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] uly 6, 1928 · WILMETTE · LIFE 132,756 AMNDANCE ·JN PLAY ACTIVITIES New Trier Artist Glorifies ·Guitar Does a Remarkable ~'Stuart" Painting - - - - - - - - - - - ' HASTEN PLANS·fOR . BIGwumEDA pr~ing ., Director Davia of Recreation Miss Jane Lyons, 1015 ' Greenleaf avenue, \Vilmette, a student at New Board in Annual Report of Trier High school, has prepared a reRecreation Board Work . production o~, Va1_1 · Dy.ke's painting Chamber of. Commerce S~ Community Frolic to Be JteW 1 Wednesday, Augu·t 8 .. ,_ j '. ' Participating attend~nce of Wil- Baby Stuart whtch w11l be on disPlans are. rapidly mette residents at the various recrea- play at the \Vilmette Public library Wilmette Day, the annual communit~ . tional facilities provided by the Wil- beginning this Friday. frolic sponsored by the Wilmettt! mette Playground and Recreation From a small print of the famous Chamber of Commerce in co-opera.J board during the year ending May 1, painting in Keysor's book "Great Arttion with the staff of the Playgrourtd 1928, exceeded by 12,000 the· atten- ists," Miss Lyons made an enlarged and Recreation board. This season's dance recorded during t4e preceding c;ketch of the head. She then made a picnic, sch~duled for . W ednesdafl twelve months, according to Daniel tracing of the sketch, being careful to August 8, w11l be staged m the Amer ~ M. Davis, director of recreation. The block out ea.ch shadow and change of ican Legion grove on · Lake avenue total attendance for the fiscal year color. Tracmgs were made on plain just west of- Ridg~ road, · with field just ended was ·132,756. paper, with each .Piece of the drawevents and baseball game taking place Six distinctly new activities were ing painted and cut out, after which on the Village Green west of the How.; added to the Recreation board's pro- the pieces were pasted together like ard schooL ~ gram during the year, Mr. Davis' an- a mosaic panel or a stained glass winWith ]. M. Budinger, cashier of the Wilmette State bank, as general chair~ nual report shows. They were: dow effect. J UNJOR Ln·E, a newspaper written by Miss Lyons obtained the coloring for man, and scores of business and proWilmette children and sponsored her reproduction from a small size fessional people serving on the various jointly by WILMETTE LIFE and . the colored painting of "Baby Stuart" in committees, arrangements are being· Recrea~ion board; the Junior Police "Day Masterpiece Miniatures." Miss formulated to give Wilmette the greatan or!ranization materially valuable it; Lyons' reproduction is framed and wilt est Wilmette Day in the history of guidin..,g children across crowded he on display for an indefinite period. the village. thoroughfares and in maintaining The youthful painter has had a year Aid Dru~·Bugle Corpa discipli~e on .the school grounds; and a half of art work at the New It has been voted that 10 percent Andres Segovia, Spanish g~itarist, women s athletic leagues in various Trier High school under the direction of the net proceeds from Wilmette sports, introduced last · winter for the of Miss Murphy, art instructor at New who will give the fourth program of Day will be directed into the fund of the Winnetka Music club artist-reci- the. \Yilmette J?rum an<! Bugle corps~ first time; Dramatic Institute; Xmas Trier. Carol ser"\ice (an activity of several Several new books of art for adults tal series at the New Trier auditorium a c1v1c enterprise sponsored by Wilyears' standing but this year taken have been added to the Wilmette Pub- next winter, has discovered a new in- mette ~ost. o~ the American Legion over by the , Recreation board)·, two lie library collection within the last strument for music lovers through his and wh1ch, 1t ts planned, will be avail· new women s gym classes. year. versatile technique which makes of able, without charge, at all times for Gain in Popularity the guitar, when placed under his service at the various civic and other All of .these activities have prov~n magic spell, a compl~te new instru- community observances in . the village. Included in the elaborate program of popular beyond expectation and will mc1t . His favorite programs contain be incorporated jn the ens~ing year's compositions by such masters as Bach the day will .be the customary stree+ program, with material enlargement3. Grieg, a11d Schubert. ' pro.cession in the morning, a feature whtch always signalizes the .inaugural The Recreation board is in itself of the day's activities. unusual 111 its composition, Mr. Davis Chicago's forthcoming Centennial The .Pa!ade, after passing through ~tates, a~d i.s the only one of its type exposition will be the most stupendous Methodist Camp Meetings prmctpal streets of the village, will 111 the dtstnct. It consists of a rep- -:tnd successful venture of its charFormally Opened Tonight t~e dtsband at the grove on Lake avenue·· resentative from the VitlaP'e board ~cter in the historv of the world. acNorth shore members of the Metho- where gayly decorated booths will pre~ one from the School board, -one fro~ cording to Col. Sidney Story of Chithe Park board, one from a woman's ~ago, who spoke before the Wilmette dist qenomination are viewing with seJ;Jt the appearance of a gala festival. organizatio~, and . a member-at-large. Chamber of Commerce at its regular interest the annual Camp Meetings at Every detail of the activities at the The .