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Highland Park Press, 12 Aug 1926, p. 9

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. chance to do know what yon in vacant on d :. comma to . snow tm--, rusroms [I PROPERTY midlenti shape- 200 Alt have: plenty of closet spa tin andisee these wonderful wooded setting. Over an acre Large oak and maple trees, , bushes and fruit trees. ' vwith be atmosphere of the {bland Park has to offer. The , terms ban be arranged. Sedan jALE Gt SON st retihished whoa): shelves and log harm mm! um room. Ptute1itd, wing? onto a brick temce.; $ettee. Extra toilet and lava. the pur)hase of a good use t . t ' mid. Thu car Is Human“. wow M. mt Neff & Ctr. at " - Inland Park, LONTHILY PAYMENTS [an 1894 k Nash Sales re Us Today Used Cars 1924 Lake Forest, Ill, Forest E638 AND PARK 9t0 'h',')etigtland Park, m. Id Par i itsat 'e can“. huhâ€"i m . ti. tvue, tiii?:,):':,',', = d A.hrs,iM.t s Jung t:rriukeLiiiiiLG',r iiviirrarie, _,:),. tu' bt't1d1t'g,t Wifi impact: a be H h._ _ [___,.. flax KATE AL ESTATE .Highland Park, Illinois L ESTATE IN PARK atsaist a. ”was. tam-“W banana-I'M 'lrutrratiga-oir, thteietbmeettith-mBt, We.” our 'tet"tthr! Woman-dirt“; Wmmdwui iuuuma {animate-aw am cn model 150 100 300 170 140 270 200 dowt 60 70 (I GAL By later B. Colby . Illinois Chamber of Commerce Waukegan is a Pottatmtomie wo meaning Little Fort. Arid right th we run into a lost chapter of Illino , romantic history. Map. . have 'dn found dating back approximately the Revotutimtary war period. Th show two inhnt outputs on the w .. ern rim of Lake Miehie'an. One is when Chie- m and the irthei, about forty miles no , . is marhod Little Fort. , " . records of man tell us new . soever shout this Little Foil. ' the exact spot there it stood in km ' The fort was on the north bank- the deep ravine that. outs . Waukegan. lts cult face we: alm t at the topwof the tshift overlooking t WAUKEGAN SCENE OF FIRST MO‘ HAS INTERESTING HISTOR‘ (Why'd Ill. C. of c." Includes Story of Lake Ct. City in V His Notable $eriet ' of Sketches VOLUII m lake How is this known? Earliest , JPN?“ Will tiers found rotted andeallen-in - neighboring tc mains of what had once, been a fo . _-'----..--------- Digging into the ruins they turned It narrow, only ' bits of metal, buttons and buckl .. furnish“ as fragments of things dearly indieati e i, New York or; of white man. But what white m n1 Cinema league and when? Nobody knows. The'v ili' date back to tl is drawn. Myatery everlattintr, i, picture photog Jesuits. perhaps, harkinir back o Marquette and LaSalle/before It . Maybe later men. All that is law is that here was a spot where a f rt was sometime built and that the P t- tawatomies knew the locatioh as W u- ketran--Little Fort. T Movies, Orittittatidi, Here Waukegan onee was Hollyw d. That is a newer romaine. Mot n pictures were born in Wtiuhtqtan. e first motion picture; Show ever tri was held in Waukegan. Not so 1 I ago. either. That was in octot r, 1895. if the memory of those I've ta k.. ed with serves. George K. Spoor held the lease yl North Chicago. Though politically the old Phoenix opera home on Wa lr. two.eities they are in reality but one, ington street. Ed Amet, a local n- an imaginary line between them. _ Ventor, came in one day} and said to 1_asked how they are growing; will“ Spoor, a bit excitedly, t'I can m keinew developments in industries. Four pictures move." And he could, and iii/ plants, all new industries, I was told, proved it. The motion picture sh w l have been placed in newly built homes was advertised. People ftoeked im,rwithiri' the year. The motion pictures were little m re; Lake Port Also than shadowy forms but people eh r-' Waukegan is a lake port of impor- ’ART 2 , pars Many men plunged imp motion ie- tures