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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1932
Page
1
Village President C P Dobbs explains that Wilmette will receive up to 580000 from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for a waterworks project. Funds to be repaid via water revenue bonds purchased in stages as needed, not in one lump sum.
New Trier High school students and pupils in the four New Trier township villages Wilmette Kenilworth Winnetka and Glencoe will return to their classes Tuesday morning January 2. The high school and the public schools in Kenilworth Glencoe and Winnetka closed Friday afternoon December 16. The Wilmette public school pupils have been on vacation since Wednesday December 21.
The Kenilworth Village board will meet Monday night January 9 because the first Monday falls on a holiday. Regular monthly meetings occur on the first Monday.
The Wilmette Village hall will be closed all day Monday January 2 to observe the New Year’s day holiday legally.
Wilmette Committee on Unemployment calls for action as 1933 begins. The piece laments 1932 losses in jobs and homes, notes 13 million in distress, and urges readers to help the unemployed community rather than pass resolutions alone.
Paul Foster and John Brady, workers for a local auto concern, were arrested by Wilmette police after a car they were driving crashed into a parked Waggett car at 1604 Wilmette Avenue. Both accused each other of driving and faced charges of leaving the scene and taking the employer’s car without permission. Foster, with prior prison time in Kansas under alias William Boswell, is sought by Tampa police on a related charge. Brady was released on bond.
Wilmette post office extends money order and savings hours from 9 AM to 5 PM starting Tuesday January 2. Postmaster Joseph E. Shantz announced the change matching weekend hours, with closures Sunday New Year’s Day and Monday January 2 and no mail delivery except special delivery letters. One daily collection will be made.
New Year's Eve will not affect hours at Wilmette Public Library. Miss Anne L Whitmack says the library stays open until 9 p m on Saturday. The observance on Monday January 2 will close the library for the day.
Mrs. Wallace Wiley a postal clerk at the Kenilworth post office was taken ill last Thursday with an attack of influenza.
The Wilmette Sunday Evening club opens the calendar year with the Welsh Imperial Singers directed by R Festyn Davies. Twelve singers plus an accompanist and conductor, costumed in bright red attire, present a repertoire of over one hundred songs and have earned praise from Edward Moore for their sturdy virile quality.
Several complaints in the village report thefts of outdoor Christmas light bulbs in certain sections. The police have been notified and are on the lookout for the vandals. residents are advised to remove bulbs after the lights are extinguished at night.
For the week ending December 24 the local Health department records two pneumonia, two chickenpox and one scarlet fever case in Wilmette. The previous week saw one typhoid fever case with no new typhoid cases reported.
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