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."§f€ bo£€ __| Solvay C Chicago had 1 gas when its population was only 23,047. Better illumination is urged to preâ€" vent drowsiness in church. | Damage from coal smoke costs Chiâ€" cago $20,000,000 annually.‘ | 4 The: world‘s longest telephone cirâ€" cuit is between Chicago and Los PAGE TEN Dodge Bros. Motor Cars YWe FLORSHEIM $HOE FRANK SILJESTROM PAUL 'u% cheaper than llal 509 Central Ave, _ H.P. 456 _ Highlknd Patk, III. FOR THE MAN Time tells â€"The FLO A Shoe business is bij ug men liked theirfirsfpai an bought a second. Jn FLORâ€" SHEIM popularity is| the growth of a nation‘s approvigl. HIGHLAND PARK, II Phones: Highland Park for home heating plants. Chiap‘ommehlly-dsr:cko A uniform and clean, smokeless N O SmOk $ No Soot | Few Ash C H I C A G: 0 , Fill your bin now (â€" At Present Low Price HIGHLAND PARK FUEI CQ. |\ * Phone 33%â€" +| | T 1e Flors;le;m ?( . + @0 | _| ‘FELLBROS. (| ORDER YOUR DEALER TO . MePhetson FOR SALE BY ‘More : than ©150,000 ‘electric lam; are to iitht“,jhe s h Leviathi Fâ€"* 3 t Oneâ€"fc oflmrit:i University‘s surplus undanr invested in p\im utility ty £p 2P . To prevent rust in a gas stove, leave over ,nop:fot'gfew -flmjz after burners are lighted. fof. .LIN01£ 120 â€" t2i one 67 eeeue sceses asee MAY MAKE $59,700 : _| ;â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" PAVING lY'lRROVEMENTI ~FOLKS d hnd chscethsmnd Aiibes ABt brnaed ns ecteefidin: Abnaectat cb in oc cal y ige. enue, Pleasant avenue, Washington place, Roger Williams â€" avenue and. Hillside drive. f : s ~â€" The Melloy Construction company, [ on motion of Commissioner Card, was allowed payment of $3,317.98 on their +contract for construction of a water main .extension in Lakewood drive. ‘â€"_.‘The name of Woodland avenue. may be changed to "Woodland Road" as a result of a public petition of the resiâ€" dents on that road which was presentâ€" ed at the.Friday meeting of the city council. _ The matter was referred to ‘the corporation counsel with instrueâ€" tions to prepare the necessary ordiâ€" nance. Commissioner Cheney presid> ed at the session in the absence of Mayor Hastings. : se Commissioner, Preston moved that Commidsionier~Card be authorized to proceed with the work . of repairing the storm water drain in First street between Laurel and Central avenues. The motion was‘ carried. turhe €OUNCIL â€" RECEIVES â€"BIDS Name of Woodland Ave. May Be â€"â€" Changed to "Woodland . Road" As Result Of Resident‘s Petition ~‘A resolution providing: for paving improvement whig%fiill amount . to approximately $59,700, was adopted at the last meeting of the Board of Local Improvements Friday afternoon. The proposed impiovement, which will have a public hearing in the city hall September 19 at 5:15 p. m., calls for the construction of concrete: reâ€" inforted pavement in St. John‘s aveâ€" nue from Cedar avenue to Roger Wilâ€" liams avenune; Ava street from Judâ€" son avenue to St.â€" Johns avenue; Marshman street from Judson avenue to St. Johns avenue. Kn The members of the â€"Board present were Commissioners Cheney, Card and Preston,, At the opening of the theetâ€" ing Commissioner Cheney was electâ€" ed ‘to preside at the meeting in the absence of Mayor Hastings. . A public petition requesting. extenâ€" sion of .the water main in the County Line road and the Village of the Wood subdivision was received and action was postponed until a later date. . Bids for contracts for sewer conâ€" struction in Burton avenue, Broadâ€" view avenue, Green Bay road, Roger Williams â€" avenue,.. Highland > Park place, Washington place, Northmoor road and Flora place were received and placed on file for 48 hours before being awarded. (Bids were also reâ€" ceived and placed on file for the conâ€" tract for the water line construction in County Line road, Green Bay road, Burton avenue, Braeside road, Ridgeâ€" wood drive, Oak Grove, Broadview avâ€" An ordinance was passed providing for the laying of water lines in Deerâ€" field road, Deerfield place, Lawrence avenue, Division street, Golf avenue, Bob O‘Link Road, Yaeger .avenue, Birch avenue, Deerfleld court, Skokie Valley road, Western avenue, Blodgâ€" ett place and: Deerfleltf avenue, > . Provision for the levying of taxes for 1924 was, made. Payment was alâ€" lowed for the bill accruing since July 1, totalling $24,352.38. 