Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Jul 1939, p. 3

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At its- meeting, held Wednesday evening, becauseof the holiday, thé village board passed the appropria- tion ordinance for the fiscal year be- ginning April 2,1939, ýand ending, April 20, 1940. The grand tot al of appropriations was $373,724.35. Following are the highlights of the ordinance, which is published in full on another page of this issue of WILMETT LImm. The total appropriation for gen- eral corporate expense is '$284,-' 599.40, and for special funds, $89- 124.95., Among the, more important items are «included* the water fund, $75,940.40; Police department, $53,- 962; fire department, $23,175.00; street and alley cleaning, $8,383.600, snOW rémol~6a, $2,05000; stÔ1rth sêw- er pumping station, $5,146.50; play- grounds and recreation, $11,060.50, and public library, $17,185.00. F. J. Budinger Is: Installed as Rotary Presideut day of this *week at the regular luncheon meeting* of the club ini Shawnee Country club. The fiscal year of the Rotary club begins on July 1. Retiring as president of the club is A. E. Nord of the Schultz and Nord- Village Cleaners establish-; ment, .1152 Central avenue, Other officers installed this Wed- nesday are: A. W. Jensen, vice- uresideInit:W. T. row~xn. erea Baby Par ade,'Standout-. ...Feature of Festival Kingery Heads New Cook County Zo7ning Group A Cook eownty -zoeg omin ison of seven members with Robert King- ery o! Wnnetka as chairman, was appointed at a meeting of the board of County corn- missioners of Cook county - re- cently. The first du.y o! t he comm*s- silon will be to present a zoni ready ini effect in 1 " Du, Page, Kan el and La ke coun- ti es, and W ili Robert Klugery cowity officials are preparing a measure. With Chairman Kingery on the new Cook county commission. are, Joseph K. Brittain, Beverly -Hills; Andrew, J. Dallstream, Barrington; Harold F. Egan, Lemont; August' Geweke, Maine township; Walter P. Saunders, LaGrange, and Wilim L vn- TIU.rn.,V Dimpled Darlings to ýHave Own Show on Wilmette Days, JuIy 19 and' 20 July 19 is drawing dloser and clouer, and it is going to be one big. day.for. #om e esident of WR mette fty years from now. For July 19, be it known, is the fIrst o1 the two big Wilmette Days to be staged on the Village Green by Wil- mette Chamber of Commerce. The second day, of course, will be July 20. Blut it's July 19 that is important, for at 1:30 that aftemnoon the festiv- ities will open with a ma~l, honest- to-goodness baby show'- moe of Baby Parade of' 1939, or havil been trundled along the para( route i the most beautifully de orated perambulator. That's w] dads and mothers ail over town wi enter their dimpled darlings ith~ greatest of ail baby parades. Biggest Show Ever Frank Hlavacek, Jr,..oeen Wilmette Playgrou nd and .Recre- ation board, has, announced: an im- Provement ý program by which the Village Green, a djacent, to Howard.- schoël and :frontiig On Rldge road, WÜI tindergo a. transformatïonl, fromn wich itWMllem erge as one. of the. finest modemh playground and rec- reation plants, on the North Shore, with up-ito-the-minute -equ1pmet. and' faCilities and fieldhouse deslgn- ed for the confort and convenlenice. of -the. public as Wefl as for beauty of architecture and hiterior. decor- ative features. Recelve WP& Grant This much-nieeded Iiprovement, by a grant from the Works Progresa Administration, and the developnient will be made as a WPA. projéct. The financial ar-~ rangements, it is added, are s0 favorable that it will not be neces- sary for the board to go outside its regular budget to meet its share of the cost. Proceeding upon the assumption that supervised rerpnin hc 1% f 5is present mnacequacy to meéet thie 1g growing needs 61 the village, ways ,de and means were sought to bring ec- about its future abllity to care for Iiy al of the recreational requiremnents. ell1 of the Public and of the schools. lis Difficulties were encountered, as was expected, but the board's corn- mittee persisted iits efforts, and ral at long last reached a position ,lwhere this announcement htenae These summner services begin, at the reappointi 11 o'clock and continue for. one hour. of Ba rrinigton.

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