Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Jul 1939, p. 44

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So, atop, the. Orrington hotel, in the ballroomi on. the roof,. Blums- Evanston wiUl' present - an- advance' showing of 194 furs, Thursday nlght, July 13. The ýshow is sched- uled for 7:15, though dinner will be served from 0 to 7:30. Rudoif Schlam, Blum'fs ,fur exi>ert from Vienna and Paris, will, super- vise the pre-view, exhibitng a large collection of glamorous ,furs-both BlIuM and Paris -originals. Mr. Sclam Willdis .play -these turs in the BIums-Evanston shopý for one week foUlowmg the fashion show. Reservations can be made- either et the Orringtonor at ýBlums-Ev- anston. BeinPlay in Shawnee Tennis Tourne y Jly 10 Play will open Monday, JuIy 10, i the annual Shawnee Country club midseason tennis tournament. A large entry list in the men's and womnen's singles and doubles is ex- .-t,t d t sin ntothe first round of iresults,;of, the Arrow racre were stil i doubt at the time this was written,. since the race w as run un- der protest by several cf the boats. Most of the trouble which. caused the protets occurred at the start- mng uýne.: The commnittee boat sent the f1leet of fourteen boats off dead into the wind to the southeast buoy., the race to b e ru» there and home, twice around, a total, distance of aàbout ten miles. Commng across the .starting lime about hall a dozen boats in a potttack Were jammeci hope-, lessly against the committee boat by their comnpetitors icoÙinùg from the other direction on the 'starboard tack. Some of them realized they were i the, wrong and withdrew irnmediately, while others decidedî to , argueitç 4out afterwards with toothpicks on the tÎ .viùg room rug. and sailed on. Three boats ended well ahead i the ficet: Henr~y Rich handled hi, father's "Galatea" -well, chasing Fergus Meade's "Aeduna" and pass- ing him on the next to last leg. Houston Clinch pulled a daik horse act, coming up out o! nowhere to finish a close third in his new "Ark IV'.. The other boats were strung wMaU.'ws 111 * r.. uuiiJ iralat IVV out on, a naturally wooded land- scape, serve to make the exterior a c oMponent part of, the interior. Each pièce of furniture has been specially designed for purely func- tional purposes. The Victory Workshop, je an or- ganization,. founded in 1934, to: give occupational training- and instruc- tion to Chic ago's deaf -and hard __of hearinig young people. The ý items ýýold In the, sale have been made by these unfortunate, handicapped persons Who, have finished their schoolw ork, and have. corne to the Victory Workshop to learn a trade, so that they will be able to find employrnent. DISORDEIRLY CONDUCT At 2:20 o'clock Wednesday morn- img ýMs ý.Frankçe, -729 Elev- enth street, reported to the Wilniette police that someone was shooting firecrackers on Wilmette avenue' iii the vlcimty of Lake avenue. Re- spondmng to the call the police ar- rested Herbert Gorman, 1017 Elm street, Winnetka, and Robert Fer- son, 926 Ash street, Winnetka. The tardy celebrants 'were held on charges o! disorderly conduct. Miss Leydon, who is on a coast- to-cornet tour of America with her mother, Mrs. A. ýT. Lèydon, took up swimming eight yea r s. ago to counteract the, effects ,of infantile paralysis which crippled her :right leg. The courageous. auburn-hgired, Aukland ýstar has, now developed such speed'that she is.current hold-. er. of! four New. Zealand natio6nal championships, the 22-yard ý,and 440-yard free style events,' and the 100-yard and -220-yardi back stroke distances. Swiîmming a practicehet with Claudia Eckert, Shawnee Country Club flyer,. Miss Leydon illustrated the amazing speed she can turn on, even though v irtually -deprived of any assistance fron! one leg. While visiting New York, Miss Leydon gave an exhibition at Manihattan ,e-aÇiuand, sbe.plans to return to New Zealand soon to prepare for the Pan Pacifie championships in January, 1940, which will serve as Olympic tryouts. G. W. Hap Gathercoal, 1536 Maple avenue, is recovering from an opera- tion for appendicitis undergone at the Evanston hospital Thursday of last week. day ariernoon, iuy 16, , at x-. a. inlesi; postponed by .inclemlýent AI weather. The' tournament arrange- sk mente are being supervised by 1Li James Doherty, Shawnee tennis coach. Plans are bemng completed now for tennis tournaments for Shaw- nee boys and girls to open Mon-, ai day. .uly 17. Since the revamping af LrK il .. .. ...... .. . U Li q* xc derenie............... W. A. 14agie Ml oam............. .......... L..Massie kimabel .................. A. La.ngtre ;ybanal.................... A Biittaiii aleyon ................... E. 0. Jones ittie Willie............ J. B. FloIston ON NAVAL CRUISE John C. McManusi 901 Gregory Lvenue, Wilmette, left a. few days ýgo on a two weeks' Naval Reserve ,rse~ of Lake Michigan and Lake aLthe local post office. 'j 1; i I LtAn exp1o.ç 'l1owig some of.

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