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i Bg WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk L VOL. VII, NO. 31. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1918 FOUR PAGES PRICE. FIVE CENTS MERCHANTS PLEDGED TO ECONOMY PLANS Thirty Winnetka Merchants Sign Agreement With Commercial Economy Administration Here ONE DELIVERY EACH DAY Also Agree To Observe State Council of Defense Christmas Shopping Program Thirty Winnetka merchants this week signed an 2ereement with the Commercial Economy Administration of the State Council of Defense, by the term of which they stated their readiness to abide by the following rules to be effective at once. 1. To restrict deliveries to one trip a day over each route. 2. To eliminate special deliveries. 3. To restrict the privilege of re- turning merchandise to not more than three days. Merchants who signed the pledge are: Quality 577 Lincoln avenue. Winnetka Coal and Lumber com- pany, 823 Spruce street. Siebert Dietz, 792 Elm street. Johnson Bros., 552 Railroad avenue. > H. E. Colmer, 1063 Gage street, Parisian Dye House, Carton build- ing. E. Weissenberg, 818 Elm street. R. H. Schell and company, 800 Elm street. G. L. Zick and company, 795 Elm street. Philip Hoza, 545 1 incoln avenue. Victor Johnson, 810 Elm street. Henry Ilg, 857 Pine street, The Co-operative company, Elm street. Flynns Grocery, 566 Railroad ave- nue. C. A. Forsberg, 1055 Page street. Progressive Grocery company, 801 Elm street. Pullan and Regan, 1062 Gage street. Rudolphs, 738 Elm street. Martha Voltz, 510 Linden avenue. ' reel. oo 734 Elm Cake Shop, 222 innetka LH. Street. John Dethdoff, 788 Elm street, Theresa O'Brien, 748 Elm street. Winnetka Shoe Store, 804 Elm street. Brandl Bros., 1077 Merrill street. Gus Makris, 549 Lincoln avenue. E. B. Taylor and company, 546 Railroad avenue. : Winnetka Artificial Ice company, 18 Prouty Annex. Nelson Bros., 806 Elm street. John Smith, 819 Oak street. In addition to observing the above stipulations the merchants have also agreed to carry out implicitly their side of the request of the State Council of Defense with reference to Christmas shopping this year. The request is signed by Martin Philips- born, chairman of the Commercial Economy Adniinistration of Winnet- ka, and reads as follows: "The Council of National Defense has heretofore emphasized the neces- sity of restricting Christmas buying during the coming fall for certain specific reasons which it has stated, These reasons are in brief the neces- sity for saving labor and material in the manufacture and sale of Christmas gifts and of saving the transportation and delivery facilities necessarily involved in the large volume of Christmas purchases. After conferente with represent- atives of leading industries and re- tail interests concerned, it is found that the manufacture of goods for the coming holiday season has been "substantially completed, and the transportation of the goods to the point of sale is also largely done and that much of the material used. for Christmas purchase, especially in the manufacture of toys, is the waste material derived from prior process- es of manufacture. The retail interests represented at the conference have agreed not to increase their working force by reason of the holiday business over the average force employed by them throughout the year, and not to in- 1 crease the normal working hours of . their force during the Christmas season." They also agreed to use theis utmost efforts to confine Christ- mas giving, except for young child- ren, to useful articles and to spread as Wa, | | | | | | | | MEN IN LATEST DRAFT TAKE PHYSICAL TESTS All Class 1-A Men of September 12 Examined by District Board Physicians, on Tuesday and Thursday 28 MEN CALLED TO TEXAS Last of Old Registrants Will Entrain for Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, Next Week Examinations of men between the ages of 18 and 36 years, registered in the draft on September 12 kept physicians and workers at the head- quarters of Draft District No. 3 busy this week. Approximately one-half of the Class 1-A men in the district were examined on Tuesday and the balance of the men eligible for mili- tary service underwent physical tests on Thursday. In reply to hundreds of queries as to when men of the September 12 registration would probably be in- ducted into service, officials