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For preserntlon'g the data re garding the ship's ~posterity is indebted to the editor of the Waukegan Porcuping LA#ke county's wer newspaper. ' In the spring 351 "this odl'ur"w struck mut: idea of inviting w environs o'wmll each and reporting dor his subscrib-- he advancemedt gding on about The Tact that bees have khees nad not yet been discovered by aplarists in 1851, and {lappers of the period must -- bhave felt cumseribed -- in their search, for de . to. @xpress high approval; but..&hips * knees, it appears, and it Js quite possible that the pbrase, "uf's the ship's knees," was curfent glong the north shore. P " North Shore Suburbh, Afi to Waukegan's First Started Out for Honors. LEAD NORTH SHORE WATERKENT _.___________ GNAVOX ....____________ 181C g'unn soonpoumneverccomsubiinpsnssnnnse so mu TABLE TALKER ___._ lh"ed State little 'flgev« 'h power, selet PRICES ON SETS WITHOUT LOUDSPEAKER OR PHONES WO TUBES ____________._ _ 2222 91.50 HREE TUBES _____ dn nnnmmmmeemaies......$109.50 th power, selectsvity and ease of control, with three tubes, : obtainable only through Erla reflex design, incorporating im synchronizing r. f. and'@. £. transformers. _ ONE.MAN LOCATED IN CHICAGO WRITES: 'During my first week with the ERLA THREE--TUBE hook ip, tuning through high power Chicago stations, I got Jef-- 'erson City, Dallas, Memphis, Atlanta, Omaha, Kansas City, it. Louis, New York, Springfield, Pittsburg, Louisville, Cin-- Snati, Fort Worth and Tampa. -- The Sunday following I added Fresno, Denver, Astoria, Los Angeles, Honolulu, Hawaii Naval Maneuvers ; and Juneau, *sh. the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. # United States stations all were clear on the loud speak-- . Also I re--tuned every statiqp, sharpening the tuning a little b *.'u' necessary. 4 th power, se'ehlnty and ease of control, with three tub What Editor Discovered ©# 15, 1851, find him wend Is way to Clinton, whereof eaks as follows: h from New York to Honolulu With Erla Synchronizing Transformers 411 U. S. Stations On Loud Speaker, Using o Only Three Tubes Reindeer,] Capt. l'logd. com-- ng, arrived at Port Clinton on 0th inst., |with 65,000 feet of umber. This, we believe, is the arrival of jumber on this side lake thig sgeason. Port Clinton iated abou} 12 miles south of »Jlace on the lake shore. A Ince it w#s a wilderness; now ave a pigr extending 650 feet to the e, a steam sawmill, ng lathe, two dry goods stores, © inha ts. This town has up undér the auspices of its tet" ~a23% Bloom. > si contracted _ for k for the Chi-- io is pler is 620) .' ; Let Us Put An ERLA In Your Home is 3 "¢ 8t _ HEADPHONE PRICEs K (£00#--Ohm}............__..........ssl.llnll2cl222220000_ 'c?"('m) Ohm)y ___________ _ t These Prices Inclde Both "A" and "B" Batteries. t8 n LOUD SPEAKER PRICES 1 of 16 feet of 1 arailroad to this season 200 to ~New --York $000 cords ~of ited on a pic-- ave Lake l&: y back. to t jey, jenjoys '@ led in the Chi-- e Port Clinton: is to come 40@ e St. Jo m":'."&. . town of St. ler, a lumber imnt. 'St. John ne rly days Port became -- High-- ecome the> big north of Chi« He 4s build--| :; . & run stones j lll..,.Ql! ew buildings % Wc ulp W in p es( c c ReRaai Radic Skop # nJo Bruce McRae, 33, Green Bay, Wis.; Stella Gahr 28, Oshkosh, Wis: . ... Gust Koborojos, 39, Milwapukee. Diomsoola Pappa, 40, Milwaukee. . Fred Voss, 33, Herman, Wis. ~Cora Thieleke, 18, Meeme, Wis. _ Wis.; HL Kathering Grace.