The Sandusky Register from Sandusky, Ohio • Page 12

THE SANDUSKY JAN, 30, 1945 11 WAY OUR PEOPLE LIVED OWribMttd ky NEA StrvkiJnL YOUNG GIANT II For about four decades of the last 1840 until well into the grew more rapidly in population and in commercial importance than any other community in the world. It was like a hearty lad who outgrows his clothes before he has had time to get used to them. One strange feature of this button-bursting expansion is that the site of Chicago was about the last place along the shore of Lake Michigan where one might reasonably expect the birth of a metropolis. The town stood at the mouth of the Chicago river, which. too shallow for -st numerous of all the strangers who had come to better their fortunes, or to escape the consequence of their misdeeds, or to avoid their creditors.

But there were also many decent workmen who hoped to obtain work In a railroad shop an industrial plant, for Chicago employers were said to pay higher wages than those prevailing the cast. The boisterous city ol glamor and mud, easy fortunes and loose spending, also attracted a swarm of gamblers and plausible swindlers. Young men who were just beginning their careers, or who had not been able to find a place for themselves at home, were proba- KNOW YOUR DO' '-'Angleworms' 5 Picture Wins Bond AP Ncwsfeatures people spend so at that time was navigation. The land was low, wet and malarial. The ground on which the city's principal business section known as the a marsh only a few inches higher than the level of the lake.

In 1837 the Illinois legislature had incorporated the community as a city under the name of Chicago. Its name in popular speech was Slab Town, and so it was known far and wide. It was called Slab Town because every house in the community was a hastily flung- together, boxlike structure of boards or split logs. Besides Chicago and Slab Town the place had still another name, evolved from the experiences of strangers who had unwittingly tried to dash across a street in rainy weather. By them it was called the Mud Hole of the Prairies.

The new little city had a population of about 4,000, made chiefly of fur traders, grain buy ers, wagoners, blacksmiths, gamblers and well as a lot of idle adventurers, ready for anything except hard work. In manner or deportment its residents were like those of the other new towns of the Middle West. They drank their tumblers of raw danced all night, whooped and yelled and fired guns and pistols frequently, with or without adequate incentive. Murders occurred too often to attract much attention. But neither mud nor murders held Chicago down.

In 1857, 20 years after its incorporation, the city had 93,000 inhabitants and were still arriving in an unbroken stream. It had 10 first-class hotels among them the Tremont, a four-story brick structure besides 40-odd hostelries of lower degree. There were a dozen banks, 40 newspapers and periodicals of various kinds, and 1,500 business establishments. It was the terminus of 11 trunk line railroads, and more than 100 trains arrived or departed every day. It was no longer called Slab Town but the derisive name of Mud Hole of the Prairies still remained.

After every rain the black prairie soil became a vast mud puddle, with shallow ponds of muddy water standing in the streets. In 1855 engineers and experts who had studied the situation concluded that the only practicable solution was to raise the whole area 12 feet above the level of the lake by covering it with fresh soil. It was a prodigious undertaking, and Chicago tackled it with the energy of muscular youth. Two square miles of gardens, lawns and back were eventually covered with earth sucked up from the bed of the river, for a channel-deepening job was going on at the same time. newcomers.

One of these young men was Jeff Martin, who arrived in Chicago in the fall of 1871, having come from his home town of Annapolis, Md. (To Be Continued) LAUSCHE BEGINS WORK OF PARING STATE'SMDGH By AUDREY MASLOW United Press Staff Correspondent COLUMBUS, Jan. 30 Gov. Frank J. Lausche today began pi'uning the budget requests of state-supported agencies in an effort to operate the state within its income as the Assembly returned to its study of Ohio's fiscal puzzle.

Meanwhile, the governor was to meet, today with representatives of Ohio-owned insurance companies in an attempt to untangle another threat to the state's financial program. The meeting was called after out-of-state insurance firms charged that the state's i2V2 percent tax on the collections of foreign" insurance companies in Ohio was discriminatory because it was not levied on domestic companies. An attempt may be made to eliminate any basis 'for legal action by the out-of-state com panics by extending the tax to Ohio insurance corporations and reducing it to 2V -i percent, which would yield slightly more than the $8,085,000 produced in 1944. Former Gov. John W.

Bricker, who has been retained to represent the Ohio insurance firms, will be present at today's meeting. Later this week. Lausche said, he will meet with representatives of both the domestic and out-of-state insurance companies. Lausche disclosed that he had instructed State Highway Director Perry T. Ford to trim the department's public relations office to its 'ba're essentials" in the first step of a move to drastically reduce state expenditures for publicity purposes.

The governor said State Finance Director Herbert D. Defenbacher had informed him that the highway public relations office spent 343,509 in 1943 and an estimated $56,000 in 1944. He he believed these expenditures were "too high." Lausche said he also will attempt to reduce publicity expenses of other state departments for the duration of the war. The governor previously reached an agreement with Republican majority leaders that the state should be operated within its income despite a series of bills which would increase state ex- pendi wlnte- jDECAUSE much time counting money, and so little looking at it, thousands of dollars of counterfeit money are passed every year. To help the Treasury Department's U.

