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A Weekly News-Magazine for Wilmette and VOL. XV, NO. 50 KeniltiJOrt~ PRICE FIVE CENT 3 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 10, 1926 AWARD CONTRACTS FOR BIG WEST IMPROVEMENT Sewer and Water System for Former Gross Point Area to Be Under Construction Soon DEMAND PROSECUTION Request Bids for New Gymnasium at Violators of Awning Ordinance to Be Hailed Into Court by Order of Board the High School of Trustees The Board of Education of New Trier High school is .seeking bids on the construction of the new gymnasium unit which is being planned, and announcement is made that a11 bids are to be filed by September 21, and that contracts wilt be let soon after that date. The architect is John Archibald Armstrong, of Glencoe, representing F. S. Warner and W. R. McKannel of Cleveland. The consulting engineers are Noler and Rich, of Chicago. It is expected that the excavation for the structure will be completed and the foundations laid bv the first of the year. The location ~f the large new gym which has been planned is between the new power plant and the g-irl.s' gym, facing Essex road. The building will be 1,000,000 cubic feet content, and is to be 200x270 feet in dimensions. According to R. L. F . Biesemeier. of .buildings and superintendent grounds. the new power plant is now practically completed, and is ready to be put into operation. Another big construction job which was completed this summer is the new gridiron for the stage. 1575 CHILDREN WIU GO TO SCHOOL MONDAY Nine New Teachers Added to The time limit granted Wilmette Staffs of Public Schools; Dabusiness places in the matter of having via Directs Athletics awnings on commercial buildings suspended not lower than six f~et, six The \Vilmette schools will open The \Vilmettc board of local Improvements Tuesday evening awarded inches above the sidewalk level, as re- Monday, September 13, for the fall contracts for the installation of water quired by ordinance, expired Septem- session, when it is expected that ap- · and sewer systems in that portion of ber 1, the Village board was reminded proximately 1,575 students will be regWilmette lying west of Ridge avenue Tuesday evening by Trustee Clarence istered, and about nine teachers will and formerly known· as the Village of Drayer. Prompt prosecution of all be added to the staff. The construcGross Point. The successful and lowest bidder for property owners who have failed to tion work on the addition to the the work of installing the water mains comply with the ordinance in this re- Howard school is well under way, arid gard was forthwith ordered by the it is hoped that the section will be and hydrants was Charles M. Porter, for use early in January, ac- . board and the matter placed in the ready of Maywood, Ill., whose bid was cording to word from Superintendent hands of Village Attorney Charles H. $153,476. J. R. Harper's office. The successful and lowe st bidder for Jack son. Miss Henriette Blackwell, first the sewer contract was the Roy S. That the ordinance referring to grade teacher at the Laurel school has Spaulding company, of Chicago) which height of awnings was not being com- resigned to study music in New York, was awarded the contract on its bid plied with was brought to the atten- and Miss Lulu Johannsen has also of $177,158. tion of the trustees at their first meet- resigned for the purpose of spending ing in August, when the board mem- a rear abroad. The instructors to be Ei.rht Bid on Water Job The eight competing firms for the bers were told that a request for such ad.ded this year are Alice F. Stevens, compliance, made about a year ago, Mrs. C. B. Julien, Helen Hardick, Ruth water system contract and the bid had been quite generally ignored. It C. Slo\\'n, Marie Fox, Trenna Lucille submitted by each, follow: was stated at that meeting that the Scott, and Lucy Reeser. E. A. Yahr, whose bid was approxsuperintendent of public works had imately $160,000; E. R. Harding, $189,Have School Librarian measuted the. overhead clearance of all 390; Earl . Knight, $169,202.50; T. made oral request one or awnings and _ H. Igleheart, $166,494; Roy S. For the first time there wilt be a more times to have the low ones librarian in the schools. Alice F. Spaulding, $155,222.50; Charles M. raised; also that a similar appeal was Stevens, from the State Normal colPorter, $153,476; T. J. Prendergast, made through a speCial committee of lege at Oshkosh, will take up this posi$164,920.25; Cannel Conrad, $177,557. the Chamber of Commerce, and that tion. She received her A. B. degree Charles M. Porter and company, the the police had given special .warning at the University of Indiana and B. S. successful bidder, in the above list, is at Simons college. At the present to the violators of the ordinance. an old established, reliable firm, which time, every room has its colle·ction of has, in years gone by, done consider"No appreciable number of awnings books, and it will be Miss Stevens' able work of this nature for the vilhas other effort have been raised, nor Contracts for the paving of twentytask to catalogue the volumes and put lage of Wilmette. The company is five or thirty alley blocks in Wilmette, been made to establish clearance," them in one place where they can be one especially equipped for work ·of read a committee report presented to will be awarded next spring, accordthis nature. the . board at the August meeting. easily found. She is to