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Sponsored by the Glencoe Park board and Playground committee, the annual skating carnival will be held at the north rink, Green Bay road and Dennis lane, Friday eveâ€" ning, January 26. Following a 30 minute program of races for the children, starting at 7:30, members of the Figure Skating Club of Chicago will give another of their popular exhibitions. To provide comfort along with pleasure, _ Commissioner Erickson, chairman of the Recreation commitâ€" tee, caused to be built, by the Forest Preserve â€" district, _ a _ temporary warming shelter close to the large parking space at Skokie boulevard and Tower road. The frame buildâ€" ing, 20 by 30 feet, containing a stove and benches, will be removed in Spring. More than 275 Girl Reserve secâ€" retaries representing Y.W.C.A. orâ€" ganizations from all over the United States gathered at Ferry Hall for national conference which opened on Friday, December 29, and closed on Friday, January 5. In order for Mary Jane to carry out her announced plans to go into the lake on New Year‘s day, it was necessary for workmen to cut a tenâ€" foot hole in the thick ice now coverâ€" ing the lake. At the scheduled hour, the former Wauconda high school student, appearing as calm and colâ€" lected as though it were an August day, dipped her foot into the water to try the temperature. She immeâ€" diately jumped in and remained for about _ ten _ minutes. Swimming about, she playfully threw out chunks of ice that were floating about. When the exhibition was‘ended Mary Jane quictly remarked that she would not go in again this winâ€" ter, but would repeat her daring deâ€" fiance of the weather next January first. "Bring on King Winter and let him blow his icy breath over Skokie lagoons lying south of Tower road to Willow road, freezing them so townsâ€"people of Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, and residents of Cook county may parâ€" take in good oldâ€"fashioned skating," he pleaded. From an official report just comâ€" pleted for the Village board by Chief of Police Cloyd C. McGuire, it is learned that during 1939 Wilmette had no fatal accident, automobile or otherwise. Seventeen women from the board and staff of the national Y.W.C.A. in New York came to Lake Forest to furnish leadership for the conâ€" ference. Charging that the village of Munâ€" delein has commingled special asâ€" sessment bond funds with its genâ€" eral village funds, and has failed to make pro rata payments on such bonds, Esther Holznagel, a bond holder, Thursday started suit in cirâ€" cuit court to force the village to make payments on $6,872.26 in prinâ€" cipal and interest due her on bonds with a face value of $9,400. Village Manager Herbert L, Woolâ€" hiser of Winnetka was authorized by the village council on Tuesday night to enter into a lease with the owners of a 10â€"foot strip of land giving access to the municipal parkâ€" ing lot at Tower road and the railâ€" way lines. Defying the cold wintry winds of New Year‘s day, Miss Mary Jane Switzer of Lake Zurich, held a erowd of close to 1,000 people spellâ€" bound, while she went for a swim in Bangs lake on Monday afternoon. This fact places the village in line for the award of the National Safeâ€" ty commission for towns of its popâ€" ulation class, but does not necessarâ€" ily assure it. New officers of the Lake Forest Kiwanis club will be formally inâ€" ducted into office at a joint installaâ€" 7 S. St. Johns Avenue HECKETSWEILER STUDIO Is your last portrait a true likeness of the man you are today? Half an hour of your time is all we need for the portrait your family, friends, and associates will say is you. Call Us for an Appointment PHOTOGRAPHERS tion ceremony with the Waukegan gan. The Lake Forest club will be "host club" on this occasion. John J. Speliman, Shields Townâ€" ship assessor, is the new president of the Kiwanians, replacing J. Rusâ€" sel Heitman, who served in 1939. Services at the North Shore Conâ€" gregation Israel are held every Sunâ€" day morning at 11 o‘clock and visâ€" itors are always cordially welcome. The Temple is located at the corner of Lincoln and Vernon avenue, Glencoe. is clubs Monday, January 8, at the Dr. Plaut‘s theme, "Who Can Best Prophesy?" is an attempt to anaâ€" lyze the new decade. Those who conâ€" template the years immediately ahead will be interested in his disâ€" cussion of the portentous events of our time. Christmas Mail Is Possible Barometer Of Prosperity Trend That Christmas mail figures are a possible barometer of the prosperity trend may be deduced from figures just issued by D. R. Hickok, manâ€" ager of mail and express traffic of the Chicago & North Western. Acâ€" cording to Mr. Hickok the North Western handled in the period from Dec. 12 to Dec 24 inclusive, the peak of holiday mailing, 417,741 <acks of mail, showing an increase of 4.5 percent over the same period in 1938 when 399,738 sacks were handled out of the North Western terminal. Dr. W. Gunther Plaut, assistant| jropped to 11,475 sacks. â€" Rabbi at Washington Boulevard| Mr. Hickok also revealed the inâ€" Temple, Chicago, will occupy the PUIâ€"| teresting fact that the railroads pit of the North Shore Congreg8â€"| handle mail by the foot for Uncle tion Israel, Glencoe, on Sunday| Sam instead of by the pound as genâ€" morning, January 14, during the @bâ€"| erally believed. In other words the sence of Rabbi Charles E. Shulman,| North Western dispatched from its who has again been called upon bY| Chicago terminal during the Christâ€" the National Conference of Christâ€"| mas rush period 23,514 feet of mail. ians and Jews to undertake a tour| Mail is handled in units of