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Libertyville Independent, 21 Jun 1928, p. 3

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_ --MHait Building of New Home f When Basement Shows SUCCESSFUL 1N ---- -- NFEW TERRITORY Historical Periods The Jacobean period, in Great Brit-- ain, extended from 1608 to 1688.° It Je VICTORY Six expected out to start further inves-- tigations before the end of the week. <+Bhafts will be sunk in various parts of the property recently purchased by E. J. Neary and H. J. Annis, high school instructors who discovered the mercury at the instance of Car-- Crowd" Monday and Tuesday at the Auditorium Theatre, Libertyville. ground on one of his vacant lots at 22nd street and Commonwealth ave-- nue. Mercury was found in -- this oar, taken from the 18 foot shaft sunk in the basement of the Cardine Carlson home at 22nd street and Kristian avenue, now a proved fact, the doubt as to the value of the onabat vor in the rock Foemation oar is the rock formation from which mercury is distilled and even if the free mercury tinds did not prove large enough to bring. a big profit,. the cinnabar oar under-- lying the property makes it a posi-- :n.:'hhcbdulmtlum h to some large corporation for development. 'There is little re-- maining doubt existing in the minds of experts but what North Chicago vflmmmdw1 mining industry for the United Chemists have explained that mer-- cury is invariably found mixed with The finding of the quick silvrer on Stewart avenue moved the mercury boom to the westward and gave an added '"incentive to the search in that district west of North Chicago continued clear out to the village of Wilson on the Belvidere rdad, where wells have always produced wator eame to an abrupt end last week after W. E. Janson and John Milroy picked up enough free mercury in the excavration for the basement to partially fill a asmall pan. Chances are that the house will not be com-- nen Basement hows Washington, June 20--Though w Kansas City-- and now Houston over Mercury Deposits. shawod n as a news cen, : summmeneme the political: . dust now Wash-- Building operations on a new res ington is the center of campaign idence at Twenty--second street and activity for the Republican . party, Stewart avenue, two blocks west of, primarily because Herbert Hoover ANOTHER |#% MIcTORY & 150--156 So. Genesee St., Waukegan, III., . _ Phone 5100 W. E. Janson, North Chicago real PFKICES~-- Touring Car or Roadster, $995; C #4 Coupe, $1045; 4--door Sedan, $1095; DeLuxe m 24 Sedan, $1170; Deluxe 4--passenger Coupe, -- .. WWtmakame® *: + 4 ~ $1170; Sport Sedan, $1295--#. o. b. Detroit Corner stone of the new St. The-- JAMES MORROW & SON -- | is ; Atray ue s i ----] delin will be in charge and will be 156 So. Genesee St. Wankasaan HPD . | assisted by Rev. Francis J. Shea and . . . . And what an hour it will be! . . . . 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The veteran po-- litical leaders in the Hoover camp quite frankly agree on the vote get-- ting ability of the New York Gov-- ernor. but i=«--+--+ they have the edge on their opponents. The decision of a local court in man of the Board of the Standard Oil Company, of Indiana, for refus-- al to answer questions of the Senate ers say that the Democratic plat-- form will 'be as conservative and in many ways as indefiniate as that adopted by the Republican. The be-- lief prevails that the question of the personalities of the two leading can-- iginal" Hoover men are legion. The Secretary of Commerce is not at all deceived at the pretensions of early friendship because he has carefully built up an organization to obtain the nomination and knows full well who supported him for friendship and party fealty and those who flocked --to his standards when vic-- tory was assured. the outstanding anti--Hoover leaders to seek honors--under the G. O, P. candidates merely because they are members of the same party. The leadership of Hoover is undizputed now. The problem is to forget dit-- ferences for shrewd politicians serv-- ing Mr. Hoover realize full well that it would be--the height-- of folly <to alienate powerful Republican lead-- ers solely because they oppose the candidacy of the Californian. . Now, as in other campaign years, the "or-- _ --The greatest problem confronting Hoover leaders today is to patch up differences and heal up the wounds resulting from factional