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> July 2{), 1928 . . WILMETTE LIFE J. LAKE BLUFF ZONING ·50th A nnlversary ORDINANCE INVALID Is Ce~ebrated by Judge Perry Parsons H a n d s Down Important Decision in the David T. Bjork Case Judge Perry Parsons, sitting in the County Court of Lake county, Illinois, at \Vaukegan, following hearings and arguments which have extended over the past three months and during which the leading zoning experts in the Chicago district took the witness stand, has just handed down a decision declaring certain provisions of the Lake Bluff zonin_g ordinance to be invalid and unconstituttional, insofar as the property of David T. Bjork, at the northwest corner of Center and Oak streets, is concerne~. One of the ordinance provisions involved was a regulation, which, according to contention of counsel for the Village of Lake Bluff, had the effect of re stricting apartment constructiotJ to fourteen families to the acre. Wtlmette Couple Promient Ill i n o i a Legislator Fails to Recover After Operation , ' Urges Caution Alexander H. Marshall, Village Attorney of Glencoe, of the firm of Marshall & Marshall, attorneys for Mr. Bjork, indicated that the decision, in his opinion, did not in any sense represent an impeachment of the Zoning principle, which he says has become well es!ablished by the decision of courts throughout the land, 12ut that it does represent the extreme caution and careful scrutiny which the courts would employ in the application of _ the Zoning principle with regard to carelessly drawn, overly drastic, discriminatory, confiscatory or arbitrary zoning ordinances. Recent decisions of the Illinois Supreme court and the United States Supreme · court were cited to the same effect. This disposition on the part of the courts in the application of the zoning principle will, in the long run, Mr. Marshall declares, prove th_e greatest safeguard to the Zoning principle itself. A few days ago Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Briggs of 102 Fifth street, smiling joyfully as they packed the grips . and trunk, remarked "The first fifty years ar~ the happiest." Then arm in arm they started for the station to board a train for Lakeside, 0., to spend the remainder of the .summer. The Briggs have been spending their summers in the Ohio town for a number of years, but that isn't the reason for this story. The story concerns the celebration of their fiftieth wedding anniversary which was held at their Wilmette borne on July 10. Almost all the relatives of the celebrants were present. The Briggs have resided in Wilmette for nine years. "Doesn't seen1 like fifty years," Mrs. Briggs told her gue sts. "Mr. Brig~s and myself are enjoying the best of health and we expect to celebrate a lot more anniversaries." Before his retirement a few years Congressman Henry R. Rathbone, ago Mr. Briggs was engaged in the of 312 Sheridan road, Kenilworth, died hardware business. last Sunday at the Presbyterian hospital. New 90-Minute Parking __ . ' .: ~ :~·~' Ruling Helps Merchants The ruling against parking cars more than ninety minutes between 8 o'clock in the morning and 6 o'clock in the evening Oll_ Wilmette· business streets, recently .DUt into effect, has been highly successful according to Chief Charles W. Leggett of the Wilmette police department. This is especially true at Fourth street and Linden avenue at the en<:\ of the elevated railway li_ nes where out of town cars from the northern suburbs were parked during the day, while their owners were in the city, the chief stated. The chief ..Pur:..oose of the new ruling is to benefit Wilmette merchants. Since it has become effective persons wishing to drive their cars down town in Wilmette to make purchases at the stores have found ample parking space. Henry R. Rathbone, of 312 Sheridan road Kenilworth, Illinois congressman-at-l~rge and Republican nominee for reelection in the November·. election died last Sunday at the Presbyteri~n hospital following an operation for acute bladder trouble. Mr. Rathbone entered the hospital ten days previous to his death for o~ servation and treatment for the aliment with which he had suffered for more than two years. After the operation Dr. Herman ·L. Kretschmer, attending physician, said that his patient appeared to be doing nicely and apparently was out of danger. . But on Sunday morning Mr. Rathbone's condition suddenly became serious. His wife, Mrs. Laura Harney Rathbone, who had occupied a room across the corridor from her husband during his illness, was summoned. He died soon after Mrs. Rathbone reached his bedside. Mr. Rathbone was 57 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 years old. In the primary last April Mrs. Ruth Jacques Gordon Soloist Hanna McCormick and Mr. Rathbone at Skokie Next Sunday were the successful Republican candidates for congressman-at-large. The Something out of the usual run of decision as to a successor for Mr. violin programs is to be given by Rathbone rests with the Republican Jacques Gordon, concert master of the state committee. Chicago Symphony orchestra, at the second of the Skokie Country club In Congress Since 19ZZ summer musicales on Sunday, July 22, A member of congress continuously at 4:30 o'clock. Mr. Gordon will be since 1922, Mr. Rathbone was also a accompanied by Harold van