Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Mar 1933, p. 29

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account efthte eàrthquake. E xcerpts froin the letter, dated March 10, fol- Iows: Dear Rich. How are you and your famiiy? We »uSt had one of the biggest shocks in our ives. 1 suPpose .you have heard .,,about the earthquake we just bad -Yesterday and are stili having., (As j .*rite this letter the earth is rockinig under Me and- I, feel. in a very em- barrassing position) 1 was stick in bed1 at thé timne t started. and was listiýnIng. to "Chandu the Magie ian". when alilof: a isudden the bouse began Jumping Up and downand Ieftt and right. 1lhings that I .tbought were. unmovabie, began bopPing al arounid. First, Jean beat t out of the, bouse; then, Mom .heliering for me to do the samne, 8e 1 tore eutearrying ny. bathrobe with me, and, in my bare feet. Everybody, was oeutgide.neoflatter how they were dressed, ýse o ene 1e o- gregat ion. jie.tecn Aunt Kate,.:arne out of ber bouse earrying ber Parrot_on .ber ',houder. The parrot was squawking like every- tiiing; -the. 8rround ail around'was roll- ing like the océan. After that subsided, I ttee nte the bouse anld haif dressed and rap toth * garage and aid plaster and dust I ,get the car out an parked it. away from the bouses. Then the earth began acting up again, se I Sat and listened te pep- plies' chimneys fail and, everytbing ln their bouses. It sounded like ifty guye with St. Vitus' dance trying to Juggle ~glasses. After that we steaithily went back Into the bouse te see what fun the earth bad had. Aunt Kate's bouse was a wreck. Everytblng was on the floor eitber cracked or broken; even the waiis1 SThe funeral -services were heM I Wedniesday inorning at St. Mary's church in Evanston. Burial was atI Mount Olivet cemetery.' A guard of ho ior f .roin the Seventhi district Le- gion posts took part in -thée services. Nir;. Quigley is survived by his widow, MNrs. Louise Owen Quigley, and by five. children. Sororities Initiate North'Shore Girls During the past couple of.weeks the following north shore girls have been initiated into, sororities at Nortbwest- cmr university:'Agnes,,Halley of Glen- coe bas become a member- of Delta Delta Delta; jane Copthorne of Win- netka, Jane Dement of KeniIworth, Margaret Thayer ofGtenrcoe, and M&ar- garet' Wegner of Wilmette are o full-fledged Delta Gammnas. Gamma Phi Beta. initiated Marie Kirkwood, Marie Skog, and Mary Jane Thomas, ail of Wilmette; Kappa Delta, thel Andersen and Peggy were cracked. Nothing in our house was broken and oniy two thigs tell. We stayed up MIi 2 o'clock the next imorning. Keeping your 'date wlîSprIng the of Our New t Up.toD at e WALL PAPIER If you are, you*Il want -Fo look your best-so we suggest this waV i per ruriS*S' -iriiie- in s.. . s rnn t WU[Ib@LIT'S-EVANST@N On Davis Street WîImette 1100D xI.

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