The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

May 11, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE 3 SEEK EMMERSON STAND .ON CRIME SITUATION Wilmette Voters' Advisory Com· mitt e e Warns Candidate Against Compromise Move GOOD CHEST RETURN Rev. F. C. Stifler Amount Collected in Unified Welfare Drive Is $20,000 to Date With Fund Grol!'ing Satisfactorily Takes Pastorate at · . East Orange, N. J. NATIONAL BANK READY ·· TO REBUILD NEW HOME ...... -~ J I I j I ~ Rev. Francis Carr Stifler, pastor of Open Contract Biela 'This Week The 1928 subscriptions to the Wit- the \Vilmette Baptist church from for· Reconstruction of Village mette CommUt1ity Chest received to April, 1917, until three months ago, Theatre Building date total about $20,000 with more has just announced his acceptance of coming in and several ,\·orkers yet to the· call to With all plans completed everyThat he must take a determined complete their canvasses. the pastorthing is in readiness for the reconstand against compromise and unPractically every house in Wilmette ate of the ·equivocahly in ·favor of the proposition has received a call by a Community First Bap- struction of the Village theatre build=·to "divorce politics from crime" if he Chest worker but many householders tist church ing on Wilmette avenue into one of · expects to retain New Trier support in were out of the village or not in when E a s t the finest and most modern banking 0 f Orange, N. quarters on t~e north shore. ·specithe fall _.ele~fion, . is the essence . of a called on, necessitating call-backs, commumcatton dtrected to Lotus L. whid1 of towrse takes considerable }. The East fications were finished this week and E mmerso n. the Republican guberna- time ' ' 0 r a n g e bids opened, which means that the work may start any day. church is torial nomin ee,. under date of ! 'l ay 10, : L · t vear in June the Chest as soThe architects, Hamilton, Fellows 1928, hy the \VI!inette Voters' Advtsory . ~s J committee appointed in a Better Gov- ctat10n receiv~d _its last thousand dolthe leading and \Vilkinson of Chicago, state that ernment spomored by the various \Vil- Iars of subscnptwns largely from perBaptist con- the building where residents of Wilmette church and civic groups prior to sons who h_ad returned from the South gregation of mette enjoyed the movies for many the Primarv election campaign this or other tnps. , that famous years will be completely reconstructsp ring. · The Wilmette Community Chest ass u b u r b, ed. The structure will be of the sociation desires to hereby thank t.he which now Italian Renaissance style, the front The letter. which is self-explanatory, many wor k ers w h o h ave gtven · has a popuso genbeing done in terra cotta. rea(ts as fo 11 ows : . 1 a 't t' o 11 o f erously of thetr time. Spacious Banking Room "The \\'ilm ett e Voters' Advisory 72 0~ U A large open banking room will fill The association is also grateful for lt";e t.he ltol~ committee. made up of met.n bers _ap_·· · the audit of the preceding year-192i Rev. F. C. Stifter n the space formerly used for the seats pornted hv th e vanous club s. ctvtc d' . h cal church, in the theater. This will be sky" hodie s an cl churche$ of \Vilmette. is receipts and expen ttures-whtc was made at no expense to the Chest by the East Orange church has just re- lighted and · will be of dome shape, o ne of the agencies in Ne,v Trier h 'fi d bl" fi .- centl_v celebrated it s 90th anniversaP' . thus insuring sufficifjlt light and town ship on the north shor e that aided t e certt c pu tc accountant rm o : J in piling up -a...., vot e of 20 to 1 .in your Martin Johnson and company: Mr. Stifter's new charge is a church making it unnecessary to have side favor again st Govern or Small. and 14 The 1927 audit shows receipts total - of 600 members and with annual gifts windows. An important feature is· 00. With the coming that there will be no columns. to 1 itr favor of Attornev-· eeneral ing $20,318.84 and disbursements of to missions of $8/ 1 The banking quarters will be Carlstrom. $20,131.49, leaving a cash balanc.e in of · ~fr. Stifter the church wilt enter "The iss ue hacked hv Senator the bank of $187.35. The distribution at once upon a program of building reached through a beautiful central Dene eti anrl Judg-e Swan so~ . then and for last year was as follows: expansion. In the fall ground wilt lobby. The floor will be of tile. Roof, Floor Big Problem Po\\·. in ~ e 'v Trier to\\·nship and in Arden Shore assoc:ation, $5,400; In- be broken for an educational and recThe roof and the floor have been ·Cook coun.h ·. \\·;;ts and is the "divorce fant Welfare society, $5,400; Near Ea:'lt rea tional building that will cost $120,oi politics from crime." Relief, $2,282.50; Ameri~an Red Cross, 000. The church building stands qn important considerations in the plans Want Prompt Statement $1,535.30; Local Charities, $2.047.50; a ,·cry comma nding site in the heart for reconstruction. Both will under"As vour friends. we ask that vou Salvation Army, $1,500; Y. W . C. A., of the city with ample space for ad- go the process of raising which will give the banking quarters a greater prompt"lv make an unequivocal state- $1,086.25; Volunteers of America. ditions. ·height. The slanting floor so necesment of your nosition on the para- $261.25. Total distribution. $19.512.80. Among the leadi 11 members of · the mou nt iss nr in rook count\·, free from Expenses totaled $618.69. East Orange church is Dr. Frank L. sary in t.heaters is to be raised to anY o; uspicion of. lack of sit;cerit y. Anderson, who is now president of level. Every feature essential to a mod'"This is;-; ue i" more important to the International Baptist Seminary, you. to us. and to th r public than your located in the New York suburb. Dr. ern bank will be in the new First elect~on as go Yernor or th e success oi Anderson as superintendent of the NationaL The vaults wilt be at the west end of the building. There will the party. ·1 · 1917 "If you compromise with the dis' / J :saptist Executive co~nct m . was be a large and modern safe deposit · · 111 charge of the \Vtlmette pulptt at credtted machme of Cook county to With the week of Ma,· 21-26 de sig- 1 tl t' tl t M Sffle · 11 as vault for the use of the patrons· of the bank. This will occupy a position secure the ~ npport of the criminal ele- I nated officiallv by the Village board le ~mde ~a A t r s cal w tr. thn. ers~n nfiowldwe comes relatively the same as the stage oi ment. it will cost you New Trier town- as "Clean-up ·week" the Chamber of ~~cepSet_fl. 1· ·h· 1 tl h h ."J R bl" · . . n·.1r. t er o ts new e . the old theater. s 11p, " tc 1. lOUt! . ea' 1 v epu t- Commerce, at the suggest tOn of whtch ~fr. Stifter closed his work with On the south side of the floor will ran. wen~ Democrattc _for Govern<;>r the board took its favorable action at four years a~o and h eavtly Democrattc I its last regular meeting, is calling upo n the Wilmette church on January 31, be in.s talled the tellers' cages. On f?r County J ud_ge tw~. v~ars ago-l?~th all store and shop owners to lend their since which time he has conducted the north side there will be space for tunes OJ: tl~~ t;-;s ue , Dt,·orce Polttrr~ hearty co-operation to the clean-up special evangelistic services in Berwyn, the officers, a consultation room and Ill., preached in Evanston, Oak Park, a women's writing room. On the from C'nme.· prog~am. Milwa.u kee, Cle\·eland, Elizabeth, N. second floor there will be a directors' Principle Supersedes Party Tht : p~ogram conttmpl~tes ,a gen- r., Roselle, N. ]., and at Lowell, Mass. room and a clerical workroom. "If you compromi se. you will admit The stores on Wilmette avenue on the enrmv into ~·our camp for a pos- era! cl_earmg away .of the wmt.er s accu~ :Mr. Stifler will occupy his old pulpit si ble 50.000 criminal aPo pavrolt vote, mul~twn of. rubbt sh o_n pn~at e an r [ in vVilmette Sunday, May 13, Mothers' both sides of the lobby will remain, and lose 200.000 Renuhliran ,·otes in ,,~hlrc l,~ retm s~s, ., and, 1f advtsable, a ! Day. His pastorate at East Orange but both wilt be slightly larger beCook county, hy ·f ailur e to drive o11t h·t of s pruc11:~ up here and there commences two days later, or on cause the stairway which at presen4 leads to the second floor offices will and · fight onenh· thr ~ninals in a11rl about the domtctle , to add to the gen- "May 15 ~ · be removed. In the new building the out of pnh!i ~ office " ·ho mask unrkr "rat hrigthening up of the village. Accumulation s of rubbish. if in the stairway will lead from the lobby to the Republican