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ice Company of Nortiieru Ilinmois with the end in view of ordering the gas and lectrîicrates reduced. Similar aiction has been, taken by other communities. *Thé resolution -adopted by the Kenilwërth board read as follows.: . WHVEREAS, it 15 generaliy believed that the householderà of the Village of Kenilworth as weli as ail other usent of gas- and electricity in the, terrltory served Iby the Public Service Company ofN Northern.Illinois, have been and are belng charged unduly high .rates for such services, and 'WNHÉEES. it is generaliy believed that the present rates for gaz and elec- * tricity a.re based on the high levels of operating and. reproduction, costs which existed a fewv years ago and that the price leveis for labor.and inaterials (which enter Into any valuation of a public utiii.ty property asweli as Into production and -distribution costs) are now decidedly iower than they were a few years ago, and Legisiature lnltendeci by4he ctatotheo the Ilinbois Commerce Comimission, thereby substituting State for local con- trol of utilities, that the Commissio.n would assume the full responsibiity of p)iotecting the public against the coi- Iptton of 'excessive rates and over- <apitalizatlon, as is seif-evident f rom the wording of the Act creating said Commission; therefore "BE IT RESOLVED that the Vil- lage, Board of the Village of' Kenil- worth does hereby respectfully requesti avoid the possiDility of oeing turnea awyat the dloor in, the event of, a capacity crowd. The tickets are on sale at the higrh school and arrangements have te rhade also sol thaïthtey can be pur- chased at the grammar schools 'in Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe. "Two Miles Dwn" is the subject of, the, lecture Dir. Btebe is giving this year. It deals with his explora- tion of the ocean depthis off the coast of Bermuda. Dr. Beebe -,Mil give 'his lecture" twice at New Trier, ln the afternoon at 3:30 o'clock his'audience will con- sist principally of ýhigh scbool, stu-, dents and granimar school ptipi.î The eveniing lecture at 8 o'clocl, wvil bc for *dults.. Proceeds of the lecture %vill go into the relief f und of the Tri-Ship Boy's club of the high schiool. The club is bringing Dr. Beebe here as its major project for the %%inter season. Dr. Beebe lias an enormnous f ollow- ing as a resuît of his lecture appear-. ances, bis books and the numerous articles hielbas written for magazineis and newspapers. He is described as During the two days following the "big snow"- sixty-nine men wereý put to work shovelinÉ 'the ý"beautiful" out of the way. Another cbeeritig factor about the "Wilmnette Spirit" was -sbown by the desire, on'the part of those wbo called on Mrs. Blaylock to send men to clear the sidewalks, to avoid-having the work. done' at the lowest possible price. 0f course these.,are the timhes when men may be obliged to work just for their nieals, and White some "efficiency experts" might consider it advantageous to'pay what the "market"ý decides,- it: -ischeering to note that the people of Wilmette decide-d to pay the, men whom they called.for Fifty, CenIts. an hour. One woman put it this way: -I have had several men who said'they came ouit frorn Chicag.o and f rom Evanston. 'rhey said tlley woui clear «w sie- walks, and do any other work that I might require for twenty-five cents ap hour, but I prefer to employ our own unemployed-men who live in Wilmette -at Fifty Cents an hôur." Many of the women, conscious of the fact that the men were working in ex- treme cold weather, sbowed good sports- manshin in givinoe the men who worked j oA JpIIVumoiaI.. mLe5as es anawiiuupuag cough occurred duringthe spring and early summer, accounting for .eighty percent of ail the contagion. It is iusual to go, through tbW montbs of October, November and De- cember without an increasing'incidence, of somne communicable disease," Dr. Orvis said. There was.no such increa .se during these months last year. No active cases of tuberculouis were reported, Dr., Orvis said, although there are stilil ifteen contacts under observa- tion. The Village also. escaped without, any cases of, infantile paralysis., typhoid, fever, smallpox, meni ngitis or mumps. Work in the Kentilworth public scbool -the joseph Sears scbool-included thq, examination of 380 pupils. There was a 95 percent correction of defects, Dr. OriVs' ,report showed. No, deathr werc reported anuong grammar school muils of the village, but there were two deaths among students' of high school age. Malte.96 Inap.stou Ninety-six inspections were madle of eigbt food handling shops in the village, and tilese indicated that facilities of this kind have improved generally with the developauent of the new Kenilworth business area west. of the tracks, ac- fornm to present values and costs; BE IT FURTHER. RESOL that a copy of this Resolution be to The Honorable Henry Horner,1 ernOr of Illinois and to the Illinois inerce Commission." Sidne M. Bloss Dies 1) were not "in the dîscard' after al, more analyses ot. speçiai pr<xîucts othef ntG r S o tCo d These men are unanimous in their than pasteurized mnilk, such as cer GilSc u ou cl "Thaptk l'oit JV-iliiitte!r and certified milk, Dr. Orvis said. These Launches A ctivitieS Don't forget Mrs. Blaylock's tele-1 products were f ound to be generally of The newly organized WVilmette local phone number: WVilmette 2550. Tell ber the high quality advertised. counicil of Girl Scouts beld its initial to send you the help you need, and meeting of the year MonIjidaN, morning, do it so that slie can have the time to Anton Doetsch, Sr., Is n Februar% 13. The WVilmette group aI- gèt it to yen iin and on tume. Tie yD ahFb Sready is planning mativ activities for T inral <pririr.pg F b. 6 a~ gational., chut-ch will entertain thei choir oftheMe te B iaptîst meeting Friday, March 3, at 2 'clock, Wednesday evening, February and representatives of tbe varions or-I the church. A social bout- w ganizations will sharé ini the prograni. Iow the. entertainnient. f eature the second act of "'Martba."-Proceeds from1 are to be used for the chu he opera, are motorftng to mCaumf e concert their parents, Mr. .and furnd. jarrett, in Los Angeles. t0 vd Roy