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Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk NNETKA WEEKLY TALK ---- ---- VOL. VI, NO. 41 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1917 FOUR PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS WINNETKA WOMAN IS PRAISED FOR WORK Orphan in France and Describes the War Conditions There. LAUDS AMERICAN WOMEN R elief Work for Women and Children of France Is Appreciated. ~The Winnetka "godmother" of a . ttle French orphan received lately | tter so full of the noble spirit of] France, written in such impassioned | recognition of the significance of America's entrance into the war, that | it was thought fitting to translate and publish it, so that the message | might reach all the women of our | community who are giving their time, their means and their efforts for the | cause to which, so often, the lives | of their sons or husbands are de-| voted. The letter reads as follows: "You will excuse me, mademoiselle, for coming to you with this free- dom; but A. J is my little pupil, in a manner, thus, my child, and I | take on myself the task of thanking | you. And then, mademoiselle, I have | seen your photograph; we are al- most of the same generation; you are America, and I am France. Will you allow me to say thank you for the loyal hand you have extended to us, for the admirable aid you have brought us in the frightful torments . which have fallen upon us? "Thank you for having, by the fact of your co-operation, consecrated _ forever, for today and for all time to come, from Orient to Occident, the 'holiness of the cause which we now ~ défend together. Thank you for all the wretches whom your generosity ! and intelligent charity have relieved. Thank you, above all, oh, thank you! from all my Frenchwoman's soul, for the noble blood which your soldiers soon, alas! are to shed upon our soil, to be purified (profaned as it is) by that touch alone, from the hateful stain of the German occupation. "But, women of America! you are now to climb the sorrowful Calvary that so many mourning Frenchwomen have mounted in tears before you. ~ Sursum corda! (Lift up your hearts!) A You too are to know the anguished sighs, our poignant "alarms; become to you so cruelly precious! "Courage, my sisters, galas! your tears must flow! And yet, Rh your action was not more prompt, she has come to see that France must ~ not be left to perish,--our beautiful France, smiling and loyal. is on guard, vigorous and ardent, spurs ready to strike, as in August, 1914; he welcomes with his clarion E Ea, joyous and resounding, the com- ing of the Americans. "Have confidence, we have confi- dence in you. You come to us, mag- ~ nanimous, disinterested. Your bared ~ sword flashes out for Right and Lib- erty. And when the radiant dawn of our common liberty shall be risen, when your starry banner shall fra- ternally mingle its folds with our shining and beloved tricolour, your a Gen on pgs four) French Teacher Writes to Sponsor of | 'a letter from the child's teacher, al | waiting for the letter so longingly ~ desired; you will know our cruel and sometimes, too, friends, your hearts also will break at the fatal news, when you learn that he whom you love, brother, husband, lover, is lying over there, in some corner of a land which is unknown to you, which will your ener- getic race will know how to support its griefs; but I suffer for your suf- ] y forings to come. And yet, as a Frenchwoman I rejoice, because, America, at rest in the ocean's im- mensity, rich, prosperous,--what need ~ for you to know our torments? You understand to the full the horrible beauty of the task you have so nobly assumed; your heroic action is made in full knowledge of the cause; and if we were perhaps surprised that today we are proud, for we say, Great America, our far- -away sister, who for ~ all her distance has in her soul some- thing in common with ours, has con- ~ sidered; she wished to know alljand poor France, in history found ever fight- ing to defend oppressed peoples; our She is aroused; the proud Gallic cock .whatever his enemies may say) his WINNETKA MAN TELLS OF HOLIDAY WITH U. S. ARMY Lieut. Dudley Bradstreet, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bradstreet, 335 | Ridge avenue, in a recent letter to his family, tells of the way the Amer- ican officers in France enjoyed their first war Thanksgiving dinner. Lieut. Bradstreet was' one of the first Win- netka boys to receive a commission at the first officers' training camp at Fort Sheridan. He was assigned to the