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~----POOR FARM y he Immac ~--~--~qut to ther -- bond issue taxpayers. _~ erty at Libtertyville because .u.'. _: property is far too porens i piae mroment is i oo from ;' & m r '".mh 'mA it will & f" _ ue 3 .' » eR _ _ ---- Poor Farm; Arguments Are "*f io. mw _ SBuprvisor Bairstow said this is a a iss proposition and that he ot believe the committee was instructed. He suggested the committee get options on _ "I have no selfish interest in this matter, but I cannot--cast an intelli-- ent vote on this mater at the pres-- t time and believe it should be over. I don't know, perhaps it ) possible to sel} this land and move Im and enrich the coffers Of the cou: y theasurer and at the same me properly care for the poor peo-- . This mater at least is worthy other property. "I am opposed to & bond issue to ¥< _ "One thing is sure'and that is that if this large sum of money is spent the poor farm will stay in Liberty-- 'u 'n m,~ .'u 'r- ..'- a6t h.'g.nmdhgbe&ndm thing possible should be :done to help them He said, however, the fi"mposifionhaeold- d business proposition to the Mundelein real estate board and . the ~county ~board _ to , move the farm from Lib-- le or at least move -- back the main highway. $oor farm committee had been in-- ?h.fl&mrfll" erty -- a big sum and this move will be of tremendous value to the for his part he was not against the inmates, in fact his heart went Mawman said he felt the about the matter. port was in order and then Super-- visor Harbaugh asked the board to either accept or reject the re-- port at this time, as the commit-- tee had conducted a most thor-- ri-n-finfion before prepar-- tl'ia-.uam of selfish . and was out of order as this oor farm bond issue being sub-- Ftonpntoddehy:butthat appeared that it is being push-- mittee recommended a bond issue election, the farm to be kept in Libertyville, but rebuilt 150 'feet south and 1500 feet west of the east and north line of the present and C. M.Wilcox in its report statei that advertisements to sell the farm mfilh'hfiwnm and Chicago papers and nc bids or--inquiries regarding the land had been received. The com-- location. _ Supervisor Vercoe in a lengthy plea said that while he did not want to make any changes in the =. _dll:dufi--:o:ih.din;lor , ig to a vote people a"hpdhu-forthn-- building of buildings on the county farm at Libertyville.: Thirteen vot-- ed to accept the report and 17 voted against it, ® farm and to the county as a roll call on the motion, say-- the report Of the poor farm Asks For Action 1§ BEATEN on Page Eight) of hand. _ He--told police that he had been unable to sleep all night and paring to go for a walk. He said H"_""hfhw'h tion on last Sunday morning with-- out.apy shirt on and a towel in his was tied to the iron bunk, the po-- lice formed this theory. position in which the man was found on the floor and the way the rope The method which Sexton used a most unique one. . 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VAE j | taking rooms and Coroner John L. Taylor of Libertyville notified. ~ _ Inquest Held An inquest was conducted Wed-- nesday morning at 10:30 o'clock, by Coroner: Taylor.. The jury after short deliberation returned a verdict w-mdddnby rangling to death. . _ & Chie?f Lyor summoned undertaker Howard Holland and the body was immediately removed to the under-- rope was taken from the man's neck he showed slight signs of life. -- Dr. Lemery arrived a few moments lat-- er and after a short examination prounoced Sexton dead. .. -- _--~--~ Cliff assisted by Chief Isaae Lyon and other--station attaches cut the rope and unwound it from around the man's neck. _ Meanwhile Dr. B. D. Lemery was summoned to at-- tend Sexton. At first when the at oficag t w I' A . cooh nary, 3&.0" as the Northwest-- himself probably less: than ten min-- utes before he was found. -- . Her life from early childhood.was devoted to Christian work. She leaves to mourn their loss her daughter, Mrs. Athalie H. Unger of LaGrange, 111.; her brother, Charles W. Salisbury of Chicago; a sister, Mrs. Flora Raymond of Chicago; five 'grandchildren and three great grandchildren and a host of friends. NO, 2 < Maurice Sexton, 48 years old ia-- borer, who roono;d at Central