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The TimeSy Record of Gosasaimi ty E ;0L. IX, NO, 5. WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1921 SIXTEEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS ORPHAN R CHRISTMAS? ,„.ette Methodist Church to Bring £, Bluff Orphans To Wilmette For Râ€"\ Homo Christ- ost J. STANSELL IN CHARGE Calling WilnsUo 2584 Arrange its Will be Maoo To Bring You • Little Guest DONALD ROBERTSON HERE SUNDAY NIGHT Note* Dramatist end Shakespearean Authority to Address Wilmette Sunday Evening Club on December 11 The School Situation TheyVe coming back this Christ- e mean the little tots from the Ice Bluff Orphanage. They are com- to Wilmette and into the homes fher people to spend a part of, the Iristmas Day and to enjoy a bit of home life. fhev are coming 125 strong. Iris year the Wilmette Methodist arch is sponsoring the Christmas the Lake Bluff orphans. Mrs. >ert Stansell, wife of the pastor of t church, is in charge of arrange- fnts and the placing of the children {the various families that desire to ire a few hours of Christmas cheer one, two, three or more little Iks who haven't loving fathers and Others to buy them pretty things Christmas. Renew Old Custom far several years it has been the jtom^with The Lake Shore_ NewA provide a Christmas for the chil- m at Lake Bluff. Each year the jiilies in the village have responded kderfully to the challenge to af- rd an orphan a few hours of genu- home life on the one day in the >ar when every heart should be iddened and none, children most of | should be denied a share in the ps of the season of good will. This The Lake Shore News is co- jrating with the Methodist church same Christmas plan. .The children range in age from six [twelve years, the years when Santa *ua and everything that attaches lYuletide, is appreciated to the ut- iroost. To them it is the very won- Irful season, that comes but once a |ar, and of which they are dreaming roughout the long months .of :, Summer and Autumn. Every- ,h$ dates from and to Christmas the mind of a child. lit will be a sore disappointment to le 125 orphans at Lake Bluff should |ilmette fail to.open4ts arms to them n Christmas Day. [But, Wilmette shall not disappoint lem, not a single one of them. [For information call Mrs, Gilbert tansell, phone Wilmette 2584. PILL INFORM TRAFFIC OF DANGEROUS STREET END SERVICES AT 7:30 O'CLOCK Girls' Glee Club of Now Trier High School to Offer Special Program of Music Two distinct features of the services of the Wilmette Sunday Evening club on December 11 combine to provide what, it is anticipated, will be one of the most interesting meetings of the club year. These are the appearance of Donald Robertson, well known dramatist and Shakespearean authority, who will Speak of the present day mo v ement s looking toward a return of the drama to early ideals, and the school which will present a special program of music to augment Mrs Marie Edwards von Ritter's ex- cedent organ numbers. Mr. Robert- to residents of In recent issues of The Lake Shore News have appeared articles regard- ing the proposition of the Board of Education to erect a new school building in the village, preferably ad- joining the Logan school at Prairie and Central avenues, and for the pur- pose of relieving the prevalent class- room congestion, which, in another year will seriously interfere with the most efficient instruction of Wil- mette's school children. The accompanying figures show at- tendance comparisons and demon- strate the rapid increase in school en- rollment which makes imperative the early erection of a new school build- ing. Annual Registration 1915-1916 ..................... 1114 1916-1917.....................1246 1917-1918..................... 1297 1918-1919..................... 1347 1919-1920..................... 1416 1920-1921 ..................... 1502 These figures are taken from the annual June reports submitted to the County Superintendent of Schools. More recent figures show an in- "Girls' Glee club More "Rft figuref sl\ow 4?n m* wholesome recreation, neighborliness success in t of N^ T«„,n«hL uZh rent year over September 1920. community" John R. Coc SreKP JStt The need fo additional housing commim,t*' ... n______iu sociation. In consideration of an unfortunate lircumstance wherein several male [itizens, resident in the vicinity of icer avenue and Sixteenth street, rere called upon recentlyâ€"in order be-assured of continued- peaceful (lumberâ€"to extract a huge motor [ruck from the quagmire at the stub- ftnd of Spencer avenue, the