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a . Christmas Book? 3 18 decornteg gin ie in variety : ative. Scate: ummnta ck ; N“OOMM-’&:% “D;h Not Ope‘: appropriate â€" a n :8: ”Cardn‘ for encloâ€" ind a friendly e oin Cards; nm‘n':- oin Cases, for money l.lnllnnnp redit on your inys. 10 ERT LARSON Stationer .SMITH i) â€" _ ‘No smoky gas OLD ORIGANXAL PRINTS one ~designed â€"and TELEPHONE 410 Noadles 4 cans for Meszotints, Fashion and Flower Rips Olives MARY ANN DICKE SHced Salmon Cherries Honey toes, No. 3 emmoon‘y Dressings rge â€" can Butter Pickles ND PARK, ILLINOIS DEERFIELD for your AS PACKAGES Pineapple No. 2 p Corned Beef AY, DECEMBER 17, 1925 , Dec. Sliced Peaches many i <ofl ___§1 ___$1 .___$1 __.$1 â€". $1 caail .61 .. @1 _ @1 _1 ifI .$1 .$1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 $1 fHURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1925 PRESS WANT ADS BRING RESULTS Solvay Coke Paul Borchardt _ Highland Park Fuel Co. Phone 67â€" _ Phone 335 When you replenish your fire with Chicago Solvay Coke you don‘t need to stand around while the smoky gases burn off. You don‘t have to wait to make several adjustments of dampers. Firing with Chicago Solvay Coke consists simâ€" ply of putting in more cokeâ€"with your drafts properly set to produce the desired‘heat. Chicago Solv:ay Coke contains more heat â€"ton for ton â€" than hard coal and costs you 30% less. It has almost double the heat of soft coal, yet it costs less per ton. There are few ashes, no smoke and no destructive soot when you use Chicago Solvay Coke. > 33 t Your fuel merchant will send a Service Man to look over your hot air furnace, boiler or stove can burn Chicago Solvay Coke. The established dealer deserves your businessâ€"telephone him and place your order. y us HUDSONâ€"ESSE A / Second Street at Laurel Avenue, Highland Park, IIlinois Chas. MacGregor, Sales Manager f eel f i to burn off Buy it â€"Burn it You‘ll Like it _â€"‘_~â€"__ YOU ARE INVITED TO SEE THEM ‘ Official Opening Saturday, December 19th. Everyone Invited Frank Siljestrom Phone 65 _ H I C AÂ¥A G 0O Complete Line Now on Display . W. PE R S O N be Drawing showing driftless or unâ€" glaciated area‘ at junction of Minneâ€" sota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois, and the oneâ€"timeâ€"planned ‘state of Maniâ€" toumie that never came into existence. "Lead has been mined at Galena, Tilinois, from 1728 , to the present time. â€" Lead served as currency durâ€" ing the last half of the: eighteenth century in the upper Mississippi valâ€" ley, one peck of corn: equaling one peck of ore." “‘ Tz Come with me on a journey down into the shadowy depths of the famâ€" ous Black Jack Mine, four miles out of Galena. ‘We pull on rubber boots, heavy khakiâ€"colored. coats, :uhhgr hats that make us look like firemen, There‘s a bit of a thrill in all this for we are going down into the ground. a Get Miners‘ Lamps + From a closet we are supplied with miners‘ lamps,. you and I, each getâ€" ting one. Carbide is poured in and a hot flame gleams. We follow a pathway to the head of the shaft. They tell us it is 189 feet, smlgg:t down, to the level we will visit. /‘ superintendent picks up a heavy Aron chisel and raps on a sixâ€"inch iron airâ€" :pipe. That‘s the bell. â€" s Shortly the elevator appears. (It is a narrow platform suspended by wire eables. Four of us step on it. There are no gates. It is close standing for four men. We look for something to grip and find hold on fron. A signal. We drop swiftly. Rock walls rush THE HIGHLANO PARK PRESS, RIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS past nsâ€"upward. Piia e iE : Shadowy City The car stops. We walk out into a shadowy city far beneath the high hills of Jo Daviess county, Illinois. Here is the central point of a netâ€" work of radiating narrow gauge rails. Patient mules plod back ~and forth drawing little trains of ore cars, Underground streets gleam at inâ€" tervals â€"with incandescent â€" electric lights. They give the mules and men who toil here a distorted, Halloweenâ€" like appearance. Some of the mules, the men will tell us, have been underâ€" ground ten or fifteen years. Mules that go down into these lead and zinc mines seldom ever see the light of day again, They stay until they die. A complete barn, on one of the sevâ€" eral levels, houses them. It is roofed for the ceiling of these caves forever drip water.