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w VGL. Vi» WOrft. Phone WUmettc 1840. WILMETTE. ILLINOI8. FRIDAY, APRIL *3, 1915. ^PTKTQ Room 2, Brown Building.__ PRICE FIVE ARER 9 YEARS ASJMBIT Total Service Eleven Years, for He Served Term as ^Trustee Before Be- coming Head. WILMETTE HAS GROWN v Was a Village of 3,000 men He First Was Electedâ€" •;. Now Has 8,500. On the fourth of May John D. Couf- fer will complete nine years of serv- ice as president of the Wilmette Vil- lage board and win step down out or office. Vt Elected In 1909. In 1906 he was elected head of the __ board to sewe the unexpired terra of . __.Henry B., Oatei. Since that time he - has been in office lor tour tonus, or a period of eight years. Previous to His service as president, he was a mem- ber of the hoard for one term, so his complete record is eleven years of work In the Interest of the village. In that time Wilmette has grown from a village of about 3,000 to ap- proximately one of 8,600. Some of the Things Done. . A record of the things accomplished under his administration leaves Mr. Couffer with a feeling that he has been of no little service to* the vil- lage. . During his time of office the ordi- nance for the drainage canal was passed. Largely through his efforts the location of the pumping station and the bridge was made at Sheridan road instead of near'the North-West- ern railroad tracks in Bvanston. The intercepting and relief sewers have been installed. West rnllroad avenue has been paved, with the North-West- ern railroad paying fifty per cent of the costâ€"an unusual thing to ac- complish. Nearly all of the streets, with the exception of Oreenleaf, Cen- tral, Forest and Lake, have either been paved or resurfaced. A deal was con summated with the Northwestern Ele- vated railroad for a terminal station, whereby they paid the village 912,600 for the privilege of coming Into Wil- mette. Wilmette for thirteen years, and has Ling-8 court. It was continued until in thai time always been a promiueui tbig morning when Renins appeared leader in the affairs of the community. SITUATION IN TURKEY SUBJECT OF LECTURE Hear Native Discuss the Question on Sunday, o'clock in the afternoon. i Turkey. The speaker will appear in native costume. The speaker is a native of Lebanon, 8yria, and his ... spent in hie native monntotes. He is s graduate of the American college at Beirut, of McCormick Theological THE RETIRING PRESIDENT John D. Couffer COMMUNICATIONS FLOOl Open Air Meetings, Street Lamps, Hogs, Subjects brtietter. Twd annual reports were presented at the meeting of the village board on Tuesday night, one from the collector and the other from the village attor- ney. Both wore read and placed on file. The public service committee of the board reported unfavorably on the matter of a street light In the middle el' the block on Charted street. U was the opinion of the committee that it would be setting a bad prece- dent to put in street lampa In the middle of blocks. A communication from W. P. Frisk aaked permission of the board 'for the North Shore Bvangellstlc mission to hold open air meetings on the streets of Wilmette this spring. The board .directed. the' superintendent of public works,to issue .a. permit, with the power to revoke it if the meetings caused any complaint. J. C. Blaylock complained that a hog, kept at 228 Wood court. Is a nuis- ance. Trustee Schults said he was acquainted with the hog and thought it. was kept in good condition. The matter was referred to the police tors investigation and report. A petition signed by a large number of property owners affected, asked the board to change the name of Kline street to Prairie avenue. The matter was referred to the public service com- mittee. A communication from Paul Schroe- der was read. He asked for a new street lamp on Oreenleaf avenue be- tween Fourth and Fifth streets, and also for one on Fifth street between Linden