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do wv , ge 3 ¥ SBE Whe Spoke ities. WINNETKA WEEKLY TA Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk LK VOI" VII, NO. 35. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1918 SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS PATRIOTIC MEETING, VICTORY DAY CLIMAX After Day of Jubilation Villagers Gather at Community House for Fitting Close to "Biggest Day" EMERGENCY UNION LEADS Provides Excellent Program for Oc- casion with Good Speakers and Jackie Band - - - After a most exhilarafing day of festivities spent mostly in Chicago by the people of Winnetka, celebrat- ing the great good news that the armistice had been signed and that peace. was 'once more proclaimed throughout the civilized world, Win- netka, not to be outdone in these celebrations completed the day most fittingly by holding a mass meeting in Community House "on Monday evening, Mr.: McKenzie presiding. In introducing "Mr. Horace K. Tenney, chairman of the War] Emergency Union, Mr. McKenzie told of Winnetka's pride in its 350 men in muitary and naval service, and of its 50 civilian volunteer work- ers. He spoke of our three boys whose names have been placed on the honor roll, of the two who are missing and six others who have been wounded. Mr. Tenney voiced the thoughts of all present in speaking of the great need for America's having entered the war, and as to. what would have happened if we had not given of ourselves and our resoufces in "the way we have done, making us feel justly proud in 'having paid that price. ; Have Met the Test "We have been tested as'a nation", he said, "and our value is now known to the world. 'We have a new con- fidence in ourselves for the greater tasks which remain to be done after the war. wage a deadly war. Now it must see how we can prepare a deathless Mr. /Tenney introduced Mr. O. C. |¢ Srey psd HB SRE Bt ThE STA eee As OTT Ha RTT ER OWED task which 'this victory had achieved 537 thn vic= 4, Bberty, justice and humanity. It had been proved that autocracy could not live in the same world with democracy. America has now won the respect of the whole world, because she has fought for her principles and rights. In con- clusion of his talk Mr. Butz, as did Mr. McKenzie and Mr. Tenney, made an earnest plea for the Winnetka United War Work drive in progress from November 11 -- 18. Join In Patriotic Singing A jackie band played selections ap- | propriate to the exuberant. feelings of everybody.including "Pack up your troubles", "Keep the Home burning," and other of our patriotic airs which were played and sung with a zest which could only be felt on such a joyous occasion. After meeting there was a parade under the leadership of the band and com- pany A of the Illinois Reserve Mili- tia, which marched round the Village to the Common where a huge bonfire was kindled in honor of the event. kindled. CELEBRATE AND DIG MRS. ARTHUR FRASER ON WOMAN'S CLUB PROGRAM The MacDowell Musical club an- nounces an open meeting to be held in co-operation with the Art and Literature department of the Win- netka Woman's club, on Monday, November 25, at 3 o'clock. All mem- bers of the Woman's club are invited to attend. The program will be given by Mrs. Arthur Frazer, pianist, assisted by Miss Kathryn Greene, soprano. Mrs. Frazer is one of Chicago's leading musicians and will undoubtedly present a program of great interest. CELEBRATE AND DIG Memorial Services The Sunday morning worship at the Winnetka Congregational church on November 17 will be in memory of Reverend Edwin F. Snell, late minis- ter of the church, who died Novem- ber 20, 1917. Many of the details of the service have been arranged by Mrs, Snell. New Trier Parent-Teacher Meeting A meeting of the Parent-Teacher association of the New Trier Town- ship High school will be held on Wednesday evening, November 20, at 8 o'clock, in the Mess hall. Reports will be given of various school activ- i Dues should be paid at this The world knows we can | fires | the | Harry A. Smith, Fighter, Hears of Peace Though Guns Roar "WW. agnerian Finale" A rollicking account of life along the line of activity on the western front is contained in the following letter recently received by Mrs. A. Ii. Tilroe of 978 Oak avenue, from her brother Harry A. Smith of the 149th Field Artillery." Fa : October 17; 1918. : Somewhere in France. Dear Sis: =~ iF ; It's been a year ago today since we left the States and boarded that | Lincoln", 1 till-fated ship "President { but, Kids, the boys dre betting francs . we'll eat Xmas dinner with you this year, and, Lord, I hope they win. Rumors, have 'it that the German government has accepted terms of evacuation laid down by Wilson, but be that as it may, the Boche are putting' over: .one of the heaviest 'bombardments of this little ole' ar- gument. a barrage it:sounds lke a Wagnérian finale, scene 'laid near Germany. Even now the Hun shells are whistling a doleful tune in a wood close by. At night they put us of gas shells. Speaking of souvenirs, I'm sur- [rounded by symbols of German mili- tarism.