Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Apr 1928, p. 43

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- .. _ - ~-- ---·----- ··.,.llo Fi MII/I lit~ · S·"'e, Strea·s aflll o.t CamflaigtJ Hostile eyes are on the mosquitoes in their breeding haunts preparatorv to the opening of actual combat on the pests within the next week, possibly depending on the amount of water in the streams. Fifteen carloads of Mosquito Abatement district trustees and engineers and sympathizers in the war spent Sunday inspecting the streams to the west of here, especially the north branch of the· Chicago rive· which runs up into the Skokie marsh retlion. They found the many places where the streams need cleaning up and spotted a series of blockades in them caused ~y dePOsits of one sort or another. These wiD be removed to permit the ftow of water and prevent the -ostagnant places inviting breeding of The Rev. Elmer Linquist, who bas mosquitoes. been located at Lawrenceville, Kans., doing missionary work among the FiDd Maa7 B....... Poole Near Glenview the inspection party American Indians, was the guest of found storm sewers which real estate Dr. and Mrs. Milton R. Barker of 730 developers. it was assumed, had had Central avenue, last week. Mr. Linbuilt so that they crossed over the quist is a nephew of Mrs. Barker and beds of the creeks and made veritable is now in New York. He came to dams, according to Arthur Stringer, Chicago to give some lectures and president of the district, who was on to talk on his work. -othe inspection tour. Bridges were found in New Trier township built Mr. and Mrs. Walter Purle have iust with wooden supports under the ~teel moved into their new home at 1200. construction which formed stagnant Isabella avenue. pools. -------------- Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Cook· of 211 Broadway anounce the engagement of their daughter, Beatrice Marie, to L Eric Jones, son of Dr. and Mrs. D. V. Jones of Chicago. Miss Cook is a graduate of the University of Illinois. -oThe Alethenia Literary society at Northwestern announces the following initiates : Mary Cole, Adreienne Grant, Peg Carter, Mary Louise Touzelin, Louise Wood, . Virginia Evers, of Wilmette, Margery Mason, Estelle E~1lehardt of Wilmette, Esther Sprenger of Kenilworth, Harritt Helmer,. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Virginia Lee Dunn, Helen Barrett, Margery Banning, and Ruth Kline. Initiation was held Thursday, April 19. The society had dinner at Julien's and later attended the "Chauve Souris." Mary Coyle gave several readings and Dr. Mab~t spoke. = These are some of the situations which will be attacked by the Sanitary district shortly. John T. Miller, chief engineer, and Dr. Herman Bundesen. sanitary commissioner, in recent conference with Mr. Stringer, stated that the work of the Sanitary district in the section west of here will start as soon as the water goes down, possibly by the start of next week. Orders have been placed by the North Shore district for four International trucks which will be outfitted with ~ gallon . tanks to carry the ammunition the district engineers will use in fighting the breeding of mosquitoes in the storm sewers and catch basins of Evanston and the towns to the north. Each citizen is asked to help by watching for possible breeding places for the pests on private property. WBSTIMGBOVSB A UTOIIOTIVB BRAKE. -makes braking a pleasure instead of a task. -a new margin of safety is assured. -will stop yout car quicker-easiersmoother. -no change in your general brake system. · --cannot get out of order. --can be installed on all makes and may be removed when you turn · your car in. -valuable to women drivers and anyone doing a lot of dl'iving. -standard equipment on all fine foreign cars. · . . Let "' demonattate to goa no obllflatton INSTALLED BY Nearly everybody would like to own a PierceArrow. Not everybody knows · how easy it is to buy one how inexpensive to maintain-how the postponement o f Pierce-Arrow ~wn neecue. ership, and the pride that goes with it! ftOII '2900 AT av··ALO A ,;,plifial fotad·g ,., _., ,. · _, pr·ctic·l proceJ·re. Your presnf car t~cccpte4 111 ault ., to t1te foil ....., of ill ~ ~tJlutio& p,.qa-. Y011 _, Jlllrdt- " Pinu-Arrvw _, of ;..,.. if 7"" JAMES G. BARBER 1508 ELMWOOD AVENUE Phone Unit~ersity 4535 EVANSTON

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