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Lake Shore News Nearly Everybody In Wilmette Reads The Lake Shore News foLviII, NO. 34. WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 192* TWELVE PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS IEN SHORE OPEN FOR SUMMER CAMPS Five Hundred Mothers and Children of Chicago Tenement Districts Arrive at Camp Friday Morning :amp for working girls Jl Forget Humdrum Existence of. City Life to Bask in Sunshine of the Great Out-of-doors Arden Shore, the vacation camp at ake Bluff, will be opened today for fhe summer season, when 500 moth- ers and children oTThicago's con- rested tenement districts left the Jeat dirt and noise of the city be- hind to spend two weeks* vacation at [his beautiful spot on the bluff over- ookintf Lake Michigan, where they tfjll have plenty of fresh air, rest, good fotd and pleasant companion- ihipâ€"During the season about 2,000 people are given a vacation. Miss Anna Belle Ferrier, the super- .ntendent, and her staff have been -iusy since the winter camp for un- Idernourished boys closed, in getting everything ready for the first group Df summer guests. The grounds have been put in excellent order, tents are ap, the sewing pavillion on the beach lade ready, the Babyfold painted in- and out. and, best of all, there _ft©wâ€" electric lights___on___the inds and in all the large build- lings^ \ VU V DOES WILMETTE WANT A COMMUNITY CENTER? Question to bo Answered in Next Ten Days as Expert Directs Canvass of Every Homo in Wilmotto V t^m National Song (July Fourth) . Cinderella Lodge .This summer there will be a big [new tent, called Cinderella Lodge, jwhere a group of motherless girls be- Itween the ages of 8 and 14 years, will Ibe housed. Miss Mary Donohue will I be in charge of these girls and is Our hearts are the hearts of the yeotnen Who stood with such resolute mien, And bullet for bullet gave foemen That day upon Lexington Qreen; Our praises are still for the freemen Who signed and wrought tyranny**s knell; And still is our glee for the gleemen Who rang the old Liberty Belli We never have fought with the craven For wrong; though it stood on a throne; W^tever rave flocfe^ Our bird is the eagle alone I >ur banner, may none wave above it â€" Atop of the tapering spars, Is the red, white and blueâ€"haw we love ti- lts stripes and its spangle of stars! APPOINT SURVEY WORKERS Woman's Club Loads the Way in Ii portaut Stop which will Deter- Perplexing Problem Does Wilmette need a great Com- munity and Recreation Center? The question which has been fre- quently discussed in church, club and at social gatherings, is to be put di- rectly to every household in the vil- lageT within""the next teTTdaysr For that particular purpose the Wilmette Woman's club has en- gaged the services of C. H. English, ____ 4lecreaUon^peciaJistjjf Community Service Incorporated, ~Neli^^*ork=~~ City, to direct a comprehensive sur- vey of the village with the object of ascertaining whether Wilmette ac- tually needs and wants a Commuri-. ity Center. Tlifc object of this survey, it is pointed out, is to ascertain whether there is need for additional recre- ational facilities in Wilmette, and to Inake an analysis cf the community as to its" recourse* f.c'r recreation. A "committee was app<unted by Mrsv ^ohnâ€"Câ€"Mannerud at-aâ€"meeting Tuesday of this week, of the Community Service committee of the Woman's club, and-â€"approved the [enthusiastically planning good times for them all. They are mostly the "little mothers" who have to look af- [ter the younger children and who lever have any fun themselves. The beautiful new building given by Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hamill of Lake Forest, will this summer house the groups of undernourished girls who are sent out by the Vocational Bur- eau of the Chicago Public Schools. They will be given the same trained care and building up provided fro the boys in winter and will go home [well and strong, ready to go to work in the fall. f Help Convalescents The group of convalescent child- ren will be in charge of Miss Ruth Pinter, who is a graduate of North- westerrr University, and has had one year in the Medical school at Mad- ison. These children are thosewho have been discharged from Chicago hospitals and need more care than thev can receive in their homes. There will be ten from St. Luke's hospital, ten from Cook County hos- pital, ten from the United Charities, ten with weak Jjearts who will be benefited by the tutdooy Hfe at the camp. â- ';•'.'