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Jp- Shore News .. .. n • « . • « . «t 111 1-..U Mil Nearly Everybody In Wilmette Reads The Lake Shore New* VOL. VII, NO. 51. WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1920 FOURTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS T^'i "VOTE IT STRAIN SAYG.O.PJi^DERS o £ Women Voters Partie V ,Iy Urged to Take No Chances^, Disenfran- chising ThemseF §M by "Split" Vof mf BALLOT IS A YARD LONG Single Cross in Party Circle Insures Vote For All Candidates on Ticket Forget Polities cm "Rocky Gulch-Camp When Election Day Is Over Repub- licans and Denmarats Will Join in Celebrating "Vote it straight", is the warning of Republican leaders to the voters in the Republican ranks. When Illi- nois men and women go to the polls to vote on Tuesday, November 2, each will be handed a ballot 11 columns wide and more than a yard long. With such a cumbersome ballot, it is contended, it would be appalling if each voter had to mark his ballot for each lindividual candidate for whom he desired to vote. In the Republican column alone, it is point- ed out, the voter will be confronted with a list of 44 names on the na- tional and state tickets, added to which are the names of all con- gressional, legislative and county candidates. Explain Simple Way To the inexperienced voter, it is explained, this list of candidates be- comes nothing- short of appalling. But the voter does not have to mark his ballot that way, the leaders sug- gest. There is a simple way of vot- insr and a hard way, they explain. By the easier way every voter can mark his ticket in a quarter of a minute, and know that his vote will count for a candidate for every office. By the hard way no voterâ€"no matter what his experience or intelligence may beâ€"can properly mark his ball- ot within the time allowed by law for doing so, and besides each runs a grave risk of spoiling his ballot and of having, it count for no one at all. Mark Straight Ticket The simpleway ofvoting is to mark a straight ticket. The hard, and al- so the dangerous way is to try to ""mark what is called a "split" ticket. Experienced voters, which is to say men who have voted in several general elections, know all about this. Therefore they generally vote straight tickets. They don't take chances of spoiling their ballots, and thereby disfranchising themselves. The inexperienced votersâ€"men who have just come of age and women who are for the first time, in Illi- nois, to exercise the right of voting for all candidatesâ€" are the ones re- garded as likely to become confused by the long list of names and spoil their ballots. This is given as the particular rea- son why the Republican state or- ganization is appealing to all those /who want to make sure their votes will be counted for Harding and Ooolidge to vote a straight ticket and run no chances. After Election Day, November 2, politics will be laid aside, indefinitely by Wilmette residents and differences of opinion will fade into insignifi- cance in the face of the approach of the biggest event of the year in this Village Beautiful, to wit: The "Days of '49" scheduled to be staged at the' Ouilmette Country club on the even- ings of November 12 and 13. As repeatedly explained in the columns of The Lake Shore News, the "Days of '49" is to be a miniature mining camp characteristic of the early "gold" days in the far west. It is to be an occasion of great joy and unrestricted good fellowship. Every resident of the village is in- vited to be there and to engage in the activities attendant upon the rough and ready life of the mining country. There is to be provided every conceivable device for whole- some enjoyment. One may spend, freely and in utter disregard for the well known H. C. L., for a nickle will be worth a "buck" and "bucks" will be had for the asking in unlimit- ed quantities. " f More than 300 members of the Ouilmette Country club have been at work for several weeks in "setting" up the "rich mining town of Rocky Gulch" and things are shaping up in great fashion. Further detailed comment is re- served so that everyone .may have the surprise of his life when he takes the stage to Rocky Gulch on the evening of November 12. Reserve the dates, November and 13. 