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Highland Park Press, 21 Mar 1940, p. 11

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RUTH PETTIS, Representative Telephone Deerfield 485 LYDIA REEB MARRIED Spmi avenue announce the marriage of their daughter, Lydia, to George Buck of Highwood. The young couple married secretly last October and have just revealed their ANNAPOLIS ALTERNATE Frosts of Osterman avenue, has been named as alternate for apâ€" pointment to A_lln‘npolil. Tho nomiâ€" from Illinois at Washington, D. C. The candidates are Corliss R. Nuâ€" gent, Glencoe and James J. Clancy, nution Was imade lnst wel rEsOHLEL YCâ€" %,â€"Â¥ . â€"Suni; Chicago. The alternates were Felix R. Wheeler, Centralia; Earl McCain, Keith M. Van Buren and Donald Griffin, all of Chicago; Richard H. Durr, Kenilworth, and Almon J. Frost, Deerfield. Young Frost is now attending Marquette Univerâ€" city at Milwaukee. His father, Earl Frost, is Democratic Precinct comâ€" miteeman from Deerfleld‘s east preâ€" cinet (One). TOWNSHIP MEETINGS _ The semiâ€"annual meeting of West Deerfield Township will be held on Tuesday evening, March 26, in the home of the relief administrator, Mrs. Ruth R. Pettis The annual budget and appropriation ordinance will be read at this meeting. The annual Town Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, at 2:00 p.m. in the Town Hall. PRIMARY ELECTION Voters in West Deerfield Townâ€" ship will not have to register this spring before the priany election on Tuesday, April 9. Those who have not voted here before must be vouched for by a householder. The requirements are residence in the state for one year, in the county 90 days and in the precinet for 30 days. Registration days will be held next fall preceding the presidential elecâ€" tion. RALLY A group of Deerfield friends of George McGaughey are giving a rally for him on Tuesday evening, March 26, at 8 p.m. in the Masonic Temple. Mr. McGaughey, who was village attorney under the adminisâ€" trations of Harry Clavey, Harry Wing, and the first part of C. M. Willman‘s term, is wellâ€"known in Deerfield and has many friends in this vicnity. Harry E. Wing is chairman of arrangements for the rally and the program will have good entertainment and refreshâ€" FIRES prizes. Everyone is invited The Deerfield Volunteer Fire Deâ€" partment was called eut on March 14 to the Eugene Engelhard home on Wilmot road. A defective fireâ€" place caused damages of about $50. On March 16 they answered a call to the Jirah D. Cole residence where sparks ignited the roof and burned m hole. This is the second time that sparks from the chimney have burned the roof. The first time was on January 2. Fire Chief Conrad Uchtman will recommend that the chimney be built up about fourteen inches higher to prevent more such blazes. On Sunday, March 17, at 8:30 a.m. an ice machine in the basement of the Knaak Pharmacy burned and smoke filled the drug store. The damage was about $25 Chief Uchtman stated that Deerâ€" field has been fortunate in having so few fires and such small losses. Deerfield residents can show their appreciation to the fire department by buying tickets for the annual benefit dance on April 27 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The second annual dinner of the Deerfield Chamber of Commerce for their wives, the business men and the village board members and their wives, is being held on Wednesday, March 27, at 7 p.m. at Phil Johnâ€" son‘s County Line Restaurant. Clarâ€" ence Wilson, president of the Chamâ€" ber of Commerce, announces that motion pictures of "A Trip Around the World" will be shown by a repâ€" resentative of the Canadian Pacie Steamship Co. The guest speaker of the evening will be Professor R. C. Tomlinson of Lake Forest colâ€" ORATORICAL CONTEST The annual! oratorical contest for the upper grade children in the local schools sponsored by the Deerfleld American Legion and Auxiliary will be held this evening (Thursday) at YOLUME XXX !eaxl in fleer/fi'eé[ BDaemaara _ _The Deerfieli Page Mrs. B. F. Reinking of Bannockâ€" burn was hostess to the mothers of the Bannockburn Grammar school on Wednesday afternoon (yesterâ€" day) at her home. Mrs. Erwin Dreiske of Wilmot