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SBeveral lHves were endangered late Sunday evening when a high-- powered Reo left the road at the Gurnee bridge and plunged into the muddy} waters of the Des plaines river 35 feet below. Fate was kind and only one per-- son was injured, a Chicagoan, Leo Henderson, who was badly cut about the face. With him, from what can be learned, were two women and another man. They were not hurt. Motorists picked up the victims and carried them to Waukegan, were medical attention was given Henderson. ° mA# VOLUME, XXXIL--NUMBER 25. Plunges Into River from Bridge at Gurnee; Only One Person * Injured. The -- accident was attributed partly to the carelessness of another driver, who is said to have hog-- ged the road and forced the Hen-- derson machine into the pathway that runs between the new and old bridge. At the brink it way-- ered for a moment 'and plunged between the bridges, after having torn "off a telephone pole in its aimless dive. The . wreckage was taken from the river this morning by the Sher-- idan road garage, of Waukegna, and towed to this city 'for repairs. The accident occured l:f\ o'clock in the,. evening. Vari rumors followed (the accident, the mast violent proclaiming that there had been several killed. s 5 together in a friendly three--corner-- ed crash on 18th street, North Chi-- cago, suddenly but no one was hurt. JTotal damage amounted to $25 according to an estimate made by Chief of Police Frank Tiffany. Albin, Gambee, 70 father--in--law of Ja¢ Six leads of hose were playing on Franklin and Jackson streets, was injured painfully this morning in an automobile accident near the Edison court station. C. B. Jolley, 40 North St. James street, driver for the Lake Shore Baking company, started to back his truck away from the curb and bumped into --Mr. Leise's truck. Mr. Gambee was standing beside the truck. His legs were crushed painfully and one of his hands was cut. The police were notified and po-- liceman Edward Cliff mpond& He took the injured man to Leiss home where he was attended by Dr. J. H. Walter. UTOISTS HAVE CLOSE CALL AS MACHINE PLUNGES Mat Mutsch of Chicago was driving east in Washington street Sunday morning. As he started to turn out of the car tracks his machine skidded on the slippery pavement and swung west into Washington -- Park. It ran 150 feet ~over the Worack lawn and crashed into a fence. Considerable damage® was done but no one was injfured. . L, O. LaFond, of 405 5th avenue Milwaukee, suffered siight injury to his right hand early Sunday morning when his automobile skidded on Sher-- idan road, nedr Beacn road, and turn-- ed turtle. He was taken to the Vic-- tory Memorial hospital where the in-- jury was dressed. > With ihm at the time were two women. Neither was injured. The car was badly damag-- ed. 'The accident happened about 8 o'clock a. m. La Fond was dismissed from the hospital as soon as the in-- jury was attended to. ' FUNERAL OF WM. CRAWFORD HELD AT ZION ON TUESDAY The funaral of William Crawftord, of 1911\ Horob Ave., for 22 years a resident of Zion, and one of the late John Alexander Dowlg's guards, was held Tuesday. Mr. Crawford was fatally injured when he was struck by the Badger limited at 23rd street CONRAD ACTING CORONER, DURINCG ABSENCE OF TAYLOR crossing, last Friday, Ho died in a Kenosha hospital a short time after the. accident. Relatives from Hoopeston, West Chicago and La Fayette, Ind., at-- tended the funeral. Intorment was in Lake Mound cemetery. } Coroner J. L. Taylor has left on an extended hone n and will be home before mbou 1. During his uboneo'uuty Coroner Rdwafd Conrad of egan will be acting coromer and will preside at inquests, Ooroner Taylo®t also named Dr, Pen-- yy of Libertyville as a deputy to as sist Mr. Conrad in case there aroe a number of Inquosts this summer and the Waukegan man cannot preside at all of them. AUTO TURTLES; 1 HURT. , Essex and Ford came LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT ¥% old 3 ADDITIONAL PRECINCTS ARE -- -- CREATED N C0. Re--district Voting Boundaries in Shields and West