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Members of the Deerfleld Chapter of the Eastern Star visited the Eastâ€" ern Star home for elderly people on Saturday afternoon in Rockford. Gifts of jelly, fruit, and other food staples were taken to the home. Mr. and Mrs. Peter Juhrend have gone to Compton, Calif., where they will make their home. Mrs. Harry Baum is entertaining the Contract Bridge club at lunchâ€" eon today at Glengables Tea Room in Glencoe. Last week Mrs. Irving Brand was hostess to the group at the Green Tea Pot in Highland Park. Dorothy Jean Anderson enterâ€" tained the members of her orchestra at her home on Friday evening. The orchestra is composed of some of the musicians of the Deerfield Grammar School orchestra. The marriage of Mrs. Lillian Sack Anderson of Waukegan road and Lester Marshall of Chicago has been announced. The wedding took place last June. Harry 8. Allsbrow and son, Harry, have gone to Florida for the winter months. David, the 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Horenberger of Wilâ€" mot road, is ill with scarlet fever in the Lake County General hospital in Waukegan. ___________________ Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Osterman were dinner guests at the C. C. Nieâ€" buhr home in Highland Park on Thursday. rwesuwy ~aivernoon ~wt tne Wiimot Grammar school. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rommel and family of LaGrange visited Mr. Rommel‘s mother, Mrs. Philip Româ€" me] of Deerfield road, last Thursday evening. It was Mrs. Rommel‘s 80th birthday anniversary. Officers of St. Paul‘s Ladies Aid society who . were installed at the December meeting were: presidentâ€" PAGE TEN Hecketsweiler Studio Photographers 7 S. St. Johns Avenue Phone Highland Park 435 CAMERA SPECIALS Ared ensiie Sniers ce ons io. BW IHAGEE CAMERAS CONTAX Model I Ziess Tessar F 2.8 Lens at Compur, F 4.5 Tessar Lens (120 size) IHAGEE CAMERAS F 4.5 Lens ZEISS IKON F 3.5 Nettar Lens (120 size) Now the time has come when the rallroads must increase rates in order to meet the rising tide of operating costs. They have, theretore, submitted for the consideration of the Interstate Comâ€" merce Commission, a ptofind increase of 15% in all freight rates, with certain exceptions for which fixed increases are provided. CLEAR THE TRACK TO BETTER TIMES .Stmflulawpdntohhdopndm,AMuanhh expended millions of dollars on new trains and new equipment; have made tremendous strides in the improvement of both pasâ€" senger and freight service. Yetâ€"in the tace ot these increases and of the large expendâ€" itures on equipmentâ€"the Jlevel of freight rates has gone down about 10% and passenger fares about 18%! : The railroads must make more money if they are to provide the efficient, economical mass transportation upon which our highly developed agriculture and widespread commerce are based . . . and if they are to continue to operate as selfâ€"supporting, tax payâ€" ing contributors to our national and local prosperity. Manutacturers and producers in other lines ordinarily raise their selling prices to meet increased costs. (Most of the things you buy now cost about 40% more than they did in 1932.) But the railroads are not at liberty to increase their rates except by authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The proposed rate increases will not be a burden upon eithor agriculture or commerce. To you, as a consumer, it will mean an increase otf less than 1% in the average wholesale price of commodities. Yet this increase in ratesâ€" which is the just due of the railroadsâ€"will help to insure their progressiveness and future prosperity which are maiters not only of national, but of local concern. FOR THE RAILROADS AND AMERICA As a result, the margin between income and outgo is so thin that the railroads face a crisisâ€"a crisis that is of vital concern to agriculture, industry. business and ‘all of us. Rammb«,hrnfihudhnbubqnhdu&y.hmbn local people, makes purchases locally, and pays taxes that contrib ute substantially to the support of your schools and other public institutions. During this same period, prices of the things which railroads buy have gone up about 40%. Taxes have increased about 25%. Wages have risen about 18%. Mrs. E. P. Osterman; vice president, Mrs. Julius Johnson ; treasurer, Mrs. James Mailfald. Other officers who remain for another year are: secreâ€" tary, Mrs, Frank Jacobs; financial secretary, Mrs. William Steinhaus. Following the routine of business the members adjourned to the dining room where the birthday party was held in compliment to one of their members, Mrs. Philip Rommel. The choirs of the Presbyterian churches of Deerfield and Northâ€" brook are uniting in the presentaâ€" tion of the Christmas cantata, "The Prince of Peace." It will be preâ€" sented in Northbrook on Sunday eveâ€" ning, December 19 and at the Deerâ€" field church on Sunday afternoon, December 19 at M o‘clock. The weekâ€"day mass of the Holy Cross church will be held in the Rectory at 914 Waukegan road durâ€" ing the winter months to avoid