12 Tank Enlistments End; Seventy-five Enrolled Company "G" Sends Papers to Wash- ington for Final and â- OfficialRec- ognition â- ;:%- NEWELL DWIGHTHILLIS SUNDAY CLUB SPEAKER One of. America's Foremost Preach* ers To Appear at Congregational Church This Sunday Evening HEAR GLEE CLUB SOLOIST Sunday Evening Club Attracts Large Audiences, Patrons Requested To "Com* Early" Do You Understand Your Own Children? Rev. Stephen A, Lloyd To Tell Par- ents off Wilmette Something of Real Child Training Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis will be the speaker before the Wilmette Sunday Evening club on the evening of Oct- ober 31. Dr. Hillis is one of the foremost preachers in Am- erica. He began his career in Ev- anston and subse- quently was pas- tor of Central church of Chicago. He then succeeded ;to the pulpit of Plymouth church of Brooklyn, made famous by Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott. He was one of the most distinguished speakers to be heard before the Sunday Evening Newell D. Hillis club last season, Baritone Soloist Special music of the evening will be rendered by Joseph Ley, baritone, soloist of the Glee Club of the Chi- cago Association of Commerce. * With the progress of the club's season and the cooler weather the audiences are growing larger each Sunday. Last week the Congrega- tional church was crowded nearly to capacity. The management of the club therefore urges those wishing good seats to come early. SAYS DRYGOODS PRICES ARE ON THE DOWNGRADE Prices in drygoods are on the downward trend, according to R. H. Schell, proprietor of the R. H. Schell company, who in the advertising columns of this issue of The Lake Shroe News calls the attention of the readers to the general reduction in prices. Announcement of the decline in drygcods prices follows closely a re- cent statement by A. S. Van Deusen, grocer, of the trend downward in; prices of practically all food com- modities. The articles reduced represent goods the R. H. Schell company was able to obtain at reduced prices from the manufacturers and does not com- prise goods that have been in stock. The sale will continue over Saturday and Monday, October 30 and Novem- ber 1. LOCAL OPERATOR SPENDS WEEK AT WARRENVILLE Miss Cecelia Balmes, 1627 Wash- ington avenue, returned Wednesday from Warrenville, 111., where she spent a week's vacation on the re- creation "farm" of the Chicago Tele- phone company. The "farm" consists of a golf course and a variety of helpful and restful amusements for the young With the list of enrollments more than seventy-five, the active cam- paign for enlistment in company "G", Wilmette and Evanston tank company of the Illinois National Guard, closed last Saturday night. The company has sent its papers in- to Washington and is now arranging to be recognized and sworn in. Due to the fact that tank com- panies are a new departure in the organization of the military staff of the United States, no definite quota has yet been set as the amount ne- cessary for recognition . Set at Fifty For'infantry and artillery com- panies, the number is set at fifty. The local tank company will have reached seventy-five by the time its papers have been received and the officials in charge of the enlistment are hoping that this number will be sufficnent for recognition. "Although we believe seventy-five to be sufficient for the present," said Major Oscar S. Seaver this week, "we want to bring the number up to 85 or 100 to be absolutely sure. Our recruiting station in the Evanston city hall has been closed but any one that might be interested may come to me or any other of the men designated in our booklet. We are empowered to enlist anyone at any time." Will Start Training As soon as the papers are received and the men sworn in the training will begin. Drill in the fundament- als, the school of the soldier, the manual of arms, etc., must be mas- tered first and then will come the special instruction pertaining to this branch of the service. No arrangements have yet been made by the state for a permanent training field and quarters and until this is done the company will drill in the Northwestern university gym- nasium, which has been offered to the company by the university. Do you understand your own chil- dren? This is the question the First Con- gregational church of Wilmette is asking the parents of the village; and then it suggests help in solving the child problem. In order to aid parents in child training Rev. Stephen A. Lloyd, pas- tor of the church, has arranged a series of free meetings for parents to discuss matters of child psy- chology. There will be eight lec- tures, covering the