Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 8 Aug 1929, p. 42

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, better LakerForppt academy, the sum of J50,000.00 is being expended in rehabilitatintr- and, improving the ' present buildings this summer. . This program will meet with'hearty ap- , provar among many parents of the north shore who do not wiskto sep2 arate themselves" from their sons in ’ order to have them thoroughly and soundly prepared for college. Many' of the residents of Highland Park have already availed themselves of _ thtr,otrportqgittctitr, through mum: . preparation for their sons at.Lake' Forest academy, both as boarders and " day students. Each year the academy graduates, a class of about fifty boys/who enter the Best eastern arid pester-n universities. For many changing conditions in tho educa- tional world; he is strongly in favor of promoting the interests of the aca- demy, makingit outstanding among the best of the preparatory schools in the country. He believes that preparatory school training' is _far more" important in developing the youth of the country into good citi- zens, than college or university train- ing. He declares that not enough -attention has been devoted to fhe secondary sehoofii, in eompafiiirfii to - the attention and, gifts devoted to colleges; ppLuniversities. . This erection tCthe country needs and will" support a preparatory school on this. beauti.fyrcmqrth. shore, .which is second to none in the country. Why should parents _.td the Aiiiddle ‘vfest 4 give up. their sons and send them' one thousand miles or more fromi home to schools down east to be pie“ pared for college} ' _ m" 1 "s-i---- ROBERT J. THORNE HEADS L F. ACADEMY .------.-----I-‘--Ii-I-“--------.--------------------------------------------‘, ----------.-----------------------------------‘------------------------------- I I In jmpiedrateptttparatiptt (Continued from page 1) F fee Lecture on Christian Science . RAVINIA SCHOOL AUDITORIUM q . , . RAVINIA, ILLINOIS - . _ Saturday IheningrAdgust 10, 1929 First Church of Christ, Scientist " JUDGE SAMUEL w. GREENE, C. s. B. . l of Chicago,' Illinois "". . q Member of the Board of Lectureship of The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts . to be held in _ ' _ 'tir, _t_k The Public 18 Cordially Invited to Attend of HIGHLAND PARK, ILLINOIS It is (claimed the, craters should get down to brass tacks, but they shduld not throw any 'in: the street' in the way of the mutomobileg. g ' V A surplus of nesirlv"t4r"ii" hundred millions at the end of the fiseal.year and a record ttreducing the national debt over a half a 1illion indicates that Uncle Andy Mellon liasn"t yet lost his batting eye. _ . The .present enrollment; of hoard- ing and day-"students is one hundred‘ and eighty;' even with the projected buildind", protrram, completed, “the total number of students will not ex- eeed two hundred and fifty. It is felt-that-thar-heat-results-ta-t be achieved in a darger school; small classes and individual interest and attention for students is necessary to promote in the best way their devel- opment in scholarship and in chara- acter. . . The new'building program includes an addition to the Administration building, a. new chapel, an additional dormitory, in new dining hall, and: new gymnasium, all together involv- ing the expenditure of about three quarters of; million dollars. The residents of the north shore are very fortunate to have such a hitth-triade preparatory school " their doors, so to speak, and therwill heartily approve any stepr being taken to make the school a bigger and better educational asset to the community in the years to come. years the college board examinations have been given at Lake Forest aca- demy for those boys who will: to en- ter Yale, Princeton, Harvard. Mtumr. chusetts Institute of Technology, and other institutions regaining these ex- aminations, The academy has the eertiflente _. privilege at Dartmouth, Williams, Atymt, Brown, Cornell, state universities,. etc. at eight o'clock announces a by THE P]!!! Mrs. Mary Fritsch entertained oh Sunday at the home of her dadghter, Mrs. F. Stryker in honor of her son, Dr. S. H. Fritsch and family of Jack sonvillc, Florida. A large group of relatives attended; A "Mrs. Archie A.bemtrtimbisf of High- land Park was a .gueief Mrs. R? E. Pettis, Wedngsday. v . m,' Mr. and Mrs. Prank W. Russo had as their dinner guests on Sunday, Mr. Michael Russo, daughter Rose Marie arid son Manny, pf Kansas City, Mo., ML. and Mrs. William Russo, and Mr. Joseph .Russo of Chicago. ' Miss Helen Reichelt spent the week-end with Miss Sarah Stryker at Wilmette. _ Roy. A. J. Johnson,- Mirfister St. Paul's Evangelical church, of Deer- field, Illinois, is attending the Winona School of Theology, Winona Lake, In-- Miss Frances Log entertained in compliment to Mrs. H. E. Meyer of Osterm'gn avenuerwoa. Tuesday ' ev- ening. 