Hali, Wukemfcrsyuk and . who ecame to the police station on last Sunday morning to tell police that he thought a gang of desperadoes were after him, committed suicice Tuesday afternoon in his cell at the police station by strangling himself with a cord six feet in --length. . Sexton was found in a hunched Ch?fl!,p.m. f . Howe was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.. Orrin H. Salisbury. early settlers of Chicago, where Mr. Salizbury was one of the leading business men; They were members of the Baptist.church, and Mr. Sail-- isbury was instrumental in bu'lding the first Baptist church west of the Chicago river. Mrs. Howe received her education and mugical training MAN KILLS SELF IN JAIL CELL Passes Away Last Night; Devoted During Her Life To Christian Work. In the past years he has dealt in real estate considerably and at the time of his death owned sev-- eral large tracts of land in-- Grays-- MRS. HOWE IS DEAD AT HOME community and was a loyal sup-- porter of its religtous and civic in-- Mr.: Moore had awide circle: of Illflndmfin-t Ernest Moore, about 65 years old, of Grayslake, aone of the pio-- neer residents . of the county, died 'l'-ln::'u;uo'uuhhg home foll an illiness of only a few days duration. Death was due to pleurisy. Mr. Moore was born near Grayslake and made '*Mhmu-ofnb! a few days duration. Death due to pleurisy. Mr. lms born near : Grayslake © and i his home there practically all his life. § Ernest Moore -- Dies at Home Mrs, Scott Durand will run for the republican nomination for state rep-- resentative from the eighth senator-- djal district in the April primaries, she announced Momday night at her home on the $2,000,000 Crabtreso farm near Lake Bluff. ; SBhe denied that her plans have anything to do with the recent con-- viction of her foster son, Jack, now .h.rhuml&IbuL . Mrs. Durand said she hoped mh&nmmmb Te a term in the house© gobi f Detective Sergeants Crot and son of the bureanu, at Mr. Wil ; n's request, made careful in tigation of all the Wilcoxson ser-- . without results. ; /"I know of no one," the merchant told them, "who would make sueh demands or threats." % I MRS. DURAND TO MAKE THE RACE Mwa | Later the coal dealer reecived a :il:phu. call, "We are sorry," said the voice, "that we c ould. not by there. We will send you further in mg arrangements to move as soon as possible, i Mr.. Wilcoxson had been directed by the blackmailers' letter to put the $1,000 in a tin can and ptace it by twuhhhpm.mdouh- n road, near Robey street in Chicago. .A detective bureau squad Uetectives sat concealed in the fast ter an attempt to catch the poten-- tial blackmailers had been made by 'placing a decoy package, following instructions received in a letter from the extortioners a fortnight ago. | As he told of the plot, the coal amuwu-mmm be not made public. _ : "Please do not make it known," he said. "I sotd my home and moved because 1 do not want to jeopardize the life of my little daughter, and now I don't want these plotters to know where we live. 4 the money. But you must under-- stand that this request must not be mu-d. If you fail your daughter will be killed." The plotters signed want to borrow $4,000 from you for a while. We will pay you the usual 6 per cent interest while we have | Mr. Wilcoxson said he at aonce no-- tifled the Highland Park police and Chief of Detectives Schoefaaker. A i was .immediately thrown E:».: his home and a search for clews to the blackmailers started. Meant'me the coal dealer was mak-- who are trying to go on aquare Police Are:Notiied. _ _ Despite the fact--that--Highland Park police say they were not callea out on the case Mr, Wilcoxson, reached at the hotel in Chicago Wednesday night, said he sold his E "!hv'o'h.dthl&hcmhhu private school in the mean to further safeguard her." | police guard for two weeks and af-- and would pay 5 per 'eent interest threstening death to Jane if the would carry out their threat Wii-- coxson sold his home in Highland Park and moved to a Chicago hotel. Jane has been sent to a --private school as a further safeguard. She YOUNG GRL > Arthur L. Wilcoxson, Of High-- land Park, Tells Of Demand Theé letter, the first communication Notes. he cemetery under | _ 3M We Stomvmboeowflndinutge proposed building, fronting an