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11 FIFTY YEARS OF ELECTRIC LLGHT IS CELEBRATED By DAVID P. SENTNER 1. N. S. Staff Correspondent | New York.--The fiftieth anniver-- sary of artificial sunshine is being | celebrated throughout the country. | It was in 1880,. following the per-- | fection of his incandescent lamp, | that Thomas Edison organized. in ' New York city the first central sta-- | tion for distributing electric light-- , ing. lt was the ' first gow from | which developed the romafhtic white , light district of Broadway and later | to light up the civilized world. ' When -- Edison stfuck his first spark it was a city of gaslight, can-- / wules, lamplights and sputtering arc-- -- lights. -- The hotcls (which were not , the modern skyscraper -- hostelries) | still displayed signs in their rooms, "Don't blow out the gas." f "While planning for my first New York station in Pearl street," ho said, "I had no real estate and little knowleflge of its cost in New York. Ithought that by going down on a slum street near the waterfront 1 could get some protty ch:ap prop erty. So I picked out the worst, dil-- apidatec¢t street there and found I esuld only get two buildings. "Don't biow out the Sas. . Fdodison tells of his experiences in picking out his pioneer electric sta-- MORGAN KICKED ON RATE Edison Established Plant in New York City With 59 Customers. M it Of the total 84.143 passengers and emigrants, 47.3 per cent went to the United States, 11.1 per cent to the Argentine, 7.2 per cent to British North America and 5.8 per cent to Brazil. Of the 38,916 emigrants, 23,-- 9834 were Germans. io:rgan doubted the accura>y of the neter. -- Kdison suggested cards be un on each fixture and a record est ol the number of lights and he time they were turned on and ff. Morgan did that and still kicked t the bills.wEdison made a person-- l investigation. He found that the ights used by the janitor had es aped notation. The next month's )ilis tallied the record kept with he met--r charge. Morgan was satis-- red ud Edison was vindicated. the emigrants formerly fa%d the number of other passengers, the last year brought 45,277 tourists as against 38,916 em-- igrants. Cl l pal -- "HMHow They Make -- the Talkies Talk" is the title of a current mag-- azrine article. A good many of us would like to read *one on "Why They Made the Movies Move " PAGE SX ca's immigration -- restrictions -- and the reduced emigration from Russia and the former Poland is shown by the statistics just issued by the Hamburg--American Line tor 1928. Correspondent writes in to know it those new commemorative Thomas Edison 2¢c. postage stamps were issued by the government of the New Lighted States of America. Which reminds us that the Post Office Department (is confronted with a $30,000,000 deficit. vy not put the postage on circulars up to 10 cents?® This would at least help to wipe out the deficit in two direc-- tions. If the number ot circulars did not decrease in consequence. the income from postage stamps would increase tenfold; and it it did decrease -- which you can bet your life it would -- the enormous expense of handling this pesky class of mail would shrink correspond-- ingly. Hamburg--(IN8)--The change in trans--oceamie trafc due to Ameri-- For this invaluable suggestion we make no charge, because it would be just the same it we did. LESS EMIGRANTS AS OCEAN PASSENGERS I{nnvoimts oArthurA /enn w as ---- KEdison sugge on each fixture ol the number inventor const ind systerf®R®: o H ht with the ene amous. Sleen w € Price Too High 59 Customers nstruk He Occasionally i ds system _ was revolutionize cellar, lying pipes stored suffered no en -- died of t month, the 1 59 custom-- the number was suppiied while the rcughly test-- occurred on 'am,; was ad-- \ one Jumbo r -- Barnum's current was the thirteen conductors ted an un-- worked day y for which almost