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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 8 Aug 1919, p. 1

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WINNET ny $ > 9 A » - ~ Nearly Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk VO1.. V111, NO. 21. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1919 SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS OFFER MANY PRIZES FOR NEW TRIER DAY All Arrangements Completed for Big ~1i ting To Be Given by Com- A ~ mercial Men at Skokie Park " MERCHANTS OFFER PRIZES Field Events, Baseball Game between Business Men and other Big Events on Program New Trier Day, the most import- ant event in the township, is schedul- ed for Thursday, August 14. Skokie Park at the west end of Elm street, Winnetka, will be the scene of the annual outing of the Comnjercial men of the township represented in the New Trier Township Commercial association. Big Time At Skokie There is to be a big time at Skokie park on that day. In the first place practically all business will close so that merchants and employes may participate in the events of the day. Every resident in the township is invited to be at the park and to en- gage in the various events. The day will be replete with activ- ity . There will be races of all kinds for all ages and both sexes. Splendid prizes have been offered by the busi- ness men of the north shore and hundreds are expected to compete. Merchants Ball Game In addition to the field events it is proposed to have a baseball game with business mem of Winmetka pitted against merchants of Wil- mette. This event in itself is herald- ed as worth a full holiday for town- ship residents. The Winnetka committee in charge of the program is composed of Messrs. Weinstock, Taylor and Lips. The Wilmette committee includes "Messrs. Bryant, Wolff, Brinkman, Strong, Dean, White and Falk. Arrangements for the affair were to | be completed Friday evening of this week at a final meeting of the Com- mercial association. ~ WINNETKA ARMY MAN > WILL ADJUST COAST DEFENSE ARTILLERY ~The 74th Aero Squadron, erganiz- ed at Langley Field, Virginia, to utilize twenty DeHaviland airplanes | in connection with the coast defense, will carry an aerial adjustment of artillery fire for the Coast Artillery batteries stationed at Fort Monroe, and will adjust on floating targets as far as twenty miles out. The squad- ron will maintain regular practice surveillanc® patrols ovér this sec- tion of the coast. The 74th the 104th Aero Squadron in St. Mihiel and the Argonne offensive. Opera- tion will be directed by Captain F. Hale, who was the operations' officer for the Air Service of the 5th Army Corps at St. Mihiel and the Argonne. Liasion will be by Capt. H. M. Gall- up, who also commanded an active service squadron in France. 'As it is proposed to establish a brigade of Railway Artillery near Fort Monroe, this: squadron will also operate with this--heavy artillery. vay Captain Hale is the son of Mr. and | Mrs. Henry R. Hale, 761 Foxdale ave- nue. Visit In West Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Spooner | . with Mrs: Francis M: Case and daugh- ter, Carolyn Case, of 160 Sheridan | road, Hubbard Woods, are taking an extensive trip through Yellowstone Park, California, and the Canadian Rockies: Funeral Services Funeral services for Jane Kuppen- keimer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis B. Kuppenheimer, Hubbard Woods, who died Sunday, August 3, were held Tuesday, August 5, from the family residence. Services were private. p> Bamks Closed August 14 The Winnetka Trust and Savings Bank and the Winnetka State Bank "will be closed all day Thursday, Aug- ust 14, on account of New Trier Day, the township holiday. bk ee Visit at Manitou Springs Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Baumann of Linden street, are spending the month of August at Manitou Springs and Mstes Park, Colorado. = | iC. W. Rahning Aero | Squadron is commanded by Captain! Cleaton Reynolds, who commanded NETTERSTROM LEADS IN PLAYFIELD EVENT Makes Low Gross Score of 48 of the Prize Municipal Golf Tournament in Qualifying Round ENTRY BREAKS RECORD Sixteen Qualify for Cup Flight; Cup, Donated by Winnetka Park Board, On Display The qualifying round for the Win- netka Park Board Cup held on the Winnetka Golf course, August 3, brought out more than fifty entries, exceeding alt previous tourmaments. There were no handicaps and low gross score of 40 was made by O. J Netterstrom. The sixteen who quali- fied for the cup flight and their scores were: Ox. Netterstrom =. [eaves 40 Mi Rnoxv...ooivvviniims eset iins 41 ALE Wood ou cians se div vistented 41 DB ROFEra. . cour eine syevvionts 42 0. Voltz i iin vrais aaa 43 JH. Wood oo... iis Fr HE 43 S.-Birschberg J. lid vaiannontin. ve 43 W. FF. Keatnor i. case ods sissies 44 A.