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) Mrs. Mary Fuller, Wife of Drug _ : Store Thiet Caught Here, _ WAUKEGAN AGAIN . ~LEADS STATE OR JANUARY BUILDING ~ SHOWS . LARGEST . GAINS Huit for divoree will be filed Thurs-- day in the circuit court by Attorney Joseph Hishop, of Zion, Tor Mrs. %um.occnun-mm sefly of Highland Park against Fran-- ois KFuller, 22%, who is now serving mpmmmulo'at: holding up the Semple drug store in Fort Madison, ia., whetre he and two others took $50 from a clerk. The bill will charge that Fuller is serving time for a felony. 'That is the only ground that will be offered for the divorce, ~ ~ Gained Confessions wallenwein Gquizzed the trio© and got signed confessions from them in which they admitted sticking up 16 gas stations and 'drug stores --from 'Texas® to Ualifornia to .Washington --New York, Feb. 22.--Aithough Wil-- Te Hoppe defeated Harry~ Wakéefield here last night, Mhtmhm American -- t h re e ~eu blilliard league race. Allen Hall of St. Louis. won two games from Otto Reiselt in Philadelphia and now trails Hoppe by Lteut, m.wumna brought a hait to Fuller and his two ~pais, George, 18, his brother, and William Howell, 19. He canght them Nov. 29. 1927 as they were trying to sell -- a CUhrysler that they had stolen at We-- natchee, . Wash., to the <Wetzel --& Turner garage. . 'The three pleaded guillty in Fort Madison Dec.--1, 1927 where they re-- ceired sentences of 25 years;:: : 'Thé wile states that she had mar-- ried Fuller about three months before he was caught. 8 --LOVGHRAN waANTsS REST . _ New York, Feb. 22.--Tommy Lough-- ran. world's light heavyweight cham-- plon, s#ays. he will not defend his title for at least three months, We'll rested and packing some extra weight, Loughran --has returned *from a maonth's cruise in the West Indies. > VOL. the Metropolitan area of Chicago in the value of building but likewise in mvmuawumm over corres month ° :in ;m'h-m«..-w:znam ue were EP mwtmnbm January showed ~ a m.c.'r- in building over the same in the the present month of February while it will} not compare with January, will nevertheless set a new record,. The gain in building for the month Qf January was general in the state. aem of tisk61S. and is tollowet ummmm Jlast of which has gained from . 5 to $127,830. Huilding activities> are now at a low ebb in the city judging from the records of permits lssued during the past week by the city building depart-- 1Ss W 10WA public today by the -- Illinois 't'p& ment of labor. 3 With building permits issued dur-- Ing the month showing a total value ¢mm.wiiin¢nu£mofi all othér cities in the state outaide of nue, to cost $6,000. . _ € 'Theodore Goiwitzer, 1715 Runyard :%c.«.nnnummm Peter Yihronen, 607 Helmhols ave nue, repairs and alterations, $500. Veorge A. Zieler, 41 Houth Wiscon-- sin avenue, two story brick vencer residence and garage at 926 Rogers Waukegan which set a etiff pace for other citi¢s in Mlinois in building dur-- ing the year of 1927, has started out this year by again leading downstate cities in value of building during Jan-- ment but despite this fact the total value of permits issued during the month of February will exceed those Of any corresponding month in pre-- M u;.mmmcn- n:mwm was $18,500, but Albert McDermott, 23 West Chapel street, frame garage, $300. SUES FOR DECREE FROM MATE DOING _ 25 YEARSIN PE N tive permits being issued during that quiet in building circles. ~it is u'} that period when ailterations and re~ pairs made necessary by winter have been completed and spring a are atill in a formative stage. ----=-- -- "I'he permits issued during Abe week were as follows: w Tops All Other,Cities in HWlinois To: vaiae o Boiiing bure _ Webruary, like January, is always HALL --GAINS <TroPpP Asks Freedom. to statistics ~made LAKE COUNTY INDEPENDENT Lake County's Big Weekly -- WAUKEGAN WEEKLY SUN No. 8 the a¥@ games here last night. . In ths mile, Hahn turned in the fastest time of the season, 4:17 1--5. He deéfeated G. Elliott of North Carolina and three others. Conger won the 660 ~yard event from Pinkie Sober and a dozen where ho was considered out < mmnmatnu& smwm*.'q with --a puilmotor but 'the --appliance ':::muam.mwm. repair a meter which might have taken him a.long <~period ~of time to accomplish his plight would not have been discovered by fellow workmen until too late, had he not managed to retain conscliousness un-- til he reached the outer air. The gas is believed to have escaped into the chamber from a leak in an William --Martin, aged 28 years, an employe of the Lake Forest city wa-- ter department, nérrowly --escaped mhhnbuuhomm by gas in a manhole in that city, at about 2 o'clock, Tuesday -- afternoon. Martin through superhuman _ effort managed to fight oft coma until he reached the outer air, when he col-- tlln Fellow workers hurried to his as-- sistance and they gave {rst ald while a physician and police were summon-- WORKERS REVIVE HIPM LAKE FOREST CITY EMPLOYE OVERCOME BY GAS IN MANHOLE William Martin Struggles --t o Reach Open Air Where He Philadelphia, Feb. 22%.