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WILMETTE LIFE April 9, 192o vears. past .t h e pla nning , building and equipf)ing of the A rth ur H . Howanl school at Seventeen t h st r ee t and Spencer aven u e, re quir ed all the funds. avail able to your boa rd. "Now cond itions h ave changed. The school district n ow h as ·a . bondin~ power of about $88,000, wh1ch , after July i, will amount t o nearly $100,000. T h e most important improvements for housing facilities for your ch ildren have heen provided or are p lanned for the immediate f ut u re. Mor eover, the school grounds at every · site, except the one mentioned, arc adequate for the present needs of your children in physical education work. ASK VOTERS TO GIVE CHILDREN PLAY SPACE School Board Directs' Letter to Parents Requ~sting Favor of Land Purchase . The annual \Vilmette school district election ·to be he ld at the Vi ll age halt, Saturda'y afternoon, April 10, from 1 to 5 o'clock embraces an issue of very great importance to the community, in addition to that of the select!on of School hoard members, name ly, · that of authorizing the board to issue bond" to the amount of $42,000 for the purchase of 220 feet of land north of and adjoining the Byron C. Stolp school. · Hcrbnt B. ~~ ulford. president of the board, is a candidate for re-election as i Enoch Steen for member: Phillip E. Sig-ger., of 15.B Highland a\"CllttC, is seeking election for member to succeed ~Irs. Edith ·B. \\'hitehill. who is retiring. The Board of Education, over the .>ignature of its members, Herbert 13. Mulford. president.; J. R. Harper, secretary; Hcnr.y E. Cutler, Lincoln C. Torrcy, Enoch Steen, Emma M. Boddie, Edith B. Whitehill, and J. W. Fisher, Jr., has issued a comprehensive circular letter to the public. appropos of the need for additional playground space and the proposed honcl issue to he voted upon at ~~c election n;xt Saturda,-. The ltttt'r ts addrc~sed 'To the ~lothcr an<; 1·a~lwr" of \Viimtttr," and says: Need ia Urgent · · "Under these conditions your Board of Education has decided that there is an urgent need to acquire the properties aggregating 220 feet frontage on 'fcnth street immediately north of the Ihron Stolp school and to remodel tl1esc grounds for the outdoor physical training of t hr vt·rv larp;c hody of school 'children no\v. being- educate<! at that center. -·'Accordingly. at the r('gular annual election of ,·our school district to he held Satunia\' afternoon, April 10· from 1 to 5 o'clock, there will appear 011 the ballot a proposition to· author ize ;111 issue of $42,000 bonds to ma turr scriallv from 1932 to 1945, and to hear interest at not more than 5 per cent per annum, the proceeds to be used towards acquiring such propertics. Your hoard is unanimously in iaYor of this bond issue and of the completion of the prnfect which it will · make possible." I ! · · Our Skill in Fine Rug Cleaning makes po~sib 1 e a distinct saYing in your expensiYc floor covering-s-skill that" often pcrmib DH.Y CLEA~IXC as well as washing. Would Beautify Premises TIH· hoard also rxplains that it i"' planned. as an incident to this program, to landscape and beautify thr Central avrnue and Tenth street parkwavs and front vards of these . chool. if the propcrtics. arc acquired. "Thr present condition of the~c frontages." the hoard's letter adds, "constitute a puhlic eye-sore which cannot he remedied as long as the school children have no other place for recreation · and physical training at thrse ~chools." - -- - - - -\fr. and ?vfrs. Ralph C. ~{oulding oi 1025 E lmwood avenue, announcr the birth of a daughter, Marjorie Jane, Tutsday, March 30. Xi!hian)Jros. 1145 Greenleaf Avenue Wilmette, Ill. T elephone Wilmette 1200 Study P ·h y sical Education "For an entire ,-ear nmr Board oi Education has l;een ·studying the ~hortcomings of your schools in respect to physical education. Every authority it has consulted has expressed· the opinion that the school p;rouncls ·at the Central-Bvron C. Stolp group at Tenth street a;1d Central avenue, arc so inadequate that physical education cannot he properly conducted there. \ [any citizens, as \.veil as the presrnt and past boards, have recognized this shortcoming, hut heretofore the school district has n ot been ab le financia ll y · to app ly any remedy for t h e !"lituation. For severa l > ··························· WEDO I I · WASHING and GREASING Keep your car looking \Ve.IJ and running well. This can be dope by having it thoroughly washed and thoroughly greased. Let us "vash it and grease it, and you 'll think it's a ne\v car! 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