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■l mj.w*; - ‘ T- .-■ *• •*" ’ - "• '‘7”' ^ r*■ -^*-~v-b.mij , m *•v r41 SIXTY-FIRST YEAR CHATSWORTH. ILLINOIS, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1934 NO. IS R. R. KIRKTON CO-OPERATION C2> hat c3£oly Might i n B e t h l e h e m AGAIN HEADS BRINGS MORE FARN6UREAU GRAVEL ROADS H O T SLUGS EDIGRAPHS A Crowd of 2500 Attends Government Pays Men for Annual Meeting Held A nickel isn't supposed to Half of the world is en Labor and Township be as good as a dollar but it gaged In agriculture. That’s at Pontiac. goes to church oftener. how the other half lives. Buys Gravel. Some motorists consider It The scientist tells us that (Pontiac Dally Leader) good driving if they get R. R. Klrkton, well known red will overcome timidity. Highway Commissioner Andrew across fifty feet ahead of the This Is aso true of the long Eby has put in a busy summer im farmer of Waldo township, was tra in . re-elected president of the Living green. proving Chatsworth township One reason why business I highways and if weather condi ston County Farm Bureau at the But If Japan gets a fleet doesn’t pick up is because so tion will hold out a few days twenty-first annual meeting held equal to ours, she’ll soon be few are trying to pick up more he says every farmer in the in the gymnasium at Pontiac demanding equal rights to business. j township, save Raymond Stadler, township high school Tuesday. meddle, too. F*ully 2,500 farmers and mem in the southeast corner of the bers of their families attended. Many an auto driver who The poor man can always ; township will have paved, gravel boasts he can pass the car Seats had been arranged for 2100 get justice in the courts if he or oiled roads leading to and and standing room was at a prem ahead ought first to pass an doesn’t mind spending more from their place. intelligence test. ium . than it’s worth. 5 Miles Graveled Charles Laurltaen, of Round Life was simpler in the old Besides hauling much gravel ta Grove township, was re-elected There's one nice thing ; repair bad spots in the graveled days when you could kiss a about farming. Losing mo vice president, and C. A. Bruer, girl without having to wash | roads built a few years ago there ney keeps you so busy you of Owego township, who has serv off the evidence. will have been built five miles ed the bureau as secretary-treas have little time to worry. and 90 rods of new graveled roads Another citizen easy to urer for a long term of years, was Making $5,000 homes tax- in the township this year whe* hate is the one who thinks re-elected to that office. exempt won’t Insure safety. the present project is completed. your case of grippe is no Elect Directors What we need is a law to ! These new roads were built worse than his sniffling cold. Directors elected were as fol- 1 make them mortgage exempt. through the co-operation of the lows: Belle Prairie, John L. Roth; ......................... ....................... | township and the government Campus, A. H. Weller; Chats- u rT u n n iirr I AniFC (From Florlan’s etching of Uerolle'a "Arrival of the yhepherds.'f i emergency relief workers. worth, Edd Shafer; Chenoa, Fred MfciHUUiM LADIES FORD CAR WRECKED One project Included 1.4 mllee Oltman; Cornell, Joe Erschen; ARE ENTERTAINED of gravel, starting at the end of Holy night/ peaceful nightf O'er the Babe who in silent Jeep, l AND WOMAN INJURED Cullom, A. B. Hlrsteln; Dwight, BY SOCIAL UNION the old gravel at the Catholic cem- Thro' the darkness beams a light, Rests in heavenly peace. HERE SUNDAY EVEietery and extending south to the Edw. Gantiert; Bsmen, L. A. Yonder where they street vigils keep. Pearson; Falrbury, Ira T. Brown; The Methodist Men’s Social Un Rests in heavenly peace. Roy and Myrtle Perkins, son Kroeger lane; and three-fourths Flanagan, Heye Heeren; Forrest, ion, a new organization in the lo and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. j of a mile east from the Stoutemy- Guy Gee; Oaymont, B. E. Oour- cal church, organized Boon after Charles Perkins, luckily escaped er home lane to the 'Ford county ley; Odell, R. R. Tombaugh; Pon the arrival of Rev. W. W. Wobl- CHATSWORTH TIUMs REPUBLICAN STUDY CLUB injury and Mrs. Slagle, of Ham- Ha®' tiac, William Bressner; Saunemin, farth, entertained the ladies of PONTIAC TWICE GOOD GRAVY | SELECTS NEW OFFICERS mond Ind. was taken to the Relief Allotment Used Lester Follmer; Strawn. William the church last Friday evening ,,, , , „ ... Falrbury hospital