of the draft board today stated that the call for general ' military service im- mediately following the present call for men to entrain for Camp Arthur, Waco, Texas, during the period of October 21-25, would take registrants in the latest draft since the impend- ing call will practically exhaust the eligible men of this year's June 5 and August 24 registrations. It is ab- solutely impossible for local draft officials to determine just when such calls will be forthcoming until defin- ite notice is received from the office of the Provost Marshall in Washing- ton and queries in that regard must of necessity remain unanswered, ac- cording to the members of the draft board. Men eligible for general military service who will entrain for Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, during the period of October 21-25, are as fol- lows : Elmer W. Sievert, Glencie. Carl A. Moyers, Jamaica, fowa. = « Nic P. Bleser, Gross Point. George A. Lohan, Dunning. Herbert J. Schiopen, Wilmette. Ernest Krause, Morton Grove. Edward C. J. Jenne, Norwood Park. Henry Herman Springer, Niles Center. Ferdinand E. Hartjen, Chicago. Steven Czyzewski, Norwood Park. Maurice J.:Barnardt, Niles Center, Walter J. Trapp, Hubbard Woods. Edward Schaefgen, Morton Grove. Alex M. Suckow, Niles Center. Conrad Torbick, Norwood Park. John J. Conrad, Glenview. Thomas V. Bidamon, Wilmette. Albert Krell, Morton Grove. Leon M. Schweiger, Glencoe. * George Sievers, Chicago, Emil Mailender, Morton Grove. Nicholas Hens, Gross Point. Herman F. Plath, Morton Grove. Leo Bernard Braun, Gross Point. Edmund A. Jacks, Norwood Park. William R. Barg, Niles Center. Walter Wittmann, Norwood Park. Alternates Leo Edward Rondenet, Wilmette. Daniel Donavon, Niles Center. Men designated as from Chicago and other points outside Niles and New Trier Townships registered in the district but subsequently left to reside outside the townships. CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH WILL BE OPENED SUNDAY By authority of the local health officials services will be resumed at the Winnetka Congregational church Sunday morning but it is requested that no persons attend from homes where anyone is suffering. with in- fluenza or bad colds. It is expected that the sunday school and the evening patriotic meetings will be iresumed a week later. Physician's Daughter Recovering Dr. M. S. Hecht's daughter, Mar- jorie Jane, is slowly recovering from a severe case of complicated pneu- monia at the Evanston hospital. Dr, Hecht will return to his practice as soon as his daughter is completely out of danger; possibly in the next few days. Recovering at English Hospital Word has been received that the period for holiday purchases over | Sergeant Ernest M. Burkitt of Hub- the months of October, November |bard Woods, is in a United States and December. In order to relieve [army hospital near Winchester, Eng- | | Dr. | | | | Sergeant | Wilmette the tranportation facilities tof the |land, recovering from an operation | country from a congestion in the |for acute appendicitis. latter half of December which would | Burkitt is first class gunner and (Continued on Page Eight) plotter in Battery D, 72nd Artillery, CHASE LIBERTY LOAN REPORT [left Wilmette last January for the | this |of influenza at Mrs. Allan I. Wolff reports the sub- scriptions for Liberty bonds accord- ing to districts up to the close of business, Thursday evening, October 17, as follows: District No. 1. Elm street, Willow street, Railroad tracks, Sheridan road, $68,400, District No. 2. Willow street, Win- netka avenue, Sheridan road, Rail- road tracks, $33,450. District No. 3. Railroad tracks, Skokie valley, Hill road, Winnetka avenue, $9,550. District No. 4. Hill road, Willow street, Railroad tracks, $45,150. District No..5, Elm street, Willow street, Railroad tracks, $35,750. District No. 6. Provident avenue, Skokie valley, Elm street, Willow street, $7,300. District No. 7. Railroad tracks, Elm street, Pine street, Skokie valley, $22,650. District No. 8. Railroad tracks, Skokie valley, Pine street, Fig street. $20,350. 