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ingz 2@81 with a value of $1,500,-- t shows the eztent of the land and develcpment plans '~r * ecx»mmunity. n The firm has averaged a tract of land every ten days, it is reported, since Jan. 14, 1925 to Jan. 20, 1926, The smallest tract was 20 acres and the largest was 313 acres. This confirms the general opinion that there has been a great activity car-- ried on quietly during the past year. year are:, The report of one realty firm, that of Lyons and Rouse, of Mun-- delc.a, shows thai in the six days ending :'ast FriJay, eleven farms, with a total acrsage of 1,041, have been so'd. The Lyons and Rouss firm negotiated the deals . This with the announcement that within the last year this company alone has disposed of furm acreage to*]-- Already scores of homes are under or are being planned. eleven farms soid within the last six days are as Tollows: These farms were sold from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20. The other farms sold in the last SEVENTY--SIXTH YEAR NO. 7. ail. who was the one who brought about the 'nvestigation which resulted in ters to the March grand jury. store and: rifling the c* State's Attorna# A. V. Frank Mitchell Woods ,. ... ... 20 Geo. A. Jones (Jones Est.) ... 160 It is interesting to note that the Meyer farm that has been sold for a fortune was once sold for & team of horses and the buyer was given a team of oxen to boot. Ing to Chief Deputy Sheriff Lester Fiffany, signed a confession of his guilt, asked for a trial and his case bond set at $3,000. He also, went LaVerne LaRoche of Fort Sher-- idan, alleged leader of the band of wwmu--w ing on in Lake and Cook counties in wholesale fashion, way-- ed examination Friday . when ar-- raigned before Justice of the Peace Harry Hoyt and was bound to the grand jury on robbery and larceny charges. Hiz bonds were fixed at $2,000 and he was remanded to the custody of the sheriff in default of Curtis Donley, and Anthony Imbo, also of Fort Sheridan, who are al-- leged to have confessed being mem-- bers o0 the bandit ring, were not ar-- fimh&.pfihnll- 'm-nthcyndhmy charges in Highland Park. back: to jail, being office said, were in the ring, will--be prosecuted in Cook county, being in jail in Chicago at the present time. William And Is Held. TO CRAND JURY CEENTER OF Niws Fort. Driver Charged With Assault After Accident Of Last Dr. Wilson, who is a member of the Illinois State Board of Health will speak at both meetings of the Farmers' Institute on Friday and HELD GUILTY IN AUTO CASE unavoidable. Feblow claimed th=t Schaffner drove off a dirt road ont» concrete at a bend in the road, while going about 35 miles 'ahn hour, and hit his machine. It wa; indicated Friday that a eivil suit for damages will be started against Schaffner by Fehlow. kee road near Libertyville. Schaff-- ner testified that he used due care in driving and that the crash was have sold 48 1--2 feet in two lots in Highland Park, to James M. Barnes of Evanston, the deed being fled to-- day. ~The consideration, the stammps on the deed show, was $60,000. Henry L. Meyer and brother, Jul-- ins J., of Wadsworth, seld acreage in the town of Warrem to Sven A. Danielson of* Chicago, for a consids eration of $75,000. There was around 100 acres in the transfer. Roger L. Foote and wife of Evanston to Waldo --B. Ames of Chicago. brought $163,000, according to the deed filed today at the office of Re-- corder L. O. Brockway. PURE MILK MEN TO MEET HERE BIG LAND DEAL -- PUT ON RECORD Two hundred and twenty acres of land in Winthrop Harbor, sold by Following the demand in Chicago for pure milk from tested herds the pure milk association has been per-- ::illh-m fio':u::h of L.-tl,-....a-hu& ~m-~ & testing activities in Lake County and its bearing on the milk market, this meeting to unite the dairymen The owners of the tested herds of dairy eattle of Lake County will Libertyville on Thursday January in a pure milk association is ex-- WILLb SPEAK AT * IN3TITUTE HERE Lazarus Loeb and wife of Chicago With the present situation in the IDx. Erva M. Wilson R. B. CONOLLY PASSES AWAY ---- AT CHcaco gan politics for years, died at 1:36 a m. Monday at the Illinois Masonic hospital, Chicago, where he was taken on January 19. He had been a patient at the Victory Memorial hospital, Waukegan, for several Former Chief Of Police And Political 'Power Ples At Masonic Hospital In Chicago Monday Morning. Robert"B. Conolly, one of the big ¥nctors in Lake county and Wauke-- land cemetery and will in all prob-- ability be in=charge of the Masoni¢ order in . which he had in Septem-- ber at the mnual conclave in Hos-- friends. Besides his widow -- Mrs. Cora Carhart Conolly, two sons, Robert C. and Richard L., one daughter, Harriet, and a brother, Louis R., of St. Petersburg, Florida, survive him. ' Everott amti Mr. Michae! HReimond of Lake Forest, together with his extends sympathy to the bereaved tended the obsequies. After Solemn Requiem High Mass, at which were the following clergymen, Rev. W. J. Ryan, Rev. M. Nealis, Rev. W. A. Gorey and Rev. T. Henkel, 8, V. D., interment tookplace in St. Patrick's Cemetery, ERverett. 