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Lake County Register (1922), 15 Jul 1922, p. 1

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_ 'PETERSON RD. | mR ISDECISION . [ I OF ROAD HEAD ESEVENTY--SECOND YEAR-- NO. 53 The state hignway officials Thurs-- day made it known that route 21 marth of Libertyville would have to go over the Peterson road as orginally plauned. Mr, Miller, head of the state highway commis#ion went over the mituation again and informed local officials that this was the logical route and the route the state wanted, and that it was up to Libertyville townsaip to lay the route over this road. -- This route has been in dispute and the subject of much discussion ever since it was decided upon oy the state highway department. After several public heariags road com-- missioner Mulholland réfused to lay #&lhe route over this road and made an attempt to have the route go over the Casey road or direct norta on Milwaukee _ avenue. Mulholland elaimed that if the residents would signify their preference for either Casey road or Milwaukee avenue he could nave the route changed. He combed the township with petitions and received an almost unaminous preference for the route to go over Milwaukee avenue but without any «apparent effect on the state high-- Notice is nereby given that the undersigned, county superintendent of highways of the County of Lake, State of dilinois will meet on the 25th day of July, A. D. 1922 at 1:00 way commission. An appeal has now been taken to the county highway supérintendent, Charles E. Russell, to lay the route ms desired by the state over the Peterson road and he has set the date of hearing for July 25th. The notice of hearing foljows: ville in said County of Lake and an appeal having been prayed from the final order of said commissioner of highways refusing said petition to the--county superintendent of high-- ways of said County of Lake. (Signed) Chas. E. Russell. May Use State Funds State officials indicated their de-- sire to complete route 21 just as soon as possible to relieve the heavy traffic now running on Waukegan road. They intitnated trat state funds could be used to finish this route if the necessary co--operation was received in Lake county with-- out further delay. The last of the state bond issue funds for this year were spent in the last letting. Supervisors Let Two Contracts The Lake county board of super-- wisors Thursday let contracts for the Highland Park--Deerfleld road to Capbell & David Co. of Chicago at a cost of $59,352.73 wnich will be a 24 ft. road. A part of the Lake Villa--FoxLake road was let to E. H. p. m. at the corner of M nv-mud'Peurmmdm determine upon the widening or altering of Milwaukee avenue and Max Greineder, better known in Waukegan as Max Maxim and formerly owner of the Chateau Maxim on the county line, pleaded' guiliy to violating the Mann act and to a charge of smuggling before Federal Judge George A. Carpenter in Chicago, yesterdfy. He was ordered held in the cus--| tody of the United States marsha!| for one day and was fined $300. $50,807.00 MAXIM PLEADS GUILTY ON MANN ACT CHARGE Greineder _ was _ arrested _ in eommnection _ with _ an _ alleged eonspiracy in which he is said to have smuggled Miss Ann Herzog, an Austrian refugee. into America, with her jewelry, valued at $30,000. The girl was found a virtual prisoner in a cheap hotel, near death The girl was found prisoner in a cheap hotel, from a serious operation Judge Carpenter, commenting on the case, asserted he did not believe the Mann act was intended to ap-- ply to cases of the nature of the one on hearing. _ Greineder faces a ail sentence in Lake county as a result of past lNiquor _ violations. After .~being found guilty he appealed his case and before the high court had en-- tered a ruling he is said to have fied to Europe. Officials said today that no ac-- tion would be taken against him as long as he remained away from this Greineder wept as he pleaded guilty. Miss Her:rog was not in Che Lake Connty Rengister at a cost of i Asleep at the wheel of his car, a | Chicago automobile owner was re-- | sponsible for a collision in which 'hin automobile and that of M. L. | Schwarm, Waukegan, were damaged just north of Lake Forest on Wauke-- : gan road Wednesday night. j Five people escap» injury when tae cars came together, Four were oecupants of Schwurm's car, while J. Kendall of Cnicago was riding ; Five people escap» injury when tae cars came together, Four were occupants of Schwarm's car, while J. Kendall of Cnicago was riding alone. The