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| | are upon 'he ticket to interested | "in the kind of governme that Win- netka wants, in the ct iy, in the WINNETKA W Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk EK ALK VOL. VII. NO. 23. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1918 SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS NORTH SHORE FAVORS LOYALIST CANDIDATES Primary Campaign Causes little Ex- McCormick Favored For Senate citement; BRUNDAGE MEN TO LEAD Rathbone and Chindblom Favored For Congressman-at-large and Congressman Little interest has been shown in Winnetka and the other north shore | towns so far in the approaching! primaries, although it is understood | practically every body here is, in| favor of Medill McCormick, for U.| S. senator and for all the Brundage or loyalist, group candidates on the county ticket. Then we have our own Henry R. Rathbone who is a] candidate for congressman-at-large in the state of Illinois, in whom al- most everybody on the North Shore is interested. Nobody here wants to see William Hale Thompson nominated by the re- publican party as its candidate for U. S. senator in the November elec- tion, and everybody realizes the way to get rid of William Hale Thomp- son, and the influences for which he stands in Cook County politics, is to work for the nomination of Mec- Cormick and all the Brundage ticket | from top to bottom. | | Favor Loyalist Ticket Judge Henry C. Beitler who is a candidate for sheriff on the loyalist ticket, Edwin A. Olsen, who is can- didiate for county judge, Perkins B. Bass, of Evanston, who is candidate for Board of Review Charles Ringer, who is candidate for member of | board of assessors, in which office he | has already served two years, are | known to the Winnetka people either personally or by reputation and it is | thought that almost everybody here | will accept this group of friends and | 0 are with them as the best ; Berg lican ~pylitias, avd. will give them "their sup-| | on Septem- | that they port in the primaries ber:1]. It not towns get red often that north shore 1] representation on the county and state ticket and these communities can be depended upon | to support the loyalist ticket, first be- cause of the principles for which that is group stands and because of the character of all the men on the ticket; and, secondly, because Mr. Rathbone, a local man, is on that ticket for candiate for congressman- at-large, and because William H.| Maclean is selected from Wilmette | to run again as a member of the | county board for country districts | and because Perkins B. Bass of Ev-| anston a candidate for the os of review. If this ticket can be put over, it is pointed out that the north shore communities will be represent- ed in a more adequate way than they have been for many years in county administrative affairs. And it is highly desirable that this should be the case. is Particular effort is going to be manifested here in the Carl Chindblom for congressman to| succeed George Edmund Foss, withdrew from the congressional! campaign to enter as a candidate for senatorial honors. Chindblom has been a hard worker on the north side in Chicago for a great many vears and has taken an unusually interest since the war in supporting liberty loans® and all war activities. He has been a four minute speaker | and is an orator or unusual distinc- tion. It is understood that Mr. Chindblom will make a visit to Wil- mette before the campaign is over in order that the people here may be- come more closely and personally acquainted with him. Winnetka never does get excited over any other election other than one which involves a local issue, but leaders here seem to be universally of the opinion that Winnetka people will go quietly to the polls on Sep- tember 11 and support that group of the Republican party which has shown by its platform and by the] personality of the men w'ose names state and for the natio | Chindblom For Congress | interest of | who | WINNETKA SCHOOLS OPEN SEPTEMBER 3 Rhodes Entrance Conditions For Begin- Explains | } Superintendent ners and Kindergarten pupils TO CONFER WITH PARENTS | Announces Teachers For New Year and New Arrangements of Classes in Schools | By E. N. Rhodes (Supt. of Schools) | The Winnetka Public schools will | be opened on Tuesday, September 3. In accordance with the regulations | of the Board