Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 27 Aug 1926, p. 8

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August Zl, 1926 McClure Named Chautauqua Trustee W. Frank McClure, president of the Wilmette Sunday Evening club, was honored last week when he was unanimously elected a trustee of Chautauqua Institution, Chautauqua, N. Y. This is the old original Chautauqua established fifty years ago. The grounds cover 400 acres and 50,000 people are often in attendance at one time. Summer is over and so are most of our vacations. Now we will settle down to greater business activity and we will be giving more thought to the more serious things of life. Persistent saving, we be. lieve, is one question of vital interest in all our lives, for with it anything is possible. Without it, little can be accomplished. Come in and see us when you have an opportunity and let us tell you of the facilities at your disposal 1n our Savings Depart·m ent. Among the other members of the board of trustees are Dr George E. Vincent, head of the Rockefeller Found~tion; Mrs. Thomas A. Edison; Clement Studebaker, the well-known manufacturer of South Bend, Ind.; ~r. Shailer Mathews of the University of Chicago; Hon. Joseph A. McGinnies, speaker of the New York Legislature; Mrs. Pennybacker, former president of the General Federation of Women's clubs of the United Stat~s; ~r. Arthur E. Bester, president of Chautauqua Instit.lltion; Bishop Francis J. W. Frank McClure McConnell (Methodist) of Pittsburgh, and Judge William G Ransom of New York City Mr. McClure attended a reception to Gov. At Smith of New York at the Chautauqua Golf club a few days ago. Thursday, Sepe.mber 2, will be the last Children's concert day of the season at Ravinia, and as a special treat ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Eric ~eLamarter is allo~ing the young people to choose their o~n program of mu~ical numbers, to be played by the Chicago Symphony orchestra. Any child ~..bo attends the concert, may send in a request for a favorite musical selection, by ~riting the name of the piece on a slip of paper and signing his o.r her name and age. The requests must be mailed to A. M. Lo~rie, manager of Ravinia park, in time to reach him by Monday, August 30, it is explained. Mrs. L. M. Allen entertained the IncDrporaeed This is to be the first half of the ! evening Bridge club at dinner :Menprogram and for the second half, John 1 day evening. First National Bank of Wilmette Request Program to Terminate Children's Concerts at Ravinia MOTORS SERVICE .Jilrt!J~ ~ewar and his company ~ill give a group of Scotch dances with bagpipe accompaniment, also Irish and English dances, gay, rollicking stately or inspiring as the music plays. Mr. ~e- · war has appeared before· at Ravinia and always to a packed house and a most responsive audience. The concert for this week }Vas a particularly lovely one with Miss Helen Freund of the Ravinia opera as the. star, assisted by the Academy Players of the A~ademy of ~ramatic Education und~r the direction of Miss Bertha lles, in the act · first panto~ime from Offenbach's "tales of Hoffman." Miss Freun9 ·sang the role of "Olympia" the doll which she did most charmingly. ... I EVErtVTHING AUTOMOBILE .GABRIEL ·SNUBBERS There Is No Other NEVER. CLOSED Let us install a · Set /or you Domlale Paglla·ulo Jeweler f1 Optician $25.00 'lt ,. For a Diamond Ring MAIN STREET Wilmette 0 ~bone w.~ib~got J. c. Slown A.B. VanDeusen Only a few more left at this price and only six more days left to get them at this unusual summer discount. Come to see us btfore · l'rices advance. We can make you terms as low as $1.00 oer week. 1166 Wilmette Ave. Phone Wilmette 1061

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