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lour WAN! AOS "THE DAILY PANTAGRAPH, BLOOMINGTON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942. 4500 THREE PHONE GROWING PAINS Builds Greenhouse for LeisureTime Hobby Also Carpenter, Paper Carrier For 7 Years 'Morton Finds Problems With Population Growth Killed by Train On Customary Holiday Walk Albert Frederickson Victim of I 'Sun Chaser' Dr. C. B.CIine, Saybrook Mayor, Dies at 69 Funeral Services To Be Held At 2 p. m.

Sunday SAYBROOK. (PNC) Dr. Cor. liss B. Cline, 69, mayor of Say-brook, died Wednesday night at the Mennonite hospital In Bloom- Storm Causes 'Blackouts' In 3 Towns Clinton, Deland And Stanford Have Line Trouble If PMik if; Mm -gm- aE I I I IIWl 1 Doren has three jobs.

He's a delivers papers. PONTIAC (PNS) George Van carpenter, has a greenhouse and Red Cross Lore PONTIAC. (PNS) George Van Doren, 110 Murphy street, is one of the busiest men in town. He has three different jobs. Included in his daily routine are delivering papers, a full time job as carpenter and taking care of his hobby a greenhouse.

For the last seven years he has jumped out of bed at 5 a. m. At 7:06 he meets the train from Bloomington to get his bundle of The Daily Pantagraphs. This bun dle he takes over a 54 mile route to Graymont, Flanagan, Dana, Long Point and Cornell, where the papers are delivered to carriers. Begins Real Work.

Following the early morning de livery he begins his eight hour day as carpenter. But after the day of carpentry his real work begins. He then goes to work on his hobby. 400 Ivy Plants. The greenhouse is 10 by 14 feet and connected to t'he family home, It is steam heated.

Mr. Van Doren specializes in ivys and evergreens, More than 400 ivy plants fill the small building. There are seven varieties, but he specializes in the Marlon ivy. Planted in tubs inside the greenhouse and in the ground around the building are 125 evergreens. These trees were all started from cuttings.

Supplies Flowers. Included in the collection of 15 varieties, is one Mr. Van Doren especially prizes. It is grafted from three different kinds of trees, Golden Juniper, Silver Juniper and Waukegan Juniper. Carved figures and signs are scattered throughout the small building.

But to add more beauty to the hobby, Mr. Van Doren has many potted plants. During the season when the plants are blooming he supplies the Pontiac Wonv an's club with enough blossoms to decorate tables for their meetings Mason City Church Elects Officers MASON CITY. (PNS) Announcement was made Wednesday of the following church officers elected by the Christian church: Charles Hull, Ezra May, Everett Green, Leo Claypoole, elders; Ha-bert LeSourd, Arthur List, Albert Donovan, Don Legg, Mrs. Charles Hull, Mrs.

Roy Short, Mrs. Oscar Brown, deacons. The church board Monday night elected Robert Lee, chairman; Don Legg, vice chairman; Wayne List, clerk; Mrs. Margaret Jupin, financial secretary; Leo Claypoole, treasurer; Roy Huffman, chairman of deacons. WHITE ROOSTER SOLD FOR $825 IN 1918 Dr.

Cline ington, where he was taken a week ago after suffering a heart attack at his home. The body was taken to the East-erbrook funeral home where it will remain until time for the funeral. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the Methodist church with the Rev.

Fred Foster officiating. Burial will be in Riverside cemetery. Dr. Cline was born Nov. 25, 1872, at Saybrook, son of George and Elizabeth Cline.

He attended school at Saybrook and was graduated from the high school in 1889. He then attended medical college at Cincinnati, Ohio. He began his practice in Mansfield, where he lived until 1906. He then lived in Kewanee for two years and then in Danville where he lived until 1925 when he retired and moved back to Saybrook. He had been mayor at Saybrook for nine years.

He was married to Alice K. Blakeman of Leon, May 24, 1899. She survives with two brothers in law, Roy and Guy Blakeman who made their home with Dr. and Mrs. Cline.

He was a mem ber of the Mansfield Methodist church and Cheneys Grove lodge No. 468 AF and AM. by P. J. Lawless, brought $101, and a white rooster donated by Will Felt brought $825 for the Bed Cross chapter and after being sold was still owned by the chapter.