Deer-- field Townships. The county board on Thursday af-- ternoon took action which creates three additional precincts in the coun-- ty, which makes a total of 53. Changes were made in Shields township in-- creasing the number of precinets from four to six, and. West Deerfleld has been divided into two precinets. This action was taken because of the fact that such a heavy vote was cast in these precincts the clerks and judges in some instances worked 33 hours without cessation. i The precinets as re--districted and the judges are as follows: ~ Shields 1--City hall, Deerpath Ave., Jake Forest. E. J. Monahan, John Fal-- vey, Joseph E. Anderson. . SBhields 2--Village hall, Lake Bluff. Ed. Mawman, Leo. B. Geraghty, Wm. Shields %--City hall, North Chicago --T. V. ueirptgy. J, C. Strong, John Nelson. R Shields 4--Gorton school, Illinois Road and McKinley avenue. Lake For-- est. Joe. Lindenmeyer, Wm. Dickin-- son, Géorge Bolan. Shields 5--Young Men's club, Park recreation _ building, u}s Forest. James Kelly, Wm. Harding,~ Wm. Kemp. Shields 6--Winter club, N. Sheridan Road, Lake Forest. J. Speliman, J. E. Fitzgerald, John Appleton. Steffer, Wordman Todd. West Deerfield 2--Town hall, Deer-- feld. James O.Connor, John Weber, Raymond Clavey. oo e No changes were made in the Wau-- kegan precinets. The new list of judges contains women for the first time, also women have served heretofore as substitute judges and clerks of: election. The women judges named are: Mrs. Bessie Trieger, Antioch No. 1; Mary B. Lake, Warren township; Mrs. J. B. Morse, Libertyville No. 1 EVERT HOME AT RONDOUT BURCGLARIZED LAST MONDAY Burglars entered the home of Geo. Fvert at Rondout Monday night and made a haul of $160 in cash, besides taking a number of valuable papers, among which was a note for $1,500. Mr. Evert was away from home at the time the burglary was committed, and upon his return about 11 «'clock found the safe standing open and the money and papers missing. The house was looked, and how the thieves gain-- ed entrance i sa mystery. Members of the family who vaflooping up-- atairs were not awak . ~ West \\\\.:(/'--' 2 "'":' § P ' C MA e k) PVAE : l \ §CM st §§~ a, 4 *"x.! ':-..<=__. tS /A MA Oeangles® / e ; _ Tel un me o Sranp heRe AnQ wail ANP Wcmunsg'ouion Blennel WM. E. HEDGCOCK DIRECTS I. A. A. LIVESTOCK DEPT. William E. Hedgcock, for the nutl eight years Farm Advisor of Peoria county, has been chosen by officials of the Illinois "dcnltnnl Association to take charge of the association's live stock margeting department, accord-- ing <to Farm Advisor.--Doerschuk, of Iake county. Hedgcock succeeds C. A. Stewart, who recently resigned to become ektecutive secretary of the Na-- tional Livestock Produecrs' Assn. _ Mr. Hedgcock is a graduate of the University of lllindis, in the college of agriculture, class of 1909. _ He has been interested 'in the co--operative marketing of lvestock and other pro-- ducts, and is experienced in agricul-- tural extension work» Before taking over the work as farm advisor of Pe-- wria county, in 1916, he taught agri-- culture in the LaSalle--Peru township high shool for tw6o years, and for~four years taught in the Albert Lea state high stchool at Albert Lea, Minn. Mr. Hedgcock was interested in cow test-- ing associations and dairy marketing in Minesota and was secretary--treasur-- er of the Pioneer CoWw Testing Associ-- ation, Freeborn county, Minnesota. He also had practical experiénce in man-- aring his father's 425--acre farm in LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, JUNE 19, Iliinois. As farm advisor of Peoria county he has been instrumental in forming live-- stock snipping associations ard the Pe-- oria Livestock Producers' Association. He will take over his work with the I. A. A. as soon as a new farm advisor can be found for Peoria county. SAYS INJUSTICE WAS DONE THE TOWN OF SHIELDS Supervisor Monahan of Lake For-- est, rises to explain that is township, Shields, has been done an injustice by the report emamating from the board of supervisor's room relative to expenditures for the paupers during the last