'The deceased is survived by his sister, Mrs. Edward Kennedy of Libertyville,. by :two brothers, Mr. Charles Redmond of night of June 14, 1925 while in the act of stealing a machine from the Wetzel and Turner used car tent in South Genesee street by Police-- man Hallen, At the time he was held at the station for a couple of were legion, in Libertyville as well as in Everett, as attested by the large number from here who at-- Funeral Wednesday Funeral services will be held on Prof, fioode is in great demand as a speaker at all kinds of the higher--cass of public meetings anl it speaks well of the efforts of the members of the institute that they The calibre of the 'U] bavoh-unmtdtpm- two sessions of the Farmers' M tute: which wil} be neld gt the | tyville Mhrhmonhfiiy.: Saturday of this week, give ance of interesting and instructive Paul Goode of the Department of Gengraph, of the University of Chicago will speak. on "Chicago, & City of Destiny."=~ ° SHORTAGCGE Auditor Samuel Sims and also for eash boms put up by motorists with the police department, it was: an-- lor of Waukegan has made a settle-- ment with the city clerk for the shortage found in his receipts by mlndqbyw L. J. Yager, who is in charge of the department of accounts and finan-- ees. Magistrate Taylor in making a complete settlement with the city turned over a check for $2722.40. He also has agreed to change the system at the police station. The audit covered a period of two and half years, starting May 1, 1928 and extemiling to October 1, the audit had been made to the city, a countil committese consisting of Many Noted Spéakers Will Addres® Farmers Institute "The magistrate also makes the promise ~that his office~will --be conducted in the future strictly according-- to th# law and the ordi-- nances of the~City of Waukegan." tofore, with the police department will be discontinued and that the docket will be kept in a different manner than before and that the costs charged by> himzelf will be in accordance with the law and not by the police department so that settlement could be made with the city clerk's office. | "He also agrees that the sys-- according to the previous system; o Pays. For Bonds "He also paid to the city clerk The "Chicago Commerce" in com-- Dr. Eva M. Wilson, who ' eak on "Better health for 4 Police Magistrate Walter A. Tay-- of CARED FOR 'F" IS SECOND IN BY TAYLOR TOURNAMENT to secure His services,. being "Our Rural Public Health." cago Commerce" in com--| Ineidental music and other--num-- one of his lectures says:| bers have been arranged for both he student's ch 3 Judge. Ben.. H. Miller nl-no!m L--preside at the meeting on Fri-- r's ruthless' 1 .and |day. afternoon and Prof. H. E. Un-- of the dramatist's . hA |derbrink on Saturday, at which time ation. ~Of broad scholar--| meeting will be held at the asing presence and good | Libertyville Township High School as proved himself an in-- }auditorium. an in his work." ) The two Libertyville meetings M. Wilson, who IL |will end the five day session in var-- Better health for greater'ious parts of the county. > Published Twice Weekly will "be yo , TTIJINOIS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1926 here-- of after: speakers in the state. She has now . forty--five . g-'iht engage-- 'udn&?mmbrfiw" fee ' . W was a prac-- re _ A s & 'member of the m'&# Bt'&rd jof Heslith.:: L {* *' .' Satgriay dtefi'.% T eat. Prof. / Last year the Arlington Heights High School started to hold invita-- #ion tournaments. This year, the Antioch, Gusnee, Libertyville, Wau-- § first ga awere played -- on Friday Afterdson. Ar this time 'A&cfi&mfi Barrington u ated them 17--13. Antioch ( 80--17. J. C. Hanna, State Superintendent of High Schools. Mr. Hanna is an pome eermatame to deve ment --of © the schools in the state. Dr. Wilson will also address the Saturday meeting, her subject * The game started with both teams mss dn m mm oi fan efficiency" is one of the most sought ""Mr. Butts, who with Mr. Fisher in smm mt sank the first basket which caused out on top with a score of 9 to 6. The second game of the