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TR TE S| Ey WINNETKA WEEKLY ek i FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1917. VILLAGE OF WINNETKA "SPECIAL. ASSESSMENT NOTICE Winnetka Special Assessment Number 242. IN THE COUNTY COURT OF COOK "COUNTY, ILLINOIS. radius, Notice is hereby given to all per- sons interested that the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, having ordered the improvement of Elm Street from a point in the west | line extended of Linden Street six- ty-two (62) feet north of the south line of Elm Street west of the Chi- cago & Northwestern Railway, thence northeasterly in a straight line to a point in the easterly. line of the right of way of said railway, and one hundred (100) feet north of the said south line extended to said Elm Street west of said railway, thence easterly in a straight line to a point ten (10) feet east of the west line extended of Lincoln Avenue and thirteen (13) feet south of the north line extended of Elm. Street east of said railway, thence northeasterly along a curved lipe of ten (10) feet convex southeasterly, ten and seven-tenths (10.7) feet to and tangent to a line twenty (20) feet edet of and parallel with the said wiest line extended of Lincoln Ave- © nue, thence north along said twenty foot line to the north line extended of Flm Street east of said railway, thence east along said last mentioned north line of Elm Street forty (40) feet, thence south three (3) feet, _ thence southeasterly along a curved line of ten (10) feet radius, convex southwesterly, ten and seven tenths (10.7) feet to and tangent-to a line thirteen (13) feet south of and par- "allel to the north line and the north * line extended of Elm Street east of said railway, thence east along said last mentioned thirteen (13) foot line two hundred (200) feet; thence © southeasterly along a curved line of twenty-one and nine tenths feet radius, (21.9) convex northeasterly? "sixteen and three tenths (16.3) feet: thence southeasterly along a curved - line of twenty-one and nine tenths radius, convex south- sixteen and three tenths (219) feet westerly, « (16.3) feet to and tangent to a line "ten (10) feet radius, convex south- - easterly, ten and seven tenths (10.7) twenty-five (25) feet south of and parallel with the north line of Elm © Street east of said railway; thence east along said twenty-five (25) foot | ¢ line eighty-four (84) feet; thence northeasterly along a cafved line of . feet to and tangent to a line fourteen - (14) feet east of and parallel with : the west line of Arbor Vitae Road; : thence north on said fourteen (14) . foot line five (5) feet to a line ten © (10) feet south of and parallel with the north line extended of FElm « Stret east of said railway; thence east along said last mentioned ten (10) foot line twenty-two (22) feet; thence south five (5) feet; thence southeasterly along a curved line of ten (10) feet radius, convex south- westerly ten and seven-tenths (10.7) feet to and tangent to a line twenty- five (25) feet south of and parallel with the north line extended of Elm Street east of said railway; thence east along said last mentioned twen- ty-five (25) foot line to the east line extended of said Arbor Vitae Road; thence south along said east line ex- tended of Arbor Vitae Road thirty (30) feet; thence west along a line parallel with the south line of Elm Street east of said railway one hun- dred ten (110) feet; thence south- westerly along a curved line of ten (10) feet radius, convex northwester- ly, ten and seven-thenths (10.7) feet to a point one hundred twenty (120) feet west of said east line extended of Arbor Vitae Road; thence south two (2) feet to a line thirteen (13) - feet north of and parallel with the south line of Elm Street east of said railway; thence west along said last mentioned thirteen (13) foot line three hundred seventy-eight (378) feet; thence southwesterly in a straight line to a point in the east line extended of Linden Street and ten (10) feet north of the south line extended of Elm Street west of said railway; thence southwesterly along a curved. line of eighteen (18) feet radius, convex northwesterly, to the intersection of the south line extend- ed of Elm Street west of said rail- way and a. line thirteen (13) feet west of and parallel with the east line of Linden Street; thence west along the south line extended of Elm Street west of said railway to the present west curb in said Lin- den Street; thence northerly and west along the present curb in