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March 30, 1928 WILMETTE LIJIE BISHOP E. B. HUGHES -AY CLUB SPEADR Emiaent Divine to Give Palm Sunday Sermcm; Milan Laale, Violiniat, to Play Pioneer Dies Dr. George P. Magill Named President of Local Optimist Club Dr. George P. Magill, minister of the First Presbyterian church, has been elected president of the Wilmette Optimist club. Dr. Magill is a charter member of the club, which meets at luncheon every Tuesday noon at the Shawnee · club. He is also one of the founders and an active worker in the Chicago area district of Optimist International. Chosen to serve on the staff of officers with Dr. Magill are: first vice-president and chairman of civic welfare and boys' work, Dr. \V. W. Hawkins ; secor.d vicepresident and chairman of · good fellowship, W. B. Robinson; third vice-pre·.sident and chairman of membership and extension, Marcus Mick; fourth vice-president and chairman of publicity, Bertram B. Udell. Board of Governors. for two years: T. H. Schaefer, John H. Davies, Lowell F. Todd; for one year : Dr. D. W. Rapp, Richard M. Burns, N. A. Schwall. Sergeant-at-arms, William H Scott. The secretary and treasurer of the club are appointed by the Board of Governors. The membership of the Wilmette Optimist club is now 42. comprised of local business and professional men. John H. Davies is the retiring president. .NEAR GOlL'IN Bl I. E. CHURCH Dml · Architecta' R.eDderiac of New Gothic Edifice to Find Place ia Art IDititate Two 'hundred men and women ..ave entered subscriptions to date in the current building campaign in the Wilmette Parish Methodist Episcopal church. The goal of $250,000 will prol}ably be r~e~ched by Sunday, April 1, those conducting the parish-wide canvass indicate. The campaign started two weeks ago. · T~e architects' renc!_ering of the proposed new $400,000 gothic edifice for the Method~st churc!t_~ which is to occupy the site of the present building at Lake and \Vilmette avenues, is to be on exhibit at the Chicago Art institute for three ~ont}ls, it was announced this week. The buildinr. one of the finest in the Chicago area, was designed by Granger and . Bollenbacher, noted chJ.lrch architects. Gains Na~- Wide Pahlicity It is of interest to note, · also, that an engraving of the n.ew edifice graces the cover of the current issue of the Northwestern c.-.ristian Advocate, a leading Methodist publication. Views of the new l(ethodist church, appearjng in the public prints in rece·tt wee~s. have found favor with re· sidents throughout the community. One villager, awaiting his train at the Northwestern station, was overheard to remark that in his opinion the building of the new Methodist_church was "the most significant thing that has happen.ed in Wilmette since he had become a resident of this community." Praiaed hy Villqera Th!lt this citizen's opinion is not mere idle conjecture appears to be borne out in even a most casual survey of the plat-s for the structure. These contemplate, .i n addition to the plans for the auditorium and kindred features, designs for well developed club rC?Qm facilities for boy and girl scouts and a n~ghborhood hall that is to have a three-fold use, namely: a banquet room, stage facilities sqitable for pageantry and dramatic enterprises, a~d adeq~~te space for general recreational activities. · Another ·feature of more than ordinary interest will be a small chapel front!!tg on Lake avenue that is to be kept open always for purposes of private devotions and which will also be especially adaptable for weddings. or me~orial services. Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal church, whose hon;te is in Wilmette, · will be the speaker at the closing of the Wilmette Sunday Evening club, April 1. Bishop Hugh~s' sermol} subject will be appropnate to Palm Sunday. This final meeting of the 1927-1928 season of the club is certain to attract a crowded auditorium since Bishop Hughes has become extremely popqhlr with north shore audiences. Leader in Education Dr. Hughes, bishop of the Methodist-Episcopal church in the Chicago area, is acknowledged to be one of the finest speakers on the American platform. He was president of De Pauw university from 1903 to 1908, and has been a bishop in the Methodist church since 1908. He was also for some time a member of the Indiana State Board of Education, also a trustee of Carnegie Foundation. president of the State Teachers' Associaation of Indiana in 1904, chairman of the Committee of One Hundred on ttle religious activities of the Panama Henry Hoth, engaged in the blackExposition in 1915. He is the author smith business in Wilmette for fifty of "Thanksgiving Sermons," "The years, passed away Thursday, March 0 Teaching of Citize!lShip," "A Boy's Re- 22. He was one of the few remaining ]igion," "The Bible ai1d Life," ·'God's genuine pioneers of the north shore, J Family." coming to \Vilmette when a mere C .E. Randa)] of the Franklin Life Luak Will Play youth. Insurance Co., will address ~he memThe special musicaJ program of the I - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - I hers of the Wilmette Chamber of evening will be given by Milan Lusk, Comme,rce at their April meeting which Korth Shore concert violinist, who will be held at the Central Cafeteria has played by royal command before next Monday evening. Mr. Randall Queen _Marie of ~oumania, and has will discuss life insurance as applied heen knighted of the Roumanian to business corporations. Crown. Mr. Lusk also holds a dccora\Vilmette school children in the 4th With 36 new members actually tion from the Czecho-Slovakian gov- and lm-.