The crowd went wild when the rooster was put "on the block." He was sold for the small sum of $200 before supper. Sold Again. After supper the rooster again went on the block. Over and over again, he was the object of bidding, finally bringing in the $825 total. The next Saturday he was taken to a similar Bed Cross sale In Fairbury and brought in plenty money! Prisoners in the Illinois State Reformatory at Pontiac showed their patriotism.

They donated the small sums earned to Red Cross and helped by sewing Red Cross garments. "GRIDLEY. (PNS) A former Gridley resident, R. C. Walker of Pasadena.

recalls a novel method used in the Red Cross War relief fund campaign of 1918. A one dav affair staged in Chats- worth April 18, 1918 brought in a total of $2,610.55. Funds were used by the Red Cross during World war I. Prices High. Instead of an ordinadv house to house canvass, the Red Cross unit staged an auction sale.

Prices were unusually high. Often products would be sold over and over again, when the buyers turned the goods back to the auctioneer. Included in t'he bill of goods for the day were two "pig squeals" donated by Dick Netherton. They sold for $3 and $2.50 each. Booster Brings $825.

A dozen eggs brought a fancy price when they sold for $36. A Hereford heifer, donated Mr. Barrow. 102 Year Old Civil War Vet Dies After Fall H. J.

Barrow Of Gibson City Wearer of Gray GIBSON CITY. (PNS) Hamilton Jefferson Barrow, who survived a bullet wound In the head in the battle of Bloomery Furnace in the Civil war, was dead at the age oi 102 Wednesday. He died late Dec. 31 at St. Jo- soph's hospital in Bloomington as 1941 was fading In history.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Methodist church in Gibson City with the Rev. E. H.

Sauefr officiating. Burial will be in Gibson City cemetery. The body is at the Lamb funeral Confederate Soldier. Mr. Barrow fell and broke his hip Dec.

14, his 102nd birthday anniversary. He was removed from his home to the hospital in Bloomington and never recovered. Mr. Barrow was one of the few Confederate soldiers in Central Illinois. He enlisted In the armv of Virginia, Company when the Civil war broke out.

A bullet passed through his head and tore off part of his ear in a skirmish at Bloomery Furnace and he was left on the battlefield for dead. Found Alive. He was found to be breathing when a woman and her daughter searched the battlefield for wounded and was taken to their home until he was able to be taken to his father's home in Winchester in February, 1963. During his convalescence, however, he was taken prisoner and sent north to Camp Chase, Ohio. He was later released in an exchange of prisoners, enlisted in Company Virginia calvary and was ready to re-enter the fight when the war ended.

Leaves South. Mr. Barrow was born Dec. 14, 1839, near Fort Royal, eon of Mr. and Mrs.

Frederick Barrow. He came to Bloomington with his family in 1867, spent the winter there and moved to a farm near Gibson City. Mr. Barrow married Susan Bradford March 27, 1872, at Clarksburg, Va. They lived on a farm near here until 1882 when he went to Louisiana to raise rice.

He returned here in 1895. Mrs. Barrow died in August, 1919. Miss Carrie, a daughter, sur-j vives. PAXTON.

(PNS) Albert Fred-erickson's habit of taking a walk on the Illinois Central tracks on Sundays and holidays cost him his life on New Year's day. He was struck by the stream liner, "Sun Chaser," at 10:30 a. m. a mile south of Paxton. He was thrown about 100 feet and was dead by the time the train crew reached him.

It is believed Mr. Frederickson stepped off one track to avoid a northbound freight train and, because of fog and the noise of the freight, did not hear or see the streamliner on the adjoining track. To Have Inquest. The "Sun Chaser" goes south third day. County Coroner Henry Hanson removed the bodv to the Ford m- neral home where an inquest will be held Friday night.

The train crew will testify. Funeral services will be at 2 m. Saturday at the Ford funeral home with the Rev. Oscar furn officiatine. Burial will be in Glen cemetery.

Worked on Roads. He was born Oct. 7, 1874, In Paxton, son of Gustaf and Anna Frederickson. He married Miss Nellie Younggreen of Paxton March 7, 1904. He had recently been employed by the Patton town ship road commission.

Surviving are Mrs. Frederickson, two children, Mrs. Marvin Kuntz, Paxton, and Vennum, Chicago; three sisters, Miss' Ethel Frederickson, Mrs. Samuel Henry, Paxton, and Mrs. Anna Teeters, Marshall, and one brother, John, of Tulsa, Okla.

