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est and other north shore towns, council meetings; am! doing What should be done . to build up the NEWS-LETTER, is for him at pre- sent. inadvisable. The .editor has full faith that a clean, independent, nvwsy publication on the north shore would meet with plenty of support, and it is with regret that he is forced to give an fm- Hm mu- {when-only .a beginning had. been made, illness compelled the. editor to withdraw in all but name from the NEWS-LETTER. His name was kept on the editorial page as it was thought that this winter he might take charge again. . Only until recently, how’eVer, has the present editorthandled the editorig. 3] page. In retiring from all ac- tive work on this little paper the, editor wishes to state that he gives up the/Work only because of ,the fact that keeping in touch with the interests of VVinnetka, Lake For- est and other north ahnm 4m...“ v ~ -Oâ€"uu. A-year ago the ‘present editor and manager were adding to the advertiSing receipts of the NEWS- LETTER and strengthening the pa'- per in all the north shore; Then. Today's issue of the N EWSH-LET- TEB is the last published under the guidance of the present regime. “Wm-g mm .u. k at oltller o‘fla. nova M ”'0.“ Entered n the POI‘O u secondwlul matter. nice at Highlnnd hit Neva-Letter Bulldinv Ti; b ".1 Hkhlgnd Puke n Sheridan Road Publishing Co. IIJSHA IOIOAN ‘. J. 703.38? A Condo: «x mm. sum magnum SATURDAY. JANUARY 20. Tdcpbou No.32, W Put. lubed every Saturday morning I Elli zd‘ Park, m. md Winnettn. "L. by glue A Change In muggemeut. TERMS 8L3!) PER YEAR. onncu; . . to build Hp the is for him at pre. 9. The .editor has (31081), independent, ion on the north wet with plenty of is with regret that givv up for the pre. IADIAOEI Avenue. That the hike waterJ in impure no doubt thy,- state board "of health will ‘ find. From an aesthetic standpoiht, to drink from the lake into whicha large part of the sew- age of the city flows is in itself water at' all,;bnt usetl well watgr; so-the ublic have not seriously sufleredp from file delay. ‘ A A to say nothing of the. constant yearly expense attending the man- 'agement of it, to have passed the ordinance at that time' when tne public knew practically nothing eitherss to what was being ‘done or as to the needs of it "or remedies in case there were nny need; The Citizen’s Association, as soon as they leurimlof the matter, took up the subject and appointed a oom- mittee. and the matter hes been. given a good deal of study,“and, yet the general sentiment Seems to be that really the public have but enteredfairly upon .a careful“ and thorough investigation. An individual may take up a matter, sit down and investigateand reach a conclusion in a short time. Far otherwise with the general public; 01’ necessity they move slowl . In the meantime we hem! know edge of but one case of typhoid fever occurring in the city and this in 'a family which did not use lake water at' all.;but used well walnu- Janhary 26th is the day set by the Council for a special meeting to take up the subject of water fil- teration. This very important subject was brought 1: in the Council in the form 0 an Ordi- nance some six months ago and-“am effort made to pass it at. the same meeting. It_ would, to say the least, have been very unseemly haste, especially in a matter in- yqlving so much outlay of capital on n-.. _.~AI ‘ senirat lent his plan of aiding in building a pa 1‘ I'm-thy of the "north shore. xd he wishes to thank the people of Highland Park and of the north shone for the an rtgiveu this paper. a Hr. J0 n Finnev. for annual manila. - John Finney, for sword months u stock holderintho Sheridan Road Publishing Company duo wiuheu to announce his withdrawal nu one of the‘ men intereutedinthe NEW!!- Ln‘r‘ren. . The announcement o! the new management and further as to the new plans of this pupa- will be made in the'nenr future. ‘ SHERIDAN ROAD NEWS-LETTER. A Communication. .v_. -wâ€" run lie and acceptably to hisnonatitueuts and having learned how to ado the work, We people wish to retain him for no her term at least, end they havebeeu “at him” for e longtime to run again. Hence the wideapread satiifnction over his candidagere. Mr Lyon; can do vhtly‘ more-Io: his own county and the state of Illinois ‘tlmn "any. new manguo matter how able or honest. . One must-get the “hang of the school house” to be a good legis- lator and Mr. Lyon' bad that. Let there be no organized opposition this year. , Tm: many friend; of,’ George'R. Lyon in this region will be planed to know thgt he has yielded ' to the Mutant pad persistent deménds of his hosts ofsupporters ill over Lake downy to be again ' '6 candidate for theyleg'islature. He has servad two terms-most auceesafulfi forvtba pub. IL. -AJ A - . v ” " ‘ J ' There are other problems still beng investigated in connection with the subject and the council. in our opinion, would better serve the pn blic'by deferring the whole question another .six months than to bun-y about the passage of the ordinance and then fail to treceim the'epproval of the public. ‘ - 'A .V__ v-â€" of mate; To tempOmrilyladopt a; incomplete and ineficieut remedy. will only delay the try? remedy: M‘>__ , .I The sentiment is steadily in- creasing thst, granting there may water, granting that I‘ filter may take out a part of these, granting that the plsnt will not cost more than twenty or twenty-five thou. sand dolleu to begin with, grant- ing that the snuuslexpense to run it efficiently. will only be a few hundred dollars; stills filter is not the proper remedy. Sooner or la- ter there must be a method adapt- ed to carry all the sewage west! ward either to sewage firms or,by Combinedeflort film the whole north shore blnfl, carry it thrpugh the skokiesouthviard. No plain will everbe'satislsetory to the public which permits the sewage to run into the lake and still drew our drinking supply from that body afloat”. but thorb m‘queo'tiom (ff Vital imporunoo conceming which the public have not yet reached a satisfactory mush-ion and in which another six months could be profitably spent in study- ing. 4 A Cruz“.