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l&~~ews . l VOL I. NO. 24 · JUNIOR LIFE WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, JUNE 29, 1928 Told by the Pupils I ~ Publiwd_wttklv by tht xhool ch1ldrm of Wilmttte andtt aupervision of W ilmette Plat,J<)round and Recreation Board. · - - - - - - -- - - - - - - - - _ _ . Jean. June 23, Frankie ~la s ters, the .new The playgrounds opened ~fonda y. Shipman, Shipman , wait for me. Jean lived in a little house on the inging director of the Jazz ~ollegtan s , June · 18. They are open from The wa..-es are ·o high and I can ne·;er go out in a canoe top of the moun_tain. She lived wi~h conducted his first C~o-Coo club meet9 o'clock to 12 o'cloc k in the mornher mother and father. They were ing Saturdav. ing and are open from 1 o'clock \\'hen vo u blow vour whi · tie very poor and all they had was two The da ~· AI Kvale left he appointed to 4 in the afternoon . They are I hope -I'm not in- your way bed· and a table and some dish es and Frankie \la sters as .Chief ·coo-Coo. open every day but Sunday. \\.hen Becau e vott'll drown me . their chairs, and a lamp. Frankie ang "Constantinople:" one cf it rains we go in the kinder- And ·what will be left of me? Once. Jean walked ~own the crooked the lateq ong. hits . Frankte has a ~arten room at the Laurel playground. .-\nd then I'll onlv be left in the ·ea. -Billy O'Brien. Kindergarten : rock · m the mountat_n and wh:n s ~1.c I ,·ery brilliant vo.tce. J:Ie also played a · \Ve alway · ha\·e somethin~ to pla y. I got down the n:ountam. she looked U,) fev; song on hts banJO. \Ve either play kickh~l! or ba:eball or at the mountam and saw her hot_t5e 1 Then came the Coo-Coo club meetpractice for the bacige te:; . The fir st School i · always here 1 day the plavg-round opened. we haci Tulips are out and its mo ·tiy summer 1 and then ·at do'l.nl at the path besrd..? 1 ing. Twelve ri~Jer · .are .chosen for. the her. .\long came a man and asked 1 horse ra ce whrch ts ndde~ on lttt~e about 60 children in . the morning and I today how she got there and wh~re she ' \v ooden hor es. A bar ot candy t about 70 in the afterno: :m. ~ummer 1 · here. I lived. .=he said up on the mounta:n I given to each child who enters the The Laurel playr.roun had ~[iss · -Florence ~ e\1.· kranz, and _ said no more. . . ! thea'"er. .-\ little green tag goes with Dorothea ':\I ulholand Ia ~t \·ear and we Ki ndergarten The man lo o ~ed up on the mo~~ltan the canrh·. There i- a number on the liked her so much t 1at w.e hoped she 1 --. anrl the man sarrl "I mu·q go no_w anr ag-. Ii Frankie picks out your stub "'ould come hack th i· year. The fir·t Flowers Ho wer ·. by the gra ·s Jean ·tarted u p the mo_untam and iro 11 the box and calls your n~mher day we _pla~·ed ba ·eball for awhile and Flov,-ers: flowers, by the ~-ra · 1.vhen he got up ..;he ptcked some ,. 0 u rrn up on the starre and g-et m the then Mtss ':\[ ulhola nrl ~ot all the boys Gra -5 growing so you ·ee berri e · and ·hared them with her .wr ;;e- -races. · tog~ther to get up a baseball team . Gras· ees all around indeed .. 1 e,· all went Thfre are twelve contestant· choo;Jack AlJw~rth was cho,en captain. -Sonnv Long. Kindergarten , mother and father and After M tss ~{ utholand g \) t thr::>ugh I · o bed and e\·erv dav lean saw the en . iour in a race. The "·inner of \\;th the boy..;. I a'ke:i her if the girl:; . . . I man and the nian ga\:e hem ni,:e each race i~ enti led to keep his horse . could have a team and she said if we ' ft s ramrnz todav j things to eat and to wear. .