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Febru~ry 15, 1929 ARRANGE EDUCATIONAL TOUR FOR N. T. PUPilS !-O_P_er_a_H_is_·H_o_b_b:v__, F acuity Invites Parents to Accompany Students on Historical Journey in East Re·servations are now being accepted fo.r New Trier High school's third educational tour to be conducted during the spring vacation from March 22 to 29. inclusive. The tour is in charge of Donald Frisbie, New Trier facultv member and advisor of the TriShip ·club. boys' organization at the school. Points of present-day and histori~ intere.;t, including Washington, D. C., Old Point Comfort, the Gettysburg battlefield, Baltimore, Md., and Charlott~sville, Rlichmond. Wi1liamsburg, and Jamestown, Va., will be visited. A special train, carrying the finest equipment, including club and observation cars, will be used for the trip. The party will be accompanied hy a. passenger representative of the Pennsylvania railroad who ,,·ill look after the details. Parents Invited Not only New Trier students, but parents and faculty members, will compose the party for the tour. There wilt be one teacher from the school for everv ten student'-'· Miss Lillis Price wia ·be in charge of girls making the trip. Severjtl parents also hpve gone on the two previous New Trier educational tours, and Mr. Frisbie has extended an invitation to parents to accompany their children this year. \Vhen the first tour was held four years ago about seventy persons compose4 the party. On the second tour two years ago there were ninety, and at least that many are expected this Year, Mr. Frisbie stated this week. · Leave Chicago March 22 The New Trier Special is scheduled to leave Chicago on Friday afternoon, March 22, and arrive at Charlottesville, Va., the following day, ·w here the party will visit the home of Thoma'3 Jefferson and the University of Virginia. The train will proceed t:l Richmond Saturday evening. Sunday morning, March 24, will be spent in a sight-seeing tour of Richmond. passing all points of interest, inducting St. John's church, where Patrick Henrv delivered his famou·,; oration, "Gi~c M·e Liberty or Give Me Death"; Poe's home, where Washington and Lafayette are said to have visited, and the Virginia state capitoL Arriving at Williamsburg shortly after noon, the party will take sightseeing cars through the town, t,; topping at William and Mary college, the second college to be founded on American soil, and proceeding to James town. the first permanent English settlement in America. Fortress Monroe at Old Point Comfort will be visited the same day, and the party will go from there bv boat to Baltimore. ~ Visit Naval Academy After a sightseeing trip through Baltimore Monday morning, March 25, the party will go by bus to Annapolis, where visits will be made to the old state . house, St. Anne'·,; church, St. John~s college, and the Un1ted States N ava1 academy. · At · Washington, D. C. on Tuesday and Wednesday the party will see the national government buildings and numerous places of historic intere·,;t thereabouts, including Alexandria, Va., and Mt. Vern on. A tour of the Gettysburg battlefield near York, Pa., will be the principal feature of the Thursday itinerary. The . party is scheduled to be back in Chicago on Friday morning, March 29. Mrs. Gusta Turner, who makes her home with her son and hi·3 family, the George Turners, 1019 Ashland ave.nue, left last week for J.4os Angeles, t~ be gone several weeks. I WILMETTE LIFE Wilmette C. of C. Committees Named: Start ·Year's Work . FAMOUS AVIATOR IIU. ADDRESS SUNDAY CLUB Capt. Denis Rooke,. Who Flew . · Alone From England to India, Ia Speaker February 17 Capt. Denis' Rooke, who made one of the most spectacular flights in the history of aviation-a solo flight from London to India-will be the speaker at the Wilmette Sunday E;vening club Sunday, February 17. Rollin Pease, well-known Evanston baritone, will provide the musical program. · The 7,000-mile flight of Captain Rooke in a tiny single-engine Moth plane was accomplished through a The series of exciting adventurt!s. captain was unaccompanied. He flew 400 miles over the sea and landed in Aboukir at night without flares, he battled a storm over the Strait of Messilfi, where his small craft seemed made of paper in the wind's fury, and he narrowly escaped the attack of a hostile Bedouin tribe. These and numerous other phases of the flight will be related by Captain Rooke. In press repC'rts Captain Rooke is described as a vivid and humorous speaker, who tells many delightful anecdotes of famous people. Personal meetings with Colonel Lindbergh in Paris, with ex-Kaiser Wilhelm at Godesberg on the Rhine, and with the Prince of Wales in London are interestingly described. Born in India ·of English parents, Captain Rooke was a soldier in the World war. He fought at Galtipoli, in Egypt, and on the Western front, and was an aviator in the third Afghan war. His peacetime pursuits have been varied, including such activities as captain of his own ship in the South seas and director of logging operations in Australia. He was educated in England and Germany. - . At the first meetmg of the board of dtrector.; of the Wilmette Chamber of · Commerce on January 17 committee chairmen for thh year were appointed. The committee members have been chosen, and organization of the Chamber for 1929 is now complete. The list of officers, directors, and committee members follows: Officers- John