quarter. '"l:-i;fii; -nyl that in the total Shields township spent but $1500 for the quarter, as compared with $9,000 or more which Waukegan township spent during the same period. In the total the appropriatton of $40,000 was exhausted during the past quarter in earing for the paupers of the county and according to Mr. Monahan, of that sum, $14,000 was credited to the North Shore town the inference being that most of it was spent in Shields town-- ship. This he explained was not the case as in the total only $1500 was used in caring for the paupers of his tovnvhlp. GRAYSLAKE BAKER TO BE MARRIED TUESDAY, JUNE 24 Tuesday. Father Smith, of Round Lake will perform the ceremony, Harry J. Eykholt, of Grayslake and Missa Margaret F. Dougherty, of New York City, took out a marrlage 1i-- cense in Wankegan on Monday aft-- ernoon. Mr. Eykholt nas been con-- ducting a bakery at Graysiake for aix years. Miss Dougherty has been staying with friends in Chicago. The marriage will take r next Tuesday. Father Smith, Round wl al hi Neshiues Snipe Huntin' Entered at the Postoffice at Libertyyille, Illinois, as Sesond Class Mail Maiter. 4 t lc ut Grculation Greater than other Weekiies in County Combined Lake County's Big Weekly ~-- WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN P W COUNTY FINANCES _ IN GOOD SHAPE, -- REPORT SHOWS A financial® statement of the con-- dition of Lake county was submitted to the county board Tuesday by A. W. Vercoe, chairman of the finance com-- mittee, and shows that only a few departments have overdraawn their appropriations, the general condition of the funds being encouraging. Of the total amount appropriated for the year, there is in the treasury the sum of $80,277.01, with which to operate during the remaining three months of the fiscal year. At preseent there is an overdraft of $19,601.32, most of this, $12,575.69 befog in the Lake County General Hospital fund. . Only Few Departments Show Overdrafts, Vgnsile There Is Balance of $80,277.01. Considering the cost of operation during the first nine months the to-- tal overdrafts in all departments will not exceed $60,000 at the end of the year, which would be less than dur-- ing some previous years. . _ J The county farm will pull through nicely for the year, having consider-- ably more than one--fourth of its ap-- propriation left, the balance on hand being $7,170 out of an annual appro-- priation of $25,000. _ _ as. TWO SAILORS ESCAPE FROM _ The poor claim fund has a balance of only $360. _ Two sailors escaped from the brig at Great Lakes Monday and they were captured last night 'by County Highway Motorcycle Officer Henry Wallenwein in North Chicago. It was reported that the two young men "jumped the fence"* and came to Waukegan: Later they went to North Chicago, where the officer spot-- ted them. _ The sailors gave the names -- of COlarence McDonald and B. G. Rea HEARING IN TAX REDUCTION CASE CONTINUED BY COURT OfMficers <from the naval station came to the county jail last night and tofk them back to the station for disciplining. The hearing in the case of the objections to the tax assessment of the town of Libertyville agarinst the Chicago, Milwaukee 'and St. Paul raillway was continued before judge Perry L. Persons Friday. Town Clerk Hubbard of Libertyville was on the witness stand with his rec-- ords and books Attorney E. 8. Gail attempted to show that the rail-- Bt. Paul line has started s#uit against nearly all of the townships in Lake county asking a reduction in their taxes, t e inCc > t w COURT FIGHT OVER "DISAPPEARANCE" _ OF SECURITIES Hearing Had in Probate Court |" on Citation in Big Estate _ is of Jonn't. Marshall, _ |.. Hearing on -- a citation and testi-- mony reduced to writing and filed was ordered _ Monday in _ probate court in the estate of the late John I. Marsbhall, millionaire resident of Highland Park, as a result of the alleged disappearance of at least $65,000 worth of government bonds and sceurities which were in the family strong box. The trustees ;appointed by the court claim that the bonds and securities should be turned over by a daughter of