accic©= vwas called to | the attention of t = plice this morn-- |ing and an inve oution will be made to stop siecem y drivers from toperating on the reawle. In the Schwia=n car were Harry Pearson, local <urniure dealer, an empleye,Nand Louis Schwarm, 11 years old, a son o' the driver. They were bound for (ary, Ind., and were | riding south in Waukegan read when the aecident took place. Lookingy ahead in the dear stretch ref read Schwarm saw the other car, |a Dodge, approaching from lthe south. It swerved from one side of \the road to the other. Something | seemed wrong. Suddenly #he Dodge |car swung over to the wrong side of {the concrete pavement in front of Schwarth's car. The tatter swerved his autemobile onto the dirt at the | nide of the road in the hope that the cther car woul« be rignted -- and Driver Asleep, Cars Collide his fl to Gary. This morning, j his return he visited Both Cars Damaged Instead the car kept on the wrong side. Schwarm's car, a Lexington, was "sideswiped" and thrown furth-- er off the road. The rear fender was damaged and the Chicago car suffered damages also. nide of the cther car would pas .Kendall jumped from his ear and admitted that he had fallen asleep while driving. He said that he was tired and was unable for a time to keep his eyes open. He awoke sud-- «dlenly just in 'ront of the Waukegan car and attempted to get onto the right side to avoid an agcident. He promised to paf the damages to the cther car. Schwarm took the Chicago driv-- er's name and address and continuer the police station where he made a report of the collision. He informed thg police of the sleeping driver and made known the fact that damages will be paid by the latter. The alarming condition of an au-- tcmobile driver slumbering at the wheel travelling asonyg a _ road marked here and there with danger-- us curves came in for considerable criticism and steps may be taken to rid the read of such aangerous prac-- tice Chiei of Police I" Policeman Harola charge of ~ navini watch and a diarm home at 126 La: NAB FARM HAND home at 126 Laure) avenue, this city, sometime ago. la Fluer ap peared before Judge Walter Taylor this morninge but at the request of the chief hearing was postponed until Saturday. The state's attor-- ney has been called in to prosecute the case. According to the police. La Fleur obtained the watch from the room of David Woueckner. Sometime lat-- er a diamond ring disappeared from the louse and the police were calle on the farm Whether tried by years or boy centuries," says the Chicago Journal, disease does not improve . the physique of a nation, while outdoor sports do improve i#, even in a period of months. Every victory over in-- fectious disorders is an unmixed gain--and so is every increase the popularity of athleties." "a Lawn farm rested La Fiuer. They found the man working in a large barn at one end of the farm After questioning him they made a search of the barn and found the watch hidden near the rafters. I a-- Fluer admitted the theft but gave no reason for taking the watch. He denied steadfastly that he stole the ring. The police declared, however, that the ring was found later on the finger of a girl frierd of La-- While the hearing is pending the prisoner will be questioned further by the police in an effort to de-- termine the extent of his activities. La Fluer declared that he served in the navy for sometive »fter he left his home in Utica, N. Y., some years ago. surnee, was arre:té ourneved to Jra Brewer la uer in to investigate Fleur who Yesterday the Gurnee where t} FOR RING THEFT 1s called to e this morn-- n will be rivers -- from The 'h:é' of justice, generally characteri as "grinding exceed-- ingly slow," were slipped into high gear in Judge W. C. DeWolf's ses-- sion of the county court Thursday. Judge DeWolf is a "demon for work." Emil Roth, who manufactured some 20 gallons of moonshine whiskey while "resting" at a cottage at Wauconda, and who was arrested when tae residents of the vil-- commmer end of today's trial call and will be taken up the first of next week. Fails to Gain Delay The failure of a series of at-- tempts to gain a continuance in the case against -- George -- Cleveland, charged with liquor violations, fi nally brought the case to trial shortly after noon today. James G. Welch, attorney for the defend-- ant, moved for a contnuance and challenged the array of urors. In each case the motions were over« ruled and the jury was" selected, The case is expected to last an en« tire day and will probably be c&r« The defense claims that Joe