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I',.- "aeb· -up WeiP"rf .. ~ J: ..... ..,,.,;J. · ay. Zl-28, ,......... \Vilmette's fire loss for the fiscal year just ended was reduced by 50 percent o!er a similar period a year ago, accordmg to . the annual report sub· mittd to the Vjllage. board this week by Fire Chief W~Jter · Zibble. The' total fire loss during the past fiscal year was $.0,828.60, an average of $96.68 per fi.re, or a·· per capita loss of 70 cents. Valaahle Prenatioa Work Fire prevention work done by Chief Zibble. and his men, which inchades regular inspection of possible fire haza~ds and construction wor~, together w1th the excellent fire-fightmg equipment at the command of the local depa_rtment, was .largely responsible for t h1s _phenomenally low fire loss, representmg fifty percent reduction over the past year. The local department answered 112 al;tmls during the year. Total' valuation of property involved was $733 430 with insurance coverage of ~· Calls were classified as follows : · p-..._ Claui&ed L--------------__. Open Playground Summer Sch. edale Monday. lu11e 18 Wilmette s u m m e r · playgroul!d schedules will open officially by June 18. Four playgrounds will be operated this summer, according to Daniel M. Davis, director of recreation, each playground to be supervised by one or more experienced and well-trained workers and instructors. Playgrounds will be maintained at Vattman park, the Village Green, Laurel school grounds,. and the Wilmette beach during the hours from 9 to 12 o'clock in the morning and from 1 to 4 :30 o'clock in the afternoon. The activities will· be much the same as those' incorporated in the programs of last year, embracing handicraft, swimming, sand modeling, soapcarving, stencil-cutting, paper work, story-telling and supervised athletics and games. · There is no charge for any activity conducted by . the Playground and Recreation board and the summer program has been arranged so that free swimming lesson's will be given by an experienced teacher. Instructors at all the playgrounds have not been employed as yet with the exception of Miss lfae Witcher, instructor at Vattman park, who will again supervise the work there. ' · I The . week of May · 21 · has been . officially . designated "Clean-Up Week" in Wilmette, by the Village board. Th . action was taken Tuesday of this week. . Authorization of. "Clean-Up Week" followed the reading of a communication from the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce suggesting a eo-operative effort on the part of all citizens · in making certain that the winter's accumulations of rubbish will be . cleared away during or before that period.. The Village department of public works wiD assist in car~ing · away accumulations from households deposited in the alleys at the rear of the premises, it is announced. A feature of this year's "CleanUp Week" will be the inauguration of the new motor-driven street sweeper which will be making its regular rounds of the streets before . · that period. H?uses, 32 ; prairie fires, 32 ; auto· mobiles, 14 ; stores, 6 ; garages, 5 ; barns, 4; sheds, 3; school houses 2 · elect~ic poles, 2; coal yards, 2. ' ' Ch1ef Zibble's report included recommendations for additions of mirtor equipment and repairs. The total expense of the department during the year just closed was $12,905. "Four-a-.uay I"'L.. " F. . Keep ll'el Fire Department on Jump . Sunday and Tuesday were busy days for the ~ilmette Fire department, the boys bemg called out four times on each of the days. Sabbath activities started with an alarm from the Fred Nitto Uphoh tery shop at 1238 Central avenue where material used in the shop had become ignited. Little damage was caused. This call was followed shortly by .another alann from 1329 Ashland avenue where a furnace provided more smoke than the flue was able to carry off and filled the house. No damage was incurred. An automobile at Ridge and Wilmette avenue oc-casioned the third run while a rubbish pile at 714 Greenleaf avenue caused the last run for Sunday. After an uneventful. Monday, activities were resumed Tuesday with a call ·to the Piggly Wiggly store on Central avenue where a pile of boxes had become ignited. Little damage was done. A run to 1345 Elmwood avenue resulted in the extinguishing of fire which destroyed a portion of a pile of new lumber. The blaze started in a pile of old shingles which. had· been removed by workmen from the roof of the home in preparation for reshingling. · Slight damage was done · to a . barn utilized by Frank Wilson as a garage and located at the rear of 1118 Central avenue in the third fire of the day. The. last alarm was caused by a prairie fire at 914 Chestnut street. M~mbers of the First Congregational church are to hear President Edward Smith Parsons of Marietta college, Marietta, Ohio, at the morning worship service at the. church Sunday, May 6. President Parsons is · a graduate ·.of Amherst college with 'the , three degrees: A. B., A. M., .and L. H · .D. He holds his degree in theology, that of B. D., from Yale university. He has been pastor of the First Congregational church of Greeley, Colo., professqr of English at CQiorado college, dean of Colorado college .and associate secretary of the War Personnel board of the Y. M. C. A. From this latter position he was elected to the pbsition which he now holds. He is editor of "Milton's Minor Poems" and author bf "The Social Message of Jesus." The subject of President Parson's sermon will be "Listening In." He is considered to be an effective speaker and a dynamic preacher. ADDRESSES OPTIMISTS