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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Aug 1939, p. 3

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Fritz Siegal, brilliant young vio-ý Iinist and conce rt master of the fed- eral, music project's Illinois Sym- phony orchestra, will be featured as soloist' when the, orcthestra: Plays the next program th -the. series of "Starlight Symphonie's", in Wilmette amphitheatre; Wednesday. evening, August 9, at 8:15 'çlock. Albert Goldberg will conduct the orches- tra. Mr. Siegal' considered one of, the country's outstanding young, artists, will be heard in Wieniawski's con- certo for violin and orchestra. He is a Chicago boy, twenty-one years old, and one of the youngest concert masters of. any orchestra of major rank in the United. States. Tor three years he has held this position with thieIllinois Symphony orchestra. Hie had previously been concert master of thie Chicago Civie orchestra. Expeot Record Crowd An audience as large or larger than thie record-breaking throngs which have attended recent concerts is expected to hear this program. Conductor Goldberg wifl present the folloWing program: Suite fror» "The Betrothal".. DeLamarter Overture The Veiled Figure Dance of thie Swetiiearts Dream Panltomime, from l'Hansel and Gretel" .... .j(unperdinék Tone Poemn, -Don Juan," Opus 20............. Richard Strauss Intermission Concerto for Violiri and Orchestra. D Minor, Opus 22........ Wieniawski Allegro moderato Romance Finale a la Zingara Fritz Siegal Overture to "Die Fledermaus ..Johann Strauss Even with the extra seating fa- cilities provided by Wilmlette Cham- ber of Comn~merce, sponsor of thie Open-Closed .-p. en Board Plays to Empty Ben ches,, R~outine Businessfo PU] Ears; Discussions Held Lbin Private.:Conferenice Thie regular open-closed-open ses- sion of thie Wilmette Villge .board, was Aeld Tuesday night, witb not a single disinterestéd villager present to note thie goings on. It.is said that this absence of con- stituents has at times irked certain officiais who looked upon it as prima facie evidence of a total lack of in- terest in Village ai! airs. Tuesday night reached thie saturation point in board attendance. Appriive Misutes The meeting opened shortly after 8 o'ciock with thie customary invo- cation, fûIl9wed by the, election o! Collector E. H. Kerr as' clerk proI temn, roll call, end approval-with- out readng-of thie minutes of thie previou.s meeting as published by thie clerk. The finance committee offered for payment thie payrolls and supply bills for the montAi of July, which were approved ànd ordered paid. Thie tax levy ordinance for thie cur- rent fiscal was passed. Thie arnount o! thie levy, based upon the recently adopted budget ordinance, is $189,- 692.55. abilities. that it will be passed early tAis fait. Consideration of. the ordinance pro- viding for thie annexation of No Man's Land,, passage .of which at Tuesday night's session was antici- pated, was delayed pending com- pletion of the required surveys. N~O Irt Beght Then came the famîliar announce- ment, "There are a few things to be taken Up in conference, and thie board will now recess for a few minutes." Thie business started at 8:15, so far had occupied less than haif an bour. Soon after 10 Q'clock, thie tempera- Wure in thie council chamber being oppressive and the solitude unen- durable, your . reporter repaired to more comfortable quarters, learn- ig lateir from an unhipeachabl3r reliable source that at tAie end of thie recess thie board decided to accept $855.38 from Ithe Staté Divisioni of Highways for thie cleaning and main- tenance of Sheridan road; instructed Village Prosecutor Edwin A. Rob- son to take necessary steps to com- pel eighteen property owners to re- pair broken and dangerous side- walks abutting t h e i r premises; awarded to R. W, Hosmer company,' Chicago, tAie liabiity insurance, and, to Pavlik Realty of Kenilworth, thie fire, insurance, on Village motorized equipmient.; gave a contracet to Wit- ten. & Peters of Wilmette, for paint- Beginning Sunday. morrung,. Au- guat, 6, tAie wor ship services of thie W11ime t t e Evangelal -Lutheran church will. agaïu be held hI the con- gregation's .o-Wn edifice, , Seventh street at Greenleaf avenue. As .recently.anhônounedin Wi[L- mETTELirs, .the. congrégation was successful, recently in securing Its church home agam atter A lapse of several montAis due- to thie necessity for a financial réarrangement. Serv- ices have been held in the Wilmette Masonic temple. On thie first'Sunday's return to, the edifice, tAie members of tAie church wil receive Holy Communion which wfll be admlnistered at hoth the. 8:30 and Il o'clock services.- A specia Service of Taksgiv- lng and.Praise will be held Sunday afternoon, September 24, at which service Dr. .Armln Weng; presideznt of thie Illinois -Synod of the United Lutheran Church,. will b e t h e speaker. At tAie mornung service on that dày new members wifl be re- ceived into tAie church. Thie Rev. and Mrs. David R. Ka- bele will return to thie parsonage as soon as rewovation is completedi which will b e about September 1, it la announeed. New Airport. Will Be Opened Soon on Milwaukee Avenue A new commercial airport to s erve Chicago and its suburbs. is un- der construction on .Milwaukee ave- nue, 1/ of a mile north of Golf road. Three hangars and an ade-, quate number of runways are be- ing built on tAie 190 acres., whîeh

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