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Libertyville Independent, 13 Sep 1928, p. 1

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--__-- Real Estate Transfers P Of Local Interest it W. A. Southern to L. R Southern. > sion, Libertyvilie. E C M. Marshall and Ausband to L . DeBoech. lots 3 and 9 Parkhurst's VOLUME XXXVI Em dtuah diBiiee dn s --dvacr c ontpaincin ts n t stt t cnis. -- Apaer Py Snd «d county superintendent: of highways, has been varied 'in that securing of MHis full report to the board was as follows: & 4 I wish to report that the. following county highway matters since your been paved and I expect that the shoulder and entrance culvert work will be completed in time for final inspection and acceptance before the end of this month. -- *In accordance with your action at the June session, I have kept one: man available for assistance to the townships in securing right--of--ways for state bond rovutes, with the re-- sult that, with the assistance of the county right--of way committee and the co--operation of the township of-- ficials, the contracts for the follow-- Iing routes have been awarded: ~ Route 17}Libertyville.to Gurnee. ..lld"t 176--Mundelein to Waucon-- Route 176--Wauconda to Burton's Route 5%9--Volo to 'Willey's cor-- for some time and the cases will be filed in court this week. -- f .On the section of ftoute 176 from Wauconda to Burton's bridge, all right--of--way -- in --"Lakecounty has been ~secured except the Gilbert tract and condemnation proceedings will be resorted to as soon as the Kimball and Duberville cases are right--ot--way. done on the other section of route 1176 but grading will very likely be started before the end of this month. Parement has been laid on route 17% trom Gurnee to Belvidere--road and I think it reasonably certain that this route will be available for use before the end of the year. Bids have recently been received on route 57----Tesville to Highland Park--and route 173--Zion to Rose crans. We have started to secure right--of--way for this section of route 173 and will probably get started on route 57 rightot--way early -- next :%-of-\vay; Have Bei 'Main Task® for: County _~Surveys are now being made on the remainder of route 173 through Lake county, also on route 68 and Right--of--way for the Grant: town-- ship county aid bridge has been se-- cured and we wil} advertise for bids to be received early in October in order that the work may be done with the least possible inconvenience to traftie. * Contracts have been awarded for the drainage of the Lake county hoapital drives and the work is near-- this work has been completed we will proceed with the actual widen-- ing of the driveway entrances. f We have made several much need-- ed improvements in the way of wid-- ening* approaches to drainage strue tures and the extension of culverts on the state aid roads and we plan to erect guard fence and other pro-- tective devices for the greater safety outfit continues to be of exception-- ally high grade for gravel road~con-- struction and has been the subject of much favorable comment by the townships who have used it. ; We are attempting to place the state aid road surfaces in condition to give greater satisfaction to trat-- Hie than ever before and woe will at-- tempt to get the roads through the winter and spring months in better shape from the standpoint of serv-- lee to traffic than has been possi-- Trust Co. to M,. Holliman, soulneasi qguarter of section 25, Libertyville. J. "R. Snunders and wife to ¥. Tangze and wife, lots 30, 68 and 97, Thp output of the county crusher months,> according to the re-- Co. to . Holliman, southeast tions have been under way Preparations for these y 0 $2,867,190 IN THE -- TREASURY MORSE -- --sAYS IN REPORT Within th6 next three weeks, his of. 'f:od:.d,m'.tnotthhmywdd mw.