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WILMETTE YOL. XVIII, NO. 32 WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, APRIL 26, 1929 Publfshed weeklJI b21 LloJid HoZUster ·Inc., 1ZJZ-1 ZJ6 Central Ave., WUmette, Illinois. Bntered a. aeco"d ola.a matter·. March JJ, 19Z4, a.t the post oltwe a.t Wilmette, Illinoia, under the Act of Ma.roh J, 1879. SubaoriJJUon price IZ.OO a. JIBa.r. ·L IFE · PRICE FIVE CENTS PLAN MAD. DELIVERY ' I FOR WESTERN SECTION Post Office Officials Complete Survey; Plan to Introduce · Delivery J~ly 1 Post office inspectors ] . E. Kenny and C. H. Burrows, together with Postmaster ] oseph E. Shantz have completed a survey in that part of Wil· mettc west of Ridge road, made for the purpose of extending the delivery district to that area. It is proposed according to Mr. Shantz, to include in the new delivery district the section from the -north to the south limits and west on Glenview road to the Westmorelancl Golf club and on Lake avenue to Locust road, including all of the Indian Hill Estates. Person s living outside of this district will have to erect mail boxes at a point convenient to carrier. Cites Conditions School ~oard Tum Your Clock Ahead; Head · 1 Daylight Saving Sunday Turn your clock ahead one hour upon retiring this Saturday night, for Sunday morning, at 2 A. M., Daylight Saving time goes into effect again. If you fail to comply, you'll wake up Sunday morning precisely one · hour behind schedule. All churches in the community will hold their services on Daylight Saving time beginning this Sunday. ANNOUNCE T. N. T. CLUB -~. SCHOLARS~AT NEW TRP Average Grade of Students in. Honor Groups Exceeds 90 Perce.-tt, Report Commenting further on the proposed service Postmaster Shantz said: · "Owing to the condition of streets and sidewalks west of Greeley avenue, namely, Elmwood, Thornwood and Kenih\'Orth avenues, it will be necessary for the residents to have boxes erected at the intersection of Illinois road and Thornwood avenue. Owing to the condition of the streets and the few houses in Elmwood, Ashland, Thornwood, Chestnut, Kenilworth and Beechwood avenues west of Ridge road it will be necessary for the residents who desire delivery service to erect boxes at the intersection of the various streets and Ridge road. "It is suggested that a uniform plan b'e carried out in the erection uf boxes, that po sts be placed and a board fastened to the top of posts which will permit the placing of several boxes. Important Suggestions (Hendershot Photo) Edward J. Phelps of Kenilworth was elected president of the New Trier High school Board of Education at the meeting of that body last week. He succeeds ] . R. Gathercoal of Wilmette. Mr. Phelps has been a member of the New Trier board for eleven years and has been iptensely interested in the affairs of the school. On January 1, 1929, he retired as president and man ager of the Northern Trust Safe Deposit company after serving that company for more than thirty-one years. Witit his retirement from business he plans to devote more of his time to the interests of New Trier High school. Johnny Layton, Billiard Champ, at Shawnee Tonight ] ohnny ~ayton, world's champion three-cushion billiardist, will play a match game with C. A. Storer, directqr of players of the National Billiar<l Players association this evening at the Shawnee Country club. The match will be conducted in the ball room of the club. The exhibition will be followed by a lecture on the diamond system · and a demonstration and explanation of fancy shots. The program is given under auspices of the Billiards committee of the club. A table d'hote dinner is to be served at 6:30 o'clock and the program will start at 8 o'clock. "In order that delivery service may he made it will be necessarv that the f0llowing conditions be complied with: "House numbers must be obtained from the Village of \Vilmette and placed on the house (it is suggested th:1t the numbers be placed over the door.) "Mail receptacles must be provided and placed most convenient of access for the carrier. "Notify vour correspondents to address ' 'our- mail to street and number. This i-s absolutely necessary, as mail received " ·ithout such information will be seriously delayed. "Where house numbers and mail receptades ar_~ not provided mail will not be delivered. It will then become necessarv to call at the \Vilmette post office for mail." It is contemplated to establish this service b~· July 1, 1929. Members of the New Trier High school honor society and of the T. N. T. club were announced at an honor as3embly Monday of this week. The T. N. T. club ( which derives its name from the Latin tenens, nobile, trium. phans) is an honorary organization to which are