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GREAT COMMERCIAL VALUE {LLINOIS PRODUCES --72,308,655 TONS OF COAL IN LAST YEAR 4s in America a huge Gemand for printed stories and for those that ap-- pear on the moving picture screen. Thousands of them are supplied every week to a public which is bungry for make--believe, for the romance and ad-- ¥enture which the necessities of mak-- ing a living prevent them from obtain-- Eight Different Types of Coal are Taken from Mines in This State This Year. . Springfield, Ii1, Oct. 30--A total of 72,308,655 tons of coal were taken :fiom l!linois mines in the year end-- ing June 30, 1924, statistics just com-- piled by. Martin Bo!lt, director of the state department of mines and min-- 'erals, show. Approximately 70,000,000 tons were produced : by shipping WM while local mines / produced P balance. c 10 hk ing in any other way. +In the writing buine?&a In any other & large de-- mad is /"the natpral precursor of a large supply and of handsome prices for the goods desired. Persons with imagination who may have been con-- tent to revile the public taste in a garret, when no one wanted their ~Eight different types of coal are produced in commercial quantities in the state the figures. showed. ' «uantity of each dug during the year follows: lump 18,.044,274 tons, furnace 9,289,733 tons, smail egg 3,968,895 tons 'stove 1,650,578 tons, chestnut 4,497,634 tons, pea 590,390 tons, car-- bon 1,299,498 tons, screenings 18,715,-- 969 tons, mine run 16,660,122 tons. _ District No. 10 comprised of Frank lin and Jefferson counties. was the heaviest producing district, its mines hoisting 12.288,845 tons. The twerth district, which includes Jobhnson and Williamson counties, was Wecond with ©,420,655 tons production. . ' ~Production of the other districts follows: First--Bureau, Grundy, Hen-- _ry, LaSallel, Livingston, Mercer, Put-- _nam, Rock. Tsland and Will counties 509435 _ tons; * GSecond -- Adams, Brown, Cass, Fulton, Hapncock, Knox, Schuyler and Warren counties, 1, §83,313 tons; Fourth--Logan, Menard Morgan, .Sangamon,-- Scott, 71,196,166 "m Fifth--Christlan, Macon, Mou!-- ~trie, Shelby, and Vermillion coun-- ~ties, 7.355.304 tons; ~Sixth-- Green, * Jersey, ~Macoupin and Montgomery _ eounties, --8,150,313 . tons: Seventh-- _ Bond, . Crawford, : Madison, -- Marion _ counties, 4,122,819 tons; Ninth--Jack-- _ son, Terry, Randolph,. Washington _ eounties, 5,254.855 tons; Fleventh -- Callatin, --_Saline, Wabash, . White _ eounties, 5.102,50% tons. > wares, hava yielded to economic de mand. They have seen the bright golden sun of the promised land and have come down helter--skeiter to the first foor front. ; F Writing Becomes a Business. Not only have; most .of the tradi-- tional breed of writers come back into the fold of conventlonality and de-- manded the fatted calf of the returned prodiga!, but thousands of others with just as good imaginations, who under old conditions would 'never ~have turned to writing, have recognized the HEALTH CRUSADE . -- -- -- ONINCODNTY Childern of the county are on a 16 week campaiga on'sa h crusade for the improvement of ¢ ditions aniong the publis of the rural #chools. The movement is under di-- rection of the Lake County s JjJosis Society. w The children are 65%8rving certain health rules, and they have Individ wal charts Wept nnder supervision of their school teachers Uhder the plan physical defects of the ohildren are clouli.wauh«l and dorrectiona .--made for impove-- ment of theitr health. -- ie o in macdive ""'m By international News: Service ictiic : Wls oib e oi let'a T * * ® s f A : ° +. * , yF .. o4 7;' \ o 2 * . : ' -\'t'f.\ .# (\}§// "fi% ',\) "i -%'\ 4 A H\ -- # T o _ ; w'\g N( 6 ; 32 MAE // *L 4 * 3 > Cld « "a% l l .% w2 *( ."'f'\ «\A\\//'\ '?/:lf"'rr}\ $ 'y\/@ wl C 2 j4 h(*""" '~ '(: "'oflm& the way for thousands who had good stories in their imaginations to make the sort of lHving they privately han-- kered for. When stories were limited 4n output, and there was no way to ascertain what the people at large real-- y wanted, only the so--called "high-- brow," the lofty and often very ob-- scure author, had any reason for prac-- ticing literature. His products could be circulated well enough'to satisfty 'him among the small group of persons who thought and felt as he did. _ -- U T g.| _ Bloomington, Oct, 30.----The sevenia' fAifth anniversary of the founding o'{ the io | iMinois Wesleyan University will be When the millons began to read, on the other hand;, they found the writ-- ings of the above mentioned high-- brows like dust in the mouth. They were pretty, fanciful fabrications that ECHOES FROM -- THE STATE BY THE L. N. . By International News Zervice fnvatily Joliet, Oct. 30.--Elorists from --many | tub°"CHR lllinoig cities will display their choic-- | addresse est flowers at the annual flower show | the Uni+ to be held in connection with the con--| P. Raver '..u..uxmp Nlinoi# Nhfl'm" Ochsner associatioh here November 7, 8, 9, and | of Sprit vention THo HHIEDARE EL __ i1 _¥ BurinuRalA HL. associatioh here November 7, 8, 9, and| of Springfield, 11. and Mrs. T. D 10. 