Mil-- waukee avenue. The structure will be of brick elevation with terra cotta trim 'and will be three storiés in The second floor will be utilized for offices and a small auditorium and lodge roomis--=on the third floor are contemplated in the plan. - . Negotiations looking to the erec-- tion of a moving picture theater on the property are reported to be well home is near Half Day, has pur-- chased <of George --A .Wright, the large business lot located on the corner of Milwaukee avenue . and Church street. Kane, $210.50 per acre, 7.75 per cent increase. * PLAN BUILDING ON WRIGHT CORNER Whiteside, $138.75 per acre, 5 per cent increase. E. --DeKalb, $176 per acre, 13.75 per McHenrv, $166.25 pu acre, 37.25 Stephenson, $159 per acre, 14.50 per cent increase. Jo Daviess, $102.25 per acre, 10.75 per cent decrease. A cent increase. ecent decrease., _ Besides Lake county the other | «ounties shown--as far as value and s See Higher Value. * -- It is'believed that the great rea)ty activity in this county during the last two syears, with its attendant imnrovements has caused the high value to be put on the Lake county land. ~By those directiv connected with the buying and selling of land the value is placed at a cons'derably traversed by the lines of the Chicageo »ord Northwestern-- Railway, it was icarned Thursday. -- Thevalues were made public by thohte"iflnith!uflu western railroad 'which includes in its report the values and increases in values in farm lands for those counties in which it operates. Lake county's percentage of in-- ao.-hffiowtom"«bd was 2036 or the third greatzst of the counties affected. ... .. = «> lband value for farms.in f »::,fiaun'byh"ng_fi an "herée for 'thikt time. <The next proved farm land in --Kane: cour which showed a 7.75 per cent in-- crease over the previous year. In the report of the railroad com-- mission the greatest percentage o' increase is shown in McHenry coun-- ty, which jumped 37.25; per cent in farm land value during the last pe-- riod~ Ranking--szecond in percentag» of increase is Winnebago county with a 25 per cent boost. Lake coun ty is rated thifd in the matter of in-- creases.. One county, Ogle, shows a decrease of 11 per cent. «i7 .% ---- Lake county's average improved tu-l.dnhehhpabdfivg April 1, 1924 to April 1, 1925 proved take steps to pass --milk ordinance. IN FARM LAND YALUATIONS ly fifty such ordinances have been Johnson to receive bids on the coust of other trucks and hold--up action on the matter for ten days. Dr. Isane D. Rawlings, state health Chief among the business taken up Tuesday night at the vm.:g board meeting was the opening bids relative to the purchasing of amfintnekfufinvmufifl equipped with a water pump. A representative of 'the Stough-- ton Truck Co., of which A. C. Ree is the local dealer drove one of the here from the factory Tuesday for the inspection of the board mem-- bers and firemen. The truck . is equipped to the last minute, is fast, mli;.flthd m.wm'" a pumping capacity of gallons a minute, « The price of the truck eqguipped and delivered in Libertyville is Judge Lee, $172.75 per acre, 10 per cent Village Board Considers the _ ; Purchase of. New Fire Truck Ogle, $140.75 Boone, $153 per acre, 2.25 per cent Winnebago, $181 per acre, 25 per After --much favorgwble discussion lative to the purchasing of :z commission, was $882. 25 Ukt time. ~The next $ 0( B Pn io e y 2i e eR c aet ceoag . eg s e® h T C tion was readfrom Published Twice Weekly 11 ILLINOIS, © SATURDAY, JANUARY,-- 9, of the new school. it was assured by John Rear-- don, secretary of the board, work will be rushed toward the erection | Will Lyon, Lew Hewes, Elmer Hulse UOther Barks to Elect. The Waukegan National bank will hold its annual election of the board of directors and officers .on Jan. 12. The present officers are: H. C. Bur-- nett, president; Fred W. Buck, vice-- president; William R. Wiard, cash-- ier; J,. C. Rutt, asst. cashier, and A!-- len J. Nelson, asst. cashier. -- TheLake County State bank :f North Chicago will meet for its an-- nual election of officers on the afr-- ernoon of Jan. 18, the third Monday in the month. 