skirmishes prior to and during the Kansas City convention. It will requiré consider-- able tact to maneuver party affairs and ijron out paty dissentions. -- A great many leaders -- have --already post--haste from the convention in order to find official places on the Hoover "band wagon"--and to make their bid for recognition in the forthcoming convention for Presi-- The pre--convention animosities ran high so that it is quite amusing to note the tendency on the part of all calibers are watching develope-- ments as the Revublican machine is being overhauled and those who owe their jobs to Coolidge are mak-- ing way for followers of the new the Republican nominee for Presi-- R | and applications --for entrance can be made to this school or the sisters of the Holy Ghost at Techuy, I1l. American 'life at the Auditorium. It was also announced today that the St.--Marys School of Nursing lo-- egted at Watertown, <Wis., will be moved to the local hospital. 'There are 50 students in this sachool, ~The other clergy. The general public is torcycle patrolmen on the county roads> by--Sunday. < He believes the date of their appearance will be about 'June 24. s The purchase of the new motor-- he would prefer to do it as soon as they took the road. . * The machines will be taken out and tuned--up for at least 500 miles before --being ready for the road. Thonen,too,mwuutm uniforms as the sheriff has to let them go out without being fully uniformed. ~ ~ > He plans on using two of his old admitted that Ne would n tohav_elmnc_voqud:! Sheriff Lawrepce Doolittle Friday admitted that he would not be able At the present time, there are more than 3,000,000 miles of tele-- phone wire in cable, of which more than two--thirds is underground. The ecable represents an investment of Buy Machines and Start Put ting Mileage on Them over the cable in one continuous were sent over iron telegraph wires. Copper wires were soon introduced and were improved constantly. In 1888, the largest --telephone cable contained 100 wires, and was insu-- lated by rubber. In the modern c& ble, there are 2424 --wires, insulated by paper andsheathed by lead The sheath contains certain alloys, which cording to "Telephony'. have been found to give greatest service, and safety, and is drawn MOTOR COPS ARE DELAYED S0 A3S To TUNE CYCLES The ~high quality of telephone service had in America, is due, in a large measure, to the constant im-- provement since the start of the were charged with violating the prohibitory law. > soyal FPooi halil on Wasahington street, and Steve Miletich, 707 So. Genesee street, and Tony Macrow-- ski, Victoria-- street, were among the Waukegan and North Chicago men charged with violating the prohibitory law. & it's deliberatizn in recent years. .. Visitors <to Washington find the chief attraction is closed for the summer season. President Coolidge is away and the White House is not quite the same, with the occupant missing. . Mr. Coolidge carried the major porion of his staff to Wiscon-- sin, which indicates that the "sum-- mer White House" will be more ac-- tive than in other years. In ton In raids> through several sec-- tions of the county, that included Waukegan, North Chicago and the lake regions, members of the sponge --squad accounted for 13 victims over the week end. ; ling place at 703 South Genesee One raid was staged on a gamb-- street. Dude Babich, the proprie-- tor, wa stined $100 and costs by Justice Harry Hoyt. He ftined the inmates $10 ud(a;:.' They ml as follows: James hkovic, Tom Genurge, Nuke Lary, Harold Onn-' er and Albert O'Brien. ® Investigating Committee,' isexpected to have a'far reaching effect on the mania -- for investigations --of Con-- gress. Stewart was acquitted by a. jury in the District of Columbia Su-- preme Court. It is expected that this court acion will have & etnden-- cy to put the Senate back in a leg-- islative capacity rather than an in-- 13 TAKEN INTO .. NET OF RAIDERS OVER WEEKEND Waukegan, No. Chicago and Lake Regions Hit by The sheriff declined to name his B Y W I LLIAM--DALE Y¥ Gives Much Better Telephone Service lake region E. R. Nor-- W. A. Etchell, Channel . which bhas marked 14 yipst cKH" 1 cogs The maximum number of men on the job has been 200, while there the line from Fox: River Grove to Jcflothbdunt'ubythhg. )loymceuttnefioncon'nly. will probably complete that section also within the next week or two. The