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Thursday, Dec this community and wishes you conâ€" tinued success in your new parish. Yours very truly, Highland Park Chamber of | Commerce. Mr. Fitt has made a very large contribution to the work of the boy scouts. For a number of years there was but one scout troop in Highland Park. It was doing a good work but was reaching only a very limited number of our boys. Mr. Fitt and Mr. H. A. Babcock working together began the organization of other troops with the object of giving every boy of scout age, an opportunity to join the national organization. Their work was so successful that in the year 1922, we were able to organize a second class council. Mr. Fitt was active in this organization, in assistâ€" ing it, and in financing it. He was also active in arranging for summer camps for Boy Scouts. â€"â€"With best wishes and kind personal regards. 2 In December, 1926, the â€" North Shore council was organized and he has been an active member of that council since then. Under his leaderâ€" ship this church at the present time is sponsoring two scout troops and one Sea Scout troop. And now I come to his work on the library board.. I have left that to the last because I have served with him on that board for over seven years, and I know personally the kind of service he has rendered. Library work covers a very broad field. We serve all ages, all creeds, and different degrees of intelligence. During the eleven and one half years in which he has served on the board, our circulation has increased from 20,000 to 84,448, our number of volumes from 11,491 to 21,178, and we have put on a building program involving years of careful study and planning. (In all this growth and deâ€" velopment he has had an active part and it has been a pleasure to work with him. Our president, Mrs. Everett, has: written in behalf of the library board an appreciation of Mr. Fitt‘s work, which is as follows: _ An Appreciation One of the most active and one of the most valued members of the board of trustees of the Highland Park Public Library is the Reverend Frank Fitt, the faithiul secretary of the board, who has served continuâ€" ously as. a board member for eleven and a half years. Mr. Fitt has contributed to the most vital parts of the library‘s work; for, being widely read and possessing keen and discriminating judgment, has been valuable in book selection and in the choosing of the library staff, and is at this timeâ€" chairman of the important adminisâ€" tration committee of the board. His presence always is felt at a board meeting. He thinks quickly, arrives at a conclusion directly, and speaks readily and well. These powâ€" erful qualities of leadership might point to domination. . But he never has attempted to dominate the liâ€" brary board. When a slower mind counsels _ greater deliberation, he gives a ready smile of acquiescence, These traits, and a cheery good felâ€" lowshmip, ‘cause the library board to deplore deeply its loss of Mr. Fitt, and cause all of us to hold Mr. Fitt in affectionate regard. % Elizabeth Hamley Everett, President of the Board of Trustees Highland Park Public Library. 1930 Mrs. Constant C. Hopkins will enâ€" tertain at luncheon next Monday for Mrs. Winter Peck who is the guest of Mrs. James L. Martin. . Miss Mildred Turpin left Tuesday morning for Detroit, Michigan, where she will spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander R. Carqueâ€" ville are entertaining at a New Year eve ball. â€" Mrs. W. H. Bartel will entertain the members of her bridge club at a Christmas party next Monday eveâ€" ning. Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Hoppe and their mother Mrs. Smith will spend Christâ€" mas with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Forsyth of Chicago. Mrs. < Robert Bridges entertained |the members of her bridge club last lThursdny. â€" Miss Eleanor Rankin of Vine avâ€" enue, is entertaining several out of town guests at dinner Christmas day in compliment to Miss Ruth Osburn of Ohio. Little Beverly Wyeth who has been visiting her grandmother and aunt in Ottawa and Joliet for the past two weeks returned to her home on Monâ€" day. Miss Betty Ball has returned to her home on Park avenue for the Chirstâ€" mas holidays, from Beloit, Wisconsin, where she attends school. Mrs. C. J. Thom was given a pleasâ€" ant surprise by a number of her neighbors and friends on Monday eveâ€" ning, commemorating her birthday anniversary. Cards was the feature of the evening, the prize winners beâ€" ing Mrs.. Adoiph Freberg and Mrs. Jemes Bowden. A