Wilmette Village Board Debuts With Immediate Projects
The new Wilmette Village board met for the first time and moved quickly on committees, village collector and attorney appointments, local improvements board, and starting Wilmette’s share of the north shore through highway project on Main Street. Trustees sworn in include Dubbs Bennett Jee and Freehole. old board members presided over routine closure and honored retiring leaders.
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Wilmette
Board of Local Improvements
Main Street
Carlton P. Dubbs
Stacy C. Bennett
Arthur Lee
A. W Freehole
Ruth H. Snyder
Carl C Renneckar
W. W. DeBerard
Dubbs
California
Bennett
Arthur Jee
A. W. Freehole
Lea J Orr
Charles H. Bartlett
Franston
Earl FE. Orner
Carl C. Renneckar
Stanton van Inwagen
Er. C. Cazel
Orner
F. N. Joy
William Panushka
Samuel §. Dingee
H. G. Drury
George W. Springer
Henry B. Gates
Oscar W. Schmidt
George P. Magill
First Presbyterian Church
Earl K. Orner
I. C. Cazel
Froehole and Lee
Community Center Idea to Be Pondered May 18
Local groups are invited to a Wilmette Village hall meeting Monday May 18. The aim is to form a permanent committee to plan the building and maintenance of a community house. The Chamber of Commerce will host the event, announced Alder R. Tighe, chair of the community house committee.
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Wilmette
Chamber of Commerce
Alder R. Tighe
Chamber
Trustees pick Bennett as president pro tem
The board proceeded with its business appointing Trustee Bennett as president pro tempore in the absence of President Dubbs.
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Bennett
Dubbs
Buying of Poppies Is Tribute to All Heroes
The American Legion auxiliary will distribute poppies on Poppy Day May 22. Volunteers offer the flowers in exchange for a contribution to help living veterans, with no fixed price. Every penny goes to aid disabled men and their families next year, honoring the dead and aiding the living.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Legion
Auxiliary
Commencement Plans at Joseph Sears School
Commencement exercises at the Joseph Sears school in Kenilworth will be held Friday June 12. About forty three students will graduate. The annual exhibit showcasing the year’s work runs Friday June 5 a week before graduation with all rooms represented and large parent attendance.
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Joseph Sears
Kenilworth
Wilmette Approves Water System Bond for Improvements
Wilmette voters on April 21 authorized a $100000 bond to fund needed water system improvements. The village moves to prevent shortages by building a new meter pit on the Evanston line and installing a meter, with Evanston supplying fittings and a new meter. A temporary booster pumping station on Prairie avenue near Isabella street will be constructed with bids sought, at an estimated $2000, to improve supply.
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Allfred Carl Hottes
Better Homes and Gardens Magasine
Wilmette
Evening Garden Club of
Sewer and Water Committee
DeBerard
Sheridan Road
Roslyn Street
Evanston
de Berard
C. M. Osborn
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