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"The fourth purchase was made WMaMoflm-cmwu Mndninneondtonone. “The third purchase was made at Bloomingdale a few miles north of Glen Ellyn. There 40 acres were pur- chased. "The board has (our preserves bought and is buying the fifth. The first preserve bought you are doubtâ€" less familiar with, is on Roosevelt Road just west of York Road about two miles south of Elmhurst; this is an 80-acre tract. The preserve ac- quired was 70 acres just South of “West Chicago along the west branch of the DuPage River. This is a splen- did preserve combining as it does a fine stream with the woods and roll- ing ground. Just last week an addi- tional purchase of 40 acres was made there. This ground was bought from an old gentleman named Mr. Bolles. When the contract was drawn up he turned armmd and put up a certified check for $l,000 toward a dam to he put in this summer so as to provide a boating and swimming place. The work will be started soon and when it is done West Chicago and vicinity is certainly going to have a beautiful and most inviting preserve. The fact remains that we are only the second county in the state to have forest prpservcs. May there he more of them. Under our plan of organi. ution the County Board of Super- visors compose the Forest. Preserve Board. at. are heritmres of the past, they fire the products of I hundred years of growth. they cannot be produced h a few years. Park: can be pro- duced in I lew years, but only at enor- ms cost, and they cannot take the place of natural forests. Since we of this generation and time have had the pleuure and health building oppor- tunity of roaming in natural forests. 'hlt are we going to do to insure this privilege to our children and the children yet unborn? When we stop to consider about it at all we see that it is a most solemn duty that we owe our descendants; where will there be my forests even forty or fifty years from today unless preserved now? viola Ibo-really Ind an. uklnz the “up. they should to mun/e Dome of lulu". not only for the present Maori, but the loner-“om yet unbom. This country in yet very mug and still than in very little at mturnl acumen and bonny how-- about: ummnvd luy man. Our {or o “Cook county availed use]! of 0M Mace of ”Ila act almost at once and May has about 25,000 aura pur- chaaad. They surely have gone at it [flute seven! year: Ago xivlnx any district containing one or more vil- luu or cities and having one or more natural {omu 029 power by retain Iggul pnredum and the vote of the mic to Incorporate n n {oust pre- m district. “Hwy of you are tunilinr with the omniution campaign, and hard work M made thin for"! preserve dhtrict I reality. For those who are not 1-- um” with the movement. I will ny dnt I luv wu puud by the legit- As an intermission the bugler at? in the forest gnve the calls of the Army as he had learned them in years 01 unite in the U. S. F. J. Littlelord, supervisor {mm Downers Grove, one of the members of the Forest Preserve Committee of flat Board and chairman of the com- mittee which had the community pk- Ilk in charge. head A paper on the Pom! l’reserve in Cook nnd DuPnge counties. “Memories of the great past will come back into the mind again. The (vacuum standing on his own door- mp will be contrasted with the ten- ant opening the door to his landlord. Visions of a garden or a field over which one has all the rights of sov- ereignty will make very dreary the reality of a yard in the rear of an lylrtment building. Discontent will inevitably follow, but. it will be dis- content from which great content will come. It is not merely giving expres- lion to an idle fancy to say that the {amt preserves by revealing the pleasure that may be derived from public ownership of land may induce thou who have abandoned their land to come back again and by regaining their land regain their proud emi~ name as American freemen." ”a in which they may take root, the put has loét its meaning along with in reality, and the future is merely . misty chaos into which we may blindly plunge and be submerged and annihilated. “It is because I