road, Deerfield, was the assisting hostess. The Bethichem Fireside club met Thursday evening at the home of Mrs. Erwin Dreiske and heard a very enjoyable talk on journalism by Mrs. Kenneth Weir of Rosemary terrace. The Robert L. Johnsons returned tended the baptism of their grandâ€" son, Richard Frank Zenco, on Sunâ€" day at the First Congregational church in Evanston. The baby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Zenco (Gertrude Johnson) of Evanston. Mrs. Harry Baum is entertaining her bridge club at luncheon on Thursday (today) at her home on Hazel avenue. Mrs. Elmer Clavey will be the next hostess. ‘ Miss Betty Clavey, with a group of friends, has gone on a trip south to Mexico. â€" Mr. and Mrs. L, E. Myers and son Donald of Chicago, visited at the Robert E. Pettis home on Sunâ€" day. Mrs. Myers is the former Amy Wilson of Lake Forest. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Zerson (Mona Desmond) and children of Mundelein were Sunday guests at the William Desmond home. Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Stephens (Caryl Frantz) of Chicago are stayâ€" ing at the Arno Frantz home while Mrs. Frantz and her other daughâ€" ter, Mrs. Harold Giss, are in the southwest. Circle Three of the Presbyterian church will meet on Friday for luncheon at the home of Mrs. George Pettis of Waukegan road. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Baum were hosts at a dinner party on Saturday evening at their home on Hazel aveâ€" nue. Mrs. Roscoe Wessling was hostess to members of her club on Friday afternoon at her home on Deerfield road. s Mrs. B. J. Dickens and daughter, Mrs. Richard Wilde and little son, Dickey, of Chicago, left on Tuesday for Phoenix, Ariz. While in the west they will visit Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Lewenthal (Helen Reichelt) in Phoenix, Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Gates (Dorothy Reichelt) and Mr. and Mrs. B. A. West (Jean Pettis) in Tucson. Mrs. Dickens is a sister of the late Mrs. Marie Ward Reichelt. Mrs. William Neville was guest of honor at a surprise birthday party at her home on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Wendell Goodpasture, presiâ€" dent of the Presbyterian Woman‘s association, was hostess at the tea for Mrs. Neville‘s 60th birthday anâ€" niversary. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Peterson of Knollwood road had as their weekâ€" end guests, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Thomasek of Chicago. Mrs. Robert Mau was hostess to members of St. Paul‘s Circle Two on Wednesday afternoon at her home on Forest avenue. Mrs. Fred LaBahn and Mrs. John Ott will be hostesses this afternoon at an allâ€"day sewing meeting at St. Paul‘s church. Miss Virginia Reeb, with a group of friends from the Highland Park telephone office, spent the weekâ€"end in Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Kemp and her fiance, Morris Burland of Chicago, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brandwein of Chestnut street. Mrs. Brandwein‘s niece, litâ€" tle Beverly Kemp of Chicago, spent the past week with her and returned home on Sunday. Mrs. Joseph McCraren (Kathryn Beckman) and little son, Larry Patrick, returned home on Friday from the Highland Park hospital. The McCrarens have another little son, Mickey. Mrs. Otto Trute was hostess to members of her card club last Thursdsy evening at her home on Wilmot road. The group held a surâ€" prise shower for one of their memâ€" bers, Miss Mae Hansen of Highland Park, who is to be married soon. Peder Larsen of the Grove Farm escaped serious injury when his auto skidded off the road just west of the west bridge and noseâ€"dived into the north branch of the Chicago river (which is Deerfleld‘s west slough). He was taken to Dr. C. J. Davis‘ office and had four or five stitches taken over his eyes. The accident cccurred last Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Wilson and son, Alen, of Springfeld avenue, are leaving on Saturday to spend &mul:y-:‘fl.lr.L't son‘s parents, Mr. re. Wilson and Mrs. Wilson‘s mother, weok fromâ€"~Floride Mrs. Carrie Vice, in Olney, J Alberts (Bubbles) Page, the nine year old daughter of the Wailter Pages of