--BHamilton, 27, St. Paul. uugiwwm Peterson Skotta, 24 w. C 'x'.'" i = C & ut '1\.' government hbad failed to "do this, consequently the streets. and huo&d the reservation now belong to including .all streets and a} leys that might be laid f it the streets and alleys of Highland Park toien. Fidee Rawerds 9f" Waurestn 7 a of Wauk ruled h%'- favor.. So didfi supreme court of . is, -- and the ease is <stil-- ar through re-- hurln'.;. burb" Founged in 1880 Highland Park was founded about 1880. It now has a. population of 'nore'thm 10,000 . and> covers six square miles. . Plans for the annex-- ation of four square miles to the west are under way. 0 080 0 0 0 o 0 0 0 06 a 0 0 0o 0 0 o a . 8y A. K. BOWES °. * a $ o vo ue uon oosensbe d Jerry: Davenport, Jr., z& Chicago. Hattie Simonton, 21, Francis J. Roes, 23, Btlm. wu.' o REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS . Wm. Ray Dobbins, 21, .Deerfleld, .:. Grace D. Ulefers, 21 Highland contended the federal government in acquiring the land by statutory cop-- demnation proceedings &qfld have sptcifically condemaned property to be used for street and alleys Paul Clarke, 23, Nashvilie, Tenn. Mildred Holub, 23, Chicago. . _ Anma Burise Petersen, 22, Wauke Helen Butske, 19, Milwaukee. Chas. Bohn, $5, Clintonville, Wis. Mrs. Alying lfou. 88, Clintonville Fred <Keller, 34, Milwaukee. Margaret: Seely, 27, Milwaukee. Dorothy Grengs, 20, Waukegan. Raymond C. Gos 21, Waukegan. Julius Ni ,. 238, Ely, Minn. Ida: Peterson 21, Cromwell, Mina. Wm. White, 37, Chicago. Irene Mieske, 19, Milwaul Wis Chas. Woslincheck, 26, MiHWaukee .~""~K. Grabon, --21, Waukesha, EKliz. M; Bingham, 19, Galena mss $6.00 & $8.00 Olson, 53, Grayslake; Ida w 10.00 _ Mr. and Mrs. Will Pester spent the first of the week. with relatives in Chicago. > .. Miss Mary Kerr is spending the holi-- m her sister, Mrs. Spring, at Mre. John Meyer, with Charlotte and Dorothy, are visiting Mrs. Meyers' ptmu!::g'hl:!:nm. the holidays. Mrs. tchings children started 'Thursday of hl'tnqivoek for Kansas to spend the holidays with rel-- atives there. +7 | Our community was greatly sadden-- ed last woek by the death of a young \ wife and mother, Mrs. Nels Steffen-- berg, who had been taken to the Vic-- tory Memorial hospital in Waukegan on Monday, and who pasid away on Wednesday, Des. 19th, of pneamonia, luv!Rl two sons, Harry, 9, and Lars, 6, without a loving mother's counsel, and her husband without the help and counsel of a devoted wife. iaomt alster of Mrs. Wl Pester, Mrs. Guy Miss Edna Wallace, who recently lwmuw.' 'tn'w.nfloratt Kenosha recuperating at the home of her parents here. _ t Friends of the Walker family will be interested to know of the arrival of George Walker, Jr., at the home of Mr. and Mrs.--George Walker at Port-- larfd, Oregon, Sunday, Dec. 16th. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Nadr had a fam-- ily feunion and dinner at their home on Christmas day. . _ Harold Cribb was at home from Waukegan Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Corson and Junior, Miss Bodine and Alifred Corser are svending the holiday vacation with Rockford reélatives. Many of the Allendale boys went to their various homes at the close of school 'last Friday.~to spend the holi-- day vacation. 5 . Miss Florence.Gosses gave a Christ-- mas party for her music pupils at the Burke home Monday afternoon, and all had a very enjoyable time. cuccc~\ Electric Lightir James Leonard, wife and daughter, of central I!linois, were, home. wwWJ relatives here for the holidays. The Royal Neighbors meeting was not 'held this week, as it came on Christmas day. The next meeting will be --held Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 8th, and it is quite important that all dues should be paid by that time. Mrs. Boehm's daughter and grand daughter from the city were here over the holidays. | Edward Leonard and Walter Doug-- las are home from Lake Forest for the holidays. We are to have community movies ;:'l'y soon. Watch for further partic-- rsg. John Phillippi visited Dr. Talbott at Lakeside hospital in Chicago SBunday. The doctor was taken there last week, and is slowly improving. . -- Bojan Hamlin entertained a number Oof little folks at her home last Sataur-- day afternoon at a Christmas party. Rven Santa Claus bhimself came, and the .