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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1924
Page
1
A fragment discusses American support for refugee children, linking kinship bonds to education and practical usefulness. It notes limits on funds and efforts by the organization to provide relief, training, and opportunities despite constraints.
Northwestern University awards honors to twins and other students. Evanston based activities include Phi Beta Kappa honors, Order of the Coif, and a $25 law-book gift. Family names linked to Evans, Cedar Rapids, Detroit, and Canada appear in reporting on campus donations and memorials.
Residents urge closing the northern end of Tenth Street drawing varied opinions. Businessmen warn of damage suits, while others push paving to Sheridan road to ease northbound traffic and spur annexation discussions. Local figures estimate the 275 by 80 foot strip at 18000 dollars now, rising with time.
The Wilmette public library will be closed all day Friday July 4. Real Sis offices and places of business will also be closed.
The New Trier township high school mess hall, a coffee shop of the wits, closed at end of the regular session with some 900 students and faculty served daily. Miss Eleanor Robson ran it with 12 staff and about 20 students assisting. regular meals resume next fall. Menu items listed include Cream Celery Soup, Beef Stew, Welsh Rarebit, Mashed Potatoes, Wax Beans, Chocolate Cake and Green Gage Plums.
A 10 o'clock parade led by a brass band will march through Kenilworth streets to the athletic field north of New Trier high school for Fourth of July festivities. Prizes honor best decorated car and bicycle, with races for all ages, plus an all day program, a speaker and a patriotic song.
North shore youths Jack Rathbone and Stanley Craven join the Ace outfit for Adventure camp on Green Bay beginning July 1. Seer Hawxhurst and Bob Joslin will drive. 35 campers total, camp owned by William McKinney of Wisconsin. Five additional attendees from St. Louis, Missouri.
At a Kenilworth board of improvement meeting a resolution was introduced to pave Kenilworth Avenue near R1 Avenue to create a two way drive with an 18 foot side and a central parkway.
The Tenth Street newspaper announces an early press date due to Independence Day. All news and ads for next week's issue must be in the office at 1222 Central Avenue by Tuesday noon to ensure publication in the current edition.
Wilmette Optimists press for widening Central and Wilmette avenues citing dangerous congestion and a near miss involving a 7 year old girl. They seek quick board action, a police guard at the intersection during fire calls, and a village ordinance restricting parking within 20 feet of street corners.
Colonel Denman pledges to drive solicitors from his town and warns they will not be tolerated. He urges pressure on any solicitors visiting the area to refrain from doorstep peddling. The message targets door to door trade and asserts residents should hear family concerns without intrusion.
A Saturday evening program at the Ouilmette Country Club includes dinner at 7, dancing 10 to midnight, and entertainment headlined by humorist Mr. Bede with music by Harmony Girls Edith Carpenter and Crace Ingram. New officers Max Zabel president and Dudley W. Lester vice president are announced along with three new directors E. R. Neir Dr. Fuermann and P. V. Bright.
Thomas E. D. Bradley, former Wilmette resident, was elected president of the Better Government association of Chicago and Cook County at the new board meeting in the Hamilton club. R. Clarence Brown of Evanston was chosen secretary of the organization.
Fire units were called to a home on Lake Street near Rites where a woman named Louise Ditmer was overcome by gas. The lung motor assisted her breathing until recovery. Dr. Rudolph Sintzel of Niles Center treated her. The report notes the woman’s age as a placeholder.
Ex service men are advised they can secure application blanks for their federal bonus at the Wilmette State Bank. The bank also provides fingerprinting facilities for the applicants.
Wilmette plans a lively Independence Day with novelty contests, 150 prizes, and events from 1 30 pm on Ridge Avenue between La and Washington. Jack Patterson will lead the Wilmette Olympic games with a staff of assistants, plus dancing and amusements for all ages at the American Legion sponsor event.
Village Trustee Paul A. Hoffman was named by President Edward Zipf to represent Wilmette at the Lake Michigan Sanitation Congress. The June 27 session at Hammond Triolian Masonic Temple is hosted by the Hammond chamber of commerce. Over 125 municipalities have delegates, with a permanent Illinois Indiana Wisconsin association planned to address waste pollution and health concerns for lakeborder cities.
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