Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jan 1940, p. 3

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"Beautiful Sweden," Lâtest Travelogue, to Be Program January 7 Programs of the New Trier Sun- day Evening club Will be resumed January 7, after. the holiday e cess, with Burton Holmes, world-re- nowned travelogue lecturer, provid-î îng the program'. For.this occasion, Dr. Holmnes has consented to show bis new trave- logue, "Beautiful Sweden," which is- regarded by -critics generally as bis finest production. * Singularly interestirng at this time, with Sweden constantly threatened because of its close proximity to the Finnish-Russian confiict,. the lec- ture is expectedto attract a record audience to the large auditorium at, New, Trier High *school this Sunday evening. The. Travelogue encompasses ~a rnotor tour "through an ideal king- dom, from Jemptland to the casties of Scania . . .. the most completely civilized country in the world, where the Swedish people seem to have solved nearly all theproblems with ýwhich other nation% are stili strug- glir g blindly ....immaculate towýns and cities; down-to-date comn- forts and old time charm." Other Sunday Evening club pro- grarns scheduled for this season in- eliirlp, January 28-Carl Van. »oren, lead- ing Amèrica. critic. 1February 4-Capt. John D. Craig, deep-sea di*ver, explorer and cam- eraman. Tubercul$8i FIVE CENTS A COPY TWO DOLLARS A YEAE January.,1940'i Remember? You.Reëad of These* Events'in 1.939 Winnetka Grade. Sepaîrationi At Suday Cu Projeet Was Year's Biggest Story; 1940 WIJÏ ee, It Doue Although, for yet another year, the North Shore - and particularly New tenor of its way, the 12 months which came to an end last Sunday night left their indélible mark on these -communities. The biggest mark, the Number One story of the year, was, of course, the Winnetka grade separa- tion project, whlch had begun in 1938, and which will not be finished until later in this present year. Financed partlv by the federal crossing in the community is to be eliminated.' Part la Elevated Ridin g north, the passengers of the North Western and North Shorel lines will be carried up a bill which begins just north of the Kenilworth depot, over Winnetka avenue, at the Indian Hill station on a viaduct, and on an emrbankment as far as Wilow road. Here the tracks wilU enter a 'eut, to emnerge near South Higler Division. Achleved to Dring Inereased Service t. Community Wilmette'.s p o s t office, having passed the $100,000 mark in. stamp sales for, the calendar year> 1939, steps to a higher. bracket mn'the first class, division, Iwhich it has- been rated for several,,years.. The tota l was $100,490.6e. Realizing the value ,of improved service to patrons, of the office and being ambitious to provide that ex-, tra service, Postmaster H-erbert.,L. O'Connell let itý be knhown twa or three weeks before the end of the year that with a little additional ef- fort the business coùld be brought to the volum e upon which the Unîted States Postal department would is-, sue an order for the augrnented services. The figure set by the de. partment -ws, *OOOO. Add Carriers!,Clerk The improved service, Mr. O'Con- neli stated, would corne through the addition of two carriers and another clerk to the preserit staff. The regu- lations also provide for the promo- tion of one of the present corps of assistants to the position of floor su- perintendent, and possibly another mail train stop for the village, whlch means a mail dispatch not hereto- fore possible. When it became publie that the «Continued on Page 6). Appoints More Members of Zone -M 1 ý . .

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