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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 14 Aug 1920, p. 4

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§ 1 PT Eye = VEN WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14; 1920 'BUNDLE DAY" IS SET FOR THURSDAY, AUG.25 Chicago and Suburbs To Be Can- vassed On that Day in Interest of Suffering Armenians August 25 is to be "Bundle Day" in Chicago and suburbs to provide clothing for the suffering orphans and women in Armenia, where the people shiver six months in the year. There are thousands of poor, ragged and almost naked refugees in the Near East, and a special appeal is being made by the Near East Relief to the people of Chicago to send either new or used clothing to 15 North Franklin street, Chicago, on "Bundle Day" that these homeless people may not suffer this winter. P. J. Byrne, state secretary for the Near East Relief in Illinois, in an- nouncing "Bundle Day", enumerated the following articles as those most needed by the hungry, homeless Ar- menians: coats, dresses, sweaters, skirts, blankets, petticoats, over- coats, woolen shirts, woolen scarfs, heavy hose, heavy underwear, heavy wrappers, woolen gloves and mittens, boots and shoes, felt slippers and children's clothes of every sort. Laundries Co-operate The Chicago Laundry Owner's association is co-operating to make «Bundle Day" a success. All its members have agreed to send out with every bundle containing a special appeal for clothes for the suffering women and children in the Near East. Secretary Byrne of the Near East Relief, in his appeal, points to the fact that the cost and trouble of giving this aid will be slight, as the clothing may be sent by parcel post. Miss Gertrude Pearson, North Grove street, Chicago, who recently returned from the Near East, where she was a relief worker in one of the orphanages, saw women and girls of delicate breeding in the scantiest of clothing, many of them in rags. She declar- ed that the poor and formerly well to do in Armenia will have no cloth- ing this winter, unless the American people come to the rescue with what they can spare. Speaking of the sufferings she witnessed while a re- lief worker, Miss Pearson said: Without Clothing "In the fields I saw men, women and children running naked; those in the cities were huddled together in the remains of ruined buildings in filthy rags; there were no liveable houses; there was no food except what was furnished by the Near East Relief. Many of the people were numbed with suffering. The children were half dead with hunger. In one room, where 500 of them were hud- dled together, I saw a tittle girl whose body and face were swollen beyond human semblance through starvation. The winters in Armenia are a rigorous as in our own Rockies. Surely the American peo- ple will not permit these suffering Christians to suffer when the cloth- ing they can spare will keep these poor women and children warm. --en THE COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER Nearly all the big newspapers have space regularly devoted to jests on the village newspapers. Perhaps to city readers it matters little whether Tom Jones visited Dave Smith and his wife last Sunday--or whether Tim Howe built a new barn--and perhaps Tim Howe's barn is not as imposing as some of the big struc- tures in the big cities, but all the same, these little personal mentions tell a story of vital interest to the community. People in the country are interested in each other's doings, and the peo- ple mentioned as a rule are of the substantial class, but very few of them have their names in the news- papers in connection with scandal or divorce. But to one who does not know country life these personal mentions sound funny. These country papers must be true to country life, of which they are an important part, if they are to live and do work of the highest value. Their continued effort in behalf of community betterment is of more worth to the nation than all the efforts of the big city papers that are devoted to the building up of great cities. Some has said, "God made the country and man made the town." and if that be true. then God must certainly look kindly on the country papers which are devoted to the work of community betterment in the country and the small towns. --News, Ellsworth, Minn. CHRYSANTHEMUMS Shaggy-headed urchins from gardens of Japan Now are down our autumn pathways in a rough-and-tumble playing-- Motley little rioters with caps and brooms and banners swaying On the blustery weirs and hills, a raga-muffin clan! --Thomas Walsh. the of laundry a slip | of 412 said she | APPLICATIONS OF 152,979 FOR CONVERTED INSURANCE A total number of 152,979 applica- tions for converted insurance have been approved by the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, according to an an- nouncement by Director R. G. Chol- meley-Jones who is making public at this time figures of a preliminary re- port on United States Government Life insurance, prepared in the In- surance Division of the Bureau for the period ending June 30, 1920. The total amount covered by these converted policies is $511,821,500 and classified as to the forms of policy offered by the government, the con- verted insurance is distributed as follows: Ordinary life ...... 17,462 20-Payment Life ..45208 30-Payment Life .. 