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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 23 Mar 1939, p. 3

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The proposai ta erect a new school building to house elementary grades Fand ýta serve the Kenilworth Gar- dens and Indian, Hill Estates dis- tricts of* Wilmette, was approved. daafernon. ld Sau da arfternduel asnatr TÉhere. were two propositions on, thé ballot. The first, ta authorize the board' of education of the 'Wil- mette schooi district ta, proceed with the. construction of. the'building, was approved by a vote of 325 ta 72. The second proposition, to issue $50,000 in bonds, was approved. by *317 voters while 74 ballots were marked "no." amd ~Thte new u1dn i spaed will be financed with government *aid, and the entire cost will be $130,000. The building, ta be la- cated on property owned by the board of education and bounded by Elmwood and Thornwood avenues and b~y Dartmouth and Twenty-fifth streets, will house kindergarten and grades one to six. Have Bus Service At present the childrèn of the neigbborhood, the extreme north- west sect ion of the district, attend the Higlicrest school at 'wienty-i thwrd street and Illinois road, or thei Howard school, at Spencer avenue and Seventeenth street. Blus service is provided. *Some of the material ta be used in the new school will be obtained this summer when the aid Central schooi building. in Glencoe is torn down. While this will resuit in a saving to Wlmette taxpayers, it was pointed out that the new school- bouse wifl be modern in every de- tail. It is schieduied ta be ready for .March 23., 1939 Action by Town Meeting: Anticipted..on, April.,4 WiIl Divýert Large Sum to Po'or Relief Fund; Payment of Txs Locafly. Responsible No New Trier Township tax in April 4, to consider a resolution, 1939! which, if adopted, will permit trans- forth as virtually a certainty this ghip fund to the poor relief fund week by township officiais, coming sufficlent. to avoid a township poor as a note of cheer at a trne when relief tax lévy. current tax bils indicate to the long- This procédure will have the effect suffering property owner that taxes of reducing the general tax bill i generally are* on the upýgrade. excess, of $50, 000, thus avoiding the Ail that remains ta bring this 1-mil tax ievy for poor relief that about is the contemplated consider- wouid have been required. ation andi probable adoption of a Avoid 1939 Levy resolution by the Town Meeting on Eiiaino h 99twsî a Watr4 is more, Niew Trier tcwn- levy means that there would be no> shlp will continue ti> provide for poor otiudnpae) ,relief, in 1939, without resort tao ot- side aid, just as bas been dones ince Churhe Unite July 1, 1936, when state relief funids were shut off. Cost of, ail other functions of the towns hip govern- InS eca ment will also be defrayed, with no ne restriction upon service to the co- Len e Service munity. The Rev. Erskine M. Jeffords, min- This point should be made very ister of the Wilmette Parish Methodist plain, however, the tax levy -in church, wifl be the preacher Sunday question does not apply ta village-,- Wilm ette's. V i il a: g e election' on April I& wili be without cantesti 80 for as candidates for Village trustee are concerned. This wVas determined Monday night when the People's £conomny group acepted a proposai of-compromise, submitted.by a citi- en's "committee of' conciliation," wliich had been accepted by the Har- mnony convention on Saturday, leav- ing the Harmony ticket alone in the. .field. 1 There stil remains the proposition of whetber Wilmette shail operate under the Village manager plan of municipal administration. Both' groups agreed ta subrnit this. ques- tion Ô! nnhifv tn n ,~frnnnAnw, ~* *hn. April 18 electiion. Here's N<ew Ticket The Harmony ticket,,. as now con- stituted, will eonsist of the following: Warren T. Fifer, 1010 Liu4an avenue, incumbent. Alfred W. Jensen, 200 Seven- teenth streét. Joseph F. Rossberger, 2103 Washington, avenue, incuiubent. 'Gaylord J. Case, 1126 Michi- gan avenue. Comnpromilse Candidate Mr. Case ié a compromise candi- date, haiving been naoziined ýon the People's Econo My tickoet, and later by the Rarmony. convention in place of F. Dewey Anderson, who had withdrawni. Mr. Rossberger was first nominated by. the Jlarmony conven- tion and then by the People's, Ecozn- amny ticket. He remains on the ticket as the candidate of the latter group. Events leading up ta the comn- promiste arrangement, and. in chron- ological order with those reported in WuiviE=T Lint last weelc, are as ý- L Ir,

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