infantry and received orders to sail for France in September. His letter reads as follows: "Somewhere in France. "November, 1917. | "Dear Family: "Your letter was a treat and full of news--and the smokes are de-| licious. I could have wept for joy | when IT saw those cigarets and it just | happened I had not bought a lighter although most every one else has. "Suppose there is small chance of this reaching you by Christmas, but mail seems to go much faster from us to you than from you to us, and you may get it before New Year's; any- way, you may count on my thinking a heap about you all on both of these days as I did on Thanksgiving. Of course it's great to be over here and nothing could buy me out of it, but it will be greater to be back, and 'the sooner I get at those Boches the better it will suit me. I see you were thrilled, that's good. By all means continue to be thrilled because that is a big part of the recompense for being on this party. But no fair dis- cussing sweet corn and such things, because even champagne, decom- posed cheese and such like do not make up for good old sweet corn. "I tell you something you may send me, a tin of that sugar ginger, a couple of the fellows have it and it's great stuff for standing the journey and it is awfully easy to take. "We had a half holiday on Thanks- giving and I enjoyed it immensely. I had turkey, mashed potatoes, peas, | salad, soup, bread, cheese, coffee, nuts, ngs, cake and champagne. Had our dinner at 11:15 o'clock in the morn- ing; that was only 5:15 o'clock in the morning at home; we are six hours early here, but an hour change was made the day we arrived in France. "Things come high here and cigar- ets are almost impossible to get. I want them most of anything. Boots like mine sell for not less than 150 francs--am enclosing sample--tell mother not to worry about this boy because my 'little white elephant' is going to stay right 'on the job. We are picturing the last days of the sec- ond training camp and wondering how our various friends came out. "Please get something for the chil- dren's trees for Christmas; the others must wait until 'Johnny comes march- ing home again.' Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all from, "DUDLEY BRADSTREET." FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR CAPT. W. H. GOULD Funeral services for Capt. William H. Gould were held at Leavenworth, Kan., on Christmas day in the Leav- enworth Congregational church, the Rev. Mr. Butcher officiating. Burial was in the Leavenworth cemetery. Capt. Gould, father of Mrs. J. W. FE. Davies, died Saturday evening at the Evanston hospital from injuries re- ceived on Thursday afternoon, De- cember 20, when he was struck by a Waukegan express train of the Chi- cago, North Shore & Milwaukee Electric railway. The accident oc- curred at the Pine street crossing about 5 o'clock. Capt. Gould, at the time of the accident, was accom- panied by Gould Davies, seven years old. Following the accident, Capt. Gould was hurried to the Evanston hospital in a delivery truck, driven by Tony Frank. Capt. Gould was 80 years old, and he lived with the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Davies, who, accompanied by their son, Gould, attended the funeral serv- ices at Leavenworth, Kan. Stearns to France. Lieut. Elliot Stearns sailed for France this week, where he will be assigned to staff headquarters to act as interpreter. Mrs. Stearns will make her home with her parents, Mr. land Mrs. W. M. Hoyt, Sheridan road. 'Army And Navy Game | Made By Gathereoal | New Trier Man Desiens Game to Be Played By the Men in Service of the United States. "Korner the Kaiser" and several other interesting games to be played on small checkerboards, designed by Frank H. Gathercoal, vice-president of the New Trier Business Men's as- sociation, are becoming popular with the soldiers and sailors at the na- tional encampments. . Mr. Gathercoal has received a num- BE. H. Gathorcoal. ber of orders for the novel board which he is manufacturing at his north shore workshop. The original board was made by Mr. Gathercoal for his nephew, who is in the serv- ice. His appreciation of the game caused Mr. Gathercoal to consider placing them on the market for the amusement of everyone. The checkerboard is made of .the best of wood and it will fit the pocket of a regulation uniform furnished by the government. Small bags are at- checkers and pegs used in playing all of the games. The game of checkers is popular at all training camps and many men back from Camp Grant for the holi- days say the