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Libertyville Independent, 3 Nov 1927, p. 1

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----_ANDWIFE KILLED _ INAUTO ACCIDENT ¢ John 'J. Mitchelt, 91., aged 76, chair-- | MR _ ~ --man of the board of directors of the | ce _ -- fMlinoils Merchants Trust company of ; bO .. Mmancial and"civic aftairs of that city +109 P for halt a--century, and 'his wife, Mrs. by» p mmumm&uml., * . a social leader, are dead as the result |, .__~ of an automobile accident which o¢ |,, ¢ mumn.mmmm hee _ -- wmailes morth 'of Libertyrille, at $:30 | ;, ; MMW& ir 3 Mrs. Mitchol! 4s . to-- BAY® |1,, ~VYOLUME XXXV John J« Mitchell, ch'u?o Banker, and Wife, Leader, Are Victims. w%&mmmn ing driven to m : in their auto-- home at Lake Geneva. arounrd a hay wazon had collided with another machine on the hHigiyway near ley, the chauffeur of the Mitchell 'fi the pavement until he was within 100 -- years. He had the reputation of be« _ ing a careful driver. moeras _ er and his wife: were prepared at the Ray establishment for removal to § "An"'dm'mhdm;'.mm & The Mitchells resided at 1550 North they have spent most of the summer dm.mduh Leager in Banking Olrcies then turned ground omce and headed into a ditch --alongside of the pave-- ment where it turned over. . ' Pinlened Under Machine Both the n Mionaire banker and his wife were crushed bemesath the heayy was fatailly' injured, <Bet~ ilgrs Taylor and M%"' to be perthitted to sit up.: He resented C '----"-;E _ _ a l{' h.': z to 1 by Dr. . ; § 2_> "g-'f'*fi"" words to the pbysician after bis brain Rev. H. B. Gwyn, rector of . the Episcopal church in Libertyrille, was at his bedside when death came. Within an hour after news--of the nccident had reached Chicago fnan-- cial and newspaper circles, the town of Libertrvillis was thronged with rel atives and friends of the victime--with ?.q-mm.-u-um k ,m.mm.mu-_u the employ of the Mitchells for two fairs of Chicago and the nation Jor 53 Until recently hbe served a3 preaident of the Hiincis Merchants Trust company to become president of the board of directors of that in-- been leaders in Chicago social circles hnn-ultfiwm-u- um.ugndummz. Ocden Armour, is "the "wile of their were standing on the high-- prey manma e .( AEE . e C lnter in the offitce of NUMBER 44. At a meeling .Of B CA Mundelein Real" te Board, held at several questions relating to the act-- ivities of the orgSnizations were dis" point brought out was that all such the exception of --Libertyville. . _ J/"" MeltdthhoutAuthm bele was named to attend the viug® council meeting Nov. 22 and comy®y mmam,mlmwu the viage fathers. -- It is propose 'to garait an rgrigien r s ie ag * ing such matter, and repeal «l 'the old time bilue laws. Cratast specders who hSY® become the Tenth District, will preside at the against & ers 7 .mmuuothuum-'mmm to the ad-- mwmmm'm-p of welcome given by . Mrs. v"d,m,.muv-;ua»ww-o,vgmd. ent of the Rog-- zmmmwmmmam 's «Olub: -- There 'will f MMumM'flflQU'!N'mW':""M mucu'um'-mrmwm znveloek. "mm""wwmmmw' ess. briee m,,mmm,mmwmtnflmhflrvddm mm'mmhm on "What My City is Doing",; "An mmeyeheoumbuvwm!fl}:mm " by Mrs. Hen-- m,m'mmmmmrrl. ason, state chairman of Co-- mwm.uwmwmm«m%d ":'cs"'"".,..a';'?%"'&n"&fiwwfl'my"'"\m much > te se e ; eau. C rxPt mere _.__.....mml.r.w.e% : m"'fi' n steoral... Ar-- mour sent a hurried call from the floor of the stock exchange to the bank for board of direstors. in 1923 a£ mergor ; PC®2U * *0208 0 luts Organita "o= nntablished which united the Til1--|Federation | of Women's Ofganisa muumm.mmum;mm&vmwm Loan and Mmmndmcon ot Cook.County Federation ot Won Exchange National f én's Cluba; and Mrs. 3. W. Munch, -m.mmlnmucm_mwcmm.u mmmummanuoqwm':.am Music by the Phili-- MI.L-MMMMM:N'-Q-M%Md DFIPUIL, IF. i. .' |Democracy" by Dr. William H. Body, uin GOuUn K . CEme Meia e on Ns dn 9 P Besides the Chicago and Lake Gene--| A ~fully loaded 'Webber -- Cartage mmmuwmmwmpnnnmu. an estate near Pasady Cal. 1101 Ash>street, his wife, and the La Saile street was Miuined by the | helper,: Mike® Pesky, Saturday ~night news ot the death of Mitche!