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June 1, 1928 WILMETTE L,lfE 3 PUSH IMPROVEMENTS FLOWER GUILD READY Improvements .Board to ~pen .FOR CONTRIBUTIONS Local Bids of Street and Alley Paving S e a a o n for Distribution of Blooms to Poor and Ailing Opens This Morning ,.~hanks to the kind hearts of , 't he restdents of Wilmette and vicinity the _organized distribution of surplus flowers to the shut-ins, the poor, and the under-privileged in Chicago, will be begun today by the Chicago Plant, Flower and Fruit guild for its third .5cason. Residents of Wilmette who commute over the North Western railroad, will start to work this morning laden with flowers. They will find the guild's booth opposite Gate No. 16 in the Chicago terminal of the North Western railroad. ·The opening day will be a gala occasion. The booths will be in the special charge of the ga rden club s of Oak Park, River Forest, and Woodstock, and the debutante daughters of many of th e g uild officers will assist in caring for th e flowers. Projects Tuesday, June 12 Wilmette Athletes U · RGE Compete in C'hicago Field Meet Program. Four Wilmette boys representing the Wilmette Playground and Recreation board participated in the 0 1 y m p i c Novice meet held under the . auspices of a Chicago daily on Memorial Day. George Quinlan, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Quinlap, 211 Greenleaf avenue, entet:ed in the 100-yard dash and shot put for Juniors in the 14-year old division. Hugh Saxon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh H. Saxon, 738 Eleventh stref' · contested in the running broad jump and 100-yard dash in the same division, while Colin Finlayson, son of Mr. and Mt1s. John Finlayson, 731 Laurel avenue, and Robert Waters , son of Mrs. Robert Waters, 1245 Central avenue, competed in the 13 and 15 year-old divi.5ion, respectively. Tomorrow, four girls will represent the Wilmette schools in the Chicago Women's Track and Field meet at Soldiers' Field. The girls who will compete are Else vonReinsperg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Han s vonReinsperg, 726 Laurel avenue; Helen Green 1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Green, 1600 Highland avenue; Lucy M urdison. daughter of Mr. and Mr.. Andrew W. M ttrdison, 1625 Hig hland avenue; and Mary Lauer, 1114 Forest avenue . LARGE VOTE IN JUDICIAL ELECTION .. I Where Flowers Go Offerings of .the day will go to the:;e institutions: St. Elizabe.th Day Nursery, 1331 N. Ashland avenue; Humboldt station., Visiting Nurses' associa tion, 1550 N. Robey street; As,sociation House, 2150 West North avenue. Eacl_ 1 day, excepting Saturday and Sunday, durin g each week of the summ er, a different garden club will have special charge of the booth, and will be particularly responsible for the floral contributions, though the guild officers emphasize the point that the success of their charitable work de mands the whole-hearted support of those who have. flowers to spare. Remarkable Welfare Work To quote one of the workers of last yea r: "Not only have the flowers gone regularly into some of the darkest corners of our hospital s to make the last few days and hours more bearable for their hopelessly incurable patients; and into wretchedlv poor homes in the center of our big - smoky city-where little children follow the 'Distributors of Flowers' in the street, begging for 'just one flower,' which they tenderly place in an old tin can or milk bottle . and set right in their front window: also they have gone to many little old crippled and bed-ridden grandmother~ and forlorn gr~ndfathers. and cheered them by their bright colors . and fragrance, and given to them a feeling of contact wth the 'great out-of-doors.'" If the men folks rush to the station. without vour flowers, or if you are going into the city on an early shonninQ' trip. leave your offerings at the local station. and thev witt be given to the train men who will depo.sit them at the guild's booth at the North Western station. The booth is onen from R until 11 a.m., at whiGh time they are sent out in taxi-cabs to the various charities. Tuesday evening, June 12, at 7:30 o'clock the Village board of local improvenrents will open bids on numerous public improvements, proposals