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Highland Park Press, 1 Feb 1940, p. 3

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Invite First Voters To Meeti At Lake the United States and will exercise that privilege for the first time in Mmmmhvh‘b be guests of the Lake County Fedâ€" eration of Young Republicans at the Lake Bluf Village Hall at 8 p.m. on Friday, February 9. Young Reâ€" First votersâ€"meaning those votâ€" ers who have not heretofore been eligible to vote for a president of their younger friends to become acâ€" quainted with the aims and interâ€" ests of the Lake County Young Reâ€" publican Organization. The serions business of being a useful citizen and of taking an inâ€" affairs will be combined with activâ€" ities of a more social nature. It is interesting to note that over 3,000 persons become of voting age each year in Lake county, and it is often many years later that these persons take any active interest in the poâ€" litical affairs of the county. Clarence Willard of Oak Park, president of the Young Republican Organization of Illinois, will be presâ€" ent at this interesting meeting. Othâ€" er Young Republican leaders will a}â€" "An Afternoon in St. Moritz" Sunda At Braeside Rink This will be an exhibition of figâ€" ure skating by the Figure Skating Club of Chicago. It will include a preview by several of their stars of the numbers they have been reâ€" hearsing for competition in the Naâ€" tional Amateur Figure Skating Championships to be held in Cleveâ€" "An Afternoon in St. Moritz" will be presented at the Braeside Skatâ€" ing Rink Sunday afternoon, Feb. 4, at 3:30. land next week. Some of the mem-‘ bers of the club enjoy the reputation of being among the outstanding amâ€" ateur figure skaters of the country. Group skating acts will be included, as well as the single and double. Guests are urged to bring their skates and join in a skating party following the program. Hot beverâ€" ages, hot sandwiches and doughnuts will be available at the rink, so that guests need not hurry home for Sunâ€" day supper. Augmented warming house facilâ€" ities and an outdoor log fire will be arranged for the comfort of the spectators. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 19# All Highland Parkers and their friends are invited to attepd.this "Afternoon in St. Moritz", which is being presented in response to nuâ€" merous requests from those who reâ€" call "A Night in St. Moritz" at the Braeside rink last winter. Waukegan Coke Gives Clean, Easily Controlled w >°“6N Lo Paul Borchardt Highland Park Fauel Co. Frank Siljestrom Menoni & Mocogni Mercer Lumber Companies â€" Deerfleld Feb. 9 hbfirfidnu&h’ afternoon the thought of better meeting the convenience of families with ‘children. It is sponsored by the Bracside Skating Rink commitâ€" tee in conjunction with the West Ridge School Community club. candidate for governor, and C. Wayâ€" land Brooks, candidate for United States senator, will be guests at a countyâ€"wide rally, card party and dance, sponsored by the Young Reâ€" publican League of Waukegan at the new Waukega Armory, 1,600 Glen Flora avenue, on Thursday, Februâ€" ary 15. Tickets for the affair may be seâ€" cured from precinect committeemen or presidents of local Young Repubâ€" lican clubs in any Lake county comâ€" munity. Young Republicans Hold Rally Feb. 15 In Waukegan Armory The committee in charge of the affair is headed by Mrs. James Zeâ€" rafa, chairman, with Margaret Dooâ€" nan, Raymond Reardon, Crellis Atâ€" terbury, Edward Painter, and Lauâ€" rence F. Bidinger, serving as memâ€" bers of the committee. Officers of the Waukegan Young Republican Club are: Robert Coulâ€" son, president; Vincent Zerafa, viceâ€" president; Jack Gaede, secretary; and Harry Breger, treasurer. N. S. Property Owners Reelect Officers at Meeting January 25 Marion T. Martin of Lake Forest, H. C. Hintzpeter of Kenilworth, and Gordon L. Pirie of Winnetka will continue as president, viceâ€"president and treasurer, respectively, of the North Shore Property Owners Assoâ€" ciation, it was decided by the Board of Directors at their annual meetâ€" ing Thursday, January 25, in the Carson Pirie Scott & Co. dining rooms. During 1940 the Association plans to enlarge its activities to include a program for improving the appearâ€" ance of the North Shore and beauâ€" tifying the communities. It was suggested that the Association might join with the women‘s garden clubs and other organizations in working on this project. Rabbi Shulman to Talk Before Chicago Executives Club The property owners are continâ€" uing their efforts to have the Route 42 markers removed from Sheridan road, and to preserve that street, and the entire North Shore, as a residential area. Rabbi Charles E. Shulman, pastor of the North Shore Congregation of Israel and well known author and lecturer, will address the Exâ€" ecutives‘ Club Friday, February 2, at their noon luncheon in the Bal Tabarin at the Hotel Sherman. The Executives‘ Club of Chicago with a cityâ€"wide membership of 1,00 men is unique in that the presâ€" ident, viceâ€"president and treasurer all live on the North Shore. Mr. Benjamin F. Affleck, president, reâ€" jed and Sold by Richard J. Lyons, Lake county‘s TRY A TON Ralph E. Himmelhoch, Glencoe, and Mr. O. P. Olson, Kenilworth. At the large Bal Tabarin meeting of the Executives‘® Club next Friâ€" day, Rabbi Shulman will speak on the timely subject, "The Moral Imâ€" plications of Democracy." His latest book, "Europe‘s Conscience in