headquarters for construction which will carry a voltage of 132,000 has been _ erected at a cost of hun-- dreds of thousands of dollars and will provide electrical service to a vast territory between the two cities. Construction of the line is in keep-- ing with the spirit of progress of this corporation which always strives to keep ahead of the demand for its Th fimw e ) company of Chicago took the contract for the building of thirty miles of this trans-- mission line between a point about three miles west of Waukegan to Fox River Grove. The remainder of four miles northwest of Naperville will be completed within the 'next COMPLETE WORK ON New Transmission Line 57 1--2 Miles Long From Wau-- kegan to West Nearly Done. Lawyers and --Police Hasten | < to the Assistance of Miss right, let --me tell you--a Horton al-- ways gets even.' Mr.-- Holmes sent Attorney Aleck Drewshaw, an assistant, to notify James he was fired, and Mr. Horton pooh--poohed at Mr. Drewshaw. Mr. Drewshaw reported back to Mr. Holmes, who repeated the order to fire the chauffeur. Mr. Drew-- shaw then gathered _ about him a group of Pinkerton~detectives and set forth agaih to the Rumsey place But the.--Chief is Persuasive Mr. Horton met them at the door of the garage, above which his liv-- ing quarters were. He defied the lawyer and detectives and again re-- fused to be fired,. Then Chief Lester Tiffany oft the Lake Forest police was called. Chiet Tiffany spoke plain words to the chauffeur and finally managed to convince him that he was fired. The Horton household goods were quickly moved out on the Rumsey lawn by the lawyers, the private Jetectives, and the villageo police, and Mr. Horton, as he 'kat on them last night, vowed to get even. "I guess these guys. don't know me,' he said. "Don't they know I'm a Horton? Say, did you ever read ._James Refuses to Be Fired "hereupon Miss Rumsey declared James fired, and James turned dis-- dfl?unyndufl: "You can't fire -'l a , Miss Rumsey wired Mr. Rumsey and Mr. Rumsey in the east wired his attorneys, McNab, Holmes and Long, and :asked his -- particular friend, Samuel Holmes, also of Lake Forest, x see that Mr. Horton was Miss Ru.nsey told James to W&8B njem to w ride. James said he had an INfOCt | pooting wi er finger and could not wash CATS, 'the Public and, besides, who was she to be E!Y | Waukegan. Ing him orders? Certainly, not m' Pace: ce Miss Minnie Rumsey is a sister of Henry A. Rumsey, broker and for mer mayor of Lake Forést, whose estate in Lake Forest lies next to that of Mrs. Edith Rockefeller Mc-- Cormic.. -- athwart Sheridan road. Yesterday ~Miss Rumsey fired the chauffeur, James B.Horton. Mr. Rumsey is in the east with his family, and Miss Rumsey is the only one at home on the estate. This caused --complications which, accord ing to participants, brought-- about the following series of events: t mc Construction on the 57% mile WITHIN FEW DAYS It For 'Rate Army & Navy t . ® yearn to build homes with big fire ma.wmmxm.-mtmm Los Angeles Times, : BHee "The Crowd," a mirror of American life at the Auditorinm., the Agreed on religious theories, it is stated, and Mr. Voliva also voiced protest to the lawyer writing ar--| &dum«:hnrch publications -- ex-- y pounding theories not in accord-- ance with his.. The trouble started while the two were visiting in the Holy Land. Mr. Forby wrote back to friends and al-- so sent stories to the Theocrat, the Zion religlous paper. He was quot-- ed frequently. : He was not robed for Communion last Sunday and did not teach his dica mfioux'% "u ~there mnm~m\mmmot * ReRy smcs l y e €3 e mactery enc 3 i tss °o «& S MJ o CALRGA counsel of the city, w1 come with-- in the next few days, it was learn-- ed today from Zion officials close to both --of the men. While these people are slow to ad-- Yunit that there was any rift in the long friendship of the overseer and the attorney they admitted, on the Oother hand, that both would be to-- gether soon. > Mr. Forby and the overseer dis 't'houuda of workers in scientific evelopement. "Although this has been called a materialistic age, achievement" he asserted, "is based more than ever to devotion to an ideal. In business, men are working with the same de-- votion to their tasks with the same searching for truth, as the scientist. 