organize liThere were only ·two bidders for the ing the present plans of the Village "Thus, it appears that all measures of braries in all the public schools this · sewer contract. E. R. Harding, whose board, President Orner stated this patience have been used and exhaust- fall. bid was $179,169 and that of Roy S. week. Two of the new comers, Miss Phillips ed, and it now appears that other The awarding of contracts in the steps must be taken to insure the and Mrs. Julien, will teach in the CenSpaulding, $177,158. spring and the grouping of the sepa- rights of the public." · Veteran at Work tral school in the sixth grades, while Miss Hardick, Miss Slown, Miss Fox Spaulding was in charge of sewer rate alley improvements combine to and Miss Scott will probably teach the extension work for the City of Chi- bring a remarkable saving to the aslower grades, third, fourth and fifth. cago for several years, and his firm is sessed property owners, President Or- Board Awards Contract is announced. A school .n urse wilt thoroughly conversant with this class ner explained. Contractors' bids, he for Alley Improvement it be added, and a physical training pointed out, are always more moderate of construction. The Village board of local improve- teacher, Lucy Reeser, who will work The scarcity of bidders for the sew- in the spring when the bulk of the Tuesday evening awarded the in all of the schools. ments season's work is planned than is the er contract is said to be due to the fact that it is generally known that case in the autumn months when all contract for paving the first alley west Daniel M. Davis, recently appointed this is what is termed a "wet job," are rushing to complete their jobs he- of Main street and extending from Recreation director, who has been orthat is, it is a district underlaid with fore unfavorable winter weather sets Wilmette avenue north to Lake ave- ganizing a prpgram of play for the vast quantities of shifting sand, which in. Spring contracts. therefore, re- nue to W. H. Goelitz, the contract fig- entire community this summer will be every firm engaged in this sort of sult in a direct saving to the prooerty ure being $10,800. This is $1,208 less in charge of the athletic program for than the orig_inal estimate of the vil- the schools. Plans are being made to work is not e<;:uipped to handle. owner. lage engineer, which was $11,288, the organize a football league of the gramThe bids, on which the contracts Filing of alley paving petitions with were awarded, represent a big saving the Village board in the late summer actual cost after the attorney and en- mar schools in- Wilmette, and if the· to the Village. The estimate on the or early autumn provides sufficient gineering fees were deducted. This proposal meets with the approval of sewer project, after deducting the at- time during the winter season for all improvement will be made this fall and the board of education, the teams torney's and engineer's fees, was the preliminarx legal proceedings to will, as President Earl E. Orner says, promise some interesting competition $182.620, and that on the water main be completed so that actual construc- virtually complete the task of "pull- this · fall. and hydrant contract, after similar de- tion work can begin promptly when ing the central business district of the village out of the mud." ductions, was $191,891.50. the weather breaks in the spring. "Highlanders" Demand Work Beaina Soon It is estimated that the property "Avenue," and Get It Work on these dual projects. it is owner realizes a saving of approxELECT BOWLING OFFICERS said, will be begun early this fall, and imately 25 per cent by this program of The Wilmette Ladies Bowling league After all these years, while the proud it is confidently expected they will spring alley paving. last Thursday · evening elected Mrs. home-owners have been calling their have been completed early in 1927. The B. ·B. Udell president at its annual attractive thoroughfare, "H;ighland contractors will not be hindered by election of officers. Other officers avenue," it develops that the correct rch Begins anything, except sub-zero weather, Baptist Chu. chosen at the meeting were Mrs. Jack designation was Highland street. being prepared to push the work Schaefegen, vice-president; Mrs. HarDevotional Study Series The painters who applied the new through ordinary winter temperature. ry Gaither, secretary, and Mrs. Matt street labels on the corner lamp posts Wednesday . e vening, September 15, The installation of water and sewer Conrad, treasurer. have named it street-following faithsystems in the former Gross Point area will mark the inauguration of a week fully the wording of the village platrepresents the initial step in the re- of devotional study at the Wilmette DEATH TAKES MOTHER but it won't be that way for long, for clamation of a territory which has Baptist church on the general theme ]. C. Gapen of 919 Elmwood avenue 'the Village board Tuesday evening, in never enjoyed these improvements. of, "The Life of Paul." Discussions was called to his home in Monroe, response to a petition from the "Highwill be held at the hour of the regular This area is the first of the territory · · annexed in recent years, comprising mid-week service, Wednesday evening Wis. by the death of his mother, Mrs.,landers,'~ made it Highland avenue forM. T. Gapen, Saturday, September 4.. ever an:d evermore. at 8'clock. (Continued on Page 6) Paving Alleys in Spring Saving to Property Owners