evening was that ' of Warren Township against Leyden,-- community high Parker was placed as,Guard on the seconid honor 'team: =-- _ _ -- Nitxon, Antioch--Running Guard. This Tournament, altho great honor'is attached to the winner, has nothing 'to do with the Northwest Conference as the standings of the different teams are determiried by the percentage of games won or place. The was a large silver Wmmyvmemseeond place and a beautifal banner. ¥$ \'m NWO C e ineer w 06 " *n 5~ W | . hfi "' Mrfi% k Ar : . i ;M Ey A' 1.'21:,--"'-'*-' > ha PX ACTION ON MANOR PLAT. gro 4 passed-- and approved by the board. "This matter has dragged along m.fin::lfntfiltlu "'"'N wfio,;low."GrH-, gation and consideration he could not consider the new circulinear plat submitted to him for this sub-- division and asked that the original It was agreed at the last meeting that he would accept a revised lay-- out on his land so that the location of the sanitary sewer disposal plant that.up to date has caused such a furor, ' particularly. between M¥. GHAdey® and the board ~members, coth:l be definatély settled once and for all. « * "The tentative plat agreement I agreed to enter into with the board last meetingI find is impracticable. There is not enough circular layout to this new plat and in addition the n{%" ahn cuts down my gross sale of over twenty--five percent as against the old plan," Gridley de-- clared in stating his reasons. f "I=~ask you, gentlemen, to install the disposal plant as per the orig-- inal plat, I will let the damage price of $7,500 to my lamd stand as A suit for $10,000 damages, the result of an 'automobile accident which occurred in Lake Villa two years ago and resulted in the death of a Chicago woman, started Mon-- day afternoon in the Circuit court of Judge Claire C. Edwards. The is attributed to the crash. _u. 'o Schaffer, of Grays-- Douglus car, is the defendant in the on. / Th | plaintiff is Marion ~*I do not feel that ,the board should take it upon themselves to approve --your plat, Mr,.. Gridley, in the absence of the mayor," Mr. Mymrhdinhisc@n(énfiopby practically every member ° of 'the dist Gym last Friday night and in spite of their size, all teams dis-- The first battle was"the 90 pound :l::vl&fluhmfiim_lndel_ein a good clean game prac-- Mmmfoflh& The second game was a fast scramble between the. Libertyville 119 pound class and Lake Bluff in which the home team won 12 to 9. It was advertised last week that STARTS $10,000 ped to handle a crowd, a: goodly number are coming out to back the a team from | Lake Forest would moetthelocalladpoundbqnht due to the absence of one of their players the team could not come. However a good game was supplied bylpicknllm i k B is > for Friday night of this week and although the gym is poorly equip-- 2008 of Lake Villa on May 4 DAMAGE SUIT There were four courts in session and 'Six juries at work. * This condition made it necessary Tiffany to personally act as bailiff in one of the courts and also use ev-- ery member of¢the sheriff's force BUSY WEEK FOR SHERIFF FORCE papers to be served and other rout-- ine work so Chief Deputy Tiffany was compelled to call" out Ambrose Beaudin, one of the deputies laid off Vernon. . The co Prof. J. C. Hanna is State Super-- intendent of High Schools, and will deliver an interesting address at the Saturday Institute sheeting. Juries Galore Take Up Time; Robber Gang Broken Up On Side. of the time. C <. --ayk. % Thetewere two branches of Cir-- enit court in session Thursday, while there were also jury matters in Frank Weidner and wife of the Town of Vernon sold some 80 acres of land in this locality to Emil J. Wisconsin, and Arthur W. Hall and wile and James E. Jones and wifte to Robert H. Gore and Frank J. Gowns--of Chicago. The stamps on the deed indicate the sale price war In fact two juries were used in County court and also two juries in the Circuit court of Judge Claire C. Edwards. In Couanty court one jury served on a case in the morning and Burrows left his widow,. Annic Libby Burrows, 66 years old. $10,000 in cash and a life estate in the bal-- ance of his estate. which after other bequests, is valued at $116,065.16, Two daughters, Louise Libby Bur-- rows and Marjorie Burrows Pitcher, were each left $50,000 legacies, after life estate thercin awarded to their mother. Two sons, William French Burrows, Jr., and "Arthur Andrews the other on aA case in the aiter-- noon. In Judge Edward's court one jury was deliberating while an-- Chief~--Deputy Tiffary and his men were kept busy rounding up the al-- leged gang of soldier bandits fiom Fort Sheridan. _ Six arrests were made in