en-- gan, bank: customers he > COUNTIES NOT TO <«<= _ GET NEW GAS TAX UNTIL NEXT YEAR he 1} sinect Molpparaiirr tnbtine «ied | fee for this service of lilinois, to the s l It was charg--d t tlom' bill was to b behest of the ofil would, in return, which are now ho 300,0000, 1t t'#"ru was su? Kinney declares, h to it. The suits, -- have been submit! One test suit has ctage-- it awaits a was Despite reports to the contrary, counties will not receive their share of the three cent tax on gasoline -- payment of which starts August 1 --until next year. This is made clear by the gasoline tax law, Garrett DeForest -- Kinney, state director of tinance, has ex-- plained. Kinney pointed out that the basis of distribution of the fund is the number of motor vehicles licens-- ed from counties; and that the total will not be available until the sec-- retary of state's books are closed. made 000 fo period Neither Kinn@y s# $6,500,000 no w Division of Tax Is Pro--rated |»t" On the Number of Auto :n Licenses Issued. | em; culateq Tegarding (Nnls money, (V-- ing it up with another law . which became effective on the same day the gasoline tax becomes a part 01 the law --the oil inspection law. Thes> first were heard when the legislature was considering the oi inspection b\% which transfers the authority of imspecting oll and gaso tine--and charging a commensurate tlom behe would, in rebu which are no w to it, The sullts, have been submit One test suit has stage--it awaits _ stage--it awaits apgtion~ Dy (he SU-- preme court. This: case has been taken under advisem<nt making it rather late in the proceedings for dismissal, even ghould a dismissal be asked. Many expect a decision at the court's next term: This case wil all other suits state conrtrts. In meanwhile, the the Roxana suit heard this fall. Outward appearances, at least, in-- dicate that Roxana was not a party to the purported "agreement." All the activity in this suit, which, like Persistent reports have be ulated -- regarding this mon Ct Factors Counties are to These seven children o? Mra. Florence James fortmed a regular "step ladder" family as they and their mother boarded a train in Denver, Colo., to tgiurn to their Hokum,; Wash., bome after their daddy "just slipped out of sicht." Mrs. James, awaiting arrival of an eighth baby, told her story to Mrs, E. B. Awilt, right. of the Travelers' Aid, who aided ber and. left to right. Botty Lorraine. Mgura May. Richard, Flofeuce, Wizsbetk, Karlis and Robert James. in gzetting home ~ m CTO w ), 009 _ eoliected unc i the Small adminis tled un in court Or in Daddy 'Just Dropped From Sight' | l1 was w ay MoeC 13 ~t} wWas o8 16 T "(" Means Cubs, 'Chins; Maybe Championship irth eV 1 ¢ 1 be a critGrion for instituted "in the the federal courts, test sult, known as . is expected to be th 1¢ It dis m lding rt pennaut race the King Chin Chicago outfit an -- agreement, was not a party reover, already to the courts. ached the final ion~ by the Su-- case has been nFucn 1 ¢ propriation t 8 816,3\5.- cha 1@ ns pe W §%6 1e might: use For, it 8 league club there 'aren't made a m termined fi: the Chicago Fhat chin Fhat chin of McCarthy's i of the prize physiognomical tuberances of baseball. It ha equals on the diamond. _ A1 wearor had fow equals as a fi McCarthy has enouzh chin t out in Cub quarters: whero is a deficlency. He also has e fight'to zo around Out in front of the players shinped {rom thorizing citi tion ordinanmec 000 for admin KELSEY GROVE TO ABANDON VILLAGE Pians of incorporating tge com-- munity of Kelsey Grove, near Bar-- rington, as a village, are to be aban-- domed by the residents of that dis-- triet, it was learned today. _ The pe-- titlon to incorporate has been fought in county court but no decision has been reached Another Test A man alzo may be pretty ac-- eurately judged by the eompany that he keeps out of.