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February 22, .1929 "\VILMETTE LIFE I NEGRO PAIR.ROBS HOME, Loot William A. Popp Residence Early S u n d a y Momin'g; Nabbed by Chicago Police . Mrs. Kate Hopp, 89, · STEALS CAR; · cAPTURED Celebrate·s Birthday -----.:. With Family Today Hale and hearty at the age of 89, Mrs. Kate Hopp~· of 225 Lindett avenue is tod~y celebra:ting her birthday. while the people of the nation are celebrating the natal day of the illustrious George Washington. Mrs. Hopp was born in Germany and came to the United States in 1852, immediately making her home in Chicago. Seven years ago she came to Wilmette and resides with her son, Harry Hopp. Mrs. Hopp is active and alert to affairs of Wilmette. She tells an interesting story. of the trip to this country made when she was a little girl. She says it required seven weeks on a sailing vessel to make the journey. This evening a party is being held at the Hopp residence, many relatives attending. · Incidently, another interesting and unusual event should be mentioned. Mrs. Hopp\s son and his wife yesterday celebrated their birthdays. Mrs. George Turner, 1019 Ashland Charles A·shton of Springfield, Ill., avenue, entertained her bridge club was the guest last week of the F. A. Wednesday afternoon at her home. Wilsons, 1118 Central avenue. J. A. Hathaway of Redman, Hathaway + I · While the family slept ·upstairs, ·t wo negroes, George Frands, 28, and Claude Buckner, 28, both of Chicago, entered the William A. Popp Jr., residence at 526 Laurel avenue through a pantry window early Sunday morning and ransacked the downstairs rooms, taking what valuables they could find, including several coats and other clothing and a wallet belonging to Mr. Popp, and bearing his initials, which contained valuable papers. The robbers aho found keys to the Popp garage . and made their getaway in the Cadillac car belonging to the family. Wilmette police, informed of the robbery by Mr. Popp; notified north shore and Chicago police, and the two negroes were apprehended in Lincoln Park . Sunday night after the car had run out of gas. They were turned over to Wilmette police. Most of the loot, with the exception of Mr. Popp's wallet and about five dollars from_ Mrs. Popp's purse, was recovered. At a hearing held Tuesday morning t'he robbers were bound over to the grand jury. According to reports to the 'iVilmette police department thi·3 ·week, it is thought that Francis and Buckner made unsuccessful attempts to enter fiye other garages in the village Sunday morning, before they escaped in the Popp car. Francis has a criminal record, and admitted to police that he s~ole a car belonging to Carl ]. Zippnch, 623 Forest avenue Wilmette on January 20. This car h~'5 not bee~ recoYered. Co., Certified Public Accountants, will be at the ~ First National Bank on Saturday Evening from 7 to 9 o'clock, to answer questions, etc. relative to tncome tax. ., lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll~ "CARL'S" RIDGE NEWS Vol. I Published in the intl!rest of \Vtlmrttr people and the aidge Road vicinity by the RIDGE AVE . PHARMACY CARL C. RENI'\ECKAR . Editor. .;:: == § February 22, 1929 rugs, set in a dry pan and cover with dry b o r a x. Let stand for s e v e r a 1 hours and then rub and 5hake the article in borax, r e m o v e from the pan and shake out of doors. The borax may be used several times. A n e w building will be needed for Ed. Stancoe the next time he enlarges his "Eat Shop." "How can I make anti-freeze?" "Hide her '"oolen pajamas." Tar Pine Expectorant will check that cough. I· i f t y cents. Of the earth's total population, one out of .every 64 now owns No. 7 tNJURED IN CR.ASH Two women were badly shaken up wh"'n a northbound North Shore line train struck a taxicab at the Linden avenue crossing in Wilmette Wednesday morning at about 10 o'clock. The cab was being driven east .on Linden l>y A. Trouve. Mrs. William E. Hatterman, o~ 1414 Chase avenue, Chicago, ancJ · Mtss Mary Weber, of Morton Grove, the passengers, were not badly hurt. The cab was damaged. Miss Fern Older, 1026 Elmwood avenue, returned recently from Wichita, Kas., where she ha·.; been teaching in one of the schools, and has now accepted a. position as p·sychologist with the Institute for Juvenile Research in Chicago. -0- Smith : When old Plentycash died he left a reque5t that his dust be scattered to the four wmds. Smithers: We 11, his sheik son is attending to that all right. . Step into Ble er's BmYiing Emporium any evening about 8 o'clpck and you'll see v:hv there are no hea~yweight.; in the Ridge Avenue district (apologies to George Schaeffer) Bowling does it! To clean silk fringe, silk meshed curtains, k n i t t e d coats, a n d hooked Peter Mick is improving nicely and will leave the hospi- . For real courtesy it is hard to beat the attention and service one receives every time he has busine'3s in the Gross Point Post Office. T - SOJOURNS IN SOUTH The following north shore residents arc sojou.rning at Holy . Hill Inn, Fla. and playmg golf on the Holly Hill course: Mr. and Mrs. \V. H. Ellis, Mr. and ~Ir s . F. L. Murry, Mr. and Mrs. \V. ]. King, Mr and Mrs. D. W. Smith, F. ]. Scheidenhelm, Edward Scheidenhelm, Mr. and 11rs. A. B. Seibold. Mr. and Mrs. L. K. Gillson and Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Colvin, of Wilmette; Mr. and 1 [rs. George M. Spangler of Glencoe, Mr. and Mrs. John McCarthy and Dr. and Mrs. 0. H. Searle, of Evanston. DINNERS PRECEDE PROGRAM Several dinner parties are being given this evening before :Miss Helen Howes monologue program at the Country Day school in Winnetka. Mrs. \iVilliam B. Hale and Mrs. \Villoughby Walling have invited some of the High School young people to dine with them. Mrs. Victor Elting, Mr.;. George Ma~ sey, Mrs. Wheaton Augur and Mrs. Langdon Pearse are also dinner hostesses. The event is to benefit the League of \Vomen Voters. TO TRAVEL ABROAD Mrs. Phillip Vaughan Bright and her daughter, Miss Medora, 731 Ashland avenue, are sailing on the S. S. France March 14, for a cruise of the Mediterranean. They will stop first at Nice for several weeks, gradually tr'aveling north through Italy into Switzerland, then back to Holland ancl France and on to London, taking about three months for their travels. Mrs. Augusta Champion, Hazelgreen, Wis., will be the guest of her sister, Mrs. C. S. Shroeder, 711 Park avenue, for several months.· -oMr. an<!_ Mrs. R. 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