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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1934
Page
7
Illinois Commerce Commission engineers rated Wilmette electric service 94.09 percent, up from 92.50 in 1932, with the Public Service company noting tax increases and new regulations but maintaining high reliability across 249 communities.
Mrs. Maria Handler of 2105 Lake Avenue died suddenly at home Monday June 25. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at her parents home in Oak Park. Burial followed at Forest Home cemetery Forest Park. She is survived by husband Henry and their three year old son Henry Jr and her parents. She was 25.
Kitty Wilmette reports Girl Scouts will attend a Saturday picnic at Lakota beach on No Man's Land. The beach, run by Sam Jarvis and opened last Saturday, offers locker rooms dressing rooms and equipment for beach basketball and football with a lifeguard on duty. A barbecue luncheon is also planned to cap a lively swim.
Mr and Mrs Frank Barrett of 615 Essex Road Kenilworth hosted a Sunday evening tea on July 1 in honor of Mr and Mrs Richard Wolfe of Shaker Heights Ohio who were formerly residents of Kenilworth.
Mr and Mrs M A Follansbee and son Mark Jr returned Saturday from the east where they attended the graduation at Princeton of Mr Follansbee s brother. Mr and Mrs Fergus Mead left Friday for a two weeks vacation at Santa Fe New Mexico Mrs Catherine Mead of Milwaukee will keep house during their absence.
Cy MacKinnon of 321 Leicester road and Jack Byrne of Kenilworth depart last Friday for a six week camping and canoe journey in the north woods visiting Owakonze and Kooch-i-Ching camps. They opened a studio at 730 Center street. Madame Hight has sung in grand and light opera, on radio, and as soloist in major churches in Washington and St Louis.
Virginia Lee Hight, head of the vocal and dramatic department at the Gladys Hight School of Dancing, has moved to Winnetka and has set up a studio to continue teaching.
Miss Margaret Knapp aged 83 of Indian Hill road hosted her duplicate bridge club for tea last Tuesday at The Tabernacle in Salt Lake City.
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