boys in camp are wait- ing in line every evening for an op- portunity to use the limited number of boards at company quarters. In order to give the men a game to play themselves, Mr. Gathercoal has used one side of the board for "Peg Soli- taire" and "Korner the Kaiser." The person playing the game of "Peg Solitaire" attempts to jump and remove each peg that is placed in a number of holes on this side of the board, having but one peg left after jumping all of them. "Korner the Kaiser" may be sub- stituted for the game of solitaire. In this game one black peg and 15 white pegs are used, the Allies being rep- resented by the white pegs, and the black peg being the kaiser. Certain restrictions are placed on the way the white pegs are moved, the object of the game being to surround the black peg. LIEUT. HOLLISTER GOES ' TO EASTERN ARMY CAMP Lieut. Lloyd F. Hollister, vice-pres- ident of the Lake Shore Publishing company, arrived in Winnetka Mon- day from Camp Bowie, Tex., where he has been stationed with the 2lst Depot Brigade. Lieut. Hollister left Winnetka yes- terday afternoon for Boston, Mass, where he has been assigned to active service at Camp Ayer. Lieut. Hol- lister was one of the first young men of the north shore to answer to the call of the government for men, and after serving with the Illinois Na- tional Guard at St. Louis he was transferred to the first officers' train- ing school at Fort Sheridan, where he received his commission as sec- ond lieutenant. A RESOLUTION for 1918. Resolved, To send all of your cast- off clothing to the old clothes depart- ment of the Relief and Aid society. Care and discrimination is exercised in the disposal of all articles received and if the supply should ever ex- ceed the demand, the surplus will be sent to some other charitable or- ganization. Send your bundles of old 'clothes to Miss Kate Dwyer, 858 Elm street. | | day, | of Mrs. tached to each board containing the NEW SURGICAL DRESSING | CLASS BEGINS JANUARY 6 A new class in surgical dressings | will be opened in Winnetka on Mon- January 6, under the direction | Thomas Taylor. Persons desiring to enroll for this class are requested to communicate with Mrs. Taylor. An excerpt of a letter re- | ceived by Mrs. Taylor from Kather- ine R. P. Taylor, chairman of the sur- gical dressings committee in Chicago of the American Fund for French Wounded, urging the Winnetka wo- men to increase their supply in this department, reads as follows: "Surgical dressings are one of the greatest present needs in the hos- | pitals of France. The Chicago com- | mittee of the American Fund for French Wounded has just received the 'alarming news from Paris that owing to lack of surgical dressings and hospital supplies, the French hos- pitals are facing the prospects of be- ing unable to care adequately for their wounded. May I ask that you present to your committee for their consideration the matter of increas- ing your output of these articles to supply the ever-increasing demands abroad? "A Canadian nurse, who has recent- ly returned after two years' work at the front, begged me to impress upon all of our workers the necessity of sending surgical dressings in huge quantities. Many times she had to endure the anguish of facing a long list of operations knowing that her supply of dressings had entirely given out." COMMITTEE TO REGULATE COASTING IN WINNETKA A special committee was appointed at a recent meeting of the village council with power to act and to work out a practical scheme for reg- ulating coasting on the Oak street hill. The members of the committee will publish their plans concerning the action they will take to allow the children to enjoy the winter sport without endangering their lives. The Chicago #& North Western Railway compa will be requested by the village manager, following suggestions from the trustees, to pro- vide equipment for the heating of the shelter shed west of the railroad tracks, opposite the Elm street sta- tion. Following the authorization of a number of warrants for the pay- ment of bills, the council meeting was adjourned until Wednesday eve- ning, January 2. LAMONT HOME FROM WAR WITH WOUNDS AND MEDALS Robert Patterson Lamont, carrying eleven wounds and three medals as testimonials of a well earned rest from the war, is back at home. He is the son of R. P. Lamont, president of the American Steel foundries, who lives at 1722 Judson avenue, Evans- ton. He was wounded at Chemin des Dames on October 27. His medals include the Palm, highest of French military orders. Everett