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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1932
Page
1
A public meeting at the Village hall on Monday evening June 13 aims to create a perpetual Harmony convention to select Wilmette Village candidates. Sponsors say the plan will end factional battles and win broad citizen support, with endorsement from the Winmerre Life paper and civic groups.
Winnetka Post No. 10 American Legion will host Seventh district on Wednesday night June 15 with an outdoor parade featuring all district drum and bugle corps. The parade starts 7 PM from Winnetka Community House ending there after the district meeting attended by Dr. W. W. Hawkins and other officials. Maj. R. W. Schroeder of Sky Harbor airport will speak.
Village board votes to purchase coming year’s street lamps from Beyrer's Electric shop after Revere Electric declines tax warrants. Beyrer's accepts warrants and price is standard, prompting switch.
Kenilworth Village board discussed traffic dangers on Green Bay road after widening and paving projects. Intersections at Park drive and Rogers avenue and Rogers avenue with Green Bay road were found risky. Officials found safety islands ineffective. speeding at Park drive cited. The matter was referred to Trustee Richard Wolfe and Trustee Henry G. Zander for investigation and a report.
Forty four eighth grade pupils at St Francis Xavier school will receive diplomas at the annual graduation exercises Friday night at 8 o clock in St Francis Xavier church. Diplomas will be presented by Rev Bernard Brady. Names include Harriett Arden Jane Bell Doris Browne Marcella Bruckhauser Ruth Clohisy Junior Detamble John Dowdle Leo Doyle Stafford Drake Dorothy Ellert Thomas English Robert Fieberg William FitzPatrick Regina Fentham Rita Hanley Alice Harrison Tad Harvey Barbara Harvey Rosanna Hess Harold Huebner William Kavanaugh Richard Klein Robert Klein David Krafthofer Jack Lersch William Lersch James Maguire Edward Mannebach Betty McNulty Dorothy Menghinelli Yvonne Meyer Daniel Murphy Joseph Normoyle Sonia Nash George Nilles Donald Oelerich June Peacock Jeanne Prosser Robert Rich Betty Stahl Marcel VanHemert William Wade Jack Ward Raymond Zeck
Final registration for the New Trier High school summer term was held with enrollment expected around 400. Summer school operates on a tuition basis and a $2 late fee applies after June 20 opening. early registrants can avoid the charge. Registrations accepted anytime and additional adult classes will be offered to the public.
Francis Chapin previously painted the Holy Comforter Church and now Chester Danforth Chicago architect offers a hand colored etching of the church cloister and rectory. Fifty prints will be made from the original plate and signed by the artist who is the rector’s brother.
Wilmette Masonic lodge plans St John the Baptist festival attendance at First Congregational Church on Sunday June 19 led by Rev John G Hindley. Members gather at the Masonic temple that morning then march to the church together.
Wilmette will host a military exhibit and demonstration on Wednesday June 15. An exhibition train from Fort Sheridan manned by Regular army men will travel south from Fort Sheridan on the North Shore line and stage a demonstration at Wilmette Avenue station. The event precedes the George Washington Bicentennial military tournament at Soldiers Field later this month.
The Wilmette village board unanimously rejects all bids for building the waterworks and water supply system after no satisfactory bids were received for the sale of six hundred thousand dollars in water revenue bonds. The action follows previous votes approving the bond issue and plans by engineer for the project.
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