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report made to the Village board ai 1.s meeting Iast Wednesday night by Building Commissioner Platt, ai- though there is rooni for improve- ment iborne directions, he said. 1ý:,Fr the.week ending Juùe 22, 'Mr. Platt stated, there were ninety-four ljobs" filled-by the generai contrac- tors, the Owen Engineering company. 0f these there wereé twenty-tliree jobs for Which Wilmnette mien could flot qualify. 0Of the remaining sev enty-one, only forty-one were filled by local men,, while tbirty were illed by men from other towns, aithougi there are pienty of idie men i Wil- mette- fully qualified to do the work. Reducing the report to' percentages, Mr. Platt said that'for the week in~ question Wilmette labor had receiveti 57 percent of* the total' nuniber of hours. worked. The figures vary from week to week, he sta1ted. the week ending June 29 sbowing an im- provement over the previous one. In this instance. thîe local mien reccived 69 percen t of tbe total hours. IteWst Lojcal Carpeatoen Mr. Platt said that of tliirty-one Wilmette carpenters offered to tbe company only twelve were cmployed, the cont ractors claiming that the others were not qualified. The stew- *ard on each of the two shifts is a Wilmette man, but only the foreman can hire or discharge help. Promnises *to employ a greater percentage of local labor are readily madle, Mr. Platt asserted, but seem to flot niean anything. Trustee H. C. kliute reinarked that a itepesueih be effective, and moved that paynient of the esti- mate of the off ending contractor, passed earlier in the evening and amounting to $18856.54 be withheld tintil more local men are put on the job. President' C. P. Dubbs reminded. the board that a, special committee of, the. sewer' and. water committee had been autborized to hanclle sucb miatters, and Mr. Kinne changed bis motion to conform, SL Trustee joseph Heitizen said thai 'y hieJnew practically ail of the car- penters in town, and that any of them are competent to do the work required, which is, building concrete, r~forms, and that 'n oml aoe ir can do it. Mr. Platt stated that, the other ,con- 'tractors are using Wilmette à men -for e the most part, Bachrach Companày, dl plumbers and1 steanifitters, leading -witb 100 percent local belp, includ- d ing. foremen. d___________________ UnVeil .Murais as Part of 6th >Anâniversary The sixteenth an niversary' of the Morgan> Park Military. Academy fAjumni association was celebrated with, due, cereémony recently at the tiue- of Commencement, exercises with the univeiling of three mural paint ings by Howard Church in the Alumni Memnorial hall. Attending the celebration were many of the aluni- nae, for at one time the school was co-educational, and, the alumni who reside on the north shore. Ini addi- tion to the unveiling of the Alma Mater mural with its central female figure representing opportunity open- 'ing the' gates at commencement, and its two side muraIs, was the unveil- 'ing of the portrait of Col. H. B. Abelîs by Sister Stanisia. Guests of honor at the ceremony were Lord and Lady Hastings of England, Lord Hastings, a fanious mural painter, gave an address in the Great hall. At the Alumni <inner the following night, representativ'es of diff erent classes were present. Short talks 'were given by representatives of the reunion class, a former dean, and a member of the board of trustees. Mrs. William J. Weldon of Wilmette represenuted ber, class. The senior, proin was held the same night. ,At the regular.graduation exercises on Suinday following, a dinner wasi served at 'the Morgan Park Baptist churcb, and at 2:30 a battalion and field dress parade was reviewed by1 Gov. Henry Horner and Mayor Ed-1 Rob Telfrr. son of Mrs. R. M. Telfer, Jr., of 599 Orchard lane. Winnetta, ptwyed hi: .saxophone in thme Allendale band on the En- chanted Island at A CenturY of 'Pro gress 'JrIly 14. This group led thme children's parade anid pla yed oit the girls' and boys' playground, bé- t'«eeu 3 and 4 o'clock. Bob will return from Allendale camp at Lake Villa, Ill., Friday of this week and wilt leave again Saturday for the Boy 'Scout camp, MarKa-Ja-Wan, later to join bis family, who are spending a mônth at Shawano lake, Wis. Marilyn 'is now at 'the House of Three Bears camp 'at Green lake, Wis., and Grant is at 'Camp Houghteling, Twin Lakes, Mich. Laura Durgin Taking Summer Course in East Miss. LauraI Durgin of 627 Éorest. avjenue, after visiting ber mother's relatives. in New York and Petinsyl- - vania, is enrolled at tbe readloafi School of Englisli at Breadloaf, Vt.q which is conduc ted by the Middle- bury college. She is taking a six- ing at the ceremony wnîcn was neld in the Gantzel bme. Miss Gantzel's only attendant was Miss Helen Schwaner of Chicago, a KappaDelta sorority sister. Randôlph Crouzerf of Chicago act.ed as best mnai. Trhe -bride wore a white lace gown withAsort train and carried an old-fash- aoned bouquet ofwhbite roses and other whiteilfowers.,The maid of. honor w as in yellow crepe and carried yello w roses. The bride's miother was gowned in powder blue chiffon and wore a corsage bouquet of Talisman roses, while tbe' bridegroom's mother ý vas gowned in flowered. chiffon., Miss ýGantzel was graduated fr 1oin Northwestern, university in June. The young couple left by motor for a honey- moon in nortbern Wisconsin. Uponi their return tbey will live at 5017 North Lincoln street, Chicago. A numnber of, parties 'preceded -the wedding. Miss Mary* Niestadt of Xi- mette was hostess at a. misceilaneous' shower and bridge tea. Mrs. Arthur Leppert of Chicago entertained june 17, at a bridge luncheon and miscel- laneous shower. Dorothy Winters. and Dorothy Walker of Evanston were hostesses at Miss Winter's home Wed- nesday, jue 28, at a bridge' tea and kitchen shower, and on June 30, the maid of bonor, Helen Schwaner gave a bridge luncheon and china shower. The bride's parents gave the bridai din-, ner Friday, july 7, at the 'North Shore botel in Evanston. Mrs. Thomas J. Kane Is Claimed by Death Funeral services for Mrs. Thomas- J. Kane of 315 Sterling road, Kenil- worth, were held Saturday morning, july 8, at St. Joseph's church in Wil- mette with the Rev. William Kelly offi- tiating. Burial was in iCalvary cemetery. Mrs. Kane died at ber home, Thursday of last week of beart disease, after an- illness of a week. Mrs. Kane is survived by ber husband, a daughter, Camilla, and two sons, William and Thomas, Jr. She was boni in Chicago and lived there until two years ago wben thie o0 who recently graduated front theh Mr. and Mrs. Judson Stone (Helen school in D~ayton, Ohio. Pancoast) and daughter, Marilyn of 1' Racine, Wis., were guests recently of M~rs. John Welton Fisher, Jr., the parents of both, Mr. and Mrs.. Greenwood avenue, entertained judson, Stone of 1234 Ashland ave- reading club at dinner Tuesday at nue, 'and the J. A. Pancoasts. summer home at Fox Lake, Ill. Miss Gertrude Faust o ton, D.C. who spent niuct 826 in Europe with Mrs. CI. bier bain and sons of M46Ri bier Kenilworth, left' Sunday, ing thein. -'miss- Martna Wilson of' Prôvi- i. dence, R~. L. a former classmate, was the'- bouse' guest of Miss Martba shing- :Tencher of M2 Ashland avenue, while over the' week-end. Burn- -ô- road, Bob Buchan, 237 Cumnor road, Ken- visit- ilworth, spent. last week at Powers lake, wis., as the guest, of Landon Tray1o ', +