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INNETKA WEEKLY" Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk VOL. VII, NO. 14. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1918 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS CARNIVAL WILL BE KIDDIES HOLIDAY Winnetka Branch Of Infant Welfare Society To Delight the Cchildren on June 28 PONY RIDES A FEATURE Everything Imaginable To Please the Youngsters Planned for the Oc- casion The plans for the Children's Carni- val for the benefit of the Intant Wel- fare, to be held, June 28, at 4 Indian Hill road, are well under way. The patronesses will be Mrs. James L. Houghteling, Mrs. John Scott, Mrs. John Nash Ott, Mrs. Horace K. Ten- ney, Mrs. Charles T. Mordock, Mrs. Donald Dallas, Mrs. Cornelius Lynde, | Mrs. John Stuart, Mrs. J. Allen Haines, Mrs. John T. Boddie, Mrs. Edwin Clark and Mrs. Morris Gree- ley. Mrs. John Nash Ott is chair- with several sub-committees ing under her. Mrs. John Boddie will have charge of the bridge, which will be $5 a table, including entrance and refreshments. The bridge tables will be on the first floor of Mrs. Ott's home. All to please Kiddies The booths for the Carnival will be attractively arranged encircling Mrs. Ott's spacious and beautiful lawn. Mrs. John B. Guthrie and her | committee are working hard to satis- fy the various tastes and desires of the little tots. There will be very attractive and beautiful dolls for sale, and Mrs. Guthrie will take orders for more dolls if the public wishes "hem. Mrs. Arthur Dean, Mrs. Harry JF.dmonds, Mrs. William Truesdale, "Mrs. Edward Isom and Mrs. assist her in selling. The g Ss Li ice cream conesywill refreshing as well as cheap, and will no: doubt delight the children. Mrs. Charles T. Mordock and her committee, Mrs. Arthur Havemeyer, Mrs. M. L. H. Odea, Mrs. Spaulding Coffin and Mrs. Robert Greenlee, will sell them. Mrs. John Ott, assisted by Mrs. Harold Atkin, Mrs. Laird Bell, Mrs. Edward Rogers, Mrs. Barret Con- way, Mrs. Harry Street, Mrs. J. F. Dammand, Mrs. William Martin, Mrs. Joseph Husband, Mrs. James Prinde- ville, ' Mrs. Ayerss Boal and Mr. Hathaway Watson will have the ice cream parlor, where ice cream and cake will be sold for tweny-five cents. Mrs. Arthur Bentley and Mrs. Royal Bell will have Liberty chips and cookies for sale. Mrs. Roland Whit- man, assisted by Miss Mosely and Mrs. Rockwood Hosemer, will sell candy. Balloons, flags and whistles will be found at Mrs. Lawrence Stein's booth. Mrs. Claude Nathan and Mrs. Allan Wolff will assist her. Grab Bag and Ever'thing Mrs. Percy Bradstreet and her committee, Mrs. Landen Hoyt, Mrs. Elliott Stearns, Mrs. Gerald Hoyt, Mrs. Basil Thompson and Mrs, How- ard Hoyt, will dispense lemonade, ginger ale and othery soft drinks at a very low price. There will be a Grab Bag Booth providing prizes for the children at 5 and 10 cents a draw. Mrs. Donald Dallas, assisted by Mrs. Raymond Durham, Mrs. Ribert Butz, Mrs. Ernest Seatree and Mrs. Frank Crawford, will have charge, and near work- | Jackies Sing Rag-Time Tunes As Huns' Torpedoes Sink Transport | VILLAGE HALL NOTES | Fir street, is the recipient of a most interesting letter writ- ten by Rudolph Overby, formerly stationed at the Great Lakes training station, and now in the Hospital Corps in overseas duty. Overby, who was a familiar figure at many of the Community House dances, was aboard the President Lincoln at the time of its sinking. His version of the catastrophe follows: "You evidently have heard and know a great deal about the sink- |ing of the President Lincoln, bit here |goes to give you what I saw. First [1 must say I'm as well and happy as ever a human being ever was. cts . s ET Didi Friday morning at 8:58, about 486 |U- No. 11. | miles from France or 39 hours out {in time, we were hit by two torpe- | dos, one in the port bow, the other [in the stern. | { hit, t ship listed at once to the { port. Our siren and alarm bell sound- 18S DOROTHY MADSEN, 548 | of being a ship-wrecked crew. The At the meeting of the Council last Tuesday evening, it was decided to increase the insurance on the Village Hall property to $10,000. + + + The water and light committee was authorized to arrange for the pur- chase of an additional 1,000 tons of coal for the muncipal plant for stor- are. This in co-operation with the recommendation of the Fuel Ad- ministration that coal supplies for next winter be purchased at this | time. popular songs of the day were, "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here", "Back Home in Indiana" and "Pack up Your Troubles in Your Old Sea Bag". There was absolutely no thought of danger to ourselves. I can speak for the bunch when 1 say we thought more about what those at home would think when they heard about it than we did of