and Oreenleaf avenues. This was also referred to the public service committee. GEO. STEFFINS WILL BE TRIED HERE TODAY UMOO Village Hall. A thirty thousand dollar village hall that Is the envy of any town In the state the size of Wilmette was built In 1910. A health department was organised two years ago and set Into useful operation. ^"TTT Innumerable ordinances have been passed during the administration. For tbe first three years of Mr. Couffer's administration A. C. Wenben was vil- lage attorney. For the past six years the post has been ably filled by C. H. Jackson. With Mixed feelings. Mr. Couffer says that he is not »orry to quit. Kctthor to "no very happy over the prospect of severing bis official connection with the village. He says that he hss enjoyed the work, and while he has had kicks and knocks and boosts, he feels that be has tried to do bis beet for the In- terests of the community. Since his appointment, about a year ago, as gen- eral western freight agent for the dajr nlght on gome alleged -on o nmngvom 1 Pennsylvania Unas be hss not had p|g,„ wegt of wilmette. Oeorge Stef- YEAR KkrUK 1 HAVEi as much time to devote fo village at- fln8 was brought in, together with tbe fairs as formerly, and he thinks it me|) ff)lin(i |n Bis place. He Is Charge of Selling Liquor Is Lodged Against Himâ€" Taken in Raid. liiiio us wruivti/, •»» «~ â- â-  â€" men ionna in â- *» i>mw Is possibly best that he Is stepping charge w|tn keeping a "pig" In Okla- oat and leaving the post to some one homar the territory Just annexed to else who may have more time. tne VMage. His case was set for Qyer Thousand Children HI Mr. Couffer has been a resident of Wednesday morning in Justice John /T*{/mi with an attorney on Wednesday. West of Bvanston, a man by the name of Jerry Eckberg was takento the Bvanston police station and booked on the charge of selling liquor wâ€" I iiL rnuâ€" WU1 Fred A. HahsssT^nr oT the"deputr Street school, MSr CenllnrXveane Commonwealth Class Will "JL* .ehool, tSS; John A. Logan school. The statement of money received MOTORCYCLE RIDER INJURED. Cortlan Reese and his sister. Ma- gan school. 56 rlon, were Injured Monday night Thy •tatem< wWle riding on a motorcycle on Lake and disbursed shows that *£<£»»*. The Commonwealth class of Wll- g,reet near Eighth The girl was rid- er "^ ^J"1 -J*0* JuV mette will hold its next meeting at log on the handlebars. Reese tried cash J~» »• S ?«21t the uJSmLn^ on April 26 at 5 to p«s - ---"i-* ~ ££ '"^JS^HSSt^ hpr i lustalned a free- nhmendttnres smounted to 9«.- ciocK in ine wiernuuii. another one. ne »u»wuto • .«**» S>kriMo£ teachers amounted The address will be given by the tared leg and was taken to tbe Ejans- ioo.«. Jf^^J^J^T! TfoV S BeTAnetS^y^^ while toe payments on contractors' accounts on the new buildings who â- abject WEI he the present sltnathm Injured, escaping with n few bruises, a In Turkey. The sneaker will REGULAR ROOK WORMS. Winnetka leads the north shore ht 921,94s) „_ nr.OMPewniMni w vtmmm in proportion to the population, mette has nearly 14 per MRS. THURSTON MAKES REPORT 4-Year Period Covered by Probation Officer in Sign- ed Statement to Vil- * lage Board. THE SHOWING IS POOR Wilmette Does Not Make a Very Respectable Front in this Resume. A report covering a period* of four years' work, done by Mrs. Gertrude M. Thurston, probation officer fur New Trier township, was road at the meeting of the village board on Tues- day. Total of 929 Cases. In that time Mrs. Thurston has had 898 cases, 200 of them belonging to Wilmette. These covered truancy. "swearing; cigarette smokingHand other high crimes" attributed to Juveniles. Thirty of these cases went to the Juvenile court. Twelve were for de- linquency, six of them being girls. Eighteen were dependent petitions. Of this number nine of the delinquents and eleven of the dependents were from Wilmette. What Happened to Them. The disposition of these Is as fol- lows: