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· WILMETTE . March Publishpd weeklll bll Llolld Holltater Inc.· 1111-1!36 Cet&tral A"e·· W.Zmette, JU,RoC.. u, 19!-J, at the J'Oit oJif,ce at WUmette, ImRofa, BRtered CJa ·aecOftd claa' waatfer ·Rder the Act of March 3, 1819. BvbacHptf<m ,nee 11.00 CJ 21ea~. LI VOL.XVII.N0.48 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 24, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS Begin Main Street Widening Job in Three Weeks 1550 PUPILS PREPARE FOR NEW SCHOOL TERM Seaaiona of Autumn Term in Public Schools to Begin Monday, September 10 Public schools in Wilmette will open Monday, September 10, or two weeks from next Monday-with an approximate enrollment of 1,550. The estimated number of students who will attend the . six schools in the village is: Central, 230; Tenth street, 280; Stolp, 215; Laurel, 130; Howard, 415, and Logan, 280. The first meeting of teachers has been set for Saturday afternoon September 8, at 2 o'clock in the Stolp school library. All teachers are expected to be present at this meeting. Builcliqa Ready The various school buildings are now being made ready for the opening of the 1928-29 term. Workmen have been cleaning them and making necessary repairs. Construction · of the· new addition to the Howard school has been delayed but is expected to. begin about September 1. The paving work on 17th street, which is located in front of the building and on the driveway which runs up to the building, has been completed. Supt. ]. R. Harper, who has been spending his vacation on his farm near Hartford, Mich., is expected back about the first of September. . Miss Mabel I. Park, his assistant, who is now on vacation in vVisconsin, will ~]so be back at that time. Moat T eacben Return Most of the Wilmette teachers of last year will resume their work here next . month, although a few have transferred to other schools or have made plans to attend colleges or universities. The new teachers include : Miss Roena Mulford, of Chicago; Miss Nellie Moore, who has been with Dr. W. S. Gray at the University of Chicago; Miss Orrel Davis, also of Chicago ; a new librarian not yet chosen, and a new second grade teacher to take the place of Miss Dorothy Nash lt the Howard school. Miss Nash expects to attend the University of Illinois. Miss Lulu Johannsen, who has been in Germany on a two years' leave of absence, will teach in Wilmette again this year. Miss Marjorie VanHorne, who has taught here before but was called away because of her father's illness, will also be back. Following is a list of teachers in the Wilmette Public schools for the coming year : Howard Sebool Lowell F. Todd, principal; Mrs. Elizabeth Hesse, kindergarten ; Ruth . Slown, first grade ; second grade open ; Marjorie VanHorne, third grade; Margaret Loftus, fourth grade ; Lois Berry, ftfth grade ; Roberta Corcoran, fourth and · ftfth grades; Aleda Larson and Betty Scheidler, sixth grade ; Mrs. Clara Groves and Violet Madsen, seventh grade ; Mrs. Pearl P. Jones and Mrs. Lucy Stalling, eighth grade. Laurel Sebool Mrs. Virginia Delana, kindergarten ; May Whltmack, ftrst grade ; Mrs. Gladys B. Herron, second grade ; and Mrs. Lena Butts, thifd grade. Logan Sellool Mrs. Julia Davenport, kindergarten ; Regular Go-Getter · NEW . BUSINESS GOOD Wi~tte BOARD WILL G1l BIDS State BaDk Caraeria $511,· 035.34 iD ReceDt Campaip; ManbaU C. CorDa Topa AU Competitora oN·HIGDAY SEPT. 4 Court CoafinM ~t (Continued on Page 7) 52-foot Coacrete Panment; Listed under the he~ding of new business we have the sizeable sum of County Aida $591,035.34, all of which has been garnered within the space of about What is heralded by Wilmette offithree months or, to be exact, from cials as the most important municipal May 22, 1928 to the fifteenth .day of impro_yeme.nt p_ roject. since the . ins~al August. lation of the electnc street lightlDg Referen. ce is, of course, to the "New syst~m, is destined to . become a reality Business Campaign" brought to a high- within six_ty days with all le&al and ly successful close last Wednesday at other preliminary work ~avi'!g been the Wilmette State bank. deared away for the wtdemng and Competition was keen and the re- paving, of Main street. Actual wor~ sults of the campaign encouraging be- on this project, entailing an expen<byond the fondest dreams of the direc- ture oJ. approximately $200,000, is extorate and officers of the local bank- pected to be started about Septen;-ing house, one learns from ]. M. Bud- ber 15. ' inger, cashier. Individual honors went The Village board Tuesday of this . · o Marshall C. Corns, who topped