Osterman avenue, underâ€" went an appendectomy at the Highâ€" land Park hospital on Sunday. _ Harry Clavey were luncheon bridge guests yesterday at the home of Mrs. Mary Boracher in Chicago. Twins, a boy and a girl, were born to Mr. and Mrs. William Lichter of North Chestnut street, on Thursday, March 14, at the Highland Park hospital. They each weighed about two pounds and six ounces. The baby boy died the following day, but the little girl has gained in l'eight and it is hoped that she will ive. sonic lodge and the Temple associaâ€" tion officers enjoyed a dinner at Phil Johnson‘s restaurant on Tuesâ€" day evening. Deerfield Masonic temple, sponsored by the Eastern Star with Mrs. Harâ€" old Werhane of Northbrook as chairman of the party, Mrs, John Strong was hostess to members of her pinochle club on Tuesday and her bridge club on Wednesday afternoon. The Paulus Circle will meet Thursday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George Antes of Deerfield road. Circle One of St. Paul‘s church met last Thursday at the home of Mrs. John Ott. Harry Hart, who bought the old Easton farm on South Waukegan road, has remodeled the farm house, vacated last fall by William Bubert. Virginia Ugolini, three months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Amerâ€" igo Ugolini of Old Elm road, is in the Children‘s Memorial hospital in Chicago, for several weeks. Mrs. Earl Frost entertained her bridge club on Friday afternoon at her home on Osterman avenue. The Altar and Rosary society will meet at the Holy Cross school on Friday afternoon, April 5. Plans will be made for their spring lunchâ€" eon which is scheduled for May 2. Mrs. Sarah Kreibel of Wilmette will serve a "Hostess Luncheon." > Mrs. Leslie Brand entertained her sewing club last Wednesday afterâ€" noon at her home. Bruce Frost was awarded the lighting contract for the new indiâ€" rect lighting to be installed at the Wilmot Grammar school during the spring vacation. There will be no meeting of the Red Cross Sewing class on Thursâ€" day, March 28, as the school will be closed for the spring vacation which begins Friday, March 22, and ends on Monday, April first. Miss Eva Trute spent the weekâ€" end with Miss Patricia Mann in Highland Park, _ _ _ â€" Mr. and Mrs. John Armstrong of Stratford road were Sunday dinner guests at the Irving Hansen home in Rogers Park. ~Acard paurtyâ€"will be hold on Wedâ€" James Fitger is spending several weeks in Peoria at the home of a daughter. _ Mr. and Mrs. George Engstrom attended the annual band concert at the University of Illinois last Thursday. Their son, John, plays in the percussion section. Christ Siffert, local barber, has patented a new three wheel roller skate, with the three wheels in line similar to an ice skat on a shoe and manufacture of the skateshoe has started. Rev. A. G. Tozer of the Waukegan Presbyterian church was the Lenten speaker at the Deerfield Presbyterâ€" ian church on Wednesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wessling were guests on Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Galbraith in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. William Brandenâ€" burg and two children of LaGrange were Sunday guests of Mrs. Branâ€" denburg‘s aunts, the Misses Viola and Irene Rockenbach of Elm street. The Mutual club met Tuesday eveâ€" ning at the home of Mrs. Milton O. Olson of West Deerfield road. The Just Sew elub was enterâ€" tained on Tuesday afternoon at the home of Dr. Dorothy S. Davis. Mrs. Ambrose Cox will be hostess to the Bethichem Woman‘s Auxilâ€" iary on Thursday evening, March 28, at the church. The officers of the Deerfield Maâ€" Parishioners and friends of St. Paul‘s church are reminded of the memorial Easter service and asked to have the lilies at the church by Saturday evening. Each lily is to have a card bearing the name of the donor and the person in whose memory it is sent. Rev. E. N. Tyrrell, pastor of St. Columba‘s church, Chicago, was the speaker at the Novena service on Tuesday evening at the Holy Cross church. There will be no bowling on Holy Thursday for the Holy Cross Bowlâ€" Ing league. The annual dinner and business meeting of the conmgregation of the Presbyterian church will