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January 17, 1930 WILMETTE LIF 'E 21. Precipitous Drop in Building Work During Past . Year Building construction in Chicago and forty-three principal suburbs for 1929 was $280,256,234, according to the building suney department of S. W. Straus and company. The 1928 figure for the same ~rea was $432,659,130, thus indicating a loss of thirty-five percent in yolume in 1~29 as compared with 1928. All the large suburb s, with the notable exception of ] oliet and East Chicag-o, sho,, ed los ses in the comparative yearly totals. Hopeful indication, however ma\' be noted in the fact that numer'ous suburbs made gains in December :-ts against XoYember. The tradition<tl rivals, Oak Park and E,·anston, in December made respective gains of i30 percent and 139 percent over Kovemb~r. The iorty-six comparative suburbs in the Straus report showed a total ,·olume of $4,219,-H4 for December as against $7,025,974 for December 1928, or a loss of .W percent. These same sul .urhs in December, ho\\'CYer sho\\'ed a lnss of only 1 percent as a'gain st XoYember 1929. For the !·car, the fortY-three coalparatiYe suburb s did a Yolume of $77,W/J.-t34 as compared \\'ith $116 859130 ior 1928. o r a loss of 33 percent.' ' X e\Y Trier \'ill ages showed precipitous drops in building operations in 1()29 from the 1928 record. The figures iollo\\· : Wilm e tt e K enilwol'th 'W innetk a . . . <: lencoe . . . . . . . . . 1929 $1,673 ,004 $826,495 1,742 ,4!)0 1.4 54,491 1928 $2,8 57,353 1.514,683 2,521,775 1 ,695,167 Ray Specials 3 Joe Schneider's Orchestra To Play at Firemen's Ball ] oe Schneider and his orchestra, of Wilmette, will furnish the music ior the .Winnetka Fire department's annual hall \\'hich is to be held Saturday nig!it, ] anuary 25. Proceeds of the dance will be for the benefit of the Winnetka fire department and the firemen's pe.t sion fund. The annual hall is a gaia affair at \\.innetka. It will be held at Community House. 8xl0 Buff Portraits $10 25% Reduction on all atylea of Regular Price S 1 o. ' .. FRAMES Make Your ·Appointment Today EuoENE Phone University 2238 L. RAY STUDIO 1606 Chicago Ave., Evanston ~ Pl [/PA\UIIN{I fbt>SfJ~1fit\lfi~N . e~MIA\\(,NS/ Going south emphasizes the need for cl9thes that are fitting and proper. This · need can be attended most wisely and economically by sending your clothes to us to be cleaned. They will be returned beautifully new . with all their original charm and smart~ ness-full of life, color and dash. Compari sons in building operations in X e"' Trier between December 19'29 and the corresponding month in 1928 follow: Dec ., 1929 D ec. , 1928 Wilmett t> . $12.650 $131,615 K e nilworth . 1~.400 101 ,575 'Vinne tka . . . . . . . . . 5!1.000 · 140.700 Gle n coe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42:900 97,000 Income Taxpayers Urged to Note Changes in Rate : ~Irs. ~fyrtle Tanner Blacklidge, col- · lector of internal revenue, has received official imtructions from the commis~ioner of internal re,·enue that blank income tax schedules are being released to taxpayers of the First District 0f J:linois. Enclosed with each iorm is a .,tip ~ho\\'ing· the reduction in the rate of tax whic:1 applies to incomes for the . year 1929, as provided in Joint Congre ssional Resolution, which reduced the rate on normal taxes on individual returns of income as well as on cor- I poration returns. The rates in · effect no\\' are one-half of one percent on the ' first $4,000, instead of one and one-half percent; two percent on the second $4.000, instead of three percent; and. the balance at four percent instead of five percent. The corporation tax is i reduced from twelve percent to eleven I percent. Taxpayers are cautioned. to carefully., read the notices which 'thev will find enclosed with the blank sched.ules, in order to avoid incorrect computations and the .resulting confusion and annoyance incident to adjustments. · ifrmiut <ttltatttr.a, Established 19 21 WILMETTE 1150 Central Avenue Phone Wilmette 704 Phone Wilmette 7 4 8 Memben National Aaaociation of Dyera and Cleaner· ~ur. President GLENCOE 669 Vunon Avenue Phone Glencoe 865 OTTO F. FISHER, Sears School Gym Class Organizes Cage League One of the gymnasium classes at the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth, composed of boys 11 and 12 years old, has organized a basketball league, using the name of teams in the Big Nine. There are five teams in the new league -Northwestern, Purdue, Indiana, Illinois, and Minnesota. Games to be played between these teams will serve as a "warming up" process for the beginning of the North Shore Grammar School league schedule in Febntary. WINNETKA 578 Lincoln Avtnue Phone Winnetka 638 Members Master Cleaners and Dyen Aaociation of the North Short WAUKEGAN 1o7 S. Genesee Stmt Phone Majestic 1675 The first dry clraning plant with the chain store system Main ORice f1 WEBSTER AVES., HIGHWOOD, ILL. · Phone Highland Park 3710 Please call the branch in your community and our courteous service man will call. Plant-WAUKEGAN~