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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 19 May 1938, p. 5

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the iAmerican .Legion, These*sm al) artilicial biossom .SI sym- bouic of, the -flowers that bloomdi tbe field.of Flanders. during 'the World' war, havýe- been, made by the men ýin-the various federal veterans' hospitals of the nation., The. funds de rived frôm the sales wilg t- assist . the "'war'à living . victims," .Widows and-,orphans of veterans, as well, as those, stili' in. hospitals, and their familieg. Workers. will be on the streets, of Wvilmeitt*ç and Kenilworth throig'hout next Mon4jay, qnd .it was suggested thar -the .poppie*s,.purchased .then be retained and worn again on Memorial day, one"Week later. James Ryan McCue is commander of the post, Howard F. Dusbam is chairman for the Legioti post and Mrs. Qrvillie G. ,DaiIy ., fr te.au- iliary unit. 'the New' Trier High school students were enlisted through the aid of Miss Elizabeth E. Packer,1 dean of girls.. Members of the Huerter post ofi the Legion,, under the direction of Commander.jôseph Conrad, and thei auxiliary unit, Whose. president isi Mrs. Beatrice Bleser, will take part in'the Poppy day sales in Wilmette. Feakis, Imc., Phioto Aie.-aeidér Kerensky, first pre- iiiier of Russia followiing the revolu- lion,- of 1917,» has beest sectired as mie 'of.the speakers on -ue.t waoàon$ New Trier Sunday P&enintg club's 25th 'an Iiversary program of attrac- tions. Mr. Kerensky will be the speaker Sunday evening, J)ecember 4. He has been in America for several weeks and has just returned to Engiand but will return to the United 'States in the autumn, when lie will be in great de- mand for lectures. His subject here wiIl be '"Democracy." It waï learned that ail the members of the. board were not in accord on the ýproposaI and« that the finianlciai, chairman ýprotested' that the preset time was flot suitable. for increases. Youth, 17, Is Wounded as Gun Pires by Accident. Willard Ha ugsness, 17 years oid, of 618 Prairie avenue, sustained a buliet wound tbrough bis left shoul- der, Friday evening of iast week. when a .22 calibre rifle he was band- ling in the basement of bis home fired by accident. The bullet punc tured .,a Jung and lodged agaînst his spine. At the Evanston bospital, -where he was taken in the police ambulance, bis condition was reported to 'be sa- tisfactoryr. The N. S. Mackie Construction, by airplane troniMinhfette. Postmaster Herbert L. O'Coinneli of. Wilmette and Postmaster Leslie H. Ullrich Of 1<enilwoàrth aré cooper- ating in an elaborate program that will give, in a few swift. scenes,- a pageant Of 'the progress Of fast mail transportation in the past three- quarters of a century. A -lispatch of mail by pony ex- press, just as it was donc in the west before the building of the trans- continental rail lines, will be made at both tbe Wilmette and Keniiworth offices at .about 5ococ Thursday afternoon. On Lat Pimu. This will meet the last plane, which will leave-from the field at the north- west corner of Wilmette avenue and Locust roàd. pilots were n by. the pos ýrmit them ; mails for ài - , be conducted a week f rom next7Mon- Harland Barthoiomew and Asso- day: by the Huerter post. of thé ciates, city pianners, civil engineers, American Legion. and landscape architects of St. Louis, Ceremonies will begini with a were authorized by . the Wiirnette parade which will form at 9 o'clock Village council at its meeting on Tues- that morning at the corner of Lake' day evening of this week to conduct avenue and Ridge road, and whose a "7land-use" survey of the entire vil- tentative line of nmarclh follows : , lage.. South on Ridge road to Washing- eld. the amnount of the bid was A >unced, it was estimated that scan tto the state will be about. ofï white the Wilmette Har- afte ýciation, incorporated, is con- 1 5 0' ,$5,500 for purchase of ma- T. rstee to fli the vacar * death of Warren J.- But e will be held this Saturd; i-between the hours of 1

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