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WILMETTE \ .OL. XVII., NO. SO WILMETTE, ILLINOIS, AUGUST 30, 1929 Published weekly by · Lloyd Hollister Inc., 1ZJZ-1 Z3 6 Central Ave., Wilmette Illinois. Entered as second class matter Jlarch 13, 1924, at the post office at Wilmette, Illinois, und er the Act of Ma;ch J, 1879. Subscription price sz.oo a year. LIFE PRICE FIVE CENT~ VACATION TIME ON WANE, \ N. T. READY FOR OPENING · Enrollment of 1,700 Pupils Expected When Classes Start September 9 X ew Trier High sch ool will open its <ll)Ors for th e 1929-1930 term on !\Ionday morning, September 9. An enrollmrnt of about 1,700 pupils is ex· pected. :\ meeting nf the Xew Trier deans, department heads, and a<h·iser chairmen will he held on Friday morning, ~eptemher fi. at 9 o'clock and a genaal meeting of all teachers is sc heduled fnr th e fo llowing morning at 9 {)'clock. Book Store Opens The hook store ;:.~.t the high school \rill ht· opt·n daily from 9 o'clock in the morning to 12 o'clock noon o n Thursda~·. FridaY, and Saturday, Septt-mher 5. r,, and 7. · R egistra tion was practically completed last June. Pupils \\·lw han nCJt alrc·ady r egis ter ed may do so at the ~c h oo l office. The complete :\ ew Trier teaching ~taff ior the coming )Tar wa s announced this week. There are onh· six new tea chers on a facultv th~t numbers nearlv one hundred. Two of the new t eache r s will h e in th e mathematics dcpartment-\fiss Ethel Evans and C. ~Iinnema . \li s::; Evans ha s taught in the high school at Aurora. Ill., and ~fr. ~finnema is r eturning to the :\ew Trier facult\· after a lea\·..: of absence. · English Teachers Here K. Binnie. of the Roan sc hool at Greenwich, England, is cxchangng ulaces with Roland \\'chr in the Xew Trier social science department. Another new teacher in this department will he :\J iss Kathleen Locklev. who is on a leave of absence from tl;e Putney High school in England. ~f iss Locklev will also be connected with the girls' physical education department at ?\ew Trier. ~1 is Elsa Karst, formerly of the \\'ilmette Public schools, has been added to the foreign language staff at ~ew Trier, and V. Condon, who has taught at Bloomington, Ill., is a new member of the science department. The Faculty The complete New Trier 19.29-1930 faculty lis·t by departments follows: Administration-Frederick E. Clerk, ~uperin t cndent; !\fiss Elizabeth E. Packer, clean of girls; Frederick A. Kahler, dean of boys; \\. L. Brown, direc~or of research; Miss Lil ian Doing, regtstrar. English-L. A. Hutchens, l\Iiss :\li ce Burchard, R. H. Carpenter, Mrs. Marjorie Cook, Miss Lillian Fogg, Miss Aveline Kent, C. E. MacLean, Misa Mabelle Payton, C. L. Persing, H. C. Pifer, Miss E lisabet h Stanwood, Gordo_n Va_n~irk, ~iss Helen Walkup, 1\f tss Wmtfred \Vtlson, and Miss Lulu Wright. Mathematics~W. A. Snyder, vV. J. Aschenbach, H. Caton, Miss Ethel Evans, K. Funkhouse r, C. Grater, C. H .. Jones, Miss Helen Maloney, C. Mmnema, Mi ss Margaret Smallpage, and Miss Dorothy Walker. Social science-Miss Laura Ullrick (Continued on page 52) · ' Magistrate ·Pettibone Returns With Prize Catch of Muskellunge '----------------------------~ Manager WILMETTE SCHOOLS TO OPEN MONDAY, SEPT. 9 Enrollment to Total1,600 Pupils; to Complete Howard Ad.dition by Opening The \\'ilmette Public schools w1tl open M OtHla~·. September 9, for th e 1929-1930 te·r m with an approximate enrollment of 1.600 pupils. New pupils will register in the school office o n Tenth street before opening daY. \ York on the Howard school addition has been progressing during th e summer months so that it will be readv fo r the start o~schoo l on Sept ember 9. Besides an auditori um with a seat ing capacitv of three hundred, the addition contains a science room, an art room, a music room, and a kindergarten room. Other school buildings in the village have been undergoing the usual summer trimmings in preparation for the new term. Few F acuity Changes The teaching staff for the comin~ Year is the same as that of la st Yf'ar. with a few exceptions. ~fiss Elsie Lindenme,·er. of Lake Forest, who ha" taught at Kalamazoo. Mi ch .. \\·ill inin the \Vilmette facult\· . She will ha\·e a first grade at Howard. Miss Pearle Olthoff, another new teacher, comes to \ Vilmettc from Pearl Cit\·. Ill., ·where she has lived and taught school. She wilt ha\·e a third l!rade at Logan. Francis Rran. Northwestern universitY student who assisted in the mannat training department last \·ear. wi11 not return. His place is to be fill ed hv a part time worker. who prohahl,· wilt be a student of the universit,· also. Full Time Teacher :\'f is" Viola Theman. who did substitute work in the \Vilmette schools last vear. will become a re~ular