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WILMETTE VOL. XVIII, NO. 41 PubllBhed 10eekl31 b31 Lloyd HolliBter lt&c., JZJZ-JZJ6 Central Ave., Wilmette, lllinoiB. Bntered as second cla88 matter March JJ, 1924, at the fJOSt office at Wilmette, IUinoia, under the Act of March J, 1879. 8ubscriJJt4on ,nee sz.oo a 31ear. LIFE PRICE FIVE CENT~ WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, JUNE 28, 1929 PLANS COMPLETE FOR IMORE WEST PROJECTS JULY 4 CELEBRATION Improvements Board Gives 0. K. to Pine Crest Paving Work and Far Patriotic Exercises to Begin at 1 :30 in Afternoon; Races Will Follow The program for Wilmette's sixth annual community Fourth of July celebration was announced this week. Patriotic e~ercises at 1 :30 o'clock in the afternoon followed by races and contests at 2 :30 are the principal features of the program, which will be held at the Village Green. The drum and bugle corps of Wilmette Post No. 46, American Legion. will open the ceremonies with several selections. Posting of the colors by the two American Legiqn groups in the Village, Wilmette Post No. 46 and Peter J. Huerter post will follow . The drum and bugle corps will give a salute to the colors. Aaaemblage to Sin1 Following the salute those who attend the ~eremonies will sing "The Star Spangled Banner" and Harvey Hopp, commander_ of Wilmette Post No. 46, will r.ead the Declaration of rndependence. Thirty racing events and contests have been scheduled for persons of all ages. The events are to be. open. only to re.sidents of Wilmette, and no one is to receive more than four prizes. not including the relay race. Spiked shoes will not be allowed. · R.acing Events Following are the events to be run off: 25-yard dash for girls under eight vears; 50-yard shoe scramble for boy s under fourteen; 25-yard wheelbarrow race for girls ten. eleven, and twelve vears old: 25-vard dash for bovs und ~ r eight: 50-r2-rci dash £or girls e.ight and nine: hall thro\\'ing contest for wom en over twenty-one; 50-yard three-legged r:tce for hon under sixteen: 50-vard dash for bo;·s eight and nine: so-;·ard n:tsh for ~iri s tet_ l, cle,·en, and twelv~: 25-\·ard vvheelbarro\\- race for boYs ten. eleven. and twelve: 50-vard -threeleg-ged race for girls under sixteen: 30-vard dash for bon ten. eleven, and t\\·cln·: 75 -ya rcl dash for girls thirteen. inurtern. anrl fifteen: 25-yarcl hopping rlre for girl~ r ight and nine: 50-~·ard relaY race for husbands and ,,-ives: 75vard dash for boys thirteen. fourte en. :1. nd fifteen: 75-var d clash for girls sixtet' n to twS'nty inclu sive: 50-yard sack race for bo,·s under sixteen: 100-\·ard dash for hc)\·s sixteen to hnntv. in clusive: 50-vard dash for women twenh· -one and -over: 50-Yard balloon race for girls under ten: iOO-yard dash for men twentv-one and over: 50-vard balloo n race for bo,·s under ten:· twentvfi ,.e vard dash for women thirtv-fi~·e ;1nd ·o ver: three-legged rare for . hu sbands and wives; 25-yarcl cla :;h for women weighing more than 100 pounds: 25-vard dash for gentlemen with a waist of at least forty-three inches: 50-vard sack race for girls under si~teen ·: 50-vard dash for men over thirty-five. and -tug -of-war (single mcri . YS. n1arried men). Officials Named Officials for the · racing events and contests will he: D. M. Davis, starter: '·Hap" Gathercoal. Dudley Stone, anci D. C. Leach, clerks of course; Paul Hoffman, - chief 'judge and referee: members of the American Legion, judges. j Weat Sanitary Sewer Following closely upon its decision to build a storm sewer system in the section of Wilmette west of Ridge avenue at an estimated. cost of $1,804,950, the Village board of local improvements, after a public hearing held Tuesday night of this week, ordered further improvements in the same section to cost nearly $330,000. Of this amount $96,802 is to be spent on the pav.i ng of streets in ·the Pine Crest subdivision. The streets affected ;nclude Washington avenue from Ridge road to Twenty-first street, Highland avenue from Ridge road to Twentyfirst street, Central avenue from Ridge road to Twenty-first street, Twentieth street from \\. ashington avenue to Central avenue. and Twenty-first street from Washington avenue to Central avenue. An estimated total of $233.031 is to be spent on the installation of a sanitary sewer system in various streets of the extreme western section of the Village. Portion s of the following streets are included in the improvement : Romona road. Washington avenue, Hibbard road, Central avenue, Lockerhie street, Gletwiew road, Thaver avenue. Gregory a,·enue. Lavergne- avenue. \Vilmette aYenue. Laramie avenue. Leamington avenue. Leclaire av~nue: LaPorte avenue. Lamon avenue, LaCross avenue. Skokie boulevard, Hollv avenue, Knox a\·enue. Pine street, Highland avenue, Birchwood avenue, Schiller avenue. and Lake avenue. Kenilworth Beach Op~~S Tom,o,rrow; Button Bathers ~he Kenilworth beach will open offic1ally Saturday, June 29, W. A. Knoop, chairman of the beach committee of the Kenilworth club announced this week. The club has charge of all activities at the beach and. its members have been mailed but~ tons entitling their families to free use of the summer playground. The beach will remain