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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 7 Feb 1930, p. 18

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II ATTENDING ICE CA1tNIVAL Miss Sarah Minor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. Leroy Minor, 929 Sheridan road. is spending this week-end at Dartmouth college as the guest of R-obert M. Lewis of New Rochelle, N. Y.. at the ·winter carnival. This ~arnival i-; put on each year in the perJod betwet-n semesters. Miss Minor is a student at the Briarcliff School for Girls .. She left the school on Tuesday of thts week for Dartmouth and wilt return on Sunday. Mrs. Stanley H. Knight, 51 Kenilworth avenue, has returned to her bof!le in Kenilworth from the Presbytt·nan hospital in Chicago where she has been for the past two weeks. -o- WILMETTE) LIFE February 7~ 19~ Manual Tninin1 Oaues National College Mn. Victoria C. Drake, Long Resident Here, Dies Gives Courses in Claim Girls' Attention Mrs. Victoria Carpenter Drake, wife of ]. C. Drake, 718 Eleventh street, died at her home Friday, January 31, at the age of 66 years. She had been failing in health for some time and had been confined to her room for the last three months. Mrs. Drake had been a resident of Wilmette for twenty-four years and was a member of the Wilmette Parish Methodist church and tbe Wilmette Woman's club. She was also a member of the Anan Harmon chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution at Glen Ellyn, where she and her husband lived for two years. Mrs. Drake was born at Pleasant Prairi~, Wis., and taught school for eleven years in that state . She was married to Mr. Drake at the age of 28 years. They lived in Chicago for several years before moving to \Vilmette. Besides her husband, Mrs. Drake is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Lucille Drake Larson of Wilmette and a sister, Mrs. Alma Stephenson of Madison, N. ]. ,. The fun eral services were held Monday morning, February 3, at 11 o'clock in the Wilmette Parish Methodist church, with Dr. Horace G. Smith, pastor of the church, officiating. Burial took place at Kenosha, Wis.. where Mrs. Drake lived for a number of years prior to her marriage. The girls in the Children's school of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college are quite as ~nthusias tic as are the boys over the opportunity to use tools and paint brushes in. the manual training classes. Under the skilled direction of Viggo Bovbjerg practical articles of furniture are made for the home, boats and airplanes are construct~d. doll houses are furnished and toys repaired, as the boys and girls gain skill in the manipulation of hammer and saw, plane and square, and an appreciation of fine, honest workf!lanship. Parent Education Mr. and Mrs. Merritt Dement, 337 Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ware 325 .<\ bbottsford road, Kenilworth, ha~e ieft Abbottsford road, Kenilw-orth, are now on a two months' motor trip to Florida. a~ Hollywood Beach for a stay ot a They are accompanied by friends from llJOnth. They will return to Kenilworth Hartland, Wis. about M:uch 5. BROWNIE'S Remodeling Alterations Women's Accessories 6 6 5 Vernon Ave. Glencoe Phone Glencoe r8 5 PERSONAL SERVICE SHOPPE MODISTE-DOROTHY ELLEN BROWN Daily-8:30 to 6-Saturdays-8:30 to 9 I ' 1010 0 tOH IIIIII OI I I I I t l l l l t + l l l t t l l · l l t · t o o l l l f l l l l t i i i U I I I U I I t f l l l f l l o O I I I I I February Sale Our entire stock of Ment s and Women's Arch Preserver shoes included. You will benefit by the · Great ~avings. VALUES TO Courses in parent education offered by the National Kindergarten and Elementary college are being organized for the second semester and new members may enroll at this time. The symposium course is offered on Tuesday mornings at 10 o'clock and child study courses on Tuesday afternoons at 1 :30 o'clock. Miss Martha Fink, director of parent education. is in charge of this work ~nd during t 1 H~ past semester forty-two mothers were enrolled. The subject of