Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Nov 1933, p. 1

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to ]Huge Mass Meeting to Be HeId in Wihnette Tuesday; Will Hear Experts One 'of the largest mass meetings: ever held in, Wilmette is plamned for the north shore taxpayers at the Byron Stolp school, 'Jenth street aid,. Cen- tral avenue, Tuesday eveing,'Novem- ber 21, at 8 o-'clock. Several of the .outstanding leaders in. the tight for reduction and limitation of assessments -on real estate will speak. Thé Wilmette Home Owners -asso- ciation :for many months, have been. waging a ,relent- less battle te or- ganize ail holders of property.> with a result that dur- ing the past 'ten days a comînittee uîîder the chair- manship of John T. Booz, bas cir- culated a nd al- re a dy forwarded to Gevernor Hor- H. G. Zander, Jr. ner, petitiens sign- ed by over 5,000 .Wilniette preperty owners demanding thlat a special sess ion of the législature be called te enact legislation limiting taxation on real estate te one per cent of. the full fair cash market value. Petitioiis are still ini circulation and mann more will go .ferward te Spring- field in a few days. Invite AUl Taxpayers Representatives of aIl similar organ-, izations f rom Evanston, IýenilNworth,. ,Witiietlçà, Gleticoe, Highland, Park. lake Forest,-North Chicago, and \Vau- ke-,an will aIse be present, and there will, unquestionably be adopted a verv, deiieand maiidatory. resolution for imimediate relief, aànd special legisla- tive committees will be appointed te appear and figitit for the relief before both houses of the legistature. 'lhe ax~ Foster of Harvey, and Emmet Mc- Grath of Brookfielct. 1 The Wilmette' Home Owners asso- ciation has conibined activities with the illinois ,association, e f Real .Estate boards, the Oak Park Real Estate board and miany other similar organiza- tiens.. "This meeting," the association, in- sists, "should be attended by every prop-, erty owner if he is te obtain relief f rom the 'Tax Spender' who f or years has apparently become more powrful thani the taxpayer. It is reliably reported that, the large financial interests 'in Cook county have formidably organ- ized' and combined with political in- terests now in. power te defeat any measure sponsored te reduce and limit taxation on homes in the.belief f bat large spéculative. business. properties buiît and promoted in recent years, will be compelled te. stand inicreased rates, and, which properties have. throtigh various manipulations and héarings had tremendous redîictions, whereas residence preperties remain at the, highest peint ever known in the history of. this county and state.' Another formidable erganization was perfected this week known as. the In- dian Hills Estates Protective assçocia-; tion with Dr. E. E. Graham as presi- dent and last' Monday evenings adopted resolutions te endorse and join forces with the Wilmette Home Owners and their entire membership will attend îiext Tuesday's1 meeting in a body. Every taxpayer and interested citi-. zen should be present and lend bis aid and support to this great and worthy public cause, the association peints out. Hold Hearinig Friday .on "Oates" Questioni Wilmette citizens are reminded thai there will be'a public hearing at the Village hall Friday evening, Noveni-. ber 17, at 8 ýo'clock, te consider thie proposition te substitute automatit. gates for the present type of manu- alliv onerateci rates at certain grade Cut, Board Warns North short owners. of homes and small apartment buildings are being urged by the Chicago Real Estate board to take their 1931 real estate tax bis immediately to.,Room .613. of the County building to record these properties -in a demandý with thpusands.of others for a 15 percent. tax reduction. Trhe Chicago Real Estate. board will have on hand a'staff cf clerks to file the tax cemplaints free of charge, it is announced.. Property owners are instructed te record their complaints under Objection No., 100. On Monday aftërndôn November 20, at 2. o'clock, theéChicago Real Estate board will go into the County court before judge Edmund K. Jar- ecki and demand the 15 percent tax reduction on the 1931 bis. The Chicago Real Estate board gives the following plea"for north" shore residents te record their prep- erties imtmedlately: "Property ewners! To benefit by this tax cut, you must be legally rep- resented in the County court next Monday afternoon at the public hear- ing of tht -ecase granted the Chicago Real Estate board on yeur behalf and without cost te you. "You, are, therefore, urged te record your preperties without delay in Roomn 613 of the County building." "The Spirit of Masonry" Lecture Theme Tonight "The 'Spirit of Masonry" is the sýubject of a lecture te be given. by Elmier D. Brothers, 33d degree Mason, at Wilmette Lodge, No. 931 A. F. & .,. M. tonight (Thursday) at 8:30. o'clock. Mr. Brothers, who is a noted at- torney and author, was for maniy year 1s a grand lecturer of the Grand Lodge of Illinois.' According te jam.iei C. Anderson, master of Wil- muette lodge, the lecture was arranged thrnuizh the courtesy of Van Rens-j Mme. Slaviansky Brings Unique Singing Groiap to Meeting Sunday., November 19 Music, unique and ins piring,.will1 be brought ,té the Wilmette Si:nday Evening club November 19, by Mme. Margarita Slaviansky and hier Rus sian. chorus, acclaimed by criiics'the world over as one of the. most' re- markable musical1 organizations "ibe- neath the sun."' This group hasa.ap- peared in fifty countries and has been awarded moret han' oe e hundred medals- and -special decorations. No more closely-knit artistic. un it exists tlian the Slaviansky Russian4 chorus fotnded by Dmitry Alexand- rovitch Agrenef in 1858. For nearly eighty years this venerable choral or-. ganization has brought its interpreta- tien of Russàian and Slavic music té every civilized country of the world. It lias the record of being continu,- ously in existence ever since the year 1858 - such a record as is pos- sessed by ne other famous musical erganizatien of any nation today. Carnie& ou Father'a Work Mme. Margarita Agreneva Slav- iansky, youngest daughter of the founder, is now director and, con- ductor of the chorus, Trained by hier father fromn her earliest childhood in his work, she 'finished her musical edlucation in Milan and Ber.lin. She. succeeded her father at his death in 1908 and carrnes on bis work. She has taken her chorus through most of the countries eft thé world and bas been given more than one hun- dred decorations and orders by en- thusiastically appreciative kings, em- perors and governments, as well as the love of hundreds of thousands of the 'musicalý centers ,'of Germany, Austria, France, England, Spain, Italy àand Amerîca. The chorus camfe te. the United States and Canada from the Far East, after having en- joyed phenomenal success in China and Japan. eby the ed at the schooli the dis-j vacation in the V ýebsch ofJ responds te that es Anna jschool' and otheri Fred E. north shore. .. s.. m Chairmen ai on of last weg

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