Winding Ways of Glencoe Attractive: Village Laid Out Like a Park Instead of With Formal Angles
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- Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Sep 1914, p. 1
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- Improvements made in the village of Glencoe under a new system of business management. Comments by Business Manager Herbert H. Scherer. Especially noticible were improvements in streets covered in macadam, with a gradual transition to sturdier brick surfaces.
Colonel Jacobs of Glencoe, is experimenting with growing vegetables in the Skokie water course now that it has been drained with excellent results.
The direction of the police force has been turned over the to village manager which formerly was run by the village trustees. Glencoe has two policemen.
Park situation is satisfactory. The village is almost the only shore town north of Evanston to control its riparian rights. Glencoe has a large lake shore park bounded by a bluff. The village is constructing a septic tank below the bluff near the water's edge to handle sewage. They will build bathing houses on top of the septic tank using the floor for the floor of the bathhouses.
Glencoe buys water from Winnetka. Manager Sherer has curbed the waste of water.
A new Methodist Church is being built by James Wigginton. The Union church is also popular drawing from many denominations. For example, Manager Sherer is a Baptist while his wife is Episcopalean, so they compromise by attending the Union Church.
Glencoe is using tarvia to repair oiled streets with good success. The Village is about to commence its share of the Sheridan Road paving. - Date of Publication
- 17 Sep 1914
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- Glencoe (Illinois)
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- Wilmette.News.292364
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- English
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