Howard School to Add Major Unit at Spencer and Seventeenth
Wilmette Board of Education approved hiring Perkins Fellows and Hamilton to supervise the new addition to the Arthur P H Howard school at Spencer avenue and Seventeenth street. Plans call for about 50 000 dollars for six classrooms a corridor and later expansion including manual training rooms and a small auditorium. Construction should start after summer vacation with aim to occupy the new space in fall.
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Arthur PH. Howard
Spencer Avenue
Seventeenth Street
Wilmette Board of Education
Perkins, Fellows
Hamilton
Oriinally
Howard School
Howard
Lyman M. Drake Elected President of Olde Towne Folke
Lyman M. Drake was elected president at Ye Olde Towne Folke annual dinner and meeting held Tuesday night at the Woman's Club. A. C. Wenban, William Waidner, and Mrs. L. M. Morse were named officers with Waidner and Morse reelected. The group plans a records preservation site for Wilmette history.
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Lyman M. Drake
Ye Olde Towne Folke
Woman's Club
A. CL Wenban
William Waidner
L. M. Morse
Waidner
Morse
Olde Towners
Woman's Elub
C. H. Eldred
Wilmette
Charles Rush
Samuel Dingee
Ve Olde Towne Folke
Legion Plans Initiation and Memorial Day Observance
Wilmette Post No. 46 American Legion will initiate new members Tuesday evening May 18 at St Augustine's club house. A music program and refreshments follow. The meeting will discuss Memorial Day plans including a street procession and Lake Front park exercises. S J Duncan Clarke journalist will speak, and winning essays by local students will be read.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmette Post No. 46
American Legion
St. Augustine’s Club House
Post
Lake Front
Washington
S. J. Duncan-Clarke
Wilmette Optimist Club
North Shore Alumnae Plan Afternoon Event at College
North shore alumnae of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college will host an alumnae afternoon for junior and senior classes in Harrison hall new auditorium on Tuesday May 18. Alumnae in costume will represent periods since 1886 and present the development of the Alumnae association through song and story.
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North Shore
National
Harrison Hall
Lutheran Societies Gather for May 23 Rally in Village
Lutherans from Chicago area churches and suburbs will fill St. John s church for a Walther league rally on May 23. Martin Dath of Addison Manual Training school and the Industrial Home for Girls will speak in the afternoon, followed by Rev Guido Schissler of Redeemer Lutheran Englewood delivering an evening lecture. The conference previews the league international convention in Baltimore July 13 to 16 with representatives from Bethany Edgewater Evanston Wilmette Glencoe Highland Park Waukegan and Libertyville.
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Chicago
North Side
North Shore
St. John’s Church
Walther League
Veanine People's Organization
Martin Dath
Addison Manual Traimine School
Tdustrial Home For Girls
Guido Schissler
the Redeemer Lutheran Church
Englewood
League
Baltimore
Bethany
Edgewater
Fivanston
Wilmette
Glencoe
Highland Park
Waukegan
Libertyville
St. John's
Blessed Worries to be Talked By Rev F C Stifler
Rev Francis C Stifler will speak on Blessed Worries as part of a four sermon series on marriage at Wilmette churches. May services run 7 30 to 8 30 pm at the Wilmette Baptist with June moving to Wilmette Parish Methodist and other churches hosting later. The previous session drew a larger crowd than the first and opens with a 20 minute song service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmette Baptist Church
Wilmette Parish Methodist Church
Francis C. Stifler
New Trier Boys Vie for Free European Tour Prize
A competition at New Trier High School offers three students a 33 day trip to Europe aboard the President Roosevelt starting June 30. Subscriptions to Winnetka Talk and related papers determine finalists with the winner receiving paid travel and per subscription payments. Robert H. Carpenter guides the program with entrants from Wilmette Kenilworth Winnetka or Glencoe.
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New Trier High School
Europe
Lloyd Hollister
Winserre Live
Winnetka Talk
Guexcos News
Robert H. Carpenter
Wilmette
Kenilworth
Winnetka
Glencoe
Wiarette Lire
Glencor News
New York
President Roosevelt
England
Belgium
France
Holland
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Board of Education
Old Towners
Legion
Norman Hess
Walter Knupfer
Fine Arts
Lyon and Healy
F. C. Stifler
New Trier
Hollister
British Isles
Downing Street
London
Westminster Abbey
British Museum
Parliament Houses
the Tower
Guild Hall
St. Paul’s
Trafalgar Square
London Bridge
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