'The present officers follow :®William_ R. Dailziel, presi-- dent; Charels @artley,: viee presi-- dent: E. A. Lodesky, cashier; Elsic Streed, asst. cashier, and Esther D --Bennett, asst. cashier. The stockholders of the Peoples 'State bank will meet Jan. 11 at 4 {o'clock for their election of officers The officers that served during the !vut year are: Charles E. Staley. ntesident; Arthur E. Zitt, vice prées-- ident; Perry A. Peterson, cashier. _ The officers for the past year in the-- First National bank were: Charles® N. Steele, president; Elam L. Clarke, vice president; William D Jones, -- cashier; --Grant --McArthur. asst. cashier, and Charles R. Hicks asst. cash'er. A -- meeting --of the stockholders of the bank will be held Jan. 9, at which time the officers. and directors for the coming year bcmtmnkoolanbo'mcnd. First, petitions must be sent out and returned with the signatures of 300 legalized voters within the con-- cerned district; second, these are m"tbythuhoolbard.md third, a special election must be called by the board on the ror some -- time now, letters have come into the office of the school board protesting against the old school, and steps are being taken to have the new school built. _ At a meeting Tuesday night of the school board, it was decided to send out petitions among the voters of the annexed school dist-- riet -nm. the Dady.school, in order to have a new school built. Petitions will be elected. DADY DISTRICT | SEEKS SCHOOL day 'as president of the Securiy Savings Bank at the annual meet-- ing of the bank directors. Mr. Far-- G.° 8. FARMER sent at the next monthly meeting ~f the board. ' prekident Hyatt as vil-- lage health physician for the com-- h.gm&.:mmswm ot the health committee. hcm d-flnh.:::'mn- 'regu-- Journed to Thursday night, the de-- tails of which will be found in an-- A model ordinance prepared by the state now in use in many cities has 'been submittod t> the village board members. -- Such an ordinance provides that all dealers must be licensed, that all milk sold must be pasteurized and the conditions un-- der which it is bottled must con-- form. to the sanitary© regulations. President Hyatt referred the ordin-- ance to Mr.: Swan, secretary of the village board of health, with in« structions to take the matter up with the health committee and have As soon as these. steps are taken, passed in cities and villages in th> state and a drive was being made t> have every town protected by a pure Tuesday Night Giles S. Farmer was named Tues-- ';;'_gjté ':"'i BANK HEAD At -- Meeting uen t ade . in XGrY a three--year period, which will be ready--for he March meeting. = Much has (been said about the heavy expencitures at the Lake County General hospital, but mem-- bers of the county board say the in-- stitution has been operated in eco-- nomical fashion. .The auditor is making a complete report of an audit of county hospital records for power to-- tell county: officers <just what they ean and cannot do in mat-- ters of expenditure, but can, confer with the officers--in good faith, and request expenses be reduced. -- The finance committee, according to a member of the board, will rec-- ommend at the meeting next Wweek that the members of the county board reduce their salaries from $5 Supervisor Vercoe, who is chair-- man of the finance committee, said that the county board'has not the years and about a year ago passed a resolution providing for an allow-- ance of $1,500 a year for clerk or stenographer hire for the coroner. Auditor Sims, in his report, stated that the coroner is not on a salary, the law providing that the coroner be paid out of the estate of the --de-- ceased over whom an inquest is held and in cases where there is no estate the county aliows the coroner $16§for each inquest.. The auditor says al! expenses of tke office must be paid by the coroner, it being illegal for the board to allow the coroner ex-- pense money. --~ : was in: to confer with Audi-- tor Sims and with all county officers and work out plans of saving and report back to the board with reso-- lutions at I adjourned meeting on Tuesday Jan. 12. s Al:; Many Officers. Among the officers to be most af-- fected by the slashing program, ac-- cordihg to rs of the board, willtbe Co: John L. Taylor, The board has been allowing telephone bills for the coroner's. office for 26 The board of supervisors Tuaes-- day afternoon 'went on record as