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The Lake Shore News VOL. VIII. NO. 15. Nearly Everybody In Wilmette Reads The Lake Shore News WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1921 TWELVE PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS REALTY MEN STOP SUNDAY BUSINESS Vote Unanimously at North Shore Real Estate Board Session to Quit Sunday Work Permanently -^-râ€" BACKED BY RESIDENTS . .„â€"â€"â€" f Mails Bring Hundreds of Letters Ex- pressing Approval of Move; Sâ€"lc Co-operation Sunday business in real estate is a thing of the past so far as mem- bers of the North Shore Real Es-~ tate Board are concerned. At a meet- _ing of the board Monday evening the members voted unanimously to stop Sunday business permanently. A committee of five was appointed to take active and vigorous measures â€"to-seeure-the co-operation-of-the-enâ€" tire north shore to make Sunday a real day of rest so far as the real estate business is concerned. At the regular meeting of the board Monday night the question of Sunday closing was brought up for final consideration. Frederick B. Thomas, chairman ^©f -the Sunday closing committee made a detailed â€"and lengthy report in which he quul- ed some of the 200 or more letters which have been sent to the board voluntarily by prominent north shore citizens and organizations endorsing the stand taken by. the board and promising co-operation and support. Many interesting and pointed sug- gestions were given showing why Sunday business is unsatisfactory to the citizens and home owners of the north shore and unnecessary for the brokers. After the committee report the question was fully discussed by "the members present. Discuss Sunday Brokers Considerable attention was given to the fact that three brokers on the north shore have refused to co-op- erate with the members of the board stopping Sunday business. One member of the board stated that he had had hundreds of people come to his office on Sundays before Sunday business was stopped, who insisted on being shown through houses in Winnetka and who never afterward came back nor showed any interest in purchasing or renting property. He stated, "lam convinced after years of experience that most of the Sunday customers are mere- ly sight-seers who have not given the matter of purchasing property serious consideration. I am con- vinced also that if any man is seri- ously interested__in___purchasing^sl home he will consider it of sufficient importance to give it more time than simply a" Sunday vacation trip. And in so far as the brokers are concern- ed, I believe Sunday business is un- necessary and any man who works at the real estate business or any other business on Sunday when it is not necessary does so simply because the almighty dollar is of more importance than any other consideration. He worships the almighty dollar more than he does anything else." Old-Fashioned Games Feature This Party; Will You Be There? Something rather novel to Wil- mette folk is promised in the Com- munity Recreation club party to be held at the Wilmette Woman's club Monday evening. February 28. The Community Recreation club is a department of the Wilmette Com- munity House and its activities rep- resent something new in the realm of jenterta inm en t. Its function is__lo, provide real old-fashioned recreation that may be indulged in by any and all residents of the village: There is no dancing and no card playing. Those outstanding features of the average entertainment are en- tirely eliminated and, strange as it may seem, the lack of them fails to marr the evening. Supplanting the dancing and cards are real games,jrarn^s^iuch as are played ih"EuTop^an~~countries and were enjoyed by our forefathers. For instance, there are folk games played to music. Yes, and they are said to have an "edge" on dancing. At least they provide a pleasing change. There are games that will interest every adult resident of the village. There are to be found at these enter^a"ntT>etlts- no equivalent to the celebrated wall flower. The party is under direction of the Commumty^ServiGe-committee^of^the Wilmette Woman's club the organi- zation which is sponsoring the Wil- mette Community House and its at- tendant activities. Every adult resi- dent of Wilmette is invited to the Community Party. It costs nothing and will be most assuredly worth- while. Legion Men Launch Membership Drive Start Out Anew to Get That 100 Per Cent Membership for Wilmette Post; Plan Army Suppe. GEORGE CREEL TALKS ON IRISH QUESTION Noted War Staff Investigator and Publicity Man to Address Wil- mette Sunday Evening Club FLORENCE LANG, SOLOIST Last Half of Club Season to be Re- plete with Programs of Excep- ___-=tional Merit Sunday Business Nuisance Another broker is quoted as saying: "I fully believe that