4 o d Sachs, superintendent of the Chicago The vwmm will be welcom--| Tubsrculosis h't.t:zu. * ed in an nddress by Mayor Sehfinq 'the annual n toy"} «94 & Fésbonse will be made by eulosis in has _b Amman of Edwardsvilie. Talks upon | from 135 to 100,000 in 1918 to '= trade toplcs by promiinent members|100,000 in 1923, it' was announced are on the program. k tmomei a t * / the report from the secretary, " budiie cnamm omemongmenin ts1 LNE ... o u.. c o ie «/' dvvane 4 oal Uust explosions, like the one seen in the above picture, have takeg the lives of thousands of miners. But now the Federa\ Bureau of Mines believes it has found a :Py to combat them with this "dust cannon,"; shown below A charge of black powder is fired which sends nn.w W there is any, spraying in all directions. That is warning to to stay at a safe distance Pictures were taken at a bureauy of mines testw "Combating. Coal Dust Blasts 80.--Thé seventy--| . Springfeld, Oct. 30. --A MI: & he founding of the | the proposed increase in tate niversity will be| Bell Telephone company for service muat HomecomIAE | inPeoria, Avetyvilie, Bartonviite, Part LIBERTYYVILLE INDEPENDENT, THURSDAY, _THU! had little relation to the rather raw, full--blooded existence that the masses knew about and wanted to read about. The high--brows delighted in long, slow, involved: and quiet sentences that probably meant something in the end, bat which didn't say anything to the grocer on the corner, or the driver of the groger's delivery wagon; if in-- deed they were ever intended to so. The government might be democratic, but literature certainly was not. It was the most snobbish and aristo-- cratic pursuit there was. To the coal miter it was on a par with china' painting and other drawing--room ac-- complishments, HMe had no use for it. Naturally, under the past restricted output B¢ magazines the sort of peo-- ple who could have written under-- standingly for the coal miner, the rib-- bon clerk, "the tired housewife, and the peddler, went right on in the bread--and--butter occupations they then graced. They even did their past to further the popular impression that writers were queer ducks whose privaté lives would not bear investiga-- tlon and whose thought processes were probably insane. Bohemia Deserted > It was during this period that the impression of a Bohemian soul living in a garret was spread broadcast. Then, as 1 have said. the spreading thousand alumnl are expe¢ted to re turn to the school for the event. 'The celebration will . open Friday with an old fashioned barbecue on m( campus. A "stunt" parade and a play by students will be features of the #ee-- ond day, Decatur, Oct. 30.=The lilincio Tw berculosis asociation opened a tw day convention here today with antl tuberculosis workers from many coup ties present,© The program addresses by Dr. Kennon Dunham the University of Cincianati; Dgi' P. Ravenel of Columbla, Mo.; Dr.: Ochsner of Chicago; Dr. L. _C. Taylor and Peoria Heighth 4s Ey 4¢ activity of the prining press changed things. The traditional impression of the ~Bohemian changed with them. You now correctly have.the picture of a successful business man, who writes for his living, and who i# a constitu-- ent part of one of the greatest indus-- tries in the country; an industry that feeds the movies and the magazines with their life blood. The persons who in the past let their imagination ride, and who took out an bbscure indignation against the snobs of liter-- ature by caricaturing them, noticed the, multiplication of magazines and the growing power of the moving pic-- tures and, went into the business of literature themselves. 'They are now showing how it should be run to bring the greatest good to the gréatest num-- No Pink--Tea Novels Tramps, prize--fighters, sailors, min-- ers are themselves writing stories, novels and photoplays. They know what the people want to read about, because they come from the people uled to be held before the Iilinois com-- merce commission here tomorrow. themselves. 'They have also experi-- enced the harsh contacts with life that make for the creation of virile fiction, told with a snap and a punch, once the technique of writing stories has been mastered. They do not have to confine themselves to observations picked up at pink teas;-- suck observa-- * Springfield, Oct. 30.--Frank T. Bhéetg, chief engineer of the Illinois divisfen--of highways, will tell radid fans of southern Illlinois about the highways~ of the state in an address to be broadcast from station KSD at St. Louis at 9:15 o'clock this evening. Chicago, II1., Oct. 30.--Macon coun--| ty, with 115 boys and girls entered in the nation--wide farm bureau essay contest, is leading all other counties of the state, according to information / announced by the Hlinois Agricultur-- al Association.which is promoting the contest in lllinois. McDonough coun-- ty is second with 62, Henry third | with 51 and Mason fourth with 48. | With 273 -- contestants, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire, is far ahead of all other counties in the United States. . x Waynesville, M., Oct. 30.