Vil- age board authorized Village Manager Schultz to cause warn- ngsigns to be placed at the in- actions of Spencer and Central ^-aitd-Sixteenih-street, reading follows: ff "Street ends one block west. Mow. any-one_ra" read the sig Buring the day. [illuminated by night, or, would the [more < tfective expedient of a block- jade at the termination of Spencer [avenue be the wiser plan; say, for linstamv, two posts, one at either side of the ireet, with a wide board span- ning tic pavement, and all painted white? The glare of the auto light Pilling upon the board immediately [tells the story of the dangers~lying be- yond. This plan is not original with m Mrs. Marie Ed- wards Von Ritter son is well known ,v, . ,,.. ^. Wilmette in view of his splendid work in directing the great historical page- ant in the stadium in Grant Park, Chicago, during the semi-centennial of the Chicago Fire. In a stirring ad- dress he will tell of the days in an- cient Greece and Rome when the theater was one of the greatest fac- tors in civic and national life;' Mr. Robertson is one of the finest speak- ers on the American p&ff#M: tfidajC' To miss his address before the Sunday Evening club next Sunday is to miss one of the finest treats of the season, club officials declare. • Much interest attaches to the ap- pearance of the Girls' Glee club, com- prising fifty voices directed by Mrs. Homer E. Cotton, head of the Music department at the secondary school. Mrs. Von Ritter's organ program has become one of the essential features of Sunday Evening club ser- vices. The numbers to be offered this Sunday include: Preludeâ€" OfTertoire in C..............Batiste Madrigale -................. Rogers OfTertoire^ Shepherd Song ............ Barker Postludeâ€" . â-  Grand Chorus ........... Lemaigre The services on December 11 and on each evening thereafter will be- gin at 7:30 o'clock instead of at .7:45 o'clock as has been the custom. housing facilities is unquestioned. The pro cedure to be followed in securing the proposed building, as well as the lo- cation and classroom capacity of the structure, are questions of most con- cerntcr tho-taxpayers of Wilmette^- G. T. Helrmuth, 1705 Forest avenue, makes some interesting observations concerning the proposed new public school, in the "Open Forum" in this issue of The Lake Shore News. Every person interested in the pub- lic schools will wish to read these comments and opinions on the needs of public instruction in Wilmette. The "Open Forum" is found on page 6. Accident Fatal To FM* Drury, Attorney Leading Patent Attorney and Former Wilmette Village Clerk Taken by 'Death Tuoaday COMMUNITY GOU WILMETTE, Village President Tolls Community Service Association Land For That Purpose On Be Secured From Forest Preserve Commission; Constitution and By-laws of Asso- ciation Adopted at Meeting Tuesday Evening Wilmette's Community Service com-1 Community Golf course, suggested to mittee, organized last week as the be- the association Tuesday evening by •___i___^t_____._». ..»......_:......!J. Villann P*>«airl»n» Vint :mrl which, he ginning of a great community-wide enterprise which is to have as its pur- pose the development of community recreation looking toward the ulti mate establishment of a Wilmette Community House and Recreation Center, Tuesday of this week assum- ed pernancy when a Constitution and By-laws were adopted at a meeting in the Village hall and the organiza- ion was christened .the "Wilmette Community Service association." "The object" of this association, the Constitution and By-laws read, "shall be to promote community solidarity, community happiness, and good cit- izenship, by encouraging the con- structive use of leisure time through Broadly Democratic "Its viewpoint", we read, "shall at all times be non-partisan, non-sec- tarian, non-sectional and broadly democratic." â€"One^oiâ€"theâ€"recreation ^enterprises which may claim the attention of the association in the early future is a Village President Zipf, and which, he held, would be possible through the "loan" from the Forest Preserve commission of Forest Preserve land west of the village and south of Lake avenue, in the same manner in which Glencoe realized its municipal golf course now under construction in the Skokie valley west of that village. "The Village board this week gave its hearty endorsement to the plan," "said Mr. Zipf,"and promised to active- ly support the project". Harry B. Pruden spoke before the association in the course of the even- ing suggesting co-operation in the Community Dancing class