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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Aug 1939, p. 40

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son of tDr. andl Mrs. L. E. Penber- thy, 1524 Wilrnette avenue, Wilmette, suffered severe injuries but is re-, turrnng, by airplane from! thehos- pital in Pierre, S. D. todlay. He was reported to be recovering. The ex- cursion the >boys had been 'making. was a gift to themfti romn their par- ents in: honor of their June gradua- tion from, New TrierHigh sehool. Collide wltb Truck The. accident occurred- between 8 and, 8:30 o'clqck, Thursday evening.. as Robert, driving homneward at a moderate rate of speed, topped, a hili and collided with a cattle truck proceeding in the opposite direction, His car was thrown fromn the high-, way, and. he was tossed- clear of it. Penberthy, thouigh knocked un- conscious, was flot thrown out. The explanation for the accident, ~as ade ~at the eoroijer's*inquest,~ was that boti. drivers had evidently misjudged their clearance. Thè truck had an exceptionally wide cattie *compartment. Had Visited Grandparen'ts Robert, wlij was brought to Wil- mette from Chicago at the, age of 5 and had lived at the same address ever since, is survived by four grandparents ini addition to his mother and father. These are Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Tatro, of Chicago, anad Mr. an,- Mrs, Christ Schenk of Anahein, Caï., with w:ior the. boys had spent three weeics, while on the west coast. As a senior at New Trier, Robert won a varsity letter in football. He planned to enter Colorado coilege in the faill Funeral s,ýr'ices, were held Tues- day at the.Wilmette Parish Method- ist church, and. interment was at Memnorial P;irk, ter noori tuatuay oy Police Cnaef Cloyd C. McGuire from the sheriff of Warren icounty at Monmouth. 'The boy was makirig a. trip to Texas. He sustained a serious arm fracture 'and was suffering, from shock, according to: the report, and was unable to give a cllear account of the accident. The'parents were notified by Chief MeGuire. *A brother, Robert, 'who recently returned from, California, sustained a- fracture of an ankle at the bath- ing beach, last week, the police rec- ords showe.d. Anotheér brother, Harry, w a s drowned off Ga ge's pier, on August 2, M193. IViolâtes Probation,) A rresîed iii Winneîka;. Gels Termn in Prison T1hom-as' Ludington, 21, who was forrnerly ernployed in Wlmette, and who was placed on probation .by the crimninal court .of Cook coun- ty in Aine, wvas sentenced this week from one to 20 years in the peni- tentiary for, violat ion of probation., Accordirig to the police records i Wilmette and Winnetka, he was ar- rested on May 31 in Antioch. by Lake county authorities for the thef t of An automobile registered in the nam-e of Mildred Higgins, 154 Maple avenue, Wi1mette. He wa-s i- dicted by 'the grand jury on June 15 and given a year's probationary sentence a few days later. He was arrested by the Winnetka police 'as a burglary suspect on Thursday of last week and the seh- tence followed., Maistrale.to Hear Shooling, Case Friday Peter Heinzen, 1515 Washington avenue,_ Wilmette, charged with as- Cindex finger by a squirrel. The ro- rdent was taken to the police sta- tion and then transferred to a veter- inary's establishment for observa- tion,. On Tuesday it was reported dead and the ýbody was taken to Ev- anston to determine the possibili- ties of ra bies. On Saturday, Edward Apptn aged 8, of 711 Greenleaf avenue, was bitteni on the left ear by a chow dog owned byý the.family. On, Monday, Robert Wray, 14, of 622 Gregory avenue. was bitten while iný the rear, yard of 616 Isabella street by a police dog beonigt Robert C. H Iarper of :that address. The boy sustained lacerations onl the, right. leg. The dog was scnt to aveterinary hospital' for observa- t ion. 'l -Yearl-Old Bicycle RidIr iujired by Car John King, Il years old, siistained bruises, last Friday evening, when the bicycle he WvaS riding South on the east sidewalk ofRidge road wvas struck by an automobile leaving the driveway of the playground at the Village Green. The boy was knockzed off the bicycle. *Vancè Soule, 637 Sherniaiù avenue, Evanston, was the driver of the car. An investigation by Police Officers John Kriesant and John Voss dis- closed that'a bedge at, the intersec- tion of. the driveway and the side- wàlkç is about 12 feet high .and is a hazard to traffie safety. The condi- tion is being remedied by the vil- lage, it was announced. Rteport Local lVoman11L Missing .SiliceJuly 4 Mrs. Anna Warner, 601ý Locust road, Wilmette, has been missing since about 10 o'clock in the morn- ing of July 4, her husband, Ted, to arrest Marten andi a companion, Stafford Drake, also 19, of 1011 Green- leaf avenue, who were suspected of breaking street lights. Residents Cali Station According to the poiereport, Officer Phîiips was ordered to the corner of Tenith street and Green- w .ood .avenue aàfter. residents had complained of àéts. of vandalism- in the breaking, of street lights and ga- rage windows.. .Arriving at the scene, Phillipe,th police record shows., encountered Marteà and Drake. After command- îng a hait, and firing a shot in the air. he fired at Marten and wounded him, in the arn. Th e police report fur- ther. States. that the Drake boy at-, tacked the 6fficer. Both youths are c harged ,ith darnaging village prop- erty and r esisting -arrest. A hcairing before Police Magistrate John J. Peters, last Saturday, was deferred to Wednesday of next wveek. Boys Arrested *Qi.Sutiday .afternoon Officer Lous Popple of the Wilmiette -force found four boys riding bicycles and throw- ing, stones at the Street lights on 'Lawndale avenue. Inves tigation, the police report shows, disclosed the, fact, that sinilar lights had been brokeni on Hurd avenue in Evanston. The four bo-ys ,vere: 'Jim Huber, 14. 2A.05 Thayer avenue; Jim Gei- shecker.' il, 2721 Reese avenue: Mar- shall Gooch, 15, 2704 Lincolnwood drive: and Jirn Schouts, 11, 2809 Cen- tral street. ail of Evanston. They admitted, the report shows. breaking lights also on, Seventeenth, street, although Schouts had no part in the Wilrnette damiage. The boys were takèn to their homes and their parents were notified. Damage was paid by parents of two boys on Wèdnesday morning in' the office of Police, Chief Cloyd C. McGuire. TÉhe police chief, after ex- plaining to'the boys the seriousness of destroying public property and the danger of the formation of you th- fui . hoodlumn gangs, su.ggested. that the parents provide some rnethod. of having the boys.work out the amount at Joraan's in Chilcago this Thurs- JOHN ROSE day, w i t h interment at 'Rosehili. Mrs. Clyde T. Hays of 519 Miss Spa ids was the sister of the avenue, Wilrnette, came horr late Kate Louise Spaids, head of the day evening of last weôlc frc Miss Spaids School for 'Girls in Chi- don, Neb., where, on July cago, and was a member of one of father, John Rose, .died fol]( Chicago's ,Pioneer famnilles who long illness. Mrs.,Hays had came originally from the East. Gordon for three weeks. urei1te Swain Nelson concern is clear- been 1ing off hundreds of: choicest ever- busi- greens, which are, now being offered at greatly reduced prices.

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