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Formerly The L:ke Shore News obviou~ answer, of : margtn of profit large enough to to make the exctssi,t The customer hilllelf, es,s allowance. frankly tell our of profit on our car for absorbing any There is only one 'dge Bros. cars and an benefit alike, whether an old car in trade 01 cash price.' WIL IRMS LIGHTING ·· Herman \V. Meyer. 406 Prairie avenue and a graduate of New Trier high school in 1916, was killed last Saturday in an automobile accident while on his way from LaSalle, Ill., to the IllinoisOhio football game at Champaign. After his graduation from New Trit>r, Mr. Brauer entered the University ~·t Illinois, graduating in 1920, and rect:iving a fellowship at Yale. He made his master's degree in 1921. He was employed for two years as research chemist for the New Jersey Zinc company, and a year ago became head of the Research department for the Illinois Zinc company at LaSalle. He was married seven months .1.go to Miss Irene Snyder, of Palmerton, P:1. \Vith hi extreme consc :entiousne:;s in his work, his ability and likeable permn ality, Mr. Brauer appeared to have before him a great career. He lived for three years at the home of Rev. Ml') l'l' in Wilmette. ASCH PLAYERS BISHOP HUGHES FORMER NEW TRIER IAN REMOVE APPEAR MONDAY AT SUNDAY CLUB H~.~ ~~~,~~~ of Season's Symphony Well Known Prelate ExConcerts to be of "Near peeled to Deliver Stirrin& Pop" Variety Message Here UECKNER, SOLOIST FRIEND OF "YOUTH" OBJECTIONS TO PROPOSED .PLAN s Way is Cleared for Actual Work on Ornamental Street Lighting System in Villa··; Lon· Court Fi&ht Ended Wilmette's street lighting ordinance, a moot quesHon for nearly two years, was confirmed in the Cook County court Wednesda¥ morning, November 26, at 10:30 o'clock after all objections to the proposed improvement were dispose<;l of before that tribunal. The confirmation signalizes the termination of an extended court battle and the definite clearing of the way for spreading of an assessment which will give Wilmette a modern electric ornamen· tal street lighting system, at ctn estimated cost of approximately $300.000. Much credit for the confirmation of the ordinance is due Villag4" Attorney F. B. Crossley who has been devoting himself unt!ringly, and in thC face ()f dPtPrmiru>rf nppn<;iti011, tO the taSk Of pttshmg the onli11an'·e through in the courts: as well as tu 'Prc~\dent Z\p£ who has fought unceasingly O\'er a period of two years to bring !he !mprovement an organization opposed to the board'$ to a successful cull:nmatton. It was suggested plan for the lighting sys.through Pres1d~nt Z1pf th~t a cot:ttr3;ct tem. was secured w1th the Samtar.y d1~tr1ct Cable· Underrround ~or current for ~he prospective hg~tIt i proposed in tht: street lighting Tickets Available for Comes Out u Defender of Matinees Young People Players, give the of the season Monday becerr.her 1, at the New Trier auditorium under auspices Trier Township Orchestral will be almost "popular" it is announced, since there one movement of a symAllegretto from the great Franck's Symphony in D. M-inor. will be three incidental soloists to variety. Carl Brueckner will play ,-inloncello obligato in Massenet's ··tes Erinnyes", and Messrs. Esser :\apolille will give a duet for viola English horn from lppolitoff Ivans "Caucasian Sketches". The Procram The program in detail follows : vcrture-"Sakuntala" (Opus 13) .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Carl Goldmark D Minor ..... Cesar Franck Movement-Allegretto \~.uc:g~eu.v Vivace) from Suite ............... Georges Bizet "Les Erinnyes" (Opus 10) .... . · i>r~i~d~· · · ........ · Jules Massenet Scene Religieuse Finale IOioncello obligato, Carl Brucekner) · Intermission Foreign Lands (Opus 23) .... Moritz Moszkowski Italian German Hungarian for Viola and English Horn from Caucasian Sketches" ........... . . .. . . . . . · . . .. . .. . . Ippolitoff-lvanoff Messrs. Esser and Napolilli Polonaise . . . . . . . . Franz Liszt Matinee Ticketa Anilable management of the Orchestral -~oc1ation announces that tickets for the ining matinee concerts can still be ined from the music supervisors in of the schools of the township or · box office on Monday afternoon. next matinee will be given on the of December 1. Due to the holidays, however, the afterconcert scheduled for January 5, I he omitted and will be made up on ril 13. to the evening series are cd that there is no change in any ing date. The fourth evening conwill be given as scheduled on ~{on January 5. Bishop Edwin H . Hughes of the Methodist Episcopal denomination will be the speaker at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club on November 30. His subject will he, "The Child and Civilization". Bishop Hughes was assigned to the Chicago area of his denomination at the Methodist Quadrennial Conference last spring.. He was formerly located in New England. Headed De Pauw The distinguished churchman first came into prominence as president of De Pauw university in Indiana from 1903 to 1908. He was elected a bishop in 1908. He was at one time a member of tht: Indiana State Board of Education and is now trustee of the Carnegie Foundation. He was chairman of the Committee of One Hundred, which surveyed religious activities at the Panama Exposition in 1915. Author of Note Bishop Hughes is an author of note, having written among other volumes, "Thanksgiving Sermons," "The Teaching of Citizenship," "A Boy's Religion" and "The Bible and Life." He has showed himself a staunch friend of the so-called "modern youth," failing to find anything sinister in !he liberalism and independence of act10n evident in the young men and women of the day. He has come out strongly· as a defender of the much abused "flapper' ' and his views are sought with keen anticipation since he has proved himself an authority on the problems affecting the youth of the nation. Brilliant Orator Bishop Hughes is a virile speaker, never failing with a message of vital i11terest. In addition to being one of the most popular bishops in the Methodist denomination, he is ranked among America's most distinguished orators. The musical program this Sunday will he given by Miss Anna Nyberg. violinist. Ex-Senator James Hamilton Lewis was greeted by a packed church au~i torium in his first appearance a~ a \V!Imette Sunday Evening cluh speaker last Sunday. The popular lllinoisan was accorded a stirriug ovation and delivered a brilliant message in international questions. LEGION AWAITS ANNUAL DINNER I RICHARDSON WIU ADDRESS P. T. A. MEET c. . Norman E. Richardson, head of department of Religious Educaat Northwestern university, will the Howard and Logan school nt-Teacher association at its regmeeting Monday afternoon, Del, at 3 o'clock. Dr. Richardsubject will be "The Christ in Character Development." Richardson is one of the best authorities on religiou s edun in the Middle West. He has particularly active in local rework as director of recent of instruction given Wilmette school teachers and workers auspices of the Wilmette . council. He is intensely interm the Daily Vacation Bible movement which has a branch the Daily Vacation Bible school ducted in the village each summer instance of the Church council. on .Monday is expected to record attendance to the -~eacher meeting, which is to m the auditorium of the new H. Howard school. Adele Savage will lend a holich to the program by giving of Christmas carols. VIllage 1s 111 a pos1t10n to proceed orne ) h h 'II with the spreading of the assessment ment throu~ o.ut_ t e VI age. Wilmette Post, No. 46, of the Ame:i- and actual construction work. Whe~ the ortg~nal_ contra~t f?r cur. · hold 1ts · annua 1 d'mncr · rent D1st instance net excan Leg10n, w1ll Overcome Care Ob' Jecttona . d w1th .t . the Samtary ed at the · 11 ' f ffi t th " ' . . d ' p1re , 1 was renew d 1nsta ~t!on o o cers. a an. e vvomThe last of the ol>)echons were IS- o\ Pre id<:nt Zipf and is now in force. an a c:\ub [buraday eventng, December )posed of Wedneway when an agree. h 1' h+ 11. The date had formerly been an- ment on the basis of a ettlement was . The first hcarmg on t c street 1g ~- nuunced as Monday, December 8. hut I reached between the Village and the mg s y tem dwas o n Tuesdal, randa / the Legion found it necessary to defer Gage interests. 