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EE WINNETKA WEEK LY Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk TALK VOL. 1X. NO. 12. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1920 TWELVE PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS PASS $200,000 MARK IN SCHOOL CAMPAIGN Funds Are Swelled by Generous Con- tributions During Past Week; Village Awakened to Need For School THE SOLICITORS ARE BUSY Two Hundred Contributors Listed in Early Reports to Managers of Great Fund Drive Winnetka's West Elm street school fund was swelled to more than $200,- 000 this week. The solicitors have been working diligently every day with the result that nearly two hun- dred subscribers have been listed to date with many more subscriptions still in the hands of the solicitors and not recorded by the campaign man- agers. That Winnetka has appre- ciated the absolute necessity for building the new school within the year is evidenced by the generous response from all sections. of the village. The following are the subscribers to the new school fund whose sub- scribtions have already been turned in. There are additional subscriptions still in the hands of the solicitors: P. McDonald, Mrs. G. C. Lieber, Mrs. Fred Hubsch, S. J. Husar., Win- nie Wallace, R. H. Wallace, Eleanor Fastberg, G. M. Haller, J- :Eckart, Leon Longini, Edwin Brown, Charles Kinney, G. M. Pearse, Myron Har- shaw, BE: C. Weissenberg, S. J. Mo- diene, F. I. Workman, Grinnell Wy- lie, Robert Knox, Jessie Knox, Mrs. Corran, Edward Gorman. J. Runnfeldt, I. Belmont, A.Gerlach, G. L. Zick, E. B. Taylor, George Park, Robert Walpole, C. D. Dallas, R.- W. Ranney, Eric Anderson. B. W. Blow, Herbert S. Kreiter, Rudloph Wagner, M. L. Adams, Eric Nelson, William Zimmerman, Jr., Mrs. John Schubert, Dr.sE..G. Trowbridge, Robert C. Mel- eney, Abin A. Mehlhorn, Edgar Bau- man, Ezra Taylor. Charles Buell, Taliaferro Milton, Francis A. Lackner, Edgar Stanton, Roswell B. Mason, John, Bucking- ham, Roland Whitman, Roger Sher- man, John N. Ott, Allan IL Wolff, Chester Walcott, Jessie Thomas, Walter F. Wallace, John S. Miller, Jr, H..1. Ickes, A'S, Alschuler, Clarence E. Cook, John R. Leonard, James F. Porter, Lloyd Steere. Morgan Davies, Mrs. W. R. Page, R. Floyd Clinch, Douglas Smith, Merritt. Lum, Stephen A. Foster, Ernest S. Ballard, Victor Elting, August Magnus, William S. Hamm, J. W. Scott, John Stuart, F. H. Scott, George Forrest, William B. McIl- vaine, Calvin Fentress, I, H. Waid- ner, G. Mahoney, John F. Danley, Ayres Boal, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Bur- lingham, Susan and Barbara Bur- lingham, M. I. Greeley, Mrs. M. L. Greeley, Joseph Greeley, Mr. and rs. George Gordon, Lawrence Stein. Forbes Cadenhead, Mr. and Mrs. W. McM. Rutter, Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Copeland, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Shaw, Mr and Mrs John L Hamilton, Mr. and Mrs. H. K. Tenney, F. Goddard Cheney, Charles M. Thomson, Nathan Klee, Glen C. Bull, W. D. Truesdale. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. McKenzie. Helen and Robert English, W. R. English, Mrs. W. R. English. ; Dudlev K. French, Forest R. Low- rey. B. K, Smith, A. E. Bechtelheim- er, .C.-N. Strotz. A. R. Dean. W. A Strong. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Durham Mr. and Mrs. Laird Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Yeomans. Mr. and Mrs. William McKenzie, Malcolm Fleming, Frank Whitnev. J. Stein, Tawrence Hayes, C. W. Washburne. Tohn Guthrie, Frederick Thomas, H. FE. Miller. W. W. Chickering, Stanley P. Farwell. William SQ. Elliott. H. S. Stanton. William S, Carlisle, Toseph Hushand, Harry Edmonds, William Bradv, R. 1. Gonsalves, Mrs. H. E. Hirsch, An- onymous. . COMMUNITY HOUSE MOVIES SHOW WALLACE REID NEXT Wallace Reid in "The Lottery Man" is to be the attraction at Community House movies Fridav evening, June 11. at 8 o'clock. The community House movies have become an established institution in the village boasting a splendid reputation won solely through the presentation of "clean" and worth-while films. The Friday evening show is ex- pected to draw a larce crowd as it represents one: of Wallace Reid's most exceptional vehicles. Beach Patrol to Stop Picnicker's Rampages | Chief of Police Named Man To Patrol Beach Through Summer Months; Acks Co-operation Residents living in the vicinity of the lake shore will be interested and gratified to hear of the appointment of a beach patrol for the summer months. Beginning on Tuesday, George Balkow was named by chief of police Peterson to patrol the beach from the north to the south limits of the village. It will be