-Tilroe. «iavisvdsdiane cd idasin 44 P. Nordberg wn. nldiiicid oi sids 44 FP. Richardson, Jr olin: 44 AN. Horsman ase. ni a 44 Harpe nter hi i va ce viii iain 45 CoH Krewer one oer. Se 45 O. Madsen i io 45 Y. BiTackett yi hw a ra 45 Special Prize A second flight of 16 qualifiers will compete for a special prize put up by the Playfield association. They SET CRN waa dd PoRYegen soi cine i i 46 HCrRomers i inicimiivin ios 46 P.. Lucchesi'. ie io da iin: 46 BioBlows. alia. Sin ran 46 Bben-Erickson i. oo ime 46 FE. Weissenberg oo. on. 0.00 0x 47 AoRKimball ne Nn EE 48 fT G. Rockwell F.:L. Maloney ~...o.0 00 49 {Myron BrickSon .u.... ce... ounce. 50 IRAE. "Young, Ch, red 50 A Tn ea Ra FC. MeDougall 5... win am ey | Mrs. E. Hirschberg PAREN CRS TAN Association Donates Prize The Playfield association has also donated a prize fer a third flight of | eight who are: Li Anderson "cou hoi. iii CoD Nicholls Loi. as viii hig W. Kloepfer |C. J. Eastman 53 | ren in all. Dr. Brown Gift Shop Backers Issue A peal NORTH SHORE LIMITED For More Funds; Work Explained in Letter Women in charge of the Dr. Alice outcome of their sojourn here. 3arlow-Brown Gift Shop have issued the following appeal for funds. The appeal is accompanied by a recent letter from Dr. Brown, who for two years has been engafed in relief work among the destitute people of France rendered homeless by the great World War. The appeal reads: "The Dr. Alice Brown Gift Shop made $4,600--will you help to in- crease this amount to $5,000 by send- ing to the Gift Shop every discarded article in your possession? We can sell anything and everything; furn- iture, books, china, glassfare, silver, etc.-- "You may have a bit of jewelry that you would like te add to a collection that is being made to sell for the benefit of the French children to whom Dr. Brown is ministering. We have some beautiful necklaces and beads that have been lately pre- sented to the Gift Shop that will be disposed of at very much less their actual value. "Contributions to the Gift Shop will be called for upon notifying Mrs. Douglas Smith or may be left with Miss Mary Williams, Community House." Dr. Bfown's letter addrissed to Mrs. Douglas Smith reads: "Very good letter, with check en- closed, I received some time ago-- after its various wanderings--it hav- ing been forwarded to me by mistake when I was in Paris for a few days. Soon after its receipt I suffered an accident to my right eye which very nearly proved fatal and slow recov- ory from which has delayed my re- ply. "You and your co-workers in the Gift Shop have certainly accomplish- ed wonders and as a result of your efforts many children have been benefitted. "I have continued the work for the children at the Jarville school. Hav- ing the extra feeding each day they have kept in good health throughout the winter. This will be continued until the conclusion of the school year. "For the children at the Preven- torium I bought shoes or galoshes to enable them to go out in bad weath- er. Also tooth brushes in quantity. I am trying continually to teach these children the care of their teeth. "Since I wrote you last the Pre- vetitorium has been opened. We have taken care of about sixty child- In Janyary Dr. Calmette .53 of Lille, in addressing the Academy of sess ret Paris, toldiof the condition of the |G. H. Newcomb ................... 54 children from the effects of the four { M. N. Kloepfer | F. Radmer Match Play, Augast 10 Match play at nine holes for all three flights will be held August 10, at 9 o'clock, and each contestant will {be individually notified of his op- ponent by C. J. Eastman, chairman of Sports and Pastimes, who has charge {of the tournament. | | | | | | | | z4 | years and a half of restricted and in- sufficient nourishment. He asked that charitable organizations take the children for a period of several months and feed them. He stated that sixty per cent of the boys were tubercular. Care For Tubercular Boys "Miss Perry and I went to Lille the Two elimination | first of February and brought back rounds will be held that morning and | thirty boys. They were pitiful ob- semi-finals and finals will be held the following week. The finals will be 18 holes. An unusual feature of the qualify- ing round was the playing of Mrs. Sylvan Hirschberg who shot a 51 and just managed to qualify in the second flight. Fill Congregational Pulpit Reverend Quincy I. Dowd formerly of Winnetka, pastor of the Congre- gational church at Roscoe, Il, will occupy the. pulpit at the Congrega- tional church, Sunday, Aug. 10. Prof. | Theodore G. Soares, of the Universi- {ty of Chicago will preach, Sunday, | August 17. A ---- * Returns from Husepibnl { Chafles Dehmlow, 892 Riles street, | returned this week from the Evans- | ton hospital where he was eomfined | two weeks owing to an attack of ap- | pendicitis. | { Spends Vacation im Kemecha Louis