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WINNETKA. WEEKLY. TALK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24,1919 BRIDGES AND GAGE, now so that they will be sure of having a car when they want it. He sold last week a Ford runabout Prize Masquerade j All Is Not Lost -- Boys no longer have the opportuni- | loft, and by the light bf a smudged master draw poker in a quiet hay- 4 5. Wednesday, February 5, at Jones'|ty to learn their lessons by the light --to all. ~~ "The company has started out with ~NEW AUTO BUSINESS Wilmette Village Forester and Well Known Landscape Architect Be- comes Treasurer of New Concern The automobile firm of Bridges & Gage was incorporated last week with a capital stock of 20,000. i It succeeds to the business of C. F. Bridges, distributor of Franklin and Buick automobiles, and used car broker, at 1629 Orrington avenue, Ev- anston. : The incorporation" 'practically amounts to the fact that Benjamin E. Gage, Village Forester and well | known as a landscape architect, has joined forces with C. E. Bridges, who is one of the leading automobile dealers of the north shore. ; The incorporation will continue | business in Bridges' location on Or- ington avenue. Besides continuing the agencies for the Buick "and the Franklin cars and the used automo- bile business, it will keep up the | 716 Judson avenue, Evanston; a Ford service station and repair shop. Gage, the new member of the busi- ness, has beén interested in automo- biles as an owner since the first one- lunged Cadillac was let loose from the asylum. Since then he has own- ed and operated thirty different automobiles and will be able to talk | to prospective automobile purchasers from the standpoint of a veteran] automobile owner. i For twenty years he was connected with the Peterson nursery, and for | the last two years he has been land- | scaping independently. In this work | he has become well known through- | out the north shore. : He has also been prominent in the affairs of the Chicago Association of Commerce, holding the chairmanship of several important committees. Bridges is president of the new company, and he will have charge of the automobile sales. ; Gage, who is treasurer and busi- ness manager, will be in charge of the office. He expects to put a comprehensive and thorough business system in effect in the office. "As a result of the incorporation, the entire concern will be put on a strictly business basis. The one aim, the officers of the company declared last week, will be to serve the customer, and to "lean backward" in the effort to give ab- solutely 'fair and square treatment e program of selling at least one automobile a day, and in the first week of its existence it has: more than lived up to this pupose.. REGAL COLORS TO FEATURE THE AUTO SHOW IN CHICAGO Chicago's nineteenth annual auto- mobile show, which is to be held at the gigantic Coliseum, the Coliseum annex and First Regiment armory, January 25 to February 6, will be staged in regal colors of purple and gold. For many years the Chicago exhibition has been noted as the most spectacular in the country, not alone in point of actual car displays, but in the gorgeousness of its decora- tions. : A vast canvass top-piece, measur- | ing 300 by 240 feet, will entirely cover the Coliseum ceiling. It will have scroll work of purple and gold. At the upper end of the Coliseum will be a brilliant transparency depicting the Goddess of Peace receiving In- | dustry and on the other end another | goddess holding out an automobile | to the world. About the upper sides of the vast building will be great sunbursts having in the foreground outlines of the various types of the automobile. Between the sunbursts will stand the insignia of the allied | nations on shields, and the flags will | also be featured, as the Chicago | automobile show this winter reflects | peace, victory and optimism. The] automobile exhibits will be housed among rows of great pillars of rich mahogany color. standing twenty- | three feet in height. These pillars | will be surrounded by white-starred | blue. globes which, in turn, hold up | bronze eagles measuring eight feet | from tip to tip. In the armory the decoration scheme will be similar to that of the Coliseum, except that statues of the Goddess of Plenty will | be featured. The Coliseum annex decorations will be a daring con- ception on the part of Artist CJ) Tietzel. having a Japanese effect. | | | | | RUSH FOR NEW CARS IS ON; CUNNINGHAM MAKES TEN SALES Autos. both new rand used, are| ~aving rapidly, according to R.D.| Cunningham. north shore distributor for the Ford and Oldsmobile. North shore people, he explained, are awakening to the fact that within possibly a week or ten days new antomobiles will be hard to get, and that they. will in all probability be- come even mere scarce as the year | New Trier's 12 points, and was the | Robinson, Rockwood Kuelzow, Har- | mond Roth, Jack Taylor, Wallace | Weld, W. Clore, Don Jones, Robert | thur Seibold, Phelps Nordberg. | figures of | increase of $10,587,989. | the hoard. which is thought will progresses. For this reason, he ex- plains, people are buying their cars to Helmholtz & Sauer, physicians; a | Hall, Wilmette Ford touring car to M. E. Baker & ite Mh Mia ow lantern, still are! 