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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 22 Feb 1929, p. 35

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February 22. 19~ WILMETTE LIFE 3S ESI.HER GOULD"S TRAVEL ·CORNER THE IDEA How little we know at what moment a new idea is going to attack us. We enter a building a staid stay-at-home we leave it a care-free globe-trotter: Perhaps there are those to whom the idea comes gently, creeping in to be nurtured tenderly for years before it is strong enough to stand exposure, but there are those-and this is the better way-to whom it comes with a crash, like a bottle broken over one's head, staggering, startling, unmistakable. Ours was of that class. Crack! And ther.e is the offices of Raymond and \Vhttcomb company in Boston-that well behaved city,-we realized that we were going abroad. Not possiblv or sometime, or in the future, but once. soon, now! to be sure, of turning "Esther Gould's Bo?k C<?rner" for the period of the sprmg, mto "Esther Gould's Tra,·el Corner." Bookworm to butterfly you know. Something like that! Ar:yway the metamorphose was complete. 'Y e floated from the building into wh1ch we had crawled. We turned our unaccustomed wings toward the Co~mon. Arrived there, pausing just on tts edge, the lights of the city went on. J:Iow app~opriate! Spangles for ou_r wmg~! ~rmges of light on everythmg, ghstenmg like frost on the buildings' dark surfaces. The stars did their part though their voices were fainter. v\fe floated on toward our hotel the rai!way station. .\Ve felt Eu~ope, Asta, the world, hke a giant phonograph record turning under us the Bookworm to' Butterfly :1eedle. Playing strange tunes , ~vok \Y e were fully possessed by the idea mg strang~ rhythms and harmonies whtch had reposed latent within us, Ali this to be done to one by an idea i William ~· CoUy~r Dies;. ~~y . Friedman to Speak Se~cea Tb11 Mommg · at Father and SOn Dinner Funeral services were to be held at Xavier church, Wilmette, for William D. Collyer, 74, prominent in the Chicago. butter and egg industry, who died at hts home, 825 Forest avenue, Witm~tte, Tuesday, February 19. Burial Will take place at Lake Forest cemetery. Mr. Collyer moved to Wilmette twen~y-five .years ago from Chicago. He 1s surv1ved by his widow, Mrs. Margaret Kennepy Collyer; tJuee so~s, Frank Collyer, 730 Ninth street, Wtlmette, Alfred Collyer of Boston and Herbert Collyer of Buffalo· and two daughters, Mrs. Victor B. Scott, 825 Forest avenue, Wilmette and Mrs. M. Byrd Wilson of Chicago. The Men's cl~b of Temple Israel 10 o'clock this morning in St. Francis will hold its annual Father and Son dinner Friday evening, March 8 at the temple, Lincoln and Vernon ave~ue.s, Glencoe, beginning at 7 o'clock. . Every m~mbe~ is privi!eged to bring hts sons w1th htm and, as this is expected to test the capacity of the dining facilities of the temple reservations wilt be made for onl~ the first four hundred applicants. The committee in charge ha·s secured Benny Friedman, former All-American !ootb~ll h~ro of Michigan, now a promment busmess man Qf Detroit, Mich., and Lous Behr, former AU-Amercan basketball star at Wisconsin as the principal speaker3. ' ]. W. Behr, 1627 Forest avenue athletic director at the Illinois Athie~ tic club, will leave tod'a y with his track team for New York. The team will en~er the Nation.al A. A. U. championship contest wh1ch is to be held in New York City. BEAT WAUKEGAN The girls of Mallinckrodt High school basketball team played the girls of the Holy Child academy in Wau~egan Saturday, February 16, defeatmg them by a score of 33-25. at High School Girls Give New Trier Acting Principal Dinner to Honor Mothers at National Education Meet Last Thursday evening ~fiss Elizabeth Kelly,. 412 Cumnor road, Kenilworth, president of the Girls' club at N'ew Trier High school, presided at the an~ual banquet given by the girls for thctr mothers. After the batH·uet · . I an . ent.crtamment was gi\'en in the :.lUdt!onum. Mrs. Kelso Farlev of Ke:~tlworth gave a brief talk. · Her subJeyt wa.s :·Hearts," appropriate to St. \ alentme s day. Miss Wright ~. teacher at New Trier, talked about Engl.and and the . English girls. Miss I~ottte ~uenkele the "Galli Curci" of New Tner, sang "Cara Nome" from t.he opera, . Rigoletto. Miss Kuenkeie ha_s a very charming voice and recetved enthusiastic applause. Miss Betty ~ cDowell gave two readings an? Mtss Ruth Wenter, Miss Mary Ehzabeth Parker, and Miss Helene Mann sang several popular, numbers. Mrs. Abe Swain of Chicago, who h_ad been at Rochester, Minn., for a tune, recently ·spent two weeks with her brC?ther and his wife, the Robert S. Swams, 701 Laurel ave·nue, on her way home. · ······ ~ ······· + ·········· Stof!kholders OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS '!.{~ Miss Elizabeth Packer, dean of girls and acting principal of New Trier High school during the absence of Superintendent Frederick E. Clerk, left this week for Cleveland to attend the annual convention of the National Education association. Miss Lillis P~ice, New Trier faculty member, also wtll attend the convention which is considercci one of the most' important events of the year in educational circles. Mi ss Helen Southward 306 Oxford road, Kenilworth , return~d last Monday from Ne,'\· Orlean s, where she attended the Mardi Gras. She was .a guest of Mrs. ]. D. ' Wirth of New Orleans, and was p resent at all the balls and festivities of the carnival. PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY who are not planning to attend the annual meeting of stockholders in Chicago can "Listen-in" by RADIO In keeping with its custom the annual meeting of the stockholders of Public Service Company of Northern Illinois will be broadcast SPRING and the MEDITERRANEAN S.S. "Carinthia"---April 8 A southern route sailing by the newest Cunarder -specially built for cruising. The score of visits, with generous sightsee-· ing, includes Barcelona, for the Exposition, Carcassonne, for the first time on a cruise, the Dalmatian Coast, etc. Assured homeward accommodations included in the rates-$725 up. ... Monday, February 25th at 2:30p.m. from It Is Time to Think about your summer vacation ARE YOU INTERESTED IN a trip to Europe a cruise through the Inside Passage to Alaska a restful vacation in Ber· mud a a bus trip through the east a tour of the west a trip on the Great Lakes or the St. Lawrence a vacation trip in the north woods Station WBBM 389.4 Meters-770 Kilocycles ... .... .... .... It is hoped that as many as possible of the stockholders will "listen-in" on this important and interesting meeting. NORTH CAPE CRUISE June ? ? ? ? ? ? Come in and let us help you with your plans. Make this vear's va· cation just what you want it to be. We: book you anywhere at no extra cost. 26 S.S. "Carinthia" PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS ----:, Evanston Travel Bureau Mrs. U. S. Grant, Director Commercial Trust & Savingo · University 9400 701 .D~vis Street Evanston, Ill. 6"of1 ;:.~ "' II ·lllt·IJIIIIII RAYMOND & WH'TCOMP COt.-iP J\.NY 1141 Central Ave., Wilmette Phone Wil. 2899 JOSEPH W. KEHOE, District Manager Ba.~. j 176 No. ~1ichigllr. A~enue Chjc·g~ .. 1tl St·'· 8615

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