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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Jan 1931, p. 48

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Practically ail of the money that Wilmette residents donate to charity goes first into the Conimunity' Chiest Lud nd iste distributed to the The community chest idea ,origin- ated in Cleveland. seventeen years ago, accoiding to the Time article,"to keep panhandiers f rom pestering citizens and. to assure ample funds for the city's chiarities' The article says, Jin part: "13y 1922, the. U. S. had . only 49 chests. Now ail but 16 cities' abo0vc 100,000 population have them. "New cbest cities this year include: Alliance, Ohio;. Johnstown, Pa.; Springfield, M4o.,; _Cinton, Iowa; Haz- eltou, Pa.;. Stamuford, Conn..; New Philadeiphia,. Ohio., And doughty- Blacksburg, Va., with a population ôf less than 2,000 and the smallest cof ail chests. They hoped to; raise $80for a chést, actuahly gathered &'Cities considering cbests include ; Augusta, Me; New Kensington, Pa.; Mankato, Minn.; Edmonds, Wash.; St. George, Staten Island; Modesto, Cal; Litchfield,, IIl; Springfield, Vt. "Honolulu bas its chest--$453,00 collected. "The idea basspread abroad. Cani- ada bas six; Hamilton and London, Ont., Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg and (new this year) Vancouver. Ot- tawa bas a Canadian Counoil on Child Welfare, which technically is flot a chest. 41Havana gave $65,805 to its Anglo- American Welfare Federation. Rich Cape Town, South Af rica, bas a :chest for the entire Cape Peninsula. *"A few staunch men support every community cbest. Cleveland, which raised $4,667,224 for its chest and $751300 additional for unemployment relief, has iti Samuel Livingstoni Mather, ricbest citizen. He-gave $186,- 00.His step-brother, William Gwinn *Mather gave $63,5W0. "~Samuel Matber is the country's second largest contribPtor to com-,t These kiddics ail believe in Santa Clous for.Usai uwarthy id gentlema .Presented himself in 1persan ai ihe Clildren's. Chrisimas Party tisai .lane Country club gave, las Saturday afiernoon in the l1ane of thse club. There were games, presents, and- refreshmests,ai fwhhled«u tosyht "a goad tirne zuas had bý all' i fuIsc ed s asyta ChrristianScience I I ~Churches I "Christian Science" was the subject of the lesson-sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, on Sunday, De- cember 28. The golden text was, "There is, a river, the streanis whereof shall make. glaci the city cf God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the rnost High" (Psals-46-4~.,1 Among the citations which com-, prised the lesson-sermion was the fol- lowing from the- Bible: "But the Comforter, wbich is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father wiIl send in.,my name, lie shall teach you ail things, and bring ail things to your re 1mem- brance, whatsoever 1 have said unto, you" (John 14 26). The lesson-sermon also included the following passages from the Frank Peter son Funeral Held Saturday Afternoon Funeral services for Frank Peter- son, 939 Ridge court, Evanston, who was in the employ of the Nelson Brothers laundry in. Evanston for twenty-seven years, were held hast Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Scot't's funeral home, 1118 CGreenleaf avenue, Wilmette. The Rev. A. J. Munsterman of St. John's Evangelical church in Evanston conducted the services. Burial took place at Me- morial Park cenietery. Mr. Peterson was 45 years bld. H-e was kiiled in an automobile accident Christmas eve. While walking across Ridge avenue at Lee street ini Evans- ton he was, struck by a car driven by.Dr. Edward J. Farrell, 7532 Rog- ers avenue, Chicago, suffering a frac-' ture of the left leg, bruises about the body and internaI injuries. Les,> than four hours after the accident he died at St. Francis hospital. For thirty years Mr. Peterson was MvcKnley lilIed to score a nield goal, resortilig to free t'hrows for their four points. 1In the. first half, New Trier's of- fense failed to get under:way éfec tively, but the period ended with the north shore quintet leading 8, to 3. New Trier's sharpshooters got busv during the second half and scored 18 poinhts while McKinley was making one tafliy. Finiayson, right guard, high score man, sank four baskets andoine free throw in addition to playing a. clever floor game. R. Gordon-, New Trier left guard, ichecked many',scoring thrtists by McKinley. Other players for New Trier wvere Churc h, right -forward;, Jones, ieft forward; .F. Gordon, center;. and St'uits, Iverson, Klunder, Sinding and Fleming, su bstitutes., A contingent of New Trier- students cheered -the. vic- tory of thieir team over McKinlev. Coach Clyde Grateir's New Trier quintet was scheciuled to meet Bowen High of Chicago on Thursday, janu- ary 1, at 3 p. m. in Bartlett gymnasiunîi for a second round battle. New Trier's quintet recently over- whelmed Morton, champion of the suburban league for. the past three, years, 37 to 18 in a suburban league' gaine at the Leslie F. Gates gym- nasium. Jay Hockey Team Open for More New Talent Anumber of players bave appiied for positions on the Kenilworth Jays Hockey team for boys between the ages of 14 and -17 years. Manager Woody Wilson reports that some of the available material is known toý he *of a high grade, al-. though the squad is not yet comipiete. Four veteransof last year's teani are likely to have a .place on, the new addition., They, are:' Perry Short- ridge and Alex Newton defense nien; Woody Wilson, center, and* Roger Barrett, wingman. TheicJays would . like to schedule gaines with teams composed of boys not erceeding the age linit of thie [ives i Chicago. Thefi y' las as ber were held hast Saturda3 her mother,. 10 d'clock at St. % of Geneseo, church in.- Wilmette, w All Saints. ceetery. al services Members of her family early this both*f"2hiAg Tefuea srie iorning at IWeek were awaiting the resuits of X- wer.e held at St. Ita's churcli in Chi-* is Xavier rays taken to determnine the nature of cago Tuesday' moninga 03 burial at her injuriés. She was severely hurt o'clock. Burial took place at'Calvary about the head and. shiouldersw cemeétéry.

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