ourselves. The cheering and singing, I must confess, soon "piped down" when a U-Boat appeared on the scene. It | was one of these new sea-going | types, with one five inch and one + + + | Chief of police W. N. Peterson has been appointed as Viilage Fire Mar- | I was on deck at the | [time and saw both of them coming | - : 'hole, | and also both hit. As soon as they | man of the committee of the whole, | {ed and we all went about our duties. | | All patients were placed in non-sink- | [able life suits and placed in life- boats There were about ten in Those, more able, were |given suits and taken below to abandon with us' at our regular abandoning station. While we were doing our duties, the others of the |crew were doing theirs, namely low- ji = i x Wh z : : ; ia : ceipts from the Tea Shop, $605.60; the live rafts. The engines were shut|we drifted until about 11 p. m. when I on ho Market. $1 or > the B 3 Af ; . I Frenc Market, ,000 ; 8 oy off and the steam exhausted. (Dur-]|a signal was flashed on the horizon. | ts. $40: and 4 i. 3 Q Kinder . sry PAR > pn Scouts, Fi and ie S. S. Kinder- | ing this time no "sub" was seen). At We answered by rockets. T'hey were | at n 8 g ; : : . raten, 9:20 o'clock order to abandon ship [two American destroyers. The cheer- |8 3 . i " RAs tes Et : : | The following things are wanted vas given. The water was filling in |ing was deafening. They immediate- | it once ini the 'Gift Shob: A Silk . . { . « pt onc IN vi FE S x the ship very quickly. The water | ly set about picking us up. It was Sg reater Tnnatation a And line at that time was about 3 feet|about 1 a. m. when I was taken | W% 3 A ] ie : 3 . as 3 wi ' irons, Blue Dishes (Stockholm pat- | from the main deck. aboard, that made it about 16 hours | : ! | Na ; : : 5; tern), Mahogany Mirror, large Lib- | Falls Into Sea 1 of floating about on a raft. We sure [rary Globe: Girls: Bicvcle Bovis TIRE Pee Te 1d mostlivere treated great by the destrover i Yary Globe. Girl's. Bicycle Bov's Ve- ¥ All hut the boatine: ad mMostywere treated great bythe destroyer Te Lis 5 fe. 3 TE el RT tas 2 i |locipede, Japanese Waste Basket. |ofncers abandoned "the Ship on' tife | crews Filled to -the. brym with hot | Franklin: Stove; Fron-Fire -. Basket {rafts. The hospital corps abandoned | "Java" and presented with woolen Small Whiting Desk. Fire Screay | together." The raft I stepped onto! socks. They stayed until day-break | 2 | had a loose centerpiece and I plunged down into the "drink" over my head; lin doing so I swallowed about | "steen" quarts, it seemed, of salty | | water. I felt the effects of it later. | The forward port gun fired four shells in the spot where they imagin- ed the U-Boat to be, but no results. They abandoned ship, followed by [the Radio Operator and Captain. The | water was passing over the main | deck at the time. There was "wild cheering" when the guns were fired. Immediately the stern the stack tumbled in pieces, the bow nosed up out of the sea, then all dis- appeared from view, leaving floating debris, rafts, etc., behind. Due to the exhausted boilers there was no explosion, nor was there any suction by the ship, it had filled up so com- pletely with water. Sing As Ship Goes Down When the ship sank, we all struck up the song, "Where. Do We Go From Here?". Judging from the hilarity and high spirits of our "gang" you would have thought we were on a fishing expedition, instead disappeared, | | | ering life boats, and heaving over | secured together and in this manner down". [shal which position he will hold in |addition to his police office. Con- | firmation of the appointment was made by the council this week. + + + | An ordinance demanding the era- | dication of the wheat destroying bar- |berry shrubs from all lots in the Vil- lage, was introduced at the Council meeting last Tuesday. The ordinance ) : DY [will become effective upon final pictures ot us, chuckled over their | jacsage at the next session of the ss and sailed off much to our ! council, two weeks 'hence. We all pronounced their cap- | real human "sport", for spar- | ing our lives. It would have been an | sy matter for him to shell us all wit machine gun. Two Destroyers appear When the U-Boat departed we set about rigging up nals. three inch gun mounted on her, and also a wireless apparatus. It was the They circled about our crew looking for officers. They took | one of o When they took the plugs out of the mouths of their ) ours. guns, I think you could have sold our unch for nothing. I judge it 1ly a warning to be careful and grt nothing. They took a few! | | was ina AT THE GIFT SHOP "a | ag poles as sig- | All life-boats and rafts were | {made $3300. This includes the re- q Fas : | Rugs, pair Silver Candle Sticks. pair toc make sure not to miss anybody. 