-o'ntv_unmto be $2,115,906 in the general tax fund a 1 $528,8%58 in th special. _ Balance of $2,867,190 of all funds was shown in the annual report of Earnings o fthe treasgurer' soffice Were shown as (follows:-- Cash on hand Sept. 1, 1927, $40,963.90; inte -- est from banks, $28,200.21; commis-- sion on inbheritance tax, $33,180.80; scosts and 2 per cent commission on tax, $85,244.29, and 1 per cent com-- mission on county warrants, $6,-- 867.91, for a total of $194,461.50. Disbursements _ were $170,435.38, leaving $24,026.12% on hbhand as net earnings. * Cow ty Distribution to Be Completed 'Within the. Next Three . Weeks, Is;. Word Sheriff Lawr.n:e Doolittle's re-- port showed an income of $9,838 and expense oft $6,906 with $2,932 being turned to the treasurer. * Libertyville Headed Big Parade Monday County Cle k Lew A. Hendee had receipts of $17,171.19,~ expenses of $13,837.54 and a balance left of $3, Circuit Clerk L. J. Wilmot earned $8,299, spent $5,079 and turnel $3,-- 299 to the treasury. -- ¢ Libertyville American Legion boys played an important part in the im-- mense parade of Legionnaire bands and bugle and drum corps at the 10th annual state convention held in Wau kegan this week, when the firing squad of the local post carried the state colors at the head of the par-- ade, which got under way Monday at * T our yos Post No. 329 of Lib-- ertyville was delegated to carry the state colors at the annual convention for having the best equipped and most fully uniformed firing squad in the state. This honor has been te ijons same squad per-- rormdmwmghv& and marched first to the reviewing stand and stood at pregsent arms as wauman, . EIHODL BDEIUW EM fls . a0 MWE Hansen, Hubert Dowden and C. M. Bernard. The firing squad, in charge of Ernest Brown, was accompanied by Lieut. Ray Young, commander of ies were Carl --O. Carlson, Raymond Kennedy, Steve Kroll, Joan Vander-- spool, Oscar' Firnback, Sam Alkofer and Lester Coonfer. Scores of Liber-- tyville people made. the -- trip to Waukegan Monday noon and were mmmwotw.' vumwodmm Mat-- Jr., carried the local Auxiliary golors and represented their organization in the parade. a Pl 'o]ol vo Qlo . ¢ h Libertyville This Week A Chicago paper Tuesday carried the following item: ¢ 'The marquis of Dufferin and Ave. who is the house guest of the David with them until im t wl [ k S P n Eue > seaclr ce te parll K a* * > x yemi> it te © eX > n ¥y4" ':M:'A $ g . iA * 'Q w(.':'\\.' ?"';'-4' T We + \Ta 6 . ~4 -- eR ue Sein s ¥. X.U.+ 3 9 ¢.0 Going Home from a Homecoming -- Jay B, Morse School Enrollment -- . Greater This Year A check of enrollment records of the grade schools of the village re | veals that there are 467 pupilis at-- tending the public elementary school in . Libertyville this year. Thik is a slight increase over last year's enrollment.. Of this number, 115 are attending the Rockland echool, which is used exclusively for half--sections of the Hm{ first second, third, fourth and a part of the fifth grades. This shows that the North «chool has 352 pupils in atterdance, where all the grades are taught, as well as a kindergarten section. . The sixth grade is divided into two sections in the north school. According to grades, the enrollment is: North school kindergarten, 21; First, 30, Second, 30; Third, 84; Fourth, 21; Fifth, 38; Sixth, section A, 37, section B, 27; Seventh, 51 gnd Eighth, 35. Rockland-- school: Kin-- dergarten, 20; First, 24; Second, 32; Third, 27; mmmu _ Tuesday was the first banking day of the new school season. The total receipts banked amounted to $121.43. Seven roomé had 100 per cent partic-- ipation, with the remaining classes close to the perfect percentage. Ac-- cording to classes, the banking re-- turns were: First grade with 25 of 30 banking:; Second grade with 100 per cent; Third grade with 100 per cent;: Fourth grade with 100 per cent Fifth grade with 34 of 38 banking; Sixth grade, section A, 100 per cent, section B, 21 of 25 banking; Seven--~ th grade, 100 per cent. Rockland school, Pirst Grade 18 of 23 banking; 2nd grade, 25 of 32 banking; Third grade, 100 per cent; Fourth grade, 31 of 32 banking. This fine record with almost every pupil of the 467 ipation, with the remaining classes close to the perfect percentage. Ac-- cording to classes, the banking re-- turns were: First grade with 25 of 30 banking: Second grade with 100 per cent; Third grade with 100 per of the efforts of the pupils, all of whom, have cooperated to make the percentage Of the school as & unit, stand high in the school banking system.. . The combined per-- centage of both the high and grade schools in Libertyville last year, was 97. -- This ranked Libertyville third on the roll call thruout the country, who have adopted the banking eys-- tem. Lake Forest, with a percentage of 99 and Oconto, Wis., was second, with a percentaze of 99. This classi-- fication included towns whose com-- bined school enrollment was--getween 500 and 1000 students. ' --<-- In view of the dangers to children crossing streets and especially Mil waukee Avenue, while on their way to and from school, Mr. F; A. Hudsin. 