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I TS An INNETKA WEEK Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk VOL. VI, NO. 49 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918 SIX PRICE FIVE CENTS Drafted Men Go To Rockford so orning ALLEN D. ALBERT TO SPEAK HERE HERE SUNDAY, Prominent Member of the Army and Navy Commission on War Camp Recreations Will Speak at Community House. PLANNING WAR GARDENS War Union Committee is Active in Arranging for Winnetka Gardens. By E. W. Wortley. (Field Secretary of the Winnetka War Emergency Union.) Winnetka people will have the privilege of hearing Mr. Allen D.| Albert of the Army and Navy Com- mission on War Camp Activities on} Sunday, Feb. 24, at 8 o'clock at the Community House. Mr. Albert will speak on "War Recreations in the Camps." Mr. Albert has the reputation being a most delightful and convinc- ing speaker, and no one should miss the opportunity of hearing him. He ot has had fifteen years of experience with our army and he thoroughly understands the need of the men in | military camps. x As a special feature of the evening program there will be motion pictures of the "Army Life at Camp Grant," also pictures of Winnetka boys in service will be shown. Mrs. Morris M. Townley will have charge of the musical program. and she also will sing a number of patriotic songs. Ahier dashes nap pointed the new chairman of the | garden committee of the War Emerg- ency Union. The members of the committee are now planning their work for Winnetka when the plant- ing season opens. A canvass will be made of the peo- ple who donated land last year and of those who worked the land last year, and of the people who are will- ing to give similar service this year. Arrangements for ploughing and fer- tilizing are being made, and recom- mendations will be given by this committee as to the nature of plants which will be cultivated in Winnetka to the best advantage. and as to the time when they should be planted. This committee will co-operate with the Conservation Committee of the Woman's Club, so that the products raised may be properly canned. dried and stored for winter use. Arrange- ments will also be made for the dis- posal of the surplus vegetables. The members of the garden com- mittee urges that if any person has land to donate for war gardens. or if anyone is willing to give service in promoting the war gardens, that they immediately notify the War Emerg- encv Union in care of Mr. William S. Miller. The War Emergency Union is di- recting the sale of Smileage books in| Winnetka. These books are sold to: persons in the village who may send them to the men at the military camps. The books may be purchased at the offices of the Union at Com- munity House. Each book: contains twentv coupons and the coupons en- title the holder to admission to the war camp entertainments provided by the Commission on Training Camp Activities. Plans are being made to promote two home nursing classes at the Com- munity House. These classes will meet twice each week. One class will meet on Tuesdays and Fridays at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the other class will meet on the same days at 8 o'clock in the evening. The fee for the afternoon classes is five dollars and for the evening classes three dollars. The classes will | begin as soon as ten persons are en-, rolled. The registration for this | work 1s in charge of Miss Mary Garretson, visiting nurse. The War Emergency provide the men called Grant on Sunday morning with a comfort kit, sheepskin slippers, and | the Naval Auxiliary Committee of the Red Cross will furnish each man with! a sweater and two pairs of socks. Union will Fae eT aT | you to Campi the Andrew Courtney Campbell, | Mrs. | AUTHOR WRITES OF THE NORTH SHORE DISTRICT Meredith Nicholson, an author of | Sess reputation, has an article in Scribner's this month on Chicago which is attracting considerable in- terest in this and the north shore towns, for the author mentions them in his story. He writes: "Perhaps the typical Chicagoan the commuter who, the day's hurry fret, ponders the city's needs calmly by the lake shore in prairie es. Chicag suburbs are felicitously named--Kenilworth Winnetka, Hubbard Woods, Ravinia, Wilmette, Oak Park and Lake F But neither the opulence of Lake Forest and Winnetka, nor polo and a famous golf course at Wheaton obscure the me The urban Chicagoan violent at the mention of Evanston, yet here we is after and or villag y's or- est. ts of Evanston. becomes find a reservoir of the true western folksiness, and Chicago profits by its | propinauity. Evanston goes to] church, Evanston reads, Evanston is shamelessly highbrow with a firm substr evangelicanism. Here, on spring mornings, Chopin through many winds across the pleasantest of hedges and Dostoyef- sky is enthroned by the evening lamp. The girl who is always at the tennis nets or on the golf links of Evanston atum of YW S is the same girl one has heard at the! ( piano, or whose profile is limned against the lamp with the green shade can | floats | PAY YOUR TAXES | Officials of New Trier Township urge prompt Pogmen of taxes Feb. 14, 1918. New Wilmette, Ill. To the Taxpayers Township: The undersigned taxing bodies and |b eneficiaries of taxes now due in New Trier Township, botli personal and al estate, appeal to you individually | r for immediate pay ment of such axes | 4 L 1 of Trier o Mr. Hoyt King, Township Col- lector, in his office, First Nati hay Bank of Wilmette. Conditions due to the war call for | availability funds and present an | unusual opportunity for the practical | demonstration of civic patriotism. Moreover, early performance of | this public duty, you save a possible | township levy because the interest on | of by | | the money and a percentage of re-| ceipts apply to township expenses. | Again, you prevent the necessity on | the part of your Village, your schools | and your local bodies of borrowing money and paying interest thereon. | [a Yours respectfully, | | Louis K. Gillson, president of the Wilmette Park Board. { I. W. Penfield, president of the Vil- lage of Glencoe. Sherman M. Booth, president of Glen- coe Park District. William D. McKenzie, i) resident. of as she ponders the Russians. She isy the Village of Winnetka. 