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. November 8, 1929 WI .L METTE ~ -1 FE .· PURCHASE .INCJNERATOR SITE NEAR SKOKIE UNE Board Selects 7lf2 Acre Tract; Authorizes Advertising 'for Contract Bids . l1ringing abruptly to a close months of preparatory study and investigation, the \ViJmette Village board at its meeting last Tuesday night ratified · the purchase of a site for the proposed Village incinerator plant and in _ quick succession authorized advertising for bids on its construction. Announcing briefly the ~.election of a se\"en and one-half acre tract-located adjacent to the Skokie Valley line of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railroad and bounded on the east by Laurel avenue, on the north by Greenleaf a\"enue extended and abutting the K uttcn Brothers coal yards on the south- Trustee Hans von. Reinspcrg. chairman of the public service commit tee of the board, moyed the execution of a contract for its purchase from ?\f r. and Mrs. T.h oma s F. LeahY for $25.99-t.SO. . Start Work in December This re solution unanimously appn)\·ed by the board, Mr. von Rcinsperg introduced another resolution to authori7c Superintendent of Public \Yorks C. C. Schultz to advertise for bids for the r·liJst ruction of the plant. Thi s also " ·as accorded unanimous support. l "I1dn present plans, the hid ~ will he suhmittrcl to th e board and the sdectinn of a contractor made earlv 'in tiH· month of Drccmher. Actmil nJll~tructi o n work \Viii follo\v as soon thcrl·ai tcr as conditions will permit and \\"ill he projec ted with a view of placing the plant in opcr~ . tnn at the Yer~ · L ·arlicst possible moment consist<:Ilt \\·ith economy and efficient con~t ruction. The incinerator will haYe a capacity oi about forty ton s per twelve hour:-., ;tltllou,t.~·h. of ·course, the amount of matl·rial t o he clisposrcl of will not require its operation at any one time fnr :1 pl'riod of that length. It will embody eyer~· principal and feature of the most modern units of its t~·pe, a careful stu dy of some of the finest plants in the country having been condt1ctcd by ~fr . yon Heinsperg and his CtHllmittee. Engineers and operator. of plants similar to the one to he built herr sta te the cost of operation is w·ry light :lnd that practically no odor is gin·11 11ff during incineration. Easily Reached (\HJ~idt·ra hie difficult\' has at tended thr sekction of a site, <lt1c to opposition on the part of rcsirlcnts in the Yicinity of other si'trs tentatiYely agrL·ecl upon. It is bclicYc'tl, howcn:r. that the present location \\·ill mcl't the appro,·al of the entire. village. \\'hile it is located in the far western section of the \"illagc. transportation C)f tnatcrials to tl1e plant will hC' facilitated hy paved roads anrl C\'l'tl in thl' wor~t \VCather it maY l>c :ll)J)r<)acllr<l b~p trucks ""i thottt di{ficttlt.y. 1~he site \ras 1>urc11asc<l at a rate of $3.500 per acre. the purchase bring made with bonds, issuance of which was authorized by the voters in a special election some time ago. They'll Entertain C. of C. Banquet Guests Gold Dust Twins (Comedians) Alma Clausen (Prima Donna) J. H. Hudson (Speaker) Frank Salerno (Singing Instrumentalist) Howard and Hill (Comedy Act) HESE arc a few of the artists and entertainers who \viii make things lively at the annual \Vilmette Chamber of Cl1mmcrce banquet next Tuesday night in the auditorium of · the \\'ilmette Masonic temple. Three hundred are expecterl to attend this festivity. T Premier Quartet (Singing Instrumentalists) ~ICE IS ~COUT PRESIDEN.T kalph H. Rtce was elected prestdent __ 11i the \Vilmette council. Boy Scouts p 1 D Ed d t s k t E r · A · ~1 d · I x-.. l a ·mer . . Hmun d s os h pea1 aM xe lit ... mcnca, 1v on av n1g 1t, 1'.0\'Cm >er d · 0 0 -t. at the annual meeting held at the ct~es m owar c ? .