4,184 20-Year Endowment 71,011 30-Year Endowment 8925 Endowment at $ 77,986,000 182,830,500 19,859,500 168,276,000 35,353,500 Age 02... viii 6,189 27,516,000 The total amount of premiums re- ceived on this insurance, including monthly, quarterly, semi-annual and annual, was $10,135,557.28. The effective interest rate on to- tal invested assets is 5.06 per cent. The ratio of death losses to gross expected death losses, according to the American Experience Table of Mortality, has been found to be less than 40 per cent. A full and comprehensive report of Government Life insurance is to be issued as of December 31, 1920. Make Your Vacation 'Pay ONEGALLON Hockaday-System 4 ll CKAD INTERIO THE WashaBLE WALL FINS Costs money to take a vacation these days. Lots of it. Instead of going away and blowing your wad, why not fix up that home of yours? You can kill two birds with one stone---save mon- ey and have new "insides" in your house by finishing your walls with Hockaday's IN- TERIO, the only really wash- able wall finish. Yessir! INTERIO is so easy to apply a child can do it---al- ways successfully. And once on, "the war is over." No more re- decorating. Some walls finished with INTERIO ten years ago still look too good to renew. Just flow it on--two coats. It goes 30% farther and saves 30% of labor. And there isn't any kind of a mark that doesn't wash off completely. No prim. ing or sizing. Can't peel, chalk ot lime burn. 16 beautiful colors. A Bit of News and Touch of Sentiment Anna Fecher Submits Newspaper "Copy" Worthy of Persons Con- siderably Her Senior Anna Fecher, whose home it at 416 Ridge avenue, Wilmette, and who is a l4-year-old school girl, is the au- thor of the accompanying interesting bit of news and attached sentiment. She gets a "by-line." Title--"Our Field Nurse on a Va- cation." By Anna Fecher Miss Cora Queen, the nurse of the Babies Health Center of Gross Point is spending a two-weeks' vacation in Chicago with her sister, Mrs. Wor- cester. Please let me ask if anyone in Wil- mette is not yet acquainted with the Gross Point Health Center, for if there should happen to be, I advise you to lose no time in getting ac- quainted with it. The nurse, Miss Queen, is certainly a person of in- telligence. She takes a great interest in all the people of the community; she makes no exceptions and is es- pecially interested in babies and school children. She is also in charge of Health Crusading work of which N. J. FELLOWS REGISTERED OPTICIAN Eyes Tested. Frames Fitted Lenses Duplicated Frames Repaired Phone Winnetka 85 Prouty Bldg. | | | 0. K. EITHER WAY No matter which way the political most all school children are mem- bers. X : toad jumps in November, the Sal- Wears merry little Health Crusad- | ation Army is assured of a friend ' in the White House. Since their Fat and bold and sturdy, We are always kind and cheerful, Our faces are never dirty!" nomination, the two leading candi- dates have given utterance to the following endorsements of the Sal- vation Army: Governor Cox: "I have the greatest interest in the work of the Salva- tion Army, and thoroughly appre- ciate the good it has done." "Your name signed to an adver- tisement, should carry conviction to the mind of the reader, because your reputation for good business jydg-| Senator Harding: "Every city is ment would not permit you to spend better and happier as a result of the your money to advertise anything |wonderful unselfish work of the that was not thoroughly good." Salvation Army." RY Tr 2777 777772 ar rr rrlziiiiiiuu A Business Education will put you in a preferred class of office assistants. You may take a Business, Shorthand, Secretarial or Complomeler Course. We teach all the commercial branches. New Term, September 1. EVANSTON BUSINESS COLLEGE W. H. CALLOW, Proprietor 634 DAVIS STREET 777777 2 270 2 2 2 2 Pd Ed Ld ad ld Zrzzzzzzzzzizzidazigiiid \ } N 2777777777777 77 7777 277 drriiiiriiiiirziiiiiriiizlzizzizzaziizzzzzzizaiaiais North Shore Electric Shop JOHN C. WELTER, Proprietor Electrical Contracting and Repairing Electric Washing Machines Electric Supplies and Appliances Electric Vacuum Cleaners Electric Ironing Machines WE CLOSE AT 1 P. M. ON SATURDAYS DURING JULY AND AUGUST 554 Railroad Ave., Winnetka Tel. Winnetka 44 a7 al La 2 2 Za Zu Zl addr 77777 18 MILES OF COMFORT Winnetka to Chicago The North Shore Line ARRIVE CHICAGO For the Business Man LEAVE WINNETKA: Every Half Hour Thereafter: For the Shoppers Then Every Half Hour Until: For the Theatre and Dinner Party 3:32 P 6:52 a. m. 7:44 a. m. 7:22 a. m. 8:14 a. m. 7:52 a. m. 8:44 a. m. 8:22 a. m. 9:14 a. m. 11:22 a. m. 12:14 p. m. 11:52 a. m. 12:44 p. m. 12:22 p. m. 1:14 p. m. 12:52 p. m. 1:44 p. m. 4:22 p. m. 5:14 p. m. 4:52 p. m. 5:44 p. m. 5:22 p. m. 6:14 p. m. m. 6:44 p. m. 6:22 p. m. 7:14 p. m. 6:52 p. m. 7:44 p. m. 7:22 p. m. 8:14 p. m. Then every half hour until 12:52 a. m. Last train 1:52 a. m. Trains Operate on Standard Time For further information, apply to the Why not make it an "INTERIO" vacation this year and be dollars to the good. | Let us "show you" or recommend a painter if your job is too large to da yourself. Body Reducer $5.50 Gallon 3.30 Gallon Average cost on above basis after mixing $4.50 per gal. "Every Day is Hockaday" J. F. ECKART I -------- Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. NORTH SHORE Ya Winnetka Ticket Office Elm Street te Phone: Winnetka 963

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