} Bank--| was ~ditched and bwyduug'doa ers of. :' and other Cities, life--| Sheridan road just north of W throp long is of the financl wizard| Harbor when an effort was made by were 'at his unth death. wngwuhum;mmfina . o Watha some to an abrupt halt in the middie u"-',fi,;--,&::» %f "&m * g 3 * Pribute ) tohell by a hun-- motorist, © Edward Sperman, riends: including N prosiden; | 1648 Weet Division W g_a .' Euzene M. Stevens,| Was arrested later on a Hr; t h n mt n en oo a F * f t & a ~** e 4 be» n'u'-': First National bank: -Mdfi'm the truck were %m . Dewes, president of the | MUt ~ rell,. traction -- magnite? 31--A t ire lig )e :M:: . BTE.; > e M !.w $ Rovons / s Aun® "Aha , had sulli, UaCcUIUE INBGZUEID, GJIGWB BRWZLAMUN\ L "KA C Gane Tok "Taue ul o and 4 ' mick, .Jr.; Mayor Williim Hale|that it was\ Bly Aight . to 'Roe ere. E .| end and that it was impogsible c=Ahe loss of Mr, Mitchell is a se--|to bring the truck to an, j vere one to the nation at large. Mr.|abrupt halt. Turner, she said, s 08 +6 Jnt Mitchell refused to send the in Cakk a. bank sand as Rogers Park Woman's Club Hostess Nov. 8t QL November 10, at 10 o'clock in the morning. -- Al--club women are invited g"'" this day of rich opportunity Ti pieop Fevers on' Inpoons ibe, will . pre ?mm'm N"?::-'&é 8 -- %'A"fi Maud m_?m 6. Clark Mrs, Maud SWAIM EYVALS, Mrs. Maurice Leiber and Mrs. George Helong" by Mes. Tdward 8. Bailey, M.U!"_""'-'"".._"!!'.? Wm. F. Turner Forced Int Ditch at Winthrop Harbor Sat.+ 3 Escape Injuries. "T-; -_-mv-, > HKdward > Sperman, l""" Weet . Division !W, was arrested later on a t is-- sued before Justice Louis 'rn ing a state highway.so .. < > } + erash «came about --6: 30 o'clock indictment ting . fr 1 nm\;m:lkhtuuo Assistant United Scates Di but that the SD car had stopped | tormey .Leo Klein inclcated-- euddenly and that it was impossible ernment would now. the to bring the truck to an, equailly | Case against. abrupt halt. Turner, ghe said, aswerved | Jor Owen. He.said that in to one side and almost was able to got on it would be usgless to i e in n' AfLnE n ie ifas ty t3 . bey SR( k uaghs e e Foreed: Into the ARE TO DECIDE DIVIDEND SOON IN BRACHER'S ESTATE yet <unsold. ~The two subdivisions will ;m the estate out in the clear® > probably leave money ovér, 'soma of the trustees believe. An offer of $800 per acre, or $160,000, -- was . turned _ down . just, recently' on 'the Silver Lake prop-- erty which would ©Bave-- meant $82%,000 to 'Bracher. 0 --.-- _ _ : Mason spent most of his boyhoi in Waukegan. The Mason tpm properiy nas sinceo Leon uUn y oIugl aAEI 4 %4 « to.a public. park. s .. ; m | Fuige Rdward Shurtieff Friday took dratmatie case, which grow ont | the case of Leo Cominkowski and Cas-- of 'the .$1,000,000 sacramental . wine mir Doberstein away from the _ jury dal of 1924, came to '""':3 and.'found in 'favor of the defendant, night after the jury had del , fioms'rflumfl;pn! The two five hours. . Meson and Owen both men 'had flipped a ride on a P. S..Co. wept when mw as announ®| truck in 1926 and the truck was wrock-- céd 'and ~it was mmm injury to the riders. They composed themselves .and: thanke A*tor $5,000 each. Judge Shurtleff . J aA¥A Animnan? was not: te _ ~It was the second victory for the noted deftendants, -- A--year--ago : they were acquitted .on a : charge. of> con-- spiracy to violate the prohibition law, B. H. Miller Host to Officials of Mundelein president and 'board of trustees and offi¢ers of the village of Mundolein at a dinnver given at the Union Hotel in Wheeling last Monday night.