elected each year students who have shown unusual ability in undergraduate activities-scholastic, dramatic, athletic, musical, literary, or R. M. Johnston and .c ompany, Wil- social. The honor '30ciety membership, mette realtors, represented the buyers which is based entirely on scholarship, last week in the purchase of 136 ac.::- es is composed of the upper ten percent of land south of Lake avenue and ad- of girls and the upper ten percent of joining the Chicago, Milwaukee and boys in the senior class. The memSt. Paul railway, north of Glenview. bers are elected each spring. This property was purchased by the An unu·3ual feature of the honor Chicago Air Terminals, Inc., a corpora- society this ·year is that none of the tion connected with the Curtis Flying members has an average grade below. Service. 91. Following are the members : Girls The land is already b'eing prepared, Jane Barr, Wilma Borovicka, Faith ahng with 294 acres across Lake ave- Burge, Ruth Drayer, Martha Etzbach, rue, to be used as th_e Chicago flying Josephine Farley, Margaret Gordon, Marion Hilpert, Betty Holmes, Eldora Ho1>1eld for the Curtis ~lying Service. kim;, Elizabeth Kelley, Marie Koepke , The proximity to good highway and Lottie Kuenkele, Janet Marshall, Annie steam transportation to Chicago, and McDonald, Edith Taylor and Dorothea the uninterrupted flat character of the West. Boys land, as well as the absence of tall James Baker, George Brown, Robert· trees, high tension lines and streets, Brown, Dorland Davis, Paul Drebes, John were important. factors in favor of the Fetcher, WilHam Gibson, Jack Kaufman, location selected by the Curtis service. Bob Marcus, Morton Mergentheim, I{en· neth Moeller, .:[ohn Reynolds, Frank Roth, The total investment in land on both Warren Schmid, Roy Wilcox, Steven sides of Lake avenue is approximately ·windel3~ a!}d Carl Hall. $750,000, and it is estimated that imSeena ] ohnson and Grace Stanley, provements will cost in the neighbor- who were disqualified for the honor hood of $250,000. snc:ietv because they have had only Wyatt and Coons of Glenview repre - one s'-'mester of work at New Trier, sented the sellers. were recommended for honorable mention. Only students who have attended· New Trier for three ·.semesters .are SPECIAL MASONIC PROGRAM Members of the Wilmette Masonic eligible for election to the honor fraternity enjoyed a special program society. Six girls and six boys from each Thursday evening of this w~ek following- th e regular stated lodge meeting. of the upper classes at New Trier make up the list of uew members of the T. N. T. club. They are: Purchase Large Glenview Tract for Flying Field Senior Girls Thrifty Housewives In this and every issue of WILMETTE LIFE you will find numerous bar· gains in Food Stuffs. Before · you do your shopping today read t h e s e advertisements. Any thrifty housewife will be well repaid. Mary Louise Cotton, Gretchen Drever, Josephine Farley, Janet Marshall, Martha Tencher, and Mary Elizabeth Townsend. Senior Boys John Betal<, George Brown, Martin Cassell, Leon Dickinson, Carl Hall, and Alan Hoagland. Junior Girls B~th Brower, Jean Forrest, Louise Hubsch, Janet Shepard, Jean Thackeray, and WUla Snyder. JUDI9r Boys John Atwood, Tom Hicks, Marshall Ling, Arthur McIntosh, Carleton Schroeder, and Richard Schuettge. In This Issue · Pages Automobile News ...... 45-49 Boy Scout Affairs .......... 30 Book Comment ............ 42 Church Items ......... 52 & 53 Club News ................ 40 Editorial-Shore Lines ..... 36 Junior Life ........ _...... SO Sports, Recreation Bd. . ... 54 Society News ............. 38 Travel Corner ............. 44 1nbeaters ............ 63 & 68 Clauified Ada .......... 64-67 Holdover members of the T. N. T. club are: girls-Faith Burge, Martha Etzbach, Mary Forrest, Elizabeth Kelley, Mary Elizabeth Parker and Margaret Gordon; boys-George Cogswell, William GilY.5on, Hunter Hicks, Morris Nelson, Way Thompson, and Arthur Wienecke. · NIGHT SCHOOL ENDS The night school for persons of foreign birth conducted under the civics department of the Woman's club oi Wilmette, brought its year to a close last Monday evening, with an attendance of about eighty-five. To give this last session of the sea'50n a little extra touch and tp make it more of a social o~casion, the teachers of the school served ice cream and cake. BENEFIT BRIDGE APRIL 27 Lake Shore Conclave order of True Kindred, No. 57, will give a benefit card party tomorrow afternoon at the home of Mrs. Emmett D. Yarian, 1021 Central avenue, to which the public is cordially invited. Bridge, five hundred) and bunco will be played, and· there will be prizes and refreshments. There will be the usual charge for admission. Read the Advertisements