'principal . of um -- schools, has issued a bulletin to all his teach ers, urging them to instill in the minds of the childrén, the principles of "Safety First." Here is the bulle tin as issued to the teacherse:. "Inp order to" avoid accidents to school children, please spend sufficient time "Safety First." 3 \ 1fMtMMdtholtoDsM go lights. ' #--Tell the pupils where to crose tlg::nukoe ave., for police protec-- $.Show the pupils why. they: should -- look both ways before crossing a 4. Show danger of playing'in street or r&u out into street from and to playground, 5--Show danger of riding on the out-- side of automobil--s, or running be-- hind when they start out. ---- 6 Shnow danger of--. playing around } railroad trains, or on the tracks. T--Show dargers that may be amen-- »zw@mmu'mw of Instruction : . -- % Fit the instruction to the age and menal capacity of your ~group of children. Satety lessons ~may. be the stop and go lights; by. drama-- Grammar schools, tin to all his teach _ We Circulation Greater than ottes We«klics in County Combined n Fntered at the Postoffite at Libertyville. filinois, --&s Second Class Matter. Back tax suits, filed against 11 estates by the county, which were set for Friday before the board of review were continued until~ Oct. 5 for definite hearing. i BACK TAX SUTS Eight Out of 11 Set Over for Oct. 5 in Action to Get Tax on $4,037,060 The county, through Attorney Charles E. Jack, claims back taxes on $4,037,060 in personal prop-- erty for the last ten years. The James Robbins estate, how-- ever, was continued 20 days, the Thomas N. Donnelly <to Oct. 6 and the Robert H. McElwese es tate . to Oct. ~%, according to Bupervisor Thomas V¥. Murphy, chairman of the board. Milk Supply Shown seven or eight dealers in according to Mrs.: B. L. Milliren, chief clerk." At noon there woere 22%6 complaints, or more than dou-- ble of any other year. ville townshiv supplying milk to the people of ~Libertyville,. reveal that the milk supply is in no way the cause of typhoid fever that has been prevalent in several families in this village, according to word from Dr. F. H. Martin, physician on the board of health of the village. The tests made at the Chicago Research Soci-- ety showed tiat the milk supply is free from germs which might have been the cause of the cases of ty-- phoid reported recently. Dr. Martin says the source of infection has been traced to a certain section of the state where the water supply has mnmmumwnsmnm of typhoid germs, and the people in the village who have been suffering with the disease had spent vacation in: that. section. -- Two samples of each dealer in milk were sent to Chi-- cago, and all were found.to be free from typhoid germs, and up to the standard prescribed by the laws of of the board for weeks to come after the complaint term -- ex-- Bartlett Turns Over Libertyville township was enrich ed to the extent of $530 Tuesday 0f last week when H. M. Bartliett, Lib ertyville justice of the peace, turned township treasurer: This had. been collected in the justice's court from fines imposed, Tor--the most --part, on traffic viblators brought in by state and county motoreycle police. = A goodly: amount: of this sum was de-- rived trom forteitures of bonds post: ed by law breakers who never show-- 'ed up for trial. Theése moneys are used for the upkeep and mainten-- ance of the roads of the township. Tests made of the milk supply of ~Lake County's Big Weekly Hearings will} hold the attention Free From over the 200 918. