auctioneer Fred Grabbe. Many of the good type birds brought fair to good prices while others, perhaps somewhat lacking in breed type, did not sell so well,. The top cockeral of the sale sold for $4 and was consigned by Mr. Lusk. The sale created a lot of intereit in poultry among our farmers, For next year plans have been imade to have a two day poultry meeting, one day for:a poultry show at which #ll birds will be judged and place4, next day to sell the best prize winning stock of the show, also to give practi-- cal demonstration. -- A number of farmers availed them-- selves of the opportunity of .buying well bred birds at favorable prices. .A total of 43 counties either have country veterinarians employed, or have appropriations for their hire to test herds in the county for Laherculo-- sis. Eleven county farm bureaus have matched the $100 reward ofer of the Illinois Agricultural : Association for the first arrest and conviction within the county 'of bootleggers of tubercu-- los's cattle. * "Ilinois is now on the road to her rightful placa among the states that can furnish good clean cuttle to buy-- ers from other states and foreign cuun-- tries because she has shown her deter-- mination to clean up the greates--men-- ace to t'n cattle industry--tubercnilo sis." declares Mr. Petersen. 'The coun-- ties which are putting on an active campaign are the ones most favored by buyers." post 2 POULTAY DAY DRAWS IN "EREST Mr. Petergen states that under the present-- system of apporlioning the state and federal indemnity funds, 75 »er cent of these funds are csed in counties employing area velerinarians and the remain'ng 25 per cont is spread over the 59 counties which have made no apropriations. This ac-- counts for the fact that ne wherds are being --added to the list of herds under Federal supervision veiy siowly in the latter counties and why there has been such a rapid increase in the number of counties which have hired area veterinarians, he says: "The amount of taxes contritbuted to | the indemnity appropriation is propor-- tionately the same in every county in Nlinois," declares Mr. P:tersen. But the farmers in counties which have not appropriated, money to hire an area veterinzrian are paying for the reactors in the herds of the farme who live in counties that have" While the testing work in Lake County i8 going forward rapidly, there are still a number of communities where but fow aoplications have been racoivd. Now is the time to get tested out and get started on a clean herd. Certainly it 48 true that the State and Government ';'.xdmnmes will never becone greatsr ind they may easily be less. Let us act on this important matter while we can.. All testing is free nf charg» to en farmers.. Dr. Grinne'!l has, since October 9, tested 145 hewis and has enough signed up for at least another 30 days. More are coming in «¥~ry '3((;;. These 145 herds represont ne&ar-- 3 000 cattle. _2 me 'At least T00 farmers are ex-- pefied i» the anoual meeting --There l1 be a total of 175 rvoting delogates the 90 couniy farm bureaus en itled 'to representation. Reporsgs from Galesburg say that owr 200 reservations have been made In hopis there by farm buseaun mem-- bers/who* plan io attend the _puual for the round_ been C by Iilinois ta is to Gales-- for the ninth a meeting of the Iilinois Agricul Association, January. 16 and 17/ according to in« formation reeived p--the Lake County Farm Bureau. , % KFarmers in County 'h:'lll'tal to go to the an meeting sh get certificates tgAa Farm Advisor Ooers-- chuck which pntitles them to the spec-- iat reduced Aallroad fare. Without a eertificate present to their local ticket azeAt* formers cannot get the --Indemanities on reactors in Lake County so far, reyresent $48,000 or more that will be paid for by the stale and Government besides what is re ccived «l the's'ock yard fo> the react-- ing animals. OovER 31,000 s1GN UP IN FARM -- -- _ ~FARM BUREAUS IN 1923 The Hlino's Agricultural Association conducted Farm Bureau organization work in 45 countiles during 1923, with a lln'ua of 31000 members, according to G. B. Metzer, Director of the Organ-- ization Department. ols s 'This makes a total of over 62,000 farmers in Illindis who are members of the county, state and national farm bureaus. * i A A large proportion of me preseont membership has been secured by the bor to neighbor method, resulting in the training of from 50 to 300 men in each county ts pesent the value of "No-- apologles need be offered for the work of the farm bureau," says M:. Metiger, "Its accomilshments have been plentiful." -- . + y ts days. Mr; f is assisting Mr. CalllOpe, Pegliow in some nter work. { immigrant, Chas. H. Kruger Aas been appointea : intermittent, as deputy for Vernon cown-- ; bydrophobia, snip by the * association. Look | hemorrhage, out, now, hunterg and autoists. Study | Dischievous, the law and uw not violate | Degotiate, them as is constantly. fuschia, The Small fémily entertained com--| Picknicking, pany from Plaines and Dunning| hYProcrite.