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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 21 Feb 1920, p. 5

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fa | WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920 TET : Je 3 : QUIET wedding will be solemnized this evening at the home a | of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hobart, 660 Prospect avenue, when their cousin, Miss Alice Moseley of Evanston will become | the bride of Emory Hurlbut Wilder, son of Mr. and Mrs. | Wilder of Evanston. Rev. Arthur Rogers, rector of St. Mark's | church, Evanston, will read the service at eight-thirty o'clock, which | will be witnessed only by relatives and a few close friends of the | bridal couple. Miss Hester Washburne of Ev as maid of honor, and there will be three little flower girls, the Misses Virginia and Barbara Hobart, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Hobart, and Miss Laura Louise Wilder, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Wilder of Hubbard Woods. Lawrence Wilder will attend his brother as best man. Following an extensive wedding trip, the young couple will re- turn to Winnetka to make their home until spring. & ranston will serve Miss Moseley man, had charge of the meeting of the Winnetka Woman's Club on Thursday afternoon. given before an appreciative audience. Mr. Arthur Frazer of Chi- cago spoke on "Music of the Romantic Period," which included Schubert, Schumann, Chopin and Brahms. composers were given by Mrs. Elizabeth Layman Anning, pianist ; Mrs. Guy Stuart Bailey, soprano and Mr. Raymond Girvin, violinist. Mrs. Laurence Doty accompanied Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Douglas 1 Music Committee, of which Mrs. Harvey I. Brewer is chair- Smith accompanied Mr. Girvin. oO A very enjoyable program was Compositions by these Mrs. George H. Mars of 314 Oxford road, Kenilworth, announces the marriage of her daughter, Lillian, to Maurice S. Prenatt of Bev- erly Hills, which took place on Saturday at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Kenilworth. Everyone seemed to thoroughly en- joy the entertainment and dance given last Friday evening at the Woman's club by the teachers of the 'Winnetka Public schools. There were two shortplaylets entitled "A Pretty Piece of Business,' and "The Teast of the Holy Innocent' presented in an excellent manner by two well-| chosen casts, interspersed with a number of good vaudeville acts put on by the Misses Clementine East- man, Edel Liebe, Ruth Longfellow, May Holmes, Ruth Ostlund, Minerva Ford, Edna Harry, Margaret Casey, Marion Carswell, Sylvia Shafer, Katherine Blasius and Ruth Jacobs. Favors for the dancing cotillion which followed were made by a group of the teachers headed by the Misess Grace Margerum, May Holmes and Fdel Liebe. In the receiving line were Mrs. Carrie Goodchild, Mrs. Caroline Kohlsaat, Miss Emma Williams, Miss Glenna Griffith, Miss Kate Dwyer and Miss Emma Holmes. The program committee included Mrs. M. H. Neumeyer, and the Misses Mary Payne, Alta Gahan, May Corn- wall, Kathryn Kegan, Gertrude Shaw, Florence Brett, Jeanette Griffith and Ethel Van Cleve. Five hundred people attended the banquet and Jubilee festivities of Sacred Heart parish at the parish hall on Monday evening. The affair was given in honor of the cancelling of the debt on the grounds, buildings, etc. The credit is due to the zealous labor and untiring energy of its be- loved pastor, Rev. F. J. Haarth, who twenty-two years ago, started this parish with thirty families. In this space of time, the parish has ac- quired all the property on which is built the pastor's house, the sister's home, the church, and two additional lots besides a burial place for its dead in Shermerville. After the ban- quet twelve beautiful quilts were raffled off. They were made by the women, who have always been active workers in all of the parish under- takings. Following this the remain- der of the evening was spent in dancing, thus putting an end to a wonderful night before donning sack cloth and ashes. ---- Miss Beatrice Pease, danchter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Pease of Kenilworth, was one of three young women who passed with flying col- ors. the tests in swimming and life saving work at Northwectern wuni- versity, last week. Thirty-one students have been made members of the American Red Cross life sav- ing corps of women. many of whom are planning to replace the men life- guards at the beaches next summer. "We are waiting for the Red Cross emblems from the headquarters," said Coach Tom Robinson. "They are red designs with the insignia of the life saving corps on them and will be worn on the bathing suits bv the girls when they go swimming next summer. The presence of a Red Cross life saver will give con- fidence to bathers and thé Red Cross girls will have charge of a situation whenever there is danger." --e-- The Friendship Circle will give Hard Times nervy ot Comrmuni® House next Tuesday evening. I.ocal alumni of Northwestern uni- versity met Tuesday evening in a big rally and dinner at the Evanston Country club to form Unit No. 1 of the Greater Northwestern university campaign committee. The raising of an endowment fund for the Evanston school will be the task of this com- mittee. Dr. George Craig Stewart, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal church, Evanston, is president of the North- western university alumni associa- tion. Hundreds of graduates of the Methodist school who live in Evan- ston or on the north shore attended the dinner. sm The Barn Swallow followed out its policy of "special teas for special days" by entertaining its patrons Saturday afternoon at a valentine tea party. The room was attractive- ly decorated with hearts, cupids and other paraphernalia of the day and all visitors were presented with heart-shaped candies and regaled with heart-shaped