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March 2~, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 63 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert B. Mulford, who have been sojourning at the Hotel Indialantic, Melbourne, Fla. for three weeks, left · Tuesday for Tryon, N. C., where they will be joined by their daughter, Miss Betty, who will spend · her Easter vacation with her parents, returning to her studies at Wellesley college. on April 2. Robert S. Smith is buildin~ a very beautiful addition on the south side of his home at 324 Cumnor road, Kenilworth. Mr. Smith is an architeet. 1 ~lace for a child .. Above all else she Nellie L. Decker, hked to take a chtld that found learnveteran ing difficult and give him the aid a~ld . H ere, p'Teacher A encourag~met~t nec~ssary to help htm asses Way mas-ter hts dtfficulttes. Her great re- I 1 Man With Broken Leg Is · b ) . Ftrst Am u ance Patient Miss Nellie L. Decker, a teacher in ' the Logan school, passed away at her home in Evanston, Friday night, March 15, after an illness of a week. Miss Decker had been a member of the Wilmette public school teaching staff for twenty years. She began her work in the small frame building that \Yas situated just north of the Logan school building, and was transferred to the present bu~lding on it s erection. During most of this time she taught the second grade and over seven hundred children have passed under her tutelage and owe her a deht of gratitude for excellent in struction in the fundamental subjects. "Too much cannot be said in praise of Miss Decker's work," said J. R. Harper, superintendent of vVihnett_ e Public schools. "Sh e \Ya s conscicntious to a verv high degree and h er one ambition life was t~ see that the particular group · of chtldren entrusted to her care made the proper advancement. While her room was noted for its industry and application to dutv, her keen sympathy and understanding of children made it a pleasant ward was the glow of satisfaction that came to the child over a difficult lesson well learned. The boys. and g~rls who h~ve sat ~nder her ad~·unistrat10n, ~s well as thetr par,~nts, wtll hold her 111 grateful memory. Public schools in Wilmette were closed Monday afternoon, March 18, in order that t~achers might. attend the funeral, of Mtss Decker, whtch w.as held at 2 o clock at the Hebblethwatte f ~neral chapel, _1610 Maple avenue, E~anst_?n. Bunal took place at \\ y~mmg, Ill. . . M1s · Decker I S survtved b~-. two hrothe:.s. John B. Decker, of Chtcago. and \~ ard D. Decker , of Denver. Wilmette's new police ambulance was used fbr the first time Thur.sday afternoon March 14 when Ferdi DeGroot 2132 El~lwood a~enue was rushed t~ the Evanston hospit~l following an accident in which the motorcycle on which he was riding crashed into a car driven bv Frank Cutten 1101 Chestnut avenue. · DeGroot suffe,red a broken leg. The accident happened at about 1 o'clock at the intersection of Twelfth street and Lake avenue. DeGroot going north on Twelfth street, failed t~ stop at Lake avenue according to the police report, and ra1~1med Cutten's car which wa·s traveling west on Lake. Cutten \Ya'.5 not injured and. his car was only slightly damaged. -o- ~;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ i -n ~Ii . s Jane Moist. :daughter, of _!\Ir. ~Irs . 1\. P. Lind, 1638 Central aveand ~frs. S;1mttcl ~lotst. llOi Shendan i nur. will entertain sixteen friends at road, \rho at~ctH.l.s At~drchrook school. ~ luncheon this afternoon in honor of TarrytO\o\'ll, I\. \ ·· \\'Ill return t? her her mother, ~Irs. Gustaf Hermanson ~10 t:dc _ next Saturcla~· for th e T·.a ster Chicago, whose birthday is today. 1 10 1 a~ 5 of · -aDick :\Iacalister. '3 0n of Mr. and Mrs. Jame s Nye lV[acalister, 918 Ashland antttte, \\"ill return next Friday from . the UniHrsity of Io\\'a for his spring I vacation. -o~Ir. and ~fr s. George Kingsley, 529 Cumnor road, Kenilworth are entertaining a few friends at dinner this evening. 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