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\ - WINNETKA WEEKLY Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk VOL, VII, NO. 7. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1918 SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS Red Cross Workers SUBSCRIBERS BOOST Seek $100.000,000 LOAN TO $400,000 Applications Reach High Mark as Easily Oversubscribed | in Winnetka Local Campaign Beginning May 20 Organization Prepared Quota is Local Red Cross workers are for- | plans for conducting the! {AMONG MOST EFFICIENT | | | | mulating Second War Fund campaign of the| PRAISE FOR THE WORKERS American Red Cross designated by | President Wilson to start on Mon- day, May 20, and continue for one week. It will be the aim of the na- tional organization to raise $100,000,- 000 during that period. Shortly after America's into the world conflict the Red Cross, through its War appointed by the President, asked of | the American people one hundred million dollars, as their. first contri- | bution to the War fund. That War fund had been decided upon 'as Villagers Laud Leaders for Splendid Canvass of Households With the closing days of the liberty loan campaign, Winnetka is due to far surpass her quota. Latest re- ports from the local headquarters placed the total subscription at $400,- 000 and the campaign leaders were swamped with new subscriptions. The campaign in the village was thoroughly organized and every house- hold canvassed by the captains and Sane teams. It was expected that the total | Plans subscriptions would reach the $425,000, © mark before the drive closes on Sat- urday evening. The committee in charge of the campaign has received the highest praise from residents for the effective canvass of the village and their splen- did success in having the quota over- subscribed. ; Boy scouts were especially active this week and were instrumental in rounding up many who lagged until the last hours of the drive. B= E= Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts B= Fs American | Council | American that their and scale of Kuropean relief on the need justified. The money contributed at that time will have been all expendet by early this summer and the account- ing of this expenditure audited by the government, has been given the widest publicity. Every means will be taken during the week to inspire and stimulate the public to give and give gener- ously to this great need. It is as much a matter qf patriotism as the support of our army and navy. The workers will seek to canvass each individual. ®: B= Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts = Ez SPECIAL TRAIN TAKES M'ADOO TO NAVAL CAMP ATA Women to Celebrate A special train labeled "The Me- Illinois Centennial Adco Special," conveyed the secretary of the treasury from the loop in Chi- cago to the Great Lakes Naval Train- ing station over the right of way of A pageant with 2,000 people in the cast, will be given on May 11, at the tho Chicago. North. Shove wad. Mil auditorium theatér, Chicago, under the auspices of the Illinois Federa- waukee E1scrric railway ast, Monday. i o 0. Cbi- | tion of Women's c ubs : ras: talk cli > ca rin ARI a brief tod of the|, BY th, matinee an ing 'per- formances will be given, by some of Sation and @ Hherty loan address at the best known professional talent of the main camp. . Illinois. All phases of history from "2 FS Buy Bonds "Till It Hurts Fa Fa early Indian occupancy, and the {arrival of Father Marquette, down to the period of present industrial and commercial greatness will be re- presented. The officers of the Illinois Federa- tion of Women's clubs are: Miss Jessie I. Shafford, of Rockford, pre- disent. Mrs. Frank Funk, of Bloom- ington, vice-president. Mrs. W. R. Hunter, of Kankakee, recording secretary. Mrs. C. M. Carver, of Lake Park, corresponding secretary. Mrs. Frederick W. Bloci, "of Chicago, treasurer. Mrs. Charles H. Zimmer- man, of Chicago, general federation |state secretary. Mrs. George W. Plummer, of Chicago, parliament- arian. The general | Rainw ater, Chicago. CONGREGATIONAL WOMEN IN ANNUAL ELECTION At the annual meeting of the Woman's society of the Congrega- tional church, held Wednesday after- noon, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Charles S. Jewell. First Vice-president, Mrs. FE. J. Allsebroke. Second Vice-president, Mrs. R. Steere. ! Recording secretary, Mrs. Sherman M. Coble. Corresponding secretary, Mrs. F. C. Farmer. Chairmen of Committees, Mrs. John R. Bunker; Mission, I. Harrison Mettler; Luncheon, Mrs. | Hoyt N. Mclain; Philanthropy, Mrs. Walter Smith: Flower, Mrs. J. W. F.| "apy proceeds will go to benefit the Davies; Neighborhood Circle, Mrs. | boys at the Great Lakes and Rantoul, | John R. Montgomery; House, Mrs. | py furnishing club houses with alli Ayers Boal. lthe comforts of home, especially | Members at Large: Mrs. Carrie B. home cooking. Prouty, Mrs. P. W. Bradstreet, Mrs. | = Es Buy Bonds "Till It Hurts EE Frank T. Crawford. An interesting letter from Mrs. F.