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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 13 Apr 1928, p. 48

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Fift·t-.. w-.n Compete Five teams are participating in the first Woman's Volleyball league sponsor~d by the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board, which · was orpnized at the Stolp gymnasium last Mond,y ev~ning. ~ · ·· It is the second Woman's Athletic league sponsore_ d by the board and the first year that any women's ;athletics have been undertaken, according to Daniel M. Davis, director of recreation. Should the interest re- · n~ain ai keen as that dispiayed 'in the first league, the activities· wiD pave 'in Woraea'a Volley Games the way for a regular woman's !!rogram next year. More than forty women participated i~ the basketball league which closed its season the wee..k preceding Easter and J2 women were present at the initial m~eting of the volleyball :league. Frank Happel of Oshkosh, Wis., Easter week at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Benz of 620 Gregory avenue. Mr. Happel is Mrs. Benz' brother. spe~t I ·April 13, 192.8 ---------------J Noted T e·or· North ·s hore Folk Pretlomi·ate in LitJtle· Ma·or AtJ,t A. survey of th.e future occupants of the Linden Manor building, in Hubbard Woods, shows that of the eighteen apartments rented, eleven tenants are qow Winnetka residents, four are moving from Evanston, one from Deerfield, one from Glencoe, and one from Chicago, according to McGuire and Orr, real estate brokers. In the recent meetings before the Winnetka Village council, when the question of restricting the number of apartments permitted in a given area of the business district was discussed, one of the -fears expressed was that the occupants of the buildings now under construction would come largely from Chicago, with its mixed population, and that these people would not fit into the suburban atmosphere. The experience of the Linden Manor building, at least, appears to allay any such fears. McGuire & Orr report that the Linden Manor is 75% rented. · ·New Books . Arthur Kraft, celebra!ed tenor solo.PhllosophJ' Today. complied and tst of St. Bartholomew s church, New· edited by Prof. E. L. Schaub. Open York city, will be heard in con- Court Publishing Co. A book for which cert at the First Congregational the leader of the Congregational noon forums is responsible, and one already churc h, Evanston, next Wednesday going Into · foreign translation. Thirty evening. He will include in his pro- scholarly essays on the main currents gram compositions of several Evans- of new phi.losophy by as many recognized ton music writers. international authorities. Oxford Book of Amerlean Verse. Ed. by Bliss Cannan. Oxford Uni~rsity Press. An anthology that ..skims the Mr. and Mrs. Bert ]. Denman of whole field" of American poetry, past Chicago sailed Saturday on the Corin- and present, particularly the compiler's thia for a cruise of the Mediterranean. personal preferences. Blaek JlaJettJ'. By John W. VanderThe Dem1.1ans are building an attrac- cook. Harper & Bros. Mahlon Blaine's tive home on the lake shore at Laurel delightful drawings add to a distinctive avenue, Wilmette, and expect to move story of a black man of Haiti who rose from slave to emperor and freed his in sometime this fall. land. -oEsteaee of Arelllteetare. By Wllliam Mrs. R. E. Herramann and her Rogers Greeley. D. Van Nostrand Co. Purports to give a true picture of archismall daughter, Beatrice, 436 Prairie tecture as an art and awake the apavenu~, are expected home soon from preciation of its beauty. Amply lllusa five months' tour of Eur~pe. trated. Here's Our ., TRADE--IN I!roposition Are You On? How' d you like to be ridin' pretty on new Goodyear Tires--full of the most traction, safety, good looks and long, low -cost tire mileage built into any tires in the world? Easy! We'll just trade you all the mileage value still left in your old tires for full credit on our low price for GOODYEARS. We make only a limited number of trades in a season, so you'd do well to take up this prQposition now. . · Wilmette Motor Sales P. J. SCHAEFER, Prop. " 515 Fourth Street Phone Wilmette 636

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