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April 19, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 17 Secretary Wilbur . I' ·Heads Better Homes Camp Fire Girls Movement in Nation "---------~ Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of The W ekeacafila Camp Fire 'Girls the Interior, has been elected to suc- group · meet every Tuesday at fourceed Mr. Hoover: as president of Bet- thirty at the Congregational church. ter Homes · in America. President Miss Ruth· Bower is guardian. Hoover has been connected with the Members of the group are: Hope organization since its establishment in Carrol, president ; Annamarie Booze, 1922 and continues his direct personal vice president; ·Janet Mcllraith, treasinterest in it by serving as honorary urer; Jane Horsting, secretary. Eleachairman. Mrs. William Brown nor Potter, Jeane Fisher, Eleanor WilMeloney, of New York, who, with Mr. liams, Katherine Idler, Catherine MunHoover, founded the Better Homes roe, Anne Bayliss, Mary Clark Weber, movement, was re-elected vice-presi- Helen Young, Marjorie Hecht, Flprence dent. Dr. John M. Gries, who was Read, Evelyn Youngquist, Julia Carrol, acting president following Mr. Hoover's M~rjorie WeiHer, Ruth Hershberger, 'Regular value $17.50 resignation in January continues as Lolly Lou Triggs, and Martha Ann treasurer. ] ames S. Taylor, acting Huff. On the waiting list are Barbara chief of the Division of Building and Wiley and Betty Bow.;. Housing, U. S. Department of Commerce, is secretary of the board. Other members are:' Miss Grace Abbott, chief PLAN DINNER AT . SHAWNEE Forty women of the Second diviof the Children's bureau, U. S. Department of Labor; Edwin H. Brown, sion of the First Methodist Episcopal president of the Architects' Small House church, Wilmette, will entertain their Sen·ice bureau: Christian A. Herter, husbands at dinner and a program Out Photograph· Lioe Foreotr associate editor of The Outlook; Mrs. next Friday evening at Shawnee 518 Davis St. EVANSTON Ph. Univ. 21.78 Harold Irving Pratt, secretary, Garden Country club. Mrs. Arthur Schwarm Club of America; Mrs. James J. Star- is chairman of the division. Mrs. S. E. row, president, American Homemakers, Leeman is c.hairman of the committee Inc. : Dr. James Ford is executive direc- in charge of the dinner. tor of the organization. with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Secretary \Vilbur has for several years served as a member of the advisory council, of which Ex-President Coolidge has heen honorary chairman. Better Homes in America is an educational organization established for the purpose of bringing to American homemakers knowledge of high standards in house planning and construction and of small home furnishing. The organization is devoted also to the purpose of helping in the development of wholesome home and family life and of character through the promotion of home music, home play, home arts and crafts and home reading. This moveThis Sale is given to reduce some of the stock that we had in large surplus, ment is commanding the best thought in order to clear our fields for new planting. This stock is strictly first in the country and is receiving the coclass and up to grade in every respect. We are giving our North Shore operation of government departments, national organizations and specialists in home owners the advantage of this stock in preference to dumping it on the bringing its educational service to the department store or mail order market . . Many of the following values are homemaker of modest means. less than half our regular prices. More than five thousand communities, ranging from the smallest rural settlement to the largest metropHARDY PERENNIALS SHRUBS PANSIES olis are participating in this plan of Achillea, The Pearl, Hardy Aster Strong, hardy plants providing eaucational programs for Barberry Thunbergii 18-24 in. Boltonia, Pyretheum Uliginosum, home improvement which ·will have Cornus (Red Dogwood) 2-3 ft., 25 $1.00 Rudbeckia Lacinata, Physotegia their culmination in the observance of Forsythia (Golden Bell) 2-3 ft. Shasta Daisies, Sweet Williams Better Homes Week, April 21 to 27. Spirea Van Houteii 3-4 ft. PEONIES These programs include lectures, deSpirea Tomentosa 2-3 ft. 10 $1.00 White varieties, mixed bates, discussions, and in many places Coralberry 2-3 ft. Pink varieties, mixed demonstrations of well-planned and OTHER HARDY . 6 divisions or 2 clumps well-constructed small homes, suitably ~-or $1.00 PERENNIALS furni~hed to provide practical . examples $1.00 of comfort, economy and beauty. · pHLOX Long Spurred Hybrids, Platycodon Special attention is being given to Red varieties, mixed Centaurea, Montanna, Scabiosa raising the architectural standards of Mrs. Dorr Antonio Mercie 3 divisions or l clump Coreopsis, Sedum Spectible the small home. Mrs. Jenkins Henry Murger Delphinium Belladonna Secretary Wilbur stated that he ac$1.00 Wanadis Jeanne D'arc Wallflower, Rudbeckia Newmanii cepted the office with the approval of Artemisia Lactiftora, GLADIOLUS 10 $1.00 President Hoover, and that he felt the mo'vement to be of far-reaching imassorted varieties, mixed $1.00 portance to the American people. PHLOX $1.00 "More than a million newly married ROCK GARDEN Rhynstrom couples each year enter on the probR. P. Struthers PLANTS CLIMBING ROSES lems of homemaking," pointed out ~ ·. $1.00 Wilbur. "The thousands of local comAnthemis, T u n i c a, S e d u m mittees command the best information Aubretia Hybrids, Phlox Sublata and aid that various great national IRIS Forget-me-nots, Dianthus Caesius TREES organizations, and bureaus of the govGypsophilia Repans, Pentstemon Prosper Laugier ernment can furnish. By means of their Her Majesty Simond's Lombardy Poplar, 6-8 ft. Thalictrum Glaucum, practiced local demonstrations,. they Sherwin Wright Vulgaris Lombardy Poplar, 6-8 ft. Monsignor Ranunculus Fl. Pl. (buttercup) reach not only families who are meetS $1.00 $1.00 ing problems ' for the first time, . but 6 $1.00 others who are striving to improve their home environment and to bring up healthy, happy children, well-fitted to carry on the tasks that lie ahead in our national life." TOloff's Special for MOTHERS' DAY T~ree 6x8 Ptctures $10 Joseph D. To1orf WEEK END SALE CASH AND CARRY SPECIALS APRIL 20 AND 21 NO DELIVERIES- NO PH ONE ORDERS lo· lo· lor 5 lor 2.5 lor Slor 2. lor $1.00 . lor 5 lo· lor Franken Brothers, Inc. DEERFIELD, ILLINOIS West of tracks - at South end of Street Miss Jeanne ·Helen Kuhl, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo H. Kuhl, 630 Maple avenue, entertained eleven of her school friends at a "splash" party and 44 beach d.i nner" at Shawnee Wednesday evening.