about that time. Litigat on came. Amet tired of it, "old ut. Spoor, at heart a showman, pe e- vered. He built up the Essanay e m- pany and is held to be the first an ever to make $1,000,000 out of fll s. Some months ago it oc'curred to e that here in Waukegan, proba ly, lived them-st girl who tVer appea ed in a motion picture filrm I began -to hunt her. I believe I have found er ---two of her, in fact. For the earl st recorded film, showing girls in net m was two girls. F The girls were Miss Bess Bower nd Miss lube] Spoor. Both are living o- day, both in Waukegan. Miss Bo er is Mrs. B. T. Dunn and Miss Sp or in Mrs. A. W. Rogers. _Some of, he old timers may recall the funr--gi ls, in dresses that, came' to their t s, laughing and slamming at each at er with big boxing gloves. In all these years, until now. he professional film. mechanically, never chanted. The measurements re the same; perforations' for timi g, the same. But in this year. 19 , I flnd two great evolution at hand. Still " " George K. Spoor, this same We e'., gan bor, has spent $2,tt00,000 devel p- ing the "third dimension" in fihna. e is about to launch tiltna that no no longer "itat." The, actors ,tnllt o of the films. Recall the old. 'Ute p- ticon" pictures we, used to know? It is like. that. , . Also, the last few months me given birth to the "home movie" . K a :3 The I may £13161 cows: m comm m '_'" 1 AT amen mun ma mm s sense t 9mm om coco M new t ”we THAT cone - _ we GOT iiitArtii!Lu.e..d NORTHBROOK DAY TO F . BE NEXT SATURDAY Second Annual Celebration in ' That City to be Held - August 14 ' Lake Port Also , Waukegan is a lake port of impor- tance. Because of its harbor Wanke- igan began. Here thousands of set- tlers in the stirring i1830’s disem- barked. Land sold for $1.25 an acré. iFarm' land back of Waukegan today, govetcd by wealthy eity men, is so!!- ling for $1,000 an note! 1 Wheat was the early day. chsh crop. _Trains of grain-laden wagons poured !in from the western farms. Belvi- Idol‘s; stfeet, leading west across the Desplaines and Fox rivers, was plank- ed with solid oak boards sawed from native forest. Oidtimera still call it "the plank road." But that is obvi- ously wrong for now it is a' concrete road. Motors whirr where once the wheat wagons crawled. No longer the sailing grain schooner: com»: to Wau- kegan 'for their loads. Railroads changed that. Instead great'steam freighter: bring “cargoes of coal to Ether factories. . "NorthUook day,” the mend cele- bration of its kind to' be held in Northbrook, is coming Aug. 14, ind the public in cordlnlly invited t per- tlcipnte-jn the parade in honor ' f the day, _ T . The parade will form at', Western and Waiter avenues, west of the rail- road truth, " follows: All commer- cial vehicles will ensemble on Walter avenue end 8rd street. Pleasure nu- tomobllee end ihrata on Witter ave- nue, north side of street. Foot pa- rade, bicycles and organizations, also other features of the parade, will form on Walter nvenue and 3rd street. l She sleeps. the sleep of Forever', in :a hinterland hill in Lake county with green than: upon "t. Father, who came here from Vermont in homespun, still lives, in these backlands west-of the lake. Sometimes he tells me' nig- ged yarns of primitive pioneering. So in putting down this story I am writ- .ing, you see, of a part of Illinois that “somehow I feel is mine.!, The line of march will start on Walter "can. west of the villuge triangle It 10 a. In. (day light at. in: time) sharp and continue eat. Follow the parade. A r The node will be led by the Elk. band of Highland Park. Inirnediaiisry arm the combined parade, the automobile section of the parqde will gontinue making the neighboring towns. narrow, only 16 millimeters wide. A few"nitthts ago Hiram P, Maxim in New York organized tho Amateur Cinema league. These "little filtttrr" all (lute back to the baby duys of motion picture photography"---- -i-a Waukegan. F". Some day, perhaps. 