Marshall, Mrs. Flor-- ence Weigle of. Deerfield. Mrs. Weigle, it is claimed, contends that the bonds and securities were given to her by her father before his death and that they do not belong to the estate. Judge Martin C. Decker probably will enter an order in the matter some time 'thsi week. Most of the securities were Mid-- dleby Owens Oven Company bonds, Mr. Marshall having been one of the owners of thi®# company. Other estate matters were acted upon as follows: ESTATE PROCEEDINGS _Ludger J. B. Stienlet, Lake For-- est--Petition for« Dedimus to-- take proof of heirship filed and dedimus ordered® issued upon 60 days notice by publication. -- pe --Bessie Gosswiller, report anl account proved. ho Henry Marshall -- Waldo, Liberty-- ville--Inventory aproved. Final re port and account approved. Estate closed. ®# f _John C. Foley, Waukegan--Wai-- ver of widows and inventory' ap proved. f # o _ William F. Lange, minor, Wauke gan--Final report approved. Estate 1924 Alfred North, Wauconda--Letters of administration with will annexed ;u;%d to Ray Paddock. Bond of 1200. DR.--J. L. TAYLOR AND MRS. CRSTAL EATON WED JUNE 14 Sophia M. Domalik, minor, Wau-- kegan--Final report approved. Es-- tate closed. s Anna -- Bohn, Waukegan--Petition for probate of will filed and set for hearing July 7th, 1924. x .Caroline E. Kristen, et al., minors --Letters of guardianship issued to Minnie Suhling. Bond of-- $4,000. Philip Meade, distracted, --Grays lake--Letters of Conservatorship is sued to William C. Heard. Bond of $50,000. The biggest bit of news out of the coroner's office Saturday that Dr. John L. Taylor was married. | 0 The ceremony took place Saturday morning in Libertyville at the Meth-- odist church with Rev. Dickey offi-- ciating as he took Mrs. Crystal Eaton of Libertyvyille as his bride. _ The-- couple left immediately for Chicago where they will get a train to New York where they will sail for Europe. They will take a two months honeymoon through England, ls':tlnla.nd. Ireland, France, Spain and y. Dr. Taylor has been coroner of the county for about twenty years. He is known in practically every home in Lake county and has hundreds of friends. STATE'S ATTORNEY SMITH DOESN'T LIKE NEW OFFICES of the county. -- Before leaving Dr. Taylor appoint-- ed Dr. Maurice Penny deputy corontr State's Attorney A. V. Smith late Thursday submitted to 'the county board a communication of -- protest, claiming that the suites of offices be-- ing remodeled ::- him in the court-- house are too smiall and not privat@ enough. The communication stated that the offices are not as large those he now occuples on Wuhl.mnn streot. He asked the board to consider pro-- ivmon of more spacious quarters. _ The county has been renting the of-- fices he now occuples from Attorney L. P. Hanna. The new offices in the courthouse are about ready for occu-- pancy. _ -- O FRIEND OF FRED LUNDIN IS ARRESTED AT WEDGES COR _--The board did not take any action on the petition except to order it placed on file. 4 John Anderson, of Chicago, who claimed to be a friend of Frod Lun-- din, political leader of Cook county, was arrested on Grand Ave., by Coum ty Motorcycle Policeman B. C. Ham-- lin, who charged that Anderson crowded him of the road, near Woedges Corners. Justice M. 8. Mil-- er, of Lake Villa fined Anderson $5 and costs. i h L AAC minor-- Third filed and ap ' Judge Alden, the opening night lec-- turer, for the third time in nine years !dellxbled a Libertyville audience with his philosophy, ready wt and gentle 'satire, as he assailed the foibles of {bhuman nature. Under the title, "The Needs of the Hour,"' he plead for the llndividunl return to the sanity of per-- 'sonal honesty. l Thursday (today) "Uncle John" Kel-- \ly, the ventriloquist, introduced his happy family of talking dolls, whi:e in ! the afternoon the Glen .Wells Players 'presented their threeact melodrama, | "Atonement," a®"dramatic gem. At \night they give the farce, "A Pressing ©Matter," while Frank Preston Johnson 'an Ilowa newspagper man, delivers his lmessage on community building, "The Basis of Liberty." ¢. _ REDPATH CHAUTAUQUA