of Education children may be enroiled in the first grade who are six years of age on or be- fore January 1, 1919. Children may enter the Kindergarten if five years of age on or before January 1, 1919, In view of the fact that children of | the Kindergarten and the first grade make such rapid progress during the early weeks of school the Board of Education requires that children be enrolled in these departments during tiie first three weeks in September. | Children who are prepared to do the work are. of course, permitted to en- ter at any time. Grades one to six inclusive will be crganized in all three schools. Pupils oi grades seven and eight will at- tend the Horace Mann school. This plan of organizing makes it neces- sary to open the Horace Mann school Kindergarten at the Scandinavian church on Elm street. Parents wishing to confer with the superintendent may do so on Mon- day afternoon, September 2, at the | Horace Mann school. | Special Teachers Mrs. Sammons. Music. Mrs. Kohlsaat, Music. Mary E. Payne, Science. Alta B. Gahan, Drawing. Ethel Feldkirchner, Domestic Arts. | Alice M. Baker, Playground. | x race Mann School | Mary Daniels, Kindergarten Clementine Eastman, Kindergar- bi 4 3% | Nate Dwyer, Grad. 1. | rene Marsh, Grade 1. Minerva Ford, Grade 2. Murs arshaw., Grade 2 and . Ruth H la Bayes, Grade 3. | Rutt Ostlund, Gr: ; Emma Williams, Grade 4. | Edna Harry, Grade 5. | Beth Keenan, Grade 6. Mary Reese, Arith. Grades 7-8. | Mary Jeffries, Grammar and Com- position, Grades 7-8. Nina Veil, { Grades 7-8. Geography and History, Florence Brett, Reading, Grades! 7-8. | Mrs. C. 8S. Goodchild, History| { Grades 7-8. Greeley School | Grace Margerum, Kindergarten. | Reba Van FEtten, Grade 1 and | Principal. | Emma Holmes, Grade 2. | Marjorie Morgan, Grade 3. Ruth Hartzell, Grades 4-5. Margaret Casey, Grade 6. Skokie School Eva G. Long, Kindergarten. Glenna Griffin, Grade 1 and Princ- ipal. A anette Griffith, Grade 2. Bess Fowler, Grade 3. Caroline Curtis, Grade 4. Ethel Theis, Grade 5. Grace Terrill, Grade 6. WOMAN'S NATIONAL BODY OPENS CHICAGO OFFICE The Chicago office of the Woman's | National Liberty Loan committee has | been opened. Tt is located on the eight floor of 105West Monroe street, and Mrs. George Bass of the Nation- | al committee is in charge. It will be the headquarters from which will be directed the distribution of sup- plies for State and Federal Reserve chairmen. During the campaign Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank 'and Mrs. An- toinette Funk of the National com- mittee will spend part of their time! in the Chicago office. Mrs. Bass says the women all over the country are getting their plans pretty well lined up for the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign. | lots of | courage. | worked hard and this i school {able to tune pianos as well as any- body although it does take him a little longer to do the work than if gree his proficiency as a piano | tuner. Clarence is now regularly in the piano tuning business. and he cer- | ceived [7 a lin BLIND BOY PIANO TUNER OPENS WINNETKA OFFICE You ought to Tio tno ow personally Clarence Richardson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred T. Richardson, who keep | the livery stable on Elm street. | When Clarence was a small hoy playing with some of his mates, he was accidently struck in the eye and as a result of this blow he lost the sight first of the injured eye and then that of the other eye so he soon became totally blind in both eyes. He was a sturdy chap, however, with pluck and did all he could to his parents and never lost his help When he was old enough, he was sent to the Illinois "State Asylum for | the Blind at Jacksonville, where he spring grad- from the High at Jacksonville. He can read books printed for the blind with raised letters and furthermore he has studied piano tuning, until now he is uated with honors he had the use of his eyes. Dame Nature is trying hard to make up to him for the loss of his sight by making his hearing more acute to increase to a wonderful de- tainly merits the patronage of every- body in the Village. You can get him at any time by phoning Winnet- ka 25. He has just tuned Mr. H. A. de Windt's Baby Grand Steinway and you can refer to Mr. de Windt if you want to know more about the skill of the plucky blind piano tuner. " War Emergency Notes \ | /) who has been in the