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I x) . L ee e W', F t , * tR Goodgmkmmdubatyvfllcwbmwdanold'fadfimdwh« ter realize thifimethutbzyhvenubemd'npmwd. For this community, like practically every other in the U. S. has an abundance of cold weather, and the things that go with it. Easterly states have been especially hard hit this winter, the state of New York aloné record-- ing more than 30 snowstorms and some of them the heaviest in many years. The Middle West and far western sections have also been "firing up" heavier than is usually the case, and coal men ought to have profited m%:'beu&fidfafife. who place their trust in the groundhog agree by now that, no matter how reliable he may have been in the past, he made a poor job of prophesying this time. . For February brought to all parts of the coun-- try anything but spring--like weather, taking the month as a whole. But the winter season, if weather men are correct, is not yet at an end, They say that between notw and the first of April we are apt to encounter more squally weather, even more snow is predicted for practically every state except those south of the Mason--Dixon line.. Garden planning i-now"'fi order, they say, but--they advise that the planning be done indoors the actual work of sail preparation be delayed a few weeks. And the doctors back them up with a warning against too premature donning of B. V. D.'s and other light or fluffy garments. So govern yourself ac cordingly--or abide by the consequences. R eign station keeps a lot of people home at least two nights more each week than they used to stay there. have the fact drilled into their ears that there are "roughnecks" in the air as well as on the streets. stuff it has to listen to over the radio it is no wonder. We are getting around to another active building season and if re-- ports from all sections of the country are reliable, and they usually are, the coming spring and summer will set a new record for the United States. It seems strangs that with all of the tens of thousands of homes erected in this country within the past three or four years there is still a housing Nearly every Libertyville man has from two to a dozen letters that is shortage, and yet the government asserts that there is really a greater demand for homes now than at any time since the world war. -- > While government reports show that the greatest activity in home-- hiflhgthepanywmintheh.gddu,itiabwgmm that there was a decided jump in number of new homes erected in our smaller towns. In fact, we believe that citizens of Libertyville are right now more interested in owning their own homes than they have ever been, and we feel sure that their desire for new and even more mod-- ern residences is growing greater every year. s $ We will soon see the building ball start to roll in this community. We like to see new houses started as soon as the first sure signs of spring appear, for there is a sort of contagion about building-- when one fellow tarts to build others follow his example. Let us hope dntwe'llhawanguhr"fiufic"o&b\fldinghth'ummunitymw port to Uncle Sam at the of 1926. C 3 After a fellow passes 40 he finds there is little to expect except more Middle age is that period in a Libertyville man's life when he be-- gins trying to live up to the ideal set by his children. positive he is going to answer to-- men--we don't know. A man might go around with his knees showing, They're taking prohibition straw votes on railroad trains now, and it is said the wet sentiment grows stronger when the train passes through a cornfield. Entered as second--class matter Octber 13, 1916, at the post office at lmmMMAetdm&lm"w%mfly. We have room in Libertyville for only one kind of agitatot, and that's the kind who is mow busy getting ready to agitate the ground with a Mmflnmnitolhp- piness. But you've got to do your It is said that talk is cheap--but just look what--it cost Col. Mitchell. It's a queer world. Banks have policemen to guard their money but Papers say a sardine merger is being formed in Maine. How can n?ubamdfioanymthn Our advice to good little boys is to be like Jack Dempsey and never get into a fight. parents didn't amount to much then but that it's worth a lot to him now. a grocer trusts his delivery man vifiahlhll:f.p?ou. We've noticed»thint 'the Liberty-- ville man who insists old--fashioned Older residents of Libertyville will probably recognize the new "Charl-- eston" dance as the old "hoe--down" hce. books in opposition to the Bible, but they don't seem to have as big Always try to remember that ten A scientist says the human ear is rinking. Considering some of the The hope of tuning in some for-- Women may have more sense than We are glad to announce that the ALONG THE CURBSTONES ons lI Ten Days House --«o--»--~----<1 .. Cleaning Retablished 180 _ ~ THE BUILDING SITUATION of