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Lake Shore News (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Oct 1921, p. 15

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1 ____ THE LAKE SHORE"3lEWS. FRIDAY. OCTOBER 7. 1921 s 15 PIONEERS COP FROM r UNIONOANTS 2-0 Cold Spell Fails to Spoil Baseball For F..t Semi-Pros; Play Again Next '■' ~V- Sunday In weather better suited to football v u Trier Pioneers and the Union rSnts colored, of Chicago, Sunday miaid in what turned out to be the w baseball game of the season in tluTsc parts. Pioneers came out on September Was Big Moving Month Here Public Service Company Estimated Number of Mover* by Ga» and Electricity "Turns-off" •2m METHODIST CHURCH CHOIR NAMES OFFICERS FOR YEAR The moving month of September closed with 932 moviugs to its credit in Kvanstou. Wilmette and Kenil- worth. This is based on the number of "turns off" and "turns on" of the Public Service Company in the three communities. Klectricity and gas have been turned off and on for 820 customers during the first 28 days of the month. One hundred and three jobs are still pending. __'_'•_ These figures, indicate that the usual amount of moving is taking place this fall along the north shore. During .the summer months the Pub- lic Service Company hardly averages 100 calls a month for disconnecting gas or electricity and the number in other non-moving months is corres- pondingly small. Subscribe To Your Local Paper At its rehearsal last Thursday the chorus choir of the Wilmette Metho- dist church elected officers for the year as follows: Charles Mann, president. Miss Margaret Gloria Stafford. vice president. Ralph Moulding, secretary. ' Miss Esther Hoffman, treasurer. At a special meeting last Sunday the Official Board authorized the pur- chase of twenty-four choir chairs to accommodate the augmented choir. In the brief time that the new di- rector. J. C. Grahau. has had charge of the Methodist choir, he has dem- onstrated that the Music committee uiade a fortunate choice in the selec- tion of a leader. With a loyal and faithful chorus, with an organist, j^frs. Arthur Grambling, who is ex pert in chorus work, and with Chair- man H ana wait always on hand to see that everything goes well, the pres- ent musical arrangement promises to be most satisfactory. EXPERTS TO MAKE SURVEY OF VILLAGE WATER SYSTEM Advertise In Your Home Paper Chairman John C. Illaylock of the Water and Sewers committee of the Village Hoard of Trustees, Tuesday recommended a survey of the water system in the village to determine wastage, as an economy measure. The survey as described by Trustee P> lay lock will be made by a firm of experts at a maximum cost to the vil- lage of $1,500. the expense of the sur- vey to be on the basis of water saved in one year. The Hoard authorized the survey which will begin immediately. The survey would determine the total daily water consumption in the vil- lage and reveal all leaks and exact sources of waste. A detailed report of the survey is to be submitted to the village. INSTALL ELECTRIC LIGHT AT "OUR DARKEST CORNER" An improvement for which residents in the vicinity have been clamoring for several years has been brought about in the installation a£ trie light at Washington and West Railroad avenues, accomplished through the efforts of Village Trus- tee Paul A. Hoffman. Villagers in the vicinity Tuesday authorized Trustee Hoffman to ex- tend a vote of thanks to President Zipf and the Board of Trustees for this much needed improvement. RUMMAGE SALE The Ladies" Aid society of the Wil- mette Methodist church will hold a Rummage Sale at Economy Shop, Greeideaf and East, Railroad avenues on Monday and Tuesday, October 10, and 11. There willKbe a variety of household goods, earthing and other Useful articles for sale at low price, it is announced. AUTOS CRASH ON BRIDGE Two Winuctkans got tangled up in Wilmette. Sunday night' at, Sheridan Road and the Drainage Channel bridge where cars driven by L. B. Kuppenheimer and Paul Reshke col- lided. Reshki was slightly injured and his machine considerably dam- aged. He was taken to his home by ^he-Wilmette police. "Bobby" Wallace top, as usual, in a 2 to 0 score. The locals annexed five hits while the flashy Giants got only four. Becker and Kelley starred for the Pioneers. Strommel registered 13 strikeouts. Bingham^ coach and center fielder for the Giants, kept the crowd in an uproar with his circus catches and jLomical antics at the plate------ The 2nd GAME BETWEEN THE NEW TRIER "Phil" Strommel Giants and Pioneers cl|sh again next Sunday afternoon on the Ridge and Lake avenue lot. 1 The score: ----": Pioneers Walleser Ha skins__ R.H ..0 0 Walsh ........1 1 Mnran .......0 0 P.orre .:......0 0 Kelley .......0 2 Pecker .......0 1 Wallace ......1 1 ^trommel ... .0 0 2 5 Union Giants R.H. Bingham ... .0 1 Brown ......0 0 Ward .......0 0 White ......0 2 Reed ...... t .0 0" Ford ........0 0 Johnson ..'. .0 1 Palmer .....0 0 Kelly .......0 0 .04 AND CHICAGO UNION FAST COLORED TEAM DERANGED WANDERERS Clarence Harrle, 50 years old, ^ndered away from his home in Terre Haute. Ind., Tuesday morning *!i<1 boarded- a train for Chicago. The Wilmette police, found him at 5 o'clock w andering hatless and coatless on H i ridan road. Relatives called for u>e man later in the day. Charles Halberg, 45 years old. an '^■ped inmate of the Chicago State Hospital at Dunning, was found sundering in the village Tuesday ^ening. He was placed in the care »* State hospital attendants by the IPca.l police. ■ Subscribe To Your Local Paper

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