3.A Is TO DISTRIBUTE : BOYHOOD .SURVEY Scout Lecturer and Author to‘ Present New Work at + ‘__Conference §2" Dr. H. W,. Hurt, lecturer and editor of the handbook for scoutmasters, is preparing a survey on Boyhood to present to the scout executives at their Third Biennial conference to be held in Estes Park, Colo., September 6â€"15th. The survey will deal with the boyhood of the nation between the ages of 12 and 20. Some of the topics inclyded will be the number of boys in school and at work; the numâ€" ber connected with leisure time moveâ€" ments such as scouting, Y. M. C. A., settlement clubs, etc.; the . number of boys who are church members; the underâ€"priviliged boys; the juvenile delinquents; the older boys; younger boys and other problems. It is expected that this survey will widen the vision and render more effective the work of the . scout executives as well as be of service to all workers with boys. ¢ DYNAMITE SCARES . _ . LOON LAKE FOLKS Twelve isticks of Explosive . in Cottage Found by Offiâ€" cers Last Week. â€"Residents on the west bank of Loon Lake â€" slept little Jlast Wednesday night. Sheriff Ahlstrom found 12 sticks of dynamite, enough‘to blow up Antioch township, in‘ a cottage there. f 4 The sheriff couldn‘t find the owner, and néighbors had also made themâ€" selves scarce after the report of the finding of the explosive. Ael es The sheriff made inquiry as to the owner of the cottage, and the workâ€" man assured the official that he would A man who had been working in the neighborhood told the sheriff that the dynamite was being used for blowing stumps. > ; Rhetitce,, .. see to it that the owner removed ‘the dynamite without "delay." _ __! . â€" The original tip concerning the loâ€" cation of the dynamite came from Chicago police officers. § ; HICGHLANI‘ PARK PRESS. HIGHLAND PARK. ILLINOI® BENEFITS: ARF MANY /\ _~ _ FROM ELECTRICITY Hundreds Modern Conveniences . _ Impossible without This ) Wired: Juice # :~_The benefits we derive from elecâ€" tricity are too many and too multifarâ€" ilous to calculate. (Without electricity there could be no such thing as the modern American, â€" "skyscraper," It ¢ould not be lighted, nor. even proâ€" vided with elevators.: It would be a ‘vast tower, with limtn flles crawling up. and down dark stairs, and of tourse ridieulous &s far as concerned its utility for housing offices and busiâ€" ness plades. Without electricity we would be| without] many of our conâ€" veniences and comforts, ranging from burglar alarm to street car; from electrig mangle to radio. it : ‘The total consumption of electricity throughout the world is approximateâ€" ly 125 thousand | million kilowatt: hours of electrical energy. Of that amount from 15 to 20 per cent is used for lighting purposes and from 80 to 85 per cent for power in the industrial activities, The : United States uses more than oneâ€"half of the total elecâ€" trical power produced. . c T oWn |TOWN STATE FAIR ;o BE /0 ~ UIKE ~ MUNICIPALITY Post ~Office, Stations, .. Express Facilities and //_ all Conveniences ‘Although loca just outside the city limits of Springfield, the Hlinois State Fair and its ertvirons : will agssumeée, September 13 to 20, inclusive, all the functionary aspects of a municipality. |> < o raniointre ‘There, will be located within the grounds \fully equipped offices mainâ€" tained by railroads, express comâ€" panies, a United States postoffice, inâ€" formation: bureaus, headquarters for obtaining lodgings. restaurants, lunch rooms, telegraph offices, long distance .telephone booths, and, in short, every facility which a visitor would find in a well ordered éi? of above 5,000 inâ€" habitants. || RjECALLs‘DAgs wWHEN * CARS HORSEâ€"DRAWN \The revision. of four Illinois street railway franchises recalls the days of horseâ€"drawn . strdet cars, when the "superintendent of motive power" was the "stable boss. ig ‘In Galesburg, Relleville, ‘Aurora and Plainfield the franchise provision that the railways must construct and mainâ€" tain pavement batween the rails was discarded and thig cost placed on the real users of the pavement. When the original franchises were drawn, the iranâ€"shodâ€"horses flamaged the paving bticks and‘ the, transportation comâ€" panies paid the damage. | \â€" It cost Alex Watson, a miner, $70 fto hear Livin h county corn growâ€" ing in the moonlight. : . (Watson, according to his story: to Streator police was invited to take a fp’fie into the country and "listen to the. corn growi t by Frank Collins. While he had his; cars tuned for the phenomenal noise, Watson complained h gzckgtbook containing $70. was pPCK@G, :; ;. > ) { « Franchises Required Companies to Repairs %mm between t . ‘Rails Then â€" : < Colling and three friends were reâ€" m;b‘y yo‘::i to .explain the St occura 6. ‘ CosT HIM M%NEY TO / _ HEAR CORN GROWING McCullough AUTOCASTER ‘) © â€" MF * @/© ~ By Edward No P c WaAL _YESMm , BuT : ‘TH‘ PRoPRriETOR HAS GonE to mExico FoOR HIS LveRr P A WAL (LIND® * NEW DE%, We *TOOK ~ i t'A-r I EVENIN * _ i f wonden, + 3 uxh% H* 1 ~ P & ? Telephone 1805 Baggage, Expressing, Moving GlJzing, Graining & Floor Finishing 1 Decorator â€" f Telephone 1305 852 Oak St., Winnetka SPECIA L inting, Paper Hanging We can save you money on strictly High Class Work _ and Galcimining | abrics and Cretons a Specialty $. H. BROWNELL : 11 â€"» i \K Mss EARL W. GSELL & CO., Highland Park LAEGELER PHARMACY, Highwood _ KNAAK PHARMACY, Deerfield \ Highland Park and Highwood BANANA .. ICEK CREAM T oC "PURER BECAUSE ; CARBONATED" VANILLA _ ICE CREAM :: _ Three Layer Brick Division of National V. MUZIK) JR' with Pecans betwween 50c THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1924 Dairy Products Corp FULL QUART BRICK ToR EEwAkAQ MMCoLiLOO4Y Dr