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Dixon Evening Telegraph from Dixon, Illinois • Page 12

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PAGE TWELVE DIXON EVENING TELEGRAPH, DIXON, THURSDAY EVENING N')' MBER COMPTON NEWS By Leslie G. Archer Compton Mrs, Sa.ah Swope celebrated her seventy-seventh birthday, November 4th at her home here at Compton. Mrs. Swope is enjoying ner usual good health, at her advanced age, and enjoyed the surprise Sunday, when 35 people, consisting of her sons and daughters and grandchildren, came to her home here in Compton with well tilled oaskets, to spread a bounliiul dinner table. Those present to help Mrs.

Swope celebrate were: Mr. and Mrs. Baltzley oi Franklin Grove; Mr. and Mrs. John McLean, children Loretta, Dale and Reda of Ashton; Mr and Mrs.

George Kerchner, sons Lee and Harold of Lindenwood; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holdren and daughter Bcrnita. Mr. and Mrs.

Chester Holdren, Max Holdren, Miss Evelyn Bet ner of Aurora, Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swope and children Lavila Mac Elroy, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Davis.

Bobby and Joan, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Swope, and son James, Mr. and Mrs. George Swope, Mr, and Mrs.

Robert Swope, and John Swope of Compton. Woman's Club November meeting of the Woman's Club will be held at the church parlors on Monday evening November 14. Miss Cornelia An- jealdna of Paw Paw will be the feature of the meeting with several songs from the noted artist. Mrs. Frank Nangle of Paw Paw will accompany her on the piano.

Mrs. Ruth Ogilvie. secretary-troasurer, announced that as many as possible should pay their dues at this time. High School Prof. D.

C. Thompson has announced the honor roll for the past month of October. Those making an average of 87 percent or were: Floyd Archer, Mildred Florschuetz. Arthur Rhoads, F.ldo Johnson, Theodore Swope, Cecil Janssen. Elizabeth Swope, and Ruth Jacobs.

Leo Eggers Is special honor student lor the past month with an average of 95 percent in his studies. class led in attendance, being 100 oent perfect. The juniors are second with 89 per cent and the sophomores third with 72 percent. Eighty-two percent of the high school pupils were neither absent nor tardy during the month of October. In the grades the following made the honor roll for October: Fifth Chaon.

Vivian Cook, and Lorraine Grosshans and George A. Richardson tied. Sixth Ogilvie, Dale Archer, Florence Kaiser Seventh Nelson; eighth grade Otterbach and Mabel Janssen tied. In the primary department the honor roll consisted of the Marjorie Chaon. Jimmie Corwin, Robert Bernardin; second grade, Dolores Eddy, Untz; fourth Bauer, Darlene Davis and Leo Untz.

Compton Hospital Miss Edith Krahenbuhl who had her hand badly injured in a corn elevator at licr heme a week ago, at which time it was thouglit the amputation of the thumb on tlie left hand was necessary Miss Krahenbuhl is getting along nicely and it will not tie necessary to amputate, which is cheerful news to her many friends. Mr. and Mrs. Carl son of PawPaw underwent a minor operation at the Compton hospital Sunday morning. Tiie four-year-old son of L.

White cf Scarboro had his tonsils removed here at the local hospital during the past week. Smith Banks is cariying Ills hand in a cast due to a crushed bone in his forearm, sustained while attempting to crank his father's, J. W. Banks. Hudson sedan.

Mane, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Env I Ponto. broke her shoulder while playing at school one day during the past week. The girl w-as brought to the local hospital, where the shoulder was set by Dr.

C. G. Pool Dr. G. Pcol.

and his daughter Mrs. Cornelius Hospers, Dr. S. Flemming of Paw Paw, and Dr E. A.

Owens attended the medical meeting at Oregon on Thursday evening of the past week. Dr. C. C. Poole spent Saturday in Chicago where he attended the football game at Stagg Field that afternoon.

A rather startling announcement was made early this week of a MODERN BUNGALOW IN EXPOSITION TO SHOW PROGRESS IN HOME CONSTRUCTION p. 1 Be: cf 5 ici hai Oak Forest Leaves hi sLs ir- IV' 1 MRS. LEST Lit HOYLE 1 CM. If ar i son. OAK FOREST and riiOO Mr M.

