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WILM _ E TT·E LIFE Archiieci$ til ·N orth ·Shore Hold Exhibit at of Homestead Hotel ~orks Evan"on and north shore~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ architects including sketches of many buildings already erected here are on display in the first annual exhibition of the Evanston-North Shore Association · of Architects to be held all this week at the Homestead· hotel, 1625 Hinman avenue, Evanston. One hundred eight pieces are in the exhibition including photograph·.s of both exteriors and interiors, floor plans, pen and ink and water color. elevations of business buildings and home in this vicinity. Among the pieces exhibited are drawings of the proposed chapel library and music school for North~est ern; the preliminary sketch and ground plan fot the Chicago World's Fair, the Lloyd Hollister Inc. printing plant the . Bahai temple, photograph of a ~odel of the .Chicago zoological park one of the ' drawings submitted id the Tribune Tower competition, the Kildeer Country club, the Fir&t Congregational church and church house the Bryn Mawr Community church ' and mixed residences. Architects exhibiting are : Bennett, Parsons and Frost; Edgar Ovet Blake Loui·.~ Bourgeois, Edwin H. Clark' Philip A. Danielson, Robert S. De~ Golyer, Walter T. Stockton Allen E Erickson, Arthur Howell K~ox, Elm~ ·C. Lowe, Charles H. Markel, Maher and McGrew, Stanley M. Peterson J as. Gamble Rogers, Shattuck and Layer, Leon E. Stanhope, Meyer ]. Sturm and Tallmadge and Watson. The exhibition opened with a dinner at the North Shore hotel Monday evening at which Allen D. Albert was the speaker. Illustrating his talk with stereopticon views, he spoke on the propose.d Chicago World'·3 fair, m~king comparisons of the various expositions up t9 the pres(nt as to plan and color scheme. Sixteen hundred acres of land will be available for the 1933 fair he pointed out, including 800 acres of ~ew made land between Roosevelt road and Oakwood boulevard, 500 acres of mainland, 300 acres in the south end of Grant park. A red lette~ day ?n Wilmette's society calendar for early spring was Wednesday, March 14, the · occasion of the an~ual bndge g1ven under the auspices of the Wilmette League of Women Voters. More than four hundred t1ckets were sold for the affair which attracted guests from all along the north shore. The Masonic temple was the setting for the party. 1 Harmon Fund Provides Not a Failure in 2 W. F. Hopkins and Grants for Playgrounds Floyd Kingsley Are Years Among N. T. In order to assist r~al estate operaGrads at College Hurt in Auto Crash tors to establish permanent public r- ~o President Orner Brings Message of Chest to Rotarians Village President Earl E. Orner addressed the Wilmette Rotary club '!Vednesday noon of this week, bringIll~ the mes·3age of the forthcoming W1~me~te Community Chest campaign wh1ch 1s scheduled for Sunday, April 1. President Orner, at the request of the club member~, also presented a co!Dprehensi.ve review of Village a£!aus, . stressmg the improvement proJects m progress or contemplation. In the co"!rse of his talk, while dwelling o~ pohce matter.s, he paid glowing tnbute to John Clark Baker and Daniel M. Davis, chairman and director, respectively, of the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board · ":h?, he dedared through their super~ v1s1on of organized play have been re~ponsibl.e in large measure for reducmg dehnquency among children and younger people in the community to the minimum. He -also commented ~~~wingly upon the excellence of the Wdmette school system and the Joftv status of New Trier High school in the ranks of secondary institutions. n- ee of lrt he he Willard F. Hopkins of 1141 Tower road, Winnetka, vice president of the Chicago Trust company, sustained a fractured collar bone in an automobile accident last Sundav when the car in which he was riding with his wife and son, Willard, Jr., as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. George C. Kingsley and sons, Floyd and James, Cumnor road Kenilworth, was struck and overturned by another machine at Waukegan road and Touey avenue, Niles. Floyd was pinned beneath the car and suffered a badly shattered leg, as weJI as other injuries. Mr. Kingsley escaped with but minor injuries. His \\'ife was badly shaken up and bruised while Mrs. Hopkins '3uffered greatlv from shock and a bad blow on the left side of her head. The two smaller hovs were not hurt. All· were taken to the Evanston hospital where they were attended by Dr. Frederick Christopher of Winnetka. