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August 2, 1929 WILMETTE' LIFE 3 . VOTE ON SCHOOL ~ITE HOSPITALS GRATEFUL Board Residents to Polls FOR GIFTS OF FLOWERS School This Saturday, August 3, to Approve Calla County Officials Express Appreciation of Contributions Made Through Guild Mcrnbers of the Wilmette and Kenilworth Garden clubs and other. owners of gardens, have been making journeys into Chicago to accompany their gifts of flowers to the Visiting Nurses' association, infant welfare stations. and institutions such as the Municipal Tuberculosis sanitarium, Cook County hospital, Day nurseries, . etc. These flowers are gathered and distributed through the agency of the Chicago Plant. Flowe·r and Fruit Guild. Among the institutions reached, where the receipt of flowers has been particularly touching to the visiting \n>men, is the Tuberculosi s (lepartment of the Cook County hospital. Grace V. Bradley, supcn·i sor of the department writes: "Fridav is '·Fto,Yer Da\·" in our hospital and on that dav \\:e ha\'e an almost more than imagi nary ,-isi t tn the countrv. "A ioaded taxi comes to the door and box af1er box of garden flowers are brought into the main corridor. SoPlC of the hoxc;; are such as are u;;ed ln· flori st s· and arc coverer!. hut manv a~c just large cartons overflowing with blossoms. A II are fresh a:; the de\\'\' m orn for the,· ha\·c been careful!\~. tenderly packed ior their journey to the city. "\\'e ha,·c o ur container. as;;cmhlcd nn the main floor · hall \\·a,·. filled. with v;atcr and in readine ss for -the two kind " ·omen who come to arrange the flower s. Then the filled vases are conYeYed h\' stretcher carts to the four flo-ors. 'J'here are ah,·a Ys some of our personnel who lo,·e to help. Happiness For All ··~ot only do the patients enjoy this beautiful treat. hut doct ors. nurses, orderlies, janit ors. ele\'ator men and others -"·ho happen along. pause to exclaim and enjoy. "Jerry, the pet canary, has his jar of flowers, placed just back of his cage on his tahl<'. Ancl ] erry's tlowers are yellow, blending \\'ith his color and the color of his cage. "A vase of Aowers goes to each of the small dining room s used by the few ambulant patients. "It is not possible to describe the pleasure given hy the se flowers. They hospital. fr~m1 this ~moky, noisy \H'St (Continued on Page 4) Acquisition of Property Invite Children to Ente1· G'r eat Airplane Contest Officials at Sky Harbor airport, located on Dundee road west of Glencoe, are inviting all the boys and girls of the north shore, between the ages of (i and 16 years, to participate in a great model airplane building contest which begins August 1 and will continue through September. No entrance restrictions other than those of age limits are placed upon the prospective contestants. Every bo-" and p-irl is invited and urged to begin work at once on a model plane. Rules governing the contest have been outlined as follo·w s: GALA AFFAIR PROMISE OF PICNIC COMMI'ITEE Busses to Convey Motorless ' Residents to Village-Wide Frolic August 14 Voters of School District ?-Jo. 39 will , decide this Saturday, August 3, whether or not the Wilmette Board of Education shall be authorized to buy a site for future school building purposes in the section of the Village north of Lake avenue and west of Ridge road. The PQils will be open from 12 o'clock "0011 to 7 o'clock in the evening aCthc Village hall. The Board of Education has emphasized repeatedly that no new school building will he constructed at present on the site which it proposes to bttf. This proposed site is a five-acre tract about a mile west of Ridge avenue, bounded hv Elmwood a venue on the so uth and ~ Dartmouth avenue on the cast. Since thi s tract is con. idered a central loc~tion for the rapidly developing area in District 3(} west of Ridge avenue, and since the land can he bought more cheaply now than after it is subdivided, the hoard, upon receipt of a H :titinn with more than three hundred -> igners. decided at a meeting last week to