--Llioyd Hahn in a tin e SET TRACK ARECORDS i Ofgcha 28 . se n rter, s Kih nlmmmmfiummwwommmummq'd&-dt Brown. in the center is Grace Vanderbilt, who marriad Henry Gassaway Davis 24, "thair fathers to take tha m:>3 c° (_ {2z¢Cus:~>,:z~ i.i c--o happy, although only one . _ _ to the temporary dismay of her father, Gen. Cornelius Vandertbilt, and at right are appeats to hare been {o.ziycu." At loft is Sybil Hayer Brown, daughier of Edwin 8. . )'mmmwmwmm&,m Baycr, millionaire glove manufacturer, and her noecktle clerk--husband, Vincent E/: -- ~"tipns of her father, Clarence Mackay, head of the Posta! Télegraph Company. SECTION TWO LIBERTYVILLE, LAKE COUNTY, ILLINOTS, THURSDAY,FEBRUARY 23, 1928 Thgf Girls Defmd Opposition of Families to Marry the Men They Loved Kills Son With Butcher Knife 'with burglarizing the home' of Louts Basting at Highland Park Basting claimed that damage in excess of $2,-- 500 was done at his home. He and Rr.. Byfield had been neiglibors® for years. Ee . Young Byfleld was first cited in the county court but. it was impossible for the sheriff to get service on him ¥Following' that came the indictment was on a year's tour of Europe. Bast-- ing is now said to be vacationing in ~ The second case involved Anthony Assistant States Attorney _S.-- H. Block. today nolle prossed two crim-- Inal. indictments 'brought in the cir-- cuit court several months ago. Ricardi and Pasquale -- Tardi,-- High: wood, caght red handed by Chief of p. m.-- Good speakers will be prosent to address the meeting. Milk produc-- ers are making a fight to obtain an Increase to $3 per hundred for their m-ndmotum interest been create is expected thquwmhs&%nhm The meeting-- promises to be one ol the biggest of the kind ever held in the The Lake County Milk -- Producers association has issued z call to all producers of the county to attend a mase meeting at the COrystal theatre, MILK PRODUCERS TO HOLD MASS MEETING BY STATES ATTY 14, son of a Ellen NelsoR, io report for work ut €:30 o'clock. It is thouht&thu she had hurried and an attack of iliness that 'came upon her at 6:45 o'clock is beliered to hare been due to over: Mrs. Nelson placed.her in a bed in the home and called Dr. Alex Levin, mpuun.:'mm,.vm' was suffering of heart discase A son, Carl Schmidtburg was in-- formed of the fliness of his mother and he epent the night with her. She mumwnatunrlyhoua morning decided to go to Whll:.nq"& this morning he found that she was dead: _ The body was removed to the Wet-- alu'mmcnlhomoug the coroner was notified. & Believed a victim of heart disease with complications of kidney trouble, Mrs. Gustaye Sthmidtburg, aged 62 years of 704 Mott avenue, | passed away sometime during the hours of *Tuesday night, while in bed at m boarding house at 679 McAlister where she has been employed. The deceased was--taken. with iliness last night. > * HEART TROUBLE BLAMED woOmAN IS FODND DEAD IN BED AT FEARLY HOUR WED Mrs, -- Gustave-- Schmidtbur Aged 62 Years, Dies During Margaret Elizabeth Moffett, 15--year old daughter of Admiral William A. Moffett, chief of the bureau of aero-- nautics of the navy and former com-- mandent at Great --Lakes, has been awarded 'the gold medal presented annually by the Sons 'of the Revolu-- tion for patriotic essays by Washing-- tou (D. €.) school girle. The subject of Miss Moffett's essay was "What Weight Should be given to New Hampshire's Part in the War of the g Record for Seven Years ~*"The passing of 1927 marked the close of the healthiest seven year pe-- Tariings Sale. -- "Atipough pepuistion increased by nearly one m{iion dur-- lng.that time, the actual number of deaths declined by approximately. fif-- ty thousand, and the average annua! death rate per 1,000 people {el! from 1% per cent to 11.4 per cent. This improveméent made Illlinois unques tionably the healthiest big state in the nation." llh::zktbnohowodmnmo more died in California in the seven year period than in. Iilinois. '.;-:.m Fewer ouun.' ids "The improvement of health condi-- tions in Illinois," he said, "has result-- ed chiefly from progress and against tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid fe-- ver, dierrheal disorders and other communicable diseases. Last : year, there were 3,104 fewer deaths than Revolution ?" The states surveyed were "O ouuoh." mortality from the :ld age disease been creeping up, but folks are' not t-norulva that as mer peome aro sa through public health services from commun-- found in a survyey of the death rate of 'America's most densely populated es com give lllinois . the hmmh