period of the next eight months, the evening being the third Wednesday of each month. Mr. Lloyd has given many years to the study of child nature and be- fore he came to Wilmette specialized in that subject. Last winter he gave several lectures on the subject be- fore the Wilmette Woman's club, which developed much interest. The first meeting of the series now planned will be held at the church November 17. All parents, regardless of church affiliation, will be welcome. WAXWORKS EXHIBITION IS VERITABLE TONIC FOR ALL Logan School Parent-Teacher Asso- ciation Announces Presentation of Unique Collection BEAT THOMPSON MEN SAY INDEPENDENTS Leaders in New Trier Township in Strenuous Campaign To Elect Anti-Thompson County and State Candidates SLOGAN: SPLIT THE TICKET IMPORTANT LEGION SESSION <.wAT COMMUNITY HO|JSE H. L. Flentye, Jr., adjutant of the Wilmette Post of the American Le- gion announces an important meet- ing of the post on Monday evening, November 1, at Community House, Wilmette and Park avenues. The legion men will commandeer a fleet of automobiles on election day to transport voters to and from the polls. The legion is entirely non- partisan in this work which is to be done in the interest of getting out a 100 per cent vote in the Presidential election. Election returns will be received at the Byron C. Stolp school on Election night under the direction of the American Legion. Special entertainment will feature the even- ing. The legion is preparing to inaugu- rate its winter sports schedule in the very near future. INDOOR BASEBALL The Mizz Inn Giants, John Huerter, captain, will oppose the Ben Meyer Rattlesnakes .Sunday in an indoor- outdoor baseball game. The game is expected io be a close affair judging by advance information sent out by both camps. POSTPONE MEETING The meeting of the Oak Leaves club, scheduled for next Tuesday at the home of Mrs. John Selzer of Gross Point, has been postponed, due to Mrs. Selzer's illness. The Parent-Teacher association of the Logan school announces the ex- hibition of Mrs. Jarley's waxworks in the gymnasium of the Byron C. Stolp school on November 5. The association is in need of funds tn carry on its various activities and charities, which are helpful to the school interests, it is explained. The Jarley collection has bien shown in all parts of the world. Miss Eleanor Mickey, instructor of dancing in the Wilmette public schools is to provide additional en- tertainment with group and solo dancing by children of the schools. "Because of the high regard in which Mrs. Jarley holds the com- munity of Wilmette," reads an an- nouncement of the event, "she has made many notable additions and is presenting them to the public for the first time here. You may be sure it is thus made strictly up-to-date. "If you have troubles, you will for- get them when you look at Mrs. Jarley's show. If you have joys the hilarity of this occasion will furnish a good outlet. If you are a little be- low par physically remember that 'a merry heart doeth good like medicine' and that there is the doc- tor's visit and the druggist's pre- scription all for a very small sum. You are asked to reserve the date, Friday, November $, at 8 o'clock. Tickets are for sale by school chil- dren, at the Renneckar Drug store and the Wilming pharmacy." WILMETTE A. C. ISSUES CALL FOR BASKETBALL f VILLAGE MANAGER IS ILL Village Manager C. C. Schultz is confined to his home at 1611 Lake avenue, this week with a severe cold, i Turn to page 9 for News of Churches HOW TO VOTE In casting a straight ballot the voter need simply mark a cross in the large circle at the very top of the party column. This is the simplest means of ( insuring the absolute validity of the vote. The best way to split a ticket is to put a cross in front of the names of the candidates for whom the voter wishes to vote, whose names appear in other than the voter's party column, and then to put a cross in the circle at the top of the voters party column. The vote will then be counted for the names before whom the crosses are put and all the other names in the party column on which the cross is put in the party circle. The Wilmette Athletic club basket- ball team is organizing for the 1920- 21 season. Anyone desiring to try out for the team is requested to re- port at the Byron Stolp school gym- nasium any Wednesday evening. The club is planning a strong schedule with first rate teams in Chicago and vicinity, and promises to show