'available in many of a pine knot. But opportunities to| rural communities. --Topeka Capital. Co, of Wilmette; a Ford sedan to J. C. Mitchell: an Oldsmobile sedan to | ZR Ralph Hawxhurst of Ridge terrace; BUY THE BEST an Oldsmobile eight sportster - to Miss Davis of 804 Forest avenue, Ev- anston; and Oldsmobile-six, five- passenger touring car to H. Board, Electric Vacuum Washer touring car to W. M. Hogle, 612 Sherman avenue, Evanston; a Ford runabout to C. W. Hansen, 1255 Chi- cago avenue, Evanston; a five- passenger Oldsmobile-six to J. C. Clue of Wilmette( and a Ford sedan to J. R. Patrick, 2145 Sherman ave- nue, Evanston. ENewl Trier Sport Notes With only one evening's practicing to their credit, New Trier basketball candidates made a very commendable showing Saturday night when they met rival teams from Lane Tech and Waller High school. Lane's featherweight team captur- ed the opening tilt by the score of 3 9. The next game, with the 'aller lichtweights, was the best winning 12 to 10. ~The final game Washes, was taken by Lane's heavyweights, Boils, and Keeps Water Hot and closest of the evening, New Trier | RR | ey | 19 to 12. : : Easy Payments | ) One "outstanding feature of the lichtweight game was the splendid playing of Sturgeon. He made 10 of We Carry [the THOR Sterilizes See our Vacuum Cleaners 1522 Sherman Ave. 1950 Irving Park Blvd. old Finlay, Harmon Rindell, Burton Telephone Wilmette : 52 Barnett, Don Jones, E. Cole. Ray- Telephone Evanston 654 strongest on the defense. Following are the boys from whom the regular league teams will be selected: Heavyweights FE. Richards. Kenneth Kerr, Ballard Open Tues., Thurs. and Sat. Evenings Wienecke. Don Calhoun, Allen Mills, | 2222222222222 27 22 LE lI B. Ely. Do not be impatient when you get the Busy signal over the tele- phone. It sintply means that someone has gotten the line you wanted to use, first. No one is at fault. Wait a minute or two and then repeat your call. There is no way in which to get a message through over a line that is already 1n use. : CHICAGO TELEPHONE COMPANY Lightweights Max Whitright, W. Sturgeon, S. Lusted. Burton Smith, Merritt Flem- ing, B. Smith, G. Kershaw, Alfred No Mitchell, Enar Nelson, Carleton Var- ney. Featherweights Marshall Webber, Donald Boice, Raymond Connor, Lawrence Hayes, Chase Prescott, Marshall Doty, Ar- Bulletin ; : Big double bill Friday night, Jan- wary 23 at" New Trier gymnasium. 7:30 o'clock, League Swimming meet: New Trier vs. Oak Park. 8:30 o'clock. two scrappy games of Bas- ket ball: New Trier Heavyweights vs. two Alumni teams. Saturday night, Cadet dance. "THE FIGHTING ROOSEVELTS" POSTPONED UNTIL NEXT WEEK The film production, "The Fight- ing Roosevelts", which was to have been shown at the Hoyburn theater, Evanston, the last three days of this week, has been postponed until next week, according to the management of the motion picture house. The production will appear at the Hoyburn on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. January 29, 30 and 3 "The Fighting Roosevelts" is an authorized film version of the life and works of Theodore Roosevelt and, it is expected, will interest every resident of the north shore. Mary Miles Minter will head the bill at the Hoyburn on Friday of this week. in "Wives and other Wives." On Saturday Shirley Mason and Ernest Truex will be seen in "Good- bye Bill." "Romance of Happy Valley," a Griffith masterpiece, will be the head- liner on Monday and Tuesday of next week. rs | every 30 minutes. EQUALIZATION BOARD COMPLETES ITS WORK The Illinois state board of equal- ization has just completed its work of the 1918 session. Its adjournment was delayed for three weeks because of the failure of the county clerk of Cook county to send in his reports. This session. the second under the leadership of William H. Malone of Park Ridge. was the most successful Milwaukee at 9:45 2:45 p. m. in the history of the board. The full ; gan, leave Winnetka every thirty minutes. assessed value of lands, lots and per- sonal property as fixed by the hoard amounts to $7.100992365. which is an increase of $106,566.795 over the f last year. Capital stock of corporations. $106,574,979, or $27 .- 193.905 higher than last year. Rail- road properties, $642957,067, or an By a new system decided upon by bring about more efficiency; a special committee was appointed at its last meeting. which will begin checking upon corporations next May so they may be in readiness to make a ten- tative report to the board when it meets in August. In view of the successful work of the board this year-it has been pos- Chicago Office: FOR THAT MILWAUKEE TRIP NORTH SHORE LINE It will pay you in time saved and comfort gained to use the North Shore Line when you have occasion to travel to Milwaukee, Racine or Kenosha. Hourly schedules are maintained daily ; on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays there is a train every half hour. The running time from Winnetka to Kenosha is 53 } minutes -- to Racine 1 hour 6 minutes -- to Milwaukee 1 hour 47 minutes. LIMITED SERVICE NORTH BOUND Limited trains leave Winnetka at 6:29 a..m. and every hour thereafter until ' 11:20 p. m. On Saturday afternoons, Sundays and Holidays there is a train PARLOR CARS--leave Winnetka at 9:29 a. m. and 2:29 p. m. Leave and Leave Milwaukee at 11:45 a. m. EXPRESS SERVICE Jixpress trains, making one stop in each town between Fvanston and Wauke- For further information apply to the nearest ticket office of the NORTH SHORE LINE 66 W. Adams Street Phone Central 8280 : ; use the - DINING CARS--leave Winnetka at 12:20 p. m. and 5:29 p. m. and 5:45 p. m. Milwaukee Office: Sixth & Clybourn Streets Phone Grand 945 sible to reduce the state rate from; last vear's rate of nmety cents to! seventy-five cents for this year. i