&tflo folks had a royal good time in spite of the rain. * 2 D --Mrs. Carl Miller has been quite i!1, but is improving. _ _ ¢ _ Mr. and Mrs. L. R. SBherwood and Mr. and Mis. Oscar Douglas were Chi-- cago passengers Woednesday of last Papers in Fletcher's knapsack® set forth that he defeated the walking record df REdward Payson Weston, another noted globe trotter,; in a jaunt from ~coast» to coast.. Fletcher was trying to establish new records in the 28,000 mile 'journey his death terminated. . -- lake, and Mrs. Lottie Ba lake Villa, and of KAw The hiker was reputed to have realized large sums from wearing a certain rubber heel and , a certain style of shoe lace for advertising pur Fletcher's wager was unique.. He agreed to use neither trains, trolley cars nor automobiles in his adven-- tures. He, was to return to San Francisco, where the wager was mdo in June, 1920, before June 20, 1929. He was to have made a com-- plete circle of the United States and to have otbhained a letter from the pelice chief of each city thraugh which he walked, toegther with a post:-- mark from the Federal or Colo nial post office of that community. -- A knapsack containing letters from chiefs of police in many cities of the United States, Canada, Central ang South America served to identify the It was his effort to carry out a stipulation of the wager made with the American Athletic Association that cost him his life, He had agreed to sleep in the open at alil times. -- Fletcher, who wasi on the last lap of his journey, had:crawled under a hay stack (for prote@tion from the ... Fletcher's dead body was found last Saturday morning but it was not until yesterday that his identity was established. . Igd back, on a $10,000 wager, and whose dead body was found a few days ago under a Haystack near Oli-- ver, 'Wis. where he had frozen to death, passed through Waukegan on his long hike only a few 'days ago, according to True Whittier, a mem-- ber of the Waukegan police force m:ll the fellow walking in Wash-- : street. He recalls the fact because the man had a sign on the back of his shirt bearing the name "Fletcher." Frank Fletcher, who was walking from San Francisco to Buenos Aires, Argeptine, around the United States Frank Fletcher, Who Froze to Death at _ Oliver, Wis., Passed Thru Here. AZ." Te TER WAS HERE -- A FEW DAYS AGO 3e rerient A P of Grays-- x t + The rate for the various sources of expenditure were fixed> as < follows: Revenue 9:66; a decrease of 5 cents; schools 21.33; an increase of .332 uni-- versity of Illinois 6.66 the same as last year for this amount is fixed by law; waterways 2.33; a decrease of .33 and the bonus 10 cents which is a new * Geiting Wasp Pictures, Nature photographers know birds are easiest to approach and photo-- graph at their nests, and so it is with wasps, says Nature Magazine. In ad-- dition they are not unlike birds in that they may be attracted by putting «up proper houses for them. _ oow Paeta ' International: News Service. : Springfleld, TIL, Dec. 22.