3 "L Dresden Candle Sticks, pair Brass We then steamed off full speed fori Yio . 28d France aia {Candle Sticks, Chest of 'france ages . Eta " 8 ae ae iy p Chiffonier, Pottery Teapot, We then steamed off full speed for 4 : Ro < rs . : Racks, Book Case, Silver morning, where we were immediate- |5. : . » : i y he | V enetian Sketch, Electric ly placed aboard another transport! ~ fei . . >: ' i Card Table Covers, Infant Pins, Mu- one of the speediest afloat, and our | X § Ct dr.o 1p a : : os sic Bench, Canvass Goli Bag, Golf spirits are at their heights. Though | ' a Sy ny | Clubs, Antique Chair, Baby Carriage, rather weather beaten and garment- | 5 "08 gs ns . 3 |Go-Cart, and Children's Clothes. less we are o. k. The "chow" cannot re ; F ; Will you look in your attic or store be beaten, nor the sleeping quarters. ; yh . re We are riding as passencers--this js | [00M and help the Shop fill these or- e are riding as passengers--this is ders? Possibly vou have seme: cher the life! hg Sony 3 SEE : a ished possessions stored away, which We are being re-outfitted and ex- ; ibe Ll AIT ae he ' you would like to convert into money pect to be "all set" for a big time aide 1 dss thee F of when we get to the states. Out of lo ai hoz glesss Iolugee Tonea : ry children. If so, the Gift Shop affords 715 men, 688 were saved. The ship s . . te ' 3 an unusual opportunity of disposing sank in 29 minutes. We were com- ; . of it at your own prise. limer 4 ai : 3 is 0; plimented by our captain for our We hope you will visit the Gift goad Works Tha sunt are he | Shop at Community House, which is : 3 ¥ 2 $.tor tae open every day from 3 to 5. A very J. S. Des rers < : : : L Destroyers and three cheers for interesting collection of bead neck- N " my =) ove ea liberty 3 laces, made by the "Blesses", has just : : Won liberty. 1 lveen received from Dr. Brown. New York. 'Gee! it is great to be on terra firma again--though I must MUST HAVE LICENSES TO SOLICIT WAR FUNDS confess, when we were hit we were only 3 miles from land--straight For information for Winnetkans FRIEND OF OLD AND YOUNG PASSES AWAY + Mr. Higgins has gone; and little { children are mourning. For John bY there will be a fish pond where | Higgins was their dear friend. Many A) hildren will fish tor tove. Mes | days he faithfully guided their un- Alfred Edwards, with Mrs. Taliaferro | €€Ttain feet across the tracks, gently Mitton. Mise. Harve. Badzerow and | chiding them for lingering on their f\ . FALE Ss Ve aage d : . tway from school. Somehow we feel Mrs. Wallace Rumsey, will see that = : they w all the kiddies have a chance. that ill always remember his No Children's Carnival would be complete without a Punch and Judy show, and Mrs. Cornelius Lynde, assisted by Mrs. E. Ashley Gerhard and Mrs. Mancel Clark, will see that the children are delightfully enter- tained here. Out on the driveway Mrs. N. H. Blatchford, Jr., will have ponies for rent at 10 cents a ride. Assisting her will be Mrs. T.awrence Howe, Mrs. Sebastian Hinton, Mrs. Sam Greeley, Mrs. Fred Mason and Miss Mary Herr. Slides, teeters and games will be there free of charge. Mrs. Harry Edmonds will charge of the slides, and Mrs. Frank Crawford of the teeters. Mr. Harold Atkin and Mr. Donald Dallash will umpire the games. (Continued on page five) have | | cheery voice and patient figure. position in their childhood unique. Grown-ups too, are mourning him. | Grown-ups are remembering the {times they occupied the low chair in his little shanty on the railroad, while John himself, with poor tired feet, so courteously preferred to | stand. Grown-ups might learn a | lesson from the ever courageous | spirit he maintained through the | sharp days of winter and the long { hot days of summer. John Higgins was born in 1854 in Worcester, Mass. He died suddenly at his home at 825 Foxdale avenue, on June 4, 1918. He was buried in Highland Park on Friday, June 7. His friends will always remember him. Hs Sais F. A. at Camp Mills. was | | May 20, is at the Signal C | Leavenworth who are planning to give War Bene- fits or Entertainments or to solicit funds for war purposes, the following War Emergency Notes extracts sien pamphlet of infor- L HA |mation, issued by the State Council -- of Defense are sumitted: "The State Legislature by a recent Major Casey Wood of the Surgeon Village ! The Dr. Alice Brown Gift Shop has | Drawers, | Book | Chains, | Lamps, | Generals Staff, Washington, has been made Lieutenant Colonel. William, Wente who entered the service April 29, is now in Battery B Act created the State Council of De-, fense for the purpose of aiding in the prosecution of the war, and by an- other Act, which became effective on [July 1, 1917, the Legislature made it {the duty of the State Council of De- | fense, and has given it the