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Libertyville Independent, 19 Jan 1928, p. 9

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' "OR.> GRINNELL MAY -- SUE E :..'d""flr" } :i'l"i "'"w'm"" "'.'-.. ~." c rotaly Eliminated. -- _* _ COUNTY BY B0A s x 54* 'mm'No'_3g -'\."'u;é' < Deceased Was a Brother of -- i "f I can state in siang what ! intend .' to od I shall say that my policies will _ "Bbe "straight shooting,". ho deciarey ___ _ "I have no political affiliations. .L :mhto.yofflce There will be no ____~*"I shall co--operate with the state, _ _the federal authorities, the. supervis-- > "Ors--individually and collectively and .~'encourage the whole hearted gupport «. . Of all," he continued. * ¢ ~&ary standpoint," he concluded. _ ...' Within a--short time came the repi-- E:\,wi' of a rumor that had beén gen-- :.n through the day that Dr; Grin-- : would sue the county {or $8,200 _ <or two years salary, on the grounds _that a contract for thm @ot . :--Those . who had-- opposed "Grinnelt zuw this was but a last min-- -- ute bluit"in order to asway" vyotes. i --_+/'WThe final -- vote. came after States ---- the squabBle. He had been asked for i*z*& on the-- alleged Grinnell ---- cor that had been entered into '--'by two.members of the farm institute LZ:".MIN!Q'&M wrote a dis _ ~AlLING EOR oA -- Tuesday night at 5:30 o'clock, follow-- Ned purfered Broms + complcadon: 5:s * com ion . of %::-n. but the direct cause of death _« Ig given as a stroke ot paraiysis: >' i};fi*&r Brockway was born on a ccpat a time he --worke: in a infes % B t ggu fnig--houke in Cacesn in 2064 _ ~ _ . Smith Gives Opinton | f Smiith, who collaborated--with t stiint States A ftorney S..H. Block ~Am looking up the maiter, held that & committee had full power to write ~a contract with Grinnell but 'it had -- exceeded its . right by -- extending . it _ over a period of two years and in that -- way had invalidated any ection that _* 'This same matter bad come up sev-- ~ gral years ago during the. regime of .. Dr. Charles Ligker at the county hos-- _ p!...~-- Two year contracis had. been _ gruuted him once. Later\ it was ~ found that the board was in error and -- the--length of the contracts were cut _ down to one year. HENRY BROCKWAY, -- ©FORMER BARRINGTO _ POSTMASTER D _ _ After quibbling over issues for the _greater part of a day the board of 34-- ~pervisors, with but three dissenting votes, late Wednesday authorized Its chairman and clerk t; entet into. & one year contract at $4,100 with Dr. T. P. Gallighue, of Monmouth, H1, &8 sounty veterinarian to suc¢esd Dr. D. "tion here after serving four years in W as veterinarian for 'the | He madse the change for. two reasouns: more money :and m --roads' to_travel to the herds.| a is noted as hbaving the «best » Olwmtyintkmu' "He is to supply his ow Tar while the state will supply the tags for the jcattle. 'The farm institute committee and the yoterinarian ~will Rave k 3&& selecting the assistant.' C. Grinmuell who was qusted on the S#emaund of the state department Of . Henry K. Brockway, 62, of Batring-- k.,m_u L. O. Brockway 'Of who voted against retaining .film' were . Sugfervisor Frank Burke,. Waukegan: -- Supervisor-- Ed-- : Gives His Policies ~The new veterinarian appears to be in his early thirties udl'oolul,lfho will brook--ae. interference of kind in running his phase of county work. It will all be in testing of cattle for Durke,, wWaukeSan, . supervisor-- LG* vud'hounu. Lake Forest; Super-- 'The new man is to 1 until Feb. 1, 1929. 