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1928. DR. JOLLEY WILL 'IS ADMITTED T0 PROBATE RECORD Widow Is Full Beneficiary of Estate Totalling $110,-- 000 Records Reveal mitted to probate, Estate of $900 personal and, $4,000 real given to wife, daughter and step--daughter. Letters testamentary issued to Will-- lam J. Bull. Bond of $1800, Hulda Schmidt, Highland Park, ad-- ministrator authorized to transfer _--Edwin W. Parthurst, Libertyvilie, inventory and appraisement bill ap-- William Stanford Pearce, Wauke-- gan, inventory and appraiszsement nill approved. -- Widows selection and ap-- proved. Renunciation of widow filed. Bale of personal property authorized. Carl Lange, Deerfield, letters of ad-- ministration issued to Gustay Lange. Bond of $500.. Heirship proved. Shirley Mary Hedicke, minor, Lib-- ertyville, current report and account Happenings In Carl Olsen, Nels Johnson and Harry Christianson, transient labor-- ers, were arrested by the Liberty-- ¥ille police last Friday nite down by the old depot for raising a disturb-- ance in that neighborhood. The trio were locked in the village,jail and Saturday morning were brought be-- fore the Village Court for a hearing. The Court filed charges against the men of being drunk and disorderly. The defendents plead guilty and there was some deliberation by the court in imposing -- punishment as Olsen and Nelson are both --old of-- fenders. Olsen still owes the court a fine imposed a --few <weeks ago. He promised at that time if allowed to go he would return to work and pay the fine. When questioned con-- serning this promise he gave the ex-- cuom_zhomdekmdnmbhto turn to work. Lately he has been gu"huoiddnetwm'o& Paul railroad across the Des Plaines river. The court finally-- gave him the choice of serving out a $100 fine in the county jail or leaving town at monthly allowance for care of ward once. He was warned that if he were still in or about Libertyville by Saturday night he would <'be <rear-- rested and taken to the 'countg Jail. Johnson, although being in trouble in Libertyville before, has lived up to his promises and paid all'fines. He has resided in Libertyville for the past several months and had been employed by a local painting contractor. -- He was levied a fine of $10 and costs which he promised to times. 'He is a native of Sweden having parents living there. Brother of Mrs. John -- Newbore Dies Here . "John Dionne, sixty years old--Aand formerly a resident of Chicago, paSS-- ed away at the home of his sister, «Mré.> John: Newbore, East Rockland Road, Libertyvilie; at ten 0'clock, on Wednesday, a victim of Bright's de-- sease, which which he had been alil-- ing for the past-- three years. The deceased was--brougnt to.the home 'of his sister, in Libertyville about Hsther Elizabeth Ferguson, minor, Local Police Court ap-- Larceny Case Thrown Out of the Local Court The big.case Goldberg versus Cal-- zavara, came to an abrupt end on Tuesday nite. at &A continuance of the case when the local justice dis-- missed the case for want and lack of evidence. ~Warrants were sworn out by Goldbéerg for Meddia Calzavara and C. R. Smith, both of Libertyville, before Justice of the Peace Bartliett, on September 1. 'The charge--filed against : the complainants was lar-- Last Tuesday saw the last square foot of paving laid on Nort.hw Street and the last of the big side paving project--being put in by James Cave and Sons, .of Racine, Wisc. In all, concrete was. laid on over a mile of east side streets and ends oné of the major improvements in the: village. -- The streets that were paved are First, Second, Third and Fourth, from East Park Avenue north to Church Street. Grant Court Huriburt Court and Park Place and East Maple Avenue. :According to data supplied by the contractors, 28,800 square yards of paving, with 18,600 lineal feet of curbing was laid in all.. About 12%,000 cublc yards of dirt was moved in the grading op-- erations, preparatory to laying the concrete. The first batch of concrete "was poured on August 7 and the last batch on 'Tuesday. This numbers the working days at $1, with an ay-- eu;odmwnrdqu'm&! and 600 lenial feet of curbing per day. mmmcm%;aumooo barrels of cement, 7, yards of gravel, 4,000 yards of sand, 2 cars of reinforcement steel, 1 car of calcium cloria and 1 car of catch basin cov-- ers. ~The gravel and sand was sup-- plied by the North Shore Material Co., located north of the St. Paul tracks, at the gite of the old Liber: tyville Gravel Co. The sand and gravel is pumped from the eite of the old fair grounds and sent thru 12--inch. »ipe to the plant where it it is washed, crushed and screened ;k;::ghvol and sand of the proper The two ingredients were then measured in batch hoppers, the ce-- ment is added and