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py... ho " SEN A - g 7 A N early Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk KLY TALK VOL. VIII, NO. 25. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1919 EIGHT PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS G. 0.P. "CON-CON" PRIMARIES SEPT. 10 | Quartet of Candidates to Fight for Bzllots at Republican Primaries Wednesday, September 10 TWO ARE TO BE SELECTED Malone, De Young and Miller Make Strong Pleas For Support of North Shore Voters Republican voters of Wilmette are expected to poll a heavy vote at the Republican Primaries Wednesday, September 10, when four candidates from the Seventh Senatorial district will battle for nomination as dele- gates to the Illinois Constitutional conventron. The primaries this fall, according to local political leaders, assume the importance of an actual election be- cause of the fact that there will be no Democratic candidates at the primar- ies in this district. The district is overwhelmingly republican and the rivalry of the candidates is uncom- monly keen, say the political wise- acres. Two candidates will be nominated to represent the Seventh | district in the Constitutional conven- tion. Called "Tax Dodgers Foe" One 'of the candidates who made a strong bid for the support of the local voters is William H. Malone of Park Ridge, member of the recently dissolved State Board of Equalization who, according to his friends, is a tax expert and out and out enemy of the "corporation tax- dodger." Mr. Malone served seven years on the State Board of Equal- 1zation. Make Determined Fight Two of the quartet of candidates are Frederic R. DeYoung of Harvey, and Amos C. Miller of Kenilworth. Mr. DeYoung's record in the last legislature is the strong argument- ative weapon in the hands of his sup- porters in this vicinity. Mr. Miller 1s characterized by friends who are laboring in his behalf as a "level- headed, hard fighting lawyer who has the distinct advantage of official connection and active work with one of our successful manufacturing cor- porations." A fourth candidate is' J. C. Strong who has made little or no effort to swing the support of north voters. COOL EVENINGS AID The Young Peoples' dances, given at Community House every other Saturday, are becoming more popu- lar as the cool weather approaches, and if this Saturday night, the time set for the next ddnce, is as cool as every other night this week, it is expected to have a full house. The committee in charge is plan- ning a very interesting program for | the dances this fall and winter and | it is hoped that all the young people will help in every way possible. Those who have not sent in requests for membership are asked to do so mow. Mrs. E. W. Wortley who has her office at Community House is the person in charge of this matter. RESIDENTS ANSWER CALL TO HOUSE THE TEACHERS Winnetka responded readily to the call in. last week's Talk for more homes for the teachers. Ever since the) article appeared people have been offering either temporary or permanent housing to the teachers, until now, according to the Teachers' Housing committee, the congestion has been largely relieved. In an in- terview this week Superintendent Washburne said: "We are delighted with the quick response to the Talk article. It cer- tainly shows both that the Talk is widely read and that the people of Winnetka never fail to fill a need when they know that the need ex- ists. We still are anxious to know of places where our teachers may find homes. Some of those which we have listed are only temporary and others may not prove satisfactory. But, for the time being, every teacher has a place to sleep and eat." Returns Next Wazk Miss Williams, secretary at Community House, is expected to re- turn to Winnetka next week. She is spending her vacation in Michigan. Postmaster Returns Postmaster A. M. Kloepfer, 325 Linden street, returned this week from a trip to Wisconsin, where he spent his vacation." - has | shore | the | PHE PRFSERT FRR Hg 2 | \ | yo | | t | Once more the railroad has taken its toll of human life from this com- munity. Once more the present long list of casualties has been added to and as the Village attains growth this | menace continues to wax rather than | wane. All this must cease, and well jordered safety must take its place. | This means simply "track depres- | sion," which is the only sensible solu- | tion of the problem. In Summit N i J.. where the railroad tracks are de- pressed the chief of police writes "during the six years in which 'the present grade separation has been in effect 'we have not had a single accident that I know of. I know that track dep | tainment ssion is the only means |questionably the best. i of safety for the public and I wish you success in attaining it." On the other hand the police records in Fv- anston, show many accidents in con- nection with track elevation. Win- netka must have track depression! Already the wheels of action have heen started toward this end but there is reason to believe that the issue will be strongly contested. In this contest the strong voice of pub- lic opinion must make a powerful ap- peal--Now is the time !--Think!-- Talk l---Agitate!--so that when the issue comes before you, you will bz ble. towpresent a strong, unswerving, and uncompromising front in the at- of an ideal which is un- : s Mark Tanner Double Burial; ! 