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WILME -TTE- LIFE · · FIRE AT RICHTER HOME A fire in the attic of the Dr. Harry A. Richter residence at 622 Gregory avenue Wednesday afternoon · caused slight damage. The fire department was called to extinguish the blaze. The cause ot the fire is unknown. I AUC!USt 31. _192& s.tlle Creek Baths ti" ·w ilmette Ave. Pbone Wilmette, Ill. SWE~ISH MASSAGE · WIL Hl ... ·CL-oSED DAy The Wilmette Pubhc hbrary wtll bt closed all day next Monday, ~eptember 3 on account of Labor Day, tt was ann'ounced this week by Miss Anne ~· Whitmack, librarian. 0 LA~O~ I't·1AIN STREET WIDENING . · PART OF BIG PROGRAM · I (Continued from page . 1) Miss Marian Willson of Ann Arboy, a member of the faculty at the Umversity of Michigan, has been spending a few days with Miss Myrtle Lundquist of 727 Linden avenue. I use this inter-community highway, he emphasizes. "In 1924 when the .. Cook county Traffic survey was made," Mr. Kingery commented further, "it was found to our great surprise that the max-. -0imum number of trucks on the most Mrs. George Derbyshire of Philadel- heavily travelled truck highway, Ogden phia has been spending the past two avenue, was less than seven out of weeks with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. every 100 cars. According to this data Mushlet of 119 Maple avenue. no highway should be called a 'truck highway', especially since observation of the new pavement in south Winnetica (Center Street) shows that better than 95 percent of the traffic is passenger cars." Mr. Kingery announces that the state is taking .bids this week on ten miles of the proposed Skokie Valley highway (flanking the Skokie Valley North Shore line on the east) lying between Glenview road and the Half Day road west of Highland Park. The other section of the highway, from Glenview road south to Devon avenue Established 1900 on Cicero avenue, is expected to be on the October or November listing, l,ast ~T eek of he stated. This highway will be of 40foot width on a 100 foot width rightthe Great of-way. KROGER I'URRIER C.M. ANNUAL AUGUST Men Invite to Their Very Own SALE OF DEPUTATION ... Each thing Lyon ~ Healy .a'-.has done it is known to have done well. The Lyon ~ Healy store in Evanston is characterized by the same completeness for music needs that has distinguished its sponsor in the Loop. In fact the North Shore has eliminated the Loop from its "music habits." Here it can find pianos, radios, phonographs, records, band and orchestra instruments: and cameras-for both still and moving pictures. Needs in pianos are open to a wide range, covering the Stein way, and other fine makes that are the "Steinway" of their class; $475 to $5,250. Flower Exhibit FURS Largest Selection in EVANSTON Remodeling Cleaning _· Repairing Liberal AUowaDce on Your Old Fur Coat Lyon!Healy Evanston: 615 Davis St. Tel.: Univ. 6810 DON'T <;PANI<. 110 MAIM IT. Phone University 4900 A flower exhibit of surpassing interis to be held at the Sherman hotel Friday and Saturday, September 7 and 8, under the sponsorship of the Men's Garden club of the Chicago area, which includes in its membership many amateur gardeners among the men of the north shore. Competition at the exhibit will be in terms of quality of blooms rather than txt. ensive varieties and color arrangements, according to M. D. White of Winnetka, an amateur gardener of note who ha3 taken many awards in previous exhibits in the Chicago neighborhood. This exhibit, Mr. White explains, will emphasize the production of high quality flowers rather than color designs. Residents of the north shore, and particularly those who are interested in .flower culture, have been urgently invited to attend the Sherman hotel exhibit. e~t HIM -mo OEAR../ . .. H~AD f'oR ~CHOOL CASHIER ON VACATION · Miss Millie Bower, cashier at the Village hall. left Monday for a two weeks' vacation. Miss Pearl Munro, 1119 Elmwood avenue, and her sisters, Jean and Catherine, returned recently from Chambers Island where they spent a month's vacation. -oMrs. Walter G. Moore and her two daughters, Edith and Ruth, 1038 Greenwood avenue, have returned from a three weeks' visit with friend s at Lake Geneva. -oMrs. E. ]. Sullivan of San Francisco and Mrs. I. W. Hammond, with her son, I. W. Hammond, Jr., are visiting their brother, Dr. George A. Stone of 726 Eleventh street .Jor a week . -oMiss Ann Bctgby, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Logan Bagby . of, the Linden ·: Crest apartments, · e~tVtained at luncheon and bridge last ! Tuesday at the Georgian hotel. -ow. Ewert Cook and Arthur H. Cook of 930 Seneca road and a group of friends from Ravenswood left last Saturday for Spring Lake, Wis. for a two weeks' v~cation. I SUPPLIES WRITING PAPER., PE'NCi \NK'i ~ETC GO TO·· JUST WHA.Ti YOU 1-JEED. '., ~~l~t~ . ,, TABLETS .. ................. 5c .. 1Oc PENCILS ................... 5c -~ $1 PENCIL BOXES ...... ·....·... lOc ~ Sl COMPOSITION BOOKS ...... 5c - 25c .CRAYOLAS ......... ~ ..... lOc - 20c :· . . ~' : Add ~tber needed School Supplies Jir: RIDGE AVENUE PHARMACY Oppo.ite St. Joseph School C. C. Renneckar Phone Wilmette 316.