Elm Street to the west line extended of Linden. Street; thence north to the point of beginning; except a strip of land between a line two (2) feet easterly from and parallel with the most easterly rail of the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric Railroad, and a line two (2) feet westerly from and parallel with the most otters rail of said Electric Railroad; and also except a strip of land between a line two (2) feet easterly from and par- allel with the most easterly rail of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail- way and a line two (2) feet westerly from and parallel with the most westerly rail of said railway; by ex- cavating, grading, grubbing, drain- ing, curbing and paving with brick, constructing new catch basins and crushed linestone macadam connec- tions, reloczging fire hydrant and electric light poles, lowering and ad- justing water mains and lead water service pipes, adjusting catch basins and manhole covers, water. gate valve boxes and concrete walk ap- proaches, including the removal of 'surplus excavated material, also the back filling of excavations with crushed limestone, in said Elm Street, all in the Village of Winnetka, County of Cook and State of Illinois, the original ordinance and an amend- ing 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 County Court of Cook County, Illinois, for an assessment of the cost of said improvement according to the ben- efits, and an assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, Docket Number 242, the final hearing thereon will be--held on the twenty-eighth day of May, 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 provides for the col- lection of said assessment in ten (10) annual installments with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum (5%) per annum. Dated, Winnetka, Illinois, May 11, A: D- 1917 HARRY I. ORWIG, Person appointed by the Presi- dent of the Board of Local Im-, provements of the Village of Winnetka, Cook County, Illinois, (and such appointment approved and confirmed by the County Court of Cook County, Illinois) to make. said assessment. FREDERICK DICKINSON, Village Attorney. 8-2t | =8 | / fs CRIB LY 7 TOWN IMPROVEMENT | o Ras Io ome discourag- support for 1ey find that "Ev- ery Man's houge is his castle." idea runs through ll our institutions. A man may erectyan ugly, flimsy struct- ure on his own™and which lowers the value of near b¥real estate and spoils the beauty of}the neighbor- hood. Yet his land isfhis castle, and the public can't inteffere. But law and public sentiment on this question are growing. Former- ly you could not, nterfere with men- aces to public Alealth. Now the law is very clear gh the point that a man may tot maintain a nuisance dan- gerous to the physical well being of the community. A man who tries to maintain a ™actory distributing bad odors about a meighborhood us- ually finds himself up} against legal difficulties. A similar growth in protecting the physical appear- ance of communifies. The Illinois Supreme Court gecently rendered a notable decisibn supporting the right of neighbors to rule out bill- boards from [certain districts. If the law ia such matters is still indefinite, a great deal can be done by cultivation o ic sentiment. If a man maintains an™¢yesore, let the improvement society not be fearful of criticising it. If a man puts up an ugly building, it will do him a lot offgood to find that public sentimengf condemns it. If a person allows his buildings to go unpainted, a Mew tactful hints dropped by some active improve- ment society cogimittee will have its effect. The mothent public sentiment Many societies be ed by the lack of their projects. s taking place gets started on this question, the HClean-up and Pm campaign becomes general. How egormously it does improve the looks ®f a town. In one month you can #irn a deca- dent, dismal i into one The volunteer is proved .efficiené of cold storage d affectionate farewell of those eggs on which it has so long s d. A. D. 1917, or as soon thereafter as|? wh | mn wm mn mn ep |S || = THE ND OF MY m= = THREE DAUGHTERS = |S) By Lee Wilson Dodd = | of the Vigilantes. Es |S ~ ; = SERB 0. 8 B80 8% B90 BF son and three daugh- #will be part of the Ameri- Il exist when! I am dead. what I have given to that of the near future. three brothers: and four sis- a wife and fur children. Not one df us four brothers has had military training. I have 'never fired a gun large than a 22-caliber target rifle. In cafe of war--judden war-- we would Ife about as able to do our share in protecting oud sisters and i children and! iproperty and s a pink eved | 'white rabbit be able to profect its brood t a fox. As welapproach war I feel as helpless as a jelly- I am ashamed. 