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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 May 1933, p. 3

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nual senior play, Friday and Satu-r- day, June 2 and 3. Miss Elisabeth Stanwood and Gordon Van'Kirk are coaching the production, The play, first produced ini 1923 to theater-goers in New York, .was orîgînalIy known as ."Poor Richard." Later. the title. was' c.hangýed ta the sarcastic, ."God gless Our Home, . and fi nally ta the simple but apt, '.The Youngkest."1 SThe plot is concerned Wit-h*the trials.and misfortunes of one Richard Winslo%%v whose family treats5 him *with little 'or noa respect or approval. overcomes H'a3dicapà Richard strenuously abjects ta such hei-p.e'ckîig,,,but bis efforts, te improve matters are. futile. Eventu- ally, through the assistance cùf Nancy Blake, the.beautiful bouse-guest, and Richard's sudden acquisition cof 'the famnil: purse7-strngs by ternis cfbis, father's 1il he cornes into b is own and receives the respect due buýnI frcr1 bIis famuly, and the love he der- sires frorn Naticv. MNiss Virjgina Smithi, ivho takes the role of Nancv *on Friday niighit, is a veytalen.tei girl proninient in miany *other activities at New Trier. M iss, nineIca onSaturday nigbit, bas do ' ery Wvell witb twvo other leadsý in reèccut Xewv TIrier plavs. The t'vo boys wluo will portrav *the raIe cf Richard. Sami Harkness and Bill Sul- livan. are uew. figures Iii Nev Trier dranatics. but- promise te do fine work \\Itb their parts. Recruit Fine Casts .Miss Jean Haskins and -Miss Ruth Wjl1kins are doing the part cf ,\rs. Wi"nslon, 'and Bill1 Nordburg and \Valter Merrill are acting the part, of ber eldest son. The role of Augusta, Ricbard's oldest 'sister, ýwill be por- trayed by Eleanior-Chicheéster on Fni- day,.nigbt and: Miss, Mary Jane EIder, *on Saturday nigbt. Her b",Iusband, Alan Martin, will be acted by Hubert Pelott, and Bob Walpole. The parts cf the younger brother and sister, Mark and Martha, will be done by Dick Steen and Mahlong Sharp and Barbara \Iunn and Florence Carey, resoective1v. Mis Alison Bumran td that a co.nsiderable number cf Ken- ilwcrth families will be cttcf towa this week-end on accounit. cf the cos- ing cf the schools next Monday as Weil as. on Memorial day. Kenilworth's- Memorial exercises are under the auspices cf.the Kenil- .wcrth. club. The prograrn in general will be the; same as it has been in previcus years. It. will include a, parade, folloWed. by commemorative services at the monumentinteVl lage. Meroial park and'a prog <rani in the Kenili rih Assembly hall. Participating in the parade will lie the Kenilworth Boy Scouts,. Sea Scouits,-Cubs,ý Junior Hikers,. Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, pupils 6f the Joseph Sears school, studenits cf, Newv Trier High school, mnembers of the Sunday schools cf the Cburch ùf the Holy Coniforter and th e Kenil- worth Union churcb, a ,bauand patriotic residents of the village. Harry P. Harrison,Keioth vi llage president, is clhairman cf tlhe( cornmittee i charge of arr-angements- for the Memiorial Sunidav exercisesl. SThe five Keniil,.worth boys vvho gave their lives in the WVorld war ,ýere: Franiklin B. Bellows, A. Cotirtney Camupbell, Jr., 'Manierre B. WVaie, \Valter H. Schtiltze and C. Purcelt _Nacklin. The miemorial address pi honeOr cf these boys %i111l)e given l Gill)ert W. Kelly. $3,737.72 Shortage 1Restored tô Bank Th'le sum of .