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The ftrst of.the tax bis for the 1929. taxes. in Nçw. Trier township were plat into>the.mails this weèk by Tax Collector Sanhorn H~ale. ýOnly a part,. of the bWooks wére re-, .-.ceived,, butù the kôtbers, are expected witbinia a few days. andthe -remnainder. *of the bius,wiIl be forwarded prompt- ly,r. H1ale announces. Th.e M township collector's office is at.the State Bank of Winnetka. His * offic.e wjll be open from 8 a. zn. to 3 p.. m..and on Saturdays' from8 a. m.. * to 12:30 p. m. and again from 7 to 8 p. pi Off on Some Adice Colletor Hale requests all. tax * payers to. be sure that their nante and address is on both the original and, duplicate parts. of the bill, and that the legal description of the prôperty * is correct. Thyare also urged to returu ot the original and duplicate parts of. th.bill, - which, under .no circum- stanîces, should be detacbed. Taxpayers are, also requested to send separate checks for personal property bis, as it simplifies the ac- cotuiting systei and to enélose a self-addressed, stamped enivelope fer thie return of receipt, a procedure that will not only'expedite the early, return of the .receipt but will insure its reaching the correct address. Pay Withig, 10 Daya Bis slîould bc paid within ten days o1 receipt. Collector Haje explains, n order that 'be nmay give ail tax * payers proper and. efficient service. Prompt payment enables the col- lector to get the money into the hands of the varjous taxing bodies, with which tbey, in return, may re- * tire outstanding interest-bearing tax anticipation warrants, which, it is pointed out, will prove a.considerable saving to tax payers of. the township, in general. It rnay be of interest',to Neêw Trier * residents to know thatý in 1925,, when the,1924,taxes were paid, Collector Hale received $920,000;. in 1926, over. $1,052,000; in 1927, over $1,101,000, and ini 1928, over $1,355,000. No taixes *were collected in 1929, but in, 1930, whn he 1928 taxes cae n. Co'llecr ad the pdan H11!ill states. were ire- jecte'd b the Board of Local Tm- provemé nts. Tuesdày nigbt. Twelve- bids ranging from $215,- 759.00 to $342.401.50 were recelved ont the' project. The low bid of $215,- 758.00 'was submitted by the Arcol.e Construction company of SNues Cen- ter andi the bigh bid of.,Z$3ý42,401.50 bv.the States Improvement companye of Chicago. Village Engineer Charles N. Roberts' estimate of the cost of, the proposed paving, was $404,112.50. The Boardi of Local Improvements w~ill readvertise for bids on the proJ- ect. The bids wvil be. opened at a m eeting, of that. board on Tuesrlay riiht. Marich .31, at 7-:30 o9clock in th'e council roôm at the *Village hall. *Streets- included in the proposed pavinz project are: Elmwood avenue, Ashland avenue, Thornwôod avenue,' Chestnut avenue, Kenllworth avenue and Beechwond ave- nie betWeen Ridge road1 and Twenty- third, strpet, Tenllworth avenue from Twenty-thlrd etreet te Lôcust road. Aslilafld avenue. from Tweènty-thlrd te Loeust rond. Illinois road from Iroquois road to Ashland avenue, Grant street. Twenty-sixth street and Cleveland street from Ashland avenue to the north linitts 0f the village. Twenty-fifth street, Dartmouth street, Twenty-fourth street' and Colgate street from Ashland ave- nue to TCniiworth avenue, Twenty-9 third -street fromn Elmwood avenue to Beechwond avenue, Twenty-flrst street frein Elmwood avenue te Beechiwood. avenue, and Elmwood avenue west of Twenty-thlrd street to Clierokee road. Nominated for Reelection to Wilmette Sehool Board Henry E. Cutier, president of the Wilmette board of education, and Ralph Durham and Frederick Tiuu, members of the board, wbose terme expire, this spring, have been nom- inated for réelection. by a committee of nine appointed by the presidents of the twor Wilmette parent-teacher associations and the Wilmette.Womn- an's club. G. T. Hellmuth was chair man of the nominating committee. The scbool -board menibers are ele'ted for three-year terms, while the president of the board. is elected for a one-year term. , Tt bas been1 customary in the past, however, for the presîdents to be reelected and on Friday .evening, March .27, at 8 o'clock. This session is sponsored by the league to acquaint voters more thorougbly witb ail the issues iu- yolved in the electiori, it is-explaîned. The meeting wiIll supplant the usual