Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 4 Apr 1929, p. 40

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& The House committee met. Wednesâ€" day morning for its regular monthly business meeting. _ Following .the meeting the members remained for luncheon and sewed on the new curâ€" Sixty women and girls attended the Easter Breakfast. held at <the Y. W. C. A. Sunday morning at 6:30 o‘clock. The breakfast was prepared and served by a committee of girls. Following ‘ the breakfast an Easter cantata "Judith" was presented. The Mothers‘ club entertained a hundred members and guests at an oldâ€"fashioned evening in the Y. W. C. A. Assembly room Tuesday night. There was a display of quilts, some many years old and others very modâ€" ern.. A table of antique novelties and oldâ€"fashioned. keepâ€"sakes â€" attracted muych attention.. Two musical numâ€" bers, Sylvia" â€"and. "The Quilting Party" were given by (Mrsi Frank Horn and â€" Mrs. Jirah Cole accomâ€" panied : by Mrs. Harvey Pardee. "Neighbors" a cne act play by Zona Gale was presented by the following members of ‘the club:â€" Mrs. Louis Schemmel, Mrs. Hettie Jones, Mrs. Willis Gerken, Mrs. John Fay, Mrs. Fred Lindstrom, Mrs. Willizm Hayâ€" ward, Mrs. Thomas Corrigan, and Mrs. William Schmidt. The setting for the play was the kitchen of a small village home of some 50 years. ago. The Characters were all well taken and the costumes and clever lines caused much laughter. and ap-} plause. § | Thursday, April 4, 1929 Robert Pease Highland Park Woman‘s Club Cornelia Otis Skinner Y. W. C. A. Notes Her Original Character Sketches General Admission tickets may be procured from Mrs. Frank O. Straight, phone 943. Reserved seats in charge of Mrs. Wilford C. Shipnes, phone 901. Also at the following drug stores : * ce ie * Daughter of the famous actorâ€"Otis Skinner Auditorium Eim Place PRESENTS ITS GUEST ARTIST PRICES â€" $2, $1.50, $1 Gsell‘s in club, will lead the study of the meanâ€" ing of the Girl Regerve code. ~â€" â€" ' ~_â€"_The Live Y‘er Girl Reserves will have a skating party Tuesday afterâ€" Â¥Y, W.â€"C. A. Friday evening at five o‘clock. Helen Prior, president of. the The meeting of the Friendship club which was scheduled for Thursday night has been postponed because of the Regional conference of the Y. W. C. A, in Chicago. _A number of the club members will attend the Interest Group Dinners Thursday night, which are a part of the conference program. The Makio Girl Reserves will.pre-( pare and serve a supper for the club members in the play room of t_},)‘e_i The board of directors of the Y. W. C. A. will meet Tuesday morning at ten o‘clock at the Association buildâ€" ing. Miss Margaret Burton, director of the department of Education and Research of the National board of the YÂ¥, W. C, A. will be the speaker. Miss Burton is coming to Chicago to atâ€" tend the Regional conference to be held at the Sherman hotel April 10, 11 and 12. The Highland Park assoâ€" ciation is veryâ€"fortunate to be able to secure Miss Burton for the board meeting. Sss T e _*The B. Y‘s club will entertain with a "Nonsensée Party" at the Y. W. C. A. Tuesday night,. April 9th. The Budget committee, Mrs. W. C. Shipness, chairman, will meet Friday morning at 9:30 o‘clock. At ten o‘clock the Finance . committee <of which Mrs. L. R. Rigdon is chairman, will hold its April meeting. . . â€" °_ tains for the first floor rooms of the Association building. : * Saturday â€" 8 p. m. April Sixth Sweetland‘s TH E P R E 8 8 Miss Margaret Church who is atâ€" tending college at Oberlin, Ohio, arâ€" rived home Wednesday to spend her spring vacation.â€" She was operated on for appeniicitis March 25 and has made a rapid recovery. Construction of this section is unâ€" derâ€" theâ€" â€"personalâ€" ~supervision _ of State Highway Engineer Peck, and work will be pushed rapidly forward to its â€" completion. _ Considerable grading already has been done, and all culverts and bridges onâ€" the diviâ€" sion have been constructed. A numâ€" ber of grading machines and other equipméent have arrived within the past few days, and the work of pourâ€" ing the concrete will begin as soon as possible. The concern will erect a two story building with a basement on‘the site. This building will revert to the ownâ€" ership â€"of the â€"Pegrceâ€"estate atâ€" the end â€"of 30 years. .Work. on the strucâ€" ture willâ€"be started immediately, it is stated._. _â€" * ; * â€" Resume Work on Route 173, Zion to Reckford .With the opening of spring, work has been resumed on