16, I923{ a at~ t.11 at es 1 ~e d the meeting until Thursday of th:~t With court proceedings concluded. "'!ark ~ IC beghmnmg t? an ex en e · h 1ts · diSCUSSIOn on t e QUeS IOn.. wee k. the village can now procee d w1t d As has hcen the custom for several plan to erect 1342 electric street lights Cost of .t~e fystem WI 11 1 >e it~ea _ ax years, the American Legion ~uxiliMy in Wilmette, as provided in the con- over a peno 0 . teh ye~lls on a will serve the dinner, and, w1th past firmed ordinance. able property Ill t e VI age. dinners a,s a c.riterion by whi~~ to_ judge, The ornamental street lighting orMaintenance $20,000 a Ye~r the leg1onna1res are a1~t1c1patmg a dinance was formally adopted by unThe maintenance cost was es~1mated sumptuous repart. Comm1ttees of the animous vote of the Board of Trus- about two years ago a~ approx1mat~ly auxiliary already are busily engag.:!d tees on Tuesday, April17. 1923. Passage $20.000 per year as agau~st ~14,000 w1th with the arrangements, it is announced. of the ordinance followed many the present antiq\lated l1ghtmg system. Installation of new officers will bring months of diligent effort on the pa.rt In a statement to The Lake ~hore State Commander Howard P. Savage of President Ztpf ~nd the trustees Ill News (now Wilmette Life) pubhshe~ to the meeting on December 11. He will working out a fcas1ble plan for street in the issue of January 26, )923, Prest~ he in charge of the ceremonies attendant lighting. dent Zipf had the follo":mg. to say upon the induction, assisted by Fred V. Strenuoua Oppoaition regarding the proposed hghtmg sysMcGuire, 7th district committeeman of This action of the board was in the tern: the Statt: department. face of determined opposition, not so "In order that tl~e taxpayer may have "The attendance of State Commander much to the improvement as to the a clear understandmg of what th_e elecSa,·agc is highly gratifying," declar.:d proposed plan worked out hy the trus- tric street lighting sy te~ that _1s now a member of the Legion this week, "in tees. which was reg-arded as too ex- being planned for our v1~lage w1ll cost, that it is a mark oi recognition of which pensive and involved. please publish the followmg: th> community can just~y be proud. The plan in final form wa~ ~ubEatimate Since Reduced \\ ilm:=ltc Post h_as taken 1~s place ~t t!1e mit ted for ~urvey to Abner R. Kmght, "The estimated co. t is about $335,000 head of the act1ve posts m the d1stnct consulting engineer an~ an ~XJ)Crt on (estimate since reduced to $300,000). If and the members ar~ e~er o_n the .aJ,·rt municipal lighting, appo1nted.m March, the bids for the con truction of this sys~ to make the orgamzatwn mcreasmgly 1923 hy the Village hoard Ill accord - tern should equal this amount it will cost useful to the commm~ity at ~arge." ance wi~h an agreen~ent for such ac- each : property ~wner $1.50 a front foot. A feature of the dmner will be Past tion w1th the \V1lmette C~apter. .. . ·t t' a 50-foot lot wi11 Co~1mander's Night at which time t~e American A~sociation of Engmners, co :'$~. SO11~sf~~~~~~~'oot or $75. Thi can vanous. past ~ommanders of the loc.ll b aid when first payment is due and P_Ost will rccr1ve the customary decor;_ts~v: interest charge~. or it can be p~id Autoists Fire Shot-gun; twn due ~he members who . served m in ten installment of $7.50 each, with mThen Flee as Cop Shoots that capacity. ~fen who w11l he thus hut th entire cost to a 50-foot honored arc Paul Bradley. \\'arren _ t ercst, . l>e $ The roar of a shotgun discharge com_ - . 75 . 1 r . or111 , Mal com I 1\f K h ot owner WI 11 c ere ,1r "The puhlic has ?«.'come. conf~sed by ing to the ears of Patrolman. Josrp_ h I<,wcr, _.,rwm recent published antcles I!' . ~vh1ch t~e Schmidt while he was traveling h1s and Lea J. Orr. \V. D. Elmer, Chicago attorney, co t is mentioned as prolubltiVC. ThlS beat in the north end of Wilmette Sunpassed away suddenly Saturday, Nov- a· .