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DOLLAR DAY HERE WEDNESDAY, FEB. 18 Vouume XIX Sponsored by Chamber of Comâ€" _ merce; Merchants to Give Notable Values Dollar Day in Highland Park, is announced for Wednesday, Feb. 18, and a large number of local merâ€" chants are preparing to make it an outstanding date in Highland Park mercantile > history. _ Dollar Day means good merchandise offered by Highland Park business men at the lowest â€" possible prices, . affording everybody an oportunity to benefit from the bargains to be listed. The Highland Park Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring the plan, and it is expected that there will be genâ€" eral support on the part of the merâ€" chonts. _ With theâ€"merchants coâ€"opâ€" erating, there is every reason to beâ€" lieve that another success, similar to the splendid Dollar Days of last August and in February, 1930, will result Fob. 18. In order that Dollar Day advertisâ€" ing may be up to the minute, the Highland Park Press will issue a speâ€" cial Dollar Day edition on Tuesday, Feb. 17, which will be distributed to (Continued on page 35) Two Seck Nomination For Mayor and Seven For Commissioners Candidutes for nomination for city offices in Highland Park at the priâ€" mary election March 8, include two for mayoNand seven for commissionâ€" ers. The city election will be held on April 21. Under ernment that the mon acce I only to 202 registered Can you give WORK 23 calls last week our. unemployed The Higblandi Park Press Ravinia P. T. A. Plans Unique Entertainment For Saturday Evening The following letter sent out: by the Ravinia P.T.A., under date of Feb. 10, 1931, is selfâ€"explanatory: Dear Parents: We are going to have a real old fashioned "school days" evening. You are supposed to come attired as school children. Mother can wear her hair down her back in braids, and father â€"if he has any leftâ€"can brush it up in good old pompadour fashion, or nart it squarely down the center, Gingham aprons and sun bonnets for mother, and knee trousers for father are requested, if possible. â€" Bring just a regular old time school lunch of You are invited to come to the Village house Saturday night, Feb. 14, and enjoy a rollicking good time given under the auspices of â€"the Raâ€" vinia PT.A. s on "Bees." Members are asked to bring ideas and sugrestions for all entries in the ’flnwer show to be held at the Merâ€" chandise Mart in March. We will also have a Valentine box. Tn addition to this the program calls "or a Snelling Bee, recitations by cerâ€" tain of the bright students, and if the middle aged children are very enod, we will nrobably reward them with some old fashioned square dances and Virginia reels. a couple of sandwiches and a red appleâ€"maybe an extra one for the teacher if you care to obtain the «necial privilege ofâ€"cleaning the erasâ€" pers on Ravinia P. T. A. P. 8. This party is being given solely for the children from 20 to 90, but it will not be necessary for you to present your birth certificate. Ravinia Garden Club to Meet Tomorrow The next regular meeting of the Ravinia Garden club will be held at the home of Mrs. Paul Date, 1726 Rice street. on Friday, Feb. 13. at 2 n. m. Mr. J. E. Worthen of Wilâ€" mette will speak on "Roses" and Mrs. Bridge Partv Feb. 21 A progressive bridge narty will be wiven by the Ravinia Woman‘s club at the Village house on Saturday, Feb. 21 at‘ & o‘clock. for members and their husbands and friends. this occasion. Please do not fail or marking the spelling paâ€" Leonard will give a short talk HicHLAND PARK, Iuuinors, THurspay, FesruarY 12, 1981 Cordially yours, Highwood Woman‘s Leg Severed When She Falls Under Wheels of Train Her right leg severed below the knee by the wheels of a North Shore line train and her left leg so badly mangled that there are fears that eforts to save it may prove futile, Nrs. Oreste Saielli, 40, of 45 Burtis avenue Highwood is in the Highland Park hospital in a very critical conâ€" dition. ‘The accident occurred about 7:30 Tuesday morning at the Beach street station of the railroad. Mrs. Saielli had boarded the train at Highwood and as she left the car at Beach street she is believed to have slipped on the platform, falling so that "her legs were beneath the car as it started southward. Motorman Berry stopped the car and conductor, John McMahon ~of Highland Park, and M. E. Kopp of the Highland Park police department, who was passâ€" ing the scene, went to her aid. The two men picked her up and rushed her to the hospital where Dr. G. Q. CGrady attended her. The victim had been employed for some time at the home of George Donnersberger at 902 S. Green Bay road in Highland Park and was on her way there when the accident ocâ€" eurred. Officials of the railroad comâ€" pany began an inquiry into the acciâ€" dent on Tuesday. * Mrs. Saielli has resided in High wood for many years and is wel known in that community. Late Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Saelli was reported much better with prospects of recovery, and there was some hope that the left leg might be saved, it was reported. Miss Guiney, Speaker at P. T. A. Meet Feb. 16 The February P. T. A. meeting of Elm Place and Green Bay road schools will be held in the music room at Elm Place school, Monday evening, Feb. 16, at 7:30. § Feb. 16, at 7:30. % Miss Ellen Guiney head of the asâ€" tronomy devartment will speak. This program will be informal and short allowing time for all those who wish to .visit the telescope and have its operation explained, to do so. The choral of the Highland Park Music club will furnish special muâ€" sic. The social committee will serve refreshments. Dumaresq Spencer post of the American Legion will hold an open meeting at the Elks club, corner of McGovern and Laurel avenue tonight, Thursday, at 8:30 o‘clock. The post will give away a Philco radio. The public is most cordially | invited. Everything is free. Dancing will folâ€" low. American Legion _ Holds Open Meeting 11 PRESBYTERIAN GUILD SHOW OPENS TONIGHT Annual Entertainmnt at Eim Place Auditorium Two Eveâ€" nings; Features lSnowdrops in Bloom on Mrs. Egan‘s Estate Two features worth hearing are the opening chorus and the closing Halleâ€" lujah with 50 voices. A cake walk that will be long remembered is anâ€" other feature that should be a‘ disâ€" tinct hit, and the Flapper chorus which won high praise in last year‘s show will appear in the latest ballet. "Tickets are on sale at Swectland‘s pharmacy, Highland Park pharmacy, Pease and Gsell‘s drug stores, and ‘Tickets are on sale at & pharmacy, Highland Park Pease and Gsell‘s drug ® reservations may be made (Continued on page Over thirteen hundred citizens of Highland Park and vicinity, listened with interest and appreciation last eveâ€" ning to a most enlightening talk by Winfield H. Caslow, "Main Street Crusader," which was given at Deerâ€" fieldâ€"Shields high school, and sponâ€" sored by the Highland Park Chamber of Commerce. 1300 Hear Talk by Main Street Crusader Mr. Caslow, who appears at 10:30 on the radio, ove WCHI, at the bottom of the dressed the assembly on the cate System of Business." pared the syndicate system‘ private ownership system an its detriment to governmen tion, religion and business. was full of enthusiasm, and received with the greatest of tion by those present. One of the first reports of the apâ€" proach of spring was made last week with the announcement that snowâ€" drops were in bloom on the estate of Mrs. W. C. Egan on Egandale road. These little harbingers of spring made their appearance on Sunday, Feb. 1 which is about two weeks earlier than they. have ever appeared before. They usually are in bloom between Lincoln and Washington‘s birthdays. I ssembly on the "Syndiâ€" of Business." He comâ€" dicate system with the ship system and told of to government, educaâ€" and business. His talk nthusiasm, and was reâ€" the greatest of admiraâ€" present. worth hearing are the and the closing Halle voices. A cake walk NUMBER ever appeared are in bloom Washington‘s at Gsell‘s 34) nightly station dial, adâ€" 50