a>PRINTING SERVICE, Publishers. still FRANK H. JUST--Editor shovel the AN OLD--TIMER m't".m'n"ood m'n!tvo, oxen hauled wagons over it. he needs is ten cents worth of some-- Old timers tei! of a stream of cov-- thing to eat. l ered wagons, merging--finally from t _® . ox team to horse team; an endless mn.mmmm'm winding slowly;> whiskered auto you saw on the streets of Lib-- men, . sunbonneted women, sober-- mumumw"eed children with their faces al-- Iy perfect has by 'this time had A ways turned west This is a progressive age, and the auto you saw on the streets of Lib-- «tyvflfilutyurflntmnhdv? ly perfect has by this time had lot of improvements put on it. lot of improvements put on it. For a half century this stream, e _ 'KAF wheels grinding : ceaselessly, flows Were called on to observe every over this road, the pioneers who ars other kind of week, why not have an|to turn the furrows of Missouri, ~a Read the Clussified ads--now. * Triggs & Johnson 10 Bars of AMERICAN FAMILY SOAP for 60c and 1 Bar Jap Rose Soap FREE 10 Bars AMERICAN FAMILY SOAP for 60c and 1 Small Pkg. of Amerrean Family Soap Flakes FREE 4 Bars Palmolive Toilet Soap for 29¢ 4 Bars Creme Oil Toilet Seap for 29¢ We still have about 1 Dozen White Enamel Pails full of Proctor & Gamble's Soap left, at each........ Who wants them quick?. Puruuure i Qusucs ---- LJquiu Y cucer, V GPGZ GB, . JCmuat Windo A ho o MGI-.M wChmn,.m-h.Blling,MPaper Polish, Stove Polish, Enamel, Brass P Soaps, Wash-- Soa mi-n. pc&.asmgrwm%;n:'um Secrubbing Brushes, Each 1 fA1a i 4AE We have just received a shipment of good Brooms which we will sell at the Special Price of 49 C irta ycootny, on t aste C Carpet Beaters Blu--J Brooms, one of the best made. R Price $1.20. Sale price, each ........._._.__.._... 1 Can of SaniFlush and 1 Toilet Brush MA £23ezainr cnncrecrttmare thieaieaanttinoealie Johnsons Floor Wax and Electric Waxer POLISH YOUR FLOORS y Special Sale From APRIL 14th To APRIL 24th Inclusive The Service Store -- Phone 25 cmate. . Resih' ------ S1.00 When one gets to digging about into Illinois'® musty past he is like-- ly to find some forgotten things. 1 have just beet to Flora, Clay coun-- ty That little Illinois city is on the ancient Vincennes--Cahokia road. Legend says that the first white man found this road, g well--worn Indian trail then, about 224 years ago. Sahokia was established, on .the Mississippi, in 1699 or 1700. : Vin-- cennes, on the Wabash, it is believed in 1702. From that year on white man's feet have steadily followed this cross--state trail. 9 1 have been brushing dust from some old records. 'The story of Mr Blackbird bobs out. The story of Francis, son of tobacco,. ~"The story of George Rogers Clark the Big Knife. In an hour among ancient archives I find ar.tiques--in spelling: pesuliar archite--ture in sentence-- building. Within short moments I find the Wabash river referred to under these spelling=--Oubash, Ouabache, Oui-- batche and Wahachees. The spe!-- ling of Vincennes is even more li-- qurd. I find it as Post St. Vincent, Post Vincent, St. Vincents, Post Vin-- cennes and Au Poste. Cahokia is also referred to as Cohos. Francis, Son of Tobacco, also known as Tobacco's Son,. was*®the "Big Gats" of the Wabash. That means that he was the principal chief of a federation of tribes and family groups in control of south-- eastern Illino's at the time of the Revolutionary war. He was a friend of George Rogers Clark. Clark, with a handful of men took Kaskaskia and Cahokia in 1778. Then with 170 men. in February 1779, he traveled the Vincennes--Cahokia road to Vincennes, with some deviations, and captured the hated Gov. Hami'-- ton, known as "the hair buyer" be-- cause American scalps had ready market with him. Ending that task, Hamilton in irons, he wrote in his report. to Washington: 'The settlements of the Illinois commenced about 100 years ago by a few traders from Canada." And that was written in 1779! Yes men have traveled the Vin-- cennes--Cahokia trail for a long time. That first hundred years it was most ly--en foot. Then, for a lifetime or two, oxen hauled wagons over it. will deliver and call for it, at the very low rent-- al of $2.00 per day. ... Small Can .. ; Lb, Can .. 1 h. Can ... which to use our new , Pint Bottle ........ 45¢ 1 Pint Bottle ........ 