Three Held For Holdup In Paxton Shotqun Used To Get $15 PAXTON. (PNS) George Cha-! loka, 21, and two minor companions, all of Joliet, spent New Year's day in the Ford county jail facing holdup charges. They were said by officers to have confessed to the holdup of Don Melton, an employe of Friends cafe on roirte 45 here, on New Year's eve. Melton was confronted with a sawed off shotgun as two men entered the cafe early Wednesday. They took $15 and fled with a third man in a car which was parnea outside.

Chaloka and his two companions were in a traffic collision near Tuscola and were arrested by state police. They were reported to have confessed stealing a physician's car in Joliet and holding up the Paxton cafe. The three were turned over to Sheriff Harry Reehl who placed them in the Ford county jail pending grand jury action. Water Enters Mine LINCOLN. (INS) Workmen strove valiantly Wednesday to clear the Deer Creek mine of several thousand gallons of water which poured into the shaft from an underground lake Tuesday night when an escape shaft valve broke.

F. P. Goodwin, M. D. Rectal Diseases Only 1 P.

M. to P. M. Cloned Thursdays 422-423 Griesheim Bldg. OF A BETTER WAY TO INVEST GIFT MONEY? Sewage Disposal One of Biggest City Worries BY STAFF WRITER.

MORTON. The population signboards at "Morton's city limits read-' ing 2,200 are exactly 357 persons wrong beginning Jan, 1, 1942. This increase in population to 2,557 in the last 12 months brings with it many other problems beside the mere alteration of the population signs. Most important these is sewage disposal. Petition State.

"That many more people naturally creates a bigger volume of waste," Oscar Matthis, president of the village board seid Wednes-. "The state board of water sanitation laid down an ultimatum to us several months ago that we had to install a treating plant." One hundred farmers with prop- erties along the creek south of town submitted a petition to the i state board, he explained, demand' ing that village refuse be kept out of the creek. Formerly, sewage had gone Into the creek after treatment in private cesspools and sep tic tanks, i Ask Village Board. "We have a city ordinance that no house can be constructed with out a cesspool, but these farmers claimed that some private sewage was going direct to the creek and that refuse from the canning factory here was being dumped in the creek. They claimed that it was poisoning their cattle." The farmers did, he said, bring pressure first on the village board.

"We weren't going to do anything until we were forced to, though. I'm not anxious to make the taxes higher." Making Plans. He said that at the time of the spring election a vote will be cast for financing the plant. "It may be done by revenue bond, or we might ask for a tax levy. We haven't decided.

I would estimate that the plant we're planning on will cost $40,000 or $50,000. "We may still insist on private cesspools, and let the sewage come into the plant after after it has been through the private tanks We'll have a bypass for surface water and not try to put It through the purifier during times of heavy rains. The canning factory will have to Install its own disposal system," Mr. Matthis added. Growth in village population ha-s been caused by an influx of industrial workers from Peoria, who settled in Morton and com mute eight miles to their worn.

Building Boom. In the last 12 months 91 building permits have been issued according to Frank Bauman, building commvissioner. There have been 64 new homes built in that period and 15 others are now under construction. Total building costs pubUo and private, for the last year are estimated at $355,600. These include construction of a addition to the grade school, now under construction and three new downtown buildings.

The homes have an average property evaluation of $5,500 and a value range from $3,500 to Mr. Bauman said. Priorities on materials have not delayed construction of any of the projects to date, he asserted. Most are being built on the 'east and southwest edges of the village. Schools Crowded.

The new school addition consists of two wings including si rooms. Two of them are basement rooms which will be used only in case of an unexpected increase in enrollment. "Third, fourth and fifth grades are very much overcrowded," Mr. Matthis stated. "One room has 50 children In It now.

Out plan is ft hire at least three additional teachers next September when the addition Is ready for occupation." The transition from a rural village to an industrial residence center has made other changes necessary in Morton. Mail Delivery. A new dial telephone system was completed in March of 1941 and a natural gas plant in February, which is now selling gas to 252 clients. In April the village Instituted Its first door to door mall delivery svstem, and now hires two mall carriers besides the postmaster. A nursery school for children from 3 to 6 years old opened in December.