One boy to Allendale farm, two to Glen wood, one to St Charles, one to the John Worthy school, two to the Park Ridge Industrial school for girls, one to the Home of the Good Shepherd, on* to the Salva- tion Army maternity home, and two. to St. Mary's training school. She took nine cases of sub-normal children to Dr. Healy. director of the Psycopathlc institute, which , to con* ducted In connection with the Juve- nU» court. Four of theue'nine case* originated In Wilmette. One is now In the home for tbe feeble-minded In Lincoln. III. Mrs. Thurston took one blind child from Wilmette to Doctor MacMUlen or the Child Study department of the Chicago public schools. The parents of this child promised to put her In a school for the blind. They later moved to California, so there is no record of the final outcome of the Forty From Wilmette. Out of a total of sixty-nine cases of truancy, forty-one were from Wll* Imitle, Most of these were golf club cases. Tbe goR clubs have promised to co-operate with Mrs. Thurston and give better care and attention to the caddies, so she has hopes of Im provement on this score. Four Wilmette children were taken to a free clinic in CM adenoids removed Sell Cigarettes Illegally Twelve violations ef games of chance are recorded and two cases of selling of cigarettes to minors. No prosecutions took place in these two instances. It was thought best to merely give a warning to the offend era. It proved to be sufficient. Mrs. Thurston says that she tried to exert her Influence In the blind pig formed five cases. She concluded her report with an .. anneal to the board to make provisions A posse of deputy sheriffs, under ^rto. sumineTbathing beach. She the leadership of Amlel Cbangelon gjjâ- â€¢â- Â«-' ^DnW he carefully formerly alderman from the Fifth _â„¢V^..|I ward In Bvanston, made a raid Satur- eupervi.ua blind BY SCHOOL BOARD Attendanceâ€"Condition of Finances. The annual report of tbe Wilmette Hi* hoard of education shows that there case comes up on April 20. His bond, are 1,029 children to attendance, which was set at |200. was signed by They are divided as follows: --------------------____________*_-----------_-*â€"*tâ€"â€"- - â€".â- -â- -_ ^« »^s»-^»e-----mmsr iâ€"#t*m*mb1"" Tenth •LANS ABEMADE FOR MEMORIAL DAY Officers Elected and Com- mittees Chosen for the Celebration. 1 ' ' • "' The committee for the observance of memorial day In New Trier town- ship held their first meetlug for this year at the Wilmette Village hall tost Monday evening. The old officers who bad charge of the arrangements and were at the head of the committee for several years past, were re- elected: P. M. Bingham. Wood court, Wilmette. chairman; John 11. SChae- fer, cashier Wilmette Bank, treas- urer; John J, Peters, diaries street, Wilmette, secretary Tho a total The total soldiers and prim 9270.69. baltaaee The ing mem tees: J. secretary showed n 1914 of $285.75. for carfares for music, postage utors, etc., were urer reported this - hand, appointed the follow- heads of sub-commit- P. Gowlnn, commute on speakers; Capt. J. J. Peters, commit- tee, on military; Gerard J. Uiciti, com- mittee on transportation; Paul Nan- rig, refreshment!; J. i>. Roth, commit- tee on automobiles; rror. J. it. Har- per, school children, flans, etc; Capt. J. J. Peters, semi-military organiza- tions; A. I» alee, finance committee J. H. Iehne9|» wasâ€"unanimously elected aa chief marshal of the day. The line of march will follow the line o< IWsjwMfroaro with the excep- tion that ta*sfbrohlnx to the ceme- tery. Wllmettofavenue to Ridge ave- nue and north on same will he used Arriving at cemetery the graves of about a dosen veterans of the etvtl war will he decorated with flags and flowers, after which en address will be delivered. The visiting soldiery will receive refreshments at the For- ester hall. Gross Point, and members of the New Trier Aerie, Fraternal Or* der of Eagles, have