1Vaukettan may build a monument or fix a bronze tab- let imseribed---"Here motion pictures were born"-and thus establish an- other national shrine. _ Industrial City Waukegan today is ir city of sev- enty diversified industries. I have certain statistics before me. These record that Waukegan, in 1925, had 22,023 inhabitants. The value of Watr. my“ products. my figures show, Lakeiounty', chief industrial dis- trict is centered about Waukegan and North Chicago. Though politically tmy cities they are in reality but one, an imaginary line between them. _ is b a year, Aother Lived There , And, may I add an intimate word or two? When I go thee to Waukéttan, to dig up facts for this story, I vision my mother playing here, a little girl, more than seventy years ago. And I can see my father, more than fifty years ago, coming here a-courting driving horse and buggy. _ cn lime more than $24,000,000 3 OH ' WELL l, All roads. will le . to Soldiers' lField, Grant Park, on! il icago’s lake front, from August li, , _', 22, for the Chicago world’s cha iftonship rodeo contests are on again, .1319 year the number of daring cowy and cowgirl Icontestants from the Fn of of the iwestem frontier coui-y is 60 per .cent greater than IM, A troop of the Flathead Indian ill p, more than (50 strong, with their 'nies, squaws, lbraves, medicine m I and camp, l equipment, are adding I ei.r aboriginal .native riding and dan tht contest: to line thrillers that itk(//l mule the Chi- gcago rodeo famous. 71“: T I, Cash prizes totali'f' T $35,000 are iannouneed by Tex x f tin, who has {the rodeo under his. tsonal direc- §tion attain as last ye The Chica- igo Association of bollhiieree is also pwnrding the world' {championship Strophies and belts to 'l, e cowboy and g cowgirl winners. , BIG CHICAGO Rt, no HELD A T FUST 14-22 Second Annual Ev 'of Kind to Be Staged on. Irldi.ers' ' Field _ Bids for the new C .._ movement were take ' Ea vi11tstrt.eotmeil has! contract .will be aw ‘1 this week. Several bi and the low bidder w ‘ of Oak Park who we in charge of the pal road through the vi11 years ago. - - __' Link in Kiwi; ar' The new Center str “.1. impiavement is to be a link of t I hrough frame highwny'which will . nd from the north terminus of " "mick boule- vard, at Railroad a “I e, Evanston, to the county line? he north, and eventually to Waukeg . Itlwlll lie of concrete construction , d forty feet wide. The new pawl in front of the village hall. is Fliectibn of the highway. _ 1 g . v mama an. Mom THURSDAY, AUGUST Mk 1m WINNETKA fralfli PART 0 HIGHWAY The new road will ' "mi from Oak street on the north t1," innetka ave- nue on the south, ahr , the west side of the Chicago and Frth Western railroad right-of-w innervating Winnetka Avenue at- (ll uint about 200 feet west of the Yai . id. tracks. Bids Received for 1 Center Street: Villagi teerieisrte mu, T we mow ' Atom 'r,_-_m' moons SWféloi py the Winnet- week and the pied probably aim-e received IH. G. Goélitz the qontractor g ot Sheridan b a number of Mr 'stre'et im.. 1aging With litre Paving 9f That f T I tiii fi!) i.s.,iiitir!ll:iia" 'i'ii?ji,'.,_"._ii,iiii',..).i,,i, {WV - ',tt'isiti. 