H. Davi.es, president : D. E. Allen Jr., vice president; Dan G Stiles, trea'3 urer, and Miss Irene Strickler, secretary. Directors-Or. C. B. Blake, E. E. Griffis, R. M. Johnston, / A, E. Nord, Dr. Floyd L. McGrath, A. C. Pearson, Carl C. Renneckar, and J. E. Worthen. National councillor-Lloyd Hollister. Audit and finance committee-Dan G. Stiles, chairman, F. D. Anderson. and R. M. Johnston. Civic committee-Hoyt King, chairman, D. E. Allen Jr., Dr. C. B. Blake, E. C. Cazel, Dr. Floyd L. McGrath, David Nelson, and Ja.;eph E. Shantz. Entertainment committee-Dr. C. H. Eldred, chairman, Daniel M. Davis, S. C. Meyers, Dr. George A. Stone, Thom as C. Thompson, and Hans von Reinsperg. Membership committee-A. E. Nord, ]. Williams Macy of Hubbard chairman, Dr. C. B. Blake, A. ]. Mouat, Woods, who is well known as an out- Carl C. Renneckar, and WilJiam Taylor. standing performer with the North Publicity-E. W. Weber, chairman, Shore Theater Guild, will give a program of Gilbert and Sullivan songs F. J. Budinger, Dr. R. M. Evans, and over Station WMAQ Sunday after- B. B. Udell. Retail committee-E. E. Griffis, chairnoon, February 17, at 1 o'clock. Mr. man, B. E. Busscher,· Paul McNamee, Macy has long since adopted the hobby of presenting songs from Gil- Dominic Pagliarulo, C. E. Renneckar, John Schneider, E. A. Sutphen, Wilbert and Sullivan operas. liam Taylor, A. S. Van Deusen, and J. E. Worthen. Students Compete Dr. Herbert L. Willett Soon for Annual in Lenten Lecture Series 0. R. Barnett Award Dr. Herbert L. Willett, pastor of th t· HuerterLegionMen . Preliminary announcement was made Kenilworth Union church, is delivering Sponsor Masquerade; this week at New Trier High school a series of Lenten addresse 3 on We(lLaunch Member Drive of the Barnett Essay contest, winners nesday evenings at 8 o'clock at the 1 of which will receive prizes totaling twenty-five dollars. Each year Otto R. Barnett, of Glencoe, offers this amount" to the two New Trier students writing the best essays on any economic or civic subject. The first prize will be fifteen dollars, and the second prize ten. The essays must not be more than 2,500 or less than 1,500 words in length. No definite time limit on the writing of the essays has been set, but they probably will be submitted to the judges about the middle of March. Miss Laura U!lrich, New Trier faculty member, is in charge of the contest. church on episodes in John Bunyan's famous book, "Pilgrim's Progress." This year is the tercentenary of Bun· yan's birth. Dr. Willett's first lecture was given this week. The following topics will be presented on '.mccessive Wednesday evenings: February 20, 11 The Wicket Gate"; February 27, "The Interpreter's House"; March 6, "The Hill Difficulty"; March 13, 41 The House Beautiful"; March 20, "The Battle With Apollyon," and March 27, "The Vanity Fair." An organ number and vocal solo will precede each of the addresses. Wilmette Shoe Store Soon to Be in Larger Quarters Simultaneous with the announcen1ent of a Removal sale at the Wilmette Shoe store, which begins this Saturday, comes the information that J. J. Schneider, owner of the business·. is preparing to move his rapidly-growing business into larger quarters about May 1. The new location is at 1133 Central avenue in the Nelson building. The new store promises to be one of the finest footwear establishments on the north shore, according to Mr. Schneider. Fixtures and all attendant facilities will be in the latest mode, he states. WANT 0 7M UNE One hundred and fifty couples participated in the masquerade dance held Monday evening of this week in Hoffman hall, Ridge avenue, under auspices of Peter ]. Huerter Post of the American Legion. Joe Schneider's orchestra provided the music for the affair. Arrangements were under the supervision of Mike Kloepfer, commander of the nost. Several members of Wilmette Post of the American Legion aided in making the enterprise a complete success, Harvey Hopp, commander of Wilmette Post, serving as chairman of the prize committee. Huerter Post is now engaged in a membership campaign. The post has a paid-up membership of sixty veterans, according to Commander Kloepfer. The drive for new "recruits" is to be conducted by a "Committee of Eight,'" several auto squads being employed to seek out ex-service men thus far unaffiliated with any Legion unit. \SHORTEST ._BETWEEN ~ Call Public Hearings on Big Improvements Public hearings on various proposed improvements will be held by the Village board of local improvements at its regular meeting Tuesday evening, February 19. Improvements to be discussed with property own~rs at that time include the $129~000 street paving project in the Bills' Indian Hill Estates, Unit No. 2, which is bounr!ed by Lake avenue, Illinois road, 23rd street and Elmwood avenue; laying of water mains in Schwall's subdivision in the west section of the village, and the proposed opening of Central avenue west to Ridge ave~ue. A patriotic program will be held at the Stolp school assembly Tuesday,. February 19. USE ,_ PHONE ~ CONFERS WITH GOVERNOR Lewis B. Springer of Wilmette, former representative from the Seventh district in the Illinois legislature, was called to Springfield Monday of this week by Gov. Louis L. Emmerson for f orestry prollems. a discussion of state · While in the legislature .Mr. Springer sponsored a bill establishin1l. state forest preserves. HAVE \ __ .,. ------------------·------·----