Wilmette Appropriation Bill Adopted For Current Year
The village board adopted a $357 492 appropriation for the current fiscal year down from $392 900 last year calling for economy but preserving essential services. The police department expenses total $50 955 and salaries are included. Expenditures cover streets, sewers, storm pumping, autos, village hall, clerks, trustees, clerks office, treasurer, legal, health, and street lighting with detailed line items.
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Wilmette
Police Department
Board of Trustees
Legal Department
Health Department
Kenilworth Village Seeks Bids for Parkway Tree Trimming
At a regular Kenilworth Village board meeting bids were opened for trimming trees in public parkways. Seven bidders submitted proposals including United Tree Expert Company Davey Tree Expert Company Bartlett Tree Expert Company Thornhill Brothers and Landscape Improvements Company. Bids referred to the forestry committee chaired by Henry G. Zander.
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Kenilworth
United Tree Expert Company
Davey Tree Expert Company
L. J. Thalmann
Thomas J Lynch
Bartlett Tree Expert Company
Thornhill Brothers
Landscape Improvements Company
Forestry Committee
Henry G. Zander
Wilmette appoints Boyne H. Platt as village engineer
Boyne H. Platt of Northfield was named village engineer by Village President Carbon P. Dobbs at the Wilmette board meeting after approving an ordinance creating the office. Platt, previously with Consoer Older and Quinlan in Chicago since 1924, will move to Wilmette. He is a graduate of Iowa State Teachers College civil engineering. The position, salaried and under the village manager, is newly created.
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Boyne H. Platt
Northfield
Wilmette
Carbon P. Dobbs
Platt
Consoer
Older and
Quinlan
Chicago
Iowa State Teachers’ College
Ames
Park open later to aid heat suffering Wilmette residents
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce urged the Wilmette Park district to keep Washington park open until midnight during hot weather. Louis K. Gillson, president of the district, said the matter is under advisement and to be discussed at a recent special meeting.
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Wilmette Chamber of Commerce
Wilmette Park District
Washington Park
Louis K. Gillson
Park District
Gillson
Wilmette
New Trier Board Defers Action on School Bonds
The New Trier High School board of education announced it will defer action on bids for $420,000 in district bonds. No bids will be received on July 9 at the high school as previously announced. The bonds form part of an $875,000 issue approved earlier for building and expansion underway.
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New Trier High School Board of Education
Bids for Parking Space Paying Taken
Kenilworth Village board reviewed bids Monday night for paving the strip along Green Bay road and the Chicago and North Western tracks in Kenilworth. The plan favors parking but allows landscaping space. Garden club and Park district proposals to widen landscaping will be considered before contract letting. Bids from M Foley Construction Evanston Highways Construction Highland Park Rock Road Construction Chicago and RE A Meyer Construction Highland Park were referred to the streets lighting and sewerage committee chaired by Trustee Arthur B Adair.
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Kenilworth
M. Foley Construction Company
Evanston
Highways Construction Company
Highland Park
Rock Road Construction Company
Chicago
RE. A. Meyer Construction Company
Kenilworth Village
Arthur B. Adair
Wilmette Beach Sees 44830 Visitors in Early Season
Some 44 830 bathers used Wilmette public beach facilities in the first seventeen days of the season as heat waves boosted attendance. Peak days reached over 6 000 on June 28 with water temperatures hitting 72 degrees. Over 2 000 family season tickets have been sold. Louis K. Gillson chairs the Wilmette Park District which operates the beach. James Renshaw is beach manager with guards A B Brown James Kennedy and others on duty.
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Wilmette
Lake Avenue
Margaret Hilton
Lake Michigan
Wilmette Park District
Louis K. Gillson
Chicago
Park District
James Renshaw
A. B. Brown
James Kennedy
William Holmes
Charles Lauer
Roy Bennett
Robert Crawford
Walter Hulbert
Wilmette Library Sees 44 Percent June Circulation Rise
Wilmette Public Library reports a 44 percent year over year rise in June circulation despite heat. From the main library and Laurel branch 7814 books circulated, driven by travel biography and fine art titles. periods also rose. Seventy seven new adult borrowers and one hundred one children joined, in a collection of seventeen thousand books and seventy periodicals.
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Wilmette
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Shore Lines
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New Trier Board
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