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-.··- Lake Shore lfe:wi r: VOL. XIV, NO. 12 Formerly 1\e · .. A Clean Ne·poper lor cr Cleon Ccimmanity WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924 HERE'S CHANCE TO GIVE CHEER Wilmette War Veteran in Weate~ Hoapital Would · Enjoy ,Some. Letters = -=-~~----..:: Don't Forget to Join In With ·the Caroling Wilm~tte is to ~ave its Cll6tomary Commumty Chnstmas tree this ye;r. It has arrived alreadydonated as usual by Cosmas Brothers, an~ is waiting to be set upon the Y 1llage green. The Public Serv1ce company, will follow its custom of donating the lights and current to .illuminate the tree. T~ere Will be a celebration on Chrastmas Eve at 7 :30 o'clock when all villagers are invited to g~ther ar.o und the shining tree and smg Chnstmas carol , as in days of old "ye merrye minstrelles" were wont to do. . This . is a feature of community hfe whtch cannot be found in many places in this country -any more, and all householders should make an . effort to be present. It is a fittmg way to show goodwill and usher in the glorious Christmastide. It will be a fitting prelude to a very Merrv r~.=-·--" anu a nappy ana-prosperous New Year. Several pieces from the New Trier high school band will lead the music. Robert Wilson will be ' n rharge of this group. THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS IWNI SINGERS LOCAL MAN TAKES POST WANT 'Ulll Ul""Tt" WITH BANK IN CHICAGO n ILIIU:.ll L , HERE NEXT WEEK LABEL ON CARS Famous University Glee Club To Give Concert at New Trier Auditorium THANKS LEGI~NNAIRES tot in themtelephone "ce. Tclcpent years ler to build, his nation~ically th~t HI-Y BACKS PROGRAM Thirty-two Voices in Talented Group An unusual treat IS m store for residents of the north shore Friday evPnintr. vcu:out.><::· LU, wm:n tne Un.versity of Il!ino:s Glee club wi .l present a pro~ ram of songs at th'! New Tr.cr audi - L. J. Mitten Hai Fine Word For Wibnette Wi_lmette residents who knew L. ~!Jtte~, at one t!m,e a manual training v.,.·"~trh.~r m the W1lmette ~hools, might mterestea 1 " .·.,.ding some extracts from a letter wh1ch he recently wrote to (]nc of his friends at the Byron C. Stolp school. His feelings fol" Wilmette are clea rly shown, and those who can read hrt ll'een the lines a bit can imagine the cnmJ:tions at the hospital mentioned. .\fr. Mitten went overseas as a soldier in the World war and was gassed. He rtturned to Wilmette and taught here ahout a year, but was forced to leave and enter a convalescent hospital near Helena, ~lnntana. Extracts from the letter iollow : "Dear Friend, ..... I had often wondered who it wa s that called on me and was more disappointed than I can tell to miss seeing any one from Wilmette ..... It would have been lovely to have had a visit with you and talk over old friends and old times hut things were willed otherwise ..... I look just about the same as I did when I le~t Wilmette. I am twenty pounds h~avter than I was then and am beginJMg to get some gray hairs ...·. I seem to be doing well but don't !leem to make much progress toward a cure so it looks now as if I will have at least six month here yet, and when you atop to think that I have been here sixteen mouths it look· 1ont: thne, but eueh is life .. ... I want to tell you about two lovely presents I · received from the Legion at \~ilmette...... About a month ago I recetved a box with a carton of cigarc:ts a box of cigars and a box of lovely home.made candy. Now maybe you don't think I enjoyed that. Well, that wasn't all A couple of weeks ago I wrot~. Miss Olin, secretary of the Legion Auxthary, to see if she could get me (Continued on page 6) Slowly lmproYin· Q. ]. CampbellofWilmette, form - · erly cashier of the Fir t National · Bank of Wilmette al}d since that time a state bank examiner, has assumed his new duties as a vice president of Citizens Aak Rapid Tranait the Lake Shore Trust and Savings Company to Mark Traina Bank of Chicago. To Tbia Villqe Mr. Campbell has had an extensive experience in various phases of the banking profession. He was in active charge of the First