connection with this matter and confessions made of five rob-- beries and two attempted robberies, found necessary to do considerable other work at night. estate, which was filed Monday in the County court and confirmed. The inheritance tax on the estate amounted to $5,509.81. ® j the men being in court all day, it was necessary to work nights on the Burrows, received real estate, the market value of which was placed af $32,717.36 for each. REALTY DEALS ARE RECORDED other jury was bearing An estate of $819,424.60 was left by William French Burrows of Lake Forest, who died on July 30, 192%5, William P. Carey, appraiser of the BURROWS LEFT WILL ADDRESS SATURDAY MEET Approximately 100 acres in Fre-- hx $319,424.60 $200 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE _ --~The new Skokie Valley Route of the Chicago North Shore & Milwan-- kee railroad--the North Shore Line Final preparations for piacing the line in service are expected to be eompleted by the first of May. In-- auguration of this additional North Shore Line service will give direct high--speed electrified railroad trans-- portation between Chicago, Munde-- lein and Libertywille, also reducing the present running time between Chicago, Milwaukee and intermedi-- ate points. * NEW NORTH Expect to Have High Speed _ Line in Operation by--First of The L. E. Meyers company, gen-- eral contractor, has completed all of its work in connection with the general construction of 'the Skokie Valley route and has withdrawpn its forces. The remaining work, which is of a highly special nature, will largely be done by regular North Shore Line forces under the super-- vision of D. H. Howard, engineer of Construction of the Skokie Valley route was started in June of last year.. The progress on the big proj-- est to date is as follows: .e Forty--three miles of main track on the new line has been laid, and 88,006 cubic yards of stone and gravel bal-- In the accomplishment of this work the permanent tracke for the new Skokie Valley route have been ased as largely as possible for trans-- porting materials. However, it was mnecessary to lay 39,650 feet of tem-- porary track at points where the permanent track did not serve the was used in forming the embank-- Six thousand lineal feet of rein-- forced concrete culvert pipe, ranging in size from 24 inches to 48 es, of road consisting: of approximately 685,000cubic yards of material has been completed. Al this material Concrete foundations for the cate-- nary trolley bridges, to the number -- -- -- road west of Highwood, has been Substation equipment is now being received, and is being installed in the five power substations as rap 'dly as they are completed to the point Where this can be done. -- 5 Three interlocking plants are be-- ing constructed. These include a 24-- lever mechanical plant at the junc-- tion with the Niles Center line south of --Dempster street, a 31--lever all-- electric plant at the point where the new line crosses the Lake Bluff cut-- off of the Chicago & North Western railway, and a 55--lever all--electric plant at South Upton. The latter will replace the present plant gov-- erning the crossing of the Chicago & North Western and the Liberty-- ville branch and include also the crossing of the Skokie Valley route and the Libertyville branch and the wye between these two lines. This work is being carried on by the sig-- nal department of the North Shore Special track is being installed in connection with these interlocking generally in tracks under operation company forces in installation. The final raise in bailast on the new line will probably be deferred until just before the opening of the Skokie Valley route to traffic, to in-- sure bétter riding conditions at that ments on the line it was ne § onmntoftheheightp,i!}il'a at certain points, to provide 21,000 feet of temporary trestle for this Line, under the supervision of John Erection of 459 bridge feet of per-- manent trestle "bridging, including the structure spanning Half Day point and to fit in with the new route, has been completed. The work remaining to be done before the Skokie Valley route will be ready forgnauguration of service m'wm-u of electrical equipment. Erection of the steel catenary ley is under way, the work being done by the North Shore. Line elec-- trical department under the super-- vision of Charles H. Jones, electrital engineer. track, hag been completed. Also, the rearrangement of Pettibone yard, to the second track on the Libertyville The--entire grading along the line Second Track Completed. + Reg of These layouts are located READY SOON ---- in June. for Shore es of