IS CROWDED DAY AND NIGHT Libertyville's annual Redpath Chau-- tauqua got away with a flying start Tuesday at the usual site in Central Park. In two splendid concerts, the Troubadour Male Quartet proved to be masters of mirth and melody, for in both their vocal and instrumental numbers they displayed marked abil-- ity and pleasing versatility. Wednesday night the big brown top | rocked with laughter at the new Amer-- | ican comedy, "Give and Take," pre--| sented by a clever New York cast. The | Melody Trio and the Misses Scott and | Denny charmed old and young alike in l the morning and afternoon programs. | Friday night is "Joy Night,"' under the canvas, when the Great Laurant stages his big fun mystery .show with his company of magicians and fun-- makers. Laun.% is credited as being one of the four or five greatest living American magicians. . < _ ~~SBaturday night closes the 1924 pro-- gram with the finest singing--organiza-- tion Redpath boasts, in a dlvertms' new comic opra, "Gretchen of _Hnl-1 land." _ The'Montague Light Opera Singers ar singers who canact and actors who can sing. In the afternoon Geoffrey Morgan, educator, humorist and pkywright; speaks on "Success With Ease." ' Friday afternoon Bhaskar Hivale, of Bonbay, India, will discuss the social, religious, political and economic con-- ditions o fhis natve land, and in the morning tell ithe ch@ldren nteresting "Stories of India." 4 4 Leo S. Rosencrans, who was with us atewdmmtynr.hawncg?mp- erintendent, and with his effi t and energetic crew of young --college men, are serving for the comfort and pleas-- ure of chautauqua patrons. . BODY OF WARREN The body of :Warren M. Heath, who died at Columbus, Mont, last Sun-- day, \arrived ' in . Libertyville . this (Thursday, morning.. The funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock, ilnd,wm be in charge of the Liberty lie_Masonic lodge. _ _MF. Heath was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac M. Healitn, piloneer set-- tlers of Libertyville. His -- mother still is a resident of Libertyville. He also was a nephew of, the late Henry Hutchinson, former 'mayor of Waukegan, and also or the late Geo. Hutchinson, former town clerk of Waukegan township. Former Postmaster of that Vil lage Died at Colmbus, Mont., Last Sunday. Two thoukand eight hundred and eighty--two cattle reacted to tuberculo-- sis ess in Illinois during May, accord-- ing to M. H. Peterson, in charge of eradication department of the IMlinois Agricultural Association, and were killed. 5 A total of 49,051 cattle were tested during May, according to Farm Advia-- or Doerschuk. This is the largest numoer ever tested in Illinois in one month. h HEATH BROUGHT 1O LIBERTYVILLE He leaves a widow, nee Carrie Du Bois, for many years a resident of Waukegan, and who is a sister of Edward L. Du Bois, of Libertyville, prominent in Masonic circles. He also leaves one son, Warren E. Heath, of Montana, a captain in the army during the world war. 2,882 CATTLE KILLED DURING MONTH O FMAY IN ILLINOIS Mr. Heath at one time was post-- master of Libertyville, and also was in the furniture and undertaking business. Six more counties have made appli-- cation for the armdication of bovine tuberculosis. They are DeKalb, Taz-- well, Henderson, Warren, McDonough and Cumberland. Thetotal number of counties testing in Iilinois now is 56. Five or six more are expected to make appropriations soon, according*to Mr. Peterson. _and seven and the north halft of section 18% are taken from precinet 'and added to the Arst precinct, CHANGE MADE IN THE PRE-- CINCTS AT LIBERTYYVU The supervisors late Thursday voted to change the boundaries of the third precinct of Libertyville township, -- divising the territory, Under the change sectiona thres 3 id c EETYY io ts W D7 JEWELRY ROBBERS _ MAKE ESCAPE IN DAYLIGHT HOLDUP Wholesale Jeweler Suffered a Heavy Loss as Uncut Gems Were Not Insured. The three daylight bandits who held up and robbed. a wholesale jeweler of $35,000 on Waukegan Road, between Lake Forest and Fort Shert dan Monday afternoon, succeeded in making good their escape, despite