the batches were then hauled to the scene of the pay-- ing. Here the huge paver mixed the sand, gravel and cement.. One--half hour after the gravel was: pumped from the pit, the sand and cement were added and the whole laid as finished paving over a mile away. The material was hauled from the 'gnvel plant to the scene of paving in trucks having a carrying capacity of two batches. One batch produces about five «quare yards of pavement and three lenial feet of curbing. --The equipment used on the job, consisted of two gas shovels, one eubic yard mixer, two Tractors and graders, 10 twobatch trucks, one two--ton finishing machine and 4,000 lineal feet of steel forms. 'Ten mechanics, about forty labor-- ors and ten trucks were used by the contractors, on the job. Two thirds of the pavement is twenty--seven,feet wide, and the remainder is twenty-- ftour feet wide. The streets having a twenty--fiur foot pavement are Grant Crashes Into Car and Attempts to Beat It o'clock Waednesday ni week by Deputy Chas. Half Day, after the former : at-- tempted to make his escape follow-- ing his car crashing into the mach ine of O. R. Craven, of Harvey, II}, near Half Day. According to re ports Malone was said to be under the influence of liquor, 'With him at the time was Jos. Heinen, of Mun-- delein. Following the crash Malone is said to have told Craven that he was going to a garage for assistance. Instead he sped away but was over-- hawled by Krueger after a two mile chase. The deputy brought Mailone and 'his companionto the county jail at Waukegan where they were to be arrainged Thursday before Justice * *ha DBaana Harry Hoyt. --Heinen was @arrested on . & William A. Malone, : of Chicago, as8 nlaced under arrest about 7 Finished Tuesday Park Place and First Street. TWO MOTOR COPS INJURED DURING SPEEDER PURSUIT George Heckinger and Wil-- liam -- Klarkowski -- Turn Turtle Three Times ditch, into a culvert, and then turn-- ed turtle three times in a field. Heckinger received a gash on the head and a bad wound in the abdo-- men. He was taken to the Lake County General hospital but was removed to his home later. It will be ten days before he can take the road again. Klarkowski, who thought he was uninjured at first, later discovered that he had a broken rib. without pausing. -- Heckinger -- swung toward the ditch hoping to avoid injury to his car and the Ford at the same time. As he eped along the ditch his tfender grazed the end of a culvert foreing the car to swing over. The machine then rolled completely over Heckinger, driving. his.own road-- ster, was giving chase to a speeder a mile and a half north of Antioch. They were gaining on the machine when they came upon the cross siren going continuously during the the machine. The car responsible for the crash kept going. Heckinger reported to Sheriff Lawrence Doolittle that he hbad his and chaseis were undamaged. The roadster is covered with ac-- Bartlett Says Noise Will be Eliminated At the Sept. 4th meeting of the vil-- lage board a complaint was filed by what was said to be residents of Lincoln avenue, concerning noise oc-- casioned by state and county motor-- cycle policemen bringing law violat-- ors to <the office of Jn%ee of the Peace H. M. Bartiett, W. Lin-- _ The car was badly damaged, with the fenders, radiator and top cident insurance. coln avenue, during the day and into the night. A canvas of the district reveals that the complaint is really backed by only one man in that feighborhood. -- A=--check of the jus-- tice's records also reveals that in the past month only one violator kas been brought in after 6 o'clock in the evening. Mr. Bartlett states 'M&munomwntontheputo! any one to cause any unnecessAry disturbance in the community. The matter of blowingsirens has been taken up with the sheriff's office in Waukegan. The number of --traffic violators and other law. violators brought to the court of Jutsice Bart-- lett averaged only five per week dur-- ing the summer months. W. E. Hardin Says : Town Board Makes Tax Levy for 1929 of the town board ol --14DeriyvAS township was held Tuesday, Bept. 4.' at 2 p. m. in the office of Lyell H./ Morris, 531 Miliwaukee avenue, with all members present. The tax levy for the year 1929 was made at this meeting. Although there will be sey-- eral changes in the