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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 23 Mar 1917, p. 7

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Mm a WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1917 EERE ROUGH IIII00000U00TTINTIC0RRY THE NEW TRIER BULLETIN 4 Q PRO YY By Harry B. Kirtland QQ QGP ne ~~ THE HARMONY RAG PICKERS JASS BAND Organized about two months ago, the New Trier Harmony Rag Pickers ~ Jass band has played itself into the hearts of the students and no affair is now considered complete without the presence of this musical combination. he band is the outcome of a suggestion from Coach Hyatt and Manager Watson of the swimming crews, who felt the need of musical inspiration to "inject the necessary pep and enthusiasm into their men at critical moments. p Harry Paynter, banjo picker and manager of the band, worked out the sugges- ~ tion, enlisting the services of Fred Goodspeed at the piano, Burt Smith with ation saxophone, Dick Goodspeed on the violin and Claude Haynes as drummer. 3 The Harmony boys first appeared at the big Suburban Championship meet tha, | with Evanston, infusing the winning spirit into the New Trier lads with their _ lively rendition of popular airs. _ partly to the energy and enthusiasm of The success of last Friday night is attributed the Jass Band and the water dogs are mn UNSPATING in their praise of the organization's efforts in their behalf. 2 fresh to be on the job whenever inspiration The members of the band have been practicing faithfully and tirelessly and can now play the very latest in ragtime and dance music. They propose and ginger is needed, not only in, the 4 athletic departments but in other divisions of the school activities. y - | KNIEBEL BREAKS RECORD mms \/ictor in Junior Forty-Yard Event at | -- Chicago Championship Meet Sat- urday Night; Robins Second. New Trier boys added additional laurels to the reputation of the high | school swimming contingent, last Sat- | S urday night, when Knebel won the | = Junior 40-yard swim at the Division | © street Y. M. C. A. in Chicago with the | record breaking time of :22 3-5, clip-! N, Il ping 4-5 of a second off the mark hung © up by Blake. Robins of New Trier Aq took second honors. In fancy diving | a Robins secured second place with 43.8 | ER! 1 i! points. This meet was one of the | "= largest ever held in Chicago, 138 com- | ------ peting. -- KENILWORTH SWIMMERS WIN CONFERENCE MEETS New Trier Seniors and Juniors Sweep All Before Them in Suburban High Championship Events Friday. Last Friday night marked another stride in the forward march of New Trier swimmers, the local boys win- ning the Senior and Junior champion- ships in the Interscholastic meet of the Chicago Suburban High School Conference, held in the Kenilworth natatorium, by wide margins. Schaefer, Pope, Stafford and Robins performed with their usual ease and unconcern, sweeping all before them. A new Suburban record for the 160- vard relay of 1:26 2-5 was hung up by the Seniors, bettering the old rec- ord held by Evanston high by :02 2-5. The Juniors placed a new record of 1:06 3-5 for the 100-yard swim and one of 30 seconds for the 40-yard back stroke. World Champions Perform. In the water exhibitions preliminary to the main events, Helen Stafford, a 14-year-old New Trier freshman, swam 40 yards in 27 4-5 seconds. Paul Corbett, a student at Sears Grammar school, Kenilworth, swam 20 yards in 12 2-5 seconds, equaling the best time made in this section for boys under 12 years of age. Charles Pavlicek, intercollegiate back stroke champion and holder of the world's record for 150 yards, swam that distance in 1:59. G. H. Taylor, intercollegiate breast stroke record holder, negotiated 100 yards in 1:13 15. Leslie Jones of ('arter Harrison High school did an exhibition 220-yards in 2:27 flat. One timer only was used. NEW TRIER BREVITIES Hardware and Paints J. F. ECKART 753 Phone 484 William L. Wente SHEET METAL WORK Railroad