National bank in ·HEAR Wilmette when that institution was ROAD OFFICIAL still in its formative stage. · He has been ·-a bank examiner for the past three and half years, having held a J bn M £ p1 · position with a prominent Chicago 0 · oran~ama ~t~~~. before assuming a post with the Chanae in Service J be kept r.t alue to the mentals or economy s built the · service in His activity as a banker was interrupted in 1917 when Mr. Campbell entered the service of his country, enlisting fQ.r trainin~ :~t the Fort ,:,nertdan officers' training camp. He strved two years with the A. E. P. and retired from acti\·e duty with the rank of captain. He enjoys a wide acquaintance on the north ~hore where he has re.;irled continuously since leaving the army. citiz:ens, comprising village §] . , PANY l Service PLAYS PORTRAY TRUE XMAS JOY Methodist Sunday School to Present Them By XMAS MESSENC.ER Will the Christmas Angel knock on your door Christmas night? Will you invite him in, warm him and give him food and then send him on his journey with the ~st of your Christmas gifts? Will you growl, "Bah I Humbug I" when your friend gives you a Christmas greeting? Is Christmas a time to growl because your employees have a day oft wilb. \Yl. Is 1our Christmas ~ plea fifiemory to 'you aiicfyour Chrstmas future one of torture? "The Christmas Guest" is a story of the fifteenth century. Christmas night finds the children of a home gathered around the hearth while Dame Margaret .ells them the tale of the Christmas angel who ~mes to earth on Christmas night and knocks on someone's door. The children decide that if the angel were to knock on their door they would give him their most precious gifts. A knock is heard. The door is opened and a beggar a ks for alms. He is invited in and given food. The children are sorry for the beggar and the life he must lead and so give him a fur cape, a fur hood, fur l.ned shoes and a purse. The beggar thanks rbeat and departs. The story of Dicken's "Ciiristmas Carol" needs no telllng yet we never tire of hearing it. Both of these Christm:ls plays will be in Wilmette Monday evening. If your Christmas spirit isn't all that it ought to be it will be after seeing these two splendid plays. Miss Elizabeth Stanwood of New Trier high school is directing them. The cast is excellent. The Wilmette Parish Methodist Sun· day school will be gald to entertain all who come to these plays. They are free and open to all. Monday evening at 7 :30 o'clock. STRING QUARTET ATSUNDAYCLUB Philharmonic Group Glves Program This Week The Sunday Evening club program for December 21 will be furnished by ·he Philharmonic String quartet, all members of the Chicago Symphony orchestra. This quartet includes George Dasch, the leader of the Little Symphony orchestra . wh 'ch appears this winter at the New Trier Orchestral Auo~iation' · ell Carl Breuchner, the widelY nown cellist of the Chicago symphony. The program will also include solos by Miss Mary Welch. This is expected to be one of the best musical programs of the entire season. The Philharmonic String guartet has appeared on the Wilmette Sunday Evening club program around the Christmas holidays for several years · Its programs are always greatly enjoyed. Last Sunday one of the largest crowds of the season attended the Sunday_ Evening club on the occasion when Miss lane Addams spoke on the Japanese situation and Branson De Cou showed his "Dream Pictun:s" with musical accompaniment. torium. The concert, under auspices of the Hi-Y club, is scheduled to start at 8 o'clock in the evening. and the proceeds will go to the club's scholarship fund. The Illini songsters are making their .34th annual tour of the northern part of the state and besides appearing here will also have engagements at Kankakee. Chicago Heights, joliet, Whiting, Ind., Maywood, Elgin, De Kalb, Sterling, Ottowa, Peoria, Lincoln and Decatur. The club is larger than in previous years, having 3Z members, including the director and pianist, as compared with 26 members last year. That it is truly representative of the state is shown by the fact that 29 o£ the 3Z men are