Wilson, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Everett Wilson, 645 Sheridan road, accompanied Lamont on the trip at Chemin des Dames. Wilson received an army citation with other members of the section for their work following the wounding of the Evanston man. HOUSE DONATED TO HELP DR. BROWN IS FOR SALE Wanted--A buyer for a one-room house ; will sell to reliable party. The house is guaranteed to please any dog. The purchasesmoney will be given to the fund created for Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown, who is actively en- gaged in relief work in the northern districts of France The house was recently donated, to be sold at the benefit held at the home of Mrs. Douglas Smith for Dr. Brown. Anyone wishing to buy this house is requested to communicate with Mrs. Douglas Smith. Unit to Meet. The Red Cross unit in the south- east district of Winnetka will meet on Wednesday, January 2, with Mrs. D. K. French of Hawthorn lane. 974 SUBSCRIBE TO WINNETKA "Y" FUND Mr. Calvin Fentress, Chairman of Campaign Committee, Reports Y. M. C. A. Fund Is $50,248.95. DISPLAY PLEDGE CARDS Government Food Pledge Cards Should Be Displayed By Women. By Eloise W. Wortley. Mr. Calvin Fentress, chairman of the Y. M. C. A. Fund for Winnetka, reports that up to the present time there are 974 persons donating to this fund, and a total of $50,248.95 has been subscribed. Have you received your food pledge card? If so, the Government asks that you display them in your front windows. Keep your pledge by con- forming to this request. The following letter, which was re- ceived by Mrs. Cadenhead from Werner Ebner, expresses the appre- ciation of a man in the service for kindnesses that are being done daily by the members of the Winnetka War Emergency union. The letter reads as follows: : "November 29th, 1917. "France." "Dear Mrs. Cadenhead: 5 "I received both your letters and the knitted helmet and muffler. Jt certainly was a great surprise to me and I thank you very much. They sure come in handy in this country' for here the wind blows hard and it either rains, snows, or sleets, which makes it very muddy and disagreeg- able for us to drill, but we are getting used to it. I would like to get in touch with Harry, but.I do not know, what his address is at the Great Lakes. I. presume everybody is busy there Christmas shopping. How is Winnetka since all the boys arc gong, "No, I never come in contact with, one from Wilmette who went to New Trier with me, and we sure did talk over old times. I presume that yon can imagine how it is when old friends meet. Just received a letter from Drury Sheahan, saying that he just arrived here and is well. If yon happen to see Mrs. Sheahan, would you please tell her, because she is worried. I presume that any news, from her son would be of some help. "We had a very fine dinner today; it consisted of turkey, cranberry, potatoes, apples, figs, bread and coffee. I think that it is as good as it could be so far away from home, "I am fine. Best regards to all, "Sincerely yours, "WERNER EBNER, "Battery D, 6th F. A. Batt. No. 100." The Council of National Defense has issued the following circular ad= dressed to State councils: The navy is in need of binoculars, spy-glasses and telescopes. Its stip- ply of lenses in the past has come chiefly from France and Germany, and American resources are inade-~ quate to fill the present greatly in- 'creased demand. In this emergency the navy counts upon the American public to contribute its stock of pri- vately owned observation glasses with the same generosity that has marked its donations of sweaters, mufflers and other articles of com- fort for sailors. Nobody should hesitate to send glasses because they are old, for old lenses are often of good quality. The Navy Department will repair instra- ments that are out of condition, pro- vided the glass is satisfactory. In order to conform to the Govern- ment policy of not accepting dona- tions, the Navy Department will pay $1 for each binocular, spy-glass, and telescope accepted. The glasses should be tagged with the owner's name and address and forwarded di- rect to Hon. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of Navy, care of Naval Observatory, Washington, D. C. They will be promptly acknowk edged, and those not available will be returned. The Winnetka War Emergency union will be very glad to receive any such glasses, and they will be forwarded to Washington, D. €. Leave them at the office of the union at the Community house. any Winnetka boys, but I have seen sauce, brown gravy, potatoes, sweet