1 symbolic and evocative of Chicago|W. W. Wheelock, president of the in altissimo. Her father climbs the heights perforce that he may not be deprived of her society. Fitted by nature to adorn the bright halls of romance, she is the sternest of real- ists. She discusses politics with sophistication, and you may | be sure Sue begs To" Tae can wield the gavel with grace and ease. She buries Spa at times in a city settlement, for nothing is so important to this young woman as the uplift of the race; and in so far as the race's destiny is in her hands I cheerfully volunteer the opinion that its future is bright." KENILWORTH BOY LAUDS CAMPBELL FOR BRAVERY In a recent letter to the people of Kenilworth, thanking 'them for his Christmas box, Waldo Thorsen writes of the high standard of courage that Andrew Courtney Campbell, Jr. set for the young men from Kenilworth, and of their determination to uphold it. Waldo Thorsen is with the Rain- bow Division in France. His letter reads as follows: "Somewhere in France. "Dear people of Kenilworth: "Just a short note of thanks for your kindness and thoughtfulness in sending me that wonderful box of eats. It came last Sunday morning and I was sitting on my cot reading letters from home at the time. I didn't have any idea what it was until IT saw the name 'Tibbetts & Gar- land' on the box after T had done quite a bit of unwrapping. You surely had it wrapped up well and it came over in fine shape. When I saw the card inside it just touched my heart to think how thoughtful had been of us. "The boys here think about home continually and there are none that think about a better, finer, prettier little town so far in the West than dear old Kenilworth. "Let me say here, that Coty Camp- bell was a wonderful example to us all and we will surely try to hold up the high standard of courage and patriotism which he carried. We will do our duty just as he did even if it should mean that we, too, will have to give up our lives for America. We all admire him so much and are very proud of him, especially as he is from our town. "With best wishes to you all for a very happy Christmas and New Year, I am "Very faithfully, "WALDO THORSEN." Mrs. Leon M. Allen of Kenilworth, is in charge of the subscriptions for Jr. Memorial Hospital Fund on the north shore. Persons wishing to subscribe are requested to communicate with Allen, ite 0 SR Souieues gn Nenwor ua Board ot Village of Kenilworth. Edward, Zipf, president of the Vil- lage of Wilmette. Ruth W. Porter, president of the Board of Education of New Trier Township high school. A . Zimmerman, president of the a W. ol "Fduraron. E. S. Fechheimer, president of the Winnetka Board of Education. Frank E. Compton, president of the Glencoe Board of Education. J. G. Wray, president of the Wilmette Board of Education. COMMUNITY SING AT THE HIGH SCHOOL ON SUNDAY The second Sunday afternoon pro- gram by the New Trier chorus, or- chestra and glee clubs, mnder the direction of Mr. Homer E. Cotton, will be given this Sunday, Feb. 24, in the school's auditorium at 4 o'clock. The program will be pa- triotic and will give the township a chance to observe the national week of song, as is being done in other communities all over the country at the present time. The high school chorus, accom- panied by the orchestra, will give Jules Jordan's popular cantata, "Bar- bara Fritchie," a setting of Whit- tier's poem. Another number by the chorus will be the new song by our Chicago composer, Mr. John Alden Carpenter. This will be the first rendition of the song in Chicago or the suburbs. The remaining numbers on the program will be familiar pa- triotic songs and war songs in the singing of which the audience will be asked to assist. There is no ad- | mission charge and all are cordially invited to attend. Continues Practice. Dr. Edward M. Mikkelsen, who was | recently appointed a captain in the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps, has not been called into active service. He will continue his medical services in Winnetka until called by the gov- ernment. Scatree to Sail. Ernest W. Seatree is soon to go to France as Comptroller of National War Work, Council of Y. M. C. A. of the United States, attached to the American Expeditionary Forces, with headquarters at Paris. Brown Tea Shop. The Tea Shop is popular every af- ternoon. The committee is endeavor- ing to observe all war-time food reg- ulations and is specializing in Barley | Bread. It is a good place to try the | results of war receipts for wheat] i bread substitutes. Fiona SFU ~e- per, we offer our deep gratitude FRENCH PRAISE WINNETKA WOMEN FOR WAR SERVICES A letter lauding the work of Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown and her assist- ants was recently published in a French paper at Champigneulles, France. The newspaper article trans- lated reads as follows: MEURTHE-ET-MOSELLE. Champigneulles. American women with us.