| C. Farmer, who is with her husl yand | Presbatortans Install at Chattanooga, Tenn., was read, in| which she urged all the women to! continue knitting socks through the summer months, as they were needed | Lloyd Work, ¥ committee has as rs. Mrs. Clarence Vincennes avenue, pageant chairman 4202 Reverend George P. Magill, newly ap- | jare entrance brand of patriotism has so forcefully | | necessary to carry through the broad | | patriots | camps in those vicinities. { | Winnetka men in the national army i DRAFT MEN NAMED SUPER-PATRIOTS for Lead Draft Men of United States in Subscriptions to Second Liberty Loan Draft Officials Here Receive Letter of Commendation from Officers super-patriots. Their particular impressed army officials at Camp | Grant as to receive special comment | and recognition, official recognition | which has been transmitted to George J. Pope and Fred A. Smith, oh bors of the local draft board, in | the form of a commendatory letter. The distinction of being was awarded the three "counts". First: They have entered the to sacrifice their lives, if neccessary, to blot out the 'terrible curse of militarism, which makes them pa- triots. # Second: They have been classed among the best organized and most efficient soldiers in training at the national army cantonment, which adds to their standard of patriotism. Purchase Most Bonds Third: They have been awarded the signal honor, as representatives of a draft board, of making the largest subscription to the Second Liberty Loan of any draft board in the United States, which classifies them as super-patriots. More men of this same caliber left Wilmette this week to begin the term f training in Uncle Sam's service Twenty-nine of them left Wilmette last Monday morning and sixty more proceeded to the Jefferson Barracksat St. Louis, Missouri, this evening. Several former northshoremen were to have gome to the Missouri bar- racks but, because of their present residence at great distance from the draft district, are to be inducted into service from their new. places of re- sidence and will be sent to training These men have been replaced by an equal num- ber of men, next in order of call, order that the full contingent of sixty men might be maintained. The men who will be inducted into ser- vice in other camps are: Julius Deisterlieft, Morton Grove. John H. Campbell, Glencoe. Alfred G. McKitten, Montrose, S. Dak. Ed- 'win T. Rumfeld, Winnetka. Lewis F. Perkins, Denver. Ernest McClana- han, Wilmette. George W. Smith, Tunnel Hill, Ill. Carl A. Moyer, Ja- maica, Ja. The men who are the next in or- der on the call list and will go to the Jefferson Barracks along with | other members of the contingent no- | M. Ustick, Wilmette. Rev. George P. Magill badly. 5 | pointed pastor of the Wilmette Ae [byterian church, was formally in- WINNETKA MAN RECEIVES | sta led this evening at the church. COMMISSION IN AVIATION! Reverend Cleland B. MacAfee of | v ' | chicago delivered the Edgar R. Stanton, 315 Ridge avenue, | occasion andthe was recently commissioned a Second | Lieutenant in the non-flying branch of the aviation section, signal corps. | Together with other officers com- missioned at the same time, lieute- nant Stanton is soon to be assigned | to ground duty at one of the aviation stations either in this country or in| eohategutional singing. France. [pe re Ee Ra k= Buy Bonds Till It Hurts Fake | 0 Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts Fs ks sermon of the | Henry Seymour Brown. Reverend William and the Reverend Music consisted of se- | services were the | Chalmers Covert Edgar P. Hill. Wilmette Band Meets | A meeting of the Wilmette band will | be held next Wednesday evening for | the purpose of rehearsal. The organ- || pinsmore Ely of Winnetka, who ization is now well organized and re- | died in service in "France April hearsals are being conducted every {91 1918, will be held at the Win- Wednesday evening in Jones' hall. |} notka Congregational church, Sun- Experienced musicians are needed by day, May 5. Ely Memorial Memorial services for Lieutenant the band, © : Rng formal installation | i was performed by Moderator Reverend | S Other ministers who assisted in the | cantonment during the month of | February and early in March have already left the camp and are now located at Camp Devens, Ayre, Mass. | \lections by the Oriental quartet and | 1dergoing the near future. This unofficial information has] | been received by local draft board] members and is indicative of the | rapidity with which the national (tified last week are: Arthur H. Bush, Wilmette. mond T. Erbe, Winnetka. Evangelista, Winnetka. { Jeffrey, Glencoe. Oscar Hostetter, Winnetka. Louis B. Borre, Gross | Point. Frank Zeutschel, Gross Point. | August J. Sturm, Morton Grove. Alternates Black, Waukegan. Arthur! William Stie- | Carl Eckman, | Vincenzo | Neil M.| T. BE, low, Niles Center. Chicago. | Es B= Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts = == pres: Many North Shore Men Now in Eastern Camps | A considerable percel ntage of aorthi shore men placed in the | the government at the service of further training prior to sailing orders which are expected in| army men are being moved closer to | the points of embarkation for France {and the fighting line. | B= B= Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts B= Bs ¥-Then We'll Buy Another One: E:Just Like The Other OneF= super- | men on | ser- | vice of the country and are preparing | the | Ray- | Camp Grant | Youngest Knitter, Six Years Old, Also a Boy Red Cross Accepts Garment; "Dicky" Pens Note to Soldier Man Richard Betts, of the latest candidate Wilmette, is for the honor of being the youngest knitter on the | north shore. Although he is but six years old he has made a sweater which is fin- according to ished | | i | | | { | { } | rections. It is a garment any adult might feel proud to have made. "Dickey, as his schoolmates call him, knitted the sweater under the direction of the Junior Red Cross of which he is a member. With