for which wen~ authoriz~d Tuesday ev\!ning of this week at a special session of that body. · Outstanding among these improvements are , several street paving projects, alley pavings and sidewalk construction . The street paving projects include Forest avenue from 15th street east to Sheridan road; Prairie avenue from 15th street south to Isabella street; 15th street from Spencer avenue north to seven feet north of the south line of the first alley north of Elmwood avenue; 16th street from Lake avenue to the south line of Ashland avenue; Greenwood avenue from Main street to the west limits; Glendening road from Greenwood avenue to the north limit s; Ashland avenue from Glendening road to the south,~~.·est line of Main street. Alley improvement s include the first allcv north of Lake a venue from 15th to -16th street; fir st alley north of Forest avenue from Main street to 15th .:;treet: fir st alley north of Central av'~ nue from 15th street to 16th :street: first allev west of Sixth street anrl <;econd allev west of Sixth street from r.re~orv av"enue to Isabella street, and the first alley south of Gregory avenue connecting with the two alleys mentioned immediately above; first alley north of Washington avenue from 17th <;treet to 16th street, and the allev ~nnroach from the west . tine of 16th 'treet to the west curb of 16th street: first atlev north of Linden avenue from Pourth to Fifth street. Prooosed sidewalk construction pr'">:ects for which hi<is are being sought include walks on the north and sonth .:;ides of Thornwood avenue from Rid'..-i' ~venue to 2.1rd street. and walks on the eac:t and west side.:; of 21st street from Thornwood avenue to Chestnnt ~ve-nue- ( exceot ,,·here- '"alks are al rp~rtv laic{): walks nn the- c:n11th side of UT i1mette aventlP frnm 1t1th strPf't to "R ;fi(Ye avenue (except where alreadv laid). Two Principal Tickets in Field With Bar Association Nominees Opposing Coalition Slate Wilmette yoters are urged not to neglect. Monday, June 4, the important duty of ca~ting their ballots in the Judicial election. Election day will find two principal tickets in the field, one designated "Republican," and the other "Chicago Bar Association Non-Partisan." A third or "Non-Partisan" ticket, offers the name of a single candidate. One column on the ballot to be handed the voter is blank except for the "Democratic heading. Under the republican heading op the ballot are listed the names of six candidates for judges of the Superior court. Of these, Jud ges John J. Sullivan. Jo seph Sa bath and Martin M. Gricllev arc democr::tt3 who will seek re -e lection on the coalition slate, with their three republican c 0 11 e ague :', .T urlg-cs vValter P. Steffen. Jesse Hotdom, and Worth E. Caylor. Robert E. Gentzel is canclidate on the republican . ticket for judge of the Superior court to fill vacancy. Four Bar Candidates The Chicago Bar Association NonParti sa n ticket hears the names of three candidates for judges of the Superior cntlrt. Howard W. Hayes and Dani el P. Trude , who are now .i udges of the Municipal court, and Charles C'enter Ca . 3c. a special state's attorncv. State Senator James J. Barbour is in the Bar association's column againc;t Robert E. Gentzel as candidate to fill vacancv on the Superior court bench. The -~nle Non-Partisan ticket candidate is Eugene V. Taylor. Camoaign activity on the north shore in tl1e instance of the Tudiciat elertion ha s been noticeable principally in Wilmette where the Wilmette Voters Ach·isorv committee. composed of reprrc:r.ntative3 of churches and varinus civic groups, has recommended to the vnt<"rs thr candidates on the Bar assoriation slate. Legion Auxiliary in Final Meeting of Season Tuesday Dog Declared Rabid by~ State Health Board The dog which last week ran amuck in Kenilworth amt Winnetka. hitin?" three people in Winnetka and two in Kenilworth and attacking three other peoole in Kenilworth. was declared oositivelv to be suffering from rabies by the Illinois State Board of Health, to '"hich the head had been sent for positive diagnosis. PLAN ANNUAL PICNIC The annual picnic of the Wilmette Bantist congre~ation will be in held in Lake Front park Saturday afternoon and evening, June 9. Tuesday evening, June 5, at the \Vil