Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 May 1927, p. 44

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44 WI LM E TT E L IF.E May 13. 1927 APPROVE ALLEY PROJECT . Two alley imgrovement projects were approved at a nieeting of .t he Wilmette Village board of local improvements · Tuesday of this week. The alleys in question are: first alley. south of Elm-. wood avenue between Ninth and Tenth streets, first alley west of Fifth street between Gregory a ,·enue and Isabella street. HAIL AND WIND PLAY · HAVOC IN NEW TRIER A "Sports Model" for· Girls a GJoster Sport C0x.ford Produced in CameJ colored Fountain Square-Evanston New Elkskin with Lizard trimming· -a smart shoe for High School or street wear.. On the Jrd Floor at Wabash Avenue Sport Fashions Step Out! and at Evanston 12~ to 3 $.7 00 7.8.7oster &'Company A novel fringed shawl centers itself across a wide band, reptile patterned, in this sport shoe .of roseblush calf. $6.50. i Pontiac ...., " i i : + + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ : + + + + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++· + + + + + + : + : : : : DELIVERED TO YOU AT THESE PRICES Sport Roadster 2 door Sedan Coupe . . . . . Cabriolet Landau Sedan De Luxe Sedan . $835 . $835 . $835 . $895 .. $965 . $1045 + + : : + + + ·· + + + : + : : : : + + Up-to-minute in fashion -this new Cushman designed sport o x f o r d sketched above! Of stone calf with lizard grained heel and ·saddle. $8.50. (Continued from page 1) office and the Sc:ha11man building were' hlown out. A sign on the roof of the Paul Schroeder real estate office crumpled before the blast and in fa11ing, carried with it a section of the cornice. Prohahk the largest incliviclucd tosses " ·e-re allotted to the florisb. Stachet's g.reen houses suffered a breakage of over a thousand pane ~ of glas s and a minor amount of dam age to plants. Hubert Hoffman r eported damage estimated at . $150 in glass breakage and some loss 111 st ock. and a similar an10unt of dama~e w .t :sustai·ned hy Frank Hlavacek. In the sam e section of Wilmette, a two-car garage at the residence of P. J. Church on Hollywood avenue . was completely (lestroyed and two other garage s in the sam<· vicinit~ · hadlv damaged . Printing Plant Hit . At about 5 o'clock Monday en- ning, just as the st orm reached th l' peak of it s inten sity, a huge t:e~· y n the we st side of the atley adJ omm g the Nel ~o n laundry company propert y 011 th r \n's t. suddenly fetl, carryin ~ with it the telephone and ele ctri c light lin 6 and crushing the roof o i the harn s o.f the Kutt e n Broth er :' Coal company. All machinery in ho 1 .h the Nelso n Laundry and th r Ll oyd Holli ster , Inc.. printing pl ant wa ~ shut down hy the hreak in the power lin es ·and it was several hours befort· operations could he resumed. The central bu sine ss section o f \\.il mett e al so came in for it s sl1ar c t·i damage. \\.indows ;n th e Snyd L ·rCazel Drug store and th e J ohn Millen . Hard\\·ar e company were shattere d and a sign on the Fir ~ t National ha nk was wreck ed. SeYen call:' were received at th l' fire station fr om people n :portin g hroke11 ele ctric \\;res, all of whi ch were rela,·ed to the Public Servic e company. · rn the instance of the K elson Laundry break, however. the fir e men responded , a s it was feared th .t! the grounding of the wire s had cau~ e d a short circuit within tlw plant. In SC\'cral c a ~ c s , as th e rai11 dron: dO\n l in sheet ~ . the hroh.n wires snapped here and there, cros sing and re-cros sing and lighting up the semi-darkn t.? :- :tn a brilliant display of pyrotechnic :-. Other New, Exclusive Shoe Modes Shown at Lord's. First Floor : : + : : + + + + + + + The Pontiac Six Engine, with a piston dis· placement of 186.5 cubic inches is the largest used in any six under the $1000 mark. : : : + : + + + + + E. C. BentleY of RO-t Elmwood an· . nue return ed ~ccenth· from a week ·~ trip' through the Sou.th. He included Dallas, and Houston, Texas. in hi.; tour, and \Ya s gone about a '"-'Ct:k. Mrs. Paul L. Roche of f)Ol Central avenue was hostess to eight guests at a luncheon and bridge party, Friday, May 6, in honor of Mrs . Freel C. \\1il cox of Chicago. The occasion wa s r~ farewell party, for Mrs. Wilcox is lcaY ing Chicago to make her home at Pel ham Manor, N. Y. tXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXJJO + + Universal Decorating Studios Interior Decorations 12 23 ADDISON STREET ! Oakland·Pontiae i : · · + Salesroom T. L. SEAVEY, : · + · · 1135 ·Greenleaf Avenue, Wilmette Mgr. : + + + CHICAGO : ················································~ ~ + + + + V. C. TIEDT Tel. Buckingham 6o 1 I

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