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Highland Park Press, 24 Jul 1941, p. 6

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Edward Muzik of Riverside, drivâ€" er of the other car, who received broken ribs, chest injury and deep euts on his head and body, is being released this week from the Liberâ€" tyville hospital. He was unable to attend the inquest, so the coroner and jury went to the Condell Memâ€" orial hospital in Libertyville, where he had been since the accident. Harold Frost, son of Mrs. Celia Frost Beckman, was the most forâ€" tunate of the accident victims, and was released from Condell hospital shortly after the accident on July 13. Those who lost their lives in the mishap were Harry Lawson and Russell Dow of Deerfleld and Milâ€" dred Vieck of Riverside. Deerfield Unit To Sponsor Army Dance Are Recovering Midshipman Almon Frost, who has been in the Great Lakes Naval Station hospital since the second day of his arrival in Deerfleld on a furiough from the U. 8. Naval acaâ€" demy at Annapolis, Md., because of an automobile accident, was releasâ€" ed for one day (Monday) to attend the inquest and spend a short time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Frost of Osterman avenue. He reâ€" turned that evening to the hospital to remain until fully recovered. He received a concussion, broken ribs and an injured pelvis. John Burns, butcher in the Deerâ€" field A & P store, who was a driver of one of the automobiles which colâ€" mmhnm'mh(n- in three deaths and injury to four, has been in the Highland Park hospital because of a fracturâ€" ed knee cap. He attended the inâ€" quest at Libertyville on Monday. Mr. Burns is out on bond for drivâ€" ing in the wrong road lane. He is staying at the John Welch home. ‘The Deerfleld unit of the Ameriâ€" can Legion auxiliary met Monday evening at the Holy Cross Parochial school for their regular monthly meeting. The unit has been asked by the Highwood auxiliary to sponâ€" sor a dance at the Highwod recreaâ€" tion hall for soldiers at Fort Sheriâ€" dan. The group also voted to give $10 to the fund for the repairs on the field house on the high school grounds on N. Waukegan road. The Junior auxiliary will meet on Saturday at the home of Jean and Margaret Cruickshank. Plans for their annual picnic will be made at this time. Miss Jean Goodman, who had been selected and sponsored by the Deerfleld unit as representative at Girls‘ State at MacMurray college in Jacksonville, gave an interesting account of her experiences there. She was elected a state supervisor and was awarded a gold pencil for the excellent way she performed her duties. The meeting was concluded with & social hour. Mrs. E. G. Jacobson and her sister, Miss Margareth Plagge acted as hosteses. Virginia Davis Divorced â€" Married The period of single blessedness for Mrs. Virginia Anderson Davis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer C. Anderson of Fair Oaks avenue, Deerfleld, was of. short duration. Granted a decree of divorce from Philip Davis Jr. of Colorado Springs, Colo., by Circuit Judge Ralph Dady on Wednesday, Mrs. Davis, accompanied by Clarence Lucien Voltz of Glenview, went to the office of County Clerk Jay B. Morse and obtained a license to be married. Mr. Voltz had received his divorce decree in Cook county this year. The wedding took place at 11 p. m. on Thursday at the Redeemer Evangelical church, Highland Park, with Rev. W. F. Subr officiating. Myr. and Mrs. Bernard Steacy of Glencoe were their attendants. A midnight supper was served at the home of the groom in Glenview and Mr. and Mrs. Voltz are now on a trip to Yellowstone National Park. Deerfield Youths May Enroll in CCC Enrollment is for six months and offers an apportunity for inexpetâ€" I-odmtopurnmmv- for defense work. Young men beâ€" tween the ages of 17 and 23% may -lhw-hmm A& Marths Donaidson, at 1 County street, Waukegan. The local authorities have been notified that the July CCC enroilâ€" ment period, 1 to 20, has been exâ€" tended to the end of the month to give additional youths an opportuâ€" nity to enroll in the corps. To date eleven have made application. WHAT‘S DOING IN DEERFIELD Deerfield C of C Meet at Briergate President Tom Adams, Northâ€" brook druggist, has appointed his committees for the coming year: