Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 Nov 1938, p. 31

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Scrawl of History Spread Upoa. * Cartagena's Worn Facades The scrawl of history-written li stonie and mnetal-is still spread across the worn facades of Carta-. gea$anta Marta,, and Puerto Co- lombia, picturesque cities of Colorn- bia, northernmost country ofSouth Amnerica and. colorful. linl -in, the cruise chain of the great white fleet of the U.nited Fruit company. Cartagena, especially, bears. the imprint. of other centuries, the pa- tina of antiquity giving a hint of the, atmosphere that was Cart.age- na's before Colun-ibus sailed for the Indies. To. the 'pleasure-traveler to the tropics on the.great white fleet, the ciyis an untailmng source of won- der; a city whispering of Spanish dons and the swashbuckling days of Henry Morgan and Sir Francis Drake. Grl 1t Seventy million dollars was spent to fortify Cartagena against ma- rauders., Andi today her 40-foot sea- Wall still encircles the city, its lich- en..clad, mo sq u e -li ke turrets speaking of the days of bal and grape. Once in the days when Co- lombia's life was a turbulent one of clash and change the stone cu, ideés wore prison ceils. Promislng Athlete Jarvis Lin gle of Wilrnette has just finished his firat football season pla ying on the Lawrence College Frosh and showing him- self good materil for Coach Bernie Heselton's vat it y next year. L-an ur aj n .. aL1 .oi iryon, 1-4~ . % mother of ' Mrs. Fred Ebelipg of Evanston, formerly of WiIniettei and wlt Mr. Crandail. While theCr- dails visited in Austria, Mms Whee- lock traveled in Dalmatia. They re- turned the'end of September, Mrs. Wheelock stopping for some week at her home i Massachusetts be-, fore returxiing, to Wlmnette. :Wilmette Stude nt Named Mem ber of 'Drama Group Jean Doerr of Wilmiette haq been admitted to membership in Sunset, the Lawrence college dramhatic or- ganization, and was formaily., initi- 'ated on November 22. ing -and li the technicalities of play production -, scenery, costumes, make-up, properties, and lightixig. The organization is the movixig spir- it behixid ail productions. .The first production o! the seasoxi was Voctor Wolfe's -Excursion," presented on November 7 and 8 at the Lawrence college Mlemorial chapel.. State Bank p ng: EVANSI WIL MMET DIC*ST1E ,,%o lois quenottes SHOWO 8 6 & 1 0l O. WEDNESDAY .... Keno < Play' Right et Your Table -, Pi SUN DAY. . Concert-No Der 300 BLOCK 0 now overgrowA wALUea. ttr here and there on the matted brush are fragments fallen from sentry boxes. Hlstory Intrudes Inside the city, history still li- trudes into the presexit. Ancient ça- thedrals, shaded patios and crumb-ý ling dweli.ngs tell stoi7ies o! the ln- quisition, of the slashin.g invasions of Drake and Morgan, and o! the, years when gold flowed from the New World to the Spain o! yester- son by Midwèst conference rules. June. Ater leasing their nome o The test of the season it was their Woodbiné avenue, Whlch they' had lob to scrimznage with the varsity occupied for twenty-six years of the ndbufld the-m up to become the thirty-seven they lived in Wilmette, Midwest Conference champions they went to stay with thpir dauo-lh- ter In Highland Park bei ore goiné walls giving a holiday aspect to the south. Their home ini Wilmette has citv. been rented to Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil For the vacationist Santa Marta Barnes and their two children, from has many attractions. Outside of St. Louis. 717 Gr@.awo@d Ave la GI.,... forl Iafernavloa-4LCOW 928 blué, salmnon, ,e and cream i 119 £7S. Wo"bskphmi

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