'cured for this high power line which winds through the country avoiding main highways and cities .The work . was started at Fox River Grove and 'coafiuo'dwtktoabonttounfla south of McHenry, then east and north to Waukegan, keeping north of Round Lake and Gurnee and con-- | necting with another power line of the Public: Service company near and Telegraph Company, in a reeen: address at Coomer Union. This age, he said, is geveloping a Spirit of service and modern civiliz-- ation is--devoted to the conquest of w, l:l' is being al-- and more science i lied with business. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company, Mr. Gifford pointed out, is spending $10,000,000 a year and emploving which it is now essential to success, ~ _More than three thousand dollars :rill:_snrdedhmmwh wo ping sweepstake classes re-- celving cash. Entries close Tues day, July 3rd. Forms and informa-- tion may be procured from Lieuten-- ant Wilmer G. Bennett, Fort Sheri-- dan, Iilinois, Secretary of the Horse Most of us are optimists. We all Telephone Chief Sees 1 Idealism In Business Show Committee, and a musical ride by the enlisted personnel of the 14th Cavairy. Colo-- many opportunities for exhjbitors in the various divisions. . In addition, there will be several distinct mili-- tary features such as Roman riding 1928. -- Thirty4{our classes are in-- cluded in the prize lists just issued ior the Fourth Annual Fort Sheri-- dan Horse Show, which will be held on Friday and Saturday, July 13th and 14th, in the outdoor show ring at-- Fort Sheridan. The object of the Horsge Show this year is to raise funds for the Army Relief Society, the Public School Education of Post Children and other necessary Post Activities for which no other provi-- sion is made. The two--day program, ever left as much money in McHenry ers and their expenses which they have . to Jocal firms have been from $1,200 to $1,300 a week during the months they have been in McHerry. -- Their office in charge of H. H. Rogers, has been maintain-- ed in the Pries building-- on Gréeen atreet with a store.and wire house in the MatthewsTonyan building on Waukegan street in ~that town. B. L Sewell is the construction superintendent on the job with Lau-- rence Druilinger as general foreman. --~100--Foot Right--of--Way Funds Raised For Arm; Re lief and Educational Pur-- poses, Annual Event. Idealism has spread from science HORSE SHOWS STILL POPULAR y bhas been from $5,000 week. Probably no--com-- Gifford, presi-- wys 16, hay ¥9f Iy given the colony in 1752 This name was derived from the English town of Boston, the home of some of the leadere of the colony. The Indians called the settlement "Shawmut." A picture that you will understand and remember Monday and Tuesday at the Auditorium, Libertyvilie. The name of the original settlemen! gMMMMIMwm 'The Hansen ambulance from Ke-- mosha was called and Mrs. Chisholm was hurried to the hospital. It was at first thought she was fataily hurt Dr, Bennett found severe lacerations of the scalp and will take an X--ray picture to determine paossible skull Waukegan, sons of the injured wo-- man, suffered only bruises and lytht : cuts. . They accompanied their mo-- ! ther to the hospital in Kenotha.: Their automobile was wrecked al-- most beyond repair. Mrs. Chisholim was a resident of ° Waukegan for a greater part of her ( life and was a daughter of the late James Murric. former Lake county treasurer and Waukegan justice of the peace. She left Waukegan eight months ago. 'She --formerly resided on Sherman place in this city. George Wavro, of Kenosha, driver of the truck which crashed into the Chisholm car, escaped injury. -- The accident happened, according to reports --to the: sheriftf's office, when Warro's truck got in the way Oof the Duncan sedan. 'The -- truck was loaded with ice and, according to the story of witnesses, was going west on the left side of the high-- way. Lake Geneva road. Both cars were The Duncan machine, with Don-- ald Duncan driving and the mother and Frank in the rear seat, was go-- ing east, heading for Delwood to-- wards Waukegahn. The collision oc-- curred in front of the Old Settlers' home on -- Paddock's lake on the head, one arm was scalded and sbhe is suffering from many bruisws about the body and severity of the shock. : It was at first believed tBat she was internally injured but aa X--ray examimation proved this to be without basis. "r': mw i 'dm, Fm"' er Well Fgm Local Wo-- man, Badly Injured. 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