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2 THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, -THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1918 PROTEST RIGHT OF WILMETTFS ORDERS Waukegan Chamber of Commerce Lodges Protest With State Utilities Commission. SET DATE FOR HEARING Commission Will Review Petition on Tuesday, March 12. A petition from the Waukegan Chamber of Commerce to the Public Utilities Commission, asking- the members of the commission to con- sider a change in the conditions of traffic on the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Electric Railway in Wilmette, will he heard on March 12. The Waukegan business men ask the commission to eliminate the stops being made by the limited trains of the railway to unload and pick up passengers at every street crossing in Wilmette. The signers of the petition set out that these stops delay persons trying to make time and keep business appointments in Chicago. The petition reads as follows: "More and more of our citizens are forced to resort to the use of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railroad trains at the present time than heretofore, owing to the cur- tailment of the trains on the steam railroads running from Waukegan to Chicago. "It is essential to the business man of Waukegan, and other north shore communities, that the running time of trains into Chicago should be as short as possible. "For this reason we are appealing to you for assistance. "The North Shore railroad operates one limited train and two express trains each hour, in addition to the local service. "The limited trains stop at the main towns and the express trains make one stop in each town. "Tliis is uniform at all points of the road except Wilmette, where the train stops at every street intersec- tion, causing considerable loss of time to the traveler. "The requirements of the village of Wilmette 1o stop all limited and express trains increase the time from live to twent}' minutes per trip, caus- ing a great inconvenience to the public of the north shore. "As no other town has any such requirements, we think it unreason- able and unjust that the public of Waukegan should be inconvenienced at the whim of one town. "The local train operating through Wilmette could care for all reason- able requirements. "As many business men are incon- venienced in this way we deem it important and request .that the com- CHURCHES Announcements of the sertica held in the oarlous Wilmette Churches Christian Scieaee. First Church ot Christ, Scientist, Wilmette. Central avenue and Tenth street. Sunday services at 10:45 a. m. and ,7:45 p. m. Sunday-school, 9:45 a. m. Testimonial meeting:, Wednesday at 8 p. in. Reading room, 9 a. m. to 9 p. m., except Wednesday. Wednesday until 7:45 p. m. 1163 Wilmette avenue. Wilmette Baptlat Church. Sunday services held in the Wilmette Woman's Club building, Greenleaf ave- nue and Tenth street. Francis C. Stifler, pastor. 9:45 a. m.—Bible school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning worship. 6:15 p. m.—Senior B. Y. P. U.______ St. Jolin'o Ev. J-utheran Church. Linden and Prairie avenues. Herman W. Meyer, pastor. 9:30 a. m.—Sunday-school and Bible 10:30 a. m.—Service in German. 7:45 p. m.—Service in English. 4:00 p. m.—Monday and Friday, classes for religious Instruction._____ .St. Auguatinc'a Church. The Rev. Dr. A. Worger-Slade, prleat- in-charge, during the absence of the Rev. Frank E. Wilaon, who has been assigned to army church work at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111. Church telephone, Wilmette 173. 7:30 a. m.—Holy communion. 9:45 a. m.—Church school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning prayer and ser- mon. (First Sunday in each month Holy communion.) 7:00 p. m.—Evening prayer and ser- mon._____________ MethodlHt Episcopal Church. Lake and Wilmette avenues. The Rev. John M. Schneider, minister, 1024 Lake avenue. Telephone, Wilmette 654. Office. 1159 Wilmette avenue. Tele- phone, Wilmette 2224. 9:30 a. m.—Bible school. 10:45 a. m.—Public worship. 6:30 p. m.—Epworth League. 7:30 p. m.—Evening worship. Wednesday, 7:45 p. m.—Mid-week service. Wilmette Preubjrterlaa Church. Ninth street and Greenleaf avenue. IU>v. A. J. Holland, minister ad in- ti-rlm. Church telephone, Wilmette 1575. 9:45 a. m.—Sunday-school. 11:00 a. m.—Public worship. 4:00 p. m.—Finnish Young Women's Club. 7:45 p. m.—Public worship. 6:30 p. m.—Christian Endeavor. Wednesday, 8 p. m.—Mid-week prayer and social meeting. ______________ Kir lit Congregational Church. Wilmette avenue and Eleventh street. Roy Edwin Bowers, minister. The church is open daily to the passerby for rest, meditation and prayer. The Wilmette Sunday Evening Club merts in the church, Sunday evenings at 7:30. 9:45 a. m.—Sunday-school. 11:00 a. m.—Morning service. 6:00 p. m.—Young People's meeting. Wednesdays. 8 p. m.