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_ ACROSS THE _ ROCKIES IN The following night we stopped at . Madison fust a short jump from home and from there it was easy w.ndlah".m.t' Libertyville at 1:20 p.m. on October The entire trip was --hvlfil tighty gallons of gas and ten quarts -- We got a fine start the o next morning up the mountain still on good roads.-- Half way up we stopped at a spring where a place had been blasted out of the side of the mountain to allow space for parking a score of cars and where & tablet had been erected to the mem-- ory of General Mullin, explorer and scout. The--second night we pitcked our camp at Missoula, Montana. The next day we passed through Bonner, Bonita and at Bear Mouth we truck some mud:--and rutty going and it was here we broke a wheel and spent four blissful hours get-- ting fixed up. Ww pushed on to Deer: and again fraternized with the tourists for the wents and the wind howled. They told us that the reason they had us park behind the buildings was so that the wind wouldn't blow our Anaconda was our first town the following day--and there we started toclimbthekwm where the streets d one of a scenic railway, up one minute and down the next. Had good roads all the way up to Whitehall which is on the divide. Here we ran into @a snow storm which made the descent mnum;mumt& placed along the outside of the road because we felt that if we did skid our lizzie might get bagtered but we at least, wouldn't drop off into space. We stopped at Logan and as weather was unfit for aq&mnpumml,un only , excepting a smaill house or two in the place. -- The first -fi.'n":,F.M-'h dise wheels and discouraged B-ry';dWo t chains at Boze-- man m-rvuim o miles mrer houne, ainieg big e«ars stuck in the md'-l'd.fi\dr drivers cussing us and our 1916 fliver. We stayed that night at Big Timber and at a hotel, too, you can cars during the night. Ts ue coom mt w Billings, a real town with the ear marks of a coming cdity. Their Elks club is exceptionally fine. Night found us at Custer and with better weather. The first point of interest on W'm &.dl% at xa This was and is in repair the 'years it has stood. At the trail divides, one branch to Bismark and Fargo and the other, which we took. to Mobridge,. 8. D. our stopping place for the night. The next morning we were ferried across the Mis River than on through lp.-:g.vbnthlelw crhu-m::tu. Here :':: the large a erected over giving data concerning the yellow-- stome. We made a short stop at Milbank where we listened to a ban« #yin( for some sort of a show. e camped that nicht between Montovedo and Reenaville, The tol-- lowing day we stopped for water at a Tarm house near Hector, Minneso-- ta and the owner said he would like to «ell his place and move cast. We advised him to send an ad to the Register and since our arrival here l-mdmhedklthumtlown( and blamed if it didn't sell his farm for him. Our stopping place that Right was just outside of Minneap-- floor contained a garage and Bean-- ery and the hotel was one large up« We picked up an old 1916 Lizzie from a man who was dragging it down to the dump and with a few tools and some strong words got it tuned up so it would go, -- With our dunnage piled in the rear we pulled out of Wenatchee at 7:30 on the morning of October 8th. We felt somewhat as Chris Columbus must have felt on the start of his histor-- ical trip. The only différence is that Chris didn't know what he should find and we didn't know how far we could go. t We had wonderful hard roads through Spokane and into Couer d Alene Idaho. <'The roads are made from rock crushed in the mountains and rolled into the roadbed, all this & done by convict labor. «We spent the first night in Wallace, Ida-- ho in a tourist camp, meeting people from every part of the country, Ev-- ery place in that country where there are two or three houses to-- gether is a town and they all have tourist camps. C en 1 y stairs room with six beds. It looked mighty good to us though after that PAGE TEN "?.fir the Rocgca from Wenatchée 'ashington to Libertyville, through snow snow storms and mud in 9 days with a dilapidated 1916 Ford is the record recently Mlk»ivnl". T. Hiddleson and George Hawkins, The story has not heretofore been told so Tom has been prevailed upon to give us the following first hand nar-- rative. 