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20 · \VILMETTE LIFE, FRIDAY, 1924 NEW REGISTRAR to the president and registrar of the ;~C~o~n~lin~;to=l~d~Se~rg~ea~nt~I=v~e=rs;o;n;;;o~f;;;th::e::;i~ng;,=t= · t=i= s=a = n=n= ou =n=c:;;;ed= .=============; t:niversity of Arkansas, Fayetteville, that state. Registrar Goldthorpe, who started work Tuesday at Northwestern in Evanston, was born in Missoula, For Drug Store Need· Call Montana, and besides attending Hamline university and the University of Minnesota, taught in the history department of west high school at Minneap· olis for two years. During the last six months he has been statistician in a general survey of Northwe tern university's various schools and departments. Mr. Goldthorpe's master's work at the University of Minnesota is well along and he will get his M .A. degree next December from· that. institution. His work for the Ph. D., also in progress, will be continued until he wins the coveted "doctor's degree" somewhat later. Statistics is now his forte, he &ays. "During the last half-year Mr. Goldthorpe / has heen faf1lilariziJ18 himself with the various schools and departments of Northwestern university," commented Dean R. A. Kent, head of the college of liberal arts. "In his capacity of statistician in the university department survey he has gained useful information and we know that be will be a valuable addition to the staff of Northwestern." Peter Conlin, Winnetka delivery boy, sought a thrill late last wee~ an~ got . it. Conlin was fined for speedmg m Wm· "--- K ent p aya T n·bute to cording netka and refused to pay in order, ac&.n:an to the police, that he might have H. Goldthorpe the opportunity to visit with Leopold and Loeb, confessed boy killers, in the county jail. Conlin had his wish, for upon enter}. H. Goldthorpe, of Minneapolis, a ing the county jail he was almost imgraduate of Hamline university in 1920, mediately made a cell-mate of Leopold, and now taking further work in statis- the latter's erstwhile "roommate" havtics at the University of Minnesota, ing been sent on to the Pontiac Reforhas been appointed registrar of North- matory. "I refused to pay my $50 fine or to western univer~ty, it was announc~ Tuesday, July 8. Mr. Coldthorpe takes permit any of my friends to pay it bethe place of Frederick L. Kerr, who re- cause 1 wanted to get the thrill of meetcently accepted the position of assistant ting and talking with Leopold ·and Loeb," ASSUMES DUTIES J, Gm SELF IN JAR TO MEET MURDERERS Winnetka police in whose custody he was taken to the county jail. Conlin arrived in the county jail in time to witness the meeting between Loeb and his mother. Surprise was expressed generally among the police and others connected with north shore police courts that. a youth working out a fine for s~mg should be placed in the same cell w1th a confessed murderer and it was expected the authorities at Winnetka would confer with the sheriff's office to have Conlin removed to another cell. · The next regular s~ated m~eti.ng of the North Shore Civ1c assocJatton. is scheduled to be held Monday evemng, July 14, at 8 o'clock in Odd Fello~s hall W ilmette. A speaker of. prommenc~ has been secured for this meet- For That Fishing.Trip Have you purchased your new needs for your fishing trip? If not, you will find we have everything to make your trip a success. VOL. XIII, NC CIVIC ASSOCIATION STORES Buy Now While Our Stock Ia Complete Your Snider-Cazel Drug Co. Phones WUmette John Millen "II It'· Hardware, Millen Ha· It" Plaoaes Falmette 3060-3061 1219-21 WB.ette Ate. JULY 28-2 400-401 Wilmette and Central Aves. I a ~uring CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SCORES IOTH CLOSING The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce. in regular se'ss ion Monday evening of this lVeek, adopted resolutions disapproving the contrrnplated action of the village board in closing Tenth street north of C'hr stnut avenue. The hamber of Comml'rce, by virtue of the re olution s, lend official stimulus to the protests voiced hy scores of individual hu iness men and re . ident~ of the village deploring the proposed action of the hoard. In th resolutions, the \hamher of Commerce points out that Tenth street "will eventually becomt· one of the main arterie s of traffic leading from Wilmette to thr villages north ." In clo~ing the street, the merchants' organization declares, the hoard "would he committing a grave error." Copies of the resolutions were ordt'red di patched to President Zip£ and the hoard of trustees. The Chamber of Commerce on ).