"The growth of the town makes a lot of work for us," Mr. Matthis remarked. "But it's worth it. For fellows like me who've lived here ever since childhood, it is quite a thrill to see It suddenly shoot up as It has in the last four years." BULLETIN Board EMERGENCY CALLS Phone Mennonite noapttal Brokaw S2vo at JoMpb's Hospital i Radio broadcast forbidden by U. S.

Wather Bureau. (PNS) The northwest part of Clinton, Deland and Stanford were reported in enforced "blackout" Thursday night because of storm damage to electric lines. ine Illinois Iowa Power company had calls here and to Deland while crews from other points were called to Stanford. The Clinton fire department was called to Clay and Elm streets here Thursday night when phone and electric wires created a short. A pole was blown down in the 500 block on East Main street.

Two phone lines were out but no serious damage was 'reported by the phone company. The distribution line between cioomington ana Stanford went out and the whole town was in darkness until repairs were made. Our New Neighbors STANFORD. Mr. and Mrs.

Carroll Nafziger a boy born Wednesday at Mennonite hospital in Bloomington. EASTON. (PNS)-Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Bastion, a son, at St.

Clara's hospital in Lincoln, Saturday. He nas Deen named Eldon Michael. Mrs. Bastion was formerly Miss Eileen Hope Lucas, Easton. CHATSWORTH.

(PNS) The Rev. and Mrs. Elmer Crockett, a boy, born Sunday at the Fafrhnrv hospital. This is the fourth eon. ORIDLEY.

Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Stalter, a boy, born Tuesday at Mennonite hospital in Blooming-ton. WAYNESVILLE. (PNS) Mr.

and Mrs. Jay Shaffer, a son, born Monday at their home east of Waynesville. This is their 13th child and eighth boy. 4 Beason Woman Dies of Injuries LINCOLN. Mrs.

Ella Robinson Harmon, 58, of Beason, who was injured in the accident in which her husband, John, .75. was killed Dec. 17, on state route 10 north of Beason, died at 11:45 p. m. Thura day at Deaconess hospital.

She took a turn for the worse late Thursday afternoon. She is survived by a brother, An drew Robinson of Beason, and two sisters, Mrs. Edith Hutton, Atlanta, and Mrs. Belle Drake of Cornland. The body was taken to the Sheets funeral home and Coroner E.

C. Goff will hold an Inquest later. Former Carlock Resident Dies CARLOCK. (PNS) Mrs. Lutle B.

Carlock received word Wednes day of the death of her sister in law, Mrs. H. C. Baldridge of Parma, Idaho. Mrs.

Baldridge had been ill eight weeks. She was formerly a Carlock resident and had many friends in the Carlock and Bloomington vicinity. Surviving are her husband; one daughter, Gail and one son, Claire. Gridley to Hear R. W.

Gammon GRIDLEY. (PNS) The Rev. R. W. Gammon of Chicago, will speak at the Union Congregational-Christian church at 10:45 a.

m. Sunday. He will also lead the discussion Of the men's class during the church school session at 9:30 a. m. Dr.

Gammon is western editor of the Advance. Party Planned MASON CITY. (PNS) The Live Wire class of the Christian church, taught by Mrs. George Huffman, will hold a bunco party Friday night at the home of Mr, and Mrs. Artie Huffman.

Funeral Nutlcei, Cardi of In Memurinm and Special Notice, inline minimum, $1.60 per Insertion! additional llnee ISe each. 'opy tor full day' ran will be accepted up to p. dar before pahlirntluo and IS o'clock noon for final edition. FUNERAL NOTICE. Funeral services for Mr.

Joe Bosshardt will be held Saturday morning from the George Flynn Funeral Home, 711 North Mam etreet, at 8 o'clock ana irom St. Patrick' church at 9:30. Friend may call at the funeral home. FUNERAL NOTICE. Service for Mr.

S. P. Irwin will be held in the First Presbyterian church, Grove at East street, Friday afternoon at ciock. Friends invited. Friend may call at tne Goodfellow Memorial Home until 11 o'clock Friday morning.

FUNERAL NOT1CK. Funeral service for Mr. Nancy Fergu son of 708 South Indianapolis street, will be held from tie Beck Memorial Home, 209 East Grove street, Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock. Friends Invited. Interment, BtocmlnKton cemetery.

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