the fact that hundreds of police officers and deputy sheriffs were on the look» out for them ten minutes after the daring stick--up was committed. Deputy sheriffs out of Sherif Ahbl strom's office scoured the county and took up posts along the main high-- ways with riot guns. 54 Jewelry and diamonds valued at $35,000 were seized oy the three mo-- tor 'bandits who stopped the car of Abe Zusman. TT L n c Zusman, who lives at 3423 Four noy «street, and is a partner in the Temple Jewelry company, 32 North State street, left Chicago in his--au-- tomobile Monday morningy to drive to Milwaukee. He carried a case of gold-- and platinum--jewelry-- and----& small bag with some uncut gems.,.~ Just south of Fort Sheridan, a bat-- tered touring car drove by Zusman and forced him to the curb. --Three men jumped out, and while two g:urlshpd a revolver, the other fore-- Zusman to hand over-- his--valy ables. * s Zusman -- hurried, to -- Highwood, where hes reported the holdup to Marshal Frank Llewellyn. An--alarm was immediately broadcast to the surrounding towns. $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE, The/jeweler: said that he carried twelve trays of gold and platinum diamond rings,> a --Dundred -- watches, and many other expensive pieces. All were taken. > & CHAS. E. THAYER TAKEN _ --~-- $TATE HOSPITAL AT ELCIN At the offices of the Temple Jow-- elery 'company it was said Zusman. made regular'trips to Milwaukee re-- tailers. Officials also said that the company had suffered a heavy loss because it was just negotiating with Llioyds. to mgc insurance, but } not taken out its new policy + 'Iglo robbers also secured_ in cash. The sheriftf's force received a re port that the robbers were seen in the automobile at Volo, &bout 8 p. m. and --were headed for McHenry, ao cordnig to the police of the latter place.. Sherift Ahistrom and two deputies combed all the lakes regions but were unable tovget--further trace of the bandits' car. It is believed Charles E. Thayer, 14 Jefferson avenue, for 23 years employed by the* county as caretaker of the : court a commission which held the hear-- ing at the Victory Memorial hospital. county as caretaker of the : court house, today was n'hdzfld insane by a ~ nnmmiacinn . whin hald tha hasrwr. Mr. Thayer attempted to take his life several days ago 'by. shooting himself in the head, at his> bhome, while: members of the family were away for the afternoon. The wound was a superficial one. Tuesday night he again sought to end his life by attempting to leap from a window at the hospital. He was prevented from jumping out of the window by a <special nurse. a > w > The case of Mr. Thayer is a pAF ticularly unfortunate ong. He was popular and well known All over the county.h A:l ecrgu:'er at the oo:t..l house hbe also served as a 8 puty .sheriff under snm?d:-c Green and also Sheriff Elvin J. Grite fin, and scores of times. made 'the trip to Eligin with insane patients. Today he made the same trip, in the care of Deputy Sherift Walter m and his daughter, Mrs. Stella son, whose son, Charles, found bim at his home after he had shot bMm-- self. Softening of the brain was given as the cause of Mr. Thayer's trow-- bie. Overwork and worry also are bollevod_'(o have contributed to his i1 health. FOX LAKE FOLKS ASK FOR BETTER ROADS NEAR THERE A large delegation of Mm residents appeared before the bt of superisora this afternoon Ing that the county do to improve the roads to that lage. Ed4, White and Ed addressed ° the board stating th unless Fox Lake gets at least one good road it will lose its ' ' as a garden spot for 1 and that it will also be a fAinancial blow to the business in |teroats. PA ; They are desirous of having Volo----Fox Lake. road rovi Supt. Charles E. Russell t ed the delegation that he and the road and © bridge committeo are working on the project, and that plans for the c t -- are about ready, but that righ! 'z' $ will have to -- be nod;> * grade and improve it wilth atructing the road, :.fl ed out it was explained. . t Lh tb dn seget. io 2 NR oVAE .4 wak o a [Wy rhu pide n e o. e in w w + % wl $ock d¥