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Battering this off they made their way upstairs. <~There they found Mrs. Albert. ~"Did you knock*" she asked, rub bing her eyes. "I have been sleeping sound because I ate a big plate bt onions," she explained. ' She said her Husband was out. Af-- learning--they were to take her to SIX BARRELS OB > NEXT TO CHURCH Onione Produce $i¢ep -- ~ .._> About the.same time Joseph Albert, whiskey Saturday, was picked up. The search for Joseph Albert had extend p'o;mtvo:y;w id #} * With Chist ce More: ney the --raiders '_l!tm'l home. -- They found all doors locked. Curiously enough all doors were lock-- ed from the inside but no one an-- _ Disposing of a pane of #lass they ?::c« the kitchen. . They--found: ast er door to a living room --looked, Dimillio, in spite of more. yiglent protests that he be allowed to remain auuhmothhn«.m"'bn- dled off to the county--Jail where i. . was later released on bonds. . N Cause ard Efect _ ©. --'"It pays to Jook happy,"--advises a urse,. as long as it pays one Just cording to -- mepbers of the saponge x barber, of being the owner .of the on one Side: Wine on the >' Other, Raiders Say. HIGHWOOD BARBER BLAMED shop, which is located in Highwood. He urged him to make the tri--pfo Highland Park and open the doors of his residence on North avesue. . This Dimilito did, although he protested se Stried Tound Frank in his mmnitina nin. mirenicmairtmene »ltee vaisee" bergee wies" spread police dragnet the killer has craded capture for fire days. SECTIONTWO «4e Sndamncts. vof work of the state commlasion m been practically c ad and t ments would be in the hands of the Lch_tb more than two weeks earlier _ 'last year was made by Chairman ?: A. Malone of the state tax C lon. at Springfield. Revision Of the totals of the conmmission has w_mmmw days. ' _ the local assessments ~on capital stock or corporations and rail-- 9 ~A ME Aetanemierre e 4. ~A "Anyhow,so It doesn't matter.--St.'Paul EXPEDiTES * CoLLEctioNn © FARLIER THIS NR. ~, Superrisor _ William ~Obee, .who for a year or two* bridges. in Highland Park, and the board of sup« etvisors whoremained . in the>fight with him and gatned the consent of Gov. Len Smail to stand the expense out of w; today were prais-- ed in a drawn by the High-- land 'Parkcouncél.,~ ~Highlanad Parkc voters had refused to provide by a bond issue tor the improyements. * --The assessments--of the state .com-- mission this year will be extended on the full valnation, instead of ons --half, An accordance with an act of the last 'Keneral session of the general assem-- road v mgndm <by County mu Nfi.!'%o"é: 'hooks to sallectors. Hearings before the stite 'somé time ago, and aides have since been : engagzed in making corrections and compiling ihe totals. x .. No Rez--sa i--rmW ofty .. .-- A. gusoiine: shortzze is predicted for; «tho.: sear .2009," but bytbat time the full valuation. This rate is a decrease ot' 5 cents over last year when the rate was 65 cents on the hundred dot lar--valuation, with the 50 per cent as-- sessment plan in . force.. The state rate was made on estimates by the &8 an , that there will be no material reduction in the valuations to be fited by that body. y 00 in LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOTIS, THURSDAY,JANUARY 19, 1028 omupu"mhmflulm Ge 'street while shopping. Mrs. Theodore H. Becker, wife of the for-- mer chief of police ot Zion and at m a deacon in the Christian Apostolic cthurch of Zion, fell dead in ma the 8. 8. Kresge company e at 16 No, Genesee street, Wan-- kegan, at 11:05 o'clock --Wednesday / Pagsersby Qurried to the assistance of the woman believing -- that | she merely had fainted. She_was carried to the rest room on the second fidor of the store .where an examination showed ' that life was extinct.. ----The polite were notified and called the Wetzel. and Peterson funeral home, to. which place the body was consin, Washington counsel for &.! In a petition--to the board of sup Utilities: interests.-- Appearing be-- visors late today Josephine Kelloj tore the senate Intérstate Commerce Benton tovauhli ~and -- a ~number , Committee he <pntended that ;'n ad-- signers asked. . that-- 'tho -- propos verse' publi¢ opinion might cre-- route 173, Zlon to Rockiord, > ssh %\_wfiw the: proposed 'inquiry, that. m Camp . {:ma xo .would prove 'harmful 'to the indus--;rather, than. out of:-- 2ist stroet Zidn MRS. THEO. BECKER, front ot the Kresgo store, 16 North Genesee street.. He reported that he apd Troy Chamness together with Bugene Durinell, the latter two. be« ; tro Withe Voterar E%lt Dreat Lakes, had barrie dthe victim to the women's rest room on the second Patrolman Stewart and Spe-- &memudutho s6 they learned from Dr. Hugo Branyan who