Wilmette Schools Open With New Howard Addition
Wilmette Public Schools start 1929 1930 term September 9 with about 1600 pupils and seven teachers. A new four room addition plus an auditorium at the Howard building expands science art music and kindergarten space. New teachers include Charlotte Reese Elsie Lindenmeyer Ida Gunderson Pearle Olthoff Dorothy Nash and Viola Theman among staff changes.
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Wilmette
Howard
North Shore
Charlotte Reese
Eldora
Iowa
Tenth Street
Reese
National Kindergarten and Elementary College
Manhattan
Mont
Ida Gunderson
Ladysmith
Wis
Pearle Olthoff
Pearl City
Til
Logan
Dorothy Nash
Howard School
University of Illinois
Viola Theman
Wilmette Life
Prominent Educator to Address Wilmette Chamber Meeting
Dr. Robert P. Shepherd Ph D a noted educator will speak at the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce meeting Monday evening September 9 on the 1933 world’s fair in Chicago He is sent by the World’s Fair Speakers bureau The session opens at 8 30 with a business meeting of the Chamber’s board prior to the talk
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert P. Shepherd
Wilmette Chamber of Commerce
Chicago
Dr. Shepherd
Village Hall
North Shore Officials Fight Evans ton Golf Lease Cancellation
Wilmette and Evanston authorities plan to plead before the Chicago Sanitary District trustees to prevent revoking the 1918 lease for the 63 acre Evans ton Community Golf course along the drainage channel. Evanston Mayor Bartlett will form a committee. Wilmette officials will act at the next village board session. The lease allows 30 days notice to revoke. the course is an 18 hole public course run by a joint Evanston Wilmette commission.
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Wilmette
Evanston
Chicago Sanitary District
North Shore
Sanitary District
Charles H. Bartlett
Sanitary Trustees
Village Board
Peter Jans
Sanitary Board
Railroad Street
Ed Kerr Back at Desk After Meeting Dogfish
Edward H. Kerr village collector and family return from Fremont Lake near Muskegon Michigan after a vacation. He reports the dogfish seem to take everything but the poles and he may share his first encounter with a dogfish if in good humor.
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Ed Kerr
Dogfish
Edward H. Kerr
Fremont Lake
Muskegon
Mich
Eddie
Minister McCormack to Lead Pilgrim Foundation at Illinois
The Rev William E McCormack longtime associate minister of the First Congregational church departs this week to direct the Pilgrim Foundation at the University of Illinois The foundation aids Congregational students at the state university A farewell reception is planned at the Congregational church tonight.
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William E. McCormack
First Congregational Church
Pilgrim Foundation
University of Ilinois
State University
McCormack
Congregational Church
Reschke Awarded Contract for Alley Paving
Paul Reschke and company of Winnetka were awarded the paving contract for the alley north of Linwood Avenue between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. The bid totaled $2,054.30. The board also approved paving the alley west of Woodbine between Gregory and Isabella.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Reschke
Card Party Benefit Hosted by Wilmette Woman's Club
The home of Mrs. Joseph O'Neill at 1033 Sheridan Road hosts a card party this afternoon for the Sanctuary department of the Woman's Catholic Club of Wilmette. Play begins at 2 o'clock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph O'Neill
Sheridan Road
Woman's Catholic Club of
Wilmette
New Trier High School opens with small faculty turnover
About 1 700 pupils from Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka and Glencoe report for the 1929 1930 term Monday morning. Enrollment holds steady while six new teachers join a nearly hundred strong faculty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmette
Kenilworth
Winnetka
Glencoe
New Trier Township High School
New Trier
Ethel Evans
Evans
Aurora
Ill
K. Binnie
Roan
Greenwich
England
Kathleen Lockley
Binnie
Roland Wehr
Lockley
Putney High School
Elsa Karst
V. Condon
Taucht
Bloomington
C. Minnema
Wilmette Liff
Chicagoan Hurt In Wilmette Car Crash At Main And Elmwood
Bedford Williams 23 of 1366 North LaSalle Street Chicago is hospitalized in Evanston after a Friday dawn crash on Main Street at Elmwood Avenue Wilmette. He suffered severe head injuries when his sedan hit a tree after tearing through a barricade. Williams is reported greatly improved late Wednesday. Police were alerted at 5 50 am by two newsboys who found the wrecked car and injured man.
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Bedford Williams
North
LaSalle Street
Chicago
Dartmouth College
Evanston Hospital
Main Street
Elmwood Avenue
Wilmette
Williams
Sergt
Herman Vance
Joe Schmidt
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Lake Forest
Lindenmeyer
Kalamazoo
C. of C
Lloyd Hollister Inc
Reschke
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