4 & 00030 0h _ day we ran into "If you buy land, either in city or country, and put it to some pro-- ductive use in farming, manufactur-- ing or eomuwm,,h.'fly taxed -- or penali But on the other hand, if you acquire land and do nothing with it, your tax is much lighter in proportion. This differ-- mmthohithxm on productive money and low tax rate .on money 'invested speculat-- ively is what accounts for the high rental and selling price of land. The difference between the way the land user is taxed and the land specu-- lator is taxed--this is capitalized jnto the rental and selling price of That we have herious business problems to handle but that Ameri-- ca will come through all right; were points of emphasis Thursday even-- ing at a meeting of the Libertyville Kiwanis club in a talk by Louis Wallis of the Joseph Fels Founda-- tion.. Mr. Wallis declared optimism is the only attitude for the business man, but not an optimism which merely waits for good~ things to turn up. Mr. Wallis, who has ad-- dressed many hundreds of business | organizations in America, was unt' this summer by the Fels Founda-- tion on a tour of investigation into | business problems in England, Sceot-- I land, France, Egypt and the Holy' Land. --He spoke to mnyrfroups of business men in Great Britain. His talk here was partly as follows: Productive Capital Overburdened "Enormous taxes and huge ground rentals, greater than . evei before in our history, are now being paid by productive capital in order to keep the business mechanism of America in m This new over-- W" rinigod he Bs s i h calls for most care-- ful attention. "loo:'y put into active produc-- tion is always unfairly burdened as compared with money going into non--productive channels. Mon#sy put into the Actual producing and hand-- ling of the good things of life is used invariably in relation to land in some way; and here is where 1 large part of the mystery of high eost comes in. ez "The real producer (merchant, farmer or manufacturer) is caught in a jam between these two forces. o eromeaen m on one mmmmnof speculation on the other, are the up per and neither millstones. Every manufacturer or merchant in all the big cities of the United states has to write huge taxes and inflated lo-- 'cation cost into the price of what he sells. This boosts the cost of vmflk;d about His impression of the state of Washington and the fruit growing, Tow said; "I am very enthusiastic about the West for the glimate: and general conditions are 'all that one could ask. The ayple growing is an interesting study and affords profitable employment in the great out--doors. The state laws are very strict and compel growers to care for and prune their trees trees properly and spray a stated number of times to avoid wormy fruit. .A wormy apple cannot be shipped out of the state of Wash-- ington,. 'The soil is decomposed vol-- eani¢ ash and will grow anything with proper irrigation. There has recently been put through a gigan-- tic water project which insures am-- ple moisture for the entire Wenat-- chee district. --I have purchased an-- other five acre orchard adjoining my original tract and expect to re-- turn in a few days with my family. The trip will be made by motor but this time we will take L southern route and go up through California." living, not only in the big cities, but in every town, village and ham-- let where the goods are bought. m')lud,-dfiohmwv hnlncnbdm.nd-:tm the farmers are overtaxed on im-- provements, drainage, ete.; and they are compelled to pay high rents and high purchase for land, These facts are not considered enough in rela-- tion to agriculture. "Since is less and less more overcrowded with a floating labor class There are two men for * w ace l akp 'Comity Falx. P2AMIDELELEL KIWANIS CLUB we sold the Ford to be con--= Sunday Evening, November 23rd next 730 P. M. THE LAKE COUNTY REGISTER, When questioned by Miss Mary