the expense of heating the church each morning. _ Masses on Holy. days, first Fridays, or any day there is high mass or benediction, will be held‘in the church. Roberta Blaine was hostess to sixâ€" teen guests on Saturday afternoon at her home on Rosemary terrace, in honor of her 12th birthday anniâ€" versary. A basketbal Iteam was organized at the Holy Cross church last Friâ€" day evening. Only a heavyweight team is planned for the present. The season will open officially next Sunâ€" day. enbach are entertaining the memâ€" bers of the Presbyterian Women‘s Bible class at their home this eveâ€" ning. The skating pond at the high school grounds on the north limits Mrs. Hazel Vant Kreh, who has been staying at the home of her sisâ€" ter, Mrs. Arno Frantz, expects to leave for Florida the middle of this nth $40 $20 of the village has been put in readâ€" iness for the community and work on the project was provided through the office of Supervisor James O‘â€" Connor. A new floor has been laid in the field house. Generosity of civic minded men has prompted sevâ€" eral to donate coal for the field house. The Christmas entertainment for the children of the Presbyterian Chureh school will be held on Thursâ€" day evening, December 23, at 7:30 o‘clock. A dramatical production, "Why the Chimes Rang" will be given. At 8:30 each department will have its own party in the deâ€" partment rooms. Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Churchill of Morton Grove, accompanied by the Walter Page and Clarence Repenâ€" ning families, spent Sunday at the Carl Mehrtens home in Cicero. The family gathering was in celebration of the birthday anniversary of Mr. Mehrtens. The West Deerfield Township Board of Auditors will meet on Wednesday evening, December 15, at 7:30 o‘clock at the home of Mrs. Robert E. Pettis. _ Mrs. Clarence Wilson was hostess at a dessertâ€"bridge y yesterday afternoon at her e on Orchard lane. Surplus foods from the Illincis Emergency Relief Commission were dietinl hatedâ€"t0â€"30 006 «Decafichd â€"Powpe Mrs. John Anfruns of Central Ave. fell and broke her arm last week. Ewald Winter of Chicago spent Plumbing and Heating ELECTROL OIL BURNERS §12%, Laurel Avenue â€" Highland Park Shop Phone, Highland Park 271 â€" Residence, H. P. 439 HOWARD MORAN THE PRESS | _ Mr. Carl Horenberger and his older sons are staying at the Arthur Hook home in Highland Park, until the scarlet fever quarantine on their \ home is lifted. Mrs. Edna Stanger Orsborn of the Deerfleld Presbyterian choir was guest soloist at the Bethichem Evâ€" angelical church Vesper service on Sunday. Tea was served by the Woman‘s Auxiliary at the concluâ€" sion of the service. the weekâ€"end with his father, Auâ€" gust Winter of Elm street. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Potterton and children were Sunday guests at the Walter Maxwell home in Kenâ€" osha, Wis. Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Segert and baby of Highland Park spent Sunâ€" day at the Edward Segert home on Springfield Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Miller of Marion, lowa, announce theâ€"marâ€" riage of their daughter, Janet Elizâ€" abeth, to Melvin H. Gallatin on Satâ€" urday, November 27. The Millers are former residents here having reâ€" sided for several years in the B. H. ~wegniming weceniver "1o,vive "Yer erans‘ Craft Exchange will openâ€"its permanent store at 203 N. Wabash Ave., Chicago, in Room 505. Store hours will be from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for the sale of articles made by disabled veterans and their deâ€" pendents. This shop will be under the sponsorship of the Auxiliary of Members of the Deerfield Volunâ€" teer Fire Department held a busiâ€" ness meeting at the Fire station on Monday evening, followed by a soâ€" cial hour. Conrad Uchtman is fire chief. Illinois. . During these first two 'nhlaboeâ€"brthnwfllbl sale of Veteranâ€"mage articles at the Woman‘s Club Bureau on the 9th floor in Mandel Brothers store, on State street. Mrs. Daniel Hunt, publicity chairman of the Deerfield unit of the American Legion Auxilâ€" iary is making the announcement. V 11 semery ce ow & dG2L00000; id Wwarche ‘HMETIC i::'re on a fourâ€"party telephone ine the chances of it being in use by some one else when you want it are twice what dwy'l be with a twoâ€"party line. "That‘s why we‘ve had our service changed to a twoâ€"patty line. Otherwise, our fourâ€"party service was 5oo£. A twoâ€"party line costs only a few cents more a day, and we don‘t have nearly as many delays waiting for other ple to finish talking when we‘re in a E::ry to telephone. "Some time soon we are planning to have an individual line. You‘d be surâ€" prised how little it actually costs!" ILLINOTIS BELL TELEPHONE CONMPANY THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1987 Wanted; a small laundry stove or gook stove for family on relief and unable to pay for same. If you have a stove that you would be willing to give, call the West Deerfield Townâ€" ship office of Deerfield 485. We will arrange for the cartage.