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- ·. they are l'llDJellt criJld are oftrood chance tm Formerly the Lake Shore News A Clean NewaptJpet lor a Clean Commanlty l. lfishness in and above ur disabled m citizens. is good in ilt ~lamity you would the Legion : duties atrization in lost has no 11 dues of ~sional cn.- EXPEq TRIUMPH, TIMEJ'· :t:r:N Fow PARENTS m FOR ICmOUND r, y, GO TO SCHOOL To Be Produced by Theatre Guild at Skokie School May 3 and 5 NEVER SHOWN HERE Th;, J ·· moot;ng of Old· Towne Folks of Wilmette will be held at the Woman's club, Tuesday evening, May 13. Dinne.r will be served at 6 :30 o'clock and will be followed by the usual business meeting and entertainment. An interesting feature this year is the presentation to the Wilmette Public schools of a memorial to Dr. Byron c. Stolp. A very fine picture of Or. Stolp has been prepared to grace the school that takes his name. The picture. which has been made under elirection of a special committee of the Olde Towne Folks, is to be paid for ~ntirety by popular subscriptipn. The entertainment for the evening, ·o be announced later, is to be un\IS11ally novel, it is stated. Dancing will be the climax of the evening's activities. The Olde Towne· Folks are anxious to ~Teet as new members all who become eligible this year. Membership is open to all persons who lived in Wilmette 25 years ago, to their bus. hands and wives, and their children or grandchi ldren on attaining legal age. It is hoped that all new members who have become eligible this .year "'ill notifv tht> secretary, James T. Watson , 1007 Linden avenue. = \ ·oL. XIII, NO. 31 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1924 · TWENTY-FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS MEN ARE INVITED! Men ·.of Wilmette who are interested in an all-day community observance of Memorial Day are invited to attend a meeting at the Village hall, Sunday afternoon, May 4, at which plans ~ill.be for.~ ulated for what tt ts anbctpated will be the ';110St impressive program of tts character ever arranged in the village. Preliminary plans call for a great street procession, ceremonies at the site of the Memorial elms in the Lake Front Park, talks by prominent leaders, a special program of music and a field day for the children in the afternoon hours. President Zip£ is calling the meeting for Sunday and has the active coopet:ation of the Wilmette Post of the American Legion in the. arrangement of the many details of the prQgram. Sunday's meeting is scheduled for 3 o'clock. Every man in the village is invited! HAVE WE THE BEST SUBURB7 ent money ~ program. ferely hcpe aid in the 'ur best to Friday, May 9, Ia Date of the Second Parents Nieht at New Trier PUPILS STAY AT HOME Session for Parents to Be in E · venme Friday, May 9, will be a big day in many north shore family circles for it. will present the unique situation wherein the pupils of ,New Trier High school will have a vacatiorl and the parents attend classes in their stead. The occasion is Parents' Night, the second event of its character in the current school year and a feature worked out by Superintend~nt Frederick Edson Clerk and his staff of instructors. On tt\e previous .. Parents' Day, t~e children attended their classes whale their fathers and Jitfiers looked on. This time the pup s will stay away from the school a ogether and the parents will go to the classes customaJ;ily attended hy their chJldren, a procedure which is expected ttf afford a mea~s of brin~ing the parent into close touch with the teacb.e'ts and acquainting · them with the actual classroom wo~k done by the children. Sch... ia ~~ial' "There will be no sthool at all during 'the day," re,ads a noelce from Wesley L. Br6wn, directoJ: of Reference and Research at the school, "and none for childrc;n at night. Parents, however, will eome at 7:15 .P. M. and attend their children's classes, running t'hr6u rr tbeir children's programs b!st as 1i atten4lng school. Tile re~ular school progra111 will be operAted oh a twenty-minu c period basis. Instead ol the regular lessons, however, the following things will be discussed in class: an outline of the course covering the semester; t~e value and purpose of the -{:0\lrse; tts aims and objectives, and the · rtquiremcnts of the course as regards outside preparatiop and study. "We hope to give the pare!nts a clear idea of what the work of their children are taking is preparing them for and of what we require of the children in their regular work. The Ju~h period will be omitted and the school day will be over at 9:55 P. M. at