--Capper's Week)y piurned m state ha n Ne 3 ith ny clubs whi consistent _ for leadersh im. 1b to fin appro ring a rals as a fighter. uzh chin to help ers whero there also has enough if produ 0 Repea model rlates A t is latsd s act al major ns and h have nd le-- ns pe nit DrO onk 1t in LIBERTYVILLE INDEPENDENT. -- THURSDAY. AUCUST 1. 1929 -- of the Cubs Chin club ame Hornsby Grimm, Wilson, Root and Stephen Thore isn't a chin in the lot can bee spared if the Bruins to win the flag they have been tling for so strenuouslyv. Hornsby is lining up to e tations as the needed unit in a nant winning combination Wilson, with hb!s horme run pensitiees is absolutely indis ible to the team, as are also | Stepbhensonm. thoe swatting fly-- er; Charley Grimm, the ace first baseman, amnmd Charley the pitching mainstay. tling for so Hornsby i: tations as th« nant winning 18,900 BUSHELS _ ; OF WHEAT GROWN _ IN LAKE COUNTY iwest section of the producing county kls;}fl @loune, this 56 TO0 hushels of down the li figures com; s. agricultu: that this @7 Value of Wheat Crop In I!!i-- nois More Than $225,000,-- 000 In Five Years. The 1828 winter wheat acreage has officially been placed at 18,.915,-- 000 bushels, compared with 30,956,-- 000 bushels in 1927, and the 1928 sprin wheat acreage | at -- 0,285,000 against 3.8%8%8,000 during 1927 The average pric-- per acre for all wheat during 1928 was placed at $17.37 or about 65 cents above the 1927 aver age. -- C Fulton, 915,000 bu.; -- McDonough, 898,400;-- Bureau, 428,000; Henry. 303,8%00; Jo Daviess, 46,200; Mercer, 95,000; Rock Island, 95,500; White-- side, 412,300; x!*l\'alb. 198,800 ; Du Page, 197,000 ; ane, 331,200; Lake, 78,900; McHenry, 206,000; Will, 538. 900; dams, 793,100; Sangamon, 540,-- 000; Champaign, 238,.300; Kankakee 318,600; Effingham, 35,600 and St. Clair, 581,400. The simplest legal marrtage cere-- mony in the United States is one performed merely in the name of the state, for example; "In the naome e' the s'+te of ----, I pro-- Do Aa wife." The Romance languages are the languages sprung from Latin and bearing its impress strongly in vo-- ecabulary and grammar. Jt is usual to speak of seven or eight Romance languages, even though such a di-- vision is not always scientifically accurate. These are Rumanian, Romanish (Rhetian, Ladin), Ital-- ian, French, Provencal, Spanish and Portuguese, to which may be added Catalan, Franco--Provencal, Sardjn-- lan anfd Dalmatian, Several days later the mother served cold meats and catsup. The little girl, seeing hber father gener ously helping himself to catsup, de-- manded: "Mother, I want some meat with tnerens=chrorme on it" An Ejye for Color A little girl recently skinned ber knee and ber mother promptly ap plied a bright--colored antiseptic. Perey Pikepounder--No'm, they aln't workin'. They're on strike. They demand shorter bours an' pie bandouts. Mrs. Goodsole--Well! You're the Arst bum I've seen at my back door ror geveral weeks, Are the rest of them working? * Morgan Language o®'Ro.nance hstanding tion of the slate PS. g county in lllinois ne, this county bushels of wh«at _ aluation of $1.118.1 major _ wheat _ p in the state are: , 915,000 bu.; ~ Mol Bureau, -- 428,000 ; Simple Ceremony A Strike--Breaker 1 ¢ inty in the w lilinois' place well n wheat production. by A. J. Surrat, U. statistician _ reveal represents a grogs * yo0 -- over a fAve are also Riggk atting fly--chas wvest south: s.the «©hief )is. During produced with wA rce--High v¥-- Root. MJ expec© a pell »«ducin th a e 118 Choose Your Fur Coat Now --Save 207 & Our liberal budget plan allows you to pay a little each week Good westker to buy ruts . . _. even if it is too warm to wear them. For in August fine furs are at their lowest price level . . . whoen spectacular values prevail . . . and the furs of your heart's desire may be purchased at far less than you would pay later on. 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