opposed to extravagant county ex-- penditures, which the audit report made by Samuel Sims showed to be the case in many instances. The boand decided that a retrenchment program .should be carried out by practically eyery county officer. On motion of rvisor Fred Kirsch-- ner, the committee composed of isor Arthur W. Verese: SUPERVISORS 1Cs SEEK WAY TO f \-- ----~ CUT EXPENSES of several thousand dollars wou!l1 be made if Gridley's property is not delayed . indefinately the Lake County Land Association offered to have the whole plant built on their fiflo'd»to,thclpdulh'hufiu.be- cause the value of surrounding property owned by him will be less after the plant is installed. under the pi LfiprSiteof Disposal y Alter the Plans of ice asked by Gridley. ive acres of which Mr. hree acres and Gridley We t that he is en-- e c y indicated it will act favorably to-- ward the annexation program. DESERTION IS DIVORCE CHARGE e boundaries of Lake Forest comes entirely . from outside --property owners.. Thus far the council has its recommendations ready to pre-- sent to the council at the next regu-- The ordinante, in the main, pro-- vides for a commission 'form of government. If -- passed the com-- mission's first task will be to con-- sider plans for annexation. . A ecommittee to consider the ad-- visability _ of a:inexing additional territory to the city was appointed by the mayor and instructed to have |and . three co--defendants, facing two years behind the bars for op-- erating an oil swindle. -- They seek ibvverul of judgments. : Commission Form Of: Govern-- ment Asked, Ordinance Is Laid Over. LAKE FOREST _ WILL EXPAND Other familiar names found on the call are those of Dr. Spencer Brown, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment for possessing alter-- ed Liberty bonds, and N. P. West The four appellate judges are Samuel Alschuler, Evan A. Evans George T. Page and A. B. Ander-- to the--defendant it will set a pre-- cedent which might provide a loop-- holée for countless convicted men now facing the penitentiary, Attor: ney Weymouth Kirkland is appear-- ing for Kriebel. Dr. ANTIOCH MAN UP ON APPEA C. S. Rhode, of the University of Illincis, gave the principal address at the meeting yesterday afternoon of the Cow Testing W'Km- iation held at the Farm in Libertyville at 2 o'clock. He set forth several methods where by the profit to the dairymen --could be in-- Suit for divorce was filed Wed-- sday afternoon in 'the | Cirsnait Round Lake -- -- Man Winner It was decided at the meeting to The party "pome" was attributed to the Bruners. chance at the gavel. . : ing up the secomd helping of oyster Mr. James Anmderson of Lake Forest was the guest of B. T. Mil-- ler at this meeting. | In connection with the uncomple-- ted program for 1925, which is car-- ried into 1926, Judge Miller reports that he has a letter from the First Assistant Post--master _ General, Wazshington, stating that an order has been entered for the establish-- ing of a City Delivery service, with two regular carriers on March 1, 1926. He also reported that from aliindiutions,themov,enenttotl $250,000,000 bond issue to build new buildings on the present location of the County Farm, has failed, and that any new. buildings would be constructed on the west end of the farm, or that the Poor Farm wourld be moved entirely away from Liber-- tyville. ~ y $200 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE team mates. Judging by the per-- sonnel of the new administration and by declarations--of the individ-- uals, it is evident that Kiwanis' in-- tends to take a lively interest in Plan to Aid in Proposed Im-- .»/ . cinity; New Officers Installed : PROGRAM IS OUTLINED BY Geov. Follett broke his New Year's Among 'other things that happen-- Street from Milwaukee Avenue to West Street;, and the paving of 'West Street from Lake Street to Cook Avenue, thus proyidit¢ an-- other good entrance from the west to the business district of Libertyville. . _ c% Cooperation with the Village Board in providing an additional fighting apparatus. The 'program for 1926, is as fol-- (b) Support of a campaign t»> raise additional funds for the hospital. (¢c) Removal . of the County Poor Farm buildings from their present location. y system for the Vil-- his for au--