--The state tax rate for the coming year wias fAixed ulftymuonthonglootohybyt board composed of the governor, the state treasurer and the auditor. _ '--Forty cents of this is for general g:po-,u and 10 cents for the soldiers' us. The rate last year was 45 cents for general purposes, no bonus money being collected. * The rate was fAixed on an estimated property valuation of four billion dol-- lars which is a decrease of $100,000,-- 000 over last year's valuation. STATE TAX RATE TO BF FIFTY CTS. THE CHURCH ON THE HILL * B. F, Wentworth, Pastor. Sunday School at 10 a. m. and class-- es for all ages. 4 fi Morning worship a . _ Bermon, "Christmas Fellowship." ~ Young People's hour at 5:30 p. m. Rvening service at T7:80 o'clock. Round Lake, 'and James Brown, of Libertyvilie. 'Two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Van Patten'and Mrs,. Jennie Gilbert, preceded her a few years ago; also her futher, E. Brown. ~Her mother, Mrs. James Barnstable, of Lake Villa, survives. To her sorrowing family we Offer our heartfelt % mwmhb:d.tn-m- chu Friday afternoon Rev, Wentworth officiating, and burial was in the KHast Fox Lak meceeret was in the Rast Fox Lake cemetery. 1 reduction of 1 cent per kilowatt hour, in the in-- ------------itial portion ~of its Rate "A"--Generat-- Lighting Service (Maximum Demand Rate). --This is in accordance with the order of the Illinois Com-- : merce Commission, entered July 24, 1923, which pro-- vided for two reductions in this rate, one effective Aug. 1, 1923, and the other Jan. 1, 1924. _ ; Customers will be given the benefit of this further re-- duction on all bills rendered for consumption on and after January 1, 1924. . «%) Serving 6,000 square miles -- 198 cities and towns -- with Gas or Electricity THEO, BLECH, Dist. Supt. GUS. KRUMREY, Local Rep. Waukegan, Hlinols The Company furnishes standard 60--watt Maztlia lamps FREE for original installation or exchange (upon return of burned out lamps) to its customers using service under Rate "A" General Lighting Service (Maximum Demand Rate). f * + ; Incandescent lamps of other sizes are furnished at greatly reduced prices. .& C ' This new lamp policy is an important and progressive step in customer service and the Company is pleased to annotince it as well as the réduction in electric light-- ing rates. This is the second reduction in electric lighting rates within five months and the seventh reduction since the Company's organization in 1911 and is indicative of the economy of Central Station service. e Mazda Lamp Service ¥%00 church choir ushered-- in Christmas morning by singing Christmas carols as the dawn of day was breaking. Miss Grace Ulfer of mmm Park and Raymond Dobbins married, at the Presbyterian church Saturday afternoon, Dec. 21. "'The Revy. M. L. 'Thomas officiated. 'The young couple spent their honeymoo nin Milwaukee. They will make their home with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Neville. . * Miss Myrtle Holdgraf, who teaches at River Forest, and Mr. and Mrs.j 7 o'clock were well attended. A vesper sgrvice was held at the Presbyterian church Sunday after-- A fine Christmas program, with a beautiful tree, was enjoyed by all who attend St. Paul's Evangelical church Monday evening. Mrs. Philip Rommel will entertain the Aid from St. Paul's Evangelical church January 3rd. Go ed the knife lying crose--wise in his stomach. The accident is regarded as a very serious one. office of Drs. Foley and Bellows where an X--Ray examination reveal Herman Waldman, 40 years old, 8. Utica S8t., Waukegan, is not a pro-- fessional sword swallower. If he was ny Robinson, 608 Market street. They found that Waldman had been sut-- fering from a fit 'ang to prevent him from biting his tm one of the spectators : had 1 the -- pocket kunife between his teeth. Thea knife was wrenched from the -u' hand and slipped down the throat of Wald-- Herman Waldman Stvallows Knife While Suffering from MAN SWALLOWS A POCKET KNIFE; FACES OPERATION *The Christmas morning services at The OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 270 'm _ DEERFIEL D Public