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rhe reduction in 1933 tax bis and thé desire of property owners to have this obligation off their hands before the holidays, bas resulted in an active week in the office of Sanborn Hale, -collector for New Trier township. ,I .Collector Hale annonnced Tuesday evening that he.had collected a total of $530,000. 0f- this1 amount, he'said.,Township , ,reasurer F., A. Andrew received $22.000. for aiosshool districts, of which $lO0,000 is for the New T rier 1-f gh school. Villages Get FuIDi He has paid the Village of Win- netka $20,000- Wilmiette $20,000, and Wiiinetka Park district $10,000. Pay- mnents to varions, other taxingl bodies, ini the1 township, inclutdiing the villages of C.lentcoe and Kenilworth. will. be mnade in a few days, he said. *Taxes paid to the township col- lector reach the hands of local taxÎng bodies. at a much earlier date than they do when paid to the counity col- lect or, and those whô have iet al- ready paid are nrged to do so dnring the iiext few days, before the books areý returned by Collector Hle 'to the counlty office. The attention of the public is called to the' fact that the time is drawing near when the books will have to be returned. The collector has not I)eefi advised as to the exact date, he said, but declared it wiIl be some tîmie earlv next week. oyer .orne during thie next lew days If chose who have flot paid will mnake special effort to come In, and thus aid, to that extent, ail local taxing bodies. REPORT CONTAGIONS Eleven new cases of chicken pox and five new cases of. whooping. congh ini Wilmette were, reportedby the local Health department for the week ending. December 15. worker of the W:imette Weitare f board, Mr. and Mrs. Knorpp are, to distribute one hundred sur- prise Chr istmas packages to chli- dren wbô otherwise might flot.ex- perience a Merry Christma8.> Th ifts whîch ea chibudist receive include many unique. nov- elties such as a comiïc'camera witb roll.s of, films, cakes and canidie holders. and baskets of good things to eat. Children to. receive the gifts wil range in the.ages under> 10, years. Township Will Pay Hale..Bond Premium As provided by a new' law passed by the legisiature on Mar ch 22. 1934, Nýew Trier, township wiIl pay the premium on the bond of Tax Collec- tor Sanborn Hale who is now ini the mnidst of collecting the 1933 taxes. The Township board, however, ac-' cording to a resolution introduced at its last regular meeting, December 3, and formally approved at a special1 meeting Tuesday evening of this1 .week, will flot pay the collector five- tenths of one per cent of ail moneys collected by him in excess of $800l,000, which one per cent, according to law., is turned over by the collector to the township. Wben, the collector himself paidj pYreminm, n was explained. CAMPERS SING CAROLS A special .Christmas program was presenteil in the chapel at the Skokie Valley CCC. camp,. Wednesday even- ing of this week. - There was a tree, an abundance of bolly decorations and a programi of Christnmas carols and special featnres. There ls a Santa. Claus! ..and it wiII be proven nt Albright's where,ý from ,now until Ghristmai, every ipatron will receive a: gif t. ALBRIGIIT SEAUTY SIIOP 1167 Wiuub" Avenue Phone i. smeto 4517 *No GUUSSING WHEN YOU give a GRUEN a .tifui gifi. w N West End Near Westmoreland G1,nview Road, Wilmette e I.w ýj ý