and North Avenues Telephone 830 A Philosophy That Will End War [-- '""He Shall Speak Peace" -- A Compilation of the world's most force- ful utterances for Peace, gathered from the writings of 150 eminent men and women of all countries. Commended by hundreds of well known men and women, including members of both houses of Con- gress; a former president of the United States; cabinet officials and other statesmen; presidents of Universities; foremost business men; leaders in all religious denominations, ete. NO i TL i Lr 100 commendations free. THE HOME BOOK CONCERN 608 So. Dearborn St., Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. A nuounring | @onfertionery : ax pening of our New Lunch Room at 742 Elm St..where the best foods pur- chasable will be served, where cleanliness and ex- Boel Boo cellent service will be maintained. You are cordially invited to pay us a visit and inspect this model Lunch Room. MATTEONI BROS. WINNETKA, ILL. 3 tracting business. Office: 809 EIm St. Telephone 122 | TLLLLLSLILLLLLSLLSSLL SSL SSLS LSS S ILLS SSL LSS SSSI SSL SSSS LISS SSS LSTA SSS LLL LISS SSS S SSSI SSS SS LSIS LS SSS SSS SILL LL SSIS SLLS SSIS ISAS Announcement I wish to announce that I have started in the cement con- I was formerly connected with the Burkitt & Wylie Construction company. to give estimates on all kinds of cement work. PAUL RESCHKE & CO. CEMENT CONTRACTORS I will be pleased Residence: 899 Willow St. Telephone 1362 | delinquent dues. At the last meeting of the Zenobians a practice debate was held as a pre- liminary to the annual debate with the Senate, to be held shortly. The members of the Elizabethan society met at the home of Miss Ruth Kasten Thursday afternoon. A read- ing of current events was given by Miss Dorothy Dennett and a short talk by Miss E. E. Packer. Following a debate on "Should the students go to their lockers during periods," light refreshments were served. Plans were discussed at last week's meeting of the Girls' Athletic associa- tion for a camping trip sometime dur- ing the summer vacation. Miss Edna Eisendrath was appointed collector of Subjects selected from articles ap-| ASSL SSSIS SSIS SSSS SSSI SSS ISLS LSS SILLS LS ASSIS SSS SSS SSS SSSI SSSI SSS LISS SY WANT YOUR WINDOWS WASHED? Phone Winnetka 1376 Winnetka Caretakers of Gentlemen's Estate Best of Service £7 ALLL L LLL SSSI ISAS SILI SIS SSS L LISS LSS L SSL L SSS SSSI LLL 3% on Savings Deposits Storage for Silver and all Valuables \ N N Ny N N \ N N \ N N N N N N N N \ Ny 7772777 2 2 Za 2a La da 7 adi rrrirriiaiiiiiiti 2mmnzz0m00n22007 ANNUAL TOWN MEETING AND ELECTION NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the Legal Voters of the Township of New Trier, County of Cook, Illinois, that the Annual Township Meeting and Election of Officers of said Township will take place -- THE WEEKLY CALENDAR. » | pearing in Literary Digest, The Inde- [ 8 Monday, March 26, 3:05 p. m.--Girls"| tent'and The Oatl 7 ) . N Glee club... 3.10 p. 0, Girls, A, oats for Si HE Baie Dene: it Boxes b} J Thursday, March 29, 3:05 p. m.--Or-| "° i Dap " or ent \ : | chestra practice. 3:10 p. m., Forum aa a Lone Ay \ proximo, being the first Tuesday in said month. * ~ meeting. 3:10 p. m., Senate meeting. ¥ : NN : : : ? % Friday, March 10, 3:05 p. m.--Boys'| Lhe track meet between New Trier . \ The Election will begin at the hour of 7 A. M. and {| Glee club. 4:00 p. m., Preliminaries | 20d Evanston academy, scheduled for Winnetka \ close at 5 P. M., in the places designated as follows: iN Ww. I = ~s last Friday night in connection with \ tpt ' Ta: ' § ~- WW. Interscholastic 'orthwestern-Chicag Stat \ District 1 Glencoe Union Church, Glencoe, IIL hi . Se the Northwestern-Chicago meet, was ate NAN e Saturday, March 31, 2:30 p. m.-- i \ Cv T x R vials NW Interscholastic called off by the universities. This] B k \ District 2-- Village Hall, Glencoe, Ill. d : : meet will be held in the near future.