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y 1# Aort Tuson maREED On W s 'afternoon Dec. 'sym.u-nhw, ..:m-nol- Alison were .-'lhg The wedding-- took --place--at home of the brides© parents, Mr. and Mrs. James® Atison at Mitchel!, South Daketa. ¢ lr.;'lfdvl':;.&';fleu spent the week 'former's par-- mlr.wmfinwthWfl- cox. The young people of Area and vicinity gave them a most royal welcome on their arrival, On Sun-- dny:bnttmlwtfimd-and relatives were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Wileox in 'honor of-- the bdde.mdvgoon- y Morris cox met his bride at Northwestern University -- summer achanl <in 1922 where they were friends wish him and his bride a most happy and successful life. * Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Porteous en-- tertained. Mr. and Mrs. . Arthur ~Ritta, M¥r. and Mrs. Albert Snyder her holiday vacation with her par-- 'ents in Fond du,Lac, Wis., return-- ed to Area Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Orelle Hibbard and son of Waukegsan -- and Mr. and for a time. both taking summer courses; -- 'The young couple plan to make their home in Western . Springs, IHI., where Mrs. Wilcox _ teaches music in the schools, »Mr, Wileox is employed by the L. P. Crawford Company, -- an suditing | and" ac-- counting firm on -- Michigan 'Ave., Chicago. c opiee k Mr.. Wilcox has lived south of Area all his life except when away Glenn Kniege of . Chicago . who spent the holidays with his parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Knigge was called east after New Year's where business will keep him for three or Mrs. Morris Chandler and daugh-- ter Ruth were entertained by Mr. ~_Mr. and +Mrs. Wm. Busching of Leithon visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde, Harris. -- f Sunday. § Mr.--and Mrs. Seward Andrews of Lake Forest were New Year guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Miss Nina Rouse is visiting at the hame of Mrs. George A. Ross for K few days. _ . Miss Dorothy Harding was a Chicago visitor on _ Mrs. Mattie Taylor is visiting at the J. J. Rouse home for a few and Mr. and Mrs. Will Faber of Chicago at dinner on New Year's Mr. and Mrs. Myron R. Wells -l'_llnlohs:khvhhulfln Year's day with Mr. and Mrs. Will Hertel of Ivanhoe. Mr. and Mrs, Bert Swan and children were the guests of T. F. Bwan and famity of Libertyville. New Year's day. + Mr, and Mra. Henry Engelbrecht were entertained at the home of Mr.~ and _Mrs. -- Herman . Engel-- brecht of Half Day on Thursday, Mrs. Georfge A.*Ross and son Aynsley were Chicago visitors Sat-- Miss Helen Harding of Minnea-- _polis has been spending: her. holi-- day vacation at the home of her natents Mr. and Mrs, F. M. Hard-- faiy pess Py . o y aying "uch "arqld Mre. Rod:er won the first . ; Mrs. Myron z-'*,'dd Roder won Thomas Rus-- i on ts BJ W. Peer won ing. : Mrs John Carsteson of Chicago zmohh"vlthlut Mrs. John Dietz. and children of Lake® Forest and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Russell and children were entertained at the %;A.Huehehhmoaflew?nn ¥, . Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Rittler en-- mur.w:.:.m and Miss Nina and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rouse and family at dinner on New Year's day. -- _Fred Knigee of Wauconda spent Sunday and 'Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Harrik. Mr. and Mre. Herman Kublank and family sod Albert Knigge ':Mdhdlmhflk Year's day. -- _ %. 3 v, m ':. fn 2CE C George Thatcher on Thursday ev-- | Roebuck Ts eag en ho 2s Tateeet-- Ind "Mr«.' Roder | first wiil A number of Area neople attend-- ad 'the Eastern Star Installation at Libertyville-- on Saturday &vening. Mr. and Mrs: Frank Bagmgart-- m,mmmnn.m bert Dawson of View and Mr. and Mrs. John Numson and duuohter Beatrice of Libertyville at dinner on New Year's day. Mr. and Mrs, Albert Border, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Roder and John Roder spent New Year's with Mr. and Mrs. Will Roder of Palatine. Mr. and Mrs.: Martin . Wagrer, Mrs. Her MRS. M. L. in" Baker, 'North Dakota, of . Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baumgart-- ner were among the friends : en-- tertained by M and Mra BRoy Knigge of Prairie View on Wed-- nesday evéning. Mr. and Mrs. Myron R. Wells, Mrs. --Wm. Fenner: and wil Zerzen motored to Glencoe Sun-- day to visit Mr. and--Mrs. iner, home of hfternoon. JIr. * Miss Nina Rouse entertained a number of friends at her home Sat-- vrday evening'in honor of Mr. and Mrs. George |Ost, of -- Tulare, 8. Dakota, mlmnmdm Mrs. Geo. Mitchell of Lake,. <<<>}*% Mr. and Mrs, L, A. Murric were Chicago visitors Thursday. Mr. and Mrs, C. G. Small, John Porteous. ~ Mr. and . Mrs.-- Bert Chamberfain and children were en-- tertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. ~--Ed. -- Udbenstock . on < New Year's day with the latters m ents, Mr. and Mrs. Connor of -- ton, TL : Mr, and Mrs. Frank Bauersmith motored to Waukegan + Friday ev-- _ Miss Alwilda Weekly of Wauke-- gan spent New Year's 'day with Miss Bess McBride. A Mrs. Wor, Eddy entertained Mrs, Samuel Olson and son of Chicago over the week end. * Miss --Beruadette. Bradley of Chicago and Miss Mary Yore: of Everet* spent New ,Year's Day at the home of Mr. ind Mrs. J. C: Dorfler. entertained 'friends from -- Chicago over the week end. t 2s To ©'George Klier spent the --holid@ys with his ~parents in Covington, Kentucky, *. -- 5W S Sam Kaplar spent New Years day and Sunday in Chicago. -- tained about fourty friends at a New Year's Eve Watch Party. The delicious lunch. | --, < Mareus Kubrank is ill this week and unable to go to school. * Mr. and Mrs. Frank Baumgart-- ner ispent Sunday with Mr. and In.r__nollanbamn of -- Prairie Mr. and Mrs. Clark and daugh-- ter Mary Jane spent the week end in Chicago. v 'Miss : Bernice Wheaton . who spent the holidays with her aunt and uncle, Mr: and Mrs. R D. Cook returned to her. home in Wheaton on 'Thursday evening > . 'Charles Lehmkuh! who has been in the Highland Park hospital for Mrs. Maud Lusk of Libertyville is spending a few days with Mrs. Highland Park where he will have to stay for a time before coming two weeks wa sable to be taken to the home of his uncle and aunt in Our pastor, C. A. Londahl, re-- turned New Year's after spending his vacatidn with his parents in The regular Sunday evening ser-- vieces were held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Huson on Dec. 98.' Rev. Ora Lee Pride, of Spring-- field, a noted pastor and authSr was the speaker,. He spent Sunday mnmnv.mm:& tnrdl(mt:Ev'mfimontheNo Shore on Monday morning. Msis Vera Vasey who won coun-- g'dnmpioumlr of girls, clothing bs of Lake County, won. fifth place. in the state. This is very good as it was Miss Vera's first year In--club work and she had to club champions. Ben Walkington is on a business trip to Black River Falls, Wis. Merchants bf Bloomington and other communities of that section suffered a loss of more than 30 per cent in business while the recent strike of employes of the TMlinois Traction System was in progress. "Much Ado About Nothing" will "We immediately felt it," one prominent merchant says. "Up until -- the time the cars guit, L had never felt I had a financial interest in the interurban. . When a:'et::oyn struck, ~we,. found nollt o7 our Drckning ~ihe Hipint The um.l' on ;hn. 13, will ': "Taming the Shrew." This be followed, Jan. 20, by the "Merry ment .we had relief upon to bring roncnhmdmmdtodr ver our merchandise--was gone. When the cars ----started opening again and came into the city swarming with shoppers, the effect upon business was immediately no-- ticeable. _ The strike -- certainly brought home to every merchant and every citizen the Hependence placed upon efficient and contin-- uous operation of the public utility Roebuck station Chicago, every Tuesday mhf in January, start» ing Jan. 6, by Anthony Wons. The first will be "Romeo and -- Juliet." Wives of Windsor." On the 27th Mrs. Géorge ~McDonald