- Outside my pup tent loc {like a Krupp small arm arsenal. It's la wonder my buddy and I haven' [dragged in a German "77", one of |the boys remarked.. I use a Mauser, {made in Berlin on the Hun planes. |"m sleeping on a German blanket, a { Boche overcoat is thrown over my I | | 72 feet, and once in a while we have a mess from German provisions picked |up-m the wake of their drive wacht {the Rhine. a pair of No. 10 Dutch shoes (not | wooden); and one of the lads near Ime is sporting a pair of Dutchman's - | hoots. | Just returned from my evening mess and noticed a funny tinge in {the air. All the boys around are | sneezing so we came to the con- {clusion that the Germans put over a few gas shells «in our absence. | slightly inconvenient. You mention- {ed that Billy Bishop went back on [the "Vaterland". Well, they could | give me a raft and a push and I'd get back. | Have quite a little time for myself | now since I'm attached to headquar- { ters, which 1 generally /utilize in | making sketches. Have about twen- |ty-five on hand now which I intend [to send back. | My work now takes me up to the | Front Line trenches to the O. P. to [ make sketches of the enemy posi- | And. when both sides start. Grand | 1 to sleep with about a hundred rounds | My feet are incased in| tions and terrain, and oftentimes 1 see beaucoup dead Germans around their trenches. In the last drive we captured all kinds of big guns and ammunition. At one time we had a Battery G. of German guns consist- take. them along. In the long run there's no gun that can ; compare with the French 75, "The Saviour of | France". # wo? 1 Jerry Wroe's mother pulls a pretty | good stuirt, which may be a sug- | gestion to you. She flattens out a package of cigarets and sends them in a letter as first class. Time flies in the army that no one knows the date or day, and seme claim they don't even know the year. Since pénning these first. feverish lines to you, I have travelled a mat- ter of 50 kilometers and as T write and all day while on the march. the guns can be heard pounding, pounding on the Hun lines and even when 50 kilometers away one can distinguish the. terrific bar- rage: sO you can imagine what it sounds' like at the front. It seems like all hell has broken loose, but ing of two "77's" and two 105s, buf | tor some reason or other we didn't pounding, | UNITED WAR WORKERS HOLD "DRIVE" PARADE A publicity parade for the United War Workers' campaign, drove in automobiles highly decorated with flags and banners, through the streets of 'Winnetka, north and south and east and west, to advertise to the community that seven welfare or- ganizations that are providing home jcomfcrts for "our boys over there" are to participate in a campaign for a quota in Winnetka of $40,000. Thirty dutémobiles, led by our two motorcycle policemen, Cooper and and Block Captains (our patriotic woman's organization for raising subscriptions) rode all through the streets of the village with the hope {that every man, woman and child in the town would "take in" the signi- ficance of the celebration and, "Cele- brate and Dig", because an armistice has 'been signed it does not mean "our boys" will be home they must still 'do police duty. And who is to provide home comforts? 'The - "Y", tthe Y. W. C. A.,, Jewish Welfare, rary association, Salvation Army and | War Camp Community service. Please 'make your subscription large 'enough to divide into seven parts. { The | | o'elock | at 4 in the joined in concerts Jackie band and gave Flaherty, with the District Captains: | Knights of Columbus, American Lib- | QUESTIONNAIRES MUST BE RETURNED tionnaires in. 'Hands of Draft Officials Will be Delinquents' ORDERS |All Induction Calls for November Cancelled by Order of War De- 2 "partment : a. ARE STRICT ARM Your Questionnaire must be re- {turned. That is the edict of the local draft board issued this week: by ors- der of Adjutant General Dickinson. Failure to return the questionnaires to the draft headquarters in the Brown building, Wilmette, * will {automatically place the draftees in {the delinquent cliass® which makes {them - liable to immediate induction into "military service: : There is no means of differentiat- ling between delinquents and. well- |meaning patriotic men, unless the | questionnaires are returned to be {placed in the files at draft headquar- | ters. | Classification of 18 year old men and men between the ages of 37 and one gets so accustomed to it, as one] 100p" of Winnetka's business dist-|45, inclusive, has been stopped, at {of the boys remarked, "that it's music {to my: ears'. ; About -a-month ago I had the