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August 23. 1929 WILMETTE LIFE' 3 S TART CONCRETE WORK O NS KOKIE B O U LEVARD Excavation Also Started' on Lagoon Which Will Facilitate Skokie Drainage The long contempla tc.'d S knkic houl~ vard project, particularly that part of it <lircctlv \\'est of \\' innetka, neared reality this " ·eek, when, )..[ onday morning, contractors began pouring concrete. In conjunction \Yith the building of this one-hundred foot highway with a 40 foot pavement, excavation was al~o begun for the fifteen acre lagoon ,,·hich is to facilitate drainage of the Skokie. The dirt from this excavation is to be used for fills and grade nece ssa ry for the super highway through the Skokie. ·. Near North Shore Line The high wav at this point is approximate tv 500 feet east of the Skokie Valley. line of the Chicago, North Shore and. ifilwaukce railroad and the lagoon, which is within the area owned by the Forest Preserve; is located a short distance cast of the new boulevard and a sh ort distance sou th of Tower road ex: tended. The work of laying the concrete slab began at a point about one-half mile sout h of \Villow road and, it is said, will continue this summer and fall to at least a point about one -half mile north of Dundee road , for which clistanc~ the right-of-\Yay has been secured. · It is known as state bond issue road number 57, and is to continue on north through Highland Park and Lake Forest, connecting " ·ith other main north and south traflic arteries. Plan Early Completion It is hoped to complete the r oad very soo n frlHll the county line north to G lem·ie\\' road, and thence on so uth as soo n as right-of-way title dift1culties are overcome. Skokie boulevard connects at th. sou th end with Cicero avenue, at Devon avenue, and has already been built to a point about one and one-fourth miles north of Devon avenue. The work is under the supervision of th e district engineer and George N. Lamb of the Illinois division of highway . .P lays in West . Dry .Dock Toll Runs High as Liquo, r ish Cruisers Meet· Cops Capt. Albert Borre and Officer Joe Schmidt were cruising al~out the Vii- · !age looking for trouble. Policemen ha \'e a habit of cloing that. Besides, it \\·as Saturday night. H. Lc ~Iunyon, 2856 Burlin g st re et. Chicago, and Ruben Lastrow, 846 Lill avenue, Chicago, v;ere also cruising about the Village-but the y weren't lo okin g for trouble. They were already well equipped. Because it ·was Saturday ni g ht. "Hm !" remarked Capt. Borre as the path s of the t\\·o cruisers chanced to eros . . "Hm !" echoed Mr. Schmidt as the police car became a consort or at least an escort to the Lc Mun\·o n mach ~ ne. It couldn't folio,,·, it could merely take the same general course. Somc,,·hat later the tv;o Chicagoans accompanied Capt. Borre and Officer Schmidt to the Village hall. "Liquorish driving-, " charged. L<lpt. ~orrc as he introduced the strangers to the Judge. "Fifty and cost:-;," responded his honor. "Each," he added as an afterthought. "Liquori:-;h it too high. I'll take jelly beans next time." mused Mr.. Le M unvon as he and 1\Ir. Lastro w contributed to the \ 'i llage exchequer. RAVINIA OPERA NEARS ITS BRILLIANT CLOSE Next Week to Witness P rogram of Representative Qperas; Feature Great Star$ By Critic l t is no easy task to select what may be called the "creme de la creme" of the ent ire Ravinia repertoire as it has been presented throughout the season in order to make up a week's program which may be considered as highly repre se ntative of the most popular \\'Ork s of th e list. Yet that is always the aim of Louis Eckstein when the time comes to schedule the season's final performances, and this year, ;tS in the past. he has found. himself rmharrassed hy a super-abundance of highly successful works. However, the prog-ram which will he presented during the \vcek beginning Sunday, August 25, will be out standing in every partiGular, and certain to bring delight to those thousands of music enthusi-asts who, rl11ring the cnrrf'nt season, have hecn loyal patrons of Ravi11ia. Scandinavian Concert The tenth week of the Ravinia season will begin Sunday afternoon, August 25, with a concert of Scandinavian music presented by the Chicago Symnhom· Orchestra under the direction of Fric - DeLamarter, with Mme. · Julia Claussen, mezzo-soprano of the Ravinia opera force s. herself a Scandinavian, as soloist. This concert will be dedicated to the s,,·edish National Society of Chicago, and there will he present on this occasion Mr. Charles S. Peterson, chairman of the societv, and Mr. Ju:;tus F. Mozart. The orch.estral works to he played on this occasion will he representative of such Scandinavian composers as Alfven, Ericksson, Grieg, and Svendsen. Mme. Claussen 's solo group will consist of "Vak upp winsjal/' ~-q· Ericksson; "En Svane," by Grieg, and two foil~ songs. This concert, like all the concerts at Ravinia, will he open to the public and there will be no charge for seats, the general aclm'ission· at the gate covering everything. "Tales of Hoffman" Sunday Sunday night, August 25, Offenbach's fantastic opera. "The Tales of Hoffman," will be given for the first time this sea- l ·· ...... I Residents Acclaim Community Picnic a Complete Success \\'ilmette merchants and residents unanimously acclaimed the community picnic, sponsored by the \Vilmette Chamber of Commerce on \V.cdnesda\·, August 14, the most sucessful of similar events conducted in the Yillage in some time and \H' rc \\·arm this \veek in praising Dr. C. 1I. Eldred, general chairman of the committee in charge of the program. Breckenridge Clark, secrctarv of the Chamber, and the members of the committees through whose efforts the various parts of the 'program \rere conceived and staged. A conservative estimate of the number of people attending the Villagewide frolic, held in the Forc e' Preserve at Glenview. lists more tl.a1 o,OOO participating in the event-s uf the after noon and evening. It is probable that the dance held in the evening attractl·d the largest number <)f residents, as the flo or at all times was crowded. 