--We just ved the following let- ter: You have r recel and American good by ntiy on praised, with good re: the deeds our Red Cross, whose have been appreciated people. Through M. Martin, general secretary of the Prefecture, and in the Forges of Champigneulles, who quickly and very graciously their waiting-room, the of Champigneulles owns its dispensary, for more than two months under the management of Dr. Alice Barlow-Brown Winnetka, as- sisted by Madame Helene Dele- becque and Miss Mildred Van Aken, the utmost tender care oiven with great devotion to the women and children who are suffering. Sick people are visited twice a week in the waiting-room of the Forges and medicine is given away free by our kind nurses. Furthermore at Christmas time those dear ladies had the kind- ness of distributing toys, woolens and goodies to all their dear little patients. It is useless to say that this latter deed brought immense joy to all those dear little ones. So. by the means of vaur. pa- offered town also where clever of is to those charming and daring American women, who did not hesitate to cross the sea, risk their life, leave their home, their country and their liberty to come here, only a few hundred yards from the front. under the con- tinuous threatenino of fire, guided by their doctor (Dr. Brown) whose heart is so large and gen- erous. And so in the factory is estab- - lished a wonderful charitable organization under the manage- ment of the French and American Red Cross. These women of America are working for our Poilus, our women and children with a uniform spirit and tender heart. Keep it up, ladies, derful charity work, vou will be well rewarded by the eternal gratitude of the population of Champigneulles, of our dear Lor- raine, of our beloved France, who will soon come out victorious and better than ever through your generosity, sacrifices and im- movable perseverance. To you, women of America is due honor, thanks and gratitude. your won- HEALTH SERVICE IN U. S. OFFERED BY DR. MARTIN Radical suggestions pointing to- ward establishing a national health services were made last Wednesday by Major Franklin Martin of Kenil- worth, a member of the Council of National Defense and chairman of the general medical board, who re- turned last week from Washington, where he has spent the most of the last year. Dr. Martin is on a tour of inspection of the military camps of the country. The establishment by the council of a committee on industrial hygiene and surgery, which shall co-ordinate various agencies was indicated in resolutions offered at the meeting of the Chicago Medical Society, at which Dr. Martin spoke. Supply Officer. Lieutenant Arthur H. Kuhn is now supply officer at the Fourth Train Headquarters, Military Police, Camp Greene, N. C. Studying Aviation. Robert L. Alton is in the Reserve Officers' Training Camp at Columbus, 0. He is in the ground school of the { aviation department. 1 Norwood DRAFTED MEN GO TO CAMP GRANT SUNDAY Sixty Men Will Go Into Training at Rockford on February 24 From This District. | INSTRUCTIONS SATURDAY less BARN | Men Will Report Saturday Aftornon at Wilmette Village Hall. | | Next Sunday morning at 7:45 | o'clock sixty young men of this dis- i trict will entrain at the Wilmette station of the Chicago & North | Western railroad for Rockford, where | they will go into training at Camp { Grant as members of the great na- | tional army, the army which is to make the world safe for democracy. The group will comprise this dis- trict's fifth increment. The sixty men will represent the local draft board's share of the 5,000 men who are to be placed in training from the Chicago district to fill the eighty-sixth division to war strength. The men will be mobilized at the | Wilmette village hall Saturday after- noon at -4 o'clock, when they will receive final instructions from the members of the evemption board, George J. Pope, chairman, Fred A. Smith, secretary, and Dr. Rufus B. Stolp. The following men have been noti- fied to entrain for Camp Grant Sun- day morning: Otto E. Jaconbson. _ Wead Wittman. ENS Be wan VIE » Sidney G. Gage. 2 Charles F. Dehmlow.. Willis O. Erne. Frank B. Schildgen. Nicholas Dahm. - Fred Krueger. Iiax C. Weber. Carl W. Sonne. Edward W. Seramore.. Herman De Caluwe.. Leo Schulta. Albert W. Henning. Arthur M. Q. Syme. Peter J. Oerter. Charles Peters. Harry C. Nelson. . William H. Schmidt. ? Ernst H. Von Bergen. Frank Davis. Byron B. Price. Cornelius J. Bosman. Oscar C. L. Franson. August Bielfuss. Paul C. Johnson. 3 Frank Graziani. . Christ Bremer. Hubert Mueller. Frank M. Tolzien. Oscar D. Z. Kristensen. John F. Kryza. Walter F. Severin. Herbert Ambler. | Charles C. Guenther: Egedius Pettinger. Harry D. Orwig. John Kloth. Joseph G. Laubach. Tony Haut. Roman J. Dee. Barent H. Poucher. Robert G. Steele. William E. Miethke. Joseph G. Conrad. | William J. Kruse. : Cyrille J. Jeangerard. Fred Brosius. Stephen Fischer. Michael Coutre. John Abbink. Joseph Karlosky. Ralph W. Connor. John Plath. John Freres. William Goedert. Allan Wyman. Louis H. Mueller. Leo Forgue. Harley T. Crouch. Jacob P. Baumhardt. Of the sixty men called, approxi- mately thirty-five of them come from Park and other distant places. These men will be given places to sleep by the residents of Wilmette Saturday night, and the local board will provide for their (Continued on page four)