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/" THE LAKE SHORE NEWS. FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1920 POLICE, FRANTIC PARENTS HUNT "KIDNAPPED" BABY Four year old Louise Carter was » playing in front of her home at 2508 Isabella street, when an automobile dashed up to the home and two matronly ladies alighted. After pur- chasing a dozen eggs from Louise's mother, Mrs. Lewis E. Carter, they prepared to drive away. But Louise was enjoying to a full extent the beautiful dark green car with its blue wheels and she was in no hurry to relinquish her seat. When the ladies asked Louise if she cared to ride she readily assented. "But you'll have to ask your mother first," one of the ladies said. Now, Louise was only 4 years old but she was shrewd enough to realize that perhaps her mother might oppose the plan, so she walked through the front door and out the back. "It's awright," she cried gleefully. "Mamma says I can go." Then she climbed into the luxurious cushions of the rear seat, pointed the index finger of her right hand in a north- erly direction and said: "Leth go." The car spurted forward and whizzed northward with Louise's curls blowing high in the wind. In the same house little Thelma Barton, Louise's playmate, watched Louise drive proudly away and she rushed up stairs to Mrs. Carter. "They took Louise away," she cried. The mother looked out of the win- dow just in time to see the car dis- appear down the road. Frantically she called the neighbors and then the police. The Evanston police squad arrived first and set out in a desperate attempt to overtake the kidnappers. Their chase was futile and a net was hastily thrown around the limits of Wilmette and Evanston to prevent the kidnappers from tak- ing the little girl out of the village. For two hours police and parents searched everywhere but could find no trace of the kidnappers' car. As they were about to give up and re- sign themselves to fate, the big car whizzed back to the Carter home and Louise stepped out. She held numerous lolly-pops, chocolates, pep- permint sticks and other brands of candy in her chubby hands and had a large red ribbon tied to her black curls. "We've just been miles an' miles an' miles an' miles," she said. When the ladies learned of the ex- citement the trip had created they apologized and explained that they YOU CAN Always look "spic and span" with little expense to you and positively no trouble. We will clean and press your suit at the very low cost of $1.50. **»€ And above all things do it to your entire satisfaction. 4 Carlton Bldg. DYE HOUSE (Inc.) WinnetU ,IL Phone Wilmette 803 and Winnetka ISO $*c%2M& Masters in the Cleaning and Repairing of Oriental and Domestic Rugs had taken the little girl on a shop- ping trip to Wilmette with them under the impression that Louise had obtained her mother's consent. Then they promised to return some time and take Louise out for another ride. —bi—hi— Get a Maid For 30 Cents—Page 7 ys/?sss//wr/ys///yy///sy/y/ss/s/xv/ss^^ R1CKLEFS & SCHUETT CO., Inc EVERYTHING ELECTRICAL 15S7 SHERMAN AVE. Evanston W///s/,/////////////////-".vss//ss//r/s////.'///////////i'/s//ss/ssss//'//'/s/s/sr/, PHONE 5995 Protect Your TREES! Do not spoil the beauty of your estates by having inef- ficient Care taken of them. NOW is the time to insure their health. Trees on the North Shore were attacked last year by numerous insects. Spray Them Now! e.!Lh«i This remarkable photograph shows the largest tree in Winnetka. This tree was pruned, sprayed and its cavaties filled. No one but an expert could do this job. Y/,//;////////s///ss/s//s//M//sss///////. 2 Prouty Annex Winnetka. III. Thos. J. Lynch Village Forester Phone Winnetka: Office 1294 Res. 313 mmediate Action on Rebuilding We have a large number of competent men available for immediate work on reconstruction No Profiteering Prices PETERSON CO. MASONRY Winnetka Office, 16 Prouty Annex Phone Winnetka 72 Building Contractors CONCRETE Residence Telephone Sunnyside 5623 CARPENTRY Chicago Office, 127 N. Dearborn St. Phone Randolph 5526 Calls Nay be Left With Hill & Wheeler. Phone Wilmette 93