mette Masonic temple the Legion Auxiliary, Post No. 46, witt conclude its spring meetings with an important busine.5s session, followed by a social hour to which the Legion members are invited. At the business meeting annual reports will be heard, Poppy Day returns given, and pl(!ns made for th e summer and the annual state convention, to he held September 9·-11 at Waukegan. The program chairman announces as the "reel" feature of the evening a film showing views of Paris taken by Burton Holmes for his lecture; hut tl1e accompanying talk will be given by Victor Klebba, a local legionnaire who know.5 his Paris. Further entertainment will he offered in a program of Former Wilmette Pastor music and dances. The evening prom Sponsors Church Addition ises to be a very happy conclusion to On the fifth day of his pastorate in the year's work. the Fir.5t Bapti~t church at Eac;t Orange, N. J., the Rev. Francis Carr Optimist Club Fetes Stifter, until recently pastor of the Civil War Veterans Wilmette Baptist ch urch. was successJohn Hood, Frank Briggs and E. ful in securing an aoorooriation hy his congregation for a $120.000 addition to P. Jones, all veterans of the Civil war, the church ' : vhich is to include a mod- were the guests of honor at a joint ern departmentalized Sunclay school. meeting of the Wilmette and Evanston oastor's study, and recreation center. Optimist clubs, held at the Georgian Tentative plans call for a two-story hotel in Evanston. on Tuesday of this fireproof structure with a gymnasium week. Mr. Hood, who is 85 years of age, in the basement. classrooms, and church offices on the first floor. and \\as the principal speaker at the oastor's studv and other rooms on luncheon, telling most interestingly of the second floor. The East Orang-e his many experiences in the Civil war. Mr. Briggs, who is 88 years old, and church is in its ninetietH year. Mr. Jones_ , who is 84, spoke briefly. Mr. Hoqd proved an apt and enter1nstall Police Sisrnal taining speaker, sweeping his audience Beacon on Villaste Hall into a gale of laugnter at his many Installation of the new police signal humorous stories. He ser'!ed throughbeacon on top of the Wilmette Villag-e out the Civil war and during the course hall was completed last week and the of the war was at various times imprisoned in six different Confederate lig-ht is now in use. The signal wilt be used as a ~eneral prisons. He was one of the prisoners alarm for police in the business district who dug the 200 foot tunnel in the and is controlled by a switch located break from Libby prison, but while 109 escaped he failed to get clear before at the desk in police headquarters. Officers seein_g- the light, immediatelv the break was discovered. He still has communicate with the desk sergeant the knife used in digging the tunnel. bv means of the nearest telephone or He is the father of Mrs. A. L. Miller, 106 Sixth street. else return at once to headquarters. Committee in .Statement The \Vilmette committee issuerl thf' following statement this · week: "By rea son .o f the issur involved in thP mf'thod of nominating the so-called 'Reot1hlican tickrt.' " -e believe the best ;ntercsts of tlw communitv wilt he served hy uniting- to elect the Bar association ticket. Therefore. we .make no further. recommendation s." Commonwealth Edison Co. . Honors Charles A. Harding Charles A. Harding, 726 Washington avenue, Wilmette, purchasing agent of the Commonwealth Edison company, celebrated his 35th year of consecutive service with that organization, May 17. Mr. Harding started his successful career with the old Chicago Edison company in 1893 at the time the old Adams street station was making central station history, and has been close~ lv identified with the development of the company since that time. He has been purchasing agent of the company many years and is a nationally known figure in the purchasing profession. His exnerience in the field of buying has be~n long and successful. On the occasion of his anniversary a very impressive tribute was paid Mr. Harding by his many friends and associates. HEAR CHICAGO PREACHER Prof. A. G. Baker of the University of Chicago wilt preach at the Wilmette Baptist church Sunday morning, Jttne 3, at the 11 o'clock services,