the sweater he has sent his picture and the following letter to the prospective wearer, which he wrote unaided: "Dear Sammy, I am a little boy | six years old, and I knit this sweater | all by myself, and I hope you will like it. I have put my picture in here | to say hello to you. Lovingly, Richard Stolp Betts, 939 Ninth Street, Wilmette, Ill. ®= ®: Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts ® = "Correct Time" Phone Requests Eliminated Did you observe how pleasant the i telephone operator was today? Sure- [ly you did. Well, there was a double reason for her cheerfulness. Reason number one is that the first om May she is to receive a ten per cent in- crease in salary. Reason number {two is that after May 1 she will not | {have to tell every Tom, Dick and Harry the hour of day or night. Telephon operators on the North Shore exchanges are affected by the | two orders. And order number two makes order num- {ber one possible, for a statement by | {the company brings out the fact that the increase in pay. was made i possible by eliminating non-essen- | tials, such as giving the time. District Manager Henry B. said that fifty per cent of the 'early | morning calls-were for the time, and [ten per cent during the day were [que to the same cause. = Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts ®= = | {DINNER AND PLAY DELIGHT ROUND ROBIN CLUB MEMBERS The original members of the Round | | Robin club enjoyed a delightful evening last week with dinner at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago, follow- | ed by a theater party at a downtown | play house. Those present - were: Messrs and Mes. Frank A. Brown, Clarence M. | Puhlman, C. D. Worthington, E. P. | Bartlett, W. O. Belt, S. Clarke, T. B. Potter, C. N. Reese, O. W. Schmidt, J. T. Ling, P. C. Skil- | {len, H. E Spinney R E Ward, G. D. | White, E. B. Rathbone, C. C. Carna- han, C. R. Mack, R. E. Kenyon, Dr. D. M. Gallie, J. B. Marshall, C. S. McCay, P. N. Cutter. LA. Clark, C. Red Cross di-| strangely enough | Gates | CHEER WAR HERO WHO BOOSTS LIBERTY LOAN Patriotic Meeting in Community House Converted Into Selling Medium for Additional Bonds | --------E TELLS OF WOMEN'S WORK | Mrs. J. W. Morrison Interests Audience with Story of War Work | Winnetka's patriotic' spirit was | roused to an enthusiasm which found | expression in additional subscrip- | tions to the Liberty loan, at a large | meeting in Community House, on Sunday evening, April 28. Mrs. James W. Morrison. of Chica- {go and Sergeant George Nightingale {of the Canadian Expeditionary were the speakers. . Sergeant | Nightingale told of his three years experiences at the front and of all i forces, that the boys were giving "over there". In vivid, earnest words he told of the German faithlessness and atrocities he had seen, and what we might expect if they came over here. He urged that America sacrifice "un- til it hurts", he declared that to be the only true patriotism, and that we must back up the boys in the trenches by subscribing to the liberty loan to the limit. He was interrupted by frequent cheers and applause, and in response to his appeal to "buy now and help the boys", many people came forward and subscribed. Reports from the Boy Scouts and Block Captains showed splendid gains and help boost the total "over the top". Mrs. James W. Morrison of Chica- go, told of the work of women abroad, and urged that women here continue working, and giving, and buying Liberty bonds to the utmost extent. Mr. Horace K. Kenney. president whose auspices the meeting was held, spoke of the grief that had | come to Winnetka in the death of Dinsmore Ely, who lost his life in the aviation service in France with- {in the past few days. An interesting feature of the meet- ing was the presentation to the War Emergency Union, and to Winnetka, by Mr. Tenney, of a gavel fashioned [trom a piece of wood from the historic ship "Somerset". " Mr. Robert Stevenson, Jr. "was chairman of -the evening. The Re- verend J. W. F. Davies rave the in- vocation. Patriotic songs in which the audience joined, and music by the orchestra, added much to the enjoy- ment and inspiration of the evening. "= B= Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts B= B= NORTH SHORE PRIMA DONNA MAKES BIG HIT IN CAMPS Mrs. Henry Riggs Rathbone of Kenilworth, well known prima donna land author of the war song, "Way | Back Home in Dear America", return- ed this week from an extended tour of the army training camps of the southeast where she created a sen- | sation with her concerts before the soldiers. | Hailed by the men in the camps : the "Nightingale of the camps", | Mrs. Rathbone gave concerts at every training camp in the following a successful winter season at P Beach where she appeared in*the Beaux Arts theater in Red | Cross benefits. Though she .was discussing her alm t reluctant about work and interested { only in th le men at the camps, friends {of the prima donna were effusive in | their praise of her wonderful work. | B= B= Buy Bonds 'Till It Hurts = Ea FATHER OF KENILWORTH WOMAN DIES IN EAST i | George W. Ristine, Sr., civil war |veteran and retired railroad official, | father of Mrs. Edward D. Wheeler | of Abbotsford road, Kenilworth, 'was {buried in Cleveland, Ohio, early this | week. He died Wednesday, April {24, at his home after a lingering | illness. Mr. Ristine leaves a daughter and two sons: Mrs. Edward B. Wheeler of Kenilworth, George W. Ristine Jr. and John D. Ristine. - of the War Emergency Union, under southeast -