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] anuary 4, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 3 'm,~~cVfVE~ON _A~t_s_un_d_ay_C_lu_b ._I New Organization Meets Every Tuesday Evening; Outline Program January 8 Members of the Girls' Athletic club, an organization composed of the members of the Tuesday night gymnasium class at Howard school, will inaugurate their yearly outline of activities at the first meeting Tuesday evening Januray 8, at 7 _ :30 o'clock. The executive committee of the group, composed of Miss Dorothy Smith, 1437 Wilmette avenue, presi-dent; Miss Naomi Price, 1333 Was!lington avenue, secretary; Miss Marcella Kummer, 1706 Washington avenue, treasurer; and Mi ss Joe Skidmore, recreation assistant in charge of women's activities, has prepared a complete year book of activities which the club members will follow each Tuesday evening at the weekly meetings. Beginning January 8, the first meeting of each month will be devoted to track practice and active workouts !n all field and track events in which women are eligible to enter. The second Tuseday evening is to be devoted to ·volley ball and indoor practice, the third meeting of the month will be devoted to stunts, gymnastic feats, pyramid building and other active gymnastic accomplishments. The fourth is tournament night and ,,·ill be featured by some meet or competitive sport. The programs are so planned that everv minute of the two and one half hours the class me et s some activity will be going on. Each meeting will open with a short business session \vhich \vill he followed by a short period of formal \\·ork. After that an hour will he devoted to practice on the special event scheduled for that en~ ning'~ program and the final hour will he left for free practice in all branches of athletics. A noint svstem has been devi se d where-in each- member of the class will he working to be the high point winner of the season and at the same time will he storming for the group in whi ch she has been designated to C0111!1etr. No awanl s will be made hut the individual member who " ·ins the highrst number of points, and the group which ha s accumulated the highe st number of points will he special guests at an opf'n program or banquet tn he held at the end of the season. Points are given for attendance. winning events in track meet, winning events. in swimming meet, l)eing a mrmber of a winning team. sportsmanship and reliability. The club has an initial membership of thirty-four. The membership wilt be untin1ited and wilt he ooen to anv unmarried girl resident of \Vilmette or employed in Wilmette. C. E. Drayer ·loins ____ Officers' Staff of Bills Trust Company The Bills Trust · company anounces the election of C. E. Dr~yer as it;; secretary. Mr. Drayer has had twenty years experienc~ in engineering, finance, trade extension · and public affairs. He is a native of Ohio and graduate of \Vestern Reserve univers.ity at Cleveland. Mr. Drayer first met the Bilh brothers while Wilmette Village trustee, in helping to expedite public improvements in Indian Hill Estates so that the fine homes projected for that property could be built. Mr. Drayer, it is stated, felt it his duty as a public officer to help hring to fruition this property as pl<!nned in order that the rest of the annexed Wilmette territory n1ight benefit by the standards set by the Bills interests. He also suggested to Benjamin Bills the advantages from planting Indian Hill Estates with tree5. As a result of the suggestion more than 1,200 six-inch trees and shurbs wer·.! planted at a cost of over $43,000, helping to make Indian Hill Estates a home development of national renown. The Bilh Trust company was chartered in July 1928 with a paid-in capital of $290,000 for the development and management of real estate investment trusts and the performance of general investment banking service. There are two other Bills organizations, namely, Bills .Realty, Inc., and Bills Brother,, Inc. The former i_s the parent compally and now doe s a general real e3tate brokerage business and syndicat e:-. Loop and near north side property. company which dttring 1928 constructed Bills Brothers is a building construction more than $500,000 of residence3. The Bills Trust companv offers the usual facilities of a Trust company and is specializing in real estate trust~: . It also ;;upplies the essential machinery for taking fitle to properties securiPg home purchase contracts. Directors of Bills Realty. Inc., recently voted ail increase of capital stock to $650,000 t0 provide addi~ional cap,ital to deal ir'. home purchase contract paper. Th~ combined paid-in capital and paid-in and earned surplus of the three companies i:; over $1,000,000. · ELECT OFFICERS JAN. 7 AT C. OF C. SESSION John H. Daviea Heads Slate Selected Recently by No...W .. ating Committe.. The Wilmette Chamber of Comme'rce will hold its annual meeting and eleetion of officers next Monday evening, January 7. The nominating committe,. of the Chamber ·announced at the Derember meeting that John H. Davies, Wilmette contractor, had been nominated for president to sucl:eed Emil A. Nord, who served in that capacity dut>· ing 1928. The slate of candidates presented by the committee includes the following: for n.resident, John H. Davies; for vice-president, D. E. Allen, .J r; for treasurer, Dan G. Stiles; for members of the board of directors ( two-yea_ r term,) Emil A. Nord, Dr. C. B. Blake, Robert M. Johnson, and E. E. Griffis. Further