1ht!'ic for the dance was furnished hv the Gallagher Radio company of Chicagn, which installed full Vitaphone equipment identical with that used in citY theaters and operated it at no expense to the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has also expressed its appreciation of the genero. it.v of the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. which erected the lighting sy-;tem in the Forest Preserve for the picnic. A petttlon protesting against the erection of the proposed Villa.ge incinera tor plant on a site located on Glen,·ie\\· road bet\\·ee n Twenty-second and Twcntv-third streets \\'as presented to the Yillage board at its meeting last Tuesda,· night In· a delegation of resiEnter Final Play in dents from that district. Patri.:k New Trier Tournament O'Shl·a. Gletwiew. road acted as . pokesThe tennis tournament which has man for the group. been under wav for several weeks at tl~e New Trier High school courts will Ohio Wesleyan Professor be completed next Monday when F. \\' . Preaches at M. E. Church Holter and M. Stockton play off t'he finals of the senior singles match . Dr. George Hollister of Ohio \VesStockton quali tied when he defeated E. Ie,·a n universit\' is to conduct the servF. Stewart 6-1. 6-4, 6-1. Stewart had ice s and preach at the \Vilmette Parpreviously beaten Moore, 6-4, 6-2. Hol- ish ~f ethodist church Sunday morning, ter qualified by winning t\\·o love se t:-; August 25. Dr. Horace G. Smith. the from F. A. Emmons and later elimin<1t- pastor. returned this \\·eck from an txing ~. Yoshikawa 6-4. 8-6, 6-2. Xed tcnded motor tour throug\1 the East. Levison " ·a. \\'inner of the boys' singles, He \rill resume his pulpit Sunclav. Sepber 1. with his dcf cat of H. Sudlmr 6-2, 6-3, t em_ Milan Lusk, violinist, returned Friday, August 16. from a three \\'ecks' concert tour in the \\'est to resume his teaching in his studio at his home in \Vilmette the first week in September. Among the cities in which he appeared in r ec itals were Denver, Colorado Springs, and Boulder. On his return, he gave a concert on Antyust 1S at the university at Normal, Ill., which was enthusiastically received. Of his concert in Boulder. · Colo·.. the "Boulder Dailv Camera" \Hites: "Lusk delighted an appreciative audience last · night. Each of his numbers was well selected and he played \\'ith a remarkable depth of feeling. His handling- of the . violin \\'as superb, and his music can only he described by the \rorcl 'exquisite.'" Residents Protest Against Location for Incinerator (Continued on page 37) 6-3. Advertise for Bids on Alley Paving Project Sealed bids on the proposed grading and paving of the first alley north of Elmwood avenue between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets will he opened hv the Village Board of Local Improvement s at its meeting on September 3. aclnrtisement for such bids having been authorized lH" the Village hoard at its meeting last Tuesday night. "White Ballot" Cast for WilliatJl H. Ellis in School Election Spread Joy AN you imagine the pleasure C that ,,·mdd he gi\'l'n should a in\· of the tln,rer. from your garden be suddenly transplanted to the side of a child in a hospital or an old lady in a barren tenement room? Take a fe\\' of the beauties that every clay gi,·e you such pleasure to the FlO\,ye r Guild's booth, either at the Korth \\'estern or Cnion stations. That transplanting will immediately become a fact, that coveted treat a long-to-bc-rc. mem!>ered eyent. I I ~ ( A "\\'hite ballot," consisting of thirtythree votes, \\'as cast b.v residents of New Trier To\\'nship last Saturday in the srecial election through which William H. Ellis. 823 Greenwood avenue, \\'ilmette. was named to fill the vacanc\· in the ~e\\' Trier High school hoard. caused 1)\· the recent death of Arthur ] . Ta\'lor. also of \Vilmette. I m The vote was canvassed bv the New Trier High school hoard at a special I meeting ·held for that purpose last M ondav evening and Mr. Ellis was I formallY inducted into office. Mr. Ellis is ~onsidered to be exceptionally well I fitted for the post he now holds, having been active in civic affairs and or temporarily without a , having held yarious positions on Wilmette municipal bodies. He has mainhome? Why not enjoy the · tained a keen and searching interest in school affairs and is well posted advantages that other readon needs of local educational instituers have found through our tions. Are You A Bachelor? Classified Ads. 'I I FOR HENT- NlCI.:LY I<TI!. HM. East :->ide home. l'h. \Vilnlt:'ttc 1040 . I PREACHES AT ST. AUGUSTINE'S The Rev. Austin Pardue. rector of the Episcopal church at Hibbing, ~finn., \\'ill conduct the services in St. Aul:!ttstine's Episconal church Sund:ty morning, August 25. Dr. Hubert Carletnn. the rector, is vacationing at Post Lake, \Vis.