\i ter he race~ were run Frankie tolrl ~ot a lot of ~iris together we could .-\nd it'· lighten-ing · . -Daphne Craig-, Third Gra de hose who had been in the races to play the boy· in the afternoon. .-\nd i · pouring rain ·ome uo on the stage and he woulrl In the afternoon we harl a seven- .-\nd Lhere are puddle · toda v. Chester His Own rri,·e thr-m some pas·c . So ended the inning game. The boy· beat the girls - Tohn Cox, Kind~rgarten hr't Coo-Coo club meeting that by a core of 19 to 0. Idea of Summer School Fra nkie :\faster ever conducted. -EI ·e von Reins perg-. \\'hen I am out playing ~1onday. June 18, the annual sum-Ches er Han ·on. 7B Stolp Laurel Playground It's raining o hard mer ·chool was opened. This school That my little feet patter m the i · held o that the pupils 'vho did nN puddle-. do good work during the regular chool Varietv of Kickin~ in History of Wilmette and -Peggy Pier ·on. Kindera arten year could have an opportunity to This Kickball Business ~er Items of lnterest 1 make up the work that they failed to T .1e g-:rls 0f the Laurel play)Zround Antone Guilmette wa · married to The rain come· do,vn on trees an ,t do. Thi · school will last until th e la\·e made un a kickbal team and have end of July. The subject· taught arc t) 5 OI fun plaYing- 'kickball. ':\fanv an Indian quaw and her name wa. · 1 bu -hes .-\rithmetic. Grammar. =pelting an ri F'<re girl' are interested in kickball Archange Ouilmette. .-\n~ fl o:ver· too are growing Penmansh ip. The !a · period is a t ;, n·ar because it includes the age of The go ..·ernment g-ave her the Spnng r· here. superYi ·ed study period. Thi · school thirteen. ground thaJ. \\.ilmette ·tands on nmv. l Do you hear it ·. . _ j, held in the . morninz on v.-Ches c Anton 011ilrnette was a Chicago ma;-, . 1 In the ear!y day: o~ ·prtt~~: ~f am· disagreement- ari e as to Hanso n. 7B Stolp. He was not an Indian . He wa - a -Btlly 0 Bnen, Krridergarten whet. er the person was out or not Frenchman. · \\. en we pla,· wi h the boYs and it \V e made a vi !I age of the olden r love the little bird. U'ua!Iv ends in askinC!' \lis~ ~1ulholand Never Play in Alleys, times in our and table. Even·one .-\ · God love· me '\·ho ·ad been tn·ing to tell u · all the Warning of 4th Grader ~;me liked it. \Ve had flax for tree he- .-\nd I love Santa Clau· wha was o-u and what was not cause we harl rai ed it before v.;e made .-\nrl even·bodv el-e . Xever play in he alley·. \fany out. -~ancy Berca\v. First Gra rle 1 acciden - have happened in alleys . our village. \\·e hart a lot of fun with \\' e will ·tart poster rr.aking so::>n and it. I ~ever play. in them. \\ill all tn· our luck at that. \\. e are going o make a J apane.-e I like to wing Only yeste.rday. June 2~. a man :aid Grete von Reinsperg. ~rden in it aft'o1r we study Japan. 1 rn a little swing the ·t ree - \Wre tc) crowded and he Laurel p ~ yground hope we ucceed in making the J aoan. Bv he blue skv. ~aid he would g-o throug-h the allev -~(ildred Pnrtt>nhau..;er. ese ~.rarden . -Albert Carpenter. Third to the store. l{e steooed out in the DON'T FORGET First Grade Grade, 1fi - Smith' - room. allev and a car ran (n-to him and he Don 't iorget to run out when was- killed. The street car comes alon~. Remember never to play in he aile ~·. .