—Bible class. Woman's Guild luncheon on the sec- ond Friday of each month.__________ St. Joneph'a Church. Rid£?e and Lake avenues. The Rev. Father William Netstraeter, pastor. Sunday services: 6:30 a. m.—Low M.ias celebrated. S:15 a. m.—Low Mass celebrated with sermon in English. 10:30 a. m.—High Mass celebrated with sermon in German. 2:30 p. m.—Vespers and Benediction. SOLDIERS' PAY DURING WAR IS UNTAXABLE Corporations and individuals pay- ing employes now in the military service a portion or all of their salaries may deduct the amount as mission take such steps as it shall' business expenses in computing their deem best to remedy our trouble. "f am taking this action by direc- tion of the executive committee of the Waukegan Chamber of Com- merce." PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN AT BAPTIST CHURCH HERE Prof. Theodore G. Soares, head of practical theology at the university of Chicago, will speak at the Wil- mette Baptist church in the Wom- an's club building next Sunday at 11:00 A. M. This will afford the people of Wilmette and the North Shore an opportunity to hear one of the country's great men. Dr. Soares addressed the Chicago Sunday Evening- Club last Sunday and has been widely quoted since. He is a man with a message and knows how to deliver it. The public is cordially invited to be present. war income and excess profit taxes under a ruling by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Roper. "OVER THE TOP" (■Continued from page one.) U. S. TO BUY HUGE SUPPLY OF CORN FOR USE ABROAD Corn to the amount of from 500,- 000 to 750,000 bushels a day will be purchased during the next three weeks at the various middle western grain exchanges by federal commit- tees for use abroad, it was an- nounced in New York last Friday. Book on Russia. Capt. James L. Houghtcling Jr. of our own One Hundred and Forty- ninth field artillery was serving his country before he got into khaki. In j dream to me the expression is inadequate. You have heard the pneumatic riveters on a new building. Well, think of each blow magnified a million times in regards sound, and of thousands of riveters going at once and you will get some conception of it. "We were still some yards from our post but soon reached it. It was an open trench (that is slop- ing sides) exposed to "kick-backs" from shells that exploded behind us. We all crouched down against the leeward side of the trench and waited for our turn to go over. To make things more unpleasant, branches and even whole trees start- ed to tumble about us. Finally I got my boys under a tree which had fal- len across the trench and this saved us from thinking of branches even if they were'nt shrapnel proof. "It is wonderful how small a man can make himself under certain con- ditions. It wasn't long before we could pick out the shells coming towards, and landing around us, from the general background of sound. Every- body settled down to it as if they had been there for weeks. Some of the men went sound to sleep. The waiting seemed more or less of a A shell fragment fell March. 1917. he was in Petrograd! between my corporal and myself officially, and he was closely in touch with tiie newly launched Russian democracy. He kept a diary while he missing our knees by a couple of inches and cut the duck-board at the bottom of the trench in pieces was there, a complete record of what ' I amused myself by stabbing my the men with whom he came in con- ' cane into every new hole made by tact said to him. That diary comes to shrapnel in the opposite wall of the us now as "A Diary of the Russian trench. Pretty soon the walking Revolution". (Dodd-Mead) wounded started to pass us amid a rapid fire of chaffing; and laughing up and down the line greeted them. At 5 A. M. it was broad day-light and so we started over. Fritz was still shelling our trenches briskly but the gas-shells* had stopped. I finally got to the right place in the front line which was no easy job and we went over the parapet into "no man's land", then the fun started. "Our own barbed wire was rather difficult 'to get through as Fritz hadn't been able to cut it up much. The first thing I met on the other side were two stretcher-bearers and their stretcher all in line, head to toe. The bearers were stone dead, lying on their faces, both killed by the same shell. And right here I want to say that I take off my hat to the regimental stretcher-bearers. The way they calmly go through everything without a stop is sub- lime. "The next thing we knew was that we were passing through a barrage put up by Fritz to keep supports from coming up. One shell landed not more than five feet away but failed to explode. It had the effect of waking me up, however, and the way j we all scampered forward, every man for himself would have been comical under other conditions. Fritz's lines were nothing more than chaos. Our artillery hardly left a foot of earth that hadn't been churn- ed up. I passed