Balkow's express duty to maintain a watch over picnic parties and to prevent scattering of waste materials along the beach and on parkways in that vicinity. Co-operation of citizens is asked by the police in connection with maintaining order along the lake shore. This can be done most readily by prompt report of instances of violations of village ordinance which calls for a heavy fine for such infringements. Suggestions as to the most feasible method of patroling the beach are sought by the police. Residents are asked to make such suggestions to the patrol officer or by calling police headquarters at Winnetka O. Paint Old Barn As 'Clean-Up Week' Job Boy Scouts Under Direction of J. Ww. F. Davies Drape Eyesore With New Coat cf Paint Winnetka enjoyed a thorough cleaning last week, the official "Clean up Week" for the village. In every section of the village there was evidence of a general cleaning out of rubbish from attics and basements, back yards and alley ways. Village officials reported' splendid co-opera- tion on the part of residents in every neighborhond. Perhaps the most unique feature the "Spring cleaning" was the re- decoration of the dilapidated barn at Willow street and Wilson avenue which, for lo, these many years, has not experienced signs of painting other than a large "sign" of an Ev- anston department store on the side of the structure facing the railway right of way. The Boy Scouts painted the entire building. The paint was furnished by J. W. F. Davies, scout leader, upon whose suggestion the work was de- cided upon by the department of Public Works. Superintendent Gibbon of the De- partment of Public Works was the recipient of many congratulations this week in view of the excellent services of that department in clean- ing up alleys, parkways and public grounds and carting away the rub- bish thrown out of attics and base- ments in manv homee The workers in the depart made a splendid showing augmented as they were with their new khaki uniforms. HOLD CHILDREN'S DAY AT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Children's Day and Promotion Sunday will be celebrated at the Winnetka Congregational church Sunday morning at 11 o'clock. The special children's * service will sup- plant the regular Sunday morning services. A feature of the activities will be the presentation of the drama, "Isaiah" by the fourth year school department. Fifteen girls and two boys will graduate from the high school de- partment and there will be promo- tions all along the line through the primary and high school departments of the Sunday school. high INTRODUCE ANNUAL BUDGET Annual Village Budget and Appro- priation Bill was introduced at the regular Tuesday evening session of the Village Council. The measre was not acted upon pendine further consideration by the Finance com- mittee of the council which makes it subiect to revision before nassaoe, [t is expected the budeet will ha adont- ed at the next meetino of the council. KNOT-TYING CONTEST Announcement was made this week of a knot-tying contest tn he enoraced 'n by Troons 1 and 2 of the Winnetka Roy Scouts. The contest is <et for the 'afternoon of Thursday. June 17, at Community House. ANNOUNCE NEW TRIER HIGH COMMENCEMENT Baccalaureate Sunday on June 13 and Commencement Day on Wednes- day, June 16, To Attract : Residents ANNUAL EXHIBIT JUNE 12 One Hundred and Ten Students in Graduating Class; Noted Speak- v: ers on Program Commencement activities at New Trier Township High school begin Saturday, June 12, with the annual exhibit of school work of the year, coupled with entertainment including a play, folk dances, may pole dances and special demonstrations of work by the various departments in the institution. Baccalaureate Sunday at the school is June 13. Services will be held at 4 o'clock in the school auditorium and the Rev. Samuel N. Watson will deliver the address. The public is invited to attend this service. Rev. C. W. Gilkey Speaker One hundred and ten students at the High school will receive diplom- as at the Commencement exercises on Wednesday, June 18. Presenta- tion of diplomas will be by President Louis K. Gillson of the New Trier Township High School Board of Edu- cation. Principal Eston V. Tubbs will present the class. The Com- mencement Day address will be given by the Rev. Charles W. Gilkey, pas- tor of the Hyde Park Baptist church of Chicago. Special music will be rendered by the High school chorus, orchestra, the Boys' Glee club, and the Girls' Glee club. Invocation will be pronounced by the Rev. James Austin Richards of the Winnetka Congregational church and benedic- tion by the Rev. Stephen A. Lloyd of the First Congregational church of Wilmette. Programs for Baccalaureate Sun- day and Commencement Day are as follows : Baccalaureate Sunday Precessional Music--"Jerusalem the Golden" Invocation Address:..... Rev. Samuel N. Watson Music--"America the Beautiful" Benediction Commencement Day AMErica., b.b ot a es Cary High school chorus and orchestra, and audience. Mrs. Homer E. Cot- ton, director. Invocation ..Rev. James A. Richards Angels That Around Us Hover ...... eX ar vette William Vincent Wallace Chorus Commencement Address ............ Coane hi Rev. Charles W. Gilkey Pastor Hyde Park Baptist Church Song of a Shepherd ........ J. B. Fox The Sandmhn' ............. A. Weidig Presentationof Class... ..... ..... ps Principal Eston V. Tubbs Remarks and Presentation of Dip- lomas ..i.3.. Pres. Louis K. Gillson Class of 1920--Represented by Pres- ident Kenneth R. Kerr. Music : Boys' Glee club Presentation of English Prizes. ..... Petia as aoa Mr. Heury P. Williams The Beautiful Blue Danube RR Johann Strauss Arranged by Osbourne McConathy Chorus Benediction ..Rev. Stephen A. Lloyd The program of events for the an- nual exhibit of June 12 was announc- ed in last week's issue of The Lake Shore News. VISITS IN VILLAGE Mrs. Charles Summers, Sr., of Kansas City. Missouri, will arrive Monday to visit her son and daugh- ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Summers, Jr. of 912 Cherry street. Her stay will be indefinite. PUT UP YOUR SIGN Winnetkans who have cou- tributed to the fund for the West Elm street school are re- quested to place conspicuously in the homes the sign signify- ing their contribution. Place the sign given you by the solicitor in a front window of your home. If you have lost the sign get another by calling up the Horace Mann school. | ball league which, it is proposed, will 'the fall. More definite plans will be Tree Planting Event Of Memorial Services Parents of Winnetka Gold Star Heroes Present touching Scene at Fitting Ceremonies Planting of ten maple trees in memory of Winnetka's ten Gold Star heroes of the Great World War marked the outstanding event of the Memorial services held on the vil- lage Common Sunday afternoon, May 31. Ceremonies attached to the plant- ing of the memorial trees presented a touching scene as hundreds of vil- lagers witnessed fathers and mothers of the men who had given their lives in the cause of democracy packing the soil about the roots of these "fit emblems of immortality." As these touching ceremonies pro- ceeded one was reminded of the splendid words: "The tree is a fit emblem of im- mortality. The seed is lost, merged back into mother earth, even as the bodies of those we loved; but a shaft has risen in its place. It will grow into a mighty column, deep-rooted in the earth. Its leaves will draw perpetual life from the atmosphere and the soil. Its branches will rustle in the summer breezes and its sturdy strength will withstand the storms of every winter. Thus will it tv y not only life, but gentleness an crength, even as they typified thes. qualities." Parents of Gold Star men who participated in the ceremonies were Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Starr, Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Ely, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. McCordic. The ten Gold Star men in whose memory the maples were planted on the Village Common are: Phillip Comfort Starr Dinsmore Ely Vincenzio di Giorgio Wesley Major Juleff Tames Edward Haves Roswell Hayes Fuller Pasquale Salerno Georoe Ravmond Kelly Charles W. Weart Fletcher Ladd McCordic. Approximately 600 Winnetkans wit- nessed the Memorial Day ceremonies. Col. Gordon Johnston was the sneaker of the dav. J. M. Dickinson, Jr., vice commander of the Winnet- ka Post, American Legion, presided at the exercises. LOCAL GIRL CUM LAUDE GRADUATE AT BRYN MAWR Miss Frances Louise von Hofsten Wins High Honors at Fashion- able Eastern School Miss Frances Louise von Hofsten. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Olaf von Hofsten of 733 Prospect avenue, was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Arts by acting president Helen Taft at the commencement exercises of Bryn Mawr college this week. Miss von Hofsten was one of the nineteen seniors to be graduated cum laude. She has been active in college as .editor of The College News, the weekly paper. Dr. Paul Shorey, Professor of Greek in the University of Chicago, delivered the Commencement address on "The Things That Are More Ex- cellent". Miss Taft entertained at luncheon for the parents of the graduates and friends of the college in the cloister gardens after the