-- Chr.stmas day.° _ |__"I don't 1 The P. T. A.--will meet at the school house on Jan.11. They are planning to have a good speaker present and will serve_refreshments. The parecsts who haye children attending school should (OL an interest in these meet-- ings and--coooperate with the teach-- €rs in an effort to have better deport-- ment and behavior among the chil-- dren, which seems to be the common complaint in the community. ' --The Ladies Aid will --meet--at the home of Mrs. Small Thursday, Jan. 10. A good attendance is desired. Communion was served last Sunday evening at the church and the follow-- ing parents had children baptized: Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Schroeder, Mr. and Mrs. Striebe and Mr. and Mre Cruickshank,. 'The subject of Mr. Wil-- , cox's farewell sermon was "Love", a small word, but of large -- capacity. Love thy God and love one another, and this world will appear a heap The '<choir rehearsal will be noxt Fiiday eveuing at the Cook home. now tendered his resignagon. We are loath to see Mr. Wileox Jeare us and wish him success in undertak-- 4 l!lt. H. Albrecht amur.'m:flflsuog cella of Waukegan, épending a few | trang M m-'oflr LIe TD y e '_a'?;, '.'.',"* naliana more precious to you. Try it. $ The first snow of any consequenct came i nthe shape of a blizzard 'ast Mondy. So New Year's apepared like real winter to us, with the temMpera-- ture reported as lo was ten degrees below the jumping off point. > _ _ While calling at the bonfe Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cook last Baturdfy eve-- ning, Rev. E. W. Wileo®k was -- bly surprised by about fift,/friends, the evening being pleasantly/spent in playing games, a fine lunch was served. gatJering was in honor of Rev. wJho has serv-- ed us for tae past two y and has t --0---- x The Green Bay highway committee f CARD OF THANKS is .cooperating with residents :: of We wish to thank all our frients ; horthern--Wisconsin-- in an effort to and. neighbors for the flowers, candy have No. 33 renumbered to 57, and and the different ways in which they | made a federal aid highway.. In the showed the'r sympathy and kindne«ss | correspondence on this subjact-- Mr. during the accident and iliness of our | Hirst writes: daughter, Evelyn; also to the Sunday "We have already decided to car-- School for the beautiful kimona th@y, ry 'the No. 57 from the state line »resented t oher; we are happy to southwest of Kenosha to its normal state that she is now getting along outlet at Niagara. This change will n'cely. * be in effect for the travel season Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Cook entertained a house full of company Christma:s "Llawrence, ~Pulaski, Jefferson ang White «counties, which M'E prg-- viously been affiliated with the I A. A., were reorganized in 1923 under the joint membership plan. ig" & A Happy New Year to All Miss Patricia Marling spent Friday and Saturday in Chicago. Toage: 4. 5* Mrs .CE. Denman entertained hber 8. 8. class Friday. o m o2 otive m-: lu'w m 'udig ":."éc" Ee le selved ®"We bpbserve that, where th'.%:- bershLW Is mecting regulsrly im | munity meetings, study'ns; the me of agricuiture and enjoying them-- Of agricuiture add enjoyi em-- % gl social way, th 1 hip is devy so that it is a ra-- tively easy task to carry on ZA-- tion wor kn that comm * de elares Mr. Metsger. "We rec emmend community work high! : in its benefits to organized t," J. M. Jack, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Jack, of Millburn, and Miss Lucillie Merideth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. agricuituve to th i :::-:"W pposition: in leavo L¥ .. . A. Merideth, of Minneapn!is, Minn.. were mArried Thursday, Dec. 27, at the home of the bride's parents. Elmer Jack was best man for his brother. The bride and groom arrived here Sat-- urday to spend a few days with Mr. Jack's parents before going to the fu-- ture home in Blythesville, Ark. Mr. and Mrs. Justus'® Deppke, of Gurnee spent Christmas with Mr. Deppke's parents. _ 0 -- -- Miss Dora Hook of Waukegan spent the week end with the home folks. The C. 