Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 24 May 1929, p. 44

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WILMETTE . . . . .!!!!!!l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!l!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!l~ LIFE M~y 24, 1929 Evanston Home Brings· $350,000 Sale Price John H. Victor, president of the Victor Manufacturing and Gasket company, al5o head of the Illinois Philip Carey company, bought the twenty-two room home at 1201 Sheridan road, Evanston from Albert W. Clutter, for a reported $3.50,000, subject to $100,000. Mr. Clutter is president of the A. W. Clutter company, 120 South LaSalle street, Chicago. The Evanston residence just purchased has approximately 175 feet of frontage on Lake Shore drive and Sheridan r·oad and about 350 feet on the north side of Hamilton street. Mr. Victor, who now lives at 566 Stratford place, Chicago, will occupy his new home not later than July 1. He gave in part payment the 21-apartment building at 2722-30 Pine Grove avenue, Chicago, at $325,000, ·3ubject to $159,000. Mr. McDaniel and Mr. Matthews of Baird and Warner were brokers for Mr. Victor. .Is your hot water supply satisfactory? You can have steaming water always on tap for a hundred needs. American Radiator heaters, coal or gas, are low in price and cost only a few cents a day to operate ··. You can have this equipment installed in your home now at new low prices, with a year to pay. 840 Center St., Winnetka Tel. Winnetka 265 Lethargy and .$Peed Facto. rs in Boosting . Heavy M ortalit:v Toll Lethargy on the one hand and a mania for speed on the other have been paid for with 11,293 lives during the last five years in Illinois according to Dr. Andy Hall, State health director who declares that public indifferenc~ toward available preventive means discourag-es research workers in their efforts against unconquered diseases. Lockjaw, smallpox and diptheria, each preventable by vaccination, have resulted together in 2996 deaths within five years. Automobiles have killed 8297. Guarantee A.U Work Fred A. Ellis & Company 0 After all's said and done, the pleasure you get tn smoking · is what counts AMEL grown. "Nothijlg but lethargy and indifference can account for the 447 lives claime.d by lockjaw or . tetanus during the last five years," said Dr. Hall. "Two-thirds of these deaths were among males and nearly 40 percent were among boys between five and fifteen years old. Tetanus is caused by. germs that enter the body through wounds in the skin and it can be preMrs. Thomas White, 310 Richmond vented by the prompt dressing of road, Kenilworth entertained eighteen wounds and the use of tetanus antiguests at luncheon and bridge on toxin. Wednesday of this week. "The 2594 deaths from diptheria and the 55 from sma11pox. which have occurred within five years, are realty appallin~ sacrifices to indifference and doqbtful waiting. Diptheria is preventable in the first place and it is curable in the second if medical skill is applied before exposure or early after onset. As to smallpox the disease is a disgrace in this period of the world's historv. "On the other hand a restless ~nd impatient desire for speed which seizes upon the individual who finds himself at the steering wheel of an automobile has cost the State 8297 citizens since 1923. "These losses are of lives onlv. disregarding entirely the thousands qf cases of i11ness and the thousands of injuries which h~ve accompanied the mortality. A shipwreck upon the high sea.s accompanied by Joss of life or a railwav crash must needs be officia11v investi.g-ated and the element of neglectful management 'inquired into with exhaustive infinitv. Here are losses the magnitude of which put sea tragedies to shame and vet they are far more surely preventive in char acter than a shipwreck at sea. Mrs. .1. K. Farley Holds Office in Club District Mrs. S. W. Gibson was installed a.~ new ore<ddent of the Tenth district, Illinois Federation of Women's clubs, at a convention held at the Stevens hotel last week. Other officers elected were Mrs. Graham Munch of Lake Bluff. vice-oresident; Mrs. Frederick Masters. Chicag-o, second vice-presidrnt : Mrs. James G. We art of Libertyville, recording !=ecretary; Mrs. J. K . Farley of Kenilworth, corresponding secretary; Mrs. Earl Stafford of Fox Lake, treasurer; Mrs. Henry W. Price of Evanston, chairman of finance: Mrs. Reginald Ford of Chicago, chairman of revision. Forty-two clubs and ten junior clubs are in the Tenth Congressional district which embraces the no·rth side of Chicago and the nort~ shore. Mrs. Wilson Wieder formerly of 417 Adams street. Glencoe. now a resident of Hickory Hill, Wis., has been visiting her__!l1other, Mrs. 0. M. Clute, and her sister, Mrs. Edward Brammer of Wilmette, and friends in Glencoe for ~ week. She returned on Monday to her home. Mrs. Wieder was formerly Miss Florence Clute of Wilmette. Fred ]. Hackner, 1752 Highland avenue, has been ill for about two weeks in the Mercy hospital, Chicago, and will probably not return to his home for another week. WHY CAMELS ARE THE BETTER CIGARETTE Catflels are. made of the choicest tobaccos T~e Camel blend of Domestic and Turkish tobaccos has never bee1z equaled. ,Camels are mild and mellow. They do not tire the taste. . They leave no cigaretty after-taste. Camels have a delightful fragrance that is pleasing to everyone. Compan}', WiD·ton-Salem. N.c. e 1929, R. J. Reynolds TobKco

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