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ym early summer to points as far west as Oregon and as far east as Boston. Snowâ€"ridden folk in Edmonton, Canâ€" ada, with thirty per cent import duâ€" fi-ndtl.uq,meh-n- for a box of two dozen‘to pay, often give up seventyâ€"five cents for a cucumber at topâ€"season prices. February visâ€" itors in Florida munch Morrison giassâ€" grown cucumbers and marvel at midâ€" winter dainties of the Southland! And varieties; introducing Enelish strains and crossing them with American varâ€" have offered fabulous sums for seeds of these cucumbers but in vain. The breeds are guarded with care. Beâ€" cause cucumbers are sold green the seed can‘t be had from the marketed The story of the work of bees in other chapter. ".mmhu- to fertilise the blooms, else no cuâ€" cumbers. Swarms of bees are placed in the greephouses when blooming buyh byproduce. mm comes aa a = b\-:““hl.“” its stores dwindle to nothing. * . â€"The market price of cuoumbers this w miemain uio wan h Windes & Marsh Te Juplc freu : too " wraothy e us uirt bet um neme|| / Tlinois Licensed There are more teachers in the Morriâ€" Surveyors probably they ask no questions. than $1,000,000. Citizens of Morriâ€" son remember him as a barefoot boy, son of a poor, struggling marketâ€"garâ€" dener, and tell of him peddling "roots and green stuff" from door to door. Somehow or other J. W. Davis, the dreamer of the family, got the idea of raising cucumbers under glass for the commercial market. _ He knew that it was being done in a small way in the east, for high class hotels and for wealthy epicures. J.. W. Davis envisioned the great mass of common people as consumers of outâ€"ofâ€"season cucumbers. _ So he began his life work and his climb to riches. ‘There‘s romance even in ¢uâ€" cumbers. It‘s a long story how Davis and those who followed in his footâ€" in 1926 went on the market on Jan. 18 and the last on Aucust 25. J. W. Davis lives today in Davenâ€" port. One of* his greenhouses, at Terre Haute, Ind., has twentyâ€"nine Thne story of the work of bees in other chapter. ‘Bees afe sfhong to Tertllise the Dloome, clss no cu. cumbers. Swarms of bees are placed in the greephouses when blooming m»-u:uuzx 1:\.-] nfl-hmcil--.. ‘No| Morrison has also given to the world some noted sons who had nothâ€" ing to do . with cusnmbers â€" Will and same e TE PE The town has always been tather in n in fenuins !'.!'m Of these 110 are DPOE MBC EDEMDE! ERGIE AARIEY ‘fl‘h"fl"'flhfl Dr. E. V. L. Brown, the famous eye speâ€" € ie _with me today and we will Q“&ulfi‘h“ try. â€" We will drive over cancrete inâ€" to theâ€"rolling farm lands cccuâ€" n.bmcm‘u;fi Black Hawk‘s "prophet," aborigâ€" inal seer whose faulty prophesies and bad advice led Black Hawk‘s band to Oun rubber tires we dart swiftly through the valleys where Abrsham wa&.%’-&wJ u--uu'q-m-.mumn,\ when it was done that he "fought a war and never saw an Indian." We reach Mortison and find a newâ€"day story; a composite of the tale of the cucumber, the tale of the refrigerator and the tale of the cow. organization but J. W. Davis‘ originâ€" al cueumber dream gave its beginâ€" ning. Morrison avery year ships cuâ€" march of time became cucumber barâ€" ons in various parts of the United States. i Morrison is headquarters for the Kay Bee company with cucumber greenhouses in Morrison, Ottaws, and Streator, each plant in a way linâ€" eal descendant of the original Davis plant; three plants with fourteen acrea of cucumbers growing under The Ray Bee company has iong since ceased to be a part of the Davis Morrison is the birthplace of the thouse cucumber. It was in Morâ€" eminent surâ€" Smith, a New Englander, physician, lumberman, platte? of townsites, one of the original "fortyâ€"niners" who sought gold in California, landed finâ€" ally in Morrison and added banking to his repertoire. Because Dr. Smith came Morrison ships out between 60,000 and 70,000 refrigerators every year. . Morrison is the home of the lilinois Refrigerâ€" ator company. ‘That business was started in 1893 of $50,000. ‘Its capital today is $500,â€" 000 and its sales about $1,500,000 a year. Wood, steel and porcelain boxâ€" es are made. A full working crew is about 250 men. The plant was built by Edward A. Smith. He puts in most of his time at the "Smith bank," now leaving Frank Smith, his son and grandson of Leander, to guide the desâ€" tiny of the plant. First Newspaper 4 Morrison‘s first newspaper, the Senâ€" ginel, was established in 1837, It still survives. 