volunteered their services as cooks and waiters for that occasion. Invitations are being mailed to com- pantos-of National Guard regiments. the Spanish-American war veterans, members of thsvO. A. R. and other to the President McRae and His Aids Are Sworn Inâ€"Pass Bouquets to Retir- ing Head. PAVING BIDS OPENED Estimates for Park and Ver- non Avs., Read and Referred. The outgoing Glencoe boards came together on toe evening of April 14th for their final meetings. The Im- provement board held lta session first, add after some unimportant hearings in the McDonald subdivisions, passed on-the Harbor street water-main, or- dering that ordinance be prepared tor It Bids for the repavtog with brick Of tbe business blocks of Park and Ver- non avenues were opened and read. Following are the bids received: H. O. Goetot. Oak Peril, ill. .920.8&7.O0 Waukegan Improvement Company................29,992.00 James Gaps a Sons, Racine, Wis..................... 27,179.05 J. A. McOarry * Co., Chi- cago.................... 32,653.70 M. Foley Company, Kvans- ton .................... 30,595.06 These bids were referred to the en gtoeere for tafauurtiun and report ^Taroppowiiieii next meeting, when it to expected the work wltt he awarded. â- ide For fire Track Shed. In the Trustees' meeting the bids for the building of the annex to the village hall as a shelter for the new fire service truck, were opened and read as follows; THE PRESIDENT-ELECT Oscar W. Schmidt SOMETHING ABOUT NEW VILLAGE HEAD Has Lived in the Village for 18 Yearsâ€"Member of Board One. Oscar W. Schmidt, the president- elect of the village, hah been a rest- dent here for thirteen years. The number heralded so much aa a hoodoo has proved to be his successful one to polities. But he was also a win- ner to his twelfth year, for he was sleeted a member of the village board. His one year of service proved such a good one that he went out for the head of the village board and met with appUcattoaa shoulf he addressed to Capt. J. J. Peters. Secretary. Gross Point. * ! !~-i>-• one .......«•.,..<l• • • •.....ja»»ww•*!» GLENCOE MAINS ARE BEING INVESTIGATED Making Repairs on Park Avenue System Before Laying. Pavement. Workmen digging in Park avenue the Zieslng end Rosenberg buildings are uncovering the Joints of the water-main to ascertain its con- before the work of repaying, to be let to contract, is begun. e engineers plan to have water eon- nectlons with thai main made before the laying of the concrete foundation and the brick cover are told. The pavement for the first block end a half west of the tracks la to he fifty- four feet wide; end as tbe work to to be expensive it '- desired It shall be permanent and r*U dug up every time somebody wantn to build and connect with the wntesr-mata. The plan to to uncover all the Joints In school, 226; John A. Logan school. 261; Kindergarten. Tenth Street echooL 92; Kindergarten, John A. Lo- OOOtTOCftNT Mrs. Frank M. Barker. 1919 8heri-j and re-calk them where leaks are found. Some leaks, no doubt, will be found. The original calking of tho water system wee hurriedly and rather indifferently done by tbe con- tractors, the inspection of the engi- neer In charge of the work at that time being really no inspection at all Besides joints Imperfectly calked then, these end other jotote have sprung, so that there Is still a large percent of leakage, which, too small to force Itself to the surface, finds its way along under the mains Oil It soakes into the surrounding earth or finds other outlet on the grades. Some, years ago. the village clerk tcok up with a contractor doing eewer and water work la the village the question whether It might not be worth while for the villsge to go over the whole water system la the mode now about to be tried on Park ave- nue, nnoursrtog Jetote where needed. This gentleman soma calculations and thought the work could be dene then for eoduT 96.000. At that time few of the streets were paved and the damage to pave- menu would have hewn much toon then It would be now. One thing to he considered now.ln i assertion with such an sadsifaktog la that with the rapid growth of the Tillage, ft will soon be realised that the water-mains are In general too small, and many of them will have to he replaced with larger. FOR hVttL CL.US. The Boys' club of Winnetka gave a T9t " R. J. Angus, Chicago........ 