\nd don't forget to jerk and push THE EATABLE PIG the cars go very fa ·t through them.- Because you know it \vrong. The eatable pig with a lollyoop tail Haldane \\"ils on, ~th grade. ~(i ·:; And eye· made of ~ug(}r a· hard a· a Smith's room. nail. .-\:1d don't forget to listen Both end and the middle of -ausage \\'hen vou hear someone call. were made But jump right on the car as if June 16. At Kvale performed in the I :ARTY DOWN BY <:~N~~ \Vhile all he would drink was sweet la ·t Coo Coo club meeting that he will ~ "", Two. or_ three of the. pup:b ot . tolp You dirln't hear at all. lemonade. ever perform at the ~or · hore theater. -~. enj o_., ed the part) gn en b! Erl .\l is now at the Oriental theater. for · \\ tttman. .\mong the one~ ~r~.;~nt .-\nd don't forget if there's a crowd Hi· legs the,. were made of French "vhich all Coo . Coo club- member· are I were Hube_n Pelle~. Georze \\ atdner T o cou~h and cough and cough. loaves of bread ,orrv i ' and myselt. Ed hve · down by he And don't forget. if you're in the back \Vhile a cocoanut formed an e:xcelle;-,t · -· . _ ._ . · _ . canal so \Ve \valked over to the harbor To pull the trolley off. head. AI wa.:. at hts 'ery be t \\hen. he and Ed showed u · a boat that a frie r! For ear· he had peanut still in the last perfor~led .. He was the funnte;t of his wa· · elling him. but it vvas full And don't forget to ring the belt hell that he h.a e\ er been. All the Cno 1 of water ·o we could not ~o rowif"lg- .-\t every little stop. \Vhile round hi neck on a tring hung Loo . club members were very sorry The vartv ended 'l.vith Huhert goin!Z .1\ '1d don't forget to say. "I've paid" a peppermi;.t bell. to ·ee AI go and hoo~ that the 'ne_·,\· home.-Philip 0-born, 7.-\ Stolp. Becau·e you know vou've not. Coo Coo leader. Frankte ':\faster ·. wdl -Rosemary Day. - Libly Ko~per, 6 B Howa rd. be a- ~ood a· .-\1 was . SUMMER 1 STORY OF AN INDIAN Toward th~ end of the performance Summer i · here. LIKES MANUAL TRAINING ( ori~nal ton·) the audience wanted to ·ee a picture The birds ·ing clear. In manual training in summer school An old Indian was ~win~ down th.: of At and hi' brother. He had been The flm.vers are blooming. there are eighteen or nineteen bov.5. riv~:- in a canoe lookin.2' for a place gone about five minute· when he re- The birds are plumin~. A ht of the boys are makin.2' a irto build hi; tent. He looked from ide turned with the picture to the delight planes, foot stools. lamps, and boats. to side lookin~ for a place. At Ia ·t he of his youthful audience . That clo·;ed The ~rees are budding. ~f o ·t of the things look verv nice. found a place t.o make hi· tent. Tn the last meet of the Coo Coo club The roads are muddv. \Ye have a lot of fun, too. R van about a month more Inrliam came till meetiT)g over which he \vill preside at ~or summer is herei · our teacher. I am 3Ure we a ll lik e t h~re wac; an Indian villa~e. the Nor hor~ unless he i· '!tle·t con - -\nd we shall have cheer. him very much.-Rollo Gulli ck so.n. J r., -Lewi Fowl~r. 3, summer school . ductor.-Chester Han on, 7B Stolp. - Virginia Ann Snorf: SB Central ~!iss Smith's room. 4th Grade. 1 1 Playgrounds Open and Provide Fine Summer Athletics I·An· Original Story by Budding Poets I Frankie Masters Is a Third Grade Pupil Success as .Leader Once there was a little girl who lived of Coo Coo Clubbers in the mountain and her name wa . /, I Has I I a It's Goodbye A I, Hello Frankie, at the Coo Coo Club I I I Mr.