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Highland Park Press, 1 Jan 1931, p. 24

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20% DISCOUNT ON BROUGHT AND CALLED FOR. DRY CLEANING and LAUNDRY -----'--, COLLETTE SOEURS DRESSMAKING IELIABLB LAUNDRY A DRY CLEANING COMPANY “I N. Gnu Boy ltd.. "I'M-Id Pk. ()0 WNS FOLDING (TEA Ins FOLDING CARD TABLES AND COVERS _. BANQUET TABLE CHILDREN'S TABLES AND CHAIRS For lppoinlllcnl plume WRAP8 SUITS 27 North Sheridan Road FUEL OILS I" re m COMMERCE Willow Road Winnetka, Ill. PETROLEUM COMPANY a 'if:- (ll/iii,') W1.NNKTKA "HI For Rent for Parties and Gatherings Delivered and called for 00/1 TS that more than meet the speeifierttiorts of The Bureau of Standards Successor to" H. M. PRIOR co. Funeral Director BLOUSES H. F. KELLEY Wilmette 900 Phones Winnetka 855 See Big Saving for State in Transfer of Insane to Other States conservative h department of an the manna for mental can the wtimutml tivnts spend in tor tht A N KW gull Henry G. Winter 1 .M r of din liu Rates very reuonuble pl milk ti ht 'rom ttu M INK " North First Street Phone 635 ab'.i tht Telephone H. P. 4260 ng of Illinois state funds t1,'203,000 in 10 years will rm the transfer. during the ' 1.! 401 patients from state for the mentally ufiieted to us in the Mates of which 1mm! residents. SK t'MG'tiT it 'nm put ut tht Plum your sul L. Silv'm, assistant direc- , welfare, and S. D. Me.. 'ivpnruttio agent, who in charge of the deporta- rs or the department, have m working out inter-state dime to 1: nation-wide in- ding to a m 1 that and own citizen l'n-rhul CRA IR COVERS ation, considered as , officials of the state rublie welfare, is based Innua! cont of caring rrsr--t.300, for 10 years, uvomgu time the pa- Illinois mus hospitals, tho nurnher removed the FOR THE WINTER 101 new nows and mur order it done it bid num s and keep In order with us lone in n very run need some ventilator, new from us. h state sull THE PRESS Motor Club Points Out F Best Route to South With two routes available to the thousands of ear owners now planning tn tour trum the Chicago area to New Orleans and vicinity, the touring bur- eau of the Chicago Motor club has is- sued a statement setting forth the sued a statement scum): mun u“: advantages of each. "One route is by way of Louisville and Nashville; we regard this as the preferred route," the bureau stated. "The other is via Memphis. ' "The distance from Chicago to New Orleans via Louisville: and Nashville is 1.112 miles. This route is paved, with the (-xcvption nf apptsoximtstely 116 miles of gravel. The Memphis miles morrow.' "In spite of the fact that the Louis- ville-Nashville route is 112 miles longer, we recommend it because raw-r time can he made notwithxtand- inrt the aMitiorval'mileatre. It is to be hoped that Mississippi eventually will improve the route south of Mem- phis. When this takes place, that will be the preferred route, but not until More Than Million Head of Cattle in State Now Free of Tuberculosis and 'ttreeling l state. ostimnt Joint federal-s ture nannies S'heriff Discards Old Guns and Buys Modern Aw-iont rifles. that were made in Switzerland and have been a _;?,) of thr, r-quipmont of the sheriff’s of- fice for many you". have hum or- Orr" scrapped by Sheriff Lester Tif- fany who is replacing the weapons with the modern sawed-oi? shotgun that is uni-(I by notice offers and hood- lum alikn. Charles Thayer, head Janitor at the county building. moved the guns and ineidently it was Thayer who purrhnsml the Swiss rifles 25 years "an in Chietuto for 85 apiece. At that timo he bought several Spring- field rifles as well for $2.65 each. _ Tho new gun also is to be kept in the sherift's othee instead of in the tumkoy‘s room where the old use mu installed. "ft was just a. chance to modern. in the' equipment and put the force on a footing to compete with hood- lums." Tiffany deetatred. it that i only include gravel gravel. The Mompms . 1,000 miles in length, dvs approximately 316 el in the state of Missis- ‘goud today and bad to- made in a part rifr's of.. hpen rur- PAY 26 MILLIONS FOR LABOR a ROADS Aniount Expended by State of Illinois During C urrent Year for This Work Salaries totaling $26,000,000 were expended by the State of Illinois dur- ing the current year for labor en- muted in the construction of roads and buildings. a check by the Suite Department of Public Welfare and the Division of Supervising Architect of the State Department of Purchases and f'uristruet'rm, revealed in a re- pnrt issued at Siprimrfleld. Approx- imately 30,000 men were employed in state construction, the records show- ed. An additional 6,000 men were tmployod by counties in road projects of their own, Under state superivision. In Highways Division In the Division of Highways alone, there were 25,963 men employed di- u-rtly and indirectly, as follows: Engineering and adminis- tration l M.“ 704 Paving .._ _ . V.,,,,...H.,.n18,050 Grading . l .--. .rt..... 1,650 Bridges V. .. V, l. FT ttrv .. qrV 2,150 Cement production m-- Jr 1,495 Aggregates" production -r.re. 448 Steel production . . _ ,. 668 Railroad haulingr .-___ T-... 803 Prolong Season Became or the unemployment situa. tion this year, resulting from the world-wide business depression, the state this year his prolonged the con- utvuerion, especially in regard to hirrhway building, over a much longer period than usual. As a result many of the 25,000 men employed directly and indirectly in highway construc- tion will be Working: until the end of the year. This was due to the fact that the highway department awarded a large number of contracts during the last two months. Architecture and Engineering In the division of architecture and engineering about 3,500 men were vmplitl dirt-ctly and indirectly. Statisticians have fizured that these men engaged directly on the state's building projects worked about 370.- 000 days, or almost 14,000 months. Thvsu futures represent average; em- fduymcnt as some of the labor was not employed steadily throughout the' eostruetion season. ' Permanent Waves Hair Dye and Beautiful Haircuts Priees surprisingly moderate "l'rirury You‘ll Enjoy" " n ‘YOUI HAIRADRES‘EI MR. THOMAS WILL PERSONALLY SERVE YOU HOURS Thursday, Jan. I, 1931 9:00 to 6:30

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