had 'been called that the woman was dead. Chief of Police Thomas Kennedy arrived on the scene a few moments JInter and the Woetsel and Peterson tuneral home was notiftied. ~-- In the purso. of the viclim was tound a card from a cometery at Niles, II!., bearing the name "Cather-- ine. Szczepinskl." -- Assistant -- Chief Kennedy called the cometery authori-- ties at.Niles and learned the Szczep-- inski family oft--Calumet City, owned & lot in the cen e & mmtfituuun.a the found: in the purse: of "*the victig caused the police to notify the Zlon ofticers.. . Walter Greenfield and B. Bweeney of the Zion stores who were Collapses on Genesee St. at 11:05 O'clock This Morning --. Fpur hours while the police were seeking to determiné. the identity 'of the wotnan, a son who hnd'bro;zlht her to Waukegan in the family auto-- mobile was walking the streets--look-- The 'discovery of some sales . slips issued ty the Zilon stores led to her wwmwmm her atif * C1 from the |store viewing the body declared it to be that of Mrs. BHecker. The son was tinally located ahd he confirmed the identification. The husband of the woman, .who recently resigned as 'head of the Zion WAS SOUGHT FOR HOURS The first report received by the Waukegan police indicated that the victim might be Mrs. Catherine §z¢-- Mdmgty.m. i : Special -- Officer wrence --Kel mmmmuuu.u:'g polic€ of Calumet City where he was informed: that the Szczepinski family recently had sold their home there. '--Visctim is Identified. police, returned to Zion only last week church and it is understood is to be m&u.m of the police de-- sent : here by the police ~positively identiftied the body as that of Mrs. Caracas, Venezuela, Jan. 18.--Inter-- est in the coming of Col.--Charles A. Lindbergh to Venezuela was aroused to the highest pitch today by the suc: céssful flight of two French trans--At: lantic flyers here from '{:um ----Die-- udonne Costes and Josebph Lebrix. * Bogtuofl aAt. France field, Colon, the two airmen made the 950 mile fliight to Maracay, 70 milées from this city, in _a little less.than 12 hours. * Both aviators were feted today. Last night they were entertained by Washington, \Fane 18.--The Walsh resolution : calling--for. an : investiga flon of _the> publicutilities industry was bitterly assailed today by form-- er>~Senator ; Irvine Lenroot of Wis-- mous plane, t\o"zku of Bt. : Lofis, has been overha end is in readi-- mfier South America : be-- he fiies to Cuba. . Hefore: returging to Fnnama, Contes and Lebrix wili t Bogota, Colum-- BRINGS PROTEST Lindberg is expected to erturn from big--recreation trip tomorrow. Hig fa-- <PROMINENT ZION-- ~WOMAN FALLS DEAD ° PRESAGE LINDY it 004 top . Senator Rodney B. Swift of Liber-- tyville also will be up for election and the weélection of a successor to the late representative, William F. Weilss, also will have to be taken up. . -- ~ : i There have been notrumors of op-- position to Col. Smith, Brockway, Wil-- mot or Russell. es i -- Edward Conrad, Waukegan broker who served years ag deputy coroner, is in the field against Taylor. ® Dick Lyons, < Mundelein;. -- Mayor Pratt, McHenry; Lee McDonough, Waukegan; James 'G. Welch, Wauke-- gan, and George Bairstow, Waukegan, have--been mentioned as the republi-- tan legislative" candidates. -- Thomas Graham, <Ingleside, and Chatles J. Wightman, Waukega,n, have been men tioned as democratic starters. * In addition to these men there will be 18 assistant supervisors and su-- 'pervisors back in the racoe for the pp-- gitions from--the vajious tow nships. § * Russell to Run z _«Charles Russell, of Lake Forest, county eurveyor, is another who will have to submit to a Yote again. Junction . proceedings which Judge Harry Fischer, C , found It invalid, it is possible that the su-- preme court, now sitting, will declare it constitutional. . In that event these men would be prepared to meet | the emergency of {iling. for office. Smith Announcement Delayed _ Col. Smith had been talked of as a candidate for attorney seneral. -- The Chicago presa had looked with kind-- ness on his ambitions and he bad a loyial folliqwing throughout the state that might