if the residents realized how much they have been imposed upon in the past by Sunday brokers and Sunday customers they would absolutely refuse to permit their houses to be shown to custom- ers on Sundays. It is the one day in the week which the family members have at home together and it ought to be sacred from miscellaneous in- trusion. ; ~ Like the advocates of every reform movement they found some opposi- tion. Practically all of the prominent brokers are now members of the board. Sunday closing was adopted temporarily for a trial period for the past three month's . _Memheri-of-the Wilmette Post of the American Legion this week launched anew a campaign to swell the membership to the 100 per cent mark. The entire village is to be canvassed by the legionnaires in the effort to line up every Wilmette ex- service man with the American Le- «ion- . The Legion post is anxious also^to determine whether any ex-service man in the village is not being satisfac- torily taken care of in the matter of government insurance. ^The men are seeking the co-operation of all the residents in the village in seek- ing out ex-service men eligible # to membership in the American Legion but who, to date, have not become affiliated with the great organiza- tion of World war veterans. The legion men are planning to try out a novel stunt upon the occa- sion of their meeting scheduled for Monday evening, March 7. There is to be "chow" cooked by theHjoys in the good old army style. All ex- service menof the village are invited to this supper and general get George Creel, who was head of the Committee on Public Information of the United States Government during the war. will be the speaker at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club Sunday, February 20. His subject will be "The Irish Question" in all its phases. ' Mr. Creel was perhaps one of the most discussed men of the war staff at Washington./ His duties involved all the favorable propaganda for our own country, and required an in- timate knowledge of enemy activ- ities. He is a trained investigator, and recently madeji spejcialstudx of the question that is so deeply in- volving Great Britain at this time. Florence Lang, Soloist Miss Florence Lang, soprano, will sing, and Mrs. Marie Edwards von ititter will give~an organ recital: The present season of the Sunday Evening club, which has been the most successful in its history is rapidly drawing to a close. Some of the very best programs, however, are still to be heard. Edwin Markham. the famous author of "The Man with the Hoe." will give an evening devoted to his own poems. In view__oJLtbe great success of such musical evenings as that t)f last Sunday night, when the Philharmonic String Quartet drew a very large audience .the management of the club has. decided to provide at least two. more exclusively musical pro*' grams. On one of these Decisions a large body of singe_ts.„Jx.am the" Apollo -c4ub^wfH render Haendel's oratorio of "The Messiah." On the last evening of the season the "A Cappella Choir" of Northwestern University, under the direction of Dean Peter Lutkin, will supply the program^ :~ COMMUNITY HOUSE IS HUB OF SOCIAL AND CLUB LIFE Here's a New One; Pigeon Hatches a Real Live Chick You've heard of the mother duck hatching a brood of chicks and then getting most awfully angry when they balked at the old mill pond. You've heard of dogs mothering tiny kittens and other equally interesting departures from nature's true course. Butâ€"here's a new one. Paul_ Gouglemanu, of^-62*-Getrtrafjâ€"Membership Open Free to Every avenue, whose avocation is raising fine leghorns and uncommonly at tractive pigeons, stepped into his barn Wednesday morning. He heard a peeping way up in the rafters the pigeons call home,, climbed the lad- der and, behold, was greeted by he strange sight of a terribly fright- ened chick, just hatched, vainly at- tempting to figure out its strange mother, a large pure white pigeon^ Gouglemann figures it all put this way. A leghorn must have intruded into the pigeon domain some time ago and left only after depositing an egg. One of the pigeons assumed the responsibility of bringing the chick into the world believing it one of her kind. The Gouglemann household -has adopted the forlorn stranger as a family pet. "It would die among the pigeons," says Mr. Gouglemann, "Because pig- tvs-don't feed their-young^Hke~hems do." That was a new one on us, too. But then lots of strange things happen in the Springtime. get her. PAUL SCHROEPER CHARGED WITH ASSAULT ON AGED MAN "TRACK DEPRESSION" MEETING Paul Schroeder, realty broker with offices at 414 Linden avenue, is scheduled to appear before Mag- istrate D. M. Mickey in the Wilmette Police court Saturday at 4 o'clock, to answer a charge of assault and battery preferred