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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 4 Jan 1940, p. 5

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Malled December 1 "&These seals were, mailed, to corn- munity residents December 1. Your Health. Center. is anxious to start on its 1940 program and must apportion its budget carefully before it begins. The Center will be glad to tell you o f the. WQrk it is dloing to protect you and your loved ones from this disease. "The Christmas Seal Sale cornes under the class of permissible de- -ductions described on income tax blanks as. 'contributions to rieligious, educational and charitable insti-, tutions.' In making such deductions, it is important to specify on the re- port the organizations to which the money went and for what purpose." Returns $1,4Z5 to Date Returns from thie local seal sale up to Christmas day totaled $1,425.97 the. committee reports. A number of envelopes have not yet, been re- turned. "With the Christmas rush over," the committee states, "many people will undoubtedly get their first op- portunity to go through their Christ- mas mail and be reminded that they 'have ýnot yet remitted for the seals sent thetn, nor returned the seals. Promnpt action will help in the plan- ning of next year's work against tuberculosis in Wilmette.- qualified: voters. This number in- cludes voters who have moved. since they last.registered, young men and women who have reached legal vot- ing ageand those Who have, moved into the village. Stress, is laid.upon the' f ýa c t that voters. who have moved, ,even 'though it be only to the next house and in the same pre- cinct,. must re-register. And 194 will be an important election year. ,From no* until and inciuding Jan- uary .19,. voters. may register- with Village: Clerk Nicholas P. Miller at the Village hall, 'from 9 ar.. to 5 p.m., and on Saturday from 9 a.m. to:12 noon. Mr. *Miller states that* he will accept registrations at his home, 1775 Washington avenue, dur- ing evening hours, if appointment is made. His telephone number is Wil- mette 2996. After January 16 voters will be obliged to register in the county clerk's office, County building, Chi- cago. Legionnaires Invite Boys to See Bail Film Wlmette Post, No. 46 of the Amer- iean Legion has secured, a showing, of the officiai Armerican league mo- tion picture, "Touching All Bases," to be presented at the next regular meeting, Tuesday, January 9, at the Wilmette Masonie temple. This picture. was written and di-, rected by Lew Fonseca, giving fun- damentals of play and highlights of the past basebaîl season, and shows manyr of the stars ini slow motion shots on pitching, fielding, base run- ning*and batting. In addition, it ini- cludes exciting plays, of the 1939 World Series, Fatiier Flanagan's Boy's Town -team, night basebal landacape -archftect, fomerily a reàident 61 Wimette, now ut The Clearing, Ell:sotn Baû, Wis., apent c the New YeaT, holidav with the 1 Éd:son L. Wheelers of 318 Ore en- leaf avenue, Wilmette. Mrs. Wheeler is Mr. jensen's daugh- ter. He attended the Wheeler's N4ew Year. party at The Cliff Dwellers in Chica go, and held inforn'al open house at their home on New Year's day. Mr. Jensen was kept quite buy autographing his recently published book entitled "Siftings." It contains his philosophy, understanding of and5 attitude toward nature and his the- ories and' practices of landscape gardening. His friends are dellght- ed that he finally found time to write this interesting book. J.O... Lodge IVill Instail New O ffi cers Recently elected officers of A. T.1 Sherman Lodge No. 892 1. .0. 0. F.1 will be installed Thursday evening,1 January 11, the ceremonies to takej place in the lodge hall i Wilmette.g The installation. ritual will be given., by Ridgeville lodge, No. 10, of Evanston. pjeaded. To provide comtort along With pleasure, Comnmissioner Erticksonp chairman of the Recreation commit- tee, caused. to be. built, by the Forest Preserve district, a temporary warming shelter close to the large parking space at Skokie boulevard and Tower road. The trame build- ing, 20 by' 30 feet, containing a stove and benches, will be removed in Spring. Skaters' Paraduse It will be the first time skating on a larýge scale ever has been avail- able on the Skokie lagoons. This erst- while swamp area now is i the process of being converted into a series of seven lagoons joined by a channel, with islands to provide nest- ing and feedtng places for wildlife and game. The work is being done by CCC camps supervised by the National Park service under theý su- pervision of the Engineering départ- ment of the Forest Preserve district. Three of the lagoons are complete. It is on these that skating will be available. They are known as No. 1, containing a basin covering 15 acres, No., 2, thirteen acres, and No. 3, twenty-six and one hait acres. Skat- ing also will be pe rmitted on the. connecting channel.

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