Sunday evening The Chatsworth Chiefs defeat The Woman’s’ State Republican .. ... ... For these two stretches tha Rlngler; and Sunbury, Clarence with a party. a., .... ,,, „ . as the result of an automobile ac- state emergency relief allotment ed the fast stepping Pontiac Mer Study Club held their December 1 , . Eby. , The attendance was In the A wife is about the only cldent on Route 24, just west of chants on the local floor Tuesday meeting at the home of Mrs. Han was $1,091.20 for ten men and a Has Membership of 1,2 0 6 neighborhood of sixty and the thing you can’t take home on Chatsworth. night by the score of 24-22. The nah Knight Friday afternoon. The time keeper, and to this the approval these days. Roy Perkins was driving the “The Livingston County Farm score was close throughout the study topic was local government. township was permitted to add detent committees were carried family Ford to town and when he j * 3 9 0 for spreading the gravel Bureau has 1,296 members,” stat- game with Chatsworth leading the Love is the only thing that The following officers were out satisfactorily. The social was near the Evert Bess home heian(] $ 1 9 5 for gravel. These al- ed 8 . O. Turner, adviser, in his most or the way. The play was can make you feel worse and elected: President, Mrs. Florence meeting was preceded by a busi annual report presented at the op exciting to watch as both teams get less sympathy than a bad started to pass a Model A Ford, i lam ents included ditching, grad- ness meeting, during which the Kyle; first vice-president, Mrs. ening session which began at ten played clean basket ball, only 4 cold. driven by Mr. Slagle and also oc- j |ng and any other work necessary following were chosen as officers Mary E. Moore; second vlce-pres- o'clock with R. R. Klrkton presid fouls being called In the game. cupied by Mrs. Slagle and three [on the roads. of the organization: Another thing pioheer dent. Miss Margaret Schafer; re ing. Pearson, Grlmsley and Chick cording secretary, Mrs. Frances others. Something went wrong I The second project, on which Chairman, C. 8 . Berry; Vico families didn’t have to con “This is an increase of thirty Bergan shared scoring honors for Klehm; corresponding secretary, with the steering apparatus of the \jr. Bby i 8 n0w working, is the Chairman, C. O. Milstead; Secre- tend with was somebody mis per cent over last year,” Mr. Tur the winners with 6 pointers each, Perkins car and Roy was unable road west from the gravel pit cor- placing the keys to the car. Mrs. Bertha French; treasurer. ner continued. “On November ! tary-Treasurer. A. S. Hitch; Mem- while Cherry and Mies gathered Mrs. Sylvia Roberts; director of to steer it. The front wheel ner to the bridge spanning the 30, 1934, 1,203 members were in bera ot P rogram com m ittee: A. O. 9 points each for the losers. Never try to disprove gos music, Mrs. Mary Slater; soloist, caught on the rear wheel of the dredge ditch near the Cline lane. good standing. This represents Walter and K. R. Porterfield, The Papooses continued their sip. Your friends need no Mrs. Alverta Ruppel; custodian, Indiana Ford, which stayed on the a distance of about three-fourths the highest percentage of that A program of entertainment winning Bpree by gaining a decls- evidence and your enemies Mrs. Opal Heppe; press reporter, road until the driver lost control. 0f a mne. and a strip of about 80 date or any county in Illinois. Ithat Pleased the audience was glv- j ,Qn over the Pontlac seconds. The won’t believe it. Mrs. O. D. Willstead; parliamen then went off the road. The ro<iB north from the Kurtenbach Thirteen thousand, five hundred en 8 8 the opening feature of the local ,adg led throughout the ta ria n , MIsb Eliza Dorsey; mem- Perkins car struck a concrete corner to the Thomas Ford lane. callers received service In the of- evening s diversion. This was game and emerged victorious 2 1 Life was simple in the old bershlp committee, Mre opal abutment and turned o'er, falling Fanners Volunteer Hauling opened by C. Q. Milstead, long ap flee during the year and most ev to 12. This is the fifth straight days. The average family Heppe; Mrs. Haxel Sims, Mrs. Al- about ten feet lnt° the W88houl preciated as a reader of excep Work of spreading the gravel ery farmer of the county was victory for the Papooses. didn’t have to keep up an old verta Ruppel; ways and means below and Myrlle were m,t tional talent, who broke the Ice on these two strips was started thrugh the office at least once.