'The Mtaerdtimily are leav- ing Saturday for Mendota, 111., where Mt. Meyer will be principal of Men- dota Township high school. . He has for the past year been teaching in Deerfield Shields in the mathematics department. _ . 7 . Mm. Jack Myers and two children, Jack and Dorothy and Jean, Pettis are spending the .week at Lake Zu- rich. 1 __' Mrs. William Plagge Ind daughter Margareth ind grandson, Jack Gagne left Monday for Denver, Colo. They expect to itop, over a few days in otterly, Kansas, to visit Mr. and Mm. Smile! Mendy. Mr. Offerly‘is serio only ill. The Ofterly family were gluon: the pioneer settlers and the town was named other them. Deerfield Locals Mr. and Mrs. A. Merner and fam- Ily expect to leave Sunday for'Gobles. Michigan, where they will spend :1 week! . . . T Some people think you can judge a man’s character by his manner ot wearing his hat. Also hi's‘way of talking through it throw: light on his churncter. Mrs. Frank D. Burroughs, Mrs. Julian Smith and Mrs. Frank W. Russo represented the Garden club of Deerfield at the luncheon at tho Onwentsia club Friday the second of August, given by the Lake Forest Garden _club. Following the luncheon they Visited the lovely gardens of Mrs. Brewster. ' A CARD OF THANKS _ .-- The undersigned gratefully appro- ciates ..and acknowledges to their many friends thelind expressions of sympathy received in our recent tw- reavement as were given us by"phom'. lettetm telegrams, floral tributes and by so many in person. 'Highland Park is the township center for Deerfield township in Lake county, and just escaped being in Erin township. When the.meetirrs was called to decide the name, many of the Irish. who had settled there wished to have it called Erin, but the proponents of Deerfield. won out by three votes, 17 to 14. Makes His Name Stick The eity's. name was never put to a vote but Gurnee-seemed to have done a good job in naming it, for there has never beetle move to give it a fourth name. .. Gurnee was mayor of Chicago in. 1852 and 1853, but was not' born there. . T - In 1869 Highland Parkwas incor.. porated with Frank P. Hiwkini, who had been general manager and agent for the company, as the first mayor. Owen Monaghan watr. the' firgt and Only lighthouse keeper, since after his tenure, because of the lack of nec- 1sssitt_tor_gcljtrhtho1ttse,_"tt Egg. allow: ed to lapse. "Tighlind Park's beau- ties 'as a residence town were en- hanced when Cleveland and French. landscape artists, laid out the roads and streets in=l_872. The French, of the concern was W. M. R. ..Fremh, for many yearsdirector of the Art institute of Chicago. T Milwaukee end Chicngo watch tlvir steps.' But cholera laid the-eormru. nity/low and hard times set in. _ Nnmed by Topography Then it was that Walter). Gur, nee took a hand. He bought up 'all. the stock of the Port Clinton Land company and formed another, The Highland. Pink, Building. company; selling the former' stock to the latter: The residential possibilities of the eommunity-wertr emphasized over the commercial and the name Highland Park, descriptive df the natural gvo- graphy was considered better than Port Clinton. - .' HOW HIGHLAND PARK RECEIVED ITS NAME _ ALBERT E. CAMPBELL THURMAN A. CAMPBELL (Continued fiom Page 8) Thursday, August 8, M29 Nab D " Mrs. _K. IR Sawyer ave_nu< badly damage she was hit by Gus Orstadios construction ’c: Gus was arre drunk and 'ara, Park jail; A sailor, G: 208, with A t to Alice Home 0st Sunday, I of cuts and théir new For fie with tfte.Q Lake Bluff am Yet a jello as mad if sh band’s stenogr him.--Nn Fr: Watch the n vead the “ads for Dollar Da: Saturday. Johnson, dr pass a car a' struck the Lal Ilettem, suffen and bruises. a friend, Evel: up. were . serious]: Thomas J. and their Chill were slightly to 'the‘ High]: had wounds d leased Sunday they suffered" Crossmip atte T _Arrest Oscar Johns avenue, Chieat liceman L. C Chicago, when responsibility : car -and a m: Delphen Bette Green- Bay rot Sunday. £11anng day night in a side of Hiirli driven by Ant cine collided ing west on 1 Woman I Mrs. Elena: cago was tseri cident at Lak the automobile ing was struc A. J. Ringing: attended her 1 vital, reportet skull fraeturts. brae. She WI ing well at th Miss a Senna to have been i Miss Gottmer bruises. The car it] driven by two ed up by mo Highland Purl ONE IAncioni " if pital, is Ttrot attendants th, Thursday, " ( Contintg INK Three

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