idea, which already has proved an unqualified success in the village. lug wn« presided over by hran, president of the as- sociation. Tb« Constitution and By-laws adopted Tuesday evening read as follows: Constitution and By-laws Article I. Name DISCUSS CIVIC QUESTIONS AT OPEN MEETING TUESDAY Engineers and architects,; of Wil- mette are to hold an open meeting Tuesday evening; December 13, at Brown's hall for the purpose of dis- cussing__problems of civic interest. Frank Henderson Drury, 1220 For est avenue, well known Chicago at- torney and resident of Wilmette for more than 30 years, was buried Thursday oi-this week at Graceland. following funeral services at Grace- land chapel. Mr. Drury died Tuesday .morning, December cV at the American hospital, Chicago, of injuries suffered when he was struck by an automobile on Fri- day, December 2. Mr. Drury fell in the path of an automobile at Broadway and Cres cent place, Chicago, when he was hurrying across the street to board a surface car. Mr. Drury, who came to Wilmette in the late 80's, was best known to residents of the village, as village clerk in the years 1891 to 1895. He Desiring to develop a genuine com- munity .spirit the club announces that • ^> „ questions which demand the support ^fin~TrTe-^ig*s-^-0f_4jl€_T^i^^ Wilmete will be GROSS POINT MERCHANTS WANT -SUNDAY CLOSING" The Blue laws have placed a re- strainitu: hand upon Gross Point. This time its the storekeepers, who are campauming to bring about Sunday dosing of all places of.business. All the merchants of the village have agreed to abide by the suggested re- gulation, it is said, the sole exception »eing onc Nicholas Bies, who appears ^calcitrant. The Gross Point merchants are en- deavoring, also; to bring about Sun- day clo: ing of certain stores in Wil- mette which "pull trade town on the ridge*-â€"'- called to the attention ing. The subjects will be of interest to every resident whether or not con- nected with the engineering profes- sion. H. H. Sherer, New Trier Township highway commissioner and village manager of Glencoe^will show how heavy traffic passing through the vil- lage may be diverted by the construc- tion of a road at the west limits. Mr. Scheidenhelm, chairman of the Wil- mette Plan commission, will explain the progress of the work of that im- portant civic body during the past year. â-  .. . There will be smokes and a social hour before the meeting. A small col- lection will be taken to defray ex- penses of the evening. REPEAT -DADDY LONG LEGS" The play "Daddy Long Legs" pre- sented recently by players of the New Trier "High school Dramatic club, is to be repeated Saturday evening, Dec- ember 10, in the high school audi- torium for the benefit of the Hddley .Correspondence School for the Blind, from the I conducted under direction of William | 1 E. Hadley of Winnetkar i served several terms as a member of the board of directors of the Wil- mette Free Public Library. He was prominent in Methodist church af- fairs. . Many years ago Mr. Drury was cdlineTfellTlvrtrr-he-traffic department of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad at whichâ€"time-he studied: law. He was widely known as one of Chicago's leading patent lawyers. Mr. Drury is survived by two r-^Miffh±£rs^Mrs. Henry R Sorensen, of SNEAK THIEVES LOOT TWO EAST SIDE HOMES Obtain $375 in Silverware, Jewelry and Clothing Saturday Night in Spiegel and Hively Residences ^-Sto-s**. ^thikves, who *4AK*waJ we*ks ago raided two Wilmett homes in the vicinity of the 1200 block on Chestnut avenue, shifted their operations to the 400 block on Lake and Washington avenues last Saturday evening. They entered the Joseph Spiegel residence at 424 Washington avenue, and the home of Dr. John L. Hively, 430 Lake avenue. The total loot of silverwarre, jewelry and clothing amounted to less that $400, acordfhg to the pence. Maid Diicovera Burglary The Spiegel family has been out of town for some tife and the home was in the care of a maid, who, on Satur- day left the home late in the after- noon and did not return until 10 o'clock that night. She reported the burglary immediately upon her re- turn. A janitor who came to the res- idence early, in the evening declared, when questioned by the police, that he had observed lights and heard footsteps in the upper roms of the home but concluded the maid was moving about the house, and consequently made no report to-the police. The loss in the Spiegel home in clothing, jewelry and silverware The name of this organization shall be Wilmette Community Service As- sociation. Article II. Purpose J. Object. The object shall be be to promote community solidarity, community happiness, and good citi- zenship, by encouraging the construc- tive use of leisure time through wholesome recreation, neighborliness, 'self-development, and service to the community. 