Wilmette Community Chest Plans March Campaign
The Wilmette Community Chest prepares its annual unified fund drive with a 35 000 budget for 1929. Volunteers will canvass homes on Sunday March 17 to support charity and welfare agencies. Local clubs endorse the drive praising the economy of the Chest plan and hospital loan fund initiatives. A speakers bureau, chaired by Hayes McKinney, will promote the Chest message in village organizations in the coming ten days. The campaign closes with a large gathering of volunteers on March 15 in the village auditorium.
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Hector Dodds
Wilmette Community Chest Association
Wilmette Community Chest Unified Fund
Wilmette
Maurice Reddy
American Red Cross
Community Chest
Woman's Club of
R. A
Alameda Ll. Wheelock
Cor
Woman’s Catholic Club of
Hospital Loan
Chest Association
A. W. Boylston
Woman's Catholic Club of
Hayes McKinney
Sothern to Speak at Wilmette on Theater History
Actor-lecturer E. H. Sothern will address the Wilmette Sunday Evening club on March 10. His topic is The Theater Its Past Present and Future. Sothern and Julia Marlow built a renowned American theater company and he is from a notable family of actors.
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E. H. Sothern
American Theater
Wilmette Sunday Evening Club
Julia Marlowe
Sothern
America
Othern
Wilmette Chamber appoints drive district captains
At the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce meeting Robert Stoddard of the Community Chest announced this month’s charity drive. District captains named include Joseph E. Shantz for the central district A J Woodcock for Linden avenue Nick Schwall for Ridge avenue and M I L Olson for No Man's land.
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Wilmette
In This Issue Automobile News Community Chest
A compact listing page outlines sections inside the issue such as Automobile News Community Chest and various page referrals including Boy Scout pages Church items and editorial Shore Lines.
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Automobile News Community Chest
Boy Scout
Junior Life
Kenilworth Hppenings
Sten Beetete
Ess
Sports
Society News
Travel Corner
Ocean
People's Party Caucus set for March 20 in Wilmette
The United People's party calls all village residents to the annual caucus March 20 in Village Hall council chambers. Candidates for the April 16 village election will be nominated. officers up for election include Village President Earl F. Orner, Village Treasurer Harry W. Miller, and Trustees Ernest C. Cazel Hanns von Reinsperg and Paul A. Hoffman. The Police Magistrate post has no incumbent.
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United People’s Party
Wilmette
Earl FE. Orner
People’s Party
Orner
Harry W. Miller
Ernest C. Cazel
Hanns von Reinsperg
Paul A. Hoffman
Wilmette Chamber to study airplane marker plan
President John H. Davies of the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce was instructed to appoint a committee from the chamber to consider erecting an airplane marker in Wilmette. The action followed talks by Postmaster Joseph E. Shantz and Henry B. Gates at the March meeting.
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John H. Davies
Wilmette
E H Sothern to Speak at Wilmette Sunday Evening Club
Famous American actor E H Sothern will visit Wilmette Sunday to discuss The Theater Its Past Present and Future. Edith Rideau Normelli will sing as the evening’s soloist. Sothern, born in New Orleans to E A Sothern, helped build a renowned theater company with Julia Marlowe.
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E. H. Sothern
Wilmette Sunday Evening Club
Edith Rideau Normelli
Sothern
New Orleans
E. A. Sothern
Hearings Set March 19 On Village Drain Projects
The village board announced a public hearing for Tuesday March 19 on sanitary sewer drains in Ridge Avenue from Washington to Central, Highland Avenue from 21st Street to Ridge, and Central Avenue from 21st Street to the first alley west of Ridge. Water services and storm sewers in Pine Crest subdivision will also be heard.
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Village Board of Local Improvements
Ridge Avenue
Washington Avenue
Central Avenue
Highland Avenue
Twenty-first Street
Twentyfirst Street
Ridge
Pine Crest
Annual C of C Banquet Postponed Indefinitely
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce postponed its annual banquet indefinitely after a regular monthly meeting and a directors meeting held last Monday evening.
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C. of C
Wilmette Chamber of Commerce
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