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k .o _( ~y * 1. 99 i o l ce i i n iL. | o mss y on ons Page: V C ; A Bye . Good Bye." 'And away they M 0{ 4 n w CO'I [J|| . And me I brush the mists of time C s ' away, and view those old scenes of . wae hnal / cankan ~ se © Bd ~ ol _0 onliy iwo at a time, so two jJumped in and rowed out into the lake and went to fishing, while the other two boys went along the beach hunting pretty pebbles and Indian arrow beads, and playing in the sand. In a short time the boys in the cahnoe eame in, and the other two went out tortry their luck.. Had good luck, too, for in atout one hour they came in with their little canoe halft little sapling and got a strip of. bark, and strung the fish, and took them to where the men woere at The men had cleared a space on or near where the old Bachelor club house stood. The nexrt morning, we work. They told us them in the water, to tresh for the next day. were up bright and early, getting ready for the great day. David Gill-- motre had been asked to make the chowder, and he came to get my mother's three--pail kettle, (the larg-- est one in the neighborhood) to make it in. He came with his oxen, Duke and Darby, and wagon, which was made with an axe, a saw The Red Man roamed o'er the forest t~en: ' The.wclives, the panther and the dzer: Watech'n« with jealous eyes their "~nweleoms f--iend, T . '--«~*~« --Id pioneer. As we four boys went toward the rait!. --na*es. -- As soon as we got near the lakes a beauntiful scene met wr-- eves. looking through between the, trees ve could see two beauti-- tul lakes, with their placid waters a!'mmeringy in the sunshine, and their waves lapping the sides of a log canve stranded on the white sandy teach.. Myriads of -- water towl were hovering over or floating on : their: surface;. the Great Diver (the loon}, with its quaint voice, was sounding the alarm; the festive bullfrog, sitting on a lily pad, with his smiling face and voice like his namesake, telling us "You better go round"; the beautiful pond lily with Its ~etarry petals glistening in the avun: the auail calling "Bob White" ; the partridge dromming in a thick-- et near by:; the expansive forests, with their majestic oaks, elms and hickoty, extending as far as the eye eculd reah. with the squirrels chat-- tering.and the birds singing in their branches; the beautiful wild flow-- er-- everywhere. All was in harmony with X~'ure's groat handiwork. Then XN--ture's god walked o'er the feet through, were eight or ten inch-- es wide, with a hole through the eenter to put the axletree in. We were invited, so part of our family rode with him, and thought We were highly honored. As soon as e arrived, we all went to work-- some after the fish, others making the fire to put the kettle on. . And as there were no roads or fences, *the people wbon began to arrive trom all directions, most all with to view ; ; 1 The moijostic forest, beautiful and grand : ; The rra'ries, with flowers of every Preek precinct that they would lave a grand Fourth of July céle-- bration, with picnic dinner and tish chowder for all, at the confluence of SHecond (Druce) and Third (Chit-- enden) lakes. Everybody come! And as I sit thinking of way back ponder, of one of the great events of 'he history of Lake county, I will ot down a few reminiscences of hose early days, when we, as boys, 'an wild-- over the prairies and hrough the ftorests of Lake county. I 'remember with what antiety we boys waited for that great .day to wrive--the4th of July, 1844. Finally it came, but not with flags flying, or he roaring of ~artillery; but with gentle breetes tlowing t.ho)vnd Jowers, thé "booming of the prairie trom a white oak log about three rtens, and the boys calling up the en to get an early start for the gr;at banquet and celebration. The day before, some of the neighbors went up to clear off the aru«r. make the tables, etc., to be ready for the next day. There were tonur toys went along from ten to tourt=en years of age, and ./ took their fish lines. We had not gone t@r in the forest when four fine deer crossed our path a ftew : rods ahoad: and before we had got to the ¥*es we had killed two large goods, as now, and very little fruit, only a few ples ~--were scattered along the table with the bread, but-- ter, etc..--some from pumpkin, dried: the fall} before, some made from the leaves <of the wild sorrel and some enustard. The chowder ready, they MHd three or four pans of it filled trom the kettle with a gourd dip-- per, and set them on. When all was ready, the marshal of the day, Nat Yose, had them all form in two lines, each family together, to march around the table in a circle, and then be seated, with Father Dodge at the head of the table. As we stop-- ped before the steaming chowder with bowed hbeads, Father Dodge: Messed the food before us, and then '.ull.ohunuu.vhkhm| Bot:--a bad one, the chowder yanish> ed, and all decided it better than q'qmgumm:fl Massachusetts , where many them had come from, and where Mr. First Fourth of July in Lake County By BENJ. FRANKLIN SHEPARD Gurnee, -- Iilinols In the month of June, 1844, word went forth to 'he settlers of-- Mill Dr~ --» in bright rotes most fair light and dark tblue crockery--the best they had, and brought from the east when they came in to the coun iry. As they did not have canned nlng:n.u'm'-amrbon came, first thing to do was go The Daughters of the American Revolution hjqwnkm'n 104 North West St. E Waukegan, I!!. keep Compiled. by hitch--up the oxen or the steers, and ready to/go home early. You could hear them talking to their oxen --or steers, (Thers were only five horses, two span and one single, driven into thoeflmmmfium) Then you could hear all laugh-- ing and bidding goodbye: "Now--do cheers went forth and echoed. through the forest for the first--time> in Lake county. Father Dodgoe gave the prayer, and As it was in anti-- slavery days, and this was called. a great free country, with its three millions of human slaves in bond-- age, he prayed for them all. 