be held on Wednesday evening, March 27, at 6:45. Reports by all the organizaâ€" tions will be given and an clection of elders and trustees will be held. The Holy Cross Parochial school elosed for the Easter vacation on Wednesday and will reopen on Tuesâ€" day. Announcement has been made of the engagement of Miss Virginis Boaz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Boaz of Kenilworth and Peter Baxter Warner, son of Mrs. Marâ€" garet Warner of the Open House tea room of Deerfield. The wediing will take place next fall. Mrs. â€" Margaret â€" Warner, who spent the winter in Florida, returnâ€" ed home this week and will open her tea room this weekâ€"end. The Open House will be closed each Monday but will be open all the other days of the week. Mrs. Victor Carlson is entertainâ€" ing at a breakfast today and her guests will be Mrs. Benjamin Ashâ€" ley, Mrs. Leonard Hintz, Mrs. Frank cago Mr. and Mrs. Victor Carlson were hosts at a party on Wednesday eveâ€" ning at their home on Stratford road in honor of Mr. Carison‘s birthâ€" day anniversary. Mrs. Carl Johnson, mother of Mrs. Victor Carlson, spent Tuesday with her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Johnson Jr. in Chicago. Miss Charlotte Goelitz of Banâ€" nockburn is spending several weeks with her sister in Boston, Mass. Miss Lois Mae Potterton will be hostess to the Junior Girls of the American Legion Auxiliary on Satâ€" urday afternoon at the home of her parents, the Russell Pottertons of Central avenue. Rev. L. C. Schmidt of Naperville will preside at the quarterly conferâ€" ence of the Bethlchem Evangelical church on â€" Wednesday â€" evening, March 27, and at the communion services the following Sunday mornâ€" ing. Rev. Schmidt is superintendâ€" ent of the Chicago District of Evanâ€" gelical churches. _ Mr. and Mrs, Raymond Stickler and children have moved from the Stryker building to Highland Park. Mr. and Mrs, James Wilson and family moved from the Golf Club on Saunders road to the apartment in the John Stryker building reâ€" cently vacated by Mrs. Fox J. Maâ€" hen. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Zimmerman of Winnetka, who have been living at Mrs. Margaret Warner‘s Open House tearoom during the past winâ€" ter while their new home in Barâ€" rington was being built, left on Monday and are now living in Barâ€" rington. Deerfield was well represented on Monday night at the badminton tournament at the high school. Mrs. Friedel Fuller, who had gone as a spectator, was asked to fill in a foursome for Lois Clark, Josephine Schessler and Bernice Abercromby. Mrs. Fuller remained in with the winners and will compete with othâ€" er winners for the finals. Deerfield Village Special Meeting Tuesday, March 26 A special meeting of the Deerfield Village Board of trustees is to be held on Tuesday evening, March 26, at the Masonic temple. The plat for a new subdivision of 200 acres along Deerfield‘s east drainage ditch, beginning at the Gastfield bridge and south, adjoining Brierâ€" hill subdivision and west to Wauâ€" kegan road, in Deerfleld and east of the drainage ditch adjoining the Nixon subdivision in Highland Park with an outlet on Ridge road, will be put before the board for tentaâ€" tive approval. Robert L. Johnson and the others interested in the new development have an opportunity to obtain fill for proposed roads in the tract and want approval before goâ€" ing shead with the project. It has already met with the approval of the zoning board, but Mayor C. M. Willman stated that the procedure was out of order as it must first be presented to the village board. L. D. Subr, of a consulting enâ€" gineering company of Chicago, who spoke at the last meeting on better sewers for Deerfield, has been asked to return to talk at the special meetâ€" ing. Mayor C. M. Willman refused to sign the new liquor ordinance at the regular March meeting. Attorney Milton O. Olson is reported to have said that a twoâ€"thirds majority of the board can pass the ordinance without the mayor‘s signature. Schneider, Homer Cazel, Jirah D. Cole and Edward B. Crush, Agninst it those voting nay were Marshall Pottenger and Edwin M. Paimer. Tavern Keeper Cassius Easton‘s $100 bond has been