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A\ Johns, 20, Has Com-- ; Fracture of Left Leg: -- and Possible Skull Injury. V lacerations of the face and ' through the chest and abdo-- en "following a collision,; with an ntomobile Thursday night. -- The crash occurred near the North ~gar barns on Sheridan road: y é,":, returning home on 'i,l': e to Wiscopsin avenue. dodged past .etm driven " , when he skidded: from he 'fender of another=--automobile in-- a~ car driven by Charles-- Sabry M Lake Forest. -- i _ _ The motorcycle was absolutely de-- lished. J% was thrown clear the wreock and in a comatose te when the Woetsel and Peterson arrived at the office, of ..A E. Budde, where his wounds C Nee Ronks is puforine a fiahine tip %l'fidfid.umchfleomum Sheehan's Sunday afternoon Emnh? smashed as to be ardly wort"s while fixing, but no one _ Nita Potterof Hubbard W is ipending a few weeks with heroo:r.'and- m Nes Hermiet Mitchon®'ot. Cniengo re spending a couple of weeks at ames Kerr home. IOTORCYCLE IS _ DEMOLISHED BY. --. AUTO, RIDER HURT Albert Johnson, 20 years old, hA# gompound fractaore of the left 10&, ~possible tracture of the skull, se Mr. Remember the ice cream social for ie benefit of the Fox Lak: cemetery "'Mr. and Mrs: James Atwell went to last week for a few days visit h the Will Atwell family and from came to Waukegan to see Mrs, ::u', wigter, un'&m there. _ While Ben Hamlin was working |in fig last week Wednesday Lo t his hand against, the saw run electric motor and cut the 'buck of , hand so that four stitches were . Heis dolnflnieoly but a jot work much for a while. M Mra. Leonard is recovering nicely recent fall when she broke Md Snd Deaised bervert by Talling and self by Jwa stairs. ' t will be a meeting of the motery society at the home .c"Té' o oiter, Tuesday evehing, August 26 Mr. and Mrs. W entertained . Holt and wife olmgo, ever the ' Leo Barnstable visited Wauke-- in friends last Friday. * s Sunday school picnic last mk' on pmeaensnal s as well as nldren went. .Mr. and Mrs. Kearn: n'aphodid entertainers and kept n going all the time. All joined t;hm.:a'd n ball game between women boys was an e oabh iature. Mr. Hooper mnrui to ieomhthm'd.'afid we 1 him --a vote of thanks. Mr. y and Mr. Rhoades degerve a te of thanks for the use of their to take the children to and from 'genie. also Mr. Dering for the use E) grmqndl. G. P. Manzer and A| Boehm with heir wivas are -\kml vacation g trip at Planets, Wis., on Stone iake, and are having a splendid .time. 'Mr. and' Mrs. Corson ad Junior Slast week Saturday on a camp-- ,tfil'atopoinuinWiseqmin. oef Mr¢.and Mrs. Cannon and Mr. and 8. Kean made a business trip to o last Thursday evening. ames Kerr and Geofse Mitchell te to Txl:r, Wis., and Mr. Kerr l spend the week with Ray Kerr and e 'being dAdreased. He was taken the Victory Memorial hospital, lorth Chicago police place the mnoyd Neighbors had a meeting m':h.di'r atten a but thnm' t e gular meatifig wilg":' held on 'lm' 'afternoon, Aug. 28th when a gaod %;'m and interesting meeting will . « T seriously injured. One driver lost a ta E ko . k Setaptie the fln fousit our Hello girl in the morning and t, who live there. George Mitchell remain for two weeks vacation. . aad Mrs. Wm. Walker, Sr., this week for Portiand, Oregon, isit two mthhor more with i.'heir i amil "Rq M um:.:fi 4. en 1 bral friends at their home Sunday #. 'Joe Eberler of Chicago, was Ber mother several days recently. at Ruby Anderson of Chicago, is :_wizwmotbet,ln.uomrd of LA KE VU'!'LL 4 of hbis car Kean spent last Friday in gity on Sunday.© _ ; business, -- Members and In accordance with the pledge made the frst of the year by the new execu-- tive committee that the American ¥arm Bureau. federation--would--give "outstanding attention" to the market-- ' 'ifl!___.ijg % FHURSDAY. AUGUST 23,1923. [A meric ' $250,000 BOND _ |zz.7%" W & B"mu | nn'nnu 2C !:.u.u.h:nn,. last TO GIVE ATTENTION TO MARKET PROBLEM ing problem, a new department has been created in the hatlional headquar-- ters. Waliton Peteet of Texas is di-- rector of this department of co--opera-- tive marketing. This department is developing plans for unifying existing co--operative mar-- keting: organization.