nominations may be made from the floor Monday. Terms of the folk>wing directors, all of whom were elected for a period of two years, have expired: Dr. C. B. Blake, Henry B. Gates, Lloyd Hollister, and A. C. Wolff. Directors elected last year, whose terms run over to January, 1930, are: J. M. Carrico, Dr. Floyd ·L. McGrath, A. C. Pearson, and Carl C. Renneckar. Officers and board of director members elected on Monday will be installed next month, when the annual banquet is to be held. .I l r Dr. Alonzo Ray Petty, pastor of the Baptist temple in Philadelphia, will be the speaker at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club January 6. Dr. Petty ranks with the foremost preachers of the age. His subject ·will be: "New Thinking for a New Day." One Auto to Every Four Persons Here; Records Indicate , ' v\ri!mette's 15,000 residents own 3,565 passenger automobiles, or one automobile to every four persons, according to vehicle license figures for 1928. Of the total of 3,565 permits issued for such vehicles, 3,385 were for automobiles under thirty-five horsepower, and 180 for those over thirty-five horsel,)ower. A significant feature which th~ figttres show is the almost total absence of horse-drawn vehicles in the villages. Only five permits were issued durin ~~1928 for this type of vehicle. The remainder of the licenses issued were divided as follows: motorc\'clcs, POSTPONE BOARD MEETING 3; light delivery trucks, 180; heavy The Village hoard postponed its regtrucks, 24. and motor coaches, 1. · ular meeting from Tuesday to \VedNew automobile license plates made ne~day night this week because of obtheir appearance in the village this servance of New Year's day. week. The new plates have maroon colored figures on a black background. X mas Mail Pieces Approach Million; Hand led in 5 Day~ The Wilmette postoffice handled 905 020 pieces of first class mail and 1,960 sacks of parcel post during the VISITING IN WILMETTE Mrs Margaret Magill Fread and children, Tommy and Jean, of Lincroft, N. J., are spending the holidays and the month of January at the home -------of Mrs. Fread's parents, the Rev. and Legion.,·airP.s Will Meet Mrs. George P. Magill, 1011 Lake aveT uesdav Night, Jan. 8 nue, Wilmette. The Magills and Freaus The meeting of Wilmette Post, No. soent Christmas week with Mrs. Ma46, American Legion, for 1929 will be gill's mother in Kankakee. started Tuesday evening, January 8, at St. Augustine's Club house. A complete report of the party at Great Donald McMillan S.,eaks Lakes will be given at this session, acat New Trier Thursday cording to Post Commander Harvey Hoop, who adds that "other future Donald McMillan, famous Arctic events wilt fore.cast their coming by explorer, will tell of his experiences shadows." at a special as5embly to be held at New Trier High school Thursday, PetitionerA Ask Board. to January 10. Mr. McMillan lectured Permit Bowling on Sunday at New Trier in 1926. He has lived in the Arctic region for two yean A petition was presented to the Wtland will bring with him motion picmette Village board, in session \Vedtures and stereoptican slides illusnesday ni~ht, asking that bowling a)leys be permitted to operate in the Ylllagt' .trating his adventures. The lectnre is free to students. Adults will he on Sundays. There were ten stgner_;;. charged a small admission fee. Mr. The petition was referred t0 the ottbl1c McMillan is also scheduled to speak service committee of the hoard, of before the Wilmette Sunday Evewhich Trustees Hans von Reinsperg, ning club the Sunday following ~is is chairman. The present vitla~e ordinance prohibits tl e operation of bowlvisit to New Trier. ing alleys on the 1abbath. five days from December 18- to Decem lwr 23, accordin'!' to figures con)piled this week by Postmaster J oseP,h E. ~hantz. 'fhts was the largest volume of Christmas mail ever sent through the local postoffice. Mr. Shantz states. The incoming mail was con.;ic<.>rably heavier than the outgoing. A total of 5-lS 127 letters and Christmas cards wa's rec~ived in the village during the fiv~ ,.t~. Y neriod. while 359.893 were sent out. Incoming parcel post set,cks nun~ bered J.,uv6, whtle there were 952 outgoing sacks. Postmaster Shantz stated this week that the unusually large volume of mail was handled. promptly in spite of the fact that his office was laboring under difficulties. Three regular clerk~, two regular carriers, one substitute clerk, and seven substitute carriers were ill during the rush period. High School to Resume · Classes Monday, Jan. ~ You can't say you've gone as far as you can go, until you've made use of the New Trier High school students w~ll return to their classes Monday, J aquary 7, after a two weeks' Christmas vacation. Registration for the secoqd semester will be held Monday aqd Tuesday. .It is expected that most ol the students will be able to resunw their work next week. A large nuntber were absent with colds and inftqenza during the week preceding the va- ~ cation. RETURN FROM EAST CLASSIFIED AD PAGES T bete,s no end to their possibilities. Miss Lillian Domg, registrar at New Trier High school, and Miss Anne L. Whitmack, librarian at the Wilmettt' Pttblic library returned to their duties Vvednesday of this week after spending the holidays at Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Annapolis, Richmond, Willchester, Va., and other eastern points. The two young women _visited relatives and friends of Miss Doing while on their trip. J