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WILMETTE .. Publiahed weeklll by Lloyd Boll'-ter Inc .· 1UI-11U .CntraJ Ave., W.,tft6ue, lll«tto'-. Jrtttered CJt HOOtld oleiN WICitter March U, 19U. at the poat offtce at WUmette, IU.tama, tatader th~ Act o.f Jlarch I, 1811. Btabacript«ota J)f'iH ll.tt o ueor. LIFE PRICE FIVE CENTS ..J.. . '· · VOL. ·xVIL. NO. . 51 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 28, 1928 · Build. Sam MeYers to Theater zn Wilmette ..SUNDAYEVENING CLUB .·. · LAUNCH~4TH SEASON High School Orators in International .Contest to Give Initial Program Sunday The Wilmette Sunday Evening club wilt open its fourteenth season Sunday evening. September 30, at 7 :30 o'clock in the First Congregational ch.u rch. Six of the finalists in the International High School Oratorical contest, representing the United States, England, Canada, France, Germany and Mexico, will be prese·nt and at least four of them will take part in the program, .each speakmg for ten minutes. . A program of music wilt also be gi\"en thi s ~unday, according to ]. Frank McClure, president of the Sunday Evening club. The charupion high school orators, representing six nations, sailed from Cherbourg September 1-t enroute to Chicago. .In 1'-: ew York they were to meet the three prize-winning orators of Mexico, Canada and the Uqited States. All six students will come to Wilmette this Sunday evening. U. S. Champion Coming James I<. ~loore of Somerset, Ky., the. United States representative, was . adjudged the winner of the Fifth Nati-onal Oratorical contest held last May in WashingtOn. Nine nations, including .the six tO be represented in Wilmette, have held preliminary nation~] competitions and ~ave selected th.etr champions. The wmners of these nme .countries will compete on October 13, . in \Vashingwn, D. C., for the international championship. The subject of the .Unite(! ~tates' champion's ora~ion · is "The Development of the Constitution." . Dudley Raymond Barker represents England, Rene Ponthieu i~ the French champion Heinz Barth will speak for ·Germany,' James R. Moore. is t.he United States orato1, and Efram Bnto Rosado, Mexico's champion. All of these boys were last year enrolled in a high school c-r school of equival ent grade in their native country. Each or~tor speaks on the Constitution of hts coun~ry, or on some · ~timely question of the hour. The orations of each country are ten minutes in length and are the original thought and composition of . the studen.t. This international rule untfies . . the' competition. representattve, Fredenc Illinois' Johnson was one of the eight boys who cm~peted in Washington for the national title. Frederic was awarded fourth place. Vote Registration Days l:le~"e October 6 or 16 Wilmette and Kenilworth voters are advised that registration days fo the President~} election are Saturday, Oct~ber 6, and Tuesday, October 16. Registration is to be made at the regular polling places behvecn the hours of 7 A. M. and -t P. M. on "those days. -It is important, if you wish to be certain of a vote on November 6, that you ha\'e the assurance that your ~allot will not be challenged when you enter your polling place on tha.t date. To ~void any possible inconvenience of this natur!, go to your polling place Saturday, October 6, or Tuesday, October Hi. and ma 1<e certain that your · name is on the polling li~t. This is particularly · important if you have changed residence since the last general election. On~ member of the family may rcgi~ter for all the eligible voters in his household. Welcome to Wilmette WILL .ANNOUNCE SITE OF MOVIE IN 30 DAYS Reveals Majority of Villagers Favor Sunday Operation of Shows ... Resume Story Hour at Public Library Tomorrow Morning Story hour for vVilmette school children begins this Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock in the basement room of the public library under the direction of Miss Winifred Bright, children's librarian. The story hour is held every Saturday duri.flg the school year, and is attended . largely by children of the first five grades, not including the kindergarten. Miss Bright, who is in complete charge of the work, .tells stories for the children, reads poems, and directs them in the singing _of songs. Occ;;tsionally outsiders are engaged to tell stories. This was done last May, shortly before the story hour was discontinued for the summer, when students of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college of Evanston entertained the children. - Psycho-analyst to Speak to Chamber of Commerce . The Chamber of Commerce will hold tts regular October meeting next Monday night, October 1. Prof. L. Kenneth Williams, nationally known psyc~o-analyst, is scheduled to .speak. ae wtJl also answer questions asked by those attending the meeting. A musical number will be furnished hy the Meltzer School of Music of Wilmette. 