one of our mine craters. Near by were many planks sticking up and material which show- ed where dug-outs had been. The men inside never knew what happen- ed. Here and there lay a dead Hun. Every one of the machine gun em- placements had a fringe of dead men at the back where they had been homed as they came out. Finally I reached our new front line. The' infantry were busy digging them- selves in, every man working his hardest, for counter-attacks were expected to come soon. "Our aeroplanes were everywhere, some flying so low that the aviators could be seen distinctly. I didn't see one of Fritz's during the whole time,, in fact, not until two days later. In front there was a gentle slope up- wards, allowing us to see clearly for two miles. Geysers of dirt and smoke were shooting up by the dozen all over the landscape where our heavy shells were landing. Mes- sines on the crest of the hill to our left was quiet so we knew our men were to the east of it. Besides no machine guns opened up' on us from the slopes which they would have surely done if Fritz had still been in possesion. Every once in a while one of his big shells would plump down near us throwing up a lot of dirt. We paid no attention to these but kept our eyes open for shrapnel. You see the ground was so soft, having been tossed up so often, that a big shell buried itself pretty deep before exploding so that the frag- ments couldn't go far. But shrapnel was a different proposition, bursting high in the air and spraying a large area with bullets. As Fritz usually put shrapnel'four or five times over the same spot and then changed, we would wait a minute and then run for the spot just strafed. In a few seconds Fritz would throw shrapnel to our right or left. By alternate dashes and rushes I thus managed to cover all the ground taken by the brigade. I came across a new Hun rifle which I annexed as a trophy. I could have picked up o.ther things but safety depended a good deai speed so I couldn't over-load and had to let them go. One thing that pleased me much was coming across four trench-mortars which had often given me a bad time in my old quarters. Most of their crews lay dead around them. We finally re- turned across no man's land at 8 A. M. having spent three hours in our reconnaissance. "I had just started down one of our communicating trenches when Fritz started to throw over some more gas shells, two the first land- ed not more than five yards or so from me.. My mask, was down and I had taken a couple o it in place. At the time I felt no ill effects beyond the irritation to my eyes. I handed in may report and marched my men to billets by the way we came. "Such was the battle of Messincs. My description spread along a front of nine miles instead of half a mile or Itjs, gives an idea of what it was. So far it has been the shortest, sharpest, most clean-cut victory of its size in the war, and our losses were extraordinarily slight. "As for myself, the gas took ef- fect 54 hours afterwards, when I spend a bad half hour or so and was ordered to the clearing station. From there I was sent to Base Hospital and am at present none the worse for my experience." TAX PAYERS ATTENTION! Because March I Oth falls on Sunday Mr. Hoyt King, Township Collector, will receive taxes on Monday, March 1 1 th, at his office in The First National Bank of Wilmette TELEPHONE WILMETTE 74 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND ELECTION NOTICE LS HEREBY GIVEN to the Legal Voters, residents of the Township of New Trier, County of Cook, Illinois, that the Annual Township Meeting and Election of Officers of said Township will take place Tuesday, April 2nd, 1918 proximo, being the first Tuesday in said month. The Election will hegin at the hour of 7 A. M. and close at 5 P. M. in the places designated as follows: District 1—Glencoe Union Church. 2—Glencoe Fire Station. 3—C. L. Wyman's Store. 4— R. 1-5. Calm's Tailor Shop. 5—J as. Horn's Office. 6—Indian Hill Inn. 7—Kenilworth Store. 8—Village Hall,'Wilmette, Central Avenue District District District District District District District Entrance. District Wilmette 9—Village Hall, Wilmette. Avenue Entrance. District 10—Wilmette Fire Station. District 11—Robert Rae's Real Estate Office. District 12—Village Hall, Gross Point. District 13—Library Hall, Wilmette. The Officers to be elected are: ONE SUPERVISEE; ONE TOWNSHIP CLERK; ONE ASSESSOR; ONE COLLECTOR; ONE COMMISSIONER OF HIGHWAYS; ONE CONSTABLE; ONE SCHOOL TRUSTEE. The Town Meeting will open in Community House, Winnetka. at the hour of 2 P. M., and after choosing a Moderator will proceed to hear and consider reports of officers, to appropriate money to defray the necessary expenses of the township, and to deliberate and decide on such measures as may, in pursuance of law, come be- fore the meeting. Given under my hand this 6th day of March, A. D. 1918. W. S. CROZIER, Township Clerk. I 1 1 1 1 1