'z"Summ meeting will be h*ld at the home of Miss Aima Cannon Friday evening, Jan. 4!". ons e is Mrs.-- Dawson and granddaughter Mich., lgnt geveral d.gh with the Mary Lotise Dawson, of Three Oaks, former's daughter, Mrs. L. 8. Bonner. Word has reavhed here from Rock-- ford of the death of Ray Starkweather at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Starkweather, on Monday, Dec. 24th ~Burial at Oak Park on Wednesday. The Starkweather family formerly lived in this vicinity. _ The C. E. Society was entertained by Mr. and Mrsa. Weizel Monday eve-- ning, to watch the old year out and the new year in N. L Rice returned Tuesday to the University of Chicago.~ _ N ts ~ The Misses Mary and Margaret Jack returned Thursday to Urbana, where they attend the University. a» Device for Counting Thréads,.© A new linen tester for counting the threads in --the fabric is designed with a movable pointer, which makes this work easter. --The device consists of the usual two paralle! surfaces held & few inches apart with the magnifty= Ing glass in the upper surface, while it the oxm\lunthmmhz been arranged a : movable pointer Indicate the threads as they are counted. o Mr. and Mrs. Gust Peterson HALF D AY ILLBU R N ef-- _ A fine paved highway from Wau-- | Kegan on up to the northern part |or Michigan through the entire state of Wisconsin is being planned which will be one long route, all numbered route 57 through Wisconsin, which _will lead from Chicago, through Wau-- kegan into Wisconsin and on up to OPEN ROUTE 57 ~ FROM WAUKEGAN Long Route Goes Through from Waukegan -- to lron hydrophobia, © --"I don't know why, but I've been able to spell correctly ever since I began going to school," the cham-- Eloise Combs of Deland, Platt eounty. was second, and Ronald Bmilth of White county was third. Fifty--three children from as many counties were entered. Among the words were: Souvenir,-- _ -- The contest was held today at the opening zession of the Illlinois State Teachers'--~Association. Young Jones turned in a clean sheet of 475 words and received a gold medal. --~ . / Springfield, 1!L, Dec. 26. --Because Wiltiam P. Jones of Cowden, Shelby ,«m?, eould spell "chrysantemum" ck" ~ correctly he is g:mm- ipelier of lllinois. George P. Renebani, popular own-- er of the Round Lake resort, turned the tables on California's self ad-- vertised "best place in the world" today when a letter was received here by W. R. Behanna in which Renehan describes <-- his ownderfu! tours of the beautiful state. Mr. and Mrs. Renehan have motored to ali the points of interest and are "see ing the Golden West" but despite all this,, Mr. Reneban is not at ali complimentary 'about €alifornia.. _ Assurance of this was received in a letter--from A> R. Hirst, state high-- way commissioner, to Jerome A. North, chairman of the ~Association of . Commerce highway committee, made public' today» 14. x t Stafe Teachers'*~ Assn: Sees nesses--on Students from all Parts of the State. Iron Mountain, Mich. RENEHAN TAKES A WALLOP AT GREAT OLD CALJFORNIA The pcople id not celebrate Christmas day as thq do in Ili-- nois, he stated. There were no dec-- orations, very little activity, and man yof the people --worked as it is so hard to make a living out there that cvery minute must be utilized to make both ends mpet. Times are bard, he said, and the people must keep continually at their work to make a living. California must be a wonderful place to visit and then come back to the heme state, I!li-- "We have already decided to car-- ry the No. 57 from the state line southwest of Kenosha to its normal outlet at Niagara. This change will be in effect for the travel season 1924." A€ nols. NELSON FINES 2 LAKE FORESTERS 8. M. Hastings of Highland Park, has been appointed a member of the legislatice committee of the Iilinoia Chamber of Commerce, according to A ool;l.n:!m uc::v:. E l-c:u tary % e reau today. om' R. , of Waukegan, was ~appointed to this committee several months ago James Hunter and Charles Lees, both of Lake Forest, wetre fined $% each Saturday night in Justice John Nelson's court on a chargke of being drunk. The two men woere arrested together @fter an alleged "party" in North Chicago. y ( dil@pidated, luxuriant, Mountain, Mich., in 1924. /WORDS CA?