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WILMETTE LIFE March 15. 1929 Are You Fond of ·H ere,s Committee for Exposition WOMAN'S aUB HISTORY AN INTERESTING STORY (Continued from ·Page 53) Delicious Preserves? We want you to be sure and yisit our booth at the BETTER HOMES EXPOSITION Allow us to serve you a portion of our pure Strawberry Prestrvt. It's made from luscious, sun-ripened fruit and we know you will be delighted with irs delicious flavor. Mrs. 0. E. Thaleg is general chairman of the Better Homes Expo- themselves in public. Although no sition. Her committee consists of the · regular officers were chosen at the first meeting, no dues exacted, or constitufollowing: Decoration: Mrs. Ashton Taylor, tion signed, yet every woman present Mrs. Gordon Wilson. knew she. had helped form a new society for self-improvement, little thinkProgram : Mrs. John Taylor. Booz, ing what a powerful factor it was to Nlrs. C. P. Berg. 'll ff · Tea room and sale of booths: Mes- become later in all Vl age a atrs. Mrs. Leonard First President dames Knight Blanchard, Harry Barnhill, Max c. Gregg, Charles It was at the second meeting that Moody, Earl Smith, Fred Parry, they voted unanimously for the new Leonard Starkel, Earl Davenport, E. bride, Mrs. Leonard, to serve as president. G. Allen, H. E. Rohrer, Eugene Arms, The question of dues was finally setFrank H. Seubold, H. 0. Weishaar, tied· upon, one dollar a year. Mrs. \V. H. Evans, Charles N. Evans, Roger Jennie Furman Tuttle was appointed Williams, W. 0. Morris, J olm Barthol- the first secretary. She held that office omew, F. L. McGrath, Earl McDow, C. C. Kidd, W. H. Rehfeld, Raymond for several years. " t rang, C. p . B urpee, A . E The club's first charity work was the _r·'\,rms ·. Beirnes. furnishing and supporting of a room Publicity: Mrs. Leland Pierson, at the Model Lodging House in Chichairman; Mrs. John Campbell, Mrs. cago, which has since become the Frederick Kilner, Mrs. Ralph Potter, Sarah Hackett Stevenson Lodging Mrs. David Hall. House. The club's first interest in village affairs was the gift ~f a public fountain. One of the members, Mrs. Dibble, now deceased, enlisted the sympathy of the club in behalf of stray dogs having no place to drink. A village improvement committee was appointed to raise funds for a fountain that would supply the demands of both man and beast. The fountain was placed at the intersection of Wilmette and Central avenues. \Vhen the Fire \Vorks Factory, located one and a half miles west of the village exploded, the club was called on for help and aided the injured. Distributed Direct to Consumer by ' The Clarence T. Fishleigh Company Wilmette 531 f ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~::::::::::::::~ CoME TO THE FAIRAnd to Booth 12 for Information On Choice North Shore Homes If you would like to know more about Indian Hill Estates-"more genuinely a residential community for executive and professional people than any other property in the country"If you wish to see pictures of homes on the North Shore for sale-such time-saving service that in an hour you can narrow your selection to the homes you really want to seeIf anywhere between Evanston and Highland Park you are looking for a lot on which to buildor for an acre or acres-or for a tenant-or for a home to rentCome to Booth 12 of the Better Homes Fair of the Woman's Club of Wilmette, I Oth Street and Greenleaf Avenue, Wilmette, March 20 to March 23 inclusive. Handsome ·Homes Within· Your Means BILLS REALTY, INc. Loop ORices: 108 S. La Salle Street State o2.66 Indian Hill E atates Offices: Locwt Road at Arhland Wilmette 2691-1791 Greenleaf 3 144 Del Lago ORices: g6o Spanish Court Wilmette 3 7 40 Club Moves to New Quarters The woman's organization met for five years at the Law home with few interruptions. \Vhen the membership had grown to one hundred and ten, the club moved into larger quarters, above a store on Central avenue, near Twelfth street. The club gave the Library association the use of one room. The first entertainment, a play, was given in the Central avenue building to raise money for dishes, for the club gave a luncheon annually and sometimt!s semi-annually. The next home of the club was Jones' Hall, a new building on the west side on Wilmette avenue. By that time, the membership had greatly increased; the dues were raised and outside talent employed, and the club was branching out with small classes in art, music, civics and drama. A Shakespeare class met in tlw Library building. The next statiot' · ·. 1 the highroad of progress was th· nore comfortable and commodious .JOms used in the Guilmette Country club on the lake shore at Lake avenue, which building was torn down last year. Even this location proved unsatisfactory by reason of its inaccesibility in the days of no automobiles and limited livery service. . Build on Gift Site The question of a new building of their .own was presented to the members and finally opposing factions were reconciled with the result that the present building at Tenth street and Greenleaf avenue was built and occupied by October, 1910. The site was a gift from Mrs. Orrea Lansingh, the mother of Mrs. Blanche Freeman, one of the non-resident honorary life members. Now comes another new home-bigger and better.