open until S~ptember and Jack Boyle, life guard, w11l be on duty again this year from 9 o'clock in the morning to 6 o'clock at night every day during the bathing season. No strict regulations for bathers have been outlined by the beach commit. tee, but parents have been asked not to permit their children to go north of the pumping ~tation, as the water is yery deep there. SKY. HARBOR WW. OPEN OFFICIALLY JUNE 29 · Squadron of Arm Fl to · Y · yera · Take Part m . Openina of New Airport Sky Harbor, Chicago's new airport located on Dundee road four miles west of Glencoe, is being formally opened to the public this Saturday and Sunday, June 29 and 30. Since la:;t fall hundreds of workmen have been busily engaged in the . complicated operati~ns of grading, draining1 the construction of runways for the field and the building of the hangar and' club house. General Sechet, chief of the Air Corps, U. S. Army, is sending a squadron of army flyers from Selfridge field, Michigan, to participate ir1 the opening ceremonies, it was announced this week. They will perform army maneuvers and do stunt flying. The Grav Goose Air lines will operate Skv Harbor in connection with their present service at Chicago municipal airport. ·T he officials of the Grav Goose Air .lines have invited the publi.c to attend the ovening. An interesting program of aviation activities has been arr~nged. Ordain Lester M. Morae to Priesthood on Sunday The Rt. Rev. Frank E. Wilson, former rector of St. Augustine's Episcopal church in Wilmette, who has recently been made bishop of ~he new diocese of Eau Claire, W .is., will officiate at the ordit~ation of Lester M. Morse, 'Of Evanston, to the priesthood this Sunday morning, June 30, at the Church of the Holy (:omforter in Kenilworth at 10:45 o'clock. Mr. Morse, until a year ago a resident of vVilmette, was active in American Legion -affairs here. He has already been ordained as deacon. CLERK TEACHING AT N. U. Supt. Frederick E. Clerk, of Ne\\· Trier High school, is teaching two courses in the school of education at Northwestern universit,· this summer. He began his 'A·ork at the university this week. Mr. Clerk's classes are in educational and vocational guidance and personnel problems in school administration. A Public Airport · Officers of the ·company state that an impression exists in the minds c,£ some people that Sky Harbor is a private club and -is noJ open to the public. This is not the case, because the project has all along been planned as a public airport to supply- the needs of the north shore for an ;1dequate, safe, commercial landing field. Of principal interest to the visitors, who all spring have be~n coming to Sky Harbor while the construction was under way, has been the beautiful, modernistic club house and administration building. The general offices of the Gray Goose Air lines have been moved to the first floor of the Sky Harbor administration building. The first floor- also contains an attractively decorated waiting room for the public, locker room for won1en students, lunch counter and soda fountain. New Home of Pelruaka Club The famous Russian Petruska club occupies the second (;lnd third floors 0f the administration building. Since last ·Friday night the Petruska restau.rant has been in operation and several private parties have been given by the club. This has led to the erroneous impression that the airport and club house are not open to the public. Five inches of excess rainfall this spring have made. turf fields unsaie which normally would be ideal ior flying. In order to be sure that Sky Har:: bor would have a field suitable for year-around activities, cinder runways have been constructed. For the last three weeks cinders have been laid in Skv Harbor at the rate of sixteen carloads a day. Two of the resulting runwavs are one hundred feet wide ~nd two thou-sand five Jwndred feet long. The other two are one hundred feet wide and thirteen hundred feet long. These four runways constitute a group which will altow landings and take-offs in all directions under anv weather conditions. An automobile parking space hat (Continued on page 4) ( Dr. Henderson Examines Younger Pu!)ils' Eyesight The eyesight of kindergarten and first and second grade children in the \Vilmette Public schools has been carefully examined by Dr. R . H. Henderson. of Wilmette, 'during the past school year as part of a program conducted throughout the state by the Illinois Society for the Prevention of Blindness. Th e \:vork was done with the cooperation 0f the health department of the Wilmette sc hools. Classes have been ; ; tarted bv the Socict\' for the Preven~ ion of Blindne ss looking towards the conservation of sight. Following the races there will be a Punch and Judy ~ho~v a~o1d entertainment by a magician. Refreshti1ents will be on sale by the American Legion. ~---~ Wonder what's going on back in WILMETTE In This Issue Pages Automobile News ....... 39-44 Boy Scout Affairs .... 26 & 27 Book Comment ; ... : . ..... 36 Church Items ............. 20 Let WILMETTE LIFE follow you on your vacation- and you'll Know! J.ust call our Circula-} uon Department-say w h e n and w h e r e . ,c.. 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