native sons. ' F amoua Director LUMINARIES IN MUSIC WORLD TO APPEAR HERE Wilmette, on the eveninv of Friday, January 9, wlil be a center of musical glory due to the presence of singers and instrumentalists of international fame. This unusual event will be given at the Byron C. Stolp school and will be under auspices of the Epworth league of the Wilmette Parish Methodist church. For months the committee in charge has been working to !'lake the eve!ling one that will linger m the memones of all Wilmette music lovers. It is indebted to Mrs. B. A. Clepp through whose efforts the artists were obtainable. It is probable th~t never before in the history of Wtl'mette has there been given a con"'hich includes on its program so noted performers. Sellections, it is announced, will be by. Count Sykorz, a noted llist, graduate of the Imperial Conservatory of Music at Kiev Russia; Cou~eis Sykerz, pianist; Fernande de Gueldre, of Paris, French tenor ; Mrs. Pettit, lyric soprano, and Mrs. B. A. Clepp, European dramatic soprano. Cards of admission are to be secu ed from any member of the Epworth league or from James P. Reinhold, 1005 Ashland avenue. Some fifty c1v1c spirited \Vilmette officers, trustees and pectator as embled at last Tuesday's Village board enion, sounded a concerted appeal to John J. Moran, also a villager hut for p lrposes of thi incident, an official of the Chicago Rapid Tran it company, tequesting that all so-called Evanston trains on the Elevated lines be labeled "\Vilmette." Peculiar as it may seem, this expression of civic pride wa at first purely incidental, in fact, had not even heen cliscus sed by a group of petitioners who had attended the meeting for the · purpose of airinll some complaints regarding the shift in the "L.. service out of the Linden avenue terminal. Diac:uaa Seniee Train schedules, possible means of improving service, alleged unwarrant~ d delays at Howard avenue and other matters were brought up in a general quizzing with Mr. Moran the able and unperturbed quizzee. Then. when it appeared that the "L" traffic directors had answered everythin~r to complete satisfaction, President Zipf burst forth with the request that all trains bound for the Lmden avenue terminal be labeled " For-t' r ore others c orw o a~roval and were ul in secunng the promise from · Moran that the he would brintr the matter before the properly constituted authorities of the company and report hack to the Village board within a short time. In answer to complaints regardirw service out of the Linden terminal, Mr. Moran pointed out that, while the frequency of service had been lessened outside the rush hours, the service was actually faster, the running time to the Loop having been reduced from the previous 48 and 50 minutes (Continued on page 8) tm BLUFF ORPHANS ARRIVE AT 9:40 A. I. Arrangements have been completed to bring the Lake Bluff orphans to Wilmette on Christma day where they are to he entertained in various families. Officials of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad company promi e to provide a special car for the kiddies, who are scheduled to arrive at Wilmette avenue 1>romptly at 9 :40 o'clock on the morning of Christmas Day. From the station the children will he ushered into the Village hall from whence they will be distributed to their guests. Promptly at 5 :30 o'clock the flock will be returned to the train preparatory to the homeward journey. A number of the children have been taken hy Winnetka families, it wu announced by members ot the Phi\athea society of the Wilmette Parish Methodist church. which i sponsoring the Christmas for orphans. A few children remain to be taken into Wilmette homes it was stated. These can be placed {{ interested families will call Mrs. William Macllorran at Wilmette 189. Induct New Officers of Wilmette Masonic Locls· Wilmette Lodge, No. 931, A.F. and A.M. ~ld its installation of officers for l9Z5 at Masonic hall, 1159 Wilmette avenue, Thursday evening of this week. The ceremonies were conducted by Samuel F. Manning, district deputy grand master, assisted by Timothy M. Avery, Charles