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FORM 13F INFORMATION TABLE
VALUE SHARES/ SH/ PUT/ INVSTMT OTHER VOTING AUTHORITY
NAME OF ISSUER TITLE OF CLASS CUSIP (x$1000) PRN AMT PRN CALL DSCRETN MANAGERS SOLE SHARED NONE
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A T & T Corp COM 001957109 491 28488.00 SH SOLE 28488.00
ADC Telecommun. Inc. COM 000886101 3883 214234.00SH SOLE 214234.00
Alcoa Inc COM 013817101 5313 158605.00SH SOLE 158605.00
America Online Inc COM 02364j104 766 22003.00 SH SOLE 22003.00
American Int'l. Group Inc. COM 026874107 290 2940.51 SH SOLE 2940.51
Analog Devices COM 032654105 2037 39800.00 SH SOLE 39800.00
Anheuser Busch COM 035229103 460 10100.00 SH SOLE 10100.00
Apple Computer COM 037833100 880 59151.00 SH SOLE 59151.00
Applied Materials Inc. COM 038222105 1628 42640.00 SH SOLE 42640.00
August Technology Inc COM 05106u105 614 47466.00 SH SOLE 47466.00
Bellsouth COM 079860102 3295 80500.00 SH SOLE 80500.00
Berkshire Hathaway Cl A. COM 084670991 426 6.00 SH SOLE 6.00
Best Buy Co. COM 086516101 2574 87060.00 SH SOLE 87060.00
Bio-Vascular Inc. COM 090923103 49 11500.00 SH SOLE 11500.00
Bristol-Myers Squibb COM 110122108 4218 57045.37 SH SOLE 57045.37
Charles Schwab Corp COM 808513105 4272 150543.00SH SOLE 150543.00
Chase Manhattan Corp COM 16161a108 4168 91741.00 SH SOLE 91741.00
Cisco Systems Inc. COM 17275r102 2106 55065.00 SH SOLE 55065.00
CitiGroup Inc. COM 172967101 4671 91477.00 SH SOLE 91477.00
Coca Cola COM 191216100 1255 20596.19 SH SOLE 20596.19
Consol Energy Inc COM 20854p109 310 11100.00 SH SOLE 11100.00
Duke Power Co COM 264399106 364 4268.22 SH SOLE 4268.22
EMC Corp COM 268648102 3218 48390.00 SH SOLE 48390.00
Electronic Data Systems COM 285661104 3697 64010.00 SH SOLE 64010.00
Enviropur Waste Refining Techn COM 29409u109 0 10000.00 SH SOLE 10000.00
Exxon Mobil Corporation COM 30231g102 371 4262.05 SH SOLE 4262.05
First Midwest Bancorp. COM 320867104 363 12612.00 SH SOLE 12612.00
Firstar Corporation COM 33763v109 266 11423.00 SH SOLE 11423.00
Freddie Mac COM 313400301 4419 64160.00 SH SOLE 64160.00
Gannett COM 364730101 564 8950.00 SH SOLE 8950.00
General Electric COM 369604103 5656 117995.57SH SOLE 117995.57
Guidant Corp COM 401698105 3399 63022.00 SH SOLE 63022.00
Hemagen Diagnostics Inc COM 423501105 20 49000.00 SH SOLE 49000.00
Honeywell International Inc. COM 438506107 340 7181.00 SH SOLE 7181.00
Intel Corporation COM 458140100 3892 129471.71SH SOLE 129471.71
International Business Machine COM 459200101 3622 42614.00 SH SOLE 42614.00
Johnson & Johnson COM 478160104 226 2150.00 SH SOLE 2150.00
Lucent Technologies COM 549463107 1109 82170.62 SH SOLE 82170.62
Medtronic, Inc. COM 585055106 7703 127585.55SH SOLE 127585.55
Merck & Co. COM 589331107 4316 46102.00 SH SOLE 46102.00
Microsoft Corporation COM 594918104 2584 59565.00 SH SOLE 59565.00
Minnesota Mining & Mfg. COM 604059105 444 3683.00 SH SOLE 3683.00
Motorola COM 620076109 2355 116281.03SH SOLE 116281.03
Nasdaq 100 Shares COM 631100104 206 3532.00 SH SOLE 3532.00
Nokia Corp Spon. ADR COM 654902204 2838 65240.00 SH SOLE 65240.00
Northern Trust Corp. COM 665859104 5627 68985.00 SH SOLE 68985.00
Oracle Corp. COM 68389x105 231 7950.00 SH SOLE 7950.00
Pfizer Corp COM 717081103 4527 98411.74 SH SOLE 98411.74
Procter & Gamble COM 742718109 1001 12761.95 SH SOLE 12761.95
Purchasesoft Inc.(Greentree So COM 746145101 28 12500.00 SH SOLE 12500.00
Quantech Ltd COM 74762k306 108 58332.00 SH SOLE 58332.00
Schlumberger Ltd COM 806857108 4239 53025.00 SH SOLE 53025.00
Shell Oil COM 822703609 3752 75990.00 SH SOLE 75990.00
Sun Microsystems Inc. COM 866810104 2773 99468.00 SH SOLE 99468.00
Target Corporation COM 239753106 4939 153151.00SH SOLE 153151.00
Time Warner Inc./AOL COM 887315109 2283 43700.00 SH SOLE 43700.00
United Technologies Corp COM 913017109 3415 43428.00 SH SOLE 43428.00
Wal-Mart Stores COM 931142103 259 4867.00 SH SOLE 4867.00
Wells Fargo Company COM 949746101 5368 96399.95 SH SOLE 96399.95
WorldCom Inc COM 98157d106 529 37585.00 SH SOLE 37585.00
Adams Express CLSD-END FDS 006212104 319 15195.0000SH SOLE 15195.0000
Tri Contl Corp COM CLSD-END FDS 895436103 298 14047.0000SH SOLE 14047.0000
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