1 'w {FORMER LAKE co. MAN l LEAVES BIG ESTATE R. B. Miller, Illinois, first chief forester, who started his services a few days ago, has reached a decision as to the location of the land to be bought for state forests, from the $i00,000 appropriation made by the state last year. - FOREST PRESERVE IN LAKE co., A PROSPECT? Reported List of Selections by State Includes Cites in F This Section The lands are to be renumyed be- fore the locations are named and the preservation for either preservation or planting He set forth. v Although there appears to be no good reason for it, tt report is per- sistent that one of these locations may be in Lake county as it is said that at least two or three sites in this county were submitted for approval when it was known that the 'state had set aside money for forest preser- vation purposes. It is expected that within ' few days Mr. Miller will be ready to make his announcement of the locations. . _ Each year the state plan: to make an appropriation for this purpose so that the forest of the state may be preserved as far as po'asible. I " The will of August Coe Gumee. filed in New York recently bequeath: $300,000 in bonds And -tt $20,000 an- nuity to his secretary, and provides for nearly £4,000,000 in Hreeifie be. quests to relatives and charities. The residuary estate is left tp Harvard university. V Mr. Gurnee was a son of the late Walter S. Gurnee, Chicago eapitaliyt, and its. recalled to many wide-nu of the north shore. He was theuman who laid out the village of Lake Bluff and the man for whom the village of Gurnee was named. Mr. Garage died at Baden Baden,, Germany, on July He left $25,000 each to the Pres- byte'rian hospital, St. Luke's hospital, the,Nursery and Child hospital, and Association for. Improving the Condi- tion of the Poor, all of New York. The Bar Harbor hospital gets a like amoimt, and the Children'a Aid Bo.. ciety of New York receives $20,000. Legacies of $10,000 are given to the New York City Mission society and the University Settlement both of New York and the Y.M.C.A. of Bar 25 a; Jkt 't In w'tieet,o1tettorriatrorttttuw thats, of Schuyler, Moon t Wain- tuhttoohaiie-oettuBttttubir chit" in (than. for the years. gutting Oct. I, 1m, in the mm of .the‘Sova-ein new. eel-mum. they were acting for I‘m-end In. Seam-“nun“. Mykuedthephy- home directly from the aqtatq of Chneu0,Chaptirt-rofthePine Arte building. They have line. then concluded A second deal; whereby Mr. andan [null “to over the main- MtgM't2gtylfg"g,t,"d"l' of nah & (Insole, who mired it in 1922. The Insulin take poem with tttemsdoftttet%khite- meat of "The Great Get-by,” ruck stated Inst Sunday night. Banks & (insole have enneeUd all other bookinn. detutite and tentative. and. by them for the current mph. Lease of Chicago Phylum In National)!" Policy; ', Finale-Meat Co. Mrs. hull, shortly other the and. herxrevivnl of "The School for it; dai? in June of last year. told friehds that trite would like to be the director of I theatre in China). end to tumble end maintain therein n resident company _for the production of new plays and the revival of old mMrs entitled to be e1nasiiUd u "elasmie" or 'Utandard." She will in- stall this policy when she comes into poueuion of the Studebaker. MRS. INSULL TO " HEAD or STUDEBAKER It’s not all work for the hundred: of boys enrolled at Fort Sheridan where the citizens military training camp is being conducted. There is plenty of plny mixed with the amp duties, tad the events of the ftrttt day in camp are typieal of what boys may expect during the r'emninder of the mohth's period. PLAY AND WORK ARE MIXED m BIG CAMP Many strange night: are presented as the youths arrive at camp. Many of them make the trip from. their home! in automobiles of student triit- tattr./ Nearly every form of tum- poiyition is in evidence. . Boys in C. M. T. C. at Fort Sher. Man Are Given Varied Itof,owin.tr the arrival and the nut cam” meal the citizen soldiers visit the) ramp mymuter where they ob. taih "ramrportatlon reimbursements amonhttng to five cents . mile. “my receite a similar nmount for' their re- turh hips. After getting t1xed, up ttnaeteiallr all 11h “signed to tents and men. halls;r Although quartered in tent; the' boys have their meals in the rec- ulnr