which time Mr. Clerk will briefly aAdress all the parents in the auditorium." Wilmette Hu. Good Chance for $1,011 Better City Campaip Award MANY AT FIRST QUIZ Final Teat to Come time in June red us, you I us ready eace as we r ~Show to etka plays luction. To lay nights (r. Harold Won Pulitzer Prize in American Drama .some- ~ r;{r~t ~~~ Chicago, er's place pte that is to look to "Icebound," a Pulitzer Prize play which Alexander Dean is directing for the North Shore Theatre Guild's last performance this year, is written by Owen Davis, who has had two plays this season in Chicago, "The Nervous \\'reck" and "Peacocks." He is one of the best-known of American playwrights. The play will be given at Skokie school on Saturday, May 3 n Monday, May 5. The cast contains many Winnetka people, most of them are acting with the Guild for the first time but their perfqrmances are such in this comedy drama that they will Mrs. he seen again another year. Henry Tenny is playing the leading comedy role. Mrs. Louis Sherman and William Van Horn are playing very important parts. Milton Higgins is making a character part stand out as a mo~t important figure. . Kenneth Hunter, a Skokie school boy, is playing a comedy part with such distinc- W H B R tion that, although he is a young'ster, · · arne. to Jve ehe acts tike an old timer on the stage. cital s'un'a&y Ni)rht Other Pulitzer prize plays have been ' · · · ·· "Anna Christie," "Miss Lulu ·Bett," "Beyond the Horizon" and "Why Marry." "Icebound" opened in New Sunday May 4, will mark the last of York, February 10, and ran for 145 the dedicatory observances incident tG performances until the end of June. the opening of the new auditorium of It has never been produced in Cb.iCN[o. the Wilme~ .Baptist chut'U. when .WilThe scenery has been de~~ed by liam H. Barnu, ~.ly a~uired organ· Mrs. Louis Sherman, of 'Wianetka, ist, will ci-.e a r on ·tile new A\ls who h,as reproduced faithfully two sets tin organ In the e at 7 :30 o'clock. of a New England homestead; Mrs. The Austin organ installed at the Sherman is a New Fnuland woman Baptist church under the personal superand she, with Gregory Foley, executive vision of Mr. Barnes, who is thoroughly director of the theater guild, has suc- conversant with organ construction, is ceeded with their properties and their one of the nnest instruments in this vilighting in }~etting a remarkable atand Sunday evening's reeital, it mosphere. The guild is extending its cinity, performances with this production to is believed, will be attended by many include North Evanston and Highland musicians and critics who arc desirous Park, makin~~; a total of seven coit- not only of hearing Mr. Barnes but of enjoying the almost unlimited uses to ecutive performances. which the organ can be put jn the field Author Prolific Writ· of music. Owen Davis comes of Yankee stock One of the younger generations of 'iutd was born and reared in New Eng- players, William H. Barnes has been l!lnd. His biographers credit him with quietly making for himself a name as having first seen the light in Portland, organist. He uses business as an in~aine, in 1874. He graduated from come and an organ for pleasure, and Harvard in 1893 and immediately took stands well with the music fraternity to writing melodramas for the then by reason of his talent, insight, industry popular producing firm qf Hartis, Sui. and an almost uncanny knowledge of llvan and Wooas. Within the next organ structure. He has built two ortight years he contributed fifty or more melodramas to the Wood's popu- gans for his home. The present one has lar-price circuit, ranging from "The given many people a chance to enjoy his Confessions of a Wife," through the cheery hospitality. He prepared the "Bertha, the Beautiful Sewing Ma- scheme for the Wilmette Baptist church, chine Girl" series tci those of a littJe the M.tethodist and Episcopal churches in better grade. In 1910, the qtoving pic-' Riverside and the Mettlodist church of ture craze having closed most. o£ the Rogers Park. In business life Mr. -names is secrepopular-priced theaters to melodratba, both Mr. Davis e.nd 1d1'. Woods deter· tary-treasurer of A.. R. Barnes and mined to do their future producing on company, a large printing concern. Since . Broadway. eatly boyhood his hobby has been .the construction of organs and his talent ,.Icebound" Prize Winner in that field has given him a reputation Mr. Davis began with a play called as one of the best amateur organ build"The Wedding Ring" for Marguerite ers in the country. Clark and followed with one called "Lola," in which Laure-tte Taylor was Poll"ce Instructed to starred by Daniel Frohman. "The Family Cupboard," "Sinners," "ForEnforce Traffic Rules ever After," "Opport_unity" and others followed most of them produced by Superintendent of Police, Albert L. William' A. Brady. "The Detour," in Denman, is urging motorists to ob1921 was accepted as much the best of serve automobile regulations and Vr. 