R. O. T. C. at Camp Lee has re- the commission of Second Lieutenant. . Earl P. Gowing has enlisted and| School, North- Evanston. "Harold 'C. Strotz is at the Ensign vestern University, William at Camp Ky., has Second Wild Zach: has been ay lor, Louisville, received the mission of Lieutenant and goes to Camp Jackson. Corporal Paul Ki France, has eant. 20, boys | The Chicago Tribune, August speaking of the bravery of our France gives the following notice concerning Sergeant Paul Kreger of | Winnetka: "Corporal Paul Kreger of Winnet- posted in a forward observatory an open trench, in charge of telephone communication, succeeded in opening a line to the rear after it had been cut. This was done in | spite of terrific enemy fire. Later | Kreger helped carry a wounded man | through heavy fire to a dressing station." ka, on Buy War Exposition Tickets | | | | | Tickets for the War Exposition to! be opened in Grant Park, Chicago, on September 2, under the auspices of the State Council of Defense are now on sale at Community House! | and at the local drug stores. The | tickets are now selling at twenty- | i will be fifty cents at: The exposition | five cents but the exposition gates. will continue 2 weeks. ST TE SLT TL HI WERE YOU 21 SINCE | JUNE 5? READ THIS! "All male persons who have reached their twenty-first birthday since June 5, 1918, and on or before August 24, 1918, | must register on August 24, 1918. | "These men should consult with local draft boards as to how and where they should re- gister." Registration will be conducted at the Wilmette Vil- lage Hall. | | SUH LH HTT EE TTS | not Fpreciat | Red NEEDED FOR GARMENTS Red Cross Kuitting © Chairman Issues Urgent Call for Yarn Left Un- used in Winnetka Homes KNITTING NEEDED NOW | Reports That Red Cross Would Cease | Knitting Branded As Workers False by By Mary H. Elmer The Chicago Chapter of the Amer- ican Red Cross, which has been furnishing yarn to the auxiliaries, urges that all outstanding yarn be turned in at once. A large quantity has been out for a long time in Winnetka, and it has been called for before, that those interested'in this branch of War relief would bring in finished articles, but there much wool, partly in work and partly idle, in Winnetka homes--possibly forgot- ten. It seems impossible for many to visualize the conditions that the coming winter will bring to our Ar- my and Navy if we do not speed up our work. The undertaking sO tremendous that every hank of varn and every knitted article are of great value. Very Necessary Work Warm garments are a very import- ant part of equipment; they are as necessary to prevent cold and dis- ease, as hospital garments are to give comfort and rest to the sick and wounded after they are taken to our hospitals, and yet it is an im- portant fact that, although men are is is to be equipped on land and sea, many regard knitting very casually-- something to be taken up at odd times. Days and half-days are set aside for other forms of work. Why not set tasks in knitting? Many do it is true, and to them is due grateful Dc ioctl of tireir efforts which have enabled the shipping (almost weekly) of large numbers of socks, sweaters. land other articles to headquarters in Chicago, to the Red Cross, and to the American. Fund for French Wounded, to say nothing of their fine work in behalf of the War] rency Union and other organ- izations. Erroneous Statements We are knitting for several | branches of War relief and regret that statements have been made that the Red Cross is not to continue the knitting. Nothing could be further from the truth, but the wool is more difficult to obtain in yarn. To con- trol it more carefully and to get quick results the auxiliaries of-the Cross are to be put quots: certain amount to be re- quistioned in yarn per month, to be returned to Chicago in finished ar- ticles within three weeks. This is the only alternative in the experienced in waiting months for returns, which should have been made in several weeks. This system Red | will offer Winnetka an opportunity to show what can be done, and with that interest and enthusiasm our knitters (w ho already have a reputa- tion for "excellent" on the reports) will take up the September quota in | i the race to supply well-made woolen "comforts for fighting men." An exact account of yarn tioned is kept, ed when issued and when returned to the receiving room in Chicago in finished articles. The Wool committee is respons- ible. and hope that those who have secured yarn at the Parish house, Cross headquarters, will be reached in this appeal, espegially concerning the return of yarn taken. requis- If articles turned in have not been | recorded through some error, notify the chairman by postal. No amount of surplus yarn is too please | small to be utilized, and articles are | constantly being made of "left ones." Chairman Knitting Committee, | Parish House, Winnetka. { headquarters. 