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WI The Timely Record of Community Events NNETKA WEEKLY TALK VOL. XL NO. 23. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 , 1922 THIRTY-TWO PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS COAL SUPPLY UNS LOW IN TOWNGHIP Survey Shows New Trier § Dealers Have Only Meager Supplies Now. ANTHRACITE IS LOW Approximately 1450 Tons of Coal on Hand The entire north shore district, romprising Wilmette, Winnetka, and Glencoe, has but 1,450 tons of coal on hand, with most of this already sold. This was discovered in a survey made Tuesday by the Lake Shore News. All of the fuel Supply houses in the township are taking orders subject to delivery as soon as possible, at prices quoted at the time of delivery. "Plans will of necessity follow in the path laid down by the fuel administration," declared C. F. Edinger of the Edinger Coal company. "These plans are now being formed, and we shall soon know a little better where we stand." Anthracite Supply GGone Almost all of the companies report cite coal. Some of them have a small the exhaustion of the supply of anthra- quantity of bituminous coal and coke on hand. The Edinger company has between 500 and 600 tons of coal in the yards, but it is all sold. Brandl Brothers, 1077 Merrill street, Win- netka, have 300 tons of hard and soft coal on hand, mostly under order, and 30 tons of coke. Kutten Brothers, 709 West Railroad avenue, Wilmette, have between 200 and 300 tons of hard and soft coal, © and report that they are receiving coke, at the present time. Earl Wien. ivi of the Winnetka Coal-Lum- ber company reports 150 tons, with ~~""$01ie SOPt. coal not sold. The Weissen- ~ berg company, $13 Elm street, Win- : ~ metka, report about 70 tons of coal, mostly soft, on hand, and say that it is sold. Joseph Mercer of the Hub- bard Woods Lumber and Coal com- pany declares that their supply is ex- hausted, and that they are only tak- ing orders subject to delivery when possible. The Central Coal and Build- ing Materials company has no supply on hand. Evanston has 1,900 tons on hand, ac- cording to a survey conducted early in the week. The Public Service com- pany, and Northwestern university are two of the institutions, which promise to be the hardest hit, if no supply is obtained before winter. There Is Another Adage About Not Counting, Etc. The best laid plans Of mice and men Aft gang agley. All of which calls to mind the pre- dicament of a Glencoe household wherein it has been found necessary to dispose of a perfectly comfortable and runable infant's carriage, for the simple reason that the vehicle will not do--it isn't big enough, if you comprehend what we mean. The classified ad section of this week's issue contains an appeal for a buyer of a single-seated child's carriage. Then the answer to the strange cir- cumstance-- Reading on in the always interest- ing "householders' market" we are "confronted with a desperate appeal for a double-seated baby carriage. Same address in each ad. Now you understand perfectly. Claims Realty Broker Worked Confidence Game Paul Schroeder, a north shore real estate broker, is at liberty on $2,000 bail, pending appearance in Magis- trate D. M. Mickey's Wilmette Police court on Tuesday, August 22, to answer a charge of "obtaining money under false pretense, commonly called the Confidence Game" preferred by Vida J. Mitchell of Indiana. Schroeder was arrested on a state warrant isssued by Justice of the Peace John W. McCarthy of Lamont, 111. The defendant is accused of having received the sum or $40 from the com- plainant by means of a false promis- sory note. Schroeder was arraigned in Magis- trate Mickey's court Saturday, August 12, when bail was fixed at $2,000. KENILWORTH APPLIES FOR WINNETKA WATER Through its attorney, E. E. Jack- son, and Village President James C. Murray, the Village of Kenilworth this week formally applied to the Winnetka Council for water supply from the Winnetka Water and Light plant. Kenilworth, the officials stated, is planning to purchase the supply sys- tem of the Kenilworth Water com- pany, owned by the Sears estate, and will abandon its pumping station in favor of the Winnetka supply source. The matter was referred by the council to the Water and Light com- mittee for investigation and report. WINNETKA ENDORSES NEW THIER OUTING Officials Promise to Assist in Plans The Village of Winnetka, following the custom established several years ago, this year again heartily endorses New Trier Day, the annual township outing sponsored by the New Trier Commercial association. The Village council recognizes the day in the accompanying resolutions: "Be it resolved by the Trustees of the Village of Winnetka, In Council assembled, "That we hereby officially en- dorse and recognize August 23, 1922, New Trier Day, in recogni- tion of the importance of the New Trier Commercial Association in the Community." In addition to endorsing New Trier Day, the village, through its admin- istrative officials, has again promised to lend a hand in assisting the busi- ness men in working out the details of the outing. The Department of Pub- lic works men are to erect the re- viewing stand at Elm and Center streets where the various village exe- cutives will observe the annual street procession. Winnetka Trims Fort Men; Same Teams Here Sunday Winnetka nosed out the strong Fort Sheridan nine last Sunday with a 10-9 victory, grabbed off in the twelfth inning. Brickie Kassner, the hard hit- ting first sacker, connected with a triple in the last inning dragging the game off the coals, a brand from the burning, bringing in a man and win- ning