Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 Jan 1935, p. 1

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I 14 LND IN DRIVE .Busitness -Oirganization Prom-. i... to Gýie impetus to Reach $31,000 Goal Hem-y Powler, president,, and A. C. Youngberg, campaign manager., announice that, the cooperation of: Wilmette Chamber of Commerce, A. C. Pearson Jr., président, bas beëen enlisted to push , theComnt Chest campaigh, to a success fui con- t 1usion.Througb ità .executive board he Chamber of Commerce bas un- dertaken te bring ail the influence and personnel of that. village-wide organization te the assistance of Chest officiaIs to mesure that the goal of $31,000 will be reached. In -inother column will be foundI the 'aHonor Roll," showing the 'blocks that have been reached "~1,000 per cent in civic pride." Through the combined forces of tbe Community Cheet association and the Chamber of Commerce a determined effort te to be made to include every block in the village in the ranks of the 1,000 per centers. W.lfare Ned Urgent *Vitally interested, in the success. sibuliy ior taing care ot wïsmette's r own needy- peole. Its function s- arc flot duplicated by any other agency. and it brings to the local problens a sympathetic unclerstandirig that, cannot be matcbed in the state, relief organization, working through the county. Before belp may bc had froin the latter agency, the applicant muet declare himself absolutely without re- sources of any kind. If be still lives in a bouse that is soon to be fore-. Harold Ehrénspcrger, lecturer in draimikiciterature' ut the North- western unizversity school of speech, wiIl discu.ns the mibject, "Dramu and Life," at Howard school Tues- day, Pebruiary, 5, when the Loaon- Howoard and the Ce:nra-LaureI. Chest Association to Hold Annual Meeting 'The annual meeting of the Wil- mette Community Cbest association, adjourned fromn November, will be held in the council chamber of the vrillage hall Monday evening, Febru- ary 4, at. 8l o'clock. Attbis, meeting, to which the public is earnestly in- vited, the audit of the 1933 Corn- munity Cheet campaign will be pre- to Closed Schools Prepare to Fi Postmastersbips The United States Civil Service commission announces an open com-, petitive examiination, to.fil vacancies in postmasterships ininlette, Ken- ilwortb, and Winnetka. Al applica- tions must*be properly executed and filed.with the commission at W hing-ý ton, D. C. prior to'the hour i*Iosing business on T iuesday,. February, 12; 1935, it is explained. Application formes may be secured at the above: post Offices.% In rating the examination papers the commission will add five points to the earned ratinge of veterans of the World war, Spanish-American war or Phillipine insurrection. 1Apîpicaùt must 'show that for a~ number of years, varying with the class of the office to which h. seeks appointinent, he has been engaged in occupations ini which he has denion- strated. ability to organize, to direct, and to manage business affaire to. the extent required of a postmaster of the post office for which he is an ap- plicant. The ake limit ranizes fromtni nv sixty-i to the. Violitn contestants for the echolar-» sbip offered by the North Shore Mu-' sicians club were beard Wednesday morning, January 16. Emil Block, talented seventeen-year-old Evanston, inusician, was declared the winner. He is a student in the Northwestern university school of music. Mr. Block will play a group of. solos for the North Shore Sohool Boôard Leader sJoin in Moviment to Relieve Financial Distros Severaladditional steps were taken this week by state-wide achool organ-' izations to relieve the tense' school situation througbout the state. Possibly, the most urgent undertak- iing ýwas tbat of trying to get the state legisiature to supply $200,000 to open and: keep open those schools.. which have actually, been -cloeed because of poor tax, collections. Representative Poster of our own district late Ilast week presented a bill to that effect in the bouse of representatives:' This week representation by school board lation was made at Springfield. School officiais expressed the~ convic- tion that legislators ini the general metropolitan area outside Chicago proper would b. in~ hearty s ympathy with this cause, due to the famiiliarity, even in adjacent cbunties, with the plight in suburban Cook county be- cause of the year arrears n~ tax col-, lections. It reniains to be seen, bow- ever, wbat downstate politicians may think. earnest. requet of this association, the Tri-County School Board associa- tion, serving suburban Cook, DuPage and Lake counties, took steps to be- come the northeastern division of the Illinois association. Heretofore this nortbern group has been the most ac '-,' tive in suggesting and supporting leg- islation; the. affiliation is to avoid overlapping and to bring the. pressure of a greater force of public opinion on,; anic SeuboIc are assisting Reardon,1 L 1 (Con This. Issue WiImefte Lif. w.L

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