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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1939
Page
12
Promoters of a donkey basketball variant describe moving baskets mounted on wheels with rotating goals to hinder the donkeys as they chase points. The match ends with the losing side obliged to perform a version of The Donkey Serenade.
Woody Wilson recalls New Trier High School sport show last week, the fourth annual event. He lauds organizers DeForrest Showley coach Sanding Jackson Happ, sponsor Frisbie and Duke Childs, and praises janitorial staff whose behind the scenes work kept the carnival smooth. The piece notes a past warrant drive funded by janitors and laments lack of credit for their efforts.
Margaret and Rowland Davis children of Mr and Mrs John M Davis of 1215 Elmwood Avenue will be home Saturday from Miami University Oxford Ohio for their spring holidays.
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