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40 WINNETKA TALK January 21, 1928 ~ NOTICE VILLAGE OF WINNETKA IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS. GENERAL NUMBER 463,985 VILLAGE OF WINNETKA, a ) Municipal Corporation, VS. IDA M. LYONS, WILLIAM W. CASE,) and MARIAN I. CASE, AND ALL ) WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. ) THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, by order duly en- tered in the above entitled proceedings, having directed that as to such defend- ants as are shown by the affidavit filed in said proceedings, to be non-residents of the State of Illinois, or whose resi- dences are shown thereby to be unknown, and the defendants designated as "All whom it may concern," the Clerk of said Court cause publication to be made in the Winnetka Talk, a secular newspaper published in the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois. gontaining notice of the following mat- ers: Notice is hereby given of the pendency . of the above entitled proceedings insti- tuted by the petition of the Village of Winnetka, heretofore filed in the Su- perior Court of Cook County, Illinois, designated General Number 463,985 in said Court, praying for the ascertainment of the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or dam- aged for the making of the improvement hereinafter described, and for the ascer- tainment of what property will be bene- fited by the making of said improvement and the amount of such benefit. The Commissioners duly appointed by the said Superior Court of Cook County. Illinois, to investigate and report the just compensation to be made for the private property to be taken or damaged for said improvement, and also what real estate will be benefited by said improve- ment, and the amount of such benefit to each parcel of land assessed, duly made a special assessment to raise the cost of such improvement, and filed their said report and assessment roll in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said Cook County, on the ninth day of| December, A. D. 1927. Thereupon a summons issued out of said Court against the defendants above named. and the defendants described as "All whom it may concern," returnable in said Court at the County Court House in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois. on the ninth day of January, A. D. 1928, as is by law re- quired, which proceeding is now pending. The total cost of said improvement. as shown by the estimate of the President of the Board of Local Improvements of the said Village of Winnetka and the re- port and assessment roll of said Commis- sioners, is the sum of Twenty-one thou- sand one hundred twenty-one Dollars and fifteen cents ($21,121.15). Now unless you. such defendants as are shown by the affidavit filed in said pro- ceedings to be non-residents of the State of Illinois, or whose residences are shown therebv to be unknown, and the defend- ants designated as "All whom it mav concern," shall be and appear before the said Superior Court of Cook Countv, TJI- Jinois, at the County Court House. in the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois. on the ninth day of Jan- narv. A DD 142% and plead. answer or demur to the petitioner's petition or oh- ject to the renort and assessment rol' of the Commissioners aforesaid, the same and the matters and things therein charged and stated will be taken as con- fessed, and a judgement entered in aec- cordance with the said report and assess- ment roll and the praver of said petition "Notice is also hereby given to all per- song interested that pursuant to an or- der of the Superior Court of Cook Coun tv. entered in the above entitled cause on the fourteenth day of January. A. 1928. a division in the assessment against certain nronertv assessed in the assess- ment roll duly filed herein has been made aeainst the several parcels of said pron- erty as the same annear nnon the books of the Racorder of Cook County, accord- ine to the benefit received by each of said parcels of land. All persons _inter- acted in the said assessment as divided rursuant to said order of the Court mav fila nhiections thereto in said Court or ar hefara the sixth day of TFebrnary A. D. 1928. and mav annear on the hear- in and make their defense." Tha fallnwine js a dacerintion of th cnid jmnravement and includes a deserin tirn of the Inte. hlacks tracts and nar enle af land snncht to be taken for th- gnid imnrovement. That WRITMOOR ROAD (formerle known as FIG STREET) be widened bv condemning therefor the South Thirty. three 1322) feet of Lot Wive (5) in Rloclk Tan (10) together with the hnildine- thereon: also the South Thirty-three (22) fant (axcent the Tact TRiftv-eiocht (5 fant tharenf) nf Tt SQaven (7) in Rian Ton (10). 