various items of the budget during the coming year, the average should run about the same as in former years. The con-- dition of the township finances is better now than ever known in the history of the township, and this i8 zumma-&flfi ONE THING THE GG@ Ey THO HAVGE PLENITY OF The regular semi--annual at which the Ford swung from '\ER'IWNW SHOULUD HAVE ASIGNHe STRANGERS HANE O Both men clung to NT Libertyville BIGGEST PARADE . _ IN LEGION LMFE «_ _ musical %udon entered that was ever . by the American Le gion in the state of lilinois, thrilled thousands of Waukegan people and their American Legion guests Mom day afternoon, as the long and cof-- orful pageant marched through the city streets to the blaring of mar-- tial tunes by 54 bands and drum and Commonwealth Edison, Park Floyd. J. Heckel, department ad-- jutant who hase attended all of the Illinois state conventions and most Of the national conventions of the Legion, declared it to be the finest parade the IMlinois Legion had ever put on and one that was better than parades. and twenty minutes to pass the re viewing stand and thousands of men and women took part.. More floats, boxr care, decorated autos and other features were displayed than in any previous Legion parade. Excellence of the bands and corps entered made it an exceedingly dit-- ficult task to judge, and it was not until late Monday night that word was given out that the winners had been selected. --The-- awardse were as follows: DRUM AND BUGLE CORPS day's victory gave them their third state championship as they 1. -- Belleville Post. 2. Woodlawn Pogt of Chicago. * 3. Lemont Post.-- The Believille band, the one that furnished the concert music for the Sunday night open meeting of the convention, has been the recipient of second place. Following the parade individual ecuntests for drummers and fi were held in the yard at the were held at Weiss field.-- The re sults of these contests follow: bhad won that Drill Teams 35 1. Woodlawn Post of Chicago. P 2. Peoples Gas Post of Chicago. * s Monday morning, long before pa radge time, people began to congregate -- 3z along the curbing on the line of & march.© Many brought their lunches l and ate on the parkways at the side of the street where the parade was $ stream of moving bumans. . Auto-- mobile traffic was the heaviest ever local police, state police: under . geants Nofs and motor cops bor-- rowed from surounding towns, kept the number of accided"®© down to a minimum of a few crashes that re sulted in little or no damage. _ -- to pase. Before the parade had fin ished, entries whe had led the van, street. and half an hour after the It was a parade Waukegan people will long remember and one that will not be duplicated in Waukegan in many years to come. The pageant moved aup Genesee street from Bel-- videre and Oak streets to Clayton street, west in Clayton to County, south in County to Washington and west in Washington to Weiss field. Rev. Herbert B. Gwyn To Leave St. Lawrence 'The Rev. Herbert B. Gwyn, dfi Lawrence's Episcopal church for the made known his resignation from . . his post in Libertyville and on the .. . first of October, will leave for Tiver-- . ton, Rhode Island, where he has a0 . cepted the Rectorship of Holy Trim . ity church in that city. Rev. G1 "'fg founded St. Simon's church; Leland . and Racine avenues, Chicago, in 1908 . For seven years, he was the editor . of The Diocese, official publ g the Episcopal church in Chicago. Af.. . the present time, he is on the etaff 5 of "The Living Age," national Bpls _ copalian paper, edited in Milwaukes, .. stay in Libertyville, has formed a . large number of loyal and lasting . . friendships, not only in 'his own par ~ they look upon the 'comin departure, but realize _i OGwyn's advancement to his hm;.mmlshhg which it would be un to ignore.. Announcement . ceptance of the new call wa ed in the Chicago papers 1 Me!l Tierney. Post of Park Ridge. . Aledo Post. ;f Wilmette Post. $ * C. A. Hamlin, Sangamon Post. S. E. Gregersen, Board of Trad Post. k THRILLS PEOPLE glowing praises ever since $1.50 A YEAR ie e oo He * 2s . 9 tA *L y t t Edison Post of %v h; Leland c go, in 1908 . the editor . lication of ® fecago. At ; the etaft ional Epis Milwaukee, formed & _ a own var--

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