· sessment, like all as~essments, whether day night sent him running to an alley ember 22. at his home, 825 Park ave- ~ off Fore;t avenue between Tenth and nue, shortly after he had been work- for sewer, water, street pavet,nents or Eleventh streets. ing in hi extensive garden plot on sidewalks, must go through certam for~s. Turning down the alley ~e discove~ed 16th street. Depreciation charges are never entertam~ several men in an automob1le. Schm1dt Returning to his home late in the ed. Anyone can figure them elve or the ordered them to halt, but they only afternoon from the gardens, Mr. village, poor or rich. We have abo~t speeded up the car so he fired four Elmer dressed for dinner and, as was $2,000,000 worth o! improvements ID warning shots into the ground. his custom, entere<l his room for a Wilmette; to set as1de a sum for ~e Due to the darkness and the spec.:! hrief rest. He dropped dead at the prcci<ttion would not only take the entire ct the car, Schmidt ~s unabl~ to . get threshold. income of the village, hut would compel the license number of the mystenous Services were held Sunday evening, us to borrow a like amount annually and Dr. Hubert Carleton. officiating. Buri- not have a dollar with which to run the machine. . .. "1 believe they were rabb1t hunters. al was at Davenport, Iowa. village. " Mr. Elmer had been a resident of .. Modern and Beat S:ratem he r '<plained later ~t headquarters. ·:Mr, INS RANCE REPORTER5-MAN In each suburban town an(l beat is overrun w1th the cotton-ta1ls. \Vilmette for about 15 years. Since "The current is secured from the anivillage In Cook County to Police were firm in their belief that hi work was more or less confining, tary District and wht?t installed ·. th cot make confldl'ntlal Insurance the frightened motorists were !n n? way he chose the outdoor life as his hobby. per annum for operatum and mamtenancc reports during !<pare tlml'. State age and occu1>atlon. N. connected with recent burglancs m the He was an expert gardener and hunts- will be Jess than $20,000 a year. The co t P. Gret·n, Oox 192, Chicago. man. Invariably. upon ISi s retnrn f~om if operated hy the Puhlic Service would north section of the village. 11LTN8-6tc a hunting trip, his neighhors rece1ved he so much more that the village could gifts from his generous hag of game. not entertain installing the ystem. Village Attorney Crossley He was a quiet man, intens~ in"Our present lighting system co ts \Vhen you want to Judge "Speech" Contest terested in the welfare of his com- $l 4,000 per annum. . HELP munitY. alwavs rradv to lend a hand "The :;y~tcm contemplated IS th': ~ Frederick C. Crossley, Wilmette vilin civ-ic ach·ai1c ment projects. thou~h modern and best. Every part of 1t wtU Call a Want Ad lage attorney and a member _of t.he never putting himself to the fore m be Wlderground. Your Pr -;idf'nt and faculty of the Northwestern umverslty any movemeut. . . . Board of Tru~tt·e~ would rather ~band~ School of Law, has hecn sele~ted as Dead Line for Cluaified "\Vilmette has lost a splendid e1t1zen the plan than suh~tiltlte a m~k ·shtft. wtth one of three judges to determu~e the and Park avenue an ideal neighbor." high voltage cables carr,ed ~~~ th~ atr. winner of "Why My Town IS the Ada Next Week said Earl E. Orner, village clerk, in "Wilmette needs a good h htmg ~ Best" special contest to be staked by commenting on the untimely passing tern and n cd~ it hadly, an_d when_ th WEDNESDAY NOON the Chicago Real Estate board as a of Mr. Elmer. _... 11 find 1t feature of it-<s annual banquet at the Mr. Elmer is survived by his widow, ystem i. in.talk....,, you WI Rainbo Gardens, Chicago, Thursday 1f rs. Winifred Etmer. Ulf't and not a liability." evening, December 4. Wilmette Post Has Inatalla- ~~:~~ ~s~1i~t:nna~i~tu~v~~a~dgf~~ t~ 'i;:;= sy.stem to have !he cables ut;derground b provement that all objections were w1th a sub-st.at1on erected 111 the. cention Decem er 11 <":entually o:vcrcorne, ~<? that today the ~er of ~h\h~JI~~~·ad~~e ofo!tn ':~~es~C: wts d DROPS DEAD IN HOM£ AFfER DAY IN GARDEN . Chicago business uses OUR WANT ADS