$3,737.72 wvas made avail- able te the receiver cf the defunct First National Bank cf Wilmette last wéek, It is announced, as the result cf a court lorder accepting that amount frow. a junior- officer cf the bank in restitu- tion of a shortage cf accýounts wbich came te ligbt under the receivership. The receiver's staff of workers has bceens enagfoed hi we ioninget hecks eauethize in coneingith thé payment cf a 15 percent fi-st divi- dend toalal filed and proved. claitns against the bank. These checks are be- ing sent to Washington for signature Wenbain, who had. been Park e a r d attorney for several years and prier to that tme Village at- torniey iinder the administration cf Henry J. 1randt PresidentEd& ward Zipf. Mr-. Brandt is a niember cf the law firn cf Poppenhusen, johnston, Tho .fipson and Cale in Chicago.,J HAe bas been particularly. active. inJ Com munity Chest work: here and prom- inently identified with the Wilmettej -Cîi'c «league. He; vas. a candidate for Village trustee ini 1931 on the Civic Party ticket.' Fa.mily. Beach Tickets Reduced'Prom $5 'to $4 iCost cf famnily beach tickets' %as. reduced f *romi $5 to* $4 by action cf the Wilmette Park board a.t its Nfay meeting. At the'same tume the daily fee for bathers at the Wilmette Beach, which is supervised by the Park board, bas been retained at theý rate cbarged last year. Wilmette Post cf the Amenican Legion several iveeks ago appealed to the Park board te mnake-a reduc- tien ini batbing beach fees. The family ticket permits use cf the beach by Wilmette families through- out the bathing season. Announcement .was made this week that the area now being utilized for the construction cf the Wilmette municipal water plant will be fenced o ff. The area scuth cf Lake avenue will then comprise the public bathing beach whilë that lying north fi-cm th-e construction work will be desig- nated as private terri.tory., Angus Steven and cempany bas been engaged to make. the a.nual audit cf the Park board acccunits, it: is announced. lorniaion aso wnen ne may expeci the returni of the talc books for collec- tion of the second installment of the 1931 real estate taxes. Despite a resolution passed last week by. the Suburban Area and Country: Towns association calling, upon County Collector Joseph McDônough to expe-- dite .the return of 1hWbooks to the various -tcwnshipý collectors for this purpose,. the.,caunty. collector's hands are tied until the legal controversy between Assessor J. L, Jacobs, and-the Board.-of Appeals, regarding the pro- posed 15 percent reduction is adjudi- cated, it. is explained.ý, ManY 0Obstructions The p reàent dificulty in the taxing question is but one of many hurdies which' the syte as ,confronted in recent years to camplicate the work of collectai-s as well as taxpayers, it is pointed ot N'ot' only is the Iatest obstacle de-' laving the wvork of beginning'the ol lection of the second instaîlment, but, ni thé event the proposed 15 percent reduction is sustained,. it means an endless amount of labor on the part of officiais in adi usting the arnount to whichi those who paid their 1931 tax.es ini full at the tinie the collection was in progress a f ew weeks ago, are entitled. Hale Leads C<liectors In soine sections of the ccunty, it is expla iîed, the number who paid in fuli is 'nominal, -WÀhle in others,, as for ex- ample, New Trier township, the per- centage is much larger. In this town- ship, Collector Hale, with a total col- lection of $1,468,045.08. againi leads al collectors in thie county outside cf Chi- cago -in- the matter cf total taxes* col- lected, including bath first and second instailments. The foregoing figures in- clude the collection of real estate taxes and personal property payments. The collectors in the varicus town- ships, it may be said, are flot looking with toc great . favor upon tbe two- instaliment1 plan cf collecting taxes, be- cause cf the aditional anicunt cf labor, and particularly expense, which it will involve. lit nay mean, Collector Ha-le LIBkARY CLOSED TUESDAY The Wilmette Public library will be closed on Memorial day, next Tuesday, Miss.-Anne L. Whitmack, librarian, annouanced this week. .. ....34 iews .....26-27 Section .....46 age ........52 el. . . . . . 36 The Cali Wilmette 430Ô Mem Mrs. ASK FOR AD TAKEK ter,1 Wood Glen( ncral services wcre h al Park cetnetery on 1 uffer is survived by ai ;Walsh Baldwin of Hi and a son, L. P. Coui ,Calif.

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