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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1931
Page
8
Mrs. Howard Bent of 338 Melrose Avenue Kenilworth spent last weekend in Cedar Falls Iowa for a short visit.
Idlehaven offers 12 two and three room cottages plus a main hotel with living and dining rooms on 15 wooded acres on North Lake Wisconsin. Activities include golf tennis swimming and croquet with a meals program and beds of fresh vegetables and milk. Three hours from Evanston by motor, rail service by N W R R. Reservations sent to Idlehaven North Lake Wis.
Captain Chetlain of Selfridge field Detroit hosted a party at Sky Harbor airport west of Glencoe last Saturday night for 18 guests. The pursuit pilot, based in Rogers Park, formerly a park commissioner, organized a similar gathering a month earlier for friends including dinner dancing and cards.
William Hudson, Goodyear special demonstra tor, showed air wheel demonstrations at Curtiss airport near Glenview on a Curtiss Robin. He performed landings stressing wheels beyond normal limits and reported strong resistance in nine thousand tests. Hudson will appear at the Cleveland National Air Races and succeeds Charles Brannigan after the Mayflower blimp tragedy.
G. J. Feltes the flying missionary, famed for Alaska work, lands at Curtiss airport near Glenview after a Lake Indiana incident. His Bellanca mono plane with a Packard Diesel engine suffers a broken landing gear wheel over Indiana but lands safely in South Bend. Temporary repairs done in South Bend, then Curtiss overhaul. Plans to continue to Kansas City and Seattle for pontoon modification before returning to Alaska.
The Keystone Patrician, a twenty passenger aircraft built by Keystone-Loening in Bristol, Pa, visited Kenosha Wisconsin on Sunday to pick up passengers after spending the summer at Curtiss airport Glenview. The craft is powered by three Wright Cyclone engines and has drawn many North Shore residents to Curtiss airport for rides.
Captain J B Neill base manager of Curtiss airport near Glenview flies to New York last Thursday with Ed Connerton pilot for William Leeds of the tin plate family. Connerton arrived from New York the prior week in a Lockheed Sirius plane with Arthur Caperton. Neill expected back from the east this week.
Sky Harbor airport west of Glencoe plans a series of Saturday night dances led by Fred Waidner and his Gold Coast orchestra. The first dance is set for August 29, with dinner available and no cover charge, only a nominal admission per couple. The events will be held on the Sky Harbor club house second floor in the former Petrushka room.
Thursday August 13 at Sky Harbor west of Glen Coe saw three students achieve solo flights. Among them a unnamed girl joined two men, Charles DeRoule of Chicago and Chauncey Eaton of Evans ton, all taught by Vincent Taylor. DeRoule flies a Curtiss Junior sold by Apert and Colvin, Curtiss Wright distributors based at Sky Harbor.
Three planes from the Canadian Air pageant stopped at Curtiss airport near Glenview last week. A Fairchild, a Puss-Moth, and a Fleet were among the arrivals amid an air tour by Canadian Army ships touring principal Canadian cities. Eight other Canadian army planes had visited Curtiss two weeks earlier, five of them pursuit ships. The tour ends with several U S stops, with Montreal as the final destination.
Lawrence Hamilton son of the head of the National Pressure Cooker company of Eau Claire Wisconsin stopped at Sky Harbor airport near Glen Coe last week in a Travelair plane. He assists his father in the company and was touring cities on business. He formerly studied under Maj. R W Schroeder at Sky Harbor who taught him to fly.
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