---- In beginning his new work Mr. Pe teet makes it plain that be is to pro-- ceed in an orderly way and in the light of the best experience. Bezy-: "The agricultural problem is not for farmers only, but for all classes. Ag-- The prizewiuning team of West Virginia girls who fee} themselves so G@efinitely a part of their farm bureau that they took an active part in-- their county membership drive last year and personally brought in a number of farm bureau memberswhips each,. These threez:h are West Virginia's champion-- ship demonstration team in 4H agriculitBral club work. The girls are Nell Dunn, Ocie Tune and Ina Spangler, all of Moore county, West Virginia. Head of New Department Cre-- ated by Farm Bureau Federa-- tion Outlines His Policy. progress. : During the last. two gen-- erations ' there has been a revolution in industry--that is, all industry--has to the group basis ~ Now --we have group production and group © distribu-- tion of all industrial products. On the other hand, agriculture has remained individualistic in production and indi-- vidualistic in distribution. "We hope that Tarming always will remain individualistic in production ; this is necessary in order to preserve Waliton Peteet, Director of Department of ,cquornln Marketing. -- counirty life unimpaired, to keep up the fertility of our soil, to perpetuate the love of land which has always been the basis of American agricultural progress and. which has made <the American farmen the most efficient in the world. "On the other hand, it is absolutely essential that farmers change their distributive syst from the Ifdivido-- Mtothon:u')bnd&'mutuom narketing. "It Is the job of the American Farm Bureau, and particularlty of the depart-- ment of co--operative marketing, to de-- velop the co--operative body of doc-- t::rib-m eollective distribution. We Ming:to do this out of broad m'?mm ve?reé»golng to give it national ipublicity. ~ There are two phasas to the now movement : (1) To stimulate and promote co--op-- erative marketing of all the products grown on our farms. . © (2) To unity and co--ordinate co--op-- m_t'!::m.' : ( potato districts wm nm":p.uwm ue intume 27 the poraie q;:w tn and that means co--operative 14--( c tion to the national industry, by wlmi the potato grower in Maine and Idahc is doing. _ 4 We are going to take one commodity after another until we have organized all of them. Tbomverofmm--,' modity must relate himself to all the othcrm:s-otthueonmdlty'.m big idea of all is to merchandise out agricultural products instead of dump ing a 12 months' supply on the market three months after harvest. "The farmer intends to use for his own business the practice that busi-- ness men now follow. 'The farmer is setting up his own sales department," Commenting on Mr. Peteet's appoint-- ment, President Bradfute says : "We sought --out the best quaMl#ed man in America to head our new co-- operative marketing department We beliteve that we have found the right man for the job in Walton Peteet. His raining and his type of mind fit himh ad-- wirably to lead the farm bureau's su-- preme effort to secure for the Ameri-- can farmer the free exercise of his un-- disputed right to have something to say about the price of his own prod-- uet. The department of co--operative marketing will have the full financial tion. _ The work is now carried o mlong the lines Iasid down by be%!:e county farm bureau, the work being handled as a separate department in the county organization; -- ' The Indians of Dewey county are railsing some corn and small grain. The output of stmall grain, however, is greatly limited because they have no thrashing or, binding machines, with which to harvest.,. 'The nature of the land on which they are located is rough and hilly, and none of the ma-- chines from the prairle section of the country will venture into the rough land to do the thrashing. Farm Burean federation, as well as every other department. ~ The joh"ls so tremendous that it cannot be~done in a day, however, nor a year. There are already 15,000 local co--operative asso clations in America. Our farm people must exercise some degree of patience in their quest for market reforms, and they must help. . But we are going to improve the distribution of farm prod-- ucts, or know the reason why.. I be speak for Mr. Peteet the@etive support of every farmer in America." One of the most picturesque farm ers organizations in the United States is the Promise Indian Farmers' Club in Dewey county, South Dakota. The club was organized a number of years ago and holds regular meetings at which are discussed all agricuitural problems of vital importance to the group: +Bince the organization of the farm bureau the Promise Indian Farmers c_hb has affiliated with that orgamiza-- One--of Most Picturesque Farm-- ers' Clubs Formed in Dewey County, South Dakota. . PROMISE INDIANS IN -- FARM ORGANIZATION The project on which the Promise Indian Farmers' cluB" section of the county farm bureau is now working i# that of securing a horse power thrashing machine . which can be moved from place to place. The In-- dians have plenty of horses to carry on this work, and with such machines they ~can double their small grain acreage, shown by them in live stock and poul-- try. Several poultry demonstrations have been held before their groups. Their meetings are planned along the lines suggested by the extension division of the state agricultural col-- lega. The business and technical dia tainment, At one ticularly interested them in his de seription of the way corn was rained by the American Indians. The Dewey #iderable pride in corn and planning to work out several production Jecots with It. _ C e mpOrSCG Muaigh sop o db n lt Py hi lt s ap e ut s 5 N ds CABELE .i ns ce Aiikonentredaiiin 6 > Yec M iadh it ' _ ORDINANCE IS PASSED BY CITY Act of the City Council Now Puts -- Proposition Up for Vote of Public: Waukegan residenqnts on September SAUgRDNWET jell on IAUGISGORY, VIA AULO 25 will haye an opportunity of vot "&h'"" Minp. ing on the $250,000 bond issue which|-- James Drago of East Troy, Wis., is destined to pay the city's old called on friends here last Wednesday. debts up to the time the new ;dmin-' Mr. and Mrs. Sars O'Farrell and istration took office The city coun| ypg, | Tidy of Waukegan, spent eil passed the bond ordinance and /Mg% with friends. also the ordinance calling the spe-- T cial election at a meeting Thnnday' Misses "'3':"' Eb:lomsnggd:fi afternoon. -- Another ordijnance wu»-"m! tloct aun passeq naming the judge and clerks | * of election. Under the terms of the|~~ :~ * ~~ ordinance the city is authorized too¥ #% #% #% #& # # #% #% #% % issue and sell $250,000 as the money % is needed to liquidate the debt :. : I. vo'fio Mrs. P. W. Moore left Monday for a visit t« New York, Buffalo and other eastern cities. Mrs. L. J. Lobdell and Mrs. Alfred Kenneth McNamara returned home mwfromnvixit'otn?rddmh The passage of this bond eletion, it is pointed out, will place the city upon a more substantail basis as it will be able to meet all its old in debtedness. The $250,000 issue is spread over a period of twenty years which, according (to officials: will make it possible to take up the bonds as they become due. . Mrs. Wm. Richareson and Miss Mary Adams > t _ last Wednesday in ubatyvmanhan. ; last week with old m:' ild §# Mr. and Mrs, Ed Seesholtz of East Miss Alice Waldmann was in Chicago G R A Y § L AK E The Farn & PUuBLIC gsmcs COMPANY J OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS -- _ _ THED. BLECH. Dist. Supt. --G. KRUMERY, Service Man 1299 N. Genesse St.. Waukegan, !!! !----James Drago of East Troy, Wis., called on friends here last Wednesday. ' Mr. and Mrs. Sars O'Farrell and Mrs. George Tidy of Waukegan, spent Frank Aulbach of Chicago, spent the week a?t.he aodlroy home. pe® Mr. and Mrs, 8.--L. Carfield and dumr left on Thursday, via auto for th, Minp. Tray, Wis., spent last week at the home of their daughter, Mres. Willis McMillan. h s Mrs. John Olson was called to East Troy, Wis., Monday by the serious iliness of her mother, Mrs. Drago. Miss Lila Battershall was a Chicago visitor Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Smith and children of. Libertyville, visited at P. L. Stadtfeld's Sunday.. / » Mrs. D, G. White and daughter were inylvmwn. Monday. Miss Vera Vasey and brother, Walter are spending this week at Gurnee with theit sister, Mrs. Lloyd Benwell. & George Walton and family of Liberty-- ville, spent the week--end with relatives. days of last week-- with relatives in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Huson f Chicago, spent the week-- :hoir sister, m John Brimer Mrs. Pm» Mr. and Mrs. Leon Holt of Bet! Vermont, and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Huson of Elgin, visited at 0 e o o o o o a 0 0o 0o o o o e e FOR ALL THE NEWS OF LAKE o e COUNTY, SUBSCRIBE FOR THE e o INDEPENDENT--S§150 A YEAR e * 4 Pag Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allen and children, Alice, Helen and Jean Brimer are ,:\. a j »-:9';'3 this week in aret and Laura Gra ent the week--end Mr. The Public Service Company fur-- nishes services of a nature so essen-- tial to the agricultural, industrial and regidential development of this teérritory, that the prosperity and future growth of Northern Illincis and the Company are inter-- N THE FARMS in the 15 . pany are 216,050 horses, valued--at $15,123,500. (U. S. Census 1920). io . 'The farm horse has been the power upon which. agricultural America has relied to prepare the land for planting and to cultivate and har-- vest the yield--the farmer's faith-- Until the advance in power farming methods the horse was depended upon solely for the heaviest field work as well as for the lighter tasks and Panne _ _ stoudoiet The number of horses in this terri-- tory and their value are indicative of the great agricultural wealth which with other natural resources are back of the securities of this Company. ecual u. , Rprrouwgks Lake County Fair Restaurant of Washburn Congregational Church of Half Day, Hlinois STOP FOR LUNCH Best of Home--Cooked Dinners and Lunches Also All Kinds of Soft Drinks and Ice Cream -- -- SPECIAL CHICKEN DINNERS DAILY Our Tent Will be Located Just North of the Fountain. You are Invihed to Make It® Your Headquarters BARBER SHOP & POOL ROOM I l TXIILA D A DBED C Herman Feitz and_ [ _--__ Phone 144--W, Libertville, 11| WHILE ATTENDING THE No Waiting £/2xa 41. AT THE «in ( & a BX Akk ky | * * Xol I% w¥ £4 PP a'vs $4.0 w0