forfeited and the deposit of the money was read into nace allows only two, it looks as a big fight is looming. Voting for the passing of the new a, Mis. ANSHizin: THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1940 Inklings from ntguotutg 5owu.4 Official announcement was made recently of the outright purchase of the Lake Forest Jewelry store by Garrit M. Bax. Mr. Bax has been part owner and manager of the store for many years. Frank J. Wenban and Willis W. Griffis, who were formerly interested in the store, have sold their shares in the company to Mr. Bax. â€"â€"_ 3+ â€"â€"Bouemâ€"svesâ€"SemHeryâ€"ascottâ€" ated with Lloyd Hollister Inc., for several years in an executive caâ€" pacity. During the past three years, he has been in Oregon as publisher of the La Grande Evening Obserâ€" ver. Harvey N. Bowen was named publisher of the three Lloyd Hollisâ€" ter Inc., publications â€" Wilmette Life, Winnetka Talk, and Glencoe News, and assumed his duties Monâ€" Mr. Bowen, except for the interval in the West, has been a resident of the North Shore since early childâ€" hood. He is a past president of the Winnetka Rotary club. The Hubbard Woods Improveâ€" ment association has filed with the Glencoe village board a protest against the reâ€"zoning of the property at the‘northeast corner of Scott aveâ€" nue and Linden avenue, Glencoe, to permit the erection of a motion picâ€" ture theater. An application for a permit to wreck the Taylor resiâ€" dence in preparation for theater building operations has already been filed with the building commissionâ€" In its communication the associaâ€" tion urges the Glencoe Village board to adopt a resolution "rescinding and expunging from the records the resolution adopting the ordinance," and asks that further public hearâ€" ings on the ordinance be held. The ordinance becomes effective next Monday, March 18. Harry A. Hall, of Waukegan, canâ€" didate for state‘s attorney, who was quarterback on the famous Univerâ€" sity of Illinois team that saw Harold (Red) Grange make football hisâ€" tory in the early 1920‘s, has been named a director of the university athletic association, it was anâ€" nounced today. Lake county was generously repâ€" resented on that famous team. In addition to Hall, the team included Wally Mclivaine, Highland Park and Jim McMillen, Antioch. Mcâ€" Millen has since become a topliner in professional wrestling. Bright green army trucks are rollâ€" ing over rough new roads and shovels and picks are swinging fast on hills of needed dirt as the state and federal governments with 200 Civilian Conservation corps men get ready to launch this spring the first in a series of park development plans that will transform the famâ€" ous western Lake county Chain of Lakes region into one of the most attractive public recreation areas in the midwest. The hills and flats of the Chuin| of Lakes region, studded with !nm-‘ dreds of dwellings, resorts, taverns, dance halls, cabins and clubhouses, some built on stilts over the water‘s edge, are due for a fundamental change in layout. Working I.rgely‘ on stateâ€"owned land, not only the army through the CCC, but also the United States department of inteâ€" rior is coâ€"operating with the state department of public works and building to revamp the Lake county tourist mecca through a comprehenâ€" sive fiveâ€"year plan. In addition, apâ€" plication has been made by the state for a $1,555,455 federal WPA grant to assist in the work, to which would be added a state contribution of $419,000 Residents of Libertyville township will be polled by way of a cireular letter to learn the prevailing public sentiment toward formation of a park district here, if plans adopted at a meeting Monday night in the Community Center are carried out. The open discussion, called by Libâ€" erty ville Recreation association, drew nearly thirty representatives of local organizations and interested citizens. Bids for the widening of the inâ€" tersection of U. S. Route 45 and the Diamond Lake â€" Highwood road, Route 22, were opened by the state department of highways Friâ€" day, March 15, in Springfield it was announced Tuesday. The proposed improvement includes .19 of a mile of concrete pavement. in Bannockburn