Wilmette Chamber Holds Autumn Meeting and Dollar Days
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce gathered at the Central Cafeteria to discuss Wilmette day success and plan Dollar Days on September 20 and 21. The group backed paving Tenth Street from Chestnut to Sheridan, prepared to confer with officials and property owners, and approved a fund to outfit the Athletic Club football team and a Chamber Glee club with Dr Charles B Blake as organizer.
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Wilmette Chamber of Commerce
Charles B. Blake
Wilmette
Chamber of Commerce
Tenth Street
Chestnut Street
Sheridan Road
Orner
Kenilworth
Wilmette Athletic Club
Carl FE. Sterner
Wilmette Beach Sees 50000 Use Season With Carnival
About fifty thousand people used the Wilmette bathing beach this season. The beach closed September 15 after a peak week July 17 to 24 when 8300 visitors swam. Picnics and events by Boy Scouts, Western Electric, American Legion, and a water carnival highlighted the season. The staff included Joyce B. Smith as beachmaster and a roster of guards and officials. no fatalities occurred.
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Wilmette
Chicago
Western Electric Accounting Department
American Legion
Wilmette Bureau of Recreation
Louis K. Gilson
Henry J. Haack
Floyd L. Bateman
Charles N. Roberts
Harry W. Hopp
Frank J. Scheidenheim
George W. Hess
C. D. Wagstaff
Henry Fowler
Joyce B. Smith
Belle Hilton
Agnes Borgfelt
Ivy Stone
Archer Kennedy
James Madison Stifler
Paul Fisher
William Barth
James Meehan
J. W. B. Smith
Francis Kennedy
Joseph Berol
Wilmette Chamber Forms Glee Club venture
The Wilmette Chamber of Commerce bets on music by launching a Glee Club. Dr Charles B Blake is named organization chairman as about eighteen volunteers from the chamber and local clubs join the singing ranks. The move follows previous talent noted in Rotary and Optimist clubs and aims to perform publicly in the future.
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Wilmette Chamber of Commerce
Merchants and Business Men’s Organization
Wilmette Chamber of Commerce Glee Club
Charles B. Blake
Glee Club
Rotary
Chamber of Commerce
Torrey Named Secretary and Treasurer of Chicago North Shore
Lincoln C. Torrey of 1341 Elmwood avenue Wilmette age 36 named secretary and treasurer of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee railway. He rose from engineer auditor to high post and is a Harvard graduate.
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Lincoln C. Torrey
Elmwood Avenue
Wilmette
Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railway
Mr. Torrey
Harvard College
Wilmette Schools Open With Large Enrollment
Wilmette public schools greeted about 1575 pupils on opening day with many new students and nine teachers added. The Byron Stolp school land will be leveled for a playground, and a district librarian Miss Alice F Stevens from Oshkosh Wis will organize and catalog school libraries.
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Wilmette
Byron Stolp School
Board of Education
Alice F. Stevens
State Normal College
Oshkosh Wis
Wilmette Stores Plan Big Fall Dollar Days
Wilmette Chamber of Commerce sponsors a semi annual Dollar Days on September 20 and 21. Local merchants prepare shelves and counters to welcome shoppers and show the advantages of buying at home. The event aims to foster neighborliness and community service while offering bargains to stretch budgets.
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Wilmette
Chamber of Commerce
Footways Underway Along Village Hall Parkways
Workmen this week laid concrete footways along the curb lines of Wilmette and Central avenues beside the Village hall and built approaches from the sidewalk for villagers to reach their cars during bad weather.
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Wilmette
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