INTERURBANX. SFRIKE HAD EFFECT ON BUSINESS Shakespearean plays will . .be oadeast over W L S the Sears-- BHAKESPEAREAN . PLAYS PRODUCED BY W L 8 , Mich, YOLO ing of the | * s | PARM enter It shows in striking:-- way the manufacture 0 fsteel and then il-- lustrates -- effective and _ profitable pig raising,. ~Fencing forms the connecting link between steeland pigs. Also thére are four reels of the new picture "Clean Hearts and. Herds" which shows in a striking Round® Lake and at Long Grove. Some new films will be shown. One of the new ones is a real picture of Tiincis tsl"-:;oom Husking &tmy d--in Sangamon County.. Then there are two reels called "Give the Pigs a Square into _ such much detail~~on the whole subject of 'Tuberculosis in ceattle. There is a <story running through the four reels that is in-- ter»sting also. 444 There will be a poultry expert with us at "two of these meetings also, which will make it. all the more worth while to attend. . Yhy . oo Farmers' 'Meetings fih.woek.#y are -- Wauconda, at Wait's _near Deal." . Farm Adviser_ Fuller Marshall County has this to about this picture: "Very fine way how the area work 'of tuber-- culin testing is organized and goes r'('d\n' with . many side hts." "Very well l.m,t Mc Laughlin of La Salle Co. h * Following is the schedule °: of ?eednp: Wauconda, -- Wednesday, fan. 7th, at eight P. M. Wauconda High School. : D. V. Wait's Residence, 'Thurs-- day, evening Jan. 8. A« ! ._Long Grove, Friday evening, Jan. 9th. . FARM MEET TO STRESS BUSINESS IN FAMNG' In the line with the tendency of farmers_to give more and more at-- tention to the business -- side of farming, this subject has been given a prominent place on the program which is being prepared for the an-- nual Farmers' Week at the College of Agriculture, University of I!li-- nois, January 12 tol6., Discussions mmflfisnbjeethneboen for the whole of the first afternoon of the meeting and _ 'The four talks # be given by t mena ianuoming nrice and t tions hmmi. Mosher will speak on "Findong the Leaks in the Farm Profits;" Case will tell "What Farm Cost Studies Show;" Norton ~will member o discuss "Changes in Prices of Farm Products," and Stewart will speak on' "Factors Affecting Priges -- of Farm Products." * ~Practical information. that has been worked out during the last 12 years by the farm organizations and management department of the college over the state will form the basis for the first two of the four talks. Among other things, . *he farm accounting work in 11 counties last year showed that the best of the farmers were making around $2,000 more apiece than was being on pag macted P t The lntotm are responsible for this difference will be explained and discussed during the meeting. 'The cost of production 'studies show quite definitely what factors are re-- zponsible for the leaks in farm earnings, and these factors also will be discussed. The price that the farmer gets for his products will be analyzed from the standpoint of ptleotmdlnda.nhufl'd prices of farm products to ot-- her. The program for the night ses-- sion on January 12 has not yet been worked out, but it is planned to have either H. M. Gore, secreary of agriculture; or Eugene Davenport, dean emeritus of the agricultural college, deliver -- the prigeipal _ ad-- m'flfifl:&la'. year e an-- mwmu«mnmm- cultural Association, an extention school for farm advisors and other extension workers of the agricul-- tural, a meeting of the members of executive committees of the county farm bureaus in the state and the Hlincis Seed Grain Show, including the annual Utility Corn Show. Re-- duced railroad rates for the meeting have Been granted by the Western Passenger Association and on prac-- tically all steam roads of the statse it will be possible to make the round trip fora fare and half. tAwW cases as . com 83,00 cases the : year while the 1922 pack was somewhat less than two million cases, .the Foundation states for that of last--year, actording to the Bears--Roebuck