[onday al. o expre sed unqualified approval of the proposition to widen \Vilmette and Central avenue in the husines section? thi s, in the face of unfavorable action taken by the village trustees at a recent board se sion. A Water Supply to 69 Communities No.2 in a series of statements about this Company's business. Dependable power to pump water is essential to the safety and comfort of communities. In addition to supplying electric light and power to 160,000 homes, stores, offices and factories and furnishing electric street lighting to 137 communities the electric busineS>.... of the Public Service Company includes supplying power to pump water in the following cities and towns:Add~n Public Service Heat. l 00,000 Electric Irons Intere ting details of the Public Service company's service are made public. Its service is performed in over two hundred communities. December 31, 1923, as shown in the year book electric, gas, water and heat customer~ number d 252,981, an increase of 32. 821. for the year. This gain is the eqmvalent of the customers of such service ~n a city of 150,00 inhabitants. Thr hu~mess done brought in a revenue of $16.014,342 or $2,302,247 more than in 1922- an increase of 16.8 per cent. The territory covered by the compa.ny's .ervic!! equals 6,000 square m·les. Electnc street lighting is supplied to 137 citie and town . Power to run the pump of municipal water plant i furnishtd in 69 towns. . Over one hundred thousand electric nons draw energy f110m the lines. To the latter are connected more than 56. 000 floor and table lamps, more than JJ'. 000 electric motors, over 26,000 vacu~ c1 an rs and over 15,000 wa hing macry many electric toasters and chine . mall article are in use. The number of electric fans in the hands of users exct'ed 26,000. The number of incande ent electric lamps in tailed figures out more than 3,100,000. Ga from the company' plants i piped as fuel to 91,000 ga ranges and to more than 300 factories to be burned in heating pro~ . Last year the company produced for t~e u e of customers 3,535,537,000 cub1c feet of gas, an increase of 448,195,000 cubic feet over the preceding year. The announcement that the Public Sarvice Company of Northern 11/inoia haa been awarded the Charles A . Coffin Medal for 1923, is a tribute to the territory in which trus Company operates as well as to the service it renders. This award was made to trus Company in competition with the electric light and power companies of the United States "for distinguiahed contribution to the development of electric light and power for the convenience of the public and the Antioch Area Beecher Bensenville Benson Bourbonnais Bradley Braidwood Campus Chicago Heights· Coal City Crete Deerfield Des Plaines Dolton Dwight Elmhurst Frankfort Glenview Grand Ridge Grant Park Grays Lake Harvey Highland Park Highwood Hillside Homewood Joliet Kinsman LaGrange LaGrange Park Lake Bluff Lake Forest Lemont Libertyville Lockport Manhattan Manteno Matteson Minonk Minooka Mokena Monee Morton Grove Mount Prospect Niles Center No. Chicago Park Ridge Plainfield Pontiac Ransom Riverdale River Forest Rockdale Round Lake St. Anne Schiller Park So. Wilmington Steger Thornton Tinley Park Toluca Wauconda Waukegan Wenona Western Springs Wilmington Winthrop Harbor benefit of the industry". The cities and towns served by Public Service Company have at their command the greatest pool of electricity of any territory in the world. This electricity supply is derived not only from the Company's great generating stations but also from other interconnected super-power systems including that of the Commonwealth Edison Company which supplies Chicago with electricity. The gas business of this Company is constantly increasing and gas users find this service continually more useful This Company produced 3,535,537,000 cubic feet of gas last year an increase of 448,159,000 cubic feet over the preceding year. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY s.rvu.. 6,000 aqaare mil..-:..202 citie· and town. -lllitla Gcu or Electricity JNO. S. REESMAN, Diatrict M&Da1er tJI Church Street Plaoae Enaatoa 3111 EVANSTON Pboae Wilmette OP NORTHERN ILLINOIS A TINY MINORITY Clmbined output of electrical plants \Vh monthly production is Jess than 10,000 kilo ·att-hours i le than 1 per cent of th total for the United States, aa:ordin to tht> L'. S. Geological Survey. zast