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Highland Park Press, 19 Jun 1930, p. 20

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PM" ma Before Starting Your Vacation BE SURE YOUR CAR IS IN ORDER High Test Tydol Ethyl-Cleaning Naphtha No need to join motor (lulu for towing service as we are now prepared to endorse your automating.» policy to cover any towing charge provided it does not exceed $10.00 for a premium of $1.00 per your. - With certain motor chum, you must eall their appointed garages or svrvive stations. But under our towing serv- ice, you may call the nearest garage, thereby saving yuum-If [Why on the road and regardless of the number of times yum Ito-ml to be towed. $1.00 a year is till you This service I pay Central Insurance Service mm Tl ELM PLACE SERVICE STATION all any garage f harm-s. mail the r hm-k to reimlmrst 'owing Service $1.00 Per Year not can rviee vxtomls throughout the entire country and of a mechanical hrmktlown on the road, you may y guram- for towing service. pay them their l, mail the m-eipt to us and we will mail you our o reimburse you. IF YOI' WANT Tur', BEST OF lNSl'] WITH SHRYH‘E WE HAVE IT Good Insurance Is Not Cheap Cheap Insurance Is Not Good ' PROFESSIONAL PIANO TUNING Corner Elm Place and First Stre , PHONE HIGHLAND PARK Mt.", Be certain that your tires, including the spare, are in good condition - and that your car is properly gréased. ptiun to this, is thal'thc towing service towing trom your mm premises. Work Gu-nnto'ed. Estimates "it South Hindu Avenue, Highland Put. m. " ”an experience H. F. PAHNKE ank Building 1.Nst'RANr'F, act Smith: 1046 THE PRESS iDemand County off1eers Publish Annual Report Demand that every county official pmpare a public statement at the end at with fiscal year showing receipta and dishusemonts as provided by law, “in made last week of the county hoard of supervisors by Supervisor John MM‘ann. Waukegan, and Super- iismr W. E. Miller, Libertyville. Although the law is mandatory the mntinn was amended to allow a com- mittee to investigate the necessity of such a course. This developed a sharp fight with Supervisor Arthur W. Venue. Highland Park, and Su- prrvisnr Edward Brown, Round Lake, contending that such published state- ments would be a firtaneial burden to the munty. By a vote of 20 to 17 the issue was gtvon to the financial and judiciary C ‘mmittee to investigate and report. Verone heads the fintuwe committee and Brown the judiciary. Chief Whirling Thunder, on Indian of the Winnebago tribe, will be on the staff at Camp Ma-Ka-Jn-Wsn this summer awarding to on announce- ment hy Myron C. Rybolt, scout ex- ecutive of the North Shore Area Council Buy Scouts of America. The chic-f has for the past three summers been on the staff at the Culver Sum. mer Woodcraft. school. and prior to that he served in the Chicago Ind Kvanstun Scout camps. He is thor. oughly versed in Indian lore and (ram, which he will tench in comp. Mr. Rybolt further reports the camp registration to be coming in very rapidly. The second and third ses- HIGHS are practically filled. Places re- main in the first and fourth periods, although the first session is fillintt up rapidly. mg a balance of $4338.92 due the munty. The committee of settlement with the county clerk of the Board of Supervisors conferred with Mr. Hendee nn the finances. County Clerk Reports Balance to Co. Board In his report submitted last week County Clerk Lew A. Hendee showed that his Mfice received $18,358.39 and the expenses were $13,419.47, show- At Scout Camp Main Lodge, Camp Ma-Ka-Ja- Wan ll LIBERTYVILLE ONCE " RM COUNTY SEAT Waukegan Paper Tells How It Lost that Position; Some Old History An amusing incident. that wasn't of Libertyville losing the county seat to Waukeznn, which then was Little Times. After a year of propaganda. sent out by Capt. Robinson, who was tak- ing a census at the time. 744 votes were recorded and the majority of the ballots favored Little Fort as the county seat. An qnusual feature in the vote was that 262 of the 744 were legal and tho remainder east by people brought in from Wisconsin. and McHenry and Cook counties. Among First Settled The Libertyville district was one of the tlrst settled in the county and among the pioneers were Lewis G. Schenk, Solomon Norton, Elisha Clark, Herman Clark, Tobias Wyn. knop, Elklnah Tingley, George Var- din, Davis Steele Ind Morse, the bluck- smith. In order to get legislation that would permit a vote Capt. Robinson walked all the way from Little Port to Vandalia. which was the state capital, and managed to beat the stage coach. Libertyville, which had gone under the names of Mechanics Grove and Independence Grove, wat incensed over the election and Archimedes Wynknop, recorder and deputy clerk, maintained his office in Libertyville for several months until he was Med for contempt. of court and a new clerk appointed. Libertyville was visited by a dev- asting fire August M, 1895, when almost ttll the business section was wiped out. The loss wns set at close to 860,000. This failed to deter the spirit of the merchants who soon re. built the trading district. In connection with the theft of the county seat from Libertyville the score was evened after a fashion 1 number of years later when Liberty- rille managed to get the county fair from Waukegan. This was an an- nual gala event for many years. r "riteV.stoiriee was established there in 1838. Thursduy. June 19, 1930

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