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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 15 Dec 1928, p. 63

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[8 WINNETKA TALK December 15, 1928 $1,000 Memberships Hostess at Ball Popular With World Fair Contributors Chicago World's Fair workers, un- der the direction of General Abel Davis, vice-president of the Chicago Title and Trust company, and Stuyves-, ant Peabody, head of the Consumers company, are busy securing enroll- ments in the $1,000 founder member- ship campaign, announced Sunday by Rufus C. Dawes, president of the cen- tennial. So many applications have been re- ceived for the $1,000 founder member- ships that it has been decided to raise $1,000,000 for the fair by admitting 1,000 to that status instead of selling only 100 of them, Mr. Dawes said. General Davis and Mr. Peabody comprise a sub-committee of the fairs finance committee which includes: Samuel Insull, president of the Com- monwealth Edison company, chairman; Britton I. Budd, president, Chicago Rapid Transit company; General Davis; Charles F. Glore, of Field, Glore and company; Joseph E. Otis, president Central Trust Company of Illinois; George Pick; Attorney Dan- iel J. Schuyler; Colonel Albert A. Sprague of Sprague, Warner and com- pany; H. L. Stuart, president of Hal- Mrs. James Franklin Oates, as presi- | S05. Stuart and cempany, Clement dent of the North Shore Advisory Studebaker, Jr, president North board of the Illinois Children's Home American Light & Power company and and Aid society, will preside as hostess George Woodruff, vice chairman, PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS over the annual charity ball to be National Bank of the Republic. staged for the society's receiving home | To date, 129 persons have paid for in Evanston, Tuesday evening, Dec. 18, | $1,000 memberships in the fair, fifty- at the Country club. eight of them having been elected to membership at the last trustees' meet- TALLEY RECITAL SUNDAY ing on December 7, Mr. Dawes an- 1 Miss Marion Talley, Metropolitan HoupTed. opera star, will appear in recital at the | Mrs, Albert J. Weisner, 943 Oak | Auditorium theater, Chicago, Sunday |street, has been rather seriously ill GIF | S R | evening, December 16, at 8:15 o'clock ' with flu. She is now convalescing. Our comprehensive stocks : carefully , SRann di SEE8L7 selected are full of pleasing Gift sugges- | oR REI, ; il Ei The Unusual Gift An imported frame or portfolio for your Toloff portrait. These are our own importations and sell for much less than you'd pay elsewhere. It's Time to Plan Now for that photograph of your family reunion in the Christmas holidays. Joseph D. Toloff-- Our Photographs Live Forever 518 Davis Street Phone Univ. 2178 tions, including -- ae ny, Ww Beautiful China Tea Sets, Breakfast Sets, " Service Plates, Dessert Plates, Cups and 7 2 An Idea Saucers, Stee ; S straight from Santa Crystal Drinking Glasses, Salad Plates, in Vo 'w PERHAPS there's no greater | either clear or colored glass. Center- pieces, Candlesticks and Comports for the Dining Table in the most brilliant Crystal. authority on stockings than Santa Claus. He sees millions of them and knows the good quality hosiery that is hung up by boys and girls who get theirs at Pool # Piper's. Santa has been telling this to lots of parents and aunts and big sisters, it seems, because so many of them give Pool © Piper hosiery each year as their gift, too. Tiny age to teen age ~----many imported styles FEETTETEF Small pieces of furniture, such as Tilt Top Tables, odd Chairs, folding Break- fast Tables, Suit Case Stands and small Tables in nests of three, some of which have glass tops. Also Lamps, Wooden Trays, Mirrors, Magazine Racks, Photoghaph Boxes and hundreds of imported novelties that suit perfectly the small remembrance gift. dil pd dod ded a 7 , . Store Hours--8 to 6 QOL & PIPER SN J TATMAN 'INC- "The House of Gifts" CHILDREN'S SHOE SPECIALISTS EvANsTON, 517 Davis St. CHicAGo, 625 N. MICHIGAN AVE. *4 1608 Chicago Avenue Evanston HHHBHREHBBBEDS FEFETETETTTTTTTETTP & G42 3274 op SEE AR EEE ees be

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