2,990.90 M. Bckelman Glencoe t Paint- ing only)................ 22.00 John Jeffrey Company, Glen- coe...................... Mitjo Henry Behrens. Glencoe (Ex- cept painting and screens) 2.242.00 Referred to Mr. Ueorgge M. Chand tor, architect, Tor report Canvass The Vote. The election returns ef ISO village election held on the 9th were then opened and read. They snowed the total vote cast wee 1,179; of which 686 were cast by women and 690 by They showed thejileotton^f the following Albert MacRae, president; Bdward H. Ravenscroft, Theodore D. Haunch and George M. Chandler, trustees; C»r*i Locuuef, eolleetor: "eorge Diet- trich, street commissioner; John M. Aleff. marshal; Hugh A. Hammer, lice constable; Otto R. Burnett and Samuel R, Hurtord, library directors. The newly elected President MacRae and re-elected Trustees Ravenscroft and Hauech betes »«â- â€¢**'*•*• sworn to by President Mills. Be- elected Trustee Chandler was not present; and Trustee John htotthews. ill In the Soldiers' Home at Mil- waukee., wee also absent. Mr. Mills retiring, the new presl- deat took the chair and the new board anawered roll-call and started busl nose by passing a resolution oompll- mentary to the retiring president and by passing aa ordinance designating the members of the new board of lo- cal improvements. ELECT OFFICERS OF IMPROVEMENT BODY Will Launch Summer Cam- paign at Onceâ€"Funds Needed for Work. The Wilmette Improvement sssocis- tlon held a meeting In the village halt oa Mooday eight for the purpose of electing officer, for the year. J. P. and recaiklng aowiDC waa thceen president. The other officials arei Harry W. Miller. rice president; I. E. Sheets. la all the time Mr. Schmidt has been In Wilmette he has lived et 927 Elm- wood avenue. He has a comfortable home there, and the place to shared with a family of three children, two boys aad one girl. But we must hot forget to mention Mrs. Schmidt. She. too. hss been very active In the if of tho village. Mr. Schmidt IS an lnsurau'ce broker with offices In the Insurance Exchange building. He has been In the business In Chicago for twenty-four years, con- nected first with a New York chem- ical house. He to a member of the Oullmette Country club, the North Shore Golf club, the Insurance Brokers associa- tion and the Chicago Druggists asso- ciation. The Beptlst church claims Mr. Schmidt aa one of lta most val- uable members. He to chairman of the board of trustees of this church. SEWER IS TOO DEEP; SCARES CONTRACTORS â€" - No Bids Received on Worth of Work in New hall Division. WILMETTE IS SIN FIRE NDISS Village in Election day Chooses Officers and Votes |20f000 for Protection. OTHER TOWNS Presidents, Mayors, tees Selected by the Voters. Wilmette had a qutot election day. Tho warm weather out more votes then did toe tlons which the people voted on, was no contest for ear at the The only thing in which there b. a difference or opinion wea In matter of the 920,99a bonds for fire i paratus and the i trlct soutnwest or the village, of thess propositions carried. Taw question got 369 votes for and seven against. The matter aroused; tie comment Posters printed in m.d carrying the word "Fire" most Important argument, were played about the village for a before election. One or two biles were out with the i e\ Idently busy taking voters to polls. Take In Territory. The annexation proposition tered 396 votes la the favorable umn and fifty In the adverse. The following is the number votes received by the candidatse: For President Oscar W. Schmidt. For Treasurer H. W. Miller...... •Trustee W. J. Montgomery. Joseph ilelnssn ... Pvroy Andrews Men .....269 - â-  * JiPWIaai. JWW .....3*9 ' Men ,.....229 .....360 .....347 Rulph Baker*...