the symposium course this semester is "A Consideration of the Educative Experiences of Children." Music, drama, literature. art , science, crafts. and recreation will be presented in their beginnings and development by specialists in the various fields from the college faculty. and. mothers will have an opportunity for observation in the classes of the children's school. Chil_d study courses for the consideration of problems selected bv the group will be continued. In this course various texts on the selected phase o i child training are studied and reported upon, home records and experiments are carried on and presented for consider:ation, analysis and recommenda tions. During the past semester prob lems of early childhood were con sidered and this course is to be continued. New members may be enrolled DROP TWO GAMES in the group at thi s time, and groups The night gymna sium class at the v.·ill be formed for the study of preJoseph Sears school in Kenilworth has adolescent or adolescent problems if lost two basketball games bv a few pa rent s ar e interested. points recently. A Northbro~k agregation defeated the Kenilworth team Mr. and Mrs. George Voss. wl10 28 to 24 and the Schultz and l\ord were married on January 14, at the team frQ m \ Vilmette won a 26 to 23 Uaptist church in Wilmette and hav e deci sion. been in Cuba on their hone ympon, will r<::turn to Wilmette the latter part of .Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Kaumeyer, 601 this wee lc. They will take an apart Lmden avenue, left on Monday of this ment in Evanston upon their return. week for F ort Lauderdale, Fla., to :Mrs. Vo;s is the former Mona Heller be gone until April 1. 11f \Vilm ette. ~CIIIIJIIIIIIIOJIIIIIIIIIIJCIIIIOIIIIIIOIIIUIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIICUIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIII[liiiiiiiiiiiiCIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIIIIIIICIIIIIIUIIIIUIIIIIIIm~ i = c = ~ = a EXEMPT FROM ALL FEDERAL INCOME TAXES = = = C § We Offer: ~ 9 s ; 5 C ~ $135,000 Wilmette, Illinois 6% IMPROVEMENT BONDS Principal and annual interest (December Uat} payable at the office of the Treasurer at Wilmette. Collections made through our office without charge. Callable on 80 days' notice at par. Denomination $1,000 and $500. .lS.OOO Dec. 31. 1937 1934 15,000 Dec. 31, 1935 15.000 Dec. 31, 1938 15.000 Dec. 31, 1936 15.000 Dec. 31, 1939 WILMETTE (population 17 ,000) is one of Chicago's most attractiv~ ~orth S~or~ s,';lhurbs. loca~ed on the .Lake Shore, 14 miles north of the Loop Dtstr!ct. It 11 a ctty of .beautiful homes adjoining Evanston on the North and t.s served by _.the Chtca~o &. North Western Railway, ChicaO't\ Elevated Ratlway, and. Mtlwaukee Electnc. ..~ ·15.000 Dec. 31. 1931 15,000 De.-.. 31, 1932 15,000 Dec. 31, 1933 ~ ~ $15.00 ~ I a - §_ = .. = =§ =~a==~ ·1s.:~:~.~~. _=~= ~ D~ 10~ The wi~e choice range and sharp reductions make th1s a great sale. Enjoy the supreme comfort assured by the special features of Arch Preserver shoes. 5 § -== E :: 0 --=-- a= §_ ~ Elec!nc .Lm~ and extendmg from Glenview Road to the Indian Hill reai· denttal dastract at Lake Avenue. restde~taal. dtstnct m th~ western part of Wilmette near the Milwaukee . Th~se h?nd.s w~re issued to extend the water and sewer system to a ::_= i S iii § Come Early and Get First Choice I i 5 :: = c . The bonds are .Payab!e from taxes levied against the benefit~d property wbtch t~xes are a hen pnor to any mortgage or other encumbrance and 10 : equal wtth general ~axes. .The property taxed is valued at from $40 to $76 per front foot. agamst . w~tch a v~ry small annual tax is required annuall 1 for ten years to pay pnnctpal and mterest of these bonds. LEG.ALJ'I'Y otprocud&ng· 4PfWOVed b11 Holland M. ClU8idll. Attorner. Chicago = § =5 - ~ Q PRICE, PAR AND INTEREST, YIELDING 6% I D D 5 R = I i 626 CHURCH ST. EVANSTON I ' I ~~~~~ 39 So La Salle St. .flmul4 i :: INVESTMENT SECURITIES CHICAGO "E Central :2 I I I I 8 llliiiiidiiDaiiMB18&U· ~~ I

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