submit the proposition to the yoters. Police Chief Brauti~an Starts Annual Vacation Police Chief Henn· Brautigan pbnned to leave ycsterct'ay on his annual vacation . ~Irs. Brauti~·an anct the two daughters will acom·1;any him on a motor trip. Their destination had nnt been decided '"hen \\'rua:rn: LIFt·: \\'ent to press. Patrolman Charles Golden. of the \Nilmette police force, is also off duty for t\\·o \\'eeks. Sgt. Joe Steffens i. hack on the job after a fishing trip to \\'isconsin . Patrolman Charles Lance ancl ~fotorcvclc Policrm<tt1 Louis Popple at. o haYC- ret urn eel to their duties. C. C. Schultz Returns After Annual Vacation Superintendent of Public \Vork s C. C. Schultz and his family have returned frutn a t\\·o '"eeks' Yisit with relatives in the vicinity oi Bruce, vVis. ~f r. Schultz. who \\'as hack in his otlice at the Village hall on ~ onday, reports :tn enjoyab le Yaration. The trip to \ \'isconsin was made 1)\· motor, and \1 r. Schultz states that ti1e roads \\'ere 'n .LTood condition. Commit'tees of the Chamber of Commerce have been busy this "'eek arranging for the community picnic which that organization will sponsor on \Vednesday, August 14, in the forest preserve west of \Vilmette on Harms road about two blocks south of Glenview road. All efforts are being turned towards making the picnic a · gala community 1. For rubber powe1·ed nirpl:uws, mo- affair. in which not only members of th·e powen'o carried in lane itself, traetor the Chamber of Commerce and their or pushet·, competing for dUI·ation of flight. families, hut all residents of the Vil2. For power - tht> distance from lhe inner fac e of the propellor to the nuposite lage, will take part. hook where power· will be stored must be Furnish Transportation bt-twee n 20 anrl :~6 inch es. ~All planes must be hand launched For those who do ·1ot have cars, rwd launching must be 11\Jt ~bove 6 feet. 4. Planes must not be over 4X inch es busses ·wi ll leave. the Village hall every thirty minutes beginning at 10:30 over all dimensions. 5. Fuselage mod e ls rising off gmun<l o'clock on the morning of the picnic, must have landing chassis with two or more wheel:-; in front and whet>l or tail taking passengers to the forest preserve free of charge. Return trips will Hldd lwhind. 6. Each contestant may haYe thrt> e be made· on a similar schedule. flights in each pn·nt. Eaeh launching· .\I en: han elise certificates in denomwill count as n flight regardless of tinw 'lf flight ot· distan ce attninecl. An:v inations of three dollars, two dollars, flip;hts n<"ei<lentall:v interfe rt>d lJy judges and one dollar will be awarded to \dll he giYen anotht>t' chance. 7. All planes r1ust be made and flown rirst. second. and third place winners hy ('Ontestant. · in the races for young and old which In launehing nll thn· e points must ht.· ·are to feature the afternoon program on the flCtor and cannot lw pushed. A horsC"Shoe l\1attrials to he· used - wood-pint-. on the picnic grounds. spn~t·t., !)ass; procurahl at local lumher tournament i · also on the bill for the yanls: metal - piano win·, .\\'HHhers, tub- afternoon. ing, Jn·oeurahlt> at ln('al hardware stores: Golf for Golfers fahriC'-C'I1inn !'ilk, hamhoo pnper, pape r, \'t-'tw e r, tissut· n:qwr, rubbt>t· thread, nroGolfing will be available on the (· uraiJll· at locnl paper house. All mod e l l ·arts may be hnught at ~ orthwestcrn Golf course, which is Aer() l\lndt>l C'Ompany. 