| an N\ District 3 C. L. Wyman's Store, Winnetka, Ill. Jesse Gathercoal is at Evanston Jacob Griener, Jr., is absent from N y ola Park's Pl bing SI Wi tka. TI | hospital to undergo an operation. school because of an attack of measles. NzzzzzzzzZHIIIIIZZZIZZZZZZZZZZ \ District 4--Park's Plumbing Shop, Winnetka, Il. { \ District 5 James Horn's Livery Office, Winnetka, q 4 » NY Illinois. "un | wm | i | - A a x a E, ns sedassadd ITIL LAE A dd ER X District 6-- New Store on Winnetka Ave., east of fm _ . LLL EERE E LE \ Milwaukee Electric Station. um ing \ District 7 Kenilworth Store, Kenilworth, Tl. imu ESTA ava! N District 8 Village Hall, Entrance Central Ave., an STABLISHED 1906 2% \ Wilmette, Ill. 1a as \ District 9 Village Hall, Entrance Wilmette Ave. we 1 as \ Wilmette, Ill. . NN District 10 Fire Station, W. Railroad Ave., Wil- Ha SHIN tte, 111 I1g® Winnetka Phone--150--Ph Wi al | mete, TIL \ oa" he ore Yinnetka n"n!'N District 11 Robert Rae's Real Estate Office, S. E ® NN istrict --Robert ae's Real Lstate Office, 5. E. ns an \ Corner Fifth atreet and Greenleaf Ave., Wilmette, Ill. ue DEAR MADAM: un \ District 12 Village Hall, Gross Point, Il. uu The spring cleaning time is at hand and, in view of so many advertised rug nu \ District 13-- Library Hall, Wilmette and Park Aves., ne cleaners in the city and vicinity and the schemes which they use fo secure your ns \ Wilmette, TI. : ue patroage, we wil frankly give you some facts of this business which the average ns \ cers 0 e e ec | ) = woman does no now. w - Th ff1 t =~ I First. Most of these expert cleaners do the work by machinery, which, although am \ € 0 : - done in less time than by hand and at a smaller expense, is very in- ¥ \ Jiu so the di takes the life out of it and, in the course of a very a \ te are: EE 3 short period, renders it useless. Em AN | | . " 1} N\ . | J | Second. They specify, in order to secure business, that a certain percentage of Hu \ * aa " fie Droats be donated to some benevolent society, which has to be a \ ne 0 m m 1 S S 1 0 n e Tr 0 | } orne by the customer. ® NN | J | EE N » [ . They hire any Tom, Dick and Harry, who are, of course, unfamiliar with J N\ H h s uu ! Third. this sort of work; and who work with the view of completing Tie ny \ 1g ways; | scheduled time, regardless of efficiency of work. | | \ . ht 3 = We do all of our work entirely by hand, and gi L NN F J t f th P . 1 y by b give our best endeav nr to furnish our customers with first-class service and workmanship. We ne \ 1ve us 1Ce 0 e edace; un do not employ unskilled labor. All the work is in the care of experi- om \ . enced and efficient workmen, who received their training in various F C t bl . d u workshops in Europe. : us uy \ 1ve ons a es, an | Fourth This business was established in the year 1906 by five brothers, who nn \ ' _. Ourth. have, since that time, opened up an extensive trade and have therefore CHIN = 2 ; y \ EE proved the superior quality of their workmanship. avg \ bd : ® In order to emphasize our statement to pros ti 3 . : AN . v . : a gladly clean a small size rug free of ALA i we in \ The Town Meeting will open 1h Community House, uu Hoping! o have the pleastre of your palionage, we ap | \ Winnetka, IIL, at the hour of 2 P. M., and after choos- jun 2 ; 4 Suk a'm \ ing a Moderator will proceed to hear and consider re- a Very truly am \ ports of officers, to appropriate money to defray the an a \ necessary expenses of the township, and to deliberate s EVANSTON CARPET CLEANING CO n \ and decide on such measures as may, in pursuance of =" L. H. Koshgarian, M ; uu \ law, come before the meeting. un = . . ' gr. |] . . . a =" \ Given under my hand this 14th day of March, A. D. " [) \ 1917. ss EsEEaEERREEE EEE EEE EE EEE EE SS Mg \ WALTER SCOTT CROZIER, En nnn nn nn en nn ne a Ty eee N Township Clerk. gr mm EEEEEN EE EEN IL al HN ba 7 D270 7% N NY N NY N) NY N NY Ny NY N N NY N N N NY N NY N N NY NY NY NY NY NY NY N N N N N NY NY NY N N N N 7» % 725% vss

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