Wilmette Recreation Board Sets Ice Skating Season Start
The Wilmette Recreation Board announces December 15 as opening day for ice skating with floods at Village Green and Golf pond, plus an 80-foot toboggan slide. If cold enough, skating begins earlier. carnival races January 5 with a North Shore trophy. Attendance last season reached 36,450 across 23 skating days.
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Daniel M. Davis
Recreation Board
Wilmette
North Shore
Davis
Playground and Recreation Board
Indoor Teams Battle for Lead and Cellar Titles
Report of indoor baseball standings with Ridge Electric and St Joseph unbeaten in first round. Wilmette Ice and Wilmette Shoe struggle in second round as teams bid to avoid whitewash. Schedule lists Dec 14 and Jan 7 games including Printing Studio Wilmette Shoe St Joseph Ridge Electric.
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Recreation
Ridge Electric
St. Joseph
Wilmette Ice
Wilmtte Shoe Store
Iere
Printin Studio
Wilmette Shoe
St. Isan Yi
Bacan Ice
Printing Studio
Ridge Een
Wilmette Tosil Q
Wilmetee Ene
Girls' Athletic Club Formed by Wilmette Board
The Wilmette Playground and Recreation board launches a Girls' Athletic Club with Howard school as the charter location. Weekly meetings run 7:30 to 9:30 p m Tuesdays in the school gym, open to all. An executive committee led by Dorothy Smith Naomi Price Marcella Kummer and Joe Skidmore will organize a yearly calendar of athletic meets tests and social events with a points award for the season leader.
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Howard School
Wilmette Playground and Recreation Board
Dorothy Smith
Wilmette Avenue
Naomi Price
Washington Avenue
Marcella Kummer
Joe Skidmore
Model Aeroplane Club Begins Actual Building
Members of the Model Aeroplane club started constructing their first model planes at the weekly meeting held last evening at Central school. The Baby B. O. G. type will be the initial project and each boy must complete and pass a flying test before tackling a more complex design. G W Gathercoal of the Playground and Recreation board sponsors the club and notes only a few memberships remain as the group limits enrollment to thirty boys.
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Model Aeroplane Club
Central School
G. W. Gathercoal
the Playground and Recreation Board
Wilmette Recreation Board Reports Strong November Attendance
Monthly records show over 8 000 attendees across Wilmette playground activities in November. Adults number 2762 while 3235 boys and 2005 girls participated in after school games.
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Wilmette Playground and Recreation Board
Swimming Popular Winter Activity with Women Folk
Wilmette Playground and Recreation board reports strong demand for swimming among women. Miss Joe Skidmore organizes three classes weekly at Evanston Y M C A morning and Sovereign hotel Chicago evenings. Minnow to Whale progressions mirror Red Cross tests. five women advance to Trout class after Minnow tests.
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Daniel M. Davis
Wilmette Playground and Recreation Board
Joe Skidmore
Evanston Y
Evanston
Chicago
Royal Order of Whales
American Red Cross
Red Cross
G. W. Carrington
Junior Police Shakeup Claims From Chicago Chief
G W Gathercoal sponsor of the Junior Police says the Chicago chief has nothing on him after a series of removals. He reports a captain and lieutenant were bounced last week, two more were demoted, and a general shake up threatens other force members. Illinois farm livestock value is estimated at 271,127,000 dollars.
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G. W. Gathercoal
Chicago
Illinois
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Robert Wilson
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Peter Wagner
Curtis Colegrove
C. Raymond Hoffman
Ernest Heller
Phillips Herbert Wolff
L Baptist
Morganthaler L. Presbyterian
Sullivan
Ridge Electric Ice
Howard St. Joseph P. T. A
Wilmette Ice Co. I. C. C. F
American Legion
James Hoffman
Thomas Thursby
English Lutheran Methodist
Alexander Hoffman Cartwright
Thorsen
St. Joseph Presbyterian
Marjorie Thorsen
Helen Braun
Alma Muehlberg
Kathleen Kalmes
Joe Hoffman
Earle Leslie
Alice Walton
Helen Nelson
Ed Phillips
Otto von der Ho Skner
Harold Schleuter
Ictor Jones
Leslie Matson
Roughnecks
Rinky Dinks
John Wagner
Stanley Peterson
Ethel Keener
Jenna Scott Victor Deinlein
Elsie Paterson
Geraldine Weber
Vera Johnson
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