believe the real light may still be seen between the grant trees of the people’s forests that I am grateful for the establish- ment of the forest west-Wes. When a man from the city, who owns no WE SPEAKING FEATURE 0F COM- MUN [TY P I C N I C land, who is a tenant at the will of a grasping landlord, walks along the knee of the people‘s land he must no the light. He must see what the fight illumines. Mr. Littlelord'n remark, in part, (Continued from Page I) Among the hawthorn: stand oaks Fat men: George Cash and maples and presently the track Is in trade, L. Klein; Jim R all but lost in a clone growing forest. California ham, Stewart I The path slopes to the nnflll and be- Free for all ladies: R neath the trees grow flowers. some patrlck, first, special ca familiar and some unusual. Pursuing Bakery; Mrs. Elmer Uhlll the way slowly. each glance mung special cake, Ross Bakery. The Wagon Track wanders along lined on either side for several rods of half claarlng by wild crab app!» trees and hawthorn. which in spring are masses of pink and white and through the hot days of snmyler look serenely cool. Virtually all the varied flora of "ii- nois is represented in our Forest Pre- serve, the prairie trees. the rmh and the hawthorn; the forest growths. the oak. the poplar. the linden. the ash. the hickory, the walnut. the maple: and the aims and of flowers there is no end from early spring to late fall and even in winter the red berries of the haws. the soariet rose «~-~ and the flaming' seeds of the Indian turnip and the red of the Solomon seal some- times stand out above the snow. while the green brier does its best to make up for the absence of pines and firs. Let us walk dawn the Wagon Track from the south gateway and explore the reserve. Aways to It from the villagp is from Maplo avenue down the Wagon Track and from Gilbert avenue by the Shady \Vay‘ Mr. Jones‘ talk was very interest- ing. "9 has the faculty of making any subject he touches interesting. Part of the talk is reproduced be- low: Our Form! Presorho, is traversed by three prinrlpnl roads. the Grassy Path. Th9 Wagon Traok and The Shady Way, together with countless methfi and hy-ways, running in a" di- rortlnns. Howard P. Jones. who needs no in. tmdudinn to Downers Gum waders, was the nu: speaker. He knows the flora and fauna of that (mt of wood: as well. if not hatter, than anyone whn makes their home in this vicinity. He has lived at the edge of that hit of fans! since a wee chap, has played tho". picked flowers and chased birds. besides swimming in (he “Har- her." an annual valuation of about 84.â€" 900.000 and consequently would mile about $3.000 per year {or am pur- pose. I do run know 0! the exact popc ulallon of the township, but have gunned it at 12.000. If it is, the rate not person would hr only 25 mm per person per year. Then the "null- an‘ worth it, are "my no” Then let‘s boost tho idea and make the most of our npportunllles." “Tbe nae-sod valuation of all pmp~ "1y in this county Int nu wu manly $28,000,000. The (amt pre- nm In lu two-third- of one-tenth at one per mt on the tanned v-lu» Non. The (on! amount ruined lust year wu about 820.000 {or the whole county. [lumen Grove :mmshlp lu- "When the cost of then preserves an prorated the amount per pawn in aim: negligible. “Now a word as to the cost of these wonderful acquisitions. We have paid $200 per acre right straight through so far. I think the county is making a wonderful investment. When- is there an investment that will pay higher returns? To be true. we are not putting it into something that we can eat. or wear, or ride in or on, but we are putting it into something that will pay hit: dividends in health, education and democracy. I! democ- racy in to endure. among other things we need are more of the natural play- grounds as antidotes to the breaking down of health. morals and ethic: by the artificiality of the times. “Preserve No. 5 is at Fullersburxr; 70 acres will be acquired there. Most of it is already contracted for. but the owners of two or three small pieces have held out and it is maybe neces~ sary to bring condemnation proceedâ€" ings to acquire