Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Sep 1928, p. 29

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September 7, ' 1928 welterweight title will battle it out to a decision in the main bout of a box._ ing card at Fort Sam Houston stadium Tuesday night, October 9. Leading am1y fliers will be assigned Headed hy Field Marshal .Viscount ~Y the war department to participate Allenby, 01 Great Briti, a n, liberator of an t~o great air circuses during conJeru-salem and the Holy Land from ventton week. The Second Division Turkish domination, a distinguishing will stage battle maneuvers, using all array of American and foreign leaders the most modern devices of warfare. A will be the American Legion's gu("sts Folies Bergeres show, with beauties of at its tenth annual national conven- five nations, will be put on. tion at San Antonio, Texas, October Side trips will bull fights and Spanish 8 to 12. · fiestas, will be run to Nuevo Laredo and Nat M. Washer, general conven- Piedras Negras, Matamoros, the Mexition chaim1an, announ~ed this week c~n bord~r. and the Gulf Coast country that definite acceptances have been re- wtll be VISited on ~ two-day tour. ~ ceived of the Legion's invitation, ex- twelv~ day tour w1ll be ~un t<! _Mexttended bv National Commander Ed- co Ctty and other leadmg cthes of ward E. Spafford, from Lord Allenby, the southern republic. who will be accompanied by Lady At.: SECRETARY RETURNS len by; Major ·Georges S c a p a n i, France's war-blinded member of the Miss Gertrude Wagner, secretary to ch·amber of deputies; General John ]. Superintendent Frederick E. Clark of Pershing, commander of the A. E. F. the New Trier High school, has reand honorary national commander of turned to her duties after a month's the Legion; Colonel Charles A. Lind- vacation. Miss Wagner spent most of bergh, the flying colonel; Judge Kene- the vacation at her home in Wilmette saw M. Landis, czar of baseball. except for a short visit at St. Louis' . ' }.{any high ranking representatives Mo. of the United States government will HOME FROM VACATION attend. Among those . expected are Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis and Mrs. Mabel B. Arnold, secretary of Assistant Secretary Trubee F. Davi- the Board of Education of New Trier son; General Fr~nk T. Hines, of the High school has returned from a two Veterans' Bureau, and his staff; Sec- weeks' vacation spent at Ephraim, Wis. retary of the Navy Curtis Wilbur and many others. Miss Dorothy Smythe, 43 KenilPreparations for .a great entertain- worth avenue, Kenilworth, has rement program, in keeping with the covered entirely from her recent siege . very large attendance expected and of pneumonia. Miss Marjorie and with the notable character of the · dis- Billy Smythe will be home September tinguished guest list, are going for- 9, after spending the summer at Portward rapidly. San Antonio plans to age Point, Mich. Mrs. Smythe and . stage a world's 'championship rodeo; Dorothy will follow a week later. ---owith the leading performers competing for more than $25,000 in prize money. Mr. and Mr3. F. J. Buckland of 600 Sergeant Sammy Baker and Pete Linden avenue returned last SaturAugust, rating places among the six day from California where they spent leading contenders for the world's several weeks. Viscou._t Allenb:v to Attend Legion .National Session · WHO .would think of going back to school without a good-looking, comfortable and sturdy pair of shoes from Pool ~ Piper's? Stort Hoan--8 to 6 PooL· & PtP.ER ·INC· CHILDR.EN·s SHOE SPECIAUSTS Evanston 1608 Chicago Avenue RJ.ch Comfort with Carefree Bnjoyment . · Residence at The Georgian. w h e r e everything is furnished, maintained, and .serviced for you eliminates every living responsibility you live enriched with more comfort, freedom and time . . Arrange Now for Fall Leasing IDhe Gleol])ian cAn <.Address of 'Disttncltotl DAVIS at HINMAN-EVANSTON One of the Eight Beautiful Downstairs Rooma - - the Laclia' Louis XIV Social .. - the choice for ladiD1 society evmta. Telephone Greenleaf 4100

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