Illinois News Index

Highland Park Press, 1 Feb 1951, p. 3

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~when he comes, I go out in the kitchen and he greets me with a smile, lays down each package as if it held a dozen very thin shelled eggs. He chats about the weather and closes the door so quietly one cannot even hear the latch click. guest who had never before been up here. In rapid succession there went through my mind the many kinds of people who come to this house, besides guests. The newspaper boys. I say "boys", because there are always two. They drive an ancient jalâ€" lopy. One drives and the other Thursday, Feb. 1, 1951 "Do peddlers ring your door bell very often up here in these our twoâ€"door garage and the wall meet at right angles, thus making a safe place for the paper to land. These boys drive like a flash aâ€" round theâ€"curves in these hills. These narrow roads not only have sharp curves, but every few hunâ€" dred feet either rise or drop. Beâ€" ing so early in the morning is one reason they don‘t have a smashâ€"up, and they sure keep their house to receive our one delivery a day. Heâ€"will pick up and mail we have in the slot in our mail box. With all the magazines he has to deliver, he sure has a load. There isn‘t a day we don‘t get smail and large packages and at every day in the year. The mail for this side of the canyon is brought by auto to a large U, S. mail box at the end of just why I don‘t know. One will put the milk in the shade, another will Jeave it in the sun. The third will open the kitchen door and place the bottles on the floor, and there is one who puts the milk in the catâ€" in the dish we have left outside. It is always done, and we appreciate it very much. . e patio and lays it on the table. We won‘t be back until after dark, we put a note out forâ€"the milkman asking him to put some milk for the door withâ€"a bang and off he The grocery boy is the noisy on-.lhdmpllndiumpl our purâ€" three floors. The minute he gets here, every h_wgt' is tnmd‘gmp. on the street level garden and the lower patio, and then he takes the hose and washes down the cement stairs from street to lower patio. He has been told to SWEEP the when he wants to be deaf, he is by very slowly and his music box plays, "Little Brown Jug How I Love Thee." He is patronized by make minor repairs. Noné of our néighbors knows what has become so often. We patronized him once, but never again. ae A very presistant man is the Fuller Brush agent, he leaves his card on the first and second trips and the third time he writes, "I won‘t be back for several weeks." I‘m here alone very often and if the day is pleasant I stay on upper patio and sew, read, write or mend and the time passes very As I was closing the: front door, with both hands full of material, I saw the latch had not been turnâ€" ed down and when the doorâ€"closed it would be locked. But it didn‘t Every other day the milkman * DAIRY PRODUCTS * BEVERAGES #â€"4CE CREAM (our own make) * FRESH MEATS AND POULTRY 635 CENTRAL AVENUE â€" PH. HI. 20597 Thayer‘s Dairy & IF YOU LIKE GOOD THINGS TO EATâ€" GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE * e miss. He used to in his auto once a about other ways I could get into the house. In about half an hour an aute drove "up and turned and then stopped right in front of the gate. A man got out, looked around the wall, fie was mopping his face and he asked, "May I trouble you with a few questions?" It was the bend, before my neighbors were out of their car. (They weren‘t policemenâ€"at all). _ I looked up to see the face of an elderly gentleman peering over worry me because there were two make a step toward me, for which road. I stood up and looked over the wall and said, "Here come my licemen." My sneaky caller was up those four steps, through the gate and into his auto and around ing in the sun. I said, "If you‘ll come in here out of the sun, I can give you a glass of cold water and then I‘ll answer the questions." He sat down, the water reviving him. He told me the street and the and he headed straight for the front door, not looking my way at all. He was thoroughly startled in and around, had followed diâ€" rections and was now so befuddled he didn‘t know the name of the