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] une '19, 1928 WI.J.;ME .T T E Ll FE 3 $224,. BOND.ISSUE TO ENLARGE WE PARI Wilmette Park District Takes Steps· to Connect Existing Lake Front Sections Editor's note: Following Is a comprehensive report by President Glllson of the Wilmette Park district that will be of vital Interest to every resident of the district, which Is practically coincidental with the area of the Village of Wilmette. In it Is explained the proposed use of the revenue from a $224,000 bond issue recently floated by the Park board. In this issue of WILMETTE LIFE also will be found the budget of the Park district for the ensuing year. Announce Hearing on Cleaning Plant Issue The Appeal Board on Zoning of the Village of Wilmette will hold an informal public hearing Monday, July 2, 1928, at 8 P. M. at the Village hall. This meeting is being held at the request of the attorney for those objecting to t·he issuance of a permit to Henry C. Schultz for a dyeing and cleaning plant to be located on his property adjoining the North Shore Electric tracks. L. C. Ayres, Secretary, Board of Appeals. INSTALL IENl ORTH PLANS BIG Villace Truatees, Citizens, Witneas . F"URTH OF JULV mmllft Completion of New lmproYement in U tl r. t r.111 t.l 187 LIGHTS Indian Hill Estate· The electric lighting system in the Indian Hill Estates subdivision of Wilmette has been installed and the lights were officially turned on for the first time las.t Friday night. at 8 :30 o'clock. Members o_f the Village board of trustees and a large number of citizens interested in the development of the western area gathered at the sales office of Bills' Indian Hill Estates and went on- an inspection tour at that time. One hundred and eighty-seven new street light standards, each sixteen feet high, were installed. They are similiar to the street lamps in the village ·proper except that they are made of cast granite concrete instead of iron. The total cost of installation was $48,000. The completion of this new improvement. has transformed a dark area into one of the most beautifully lighted subdivisions on the north shore. The added lights, according to Village President Earl E. Orner, will insure safety at night in the Indian Hill Estates district. Lake avepue, the through route between Sheridan road and Waukegan. road, will be lighted as will one and a half miles of Illi· ~ois road. A. M. Ryckoff, who also installed the electric lighting system' in the Village proper, was the contractor for the job. _,_... Parade in Moming to Be Followed by Athletic Program at New Trier in Afternoon t DELAY CONSTRUCTION I ' ( ,;' ' ~ \' (' " (~ ~·' By Louis K. Gillson Work on New Howard School Unit (President, Wilmette Park Board) to . be Started Latt!r in Summer; Job There appears in the present issue Completed in Year of WILMETTE LIFF. a publication of the budget of the Wilmette Park district Actual construction work on the new for the ensuing year, which I commend addition . to the Howard school wilt to the attention of our citizens. This statement includes reference to not begin until later in the summer, a recent bond issue of $224,000 by the but definite steps are being taken so district, an explanation of which seems that the school will be in readiness by the fall of next year. to be due to 1:he taxpa.yers. Childs and Smith, the architects, are Ever since our two parks on the lake front were established, it has been the drawing up detailed plans for the new hope of the Park board that some day unit, and they have conferred with J. the intervening block, lying between R. Harper, superintendent of the WilLake and Washington avenues, could be mette schools, concerning it. · acquired, and thus make the park con- · Superintendent Harper has visited tinuous from a short distance north of the Haven school at Evanston and the Forest avenue to the Drainage canaL Oak Park school to collect ,ideas and Many of our citizens have from time to suggestions for the new building in time through this whole period sug- Wilmette. He will also go to Detroit gested the desirability of this eplarge- next week for the same purpose. Citizens of Wilmette, by an almost ment which is of more importance because the Michigan avenue frontage unanimous vote, recently authorized the of the larger park, from Washing~ton school board to go ahead with the . avenue to the Drainage canal, does not erection of a $110,000 addition to the belong to the Park district, but is used Howard school, and voted to permit bv the co.urtesy of the board of the the issuance of bonds to the same Sanitarv district under a mere revocable amount to cover the cost of the work. permit: Early the lot at the south end of this intervening block was acquired, and five years ago, the three lots at the nor·th end were purchased. There remain five . lots of eight-one feet each which are still privately owned. The present seemed to be an opportune The north shore will have an opportime for taking another advance step, tunity to welcome and congratulate esoecially a"· it was found that just at Miss Amelia Earhart, former Chicago this time a bond issue could be floated girl who was the first woman to fly on very advantageous terms. across the Atlantic ocean, when she Bond, Sell at Premium will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Accordingly, the board decided to in- Robert E. P. Elmer of 639 Spruce crease its bonded indebtedness to the street, Winnetka. Miss Earhart will visit Chicago and legal timi't bv the issue of an additional $224,000. These bonds bear the the north shore after she returns from very low interest rate of 414 % and Europe. She sailed yesterday morning from Southampton with Wilmer were sold at a oremium of $1.790. It is doubtful whether · this amount Stultz and Louis Gordon who were will enable us to acouire all of the five the crew on the ·plane "Friendship." Mr. Elmer prepared the plane for lots lying between the two parks, but a very