authority service [to regulate the solicitation.of funds orps, Fort |and other property for the purpose of | war aid and war relief during: the continuation of the war. The Act by which authority is American Red [given provides, under heavy penalty {for violation of its provisions, that + + + on and after July 1, 1917, no indivi- Myron Erikson is at the Naval | dual, society, club, Aviation station, Pensacola, Fla. ot Nils Anderson who entered + + + J B. Alton is Associate Field Di- | rector, Civilian Relief, Cross, Great Lakes. | corporation shall engage in the so- RAN | licitation of funds or other property Word has been received of the safe {for any war relief, with the excep- arrival of first Lieutenant Robert C. tions hereinafter referred to, with- Meleney, overseas. out first obtaining from the State Council of Defense a license author- | ] + + + George Kelly of the 842nd Field Ar- tillery, is now at Camp Mills, Long, Island. izing such solicitation. All persons, societies, clubs, asso- ciations or corporations desiring such association or | FOOD DEALERS DRAW UP WAR TIME PLANS Recently Organized Food Dealers' Association of New Trier Town- ship Adopts Delivery Charge Plan ALSO HAVE CLOSING ORDER Charge Five Cents for Deliveries and Limit Deliveries to 4 per day More than 40 grocers, meat market and delicatessen shop proprietors {and other purveyors of food on the {north shore, members of. the "Food Dealers' Association of New 'Trier Township, 'were present at the first regular meeting of that recently or- | Eaniasy body held at the headquar- [ters of the Wilmette Guard Tuesday | evening. # Resolutions were adopted provid- {ing that all places of business where | food is sold shall close all day Sun- {days and all day holidays in order |that there may be no discrimination and no advantage | between merchants [individuals who feel that they jcan afford, for the future benefits to | be derived, to operate their stores {contrary to the wishes of the majori- [ty as expressed after careful consul- {tation and advice from district and | | state food administrators. | Display Patriotic Fervor | The merchants guided by a pat- |riotic zeal which was a splendid [example to other residents of the [north shore and particularly to their | patrons, set themselves whole-heart- edly to the task of formulating [plans and regulations whereby they | might actually serve in the cause of |the war in matters of food conserva- tion by merchants and householders |and patriotic observance of all gov- ernment regulations in food matters. {=~ President of the association, AS; Fan Deusen, at-tkFe outset af. the jmeeting presented North Shore Food (Administrator, George F. Appleyard, as the speaker and guide of the even- ing's deliberations. i Urges Co-operation Mr. Appleyard pointed out to the men that co-operation and team work was needed by the merchants in these times both in their own in- terest and those of the nation at war. He also gave many pointers which clarified the somewhat be- fuddled atmosphere of the average food purveyor's store while operat- ing, as at présent, under strict gov- ernment regulation. He declared that co-operative effort would not only materially aid the nation's cause but, at the same time, be in- strumental in teaching better busi- ness methods to the small dealer. To Make Delivery Charge Conservation in the eyes of the government consists not only in sav- ing sugar and meat when those ar- ticles are short, but consists also in the saving of man and beast power as represented by the automobile and horse and wagon delivery system. To this end, it was decided that beginn- ing July 1 all dealers will limit de- liveries to four trips and each dealer will make a charge of 5 sents for every order of food stuffs not carried away by the purchaser. The local dealers were congratulated upon their decision to make only one | charge when the order was for both | meats and groceries. While it was pointed out that this might work to the advantage of | stores which sell both meats and | groceries, in which one charge is jmade, as against the man who sells | meats alone, when the housewife who | patronizes him will have to pay 5 |cents for her meat delivery and also |5 cents for her grocery delivery, a lgreat confidence was expressed that {the housewife's of the north shore el {would not change their present [places of doing business and thus (work a hardship on the stores which [carry only the one line. Van Deusen Heads Body Officers of the new co-operative organization are: Presidént, A. S. Van Deusen, Wil- mette. Vice President, O. Rudolph, Win- netka. Secretary and Treasurer, F. H. Verhalen, Wilmette. Board of Directors: A. F. Aspe- (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Four) (Continuea on page tour)