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22 3 Daya Adnlt The Illinois Society of Miami is one of sixteen State societies organized for the purpose of assembling and entertaining the visitors from the ·varJohn Hartmann, whose home is at ious States. The Illinois society ranks 1305 Sheridan road, Wilmette, may be third in the number of members ensurprised to see this story, but it comes rolled , having over 5(X) names on their , from some of his friends who heard it members hip book. There is more or less rivalry among and were not constrained by modesty to have it kept from the public prints. th e various State societies in making Mr. and Mrs. H intmann spent a con- up programs for the entertainment of ~iderable portion of the rapidly receding their .members, and the Illinoi s society eoJd months at St. Petersburg, Fla. The has received very favorable comment sojourn in the southern resort was with- from members of the Chamber of out unusual incident until one day when Commerce and the press of Miami. Mr. Hartmann was invited to participate · The society has at least one event in some deep sea fishing with a party of every week from the first part of three other winter lodgers and the skip- January up to date. JICr of a small gasoline launch. Other entertainments will follow, .· Early one Saturday morning, the and the season will end about April party started out with a very limited ' 15, with a banquet of the society at supply of · food proceeding about twenty one of the leading hotels of Miami. The membership of the lllinois somiles off shore. Once out on the briny they were suddenly overtaken by a ter- ciety embraces visitors from over forty rific ·tropical storm. Simultaneously cities in the Stat e. It is interesting with the onslaught of the elements the to note that over sixty people from engine in the small craft coughed and Wilmette and other north shore towns died. All efforts to coax the motive have visited the headquarters of the power into life proved unavailing and the party found itself hopelessly stranded. In the Village The hours passed, with every crash of the furious billows threatening to Theatre Building tear the hapless vessel into shreds. Hour upon hour the skipper labored frantically at the recalcitrant engine but darkness eventually overtook the party and the "captain" was carried, exhausted, into his berth. The fury of the storm continued unabated through that night. When Sunday dawned the fishermen · found themselves still hopelessly adrift, although the angry seas had relented. Then came the thought of food . A search of the ship's larder disclosed one sandwich and about one glass of fresh For water for the entire "crew." A very quiet but not altogether restful Sunday for the famished anglers I Your Sandwiches, Ice Another night of aimless drifting and, Cream, Pop Corn and early Monday morning, an oil tanker hove in sight, noted the plight of the Cand~ fishermen and towed the party to shore and safety. There is another story having to do Where Quality with those who waited at the hotel for Chocolate Rules the lost party. That' story has not been told but it was one of ill foreboldings climaxed by the glorious happy ending. /n Tropic Storm p ·tJ T/a ·11 roVt e· n · . I WILMETTE society. E. R. Nour~c . of Wilmette, is president. The functions of the socie ty are to reach all the visitors from Illinois so far as is possible, and afTord the~ an op portunity to become acqu amted with other visitors from the State, and tfl see the beauties and attractions of Miami and its environments. The officers are elected for the year 1924, and new officer s will be elected at the opening of th e season, about January 1, 1925. been · into:-.:ira ted the night before, an? that th~ only reason that he couldn t rememiK r e1·ents very coherently was because h~ had been "too flabbergasted." 1-1~ did vaguely remember that he had hce': warned to leave ~n " L" station in Evanston, but he d1d not know that the man wh<? warned him was the Wilmette supe~mtendent of police. The evidence was too much on the side of disorderly conduct and not on the side of ··ftabbergastation," so the magistrat e fined the defendant $25 and costs. . . Four other arres ts and fines on Similar charges were recorded on the last week-end. I Many Local T ourista at Miami in Winter Season Hen Macklin Had a New One; But a Flimsy One Henry Macklin, an Evanston negro, wa s arrested Monday a t the Linden avenue "L" terminal on a charge of disorderly conduct, or, more specifically, "drunkenness." 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