'Davis' output up to that time and ordinances, such as parking the right he followed this, in 1922, with "lee- side of vehicle close to the curb, re~ bound," which not only scored a popu- fraining from parking within fifteen 1ar success, but won him the Pulitzer feet of fire plugs, or withm ten feet prize of one thousand dollars as the of any cross walk. He has instru~ted American play "which best represents his force to enforce these regulatiOn the educational value and power of t(J the letter. the stage in raising the standard ot "Always leave lights burning after 100<1 morals, rood taste and good man- sundown when parking, and rememaers" produced during the year. ber that this is open season for speedThe olay will be presented in 1Nin- ers," warns the chief. Many violators tka, May 3 and 5; in Hight a,.. ·tark, of the "lights" and speed laws a:e ay 6; and Lake Forest, Ma ,.. It being punished daily with _fines m lhs given in North Evans· ·:1 and court. Drivers are also cautioned to Kenilworth earlier this weet · aoproach white lines painted accross the streets at a very low rate of Looit OUT FOR THESE r !LLOWS speed. Sn~k thieves have beer ·>peratinc ' at church bazaars, rummc: e sales in W. I. WOODWARD Dl£5 W. I. Woodward, 537 Abbottsford lhurches and at' other re ... ent public ~therir- ;a ~in the village, state the road, Kenilwroth, 1>as~ed away ~ed lice i wamift,, the residents of the nesday, April 30. Bunal was at Rtchl!aae 1 guard more carefully their mond, Ind., <?D Saturd~y. .Mr. Woodues, p coats, umbretlas and other ward is survrved by hts widow, .CathUc:let o to . the heart of the erine },f .. Woodward, a.nd daughter, Mrs. Ruth Woodward Blocher. t (, tr gentry: DEDICATE NEW· BAPTIST . ORGAN c· -.ne Art De.,..-bnent to Give 4cL1 ·vm· er p1 ·,.h·re" Study The Art department 9-£ the Wilmette public schools will give its first program in the new s~thool building at Seventeenth street and Spencer avenue, May 16. At that time the department, under · the supervision of · Mrs. Mary Hinga, will present some living picture studies, interspened with other attractive features to be announced later. The scenes are under construction and everything is rapidly being worked out by the pupils. e ...,.. "Five fancy roosters And hens thirty-four, A bartain like this stirs My heart to the core!" · A fine cbaDce to atock your poultr,. 7anll FOR BALE-34 HENS rooatere. Fancy stock. Bene hardly one year old and t'lne Jayera. Will eeJl In lot or c1tvlde Into small Iota ot 7 bene and one rooeter. Hens each; rooatera, U each. Worth more than 4ouble. Reaaon tor sellln&', leavln&' town. H. W. Foote, U7 Beach Road, Glen-· coe. Phone Glencoe %01. AND 6 'I WANT ADS WILL SELL or BUY ANYTHING . Wilmette was put to a gruellins tat 'fuesday evening of this ~ when Dr. W'illiam A. McKeever, who ts concluding the Chkago ~veninc ~ $1,000 prize Better Crty Campaiarn, ud a group of graduate students from. the University of Chicago, cross-examiaed representative citizens in the endeavor to determine by what token Wim.tte can lay claim to being the best ~ munity in a. group of 16 selected Chicago suburbs in which to rear children and instruct the risini generation. Only a very preliminary test wai ' ~ sible this week because of the tcard\J ot time, but Dr. McKeever ~ that a big final test would ~ .he~d. ~ time in June when expert cnttcs o~ ~ munity life will co!ld~ct a s~rutJntziJie investigation and qutz 111 the VIllage. B..la far J . . . . . The meeting this week, held 'Ul the Congregational church, b~ouaht ?Ut ~ Make Friends with ~pa, information that the basts for Judi-. will be along the followinc linea 1 Plea to Citizens First : The integrity of tbe ho.e life and the local con.s.iderationa for the home training of children. · Bringing the citizen and the policeSecond : The general ~ematt man together on a basis of better unof the schools and the partict~tion derstanding was the keynote of a talk of the pupils in the interests pf f· b}' Superintendent of Police Denman ture citizenship. - --- - · Wedneiday of this week before the WilThird : The activity of the e~ mette Rotary club. of all denominations to ·cive reli · Civility is the lint rule IUd down for guidance, each