3 { District No. 9. Railroad tracks, | Skokie valley, Fig street, $15,650. District No. 10, North avenue, Scott avenue, Railroad tracks, Skokie valley, $34,050. District No. 11. Railroad tracks, Sheridan road, North avenue Scott ||: avenue $91,900. District No. 12. North avenue, Pine street, Railroad tracks, $49 650. District No. 13. Railroad tracks, Sheridan road, Pine street, Elm street, $71,600. District No. 14. Elm street, North avenue, Sheridan road, Prospect avenue, $48,750. District No. 15, East of Sheridan road, north and south of Elm street, $114 350. Headquarters, $83,750, Total amount of subscriptions, $752,300. Quota, $660,000. FORMER WILMETTE MAN - WINS 2nd LIEUTENANCY Leroy Hazen Patterson, son of Mr. and Mrs, A. K. Patterson of 1932 Harrison street, Evanston and for- merly of Wilmette, has received his commission as Second Lieuténant in the Quartermaster's department of the army. | Lieutenant * Patterson enlisted in | the Quartemaster's department and training camp at Jacksonville, Flori- da. He was at the cantonment but | | eight days when transferred to New- | port News, Virginia, a port of em- | barkation. He received a telegram from Wash- ington on October 10, apprising him | of his promotion to a Second Lieuten- | ancy and was ordered to Camp | Sevier, South Carolina, as assistant | Depot Quartermaster. f Lieutenat Patterson is to be con- | gratulated on his quick rise in the . | service. "HEALTH BOARD EDICT | POSTPONES LECTURE | The first Newman lecture has been | postponed for a week, owing to the | quarantine regulations from the | State Health Department. It is now ! planned to give this lecture October | 27 instead of October 20 as scheduled. | These lectures will be given in the gymnasium of Community House at 8 o'clock, | Winnetka is fortunate in having opportunity of seeing these | latest and best war pictures, taken | by Mr. Newman recently at the battle front. The lectures will not be given by Mr. Newman himself but | they are prepared by him. ! There are no reserved seats. No | more tickets will be sold than the | house will accomodate. { Tickets may be obtained from the block captains or at the Drug stores. Former Resident Dies Mrs. Thomas R. James of Wind- sor Park, Chicago, formerly of Win- | netka, died of pneumonia, the result | her Chicago home | Thursday. Mrs. James was a sister | of Mrs. Jonas H. Madsen of 548 Fir | street. : Brown Letter Next Week Another interesting letter from | Alice Barlow-Brown, Winnetka | war relief worker in France, will ap- | pear in the next issue of the Win- | netka Weekly Talk. Enters Cornell S, A. T. C. - | Mr. James D. Wigglesworth of | has entered Cornell | University and enlisted in the Truck and Motor division of the Student | army training corps. | [ Saturday, September 28. WINNETKA SUBSCRIBES $100,000 OVER QUOTA Tweny-five Hundred Resi. ents Sub- scribe to $760,000 Worth of Lib- berty Loan Bonds WOMEN LEAD BIG DRIVE Solicited All The Subscriptions in the Village in the Biggest Loan Drive of the War By H. A. deWindt (District «Chairman for Winnetka). Now that its "all over but the shouting" I can tell a secret. When 1 was appointed district chairman of the Fourth Liberty loan in Winneka, I was instructed to employ "no wom- en to solicit subscriptions." What do you think of such pertinence? im- The only possible ex- Another Battle Won cuse is that the person who wrote those instructions did not know the women of Winnetka. Consequently, as I thought I did, I paid no atten- tion to the instructions but went right ahead with the splendid organ- ization of the Winnetka Woman's club under Mrs, Morris L. Greeley and Mrs. Alan 'I. Wolff, using no men at all to take subscriptions. I told my plan to the district chairman of Wilmette and he looked very doubtful and strongly advised me to start, at once, a brand new organ- ization composed entirely of men; but I believed Winnetka could show Wilmette a thing or two about soliciting subscriptions for Liberty bonds and therefore made my own plans just as if Mr. Wilmette man had not spoken. It did seem a bit risky though when every other vil- lage hereabouts had its organization of men; but 1 had faith in our "Amazons." Women Do Splendid Work Did I reckon without my host? A glance backward to review the cam- paign will readily answer that per- tinent question. The drive started By Sunday noon Wimnetka had subscribed $150,- 000 worth of Liberty bonds--who says the women Block Captains did not know hcw to take subscriptions? But just wait a minute! "listen here" during tae first five days of the drive Winnetka subscribed for the bonds at the rate of $100,000 a day, and up to the night