Su-- das, one of the state's witnc4808, came into the Cleveland ico creamm Charles -- Wallker and _ FEdward Sharboro, charged with selling in-- toxieating liquor appeared in court with their bondsman, and -- through win ige object arged with Louis Pursella, but |"si irsella can not be found and failed | At appear. He was not at the cot-- : iff ge at the time of Roth's arrest. ; the Draws Heavy Sentence it'&l State's Attorney A. V. Smith n~'G." mmenced a fine of $200 and 60| Sn ys in jail. _ Judge DeWo!WH fixea| Wi e fine at $300, and sentenced Roth | _ serve 40 days in jail. Roth start-- lm his sentence today. |laj red a plea leased on . J. Maver mey arle intly orm Get Court Action ti ite to the "essence hich wafted from Ju the liquor hine _ whiske wn for hearin not guilty : of $2,000 PUBLISHED TWICE WEEKLY e DeWolf g by State's At-- claimed _ that LIBERTYVILLE, ILLINOIS SAFTURDAY, JULY 15, 1922 ed from the cottage, ap-- Wolf to plead itted that he through Runyard, no at the d will be an:| Was irnished IDYL OF THE_E'VEST SEASON with ear Iny | Ignatr: Potz, the murderer of |Wmhm Peterson, started his life |term in the Mimois s:ate penitentiary | at Johet today. Pb M onl -- The motor cyce. policeman's slayer was spirited out of town be-- for daylight and accompanied by three stalwarts, Sheriff Green took his prisoner to the peamitentiary. Realizing _ that Liake _ county is opposed to _ the governor's commutation of the Poiz sen-- tence. Sheriff Green took advan-- tage of the biinding rain and at 6 o'clock the party set out for Joliet. Chief of Police Thomas Tyrrell, who is called upon to take part in cvery dangerous duiy in the county. sat oeside Potz in tne rear 'seat of the big Studebaker sedan. _ His "six shooter" lay in his right hand. At Potz' other side sat Deputy Sher-- if William Gee, former owner of the biggest drayage comeern in Chi-- cago, and a "hard hitter." Sheriff Green drove the car with Deputy Sheri'T .H A. Doolittl«, the mayor of Wilson, by his side The heavy rains, which the wher-- iff announced yestenday would de-- lay the removal of Potz from the courty jail, were t!> @onvoy's main protection from the rage of thosr who believe that Pou is escaping his just punishment. The drenching downpour, and the inky black skies protected and hid th sheriff's party as they carried out ine order of Gov. len Small. Before the skies had cleared and the rain abated, the little cleare«i and the rair party, with Potz t of all, passed 'over and into an uninf« where Potz is safe The fight for jus and that while he and Thomas, memt squad, came in an land for selling liq Cleveland _ decla liquor he had in resort when he was purchased before t effect and that h« any, but kept it his bona fide gu liquor seized in th land's place is all « Smith has raid on Cleve-- 1 bonded liquor. is there, Brune s of the sponge arrested Cleve-- laws went had never r his own s that what s Round Lake e made by Col t Deputy Sher-- mer owner of comeern in Chi-- itter." _ Sheriff with -- Deputy , the mayor of most . relieved he county line, ned community , he had into sold and Supervigor James O'Connor of West Deerfieli had the scare of his life Saturday when he and Marshal Chester A. Wolf went to tie home of Herman Hueh! to arrest him on a charge of disorderly conduct, and against whom insanity charges have been filed in the county court. Su-- pervisor O'Connor stepped into the house and was followed by Hueh!, who quickly tried to lock the door before Marshal Wolf could enter. Realizing the danger of being locked into the house with an alleged maniac who was armed with a re-- volver, O'Connor grasped the door and called to Officer Wolf to throw Hueh] was taken into custody after hehdmtohnmm:ato' "get" a number of people, and after he had gone to Shermerville Satur-- day with a loaded shotgun, and it was feared he might harm someone, ne having carried the gun upon other | occasions. It was also reported that | the other day Huehl hauled a hay | loader into the middle of the romd near his place and tied a mule to it.! practically blocking the road. | nis weight against it from the out-- side. The men forced open the door It was learned later that Hueh! had cut the nose off the 48 calibre bullets in his revolver so they would flatten out and make a more dan-- gerous wound. George Pedas, a neighbor, testi-- fied that Hueh! nad declared that Sacks. another neighbor, had be-- witched the Huch! pigs until they would eat nothing out bricks. Testimony of neighbors of Huehl' was taken all day Wednesday and | was introduced into the