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TQT‘*§\ s “m ABANDON PLAN TO GET HOSPITAL FUND No Success in Solicitation for Was Potent,Factor in Settling $25,000 for Addition to Boundary Dispute With County Hospital s Greet Britain Ward Ix Overcrowded Members of the Lake County Tu, horculrsis association and members " thv Lake County Medical‘ society, speaking as individuals, first asked thr board for some relief at the coun- ty hospital. They painted out that i', was impossible, with the limited space in the building to care for the indignvnt tuberculars. These pau- lu-rs un the street, they pointed out, “we in a posititn tn spread the in- tTetiun in their congested homes. Lnko county will realize '108,000 from the sale of its $1,250,000 of county highway bonds voted " a btnll issue a month ago, it was learn- County to Get Premium of $108,000 on Bonds pay Thu bonds were sold to Spear & ms. or ('hicagu, and the agreement, ortucted by culititeral, calls for I. ayment " 333.000 to the county at an end of the tiist year. Each year, .r three successive yéars. will bring ayments of $25,000 or the full total f $108,000. T . gun paper. T Van Patten, head of the hospital rmmitteo, was named chairman of subscription committee of super- mm and citizens fur the purpose _ raising the sum. Tun Patten stated that the real rea- tt fur the apparent failure of the w eeunomie status of the country the present time. He sees no rea- ‘n why the subscription idea could it be revived after the period of de- ‘usaion wanes. Tho board of supervisors was not a position tinaruOlly to offer re- use. A possible relief from, the "sblern lnnmt-d thruugh the hope of mtributions. This is the greatest premium ever u-ived in Lake county fur the sale ' bands. The highest figure previous I this brought $60,000 on the 5758;! Abandonment useriptiuns of rrlay dunment of the plans to get itizins cf $25,000 for the pur- building an addition to the lar ward of the Lake County hospital seemed certain to- mugh the admission of Su. . David Van Patten, of New. wnship, that no money had win-d and that a campaign u,eless, according to a Wau- ASTORIA EXPEDITION U. S. HISTORY FEATURE comrcuativ'ely few Americans per- hims realize that possibly the most potent single faetor in settling our boundary dispute with Great Britain, with reference to the territory of the Northwest, was the expedition of Ar toria. fitted out by John Jacob Astor in the year 1810. In writing of this important event in American history Judge Charles ll. Chapman says in the current issue of the National Republic: "In the year 1810 John Jacob Astor am one of his ships, the "Tonquin," loaded with building materials, sup- plies arid a crew of men from New York ~aruund the Horn to the lower Coliunnbia river, and there Astoria, Oregon, wag built and a large fur trading pest established. "One of the loyal employee of Mr. Astor, while engaged in this enter- prise and for many years thereafter was Gabriel F'rahchere. He was burn at Murttreal, Nov. 3, 1786, and as a yuung mun beginning life for himself on the Mth of May, 1810, signed an agreement and entered the employ of John Jacob Ahlur for a term ot' five years, for the purpose of joining the westerri' enterprise of Mr. Astor. . Lewis-Clark Expedition Five years befure this date Lewis and Clark with about 30 men includ- ing several hunters from Kentucky, hud been sent by the U. S. govern- ment to explore the overland mute to the mouth of the Columbia. This expedition wintered on the shores of the Pacific and returned east during the summer of 1306. The report made by these government explorers creat- ed deep interest and decided Mr. As- tor tp-embark upon this new enter- “Gabriel Franchorc with others go- ing on this expedition, remained in Montreal until July 26, when they pro- ceedud, to New York by canoe, and this yotinst F'rvrwhtamulian having reeuived a flair mluratiun, daily noted in his journal observations and im- pu-ssinns or his trip around the Horn, calling at the Sandwich Island, the arrival at the Columbia, adventures with the Indians and his trip across the cunt'nnt to the Sault and thence to his old home in Montreal is of b to his old home grippinz' interest, " " John Ave-u HIGHLAND PARK DR. J. W. SHEDD Talcphou E. P. - Thursday, June 19, 1980 DENTIST ILLINOII