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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 18 Jun 1927, p. 57

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WINNETKA TALK June 18, 1927 wen -- ER tt 277 New Trier Students Receive Diplomas This Week The 1926-27 school year at the New Trier Township High school came to a close Friday of this week when the 277 members of the senior class, pictured above, were awarded their diplomas. The graduates were addressed by Dr. John Timothy Stone, minister of the Fourth Presbyterianchurch of Chicago. The diplomas were presented by Harry C. Holloway of Glencoe, member of the high school boardof education, and the class formally presented by Superin- tendent Frederick E. Clerk. Dr. Stone's subject was, "The Winning of the Crescent." War Show to Be Held in Grant Park Next Week Whether or not Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, America's greatest flier, is able to attend, Chicago will have its greatest war show in Grant Park on June 24, 25 and 26. With seven squadrons of airplanes, two dirigibles, regiments from Fort Sheridan and the 33rd Tank Company, 131st, 132nd Infantry, 122nd Field Ar- tillery, and 202nd Anti-Air Craft, II- linois National Guard, Col. T. A. Sique- land, the officer in charge, has ar- ranged a program that will show every device and method used in modern war. Parachute jumping, radio broadcast- ing from an airplane, aerial photo- graphing and finishing in the air, cav- alry charges, tanks mopping up ma- chine gun nests and the burning of Chateau-Thierry are some of the out- standing features. The show will be opened by Vice- President Charles G. Dawes. With him will be Gov. Len Small, United States Senator Deneen, Mayor William Hale Thompson and other notables. Mrs. Edith Rockefeller McCormick, Samuel Insull, Col. Edward Blair and others prominent in society have ob- tained boxes and will act as patrons and patronesses. Tickets are on sale at all Walgreen drug stores, booths at State and Madi- son streets, the City Hall, Lyon and Healy and all Couthoui theater ticket agencies. Oak street circle will have a picnic for members and their children Tues- day, June 21, at Lake Front park. Rain or shine, all will meet at 11 o'clock, at the home of Mrs. A. M. Ramsey, 903 Cherry street. The mem- bers are to bring a box luncheon, and cake, ice-cream and coffee will be served by hostesses. --(-- Mr. and Mrs. Donald M. Cook, with Donald, Jr., have moved into the Elza M. Smith house at 1239 Asbury ave- nue. The Smiths have moved to Chi- cago. Mr. Cook was in Winnetka twelve years ago, in the village man- ager's office, and comes now from Grand Rapids. here ~The William Fischer family of 388 + Chestnut street left Tuesday to spend hie summer at Gilmore Lake, Minong, s. Add Violin Instructor for Elementary Grades Upon the recommendation of Thomas Whitney Surette, musical advisor of the Winnetka schools, and with the en- dorsement of the directors of the musical departments of the various schools, a violin instructor for pupils in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades has been added to the faculty. These les- sons will be financed through tuitions paid by the pupils registering for the work. They will prepare the pupils, it is said, for participation in the Skokie orchestra. Miss Mary N. Graham, who for the past six years has been in charge of the violin and orchestra work in the elementary schools and High school of Waterloo, Towa, has been selected to take over this work and is taking the summer course given by Mr. Surette at Concord in preparation for the particu lar type of work in the Jocal schools. Miss Graham has made an outstanding success of her work at Waterloo and comes to Winnetka admirably trained to work with and understand little chil- dren, it is said. Punils of Miss Dorothy L. Pound Present Recital A recital by the pupils of Miss Dor- othy Leslie Pond was given last eve- ning at the residence of Dr. and Mrs. Louis Wendlin Sauer, 454 Sheridan road, Winnetka. Sixteen musical stu- dents were featured in the recital and difficult numbers of varied types were presented. Those taking part in the recital were as follows: David Geppert, Lillian Frances MacFadden, Alice Harwood, Catherine Jean Klink, Reeinia Cappels, (Gisela Sauer, Betty Lingle, Mary Frances Dodd, T.aury Botthof, Shirley Rotthof. Paul Sauer, Marion Louise Klink. Georginia Anderson, Barbara Hawkins. Grace Smith, Jane Martin and Miralotte Sauer. Mrs. John C. Cobb and her son of 615 Elm street are leaving for Boston next week. They will stay there until the middle of July, visiting in Milton, Mass., and will attend the twenty-fifth class reunion of Mr. Cobb at Harvard. --r-- Mrs. Ava Carnes Van Dyke has re- turned to her home in Towa City, Iowa, after spending several days with Mrs. L. A. West of 860 Pine street. Miss Virginia Wallace Custodian at Wellesley Miss Virginia Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wallace of 815 Mount Pleasant road, has finished her freshman year at Wellesley and is now visiting friends in the East. She will spend some time in Maine, and will also visit Miss Ashton Wilson, a former Winnetka girl, who now lives in North Carolina. In July, she will be joined at Swampscott, Mass, by Mrs. Wallace and the two youngest children of the family. They will be there for about a month. Miss Wallace has been prominent in athletics at Welles- ley. She was captain of the hockey team of her class and is custodian of the athletic association. Her brother, John Wallace, has just been graduated from Principia. He will probably go to camp while his mother is in the East. Mrs. James P. Fleming, 787 Foxdale avenue, left Saturday night to attend a class reunion at Wellesley college. VILLAGE OF WINNETKA Special Tax Notlee In The Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois General Number 457,602 NOTICE 1S HEREBY GIVEN to all persons interested that the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered that a local improvement be made within