against him by F. H. Berry of Woodlawn avenue, Glen- coe. s Berry, who is said to be over 80 years of age, claims tha Schroeder employed some rough tactics in an altercalioJL__Qver„ a commission in- volved in a ,real estate transaction. The scene was the real estate office. It is alleged by the complainant that Schroeder greeted the old gent- leman with quite undignified language Many Organisations Make Applica- tion For Reservations; Use of House Is Minus Cost Residents of the village ^are jnvitr ^^^^ojhe^actend^-employing- ed to hear a discussion on Tragic ve~ hig hands in conversation in such a pression" to be held at the Winnetka mgnn„r ns tn interfered ' Woma^szclubr^hmdajrevenmg, Feb- fcâ„¢ ^f th^complainant. tis will give ruary 28._JWillia~ the principal talk which is to be illustrated with stereopticon views reproduced from photographs taken in various cities whereâ€" tracks have bepn depressed, showing thafit IS VVUrnette police are seeking the owner of a bicycle found "several days at the police station and^will.be turn- ed over to the owner upon Identifica- tion. quite feasible to -transform an un^ sightly railroad section of^a a reahy beautiful district. SELL BROWN HOME The J. Melville Brown residence at 933 Central avenue, was sold this week to A. H. McCoy of Chicago. The consideration was $16,500. Wilmette Realty Company were the brokers. Community House becomes the center of more activity each week as indicated by the increasing number of reservations for clubs and social groups. Events at Community House for the coming week .follow: Glenn Hallet's violin class will meet tomorrow morning. The Com- munity Recreation club will enter- tain a number of boys tomorrow evening at a party. Games will be played and light refreshments served. Boys betweenâ€"the-ages >of 9 and 16 years are cordially invited. The Finnish society will meet Sun- ^ay^ Mrs. Peterson will conduct her cooking class Tuesday evening. The Philanthropy department if the Wil- mette Caltholic Woman's club will sew at the house all day Wednesday. The Finnish society will meet Thursday. i The dressmaking class will meet this evening at 7:30 o'clock under the direction of Miss Marsh of Nicholas Senn High school. The class meets every Friday evening. KENILWORTH AGAIN VISITED BY BAND OF LIQUOR THIEVES Hits At Discrimination In Newspaper Delivery Village Board Enacts Ordinance Re- quiring Licensed News Dealers; Bar Discrimination COMMUNITY ATHLETIC ASS'N NOW REALIZED Wilmette Community Athletic Asso- ciation Organized Monday; Bruce H. Conine Ap- pointed Director STAND FOR CLEAN SPORT Sponsored by Community House and Man in Wilmette -v Alleged attempts of certain Chica- ^.SG^dailytLews pipers: toobstruct: the ..legitimate sale of other "reputable" (-hteagQ- newspapers-in-Wi4mette and other suburban communities, prompt- ed the Village Board Tuesday even- ing in passing an ordinance requir- ing that every "person, firm or cor- poration" engaged "in the business of selling newspapers to inhabitants of the Village of Wilmette and deliver- ing same at residences of such in- habitants" first procure a license from the village by application to the village president. Under the license provisions the applicant must agree to "deliver any reputable daily newspaper at any residence, in his prescribed territory in which the resident "offers to pay therefor the prevailing rate for the delivery of such newspaper, provided the applicant is able to purchase such reputable daily newspaper" on term9 equivalent to the terms of purchase of any reputable daily newspaper. The license fee is $5 a year. In apply- ing for a license the applicant must furnish guarantee that every person employed in making deliveries of newspapers be of "good moral char- acter." J 'â- "..- Have you a young man in your home? Reference is not to the school boy, grammar or high school, but rather to the young fellow who, beyond the high school age, has found a place in the work-a-day world and who, _ during ^the -day 1 tght^hours is-busy earning a living. If you have such a young man in your home button-hole hini today and put him wise to the following good news. On Monday evening twenty-five young men of the, village, workers everyone of them, met at the Byron £L_Stolp^school gynv-andr-under the direction and in co-operation with the Wilmette Community House sponsors formally launched a Young Men's Community association. This group of men comprises the iuiclejus=oi=what- promi ses-to-becomeâ€" one of Wilmette's more virile organ- izations constituting an important step in the development of Communi- ty life in the village. Bruce H. Corzine of ' Evunston, former all-round athlete at the Uni- versity of lllinois^^selected by the CommiimTy^lService committee of the Wilmette-Woihan's club to direct the