Polmateer, probation. officer and Chief Isaac Lyon Wednesday the girl said she ran away as she did not think she got a "square deal" in the The Pinkham girl told the Author-- Ities she spent Tuesday night with a-- male acquaintance in Evanston, and that the next morning he gave her money to take a train to Wau-- kegan. Yesterday morning she told the police she came here from New York to visit a girl friend. The House of Good Shepherd was notified by the locam police last night of the whereabouts of the girl and .an officer tl:.:lfl expected here today to return to that institution. The two girls were being taken back to the House of Good Shepherd Tuesday night by a woman offrcer when Agnes Pinkham made a dash for liberty.. The officer could not run after her, having to hold the other girl. A conductor on the Chi-- cago, North Western railroad .had her taken off a train in Waukegan early Wednesday morning being sus-- picious of her actions. court. She said she was being punished, and that ~the Highland Park man should also have: been The Pinkham girl and a compan-- bon, Lillian Price, escaped from the House of Good Shepherd in June and picked up numerous automobile rides from © Chicago to Highland Park. 'During thu.q{des, the Pink-- ham girl said, they had submitted to the attentions of several men, one being Bantes, kyA 3 Testified Against James Ban-- tes, Who was Discharged by Jury Tuesday. x Instead of Lydia =Pinkham, of Ne# York, the name and address given the Waukegan police Wednes-- day morning by a 15 year old girl taken into custody on suspicion, it was learned Wednesday that the girl was Agnes Pinkham, an inmate of the House of Good Shepherd in Chi-- cago. s *aig® The young girl was in the Circuit eourt in Waukegan for two days this week testifying against James Barnites of Highland Park, who she charged, attacked her while on an aptomobile ride. months ago, A jury, however, after five hours' de-- liberation Tuesday night found the man not guilty, loses in another. And this leads to socialism, anarchism and unrest, Class Misunderstanding The farmer mistrusts and misun-- derstands the business man in the town and city.. He thinks the bus-- RUNAWAY CIRL MAN'S ACCUSER every. really man--size job. Labor unions try and monopolize the bet-- ter jobs and keep up 'the rate of wages. But high money wages do not meet the working man's prob-- lem after all.. These high money wages are added to the cost of pro-- duction, thus %fl further boost in prices, So. what the working man gains in one way he iness man is a profiteer who charges too much. And on the oth-- er hand the business man does not get the farmer's point of view at all. Labor, in turn, misunderstands the capitalist, who, in turn, does not see the laborer's point of view. _ tions in a brotheriy spint. _ Vur troubles are not due to the i!l will of any one class in the community mmmflnmh else. The trouble is the pressure of worn--out social arrange-- ments inherited from European aris-- "The British Empire is already turning attention slowly but surely cother»-ld- to shift taxes gradually from productive capital to mwmdh-d. Not nee essarily getting all taxes from land, but toward a change in the laws of taxation and land ten-- "We can about thes "But the interests of these class-- es are one and the same if they could only see it, and could be in-- dueed to look at economical ques-- Another With You ie can do nothing fundamental e feudalism. " > British Empire is already : attention slowly but surely proposition . to shift taxes lly from productive capital to mlmd;lnd. Not nece--, v wetting all taxes People Must Think the village of. Aréa After the death of her' husband Mrs. Licht-- a number of vears passed Mml'ld she moved with her hus-- band to the William Miller farm in Libertyville Township north of St. Marys of the Lake at Area. They later rented the farm and moved to ir every day experience. Wh wg'"hto:;ve I% our minds; so that we can see as they actually are." In 1866 she was united in mar-- riage to Peter Lichtfic}d after his return from the civil war. Doflil"lwhhl was born in Ger-- many in and passed away at the im..c her daughter Mrs, F. 8. Kern at Libertyville on Saturday Novembef 15th at 10:30 o'clock A. 