them. This tract is the old picnic ground dear to many of us. It lies along Salt creek west of Grane’s Mill. Salt creek is dried out now and the place does not look like it used to when it provided much boat riding, skating and swimming, but cheer up the good old days are coming back. A new dam will be put in and the boating, etc, will be better than ever. When we first tool: up the matter with the county board, their finances were low. and. too. they thought the price would be too high. But. by seiz- ing the opportunity before these grounds were all sold for subdivision burposes. by hard work, the coâ€"opera- tion of our lucal banks, We found after the smoke of battle cleared away that we had an 80-acre preserve and at a cost of only $16,000. Let. me say in this connection that I believe Mr. Field made a very generous price to us on this ground because it was go- ing to be used as a preserve. When your local committee went. into see the Field Estate it was our good for- tune :0 meet Mr. Field “I personally, and we certainly did not let the op- portunity slip to put. our proposition right up to him. “I think we have one of the finest preserves in the county and as far as accessibility is concerned We havé it. We now have a perpetual park of 80 acres within walking distance of the town. ”OWNERSQROVE REPORTEQ DOWNERS GMVE, ILLINOIS Fat men: George Gash, first, $2.50 in trade, L. Klein; Jim Raby, second, California ham, Stewart Burns. Free for all ladies: Marion Fitz- patrick, first, special cake, Baker’s Bakery; Mrs. Elmer Uhlhorn, second. Three-legged race: Frederick Kalor, first, fishing reel, J. D. Gillespie (70.; Henry Schindler. second, electric flash light, D. G. Electric Shop; Har- ry Johnson, third, white shoes, Morris Shoe Store; Fremont Plamheck, third, $1.50 in trade, Emrich Bros. Married ladies: Mrs. Elmer Uhl- horn, first. aluminum percolawr, Mertz Mochel; Mrs. Wm. Bollon, second, one pair silk hose, Lehman Michel. Young ladies: Marion Fitzpatrick, first, $5 gold piece, Lord Lumber (30.; June Beidelman, second, $2.59 gold piece, Lord Lumber (‘0. Married men: Fred (‘urtiss, first, $1.50 in trade, Fred Mochel; second. box cigars, J. L. Swearingen. Girls, 15 years: Elinoro Lauimt. first, bottle perfume. Siehert Nor- ris; Martha Stoops, second. box candy, Bertilin dz Siehert. Frve for all men: C. Fitzpatrick, first, 83 shirt, Vic Tholin; Frank Story, second, suit cleaned, J. Mazza. Girls, [0 yours: Florence Wander, first, hoflle perfume. Jules Zindt; Eli- nnre Singlcteny, second, 82 box candy, Downers vae Candy Kitchen. 803's, 15 years: Fremont Plambcck, first. khaki union-all, John Nash; Ernst Andrus, second, 81, Harry Sut- tor. Boys. 10 yvarR: James llninko, first, 3|, (7. F. Schmidt; “Richard Hillard. so-cnnd, 3|. Philip Mochel. ’ Girls 6 ”an: Dav-"thy Morris. first, bottle perfume. Zindt’s Phar- macy; Flmsoln-ll (line. second 81. C Penn" Hays. 6 years: Richard 0N0, first. khaki mums", H. E. MrAllister 0 Fan; Robert Dirke. second. 3|. Emil Huehn. All of the «mansion of the day were in the hands of the Downers Grove fire department. The rates. a list of which is printed below, were pnflicipsk-d in by many. Th!" speaking pruznm w” rinsed when the Rev. Gilhvrt H. Nrwltmd gave the benediction. A: Mr. PM”?! finished. the ad, "mt strains 0! "an," coming it seemed from some «do wot. blown 9"th {mm hiry (rumpus. m hoard. and u was n mung climax to the masking. The Study Way branches below the bridge. om- Ipnr lead: to the out border or the Preserve had the village property just west of the an"! ptl. The other upur random Along balda the «~le and low: ltwlt In tho old gravel plt nur tho rlllrood Inch. The Rev. Phelps then filled his put of the prom": with in eloquont ul- ‘dreu on the connection betwnn the dullndon of this beauty spot and the world war. He called Attention to the many gallant young men who hul gone forth from vlltuml like our! and had not returned. Ho mid how Ip- pmprl-tc it "a that then! trnn whkh hud lived for you" and would continue to live (or mnny more. Ilmuld In living monummu to the brnvc boy: who Ind not return-d (mm l-‘lander's Fields. Here the Shady