Liu Walter Hoyle at dim fa i i Suncay Sunday Mr. and A E. I lubJ man; Mr, and Mi 5 V. rt Hoyle and Mis. Burro ws Roliert; and Mr.

and ih 0 veo.tc with hr. Lester Hoyle and Joshua and I'd oyle. Joim Mi. and Le.1 ter 9 Mary and Id Bee Jc hr. ar ar, t.l Ik! Above, model showing front view of house with contrast of painted and varnished pressed v.

sod wails; below, rear view showing roof terrace and swinging doors leading from living room to lower terrace; inset, floor plan ing arrangement of rooms, HE progress that has hern home construction within the last hundred years will he typified in this modern four-room bungalow being erected in the Chicago Century of Progress Exposition by the Masonite Corporation. Exterior walla will be one-fourth Inch pressed wood over a sheathing of wood fibre structural insulation. A portion of the walls will be painted white and the remainder will be varnished to retain the natural color of the pressed wood. The flat roof, a portion of which will be closed in to provide a nont of covered terrace, will consist of wood sheathing over structural insulation for strength with a layer of one- eighth inch pressed wood over the sheathing And a covering of waterproofed canvas over this This construction will permit walking end the use of furniture on any portion of the roof even in the hottest weather. Interior walls will be of structural insulation covered with wallpaper, plaster, canvas, paint or decorated pressed wood, the finish being different in each room.

Floors will be of pressed wood cushioned flooring. A unique feature is that the height of each room will he in proportion to its Another will he an electric current concealed behind the baseboard all around each room 30 that a kimp or other electrical appliance be plugged in at any point around the room. Other features will be double-construction glar.s in and windows for insulation and to pre vent collection of moisture window sashes that raise into pockets above the openings; gas-operated healer and air-conditioner in a compact installa tion beneath the stairs; gas refrigerator and range; and a sink with modern dish-washing equipment. secret marriage which occurred on September at Bloomington, uniting the lives of Miss Ethel Lcgue of Compton and Clarence Vlckerey of West Brooklyn. Mr Vickerey, who came to Compton four or five years ago from Amboy, to work at the Compton hospital, has by her efficient and pleasant ways made a large circle of acquaintance with patients here.

Mr. Vickerey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Vickerey of West Brooklyn, who operates a large dairy business on his frani near West Brooklyn. Mrs.

Vickerey will remain at her duties at the In s- pilal here until Dr. Pool returns from his world tour early next summer, after which the happy couple have made no or little comment as to what they are to do. Mr. Vickery lias made numerous friends here at Compton during her stay here, as well as in surrounding towns, and the happy couple have the best wishes for a long and happy married life. Coach W.

E. Ott is plying the finishing touches on his bn ketball squad here at the local high school, preparing for the curtain raiser of the season with lee Center at Leo Center, on Wecmcsri evening. November 16th. With fourteen games, seven at home, and the same number away from home, along with two tournament I give an incentive to the squad, well as the coach for hard work Lee Center has wins already to its credit this season, taking Franklin Grove to the mat 54 to 12. The first squad con ists of Clement Buchan, p.

Kenneth Selby, Robert Cock, Zinke, Flor- shuetz. Hopwood, Floyd Archer and Jos Eire. Lester Kaufman, main stay on last year's squad. Is tetatively out due to an appendicitis oiHnatlon. Mrs.

E. A Owens is spending most of this week with her mother near Walnut CITES BIG LIST OF IN I TH.ITH FII I.I) fessions of me Power by Carl D. Thompson, is the most comprehensive indictment yet leveled against the power industry. It summarizes the high lights of the testimony given be I ore the Federal Trade Commission in il recent investigation, and the bulk of it comes from the power people I themselve; and it substantiates 1 practically nil of the netti allons that such progressives as Senator Norris have been making in the Senate and elsewhere. Studying the record.

Mr Thotnp- I son demonstrates: That the term trust" is no mere figure of fpcech, but for an ever-increasing consent ration of power few hands. That public utility have been watered over and over a vain not in a unimportant 1 instances, as the have claimed, but on almost innumerable occasions. That profits are not I held to 8 per cent, as public au- thorities require, but often soar to 100 per cent and upward. That he ldin companies have repeatedly milked operating companies and have helped to concentrate power and profits among the Thai practically thing that has been said about the propagancl i i entirely true. Much of this book the layman to follow, abundantly worth the eft hard for but it.

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a gets right at the eat of the pain It first removes the immed.aie cau-f for that awful pain, then it sooti and quiets the irritated, part. Astounding 1 i. reported, even in cases of cancer agonies. Women ti.k^ Ne phen regularly because it nak.es ibie for them to wor; tu most trying physical condition- 93 ffifti 'I Nroptirn Ulivi im-aii'iil hi (irrnmn li in 1 of I 1 I 11 tilt- and rirr.m mimi it of I-K ir Nruphra ip- I ori! opW Ine I oiori llrlicf in rofundrd for Kr-iin- nh 1 -VI -1 li I Mio Sii ir rro le Pom! I Ji Neoph eri lupvnne 2 for 1C take fl er in irforninj 1 tuher Purifiid Anmiopyrin 50c Tube iiruschen ton limi.

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