~roup ts appomted by the Village Tuly meeting at the Central Cafeteria Des Plaines which will be formally grove wiJI be worked out and conopened this evening. ducted .by \iVil1_11ette business people, Pres1dent. · Monday of this week. no outstders bemg permitted to "reap Prominent among the leaders in John Clark ~aker, as a represent Unlike the World's Fair of 1893. the ative of the V11lage board, was chair- Centennial exposition of 1933 witt he conducting the Camp meetings are a ~arvest" from the affair. Funds from mary of the board since its inception . rlevoted exclusivelv to the interest~ Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes and Dr. W1lmette Day go into the coffers of the Chamber of Commerce to help unttl May 1, when the termination of 0f advancement of the arts and sci- Horace G. Smith, both of Wilmette. defray the cost of its maintenance and his office as Village trustee automat- ~nces excludinQ' such fPatures as the P;~vide for its contributions to various icallv invalidated his membership. L '11emorable Midwav Plaisance and GOES TO STRICKEN FATHER C. Torrey is the representative from <;treets of Cairo, Col. Storv explained. Village President Earl E. Orner was CIVIC and ·welfare enterprises. There are no paid promoters or workers in the School board; Henry Haack fron, summoned to Franklin Grove, Itt., last the Park board ; Mn. jay R. Brown·. . AttendancP <~t the 1933 Fair will ap- week-end because of the ·3 erious ill- connection with Wilmette Day. Plan Children's Parade from the Wilmelte Woman's club, imrl nroximate 100.000.000. Col. Storv f'S- ness of his father. The . elder Mr. Other nti.t standing activities on the H. A. LaRoy, representative at large. ~imated. The attendance at the Col- Orner suffered a stroke, the second umbian exoosition. he recalled. was upproposed program will be the annual Employ Sizable Staff . attack within six months. ward of 21.000.000. children's parade, with awards for all· Besides Director Davis, three assisthe field events and contests for ali tants are employed throughout the ages ; baJ?-d c?ncerts ; baseball games, year, and two instructors are em- Two Wilmette Families and dancmg m the open air pavilion ployed by the School board to conduct Leave on Tour of West at the grove throughout the afternoon physical training in the public schools and evening. Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Kehling ~nrl and take charge of the after-school program in athletic3 for girls. Last their two daughters. formerly of 719 year's staff personnel included: Gler T,aurel avenue and residentc; ()f . WilGolfers Eager to Play W. Gath~rcoal, Dudley C. Stone, Mis ~ .,.,ette for several years. left Tuec;rlav New Techny Fields Links Joe Skidmol;'e, Mrs. Lester F. Ball. 'lf this week on a westPrn to11r whirh Techny Fields, a new daily fee· golf will take them ultimatelv to Californi~ anct Miss Lucy Reeser. c~urse, opened last · Saturday morning "1 here thev exnect to take un resi· The report indicates that the sumw1th a host of golfers taking advanmer playground attendance showed a!' rfence. Thev nlan to live in a suburb "Pardon me. Haven't I seen tage of the clear day. The new average dailv record exceeding that or 'lf Los Angeles. c~urse, which is situated at the juncyou i~ Wilmette?" the year before. The total attendam·t> Accompanvinq thPm on their trin tl~m of Waukegan and Willow roads was 23.098 for all the four grounds 1re Mr. and Mrs. I. D TvPrson · and "You win. I saw you readdtrectly west of Winnetka is easily ac~ Only one full tim~ play~round anrl ·heir three children. of 737 Park avecessible and is destined to be one of WILMETTE LIFE up at the ing two part time grounds were starte'~ ,ue. They will spend five or ~ix WPf'ks the most popular daily fee courses near hotel. Well, I'm having it se~t at the first of the season, accordin(" 'ln tour, vicdting the Black Hilk YelChicago. to Mr. Davis. but it soon becam" lowstone Park. Vancouver and 'then here, too, while I'm on my vaNorth shore men who are sponsoring anparent that there was nf'~rl for more +ravel down the west coast to Calithe club are: Charles A. Nash of Wilcation. Weren't you surprised And last year four full-time play- fornia. mette, g~neral manager; Frank A. to read how many north shore grouDds were conducted. Seng, W1lmette, president; and E. A. folks are summering up here?" Village-wide contests in the variou~ BeSlin Task of Elevating Kal~!mrst of Evanston, vice-president activities jncluding playgroundball of the corporation. On the board of Roof on Bank Structure kick ball, o'leary, . i umping rope, jack:directors are E.- F. Kelly and 0. G. Work of elevating the roof over stones and roller skating, wer...e inau<'!'Corns ot Wilmette. uratect last year and pr9ved popular the auditorium of the new First NaJ.ust call our Circulaenom!h to be incorporated in th;c: tional bank building, formerly the Vil...., t10n Department-say CHANGE STREET NAME lage theater, was in progress late this year's orov.ram. w h e n and. w h e r e. The Village board this week author{ week. The workers have been making - Adult Leaguea Active They'll do the rest. ized, by ordinance, the change of Thirty tejlms were entered in the good progress in rebuilding the strucstreet name "Miami road" to "Romona various leagues in adult athletics. The ture. John W. Davies, Wilmette buildroad." This street is located in the teams were soonsored by various vil- er, has the general contract for the Indian Hill Estates section. work. (Continued on page 5) f~ World's Fair Is Subject of Talk Before C. of C. t