70¢ 1 Quart Bottle ... $1.35 15¢ LIQUID WAX 10c " 458¢ HARD WAX * ~51.20 __.49¢ 70¢ Flora, .Salem, Carlisle Lebanon; then where Cahokia once was. -- They are evenly spaced, about to 23 mileg apart. In the old days, one day's travel. Today; on concrete, 30 minutes! : Graybeards in Flora still remem: ber the ox teams, the three miles an hour. They recall, too, the dashing flight of the stage coaches, U. S. mail. Horses changed every eight or ten miles. . And how the oxen, in bovine dullness, hugged the road un-- Sharp 'spikes, filed needle--sharp and driven into the ends of the whip-- ple trees. They slashed the leath-- ery of the oxen. Listen, and you can hear the "skinners" roar.. blatant curses after 'the speeding coaches. Next time and the oxen left the Who talks of "Good old days ?" -- [ found in Flora a patfiarch, Dr. J,. M. BoyJles: pioneer physician who brought into the world men now grandfathers. -- Ask him of those gond old days. s "Good old days," he remarks with a grunt. "Sickness everywhere. Green water to drink. Mosquitoes b' t& mimoni. A'"" mhfia--' fever rampant. Pot--bellied children because their food was wrong and they reeked in pestilence, their livers enlarged. Chills every third day! . 'Did I say every third day" Yes, and every second day and every day, too. And ngbody knew why every-- body was sigk or why so many graves were dug in the fresh prairie sod! Ignorgnce appalling. That was what the pioneers met, facing the west, not only around Flora but everywhere in the new country. Sick-- ness, physical torture, death! That was the prise paid by those who broke the sod of the plains. _OVER EIGHT RUNDRED DOLLARS $800.00 h'ur_nh"m al Thursday--Friday, April 15--16th. + ©Lewis Stone and--Anna Q. Nilsson, in Jnst;mthqzlrheodtn'tforget--lfichud Dix in --"Womanhandled." "Too Much Money" Also century comedy, "GRIDIRON GERTIE" MYSTIC WORKERS paid in dividends on 1925 American Reserve Busi-- ness to Libertyville members of the little over two rs, over TWO MILLION DOL-- LARS. A REAIE FRATERNAL SUCCESS.--OVER $15,000,000.00 paid to beneficiaries. ----INSURANCE DEPARTMENT EXAMINERS from Iowa, Illincis, Wisconsin and Missouri ar'plrove of rfruent officers and management in official re-- port of thorough audit in the following language: "It is our opinion that the Society is well and ably managed. .The present management has handled the problems of the Society in a com-- -- mendable manner and has shown great willing-- ness to comply with the requirements and sug-- i §:?:' of the Insurance Departments. The is enjoying a steady and substantial M'{h assets and in adequate rate business ----A SPECIAL DIVIDEND authorized at March meetingoof Board of Directors.--THIS IS IN ADDI-- TION to regular dividends for 1926 which are helfig paid in regular order.--THIS SPECIAL DIVIDEN was made fonible by ECONOMICAL MANAGE-- MENT and favorable mortality loss. _ -- --ASSETS DEC. 31, 1925, $5,228,475.00. Growth since present management was inaugurated, in a efficiently kept." _ -- _ ___ _ --A FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY SOCIETY char-- tered by the State of Illlinois and licensed to do business in nine states. Insures men, women and ehfldtl:n '::' t:zot.---%( ezf'fwleore men .:idthm agents . on t Plan contract 'salary and commission. Apply to the President.. --OFFICERS:--Arthur A. Bentley, President; Rob-- ert Toole, ml? Schoch, Banker; Dr. C. M. Frye, Medical r; Charles E. Strutz, Gen-- eral Attorney; Frank W. Ho . Ross : Fr . ugh, Editor; J. Mickey, Lee E. Joslyn, John A. mom. F. Drummond, Walter C. Below and R. Is , Di-- rectors.-- Offices at Fulton, Illinois. Century Comedy, "THE POLO KID" Olney, We B yX A ."; is named for the mythical character of ancient Greece--Flora, goddess of flowers. When white man came he found 'here (a great plain covered with tall grasses. Blue--tem grew higher than a horse's back; red--top, blue--green in the springtime, not so tall but very worth while and thick. And the flowers on those prairies! Riotous colors, the old men say. Blues and pinks in the springtime blending into golds 'as the seasons grew .older and finally the reds and purples and browns of frost time. We had a wee bit of argument in the barbership. Did that first train out of the east on the first rails to the Mississippi _ come through here on July 4 in '55 or '56? That was the train that put the stage coach out of business. The old tavern. stage station, was two miles west. But Sam White owned the land here-- abouts. He gave away lots . and started the town. Sam was clever; profited right smart. 1 Flora has grown slowly, steadily, never swiftly, The nearest to a boom was when the shoe factory came. 1t employs 300 people. The Sexton Mfg. Co.. underwear, works about 125. It's a B. and O, railroad division point with shops. An ice plant works a dozen. A co--operative organization deals in red--top seed; four companies wholesale and job fruits and produce. Flora has about 4,000 population today and a prob-- Bureau of census figures point to the problem. It has to do with farms. This is the situation: Clay county, population, 1900, 19,-- 553; 1910, 18,661; 1920, 17,684. And the ancient physician clat the books and records are population 1900, 2811; 1920, : 2,704;1920, 8,558. . -- . : Note how the entire county shrinks Wespite the town's growth. That means a movement from the farms of no good portent. Why*? Lack of scientific farming, people