wa any ~ area. in Nerth America with four million or more inhabitants. ' California has the Spreading the investigations over a period o{ seven years, he found 50,000 less deaths 'reported in Iliinois since 1920, than for the period from 1913 to Spring{ield, 4111 --Exhortations pro-- Claiming the healthfu)l climate of Cal-- ifornia would be more appropriate if they were applied to Illinois, Dr. I. D. Rawlings, state health director, has ILLINOIS SETS *i11 NEW AMERICAN . ~ _ HEALTH RECORD STATISTICS :' S H O W N Showing State Has Lowest nea?fi Rate For 1927. SIGN FOR BOVT Ma atkao c WINS A MEDAL Issues Figures etts, New York, W. J. Stratton of Lake county announces he will resign by Sat-- urday as Director of State Depart-- ment of Conservation and will run for secretary of state. May run as independent. the fine. Hirmingham, Ala., Feb. 2%.--The ku Klux Klan will fling its mask into the discard at midnight tonight, says an order from Biram Wesley Evans, imperial wizard. 'The move, Odriginal-- ly intended as a patriotic surprise for in Alabama and after a denial from rock along until confirmation was re celved from other sources through-- out the country. --_CHURCH HIT BY FIRE Chicago, Feb. 2%.--Fire early today destroyed the church and parish house at St. Ailphone's congregation, located at Lamont. 'The loss was es JAILED DRUNK; --BITES DOG AND: . GETS $200 ENE Frank Martin, 346 years old, a hobo, applied to the Highland Park police for a place to sleep Monday evening. He was given space on the floor, near was Rover, a large Airedale belonging to Fireman Sidney Jennings. . Not long afterward there were loud noises in the room. The police ran HOUND® WAS-- MUZZLED Hobo in Highland Park Chews To Resign and Run o n Fireman's Pet Purp After His Jag. KLAN TO UNMASK to find kover biting $1.50 PER YEAR. IN ADVANCE --wide experience in. the-- credit. field Ae has become one of the best inform-- x gB2'% h hok w property was purchased for future de-- velopment it is teported that a new theatre building will rise--on the site in another year. 'The people who bought the property also had options on the Protine and Schanck tracts In line with the general boom it is known that the Insull-- interests are ready to let the--contract for a mod-- ern building at Church street and Milwaukee avenue. . There will be stores on the main r and offices © above. It is n"rl&o that the Pube« lic Service co®mpem will occupy one of the stores and the Gas compezy may occupy another. * The Masonic lodge of Libertyvyilis ¥ also is planning to erect a new Jjem-- ple on their lot at Milwaukee avenu: and church gtreet. al firm since 1923, bandling much H-- Eation in lower courts. 'Through tis The othér members are Attorncys C. K. and F¥'. A. Welish/ 'The newest member has been associated with the ~-- Three. sons --Of. K.. K. --Weish, of Rockford, former circuit court judge, now make up the law firm of* Weish &--Weish with the admittance into partnership of Attorney Hoger °T. $20. The local chief then wired the information that Mitchell had agreed to return to Cincinnati without extra-- over what appears to be the starting of one of the biggest building booms in the town's history. been $40,000. + At the present time the property is improved with a two story brick buiiding the lower part of which is ocEupied by the Lovell drugstore and the Fair, the general store owned by Max Kohner. The Honeywell Photo-- John Mitchell is Wanted in Cin-- -- cinnati; May be a Deserter | From the Navy. ~ -- jan clothing. Later bowever bhe told the officers that he was a deserter from the navyy and this is being checked. If this proves to be the case he probably wilf be turned over to the authorities at the naval sta-- R. K. WELSH ADDS _ _ SON TO LAW FRM-- _ Asst. Chief Kennedy sent a tele-- gram to the chief of police at Cincin-- nati and asked if Mitchell is wanted MASONS ALSO TO BUILD the police of Cincinnati on a charge Of passing bad checks for $40 and ASKS TO BE AR-- RESTED; ADMITS -- -- PASSING CHECKS _ -- Ohio, called at the Waukegan police station 'Tuesday afternoon and asked that he be locked up. He informed Mitchell wore a navyy uniform but denied that he was a deserter, saying he had-- been out of the n&ry for a year. He said he bhad sold his civil-- The following reply was received by Chief Kennedy: LOCAL ~ POLICE CHECKING ig Tract Purchased as the Proposed Site of a New ° Investigation this afternoon by Chief Kennedy revealed the fact that Mitchell is wanted as a de-- serter from the Great Lakes Na-- val Training Station. -- He left the wired the authorities at. Cincin-- nat! not to come for Mitchell. it turned over to Great Lakes clals tomorrow. was due to return Jan. 2. He did Kesidents of. Libertyrille are agog §otc 2k FACING BIGGEST -- BULLETIN. Je o uie csle MFSEOTAC: . Lext