--A fight against clrtailment of passenger service on the Pepusylvania railroad between Peoria and Decatur is being made by citizens of Waynesville, Minier and other towns along the road. The towns took their case be-- fore the Illinois commerce commis-- sion when the railroad applied for 'permision. to cancel two trains. -- The \cuo was continued for sixty days. _ 'Thirteen cash prizes are being. of-- fered to the Illinois winners in addi-- tion to substantial national prizes. .Bpringfield, I1!., Oct. 30.--Out of 99 sources of water supply available to tourists traveling along five of the principal bighways of llilfmMois only 14 have proven to be sufficiently sani-- tary to be regarded . as safe -- for drinking purposes. This tsatement was made by the state department of public health aft-- er its sanitary engineers had per-- sonaly inspected the water supplies and analyzed samples from each. The inspection of water supplies--along the main touring routes in the state is being carried out by the health department in an effort to protect tourists from contaminated drinking water. Galesburg, I1., Oct. 30.--Lombard ouucohmmunfimdwthou- tent of $40,000 by the will of the late Chatles L Hutchinson, .of Chicago, welathy banker, according to word received by the trusteos of the col lage. Hutchinson's estate of $1,500, o ~y . A Adf CWhenaine mtrvcrimy * PDIA NCM $00, has been largely divided among mu"l. religious--. and benevo*' institutions, they were Informed. wmtm wree the birds of Apolio. T two fine wupecies of swang id oo t id ' m "g__m * SW a * Swans Not Songsters @wans have been favorites of peo: a sinte ancient times, Greeks calltd fiz» tions as were quite sufficlent to insure the reputations of an earlier day. When it comes to day--dreams and phantasies, they know the kind that amuse and beguile the ordinary man. Knowing the market and having the goods, they proceed to practice just the way a manufacturer of steel shov-- els would start to manufacture if he found himself over an iron mine. The Tools of the Trade There has been only one other thing necessary to effect this transforma-- tion. It is the same thing that applies to the biginner in any.business or in-- dustry--that is the mastery of the tools with which he intends to work. Here were thonsands. of persons throughout the country who had the proper imagination to beguile the in-- terest of their fellows, men and women with intelligence and experi-- ence who had stories to tell for which the world was ready to . pay hand-- somely; but, having scorned the occu-- on fact, although the occurrence is much less common than is generally believed Ways of "Milk Snake" \ North Shore Gas Company [ We Serve The Daily Needs * _The North Shore is growing perhaps more rapidly than any other section of this country. . The people on the North Shore are daily users of gas, --------This Company is offering you a chance to become a partner in this business, through the ownership of a few shares in this fast growing Company. ' -- These Shares may be had cither for cash or on a savings plan, for $100.00 each and will pay you dividends quarterly at the rate of 7% per'year,. They are non--taxable. . This is an ideal investment for your surplus funds or it will be an excellent place to put your savings. '~__ Send us the attached coupon or phone outr nearest we will have our représentative call upon you. Without obligating me in anyway, please have your representative call on me regarding your 7% investment. of The Entire North Shore Let's get together and talk Name _ Address pation of writing as a futile and profitless one, they had--never learned the craft of setting forth their stories in a form that would give them the greatest effect on the printed page. They had the raw material that was demanded by a great industry, with-- out the training to put it into manu-- factured form. No better evidence of this condition can be found than in the springing to birth a decade or so ago of the first schools in which, mostly by corre-- spondence, these inarticulate story-- tellers could learn the traditional rules of the business they yearned to enter. A number of men and women had learned the rules by ethaustive digging into old libraries, consulting The poet Whittier was one of a number of Americans who achieved fame and never married, In his long and active life as an editor, an% legislator, reformer and poet, seemed to give no thought to mar-- Y ou Interested? Whittier a Bachelor GCGovUPON it over. such of the traditional practitioners,, of literature as were willing to reveal! the methods of their craft, and they; had combined with the laws thus dis-- covered the newer principles that! practice according to the popular de-- mand had developed. These persons' had assembled a mass of data that' meant the sailvation of the inarticulate: throngs who felt their stories but did: not know how to get them into story form. They offered to share it. The: offer was snapped--up from the most' unexpected places. . A great new ex--' periment in the fiction manufacturing} business was started. Today it has' proved a success, which the size and output of the story--telling industry make evident. Time Wasted y ®Sendin' Mariar ter uni finishin® school was all nonsense," said old Haw« buck as his daughter went into tha W'w- P EC RE! that young man Foster been caliin' here for six months an' she ain't able to fintsh him yet." PAGE office and her visitor. ¥ 9 13 hoR s tie