tell < me. Ignorance in matter of soil--building, they say. There is no mystery about getting good returns from acres in gouthern Illinvis. Land is cheap. Liming must be done because there is acid present. -- Rotation of crops is necessary. Sweet clover is prob-- ably best of all for "bringing back" feftility. Almost any leguminous crop will help, <beans, clovers, al-- falfa. Southern Illinois farms also need livestock. Cattle, hogs, sheep, poul-- try. Give the acres any fair treat-- ment, and an empire will be reborn in what we call "Egypt." Let us see how this country looked to George Rogers Clark, back in 1779-- This he wrote after he had licked the British out of their socks with his 170 men: "As for this Illinois country which you seem so anxious for . . . You may take for granted that it's more beautiful than any idea I could have formed of a country almost in a state of nature everything you be-- hold is an additional beauty. On the river youll finrd the finest. lands the sun ever shone on. In the high country jyou will find a variety of soor and rich lands with large mea-- ows extending beyond the reach of your eyes, varigated with groves of trees apparently like islands of seas covered with buffaloes and other TA XI SMITH'S Rheumatism is "pain" only. Not one ~case in fifty requires internal "St. Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheu-- matism liniment which never disap-- "St. Jacobs Oil"atanydm'em and in just a moment you'll free from r'euntkpm, soreness, stiff-- ness and swelling. --Don't suffer! Re-- lief awaits you. , "St. Jacobs Oil" has into your sore, stiff, aching joints and msgrand relief cona'inmfiy. "St. Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheu-- matism liniment which never disap-- pomunnde'-motbnmthesh'l.ca a small u"'hlmle o! old, honest relieved millions of rheumatism suffer-- ers in the last half century, and is just as good for sciatica, neuralgia, lum-- bago, backache, sprains. Stand at Bradford's Barbe: DAY PHONE 51 ~ -- NIGHT PHONE 497 Rub Rheumatism or Sore, Aching Joints Rub Pain right out with small trial bottle of old "8t. Jacobs Oll." Will Erect You A House er any kind of building ;furnish-- ing all labor and material by contract, so you may know just what entire cost will be before CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Ldbertyville 145--R § Auioe" "I _ _Some day investors may learn about southern Illincis what Clark foresaw. Concrete roads all through lthireountry. At the center of the pation's great railroad system. The world's richest markets an over night's ride away. Yet an undevel-- oped country, passed over by the waves of nation--builders. One won-- [dcu when the real development will game; in --many #laces with a good glass you may see all that is on their feet in & half--million of acres; so leve] is the country, which some day will excell in cattle." * I almost forgot Mr. Blackbird. He is one of the bright spots in George Rogers Clarks memoirs. He lived, Clark says, somewhere near the southern end of Lake Michigan. Per-- 'haps an original Gold Coaster. Clark, in KarKarKia, as it was written, got a letter from Mr. Black-- bird one day. An Indian writing a letter! -- It apologized for not call-- ing on a n#eighbor sooner--but mem " 5 " Sappamamenmmepmmenenppny ul iemepmmine 1Nemgr o The letter added that Mr. Black AUTOMOBILE OWNER bird was not to be met with "sav.| MITENTION age ceremonial," as other cbiers' Application for 1926 license are were met. -- He was cultured, he in-- here. timated, wrote letters, looked with' A. R. SCHNAEBELE disdain on unlettered methods of Register Office Libertyville bers of Mr. Blackbird's family were ill.-- As soon as he could-- One of the new arrivals at Triggs §hoe Store. > , "mead _ absiis omptniae t e\ * They are high grade shoes for children, made of finest leather. Goodyear welt soles and guaran-- teed in every way. Come in and take a look at them. 'Simplex Flexies' Phone 32 HIGH GRADE--Low In Price. wW. C. TRIGGS 122 Church St. J. M. McKitrick, Inc. ders about the story of Mr. Black-- bird, perhaps Chicago's first cul-- tured gentleman. Odd the little things that cocme out of the musty past. I1'd like to know more of Mr. How we've changed. There was a time in Libertyville when you could trade a bushel of wheat for 10 quarts of liquor, but now the ratio is about 10 bushels for one quart. Blackbird. Why is it that a woman always feels complimented when you tell her she looks like an actress? Life is a tragedy, for when a man goes back to the scences of his childhood he finds the old swimming hole full of sand. ' * that any girl's shoes are too lar for her--and then leave it to her. nference. "I can talk table" MF, Slackbirg suggented. " "I founa I could not converse th. him in simile as with other dians," Clark recorded. One won-- Our idea of easy money is to bet