. The athletic director is Mr. Osten Pardue, who was for a time a liff- cnard at Lincoln Park. He will help look after the boys in "Boy- ville". and w»H h»v« charge of the swimming which is the most enjoyed of all the sports at Arden Shore. Mr. Pardue is also much interested in Community singing and hopes to make the good old songs very popu- lar at the camp this summer.- Visitors are welcomed to Arden Shore at any time and the camp is easy of access by motor out Sheri- dan road inst north of Lake Bluff. or by the Chicago. North Shore and Milwaukee Electric railroad which las a station at the entrance to the sounds. Arden Shore is supported by pop- ular subscription among north shore residents, a drive for funds being made every spring.. Officers of Arden Shore association are: Mrs. McGregor Adams, honor- ary president: Mrs. Carl R. Latham, president: Mrs. Robert Gregory and Mrs. Grant Rideway, vice oresidents: Miss Gladys Spry, recording secre- v: Miss Elizabeth Thorne. corres- idirwr secretary: Mrs. E. D. Parme- REALTORS ENJOY BASEBALL, DINNER AND SOME DANCING Members of the North Shore Real Estate board enjoyed the first An- nual Outing of the organisation, Wed^ neiday afternoon, when they packed into a fleet of automobiles and drove to Cub's ball park at Addison and Sheffield avenues, Chicago. The ball game 'twixt the Cubs and the Pirates of Pittsburg provided the first event of the outing program. After the ball game the fleet of realtors proceeded to the Marigold Gardens nearby for a sumptuous din- ner and a session of dancing in the cool of the evening. # Representation at the first outing was reported as approximately 100 per cent of the board m«mKpr.Jim ......â-  i -iâ€"â€" -* PURCHASE CROWE «E2wâ€"»-~* Dr. Charles Bailey Blake, Wil- mette dentist, has purchased the Bert A. Crowe, residence at 1009 Chestnut avenue, through J. A. Shane, local realty broker. Dr. Blake ex- pects to occupy the home in Novem- ber, the Crowe family to retain the residence until their new home m Kenilworth is completed. There are Friends, and Friends, Says^ This Mr. Faulkner plans as presented by the director of the survey. Committee Personnel This committee comprises Mrs. Mannerud. Mrs. Frank J. Scheiden- helm, Mrs. Frederick M. Bowes, R. CUNTON^GOLLARDr 4L-Riee, B. N. Cox and Arthur H. Howard. The committee has been divided into two sections. The women members will under- take the block survey of the village, while the men will perform the sur- vey detail work and serve as a re- lations committee. It is planned to get data from ev- ery family in Wilmette in the next ten days as to what constitutes re- creation in that particular social group. The survey is to be strict- ly impersonal, the data being neces- sary to bring out certain factors relative to the local situation. The results of this survey will be pub- lished in fiitti«-e t««ne« of the Lake MsfS m DAMES OF LOYAL LEGION GIVE WILMETTE FLAGPOLE Proftund mystery surrounds the peculiar case of one Matt Faulkner, Chicago man. who Saturday night, appeared, blood-bespattered, in the Wilmette police station, reporting an attempt of certain friends to put him out of business and steal his lee. treasurer W RECOVER LOST CANINE Wilmette police this week recover- ed a collie onpoy. the property of. Mrs F P: TiiVderich, 1144 Chestnut -vennc. Mrs. Diedcrieh reported the dog had strayed from the home last week. The valusMe pet was *cu«d coaming the streets. IMPORTANT NOTICE "• To Tbe Residents of the Village of Wilmette: Tbe Village Officials are en- deavoring the prohibit promis- cuous parking of automobiles and congestion on streets, es- pecially on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays. Numerous signs are being placed in the section where this has been an annoyance to tbe residents. This rule is mm~ intended to prohibit • SjSJTMSl from parking his ear fa **ir* r-t bis own property. .It is honed that the residents of our Village will co-operate in this latter and help to abolish this nuisance. ^ „»-^» ________E^_G^Sir.BER, Chief of Police machine. It all happened several miles .west of Wilmette, and, according to Faulk- ner, he was lucky to get away with his life. "I was driving a parity of friends to the Forest Preserve, two girls and *e* ' *r» it mW been planned m* . • . *. si*. Bight and spend - any." jettre! miles