cloak. h11t hrlong to Clink, Champ Tourist, Is the offices. no party and to \\"h om the defrat of a llry, will he carted a\va y hy Village Home From Journey On the cover of this issue appears the Republican C<JtHlidatcs of th e rlenar tment of public works trucks . En~ n th e street s mav be a ss ured of D enre n g-roup is vital. Clink John .;un, 1431 Gregory ave- the architect's drawing showing how "No nuhlic str1'l ha o:; as yet hcen a thorough dusting o-ff-and at fre- nue, kno\YS his United States about as the building will look when comtaken hY the Attornr,· General to CJtt ent interval s thereafter- for the re - \Yell a s any confirmed motor tourist pleted. nunish political murd er ;:; and election cen th- purchased motor-driven muni- could, as indicated in the fact that he fraud s. enpunisht"' . .l murder and a cipal street swec!} ing equipment will be bas just returned hom e from an 18,000 Call Civics Groups to r eig-n of te:-ror continttf""' lt erf'. r <'o:;i..tf""'rl in. operatio n hy that time. mile trip which took him through lmpod:ant Conference This is one of the homely jobs that only b~- :!. rror~anized and va li~nt twenty-one states over a period of 11 The location of future playgrounds, Crime commission, th e Dar association, makes for the Village Beautiful." three and one-half i11onths. It was recreation centers and school grounds Will you help? and other private a!!rncirs. \vho must Clink's winter vacation and he sure in the new additions to Wilmette are fight i11dges suhs.en-ient to the cli smade the best of it, going from coast to he the subjects of a meeting of credit ed 11wr.:h!ne. in the race of thr eat- Trav~s to Old Homeland· to coast in his trusty "bus." Wilmette civic bodies Wed~i,s~c~os~~~~~~mpt proceedings for their . Returns With a Bride Motor trouble? V cry Iitt Ie. says various nesday evening, May 16, at 8 o'clock, 11 Copies of this letter are being Evans Dallas, who with Tom Fer- Clink. It's great sport, this touring, at the Howard school. The meeting, called by Village Presimailed t0 Senator Deneen, J udsse guson. has been actively interested in and he recommends it as a sure cure · dent Orner, has special reference to ~wan s on. Attornev General Carlstrom, · the Wilmette Cafe since its establish- for that tired feeling. Otis F. Glenn, to Republican leaders ~n ment several yea'rs ago, returned home Clink, w~o was formerly engaged in the vast open territory west from all north shore towns, to leading Re- this week from a ·10 months' visit with the tire repair business in the village, Ridge avenue which is destined in the publicans in Cook county, and to the his pannts in Greece. is best known to Wilmette folk as a not far distant future to become a great residential area. Groups are pre!'s, an~ we are assured many will Evans went to his homeland quite football player of parts. invited to the conference include the join in making 11 Divorce Politics from alone, but found the going rather personnel of the Village board. WilCrime" :tbove and more important lonely, so annexed a partner for the CONCERT AT MOOSEHEART mette Plan commission, Park board, than party. Respectfully, · return trip. The new Mrs. Dallas was The orchestra and Glee clubs of the Board of Education, Boards of educaRalph H. Rice. Mr::;. C. P. Evans. Fred- the former Miss Tessie Galathaneu of Byron C. Stolp school traveled to tion of School districts 37 and 40, and erick J. Xewey. Milton E. Reid, Mrs. I. T evadia. G~~ece. Con~ratulations are ·E. Cnlvin , George Turner·, Frederic B. 1.11 ·order and Evans wt"ll recet've thetn Mooseheart, Ill., Wednesday of this the Wilmette township school trustees. Crossley, Thntr.as F. Cook, Lloyd HolDr. Paul Packer of the University lister, William 't'aylor. Hoyt King, Thos. in profusion because he's a very popu- week to present a program before the children in the Moose orphanage lo- of Iowa, an expert on school expansion s. S. Hardwick, Mrs. Willard H. Thayer, tar, though modest fellow. And so, back to business with part- cated there. The gronp included about systems, will be one of the principal Mrs. T. Ear1 Almdale, Irent> 1· Strickler, Mrs. Allen Ros~man, Harry C. Kinne, 1 ninety children. speakers. c. M. McDonald. Dr. N. P. Colwell. ner Tom. g Clean Up, Fix Up; I That'S the S/ol!an for c Iean-u wee k 1 J·