·er grades will observe the an- signed up on Wednesday of this week crnment. cient Eastertide custom of hunting eggs as a result of the drive which the left by the Easter Bunny Saturday chamber has been conducting, officers afternoon, April 6, at the Village and members of the chamber were Initiate Fint Coo Coo Green and Howard school play- anticipating that this number would be advanced to a total of fifty by Club Members 'This Week grounds. ,. d · h Twenty Wilmette school pupils, acThe hunt will start at 2 o'clock and m on ay mg t. companied by a like number of guests, continue until all the seven cases of It is the contention of the members will attend the matinee at the Norshore eggs which the staff and members of of the Chamber of Commerce that to theater on Howard avenue, Chicago. the Special Occasions committee of be a representative organization the this Saturday, and become formally ini- the \Vitmette Playground and Recrea- membership should incl~de 100 pertiated into AI Kvale's Coo Coo club, tion board will help the bunny conceal, cent of the business and professional men of the Village. For that reason which now boasts several hundred Ev- have been located. they are making a concerted effort to anston school children. Daniel M. Davis, director ·of recreaThis group represents the twenty pu- tion and sponsor of the annual Easter induce every business and professional pils (and their guests) who, in the judg- Egg hunt, has announced that the man not a member of the Chamber of ment of Ci Wilmette Recreation board celebration will be held Sunday at the Commerce to joan. The Chamber of Commerce, it is commitee, last week contributed the best same time and place if rain should items to JuNIOR LIF~, a weekly school prevent the Saturday hunt. He has also pointed out, is almost a clearing house news feature of \VILM~TT~ LIF~ which asked that children in the first grade for the affairs of the community. It is an information bureau for both is sponsored by the Recreation board. and under meet at the Howard school The Coo Coo club membership for Wil- building with their parents for an- citizens of this Village and other mette school children has been made possi- nouncements preceding the hunt, and cities who desire information concernble through the efforts of Dudley C. Stone, that the older children in the second, ing schools, institutions, organizations, supervisor of JuNIOR LIF~, in co-opera- third and fourth grade·.; meet at the real estate, or even of a geographical nature. It plays an important part in tion with the editor of WILMtT'l'li: LIFE. tennis courts on the Village Green. advancing the interests of the comThe local niembe~;ship will increase just The Easter Egg hunt is one of the munity, it is declared, both at home as rapidly as more JuNIOR LIF~ reporters qualify for the tickets. Twenty tickets, four public events sponsored by the and ejsewhere. New projects in the inproviding for double admission, will be Playground and Recreation board and terest of civic betterment to a great issued each week, to be applied to the all the school children in the speci- extent find their inception in ChamCoo Coo club Saturday afternon mati- fied grades in the village are urged ber of Commerce circles ·and to beby the board officials to attend the long to the Chamber, the members nee at the Norshore. affair. con!end, is to co-opet:ate in the interest of the Village. Shawnee Clubmen Will C. E. Randall Will AJJ Ch b f reSS am er Commerce Monda"' Call Children to Annual "Egg H untJJ Saturday, April 6 Circulate Petitions for Local Village Candidates Petitions were being ·circulated this week in the interest of candidate·.s on the United People's party ticket, no~ inated in Caucus Monday, March 19, and thus far unopposed for the various Village offices to be filled at the annual Village election Tuesday, April The p~titions, which are rapidly receiving · the signatures of prescribed percentage of voters, bear the names of three Village Trustee candidatesGordon Wilson, 419 Ninth street; C. Mile'3 McDonald, 1046 Michigan avenue, and A. L. Grinnell, 2425 Kenilworth avenue ; the candidate for Village Clerk, Lea }. Orr, 1002 Greenleaf avenue, and the candidate for Village Treasurer, Harry W. Miller. : Petitions for two unopposed lode..: pendent party. candidates for the offic-: es of Library Trustees are also in circulation. The canlidates for the two vacancies on the Library board · are J. Hu~h Foster, 921 Greenleaf avenue, and John F. Hoffman, Jr., 1927 Cen-, tral avenue. They will also be vote41 UI>Q!l .at .the ele~ti_Qn . on April 17. 17. Shawnee dub who on that" date are to gather at dinner and witness half a dozen 3-round amateur boxing bouts and four acts of vaudeville. A similar program held in February proved extremely popular with the Shawnee men and prompted a barrage of requests for an early "repeat perfonnance." . The boxing contests are under A. A. U. Regulations. Oughta be a bid night -dinner, boxing, vaudeville! . . See Boxing Show Apr. 9 RoDin Simmonds Winner of Barnett Ea·y Award School C':hildren ~gtn Monday night, April 9, will mark another special frolic for tl,le men of the Last Friday an assembly was held Spnng Vacation Today for the juniors and seniors of New Trier High school at which the Barnett prizes were awarded. Every year Otto R. Barnett of Glencoe offers this prize for essays on some social science topic, and this year Rollin Simmonds, a post-graduate student, won the first prize. Robert Marcus, a junior student, won the second prize and honorable mention went to Morton Mergentheim, a junior, and \Valter Hartwig, a senior. The spring vacation in the Wilmette public schools will begin thi'3 Friday at the close of classes for the day and will extend throughout the coming week, it was announced at the school offices this week. Classes will reconvene Monday, April 9. The schools will also be closed April 16 in order that the teachers may attend the aunual meeting of the Lake Shore Division of the Illinois Teachers' assodation.