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! torch 30, 1950 cal advertisers 80 « are only three ilneai, the Citizen* * Hatchery, and €\)nH xm vt\) (Jlanttoftler king stored grain The Forrest News Was Consolidated With The Plaindealer as of December 25, 1947 at temperature* m F. and multiply emperatures above SEVENTY-SEVENTH YEAR CHATSWORTH, ILLINOIS, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950 NO. 32 AUTHOR OF HISTORY OF CHATSWORTH Gillum Ford Qnb Members Air Ed ig ra p h s — Farmer City, Odell, Buried In Minonk Lots of Water Goes Louis J. Haberkom, Long-time Cemetery Monday Theatre If certain predictions are Through Meters r, Il l i n o i s Views At Dinner Merchant, Is Claimed By Death true about this year’s lessen Fairbury Approve Gillum Ford, 69, a resident of - ing income, we may return to Chatsworth community 20 years March M the wartime measure of sopping ago, died at his home near Minonk Meeting Last Week Louis J. Haberkom, 88, died at up the gravy. Bond Issues Saturday morning. He had been In Chatsworth THIS WEEK his home In Chatsworth Friday •k in declining health for several afternoon about 4 o’clock. Death Have you ever noticed how years and died in his sleep. Reynolds Factory Members Side-step was due primarily to age. He had often a helping hand is ex Gibson City Voters Funeral services were held in w y e s la Daylight Time and been confined to his home for sev tended empty-handed ? the Minonk Presbyterian church Uses About Half eral weeks but he often said he ■k Turn Down Hard Monday afternoon at 2 o’clock andled?* Evening Openings did not have an ache or pain and Honor the man who neither Sewage Bonds with burial in the Minonk ceme The Water Pumped his mind remained keen almost to brags about his yesterdays or tery. Mar Si-April 1 to the end. * boosts about his tomorrows. The family resided for several There was a lot of agitation at Voters at Fanner City approved Not very many people In Chats It 2 —Night 6:30 There If a lot that can truth a bond issue at Tuesday’s elec year* on a Stoddard farm east of worth realize the amount of wa • dinner meeting of the Chats- fully be sakl about L. J. Haber The unwritten law Chatsworth now tenanted by the worth Community Club last Thuis- tion of 825,000 to improve the ter that is being used from the kom. This paper has repeatedly seems to be that every man is streets of that village. The money G. A. Lucketts. Die Fords moved new village well put into opera da night Possibly an excellent named some of the good things he bom with the right to make to a Stoddard farm at the north chicken supper with all the trim is earmarked to widen the busi tion within the past year or what did. He was in business in Chats a fool of himself and most oft east edge of Minonk where they mings may have pepped up about ness street, install new and mod it has meant to have an abund worth almost 70 years. He started en abuses his privilege. have continued to live. 30 mm who stayed for the busi em lights, construct new curbs ance of water available. We say In a frame building on the site of •k He was born in Indiana Nov. ness part of the dinner meeting. and gutters and repair sidewalks. abundance because so far there the present Baldwin hardware A fellow will treat his wife 27, 1880, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Among the topics brought up for Fairbury voters Tuesday ap has been an abundance. No one store on March 8,1882, with a res as though die is nothing to Gashum Ford. He married Wil discussion was the Fourth of July proved by a referendum of 203 to edn foretell whether this will al CARTOON taurant and confectionery store. him and then sue a man for celebration. Most of those pres 101 to “up” the tax levy from ma Jeffries in Madison, Indiana, ways be so. Several country Later he purchased a one-story 820,000 for alienation of affec March 20, 1902. April t* l ent favored a celebration but as .20 to .4357, thus doubling the wells near the village have failed ! II brick building tions. taxes, starting in 1951. Survivors are his wife, one son, in the past few months and this no one wished to assume the re When he could no longer come The old .20 percent rates yield Carl of D ana; one daughter, Mrs. has been attributed to the drain sponsibility of making it a success to his place of business he sold »»#»»»#»>»»*»*»*#*»»****»#***#** Ths picture of L. J. Haberkom ed about $8,000 annually, it was Arthur Steward of Madison, Ind.; on the vein supplying the village the matter was by-passed. For the business and brick building HEIKEN’S NEW “BOW” several years the local Ameriear was taken eight years ago when reported. Fairbury is $1500 in six gandchildren. well and possibly several wells about the center of the middle he was 80 years old at the time SPEAKING THROUGH debt. He was a member of the Pres near-by of about the same depth. Legion sponsored very successful business district of the village last IT'S NEW OWNER he wrote and published a history A Fairbury taxpayer with prop byterian church. Alan Entwistle, member of the programs but last year they had November. He was reluctant to of Chatsworth. Later pictures erty assessed at $3,000 would pay village board, was kind enough trouble In getting satisfactory tal give up. He wanted to be in the I was publicized as being blue I ent at prices they thought they were taken but this was a good last week in these columns. I am $7.13 more In taxes annually, all to give the writer a few facts business district where he had likeness of him. about Chatsworth's water. could pay, so the post cancelled all spent so many years. not blue, In fact, I am a shining |of that going to the city. At pres- DRT SUBJECTS plans and this year were still not silvery grey with a beautiful red en* i * psys $62.13, of which the Coming Events . The present pump at the new •It would be hard to mention all well is pumping about 110 gallons ready to take over again. the important things In which he and yellow design. j ci*y 8ets $6 The city would thus April W Another thing that was given KINDNESS DURING LIFE I was leading a nice quiet life ; £et $13.13 instead of $6. a minute and about three million had a part. He directed a local Woman’s Club gallons a month at the present r salary will be considerable attention was a pro band for more than 80 years, and D ils poem was written by the along with a dozen other ties in i Gibson City voters were not so posed bond issue that the village late Louis J. Haberkom and ex a card board box when I heard a generous. They turned down for Mrs. Frank Anderson, Mrs. Don time. There are three large users lalmed March 30 was one of a very few musicians Askew, Mrs. Phil Hayes and Mrs. of water in the village. The Rey board said seemed absolutely nec who were able to successfully play pressed his view of life: fellow say ”1 want the brightest *be third time a bond issue to essary If the village streets were bow tie you have in the store”. build a sewage system for the city. F. L. Livingston will entertain the nolds Spring factory used 1,908,- a comet after having false teeth. I would rather have one little rose, Woman’s Club at 2:15 p.m., Wed- 600 gallons of water during the to be repaired or rebuilt this sum This was not accomplished with The voice was kind of pleasant of the 741 voters who turned out mer. The club went on record From the gardren of a friend, so I really perked up and sure voted against and 252 voted nessday, April 12th, at the home month of March. The Illinois out many disappointments and Than to have the choicest flowers, of Miss Marie Klehm Dr. C. E. Central railroad used 39,768 gal as favoring a bond issue as it ap trials, but about which he enough he picked me out and put t°r the bond issue of $220,000. peared necessary and members Whey my stay on earth must end me in his pocket and I was off Gibson City, under pressure by Branch of Piper City, is the lons for their engines and the was proud to tell. He was the speaker. His subject is “Some Diller Die factory used 25,900 promised to give it moral and fi I would rather have the kindest on a new experience. j the state to provide adequate prime mover in having the TPAW gallons at their factory which was nancial support. words, The following day, early in the sewage treatment to prevent pol- thing About Iris.” Dr. Branch is stockyards removed from the busi a member of the American Iris So not in full operation for March. Then the time proposition bob And a smile that I can see, morning, I found out I was going1 ,ution of Drummer Creek from ness section of the* town to the ciety and the Iris Society of Eng Their minimum bill is $12.50 a wrt Subjects bed.

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