activities of the, new association, spoke briefly at the Monday eve-" nin'g meeting. â€" ~â€" Community Life Builder Mr. Corzine in outlining plans for such an organization'of the men of the village emphasized not only its value to the individual members J»ut stressed tfs well its possibilities as a ^tajmcJi_advocate-oiâ€"cleanâ€"athletics and an active force in developing a genuine community spirit. The movement for a Community Athletic association had its begin- ning several months ago when, through the initiative of Mrs. John Clark Baker,-president of the Wil- mette Woman's club, and Mrs. Charles N. Hurlbut, chairman of the Community Service committee of the club, representative young men of the village were brought to a prelim- inary meeting at Community House. At the outset of the school year Superinendent of schools J. R. Har- per, with the sanctioTrof^the^Board of Education, made possible a gym night for young men of the village. Difficulty in^ nhfajning thw servk' of a trained director and supervisor Checked the movement temporarily, but Monday's session, encouraged by word of the appointment of Di- rector Corzine resulted in the.estab- lishment of an organization bearing a definite name and entertaining an equally definite purpose. The association nights are Monday and Wednesday at Byron C.Stolp iolatiorrfgymnasium-; Every man in Wilmette over the boy scout age is invited and urged to become a member absolute- ly free of charge and with no further initiatory ceremony than appearance at the gym on next Wednesday .eve- ning at 7:30 o'clock. While the Ath- letic association is a Community House activity the gymnasium will be its headquarters because of inade- quate facilities and insufficient space in the present Community House. If you have a young man in your .....-i home who can qualify under the There must be somethingtnthe ariâ€"above requirements send him over to ^Fatlu of the provisions of the ordinance makes liable thelicensee to a fine of noFless than $25 nor to exceed $200 for each offense, in addition to revo- cation of the license. The ordinance in full appears in another column of The Lake Shore News. NOBODY KNOWS JUST WHAT IT IS; BUT IT SURE IS Kenilworth police received a tele- phone call early Saturday morning from Mrs. John G. Bowman, 414 War- wick road, to the effect that six men -were~seen-prowling about the~nearby residence of T. W. McGill, Warwick nil woi'lTTa venue ^t*th morrow afternoon. _Thethieves apparently sensed^jm-- be threshed out. Jn_coffftLOi-'| pendingtrouble for wfie n ^aplaThoT Police Murray arrived on the scene . with Patrolmen Napier and Ley IS IT YOUR BICYCLE? J^herjejwere-no prowlers.â€" Ts-nfrought the band was the Mr. C. F. Hess, 1335 Gregory ave- nue, is in Duluth, Minn^ on business this week. Hr tfquor bandit outfit which has made^ repeated attempts^Jg^entetL KenH- worth homes. in Kenilworth that strikes fear to the innermost inner of burglardom. Last Monday a bold burglar enter- ed the A. F. Reichmann residence at 322 Kenilworth avenue, Kenilworth, gathered together a generous supply of household treasures, wrapped the swag in some luxurious portieres and then abruptly left the place minus the Uxol^____________z----------------------1^?â€" Police, called later oy neighbors Who sensed disturbance ~in tire vicin- ity, found the bundle _jof ..household goods ^on th^ ^#oot^~ of one df the rooms in the home. The Reichmann family___has_ been residing at the Webster fioteI7X3»cago, jmA the nouse rtHr near-burglary. the gym on next Wednesday evening. All the young men from 16 toâ€"no limit on the other endâ€"are eligible. Have them try it out 1 It means healthier bodies, better athletics, de- velopment of a genuine Community spirit, contented citizens and, as a direct result, the happiest of home and community life. WILMETTE VEHICLE^JCENSE PLATES ISSUED THIS WEEK BUYS PETCHER HOME Wilmette Reatly Company this week negotiated the sale of the C. K. Petcher residence atr33#:f6reen- leaf avenue, to O. P. Olson, of Cht- cagp.â€"The sale pi ice was ^16,300. BANKS CLOSED TUESDAY The Wilmette State Bank and the First National Bank of Wilmette will be closed all day Tuesday, February 22, Washington's Birthday. The pub- lic schoots and the New Trier Town- ship High school also will be closed Wilmette auto licenses must be oil That day. ~~ 'taken out before March 1. The Wilmette vehicle license plates Were received ~at ~fhe~~ villagel JKalt Wednesdays morning, occasioning -a rry scramble among motorists in the village. ~ For automobiles of 35 H. P. or more George D. White, 1101 Green- wood avenue, jreceived plate Number 1. For machines under 35 H. P. chief of police Edward~35ieber drew the initial plate. Numberâ€"13-of the same set was given to John J. Burke, 520 Park avenue. __.__ wmamm _