% SPELL RIGH TO MICHIGAN A priee satisfactory to the high--cost produwecsws would be high enough that these producers would continue to pro-- duee wheat and the low--cost producers yould plant additionpal agreage whenp of in porchases at a loss the deficit wooskd be--met by taxation. supply ef wheat is too large to sell at a preft to large numbers of farmers. Aereage which ought to be devoted to other purpeses would be used for wheat and bigher taxes would be nec-- Seme proposals include provisions putting penalty for excess supply upon wuzcn. 'Thi# is proper if workable, It may be pointed out that under the present arrangement, withont a fixed pricg, the penalty for overproduction Prica fixing, -- once started, would naturally ~extend <to numerous com-- .-----" w th WO BLBY OJ D4 BVYV DBD UV th WW' modities. 'There is no logical stopping place. Heretofore, price regulation in the United States has been held im the feld ef monopely as in the case of Tailreads or has been subject to yol' untary arbitration: as in the case 'Of milk (war measures excepted). would have n kind of secialism. With farmer would--find> himself outvoted three to one, . . " The American Farm Burean federa-- tion censiders the wheat question an economic problem that can .best be solred by economic meusures. Legi# lation can and should be and has been used in removing obstructions in the way of the economic program. This CO--OPERATIVE PLANS RAPIDLY TAKE SHAPE and distribution would be controlleéd The sugar--beet growers in Colorado, Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming at a conference in Denver, 'Colo., October 80, approved the plan of the sugar-- beet co--operative presented by Walton Peteet, director of co--operative mar-- keting for the farm bureau. The American Farm Bureau fed-- eration was assigned the task of mak-- Ing careful study 6f cost of produc-- tion ahd manufacture. As the year draws to & close the co-- eperative marketing plans of the American Farm . Buread federation rapidly take definite shape. j A national committee was appointed immediately and is now working out with state groups plans for the organ-- Isation of _ co--operatives within the states. Organization of co--operative egg marketing associations is proceeding rapidly in several states On Octo-- ber 81 the egz producers of Nebraska met in Lincoin and adopted the farm burean plan, which was worked, out in the national egg marketing conference held in Chicago last May. is all that should be expected from it. On farmers, and not on political representatives, rests the respousibil-- Ity for profitable farming. * Beet Growers, Egg Producers and Corn Growers Active. In Iilinois and in Texas the farm burean has been instrumental in the organization of co--operative broom-- corn arsociationa. + The broom--corn growers of Mattoon (HL) district were organized early in November, following a plan pretented to them by the American Farm z reau federation the latter part of toboer. * triot: in one of three lending--broom-- eorn districts In the United States. l The Southwestern KFarm Bursas | The Mattoon district consists of six countiesm in which there are more than 15000 acres of broom corn.. This &z by the Texas Farm Burean faderation. Price fixring would subject economic Outline of Opposition Being Made by Farm Bureau. e OBJECTION TO FIXING OF P The American Farm Bureau fed-- eratien --has . considered. the wheat question an economical problem cali-- ing for an economic solution. -- Legis-- lation can help and has helped by lay-- ing the foundation upon which to build the ecomnomic solution. --The farm bu-- reau took ington that would--permit farmers' to store their products, if in their judg-- ment that was the profitaLle thing. to d40 and Anance + selling 'of them over * the eoh'du-xn plxl:l instead The situation might be illustrated thus + m'mmwum crete highways upon which me bankers and farmer® may operate their automobiles, B does not pre-- sume to operate the ie of any of thege individuals. It maintains the highways and enforces the trafie rules to all. The govartn ment also | the economic high-- ways along the business of the merchant, and unml farmer is carried. The respon of the gov-- erament is to see that the business of each may be trangacted of a basis of equality. 'There its responalbility ends. To summarize: A price, Axed by the government, is + lfl%m so large that the natural price, set by supply and de mand, would be lower than the guar antesd price, the government would buy In the garplus. It the government had to Aixupose Wasl-- | Res. Phone 136M "_-- Office in First Natiotal Ban Hours:--1 to 3:30 and T t Residence on Broadway. opi --~Office at Home on Cool ._--_\»~ _ Telephone 16%J 6. 3 l --WhE e N_ T9 i MANUFACTUVRER® Dr. L. B. Jt «_ * to 8 p. m. 50 tm w( 3%