3 ie-wil PCCP S Tell 4 iv tfe WY, 1 FT 81 ed Lye-wili.esses [ ell Accurate Storyof [ ragedy / O © Simple funeral services for Mr Hubbard Woods, three children, and Mrs. William Fitch Tanner, 916 Helen, 5/2 years old, and William and | Linden avenue, who met a tragic Lyman, { fate Monday | wer lited train at the Gage street crossing | of the Chicago and Northwestern i railroad, were held Thursday morn- ing at 10 o'clock from the little chapel at Memorial Park. Burial was at Memorial Park.. The pitiful story of how the fath- er and mother of three babes faced death clasped in each others arms when chance of rescue was unvail- ing, is told most accurately and with- out exaggeration by the only eye- wittnesses of the terrible scene, John Miller, gateman who was seriously injured while attempting to rescue { Mr. and Mrs. Tanner, and Mrs. W. i B. Hamm, 270 Scott avenue, who was | standing 75 feet away from the scene, at the Gage street crossing of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee | Electric railway at the time of the accident. | Here is Mr. Miller's simple story told to a representative of thr Week- |ly Talk in a ward at the Evanston | hospital shortly after he had regain- | ed full consciousness for the first (time since the time of the accident: "Her ankle scemed to turn," said Miller, "and I saw that her foot was caughts between the track and the board walk. I ran to them but by the time I reached them both were para- | lized, for they saw the approaching | train and had dropped on the board i walk. | "Their muscles were limp, {bodies dead weight. | pull them from the track, | wife. evening when their lives | snuffed 'out by a speeding lim- | 3-year od twins, were cry- ing for their mother and just wondering at their strange ab- 1 sence. Mr. and Mrs. Tanner had tenderly kissed their children good-night, shortly after 8 o'clock Monday night, and left their for Wilmette, where they had planned to visit a moving picture house. i after they husband home had and minutes -home their who left wife, were inseparable comrades, had died | locked in each other's arms." Mrs. Hamm was standing seventy- five feet away at the Gage street station of the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Electric railroad. She saw the couple glance to the south as they started across the tracks. There was a train northbound which they saw, but they thought they had ample time to cross in front of it. They passed the northbound track and as they stepped onto the south- bound track the couple glanced to the north and saw a limited train bearing down upon them. At the moment, when life or death hinged upon this crossing the track within three or four seconds' time, Mrs. Tanner stumbled on the track and fell in the path of the limited en- gine. Mr. Tanner called in vain to arouse his wife for she had dropped in a faint. The engineer had caught sight of them and blew his shrill whistle. In vain Mr. Tanner and the ~ateman, John Miller, who had rush- their | ed to their assistance tugged at the | I attempted to|jody of his wife. but Mr. | | Tanner's arms were locked about his |p eh 1 strain. came ' (the track and then the train came. iy. foot and drag her from the track. | That is all I can remember." A grief-stricken group gathered at | the inquest held Tuesday afternoon | | over the bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Tanner and listened to the testi- mony of Mrs. Hamm, the only eye- witness to the dual tragedy. The {group consisted of Mrs. W. R. Chat- ley, Mr. Tanner's mother, and Mrs. Francis Cassidy, his sister. At the Tanner home, 916 Linden avenue, Both were killed instantly. Joha | Miller, who had remained with Mr. 1 land Mrs. Tanner up to the last sec | ond was struck by the engine and thrown = forty feet. Miller was 'thrown to the door of the flagman's | shanty. The physicians at the Ev- anston hospital, where he is, felt cer- | ain that they would be able to save (Continued on Page Five.) father and | Less than five | Up to the time of his death Mr. | if tiied to pull the bodies off anner had his arms about his wife | med fo pa 1e¢ bodies oft ,,4 was endeavoring to lift her to School District The district boundaries of the three schools in Winnetka have in general been fixed. When the children start to school Monday all lower grade children, who have mot moved, will return to the same schools that they attended last year. All 7th and 8th arada children who live north of Pine street will go to the Skokie school. All other 8th grade children will go to Horace Mann school. Seventh grade children who attended Greeley school last year in the 6th grade will attend 7th grade at Greeley this year. Otherwise the district bound- aries are as follows: Skokie 'school--West of tracks: All children living north of Summit street extended (North of number 729 on North and South streets). East of the tracks: All children living 'north of Summit street and of Lloyd | place. | Horace Mann school--West of the tracks: All children living south of | Summit street extended (numbers | lower than 730 on North and South streets). East of the tracks: All child- {ren living south of Summit street |and north of Cherry street, west of Cedar street. Greeley school--West of the tracks: | All children living south of Mt. | Pleasant street. East of the tracks: All children living east of Cedar i street or south of Cherry street. ACTORS PLAN BENEFIT FOR TANNER BABES Word has come from the head- quarters of the Actors' Equity asso- ciation of a plan to give a benefit | performance Sunday at the Audi- | torium theater for the 'orphaned i children of Mr. and Mrs. William Fitch Tanner as a tribute to the de- votion of Mr. Tanner who, when un- able to save his wife from a speed- |ing railroad train at the Gage street | crossing, died with her clasped in { his arms. The benefit performance, with the same all-star cast now appearing at the Auditorium, is planned for | Sunday afternoon at that theater. | The entire proceeds are to be devot- {ed to a trust fund for the three small {children of the Tanners. | The decision to stage the benefit | performance cam= after the. stage | folk had read of how the children's | aunt, Frances