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No-vember 30, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE Bowling Alley Opens on COUNT·VON·LOCKNER: TO · DEDICATE MAIN STREET Wilmette Students Sunday; Closed by Police ADD . RESS SUND,l' J CLUB Cup Award ·. TO MEMORY OF COUFFER. Receive Capt. Henry Brautigan of the WilB. From Northwestern . Municipal and County Officials Open New Highway; Whistles Herald Big Event With simple, impressive ceremonies last Monday night, Wilmette celebrated the completion of the $145,00G Main street paving project, an improvement which has been the dream of citizens and officials of the village for several years. Short addresses by municipal and county officials featured the program, which was worked out by a committee of the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce in conjunction with Village President Earl E. Orner. The blowing of whistles which could be heard at points as far away as Rogers Park, notified the north shore that Wilmette's link in the proposed through highway extending from Chicago northward through Evanston, \Vilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, and Glencoe had been completed. Processions Feature At 7:15 o'clock, after whistles had blown and horns sounded for fifteen minutes, processions started from each end of the newly paved street and marched to the speakers' stand erected midwav bet1yeen \Vilmette and Central avenues. The Wilmette Drum and Bugle corps marched from the north end of the thoroughfare at Elmwood avenue to the stand, while the North Shore line band started from the south end at Isabella street, the village limits, and met the bugle corps. Several hundred people lined Main street as the proce ssion passed. The crowd congregated between \Vilmette and Central avenue, where the speeches and tape-cutting _ ceremony were held. Each of the five speakers-Village President Earl E. Orner, Trustee George Benson of Kenilworth, Mayor Ch~rles H. Bartlett of Evanston, Countv Commissioner Oscar \V. Schmidt of \Vilmette, and Count~r Commissioner L.ouis Nettlehorst of Chicago-stressed the importance of the Main street paving project in the development of \Vilmette and the north shore. Su,)t. of schools ] . R. Harper, introduced the speakers. Rush Highway Project Village President Orner, calling the inwrovement one of the most important in the history of the village, told of the difficulties that had to be overcome before its completion, and traced the stens in the development from the time it -was first considered about three years ago. He gave credit to Commissioner Schmidt and Village Attorney Charles H. Jackson for their efforts in bringing the project to completion. Mr. Schmidt, whose home is in Wilmette, assured those who witnessep the ceremonies that as a member of the County board he would exert his influence toward finishing the through highway plans in the north section of Wilmette and in Kenilworth. The present village board, headed by President Orner, has been particularly active in pushing the Main street paving project as part of a comprehensive street improvement program. Members of the board are: Ernest C. Cazel, chairman of the streets and alley committee, charged with projecting . such improvements. Han~ von Reinsperg, C. Miles McDonald, Gordon Wilson, A. L. Grinnell, and Paul Hoffman. · Following the speeches. the ribbons stretched across the street were ~ut bv Village President Orner and Trustee Benson of Kenilworth, marking the climax to the ceremonies. Villa~e President Orner dedicated the street to the memory of the late John B. Couffer, president of Wilmette from 1906-1914. Main street in Wilmette is now Miss Estelle Engelhardt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. ]. Engelhardt, 915 Oakwood avenue, Wilmette, was awarded a cup Thursday, November 22, for having the highest average of (lny sorority woman on the Northwestern university campus in the freshman class of last ye~r. The award was made on the steps of University hall by President vValter Dill Scott, together with that given to Philip Hooker, who held the highest freshmen men's average. A cup was also awarded to Miss Engelhardt for holding the highest average in her class of Chi Omega sorority. Cups were awarded to Philip Hooker of 109 Woodbine avenue of Phi Pi Phi fraternity and Preston Farley of 300 Abbottsford road, Keuilworth, of Beta Theta Pi fraternity for the highest averages in their fraternities. After the presentation, the group of fifty-nine students who were recipients of cups as high students in their fraternity an'd sorority groups, raised their cups in a pledge to keep their scholarship at a high lev-el. This is the first time such an a ward has been made. The winners from the North Shore are graduates of New Trier High school. · Count Felix von Luckner of Germany, known throughout the world as "The S'e a Devi,l' and who has achieved fame, also, on the lecture platform, will speak at the Wilmette Sunday Evening club Sunday, Decem- · her 2. Count Luckner, says one observer, ' combines in his talks the buoyancy of Conrad, the mystery of Sherlo~k Holmes, the piquancy of Mark Twain, the nimble gesturing of Douglas Fairbanks, and the stage finesse of George Diphtheria Prevalence Is Arliss. He has spoken during the Spreading, Warning Here past twleve months in most · of the Wilmette thus far has escaped the principal cities of the country to crowds threatened spread of diphtheria in that have taxed the capacities of the Cook county, according to an an- most spacious auditoriums. A luncheon nouncement this week by Dr. E~ E. talk before the Chicago Rotary club Moore, health commissioner of the vil- last spring held more than 1,000 listenlage. No cases had been reported to ers spellbound for two solid hours, hi~ him up to late Tuesday afternoon. Vii- hearers calling for more and ever more lagers have been . warned, however, to of . his thrilling experiences as a sea take proper precautions if symptoms raider during the World war when. he of the disease appear. There are only achie\'ecl a notable record for captunng three cases of contagious disease j;1 enemy ships and, what is more nota~le Wilmette at present-one of scarlet fe- still, the reputation of never havmg ver, one of measles, and of chicken pox. Two cases. of pneumonia were destroyed a human life. "The Sea . Devil" also reported. His sobriquet of "The Sea Devil'; Chicago Woman Educator to came to Count Luckner in the midst Address St. Francis P. T. A. Boy Walks Around Rear of the World war. "What a career The Parent-Teacher association of this modern swash-buckler has crowded Train; Hit by Auto of St. Francis Xavier school will meet at into the last fifteen years," reads a Robert Sherman, 16, of 714 Wash- comment. '"It was the call of the sea 3 o'clock the afternoon of Friday, December 7 in the o;;chool hall. Miss ington avenue, in walking around the that lured him away from home and Katherine Martin, a member of the rear of a North Shore line train which school at the age of 13 years, from a faculty of the school of education a_t had stopped at Eighth street and home where he had all the advantages the University of Chicago, will be the Greenleaf avenue Tuesday afternoon, that rro with a 'Noble' family. For speaker. Her subject will be, "Edu- was struck by an automobile driven vears 1:> he sailed the I seven seas, I as by A. G. K'e ck, 912 Greenleaf avenu<'. cation that Educates." Mr. Keck rushed the injured youth to kitchen boy, deckswabber, and general the Evanston hospital where it was roustabout. His sea adventures took Public Library Secures said X-ray examination was to be him into virtually every country on the And land adven~ures? He w~s made Interesting Book ·Catalog ture. to determine possible skull frac- globe. a bar-boy in San Franctsco, bell-boy m The Wilmette Public library has New York kitchen boy in Chicago. In purchased the new United States cataRangoon he assisted a Hindu fakir ; in OBSERVE LOYALTY WEEK log of books. The new volu.m~, wh~ch New Zealand he was a Salvation Army is larger than the big office dtct10nanes, Loyalty Week will be observed in recruit; in Queensland he became the contains a list of all books printed up the parish of the Wilmette Baptist to January, 1928. The. books are li~ted church during the period from Decem- champion prizefighter. But the experiences of ) outhaccording to author, tttle, and subJect. ber 2 to 9. An urgent invitation is exromantic an~. . bitter~ tended to all residents without church equally HEAR WOOSTER PASTOR affiliation here, to attend the services brought about the awakemng of senDr. Lawrence A. Barrett of Wooster, and meetings of the church during that ous-minded manhood. In three years he educated himself by "burning the Ohio, will occupy the pulpit at the ~)eriod. First Presbyterian church Sunday midnight oil." "He retu__rn.ed. to Ge~; morning, December 2, at the .11 o'clock many from the Port of Mtssmg Men , services. Dr. Authur Fredenck Ewert secretly took the examinations and of the Central · Presbyterian church, was given his certificate as a German Chicago, will preach at the Wilmette naval officer before anyone knew he church Sunday morning, December 9. was the missing Felix von Luckner, TRUNK long given up for dead. FUND CANVASS SUNDAY LINE Forebear Aided Washington Sixteen laymen, paired off into .JUNC~ION Field Marshal Nickalus Luckner of teams will engage in the annual canFrance was the great grjlndfather of vass ~f the parish of St. Augpstine's Count Luckner and the man who was Episcopal church Sunday afternoo.t, responsible for sending Lafaye~te to December 2. Thev will solicit funds America to help George W ashmgton to meet the require.ments of the annual The· fight for American independence. It parish budget. is an interesting fact that ~'The Marsellaise" national anthem of France, fifty-two feet wide, forty feet of which was d~dicated to Field Marshal is paid for by the county. The paveLuckner. ment is of re-enforced concrete, seven Count Luckner's remark;1ble fighting inches thick in the middle and sloping record in the World war has been to nine inches thickness at either side. A 24-inch vertical curb, six · inches briefly summed up in the following are the great wide, flanks the sides. paragraph : "He .ran the triple blockThe M. Foley Construction company. ade ot the Allies during a veritable cro11-road1 where contractors for the paving job, finished hurricane. He roamed the Southern it in record time. The work, which buyer and seller Seas in his Ghost Ship; h~ sank fourwas started a little over a month ago, teen Allied boats, captured hundreds ate aure to was completed in twenty-two working of prisoners, fed them on champagne days, eight days less than the time and cake-and never killed a man. He meet each other. in which the Village board had asked lived adventures that outthrill the that it be finished. All material for wildest dreams of fiction. But, best of the street was purchased in Wilmettf' all, he learned the secret of waging from the Wilmette Coal and Material modern warfare without taking human company of which Charles F. Brandt life!" is manager. mette police supervised the closing of the Bleser Bowling Academy on Schiller street just west of Ridge avenue last Sunday afternoon after the owners had opened the doors to permit the playing of a tour:nament scheduled to begin that day. Sunday operation of bowling alleys is prohibited by ordinance. Operators of the Bleser alleys, it was explained, had drawn last Sunday as the opening date of a tournament in which several bowling leagues are participating. It had not been the intention of the owners to attempt Sunday operation permanently, it . was stated. "The Sea Devil," Who Never Destroyed a Human Life, to Relate Experiences Sunday CLASSIFIED AD PAGES