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Wilmette Life

Location

Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 28, 1931

Page

3

Wilmette Schools present spring concert at Howard gym

Wilmette Public Schools orches tra and glee clubs perform their annual spring program Friday at 8 p.m. in Howard school gym. Funds from the concert support the school instrument fund enabling instrument loans to pupils. The program includes period and modern works led by directors Mrs. Agnes R. Clark and Mrs. Catherine Granquist Wagner with Annamarie Booz and Eleanor Steen as accompanists.

Wilmette Public Schools Howard Howard School Agnes R Clark Catherine Granquist Wagner Annamarie Booz Eleanor Steen Wilmette Life Thomas Morley Martini Handel Thomas Weelkes Katherine Davis Boys’ Glee Club Haydn Gillett

Wilmette Woman Returns From World Cruise

Miss Mollie McNamara of 1004 Ashland avenue returns home after a four month world cruise. She sailed January 4 from San Francisco on the S S Bergenland with passenger Douglas Fairbanks. Accompanied by Mrs W P Kent she disembarked at Naples and toured Europe before rejoining the Bergenland at Southampton on May 16 and arriving in New York last Sunday.

Wilmette Mollie McNamara Ashland Avenue San Francisco S. S Bergenland Douglas Fairbanks Siam Burma India Miss McNamara W. P. Kent Edgewater Beach Naples

Local Families Plan Travel for War Memorial Pilgrimage

Mrs. Anna Huerter of 2023 Schiller Avenue joins a Gold Star Mothers pilgrimage to France and England departing May 24. Charles Bickell of 202 Golf Terrace leaves June 1 for an extended visit to Denver Saint Louis and Kansas City, following a January retirement from Western Union after over fifty years of service.

Anna Huerter Schiller Avenue France England Charles Bickell Golf Terrace Denver Colo St. Louis Kansas City Bickell Western Union Telegraph Company

Hungarian Dance and Brahms Choral Pieces Performed

A concert program features Hungarian Dance No. 2.8 and Brahms works including Where'er You Walk with Handel selections. The event blends glee club and orchestra performances, highlighting vocal and instrumental pieces in a varied program.

Brahms Handel Glee Clubs and

Memorial Day schedule for Wilmette Post 46 American Legion

Wilmette Post 46 outlines Memorial Day events with a flag raising at Village Hall at 6 30 a m followed by Memorial Park Cemetery ceremonies and an 11 a m Washington Park commemoration plus a 9 a m parade from Village Hall Uniforms include Legion cap and blue or dark suit State Commander Poor man and Post National Commander Howard Savage will attend the post hosts the Seventh district at the June 17 meeting with entertainment and meals Full details to be announced next week.

Village Hall Memorial Park Cemetery Washington Park Legion Poorman Howard Savage John B. Stanton

Visitors in Wilmette Host Buell Family on Way to Pittsburgh

Reverend Henry Buell pastor of Second Presbyterian Church Los Angeles and Mrs. Buell visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Bickell at 202 Golf Terrace Wilmette. They travel to the Presbyterian General Assembly in Pittsburgh. Raymond Leslie Buell son, head of foreign policies Rockefeller Foundation New York, author of Foreign Relations and The Native Problem in Africa, will be visited.

Wilmette Henry Buell Second Presbyterian Church Los Angeles Buell Charles W. Bickell Golf Terrace Presbyterian General Assembly Pittsburgh Raymond Leslie Rockefeller Foundation New York City Africa

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