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Service W! Country-Fresh, 's Mi Ik __ attorney says: "A fellow camne 'into consulit me yesterday and I ýtold himn he should go to the Legal- Aid bureau and, he said, "Yes, I' know, but they chargé 10 cents."" The above. incident finds Ais par- aflel almost daily ini our":business. 4t property, owner cails in a dozen different brokers to get opinions of market value,*. The consensus of opinion is, let us say, $10,000. Aftçr caret u]Iy weightng ail th~e evIdence. and augmentng it with family and nèighborhood estimates, he decides that -a figure of $19,500 net would be about right. Ecjually hard to uuderstand la the. Sullibility, of familles, otherwise practicaâ, for spectacular oCierings by 'Jerry builders.' How a given amount of merçhandise can be pro- duced 30 per cent less than by rep- utable builders is so absurd that' one wonders how it finds credence at ail. Anid yet the notion persists to such an extent as to seriously *handicap the seing o! existing structures. Builders and architects of good. rexutation do not resort to ismàhp, is not superior to home.* That makes olcier strange phenomena which its perennial appearance the, Fali-the almost-total >arance of' salesmen from Iate offices on Saturday aft- ;-passed with the last foot- me at Dyche stadium. The seller,, Lloyd G. Gage, has long been -a resident of Wilmette. Lloyd Gage received the property by deed from his mother in 1925. who had inherited the propýerty from hier husband, Henry H. Gage,, a res-. id-ent'o! Wilmette frorn 1867 to his death in 1911. Trhe original Johin Gage who- cameto Chicago in 1836 fromi Wat- ertowni, N. Y,, established the first flour mill in Chicago on Van Buren. street on the West side, of the Chi- cago river. Henry H. Gage's homeé at the corne r o! Chestnut avenue and Sheridan road, then known as. Milwaukcee, road,. was an early- Wil- mette Iandmark. Bought for SuibdvsIio Henry H. Gage inherited severaI real estate, and added to his hold- ings in 1894 this elght - acre- siter known in recent years as a "No Man's Land" and now to be de- veloped into a. beautiful residential park, lying between Wlmette and Kenllworth just east of the railroad tracks. Mr. Gage bouglit the prop- erty with the intention* of subdivid- ing it, but the post Columbian World's Fair panic followed shortly and Wilmette on the south grew up ail around it until the. site was en- tirely surrounded by the spacious, lovely, substantial homes typical of the North Shore. To this day the Gage property is in .its original state, wooded with tail trees and shrubs, some oak and asb, and dif-' fers in no . wise from . the way At must have looked. when the Indians were the North Shore's only resi- I J SM 1 TH