Agricultural Foun-- dation. ('The total pack this year is 2,810,000 cases as compared to 'flz'n-tm,unnummn it éounterpart in the national ILLINOTS swWEET CORN PACK sHOWS BIG DROP FARMER's MEETINGS _ corn cases Farmers, homemakers," farm ad-- visers, home. demonstration work-- ers, Farm Bureau offidials and agricultural extension -- specialists from all sections and> practically all counties in the state will con-- vene in anmusl conclave at the farm school of the University of Tilinois at Urbana for the days of Jan. 12 to 17.. In connection with the event, the tenth annual meet-- ing of the Tilinois Agricultural As-- sociation will take place, Jan. 15 and 16. % Lake County Farm Bumumyfll |ln represented by D. H. Minté, C. 'A. Huebsch. J. J. Doerschuk --and h from year to year has. been characteristic of the corn so that the 15,000,000 cases which were produced in 1920 ed 'the very next year . to : half ~ that -- figure.Q Al-- though 14 million cases were pro-- d 'as far back ~as 1911, two years later found that production cut into two, with the result that fl y prices would be impossbile but for common practice of carry-- season to the next, The fluctuation in production: is a&d{:m in the country as a whole individual states fluct-- uate sharply in opposite direction the 'saime year the figures compil-- ed by the Foundation show, Ohio enu&;nly about half as much comn year as last, while Maine increased her' output 'about one-- third..Maine, New York and Min-- nesota were the only states to show material increases this vear, JowaIlincis and Maryland drop-- ping off 20 to 25 per cent each while still -- dividing honors < fairly evenly for leading place, .. STATE FARM BUREAU GATHERS AT URBANA IN 10th -- ANNUAL MEET Agricultural Illinois will -- gather soon at what promises to be --one of the most far--reaching farmers' gatherings in the annals of Illincis tion and includes speakers of na-- tional and international <promi-- nence. The address of welcome will be tendered by H.:° W. Mumford, dean of the Ilinois -- College ° of Agriculturé. _ George A. _ Fox, reduced to ~one and a half fares for the round trip. _ _ 4 has been announced by the associa-- tion. The chicf feature of the Farm Bureau meet will be an address by the Hon. T. A. Crerar, president of the United Grain Growers, Inc., Cowles, -- Bloomington, _ treasure, will Kl'-fl their annual reports, and 8. H. _Thompson, Quiney, will deliver il'tdfiic as president of the lllinois Agricultural Associa-- Winnipeg, Canada, on the subject of co--operative grain. marketing Other taiks sandwiched in with the business sessions will be the fol-- lowing: "Our educational system," by George W. Willett, prinicpal of the Lyons Township high school at LaGrange; <"The Agricultural Sit-- uation, Past and Present," by Chas. J. Brand, consulting . specialist in marketing, United States Depart-- ment of Agriculture; "Problems of Revenue in HMlinois," by Walter F. Dodd, Chicago, chairman of the conference -- on . revenue . amend-- ment; and "Insurfince as it Relates to Farmers," by Erwin A. Myers, 'insurance . counsellor, . Chicago. David Kinley, president <of the University of Minois, also will ad-- dress the host of Farm Bureau workers. Nomination < of executive . com-- mitteemen for each of the 15 Con-- gressional Distriets comprising the state Farm Buresu, and discussion of program of work for the var-- fous departments --of the Illinois Agricultural Association, as well hs consideration of plans and poli-- ces of the organization for 1925, will feature the business sessions of the farm meeting. Attendance for the tenth an-- nual meeting of the association are expected to run to over a thousand. ~Farm Adviser Doerse-- huk of Lake County is counting a makers Mrmudd\:.:mty.t to the state's agricultural capital. THE HIGHEST TELEPHONE IN THE UNITED STATES is on the summit of Pike's Peak in Colorado where it is lz)'I:M or almost three miles, sea level. This phone is located on the property of