ex- treme pleasure of visiting Joan: of Arc's birthplace and basilique. latter was built on the site where monastery next to this. Cathedral run by some monks who sold souven- irs of her. We pulled into a camp on a crest of a hill about 3 o'clock in the morning and was awakened by a slight patter of rain in my face along about 7, getting up and rolling my blanket I noticed this tall spire reaching up to dark and dreary skies, away from in the valley. Upon mak- ing inquiries of the villagers, found it was the church of Joan of Arc, and as -distance lends enchantment we started out on our pilgrimage. Af- ter hiking all morning we found to We had anticipated. e learned af- terward it was a matter of some 12 kilometers. But as I had remarked it was cheap at half the price. Re- turning to the battery, they were packing and ready to move. We cov- ered 40 more kilometers that night, over 60 kilometers in all, or about are snoring, the chorus. : Your loving brother, Harry. 'think I will join in on AVIATOR HALE TELLS OF OTHER GOLFER SOLDIERS Lieutenant Fraser Hale returned to Winnetka Sunday after fourteen month's service in France. He ex- pects to be located at Lanfley field, {Newport News, as an instructor in {the aerial branch of the artillery, having had much experience in aer- lial observation. He is home on a ten | days' vacation and was around {golfing this week. Before leaving for home Lieutenant Hale met Lieutenant John Simpson, the feriner Galesburg golfer, and Sergeant Ned Allis of Milwaukee, both of them being at Brest. Allis is under Major Lawrence Whiting, former Chicago athlete, who is at the head of the administration de- partment at Brest. where he has | made a great record. | Lieutenant Hale is the son of Mr. and. Mrs. Henry R. Hale of 761 Fox- dale avenue. CELEBRATE AND DIG Resurface Station Approaches Village workmen were busy this week resurfacing the road approach- es to the Chicago nad Northwestern railway station on hoth the east and west sides of the station. The road- bed is of tarvia with a screening of crushed lime stone. The expense of the resurfacing (will be met by the railroad company. | Village authorities had been urging the repair of the approaches for the past two years. CELEBRATE AND DIG "Yanks" Here Sunday The local football team will meet the "Yanks" of Chicago at Third and Linden avenue, Sunday. The local team has been unsuccessful in their lost honors to retrieve their next Sunday. former games this season but hope | WINNETKA ARMY MAN PROMOTED OVERSEAS Colonel Henry J. Reilly, who has done such valiant work with 149th Field Artillery at Thierry and other important points. has been promoted to the command of the 83rd Infantry Brigade, con- sisting of the 165th and the 166th reg- iments from New York and Ala- bama. The Brigade is part of the 42nd (Rainbow) Division, of which the 149th is also a part. Colonel Reilly, who is a West Point graduate, served in two Philippine campaigns, and was in Mexico twice. He resigned his commission Lieutenant in the regular army in critic for the Chicago Tribune. the same time he was commissioned a Captain in the 1st Artillery, Illinois National Guard, and given command of Battery FE. Later he was made Colonel of the regiment, and com- manded it when it went to France. CELEBRATE AND DIG Catholic Women Meet The monthly meeting of the North Shore Catholic Woman's league was held in the Winnetka Woman's club. Thursday, November 7. Professor Henry Walter Graham, orator, lectur- er and reader, from the Speaker's bureau, introduced the element of fun into the program in giving "A Night with Lincoln", and "Troubles of a Teamster". Miss Napoleon Picard gave a group of songs in- cluding "Joan of Arc", and " Mar- sellaise" in French. which elicited the warmest praise. Miss Sally Gaynor read a paper on "The Achievement of the Catholic Woman of Illinois". It was an exceptionaly interesting afternoon. CELEBRATE AND DIG Top Sergeant William Bishop is now at Fort Sill. The | she received her inspiration, also a' our amazement it .was further thanifeaves by Walter Howard, 40 miles. Pretty good day's walk, | |n'est pas? | As all of the rest of the hunch the | Chateau | January 1914, and became military | At | irict. "Celebrate and Dig". CELEBRATE AND DIG | ("SEVEN DAYS' LEAVE" AT VICTORIA THEATER { Theater goers of the north shore {are to be afforded an unprecedent- led opportunity. to view some of the {most excellent and popular theatrical i productions of the time with the | opening of the Victoria theater at {Sheffield avenue near Belmont ave- nue, Chicago. | This theater, now. under the direc- {tion of Messrs. Lee -and J. J. Schu- | bert, is to be the center for some of [the best productions of the present season. The next attraction will be of especial interest to north shore (residents is the spectacular military- naval