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I LM·E.T . VOL. XVII, NO. 30 E PRICE PIVE CENTS liW YWGE .aRS D. E. A·llen, Jr.· ab TAD POSI'S THIS IEtl 1' Rotary ~ es·deni·Elect Villap Tnateea _. Oilier Olicen , , . . . ; · - Pa·· .... Onlnaace Three new Village Trustees, a Village Treasurer, Village Clerk and two Library Trustees were formally inducted into office Thursday evening of this week at an adjourned meeting of the Village board held in the Council chambers at the Village hall. The new officials were elected Tuesday, April 17, in a complimentary ballot totaling 28.1 . votes. All were unopposed candidates, the trustees, treasurer and clerk flying the colors of the United People's party, and the library trustees presented ou an independent ticket. Thursday's formal installation was accompanied by the traditional floral gifts which always add a touch of color and festivity to the occa,ion. There also were tokens ·of appreciation for the outgoing officials who this year were four veterans of the Village board, Trustees John Clark Baker, .Cla(ence E. Drayer and John F. Wledlin, and Village Clerk Nicholas J. Miller. F'llliala OW B·unee· . Formal installation ceremonies were preceded by a brief meeting of the old board of trustees in which the business of the past fiscal year was brought to a dose. Next the Village election ballot was canvassed. ·Following the installation of the new board, comprised of President Earl E. Orner, holdover trustees, Paul A. Hoffman, Ernest C. Cazel and Hans vonReinsperg, and newt~ elected trustees, C. Miles McDonald Gordon Wilson, and A. L. Grinnell' immediately set to work on the busi~ ness of the new fiscal year, with Lea ]. Orr at the clerk's desk. D. E. Allen, Jr., of the real estate finn of Eddington and Allen, 410 Linden avenue, was elected president of the Wilmette Rotary club at a meeting of the luncheon club's board of directors I a s t week. M··· Allen has been vicepresident of . the club during the c u r r e n t fiscal year. He will assume his new duties July 1. Officers elected to serve with Mr. Allen are Robert M. Johnston, vicepresident ; William D. Leary, treasurer, D. E. ADn, Jr. and Frank Meier, s e r g e an t-a tarms. A secretary is to be named later, it is announced. The Rotary board of directors for the corning fiscal year is comprised of the following: D. E. Allen, Jr., Robert M. Johnston, R. L. F. Biesemeier, F. J. Budinger, Gale M. Brooks, J. R. Ha~, Edwin B. Knudtson, and T. E. Thompson. Retiring President David Nelson is ex-officio member of the board. CIVIC PRIDE HELP TO KEEP OUR VILLAGE CLEAN . We need your co-operation to do ths as no matter what we are trying to do we need your assistance. A number of our reside~·ts seem to carey the idea that it :~s all right to clean up their yard and put all the refuse in the street. This is a ftagrant violation of an ordinance and punishable by a fine, but we do not want to be put to the disagreeable task of prosecuting offenders, but instead at:e appealing to their pride. P..._ dD 70· bit and obey our ordinances. -Charles C. Schultz, Superintendent, Public Works. BOARD DECIIIS OFtll OF SHAlE~ E,....._..,_..,..PIMicaIHii~ of Moftaa Bailllin· Rea- , .Sap ..... c. .... - !:=============== Witler 12th Street Cost Estimate Is . Requested by Board Pave "Team Track" A1onar C. and N. W. Railway Here ------- Steam shovel and concrete mixer were rolled into the village this week to begin the business of paving the "team track" on the Chicago and North Western railroad right-of-way extending from Central avenue on the south to Lake avenue on the north and immediately adjoining the Hoffman Brothers' and Edington and Sons' coal and material yards. The road, which is to be of conAJIPI'O'N Maia Project crete construction, entails an expendiOne of the first pieces of legisla- ture by the railroad company of tion in the new board year was the $16,000, according to Station Agent passage of an ordinance providing for Earl E. Orner. the widening and paving of Main street, the key project of a proposed · - - - - - - - - - - - - - - comprehensive street improvement program which includes the repaving of Forest and Lake avenues, Fifteenth street, Park avenue and other thoroughfares. The new Library Trustees installed Thursday were }. Hugh Foster and John M. Hoflman,]r. . La~t Tuesday's election cc;mnt was dtstrtbuted over the twelve precincts as follows: Precinct 13-29; Precinct 14--33 · Precinct 15-18: Precinct 16-20: Precinct 17-15; Precinct 18--15; an idea: Precinct 19-35: Precinct 20-26; Precinct 21-27: Precinct 22-23: then it begins Precinct 23-19; Precinct· 26-23. printing ink is just ink until it's combined with ·Start PiCCCCCiioga for Kenilworth Improvements Ordinances providing for starting special assessment and condemnation proceedings involved in the extension of Coventry road, and the widening and improving of the Kenilworth portions of Sixteenth street, Ashland avenue and Glendening road, public hearings on which