Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Sep 1931, p. 18

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Have yo u been oui io see our Dahlias? The Largest on the North Shore in ma.ny new varieties ai ihe, SAMUELSON'S DAHLIA GARDENM 220-245tk St.,. Wilmette Ph. Wilmette 49, É33 jTae.Konilworth ýAve. to 25th St.-Sôutb to Gardoen CorneOut and Sec Them Today .ý,WIEBQLDT'S-EVANSTON,' I Davis Street WiImette 10I0O i I I I i JLIIWJL 1j" &4 - L"1l J &&V- *Incorporation papers were filed Thursday of last week for the new air- port operators' association ini the state of Illinois.. Announicement will be made, later of the date for a genieral meeting .of' the association, at wvhich tine. offi- cers. will be selected and other busine'ss transaètied; Mai. R. W. Schroeder and -George F. Fisher, co-managers of Sky:Harbor a irport, have taken a leading part in the formulation of' plans for the asso- ciationý. Fisher1 is a1 member of the re- centIy- elected organization committee. Through their association the air- port operators plan to cooperate with the Illinois Aeronautics commiss ion, 1ap- pointed recenitly by Gov. Louis L. Em-jr merson. Maj.- Réed Landis of Glencoe is' chairman of this commission, whose duties include the licensing of- airports and air schôols and the lîcensing of )i lots. Rotary Club of Glencoe to Meet at Sky Harbor The Glencoe Rotary club plans to hold its regular weékly luncheon next Tuesday at Sky H-arbor airport on Dundee road. About thirty Rotarians are expected to attend. They will hear a talk by Mai. R. W. Schroeder, who with George F. Fisher is co-manager of Sky Harbor, on bis experiences while chef test pilot for the government at McCook field, Dayton, Ohio, diiring the World war. Major -Schroeder hias been giving a i puinber of talks before lunch- eoni clubs and other business rnen's or- ganizations on the 'north shore this sum- mer. On Monday niglit of, this week lie spoke at the motthly meeting of the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce. Fraternity Dance Held at Sky Harbor Friday' The Gold Coast orchestra, whichli as been playing for Saturday night dances at Sky Harbor airport, played for aý f raternity dance there last Fniday niglit.. the Saturday right dancés at the.air- port, inaugurated last month, liave bèe come very popular, and Maj. R. W. Schroeder reports that Lhe crowds at- tending have been large. t is planned to continue the dances throughout. the *Mr. and Mrs. Walter Botthof, 156 Abingdon avenue, Kenilworth, flew to their suminer. home at Lac Du Flam- beau, Wisconsin, and returni last week. The ýflight was made at the suggestion of Carl Appeit of Appeit and Colvin, distributors for the Curtiss-Wright Air-. plane conpany in the Chicago. arta, to demonstrate the practical use of an amn- phibian plane. .Using a Keystone commuter ýfoulr- passengeramfphibian, their party left Sky Harboriairport., West of Glencoe, at 9:30 o'clock Wednesday morning. Three hourS and, fifteen, minutes later the, plane taxied to the- pier of the Bot- thof home -on Lac Du Flambeau. This -same trip requires about f ourteen hours by train or automobile. Leaving their summer home on the return trip Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock, the :Botthofs returned to Sky Harbor in ample time to attend a dii- ner party. given that evening by M rs. Walter Andersen of Kenilwvorth. Take Up »00Passengers at Curtiss Labor Day 'rhree hundred passengers were taken for airpiane rides at Curtiss, airport near Gleniview over the Labor .Day Iweek-end. Two planes, the big Keyston fe "Patrician" and a Curtiss Robin, mère sent f rom the airport to Hammond, Ind.,* for the Skeeter races, a three-day ai-r event which ended on Labor Day, The twvo planes took up a total of five hun- dred passengers. Study Plans to Enlarge Hangar at Sky Harbor Plans foôr an addition which will 'pro- vide seventy-five percent more space in the hangar at Sky Harbor- airport are being studied by Maj. R. W. Schroeder and George F. Fisher, Co-, managers of the airport. Several de- signîs have been submitted, and- a selec- tion probably will be made in the near future. Increase in number of students an d' planes at the, airport lias prompted. the decision to enlarge the hangar. Flies 100 Miles An Hour It's So '01 " of th. mnany lattering, w " pur,.$1 O collection. -Milliierv.Salon- Second Floor» Il -'I EDITU RAY YOUNG Helen Curtis Class Piano Also Private, Instruction Studio 1133 Central Avenue .Phone38651 MOTOR OVERHAULED The Beecli Nut Packing comipany auto-giro stopped at Curtiss airport near Glenview for a complete. moior over- hauling où its way to the NationalAir races at Cleveland, *overif if s whch

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