and Deerficld. Mrs. John Carolan (Martha Deerfield School Makes Reports On Spring Plans School reports on spring program. The Deerfield Grammar school this week announced a schedule of activities planned to carry through the balance of the school year. These activities, it was explained, were tentative, but would probably make up a general calendar of school activities for the balance of the year. During spring vacation, which starts Thursday, March 21, a genâ€" eral overâ€"haul cleaning of the buildâ€" ing is planned. The whole school plant will receive a thorough cleanâ€" ing and such repairs as are necesâ€" sary for the remainder of the year will be made. No new construction work is planned, however, general repair work is contemplated. _ _ Open‘ House, which will be held on Friday, April 12; P.T.A. Annual Spring Luncheon, which is planned for Friday, May 10; the Music Fesâ€" tival, to be given on Friday, May 17; and the District Orchestra and Music Festival to be held in Evanâ€" ston on Saturday, May 25; the genâ€" eral Graduation Exercises will be on Thursday, June 6. â€" The major consideration of the program during the balance of the year will be that of rechecking progress of the children in general, and engaging in the necessary acâ€" tivities to insure their being at the proper grade level by the end of the school term. Much attention during the next two months will be given to achievement in the basic skill subjects. Attention is being given at the present time to the financial situaâ€" tion at the Grammar school. Budget plans for the ensuing year will be made and estimates of income are being worked upon. It is planned that during the next few weeks letâ€" ters will be sent to parents explainâ€" ing further development in the fiâ€" nancial situation. The Deerfield American Legion Auxiliary met on Monday evening at the Holy Cross school with Mrs. C. C. Kapschull, the president, preâ€" siding. Mrs. William Tennermann announced that the annual oratoriâ€" cal contest will be held on Thursâ€" day evening in the community room of the Deenfield Grammar school. On March 8, Mrs. Tennermann and Mrs. Conrad Uchtman and a group of eighth grade girls presented the last of the flags given by the Unit to the Wilmot Grade school and gave a skit entitled "The Making of the Flag." Deerfield Unit Legion Auxiliary Report Activities Mrs. Uchtman, social service chairman, gave out 19 articles of clothing valued at $6.60 the past month. As the supply of used clothâ€" ing is running very low a request is being made for more donations. Mrs. E. G. Jacobson reported that $3 had been sent to the Treasure Fund, also that the Deerfleld Unit had received a citation for being 100% in the fourâ€"point program. Mrs. Jacobson said she would like magazines for the North Chicago hospital and would be glad to call and pick up any magazines which could be given for the veterans. It was voted to have the National Bulâ€" letin magazine again placed in the Deerfield library. The Junior group will meet on Saturday afternoon at the home of Lois Mae Potterton. The annual patriotic conference will be held in Chicago on Tuesday, March 26. Members of the Unit plan to attend. E. N. Nelson, president of the Deerfield Civic Association, spoke very briefly of the Citizenship Day scheduled for Flag Day, June 14, at which time all young men and womâ€" en who have attained the age of 21 during the past year will be honâ€" ored. The Unit voted to help supâ€" port the project. Dr. Dorothy Sugden Davis gave a talk on the importance of blood transfusions and how some were made. Hoste:ses for the social hour which concluded the meeting were Mrs, Clarence Huhn and Mrs. Philâ€" tp Seully Jr. Warn Shippers to Avoid Danger Zone Period of April 3â€"12 During the period April 8â€"12, 1940, daily except Sunday, between the hours of 8 a.m. and 12 noon and 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. the water area to the east of Fort Sheridan, Ill., to a distance of 8% miles off shore, will be subject to missiles of 3 in. antiâ€"aircraft gun and machine gun muyummm All vessels are requested to avoid sage through it. NUMBER 3 verâ€" tharal«

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