exercises. SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS IN BIG STATE MEETING Winnetka pastors have received an invitation to the State Snuday school association convention to be held at Jacksonville, June 15-17. Tach Sunday school in the village is en- titled to send delegates. and it is expected that several delegates will go from the village to Jacksonville the middle of the month. This is the first convention to be held under the general direction of George N. Burnie, the new General Secretary of the State association. Mr. Burnie was for a number of years General Secretary of the Indiana association, succeeding Charles E. Schenck last summer. L_CION BASEBALL LEAGUE American Legion units of the north shore are making plans for a base- include posts from Glencoe to Rogers Park. Plans are indefinite at this stage though it is expected schedul- ed indoor games will be played in SCHOOL FUND SWELLED BY GIFT OF $40,000 Mrs. William G. Hibbard, Jr., and Members of Family Provide for Gymnasium in New West Elm School MEMORIAL CONTRIBUTION Gift in Memory of William Gold Hibbard, Jr, Winnetka Civic Leader Who Died Last year Winnetka is again to be the bene- ficiary of the very unusual generosity of some of its citizens and friends. The School Board at a public meet- ing at Community House last Tues- day evening announced the offer of Mrs. William G. Hibbard, Jr., and other members of Mr. Hibbard's family to give $40,000 for the gym- nasium of the new school in memory of William Gold Hibbard, Jr. This gift, combined with that of the Memorial Assembly Hall given by Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Kuppenheimer and subscriptions from some 130 other individuals, aggregating over $200,000 in all, practically ensures the construction of the new school build- ing, if the general support which has been given so far in the campaign continues. Loyal Winnetkan Mr. Hibbard, who died suddenly last spring, was born in Chicago and had lived in Winnetka for many years. He was a loyal friend and enthusiastic worker for Winnetka's betterment, and took a quiet but active part in almost all the local activities. * From the earliest days of his res- idence in Winnetka his greatest in- terest was in the Skokie. His ambi- tion was to preserve the tract in its natural beauty but to see it drained in such a way as to make the land practical for farming and no longer a useless marsh. He cleared and deepened the channel of the river itself, made lateral ditches and im- proved the roads all through the Skokie. Every Saturday and Sunday found hi mat work somewhere on the Skokie, sometimes with many helpers, often alone, and he was the friend of every farmer along the stream for miles. Honored By Council His interest has already been rec- ognized by the Village Council in changing the name of Lake street, which runs through the Skokie from Hubbard Woods to Evanston past the new school site and the golf links, to Hibbard road. Mrs. Hibbard has planted the roadside this year with elms for half a mile each side of Willow street, so that this thor- oughfare should soon be one of the most beautiful on the north shore. It is over this Skokie tract, to the improvement of which Mr. Hibbard devoted so much of his energy and interest, and of the natural beauty of which he was so fond, that the new gymnasium and its attendant playfields will look. Fortunate Village It is peculiarly appropriate that a memorial to Mr. Hibbard should be one of public usefulness. In a quiet self-effacing way his life was one of public service. To the many charities of Chicago he was a generous and interested contributor. His untimely death was a shock not only to those to whom he had been a constant benefactor but to the host of friends whom his simple. unassuming person- ality had won. Winnetka is fortun- ate in having the example of his life of service perpetuated for the bene- fit of its children. LEGION INFORMAL PROVES UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS The informal dance given by the Winnetka Post of the American Legion at the Winnetka Woman's club, Friday evening, May 28, was pronounced a decided success. With tickets for the affair sold out long before the eventful day the legion men were gratified when the crowd of dancers literally jammed the Woman's club building. The music was exceptional and the pro- gram of events proceeded smoothly and effectively. A feature of the occasion was the unveiling of a large legion emblem on the stage of the ball room. The unveiling ceremonies followed the grand march. The emblem was announced later. painted by the Albright brothers, members of the Winnetka post. BY _ 5 Cal © Salil