evidence, Ak doctor on tre commission dodnnd. Huehl is the victim of a secret dis-- ease inherited from his pareats. | He was declared insane by a ml in the county court when the sealed verdiet, reached -- at 6:30 o'eluk' Wednesday night, was read in court on Thursday morning. The jury recommended that ne be taken to a hospital for treatment of nervous diseases rather tha~ to an insane asylum. SHERIFF PURSUES taxi had just passed over the high-- way and the occupants held & gun at the drivers hoad. Sheriff Green started out with help and overtook the party at Cnannel Lake, The party were all in »Wiflln'i.,q'h Weapon Turn« Ovt to Be Camera reported gun (ur~00 CVS 10 pe A exmera, they wore taking pletures reen received 'ol'fl, over Friday morning that a «t passed over the high-- TAll! HOLD--UP MEN ict Of Jury| fl County Orphan-- " age Stays Open l:hoanufi-m in o. ce tine nees e now @xpresses W gness to \u:hdl'l', her I'M and, {nommm the financial sacri--, 'fice tnereby entailed, of which your | 1()ommiw.~i. aware, to remain for | mopruallldul"dthmk | ' _ "I am also pleased to inform you muuw:- n-u?'n ueh.mflo-'ror&pfi- ,cnt-dlnmneonfinmwfln- tering the appropriate Court or-l Lake county's probation and juve-- mile work is going to continue on tne same scale as in the past. Judge Perry L. Persons, head of all probation work here, male two important anrpuncements, Firt, he said that Miss Polmeteer would continue in her old capacity as pro-- bation officer. Serond, he said that | the Jackson Street Orphanage would j not be closed but will be cuntmued' in operation. Judge Person's letter to Edwanl' J. Monahan, chairman of the l)elen-} tion' Home committee, follows: | 'Mr. Edward J. Monahan, | Chairman Detention Home Com-- mittee, | Lake Forest, III. | Dear Mr. Monahan: to "Concerning the Probation workl ofi tiis Court of wnich 1 promssed to | auvise you NOL imiet Lian IR€ 1OUl inst., you wiui recall that at the .neeung ol your -- Committee | Wilo: Uhairman mingdahi, Mss iolneieer und ime on the Oln lnsc., al Wl Lii present, Wiin many other Qlizens oi our County, some of whose pe-- ulious were then presented i0 us, joined in urging bher lo renain anu eontinue her work at Probation Of-- fhicer, she then promised to give her resignation and retirement irom the orhce furiner _ considerati@iy; . Sne just informs me that owm me ussurance given her by membéts of your Committee, Chairman -- iing-- wahi, other Supervisors and, many cther citizens trom whom she "has Learu, sne believes, us we do, tnat nereaiter a @Wser --co--operation | Jan't Nonhrup, 16 years old, & NCBE CEMEMECIUNE C | 8542 Sangamon street, Ch.cago, was ' this "T':'" ": tl:.t; seriously injured Monday enrfing':';':":',m';m th | when sne was thrown from a horse | . ; ; , they -- will | she was riding near Lake z"mh'iamply able to live |\She was cartied unconscious to the | orq set in other ye | Victory Memorial hospital, Wauke-; There witl be bu 'nn,vrheuahcmfwndtohnn all day leng to pH suffered a possible paralysis of one | d the '.u. of her face. Her condition | $yeey We n was somewhat improved this "m"tcn, ig 'urged to ing, hospital authorities said. grove where the p According to officials attending | is considered one o the case, the girl visiting near Lake|of oak and hicko | Zurich during the summer was lotnl | riding the horse . early Monday _<----_--_--___-- evening in one of the roads near GRAYSLAKE TO !Lh. town. One of the residents C along the road sitting upon his =---- 1front porch saw the girl on the' The Lake coun (moum over which she seemed to | the soidier and & | be losing control. the _dvfl war will | hosy sour Committese, C -,rm_.._.n -- Ming--| " avenue, Belvidere strget, en winet neperviger Cors lang the "Milvaukes road . are. gil wahi, other Supervisors an:bgnny j "~a dy to be paved. but the right of uaiaigies Mmmm us we M' way is not complete cr any of them. m malac :..,' 2s '",..° d,.o',,,m-... | The road commissioners must spread nemn.e.rm: rested the assessment and secure the .right nign 4 aolh t t# C l of way before we can even advertise tin of the Child Weltare Work of | for bids." 5 of the ork --« * tig Counl Cogtt IH be enngasten 1. .. 