Horne at former president of the Hamilton club . the piano. and of the Lawyer's Association of Illinois. He was considered a trial The numbers selected by Mr. Gor- lawyer of ability. don are for the most part in a lighter vein and will lend themselves to th.e Mr. Rathbone was born in Washingdelightful informality of these mus· i- ·ton, -D. C., Feb. 12, 1870. His father, . Maj. Henry R. Rathbone, was an ofcates. The program follows: I ficer of the Twelfth United States inPrelude e Allegro ...... Pagnini-Kreisler fantry in the Civil war and was with l\[elodie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gluck President Lincoln, as a special aid, in Waltz in E Minor . . . . . Brahms-Gordon Ford's theatre in Washington the night Contra Dance ....... . . Beethoven Lincoln was assasinated. ... Vote on Motion Picture Option Expires on Site, Question September 25 Building Plan Discarded The $250,000 store and apartment building on Wilmette avenue north of the Wilmette postoffice.plans for which were announced some time ago, will not be built-at least not until some legal difficulties are cleared up. The plans fell through when McGuire and Orr failed to exercise an option on . the property. One reason for the failure of the building project was the village building restriction which makes it necessary to use fireproof materials in the construction of store buildings. This would have been too expensive, according to Walton S. Bell, one of the officials of McGuire & Orr, who said that he had hoped the village would allow the firm to build of slow-burning material. The land on which McGuire and Orr had planned to build is owned by St. Augustine's EpiscoQal church, and the · real estate firm's option on the land expired last week. In case the building plans had been carried through it was the plan of the St. Augustine church to buy a site across the alley and move its church building there. The church had also planned !he~rect a parish house on the new. Formal action in establis· hing Tuesday, September 25, as the date of a special election on the proposition to operate motion picture theaters in Wilmette on Sundays was taken by the Village board at its regular meeting Tuesday evening. The board had previously voted to draw up the ordinance, fo11owing receipt of a petition signed by more than 1,500 voters, asking that the question be submitted at a referendum. From the Rockies . . . . Samuel Gardner Mosquitoes . . . . . . . . . . . . . Blair Fairchild Slow and Sentimental Leo Sowerby Capric~ · · · · · · · · · · · Glazounow-Gordon Pavanne pour une ~~~fante Defunte . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ravel Waves at Play ........... Edwin Grasse La Fille au Cheveux de Lin . . Debussy Spanish Dance . ... . ........ Joaquis Nis II Village Board Will Lead 'Parade on Wilmette Day Village President Earl E. Orner and the members of the village board will ride at the ·head of the parade in the annual Wilmette Day festivities on August 8. They ·will also act as judges of the parade. A letter from the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce, which is in charge of the cele.bration, inviting the board members to lead' the procession was read and accepted at the regular meeting of the board on Tuesday night. In 1893 Mr. Rathbone came to Chicago. He was a graduate of the Phillips Andover academy, of Yale univer- · sity, and held a law degree from th~ University of Wisconsin. He was a member of several fnternal organizations. Besides his widow, he is survived by , a brother, Gerald Rathbone, of San Francisco, Calif., a niece, Louise Randolph, of Washington, D. c.· , and two nephews, Buckner T. Randolph, Washington, D. C., and Richard Harney, of Chicago. The funeral services, held on Wednesday, were conducted by Kenwood lodge, No. 800, of the Masonic order at the Oriental consistory, 919 North Dearborn street. Burial was made at Rosehill cemetery. The poor fish who's sitting up there on the hotel porch doesn't k ~ow what's going on back home. He didn't have his home paper sent here while he's on his vacation. Hoover Wins in Wilmette Rotary Club Straw Vote Hoover, 81; Smith, 32 That was the result of a straw vote on the presidential candidates taken at the regular Wednesday noon luncheon of the Rmary club in the Masonic temple this week. Each member of the Rotaryr club present at the meeting cast one vote for himself and one for each of the mempers of his family who are of voting age. "TRUTH IS LESSON TOPIC" "Truth" is the subject of the Christian Science Bible lesson for next Sun~ ust call our Circuladay, July 22. The golden text, taken ON FISHING TRIP tton Department-say from John 8:31,32 is: "If ye continue Burt Crowe and his son, Roger, left w h e n and. w h e r e. GIVE LUNCHEON in my word, then ye are my disciples Kenilvyorth last Thursday evening for They'll do the rest. Mrs. Arthur Wakely and Mrs. Harry indeed; and ye shall know the truth, Ely, Minn., on a fishing trip. From Williams Qf Kenilworth gave a lunch- and the truth shall make you free." The there they will go by canoe to Canada. eon on Tuesday, July 10, at Knollwood res.ponsive reading will be from Psalms J lliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~ They plan to be gone for about thret Country club in l.ake Forest. 40 .1-5,10,11, and 16. . · or foqr weeks. - 1 t