were held on April 2, were passed by the Kenilworth Village board at a meeting oil Thunday of last week. The Village attorney was instructed to proceed with the measures. to bring you profit/ jrut ctdl WILMETTE 4300 Because of the expense and uncertain practicability of moving the Shawnee Country club building to a centrally located part of the village, the club's offer of the building for a community house and recreation center was not accepted, John Clark Baker, outgoing president of the Playground and Recreation Board, told seventy representatives of the Board athletic leagues Friday evening at their spring banquet at the Central Cafeteria. As badly as the community house was needed, Mr. Baker said, the advisibility of moving an old building was in itself worthy of conjecture, but the feasibility of its being used as Village Engineer C. N. Roberts has a Community center was an even been authorized by the Village boar~ greater problem and was the cause of to pr~pare estima~es of cost of the the Village and Recreation Board's e t from Cen- refusing the offer, made by the club widening of Twelfth stre. tral avenue north to Lake avenue. The governors. Awanl.....a tow-... proposition, as outlined by Ernest C. Cazel, "hairman of the board streets Mr. Baker presided at the banquet, and alleys committee, last Tuesday which is given annually to award evening, contemplates a 40-foot road- trophies and medals to the members way, making ad~itions of six and one- of the winning teams participating in half feet to either side of the present the various leagues. Earl E. Orner, Village President, pavement. According to the preliminary plan was the main speaker of the evening. explained by Mr. Cazel, the cost esti- He discussed the history of communmates would be based on brick pave- ity recreation in Wilmette and voiced ment, with concrete as an alternative. a hearty endorsement of the work beIn the same recommendation Mr. ing carried on at the present time, Cazel asked for estimates on the cost especially paying tribute to the servof paving with concrete the stretch of ices of Mr. Baker, who is chairman Washington avenue from Tw e If t h of the Recreation Board. ]. R. Harper, Superintendent of street west to the North Shore line right-of-way, as . weU as "gasoline Wilmette Public schools, presented alley" extending west from Twelfth the trophies and medals to members street at the rear of the Wilmette State of the winning teams in the various bank. The board requested Village leagues. Earl McDow, captain of the. Engineer Roberts to prepare such an champion Baptist Volleyball team, Ursal Sutton, captain of the Wit- . estimate. mette Ice Quoit team, James Schaefgen, captain of the Ridge Electric InDean of Turldah Colleae door team, and Tom Thursby, winner the Quoit singles tournament, reSpeaks Here This Sunday of ceived the trophies for their various The Congregational chur~h is to have as its guest preacher this Sunday teams. DaYia o.tliaea Propa~a Edgar }. Fisher, Ph. D.· who is dean Daniel M. Davis, Director of Recof Robert college. Constantinople. reation, made a short .talk outlining Turkey. spring and summer program of Dr. Fisher comes to Wilmette from the to be sponsored by the PlayLeland Stanford university where he athletics and Board and disground has been lecturing for the last thre~ cussing newRecreation to be enforced in rules months on Near East problems. He the leagues. is considered one of the most accurately informed American historians on · Juvenile artists furnished the musithe modern period in the Near East. cal program for the banquet, featurHe has traveled widely and has served ing Robert Hammerstrom, saxaphonas lecturer on many tourist steamer§ ist, Dick McKnight, pianist, and making Near East cruises. He is the Harry Schultz, violinist, special stuauthor of scholarly historical articles dents at the Broadmoor School of Music, and Frankie Massina, popular and is a cle~r and forceful speaker. accorclian player. All of the enterDr; Fisher is in this country in furlough for 1927-28. · He will lecture at tainers were members of At Kvale's the Chautauqua Institution in New juvenile orchestra. York this summer. APPROVE ALLEY PAVING · . ..L N The Wilmette Village board of local Recetve lua on ew improvements Tuesday recommended School.Addition Today the pavement of the first :alley n~rth Bids on the contract for the erec- of Oakwood avenue b~tween Nanth tion of the new addition to the Joseph and Tenth streets. The recommendaSears school in Kenilworth are tion followed a hearing on the proscheduled to be received at the oftic~ posed improvement. Another recomof the architects this morning. It is mendation was for t~ pavement of the considered probable that the board fint alley north of Maple aft'!ae will consider them within the aext between 14th and 15th streets on which few days and. if satisfactory, will imprcwement a hearing wa·· held at ~he select the contractor for the work. · same meeting. - · · ·· - .. a·