*.,......36T •Baker to fill unexpired term of W. Schmidt. Library Board MOtt V J. W. llltt................361 J. It. Harper.............299 Schmidt High Man. -It will be noticed from the tabulated result that O. W. polled the highest number of vet both men and women. The railing i In the others to attributed oversight than any other cause, newly-elected effietata toko office For the first time, probably, to the history of publlo Improvement work under special eaeessment In Glencoe, the recent advertisement of the vil lege for bide for tbe construction of the largo sewer system to the Sylvan Newhall subdivision felled to elicit a stogie hid for the work, estimated to cost over 934.900. The explanation of this apparently Ilea to.the fact that there Is a good deal of very deep sewer to the Jobâ€"nearly 2,000 linear feet averaging twenty-six feet deep; some of It about thirty-two feet, and there are other strings of nearly 600 linear feet averaging twenty-one, thir- teen feet. etc. Sewer work deeper than twenty feet to pretty formidable work for moat contractors. Few dig* gtog nhtohteaa «•»« roach that aawth. first Tuesday la May. nectlons In other nearby resulted as follows: PawIsI IwOvwrl* Presidentâ€"C. B. Ball. Trusteesâ€"W. W. Wheelock, Bchutos end Carl KSttb. ~ Gross Point Presidentâ€"J. J. Huerter. Trsaaarerâ€"Jeha wwwr, Sr. Trusteesâ€"Joseph Bteser. M. J. tor and Max Schneider. Presidentâ€"George H. Klehm. Trustees Albert Lies, Kruse aad John W. Brown. Police magistrateâ€"Henry A Olen View. President H. ht McCullen. Trustees H. If ie ef the association to to beautify Wilmette. They pay par- ticutor attention to the baefite* «JP •* the parkways end the cleaning of toe alleys. The membership rse » one dollar a year. Anybody with a dol- tor can Join. There Is no waiting list, and blackball, are not known to the association. The xeeaey to spent in making Wilmette a better place to Jk â- â- â- dig win he held oa April 20, work ww and all beyond that has to be dug by band aad thrown up to the surface by stages. This to expensive work, made all the more so because et such greet depths Glencoe clay is "blue." and even when no stones are found, digs ehoat like putty Nineteen hundred and thirty- feet of the sewer work mentioned, running as deep as thirty- two feet and averaging twenty-six. Is to Sherldsn road between the Stone end Newhall bridges. That part of tha work apparently will have to be by tunneling. Thorn Is a small line of the sewer tary- FTiTBaWaSHn, treaearer. Tbo|syateW put to three er four years ago director, are. J. D. Both* CV H. Bash* A KJrchberg, C. C. Sehatts, snd A. L. by Contractor F. O. Mortimer, in the southern section of the village, about tweatyatx to thirty feet deep. Thto wea cut by open trench, with digger â- implemented by band work, and, of house, have this line end connected with "wells."' A sewer connection each conditions is no Joke, to the workmen, or to the man who pays for it. N. Haopt and Charles 8. Cole. Mayorâ€"Samuel ht Hastings. Commissionersâ€" Howard Ward W. Wtnttts, Frits Bear, Hnber. Waukegan. Mayorâ€"W. W. Pearce. Commissionersâ€"J. J. L Sawyer. George M, Orvto. A DOSE OF BUSINESS TONIC HUB TOW Harry Fogelman of School Will Address the Commercial Ass'n. The New Trier Commercial Hon Is going to have toe hearing Harry Fogelman of ton don school of business to sight Brown eaU. Hte subject to Building.*' Mr. Fcgclssas to kerateefij built [ tliag Gun Harry." sad he to hte reputation. Ha eaa it by Tha LIB*ARY MOUBS. WUmetto Pease Library to rery day from 2:09 until 6;38 In the afternoon. It to also eoBto has beea missing perieat through ^^ S MPap 9^PV*oa9Tsw-. an* anT^Pn% eSS ilea invites att the besaneei â- M*H