'The qulire comniitice on Fouds and "I think you and all others in« terested in the "Kiddies"--our com» ing citizens--who fortunately or un-- fortunately, as the case may be, form an acquaintance with their County Cou:t, are to be © congrat-- ulated. Very truly yours, Perry L. Petsons, . County Judge." GIRL FALLS OFF TAL( Further down the road the Nor-- thrup girl was joited from the horse's back and fell into the dirt road. Residents picked her up and carried her in an automobile to the Manc~! Talcott has been confirmed as postmaster of Waukegan. An-- nouncement of the senate's action was made Monday by Congress-- man Chindblom when he attended the "White Way*" ceremonies. Mr. Talcott will not take over the affairs of the lo@al postoffice until mbout Aus. 1., Me said today that he wauld await Official confirmation of his appointmient before doing anything further. It is unJjerstood that Postmaster Daniel Grady will eniter the local real ecstate fel| as soon ms he is relleved of the responsibilities of hisoffice. "As soon as I régeive offical not-- ice of my appointment," Mr. Tal-- cott said today, "I will consult Mr. Crady concerning the affairs and routine dutics at the Ioeal office, and rrrange with him the best time for me to take over the office." Mr. T: affairs c about A he waul: of his : anything ita OTT SURE OF HORSE, IS INJURED POST OFFICE JOB The road and bridge committée of the Lake county boarc of supervis-- ors met Thursday in the offices of ; Charles E. Russell, county superin-- tendent of highways, to let the con-- Ituct for the paving of the Deer-- | field road from Highland Park to |Deerfleld, and the Fox Lake road 'from Fox Lake to Antioch. } The road and bridge committee are highly incensed at the attitude of | tne Rotary, Kiwanis and Commercial | cubs in censuring the board of su-- | pervisors for not having pushed the | work of paving Grand and Milwau-- ]kee avenues and the Belvidere rord, . "Rights of way are all that are 'holding up the letting of contracts ! on these jobs," said Supervisor |\ George Bairstow. "We'cannot do a | thing until the road commissioners [ of the tewns secure the ric'.: of way, inndt.hcsechbs could do much more 'good if they would ai cthe road | commissioners in securing, the ne-- \cessary right of ways instead 'of 1crit.idzing the work of the boarl. 'We are ready to let any and all \contracts, but are powerless to do ' anything until the right of way Is | sceured." OWNERS CAUSE j OF DELAY IN CEMENT ROADS . secured, and declare that local ¢r-- 'Mfllflb-flhhp | thering the work of paving if they ;wouldddhnw,rhat-lnm 'right of way. j \ There will be band on the grounds |all day long to play between the 5;m:-dthtwhdtm (vhthhnmnl hundrer + mem-- ters, is urged to be present. The 'gmvhnthoyladehhhhfl is considered one of the finest stands of eak and hickory trees in the i *£;un63a |\ _ Several facts were taken into | consideration in deciding to hold the |\ annual *eamp fire meeting" at | Grays Lake. 'The American Legion 1at the town has planned a big en-- | tertainment for the civil war he-- |\roes and declare they will furnish \all the meals and lodging places \ for the soldiers, and will take care of any camp meetings the veterans wish to hold. . The entire committee on roads and do. nothing until all right of way is $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE CoOUXNXTY PLWONEERS To The officers of the association met last night at Wadsworth to plan the occasicn, and have announced that they will secure some d& best speakers in Lake county to on the early days of the "S 'These discussions of early history of this section of the state have always vroused much interest, and the di«-- rectors/promise that the speaker which they will engage will be amply able to live up/to the stand-- ard set in other years. Ns y 0 Y ces s LC )o ever the county will let their work slide August 19 to attend the pieni¢ at Wadsworth of the Lake County Pioneer -- Agricultural® -- association, 'The affair will be of the old fash-- joned basket variety, and will be held in the beautiful McCarty grove, just across the Des Plaines river from Wadsworth. s The Lake county association of the soldier and sailor veterans of the civil war will hold theis forty» ninth annual reunion on Aug. 16 and 17 at g\yl Lake. s This was the decision reached by members of the organization at their regular meeting Thorsda; afternoan in the Grand Army of the Republic headquarters on Gen-- esee street, Waukegan. The Waukegan Rotary _ club, North Chicago, Foss park, Liberty ville, Electric park, Waukegan and the American Legion post at Grays Lake all entered bide for the priv« ilege of entertaining the old sol-- diers. The entire town of Grays Lake will join in the celebration and bend every effort toward the ertertain-- ment of the soldiers and sailore of the Union in the war between the states. % GET VETS MEET

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