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Libertyville Independent, 21 Feb 1924, p. 16

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=pP .5 Farming was not especially good around Lake Forest. The lake shore was heavily wood¢cd, and the land rocky. Westward lay the Skokie swamp. Many of the early settlers simnly souatted along the lake shore, bu'lt flimsy shacks for shelter and aubsisted prineipally through fishing. Somm they were joined by the char-- coal burners, and avite a thriving village of shanties developed. It 4s related that Lake Forest's first man-- sipn was built {n 1847. when-- Pat-- or havybe Mike--McConlevy built a palatial lo« cabin containing . three rooms _ That was just three times as many rooms as any Lake Forest bhame had possessed previonsly, and it was thoueht that the McCanleys were snreading it on a hit thick. Chosen by Presbyterians All of this happened before Lake Forest had any corporate existence. In 1855 a committee of Presbyterian church workers seeking a site near Chirago for a Presbyterian college discovered the lake, the woods, bluffs and ravines at Lake Forest and de-- cded they need. look no farther for a campus. They bought 1,400| pi wibted : vimpty and the arivers---- Settd by Irish Labortrs Lake Forest and the _ territory asouwl it vwas settled by Jrish la-- borers from ihe castern states who came io Chicago to work on the drainage eaval. 'They heard of the cheap land to be bad in Lake county and moved into Deerfield and Shields townshivs in great numbers. At an early dxute in the county's history it is said there were only two per-- sons in the southeastern portion: of the county who did noa celebrate the 1%th of March, one a German named Ostrander and the other a New Eng-- land<r name swain, the latter so great a curiosity among his Irist noighbors that he was known through out the county by th enickname "Yankee' Swain. Sweeney, Conley, McConnell, Moo nev, Maloney, Melody are typical cames from the roster of early set-- tlers. The estate of J. Qgden Ar-- mour, one of Lake --county's show places, bears the name of the orig-- inal owner, "Melody Farm," in honor of Patrick Melody, who helped dig tre canal, and from whose hbeirs Mr Armour purchased the land. Per-- bans the euphony of the name ex-- plains why Mr. Melody was honored. HOW LAKE FOREST BECA ME COLONY OF MILLIONAIRES Was Settled by Fishermen and Charcoal Burners; Helped by College Site. DIV!DE ESTATES _ NOW (a tb By NEA Service -- Wellesley, Mass., Feb. 18%.--The ar-- erage college girl is growing taller, fatter and stronger each year in sehool. But she is losing some of hér There are more short girls than tall ones--187 to 182 in the 1926 tlass ,the group on which these sta-- tisties are based. The girls probably were blowing off most of their wind at their finals. The lankiest girl ranges 5 feet 1114 jnches, while the shortest is ouly 4 feet 10 inches. o The ~heaviest girl weighed 213 pounds when she came into college; but she reduced it to 194 pounds at the end Of hber first year, The MNghtest weighed only 91 pounds on entering, but raised it to 98 pornds during the year. Tiie average gain wvor-- the whole class was 2.31 ':x »difference In sirength is of Awen wider -- ramge than that of t. The strongest girl in the it 1000 poun weakest girl wth of only 178 ckilo strength of lung capacit This loss Miss Mabel ng capacity. Leastwise, thit is what statistics, +t tabulated by the Wellesley Col-- ze Department of Hygiene, show. The girl now: 11 5 feet 4 1--5 inches tall. . W--ighs 121.66 pounds. Tas a lung capacity of 2.98 liters hou: 4--5 of a gallon.) -- Has a total muscle strength of 273 lograms (about 660 pounds). Shen the 5:15 siops at Lake For station _ curing _ the _ summer ths it discharges into a phalanx watting limousines what is said be the largest, uost -- valuable y cargo of bank presidents, mer-- nt princes, essorited _ capitalists captains and brigadie~generals ndustry cgnsigned to any commu on poiut in the world. No single lon in the vic.nitv of New York U COLLEGE GIRLS ARE GROWINGFATTER, TALLER AND MUCH STRONGER EACH YEAR Ta rl ligure how 15 n Is D MEN WATCH OUT! than a dozen, and Forcst is supreme. a%o the commutation L ko Forest ard Ch:i a S'tonee contrast to pecia's of today. The poincipa"y of char to 20 wagons, driven umber of hardboiled and charcoal burn-- ip south the drivers e the iwagons full of ®ie return trip the ipty add the drivers---- ® e YOI i.Ong while compare with Subdividers are busy now cutting up more estates for the spring r-- ket and several _'Blg tracts bordel:'llx the cit® are to be subdividsd soon. The first impetus to Lake Forest as a summer colony for~Chicago millionaires seems to .trace back to Sylvester Lind, -- Chicago lumberman and banker. Mr. Lind's bank had branches in Milwaukee and Chlcaso.i and he usid to make trips on horse-| back every week or oftener, carry-- ing money and papers between thel two institutions. On these trips he passed through Lake Forest and suc-- cumbed to the lure of its beauty. Hej built a fine home in 1860, and the next year induced Charles: B. Far well, then a leading figude in Chl-1 icago'u business world, to spend the summer with him. Thereafter, for ten years, Mr. Farwell cspent his summers at Mr. Lind's home and in 1871 built a home of his own there. . Dividing Original Estates Now Lake Forest was laid out, not in 50 foot units, but in acre and five-- acre'lots and many estates, wholly or partly within the ctity limits,~ con-- tained