west of Wil- mette, I stopped the car at the call of one of the girls, when I received a blow on the head. Weakened by the blow I could not resist when the men dragged me from the machine, and carried me into a small woods at the side of the road. There I was treated to a rain of blows on the head and left, as my 'friends' thought, un- conscious. "A moment later I heard some one in the machine call. "Here's a rope. Let's tie him up for good." - "I managed to get up and stagger back to the road, and by a round- about course, back to the car. It was deserted. I jumped in and started for Wilmette and here I am." Two Wilmette police accompanied Faulkner back to the scene of the alleged encounter, but there was no , trace of his belligerent friends. .WORTH YOUTH DIES Word has been received of the death, on June 9> of Louis Curtis, of Kenilworth, in a Baltimore hospital. Mr. Curtis, who had been ill for some time, was attending school in 1 cityT Members of ihc "n ?hv «?ast f'^r Wilmette, on Independence Day, will fly a new flag from a brand new flagpole on the Village Hall Triangle, a gift to the Village by the Order of the Dames of the Loyal Legion, a patriotic organization of women whose fathers,, husbands or brothers were officers of the Civil War. The organization is an auxiliary of the famous Military Order of the Loyal Legion, the Civil War Officers' or- ganization. Shore News. Upon the results of this survey will depend the decision of Wilmette leaders relative to the proposed es- tablishment hereâ€"t>f a great and comprehensive Recreational and So- cial center that shall be village-wide in scope and provide for every recre-; ational and social need. Community leaders are anxious to know where the young people of Wilmette go "to play". If they go to Chicago and other localities for re- creation they want to know why, and in what manner, Wilmette is lacking Wilmette is indebted, principally, to Mrs. John R. Hoffman, 1231 Green-,... „..-....â€"-.-, - .- ( VMod avenue, S-ite prtsiuent of the I in facilities for "play and provis Torres of the Loyil Legion, who.Iions for wholesome social activities, taking cognizance of the fact that .The sentiment of the great majority ..,..*- -u-j__\r:ii«„- fi„M,ntfl ,«_ ,>f Wilmette residents will ffive the family are rcmaini'i? i several weck>, it is said. Wilmette had no Village flagpole, in tcrested her organization in the mat- ter and, subsequently, offered the gift of a flagpole to the Village Board of Trustees with the compliments of the Dames^bf the Loyal Legion. Mrs. Hoffman's mother, Mrs. Douglas Hateman, was the founder of the na- tional organization. The village is attending to* the in- stallation of the flagpole which, when completed, will bear an inscription recognizing the source of the gift. of Wilmette residents will give the answer to the vitally important ana perplexing question, within the next fortnight. BEWARE OF POISONOUS VARIETY OF MUSHROOMS A Substantial Reduction in Printing Prices The lake Shore Publishing Co. is pleased to snnouoce that through its policy of conducting an open shop it is now in a position to make a substantial reduction in the price of printing. This reduction, which is in effect now. means a saving of 25% of the cost of printing four months ago. In addi- tion paper costs are down, in some cases comparing favorably with pre-war prices. We are equipped to handle anything you may need in the printing line. Lake Shore Publishing Co. Beware Of the "puff-bair mush- room, and be sure when gathering mushrooms that they are the edible, and not the poisonous, variety. The Horace G. Drury family, 622 Central avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Drury and their daughter, Florence, became very ill Wednesday evening as a re-» suit of eating mushrooms of the poi- sonous character. . Don't gather mushrooms unless you are expert in distinguishing be- tween the edible and the poisonous varieties. CUT. THE WEEDS Paul A Hoffman, 1638 Washington avenue, president of. the Wilmette Improvement association, has secnr-, ed men to cut weeds in vacant prop- erty in the village. The Improve- ment association is conducting a campaign to "cut out the weeds**, and is ^soliciting the co-operation of the citizens of the village,, particularly owners of vacant property. The as- i sociatkm will furnish the labor at nominal cost to have weeds cut on private property. Mri Hoffman's phone number is Wilmette II0&