memher nf the teaching staff. She will have a fifth grade at Howa d. Miss Dorothv Nash, who was on a leave of absence during the last school year, will return to take a second grade a t Howard. Miss Nash s pent last year studying at th e U ni vers ity of Illinoi s. Mis s Ida Gunderson, of Ladysmith. Wis ., wilt t each the third grade at Howard. faking the place of Miss ·M arjorie VanHornr, who was transferred to the Laurel buildinr.:, to fill the vacancy caused by the d eath of Mrs. Lena A. Butts a few m on th ago. Following is the complete li s t of 'Vilmette Puhilc school teachers for the com ing year, with the exception of o ne first grade vaca11cy at the Tenth stree t building: Jlowartl Bulltllng Kindergarten, Mrs. Eliz;tbeth B. HeRse: fir!-it .grades, Ruth Slown and · El::;ie Lindenmeyer; second grade, Dorothy Na::;h: third grade, Ida Gunderson; fourth grade, Margaret Loftus; fifth grade::;, ' Viola Theman and Lois Berry; sixth grades, Betty Scheidler and Aleda Larson ; l':eventh grades, Mrs. Clara A. Groves and Violet Mad~en: eighth grades, Mr~. Pearl P. Jones and Mrs. Lucy Stalling. Stolp Building Seventh grades, Carrie Cha:o;e, Orrel Davis, Faye Perring, and Mrs. Katheryn Vernon; eighth grades, Mrs. Agnes Clark, Herma Wyman and Mrs. Agnes Jones. Central A venue Building Second grades, Veronica Carmody and Dorice Turner; third grades, Mrs. Margaret Burtner and Helen Smith ; fourth ~rades, Mrs. LaVe rne Glennon and Helen Earl A. Pettibone, \Vilmette's police magi strate, and John H. _Davies, north shore builder, are hack fr om Ontario with the prize fish story of the year plus ample evid~!l~e in the shape of a Muskic measuring· 54 ~ inches lon g, 24 inche s around the belly, and weighing an estimated 55 or 60 pounds. Doubt concerning the actual \veight of the fish is attributed tp the fact that scales (the weighing kind) were not available at the time of the catch. :\J agistratc Pettibone caught the huge fish near Sulli,·an's camp at Pipe stone lake. Ontario. It wa s said bv inhabitants. of the regign to have bee;1 the large s t catch eYer recorded in that section. .-\ s to ho,,· the m onster wa s . narcd hy the \Yilml.'tte pair could not be determined due to a · spe ll of modesty w·ith which both gentlemen seem sudden!\· t o han' become afflicted·. Terrific sto rm s in the Ontario lake r eg ion s cut short their stay, ~fagistrat e Pettibone stated. F. J. Budinger, \\·ell-known nurth :-; horc.: insurance broker ha s been nromoted to manager of the Chicago- office of the Franklin Life Insuranc e companv, succeeding Harn· \\·. Meno ld wh o has resigned. 1\;(r. Budinge r ha:; h~.:cn repre se nting Franklin Life on the north . hore since 1923. Since then he ha=- been doing a general insura nce bu=-iness from offices in Chicago and \ \'ilm ette. In addition to hi s managerial duties at the Chicago office ~r r. nudinger will maintain the \ Vilmettc office and continue his work a long the north shore. Postal Employes Resume Duties After Vacations Ernest Bersch. ] . P. \\.iltjer. A. M. Schaefer. E. E. Leis, and P. N. Schopen. carriers at the \\'ilmette post oftice returned to their duties Tuesclav morning after fiitcen daY ,·acations. Jennie D. Shantz. clerk, \~·ho · has also been 011 Yacation, \\'as back on dutY I Tuesday. · Kenilworth Post Office Will Be Closed Monday The Kenilworth post office will b~ clnscd all day on Monday, September 2. LabL)r Day, Postmaster Douglas Crooks announced this week. There \\'ill be no "'"deliveries or coll ections of mail. The postoffice lobby will remain open as usual. Chamber of Commerce Holds Next Meeting September 9 The next regular meeting of the \\'ilmette Chamber of Commerce will be held Munday, September 9. The first ~f ondav of each month is the 'hamber's ~tsual meeting date, hut since !\[onday. September 2, is Labor Dav the Sept ember meeting has been postponed a week. The board of directors of the organization will hold a meeting on the afternoon of Monday. ~eptcmher 9. A general meeting of the \Vilmette Credit Men's association i:-; scheduled for Thursday, September 5. If you set out to get the best POSTPONE BOARD MEETING The regular September meeting of the Kenilworth \ "illage board ha s been postponed from ~Ionda ::. September 2. to Tuesday. September 3. on account of r,ahor f)a~· . PRINTING you can find, economy is pretty sure to take care of itself In This Issue Pages Automobiles ........... 35-38 Bov Scout Affairs ... : . .... 22 Bo~k Comment ........... 32 Editorial-Shore Lines ... 28 Church Page ........ ...... 8 Real Estate ........... 41-46 Society News ............ 30 Theaters ................. 10 Classified Ads .... . ... . . 47-49 LLOYD HOLLISTER INC. Wilmette 4 300 . , (.Continued on page 52)