considerable step in a desired the flight, and spent two months in Boston conditioning it. He was in direction can be taken. Th_ e development of our oark sys- Naval aviation with Commander Richtem, aside from the acquisition of ad.: ard E. Byrd, who recommended Mr. ditional property, has been slow be- Elmer to Miss Earhart when she cause the amount of tax tha.t can be wanted someone to supervise the work raised annuallv is sm-ttl, and much re- on the "Friendship." mains to be done. Would Improve Roads Race Track Contracts The driveway through the larger May be Awarded Soon park sadly needs to he improved and Final negotiations for the purchase a suitable road hed will involve the expenditure of probablv $40.000 1o $50.000. of the land for the long heralded race The- village dump in this park, which track at Willow road and Railroad for quite a term of vears has saved the avenue, north of Glenview, are said to villag-e thousands of dollars. must be have been completed and contracts covered to make it a usable part of the awarded for leveling th~ land with a view of going forward with other work;park. The oresent shack which serves as at early date, looking to the complea beach house will possibly last two tion of the venture. The Glenview more seasons and then a suitable and Jockey club is to be the name of the permanent structure will have to be new organization. erected. It mav be found «1dvisable at this PREACHES TO PRESBYTERIANS The Rev. Clyde R. Wheeland, who time to. "use a part of the proceeds of the recent bond issue to make some of has preached several times at the these improvements rather than to ex- First Presbyterian church since the pend it all for the purchase of ad- resignation of Dr. George P. Magill as pastor, will occupy the pulpit again ditional property. Having through the courtesv of this this Sunday. His sermon subject will be, "God's Faith in Man." (Continued on Page 5) "Lady Lindy" Will Visit North Shore; Guest in Winnetka Plans for an elaborate Fourth of ] uly at Kenilworth have 'been completed. The day's program will begin in the morning at 10:30 o'clock when the patriotic exercises and parade will be held. The parade will form at Kenilworth avenue and Warwick road and will proceed by way of Warwick to Woodstock, west to Essex, north to Kenilworth avenue, and west ~o Fountain square. A fifteen-piece brass band, boy scouts, campfire girls, school children, citizens, automobiles, and comic entries of various kinds will make · up the parade. Prizes will be given for the first and second best entries, for the best costumed boy, the best costumed girJ, the be5t decorated vehicle for boys, the best decorated vehicle for girls, and the best comedy entry. Judges of the parade will be: Mrs. Thomas Coyne, Mrs. John Hicks, and Mrs. George Benson. Prizes will be . awarded immediately following the flag ceremony on the Kenilworth club grounds. Patriotic Sin&ing Harold 0. Barnes will lead in the singing of "The Star Spangled Ban 7 ner" at 11 o'clock, after which the salute and pledge of allegiance to the flag will be led by the Kenilworth Boy Scouts. An athletic program of forty events will be held on the campus of New Trier High school in the afternoon, with music by a brass band to add to the spirit of the day. There will be special events o~ for boys and girls up to fifteen years old Two construction crews are now at to be judged by Harold Barnes, Wenwork paving more of Wilmette's dell Clark, Clayton Burch, Paul Brad.streets. The time when the P.a ving ley, Leslie MeArthur, Ward Starrett, will be completed.depends entirely on Herbert Taylor, Jacques de Ia Chapelle, weather conditions. and Harold Tidenr.in. Children'· Events E. J. McCarthy, who has the conFollowing the children's events the tract for the asphalt paving, is working with his crew on Forest avenue. fathers, led by Noble Gillett, will vie He will go from there to Fifteenth with the sons, led by Toto Gillett, in a relay race, and afterwards in a basestreet and then to Prairie avenue. Paul Reschke and his crew, who are ball game. Thomas Coyne will be capdoing the cement paving, have begun tain of the fathers for the baseball work on Sixteenth street, which in- game and Rosswell Coyne will captain cludes also a part of Greenwood ave- the sons. nue, Ashland avenue, and Glendenning · First, second and third place winners road. After finishing Sixteenth street in each of the athletic events will rethey will move to Seventeenth street. ceive ribbons. Medals will be given to high point winners in each class, and loving cups to the champion boy and girl athletes in the junior and senior class . ..-. ..... ---- ...__... The Fourth of July committee is composed of the following: Walter Knoop, chairman, Ralph Starr, field marshal, Robert Townley, Louis Jones, Thomas Coyne, Leon Allen, Jacques de Ia Chapelle, Charles Nelson, !ferbert Taylor, Ward Starrett, Clayton Burch, Leslie McArthur, Harold Barnes, Wendell Clark, Hugh Petersen, Harry Olin, and Paul Bradley. Two Construction Crews Begin Work Street Paving _ ._- Bishop Hughes Heads Methodist Commission Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes, of 941 Sheridan road, Wilmette, was elected chairman of the world service commission of the Methodist church which opened its fifth annual meeting at .the Chicago temple on Tuesday. The commission is meeting for th~ first time since its appointment at the general conference last May. Other officers of the commission are : Bishop J.ust call our CirculaErnest L. Waldorf, Kans~s City, vicetlon Department-say chairman, and Dr. H. S. Kennedy, when and. where. Detroit, secretary. Dr. Orrin W. They'll do the rest. Auman was elected treasurer for the next four years. Dr. Horace G. Smith of the Wilmette Parish Methodist lliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiil church, is a member of the commission. You '11 miss the news from home if you . don't have WILMETTE LIFE follow you on your vacation I 1 t I·