211 in tha Canntv (Merk's Di vicion of the Sonthwest Onarter of Seen tion Seventeen (17) in Townchin Forty two (49) North. Ranga Thirteen (IY Bast of the Third Princinal Maridian and within the Village of Winnetka County of Cook and State of Illinois, and that when so widened, said WESTMOOR ROAD (formerly known as FIG STREET) shall be improved from and connecting with the existing pavement at the west line extended of Rosewood Ave- nue, west to and connecting with the existing macadam pavement in Hibbard Road, at a line thirteen (13) feet west of and parallel with the east line extended of said Hibbard Road, including street returns at Laurel Avenue and Burr Ave- nue as far north as the north Iine ex- tended of said WESTMOOR ROAD (formerly known as FIG STREET) by grading, clearing, preparing the sub- grade, draining, handraking the park- ways, constructing brick masonry man- hole catchbasins with cast iron covers, constructing culverts, and paving with boiler cinders a sixteen (16) foot road- way in said WESTMOOR ROAD (for- merly known as FIG STREET), except at the street intersections of said T- MOOR ROAD (formerly known as FIG STREET), with Laurel Avenue, Burr Avenue and Hibbard Road, where said pavement shall be widened along curved lines having radii of twenty-five (25) feet, all within the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois. Dated at the City of Chicago, County of Cook and State of Illinois, this twen- tieth day of January, A. D. 1928. SAMUEL E. ERICKSON, Clerk of the Superior Court of Cook County, Illinois. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. T46-2tc "TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Public notice is hereby given that the capital stock of Winnetka Trust & Sav- ings Bank has been increased from $50,000.00 to $75,000.00 by vote of two- thirds of the stockholders at the annual stockholders' meeting held January 3, 1928. WINNETKA TRUST & SAVINGS BANK By A. D. Herrmann, Cashier." WE WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE for debts contracted by others than ourselves. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. West. Just Paragraphs By Esther Gould The astounding $25.000 prize offer- ed by the John Day company and the Woman's Home Companion has been awarded to a resident of Quincy, Ill. Miss Katherine Holland Brown, for her novel, "The Father." The serial publication of "The Father" will be- ain very shortly and it will be pub- lished in book form next fall. Nohant, the home of George Sand. according to the will of her son Mau- rice Sand will, on his daughter's death. pass into the possession of the French Academv. There seems to be some ironv in this fact considering that the Academv refused George Sand admis- sion to its ranks though it later elected her less talented son. A Brief for the Theatre "THE ART OF THEATRE GOING" Bv John Drinkwater Houghton Mifflin Co. Mr. John Drinkwater has written carefully of "The Art of Theatre Go- ing." A little too painstakingly even to be quite smooth reading. There is so much of a sort of mental weav- ing in and out, for instance. "To this extent, he mav he said to be servine the onlav less faithfully than Mr. Dvall and Mr. Banks. grotesque as it mav seem to complain of a performance so masterlv. And of course we are not complaining at all. To sav that he is too oood for the nlay would be uniust to the nlav's merits and to his own verv strict sense of oblication. And vet. in a sense. that is what it comes +0." Tt is as if he were plaving Hon Scotch when so manv sauares have already been taken that he has scarcelv a place to lav his foot. For he seeme tn feel arntelv the nnccihle cliohte ha minht ~ngt tha nnecihle retarte which mirht ha mada ta hic aronmente, He wnild he mare readahle if ho wera » 1i441a pnre rarl-laccly darine for afte- All ba ic nat hpildine 11n a hrief for an aretimant. hat writine for our humble lavman's information. So much for his manner. As for his matter, he lays down some illuminat- ing tenets. He believes first of all that the theatre must, to live as the home of a great art, attract the best writers of its time. It can only do this by offer- ing adequate presentation of their work and adequate or at least some com- pensation. He believes that the actors are secondary to the play, he does not care for one man shows. He makes the distinction in plays not between realism and imagination, but between mechanical and organic plays. He speaks interestingly of the audience as critic, of the cinema, of the theatre as a place of diversion, and closes with the expressed credo, "The end of our desire in the theatre is for a fine play loyally acted by a well-chosen and well-directed cast, and that beside this all other considerations are of no account." It Does and It Doesn't "A YANKEE PASSIONAL" By Samuel Ornitz Boni & Liveright It is difficult to decide exactly what Samuel Ornitz, author of the much talked of "Haunch Paunch and Jowl," means to say in his new book, "A Yankee Passional" Unless it is the futility of everything--love, religion, self sacrifice, sincerity, in the world as it is. It is the story of Daniel Matthews, a mystical groping boy in his effort to live his religion in spite of the temptations of the world. His first temptation is that of love in the person of Mame Applegate, wife of probably the most terrible bounder, faker and showman, that the world of