the local fans an excellent brand of basketball this winter. A complete schedule will be published in an early issue of The Lake Shore News. GRIDIRON OUTFIT DIS- BANDS FOR 1920 SEASON Due to a late start and consequent inability to schedule games with the regulation weight teams the Wil- mette football aggregation has dis- banded for the 1920 season. The contest booked for last Sun- day with the Victory A. C. was cancelled. ELECTION RETURNS The Wilmette Post of the American Legion invites the citizens of Wilmette to hear the election returns in the gymnasium of the Byron -C. Stolp school, Tenth street and Central avenue, commencing at 8 o'clock, November 2. Non- partisan. Admission free. All come. Music. Speaking. Claude E. Fitch, committee. Predict North Shore Voters Will Vote 2 to 1 Against Threatened Machine Control "Clean Government" is the slogan of Independent voters of New Trier township who are in the thick of the fight arrayed behind the forces of the Independent-Republican County com- mittee which is in the field to thwart the Thompson-Lundin political ma- chine in its very apparent attempt to obtain control of Cook county and the entire state of Illinois. Boost Lewis Candidacy While the fight of the Independent Republican group is confined to Cook : jcounty and the endorsement and active support of County democratic candidates, Independent voters throughout the township are^ con- ducting a determined campaign in the interest of the election of James Hamilton Lewis, democratic candi- date for governor. They are appeal- ing to Republicans who will vote for Harding on the national ticket to "split" their ballots to prevent the election of Thompson-selected candi- dates in state and county. The Independent - Republican County committee is fighting valiant- ly for the election of Francis X. Busch for County Judge, Michael L. Igoe for State's Attorney, Patrick J. Carr, Michael Rosenberg and Thom- as M. Sullivan for Trustees of the Chicago Sanitary District, all of whom are opponents of the Thomp- son machine candidates. "G. O. P. and Harding if you will, but not 'City Hall* is the cry of the Independents. Busch, Igoe, Carr, Rosenberg and Sullivan, is the answer of the Cook county demo- crats." ur+Vv'"-] Clean Government Civic leaders in every village in the township are behind the candidacies of these anti-Thompson men. Head- ing the County committee is John S. Miller, Jr., president of the Village of Winnetka, who, as chairman, is directing the noteworthy campaign in the interest of "clean govern- ment." Myron E. Adams, of Winnetka, a constant worker in the interest of public welfare is chairman of the Organization committee. North shore leaders on the Speakers' bureau are Shelby M. Singleton, J. Laurence Houghteling, Horace K. Tenney, Laird Bell, Roger Sherman, Michael Follansbee, Frederick W. Burling- ham, Mrs. Augustus Peabody, Mrs. Heyliger de Windt, Mrs. Charles Ware, Mrs. Henry Hollis, Mrs. J. Higginbotham. Under the leadership of this ex- cellent array of public spirited citizens New Trier township Inde- pendent-Republicans are predicting a stinging defeat of the Thompson- Tammany candidates on November 2. The victory of the anti-Thompson forces will be decisive in this district as well as in every country town^ sec- tion in Cook county. That James Hamilton Lewis will carry New Trier township 2 to 1 is another confident prediction of veter- an election dopesters in the north shore villages. Harding for Pres- ident and Lewis for Governor, ex- presses concisely what appears to be the sentiment of New Trier voters. Senator Lewis received an enthus- iastic welcome at Winnetka Com- munity House Tuesday evening when he outlined his platform and ad- ministered stinging rebuke to the Thompson-Lundin machine aspira- tions for control of the state and county governments. Mr. Lewis spoke at an open meeting under the auspices of the Winnetka Men's club. LOGAN P. T. A. MEETING The Parent-Teacher association of the Logan school will meet Monday, Norember 1, at 3 o'clock in the Kindergarten room. The program is in charge of Mrs. Mayer, director of music in the public schools of the village. A pleasant and instructive afternoon is assured the members of the associaton and their friends. >* FALSE ALARM Firemen were called to 729 Eleventh street, Thursday morning on a false alarm. Excessive smoke from a chimney caused undue alarm among neighboring householders who summoned the fire department.