Newspaper Tidbits
for Lake County, Illinois
Waukegan - Although the Waukegan board of education found E.W. Bryan, principal of the McKinley school, guilty of insubordination and falsifying his educational record, yet they voted to reinstate him in order to avoid suit over his salary. November 14, 1913 - Ste Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL
Waukegan - A jury in Lake county circuit court gave a $5000 verdict to 6 small children of Carl Hogstrum against Peter Wember and Steve Cvetan, saloonkeepers who were charged with selling liquor to Hogstrum, making him incapable of supporting the children, who, after the mother was sent to an asylum for the insane, were taken to Lake Bluff orphanage. Friday, Nov. 21, 1913 - Ste Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL
Five gray-haired women of the village of Volo, Ill, who rode Mrs. John Richardson on a rail one night last July because her name was linked by gossip with that of her brother-in-law were found guilty by a jury. Each may be fined $200 and sentenced to 6 months in jail. Friday, December 12, 1913 - Ste Marie Tribune, Jasper County, IL