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: 2 4 HY phrsmerNe WINNETKA TALK A Weekly News-Magazine for Winnetka VOL. XV, NO. 41 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, DECEMBER 18, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS AT SUNDAY SERVICES Congregational Church Invites to Special Observances Through- out Tomorrow Sunday, December 19, will be ob- served as Christmas Sunday by the Winnetka Congregational church. The worship hours in the Church school and the morning and evening services will be marked by Christmas music and Christmas sermons. At 11 o'clock the Rev. James Austin Richards' _ser- mon topic will be, "On What Floor Is Christmas," and the sermon at 8 o'clock by the Rev. Thomas A. Good- win will be on, "The Infant King." On Sunday afternoon at 4:30, the annual presentation of the pageant, "The Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi," will be given by the Church school and the church choirs, to which everyone is invited. The quartet and Senior and Junior choirs will sing the carols at both this and the regular morning service. Announces Programs The special programs of music an- nounced for both the morning and evening services on Christmas Sunday, December 19, follow: Give Pageant Cast Morning Violin and organ prelude, "Invocation," Grimm. Anthem, "Hallelujah Chorus," (Mes- siah) Handel. Carols, I--" "The First Nowell," Tradi- tional; 2--""Lo How a Rose," Praetorius 1609 ; 3--""A Joyous Christmas Song." Old French. Offertory carols, 1--"Gloria in Excelsis Deo," Old French; 2--"From Heaven High," XIV Century. Organ prelude. Evening Violin and organ prelude. A solo--Recitative and Aria, (Messiah) Mr. George Lane. Offertory solo, (with violin obligato) "Jesus of Nazareth," (Gounod) Mr. Lane, Organ prelude. The pageant, "The Adoration of the Shepherds and the Magi," Sunday after- noon at 4:30, will be under the direction of Mrs. John Marshall, with the music directed by Raymond Allen Smith. Give Pageant Cast The cast of the pageant will be as fol- lows : Mary--DMrs. Lloyd Faxon. Joseph--Lyman Weld. Angels--Margaret Boynton, Carolyn Case, Edith Clerk, Helen Davis, Louise Eckart, Ruth Harris, Lenore Lorimer, Isabel Milton, Marcella Mettler, Hazel 'Murphy, Roxanne McKenzie, Annie Mac- Donald, Katherine Ranney and Florence Taylor. Kings--Gould Davies, Leon Dickinson, and Harold Tarrant. Shepherds--Ray H. Davis, Jr., Wendel Fentress and Robert GG. Pearse. King's Attendants--Archie Norman, Kenneth McLaren, Mahlon Sharp and David Stoddard. Shepherd Boy--Dexter Sharp. A MESSAGE Christmas is here making little heavens on earth. Community and church is looking forward to the Christmas home-coming of their college and university young men and women. Together we can en- large heaven on earth, make a bit brighter the star of hope, give the gifts of wisdom, offer the adoration of humility. Welcome back sons and daughters of the most High. As such we'll wish you Merry Christ- mas! 7 R Ee eaChief HEAR SILAS STRAWN Winnetka Men's Club to Hear Expert on Present Day Chinese Affairs Monday Silas H. Strawn, chairman of the International commission on "Extra- territorial Jurisdiction in China," and a delegate of the United States to the special conference on Chinese cus- toms tariff, will speak before the Win- netka Men's club at a dinner Monday evening, December 20, to be held in Community House at 6:30 o'clock. Mr. Strawn's subject will be "China To- day." Mr. Strawn spent eleven months in Peking on his two sessions, during which time the Provisional government of China was overthrown; all but three of the Chinese delegates to the Cus- toms conference fled from the capital and twice, for a period of three weeks each, Peking was cut off by Civil war- fare from any communication with the outside world. A great many men in Winnetka are acquainted with. Mr. Strawn and his many contributions to public welfare. He has served as president of the Chi- cago Bar association, Illinois State Bar association and the Industrial club. Monday evening will mark the oc- casion -of the annual election of club officers for the enzuing year. Reservations for the dinner are to be sent to John R. Montgomery, Jr. 15 Greenbay road, Hubbard Woods. Indian Hill Gets Ready to Convert Park Into a Rink If you are anxious to cut a mean figure 8, a long sweeping curve, or to skate backward across smooth ice, the Indian Hill Improvement association asks that you contribute the price of a membership to their rink at the In- dian Hill park. You have noticed the nice little wall of earth the Park board have had thrown up around the rink, and you also have noticed the stream of water being poured on the enclosure. But you have not seen a warm shelter house, nor a care-taker who will keep the ice cleared of snow and the sticks and stones out of the surface. The Indian Hill association is anxious to make this rink a good one, and to in- sure good skating, but thev can- not do this without money. They are asking you to join either with a fam- ily. membership, individual adult, or children's membership. By paying a nominal fee, you will be given a button to wear, permitting vou to en- ter on the ice. Students at New Trier are becoming interested in the project and are al- readv among the members. The Park hoard has started one rink on the Plavfield, out west, but cannot afford to supply a caretaker for the rink at Indian Hill, it.is stated. The board is however, co-operating with the Indian Hill association, according to the com- mittee, and is anxious to do everything it can to