Knastadt, of Chreataet street, will leave 'Monday {for Kenosha where he will spend several days with his parents. ; Postmaster on Vaeation William Kloepfer, 325 Linden street, Winnetka postmaster, will leave soon on an automobile trip in Wisconsin. Miss Florence Schaefer, Paul and Philip Bleser, are visiting relatives at Lyons, Iowa. They left the Vil- lage Tuesday and expect to remain in the Iowa city for theed 'weeks. | ciation with | jects, undersized, underfed and ad- dicted to the vices from close asso- the soldiers, such as smoking and drinking, not only the wine to which they are accustomed, but to cognac and alcohol. "They were a group of nervous | creatures. As you can imagine, with | good all withdrawgp and with nourishment, good beds and good air to breath--they were soon changed into healthier looking boys. Some have returned to their homes and others have come, until now we have forty-five boys in all. "They have a cold douche every morning, a breakfast of oatmeal porridge with milk and sugar the like of which they have never eaten. Af- ter four months the improvement is noticeable. In the afternoon they have a Cure d'air on the veranda for three hours during which time they all sleep two hours. The past two weeks since the weather has been warmer I have had them play for two hours out-of-doors, naked. This is possible as we are isolated. They all enjoy their cure d'Soleil very much. Care For Wounded Boys "Among the boys I have several who have suffered severely, one who has lest a leg as the result of the bombardment of Lille, another little fellow his left arm when Rheims was bombarded, he, poor chap, has suffer- ed, two ribs had to be removed ase well. For a month I had three little girls and their brother, from a fam- ily of eleven living children. Their mother has had eighteen children in all, a record family in Rheims. "Recently I have taken two children from a nearby village. Both are suf- fering from advanced rickets and I am uncertain as to what will be the stimulants The little girl weighs less than pounds and is five and a half years old. I never have seen such a de- formed child. The boy is six and a half years old and weighs eighteen pounds. During the war the mother had not been able to buy them suff- cient nourishment, and they have liv- ed in an impossible house. Living conditions for the medium class, without sanitatiomyis bad enough, but, for the very poor, it is something terrible and difficult to realize. Lafayette Fund Great Work "The French Heroes Lafayette Memorial Fund has done much to ameliorate the suffering of the child- ren of France. Aside from their school for the orphans, of which they have twenty-seven, when their school building is finished, they will have fifty boys. They have two colonies in Le Puy, one of sixty boys, the other for the smaller ones from two to eight years old who are housed in a chateau where they have the ad- vantages of a Kindergarten. Then they have the Preventorium. It was for the opening and organization of this Preventorium that I stayed on last January as it was ready then to take care of the children and I felt it my duty to remain. However, I am hoping it can soon be: managed without me and that I will soon be re- turning home. I thoroughly enjoy the work with the children and especially with these boys who have seen and lived through so much suffering. "You may know that my days are somewhat filled as I have not had sufficient help at all times,but all very devoted. I have now two very good French women as nurses who are splendid for this work. As all of the children are Catholics and several were prepared for their first com- munion. This was a great fete for all, though. for the boys at the Pre- ventorium it had its pathetic side, as they were too far away from their families for anyone to come, it is especially a family fete. Learn American Sports "The boys of the Ecole Lafayette have been especially favored. For six weeks they were instructed by a Y. M. C. A. playground teacher, in our games, and have learned to enjoy very much the game of baseball to which they were total strangers. Madame Charles Ceverrir, directress of the colonies, has great plans for the development of the school. She has accomplished a great deal the past year, considering the difficulties, such as the remoteness of the chateau, all the deprivations from war restrictions, etc., which are im- possible for the American fully to realize. However, progress has been made and many a child who has been taken upon his sojourn at the Lafayette Chateau as one of the pleasures of his life, and the friendship betwern the two countries will be continued. "I cannot thank you enough, on be- half' of the children in France, for all that you have done for them. If vou could see them transformed you would feel more than well repaid for every effort