Cassidy, of Albany, N. Y., who, though of small means, had refused offers of wealthy families to adopt the children in her determina- tion to keep the. little orphans to- gether regardless of sacrifice. Prominent actors who plan to ap- near in the performance are: Lillian | Tucker, Tom Wise, William Courte- | nay, Walter Jones, Ada Meade and | her chorus, Charles Winniger, Pear! White, Ivy. Sawyer, Joseph Santley, | Blanch Ring, Bryan Foy, Guy | Kendall, Edgar Gardner, The Dun- can sisters, Frank Fay, Grant Mitchell, the Howard brothers, Doug- llass Leavitt, Edward Mordant, Sam- uel Hardy, .and Frank Healy. here today. | BAY: AA | RESIDENTS ENGAGE IN PIG CHASING CONTEST Men, women and children whiled laway a few lone hours Sunday night chasing pigs which escaped from an automobile owned and driven by George Evans, of Glencoe, when it collided with a car owned and driv- en by Mrs. R. R. Taylor, 815 Colfax street, Evanston, on Linden avenue. Evans' automobile, which contain- ed twenty-five suckling pigs, became unmanageable and collided with the car driven by Mrs. Taylor. The force of the collision broke open the crates containing the pigs, and they started for various parts of the Village. Neither Mr. Taylor nor Evans was injured and the automobiles were only slightly damaged. Popular Dance A The Triangle A. C. plans to hold another of their popular dances early in October. || NEW TRIER HIGH SCHOOL STARTS CLASSES SEPT. 15 New Trier Township High School will open on Monday, | September 15. Pupils are re- quested to register on the fol- lowing days from 8:30 A. M. to 3 P. M.: Seniors, September 8; Juniors, September 9; Sopho- mores, September 10; Fresh- men, September 11 and 12. Copies of the new Year Book may be secured by applying at the school offices in Kenilworth. Boundaries Fixed ickets for the benefit were on sale | CALLS CENTRAL MART SUCCESSFUL PROJECT Women from Winnetka, Kenilworth, Wilmette and Evanston Come to Market for Foodstuffs MANY USE AUTOMOBILES Schroeder Says Farmers Are Satisfied with First Week's Results Market at The Central market which began operation Tuesday at Linden avenue and Fourth street, Wilmette, is a success. That is the verdict of Paul Schroeder, real estate man who sponsored the project and of the farmers and truck gardeners to the west of Wilmette who on that day brought their products to the central location to be disposed of directly to the housewives of the north shore at appreciably reduced prices. "We did not expect a large crowd of marketers the first day," said Mr. Schroeder to a representative of the Lake Shore News today, "but were surprised by the turnout of women who came prepared to take away a good supply of foodstuffs. There were women from Winnetka, Kenilworth, Wilmette and from the north of Ev- anston. They came in automobiles, on the trains and afoot to take ad- vantage of this opportunity to slap the high cost of living squarely in the face, and they went away elated for they bought at remarkably reasonable figures products that had previously been offered them only by the circuitous route which led through the big commission houses of Chicago and eventually came into the kitchen with greatly enhanced prices attached." Extend Market Hours One alteration in the original plans already decided upon, according to Schroeder, is extension of the market hours. Beginning Saturday, he an- nounces, the market will open at 8 o'clock in the morning and remain open indefinitely, if necessary until late in the afternoon er into the even- ing if the necessity is apparent. { Ode: farmer, [wilt bring 100 chickens to the market on Saturday morning to be sold at {from 32 to 35 a pound, with an addi- tional charge of ten cents a chicken {for dressing at the market place. It is also planned to make special pric- on tomatoes and potatoes, he says. SUNDAY ELAZE THREATENS | WEST ELM STREET SECTION Combined efforts of Winnetka and Wilmette fire fighting brigades last Sunday afternoon checked a blaze which for a time assumed . such | threatening proportions as to im- | peril a considerable section of the | West Elm street business section. Fire was first discovered in the | coal yards of the ET. S. Weissenberg | Coal and Ice company at 813 Elm | street. The blaze spread rapidly to | several buildings on the premises and | to adjoining store spaces occupied | by the E. S. Parr Bicycle shop and | a small shoe repairing establishment. | Winnetka firemen arrived on the | scene in a hurry but experienced trouble with the water pumping ap- | paratus and a second alarm was | sounded for the Wilmette depart- ! ment. Wilmette was on the scene in | remarkably short time and soon had | the blaze checked. None of the buildings were completely destroyed, according to the police, though sev- eral of the buildings were consider- ably damaged. Two horses tethered in one of the barns on Weissen- berg premises were saved from' the blaze by two daughters of Mr. Weissenberg. Police and the property owners could make no definite estimate of extend of damage though it was thought to have approximated $30,- 000. Much of the loss was represent- ed in materials stored in the Weissen- berg barns and interiors of the Elm street shops. Parish Holds Picnic Several hundred parishioners at- tended the Sacred Heart church pic- {nic at the Forest Preserve erounds | Labor Day. It was a day of fizld events, baseball games, and other sports. Return from Vacation Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Hess, 642 Cherry street, have just returned from a six weeks' vacation tri gspent at Niagara Fall, New York City, Washington and the seaside resorts. visit in Omaha, Neb. Schroeder promises, - Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Johnson of For- est avenue, are leaving today for a= i did nib ci SEE REN