make the rink a success. The committee in charge of the rink includes Si Westerfield of 365 Elder lane, chairman: to whom checks may be mailed, E. M. Weil, Dan Keefer of 220 Myrtle street, and K. H. Hinrichs of 363 Sunset road. Memorial Fund Only $789 from Ultimate Goal More than 3,000 persons--3,360 to be exact--have contributed to bring the Winnetka Memorial fund within $789.64- of the goal set. The thirty- seventh daily report of the treasurer shows that the contributions total $14,210.36. The house-to-house convass and the subscriptions thoughtfully sent in by mail have brought the don- ations to the present total, with $789.64 to go before the whole fund becomes available. The attitude of the community as a whole has been very gratifying to those having the work in charge and the thanks of the committee are ex- tended to every contributor, it is an- nounced. A weeks' time limit is set as a goal for the collection of the remainder of the fund, and the workers will be suc- cessful in their hope if all who have not mailed in subscriptions will do so promptly, says the committee. HO-HUM, Says 'Swede' Two Men Are Buried in Trench Cave- in; They Join Rescuers at Their Matter-of-fact Job A bitter wind blew over the Skokie Tuesday morning, and the men dig- ging the deep sewer trench in one of | the new subdivisions were huddled to- gether to keep warm. The giant digger was biting big "gobs" of earth from the fourteen foot trench, and the cat- erpillar engines were hustling around like busy hens. Frozen ground and no promise of warm weather, the men decided to sharpen up the edges of the deep trench. Charlie, the Swede, and his friend were in the bottom of the trench, loosening clods of clay and blowing on their hands to keep them from freezing. But the hitch came with the sun. It warmed up one side of the trench, and left the other frozen, solid. Suddenly a crumbling of the] wall, the sucking of wet clay, and Charlie and "the other guy" were buried to their necks in clammy heavy clay. Down jumped every laborer on the job, the inspector, the engine man, tearing, digging and pulling at the earth covering the groaning men. Twenty pairs of eager hands pulled the exhausted men to the top of the ditch and beside the sheltering dig- ding machine. But work did not stop, for the men were unhurt. They climbed down into the ditch, picked up their shovels, and started in again, with no more words than a broken phase or two, or a grunt over the heavy clay. NEXT WEEK IN WINNETKA (Listed at Community House) Tuesday, December 21 2:30--Winnetka Woman's club, Woman's club. Friday, December 24 Rotary club luncheon, Community House. 8--North Shore Congregation, Hub- bard Woods school. SANTA CLAUS MAKES ONWARD HAPPY PLACE Winnetka and Glencoe Church Women Active in Providing Holiday Cheer at Mission Santa Claus is already getting in his good "licks" at Onward Mission, the neighborhood house in the Italian dis- trict in Chicago which is the joint ac- tivity of the Winnetka Congregational and Glencoe Union churches. Beginning last night and continuing until Christmas there will be a con- tinual round of parties for hundreds of "strangers within our gates" who might otherwise entirely miss the spirit of Christmas as it is celebrated in this country. Winnetka and Glen- coe women who have become inter- ested in the Americanization program of Onward Mission are bubbling over with plans which will make this the greatest Christmas in the history at the settlement. . Party for Mothers The Women's society of the Win- netka Congregational church is giving a party for the Mother's club at On- ward, Mrs. Ayres Boal being the chair- man, and also for the Kindergarten with Mrs. Robert Smith as chairman. Mrs. Lyman L. Weld is chairman of a committee which is giving a party for the Jolly Girls club, a group of Italian girls of 12 and 13 years of age. The Walden Road circle has voted $10 to help defray the expenses of this party. Glencoe Union church is furnishing the funds for parties given to the Boys' clubs. Russell and Dwight Hunting are chairmen of the party for the Cow Boys club, and Mr. Moon's Sunday School class is giving a treat to a group of boys of 12 to 14 years of age. All in all, it is to be a big ten days of festivities, an extraordinarily fine opportunity to establish contacts and to spread the interest in Onward among the 15000 people crowded into the eight square blocks which the neighborhood house considers its ter- ritory. You're Invited Mrs. Stanley Simpson of Winnetka, who has been especially interested in Onward, and is in charge of the work for the Winnetka Congregational church extends an invitation to every- one who is interested to join in the fun. She says: "The great need this year is not for charity so much as for in- terested, sympathetic contacts with these people who know so much about their foreign ways and so little about the aims, purposes, and ideals of Amer- ica. Everyone who can help can find plenty to do, and a thoroughly worth while outlet for their Christmas spirit." o learn when and how to reach On- ward, telephone Mrs. Simpson at Win- netka, 1600. CANDLE-LIGHT SERVICE .. _ A Christmas day Candle-light serv- ice will be held at the Winnetka Con- gregational noon at 4:30, when carols will be sung and a brief Christmas message given by the Rev. James Austin Richards. Many parish families delight in at- tending this beautiful service, old and young together, finding in it worship that makes a fitting climax for the festival of Christmas. church Christmas after- Vit A A agar daly