Way turns sharply to the rlght and deacemlu lo a denim- Ilalml hrldm spanning what one» won the Roaring 8!, J09. but is now a muddy ditch. May we hope Ihu! \hv new sanitary district wtll malom this ulrmm to It: prlltlne beauty. The Shady Way is :1 well beaten road which a sudden shower will change into a miniature torrent. ll winds about and prt-sently skim; a deep hollow in which great trees grow. it is a reminder of the glacial ago when Downers Grove and the sur- rounding country was covered many feet deep with ice. Whil'h m l! melted left. deposits of gravel; This hollow was the resting place of n vnut block or clear ice. which when it melted left no deposit of gravel as did its dirty neighbors. on some new beauty. we shortly ob- serve a break in the dense woods and the Wagon Truck crosses the Grassy Path. To the right we look up the vista of the Grassy Path and see the pond called The Barker, fringed with sedges and ringed round with state!) trees. To the left lies the elm swamp. where the roots submerged in spring torn) curious mounds at the base of the towering trees. Before us opens the entrance to the Shady Way, and we proceed down a. gentle slope into shade so dense that noon day is al- most twilight und lute afternoon is almost darkness. Hero on either side the trees clustert Most of them are maples. the hard or sugar maple of Vermont and pancake fame, with here and there an oak. an ash and an onvaslonul walnut. The trees here grow so close together that there is calmly un neighbors. no room for branches to catch the sunshine and the trunks go straight and bare. twenty. thirty or forty {vet till they find room and sunlight in which to expand their foliage. Down the dim aisles to left and right can be seen giants of the woodland. those sturdy pioneers. oaks and maples. vet- «reins of many years. looking down ‘hoir smaller younger A [m Anne-Ion «alum: n! Inn-rut to many in lhwmn (:ruw lml; plun- hm.)- o-wnimz, June 24. mm. a! R230 nt IM- BiMn lmlilulv “ho-II lhI- Rrv. Franklin (3. "Mine. pastor at the 'llmwr Slrrfl Humid Hum-DI of In! Anurlm’km Imilrd in marrinér- :u ”ell. llamiv "all, Snwrintrmknl I»! anon of flu- HIMI- lmhmtv. A rorvplinn fullmrod the «Mummy in the pariah 0! lhv Imusun». The lame auditnrium was filhwl tn m-or- flowing and am": those prmwm Iren- 30w (allowing: Mrs. J. I}. llulinz, mnIht-r of ”W rrvmm; Miss Marc-rot Hnlinu and Mr. and Mn. John "Ming. all of Ins Annrlos; Mrs. Julia "ulimz Brock. of Vallejo, (‘al.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allurrl, nf ”Marin, Fat; Mrs. [Ir-Ila Lyman Mitchell, of Long Bench. Cal: Mrs. John RIIIhorfnrd. first} Dockstovk-r, Miss (‘nrn Blaine“, Mr.‘ and Mrs. H. E. Saunders and daugh‘ {er ()Iivv, Mr. and .‘lrs. "aka. Mr. and Mn. ('lampitt, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Golisrh. Mr. and Mrs. M. leka,§ 30 Acres Trees, Shrubs, and Vines best for this climate. Uttleford Nurseries Phone 312-] Landscape Gardening our Specialty In. Blah lean-n (o mourn Mr loan a hula-d with whom who lived happily {or mon- thln forty yearn, mm non. {owph IM lwn Autumn". Jmephim and ”arms. hunks n lam number of Manda. ' 8M ha.- muk Mr homo In "w var far twenty-wvm .wan. l-‘mwrul services were held yester- day morning at St. Mary“): Catholic Church, But Grove. m-lomn Imuicm high mm lath; mm! by Rev. Fr. .1. (Bulimia, parlor of the church Ir- “Med by the Rev. J. Zelvziwlu and R. E. Scum-atom. If your machine misses st hes. breaks thread. runs hard or gives you any trouble, phone Wellington 2252 or send postal and they Will call and examine it without charge placing you under no obligation. Office 2009-11 Irving Park Blvd., Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Mary Banks. wit.