luncheon- meeting o! the Wilmnette Civic league. on the .last Friqlay-o! each tnonth. Ail residents 'of Wilmette areinvited te attend. Candidates for. office ini tbe il, mette. Village election ,te be beld Tuesday, April 21. are: *For president-Fr.ederick J. N'ewey. Wilmette Civic party; and 'Carbon P. Dubbs, !Public Welfare party. For trustees-Hienry j. Brandt, Evan1 R. James and.FloydB. Weakley, Wilmetté Civic party; «and A.. W. Froehde, Arthur Lee and Stacy C. Bennett. Public Welfare party. F or Village. treasurer-Harry W. Miller, Minette Civic party; and Herman T. Reiling,- Taxpayers' party. Conta 0ion Moderate in February, Report. Contagious diseases in Wilmette during the rnonth of February were, at a low level, except for measles and' mumps, according to the monthly-re- port of Dr. W., W. Hawkins, Wil- mette health commissioner. A total of eigbty-one contagious disease cases were reported. Fifty of these were measles and twenty- six were mnumps. There were two cases of pneunlonia, and one eacb of chicken pox, scarlet fever and whoop- ing 'coughý During the samne period, the month of, February,' a total of ninety-four. cases o! contagious diseases were released. These were classified as follows: measies, 51; mumps, 36»1 chicken pox, 3; pneumonia, 2; scar- let fever, 1, and German mneasles, 1. School absences during 1tbe month were du echiefly to mild upper res-, pratory infections, Dr. Hawkins- re- ported. The .enrolîment ini tbe Wil- mette Public schools is about 1,670. and there were 392 absences because. of upper respiratory infections. Lowell Thomas, who was unable because of serious illness to fil bis engagement at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club earljer in the 'season, will present his latest illustrated travel adventure story,. "Througha Romantic Indiàa ad' Into, Forbidden -Afghanistan," before the. club this Sunday evening, Match 22. The motion pictures which he took on bis journey tbrougb India and into Afgbanistan, and whicb bie will show in conniection with bis -lecture, visutal-. ize in a fasciniating manner, accord- ing to personâ who bave seen them, the' people of India and Afglianistan,ý their-lives and babits, and tbe strange countries where they live. Lowell Thomas is himself a roman- tic- figure. Always. daring to rush in where. otlhers would .hesitate to venture, he bas a record of travel adventures, tbat bave taken him to alI, parts of the. globe- and have brougbt bim into many-sided cou- tacts with people, f rom princes to beggars. Enters Wild Country Two years' time was required for Thomas to get permission.,to enter Afgbanistan, tbe wild, mountain-ý guarded country in Central Asia .of which., so . little i$ known. He pen- etrated Afghanistan from India by way of the famous Khyber pass, the most strongly fortified mountaiui gorge in the world, and then journey- ed for many hundreds of miles over the Afghan désert and 'across four ranges of barren mountains to the beart of this mysterious country. The story of his expériences i Afghanistan is said to be one of the. niost tbrilling and fascinating nar- ratives ever told.. Since no admission charge is made at the door and because the Sùnday Evening' club faces .a good-sized deficit this, season, the executive committee of the club lias requested that everyone attending the lecture, in se far as it is. possible, bring for thé plate offering one dollar for adults and twenty-five cents for chil- dren, Tbe 8unday Evening club meets in Charles H. Jackson was instructed FIRST TO REPORT to prepare an ordinance providing for J. Charters McQuide of 731 Elm- the repeal of the ordinance under wood avenue was the first man in which the improvement was to have the Community Chest campaign to been mnade. give a one-hundrecd percent report f -r bis block and tur'n in bis report in IN HOSPITAL good. formi to bis captain in one day,. William Salter, 505 Maple avenue, the firet day: of the campaign which mnember of,-the. Wilmette Police force, lU opened dueing the blizzard of Sun-, went to t rni osia atSn day, Mifarcb & * dgy for observ'ation and- X-raly. WILMETTE 4 and place your ne.ds land Parkc Monuay oît tis week, Mrs. Freund"s daugbter,' Elizabeth, a student at Northwestern university, bad left tbe car parked on Sheridan road -near the university wbile site attended class. When she returned. she found thé. car had disappeared. -W-1