cakes. There may have been some fatal arrows flying through the air for Saturday has come to be "Men's Day" at the Barn Swallow; the men have made it so themselves by attending in large numbers on that day. tf Mrs. Martha Hawes and her twelve year old daughter of Eng- land were the guests on Tuesday and Wednesday of this week at the home of Miss Ella Butz, of Wil- mette. Mrs. Hawes was formerly Miss Eddy, a teacher at New Trier high school, for many years, who for he past fifteen years has been making her home in Engiand. She and her daughter are planning to spend nine months visiting in her native land before returning to join Mr. Hawes. Mrs. Hawes was a visitor at New {rier high school on Wednesday. -- Junior Prouty, the four year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Prouty, will be missing for a while as a side kicker of his father about the streets of the village. He was operated on last Monday by Dr. Wales for a per- sistent lameness of the right foot. The operation was successful, but the little fellow will be confined to barracks for the next few weeks. ------ Mr. and Mrs. Edward Whittemore Ellis, who have been spending the winter at the home of Mrs. Ellis' parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dcu~'as Smith 'n Hubbard Woods, expect "5 occupy their new home on the horder of In- dian Hill early in April. ---- A novel affair was giv-~ -* the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sebastian Hinton, 950 Fig street last Monday evening, when a few of their friend» who are interested particularly in small carpentry work, were guests at dinner. Later the guests were taken to Mr. Hinton's private Work- shop. and allowed to construct any article from weod that they wished. ---- Mrs. Frank D. Fulton of Euclid avenue, Hubbard Woods, spoke be- fore the women of the Fourth Pres- byterian church on Tuesday after- noon, for the Department of Justice showing forty reconstructed modern rarments as one practical way to ut the high cost of living. The Ford Ton Truck Has No Equal in--- Price--Economy--Reliability. As a Truck Value unequaled at twice its cost. Small Service at your investment, upkeep, Any load low door. from One to Five Tons. Solid or Pneumatic Tires. R. D. CUNNINGHAM Exclusive Dealer M. P. LOUEN, Sales Mgr. Phone EVANSTON 4884 Insist on Genuine Ford Parts 810 Church Street EVANSTON The management of the Attic Gift Shop is sending forth an appeal for money for the Serbian Relief work, as well as for clothing, furniture, jewelry ,in fact any odd bits that happen to be out of use in your home. Many of our residents are planning to make changes in resi- dence in the spring. Undoubtedly there will be furniture, and other household necessities to be left be- hind, and so at this time the Attic Shop comes forward to remind you that all of these things may be turned into money. for the Serbian Relief if you will just donate them. Of in- terest is the announcement of the re- ceipt of two generous gifts of money from Miss Janise Fisher and Mr. Mark Maistrovitch, both of Win- netka. Mrs. Robert H. Ripley, 878 North | avenue entertained a group of girls at a "waffle party" Saturday after- noon at the Barn Swallow, in Evan- ston. Her guests, all of them class- mates of her daughter, Beatrice, at the North Shore Country Day school, included Mary Miller, Martha Thomas, Mary Ott, Margot Atkin and Marcelle Vennema. Fall) TAN Mr. Otto Eckhart and family, 672 Railroad avenue, left Thursday even- ing to make their home on a farm in Missouri. Monday was Winnetka Day at the Woman's Business Council Rooms, in Chicago, and six Winnetka women representatives from the W. C. T. U,, | the West Elm Street Circle, and | from Christ Church Guild, assisted in serving the cafeteria dinner to the business girls who came in during the noon hour. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus D. Richards, 1192 Scott avenue, Hubbard Woods, are being congratulated on the birth of a daughter on Thursday, February 12. 1] HOT WAFFLES WITH MAPLE SYRUP (TTS Noa ny Dr. Esther Lovejoy, who is closely associated with Dr. Alice Barlow Brown in the Medical Women's In- ternational Association, has been in THE BARN SWALLOW PLATE LUNCHES 12 M. TO 5:30 P. M. 1866 SHERIDAN ROAD TELEPHONE EV. 3833 EVANSTON AFTERNOON TEA Chicago during the past week. A few days ago she left for California, I' and upon her return she will address the Women of Winnetka, telling them something of the Serbian Re- lief work, which our doctor is doing. Next week several letters containing reports from Dr. Mabel Elliott, sta- tioned at Marash, Turkey, telling of the great anxiety felt concerning the Americans who have been taken pris- oners by the Turks, will be published. They are being forwarded to Mrs. Douglas Smith by Dr. Lovejoy this week. | -- The Four Corner Dancing Club of Winnetka celebrated St. Valentine's Day with a masquerade dancing party at Community House. The next affair will be givén on Satur- day evening, February 28. ---- Mrs. George Oldfather has been confined to her home, 397 Linden street, with illness for the past few days. She is reported to be con- valescing now. FD TT LOOP PRICES SUPER QUALITY EXPERT MECHANICS IN THE HEART OF WINNETKA ALL AMERICAN SHOE REPAIR SHOP Phone Winnetka 122 566 CENTER STREET WINNETKA nan Carc a ------------------. HITTITE Officers and Directors HENRY P. CROWELL VICTOR ELTING CARLTON PROUTY WILLOUGHBY G. WALLING JOHN R. LEONARD PRESIDENT LoUIS B. KUPPENHEIMER VICE-PRESIDENT HENRY R. HALE SANBORN HALE ASSISTANT CASHIER CASHIER ni Under State and Clearing House Association Supervision 0 I HIS BANK has paid your Township Collector over $5,000 in taxes. have helped pay our Schools, Library and other community ex- penses and improvements. Why Not Bank With Us in Winnetka? Winnetka State Bank Elm Street at Lincoln Avenue These funds i = ms 2 = Es oc] Es

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