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April 19, tm I WILMETTE LIFE BON. MARTIN L DAVEY Will Speak on Civic P~- T. SUNDAY CLUB $PEAlER _H_e_a_ds_o_P_ti_m_is_ts___. B·aty A. Leaders: Attend Session Former Congressman 'rom Ohio -': K end. 1!~--. t ·:..L& Mrs. W . .n.. rtc k, Mrs. L. . A . Unop-.-.t JIVM:U .1icket . ~ ~~ .... Baldwin, Miss Marie Fox, Mrs. Clara A. Grbves and Mrs. H. Q. von der Hoff are representing Wilmette at the state convention of the Illinois ParentTeacher association, which is holding a four-day session in Mattoon Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday of this week. Prominent speakers who were scheduled to address the convention and the subjects upon which they wiJI talk follow : Dr. L. C. Lord, president of the Eastern Illinois State Teachers' college, "Home and School"; Dr. N. J . Gpuld Wickey, president of Ca.rthage college, uThe Art of all Arts"; Dr. R. L. Lyman, University of Chicago, "Making a Living, Making a Life"; and Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, chairman of juvenile protection, national congress of parents and teachers, "Can Parents Be Educated?" A pageant, "The Interpreter," in seven episodes, given under the auspices of the Mattoon Public schools wit}! the co-operation of the Mattoon Parent-Teacher associations, and with a cast consisting of five hundred parents, teachers, and pupils, featured the Wednesday evening program ·of the convention. Other speciaJ features arranged for the g_ e legates included a trip through the Mattoon Public schools and the Eastern Illinois State Teachers' college, Friday afternoon, a banquet Friday evening at 6:30 o'clock, and play night Friday at 8:30 p. m. led by John E. MacWherter, superintendent of the playground and recreation commission at Springfield, Ill. . of State Body SCHB DlmUCTS ¥ NEI·BOARD PERSO . . . Ballot in District 31: M....Wma in Diatrict 40 Henry E. Cutler, 407 Central avenue, was elected president of the District 39 school board in Wilmette Tuesday~ April 16, at the annual school election. Mr. Cutler received twenty-two votes. George H. Redding and Mrs. Ernest H. Freeman were elected for full terms as school trustees, with twenty-two and twenty-one votes, respectively. Frederick A. Lind, who will fill Mr. Cutler's unexpired term on the school board, received twenty votes. There were no opposition candidates in the District 39 election. The retiring members of the board are Enoch Steen, who has served as president during the last year, Gale M. Brooks, and Mrs. Laura W. Durgin. . At an adjourned meeting of the DistriCt 39 school board Tuesday night the election votes were canvassed and the new officers installed. The second Tuesday of each month is the board's regular meeting time. Nicholas J. Miller was elected president of the District 40 school board in a three-cornered fight for that office, receiving a total of 106 votes. His opponents, Fred 0, Nelsen and Paul Nanzig, ~e~eived seventy-nine and twenty-six votes respectively. Joseph Reagan and Joseph Schaefgen were ~lected trustees, Reagan with 101 votes and Schaefgen with ninety-seven. Schaefgen who was a candidate for reelection barely nosed out Peter Carlson, who received 96 votes. John Phillips, the other candidate fot reelection, was defeated . . The total number of votes cast for him was ninetytwo. John Fiegen and William King trailed with twenty-six and twelve votes, respectively. · · : The District 40 election proved to b~ a hotly contested affair this year} when 225 ballots were cast: Last yea~ the total number of ballots cast was only seventeen. H9n. Martin L. Davey of Ohio will be the speaker at the Wilmette s ·unday Evening club · this Sunday, April 21. His subject will be "Civic Beauty and Contented Living." Mr. Davey has a distinguished record in public affairs and as an executive in private life. Born in a small home· made by his father's own hands, he be~ gan a stern uphill battle early in life. ~e earned his education through Oberlm academy by selling during vacations his father's book "A Tree Doctor" in which there was outlined a method' that later became known as tree sur~ery. At 34 he was starting his third term as mayor of Kent, Ohio, his home town, when he was nominated for Congress and re-elected four times thereafter, each time with increasing majorities. In Congress Mr. Davey gave much attention to the conservation of natural resources. He furthered reforesting of idle and denuded lands and conserving the use of water power and the preservation and upbuilding of fish and bird life. He worked diligently at Washington to bring about a better use of the United States Botanical gardens for the extending of boundaries of kno,dedge concerning the plant world. Mr. Davey has been a close student and practical advocate of beautv !n the community, not onlv in the lavout of a town and in the. beautv of its architecture but also in advocating the planting of trees and flowers . · ----------------------------- Dr. D. W. Rapp, dentist, was recently installed as president of the Wilmette Optimist club. He . has been actively interested in Wilmette community affairs for several years and a diligent worker in the ranks of the Optimist club .since its inception more than fi\·e years~ ago. ~inal The final hearing on special assessments providing for the construction of an