melodrama,' "Seven Days' opening with the matinee, Sunday, November 117, and continuing for one week, with 'bargain matinees Thursday and Sa- | turday, This production has been remark- |ably successful in London and New | York and is said to be one of the real sensations of the season. The purpose of bringing first class | productions to neighborhood theaters lis in line with the plans now in ef-| { fect in London and New York where theaters in outlying districts are | idrawing large crowds from among residents who find no time to visit the great theatrical centers. CELEBRATE AND DIG 'LIEUT. FRANCIS MOWATT INDEVELOPMENT SERVICE Francis N. Mowatt, son Mowatt, 1516 Spencer avenue, re- {cently commissioned a Second Lieu- tenant, has been stationed at Camp | i Devens, Massachusetts, where he is |engaged in Army Development work. ! Lieutenant | Wilmette. He first entered the serv- {ice in the Engineers' corps at North- 'western University. He was trans- [ferred to the Officers' training school {at Camp Lee, Virginia, and, having as | successfully passed his examination, | | was commissioned .on October 19. CELEBRATE AND DIG Community Movies | Motion pictures to be shown at | Community House in the near future have been announced as follows: November 22, Mary Pickford "How Could You, Jean", November 29, William S. Hart in "Riddle Gawne". December 6, Vivian Martin in "Un- claimed Goods." December 13, "Sandy". CELEBRATE AND DIG - Fuller Death Word was received this week of the death of Charles Fuller of Win- netka, at the home of his father, O. F. Fuller of 1001 North Dearborn street, Chicago. in in Jack Pickford Change Street Name An important alteration in street names was the recent change in Hubbard Woods of the street name Ashland avenue to Chatfield road. Rosewood Circle Meets The Rosewood avenue circle will meet next Thursday with Mrs. George Barbery, 752 Railroad avenue, at 2 o'clock. ; . Mowatt is a native of |least for the preseqt. Though the tmen will. not be classified their {questionnaires must be placed in the {hands of draft officials since the men are still under- draft regulation and subject to orders from: the draft | board until such time as army officials {formally announce the universal [conscription program as closed. Cancel all Induction Calls d { "The first order at draft headquar- Iters, following the announcement of |the signing by Germany { of. the: | Armistice terms, was the cancellation {of all November calls for induction. | The order came from army head- quarters in Washington almost im- | mediately . following the official .an- nouncement of the cessation of the | hostilities. Twenty-nine men in New | Trier and Niles townships who were Ito have left for Camp McArthur, | Waco, {icased from induction call by the ore. der. This group of men had been awaiting induction since September, several calls having been cancelled | because of the recent epidemic of {influenza and the consequent ban on the state. CELEBRATE AND DIG "WARTIME ITALY" IS | TRAVEL TALK TOPIC The third and last of the Newman | Wartime Europe traveltalks will be lgiven in Community House next | Sunday evening, November 17, at 8 | o'clock. The subject next Sunday {will cover "Battling on the Piave", the most thrilling chapter of the war in Italy. America's forces in Italy. | Wartime Venice. Battles amid the | | | tl [eternal snows. ok FL Single tickets at 50 cents each will |be on sale at the doors. CELEBRATE AND DIG FOREST MEYERS DOES GOOD WORK IN TRANSPORT BRANCH i | Forest Meyers, well known Win- inetka boy in the service, son of Mrs. {H. B. Meyers of 467 Willow street. {1s reported as doing splendid work in the motor transport division of the army, now stationed in England. {Young Meyers enlisted several {months ago at the age of 17 years. New Trier Holds Proviso New Trier and Proviso High schools played to a scoreless tie at the Kenilworth field Saturday. The field was wet and soggy which is the main reason no scores were made. Proviso has a strong team. and New Trier was considered too weak to hold them, but sprung a pleasing surprise on its followers. New Trier has a game scheduled with Oak Park which will be played in the near future. Honor Teachers The Parent-Teachers will hold an informal reception in honor of the teachers of the Win- netka Publ ¢ schools, Thursday after- noon, of next week, at 4 o'clock, at the Winne ka Woman's club. Every- one is cordially invited to attend and kindly requested to bring sugar for a cup of tea. The W. C. T. U. women will give a day's sewing to the Bethseda Day nursery in Chicago next Wednesday. Contributions of clothing to be made over will be gladly received. also jellies, cereals and wheat substitutes, and may be taken to the home of Mrs. L. C. Norton, 370 Walnut street. Draftees. Who. Fail to Place . Ques- association A Texas, this Sieh. ar EB ie c