'One of the Dowst brothers, I think it was Nat, read the Declaration of Inde-- pendence. Sam and Nat Dowst were 'twin's, and I did not: know them apart. They had studied law in the east and a short time after put up their shingle in , Little Fort, where they lived and died, Father Dodge delivered the oration.--It has passed my memory, but:-- I know it was a good one. ~There were other short speeches by George Gake and Sam Dowst. % * As they must have some noilse at a celebration, and there® were no firecrackers in those days, the boys got hold of a little powder, wet it and filled some wild goose: --quills. with it, touched a coal of fire to them, and they would go around the ground in all directions, We called them squibbs. A few of the old pJ. oneers tried shooting at a mark a few times. As ammunition was ::am,tnym»zmum But as some had a long way to go by rolling one of those log wagons by the side of a tree, and putting a small flag at each corner. One per-- son from what is now Millburn had the Stars and Stripes, perhapa--six feet long, but--the largest one there, They tied that to a pole and put it over the speakers. As they raised it some one said, "Three cheers for the Stars 'and Stripes," and the had brought eggs up tothree cents a dozen in trade, and eugar down to tweny--five cents a pound. Bo two or three ladies got their heads to-- m: c-:nrt:'so wove Or them they got a lot of n:":' took them to Little Fort , traded them for sugar, took it home and made two large pans of seed cakes (they are called cookies now). They went down each side of the table and gave each one a seed cake. When they got to the end there were a few left ,and they called: "Where are the boys that caught the fish?" We four boys had to step for-- ward and those two ladies presented boom, and there was a little com-- ® N. L JACKSsoM Stateq Representative times to the interests of, his District, McHen "',;, hhndlomCoqnfiu. F - Mtlmmmumwhuu No. 173 which spans Lake, McHenry and Boone Counties, and on Route 76. + That when the interests of his Home Counties were .nnqumunnummm--m Against: Them. s s t o mmuc-mfummmamm from Boone county. , That to Elect Three Republicans this Year Will not be so Easy, and in Order to Poll the Maximam Re-- nwunvmd'ficmhod&-hpblhn MBER--And Put a cross in the square in front of That Jackson has been the Dairy Farmer's Ahat Jackson saved Senate Bill 366, and thereby saved $68,430 for 204 Dairy Farmers whose cattle That Jackson fought the Chicago Bonding Bills which That Jackson for Four Years has been Faithful at all SEkR--And Put a cross Jackson's Name. BLAME DAM PORILOOP Los Angeles, Cal, April 4.--A faulty foundation caused the col-- lapse of the St. Francis dam, the special investigation committes . of engineers appointed-- by District At-- torney Ass Keyes, reported today. No blame was attached to any per-- sons for the catastrophe, g-mmthoory.fi,mwccol- boy had been kidnaped and his Strother 19e ' er identified the boy whose face he says he saw from a photo-- graph of the Collins lad. Los. Angeles, Cal., April 4.--Fear that nineyear--old Walter -- Collins may have suffered a fate similar to that of little Marion Parker today eaused police to launch a statewide search for the boy 'who has been missing almost a month. The declaration of. Richard Stro-- ther,-- Glendale service station aty tendant, that he saw the head of a small boy protruding out of a news-- think 'of the great changes that have'| / Coumle in the past seventy years since | my parents came west to make ~a home . Oh! Give mée back those good old _ days when the country was new, | When money was scarce.and people: |-- |ILF Auburn -- Park -- Highland.. district shortly before dawn. and sent hun-- dreds of terror stricken residents tumbling from their beds to the ac-- companiment of shattering window g doorway, of a~ restaurant _ on th Kedzie avenue. Joseph Klak owner and a Democratic ward lead-- er, lived overhead. He and his family were thrown from their beds but all escaped serious injury., Investigators were unable -- to agree on the cause of tho'bomblng The first was believed inspired Iabor troubles, . The second was be-- Meved to have been an effort to in-- timidate Klak for his political activ-- When we rode to the Fourth of July [ _ * banquet with oxen or stgers,--| . 1| . Ob! ~Happy, happy was the life of . the old pioneers. = TWO BOMBS SET "fl i OFF IN CHICAGO Chicago, April 4.--Two more pow-- ful bomb explosions rocked out-- ing districts of Chicago today. 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