the eastern terminal of Highway 173, laid out between Zion and Rockford. <Theâ€" diâ€" vision now under contract, extendâ€" ing from Sheridan road and running for a short distance along Twentyâ€" first street, Zion, is six and sixâ€"tenths miles in length, extending west to Rosencrans, about oneâ€"half mile west cf the Des Plaines river. _The Pearce estate will receive &n annual jrental of $10,900 for <the property, it is reported. > Announcement of the leasing. of the Pearce corner on the northwest corner of Washington and Gengsee streets «o. the Mrs. Strovers Bungaâ€" low Candy corporation of Chicago, for a period of 30 years, was made last week by~ Dr. Percival Pearce, representing the Pearce estate. °â€"â€" The Highland Park Rotary club enjoyed its usual weekly dinner and business meeting~at noon on Monday at the Moraine hotel, with a good attendance of members. There was no special program and no speaker had been engaged for this session, but the meeting was a good one and markedâ€"by interest in the general discussion of matters pertaining to the good of the club. A Ford sedan belonging to Bennie Grosse of 118 South Green Bay road, was stolen Monday from in front of the electric shop at Fort Sheridan, according to report to the police. Old Pearce Corner, â€" § â€"Waukegan, Is Leased Ford Sedan Is Stolen Monday, at Ft. Sheridan The Girl Reserve Cubs will have a study of the Flags of all nations at their club meeting Monday afternoon. The Look Oug=Girl Reserves will meet next Wednesday to plan for a box social for club members and boy guests. a6 Rotary Club Meeting© â€" ' at Moraine Monday noon followed by supper at the Y. W, James Chryssos, chef at the Northâ€" western Cafe for the last six months; was taken seriously ill yesterday afternoon and died about 6:25 o‘clock last evening. . The nature of his illâ€" . ness has not been determined as yet. . An inque®t will be held this after> noon. s & Talent has been engaged, tentative program material arranged and many musical copyrights obtained, he said. â€" He says the programs can be transâ€" mitted over the telephone lines on a frequency that will not interfere with the regular conversation â€" service. Three different types of pro_?ama_c be turned in, he said. In additiqgn‘to the audible programs, the company plans eventually to transmit motion pictures synchronized with the voice signals. s $ Northwestern Cafe Chef _ Dies Very Suddenly The company has applied for three short wave channels for broadcasting the programs to the city stations which in turn will put them on the wires that carry them into the listenâ€" ers‘ homes, It is planned to link these stations byâ€" permanently intercity telephone lines and to utilize the.short waves for transoceanic relay of the programs to foreign wired radio fans. be_rented. to listeners and the proâ€" grams sent over the telephone wires by stations serving various citiesme sets also will be fitted for reception of the regular "space" radio proâ€" grams. > s itk > â€"_Mr. Hough said arrangements are being made with the telephone comâ€" pany in. Cleveland forâ€"use of its wires. He outlined to the commission the plans. of his company for establishâ€" ment of the new ‘system by which specially designed receiving sets will Wired radio is to be installed in listeners‘ homes in Cleveland in May, C. W. Hough,â€" president of Wired Radio, Inc., of New York has informâ€" ed the federal radio commission. Wired Radio to Be °â€" _ Installed in Homes â€" ~~ _~~. * ~Of Cleveland, Plan John I»~ Marshall, Jr.,â€"son. of Mrs. John I. Marshall of Highland Park, returned to his studies at The Hill Scehool, Pottstown, Pa., after spendâ€" ing the _Easter. holidays with his mother at the Moraine Hotel. ©Mrs. Marshall â€" only recently returned f}gm_ Florida â€"and Cuba, where she as spent the past four months. Spring Housecleaning in the Barâ€" Counter of The Loretta Shop. ~Sale of Dresses at $10; Hats $3.00. 5 Mrs. Robert Carver and Miss Prisâ€" cilla Carver are entertaining at bridge today at the home of Miss Carver on Central avenue in honor of Mrs. Rolâ€" land Hastings and Mrs. Ralph A. Bard who are sailing within the next two weeks for Europe. A goodly crowd attended the Hard Times â€" party given â€" by Campbell CHapter No. 712, O. E. S., honoring their seventeenth birthday anniverâ€" sary last evening. There were many humorous costumes, and those atâ€" tending report: a most enjoyable eveâ€" ning. $ Local and Personal© Spring Bargains

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