421 South Clark adjacent · to the picnic site, and a golf :itreet, Chicngo, or at local departme nt tournament has been planed for the 1-itore:-;. clay. It will begin at Y o'clock in the morning. Dr. L. F. W. Lesemann to :\II stores in \\'ilmette '-'·ill close at Preach at M. E. Church noon on the day of the picnic. Dr. L. F. \V. T.esemann of the ChiThere is a dance floor on the picnic cago Training schuol will give the ser- grounds, and during the afternoon mon at the \Vilmette Parish ~f ethodist dance tunes of Paul \Vhiteman, Abe church Sunday lllllrtling, August -t. at Lnnan, Coon-Sanders. Guv Lombardo 11 o'clock. Dr. Lcsemann preaches in at~d other noted orchestras- will be prothe place of Dr. Hnrace G. Smith, the vided by the means of amplified vitapastor, who is a\\'ay on his vacation this phone equipme nt to he furnished by month. the Gallagher Radin corporation. The Other supp l~, pa:-.tors for the month building in -'""hich the dance floor is han: hcen anJlllllllced as follows: housed may he opened on all sides, :\ ugust 11-Rev. James Chubbs of thus promising comfort as well as Garrett Biblical In titute: August 18-- pleasure for the dancers. Dr. H. 0 . Tlnlter of Kansas: August 25- Dr. Georgl' Hollister of Ohio \V esleyan university. Summer Session at N. T. High School August Meeting of C. of C. Closes on August 7 Canceled as Members Away Because manv members of the \Yilmctte Chambe; of Commerce are un racation, the directors of that organization dccicled to cancel the regular August meeting, which was to have been .held next ~1onday. The next meeting of the Chamber will he on the '\Tiling oi \Tonclay. September <J. The \Vilmctt e Credit .\1 en's association also has decided tn postptwe the rl'gul.tr monthly meeting until sometime in September. X ew Trier High school will close an eight weeks' summer session next vVedncsday, August 7. Final examination will be given on Tuesday. The ~umer school. which is under the direction of \\'. L. Rrown, had an enrollment of six hundred this vcar. Classes have been held in the ,;10rning. only, leaving the afternoon for bathing, tennis. golf, and other recreation. A variety of summer courses wa-5 offered in English, mathematics, social scie nce, language , commerce, science, and manual educatiOit. The summer teachi ng staff included the following: Miss Elisabeth Stanwood, Miss Helen \Valkup, Miss Elizabeth Breidenbach, ""'heste r Persing, Gordon VanKirk, Kenneth Funkhouser, Clyde Grater. C. Herbert Jones, F. A. Kahler. \\'illiam Snyder, ] ohn Nay, \Villiam Reiley, Roland Vl ehr, S. S. Vernon, J. D. Edwards, Fred \.Yindoes, C. Russell Deforrest \Valton. ~f vron Small, Duckles, D. E. Johnson, Albert Grinnell, Harry Herron, and Harry Aram. 1 '[ iss Jessie Scntney wa: librarian . Meet August 8 to Lay Plans for Finishing J7 ista del Lago Club A meeting of members of the club \ 'ista del Lago ha . been called for Thur.sday evening, August 8, to discuss plans for completing th ~ clubhouse. The directors have requested preliminary sketch es and suggestions from the associated architects, John Fugard and S. S. Beman. Vista del Lago membership now exceeds five hundred and the present cost of memberships will be advanced when the six hundred member total is reached. A new club spi rit has resulted from the participation of most oi the members in the membership campaign. Also the members .have come to r~alize their joint ownership of a valuable ptece of property, a conservative valuation of which shows an equity for each member of considerably more than one thousand dollars. The bathing season is at its height and the club is proving its popularity with all members of the family. I · PLUS $ $ $ ts better than no $ $ $ at all. Save your dollars by selecting a slightl.y used late model car from our classified ad section. l·'Oit SALE FOP. t'ASH- Gt)tJtl used f.i-pns~:-;enger Na~h Sedan. gxeellent cond ition. !'hone OWill'l'·. Winnetka 1470. Leave for Month's Tour of States in Northwest Miss Lillian Doing, registrar at New Trier High sc hool, and Miss Anne L. \\'hitmack, librarian at the vVilmette Public · library, ldt \V cdnesday night on a month's tour to Glacier National Park and the northwest states. Thev will spend nart of the tim e at Mis-s v\'hitmack's home in Billings, Mont. RETURNS TO PULPIT Dr. Verc V. Loper, minister of . the First Congregatinna 1 rhnrrh, will resume his pulpit Sunday morning, REPAIR TOWER ROOF August 4, after an absence of a month R<'Dairs were being made this week on vacation. His sermon subject w11l on the tower and roof of the main be: "Purple Mountain Majesties." building at Ne\v Trier High school.