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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1927
Page
1
The village awarded Badger Construction of Milwaukee a 32 805 50 contract to lay 2 800 feet of 12 inch water main with valves six inch mains and five hydrants in Indian Hill Estates. Work to start within ten days and bids on alley paying contracts were advertised.
The Wilmette Sunday Evening club closed its twelfth season on April 24 and plans a October restart. The 30 week financial report shows receipts of 5 0 1 0.65 against expenses of 5 0 1 9.40 with a deficit of 148 75 after pledges collected. President W Frank McClure calls the season one of the club’s greatest, noting higher average attendance than the prior year.
True Kindred lodge presents a musical comedy How Could They Do It Tuesday evening May 24 at 8 30 in the Wilmette Masonic temple auditorium 1010 Central avenue Admission is one smile Bouquets omitted seats must be kept throughout Prizes offered for best answer to the title. Cast includes Lotta Seratch Lois Lenore Bailey Dorothy Kuelzow Mirana Wiggles Helen Cook and others from the lodge community.
Troop 1 of the Boy Scouts of America sponsored by the Wilmette Post American Legion is conducting a recruitment drive. Boys aged 12 and over not in a troop may contact Scoutmaster Stephen Brownlee at 1624 Spencer Avenue by calling Wilmette 2300.
The annual field day at Wilmette Public Schools will be held Tuesday June 7 at Wattman Park and Village Green. Morning events showcase physical education and the afternoon features grade based track and field contests for boys and girls with events outlined from first through eighth grade and a new ten minute team race for seventh and eighth graders.
A scheme called The Win netka News Bureau mails postcards to Wilmette residents offering to send a clipping of a LIFE article for 25 cents. The postcards cite a file number and promise a local clipping of news items about Wilmette people. LIFE magazine sells at five cents a copy, or $2 a year.
Final rehearsals Sunday May 22 in Evanston announce the North Shore Music Festival under Dean Peter C Lutkin. Open to the public for a small fee, the May 23 to 28 concert series at Patten Gym Evanston features Horace Stevens Louise Loring Doris Doe Paul Althouse and Edward Johnson among 800 in the chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and a Saint Saens Saint Saens Lenore and Dvorak program with Mischa Levitzki piano.
Robert Kingery regional planner and secretary of the Chicago Regional Planning Association spoke to the North Shore Real Estate board at their May meeting held at Lake Shore Terrace Wilmette. He discussed regional planning effects on North Shore Realtors.
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