the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, as follows: that the macadam pavements in the following described streets, avenues and public thoroughfares in the Village of Winnet- ka be resurfaced in the manner herein- after particularly described: Bryant Ave- nue from the south line of Tower Road to the north line of Humboldt Avenue: Lloyd Place from the east line of Pros- pect Avenue to the west line of Bryant Avenue and from the east line of Bry- ant Avenue to the westerly line of Sher- idan Road; Prospect Avenue from the south line of Tower Road to the norther- ly line of Humboldt Avenue; Humboldt Avenue from the east line of Bryant Avenue to the westerly line of Sheridan Road; Park Avenue from the east line of Prospect Avenue to the west line of Maple Avenue; Eldorado Street from the easterly line of the right-of-way of the Chicago. North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad to the westerly line of Prospect Avenue; Summit Street from the east. erly line of Foxdale Avenue to the west- erly line of Prospect Avenue; Oakley Avenue from the east line of Euclid Avenue to the west line of Gordon Ter- race; Euclid Avenue from its south terminus to a point one hundred sixty (160) feet south of the south line of Asbury Avenue; Walden Road from the north line of Pine Street to a point one hundred forty-four (144) feet south of the south line of Westmoor Road; the surface of said pavements shall be thoroughly cleaned of loose material, and patched, and then treated with a coating of bituminous binder of the quality of Barrett Company Tarvia "A" or its equal, using one third (1.3) of a gallon of said binder for each square yard of any such pavement. Said binder shall be applied hot and immediately covered with washed bird's-eye gravel or granite chips, using thirty (30) pounds of said bird's-eye gravel or granite chips to each square yard of such pavements, All con- nection to existing pavements when re- surfaced in the manner hereinabove pro- vided for shall have a smooth and uni. form surface, all within the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Tlinois, the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of said Village, and the said Village having applied to the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois, for a special tax to pay the cost of said improvement according to the benefits, and a special tax therefor having been made and re- turned to said Court, General Number 157602, the final hearing thereon will be held on the twenty-seventh day of June, A. D, 1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the said Court will permit. All persons desiring may file objections in said Court before sald day, and may appear on the hearing and make their defense. Said ordinance provides for the collection of said special tax in one payment, with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum (5%) per annum. Dated, Winnetka, Illinois, June 10, A.D. 1927. HARRY I. ORWIG, Person appointed by the Presi- dent of the Board of Local Improvements of the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, (and such appointment approved and confirmed by the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois) to make said special tax. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T14-2tc VILLAGE OF WINNETKA Speelal Tax Notice In The Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois. General Number 457,603 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all persons interested that the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered that a local improvement be made within the Village of Winnetka, "ook County, Illinois, as follows: That the brick pavements in the following described streets, avenues and public thoroughfares in the Village of Winnet- ka, be resurfaced in the manner herein- after particularly described: Tower Road from the westerly line of Linden Avenue to the easterly line of Vernon Avenue: Dine Street from the westerly line of Center Street to the west line of Rose- wood Avenue extended; Willow Road from the west line of Linden Street to the east line of Provident Avenue ex- tended: The surface of said pavements shall be thoroughly cleaned of loose material and patched, and then treate" with a coating of bituminous binder of the quality of Barrett Comm™any Tarvia "A" or its equal, using one third (1-3) of a gallon of said binder for each square yard of any such pavement. Said binder shall be applied hot and immediately covered with washed bird"s-eve gravel or granite chips, using thirty (30) nounds of said bird's-eye gravel or gran- ite chips to each square yard of such navements. All connections to existing vavements when resurfaced in the man- ner hereinabove provided for shall have a smooth and uniform surface, all with- 'n the Village of Winnetka. County of Cook and State of Illinois, the ordinance for the same being on file in the office of the Village Clerk of said Village and the said Village having applied to the Superor Court of Cook County. Illinois, for a special tax to pay the cost of said improvement according to the benefits, and a special tax therefor having been made and returned to said Court. Gen- aral Number 457603. the final hearing thereon will be held on the twenty- seventh of June, A. D. 1927, or as soon thereafter as the business of the said Court will permit. All persons desiring may file objections in said Court before said day. and may appear on the hearing and make their defense. Said ordinance nrovides for the collection of said special tax in one payment. with interest there- on at the rate of five per centum (5%) ner annum. Dated, Winnetka, Illinois, June 10, A.D. 1927. HARRY I. ORWIG, Person appointed by the Presi- dent of the Board of Loeal Improvements of the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, (and such appointment approved and confirmed by the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois) to make said special tax. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T14-2tc

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