*. Be-- gides the official, negned, several con-- tractors and others ere guests of Mr. Millor. --A total of about forty--seven made up the assembled company. . ---- ments and it was largely due to his ;mmum.mm: 'gram could be: carried out without & single law suit. yoRs t,;mwummbymot Tilleas of Mundelsin. Mr. Relker also € ;M'Am"mw in this community ith those in cértain sections of Europe, from which. he récently returned, after spending bis Joseph --C. president of the State Bank of Mundelein 'told of the bright: tature £of 498 i soons io 1k 'gor $5,000 each." Judge Shu m!fl improvements was made Apieadia finanpiai 5on soatitide of the vIL lsge, being made up largely of home cce Hardin. wocrbtar? of the Lib l?'f&"~'n'.mn, wecretary of the 1AD~ Pecd A_Amind m on a h 7e ral . & Y made b tmm the fi'zfimuflzw *# ot Mundelein. n 'Cordon Ray, one of the village trus-- -vw-'.--'--r-&-" n body. _ "Th0k Ljook made :'m; 2 talk in his n singing what is termed the officiel nong of Mundeleftn, to th relanferm fi"" or Mundelsin. to the reftain of acncin msonision and tititice. _ Judge B. H. Miller was host to the had , n lfh o eommediits A 97 "Tne abfair was--voted to he 'one of y commended for his hospitality. SUIT AGAINST P. S. " "CO. OUT OF COURT had refused to go the Report of administrator's sale of real m m nn! !o w. en ape Reicsoa y dn s BRUZEWICZ ESTATE CASMAE Bs . k : PWROLIIE s on n et Atoge OPc ters "VW with will an-- nexed esued to Mariorie F. Tuttle. _ nexed fesued to Mariorie F. Tuttle. Arthur E. Flynn, Waukegan--iInvem-- tory and dppraisement. Bills gpproved. Johanne : Hewitt, Waukegan--Final report approved, estate closed. Frederick Gerretsen ordered to him by First National Bank depost-- Alnih : NERERNEE ALL LC Sn thicck eflal report approved, distribution ordered. Auna Hasarbaner," Waukezan--Let: ters of administration issuedto *'Ger-- trude R. Wood.. Bond of $200. Proof Will Knigge, Mundelein--Inventory and waiver of widow's report approved. '-- Michael . W. _ Chevalier, _ OUERCC -- -- STORY ORLIFE--T O . -- WAE AWAY HRS. --Tinnie L. Mohen, incompetent, Lib-- ertyville--Report of gale of real estate REV. JORDAN PENS Convicted © Minister to --Wrif One Chapter "My Wives" in .' Whatever the world holds in store tor "Rev, Wls R Jordan, 'once " & resident of Zion, he will give .the gers in the No 'Carolina prison Sor mt 18 mionths for his conviction FOBAUOIEC . SAR . AMITCIEE Ee d o n e cccies in world his autoblography while he lin-- P s EP eac o colstnnties: > uts signed the© complaint G. Relid, Long Lake--Let-- et al, minors, P ¥ua: . 'North Chicago~-- Prairig: View--Final Thee O Titus Bros., Libertyville, who offer to do the work for $13,781.90. + The other bid was that of the St. mnwm.mmd this firm : $15,915.10. The engineers estimate is $15,580. It will be noted that the bid of Titus Bros. is$1.778.10 below the estimate, while the other bid is $335.00 above. Te SCHE ME C ies in < M K. in nc t lowing o fills: and final and partial estimates 'of contractors. One bill of mm!«mw "gm'fimm""h_?"' Wt PV L mer ie & Bs ' At the meeting of the village trus-- tees, the minutes of the previous two vees, the mROW . 