- a! Julian Bankx. died at Mr home in East l'ruiric avenue. Monday. July 4th. a! the an o! 62 want. George W. Slausou 8: Son She was married in Jun:I 1872 to George R. Willard and mow-d to Downers Grove in 1894 whem she has since made her home with the exception of a few years. Mrs. Willard leaves to mnurn her loss twn children, Mrs. Ernest Gul- lup of Highland monue and Frank A. Willard, of North Main street. arr not sewing machine agents and have nothing to do with the sale of machines, but are simply mon who have spent a lifetime in the business of sewing machine ad- justing. Mm. Willard was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Gross, old settlers of the county, and was born in l852 on the old Grass homestead near Lisle. where her pun-ms had M-ttled in l844. Funeral services were held Wed- nesday afternoon, July 6th, at her old home, 114 North Main street, the of- ficers of Vesta. Chapter. No. 242, 0r- der of the Eastern Star, officiating at the house and the Rev. Hugh M. MacWhorter, pastor of S. Andrew's Episcopal Chum-h, taking charge at the grave. Interment was made in llronswood cemetery, Hinsdnle, at the side of her husband. Taken on in all the community pic- nic was a success. Next year we will have no forest preset-we to dedicate, but. we might celebrate the first anni- versary of the dedication of the forest preserve. Anyway, let’s have another community picnic next year. The death of Mrs. Kate Willard. one of the old residents'of Dul’age County, occurred at the Eastern Star home at Macon, Illinois, Sunday even- ing, July third. The soft drink stand, the “babies," the wheel, and later in the evening the dancing, all had their devotees. Box and basket lunches were un~ packed and parties and families gath- ered around, partaking of the good things “mother" had packed for the occasion. Hundreds of references from MRS. KATE WILLARD SEWING MACHINES Rebuilt MRS. MARY BANKS HALLâ€"HULING Nuts of Cedar Bark. A new idea {or hen's nests. to keep Insects out of them. is to make them of cedar hark. Bugs, as nary house- wife knows. strongly object to «Mar. For this purpose ”to bark is shredded and the buds of the tree may be In- cludod with Ii. Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Lyman. Mrs. An- gelo, Cecil Angelo, Mina Viola Clam~ pitt, all of Los Angeles Cal., formerly of Downers Grove. Miss Isabel Brunet and Mr. Fred- erick W. Nelson, both of Downers Grove, were united in matrimony at 6 o‘clock last Saturday evening at the parsonage of the First Evangelical Church. The Rev. J. Alfred Nansen, pastor of the church, read the service. Both young people are well known and highly respected in this community. The happy couple will make their home at 44 North Forest avenue of this village. Many friends unite in wishing: them a long and hupiiy wedded life. Early in September Rev. and Mrs. Huling expect to make a short visit to Downers Grove when on route to Louisville, Ky., where the groom will complete his studies. mammommmny 19 W. Railroad st. We have in transit and also in stock all kinds and sizes of Coal. Coal will not be cheaper, in the fall or winter, than it is now. So get your next winter's supply in your bins NOW and he prepared for anything the winter might bring. Added to this is the. danger of n serious car shortage. Grain and other things are starting to move very fast with the gradual resumption of business, leaving less ears for coal. Conditions are gradually working themselves around to the same as prevailed in the early part of last winter. The mines have not been worked to full capacity during the summer months which makes a shortage at the mines. ‘ BRUNET~NELSON Our mhico is “Order Your Coal While the (iotting's Good. " “Get It While the Getting’s Good” is a slang phrase but it applies to COM. right now. Lord Lumbgf company Phone Day 20 Resident Member of the Lumberman’a Publicity Bureau Buschmann Bros. GE Our best grades areâ€"â€" Pittston Ham Coal NERAL TEAMING AND TRUCKING MOVING AND STORAGE NONE BETTER IN ILLINOIS LUMP, EGG and MINE RUN ORDER NOW! Downers Grove, Illinois Pocahontas Phone after 6 P. M. 142 J A Hall- Problem. 0!! the average head there an . thousand hairs to each square Inch. Find out the number of square Indus in your scalp and you wlll soon know the appmxlmate number of hair: on It. that Is. It you have a normal bad of hair. v Suggestion: Sn Ordor. Jud Tunklns says a bird that can sing and won't slug must be made to singâ€"dual how are you going to mm in Happlmu Not A". 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