AEOCeUnd, CRC PPCTCR ME four steps to the patio floor. "What do you want?" > _ He stood still as a statue for a round, doubling up his fists, and said in a gruff voice, "Want to use your telephone." ‘He didn‘t a very hot day and he was standâ€" number of the house he was lookâ€" ing for. He had gone up and down, would give directions, so with pad on knee he was ready. "YOUR car is facing in the right direction. Make a short turn to the right, then one to the left. It is all up grade and. by that time you have will â€" have gone about 500 feet. To your left is a pretty white house and the numâ€" ber is 3001 and the street is the one you are looking for." He was a very pleased old gentleman. . . . the lotrers start. Then m*dmm SCIENCE MONITOR tell the Editor how much they ‘The Christian Scieace Monltor One, Norway St., Boston 13, Mass., U.Sâ€"A. paper in the U. S. . . * "Valuable ald im seachâ€" ing . : * "News that is complete and fair. . +« "The Monitor surely is a reader‘s mecessity . . . "You, too, will find the Monitot® world news . . . and as neces sary as your HOME TOWN & Dry Cleaning Co. Use this coupon for a stations to "The Christian Science Monitor Views the ar____ w listen Tauesday nights over ABC "The Monitor is the most Phone HI 2â€"4551 send me sA ho Carpuss " Scicate lssues. 1 enclose $1. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence _ Lincoln, and interesting data in connection with his life and letters will be discussed by Newton C. Farr when he speaks at the Februâ€" Shore Chapter D.AK. to be held at the home of Mrs. H. S. Millett, 301 Central avenue at 1:30 p.m. Mr. Farr is coâ€"chairman of the Barâ€" rett Lincoln Collection Fund and is a deep student of Lincoln and his place in history. ° Pins and awards for Good Citâ€" izenship will be awarded by Mrs. Edwin L. Gilroy, chairman, of the North Shore Chapter. Americanâ€" daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Culver Shields of Lake Bluff who will Mrs. Millett will be assisted as hostess for the occasion by the following coâ€"hostesses: Mrs. Naâ€" than Corwith, chairman, â€" Mrs. Harry J. Van Ornum, Mrs. Willâ€" iam L. Winters, and Mrs. William ization committee. School award. . GREEN BAY ROAD & 18TH ST. PHONE MAJ. 1067 Northshore Garden of Memories A Surprise Awaits You If You Have Not Visited THIS BEAUTIFUL GARDEN CEMETERY TV people have to sleep well ... thats why I have an Klectric Blanket /" "THE PRESS VERY REASONABLE Ravinia Women Will lflold Dinner Dance Saturday Evening ,_ _ The second of the three formal dinner dances given by the Ravinâ€" in Woman‘s Club for its members and guests will be held ut the Raâ€" vinia Village house on Saturday night, Feb. 3. Billy Roberts and his orchestra will furnish the muâ€" sic for dancing from 9:30 p.m. until 1 a.m. . Members of the social commit> tee helping with the valentine theme decorations and other arâ€" rangements are as follows; Mesâ€" dames Bertram R. Beers, Robert Christopher, J. W. Barton, Mark Brown, W. M. Buckraeder, Robert Clarkson, D. L. Dewey, Gordon C. Fowler, A. W. Geigerich, J. L. Gibson, J. W. Gooch, Stanley D. Grove, W. W. Hamilton, A. C. Heimerdinger, G. E. Hubrig, R: S. Hutchinhon, C. L. Johnson, A. J. Joyce, Karl King, Carl H. Linhoff, Raymond Naegele, Robert Patton, Course On Church History Offered During Lent George Postels, John Stodder, N. L. Udell, G. C. Weaver and John Wilbor. The second of a series of courses on religion will be given first course, given in the, fall, was on the Bible. This second course is on church history, stressing the early apostolie church and its This course, very. interestingly, clearly and concisely presented, gives an unusual opportunity to learn in a field too little underâ€" Lent, beginning February 7, at the Trinity Episcopal church. The first course, given in the, fall, was The public‘is invited to attend these lectures. Registration may be made through the church offiâ€" ce or after any service at the church. School Wastepaper Pickup Schedule Highland Ten Pin Elm Placeâ€"Monday, Feb. 5. OPEN BOWLING for bowling instructions OPEN ALL DAY Every Day from 12:30 to 6:30 P.M. Call HJ 2â€"0319 WEDNESDAY H. P. 319 Roadâ€"Friday, Feb. 9. BUY U. 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