within its own o. poliee officus. Chid Denlll&ll decta~. or sect, to the grGwing geaer i~. Civility engenders cohtidenee and dt~ Fourth · The arrctngements thin courages animosity of the general pubhc the community for aafeguardina thlt with ;regard to the officers of the law. morals and the social and amusement interests of children and youth, Wilmette is now patrolled every hour of the day and night by a force that is The Score Cant -rapidly growing efficiency, the chief The following score card has heen explained. In the past six months the used in previous "Better City" Camvillage has experienced but ode hold-up paigns: · and less than a half-doz~ t>urglaries. l. Play and recreation facilities. Every day the depattment is receiving 2. Industry and thrift traininr letters of commendation from the citifor culture. zens of the. village and there is being de3, School work as related to ' the veloped a feeling of confidence regardcommunity. , ing the men who are delegated to make 4. Health and sanitary· .rneaaurqs secure the lives and property of the for the young. citizens. 5. Scoutcraft and management of Superintendent Denman also commentbo)'l and girls. ' ed on the Junior Police movement, which 6. M~rals of .you~h a~ safegutrded he declared was working efficiently. He by the conamuntty, announced that uniforms , were to be 7. Religion as spiritual nurture secured for the youthful officers for use for the young, in the c:tlurch and ita in ~rade, traffic duty and other servadjuncts. ' 1 ice that in no way will endanger tpe 8. Sociability and social manageboys. ment suited to · clean character deThe Rotary club this week was· host velopment. · · to Linus Smith, Eagle Scout of Troop 9. Service through clubs of mea 4, St. Augustine's church, .w ho gave an and women fostering child life. Interesting talk about scout work. Linus, 10. Homes and housing situati who is 13 years of age, a freshman at of families. New Trier High school and winner of 1 Sunda7 Cluh Spouor the highest rank possible in Scoutdo~ The prize award for the winner ia ~assed succ~ss.fully all t.he required mer1t tests wtthm a peraod of only ~g the Better City Campaign is to be made by the Chicaao EW!Una Alnerican. Wit. -4ttonths. A large delegation of Wilmette Ro- mette's interest in the ~t it being fostered by the Wilmette SundaJ tarians attended the festivities attendant Eveninc club in conjunction with othef upon the fourth anniversary of ltvans- civic organt~tions in the YiiJaa-e. ton Rotary at the North Shore hotel Wilmette, officials of the Sunday EveMonday evening of this week. ning club feel, has a splendid chance te win first honors in the competition witll 15 other suburban towns. Leo M. Dean Gives Up The date of the final test has not beeo Dairy Buaineaa Here defiinitely determined. The Wilmette Dairy has been sold Other towns in the campaign are, to the Bowman Dairy company, accord- Barrington, Berwyn, Blue Island, Des ing to an announcement made this week Plaines, Downers Grove, East Chicac-. by Leo M. Dean, proprietor, who, be- Forc:st Park, Glencoe, Glen Ellyn, Hamcause of illness in his family, has been mond, Harvey, Hinsdale, La Gr~ w compelled to leave the village to seek waukegan. . ' a change of climate. Mr. Dean, in addition to conducting a splendid business in the community, Wilmette MUl Injured has for several years been very active When Struck b~ Truclr in civic affairs. He was a prominent C. L. Graham, 524 Maple avera"' member of the Wilmette Chamber of suffered severe shock and · receivetl Commerce and at one +ime president of severa 1 cuts about the head when the former New Trjer Commercial as- was struck by a s'p ecial delivery mall sociatioo. He has frequently rendered truck early Monday evenina as he valuable sc:rvice in various charity and was crossing Benson a\'enue fn froat ocial welfare campaigns ancJ was OQly of tbe Davis street elevated statioa ia recently -i member of the comtni~ in Evanston. Dr. William R. Park~ charge of the Wilmette campaip for treated Mr. Graham at the Evanst the Salvation Army. He was promi- hospital, where he has r~roaiqded f· nently identified with the various local several days. His injuries are War work enterprises aad other OCD- serious, it is · said, and he expects munity projects. be about again in a few days. Mrs. Dean has been ill for many Joseph Gibbard, 1613 Florence n months and physicians have found it nue was driving the mail truck w advisable to have her removed to a leu the' acccident oceurred, E riaorous climate, it is · explained. polie~ report. DENMAN TALKS 'fO ROTARIANS