ornamental street lighting system along a number of streets in the " ·estern section of Wilmette will be held Monday, May 6, at 10 o'clock in the Cook County court. Streets where the lighting improvement is to be installed are :- the east side of Twenty-third street between Lake and Elmwood avenues, the south side of Elmwood avenue from Twentythird street to a point 285 feet west, both sides of Iroquois road from Illinois road to Twenty-third street, both sides of Pontiac road, Pawnee road, Cherokee road, Miami road between Lake a,·e nue and Elmwood avenue. Persons desirin2' to file objections with the court before Mav t) mav appear at the hearing and. make · their defense. Real Estate offices of the members of the North Shore Real Estate board are to remain open on Sundays. The ques tion of keeping open on Sunday or closing has created much discussion among the members of the organization since la·.st October when "closed Sundays" was put on trial. The test lasted three months and at the end of that time it was voted t::> ch<J,nge the rule, permitting the members to remain open on the Sabbath. The discussion pro and con throughout the period mentior~d has waxed warm and it finally was decided to vote a definite ruling at the regular monthly meeting which wa·3 held at the Green 'feapot Inn at Highland Park last Monday. This vote resulted in the decision to remain open on Sundays. The vote stood 16 for and 3 against open Sunclays. Several members did not vote. Thirty-three members attended the Elect New School Board meeting, President Harold Vant preMembers in Kenilworth siding. The next meeting also will he held De \Vitt S. Stillman and Walter H. at Highland Park next month. Andersen. unopposed candidates for membership on the board of the Joseph Sears school. Kenilworth, were elected Kenilworth Board Votes to the board Saturday, April 13, at the Monday as Meeting ·Night annual Kenilworth school election. M·r. A resolution de'3ignating the first Andersen received 40 vote'3 and Mr. Stillman 39. Arthur T. Mcintosh is Monday of each month as the regular president of the board, and the hold- meeting time for the Kenilworth Vilover members are Harry E. Weese, lage board was passed by that board in Mrs. Tohn L. Wilds, Miss Barbara session Tuesday night of this week. Erwin: and John Marshall Roberts. For the last six months the board has Supt. E. L. Nygaard is ·3ecretary of been meeting the first Monday of the month, although the ordinance reguthe board. la'ting the matter specified the second Monday as the regular meeting date. DENY MAGAZINE PERMIT Permission to distribute free in WilGET SCARIFIER BIDS mette a news picture magazine coverBids for a combination scarifier and ing north shore events was refused to the North Shore Rotogravure company grader for the vittagc of Wilmette were of Evanston by the Village board in read at the meeting of the Village session Tuesday night. The Village board Tuesday night and referred to ordinance regulating such matters docs the street and alley committee. The not permit the miscellaneous distribu- purchase of a new scarifier-grader was tion of circulars or magazines of the authorized at the meeting of the board two weeks ago. type proposed, it was explained. Hearing on Street Li11htinfl Set for May 6 Realtors Vote to Keep Their Offices Open on Sundays Butler and Maid Rob Albert Dilling Home A butler and maid who robbed the Albert W. Dilling residence, 545 Essex road, Kenilworth, last Sunday night while the Dilling family was not · at home were still at large Wednesday afternoon, in spite of efforts of Chicago and north shore police to apprehend them. The fugitive pair, Albert Louis, 22 years old, and his wife, Katherine, 19 years old, who had been given employment in the Dilling home several weeks ago, escaped with an automobile, three automatic pistols, and an The ground breaking ceremony fo~ ermine coat valued at $1,000. the new building of the Woman's club of Wilmette will take place at 1 :30 o'clock the afternoon of Wednesday, April 24, just after the regular club luncheon. The ceremony will be com~ menced by Mrs. Frank J. Scheidenhel~ chairman of the building committee. A representative (rom the Church counci' will giv~ a prayer, and a representative from the firm of Grainger and Bot.. lenbacher, architects who de'.;igned the new building, will be present. Mrs; Hayes McKinney, president of the clubj will turn over the spadeful of ground. The committee in charge of th~ · ground breaking program consists of Mrs. Herbert Mulford, chairman; Mrs. McKinney, Mrs. Scheidenhelm, Mrs. Harvey A. Bush, Mrs. James A. Burrill, Mrs. H. E. Poronto, and Mrs. William A. Durgin. The ceremony Wednesday will be short and simple. EVERYBODY's in a hurry these Simple C eremon)' Will Mark Ground Breaking for Club days, it seems! But the Classified Columns of 'this paper offer its readers a ready and efficient guide for almost everything. Here you'll find what you w.ant-easily and quickly. Small cost-effective results! WANT ALLEY PAVED A p~tition was presented to the Village Board of Local Improvements, meeting in the Village hall Tuesday night, for the paving of the first alley north of Spencer avenue from Fifteenth street to Sixteenth street. Village Engineer Charles N. Roberts was instructed to prepare the necessary date providing for the improvement.