First hearing on Main Street paving and widening plan
The village held its first public hearing on repaving and widening Main Street from 40 to 48 feet. County officials commit to paying 40 feet of the cost, about 100000 dollars, with remaining costs assessed to benefiting properties at roughly 10.50 per front foot. The hearing adjourned to April 26 for further assessment questions.
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Village Board of Local Improvements
Orner
Oscar Schmidt
Wilmette
William Busse
Main Street
Wilmette Chamber Seeks Slogan Contest Winners
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce offers cash prizes in a village wide slogan contest. Open to all residents, slogans may be used in business announcements and chamber literature. Send entries to the chamber offices in the State Bank building.
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Wilmette Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Wilmette State Bank
Woman's Guild to Hear Roy Rogers on Southern Schools
The Woman's Guild of the First Congregational Church will host Mrs. Roy Rogers of Glen Ellyn at its Friday meeting April 8. She will discuss How You Can Help Your Southern Schools, with luncheon by the Central Avenue circle and a fashion style show added to the afternoon program.
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Woman’s Guild
Woman's Guild
First Congregational Church
Roy Rogers
Glen Ellyn, Til
Central Avenue
Wilmette School District Ballot Apr 9 With One Polling Place
Voters are called to the Wilmette school district election on Saturday April 9 at the Village hall from 1 to 5 P M. Unopposed candidates listed include Enoch Sten for president Lincoln C Torrey for board member Laura W Durgin for board member Helen Simonds for vacancies and M Brooks for vacancies. Nominations come from a committee of leading women groups including the Woman's Club and the Parent Teacher associations.
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Wilmette
Village Hall
Enoch Sten
Spencer Avenue
Lincoln C. Torrey
Elmwood Avenue
Laura W. Durgin
Forest Avenue
Helen Simonds
Sixteenth Street
Sale M. Brooks
Fifteenth Street
Woman's Club
Parent-Teacher Associations
Kenilworth School Vote Set For Saturday April 9
Kenilworth holds its annual school district election Saturday April 9 from 1 to 6 pm at the Village hall. Incumbent Arthur T. McIntosh seeks re election as president while John M. Roberts and Mrs. John L. Wilds run for three year board seats. A state measure allowing a three year term for the president is on the ballot but takes effect after the current term. The vote coincides with New Trier Township High School board elections to avoid multiple trips to the polls.
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Kenilworth
Arthur T. McIntosh
Illinois
New Trier Township
Scouts Plant Trees on Wilmette Library Lawn
Wilmette Boy Scouts plan to plant two trees on the library grounds Saturday afternoon April 9. The ceremony will be a public affair and include the monthly inspection of Scout troops. The trees replace two removed when Wilmette avenue was widened last summer.
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Wilmette Boy Scouts
Wilmette Free Public Library
Wilmette Avenue
Harp Quartet to Play at Wilmette Sunday Club Program
The Harp quartet directed by Clara Louise Thurston will perform at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club on April 3. Violinist Miss Anna Nyberg and organist Porter W. Heaps join the program, with Thurston’s ensemble drawing capacity crowds and praise from local music lovers. Nyberg is a leading Sunday Evening club soloist and Heaps serves as organist at the First Congregational church of Wilmette.
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Clara Louise Thurston
Wilmette
North Shore
Mr. Heaps
First Congregational Church
Middle West
Minister Narrowly Escapes Train Collision in Wilmette
Rev. John Herbert Bowman pastor of Mont Clare Baptist church near Elmwood Park and resident of 1123 Linden avenue Wilmette escaped injury when his car was struck by a Chicago and North Western train at the Linden avenue crossing. The gate dropped as he reached the center of the track and he dove to safety as the locomotive bore down. Police took the wrecked car to a nearby garage.
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John Herbert Bowman
Mont Clare Baptist Church
Elmwood Park
Linden Avenue
Wilmette
Chicago and North Western Railroad
Bowman
Mr. Bowman
Wanderlust Grips Bay in Child’s Ill Starred Ride
Ten year old Bobby Press of Rogers Park boarded a northbound IL train in the early hours and rode to the end of the line before police were alerted. He was found at 4 a.m. and expressed a wish to return home to his aunt at 1209 Farwell Avenue.
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Bobby Press
Farwell Avenue
Rogers Park
Bobby
Wilmette Police
Homeward Bound for Bretholds After Gulf Trip
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Brethold of 1102 Central avenue are due back this weekend from Biloxi and New Orleans where they have been since early February.
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C. H. Brethold
Central Avenue
Biloxi
New Orleans
Choir Promises Fifth Vesper Concert at Wilmette Baptist
The Wilmette Baptist Church hosts its fifth Vesper concert in the third annual series at 4 pm on Sunday. The choral society directed by Madame Gilderoy Scott will perform Dubois The Seven Last Words of Christ with added voices and solos by LeRoy Hamp Rollin Pease and others. An organ Prelude by William Harrison Barnes precedes Mediation a Sainte Clotilde. A silver offering will be taken.
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Wilmette Baptist Church
Madame Gilderoy Scott
Christ
Theodore Dubois
Madame Scott
England
LeRoy Hamp
First Presbyterian Church
Evanston
First Presbyterian Church of
Oak Park
Edgar Nelson
Hamp
Swedish Choral Club
Chicago Singverein
Rollin Pease
North Shore
Chicago
Dubois
William Harrison Barnes
Mr. Barnes
Philip James
Pre-School Circle in Open Meeting April 7
The Logan-Howard Pre-school circle will hold an open meeting at Howard school Thursday evening April 7 at 8 oclock. A Pre-school Program for the Home will be the subject by Mrs Alfred S Als schuler of Winnetka. The meeting offers mothers of children of the around age practical help in meeting this problem. Anyone desiring to attend is invited to do so.
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Logan-Howard
Howard
Alfreds. Alschuler
Winnetka
Harry W. Miller Returns From Florida Campaign Stop
Harry W. Miller, candidate of the People's party for re election as Village Treasurer, returns from his winter stay in Florida Wednesday as the Vil lage election on April 19 approaches.
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Florida
Harry W. Miller
People’s Party
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