you have made. Now that the Red Cross is withdrawing all its work in France demands are made upon other organizations to 'con- tinue the work, and there is much to be done and very few able to do it. Just what the Commission plans to | do for the future is not yet decided, | other than their school and museum work. Whgther the Preventorium continues is undecided. It is very much needed for the tubercular children. Just now there are many complications having arisem because of the delayed signin of the peace treaty, and our president is not alto- gether understood. They feel that he does not understand their situa- tion entirely. They worshiped him when he came, and expected the supernatural. . The reaction is not at all flattering. It will come out all right in time but the readjustment is difficult. With kindest remembranc- es to all and geod wishes for your- self and family, Believe me most sincerely, Alice Barlow-Brown. Winnetka Defeated The local baseball team was de- feated by the Wilmette Wizards 11-3 Sunday afternoon. Dehmlow pitched a good game but his support was weak. Miss Williams on Vacation Miss Mary Williams, secretary at Community House, left this week for Michigan for two weeks' vacation. fifteen | care of here. will look back, ~ TRAINS TO THE LOOP {Hourly Service To Heart of Chicago | Businass District from Milwaukee In Now in Operation | TRANSFERS | Big Steel ELIMINATED Trains Will Run over Northwestern Elevated Lines Di- rectly From North Shore North shore residents are now of- fered new and direct rapid trans- portation to Chicago's loop shopping district, in the announcement this week that hourly limited trains which had been running from Milwaukee to Church street, Evanston, with Cen- tral street, Evanston, as a transfer point to the Northwestern Elevated lines, will now run directly into the loop. Operate Through Trains Through electric trains between Chicago's loop and the business cen- ter of Milwaukee commenced opera- tion Wednesday morning. The trains will run over the Northwestern Ele- vated and the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Electric tracks. The service will be hourly, north bound trains leaving the loop at 5:37 a. m. to 10:37 p. m. Stops in the loop will be made at the transfer stations at Randolph and Wells, State-Dear- born and Adams-Wabash, and at the platform at Randolph and Wabash. The only stop scheduled outside the loop is at Wilson avenue, Chicago, Church street, Evanston. All regular North shore stops will be continued. Prize Life Saving Events for Bathers Under the direction of the Win- netka Park Board a series of volun- teer life saving corps tests is being the Winnetka Bathing beach. In or- der to secure an emblem and certi- ficate it is necessary to make a 75 per cent grade in the following events: Junior, 16 years and under: 100 yard Breast stroke. 20 yards Arms and Hands only. 20 yards Legs only--on back. 10 yards Arms and Legs--on back. 220 yard swim. 20 yard swim with clothes on. Undress in deep water. Float one minute. Bring 10° pound weight to surface {and swim to pier: Demonstrate two methods of carry- ing, two methods of resuscitation, four ways of breaking holds. Senior, over 16 years of age: 200 yard Breast stroke. 100 yard Back stroke. 20 yard, hands only. 20 yard, legs only. 440 yard, Swim (220 side, 220 over- arm). Swim 60 feet under water. Swim 40 yards with clothes on. Bring 25 pound weight to surface and swim to pier. Undress in deep water. Demonstrate four methods of | carrying, two methods of resuscita- tion, six ways of breaking holds. Saturday, August 16, at 3:30 P. M. fancy diving competition for first, econd and third prizes will be held [for the following: Girls, open. Boys, 16 years and under. Boys, 16 years and over. Events are for residents of Win- netka only and no entrance fee is charged. HIGH COST OF SODAS _. TO BE REDUCED SOON Children will not longer have to yearn for ice cream cones and sodas as congress has voted to repeal the 10 per cent tax on soda water and ice cream. It will not be long before the local ice. cream parlors will again be doing the rushing business of a year ago, and children will not have to be counting their pennies for war tax. However, local ice cream dealers have not received definite information as to when the law will be effective. Dance at Gross Point The first of a series of weekly dances is to be given at the Gross Point Village Hall Saturday evening, August 16, under the supervision of William Parks and Arthur Ortegel. Dehmoler's Blue: Heron Jazz band and orchestra will furnish the music for the affair. It is contemplated to give a dance each Saturday evening at the Village Hall during the future should the initial entertainment prove | successful, KA WEEKLY TALK held every afternoon and evening at

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