space six of Universities, this time in the far| feet high, three feet wide. A foot west and along the Pacific coast. of mail is the number of sacks ocâ€" Dr. Plaut is a recent distinguished | cupying one lineal foot six feet high. graduate of the Hebrew Union Colâ€"| In a unit of space there are 51 sacks, lege. His scholarship was manifestâ€"| or 17 to a foot. The total number ed recently in a new discovery reâ€"| of sacks is obtained by multiplying garding the history of the Jews in| the total by 17. To show how Christmas mail folâ€" lows closely general conditions Mr. Hickok cited figures for 1933, the nadir of the ‘30s. During the Christmas rush of that year only 112,000 sacks of mail were handled, In the week of 1936 a gradual upâ€" turn in conditions was reflected in Dr. Plaut is a recent distinguished graduate of the Hebrew Union Colâ€" lege. His scholarship was manifestâ€" ed recently in a new discovery reâ€" garding the history of the Jews in the United States. Chicago Rabbi to Occupy Glencoe Pulpit Sunday uPP _ _ information. Skirts Marked and Shortened Also sold at IADA SHUF, Orders also taken for Pinking Shears . . . Spool Holders Collins SELF SKIRT MARKER Just squeere the bulbâ€"and mark an accurate hem _ in 60 seconds! Takes the guess work out of shortening a skirt! . . Complete with sample tube of powder. Chalk your hem the easy profesâ€" sional way. Highland Park Telephone . P. 435 High School Loses Two Games Friday To Oak Park Teams the terminal in the Christmas peâ€" riod. The following year, 1987, it fell again to 355,164 sacks. On Dec. 12, when the peak week began, North Western handled out of its Chicago terminal 21,347 sacks; this increased day by day until Dec. 21 when the figure hit 48,365 sacks, highest for the period; on Dec. 24, the day preceding Christmas, it Both Highland Park high school basketball teams lost to Oak Park last Friday night on the locals floor. Jones with 7 points was high scorer for the local froshâ€"soph team, but his squad lost 18 to 12. a great upsurge A force of 200 men was required in the North Western terminal durâ€" ing the recent holiday mail rush to handle the work, while every mail car available was pressed into seryvâ€" The first two quarters of the varâ€" sity game was an even battle, the score being deadlocked at 12 all when the halfâ€"time whistle blew. Shortly after play was resumed in the second half Oak Park took the lead and went on to win by the score of 28 to 20. Evanston high school is sending two teams to Highland Park tomorrow night (Friday) to play the Highland Park High school squads two more suburban league games, T*HE HIGHLAND PARE PRESS â€"A N D _ El ECTRICITY 15 C HE A P ! Renewed by Popular Request... SPECIAL $25 INSTALLATION ALLOWâ€" ANCE ... again, in response to many requests, there is offered to residents of this community, a $25 allowance to help cover installation costs. This is in addition to the regular tradeâ€"imn allowance for your present water heating equipment. f This story is told of a resident of west Deerfield . . . he was having a heap of trouble with monster rats causing havoe in his chicken yard . . . so he sagaciously hooked a rubâ€" | ber hose onto the exhaust pipe of | his car and planted it in the rat hole . . . and he netted a flock of dead chickens the next day. . . . Seen . . . Ted Pasquesi taking the history of patients at Cook County }hmpital . . . he‘s in University of Illinois medical school . . . Lee Peterâ€" The superlative A. No. 1 de luxe cutup is Marion Larson . . . at a recent New Years party, where everyone was to dress like a person under four or over 80 years of age, she came in her pajamas . . . yep, she still wears them with the feet in, like all kiddies. . . . Pet peeves: loudâ€"mouthed persons at the movies, who notice that Dorâ€" othy Lamour didn‘t close her eyes when she kissed John Howard , , , who comment on the hero‘s silk paâ€" jamas . . . and remind him, as he climbs in bed, to wind the alarm elock . . . phoole . .. . Miss Rosa Harold was a guest on last Thursday and Friday at the home of Mr, and Mrs. William Duff of Highland Park . . . Albert I. Arâ€" son, 6 feet 1 inch and weighing 170 pounds, has a starting role as center with the Bradley Tech basketball team . . . it‘s history repeating itâ€" self . . . Chuck Orsborn, also of Highland Park, performed with the same club for three years . . . gradâ€" uating last spring . . . the Braves licked everything in the country for two successive years . . . practicâ€" ally. ... And there was the fellow . . . who refused, at the bequest of his wife, to go to a Saturday funeral . . . he said business came before pleasure. There‘s talk about showers now ... for petite Peggy Kerr ... whose beloved is an optometrist at La Crosse, Wis. . . . she and Alice Marks, by the way, do well at parâ€" aphrasing popular songs. . . . PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY has to his credit a vibratory element, Stanley Nelson of Lake Forest high is a director of the Lake Forâ€" est Kiwanis club . . . At this writing the Highland Park junior hockey team is supposed to engage the Waukegan junior puckmen _ at the local rink today . . . Mike Mioti of Ravinia works in a delicatessen . . . and has fun with his Ford bus. The Central Tire Co. of Highâ€" land Park was defeated in ten pins by the Budweiser girls of Waukeâ€" gan .. . their total was 2343 . . . R. Greenslade, F. Lawrence, F. Gieser, Other dealers are also featuring Electric Water Heaters now patents issued to inventors. OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS 51 South St. Johns Avenue _ Tel. H. P. 2900 Nope! 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