for the Winnetkans. The score stood 6 to 6 in the ninth; in the eleventh the Fort team brought in three tallies, and the Winnetkans followed suit, Kassner's triple winning the game for the local team. He had a good day with the willow, connecting with a double and a single, in addition to his victory-spelling wallop. Pete Lucchesi was on the mound for the Winnetka team, with Louis Gutekunst, better known as "Goody," behind the bat. The game was tight, both teams playing good ball, and the same nines will repeat Sunday on the local field. Ask Courtesy to Golfers In Tournament Play Here A leading member of the Winnetka Association Playfield has asked the courtesies of the club for tournament players who golf on the local course. The Chicago Municipal Golf league tourney is in progress, and the Play- field course has been one of the many clubs where the match play has been going on. It is customary for golfers of the local clubs to allow visitors in tour- ney play to drive through them. Some local devotees of the game, not under- standing who the guests were, have misunderstood, and taken offense at the custom. It is hoped to clear up the misunderstanding by this explana- tion. Contractor Draws Fine For Building Law Lapse Al Lind, contractor, was brought be- fore Justice Nelson this week on the complaint of a village official for plac- ing building material on the street, and leaving it over night without protect- ing lights. Patrolman Iverson served the warrant. The building contractor was assessed $5, and the costs were waived. TEMPORARY HOMES FOR TEACHERS. NEED Winnetka Public School In- structors Must Be Housed Until Apartment Is Built APPEAL TO RESIDENTS Parent-Teacher Association Makes Request The apartments which W. H. Ait- ken is building at Linden avenue and Gage street, to be occupied by the Winnetka school teachers, will not be entirely completed by September 1, when the teachers arrive to begin their work. The Parent-Teacher association ap- peals to the residents of Winnetka for aid in finding temporary rooms for these teachers. Anyone willing to fur- nish room and board or room and breakfast for a teacher for a period of from two to six weeks is requested to call Mrs. Arthur Dean, Winnetka 241, or Mrs. Dudley K. French, Win- netka 395. Must House 11 Teachers There are eleven teachers who must find temporary homes until the apartments are completed. Two teach- ers desire room and board in private homes for the entire school year. In nrevious years the appeals for aid in housing Winnetka's teachers have been responded to most generously. The great need this year is for homes for this short period. The Parent-Teacher association, meanwhile, is very busy collecting the furniture donated in response to appeals in the Winnetka Talk for the furnishing of these apartments and painting and renovating the articles. Need More Furniture As requested in a former issue of the Winnetka Talk, persons having furniture for which they have no further use will do a real service by donating such articles to the Parent- Teacher association for use in fur- nishing these apartments. Calls will be received by Mrs. Frank Stover or Mrs. Arthur Dean. Ask Property Owners Help To Eradicate Poison Ivy Co-operation of Winnetka property owners in ridding the village of poison ivy was requested at the Tuesday council meeting by Mrs. B. F. Lang- worthy, trustee, Numerous children and adults have suffered poisoning from the ivy weed this summer, Mrs. Langworthy de- clared in suggesting that property owners be asked to take the initiative in cutting away the poison ivy, par- ticularly in vacant properties where people are often infected because the weed is permitted to grow near side- walks and footpaths. Every Resident of New Trier township should do his part to New Trier celebration a big make the Day event. Every reputable "merchant is lending a closing store and assisting the committee in charge both financially and physically. The towns- people are guests, the merchants are hosts. hand by his Order Early Tuesday Stores Closed Wednesday SKOKIE MOTOR FIRM ERECTS NEW BUILDING A new brick and stone building on East Elm st. is to house the Skokie Motor company. The building is to cost $25,000. The land is valued at $15,000. The structure is to be one story in height on a lot 50 by 150 feet. Next spring it is planned to extend the building to 211 feet. Ground was broken last Friday for the new structure. It is thought that the building will be finished by Nov- ember 1. It will be equipped with 2,000 worth of shop equipment giving the service station an opportunity to do as. good work as any shop in the county. The Skokie Motor company will continue to confine its sales to the Ford and Lincoln cars. "The building is to be of gray brick," says John Leonard. proprietor. "The front will be of Bedford stone. We are putting the best of everything into the new service station, and it will be an ornament to the commu- nity." RAVINIA PATRONS! HOW ABOUT THIS? Those Unused Coupons Now Have a Good Place Patrons of Ravinia Opera, who are leaving the north shore at this mid- summer period, and, by reason of their departure for various vacation spots, are leaving behind unused those Ra- vinia club coupon books, are given a gentle "tip" on a plan accomplishing something really worth while in their absence This is the plan suggested by a Ra- vinia club patron. "Suppose you were longing to hear music in the cool of the evening when a hard day's work was over, but were unable to indulge in this pleas- ure because of the carfare to Ravinia fee! "There are many people who know at this time that there