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Firat two Maatha of 1121 cate · · ......t Gaia OYer J......,, F....., IIZ7 Mr. and 'Mrs. lleary TaylOr of Essex road are lea'fing Keailworth this week-end for an oteaded trip to California where ~ey wiD visit their daughter Ddrothy (:Mrs. Geroald), and: liadi· tour the southern ~ of the state. · Harold 0. Barnes has ~ld two hew brick houses at '1f11 and '711 Viqpaia avenue, Kenilworth. These houses are of brick and contain nine rooms aacl three baths each. The houses are to lEU. ~d.Woa,_ be cCJmpleted by Kayl. Thelia ch Is «) ·x 137: One IOid to C.· A. BemthDl aDd oae to. aa aadi~ cloled purc)laser. PeWitt S. Stillmau reJ)reseated .the owner ·ud the buyer ia each tran~ . . . · .Chicago suburban building for the opening months of this year .show an 8 per cent gain over the same period a year ago. The .indication, according to the building permit index, is that building will continue active for . the next sixty to ninety days. For the first two months of 1928, the twenty-seven principal suburbs for which comparative records are available showed a volume, according to official permits issued, of $12,794,545 as compared with $11,834,613 for the first · two months of 1927. Maay ia Gaia Cohuma Although the suburbs are sustaining a high volume of proposed building as a whole, numerous losses are apparent for February, according to the building survey departmeqt of S. W. Straus and company. In February the twentyseven suburbs with comparable records had a construction volume of $5,585,515 as against $6,584,584 for February la·st year, or a loss of 15 per cent. As against January 1~ the February record this year showed a loss of 23 per cent. Oak Park. Joliet and Hammond of the larger suburbs made record gains Jast month as against a year ago. Oak Park made a February nin of 313 per cent and 124 per cent gain over J anuary this year. Its traditional rival, Evanston. took losses in both the Febru-· ary and January comoarisons. Hammond rriade gains while its nei~hbor in~ rival, Gary, showed a negative position. Other suburbs making gains last month as against a year ago were : Aurora. 7 per cent ; Chicago Heights. 106 per cent ; Cicero. 13 per cent : ElR"in. 10 per cent; Glencoe, 18 per cent; Glen Ellyn, 56 per cent; Harvey, 122 oer cent : Joliet, 126 oer cent : La Grange, II per cent; J..ake Forest, 17 per cent; Park Ridge, 82 oer cent= Waukee-an. 4 oer cent; Wilmette 5 per cent and Hammond. 96 per cent. The suburbs making los·ses in February compared with February last year were : Berwvn, 31 per cent ; Des Plaines. 66 per cent; EvanstC\n, 51 per cent; Highland Park, 42 per cent : Lombard, 71 per cent ; Maywood. 35 oer cent ; Niles Center. 42 per cent = Wheaton, ti3 per cent ; Winnetka. 45 oer cent ; East Chicago, 38 per ("ent : Whiting, 73 per cent and Gary, 76 per cent. Record Larce Caiu Gains in February compared with January this year were as follows : Aurora. 103 per cent ; Blue Island. 85 per cent ; Cicero, 644 oer cent : Elgin. 53 per cent; Forest Park. 3,237 per cent; Glencoe, 106 per cent; Harvey, · 300 oer cent; Joliet, 373 per cent· La Grane-e. 29 per cent; Maywood. 83 per cent: Niles Center, 85 per cent: North Chicago, 12,082 per eent; Oak Park. 124 ner cent; Park Ridge. 186 per cent; Wilmette, 179 per cent: East Chicago, 233 per cent and Gary, 20 per cent. · Suburb's sufferin~ losses in February compared with .Tanuary this year were : Berwyn, 10 oer cent ; Des Plaines. 38 per cent ; Evanston, 54 per cent ; Geneva, 45 per cent : Glen Ellyn. 47 per cent : Highland Park, 39 per cent; Lake Forest, 71 per cent; Lombard, 4'f' per cent; Waukegan. 65 per cent ; Wheaton. 5 per cent : Winnetka. 68 per cent ; Hammond, 80 per cent and Whiting, 99 per cent. Miss Emily Simons entertained thirty of her friends at a leap year dandncr nartv Wednesdav evenin2. March 7, at het: home, 1631 Washington avenue. 520 .MICHIGAN. AVENUE · NOllTB J··t ·soutla o/ tl.e BriJs~ COWNS · WB.APS · :MILI.INEB.Y · Announces the retum. jroni Paris oj MRS. POWELL -with one of tJ,.e largest collections of originJ .Paris model.. ever selected by an individual linn Rep~oduced to your measure-in tLe finest o{materials and detail--and executed only ..in accor.d witL ttat wlucL. it typi~J of tlte Powell name Upwo.rJ. /rom Ready-tO-'be-worn copies ofFrencL. model~ . .UpwarJ· /rom