1 Foreign Born of Village · Invited to Study Classes Under the auspices of the Wilmette Woman's cl'!b there will be classes for the study of English and of American. History and Go~ernment. All foreign-born men and women of tl~e community are welcome to . _ enroll 111 these cla!'se:s. The classes will mee.t every Monday evening beginning October 8. There 'will be another notice in next week's WILMF.T'fE LIF!t telling more fullv about the past · work of the school and about plans for the coming year. TURN YOUR CLOCKS BACK! Central Standard time will be resumed again throughout the Chicago area Sunday morning, September 30, and it will be necessary to ·turn your time-pieces back one hour if you wish to conform with the schedule of thi~EJS on Sunday. All church service_s ~ on Sunday will be in accor<iance with Central Standard tim~. -Turn y0ur clock back one hott; upon retiring Saturday night! -· Following closely upou Tuesday's election in which Wilmette c::itizens ·voted in favor of -sevenrday operation of motion picture theaters in the village, ca~c the announ~ement from Sam C. Meyers, 934 Elmwood avenue, managing director of the Teatro del Lago theater, that within thirty days he wi.ll be prep~red to announ~e the I selection of a stte and completiOn of ·'plans for a beautiful t~eater building 1 in Wilmette. ConstructiOn of the pro, posed theater wilt be started within . . six weeks, Mr. Meyers asserted. : "I will positively build a theater 111 : \Vilmette," declared Mr. Meyers this 1 week when questioned by a repres~n1 tatlve of wu.MET'fF. Ln:~ conce.rnmg ' whether or not he was interested m es===== tablishing a theater in the village· on \Vilmette will e·xtend a formal wel- the seveu-~ay-a-week oper~ting b~sis come to Dr. George D. Allison, pastor made posst~le by Tuesda~ s elec.tiOn. of the Wilmette Baptist church at a "Within th1rty days I ~tll be m a Recognition service to be held 'in the position to Il!ake a. defimte announceBaptist church Sundav afternoon, Sep- .ment as to c locatiOn of ·and th~ plans · for my theater. You may pubhsh the b 30 t 4 0 'cl ·k t emD er p ' a J St ockh~. t f fact that actual building operations will ac ouse, pas ~r ~ begin within sixty days." · . r. . erry . ·. the . F1~st Baptist chu.rch of Ch1cago, Tuesday's . ballot, which brought out BenJ~mm Ott?, supen!ltendent of the more than 3,000 voters, with the r~s.ult Baptist Executive coun.c1l, Dr. James M. that the Sunday ~ovie . pr~post~ton Sttfler, pastor of the F1rst Bapt1st chu~ch was favored _by a comfortable majorof Evanston, and Dr. Horace G. Sm1th, ity has raised the question in pracpastor of the Wilmette Parish Methodist tic~lly every househ~ld as to whether church, will participate in this service Wilmette now would really have a which will be preceded by a program of th~ter and, if so, where S· l:JCh a strucmusic given by the church organist, Miss ture would be located. To date, virLydia Koch, and the Baptist choir tually ever.y block in, the various busiunder the· direction of Mme. Gilderoy ness c.enters has been suggested as a Scott. . . . possible theater site,. W~ile it is cerAfter the serv1ce an mformal reception tain that no defimte s1te has been for Dr. and Mrs. Allison will be held ·selected, rather authentic inf~rmation in the Children's hall of the Baptist indicates that the block on Mam street, church between Central and Wilmette ave. nues would be the logical location, sine~ it has av.ailable property and affords frontage on what is soon to be the broadest thoroughfar~ in the village. Moviea Wia h:r 729 The thoroughly repres~ta~ive movie Facilities for ballot last Tuesday resulted .· in an affirmative vote totaling 1'894. · Opposifine printing tion to the "operation of motion picture theaters in the village on Sundays, -plus the after noon" registered 1165 votes. Seven of the twelve precincts in the ability to vitJage went for Sunday Movies, in most instances by overwhelming maproduce it! jorities. Every precinct in the territory · west from the North Western railroad right-of-way favored Sunday Movies, while two east side districts also ·entered the "Yes" column. Five precincts, all located in the area ~ast from the· railroads, polled majorities against the proposition, the two exceptions being the "L" terminal or Precinct 5 district, and Precinct 7, lying south LLO'\D HOLLISTER from Greenleaf avenue ,and west from INC. Eighth str~et. Prinrera lind Publiah1r1 The election was a singularly quiet affair, in fact almost devoid of the Wilmette 4300 electioneering so evident in most vil.lage ·elections. Only a comparatively few cars were scurrying about in quest (Continued on P.age··6) .. .... · I