Club service: Lester Ball, Norman Watson and Jack Kress; Vocational service: Norman Watson, Lester Ball and Frank O‘Connor; Internaâ€" tional service; Walter Metcalf, Jack Kress and John Picchietti; Commuâ€" nity service: Harold Vant, Ray Moore, and Marshall Pottenger; Club service committee includes program, . classification, memberâ€" ship, information. Community servâ€" ice includes boys‘ work, crippled children, rural and urban, building: and loan, and youth service. The Deerfleld: Chamber of Comâ€" merce will meet Thursday evening (tonight) at the Briergate clubâ€" house for a dinner meeting at seven o‘clock. Clarence Wilson is presiâ€" dent of the C. of C. Deertield Club Hold Deertieldâ€" The Deerfield Doman‘s club will hold its annual flower show on Wedâ€" nesday, Aug. 13, at 2 pm. at the home of Mrs. Monroe McKillip of Brierhillâ€" road. Prizes for different arrangements of flowers will be awarded. Mrs. Donald Easton is chairman of the flower show. Nick Bree of Northbrook is vacaâ€" tioning in Alaska, and has his movie camera with him. Club memâ€" bers expect to get a bird‘sâ€"eye view of his trip when he returns. Norman Watson, superintendent of Northbrook public schools, is exâ€" pecting to visit Lester Ball, superinâ€" tendent of the Deerfield Grammar school, at Drake university in Des Moines, Ia., this week and will atâ€" tend Professor Ball‘s class. The shop of the British War Reâ€" lief society in Deerfleld was closed for the summer months on July 1, but its work is being carried on from the homes of the committee chairmen. The finance committee met on Tuesday morning at the home of Mrs. Charles E. Timson with her coâ€"chairman, Mrs. C. B. Gywn; at which time plans were formulated for its work during the summer. They plan to make and fill comfort bags to be sent to the women of the bombed areas. These bags conâ€" tain all the necessities for personal cleanliness and are given to the women who have had everything destroyed. Anyone wishing to conâ€" tribute to this project can call Mrs. The sewing committee met on| Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Grohe and son, Wednesday at the home of Mrs.| Richard, are on a two weeks fishing Kenneth Towler, of Bannockburn.| trip in Minnesota. The group, which sews for British| The Independent Social club met civilians, invite anyone interested| yesterday afternoon at the home of to sew any Wednesday with them.| Mrs. Louis Ott of Saunders road. They will met at the home of Mrs.| The Harry E. Wings are at their Hubert Kelley on Wednesday, July| summer home at Glen Lake, Mich. 16. Miss Gladvs Page is the guest of Mrs. Emil Zettler‘s committee mends and packs used clothing each Monday, at which time it is picked up at the location formerly occupied by the shop. Mrs. Zettler requests those who have clothing to send, or time to give to mending, will please call her. It is hoped that the interest of the Highland Parkâ€"Bannockburnâ€" Deerfleld communities in the Britâ€" ish War Relief work will be sustainâ€" ed throughout the summer as the urgency of its needs continues. Mrs. Alfred Dahiman, Mrs. Edâ€" ward Kraft, Roy Dow, Fred Dow, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dow and two daughters, Mrs. Arthur Whitehead and son, Bobby, of Chicago, were luncheon guests on Monday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Johnâ€" son. They all attended the inquest on Monday in Libertyville. Mrs. A. J. Johnson and her daughterâ€"inâ€"law, Mrs. Arthur Johnâ€" son of Duluth, Minn., who is spendâ€" ing the summer in Deerfleld, were guests of Mrs. John Zenko (Gerâ€" trude Johnson) on ‘Tuesday in Evâ€" anston. Mr. and Mrs. Chester Wessling attended the funeral of Milton Wessling in Chicago on Tuesday. Burial was in Memorial Park. Elizabeth Silber Worth, a teachâ€" er in the Deerfleld Grammar school in 1922, passed away Sunday. The Worth family lived in the village for several years. She is survived by two children, Marie and David; her mother, Mrs. Fred D. Silber, and two brothers and a sister. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Necker have moved from the Waiter Toll apartâ€" -‘ndmmbb.m- pines where Mr. Necker will be in the employ of the government. Rotary Club Notes Relief Society Mends and Sews for British Flower Show, August 13 Vehicle tags for Deerfleld for 1942 will be blue and white, oval in shape, with the modernistic deer in the center of the sticker. They will be available for purchase next December. At present the police are busy checking on those who have not purchased 1941 licenses. Village President Victor E. Carlâ€" son and Mrs. Carlson returned Thursday from a trip to Ohio. a state police officer. Mrs. Charles Sugden was hostess to members of the Just Sew club on Tuesday afternoon at the home of her son, Dr. C. R. Sugden on Westâ€" gate road. Dr. and Mrs. Sugden are vacationing this month in the west. Mrs. David Petersen and baby daughter are spending . several weeks with her mother in Kenosha, Wis., while her husband is in Springfield for a two week‘s trainâ€" ing course preparatory to work as David Inman Sr. and Andrew E. Decker returned on Sunday evening from a week‘s stay at Judge Martin Decker‘s lodge at Watersmeet, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Hout, who spent several days last week at the Decker cottage, have gone on for a longer trip. They have their there children with them and plan to be gone for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Piper and son, Donald, are spending several weeks on a fishing trip in Minnesota. Mrs. Julius Johnson with her two sons, Henry and Arthur, and the latter‘s family, have returned from a trip to Eagle River, Wis. Mrs. Louis Soefker is entertainâ€" ing her bridge club on Friday afterâ€" noon at her home on County Line Miss Margareth Plagge is enterâ€" taining the Bethichem Woman‘s auxiliary on Thursday at her home on Elm street. John Ott Sr. accompanied his sonâ€"inâ€"law _ and daughter, Mrs. Tryvge Nelson and little daughter, on a week‘s trip to St. Paul, Minn., and places of interest en route. They reutrned home on Sunday. The Harry E. Wings are at their summer home at Glen Lake, Mich. Miss Gladys Page is the guest of Miss Shirley Wing. Mrs. Chester Wolf has as her house guest, her sister, Mrs. H. H. Horton of Whiteville, N. C. She will remain until the first of August and then will go to Strawberry Point, Ia., to visit a brother, Delbert Wilâ€" son. She had come north for the funeral of another brother, Frank Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Wolf attended the funeral of Mrs. Wolf‘s brother, Frank B. Wilson, in Libâ€" ertyville on Saturday. Burial was in Lakeside ceetery. He is survived by his two sisters and four brothers. Mrs. Ella Flagge, Miss Margareth Plagge, Jack Gagne and the E. G. Jacobson family spent Sunday in Crystal Lake with the Almon Rockâ€" enbach and Lester Taylor families. Mrs. Donald Easton attended a meeting of the Lake County Permaâ€" nent Lay Maternial Welfare comâ€" mittee on Wednesday (yesterday) at the Lake Forest Public Hibrary. Mrs. Easton succeeds Mrs. Robert E. Pettis as Deerfleld representaâ€" tive. Rev. Clarence C. Harder of Perry, Kansas, preached his concluding sermons in St. Paul‘s Evangelical church, Deerfleld, and St.John‘s church, Highland Park, on Sunday. He and his family had been occupyâ€" ing the St. Paul‘s parsonage and Rev. Harder, while attending Northâ€" western university, had been acting pastor of both churches during Rev. F. G. Piepenbrok‘s absence. Beâ€" ginning Sunday, July 27, Rev. Stuart A. Parvin and his family of Rolilsa, N. D., will cccupy the St. Paul‘s parsonage and hbe will act as pastor, while he is attending Northâ€" western university. Rev. Parvin will preach at the first of the union ‘m-:fl.'“h& concluding in Deerficld. . America‘s ‘"first line of defense," the navy, takes very seriously to the business of training its men. In the above photo at right naval recruits at Great Lakes Naval Training station practice landing charge with fixed bayonets. At left, simulating conditions on the superstructure of a battleship, these advance course signal corps members go through paces clinging to a steel tower at the training station. Navy Recruit Miss Gloria Hammer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Hammer of N. Waukegan road, returned this week from a trip in the East. She accompanied her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. Hammer when they visited a daughter in Erie, Pa. Mr. and Mrs. L. Addison have purchased the Koch home at 1011 Springfield avenue, which is occuâ€" pied by the Andrew Bradt family. The Bradts are building a new home in the northeast part of the village. Mr. and Mrs. Addison are living in the Wing house at 1040 Waukegan road, vmudbythoc.