tin or more acres. Within the last few years skyrocketing land values --and the demapd for Lake Forest 'home sites has forced subdi-- vision of many of these estates. Two, four and six homes now «stand on the site formerly occupied by one; and in many cases the original owner or «heir has moved westward to one of the "gentleman's farms" that have sprung up in such pro-- fusion and some day may make Lib ertyville-- the. richest: commutation point in the Chicago zone instead of Lake Forest. South Carolina legislature réfused to let one U. 8. senator speak there, than which nothing could be more cruel. acres along the lake shore and some 600 acres in the Skokie, including the * heart of the present city of Lake Forest, had it ~surveyed and platted by a--landscape architect who laid out winding streets, and put 650 acres of it on the market in 1857. The 650 acres sold for more than twice the amount paid for the original® 2,000. The same year the plat was recorded and the Lake Forest hotel, a $6,400° structure,, was built. Construction of Lake Forest university and Lake Forest academy followed. w "fi A. Parfido:',u Former avkegan Retired Minister, m::::-y at His Home in Los Angeles. He Played a Prominent Part in Waukegan's Early History. THME LOXNX( IN WEST D IRT "While the announcément of this perfected treatment is of particular interest to those working in the trop-- ics--for leprosy is largely a disease of warm, damp climates--the close resemblance of leprosy to tubercu-- losis gives rise to the chope that work on similar lines may provide !the dwellers in colder climates with iu remedy for their own endemic dis-- ease. > __ "Long years of research work has preceded Rogers' announcement. Mun in India, Carthew in Siam, Har-- per in Fiji, were also working along similar lines, and before them came a long--line 'of. workers endeavoring to adapt --chaulmoogra oil to the par-- ticular needs of. the leper, tong Used in Skin Diseases. .. "Preparations of this oil, which play: an u?ortu_t part in the new treatment, bave long been known to be of service in chronic skin disease.. and it is about 35 years ago since the oil itself was first tritd as a remedy.for leprosy. But fhe techaic adopted was imperfect, for,-- altho cases cimproved at first under it, they speedily relapsed. A Similar Lesions Observed S "There i8 a curious similarity be-- tween the 'bacillus which causes loy-- rosy and that which is responsible for *the production of tubercuiosis. When the latter disease infects the skin, both in naked eya and micro-- scopical appearance ,to those found in the leper. »"Cod liver oil has long been of great value in fighting tubercular distase, and preparations of it form part of the new cure for leprosy, while© chaulmoogra oil is one of the best remedies we have for the treat-- ment of tuberculosis of the larynx. "Similarity of cause, of lesion and of ~partial response to-- treatment seems to indicate that, in the same way that after 35 years, it has been found possible to adapt a discarded medicament to leprosy, future work may furnish the adjustment nece§-- sary to. make it of service in the eradication of tuberculosis." "It is a little over two yeats since Sir Leonard Rogtrs gave a cautlons opinion that he had prepared a com-- bination of oils which was the long sought for remedy for a distressing disease, ~Such is the Hiability: of lep~ rosy to recur that it was decided that & patient must remain well for two years after <«treatment before ~he could be held to be free from the discage," ' \USED IN . SKIN -- DISEASE **The research workers concerned are to be commended for not having broadcast the discovery of a cure for leprosy until such time had elapsed as would .show that apparent cures were real ones. --They had a soldier bonus rally in Boston, ©00 'cheered. The soldier bonus needs cheeting up. -- . £" Physicians have -- long. sought -- a remedy for leprosy. : Some time ago Bir I,:onard #ogers, an English doc-- tor, gave as an opinion that bhe had-- found the eurc. Says a phbysician writing in the London Mail: " It is estimated the energy wasted in useless criticism would fill about 999 giant ballcons. _ Wilson will be remembered long after lis enemies aie forgotten. ay in Tubsrculosis. AT V LI JEVED TO BE A SUCCESS ¥ COL ; Thursday Is Dollar Day | x 4 s 4 + s a # s : : #: f . L. S s . Feast / ¥ 5 "Wh i 'V ' eP ic e/lét : t + a # iesd es o 8 * ' " e ~ k k X4: 2 is : * C 2s S t BR $ CC a » ho . line a % 4 lig on tw R PS I ;'f Fegn K E. m t = 3. s 63 f 2 * f wa ho a : A e * > K -- T - whs, n pok a ' < : s e¥ ® d fras: > Fo s q a es o e n e NEs s e : ¥: * s * e Eoae L se ? + weeb Eow f g y nsl 2 |aigy 3 F4 E/ 6 s t# ce L. *4 : lec. L '<% e has . ut f ; 6e & CC o w «~ _ $ % + ~ * I » " 6 > ic I .. i % : s * es % 4 -- s j & . _ e . E4 a 4 % BR # $ ? 4 f 4 « es | -- l f # f T * A t * R Now comes another Dollar Day. But a bigger, more sensational price--cutting event than ever before. Stores have been preparing for weeks, there are bargains in every line of merchan-- dise. : Your dollar will work twice as hard for you next Thursday. Thousands of thrifty housewives in Lake County will take advantage of this price--cutting orgy. Be one of them---- outfit the whole family during this _ -- SALE OF SALES. | Every ad in the Wednesday editions will be chuck f ull of bargains-érfiead them--make note of the things you neéed and the stores that have them § and BE THERE THURSDAY. Wa

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