© Hero and there from fisâ€" sures above gush little streams. We travel along through vast manâ€" made caverns, for pick and shovel, dynamite, black skinned: slaves and free white men, latterly white men working air drills, have moved a heap of rock and earth since 1728 when lead was first mined in Galena. The shadowy darkness wields now greater caverns. A four story buildâ€" ing might stand in some of them and not touch the ceilings that tower above. We point our lamps upward ‘and see them flickeringly. We might be standâ€" ing in some ancient Gothic cathedral lit dimly with Mediaeval oil lamps. We plod through tunnels, connect~ ing the greater caverns, hewn out of: rock and mimost have to bog our heads. We find rippling brooks, minâ€" iature waterfalls, glistening lead and zinc ores, crystals of pyrite, a forest of great pillars left to hold the archâ€" ing roofs as we reach larger groups of these great caverns. Black holes go away to some dark somewheére. ~ Bats and#spooks, gnomes and witch~ es might live here and feel at home. A load od dynamite is coming in. It moves onward to the rattle of the drills at the tunnel ends.. Back we plod, a lon‘g way, then up and out inâ€" to the sunlight! P _ Early History 4 ‘Philip Renault, a Frenchman, someâ€" time after the opening of the lead mines in Galena 197 years ago, the same Renault who was identified with John : Law in his great Mississippi Bubble fiasco, so legend says, brought 100 slaves, Santo Domingo negroes, to Galena to work in the mines. From ‘Europe, : if the story | is true, he brought 200 white men, skilled arâ€" tisans, to shape the metals the black men were to dig. 2 ‘ But the silver they expected to find was not there and this bubble, like the other bubble, finally burst. Yet history says these Santo Domingo slaves and their descendants â€" dug steadily : in the growing caverns for more than a hundred years. It is reâ€" corded that Jean Baptiste Point de Sable, a Santo Domingo negro, built the first house where now Chicago stands in 1779. It was just across the boulevard from where now we find the Wrigley tower. : â€"You can envision, perhaps, the black slave escaping from the mines, threading the forests â€"â€"to the lake. , John Kinzie bought the house in 1804 and lived in it until it was fortyâ€" nine years old. 5 America‘s First Klondike Galena was America‘s , first Klonâ€" dike.> It was the first stormâ€"center of a great mining rush. Gold towns of the west have rizsen, caused tuâ€" mults, scattered wealth, decayed and become Ghost Cities but Galena plods alongâ€"like the mules. _ > ~â€"_ â€" _ ~ Once Galena was a city pf 15,000 souls. â€" Some, perhaps enthusiasts, prociaim that in those riotous days of gambling and whiskey and guns the city and its "rag town": adjacent, where men lived under cloth, would number 30,000. Today? perhaps 5,â€" Once fiverboats iniflotillas came up | them was Albert Johnston who fought the Galena, called far back in the| Grant at Shiloh Grant grew up in primitive beginning the Fever River.| Galena where his father was a leather Today traffic on the stream is dead. | merchant. + * Rusty jron rings clinging to abanâ€"| ‘The old store still stands as does doned wharves proclaim the past. The | the house of Grant‘s boyhood, a plain stream ies shrunken, silt from cultiâ€"| little place of common brick. On the vated ficlds has narrowed it and made | other side ‘of the Â¥iver, is his later it shallow. Water doesn‘t come out | home, given to him by cuger citizens of the hills as it di(}, old timers say.