C. Schultz, Charles L. Hosken and Arthur J. Taylor. The Temple quartet provided a program of music. Recently elected officers inclode: Charles C. Cameron, worshipful master. August }. Kuelzow. senior warden. Fennien A. Buck, junior warden. Earl E. Orner, treasurer. George W. Hess, secretary. Daniel Stecker, chaplain. Clarence D. McCaUum, senior deacon. Ernest C. Cazel, junior deacon. ]. Egbert Co.on, senior steward. Lloyd C. Ayres, junior steward. Joseph 0 . Converse, marshall. Orian A. Galitz, organist. Joseph C. Wilson, tyler. ell · '- Baptist Church Invites To Chriatmu Services E its its ., l)eadljM Advancecl Christmas comes next Thursday. Therefore for next week's edition of WILMETTE LIFE all advertising copy and all news copy must be in our office by AU services at the Wilmette Baptist church this Sunday will emphasize the Christmas spirit. The vested choir of the church will sing a group of carols at the morning service and the Rev. Francis C. Stifter, pastor, will preach on the subject, "Joining the Wise Men." At S o'clock in the afternoon there pected. will be a Vesper service in charge of the Sundav .choot departments, replacing the customary young people's meetCHRISTMAS SERVICES ings. Featured at this time will be the Detailed announcements of departmental processional, carol numbers by the choir and the contribution Christmas week programs in of gifts for needy families and the Oak the various churches of the Park infirmary. On Monday December 22, the chil- village are to be found on the dren of the Sunday school will make Church pages of this issue of an automobile pilgrimage to the Oak Park Infirmary where they will give a WILMETTE LIFE. carol and distribute gifts. The Christmas spirit per- Prof. Frank T . Johnson, director, is a graduate of the Oberlin College of Music and Drury college and was -a member of the famous Schubert male quartet of Chicago some years ago. For the last five years he has been associated with the Glef club, which, under his direction, won second place at the In tercollegiate Glee club contest held in Orchestra hall, Chicag; , last year. The club was organized In 1891 under the direction of Prof. S. W. Parr and since then has been a dominant factor in propagating th~ Illini spirit throughout the atate. · The program to be presented at the New Trier auditorium is of varied nature, including, besides co\\ege 10n11, musical numbers by T. L. Ander~, violinist, and H. G. Moore, cornetiSt with the University of Illinois concert band. This program will be appreciated by all and a large attendance is ex- Trustees' Xmu Stockin8s Fillecl at Tuesday Confab Santa Claus came betimes for the Village trustees and several Municipal officers this year-and he came brin~ ing a cargo of fine cigars, the gift of Hoffman Bros.. well known Wilmette coal, lumber and merchandising firm. In his customary able and eloquent manner, Clerk Earl Orner made the formal presentation speech on behalf of the donors, explaining that the cil{ars were in fra~rant appreciation of the tireless and altogether satisfactory attention the Village has given to the interest of the west ide in the year now fast drawing to a clo e. Mr. Orner also ha tened to explain that Hoffman Bros. begged to emphasize the fact that they were seeking no favorr in exchange for the "smokes." Fine for a Christmas Present! FOR ALE CHILD'S TRIcycle In A-1 con41tlon; ftn for Chrlatmaa pr a nt. Can be f'f'n at lUll Hill St. f"hon Wll- mett 20&4. NY Prelate Viaita Epiacopal Church Sunday, Dec. 21 1\JESDAY NOON The Rt. Rev. Sheldon M. Grisw~l~ Suffragan Bishop of Chicago, will ':1s1t St. Augustine's church Sunday mo!"mg, December 21, to administer the rt~e of confirmation to a large class of ch11dren and adults in the parish. . . Following the confirmation Bt~hop Griswold; will address the c()DJTePtton. vades the churches. You are cordially invited to attend divine services. Consult the C h u r c h pages and decide where you would like to observe Christendom's greatest holiday. ,_ a..;.-. s.a-tiREAD OUR WAftr ADS l1caa .. ol a.riatmu tM Ad Dead u.. . . . . . . . Ded week 1\JESDAY NOON. w-·