tries: halts. _ . t Considerable rivnlry exists between the boys from Wisconsin grad than from Illinois and they wiO ebmpete on the baseball diamond and athletic fie1il.', More than 800 prim have been put: up for the winners. CIVIL WAR VETERANS Interesting Program Planned for _ AnttuarAffair to Be Held The forti-eitrhth Inland reunion of the take County Soldiers' and Sail- yr) Assoe'uition; Civil' War, will be held on Thursday, August 19, " the Memorial Hall, Court Home. Wanke- gat). . _ - The books will be open " him o_"clock' for registration“ A business meeting will be held at 10:30 o’clock. Dimer will be served at 12:80 after a s rt parade whieh.wil1 begin " 12 o'clock. tilxercimrs will be held at the; Monument at two in the after.. nodn followed by an auto ride at 8:80 o'clock. Supper will be served to thy vctisrans attending. These dife'nnt event: of the day will all take place by (day-lieu saving time. ,. REUNION, AUGUST 19 at Waukegan , LsstcrTiff 9.“th 1,iei,r,1t"ti,"'r'i:e' ,luhail‘tnohh geomagn- afettHCaseotpti" 60! we F unwed Atuet (rymsnn, who like-amt (The manned» Marorhrnrett irmt'rm. Mb thematic! mhmm My. an ' in“! etttufuNorthl. ' Gum lnrtottrertrmttttm did NM Gmndmv In“!!! them ”can“. torttun,tmtse “with school-by was“ Conn-uh titreteqtrytrttte Midtown wanna- budconpuy (Me-mania. 2e.teetttrt,'r2tgtt't tion on Kathy- P. Ir. MB. . 2CuCrif"irada'iii'"iii'iiCii7 lettinethe a-a-fe. pleasurehln 11“.!“ WWW» midi-Whit 1oenturehiNet, A.Ar-teri-sqd Lttl.1'lNtMgillMh'lC. thejob.the ld 1&th.- The site cm and upon with work has _ , 'mr-dintetr “I of the present _ ad in“ I" Grove stunt. I job the pee-tt building at load: out“ not!“ they , “enema-- truce will be, Gum stunt with of the mun! m_ to tho gn- nuium. tho further back tron the street. Th In. been has“ in by the cont n to fneilitat. the work. . _ _ Newman» who (has tothetimewt TI the-Amino. the school will W, ready for occupan- cy. Butthe .. 'v ntsdeeiterotnarthgim. ities plan to, JN l it to comm that the build may Are nva for use as soon» as with. it Funds - g In“ "' Need for an] uditor%tn ha ball stressed since old room a th upper floor of g A. present Win was cut up . awry school room: uwnlU _ "i. tampon byulu'ge "NBP6© pith.” Circle. “do: - 'Md‘n Chm T. (ii' duo. new tetdmt of the whool ty, tiv-dtt m- in.dthelaste tuna-uh” careful study x [, the M~Id pub lic committed, ', PM tot hm WithW Mubarak in the in -ietqq Eco-dun chairman-u, inc-am go- portatothe duh-innit“. J.Lyuch.in s.ytdt,tr.etrrryat. on att plans f ' A“ to, whiehuthb gin-mu. sumac! ' mud itakindtut Whip-0.. it from popula subscriptions I!“ of taxation. bean 'terfoetod and carried to set ' While the rdenat jtf the W ins bu not “hand. hulk tstnSeient to i the nae- at. It. campaign and. Th. - and the com h than: a on campaign for W‘M II view df the Not“. about, construction " h ot-ted " once, even t then It a I considerable 38) “he. '. _ ' WtNNETtA ttle 10 BE . TH AY, AUGUST " L. “WAN LAKE FOREST CHIEF at! jot-they “than r' Whom“ be mm Wt mutt)- on Nether luck Thitahubeen out w "when“: It - 1 " “an M, w thematic!“ will Br, readyforoa ebodtdand9ehoota to,rl litto can: mild, 'rerbe in. soon» as pouible. lads 13W . an_ uditortum hm nee e old room, rot) e present b, up Atta noon-pry enl~ a... A, w. pith! ttthth.t.irie+ '. Il elile,rtirarp. roll mama. st A' teen “a. 16y thebmrdal been, plus-tori: pals subserlptioatsl I, , “when to rim-{Mule It “has”. ti 'l than“ w" and. Th. m1?- induce for v 'M-, W1 Frrrq Wotan! n 14 a an L? ' than ta, b “Word-c. ‘. 'KAAYIS‘I‘OI 3:1 AY, AUG!) m ii ducal). LPG: tattharia' no tqtr chitin. In -",nd4ut_otrpl If- , 'MI lir,iud hint than ,~m< ttif ht __..,_____ not: [mm , 1W4 .hlbl I debt; t4tatteet ',e,l'lferr .ZPARI‘O V in

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