S. Secret Service educate the public to "know your money," the Safety Education Department of the Aetna Casualty and Surety Co. has produced a movie, "Doubtful Dollars," explaining the points of difference between bogus and genuine currency. In addition to the identifying marks pictured here, an-, other way to avoid bogus money is to know what pictures belong on what bills, because counterfeiters often take a genuine bill, change the figures, and pass it for a higher denomination. Washington is on all one dollar bills, Jefferson on twos, Lincoln on fives, Hamilton on tens, Grant on 50's, and Franklin on all 100's.

GENUINE: Portrait is lifelike, eyes are clear. COUNTERFEIT: Portrait is flat, unnatural look- Oval background is light. Serial number should ing. Fine lines in background are hardly nolicea- appear twice under word "America," to the right ble. Words and serial numbers may be smudged, of portrait, also on left of portrait.

Check letter Crossing lines of border may not be clear cut. should appear in black, above and to left of fig- Sawteeth around Treasury seal are bunt, uneven, ure. broken. (Etched counterfeit plate makes broken lines) Perry Cragg, Cleveland newspaper man, annexed top honors in South Bond Bait Company's 1944 $3000.00 Fishing Photo Contost. title of the prizo-wiuning photo, is shown above.

It's Perry's son and his dog. At right the three F. Senior, president Illinois Division Izaak Walton League, Chicago; J. Hammond Brown, president Outdoor Writers' Association of America, Baltimore, and Harold Titus, nationally known author and conservationist, Traverse City, Mich. In all 36 participants were awarded War Bond Prizes from more than 10,000 photos entered in the contest.

COLUMBUS, Jan. 30 Louis McCallister, 81, retired state law librarian who served under 19 governors, died at his home here yesterday. He came here from Marietta in 1880. Survivors are the widow and three sons, one of whom is Jack McCallister, scout for the Boston National League baseball team. Only 462 of the 7,083 islands that comprise the Philippines are more than one mile square.

Works So 6etOfy Yet So for Constipation Reproduced by special permission of the S. Treasury. Further reproduction Nothing could slop the rushing progress of the wonder city of the Midwest. By 1870 its population had grown up to 300,000. Farms on the prairie were surrounded and swallowed by the advancing city, and poor farmers, to their own amazement, found themselves rich from the sale of their land.

As a packing center Chicago had passed Cincinnati. Seventeen huge grain elevators, with a capacity of 12 million bushels, raised their tall heads alongside the freight yards. Chicago wholesale houses had become the largest of their kind, and their salesmen were to be found traveling all over the western states, selling goods to a legion of retail merchants. Stone sidewalks had been laid in the downtown business section, but the rest of the in the wealthy tripped along on planks. A huge sewage system had been established; it had only one serious wouldn't work.

On the lake shore rose the palatial homes of the new-rich; some of them were marble palaces. Along the Chicago river, and north, west and south were the homes of the laboring poor; some of them were muddy hovels, made of rough boards. The city was always full of cutting revenues sharply. Another bill providing increased state aid to local governments was introduced in the Senate last night by Sens. Raymond E.

Hildebrand, Lucas, and Fred L. Adams, Wood. The measure would give local governments $18,000,000 a a figure mentioned both by Lausche and GOP assembly leaders as the maximum which political subdivisions "reasonably" can expect to receive during the next biennium. Bills also are pending in tlw House which would Rive local governments $22,000,000 a year twice as much as now grant local school districts approximately $60,000,000 a year, or about $12,000,000 more than they received last year. BSERVE RICES A LLOWABLE A regular feature published at request of OPA, to acquaint readers with retail ceiling prices.

For other items check posted prices in retail establishments, or call the War Price Rationing Board. 1937 Dodge 4-Dr. Sedan, as is $365.00 1940 Harley-Davidson Motorcycle, model twin 80, as is 252.00 ($75 more for side car or delivery body.) 1938 Norge refrigerator, model 71-8, as is 93.00 Veal Cutlets, grade Group 1 and 2 stores lb. .45 Veal Cutlets, grade Group 3 and 4 stores lb. .43 Canadian Bacon, smoked and sliced, group 1 and 2 lb.

.64 Canadian Bacon, smoked and sliced, group 3 and 4 lb. .61 Potatoes, 15 lb. peck bag .79 Fels-Naphtha soap, regularstores 1 and 2 .06 Fels-Naphtha soap, 3 and 4 .05 from NBC; 8:30 Alan Young show; 9 Gracie Fields; 10 Listen the Women; 10:30 Opera USA, temp-Lfast in Hollywood; 12:30 p. m. orary time change Mutual Musicale; 8:30 Roy Rogers show; 10:30 Wings for Tomorrow.

Wednesday programs: NBC 10:30 a. m. Finders Keepers quiz; 2:15 p. m. Today's Children: 6:15 Serenade to America.

