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NY 'ilmette citizens are to vote in a referendum at the Village election Tuesday, April 17, upon the question. of permitting the sale at retail of 0 alcoholic liquors ýwithin the..village liniitsk This ws assured on Thursday. of last mieek when a petition bearing 2,800' signatures :was :filed with Vil- lage Clerk Nicholas P. Miller, àasking tht hequsion be submitted to the votersii accordance. with the re- cently enacted state liquor. law. Sonie indication of' the sentiment existilg in the village is giveh by the nuMber of signatures. The law requires that the petiion, for a vote mnust bear the signatures of 25 per cent of the voters voting at the last general election. On this basis ap- --proxiniately 1,600 naines would be, necessary. As stated abovée, 2,717 were secured. Choose Direct Forum The law provides for the submis- Sion of the question in two formis, onie to prohibit the sale at retail .of alcoholic liquors except 4, per1 cent beer. the, other to 'prohibit, the sale atretail of. ail'.aicoholic liquor, ini- cludingbeer. Those active ini securing the ubisso f the ques tion cose to present it -i the'latter form, main- taining that thé meat of the prôposi- tion lies in whether or flot the citi- z.ens of Wilrnette desire to have sal- ootus, or so-called "tavernis," estab- lished throughout the village. There ivill. they assert, be less confusion, ivhen oiI' the one form is voted Make Question Clear It is also pointed out that the orin iin which the question is stated. r equires a ".Yes" vote by.those who are opposed to saloonis. It reads: "Shall *the sale at retail of. alcoholic liquors bé prohibited in Wilmette?" It is important, they say, t hat voters get this, point firmly in mind, so that 110 mistake may be made in regîster- ing their will. These and other vital, t eatures wiil be stressed between nçow and the date of the electioni, it is Stanley F.- Johnson to 1Two outstanding features will be of- f ered: the first an illustrated lecture, "Alaska," by Capt. Harold W. Snell, past commander of Winnetka Post No. 10, and at present genieral superinten- dent of passenger and f reight'traffic and of immigration services of the Alaskan railroad under tbe directionAo Harold. L. Ickes, secretary: of interior; the sec- ond f eature will be a talk by Maj. Gro- ver P. Sèxton, commander of the Sev- enth district,, Anerican Legion. Captain Snell's motion pictures have beenl obtained -from both plane and land during two trips into' Alaska. Maniy fis hing and huntin g sccnes will be presented. The Paul Reverùes Will.. Hold Meeting March 12' There WiIl be a meeting of The Paul Reveres in the, Village hall Monday, evening, Marcb 12, at 8 o'clock, ac- cordinZ to the Rev. George P. Magili, president, Who voices a strong appeal to ail members, and others interested, to he present. "The object of this or- ganization," he said, "is to 'promote Americanism and.guard Our freinsti- tutions against encroachments by the radical elements, now so active in every part o f the country., The invitation to participate in this patriotic w ork. is ex- tended to every red-blooded, Anerican %who helieves in the principles of gov- crnment as laid down by the patriot f0unders ,yhose wisdom bas been demi- onstrated by more thain 150 years. of steady progress." Rev. Jamnes T. Venekiasen Le'nten Service Speaker The* second of the series of cOm- munity Sunday evening Lenten serv- ices_ will be held 'March 1inii .he English .Lutheran .,Cburch.,, SeYenth Street and G7reenlleaf avenue, with the Rev.. James T. Venekasen, min- ister of the First Presbyterian! church, as thie preacher. Cooperating churches include the Wilmette Baptist, First Congregational, English Lutheran, First IPresbyterian and St. 'August- PostPoned to Monday, April 16. "This ls due to the fact that Madame Rethberg lias been lm- pressed Into service by the Metro-. politan Opera company for Its spring road trip. "The Metropolitan Opera. company contracta wlth Its leadlng artIsts claim priorlty. over ail other. con- tracts. This has necesstated chang- !ng ail of Madame Rethberg's con- cert dates this, spring, of which ours was onle.", Report Scarlet Fever Now Controlled. Here The scarlet f ever crisis reported to, WiLmETTE Lipz last week by Dr. Mar- tin. H. Seifert, Wilmette health com- mnissioner, seems. to Piave passed, ac-. cording to word f ronm the -health de- partment. "The cnisis seerns to bave passed," Dr. Seifert announced, "since if an~y newv cases from those alreday reported were to develop, they should have de-ý veloped last Friday or Saturday. Case s reported sincé last week include, one house contact from an old case, o ne case while ili since- preceding week, and onie new case. "The schools are ail open," Dr.' Sei- fert stated, "and, witb the aid of addi- tional nurses, the children are wel supervised and f requently e;çamined." CWA PRQJECTS PROGRESS Operations on CWA projects ini \Vilmette are proceeding steadily, al- tilough the>number of nmen emphoyed: bas- beeni reduced. A, report for the week ending Thursday, March. 1,- re- veals that 263'men were engaged iÂn theh various projects, the total -man- hours wvorked being 5,677'/2 . Payroll for the week amounted to Ï3,632.98. not the sale. of alcoholic hîquors at retail shall be permitted in. Kenil-, Worth. Petitions bearing a sufficient num- ber of signatures to assure a vote on* the liquor question were,,filed hast week. The Kenilworth Citizens' Ad- visory committee, circulated the, peti- tions after the state legisature enacted a law which would make -permission to sehl alco6holic liquors mandatory in any municipalitywhich failed to vote "dry" y ay 10. Eket for on.e Yeaa. Another new law passed by the.hast, legisiature also affects the comùing election in Kenilworth. The tbree Village trustees and the, Village cherk,. lnstead of.being elected fortwo years, as has been the custom ini the past, wihl be ehected for one year.« Then, when the next ann-il ee-tion is beld in 1935 the terms of members of the entire Village board, ilieluding the president, Harry P. Harrison, wil expire. The new, board will be elected for two years, necessitating -i village election to choose the municipality's governing body only in the odd years. Vacancene FiI.ed RecentIy Porter Fox, Walter A. Knoop and Richard C. Johnston are the three Kenilworth trustees whose ternis ex- pire this spring. The holdover trus- A.dove. i ne iA4tt wo nIImea Uwere electèd to the boardi recently to fill the unexpired terms of Harr v V. Crooks and Richard Wolfe. both of wbom resignedý The term oàf Wendell H. Cark, Kenilworth's Village-clerk, also,'ex-. pires, tbis spring. Arrest: Çab'Driver andi Revoke Local License members of the -ost anîd auxiliary to tioný by Police faîîed t( a buffet dinner bo be given St. Pat'- manner of entrance, but rick's tDay, Marcb 17, at 6:30 o'clock likehy to have been thi in St. Augustine's clubhouse. Bridge locked window. The1 and Anagrams will be Played follow- door of an adjoining b ing the di nner., Reýervations are to biad bee 'n tampered i be -made by calling ýWilmette 41205. trance not gained. yh an un - k on the ity parlor but en- Phone Your Adfak.r WILMETTE 4300 department. In the same, period -thle department received reports of seven new -case s of scàrhet fever, five of Whoopi.g cough and one' of - mamps. f