'I..xm death being caused by a lytic stroke. . She was brought to this country in 1847 by her parents, Henry and Doris Feddeler. The voyage was made in a sailing vessel and took six week from Hanover to New York. -- > S The family came directly to Illin-- ois and purchased a farm at Long Board. <«From present indications the Cook Memrrial Park site will w be the one chosen, Kiwanians plan to hold a "bee" and do most of the work themselves so keep your eye peeled and restrain your wonder if you be-- of us have fair eats at home. hold a erowd of our white shirt gentry.toiling with pick and shovel. It was decided by resolution to omit the meeting of Thursday, Nov-- mfi inasmuch as it falls on hank ng and on that day most SATURDAY, NOVEMBER GRAND OPENING SALE f abtkey . ". . . 7)&@( cah and Gany Marker «<"~>p> Young Tefider Pot Roast, cut from choice corn fed steers, per pound ._____________ Boneless Rolléd Roast Beef, all beef, per pound ________ Fresh Ground Hamberger, per polnd .............___.__. OBITUARY 545 N. MILWAUKEE AVE. -- Why Can We Sell for Such Low Prices? We Buy for Cash -- And Sell for Cash 1 Saturday, November 22nd Ti e jee P «i Buy for Cash and Avoid Paying for Credit Loss! Bhort Ribs, for baking, Case Expected to Come Up This Week; Was in Court at Woodstock Tuesday Ira Blackwell, former member of the local sponge squad is slated to go on trial some time this week be-- fore Judge Edward Shurtleff on charges of impersonating an officer, conspiracy and transporting liquor in McHenry county. The case will be heard at Woodstock. Blackwell torney, George Field, was not pres-- Blackwell, who was employed for' some time as a _ special dcputy' BLACKWELL TO vived hy ona ) NNRA _ . OnNe 18 89-- : barre! for the liquor taken through.| John ~A; figqv"'" vived by. one brother and one umr;gf%hu testimony in his arrest { Michael L. Wor William Feddeler of Palstine, I11., | was given by Andrew Grom, boer'hluoa. They and Mrs, Elizabeth Lange of Chica~ | runner of Chicago, who was later| when their cas «hi\ The funeral service were held Tuesday at the home of her daugh-- ter and at the Lutheran church Rev. vice Ilg:'!':uneu a J on 't:' f Bhlaz sang two beautiful solos, one of which, a fav-- orite of the deceased was "Beauti-- ful Isle of Somewhere." t husband being: one of the original foungders, and of the Ladies Aid So-- ciety of that Church for whose ba:-- zaar she had some work partly fin-- ished when she died. * Mrs,. Lichtfield was a woman who won the sincere regard, of all who knew her. She always wore a smile and never complained, Her chris*+-- ian spirit found expression in help-- ful service. _ Bkhe was a member of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church, her mfi.'fl -'.'li'll&l.lber-' t e, ~She was the mother of sev-- en children; Lewis H. of Waukesan., | aTod _ ner home with. her sheriff in McHenry county, was ar-- m&"'m"l'""'lw some time ago when it was ufllduqlmn.o(w.m,,.,lnlhnd that he had pro pro-- Mrs. Thomas MeBride of Area, | tection for liquor caravans making Henry, Mré, Kern land> Albert --of \ their way through that county. He Libertyville; William, deceased and was charged with accepting $2 a Merman of Waukegan. She is sour= | barrel for the liouor taken through. 22 -- 1924 Beef Stew, Veal Stew, Lamb Stew, BE TRIED SOON 49 12 10¢ 14¢ 3€ Young Tender Round Steak, Native Sirloin, Porterhouse or Short Steaks, per pound .............................. Spring Leg of Lamb, special, Young Pig Hams, fresh for roasting, Wed. Evening, Nov. 26 ' Music By Husk O'Hare's Peacock Strutters Balloon Dance Libertyville Town Hall Auspices Mr. and Mrs. Earle T. Adams The Lucky Number Will Win a Turkey Thanksgiving 12%4¢ ADMISSION 50c at d indicted on a booze charge. . Grom's bond of $5,000 was ordered forfeit-- ed by Judge Shurtleff when the Chi-- cage man failed to appear. ! On ky Seore reaied is bnds rank C., Buch, Johy "A; figd%m Johnson, !'_'_":'l L'_ Ortz, and Peter Christ-- aumesve ce mever censenenetes 12%4¢ ere ~not . present were called.