| after the Civil war. Here heand his A Million Years Ago â€"~~! family lived at such times as he was Letu-lwploucwwhtomnotintbcmx& t back the pages of time a million years | â€"I visited the, houseâ€"one of or so and learn something more of | Iilinois‘ shrines. It is open daily to Galena. The geologist tells us that| the public, almost as Grant left it it is in the heart of the "Driftless| Marble"topped tables, the old shabby Area.". Once, you know, a greatâ€"ice chair he used in Washington.‘ Mrs. cap covered the northern part of the| Grant‘s dancing slippers, worn on United States. Its southern rim came | great occasions. Youw can imagine the ia.boutu!nsouthus«tth.mum grim old warrior going upstairs at through Idaho, Montana: and into the | night, kerosene lamp in hand, to his DaKRotas. From there it headed southâ€" heatless room and rather poor plain easterly to ni,‘line mhnn near | furniture. Carbondale, Marion arrisburg, | _ | Other Features Illinois. . Nextâ€"â€"the end of the ice| s line headed northeasterly across cenâ€" mu,mmuutm tral Ohio, thence east through mid.| Other genius. Other fortunes and Pennsylvania to the Atlantic. :\ other glories have been born here North of this line there was one large area where, probably because of the height of the land and its rough, rugged nature, the itce sheet was split and turned aside. This is the "driftless area." Its northwestâ€" ern tip is about ten miles northwest of Eau Claire, Wis., its northeastern pome"fvtithmmh shape, near Stevens Point, Wis., while ‘its southern point is just west of Mt, Carroll, IIl. x + _ State That Never Was: This driftless area, its hills never leveled down by the ice sheet, its valâ€" micew,i.gfodly fl‘.d'” wecanic beauty. _ It is an entrancing seenic beauty Phone Highland Park 2492 It is partly identical with what was oncee proposed as a separate‘state in the Union to be known as Manitouâ€" mieâ€"meaning "‘Land of God." This land, lying between‘ the Mississippi, Rock and Wisconsin rivers was to htwhduiumhoumnboum a straight line running from City to Madison. h Manitoumie, the state that never was born, was planned because this region, founded on the wealth of its mines, was an island of white men surrounded by bold tribes of maraudâ€" ing Indians. It was here, you know, that Blackhawk led the last stand of the red men east of the Mississippi and lost. 4 land and the tourist should see it Pioneer Defenders Among the ‘defenders of these hills during: the Blackhawk war werk Abrahartm Lincoln, Zachary Taylor and U. 8. Grant, three men who became presidents of the United States, and Jefferson Davis who became presiâ€" dent of the Confederacy, Among them was Albert Johnston who fought Grant at Shiloh Grant grew up in Galena where his father was a leather I visited thet newer houseâ€"one of Tilinois‘ shrines. It is open daily to the public, almost as Grant left it Marble"topped tables, the old shabby chair he used in Washington.‘ Mrs. Grant‘s dancing slippers, worn on great occasions. Yow can imagine the grim old warrior going upstairs at night, kerosene lamp in hand, to his hbeatless room and rather poor plain furniture. I Other Features G-laahuknunothuuhntap‘ other genius. Other fortunes and other glories have been born here. Elihu B. Washburne, one time secreâ€" tary of state and . ambassador to France lies buried in Galena. â€" Those other Washburnes whose wealth built great flour mills and helped make Minneapolis founded théir fortunes in this spot. + A y James J. Hill, wizard railroad buildâ€" er, checked freight and struggled with baggage on the Galena wharfâ€"learnâ€" mwmmw-flnm barde of Chicago knew Galena in their younger days. H. H. Kobisaat was always ‘"Herman" bere, the judge plain "Chris" and E. W. Kohlsant never anything but "Ernest.". & ts 4s PAGE NINE es l w