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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1931
Page
5
A Wilmette Girl Scout piece extols the jackknife as a versatile tool for survival activities. It describes making shelters beds and camp gadgets and using twigs for cooking grilling and tableware during pioneer trips and overnight hikes.
Mrs. Edey on behalf of the National Council urges 9,000 troops to aid relief agencies as unemployment weighs on 1930-31. She cites living the law of usefulness and calls for collaboration with local relief groups to make 1931 a better year for others. Mrs. Avery of Lansing, Mich., visits her mother at 826 Greenwood Ave.
Wilmette Teachers' club to meet January 19 at Stolp school library at 3 30 p m Following a social period H A Ehrensperger Garrett Biblical Institute will speak on Rambles Through European Theaters with a focus on contemporary drama.
Missty, long known for shoe repairing in Wilmette, has opened a new repair shop at 403 Linden Avenue. The business at 1185 Wilmette Avenue continues, offering shoe repairing, shoe shining, and hat cleaning services.
Burt A. Crowe of 234 Raleigh Road Kenilworth returns home after a brief illness and is recovering rapidly.
John Ludwig resumes his Freshman studies at Washington and Jefferson University in Washington Pennsylvania after spending holidays with his parents Mr and Mrs J R Ludwig at 1212 Ashland Avenue. Last fall he was pledged to the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
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