have made a foundation for a victorious organization. ° . There were ts: reasons that caus-- ed him to wi w from any state Tace and seek the return of his pres: ent post. In the first place he has been urged by his friends remain in Lake cojity as an offic Becondly he did not feel that he could carry his campaign to 2,000,000 voters without spending . more than gound busingss would call for. COL. SMITH'S HAT i N_ RING FOR HIS _ ."The same podicics that bhave been. mine for the past cight years would be adopted for a third term, (I 'be-- Heve that these have given the bEst results," he said. & 21 A Petitions today. were placed in cir-- culation for States ~Attorney A. V. Smith for re--election to the office ol states attorrry. -- * 5 + iAtdnnn_owunw,s ard that L. J. Wilmot, > ctreult F «ka 0; Brockway, recorder, -- and| Coroner John L Taylor would hay ir pe-- titions 'out within a short s These men are all acting under the old primary law which fixes the date of filing as Feb, 14 with the last day 17 days later. 'The primary would be April 10 under this law. _ | While this law is tied up by an in-- He is now 52 years old, served in the state militia for years, madé the punitive expedition into Mexico and later--served overseas as a tenaut -- > _ : 'Bmith in Two Terms > * Col. Smith, in discussing his action, utated:.s °00. 0o 000 2 0n | o 6n --_ colonel during~the woria watr Circulates Petitions For States WORRY OVER PRIMARY ASKS ROUTE--CHANGE -- ---- FOR HGHWAY 173 mmammmmmwm? he was arrested by Utzh policc. Clark broke down and told police / that he had killed Ealorvich. _SirttailithiintabODmtutiot cesc ~~ +4 Jailed as Butler's Slayer )n, is Word. ing of officials> otft the . Knollwood Country club, swerved to pass be tween the two cars, Kimtberly claimed he was going at a--fast rate of speed. -- Molloy denied this. Kimberly claimed that the MoF-- loy--car struck him. The defendant claimed he had every réason to be-- lieve the chauftfeur backed out from the Smith car and into the rear of his. 'The car stopped 200 feet from the" accident. Kimberly spent four months in th: hospital.. One leg is shorter than the other by an inch. He sufférs cor tinual pains, 'he claims. * Counsel for the defendant claimed that be was suffering more from "litigation symptons" than from ac '-"%:, oply oth rdict la 'tlu & er ve rger than this as far as is recalled was one granted Eugene Bolle from the --C,. & N. W. railway three years ago for $20,000. mm reversed and <re manded by appeliate court. This case is again on the trial call. . ___ "'The Kimberly award is probably the biggest--ever returned in which an individual instead ~of :a mnflu was a defendant as far as L couy: tinual pains, Counsel : to that he wa "litigation (s; 2 9}3' € this as far granted Eug N. wW. rallw $20,000.-- Th North Shore line, that he had sus-- tained permanent injuries that would keep from him ever performing the duties of a chauffeur.=> His surgical and hospital bills thus far had run him in excess of $3,000 and loss of time from his work hbhad cost him the same amount, he testified. _ 'The jury had opened their vote at 7 to 5 for guilt of the defendant, it is understood, and gxadually. crept $11,500 AW ARDED . CHAUFFEUR FROM " DAMAGE ACTION up to an <unanitmous opinion. ° An hours argument settled the amount of damages. The accident happened on Deerpath avenue, Lake Forest, late in the aft ernoon of Sept. 9, 1926. Kimberly stood by the Smith cas talking to hbis employer. Testimony showed he had one arm on the\open window of the car with his body close into the machine. *E ; On the opposite side of the avenue, which is narrow, another car was parked but a short distance farther BOARD APPROVES BOND ARRANGEMENT handling of &t:fl.fl! bond issue proposed to a new county farm, and the $1,029,000 proposed road BHond issue to be paid for out of the gas tax it found valid by the supreme court. Both matters come to a vote Apr. 10. The board of ~supervisors unant mously approved arrangemrent made by. the {inance committee with H. C. Speer and conipany, Chicago, for the SUED LAKE --FOREST MAN William Kimberly Gets One of