fiction has ever seen. In fact Mr. Ornitz has a galaxy of such stars, all of them excellently painted, Doc Liam, the drunken quack doctor. Sheedy, the saloon keeper, Edwin the auack health lecturer and undertaker. We have an underworld realistic enough for Dreiser, deceitful, shoddy. parasitical. Dan's and Mame's love, though Dan renounces her, is the recurring theme of the book. The background against which the rest is laid. Catholicism. politics of the church, quackery, altru- ism, all fade before the reality of that. But Dan gives her up and is true to the vision he has had of a virgin Christ. trving to purify the church, to bring help to the poor. In the end he dies a martyr to his faith, and futilely, for even his last words, a message of peace to a warring world, are burned by a desiening priest who fears that "paci- fism" will work in the minds of the people against the prestige of his church. Dan's life of struggle has raised many questions perhaps, but it has been unable to answer any of them. Mr. Ornitz writes in a peculiar style, one cloeged and thick with feeling, full of his own coined words, "wish- fullv." "grayerim," thought-dream" etc., as if no existing ones could carry the burden of his thought, vet they detract seriously from the clarity of the whole. "The Plav's the Thing," Savs Faton's New Book "The plav's the thing!" Walter Prichard Eaton. author and dramatic critic, in his thirty-two pace reading course, "A Studv of Enelish Drama on the Stage," which has just been received by the Wilmette Public librarv, points out to the reader that the olay is the thing that sets one wishing he knew more about the his- torv and technique of the drama. Mr. Faton opens his discuceinn hv ackine "What makes' a plav different from a novel or nrinted storv? What makes one plav effective in the theater and another one ineffective?" He an- swers these and other questions in a brief survey of English drama from 119 SEARS PUPILS ON DECEMBER HONOR ROLL List Shows Increase of 5 Over November List and 53 Over September Roll There is a slight increase in the number of pupils making the honor roll for the month of December over the previous month at the Joseph Sears school, it was announced this week by Supt. E. L. Nygaard. One hundred and nineteen pupils are listed on the December roll, showing a gain of 5 pupils over the November list and 53 over the September list. The list is compiled at the end of each month under the direction of Mr. Nygaard and is composed of the stu- dents averaging a grade of "E" in effort. The roll for the past month is as follows: Grade III: Arthur Bonnet, Arthur Cruttenden, Charlene Driver, Kugenia Dahm, Edith Gillett, Helen Glennon, Peggy Ketcham, Zo de la Chapelle, Benjie MacKinnon, George Richards, Kenneth Smith, Kirk Taylor, Mary Barrett, Geraldine Cox, Jack Fyfe, Cora Harvey, Arend Knoop, Jeanette Robertson; Burton Smith and Billy Stebbins. 29 Fifth Graders Grade IV: Miriam Holmes, Janice Bouchard, Dolly Brown, Frank Car- penter, Peggy Crandall, Gridley De- ment, Bruce Granstrom, Barbara Hess, Jack Holden, Horton Johnson, Stephen Johnson, Jack Nellegar, Aurica Simon, Junior Smith, John Dodge, Arthur Carlson, Gilbert McIntosh, John Sprenger, Landon Taylor. Richard Holmes, Lucy Dix, Doris Heaton, Marsha Huck, Virginia Richards, Mabel Sample, Margaret Tiderman, Jean Small, Annette Williams, and Doris Wolfe. . Grade V: Cecilia McKinnon, Doro- thy Deacon, Russell Cooke, Tom Hil- derbrandt, Eleanor Clark, Shirley Botthof, Louise Watson, Carleton Ross, Fred Workman, Rose Phillips, Irving Moss, Bobby Berger, Roy Dem- mon, Dorothy Smythe, Ruth Swanson, Billy Robertson, Mary Huck, Jane Harrison, Nick Simon, Tom Crutten- den, David Elmgren, Anton Paulson Verna Peterson and Barbara Clarke. Grade VI: George Benson, Jack Byrne, Robert Crowe, John Mathieson, Jim McArthur, Bobbie Merriman, Jule Petersen, Donald Vail, Jane Bisbee, Frances Bluthardt, Hester Dillon, Dor- othy Raggio, and Betty Rich. 33 in Seventh--Eighth Grades VII and VIII: Donald Kim- ball, Elwood Mons, Frank Williams, Roger Barrett, John Beckman, Grant Ehrlich, Grover Hermann, Herman Hintzpeter, Murray McLeod, Robert- son Mathieson, Ben Mathews, Earl Moss, Billy Timmons, Harry Weese, Woodrow Wilson, George Woodland, Jeannette Post, Jane McIntosh, Kath- ryn Hepburn, Marion Hedrick, Lucile Brenner, Beverly Bouchard, Marion Carpenter, Verna Timmins, Agnes Fraser, Doris Bland, Jean Keith; Phyllis Dubsky, Beatrice Driver, Mary Crandall, Phyllis Bosley, Janice Barr, Mary Fowler and Ruth Johnson. the earliest beginnings as "mystery" and "morality" plays to its present form under dramatists such as Shaw and Galsworthy. In the last half of his essay, Mr. Eaton recommends and discusses six books, some of them plays, others tell- ing of the development of English drama. He has selected those which will lose the reader in fascinating study and at the same time help him in an understanding and appreciation of drama. This is the thirtieth course in the "Reading with a Purpose" series pub- lished by the American Library asso- ciation. " Meee