1t to save my"son that shame. im to be trained to do his part in otecting his sisters and himself, s¢ that wheti any nation thinks aggin of insulting and abus- ing America it will see an America with evgry ablebodied man an able soldier/. Then that insulting and abusivg nation will think again and insult and abuse Lapland gonia and not the land of my ughters. EE on is expressed by the ls that if they agonize se, but if he is ots a food : and nearly starves peo- le to a and interferes with our winning the.war, it iy perfectly legal. go PGR ROR ¢ouoovey 2 CAUSTIC COMMENTS ol Driven i fear of hy to enlist, many of our bachelors are attack- ing the Hindenburg line of spinisters. * kk kk AR FYI OTA RARE Some people's first thought on en- tering the war. period is how in thunder to make some money out of it. * ES 3k ES # The United States takes pride in its strong position completely shel- tered from harm by the power of the British nz wy. of the popular discussion and the much problem, There taxation is conception of it is some way to make" other people pay. TR The fighting powers can't always kill off any women and children but ability to sink a hospital ship gives them a lot of comfort. [IEEE The theory of many gardeners of how to relieve the food shortage is to raise a lot of table relishes that will last about two weeks. 0% ww The duty of brightening the corner where you are, need not make any one feel they must cheer up the neighborhood by starting to play the piano at 5:30 a. m. | =B.-0. 0.0. ENTIRE FAMILY ENLIST D. F. Simmons, for two years past a clerk at Snider's pharmacy in Wil- mette, enlisted Monday in the Hospi- tal Corps of the U. S. Army and left Monday night for Jefferson Barracks. Mr. Simmons but followed tle example set by his father, a phy- sician of Girard, this state, who has enlisted in the Medical Reserve and of his mother, who joined the colors as a Matron of the Red Cross. Mr. Simmons has just graduated from the Illinois School of Pharmacy. Qoeeeg Leg 20000 4 PERSONAL MENTION Q LLYPLL LLL RRL Mr. and Mrs. M. L. H. Odea hw | moved from Ridge Avenue to the new home at 601 Ash Street, whit : they recently purchased. 4 ol Florence Nieman, daughter of ¥ and Mrs. Carl Nieman of 893 Bo Street, was taken to the Evans hospital Saturday with a severeug : of scarlet fever. ; Mr. and Mrs. David Corio' formerly of 25 Green Bay road, Hi wor bard Woods, have gone to Bm ben; Mawr, Pa. where they will mab Vers their future home. § club Word has been received from Ex St. Louis where Companies D ai K of the 6th Infantry I. N. Gat located, that Corporal Frank Lema formerly with the Lake Shore Pu lishing Company, has been pn moted to seargeant and Privat. Thomas Lynch, of Winnetka, ha been made a corporal. £ R= -0_§ y T The politicians who are trying i "(Cre make political capital out of the wi Go are fast creating a political defi LY Coming Events & Community Ho Remember motion picture Friday at Community House} ¢ p. m. Ch May 18th. Douglas Fairbanks Sa "His Picture in the Papers." Ci Ma toon. : sis May 25th. Marguerite Clark i Mi "Little Lady Eileen." Cares Ro rib Painters & ag J. F, ECKART 7 EE WwW of the running i % April 6. 1917. NT 722% 222% Ll LL Lizz PROCLAMATION HTH Dogs must be Muzzled W Berets a number of persons in Winnetka have re- cently been bitten by dogs and a number of cases of rabies have been reported in this vicinity, and ereas, it is the judgment of the Board of Trustees Village of Winnetka that it is necessary for the safety of the inhabitants of said Village that all dogs at large in said village shall be PR uzaied. and W liereas, the Trustees of the Village of Winnetka by resolution passed on March 20, 1917, have instructed the' Village President to issue a proclamation in accordance with Section 204 of Chapter 14 of the Muncipal Code of the Village of Winnetka; I therefore declare from the first day of June until the last day of September, 1917, all dogs found running at large 'within the Village of Winnetka shall be subject to the penalties provided in Chapter 14 of the Municipal Code of the Village of Winnetka, unless such dogs are securely muzzled. ENGENE A. RUMMLER, i This proclamation will be enforced by the Police De- partment without further notice. Dated, Winnetka, Illinois, Y mea Wo = a ia mar, President. )