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= WILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 1924 Folk mmer. GIYt summer Ia DOGS IN Dancea and Gamet Hi8hway Supervilor Tella iJj Feature Prornm IJDpi'OVeiiMDb .. 11lara. Tel LTN36-3tc COMPLET- be summer care for a )d. G. B. lbbard Rd1. LTN36-ltc 1 {8 LCOME &aturc:lay, cago ne, 38 delen-American tited States, education making a nsportation. the major te delegates alf of the tives-Covof North all, of Illi· us, of MinBlaine, of texander J. ther states raverse in· Tennessee, Iowa, New ennsylvania. ry. in 3, during by PresiY of State 1 leave for e first step ~ainment e party will [ltinois, arorning of 1be spent in splendid ~ buildings, with Cot. the depart- ef highway -American arrival, and f Governor following 1 of [.~: ..::: r a:~d t~a:h! 1 he Lincoln Bloomingknown as The Blomce will eneon. From ~ill motor ~oute 9 to 1:1 north an d to study roads of y will then 'd the evel untry club , Friday, tor up the ceton. On arty will e day will interest in Saturday Illinois for rough the isconsin. ! Engineer the diparty will Folk dances by girls ·of the WilWidening of intersections . in Glenmette public schools were features of view, on Dempster street, the Wauthe Field Day program held Tuesday, kegan road, Milwaukee avenue, ancl June 3, at New Trier field. There the Rand and River roads, with the were baseball games between boys of building of twenty more miles of the 7 and 8 grades and between girls gravel roads, is part of the 1924 scheof the 7 and 8 grades. In the after- dule of Cook county, according to a noon there was a field meet for boys. statement made in an interview by The pageant, which took place in Ma.i or George A. Quintan, superinthe morning. started with a parade tendent of Cook county highways. Present day methods of running businesses and led by the band and orchestra of the "Cook county now has 334 miles of Wilmette public schools. Wand, In- paved roads and has approximately households are far simpler than those of days past. dian club and marching drills were 225 miles of various other roads. These held in addition to the Swedish, Dutch, are also part of the state aid system Just as electric appliances have revolutionized Hungarian and Wooden Soldier and it is the. duty of the county to dances, which were given in native maintain and repair them. The county costumes. Martha Tencher, Virginia ways of doing ~hings, checking accounts have maintains a force of patrol laborers Prost and Jane Lyons performed as and road machinery operators whose the jumping jacks. The pageant duty is to drag, shape, and grade these changed ways of paying for things bought, or serclosed with a good posture march roads, fill holes with stone and keep given by the Good Posture league of the drains open." vices rendered. the schools. This necessitates adding new maWiDner· of E·ente terial to a number of these roads and The events and winners of the boys' it is anticipated that there wilt be field meet are: Safety, convenience, elimination of errors and constructed twenty miles of jO'avel C class: 50 yard dash-George road, new stone surface to fifteen Eaton, Harold Thompson and James miles of additional highway, and oil, misunderstandings-all are gained by use of Alder. tar, and asohalt will be applied to 75 yard dash-George Eaton, Harold approximately sixty miles. checks. Thompson, Russel Horn. Running broad jump-George Eaton, "The ~reat amount of traffic on the Harold Thompson, James Alder and intersecting paved highways has made it necessary that more pavement be Brice Stevens. This institution has been chosen by many of Running high jump-Russet Horn, provided at approachments. To overcome this need plans have been preJames Alder and George Alder. your friends and neighbors as "their bank." Your Baseball throw-George Eaton, Sa- pared for construction of wider pavement or tunes at the following heavily sha Green and Cyrus Calloway. B class: 100 yard dash-Henry Huff- traveled intersections: account will be welcomed, too. "Glenview, Waukegan roads; Wauman, George Pattison and Alvin Barkegan, Dempster street,; \ti\wa\dtM tholomew. avenue; Ballard road; Rand and River Running broad jump-Bob Urben, Henry Huffman and Edwin Fowler. roads. It is expected that the conStanding broad jump-Henry Huff- struction of these tunes will assist man, Bob Urben and Alvin Bar- materially and relieve congestion at these points." tholomew. Running high jump-Eugene Hardt, "Many plans have been made for Henry Huffman, Alvin Bartholomew the construction of the Dundee road in Wheeling, Ill., from Milwaukee avand Bob Urben. Baseball throw-Henry Huffman, enue west for one mile; Thatcher avGeorge Brown and Myron Cottrell. enue, which parallels the Desplaine· A class: 100 yard dash-Bill Erick- River, adjacent to Forest Preservd son, William Herbon and Grant Blas- from Division street, north to Grand