Largest Damage Verdicts Molloy, coming back from a meet-- Return in City. ASKS DIVYORCE $1.50 PER YEAR, IN ADV ANC+ Waukegan <a n d -- Libertyville RELATIVES CHARGE FRAUD IN WILL OF GIFT T0 ~D00G'S HOME «BEING -- HUNTED _ HERE Charges that fraudulent methods were used in. obtaining a bequest of $115,000 under the wi#H of Miss Anna R. Wells, former promineat :iesident of Lake county, who died December 13, 1926, at the age of 80 years. were made in :, suit filéd by heirs against the AntiCruelty society of Chicago i. the Cook county circuit court Wed-- nesday. T Msr. Cinderelia Wells Ladd, aged 18 years, of Waukegan, and , Evelyn Frances Wells, age 1% years, of Liber-- tyville, throush their guardians, are complainants in the action 'to set aside the will. Both are granduieces Of the deceased. * Under:the-- will Miss Wells, for many years a resident of the Prairie View nczhborhood in Lake . connty and who was a daughter of th# lIite John. Wells, a pioneer settler of the county, gave all but $10,000 of her es-- tate to the society.. The remaining sum was willed to Miss Helen M. To-- lan of the Union Trust company who helped manage her affairs. Gurnes Women involved The grand nieces will share in the estate, if the will is nullified. The oth-- by the Waukegan -- police Tuésday night from the sheriff at Rock{ford. Haske made a sensational escape, ac-- cording to the Rockford sheriff, sev-- eral shots being fired at him by the guards, 'There is & possibility, it is stated, that he may have been wound-- testament. . The Continental and Co---- mercial Trust and Savings bank is named executor of the will. " Her niece, Evelyn, is A)'daughter of the late William J. Wells of Liberty-- ¥ille. Evelyn is represented .ip the suit by Attorney Benjamin H. zm-r of Libertyville and Mrs. Ladd, co--com-- plainant,/-- is represented by Perry 1. Persons, judge of~Lake county. --% Quote Part of Wili The will, in its bequest to the Anti-- Cruelty society, reads: "I make this bequest unto the said society by rea-- son of my deep interest therein, hay-- Ing contributed to the said society during my lifetime and being a mem-- ber thereof, and '"""id':d" my mon-- eys will be well expen and for a worthy purpose." November on a charge of having stol-- en an®>automobile in Waukegan, has for boys, according to word received Haske was arrested in Rockford last November when he attempted to sell the car he had stolen here. He was turned over to Sheriff Lawrence Doolittle and was brought back to Waukegan. The charge of stealing the car was not pressed against Has ke and he was turned back to the Rockford authorities to be prosecut-- ed on a charge of carrying concealed Woapons as he Ard a gun in his pock-- et when arrested there. "The youth was sentenced to Glen-- wood from which institution he has succeeded in escaping. It is thought he may return to Waukegan. Local police Tuesday night made wud&:.wmw ed when he was here. : McDonald said he had no idea where the fugi-- tive may be.:-- At the time Haske came to Waukegan he said he was from Tron Mountain, Mich» w Misunderstood, As Cliaim Miss Wells sizgned the will, the bill avers, believing she 'was executing a document providisg for the manage-- ment of her estato, rather than a {ina} mwuwmu and Flora J. Bidwell of » who for cal reasons are made mémm suit. ' The bill sets up that agents of the Anti--Crucelty society, which is headed by John Jay Abbott, vice president of the Continental Trust -- and Savings bank, exerted undue influence on Miss Wells during the last few months of her life. With the aid of Miss Tolan. they took her to am epartment hotel in Chicago, employed a nurse for her care. and then under Calse pretenses induced her to sign the will, it is al-- YOUTH ESCAPES GLENWOOD IN A _ HALL OF BULLETS Lewis Haske Who Stole Auto-- . * mobile Here, Escapes Frorn Girls Attack© Bequest :o 1: $115,000 Made to Society. * GET TEN YEARS London,. Jan. 18.--Wiltred Lewis Haske, 22%, arrested late in \ --And ------"-----'t."';_m""»*«" ) t on charges of esplenage in be-- LAKE CO. WOMAN a Reformatory. E.' <#

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