will be many tickets thrown away in their Ravinia coupon books after Labor Day. Will they not, perhaps, mail them to the visiting nurse of Winnetka, Miss Garrettson? Address, Community House. She visits not only the sick, but also those who are too poor to avail themselves of such pleasure. Mr. Hadley of the Correspondence School for the Blind could also use tickets for many blind people." British-American Society Gives Farewell to T. Glen A combination farewell and surprise party was given by the North Shore British-American society, Thursday evening, for Thomas Glen, 925 Linden avenue, who is leaving for Niagara Falls, Ontario, tomorrow or Monday. The party was given at the Com- munity House, and was planned by James G. MacFadzean. The feature of the evening was the presenation of a purse to Mr. Glen, who has been a resident of Winnetka for ten years. He has won scores of friends during his stay here, and is extremely loathe to leave the vicinity, he declared. Glen plans to build a home at Niagara Falls on some prop- erty he owns there, and will enter the | carpentry business in that locality. Indian Hill Boys Enter La Grange Caddy Tourney Caddies from the Indian Hill Golf | club will make the trip to LaGrange, | Monday, to enter the tournament for | caddies at the LaGrange Country club. i The Indian Hill boys who will make , | the trip, are John MacFadzean, club | caddy chamv, George Thalman, Louis | Alexander and Robert Flint. | Clubs from all over the county will be represented, and some fast and | | close golf is sure to be the result. | There will be 36 holes of medal play, | and the boys from the Indian Hill club | are going to do their best to bring | | back the title with them. i Sixty Miles An Hour Is Not Too Fast For Cops! P. C. DeCommingh, 4815 Kenwood | |av enue, Chicago, tried to beat 60 miles | ran hour, Monday, on Sheridan road. | 'He did, but he didn't beat Officer Ot- [tone of the Winnetka motorcycle | force, who arrested him at Lloyd place. | Mr. DeCommingh is scheduled to ap- | pear before Justice Nelson. He gave la $100 check as bond for his appear- | "ance. | | | | and the seventy-five cents entrance| = WINNETKA GIRLS IN BIG WATER CARNIVAL Participate in Great Pageant at Luther Gulick Camps, Lake Sebago, Maine WIN HIGH HONORS Local Girls Take Leading Places in" Events Several Winnetka girls participated in a prominent way with more than ona hundred others in the Annual Water Sports Carnival of the Luther Gulick Camps on Lake Sebago, Maine, Tuesday of this week. For the first time in America colored canoes, blue, red, orange, black, white and purple, with sails to match, were seen, in their race around Ship Island. The next spectacular event was the crew race in the colored 34-foot war ca- noes. Boat Pageant The younger girls presented a boat pageant which was of special inter- est to the several hundred persoss, parents and friends of the girls, ga- thered from cities throughout the country to see the carnival. In. this the girls robed themselves and deco- rated their craft after the fashion of nations famous on the water--Vi- kings, Venetians, Greeks, Elizabeth- ans, and Alaskan Indians. Other con- tests which held the spectators' atten- tion were the cage ball-throwing from aquaplanes, the diving and un- der water swimming. The girls will return to their homes after the clos- ing ceremonies are completed--the Marionette show, the exhibits of pot- tery, weaving and jewelry made by the girls and the horseback .. , exhibit and. the Health pageant. oe Winnetka girls who participated frre the carnival were: Margaret Lynde, . 864 Bryant avenue; Katherine Adams, Margot "Atkin, 5 Indian Hill rd.; Elizabeth Barber, 278 Linden streets Elizabeth Boyden, 725 Pine street; Margaret Cornell; Mary Ott, 4 Indian Hill rd.; Ashton Wilson, 2 Indian Hill rd. Here Are the Men Who Are Making the Picnic Here are the men who have the ar- rangements for New Trier Day in hand, and who, with the generous as- sistance of scores of other business and professional men of the township, are determined to give the residents of New Trier the best picnic they have ever experienced. The general committee and sub- sidiary chairmen are Alfred D. Herrmann, William T. Wehrstedt, Carl Sterner, Dr. C. B. Blake and Henry Cordell; B. W. Blow, chairman of races; A. C. Wolff, chairman of parade; Dan G. Stiles, fi- nance chairman: J. C. Gapen, chair- man of Music; D. C. B. Blake, chair- man of dancing; Carl Sterner, trans- portation chairman; John Papajohn, refreshment chairman; Otto Falk, chairman of grounds; Geirge White, chairman of attractions; Ray Iredale, chairman of Grand Prize committee; A. S. Van Deusen, wholesalers' chair- man. Death Claims Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Clipper New Trier high school students and the many friends of the James Clip- per family, 556 Cherry street, were shocked to hear of the untimely death, Sunday, August 13, of their only daughter, Miss Adelaide Leone Clip- per. Miss Clipper, who was a member of this year's graduating class at New Trier Township High school, had been ill throughout the summer months. She was to have entered Smith college this fall. Funeral services were from the res- idence Wednesday, August 16, at 10 o'clock. Burial was at Kenosha, the former home of the family. Alimony Defaulter Falls Into' Clutches of Police Esrias Hillner, who had been living with his brother at 855 Spruce street, this week was taken into custody by Chicago. He was wanted by the Chi- | Chief W. M. Peterson, and handed over to the court of Domestic Relations in cago police for failure to pay alimony to his wife, Signa Hillner.