~ ay \ "illage hall. Other officers elected for Ntght Sponsored by Leg1on Auxd1ary the coming year are: Dr. D. W. Rapp, Armistice Da\· will he fitting} _ ,. ohrict·-president: James B. Hoffman, :;crve d jn \\'ilmett c Monda\· night. Notrl'asurer, and Frrd H,·e. sccrctan·. ,·cmhcr 11. \\"hen a program sponsored ~n r rt ttututuutttunttllllllltttt t tltlttt tllltttrrtt l lttrrr :r l ttt l ttlllllllllltll tlll llllll lll~ h \" the American Legion a uxiliarv of ~ · -~- f>ost No. 46 is to be given at the Howard school beginning at 8 o'clock. IARMISTICE PROGRAM Dr. W. S. Beard to P.r esent Message at "Thank Offering" The annual Thank Offering meeting of the First Congregational church will he held Wednesday, November 13, with Dr. William S. Beard, of New York City, as the principal speaker. Dr. Beard is a graduate of Yale college and Yale Divinity school. He has heen minister of the Congregational churches of Durham, N. H., and Willimantic, Conn. During recent years he has been a prominent official ~f the Congregational denomination, having acted as secretary of the Commission on Missions and more recently as chairman of the Laymen's Advisory committee. He has charge of all of the men's work of the denomination. l >uring the recent convention of the Congregational church held in Detroit he organized and was the toastmaster of a banquet at which 3,000 Congregational men were ~athered. Dr. Beard is in the Middle West at this time directing the "Plan of Advance" of the Congregational church. His subject at this meeting will be "Some Men Who Have Never Died." The meeting will be preceded by the serving of the regular monthly parish dinner at 6:45. The dinner will be served by the Cozy Corner Circle. An offering will be received at the close of the dinner which wilt be devoted to the benevolent work of the church. Mrs. E. L. Scheidenhelm, missionary vice-president of the Woman's Guild, will preside at . the meeting. ARMISTICE DAY If it is a battle to sell Declare PEACE and use · Classified. \·~RY _ - ~= = ~- ' ~ ~== == _ _ - UNUSUAL QUILT, BOTH in design an<l size, e~peC'inllY adapted for an antique postet· he<l. Also re}Jroductions of antique footstools and small tabl~s of nld solid walnut. Phone "'inlll'tka :{4:?li. -· Annual Sale and Supper at St. John's Thursday The annual sale and supper given it: St. J ol1n 's J,ttt11cran chttrch unclcr direction of the Ladies' Aid society, is scheduled for Thursday afternoon and evening, November 14, beginning at 1 o'clock. The event will be held in the Sunday school rooms of the church a! Park and Wilmette avenues. The various circles of the Aiel society wilt have booths and the young pcopie's societies in the parish wilt also assist in the 'sale. Supper is to he · served from 5,:30 to 8 o'clock. - -· _ _ _ ~llltlllllltmlunnuluuuuutuuuuunutmiuuuuluuuulululuuuuululumuE - _ PalmerSupreme D. Edmunds, recently appointed Court cummissioncr, \rill give a patriotic address based \.m the findings of the Tllinois Americanism cnmmission which he headed last year. \ ' illage President Earl E. Orner w11l speak for the community. The \Vilmette Drum and Bugle corps \\'ill plav "To the Colors." The Girl Scouts wilt carrv the flag, and the Boy ~couts will serve as a color guard. In an unusual program of old songs, not . quite forgotten · and later songs -"·hich columns of khaki-clad men end\..~arecl to An1crica, the at1die11ce will 'in' over again in memory the stirring ' f:1 \ 'S of the last three wars. Some of the music of the Civil war ·,rriod ,,,ill 1Jc give11 l)v Miss Florence Farrar. Miss Helen Smith will revive the Spanish-American war period in a 1rroup of songs, and Miss Adelaide Tones will introduce the World war in the song, "The Americans Come," and will give the audience an opportunity tn sing with her on one or two of the choruses which stirred the nation ten vcars ago. Wilmette's war dead wilt be honored at the conclusion of the program when there will be a few moments of silence and taps win he sounded. ·