Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Dec 1928, p. 40

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; WILMETTE 'LIFE December 14, 1928 I ·) The Unusual Gift .i An imported frame or portfolio for your Toloff portrait. These are our own importations and sell for much less than you'd pay elsewhere. $1,000 Memberships . _ Host~ss at Ball · PopFula_r CWith f!'borld I .__----------=-.· a1r . ontr· utors Chicago World's Fair workers, under the direction of General Abel Davis, vice-president of the Chicago Title and Trust company, and Stuyves-. ant Peabody, head of the Consumers company, are busy securing enrollments in the $1,000 founder membership campaign, announced Sunday by Rufus C. Dawes, president of the centennial. So many applications have been received for the $1,000 founder memberships that it has · been decided to raise $1,000,000 for the .fair by admitting 1,000 to that status instead of selling only 100 of them, Mr. Dawes said. General Davis and Mr. Peabody comprise a sub-committee of the fair's finance committee which includes : Samuel Insull, president of the Commonwealth Edison company, chairman; Britton I. Budd, president, Chicago Rapid Transit company; General Davis; Charles F. Glore, of Field, Glore and company; Joseph E. Otis, president Central Trust Company of Illinois: George Pick; Attorney Daniel J. Schuyler; Colonel Albert A. Sprague of Sprague, Warner and company; H. L. Stuart, president of Halsey Stuart and ccmpany, Clement Studebaker, Jr., president North American Light & Power company and George \iVoodruff, vice chairman, ~ational Bank of the Republic. To date, 129 persons have paid for $1,000' memberships in the fair, fiftyeight of them having been elected to membership at the last trustees' meeting on December 7. Mr. Dawes announced. ·· It's Time to Plan Now for that photograph of your family reunion in the Christmas holidays. · Our Photograph· Lioe Forever 518 Davis Street Phone Univ. 2178 JosEph D. To1off PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS Mrs. James Franklin Oates, as president of the North Shore Advisory board of the Illinois Children's Home and Aid society, will preside as hostess over the annual charity ball to be ·staged for the society's receiving home in Evanston, Tuesday evening, Dec. 18, at the Country club. TALLEY RECITAL SUNDAY · Miss Marion Talley, Metropolitan CHRISTM.ASGIFTS Our comprehensive stocks carefully selected are full of pleasing Gift .:sugges,. ·· ·.:· · · · tions, including ':" ~ · · · Beautiful China Tea Sets, Breakfast Sets~ . Service Plates, Dessert Plates, Cups ·a nd·:'1: ·· Saucers, etc. · ·. . 1 ... 'l .. . ~ opera star, will appear in recital at the The Reading Circle met at the \omt Auditorium theater, Chicago, Sunday of Mrs Robert Stoddard, 524 ; Lake evening, December 16, at 8:15 o'clock ,a, venue, Wednesday for luncheoP:~ "if"' \ . . ~ · -. An Idea Crystal Drinking Glasses, Salad Pial!;;in. :-. - either clear or colored glass. ~ Center~ · ~ pieces, Candlesticks and ComportS·'f.or :~fie Dining Table in the most :brltliatit ·: :;_·. · · '" !}..·. ·~ .. . ~... ·· <·· .-·· ·· '"· Crystal · -.\-' t ' . ·· ,·..,. . ~.., I. straight from Santa PERHAPS there's no greater authority on stockings than Santa Claus. He sees millions of them and knows the good quality hosiery that is hung up by boys and girls who get theirs at Pool f1 Piper's. Santa has been telling this to lots of parents and aunts and big sisters, it seems, because so many of them give Pool ~ Piper hosiery each year as their gift, too. Small pieces of furniture, such . as Tdf'·' ·· ~ · :.I"··. Top Tables, odd Chairs, folding' BteaiC~ . ·'! '\f.~rb fast Tables, Suit Case Stands an<f-: $mift:; ~k-! "'r.t~' Tables in nests of three, some ef: which. have glass tops. Also Lamps, Wooden Trays, Mirrors, .. . Magazine Racks, Photoghaph Boxes and··· ·:~<t ~r.: ~ hundreds of imported novelties that suit perfectly the small remembrance gift. t. . .. ; ~· · .L .. .... : · .,.~, .' r_;; .{ . . ... . .. ' "" .'~-;---· . ~ ·. ~· ,~ , - i TAT" M AN "The Hotis~-· &/ --, . ·- G;ft,, ·. . · - .::: -. ·lt4C· . EVANSTON, .. -:.. ~ 517 DAVIS ST. CHICAGO, 625 N. MICHIGAN -·-- _. ...,"'---.-----···~- ....... -- - .. ... AVE. . CHJLDR.E~S SHOE SPECIALISTS Evanston -·- - ---·-

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