Huerter Legion Post Memorial Day Observances
Peter J. Huerter Post of the American Legion will lead Memorial Day observances at St. Joseph's cemetery with a 9 AM marching parade from Forester Hall to the cemetery. J Kent Green of Chicago will speak. Auxiliary and local schools join the procession and poppy sale efforts accompany the event.
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St. Joseph’s Cemetery
Peter J. Huerter
American Legion
Forester Hall
J. Kent Green
Chicago
Feehenville
St. Joseph's
P. J. Huerter
St. Joseph's Cemetery
P. J. Huerter Post
Wilmette Board Backs Alley Paving Plans
The Wilmette Village board approves resolutions for several alley paving projects with cost estimates including the first alley south of Laurel between Fifth and Seventh streets at 7178 dollars, west of Eighth between Lake and Central avenues at 5336 dollars, south of Lake between 15th and 16th streets at 3194 dollars, north of Walnut between 15th and 16th streets at 2954 dollars, and north of Forest between Sixth and Seventh streets at 3205 dollars.
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Wilmette Village
Forest Avenue
Garden Club Annual Mart Sells Garden Goods Tomorrow
The Wilmette Garden Club hosts an all day garden market at the North Shore line station grounds on Wilmette avenue. Donations of plants are welcome via phone contact Mrs. Edward Moore. Proceeds fund shrubs for village public grounds and a refreshment stand offers lemonade and cake.
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Garden Club
Wilmette Garden Club
North Shore Line
Wilmette Avenue
Edward Moore
Wilmette 415
Central School
Georgia
Alice Vosburg
Mary Lauer
Betty Wilson
Virginia Hawley
Harriet Loesch
Elizabeth Balhatchet
Ellen Cozzens
Helen Bauer
Mary Jane Thoms
Elsie Wade
Helen Jones
Lucia Haller
Wilmette Memorial Day Parade Route
The Memorial Day procession starts at 10 am at Central and Wilmette avenues and follows a loop through Park Lake Elmwood Elmwood Eighth Central Sixth Linden Fourth Central to Washington Park.
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Wilmette
Huerter Post Auxiliary Plans Busy Poppy Day Drive
The Peter J. Huerter Legion Auxiliary, formed recently, nears thirty members and aligns its activities around the Service fund from Poppy Day sales. The unit will be out in force Monday May 28 selling Memorial flowers.
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Huerter Legion Auxiliary
Ridge Avenue
Peter J. Huerter Legion Auxiliary
Northwestern seniors elect most popular and beautiful
At a chapel service last Wednesday at Northwestern University a class report named Miss Nellie Gibbs of 1424 Forest Avenue Wilmette as the most popular girl and Miss Dorothy Leggett daughter of Chief of Police Charles W Leggett of 227 Ninth Street Wilmette as the most beautiful girl in the senior class.
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Northwestern University
Nellie Gibbs
Forest Avenue
Wilmette
Dorothy Leggett
Charles W. Leggett
Ninth Street
Michigan Sophomore Charles D. Roth Named to Junior Honorary
Charles D. Roth of 1124 Forest Avenue, son of Mr and Mrs J D Roth, was selected as one of ten sophomores at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor to join the Junior Honorary Society.
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Charles D. Roth
J. D. Roth
Forest Avenue
University of Michigan At
Ann Arbor
Memorial Day Observance Plans For Wilmette
Wilmette Memorial Day events led by American Legion Post 46 include a 10 A M parade from Wilmette Village Hall to Washington Park, graveside ceremonies at Memorial Park, and an 11 15 A M service with address by Lawrence J Fenlon. Scouts, bands, and civic groups participate in a full program of remembrance.
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Wilmette
American Legion Post
Memorial Park Cemetery
Wilmette Boy Scouts
Legionnaires
James Barber
Central Avenues
Washington Park
Lawrence J. Fenlon
Logan Square
American Legion
New Trier High School
Wilmette Post
Wilmette Legion Post
Wilmette American Legion Auxiliary
Howard
Memorial Day Essay Awards For Wilmette Students
The Wilmette Optimist Club will award three local students at Memorial Day services in Washington Park for the best essays on the meaning of Memorial Day. Rewards are given annually to honor outstanding essays by Wilmette schoolchildren.
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Wilmette Life
Wilmette
Washington Park
Wilmette Optimist Club
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Huerter Legion
Board
Huerter
Drum and Bugle Corps
Ralph Rice
Amgtica Fac
Assembly
Logan Square Post
Arthur Johnson
Wilmette Legion Auxiliary
Pee American Legion
MPI
Stanley Peterson
Bert O'Connell
Pee Wrea Oere Assembly
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