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tut } F4 § Major George F. Lemon, in comâ€" mand, maintains on the , reservation fifty soldiers and sixty civilian emâ€" ployes, In time of war this would be augmented to 5,000 men al overâ€" night. â€"The pnrpoz of mighty development, started in.1917, is threeâ€" fold: 1â€"â€"A proving ground for guns supplies, : 3â€"â€"A ; ‘?‘flt int. 1-&-4 Crossing P i ‘~ Savanna is a crossing point for Kailroads at the Mississippi. It is a division point and an -fid |point for transcontinental fruit a nq-cmm. The CHicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad has ya.‘n::t big | to handle 4,000 frei cars at a 5 *the â€"Chicago, Burlington ‘ &::; railroad, 2,000 cars. j t ‘ Te Te "mvces Satmad sn than 1,000,000 freight GE:- ‘a yvear and When the world war came on one of the lessons learned was that no nation, in this highly complex day, can go to war successfully a t â€" any ,un;. ’::m : m’“.fl supply ‘of sodium ate. | : Times have changed lmmbnned Goâ€" liath on the frontal bone{vifi.h a rock. s Nitrate (Pikt â€" |/ :. So Uncle Sam has bpflt‘up his land north of Savanna the gre test storâ€" age pit for sodium um in the world. It is 1600 feet long, 200 feet wide: and 9 feet deep. Built of reinâ€" foreed concrete it will hold jbout $12,â€" 000,000 worth of nitrate at time prices. Here are the measurements of just a few of Uncle Sam‘s buildings at Savannaâ€"Forty warehouses, 99x400 feet; fortyâ€"sevxen magazines, 50x200 feet; thirty high explosive magazines, 26x60 feet, ® , How many know that Uncle Sam has, north of Savanna, a thirteenâ€"mile long ‘heavy gun range where he can go out and shoot his cannon, try out his high explosives and test his dynaâ€" mite? _ How many know that Uncle Sam‘s Savanna Proving Ground, as it is called, covers an area of 13,172 acres and that the plant cost $6,000,â€" (IMlinois Chamber of Commerce) Surprises come thick and fast when you start to take an inventory of: Illiâ€" nois. How many of the 6,500,000 resâ€" idents‘of Illinois know, for example, that at Savanna, a city of 7,500 perâ€" sons, in Carroll county, on the Missisâ€" gippi river, the federal government has stored ©150,000,000 in matetao PAGE TWO int _ The. Glengary Country club, midâ€" ‘:::‘g fu-,way between Savanna and Mt. Carroll, pi. It is a is made up of persons from all over z point for| Carroll county who seek A& bit of that néat traing. | thing. known as better diving. _ & & St. Paul, ; Founded in 1835 hiX enough ito | _ History says that the first settler at a time; ! arrived in what is Savannartoday in & Quincy | 1828 and that the town was land out 3e [ in 1835. The business district is on : St. Paul| the lower land along the viver front. anna _ more Homes hise in rows on the terraced a year and billsides and some of them perch on db The district can not be reached from the east on concr@te. Route 80, soon to be built from Rock Island to Galena, will pass directly through Saâ€" vanna and the Palisades district skirtâ€" ing for some distance the Mississippi river which in these upper reaches is blue water and filled with islands upon which are thick tree growths . These are known as the “Tlionnnd‘fllands" of the Mississippi. _ |_ f On both sides of the Mississippi, to the south, are long stretches of low lands where the verdure grows thick and there is good shooting. Gun clubs where ducks are the prize thrive, Here we find 2,000 acres of finest watermelon land and fields of muskâ€" melons. A pickle factory was started last spring and the first summer saw 30 carloads go out.. ‘This fn'?nstry is believed to have an excellent future here. _ p85.0 f ; Origin of Name Savanna gets its name from a level plain of prairie grass which the first settlers found to the south. A part of this area has given a site for the city‘s extensive railroad terminals. On others of these level fields, deposits of gilt and sand, a great melon culture has sprung up. t The Chicago, Mitwaukee & St; Paul terminal handles approximately 175,â€" 000 tons of lessâ€"thanâ€"carlot shipments of freight yearly. Being a river town it has boat service on the Mississippi. A deep water channel enables river freight boats to land downtown. R . In Game Region . Savanna lies in the proposed bird and fish sanctuary district, fathered by the Isaac Walton league and othâ€" er friends of the nation‘s wild life. It is an amazingly picturesque district. Starting just north of Savanna are those high rock cliffsâ€" known as the Palisades. Here one finds some rock formations which, were they in disâ€" tricts widely advertised, would be faâ€" mous. But, beautiful as this district is, such rocks as the Twin Sisters, Inâ€" dian Head and the :Open Bible, are little ~known except among: their neighbors to whbm they. have become commonplace. [% R WILLIAM MOCKLER, ; Administrator â€" of Estate of \ Mary G. Mockler, deceased. _ Waukegan, Il., Dec. 17, 1925, 43â€"45pd j E. 8. Gail, Atty. _ PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given that the Subscriber Administrator of the Estate of Mary G,. Mockler, deâ€" ceased, will attend the Probate Court of Lake County, at a term thereof. to be holden at the Court House in Wauâ€" kegan, in said County, on the first Monday of March next, 1926, when and where all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to present the same to said Court for adjudication. e Lowen, who carried the body to the porch and administered first aid, told the police that when he arrnged the woman‘s fatherâ€"inâ€"law, and ‘her son, were on the front porch, unable to enter the house. The husband, acâ€" cordingâ€" to neighbors, was attending a banquet in Chicago. § Ralph Lowen, 1918 Oakton street, a repair man for the Public Service company, who came to the house on the complaint of neighbors that they smelled escaping gas, found the body, after forcing an entrance through a kitchen window. > L Mrs. Helen Price, 35 years old, 1145 Maple avenue, Evanston, wife of Ernâ€" est Price, a dentist, and the mother of a 7â€"yearâ€"old boy, was found dead in her home Sunday â€"night, sitting over a gas stove with five burners open while a heavy blanket, folded funnelâ€"shape over her head covered the stove. § P Here the landscape: stands out in all that ruggedness and sharp outâ€" line which must have been common in preâ€"glacial times before the northâ€" ern states were leveled off by crawlâ€" ing ice and melting floods. Gas Fumes Believed. Cause When Stove Burners Discovyâ€" ered Open Near Body ‘ Savanna plans, starting next spring, to do more to tell touring motorists of the scenic wonders of ‘the district. It lies at almost the tipâ€"end of that vast unglaciated area which has reâ€" sulted in a wonderful island of gcenic beauty surrounded by the rather level plans of the Central West.‘ WIFE OF EVANSTON _ DENTIST FOUND DEAD ADJUDICATION NOTICE THE HIGHLAND PARK PRESS, HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS oc ie se id EELET Loo s oo dn n lt on eavaet a e enc B73 it s ocag. es e t i er en Ey che Aameenecd oo eenk a ce role Cl walepeadal mtc ur ind e 3 o o oL "enk Several plans have ‘been suggested in‘ the past, but the present one is the only one that has so far received the serious .considerrtlon of the mentâ€" orial association. : The city of Evanston has ‘grantéd the site to the association and a drive for enough : small ~subscriptions ‘ to cover the cost of the proposed sculpâ€" tured group will be started someti in January. ‘Ernest Palmer is to?: in charge of the drive, but, owing «to his illness, the meeting of the assoâ€" clation scheduled. for Dec.â€" 18 was postponed and definite plans have not yet been made.. is i4 P \ Preliminary plans for a $200,000 war memorial for Evanston at Davis street and the lake have been drawn by. Tallmadge & Watson, according to officials of the. Evanston War Memâ€" orial association, of which Wallace R. Lane is chairman. » a EVANSTON PLANNING $ FINE WAR MEMORIAL Monument to €ost $200.000 Is Being Consitered; At Davis Street and Lake "In the past decade the output of the manufactured gas industry has doubled, and the.demand for industrial gas has multiplied tenfold." : "Nothing could demonstrate better the inherent soundness of this cenâ€" turyâ€"old public utili't?; Mr. Scheel deâ€" clared. "Gas company securities,"" he said, "are daily growing in popularity as the investing public comes to reâ€" alize that the remarkable expansion of the industry in the past few years has been accompanied by very conâ€" servative financing. Mr. Scheel asserts that out of the ten million meters connected to the mains of the manufactured gas comâ€" panies today, only 1,015 are involved in receivership. ~The meters so inâ€" volved belong to two small companâ€" ies with a combined capitalization of about $255,000 as comparel with $4,â€" 000,000,000 invested in the manufacâ€" tured gas industry as a whole. + o Bafo ce MiSR n c 9l d & ‘E”“"fi”fi}l‘i fi-&&#gz’ffi‘*fi 87 iÂ¥ ay "f&rer Because ~Carbonated Highland Park Transfer and Storage Company FIREPROOF WAREKHOUSE, 374 Central Avenne Full Quart Brick a 6 i a J MOVING â€" PACKING â€" SHIPPING & ~~â€" Transfer of _ BAGGAGE â€" FREIGHT â€" EXPRESS Automobile Storage 50¢c â€" NESSELRODE Diviston of National Daity Products Corporation ALEX RAFFERTY, Sr., Manager Office 374 Central Avenue Phones 181â€"182 ICE CREAM Christmas SPECIAL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1925 This Week s d ols \f0 th th