0° C _ Enrcred with meetin® Were read and approved with Pno EERMEARE® NOCEA UE ce 'Robert Kingery, secretary of the " ud riih 29e .A Oy te .. R oi .A C e C C 8 ies ts . sented a number of charts and stt Aistical exhibite, and ninde a short 'ad-- C eieee EeE sE UE TTE Ts ie s ce c oo Mm;fi-{"""'"' sociation and in manner it wat outlined the work of the: association in procuring* the right of way for the socalled superhighway from Milwau kee around Chicagd to the northern part of Indiana. -- This highway is to be' 200 feet wide, ith two strips "Of concrete paving, each 40 feet wide. 4 o ninlh > uP on °o Hepepig e PCAE CC C c h on s Lt en itc iegre ied . db liibatiy wl > uh ut °O MB mvmmnmmfl of Libertyvile, | on -- Butterfield Road to a point near the E. J. & E. tracks. thence in a southeasteriy. direction, .ndvmnuwaltudm'm genérai direction of Milwaukee Ave. to the Cook county line; east of Arl mmmmmm' aqm-',::flwfl"'"'"""" Thie Tengtts of the read wl be ap¥boL. imately 200 wilés, and at the present time 43 miles of the right of way bas been ',.,g..."m'dlth PEC TL -- stit, a' aAdkmictadt «it i s o C t Ge t s that the ordinance which prohibits| stt dant w on m Tle to Tesesion. As the present may conduct their business s1X w....n,ms;m.mnn-m- Mr._Kennedy told of conditions in practically all other places in this Part of the stite, and that places of amusement were allowed4 to i se e o ttnie : e xo eA Mwmm Do SA _adsy. anewof the propri-- Frank Kennedy, onep>of the mdteh'w Recreation Parior addresapd the board and asked "F C °C " vist neahinits der the _ hnin# elobbd mmwmw \m"mobw. '@everal --people living in the nelgh-- borhood were of the opinion that Six s CC Cns 0, LA Kan tiie PA Ted Helfer Says: days a week was enOusn 0. MTS *°*°* 'reation parior to operate. ' The city wa'"m .':u: :' Tok c Cile, president of. the board $UE-- g:'odm_m«m""'"' however. Two members ".'E :'""m: ed to repealing the ordinance.. After to repeainEs 82 * " o and Gnlet * loug poriod of Jittle taik and quiet and> posible® settlement was enough for the--rec-- was asked to Audit Approved, Bond Accept» ed as Bracher Leaves; Drop interest Demand on Banks. 'This was approved on a vote of the Morse then presented a surety tond entered into _ with six _ suret» companies all bearing $100000 eack of the responsibility It was approvred. It runs until Morse leaves office; probably December 1928. it does not encutmbancy orse. «25 x "'its cost per year, will be in the nelighborhood of $1,300. => _ _ get the run of things f Ounly one part in the showed a lack of business. There tares to the extent of $1,000 or more mark= ed paid that had not been. These have been collected. Otherwise bal-- Park, expressed its thanks to the & .uneo committee and endorsed ev¥ery 'move it had made. This committee is composed of Supervisors > Arthur W. Vercoe, Highland--Park, C. L. Amw tin, Zion, and H..C. W Meyer, Mu» delein. That, he said, had been the request of Lake county bankers who polnted out that that was all Chicago Would pay for the use of the money and that it was the same amount paid through-- out the state. s ~aus d Supervisor Obee offered an amend-- ment demanding the 2% per cent ar guing that the city of Waukegan and Highland Park received $ per cent on their @eposited accoounts. -- ; -- . _ Supervisor Vercoe offered as a mo tion, to cut the benking interest to 2# per cent on county funds with the banks furnishing depository bondsg to the county. 'This was % per cen£ lower than demanded in a previous the --county a black eye. y have afl.'ufluh&'ufiu,m" eye from the supervisors it is becausg they needed it," he chatged.--. . . This was in reference to the mat mumummfitn County Clerk Lew A. Hend r3 of the board, arose as the nigeting Ad-- . journed and said: se _ "Tam very much ploased with ¥ with me sixteen and a h« tm' that time we have not had a word. t is your gain and my loss." . . is To this Obee added: s *Jt is the first time in my recollec« tion that a county treasurer. and county clerk have been on good work-- The board, on a ing used, whils the ordinance provides_ for a minimum of five feet. _ wall Another : complaint received # tto minn l afem o ntee lm*-_;wul'__x' § $1.50(A YEAR L ipel'"*

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