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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1926
Page
6
Chicago Motor Club cites a National Conference study estimating 600 million dollars yearly lost to traffic accidents and 20 dollars per person due to congestion and poor road surfaces. Total annual waste exceeds two billion dollars nationwide.
The Young Women's Missionary Society of Wilmette Parish Methodist Church plans a dinner and entertainment on Tuesday evening May 11. Dinner starts at 6:30. Entertainment is to be by a young woman and details are kept secret. Mrs. William Grant Jerome of Rochester, N. W. is visiting Wilmette, staying at Mrs. W. A. Durgin’s 627 Forest Avenue, for about a month. Mrs. Durgin hosted her niece Miss Mary McMillan of Syracuse for a week.
A Wilmette resident, Mrs. Edward H. Yonkers, shares a letter from her son Edward H. Yonkers Jr. in Paris describing Toledo and Madrid. He notes Toledo’s centuries of diverse influence, narrow winding streets, peasants with donkey carts, and old city doors. Madrid is described as modern with broad avenues and parks.
Mrs. W. HL Christensen hosted the Evening Card Club on Saturday May 1 at 301 Fern Leaf Avenue. Guests were members of Columbia Commandery No. 63 based in Chicago with visitors from Downers Grove Oak Park and Chicago. Mrs. Baers and Mrs. Mitre of Kenilworth 157 Woodstock Avenue also attended. They have returned from a week in Hot Springs Virginia.
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