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VOL. XVII. NO. 17 ·:·WILM.ETTE, ILLINOtS, JANUARY 20. 1928. .\Vedn.esdaY., · February 1, when the ·members · of . the league will have a The Village theater, mecca of north social evening, with Lionel ltobertson sh0.re movie fans since June . 20, 1914, a~. the speaker.. )latz hall, Community will close its doors forever as a theater House, where the paintings are hung, tomorrow evening. . The building has is open ·every Sunday afternoon . from been sold to James T. Wray, 57 Cres- 3 to 7· o'clock ·and every week-day, cent place, W.ilmette. · ~xcept during the moving p i c t u r e R~ . M· . Johnson and . company .were shows on Tuesday and Friday afterthe .brokers in the . transaction. . noons. · ' · · · ' : .: ·Press of · other business ·atlalrs ·During. the · ~pening . reception, held prompted ··the owners of the theater Thursday evening, January 12, stucompany . to · relinquish the enterprise, dents from the Chicago Musical col. according to a statement issued by the lege played chamb~r music. A number offic.ers ·o f the company, of which F . .of .dances were givei1 by pupils of Mrs. . J. Seng is p_ resident and E. F. Kelly, Mildred Haessler of . Ravinia. These se-cretary. .The same company owned included two Greek nuntbers; Mozart ~~· building and operated. the theater. So· nata, . number 16; a cla~sic waltz · · The Village theater . was more than (von Weber); Beethoven Mmuet; and just a .theater. . It was, in fact, a com-· Bavl~va Gav~tte~ The dancers were muitity . institution, a place where one Hildegarde · Balke,. Katherine Bohrer. met neighbors at the . "show" in a Harriet Colden, and :Aiice Simpson, all IIJOSt congenial . atmosphere of neigh- flf Ravinia and . Highland Park. f»9rliness~ · · · . . .· . · Great Medical L·ier e1 ··ballra :' W"'lllaette MOYie Hoa.e. o,e.d . The . e~hibit of pamttngs by the Maadato17 Upoa Owaen in 1114,.Sold; N- to Be.Re-· · ·i1ieri1ber's· of the . North Shore Art The prevalence of rabies among the to Relate Mal 1el1· · .,' openec1 u n.ter · 1eag1le will be open to the public until dogs of the north sh9re, ·especially in ..... · Sto~y e1 to. W-tl ·i ·~ ; north Evanston and the west portion of Wilmette, prompted the Wilmette Village board at its meeting last Tuesday night to instruct Village .attorney Charles H; Jackson to ·prepare an ordinance making it mandatory upon ·all owners of dogs in the Village to either have their animals inoculated against the disease or muzzled. The action followed the reading of a· communication ·from Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings, state director of health, in which he set forth the fact that rabies is in evidence throughout the state and advising ali municipalities to take immediate .steps to protect the general publi' akamst the menace. . Citee Local Sbatioa Dr~ F. B. Erwin, Wilmette veterinarian, was asked by President Earl E. Or·n er to explain the situation in Wilmette. Dr. Erwin stated that with· in · the past week three positive ~ses of rabie5 have been discovered in the west section of the Village. Two of these· were defined as "biting cases," or cases in which the animal attacks someone, and the third as a "dumb c3se"· where the animal is so affected a·: to be unable to bite. In addition se.veral similar cases have been found in Eyanstoll ·and Chicago, Dr. Erwin stated. He strongly advocated requiring inoculation or muzzling of all dogs allowed to run at large in the village. Pending the completion and passage of the ordinance the police are maintaining a strict vigilance of all dogs roaming · the streets of the village. Strays are being picked up and disposed of whenever one is discovered having no owner. · Girl ·· Bittea The most recent case where a person has been bitten by a dog occurred last Tuesday when Miss Dorothy Lee· ge~t, 1ZI Ninth street, sustained lacerations inflicted by an animal said to be owned by people residing at 109 Ninth street. The dog has not been determined as rabid, however. It has been definitely established that rabies infected dogs have bitten two grown persons and a child and several other dogs during the past few days. 1'he story ·of a great human service ,. done by a big-hearted physician, an told by him in a wonderfully hulila way, is the lecture by Sir Wilfred, T Grenfell, ·who is to speak at the Wit~ . mette Sunday Evening cl~b, Jan~ · 22. It is .to be accompanied by . sev· eral thousand feet of motion pictur · film, in illustration~ etf this epic 'ltOrX~ of the rugged northland. · ·. ( For thirty years Sir Gr~nfell hd--' braved the rigors· of .the l.Abr.cJor.._ cH"':Imate, giving unselfishly· , to · tiumani~:; tarian work among the fisherfolk an4f' the trappers. The bleak and · barrea:· coast of Labrador ·has made ·6fe un · : believably hard· for its inhaf,itants.i:: The sturdy descendants of Devon a Dorset, Scot.;h and Iris~ .fi~l!e~e who came over during the ·last · fo centuries, have been prac.tic~lly. . tot o froin contact with civilization. · Th small reside.n t ~p~~a~j9n is ~~~ each summer by some · twelitt'·' tHou sand deep sea fisherme· · f southern Newfoundland, No~· . :;eo· and the Maine coast. · Pr«M11idnt share of.. the- ·~4?J:J4's, .w,~ r~~tH41· courageous worken, . -who . i;~..J _. own r;lce and religion, sufta;ed 1111t hardships in bleak ilorthlands a waters beca'!s~ . th~ rdl!t.,~g- ~~..ac · cepted perqUISites for man«( . ancf bCMl were utterly .lacking. Not tven simplest fonn of medical and surgic aid were available. . . . . . . . . . Ia .