all week made known the fact that seal~d 'bmpetitors by achieving his quota the contractors' proposals for the Mam most times and finishing more than street widening and paving improve.500 percent above his original quota ment ·would be publicly opened at the of $15,000. meeting of the Village Boar5l of Local The .team of Carl E. Clifton and Improvements Tuesday evening, SepC. W. · Schaefer also came in for spe- tember 4, a.t which time, it is ex~~cte~, cial recognition for· having made more the contract for the work wtll be than 300 percent of their quota. awarded. Marshall C. Corns is the recipient George Estes ·registered an individual Confirmed in Court . of coqgratulations at 'the hands,. of his The assessment for the Main street record exceeding 200 percent of . his fellow bank workers these days 111 conhnprovement received court confirmasideration of his achievement in ex- original quota. tiun along with that pertaining to t~e Startling as it may appear, every Tenth street paving project (north ceiling all others in the Wilmette State Bank "New Business Campaign" which employes' team in the bank showed bet- from Chestnut avenue to the Vill!lge terminated last week. Mr. (orns~ on ter than 100 percent over quota in limits) all obstacles to both enterprtses the employe list in the campaign, exhavina been surmounted only after an ceeded his original quota in the drive the campaign. extended legal battle. "The remarkable success of the Betby more than 500 percent. 'fhe new 52-foot concrete pavement ter Business campaign is, of course, will extend from the south limits of largely ·to the splendid co- the village to the south line of Elmattributable Air Mail Now the Vogue operation of the people of the vil- wood avenue. Thf! proposition to widen in Our Town Says Shantz lage artd vicinity," Mr. Budinger de- and pave the street throughout its The amount of air mail going length-or the Kenilworth south through the Wilmette postoffic': has clared, adding-"we owe a debt · of limits-was abandoned several months increcued one thousand per cent since gratitude to all who by their help have ago when negotiation~ concerning the the new rate of five cents for the first indicated their continued confidence in codemnation of the trtangular so-called ounce and ten cents for each additioJ1al our bank." "Demflsey tract" at the north extremounce went into effect on August 1, ity of the street t~reaten~d to delay according to Postmaster Joseph E. the improvement mdefimt~ly. PresShantz. Mr. Shantz also &.tated that ident Orner and the members of the for the entire Chicago area there has Village board were determined to inbeen an increase of eighty per cent in clude Main street on this year's street the volume of air mail since the first improvement program and therefore GOOD PRINTING of the month, vo.stal department figresorted to the plan of terminating thtis a source ures show. widening at Elmwood avenue. T.he street is to eventually connect wtth of gratification Kenilworth's section of the proposed Board of Improvements to the -one north shore highwav extendi~g to Hear Street Petition throughout the township, paralleli~ who receives it A public hearing on the proposed the Chicago and North Western ratland a source widening improvement of Twelfth. way right-of-way on the west. of profit street between Lake avenue and Cen. CoUDty Paya Bi· Portion tral avenue has been set for Tuesday, By pushing the present widening to -the one who Sept.ernber 4, at 7:30 p. m. in the co';lnprovram, the Vitla~e will ~ffect a cil chamber at the village hall. Actton sends it out great saving since 40 feet of the 50on the matter was taken at the meetfoot width is to be paved by the Couning of the Board of Local Improvetv Highwav department, the cou~ty ments, Tuesday night. to defray the cost of that proportiOn of the imorov~ment, leaving a 12-foot strip- to be paid for by assessment of Police Chief Leggett on the benefited property. Vacation in Northwooda Should weather conditions be favorChief Charles W. Leggett of the able the new hi&"hway will be comLLOYD HOLLISTER Wilmette police department left last pleted early in the autumn, it was Thursday morninl[ for a two weeks' INC. estimated. automobile trip in the woods of northPrintna a4 Publiahtra The Main street improvement brings ern Wisconsin. Mrs. Legge.t t and Wilmette 4300 the total of completed and contemtheir daughter, Dorothy, accompanied olated local imorovements to approxhim. Capt. Henry Brautigan will be imately $1,000,000 for the current seain charge during Chief Leggett's ab. 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