1040 Oak street, who | service in France, has sergeant. Paul Kreger, is in active been made a Miss Virginia Noe, is spending sev- eral days visiting in Madison, Wis. hoping | upon a | every ounce is weigh-1 Red Cross RETURN UNUSED YARN; (DRIVE, "REAL HELL", SAYS PAUL KREGER Winnetka Sergeant of Artillery De- clares It Miraculous Men Can | Survive Among Flying Steel GAS INTERRUPTS LETTER Thanks Winnetka Friends For Kind- | 1 | nesses and States Determination | . | To Reciprocate Sergeant Paul Kreger of the 149th Field Artillery, American FExpedi- | tioflary Forces in France is one of Winnetka's heroes who has been in | the thick of the fight with Persh- ing, was twice wounded and, accord- ing to the following letter is back in the thick of the fight again. Kreger was recently promoted to a sergeancy. The letter is addressed to an aunt in Winnetka and reads: France, July 28, 1918. Aunt Terese Received your last letter writ- upon receipt of mine from the | hospital and I am certainly glad that jit arrived there almost soon as | the report that was printed in the | paper. I have not written many let- ters recently as this is not a letter writing climate, and this moment is the quietest one for some time. Even now though I call it quiet the shells ten Dear | | | | as going both ways and the 'quiet phrase is derived from the fact that none Stop here, at least not nearer * than 150 yards, which we have be- gun to take as out of our vicinity. This drive is a real "hell" and Cod willing let us hope it may be the be- ginning of the end. At times it seems a miracle that men can stay amid such quantities of flying steel and survive. I don't like to write gloom letters but there is no use sending that stuff home about "being as safe as if I were sitting on the Front porch", and so on, because war is war tis is ORE. rn | I don't think any of us realiy real- ized what the full meaning of that word meant until the last few weeks --(There was quite an interruption here as the boche sent over but I shall continue as best I with a mask on. You need not worry razor, toilet articles, socks or I received the "auto strop", razor and toilet articles at the "croix rouge". We have no room to carry any surplus, is must be thrown away and the money could not be spent, | the fowns around us are nothing but Shat tered , ruins. We have not seen mi ior weeks, so money does LOL amount to a row of pins, the | little bit we draw is more than suf- I'hicrent. This lette must do for all my friends w a so kindly thought of me when they heard I was injured, you and gas) can the money. about | f | | must thank them and tell tem all [that T appreciate it more than is possible for me to say. It helps a | fellow out here in this bloody mess | to know he is not forgotten and I | only hope that some day I may recip- rocate. I received a nice letter from Arthur | Brainard and Dorothy recently and | will ; answer it at the first opportuni- | ty if that opportunity should not ; come very soon please acknowledge | | them for me. I was not forgotten [on my birthday as I was made a sergeant it was quite a present. T must close now as this is a long note considering the surroundings. i Your boy as ever, : Paul. Sergeant Paul R. Kreger, 149th F. A, Bat. B. A. P. 0.715. Honor for Sergeant William Bishop The many friends of Sergeant Wil- liam Bishop of the 149th F. A. France, will be interested in knowing that a | telegram has just been received by his mother saying that Sergeant Bishop has' landed safely in Hoboken and is on his way to Chicago for a | brief visit. He has had the honor | fo be sent over h%re as an instructor in the artillery section of the army. | Sergeant Bishop has been at the very front and in the thick of the fight for many weeks and he will bring to his work a most valuable practical experience. | are fairly screeching over our heads