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley and sons and guests had gone for a ride in the Kingsley car. When driving along Waukegan road near Touey ave n u ·e. another car. driven by James BPattie of 35 North Lorel avenue, suddenlv left the pavement and then '3werved hack across the road head-on into the Kingsley car, overturning it. Beattie, who was uninjured, was booked on a charge of assault, pending the recovery of those injured. playgrounds in new residential developments, the Harmon Foundation has set aside $40,000 for grant's to developers during 1928, according to an announcement of the Playground and Recreation association of America. The association will administer the plan of awards. Application for a grant from this Harmon Playfield fund may be· made hy any developer of a residential subdivis.ion in any city in the United States. it is explained. No limit is set definitely to the size of the grant which may be made to any one developer, but is intended to divide the 1928 appropriation among not less than twenty residential developments which qualify. Tatter:man Puppets Give Plays at Sears School · Three performances by the Tatterman Marionettes were given at the Jo.?ieph Sears school in Kenilworth on Tuesday of this week. In the. morning the fairy story, "Rumplestiltskin," was presented before an audience of children from the lower grades. Immertiately following "The King of the Pl,lEACHES AT BAPTIST CHURCH Golden River" was given for the older Prof. F. D. Whitesell will preach at children and in the afternoon ·a prothe WiJmette Baptist church Sun·dav gram of short plays and pantomines morning, March 25 at the 11 o'clock was given for the entire school. A services. Professor' Whitesell will oc- banio .Solo by a "levee loafer," .accomcupy the pulpit of the Baptist church panied by clogging by t'wo miniature . ?n Sti_ndays over the period terminat· pickaninnies was the highlight of the . I_ Qg With Easter . Sunday. . afternoon program. . . Information compiled at New Trier High school from reports returned by eastern colleges, Northwestern university, and the Universities of Illinois, Wi3consin and Michivan, shows that not one graduate of New Trier High school entering any of these institutions has .. fhmked" out of school during the past two years. In addition, the executive heads of three of the larger institutions have stated that the scholastic records established by New Trier grdauates have excelled those achieved by students from large eastern preparatory schools. As there-are more than 100 New Trier graduates now enrolled in easte.r n schools and several hundred more in the four universities -mentio.~ed, the record is con· sidered as exceptionally good. Hold Annual Town Supt. Frederick E. Clerk has just returned from a trip in the east, during Meeting Tuesday, April 3 which he visit-ed eight of the largest The annual Town meeting will be held at Community House, Winnetka, eastern schools, including Yale anrl Harvard Uniyersities and Smith, WilTuesday, April 3, at 2 o'clock p. m. Mrs. Gertrude M. Thurston, super- liams and Emerson colleges. At each visor and treasurer of Ne'w Trier of the eight institutions the heads township, is preparing her books for commented on the record being made the annual audit, which will be made at college by New Trier graduates. Considerable interest "-'as also . exon April 27. · . Mrs. Thurston has held this office pressed. Mr. Clerk states, in graduates for fourteen years, during which time of New Trier as candidates for admisshe has witne5sed many changes in s-ion to these schools. Several letters have been received the tQwnship, and during which time the work of the ·office gradually in- by Mr. Clerk irom deans of various institutions in regard to the brilliant creased to the very peak, in volume. . With the annexation of vast areas records being made by graduates of to north shore villages in recent the local high school. A communicavears, the work is diminishing, but tion from Oberlin colleP'e states that Miss Adelle Savage, who graduated there is still plenty to do. last year, ranks second in scholastic average in her dass of 300 students. PREACHES AT TEMPLE Dr. Horace G. Smith, pastor of the, Another letter, from. Cornell Un~er Wilmette Parish Methodist church, ity, conJ[ratulates the school on the exwill be otie of seven speakers af cellent record made by Edward Sch~i services· in the Chicago Temple on denhelm . of - Wi~tte, · A letter frop~ Good Friday. He · will deliver· an ad- Antioch college reports that Wm. Lloyfl ·-rec:ord." . dress · Easter Sunday · before , the Chi- "is making an exceptional . .·· .s .. ca~o "Coinmandery at the Cort theater, The Misses Stone of -5'11 Washin$-Chicago. ·· ton avenue returned to Wilmette laat Saturday after an extended Caribbe·n Mrs. Clar~~. ~- Ha~e~ of Wilmette~ crurse. Among the ·points of inter~t who h~s be~n ·.n. ~avenpor~~ _ ~a., ~or they 'visited were J amaita, tile Panarifa sor_ne ttme, ts vt~ttmg hc:r stster, Mass Canal ~~... CoJw·. · . .· .~h~~ 13t9WP.~Jt; _JJ). WaJ)!iJw.t,9n. PJ c~