Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Jan 1935, p. 6

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r'. 17 NRA SUBIECT AT TIE SUNDAY CLUB ON JAN. 6 William E. Swoet, Educational Direictor of National Recov- *ry Act, Is Speaker W illiam -E. Sweet. who will: speak T ILLUSTRATED above is .the~ front Selevation of the proposed new Wil- mette postoffice,' bids for the con- struction .of wbich wji e. opieed tw the Procurement division of tbe Treasuryr Department at Washington on MondaY, February 4. The site, acquired several months ago, fronts, 240. feet on Ceneral avenue and 200 feet on Park avenue. he building,, facing Central avenue, .will be 127 feet wide. witb a depth of 78 feet. It will be set. well back from bhoth $treets to permit of appropriate laiid-!' - ___________ scaping. The estimiated cost oS lsT $160,000. Ample space is provided at NO S lsT X on the~ rear to expedite the handling of Ltilities, S"" mail by trucks. Thei room at the extreme left will be the ý)ffice of the Su>re.ne Court Says postmaster. The lettering and orna- it~ a decision handed do%%n ,at mental light standards ' will be of Srnled Tusate hlni bronze. Plans caîl for artificial stone Supreme court ruled tbat uti1ities, for columnns, pilasters, architrave and bt rvt n uiiawr x cornice at door, also for main cornice emthpvteo ayng thniciplerex- antd.prpt u od m yb usi cupational tax on sales, of electrieity, t~ted.gas and water. The decision uphoIàds the contention of the Village that the mette 2718; Aram K. Mestjian, Di- sales constituted a service and tiot a rector, Wilnette 5050; D. J. L. transfer of a commodity., The VIl- Walther, Delegate to 7th district, lage, however. was not a party to the the only one speakmig irom N-1 national headquarters He will dis- cuis the NRA in ail its phases and answer questions at the close of his talk. The changes being made in the NRA make his address particularly timely at this time. Mr. Sweet was fornjerly Governor of Colorado and, is regarded as one of the best governors thât state has ever had. Ini 1894 he established in De.nver the firm of William E. Sweet ican Leglon, under command ot necessary to tace, Our stand one' Francis. E. Phelan, will- start, off the hundred per cent strong to preserve new year with a mammoth Anierican- our *deals. A successful meeting of ismn meeting ýat Loyola university this kind adds not only to the prestige gymnasium Friday evening, January of aIl organizations who participate, 4, at 8 o'clôck. Parade will assemble but it inculcates a sense of individual at 6-30 o'clock at Broadway armory, obligation to the community, state Thorndale and Broadway. Drum and and nation. Bugle- corps,>Legionnaires ini uniforms The .next regular meeting.'of Wil-, and caps, community business men's mette Post No. 46 will be held- Mon- associations, floats and sound trucks day evening, january 7, at 8 o'clock, will make this a. colorful af air. in the Masonic temple. Homer. Oiaillaux. national, Amer- "Clu t in ueyance. untï l at instittited by the People's Gas Light &* Coke company, the Commonwealth Edison company and the Central Illinois Pub- lic Service company, and now triii. ated, was conchzded. The decision went on to ilote thiat in holding the flrst sales tax law.iun- constitutional, the courts referred to the businesses involved as being able to pass on the tax to their customers.. This, it said, is impossible for the utility companics withnîit the con- qu, wnn inc rubi& cui . ru,...........-. .t;t vc - lac Mrs. James Aider of 931 Greenwood information call any of the following avenue1 left Friday for Manitowoc, officers of Wihuette Post: George F. Miss Margaret Burton of Nash- ;Wis.,, visit ber father, Louis Kunz. Scherzer, Commander, Wilnxette 2961 ; ville, Tenu., was the guest of the -o-- Howard J. Hickey, dtn, Wil- Vernon Loucks family, 234 Sheridan Mr.: and Mn. Norman Betts, 1025 mette 976; Fred R, Baker, American- road, Kenilworth, over Christmnas, Tlmiteeàtb street, entertainied at a ism chairman, Keystone 7142; Robert Miss Burton is "a smter of Mir., fmIly Chistmas'dinner. C. Forster,' Sewreaut-at-Arins, Wil- Loucks. Gordon Cutier, a junior at Prince- ton, is returning this week-end to bis studies after spending bis Christmas vacation with his parents, the Percy N. Cutiers,, 207 Woodstock avenue, Kenilworth. His brother, Robert, will alo leave this week-end t'..'enter Lawrenceville. 1 1

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