Deâ€" elime," asserts that the decline of religion is the cause of world conâ€" Rabbi Shulman‘s original training for the legal profession and his trayâ€" els here and abroad have given him a wide first hand acquaintance with Retired Motorman Of North Shore Line Dies in Libertyville George H. Grabbe, 65, a retired North Shore line motorman, died at 7 p.m. Friday at his home, 220 Park place, Libertyville. . â€" two years in the Southwest. Reâ€" turning to Libertyville, he went into Mr. Grabbeâ€"wis born on June 4, 1874, at Wilmot, Ill. In 1878 he came with his parents to live in Libertyville. He grew up in that village and attended school there. When a young man he did clerical work for the Santa Fe railroad for business with his father in operatâ€" ing a mineral water concern from the Abana spring in Libertyville and a honey commission enterprise in Chicago. For a time the Grabbes kept their own bees and bought honey from other apiarists. Thirtyâ€"seven years ago Mr. Grabâ€" be went to work for the North Shore line. He was a motorman for 33 years, retiring because of ill health in 1936. He leaves his widow, Addie, and one son, Kenneth. A brother, Mauâ€" rice, also survives. He is a ship captain and is now somewhere on the high seas. Bethany Church Feb. 4 The Evangelical churches of America, Europe and Asia will obâ€" serve the coming Sunday as the day of prayer for missions. The Bethâ€" any Evangelical church of this city will have Dr. G. L. Schaller of Harâ€" risburg, Pa., as a guest speaker at the 11 a.m. worship service Sunday, at which time he will speak on the Missionary Task of the Church. Dr. {Schaller is an editor of Sunday school literature in the Evangelical church and is well known in Highâ€" land Park, having spoken here on several previous occasions, ® Guest Speaker at Community Choral Club Holds Dinner The Community Choral Club is sponsoring a dinner on Thursday, Feb. 8, at 7 o‘clock at the Y.W.C.A. auditorium. A short program feaâ€" turning an entertaining speaker and some community singing will follow the dinner. Tickets may be secured by phoning Mrs. Wm. Pearce, phone 3042, or Mrs. Geo. J. Hinn, phone 11. TBE ~HIGHRLAND cPAREKEâ€" PRBEE#S "Family Portrait" To Be Presented By Ann Birk Kuper WB MECEOME, FEHECRIY U, MBBE Birk Kuper will present her monthly reading under the suspices of the North Shore Congregation Israel Sisterhood at 2:30 p.m. in the lounge of the Temple in Glencoe. She will bring to her enthusiastic audience wn outstanding play success of the late New York season; namely, "Family Portrait," by Lenore Coffee and William Joyce Cowen. Judith Anderson starred in this play with her portrayal of the charâ€" acter of Mary, Mother of Jesus. This story of Jesus of Nazareth is parâ€" ticularly opportune, as the book most widely read and discussed at the present time is the "Nazarene." Mrs. Benjamin Leo Staff, chairâ€" man of the committee, feels that the North Shore is very fortunate to have secured the reading of "Famâ€" ily Portrait", and as usual invites all the community to share in hearing Mrs. Kuper read this play. There is a nominal fee. The reading will be followed by tea and a social hour to which everyone is invited. Movie Benefit at Orchestra Hall for Finnish Relief Fund The midwest "premiere" of the motion picture "Friendly Finland Fights" will be viewed by Chicagoâ€" ans on Friday night at Orchestra Hall, where Major James Sawders will give a benefit showing of his outstanding films under the auspices of the women‘s division of the Finâ€" nish Relief Fund, Inc. Proceeds of the movie benefit will go to the fund for civilian relief in warâ€"torn Finland, where thousands of refugee men, women and children are without food, clothing or shelter as a result of the Red Russian inâ€" vasion. Major Sawders is coming to Chiâ€" cago for a personal appenrance with his film, "Friendly Finland Fights," and during the showing will tell his story of what the gallant northern democracy is doing in defense of life and liberty. He took more than ten thousand feet of film throughâ€" out Finland before the war, and reâ€" cently showed them on the Town Hall series in New York City. Sawâ€" ders, who is known as "the hisâ€" torian with @a camera," will add to the Chicago showing a special seâ€" lection of current war photographs to illustrate his story of "Finlandâ€" One Year Agoâ€"and Now." 101 North St. Johns Avenue PURNELL & WILSON, Inc. ognition of the valiant efforts of the small republic ag@inst Russian inâ€" vaders. Consul Elmer A. Forsberg, will be guest of honor at the fundâ€" Chicago‘s quots of $100,000 has been raised and forwarded to naâ€" tional chairman Herbert Hoover and is on its way to Finnish sufferers, but local efforts are being continued "to meet the everâ€"growing need", according to Mrs. Joseph F. Govan, coâ€"cha Fifield of Chicago women‘s efforts. Tickets for the benefit show Friâ€" day night are moderately priced to accommodate all who wish to aid the fund by attending Chicago‘s preâ€" miere of the Sawders picture, acâ€" cording to Mrs. Govan. Present Drama at Bethany Sunday P. M. The young people of i Evangelical church are The young people of the Bethany Evangelical church are sponsoring a special service Sunday evening at 7:45. At that time two students from North Central College of Naâ€" perville will dramatize "The Unâ€" known Soldier Speaks." This drama QualityCleaners RELIABLE LAUNDRY AND DRY CLEANING CO. ryom d ARNOLD C. BREMER ‘Telephone H. 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