Burnham Village to Sell Well Site Property at Auction
The Village of Burnham invites bids for the sale of a land parcel in Fractional Section 5 Township 36 North Range 15 East, bounded by the Calumet & Chicago Canal right of way and Rand Avenue, with sale set for May 25, 1921 at 8 p m at the Village Hall. The action is authorized by an ordinance for the sale of the Well Site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet & Chicago Canal & Dock Company
Chicago & Calumet Terminal Railway Company
Rand Avenue
Burnham
E.s
Burnram
Board of Trustees
Pointer
Otto Heigl
Village of Burnham to Sell Abandoned Pumping Site
An ordinance in Burnham authorizes sale of vacant pumping station property purchased in 1907. Bids opened May 25 1921 require a three fourths vote to accept, with conveyance by deed. Publication of the sale notice runs at least 60 days in The Pointer weekly.
Illinois News Notes Highlights of state events in brief
Fire at Harrington Manufacturing in Peoria causes estimated loss of 100000. Over 2000 acres north of Danville leased for oil drilling with favorable signs. Four hundred hens entered to date in a three year national egg laying contest starting November 1 in Murphysboro. Dehn J. O’Malley, long-time Illinois political figure, dead in Chicago at 62. Ralph Spafford named superintendent of Illinois Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home at Normal. Only 60 of 168 applicants passed pharmacist licensure. War Mothers convention to convene in Joliet April 19-20. Indictments in Chicago target Retail Coal Bureau officers and others. Government leases Dwight garage plant for boot camp vehicle mechanics instruction. Mississippi Valley delegates to New Orleans May 2 for convention. Anne Fitzhugh elected first woman town clerk in Sangamon County. J. Heyman Hallstrom elected mayor of Rockford. Labor League ticket wins 3 of 8 alderman seats. Most bankruptcy petitions by farmers due to grain and livestock price declines. Phil J. O’Brien re-elected in Quincy over Republican and Farmer-Labor rivals. Democratic city ticket wins. Bailet C. Gower dies in Pontiac while conducting business. Illinois crop prospects reported excellent despite low temperatures. damage uncertain. Sangamon County expected to resist Governor Small’s request for free title to state fair grounds. Franklin County to gain world’s largest coal mine. $1,000,000 project near West Frankfort employing 1,500. Orient mine previously held world output record. company to operate four mines in Franklin and two in Williamson counties.
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Harrington Manufacturing Company
Peoria
Danville
Murphysboro
Dehn J. O'Mualiey
Chicago
Ralph Spafford
McLean County
Small
Illinois Soldiers’ Orphans
Normal
Joliet
Retail Coal Bureau
Retail Coal Merchants’ Association
United States Public Service Hospital
Dwight
Rock Island
Moline
Mississippi River
Mississippi Valley Association
New Orleans
Anne Fitzhugh
Laomi
Sangamon
J. Heyman Hallstrom
Labor League
Rockford
Illinois
Phil J. O’brien
Quincy
John A. Thompson
J. ©. McIntyre
Bailet C. Gower
Clinois
Franklin County
Chicago, Wilmington and Franklin Coal Company
George LB. Herrington
West Frankfort
Orient
Williamson County
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Dolton
Carl Dieck
Lincoln Avenue
P. B. Good
Undertaker
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Chicago ST
Riverdale
Geo. Tuch
Indiana Ave
137Th Street
John Patton
President
Washington
Senate
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United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Navy Hydrographic Office
Herbert C. Hoover
Harding
Rush D. Simmons
Wisconsin
Post Office Department
Congress
Veterans’ Service Administration
Dawes Committee
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Hughes
Yap
North Pacific Islands
Japan
Myron T. Herrick
France
Taft
New York
Traverse City
Mich
Ernest Lane
St. Bernard’s Hospital
Anne A. Stillman
James A. Stillman
Idaho Falls
Idaho
Cripple Creek
Colo
Youngstown (O
Republic Iron and Steel Company
State Bank of
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N. C
Bank of North Dakota
St. Louis
Nebraska
Lincoln
Ill
Lields
London
Alexander Howat
Pittsburg
Kan
Standard Oil Company of
Omaha
Sir Thomas Shaughnessy
Sault Ste. Marie
George Washington
Boston
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Cal
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Tenachapi
Maj. Gen
Leonard Wood
San Francisco
B. BE. Wallace
Peru
Ind
Rochester
Minn
George Harrison Mifflin
Houghton, Mifflin Company, Publishers
Walter M. Lowney
Atlantic City
N. J
Mr. Lowney
Maine
Mediterranean
Spain
Madrid
Frederic J. Stimson
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Russia
Riga
Arizona Company
Mexico City
Ernesto Nathan
Rome
Signor Nathan
England
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White Russia
Stockholm
Tokyo
Hara
Hayama
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