the Pike's Peak Highway Associa-- tion and connects the Peak with the telephone systems of the country. The program for this meeting , is about a million cases he pack of 1922. . The vio-- WEDNESDAY SATURDAY Announcing Char 9 :00 = l% A. 1 10 -- 6 00 P. M. Geo. A. Jones over of Hours That a wide 'in the use of NM-:W":'&'- thmc: The whole of the _ Wednesday morning session, January 14, will b.giv-m&ufnflzmh(lni }ganbningub pme=~ The question of what shall be | done with the farm orchard will be answered by W. S. Brock, horticultural extension specialist of the college, in the first of a ser-- ies of talks. He will outline a pro-- out Illinois urban and rural . dis-- tricts, was> revealed in a survey on the relative consumption of but-- m.:ndoln. conducted : by . the is . Agricultural Association through its dairy marketing direc-- tor, A. D. Lynch. The survey was Dairy Marketing with the help of county farm ad-- tv'ilnnhlhtlmauomurlnd:l rough questionaries answered by reliable authorities in each of the counties --covered in the survey. Lynch rts the results of his hnnflczr:uumtflyiumdu a satisfactory index of the amount of oléo and similar vegetal fats ac-- tually consumed by town and coun-- try --dwellers in these counties. Farim: families are -- almost as great offenders in the use of subs-- titutes : for ~ the health--growing spread as city people, the market-- ing . expert --discovers. According to the farm advisers 'eomulmdt average estimates --indicate tha' farm -- people eat 2.81 pounds --of oleo per family per year, compar-- ed with 2.94 pounds for: theircity step toward .solving the problem "has been taken by placing orchard problems, along with -- gardening and other related ones, in a promi-- _nent "place on the program for the annual Farmers® Week to be held at the college, January 12 to 16. Questionaries from 11 counties showed that no butter . substitutes were used by farmers of those counties. One questionaire reveal-- ed _ that city people in that county used no substitute for the dairy spread. -- _ . *"The farmer, éespecially -- the dairy farmer; who buys . butter substitutes in .place-- of _ genuine butter is competing ~against his own industry," Lynch asserts. "Ev-- ery pound of oleo bought gllm a market to the South Sea Islander for his cocoanuts and takes the sale of so much butter away from some Illinois dairyman. In addi-- tion the patron of substitutes in f the life-- vitamines -- which :'amiu. ;tm can' yield. _ T"here is no substitute for dairy butter," he concludes.. URBANA, ILL., Dec. 81--More than half of the farm orchards~in Illinois have disappeared -- within the last ten years as a result of the toll taken by fruit, diseases, in-- sects and general neglect, accord-- ing to members of the horticaltur-- al department of the College of depriving himself and his . family Agriculture, University of Illinois. How to check .these rna- and put the small .orchard on a payihg basis where it will furnish the farmer and his family with the fruit they need is becoming a more gram .of prunin', < spraying and management de« ~ed to keep the amall orchard o. _ profitable basis: worst peach dise« «--, wil be dis-- cussed by H. W. Anderson, assis-- tant chief of pomological -- patho-- logy at the college. Some the more impeertant diseases which are prov ing to be limiting factors in the profitable _ production of small fruits will be taken up and discuss-- ed in detail by A. 8. Colby; asso-- clate chief of pomology at the col-- Bacterial ' shot C. B. Sayre, another member of the college horticultural _ depart-- ment, will tell the visitors about recently _ developed _ disease--resis-- tant strains of vegetables which are now making it possible -- for farmers and market growers to grow vegetables on land where or-- SAVING FARM ORCHARDS MADE FARM WEEK THEMI Will Erect You A House or. any kind of bullding;furnish-- ing all labor and material by contract, so you may know just what entire cost will be before