CBS 3:30 Sing Along Club: 5 Wacs on Parade; 6:30 Encore Appearance, concert a. m. Break- Farm and Home program; 3:15 Ap pointmcnt with Life Women's Jury; 2:30 Never Too Old. Art Baker. A good window washing fluid can be made with warm water containing a little household ammonia, alcohol or vinegar.

Physician's Formula Acts on Both Upper and Lower Bowels Now! You can throw away harsh blasting laxatives for constipation -and enjoy this Physician's own formula which works so gently yet so thoroughly Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. Olive Tablets are purely vegetable they don't 'dynamite', Eripe or leave you feeling dragged out. Instead, they pep up sluggish bile flow and gently stimulate BOTH upper and lower bowels. They produce more natural-like- bowel soft, complete satisfaction! So take one or two tiny Ollvo Tablets tontght to feel 'tip-top' tomorrow.

Caution: use as directed. 30tf, All drugstores. DR.EDWARDS'<2£«e TaUeU CATAWBA ISLAND WASHINGTON. Jan. 30 The War Production Board has forbidden steel mills to till orders for stainless steel intended for use in civilian manufacturing jundor the "spot" authorization plan.

Delivery of any steel product by mills to dealers' warehouses for the purpose of building up warehouse supplies was banned also by WPB. Authority was continued for the placement of such orders so that mills could reinstate them when the supply situation eases. It is Tea at its Best "SA1ADA" TEA In Packages and Toa Bags at Your Grocer's 1 Mrs. Otto Hess will entertain the Ladies' Aid Society, Friday, Feb. 9.

Miss Margaret Seour and Mrs. Albert Marshall will assist. The Worth Clegg home in Catawba Cliffs is being occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Brill of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Lt. and Mrs. Robert Sharp, are announcing the birth of a daughter, Linda Carrol. Lt. Sharp, is stationed at Chanute Field.

Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Sharp are the great grandparents.

Dr. G. G. Wood and family of Rossl'ord spent Sunday at their cottage. Sgt.

and Mrs. John Frye are reported as having motored from Brownsville, Texas, to Greenwood, where he was transferred. Jordan Peterson, 11, of Port Clinton is making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Nels Peterson.

Two important real estate transfers are reported as having been consummated last week, involving the Ed Rhodes and the Lemmer- mau farms Catawba Island Garden club members will be entertained on Tuesday evening, Jan. 30, at the home of Mrs. Jjhn Duhrow, 120 E. Perry-sl, Port Clinton. Mrs Duhrow will exchange meetings with Mrs.

"'arry Brown, who was scheduled to entertain at this time. The following program will be presented: Roll call, Chinese vegetables, and a paper by Mrs. E. F. Later, "Attracting Winter Birds." The annual election of officers will be held.

Mrs. Jack Simpson returned Sunday from a two day visit with her husband who remains a patient at a Cleveland hospital following major surgery. He is doing very nicely and is expected to return to his home here in the near future. Mrs. Charles Ginlert is spending several days at the home of Mr.

ai-d Mrs. Archie Radcr of Canton. Mrs. Harold Houck and John hitney entertained at dinner in honor of Sgt. Lyle Reidmaier, who is enjoying several days furlough with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Louis Reidmaier of Danbury, after spending several months in the Pacific. Those at the dinner were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Reidmaier Airs.

Joe Kott and daughter, Sgt. Reidmaier, and John Whitney and Mrs. Houck. Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Owens and son Kenneth, are spending this week with friends at Cleveland. Turn the Dial (Eastern War Time, Sandusky Time One Hour Earlier.) NEW YORK, Jan. 30 (JP) The March of Dimes all-network salute tonight to President Roosevelt on his birthday will be the twelfth time since 1934 for this annual climax to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis fund campaign. It opens at 11:15 for an hour. Stars of radio are co-operating.

So is Dime Box, Tex. Dime Box is a town of 350 which contributed 100 percent to the drive. Because it has no program transmission facilities, a portable short wave station will bring the comment of its postmaster, David F. Stamp, to the networks. With Quenton Reynolds as M.

New York will supply Joan Edwards, Jack Benny and crew. Hollywood will put on Bing Crosby as its M. Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland. The Great Lakes Naval choir of 1,000 voices will be cut in from Chicago and the Army Air Forces band from Santa Ana, Cal. Basil O'Connor, president of the foundation, is the speaker.

Talks tonight (Tuesday): MBS 9:30 American Forum "Should American Labor Collaborate with Russian Trade Unions?" CBS 10:30 Rep. Paul J. Kilday of Texas on "Work or Fight." A minimum of 15,000,000 gallons of water will be used during the next Jive years in manufacture of glucose by the Northwest Chemurgy Co. of Wenatchee, Wash. Other items: 8 Ginny Simms: 8:30 Date with Judy; 9:30 Fibber McGee; 10 Bob Hope: 10:30 Hildcgarde Big Town; 8:30 Mary Astor is "Shining i) Inner Sanctum; 9:30 Gregory Peck in "Jupiter Laughs;" 10 Service to the Front 7:30 One Man's Family, moved DOUBLt VOUR BONO BUYING A.

Petersen Co. CU.d,iJ, Ohio.