avenue, Touhy avenue, from t~e ~eat dell. Running broad jump-Grant B~as limits of Niles, Ill., east to 1ts JUne: The Home of Checking Accounts dell Bill Erickson and Stanley Setler. tion with the present pavement oa Standing broad jump-Edwin Kunz, Touhy avenue, near the Gt'oat Point Bill Erickson and Stanley Seiler. road; Railroad avenue, fro!" the not1b Running high jump-Larin Bennet, limits of Evanston parallehng the Mil· Member ol the Federal Reaeroe Banlc L man Goss and David Beasley. waukee Electric Railroad north to the eball tiN · Qu.... .WcCJean, county line. This will relieve Sheri· Junior Moore and Ove Weiberg. dan road congestion, and provide for Half mile race-David Beasley, truck traffic through the north vilLaurin Bennet, Anthony Fagan and lages. Treat Burns. ;;;;; ......... ::::.; ......... "Cook count:v is building the west. . . .-,....-. ; The field meet was held under the ern half of Western avenue, from . direction of L. F. Todd and the page- Eighty-seventh street to Ninety-ninth ant was conducted under the super· street, and it is expected that thia vision of Mrs. Churchill. pavement will be completed for traffic: June 1. Pavement on Ninety-fiftb street is being completed betweet~ Crawford avenue and Western avenue. "A contract bas been let for the construction of the St. Charles road through the village of Bellwood, and it is thought that it will be finished as woods back of it, in the tall elms and far as the Mannheim road this sumoaks whose branches are beginning to Says a quarter-page advertiser, mer. As a result motorists wilt have "We couldn't have said more if we'd another outlet through the northem gleam in the sun, in distant copses, every· used a whole page." True, but you villaJZes. Contract has also been let where throughout the thickly wooded could have said it louder. And loud- for the pavement of Ninety-sixth avvillage, rises a curtain of soUnd, a loveness cuts a big figure in advertising. enue, under the Wabash railroad aubly and tangled skein . . .This is a Say something in a whisper, and only way. shut-in place, where things grow in luxthose nearest will hear it, no matter "It is possible that all the roads may riant shelter, and births and deaths take how mnch it is worth hearing. But Wllmette Author and Jour- place without disturbance, and where one Wilmette Out in Front in say it in a moderately loud tone, and not be completed this year, but work is proceeding rapidly, and it is antirest . · ." many will hear it and appreciate it. Close Fray nalist Touches on Problema can Later on comes the invasion. A full-page ad by its very largeness cipated. that the majority of these conOf Hia Own Community "On street after street there were seizes the attention and holds it until nections will be constructed before the new excavations, and beside them lay its message has been put across. What season closes." Local baseball fans witnessed a it says is said so impressively that it huge trees, uprooted, strewing the grass thriller on the afternoon of Memorial is remembered for a long time. And their dying branches. J osslyn, Summer Season Booata FOLLOWS "DEADLINES" with passing, thought the builders showed a Day when the Wilmette nine scored what's the use of saying something Gas Use, Report Sa.,. sort of glee, a sort of frenzy, as though a shut-out against the first team good if next to nobody gets it? Full-pat· Roll of Hoaor the trees had been vermin or nettles. from the Great Lakes Naval training At this season a heavy demand for station. The final score was 1 to 0. Joluuon A: Bro. . ............ 4 gas is manife t in the northern part Deacribea Beauties of Su- ~~fn with them I Tear them out I Cut, A few hundred rooters were sorely Gilbert Meyer Coal A: Material Co·........ 3 of Public Service company territory burban Scenes "The workmen made bonfires, and disappointed Sunday afternoon when Ro-berl' .......................... z due to a combination of good roads, cast upon the flames branches, twigs, the Taylor Trunks failed to put in an Hubt.ard W ooda Lumber A: Coal Co. Z thousands of automobiles and scores Every trailing vines. Into these holocausts appearance on the 17th street dia- Winnetka Coal A: Lumber Co....... z of hotels and restaurants. Riclpay ............................ I pleasant day in spring, summer and went the careful work of years of for- mond. Next Sunday the locals are booked W ei1aenber1 ........................ I fall has the effect of driving kitchen In his new book, "Josslyn," Henry est birth, the intricate weavings of the Justin Smith, a resident of Wilmette, bird\ the art of flowers. And there lay to battle with the Fort Sheridan Lin·n De Luxe Carate ............ I gas ranges in these restaurants to the Edi111er ............................. I describes vividly the fate of a suburb slaughtered many of Elmwood's most Doughboys at the municipal play- Sh.oreen Motor Co. . ................ I peak of their working capacity. The company two or three years giving way to the inevitable encroach- splendid trees, which had long cast over grounds. It is anticipated the diamond will Frint Georte ....................... I ago built a boosting plant at Barringthe village their benignity, their paternal ments of a city. He touches upon the tenderness . . . Stupid things ; Jav- be in ship-shape condition for Sun- The Orrbaaton ...................... I ton whose function it is to help in the distribution sit.tation made by the problem of urbanization that is vital in ish and overtrustful things I Who in day's battle. On Memorial Day the cau es sketched. This plant is in full a village like Wilmette ; but he does not the village ever thinks about them? Who fielders and runners on the paths were bothered considerably by the unevenoperation. suggest a solution for this problem. thanks a tree for growing?" ness of the ground c;aused by the fact At Chicago Heights a four-inch Some of the passages in the book ap"Elmwood" is only p~rt of the baclf that workmen have been grooming main has been extended by the Chipear to be drawn from Wilmette itself .. ground of the story1 wh·ch con~e~ns one the field. cago Heights Gas company to OlymThey tell how "we fly, upon our high of ,the chara~ters ·.n ~.r. Smtth s preThe summary of the game: An important announcement has Fields- a high pre sure line. In elevation, through a quiet town of maple cedm~ .book,, Deadlmes. .There are at- G.Lakes AB H R E Wilm'e AB H R E just been received from Don C. Mc- pia it a ditching machine like the trees and churches. And then at last so ytV1d ghmpses of Chtcago and of Bayles .... 3 0 0 0 Braun .... 3 2 1 0 Cord, president of the Apperson Bros. building others in operation in other sections we cross a canal, in whose waters are Pens. Biliccke .. 4 0 0 0 Rosberg .. 3 0 0 2 Automobile company, Kokomo, In- was employed. Olympia Fields is one mirrored leading willows, and we plunge Strelkax ·. 3 0 0 0 Brewer ... 3 1 0 1 diana, stating that the Apperson Jack of the Class A golf courses of the into a fringe of forest, where the trees 'Twaa a Fine Day But Hull ...... 4 0 0 0 Boesch ... 3 0 0 0 Rabbit Six Phaeton, competing in the country. as is well known. The deAnnual Yosemite Economy mand for ga does not come from the bend aside to reveal scattered houses. the Water a 1 ·t Cool Kelly .... .4 2 0 0 Schmidts .3 0 0 0 eighth The brakes creak. We pile out of our True ...... 4 0 0 0 Foster ... 2 0 0 0 Run, won first place in this test. club alone, a~ might be uppo ed by Official records show that the Ap- anyone unfamiliar with t~e impro~e seats, and out of the train. And the Hey Skinny, come on over I The McCrad'n .3 0 0 0 Schultz ... 1 0 0 0 fragrant breath of the elms is in our water's--oh, oh, cool." Gr'nbl'tt .. 3 1 0 0 Borre ..... 2 0 0 0 person Jack Rabbit used less gasoline ment in progress around tt. A cons·d· than any other auto entered, traversnostrils. And the coolness of the lake The bathing season at Wilmette was Pederson .3 0 0 1 Kusmertz .3 0 0 0 ing 400 miles of mountain and desert erable number of residence have been Heinzen .. 2 0 0 1 is on our brows." built or are in course of erection. unofficially opened Decoration Da ·. roads between Los Angeles and Camp Probably the m jority of them are .of Further on, Josslyn thinks "of the Early in the morning a number of the Curry carrying four passengers and a fine typ . Re5ide!it~ o~ the tocahty 31 3 0 1 25 3 1 0 numberless great trees in the region, that fair ones took their first dip in Lake Struck out by Pederson 7, by Hein- bagg~ge on . eighteen. gallons of ~s are sanguine that tt 1;; 111 for a fine had lived there, fulfilling a dumb des- Michigan. The water was just a little oline, two pmts of otl and two p111ts tiny, standing out against winter storms too cool to encourage those who zen, 9; bases on balls off Pederson 6, of water. Average gasoline mileage suburban de\·elopment. or bolts of lightning; beautiful things, jumped the official opening of ~he off Heinzen, 2. was twenty-two and twenty-two hunmade beautiful in spite of themselves, bathing season to ma~e a qu!ck Mr. and Mr . Raymond C. Klem of Miss Nett:C! Kauffman, 1029 Elm- dredths to the gallon, wh1ch is con- Wilmette are being con1ratulate· independent of all human opinion, mere· plunge. But, after a btt of teastng wood avenue, left Saturday for Men- iderable better mileage than t\at of upon the birth of a with a crinkled toe, some of the bat.hon, Howa~ ly lovely and incomprehensible." dota, Ill., where she wilt spend the the other eight competing actomoThere is a description of the songs of ers venturde a quick entry and a bnef summer Geor e, on May 31. biles. visiting relatives. birds at dawn; how "in that yard, in the communion with the waves. 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