of Friday, October 17, our subscriptions stood at $760,000 or $100,000 over and above the quota of $660.000 and the subscribers number- ed 2,500 individuals as compared with a total of 1813 subscribers for the Third Liberty loan in Winnetka. Such a result we may well be proud of and proud too of the women through whom the subscriptions were { made. Was Unique Campaign The campaign started by the "Be Ready" posters which appeared in almost every window throughout the business part of Winnetka. Next, the big bill board put up by the War Emergency Union was repainted to advertise the Fourth Liberty loan; (Continued on Page Eight) 'Health Commissioner Declares | serious, QUARANTINE BAN OFF; SCHOOLS OPEN MONDAY In- fluenza Epidemic Past Danger Point in Village, But Advises Great Care WATCH PUPILS CLOSELY Visiting Nurse, Teachers and Volun- teer Helpers To Maintain Strict Supervision in Schools By Dr. C, O. Schneider (Health Commissioner) Conditions in Winnetka have so greatly improved the past ten days, that the Health department has decided, church services and other necessary public meetings may be resumed at this time, provided the following precautionary measures are adopted. 1. That no person with the slightest cold, or who is cough- ing or sneezing, or especially if the person has a chill or fever, should be allowed to remain present, as these are very often the early symp- toms of influenza. 2. No person should be present who comes from a household where a case of in- fluenza exists. 3. No person who has just recovered from influenza should attend, unless the temperature has been normal for at least a week. Schools Open Monday All schools are permitted to open on Monday morning, but during the prevalence of this epidemic the pupils will be under careful and constant supervision, and the above precautionary measures will be strictly enforced . Miss Garretson, the Visiting nurse, will have the co- operation of the teachers, but for them alone the task would be too great, and therefore we are organiz- ing a corps of voluntary workers who will assist her in giving the a a. children the necessary super: It is intended to speak to t mother of every child sent home with any suspicious symptoms, ne { if the pupils is absent without gc cause, with the object of having child feturred To STOO! 4s soon as | is considered perfectly safe to do so. Anticipating the usual great measure of co-operation that we can expect from our citizens in carrying out the plan as outlined above, your Health Commissioner now advises that all children who are perfectly well and where no influenza exists in the household, may safely return to their studies. Although our own local conditions are considerably improved, as the new cases have been reduced to from four to eight per day at this time, whereas three weeks ago we had as many as forty or fifty new cases per day; the conditions in Chicago on the other hand are becoming more and therefore you are ad- vised that you will best safeguard the health-of your own family and of this community by visiting Chicago or nearby towns as little as possible, you are especially urged to remain away from outside public gatherings or places of amusement. Influenza is still present and precautions are ad- visable, Avoid people with colds and keep your houses heated. The fourth death recorded in Win- netka, attributed to the epidemic of influenza, was that of little four year old Robert Henderson, who died Thursday at the Emergenty hospital, within two hours after he had been removed to the hospital. J. E. F. KETTER NOW AVIATION MECHANIC J. E. F. Ketter, of the Ketter Taxi- cab company, left late last week for West Point, Mississippi, where he was ordered after enlisting on Octo- ber 10 as a mechanic in ground avia- tion service. Ketter is attached to Squadron D, Payne Field, at the southern aviation camp. He is well known in Wilmette, having lived here since childhood. WILMETTE GIRL TO SERVE IN FRANCE Miss Alice Williams, a sister of the Viscountess de Granville of Paris. leaves December 1 to do canteen work in France. Miss Williams studied stenography and for the past nine months has been a private secretary to Miss Mary E. Bartelme, assistant judge of the Juvenile court in Chicago. New York abolished eye clinics in schools. Bonds Build Ships. 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