‘ N. Burris family who moved to Cleveland, O., recently. Mrs. Dan Hunt and the two younger children have returned from Clearwater, Wis., where they were vacationing with Mrs. Hunt‘s cousins. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Huhn have vacated the Antes apartment on Waukegan road. Mr. Hubn is ill in the Illinois Research hospital and Mrs. Huhn and the three children are staying with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Jenkins in Highland Park. There garen‘t any sails, or masts, or seaâ€"rigging on Dodge â€"but she‘s got mighty propellers amidships. She‘s the smoothest thing afloatâ€"on the highâ€" way. Her power ebbs and flows without when you don‘t want to shift, or elutching when you don‘t choose to elutch. Dodges fioat, all rightâ€"but they‘ll float at terrific speed; they‘re steady and sturdy and low to the groundâ€"they steer a true course. They are tull of features made famous by time. They lead in buoyant riding ease all their ownâ€"as you‘ll find for yourself when you call back your first joys of driving in these cars that almost drive themselves. Van GVUILDER MOTORS, lnc. 125 N. St. Johns Ave. Tol | in gooed yor LLFLOATNG RIDE T OU rou call back your first _ Hase Sothay D Dhiipe . and & y0r g in these cars that _ sapery oms whens MASTER HNYDRMMIC BRAKES nemselves. MOATING POWIR MOUNTINGS Ca.8., Tems.. o 40 9P.M., Lo.a.t. . FNGSRâ€"TiP SitEamg SAFETYâ€"STER P0DY Mr. and Mrs. William D. Cazel, their daughter, Mrs. Helen Mickush and little daughter, have moved from the Jack Krase home to the Antes apartment vacated by the Harold Huhns. Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Johnson of Brierhill road had as their houseâ€" guests the past week, Mr. Johnson‘s sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. North of Atlantsa, Ga. Miss Cornelia Dozier, who has spent the past three weeks with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Robâ€" ert L. Johnson of Brierhill road, has returned to her home in Madisonâ€" ville, Kentucky. While the Earl Hurt family was vacationing in Kentucky two weeks ago their home was entered when a group of neighborhood children broke into their house. Chief of Poâ€" lice Percy McLaughlin obtained confessions from the children and they are being brought into court to be reprimanded, but no arrests were made. Delores Strong of Elgin spent last week as the guest of Marojrie Hurt. ralmny \GRAPEVINE '*'bm"mt is that drives his jaloppy up mo-nu_mug making terriffic racket? take it easy, fellow, the neighbors are complaining. What well known Highland Park interior decorator, somewhat new in our midst, has his workroom so filled that he is looking for work four weeks in advance? Have you seen spots before your eyes lately? It may be a local gal who was missing from her home last Saturday. Her husband, who was out looking for her, said she was wearing a polka dot dress. (Also said she had had a couple of "nips") Don‘t forget to make reservations for the first dinnerâ€"dance at Moâ€" raineâ€"onâ€"theâ€"Lake, August 1. Carl Sands‘ orchestra will play. The Red Cross life saving courses will be held August 11 to 15 at the Central avenue beach. Junior swimâ€" mers 12 to 17 and seniors, 17 and over are invited to the classes. It‘s really a grand thing. Hope lots of you will take advantage of it. The Robert Cameron Smiths have decided to "call the whole thing off." Smith, a local interior decoraâ€" tor filed suit for divorce against Susan Foliansbee Cameron Smith last week in Waukegan. He charges desertion. â€" Mrs. Smith went home to "mamma" in July 1940 and hasn‘t come home yet. Sergeant Roop‘s wife, Charlotte of Fort Sheridan, was bruised Friâ€" day, when her car overturned on Sheridan road, near Highwood, She drew to close to the curb, and in tryâ€" ing to pull the car back on the lane, nicked a car owned by J. D. Killian, 682 Yale lane. (Did I hear a crack about women drivers?) Carl Pfanstiehl‘s electric fence has been granted a patent at Lake County. He has assigned it to Babâ€" son Brothers. Congratulations, Mr. Inventor! 8y GRACI O V S ohns 41

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