At the weekly luncheon of the Optimist · club Tuesday, May 1, Dr. George P. Magill, president of the club, Kave a very interesting talk on the Optimists clubs of the southern and southwestern states, which he visited on a recent trip through that territory. Mr. and Mrs. 0. C. Eastman, 1027 Elmwood avenue, entertained the H. and W. club at dinner Tuesday eve.niag. PREACHES ATM. E. CHURCH Dr. R. D. Hollington, professor of preaching at Garrett Biblical Institu)t will give the sermon at the Wilme : : r~~ish Methdoist church, Sunday mormng, 'May 6, at the 11 o clock services. l)r. Horace G. Smith, the Improvements ·Board Puts pastor, is atiending the sessions· of the Conference of the Meth0. K. on 3 Alley Pavinga Quadrennial odist denomination convening this Various ~lley paving improvements month at Kan~ City, Mo. were recommended at the meeting of the Village board of local improve- 0. K. DAY·iRHT SAVING TIME ments in session· Tuesday of ·this week Dayllg~t Saving time for Wilmette following pubilc hearings on the pro- was officially· authorized by vote of ~ose~ projects. The alleys in ques- the Village board in session Tuesday tion mcluded : . · · . · of this week. · ",.,. ' The first alley north of Lake avenue between Fifth and Sixth streets, cost, Town Folks" $3,349 ; the first alley north of Lake "Ye avenue between Wilmette avenue and May 17 Seventh street, cost, $13,856; the first · T~h~ ann. u al meeting and dinn~r alley south of M_ aple avenue between of "Ytf Olde ·Town Folks" of Wd14th and 15th streets, cost, $3,789. Alley improvement projects aban- mett~· will be held this year on doned, owing to objection from a Thursday evening, May· 17, at 6 :30 majority of property owners involved, · o'clock, in .the auditorium of the were the first alley north of Lake ave- Wilmette Masonic temple. nue between 1J.th and 12th streets, and · ·1equ and y~r family ·a re welto enrolt 'as members if 'you the first alley south of Linden avenue come'" have resided"' in Wilmette prior to between Tenth and Eighth streets. the year·)903. Invitations have been mailed and REAPPOINT ATTORNEY if ypu do not · receive one, and deCharles H. Jackson, Wilmette Vii- sire - tC\.,-:;enroll, please phone the lege Attorney for the past four years, treasurer, W .. N. : Waidnet, Wilwas reappointed to that office by Vil- mette 3497, promptly. · · lage President Orner at the regular The annual dues are one dollar Village board meeting Tuesday of this with an additional dollar for supweek. The .apointment was confirmed . per resenratj9n. by the board. f Building construction in Wilmett during th~ fiscal year ending Mardi 31, 1928, totalled a valuation of $2,276,.-; 538, according to the annual report ol C. C. Schultz,· superintendent of public works, read at the meeting· of the Village board Tuesday eveni~g. One hundred and twenty-six of the 337 permits issued dutirig the year were for new residences representing a total valuation of $1,840,400. · : : Superintendent Schultz supplemented his repOrt with several recObi.tnenda_. tions in the interests of his . depart.. ment. Outstanding among these was thd request that the Village board take immecJiate steps to establish an incinerating plant for .the disposal ol garbage. The present disposal method of dumping refuse in pits on vacant property has not only become archaic but, with the rapid development of the .ar~3 . in. the ..west _ of -.the- v.illage, pre!..: sents .an increasingly s~rious h!altb problem, he decl~ted. · .. __;- .:..-·-· ··· Or.r Aab Actioa President Orner also emphasized the necessity for immediate action to establish an incinerator so that it might be utilized at the termination of the present garbalfe disj)osal' contract next December. Repainting of ~II lamp posts and fire hydrants in the village was also· recommendecl by Mr. Schultz· . He suggested in this connection ·that .t he hydrants be painted in the same dark green color now U!'>ed on the la~p posts. Woalcl Pu.h Street Pa.iaa Purchase of two small caterpillar tractors. to be used for snow-plowing, were also included in Mr. Schultz's recommendations. · The board's comprehensive paving program, including such important thoroughfares as Main street, Park avenue.· Lake and Forest avenues and other streets, should be carried through this season, Mr. Schultz sfatect. He also requested that the Streets and Alleys committee of...the board consider 'fhe feasibility of ~utting back corners at ~ario.tis street ·Intersections as an aid to the constantly increasing motor traffic, and, more particularly, the fire apparatus. -- Glencoe Man Booked for Leaving Scene of Cnab ·Edward . Peterson of Glencoe was booked on a charge of. "leaving the scene of an accident without reporting it" by Wilmette police following an accident at about 3:50 o'clock Sunday morning at the intersection of Hibbard -road and Lake avenue. T·he case was set for last Thursday afternoon before Magistra·t e Daniel M. Mickey. The accident occurred, according to the police, when the Peterson car and another machine driven by Joe Balmes of Wilmette collided head-on. Both cars were badly damaged and the Peterson machine was forced into the ditch by the impact. Peterson, it is said, leaped from the car and disappeared. He was arrested at his home later. His companion, Gus Adolphson, also of Glencoe, remained with the car. None of the occupants of either machine was injured. · OWe . AmUal .binner VII r AGE CLERK ILL Lea J. Orr, 1002 Greenleaf avenae, recently el~cted Wihnette Vi~ Clerk, has been confined to his home for several days suffering a . severe attack of inlunza. · .-:: · - · :··