Service Company announces a further . a Severe Fit. was removed to. the Mrs. Minnie Virgin is spending the holidays with her sons in Chicago. Mrs. Ide and little son of North-- brook, who have been at Miss Josie Woodman's home for the past two weeks, have returne dto their home. . Mr. and Mrs. Otis Helfrich and ch'l-- dren returned Wednesday from Mt. Morris, II1., where they spent several days with Mr. and Mrs. Oushing Mrs. J. A. Reichelt, Jr. and Mrs. Oscar Beecham -- bhave finished the course in parliamentary Ev. conduct-- ed by Mrs. M. H. Lieber'at Highland Mr._.and Mrs. H. J. Bingham '(and Mrs. Pyle oft Irving Park were guests of Mr. and Mrs, J. C. Ender Tuesday. Miss Bertha Weiss, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Weiss, of the Deer-- field Mercantile Co., is assistant plano teacher for Maurice Rosenteld --at a Chicago Conservatory of Music at Kimball Hall Miss Weilss has a num-- ber of pupils in Deerfield. .> u'. .:" ""." "*_H"r,' "'"'"--'--m .f. the proud Of a llttle born llou.'dly_ m n lat es Frances Gasttield, who béen in Switzerland for nearly two years, returned home Thursday. Messrs. Frank, Arthur and Earl Kiesgen, of Holland, Mich., spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs. George Herrman. Mr. and °l'(n. Floyd o::ck'o'l" a:: Mr. and Mrs. 8. 8. Love. \ poor"in Chlosgo. . --<:.>------ :C _ Mr. aqd Mrs. F. C. Biederstadt and muwu with Mr. and kins at Wilmette, . / n.' Vant left Thursday for San-- Mhol .ONo.vhmhvflllpondm Miss Irene Rockenbach, of Lansing, Mich., is spending a short vacation at theho:odlaw.mnock- H. A. Olendorf made a business trip to Memphis. Tenu., last week. William Carolan, of Shrev. LA., in here for a muumonlmvuh his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth nougu The Bunday School of the United Evangelical. church n'ndl;.nd & 'Tine Chid-u program on Friday evening 'The gifts were distributed among the holidays with their parents, Rev Mre. Holdgrat. Douglas Dye, of Chicago, spent the LIBERTYVILLE . INDEPENDENT 18 READ BY MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY--OTHER PAPER IN LAKE COUNTY Telephone 144.W, Libertyvilie, I!!. The city ordinance states that out a permit--from city coun as a body. Alderman Welsch moved that the ordinance be lived up to and the company notified to remove the sign boards. . Alderman Archer was; the only dissenting vote and the boards will be removed before Jan. 1. talk about the women driving cars. They don't have any more accidents, or as--many, for that matter, as the men do," hotly declared Mra. Speedly. "That's because the men. are: good drivers and quick thimkers and are able to ontzness the women," grinned ber bhusband.--Cincinnati Enguirer. Bignboards and signboard painters nro"du:t' .tb:.":rov.:' blow at the meeting N Chicago sity council Friday night when on a five-- sixth vote ol the city council it was decided to 'order the <Thomas' H. Cusak ~company, of Chicago to re-- move 'their sign boards from the business district of North Chicago along Sheridan road before January 1 'or the fire department will be sent over to --tear them down and confiscate the. lumber. Bome difficulty arose over the ap-- pearance of the monster signboards right nloog the --sidewalk between as 'm p on idan 'road. . The business men -- of the city --objected and when a > po-- lice investigation was _ started, -- it was learned that tl?o Cusack eo.:- pany had recelived license from * eral of the aldermen to put up the signs, -- It was stated that Alder-- men Bradke and Archer with May-- or Deacon had given the permis Company Must Remove all smm, from Sheridan \ Before January 1. SIGN BOARDS ARE OUSTEDBY NORTH . 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