'l'h-eoutynnJm sideâ€" county was established here in 1838. Legend says that when comâ€" missioners cume secking sites Mrs. James Gridley, pioneer mother and cook wonderful, stuffed them with such an amazing dinner that they felt under eternal obligations to the entire community, suceumbed to the arts of the wise lady, and voted the courtâ€" house here forever. So I pause, nearly a hundred years later, to pay tribute to Mrs. Gridley‘ years ago James Sargent, inventor of the time lock, installed the first lock of the kind ever placed on a bank door anywhere in the world. He came from Rochester, N. Y., to atâ€" tach it himself. With a bit of cereâ€" mony I was shown that lock, prized property of the First National Bank of Morrison. Dr. Leander Smith bought it in 1874. favored. Today the farms market mostly dairy products, hogs and chickens. _ Four hundred farmers bring their milk daily to the Morri~ son plant of Libby, McNeil & Libâ€" by. Its output is sweetened and unâ€" Seat of Fair Morrison is wb@@k fifteen miles beâ€" youd the Rock: and about fifteen miles east of the Mississippi, almost directly"west o% Chicago. _ It is here been ‘held every year for year for Dairy Country . Whiteside county used to be grain, cattle and hogs. Grain elevators stood thick in the countryside. Now they are out of style. Cash grain dis~ with six stockbolders and a cqpibi in the â€" §111 Waveland Ave. Chicage 14 Telephone Kildare $499 ""TRe . PROGRESS TLE C0O And it was here that fiftyâ€"two SEWING A f: MLOBLEE Pmndt.Ak"""" *TE Breadst 464 Dr. IRVING G. SCHUR 16â€"18 N. Sheridan Rd. Tel. 2190 SOLD AND REPAIRED Joare real in rebuilt Tow ty bores ahe 1y * FLOOR and WALL TLE (Not Inc.) the beight and buik of buildings; to rewulate snd limit intensity of the use of lot areas, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a pubâ€" Me hearing will be held in the Council Chamâ€" urhmm:,numc::f“nm November, 1927, at eight o‘clock PM., which said public hearing will be conducted by the lthn;?pam“im:mn-nb the City Highland Park, County of Lake .uauu;&uu.u-..u:h-m-mâ€" map of city aa Class "B" Residential District be chenged to a local Business Disâ€" _ It in proposed that Lots One (1) to Twenty (20) both inclusive; Lots Twentyâ€"two (22) to Fortyâ€"two (42) both inclusive; Lots Fortyâ€" seven (47) to Fityâ€"one (51) both inclusive that for a long time. It has rather seemed to me, visiting many places as I do, that one: can pretty well measure the prosperity of a countryâ€" side by the number of its dairy cows. Cows never ask the price of the grains they eat. NOTICE OPF PUBLIC HEARING the Council of the City of AUTUMN Nerps r the Home ET Bs + and Electric Heatersâ€" Now that cool weather is here every home ought to have one or two of these portable heaters for extra warmth during short periods. At the touch of a switch they will radiate a flood of cheery heat wherever and whenever you want it. They help protect the comfort and health of all the familv Order your electric heaters today. s Only $29§_Q . ifor this _ ; _ FEDELCO PUBLIC SErvice COMPANY _ .Cleaner Attachments $5.00 Extra _ _ "Bag for Attachments $3â€"35 NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE I§ HEREBY GIVEN that a pub lic hearing will be held in the Council Chamâ€" ber in the City Hall in the City of Park, Iilinois, on Thursday, the 10th of Ncaunh;ru,. 1827, at o'km!l ‘:’M P.M., h'.l“hh waid pul conducted unbnkud.mh‘ Commuittee for the City of Highland Park, designated and winbfibythn(}nneflal&(}ltyd!fi: land Park for that purpose, to consider amending an ordinance entitled: ° and limit intensity bf the use of lot Ineztion of baildings designed for specified industrial, business, residential and other w»> to divide the entire City of Highland Râ€""k ‘nfo districts for the purpose of this ordinance; to fix standards to which buildâ€" is or struetures shall conformm ; to prohibit uses. buildings or structures incompatible with the ‘character of such districts respectively ; and "mremt additions to and alterations or remodeling of existing buildings or strucâ€" ~AN. CRPINANCE to regulate and limit the beight And bulk of buildings; to regulate ge i + MEBITIE _ ZEBEsrIet the location of trades and industrics and the hereof" in the following manner It is proposed that Lots 3. 4, 5, and 6 Block 60, all in the City of Highland Park County of Lake and State of Illinois; also Lots 13, 14, 15, and 16, Military Aesdemy Subdivision, all in the City of Highland Park, County of Lake and State of Illinois; also Lots 21 to 28 inclusive in Block 1 and Lots 21 to 28 inclusive in Block 2 Compton‘s Addiâ€" tion to Highland Park, all in the City of Highland Park, County of Lake and State of Illinois and elassified on the use map of said City as Class "B" Residential Districts be changed to Local Business Districts. lighland Park, Lake County, Iilincis, and Te m y in ut map uit realysoie, ts a Commercial District. _ At said public hearing an opportunity will mOSLY o ie be lldld all intevested in the change Shovt mantonsd i in hnd 18 rce tures in such m way as to avoid the restricâ€" tions and limitations lawfally imposed hereâ€" under _ and to provide penalties for violation and Three > e n A Sure Cure for _ Chilly Corners At said 81 8. public hearing an opportunity will L & H Heater, $9.00 X. VIGEANT Zoning Committee of the L. .. LEVERONE, City of Highland Park prohibit | == le with § ctively ; | & rations _ strue~ reatricâ€" d hereâ€" folation and 6, ) Park, . also eademy 4 Park, § _ abo . | & b"Adtli #~ s f 5ns of | S tate of | == of said § icts . be | & -_._v_-q-u....-.. The wise guy who used to pretend EE td 9 ursr"" | that he knew all about women has a Sitd propaved anedgienys ns *! Seqrower in the Aoon wor ioth We %tl‘fu.":o"-' lllin::h'::d-etun:mfi: “‘"&I and tile any other state, asâ€"36 on P iiibts men‘ | uses more. You will find marly of the beautiâ€" ful new styles of fioor, bridge and table lamps offered at unusually attractive prices during our apecial Autumn display. Stop in and see them today! 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