starting. CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Libertyville 145--R CITIZENS BANK BUILDING Phorie 492--W AREA, ILLINOIS the horticultural department of the sollege, will close the morning pro-- gram with a discussion on Ilincis 'The Central Passenger Associa-- tion has just recently granted re-- duced rates for those who wish --to attend Farmers' Week and as a re-- sult it will be possible for visitors to make the trip on practically alt steam roads in the state at the rate of one fare 'and a half for the round trip.. The annual meeting of the Illinois Agricultural Associa-- tion, a "Little International" live~ stock . show-- and :exposition to be staged by> students ~and fe--alty members, and the annual Iilinois Seed Grain Show are among the features which are being planned for the week. CHICAGO, Dec. : 20--Speaking on "The -- Platform or Organized Agriculture" before a group of the nations forémost economist in ses-- sion at Chicago today under the suspices of the . American ~ Farm Economics 'Association, . Geo. 'A. Fox, secretary of the Illinois Agri-- cultural Association --first--said that there are many abuses to the term, "organized agriculture." _ He said that. <agriculture consists of 'the farms and the farmers producing farm products, that the buginess of each of these unite of produc-- tion involves many problems, some of which are common to all. Many of these problems can be met more effectively by collective action and some of them: can only be solved by united ~effory. -- Wherever-- and however farmers unite to serve the interests of these groups by collec-- tive --or group action we have or-- ganized agriculture. ----~ «*The underlying purpose of or-- ganized agriculture is to improve the farmers' economic -- condition and his stindard of living," said Mr, Fox. He is not interested in the higher wages for labor unless it will result in better returns for his own albor.-- He is not interest-- odh.bfl-uf'm.iulorm' rial ability unless hée may\ also share in proportionately larger re-- turns for his own managerial abili-- ity. He is not interested in large returns on ¢xpital investment un-- less he is included with ° other capitalists. . The farmer is a labor-- er, a manager and a capitalist. This combination, plus the environ ment with which he is surrounded mdl':M,m a distinct group intérest is peculiar-- to agriculture and which must not be . compromised, which _ should wever be confused with the inter-- est of other groups, or the inter-- est of the general public." -- . nomists that 'the activities of or-- ganized agriculture ~must: of ne-- cessity be limited strictly to the Mr. : For Boston Store Libertyville Dept. Store's 110--12 8. S T A M P S May Be Redeemed engage almost every activity under the sun, and toa lack of seif nlhuothath.t-flmtozyu farmers themselves for p and finic¢ial:~ support. . He stated that singleness of purpose, devel-- Lopment of leadership among farm-- AT necessary parts of a sound policy. Buch is the basis for the Ilinols He also stated that one of the largest jobs of farm organizations today= is to co--operate ~with : in '"""M'rm""'"z'"u%':'a;? Or = efit of all, but agriculture must be on its toes continually to guard its Mr. L. L. Macther and son and Ruth Wolf called on: Emily 'Maet-- John Yore of Everett was a business caller here Tuesday. Benjamin Ritzenthaler is spend-- home of his parents, Mr. and Mra. the week end at Des Plains. _ .. John Gloden of Aptakisic was a caller here Tuesday. «-- 'Mr. and Mrs. Dan Epp of Liber-- tyville :'called on friends -- in town Arthur -- Herschberger. of Chi-- eago is spending a few days at his Miss Cecil Bluhm.. is spending her wacation with her parents Wolf Monday afternoon, --_ _ --__--_ Roy Katen of Chicage lm the week end and Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Lockbhead are .entertaining a friend -- from his All kinds of Auto Kepair Work PRAIRIE NIEW % Day and Night Service Phone 317 --x a' 4* ! R Waukegan, IIl. i# X &