2. Means, To this end, the Com- munity Service Association shall pre- pare and' carry out a piIngram of ac- tivities, duly recognizing existing ef- forts and facilities, and creating new ones as needed. It shall co-operate with the Village government in its promotion of recreation activities and with other social agencies for the common good; and shall keep in touch with the leisure time movement as a whole by friendly exchange of infor- ation with the national organization known as Community Service Uncof- porated). Its viewpoint shall at all time be non-partisan, non-sectarian, non-sectional and broadly democrat- ic. " Article III. Membership 1. Eligibility. Any individual, firm, corporation, or organization in sympa- thy with the purpose of this Associa- tion and contributing annually to the support thereof shall be deemed a member, with a right to vote at the annual meeting. 2. Classification. Members shall be classified according to the amount of their annual contribution, as fol- lows! amounted to $300, it was estimated. When the Hively family returned home late Saturday night they were greeted with a thoroughly ransacked abode. It was apparent, however, that the thieves had been f"ghtened away for theylricglecteu to take many being content with only worth of silverware and De Kalb, 111, and Miss Mary Drury of Wilmette. ;__________ The members of the First division I of the Ladies Aid society of the Meth- odist church will meet at the home of Mrs. Anne Daniels, 1135 Elmwood avenue,<on Monday afternoon, Decem- ber 12, at 2:30 o'clock. Why Not Sell It? Whatever it is. isn't it just using up space that could be used to good advantage, and tying up mo- ney that could be used for Christ- mas gifts? The logical place to sell anything tbat you don't want, is through the want ad columns of your local pa- per. Someone in your locality is, in all possibility, waiting for a chance to buy the thing that you consider a white elephant. ADVERTISE IT NOW valuables, about $75 heirlooms. ~T$oth homes were entered >y use of a •'jimmy" on the front win dows. The police were commended by Dr Hively. for the prompt response to to the call to the home. Chief Sieber offers the timely sug- gestion that householders notify the police when they are to be away from home during the evening hours, so that policemen on the beat may "keep an eye" on the house. MRS. PATRICK H. HEFFRON PASSES AWAY IN FLORIDA (a) Active Members, those con- tributing less than„$25.00 per year}, (b) Supporting Members, those contributing $25.00 ^>r-more per year and less than $100.00; (c) Sustaining Members, those con* tributing $100.00 or more per year. 3. Meetings. The first annual meeting of the general membership for the election of the Board of Di- rectors or for other^ necessary busi- ness shall be held on the second Ttu's- the J day of February, 1923, arid^rtt^TTfnuit meetings thereafter shall be held on Funeral services for Mrs. Patrick H. Heflron, pioneer Wilmette resi- dent who passed away at her home at Rock Ledge, Florida, Friday, De- cember 2, were held Wednesday morning, December 7, from St. Mary s church, Evanston. Burial was at Calvary. Mrs. Heflron was well known to all of the older residents of^thc vil- lage and the news of her death came as a distinct shock to her many friends. ' .______ the second Tuesday of February of each succeeding year. All elections shall be by ballot. Article IV. Board of Directors 1. Membership and Term of Office. The Board of Directors shall be wide- ly representative of Community in- terests and shall be composed of fif- ty-one members elected by the gen- eral membership of the organization. At the first annual election a full board shall be chosen by ballot. The seventeen members receiving the higliest number of votes shall server for three years; the seventeen re- ceiving the next highest number shall serve for two years; the remaining seventeen shall serve for one year, or until their successors are elected and qualified. At each succeeding annual election one-third o* the re- quired number shall be elected for a term of three years. Vacancies shall be filled by vote of the Board to serve until the next annual election. The charter members shall serve as the board of directors until the first an- (Continued on Page 8*