~· In l81JZ, at the suggestio._ of Lonf. Southborough. Sir Grenfell· ~ .lnt~ visited· the coasts of Labrador ant£· North Newfoundland in a hospit..~~ sailing ship to see if medical an~ surgical service could be established.~ From this .simple beginning bas..~. during the past thirty .years One of;~, the JUeatest miuionary centers of th ~ world. \ When the .winter ice _ cuts. oft ~~m-fr munication with the · outside . ·world ~ and thr floating population has de·: ·parted, boats are laid up and part of . t eams the hospitals are closed. Dog · are then used and long · patrols estab-. lished. Swathed in wind-proof garments,· the doctors of the Inter.national Grenfell association and their. helpers travel over hundreds of miles of wind-swept and icy barrens, or the frozen bays of the North Atlantic. . The press of the Eqlish-speakinR world for year.s has eagerly published accounts o{ Sir Grenfell's really romantic story. Unsought honors have been bestowed upon him in this coontry · and EQI'ope-. At. the opeains of the ·new St. Anthony hospital this year-the crowning achievement of his busy life-King George of England conferred on him the knighthood of the Order of .St. Michael and St. George. .Oxford nve him the only honorary M. D. which that university has ever ·bestowed; 'he was made a Fellow in the American College of Surv.eons. and Harvard has given himi its hOnorary M. A. NEW RABIES YliAGE .THEATRE Ill Invite Public to ·Paintings by Villqe 8oud ·T.... Stea- · Maire CLOSE DQORS TOMORROW. · :View · ·.North Shore Folk laocalatioa or M-.. of Ca·i_. · :o..--.. · 11ts ' Back in · 1913 Edward F .. Kelly, now . .. .!lied . ·ID· Auto' living at . 1100 Elmwood avenue, one aut ·.. day .remarked to· F. J. Seng of 435 Funeral services for . Leo H. Puis, Ljake avenue that he was about to rent ?159 Eastwood aven.ue, Evanston, who a store · or hall and secure a motion was fatally injured in an automobile picture ·machine in order to provide accident early last Friday morning, the young people of the village ·witl:t were held from the St. ~ary's . chur.ch wholesome entertainment. Mr. Seng's itf Evanston. Burial was at Calvary rtply was: · ce01etery. "Let's build a regular theater and Mr. Puis, who is well known on the ...ve a real show house where all the north shore, received the injuries which vallagers .can find entertainment." resulted in his death when his car Thus, the Village Thectter company struck a safety island and overturned came intQ being. at · the intersection of Ardmore and . The playhouse was termed the Vii· \'A/estern avenues in Chicago. His wife lage Theater, according to Mr. Seng, be.; ".lnd son, Jack. were also injured in the caus~ the heart or commercial center crash but will recover, it is said. of the village was then, as now, re- 1--------------ferred to as the "village." The remark of town-bound residents then in vogue still prevails : "I'm going over to the village." Ope..l ia ..... 1114 Saturday, June ~. 1914, was a memorable day in the community, for it marked the formal opening of the Village theater. From that day the theater management has adhered strictly to the p()licy of showing only the· best grade first run films. The ' · ·.· · · · · · y ' management has repeatedly received instruction from the company officials to co-operate in every · manner possible with club social and civic organizations in furthering the best interests . of the community. At every hand sincere regret has been expressed over the closing of the Village theater. . Children, whose particular delight was the twice-a-week matinee, as well as the older folks, had come to regard the "Village" as essen- . tial to their entertainment needs. Its central location and convenient distance from the home made it especially desirable for amusement expeditions by the "whole family" to witness the "first show" and get . home in time to get the youngsters "tucked in" in good sea· son. · L. H. Pt·la ·of Evanaton c--h · comi.._ 1- . ......... . · · · · , ......... . I' IMD, .......... RBBD , See Page 29 · R · ....___ LibniT ecei'V'el 1 ma: · Shipmeab of New IJooka Fuaia Tomoi'I'OW Tomorrow night at 11 o'clock Milton Hoskings, organist at the·· Village · {or more · than a decade, will close n the lid on the console and ManJoe Kofpel will turn out the and sea the fatniliar pottals._fot. time. Toe hd ·! ·' 1 · · · · .... ·' . .. ··'· lliiiiiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii ' Three orders of new books have been received by the Wilmette Public library and are now ready for use by patrons, it wu announced this week by Anne L. Whitmack, librarian. One of the allotments is composed of books that are not recent issues but are nevertheless in great demand. Another consists of new and old books for children and the last includes. verv recent titles for older people. All three Jots have included the very best of interesting reading by both cont e m p o r a r y and older authors and should prove inviting to local readers. Miss · Whitmack says. ~ A large ~umber. of books are be.ing M'r. and 1· Gibbs of Brim- . sent ·~way for rebinding, having been field .. Ill.· are vis1tinR at the home o . in circulation for some time and ha,·- Mr. Gibbs' brother-in-law and sister--: ing become so worn as to need protec- Mr. and Krs. Charles E. Hotze of 741 . tion egainil fbt'Uri.a;ife~ . . 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