delicious supper was served during the evening. | ~Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Farmer and \their daughter Mrs. Martin L. Olsen |\ and children, Ray and Zekiel and their niece Miss Evelyn Higgins of Chicago are spending the winter in | Miami, Fla. Mr. and Mrs. F. L. McOmber enâ€" tertained Saturday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dobbins of Deerfield, Rollin Pease was a soloist at Phoeâ€" nix, Ariz., last Monday evening, when the University of Arizona, combined with several Phoenix. choruses, preâ€" sented the Messiah. On the program Mr. Pease gave his address as Chiâ€" cago. If the great nations across the Atâ€" lantic had expended intelligently for the prevention of war, one tenth of the money and energy that they exâ€" pended preparing for it, there probâ€" ably would have been no European war. Mrs. Edward Waite announces the marriage of her dauglter Louise to Anthony G. Rice son of Mr. Adam Rice of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Frye, of Prairie avenue, entertained with a midnight surprise party December 20 in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony G. IN MEMORIAN s I wish to thank my relatives and many friends for their kindness and sympathy shown me during my recent bereavement; also for the lovely floral pieces. viCC Local and Personal Mrs. George Smith. THE PRESS Notable Features at Deerpath Theatre in Next Week‘s Program Included in the New Year‘s week program of fine talking features at the Deerpath theatre are several outâ€" standing pictures that will be cerâ€" tain to please its patrons. The list includes "Three Faces East," with Constance Bennett; Nancy Carroll in "Laughter" and "Scotland Yard," with Edmund Lowe and Joan Bennett. The schedule for the week is as folâ€" lows Friday, Dec. 26 â€""Monte Carlo," with Jeanette MacDonald and Jack Buchanan. Saturday, Dec. 27 (matinee and eveâ€" ning)â€"Constance Bennett, in "Three Faces East," with Anthony Bushell, Wm. Courtney, Crawford Kent, The picture, which is a striking one, is adapted from the play by Anthony Paul Kelly. 3 _ Sunday and Monday, Dec. 28 and 290â€"Nancy Carroll in "Laughter," with Frederic March and Frank Morâ€" gan. 8 i# Ar Tuesday and Wednesday, Dec. 30 and 31â€"Edmund Lowe and Joan Benâ€" nett, in "Scotland Yard," with Barâ€" bara Leanord. The picture is from the play by Denison Clift. Thursday and Friday, Jan. 1 and 2, (New Year‘s Day matinee, 2 to 11)â€" "Halfâ€"Shot at Sunrise," with â€" Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. $y io io t io tz tz m t d M 4 4 L} The Deerpath theatre management extends to its patrons best wishes for a happy and prosperous New Year. "Laughter" In "Laughter" the new Nancy Carâ€" 14 4 +4 +4 +4 4+ â€"4 +%¢ +4 +4 + 4 {] irst BUILDING MATERIALS â€" BLACK SOIL ROTTED MANURE Phone H. P. 65 FRANK . SILJESTROM Last and always we Wish you the choicest Blessings of Providence. May this Christmas And many others see You in health and wealth. Phone Your Order to roll picture which comes to the Deerâ€" path Sunday and Monday, the role of the noâ€"account but lovable young artâ€" ist is played by Glenn Anders, whose avocation is drawing and who is alâ€" most ready to receive his diploma from one of New York‘s bestâ€"known art schools. Anders admits he acts and sketches because ‘he likes "to feel excited about things." A nervous, sensitive, smiling chap, he seems in a remote way part of the inhibited characters he played so successfully in "Strange Interlude," "Dynamo," ‘"They Knew What They Wanted" and "Hotel Uniâ€" verse" on the Broadway stage. "Sceotland Yard" Even the crook, it must be confessâ€" ed, has become banal. And it is with some relief that those who are assoâ€" ciated with the production of the Fox Movietone drama, "Scotland Yard," which appears at the Deerpath theaâ€" tre Tuesday and Wednesday, have found themselves in a field where both the crook and those who are pitted against him must exercise an ingenâ€" vity that the more open guerilia warâ€" fare of the American criminal scene does not require Petitions to the President on quesâ€" tions of our foreign relations would be moré impressive if a large proporâ€" tion of the signers were not persons who generally take the European side of every question where there is a conflict of interests between the Uniâ€" ted States and Europe. According to a report of the Deâ€" According to a report of the Deâ€" partment of Commerce, 92 per cent of those Americans, able and willing to work, are gainfully employed at the present time. role 01 ng artâ€" whose is al liploms