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Highland Park Press, 8 Aug 1929, p. 32

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Patronize The PttssAdivertiseA 82 We operate oui own dry clean- ing plant c- 80 years of service. THERELIABLE LAUNDRY and DRY CLEANING Co. - 618 North Green Bay Road - Highland Park PHONES RICE-[LAND PARK 178-179 TOO! THE PRICE Tentative plans for the pageant in- elude Aitteen groupings: Colonial background out of which the first settlers came; prairie schooner days, the pony express, log cabin days, and the Indian contacts, impersonations of early settlers by remaining mem- bers of .their families, gold rush, Forty-niriers, Civil war days,,etirly schools, earls: churches; a pieture.of The name of the township in which Northbrook is situated, Northfietd, is carried'over from the early days of its history. The toivnship _was Familiarly divided"5hto four ‘parts, north. Northfield, east Northfield, yuth,.and west. _ Some of the Early Families Some/of the prominent families of the district were-the Steeles, Gallo- ways, Elveys, Will Davises, Adams, Sipleys, Hutchings, Reeds, Russells, Hanleys, and Richards. The Mitchells ahd the Kiests were early settlers in South Nirrihfiehi. Among' the Ger- man settlers who came after the Eng- lish and New Englanders are Mr. and Mrs. Levi Schinleber and Mr. and Mrs: Jacob Kiest. Both families) still live in Northbrook and will take part in the pageant. A i Mr. Shepard. The tavern was a half- way station between Chicago and Milwaukee and was used extensively by, lawyers traveling to and from courts in both cities. .. _ _ NORTHBROOK HOLDS PIONEER PAGEANT (Continued, from page 20) Libertyville lost its phone service three weeks ago whey a cable Was burned through by a fire' in a de- serted Home; ' Repair crews, to mend the break were dispatched to the point of trou- ble immediately with word to rush the_job. - _ ' Silence reigned in Libertyville sev- oral _days last .week and 800 voices were sstil1ed dine to a break in a tele- phone cable in the downtown.district that left business men. hampered. through the loss of the _utility. , ’ The cable wes sheared when a" wa- j“Jamain wits beiné'driven undef Mil- waukee avenue, the main _business" thorcughfare, between cook Memor- ial park and Lovell's drugstore.- _ . The servicé from church street north to Grayplake and- east of the village six miles was automatically cut off. Telephone men estimated that be- tween 600 and 80trpeophs, due en- tirely to the number of four party lines, were without phones. The urater mdin 'fouled the cable, carrying 400 pairs of wires,- and cut it through. _ the 'Ms in tsontt.tutd dance. first rail.. road in 1871, "Then and Now," con- trusting methods cf costuming, transportation, machinery, etc.; Spanish war days, the tow_n’s share in the World war, beginning of pres- ent day civic organizations. Break in Phone Cable Stops Service for Day Thursday, August 8, 19 will have the for the first ti: Concre T he eighth 4v formally open August 11, at ' Annual Polish be given by ti orchestra, and: Delmmarter. I prime event in for _it was the ish Arts clu which the fir, the Ravinia na' concerts, which now be'come a lar part of Rahttaia natr concerts. which a regular part ure, Was dedic: skaya, Polish Ravinia Open Ravinia soloist “gist 11, whih tenor, and Mic inist, will apps: by the Polish J skaya' will sin man" with orcl Wilfrid Pellet Sowilski will I Polish songs.' the Sunday. 1 Ravinia will I anhthere will the general .a _covering every “Rigo .rSunday nigl famous drama will be preisen this setistm: which is a , standard ItaIii will have Mis: Gilda, while _I be heard as Basiola will RI tragic jester. Mme. Boursla O'Amrelo, Mia: Mr. Ananian'; , ovsky and Mi will conduct. Monday nit bring a repea Rondine” the was given for vinia this séas such universal has acclaimed >ucc'esses of -3 Main sing th Johnson oppo Miss Macbeth Tokatyan as 1 :fist of this w Mr. Cehanovsi \naninn, Mia: and Miss Swai Mr. Strawbrid gnd Mr. Papi Repeat of "La Camps its first.Ravini day night, Au My audience, wn Tuesday ni arly repeat l ‘rmde necessar: weds were um 'he initial pe Thursday, Am milit ( Continu

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