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Nearly ~ WINNETK Everybody In Winnetka Reads The Talk A WEEKLY TALK VOL. X, NO. 9. : WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1921 TEN PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS NEW TRIER PAGEANT STUPENDOUS VENTURE Biggest Affair Ever Attempted At New Trier Township High School; Hundreds Appear in the Episodes PORTRAY PILGRIM SPIRIT Carry History and Influence of the Pilgrims Through American His- tory To Present Day New Trier Township High school is to commemorate the Pilgrim Ter- centenary this year by giving an his- torical pageant at the school. on the evenings of Friday and Saturday, Mav 20 and 21. The pageant, "How the Pilgrim Spirit came to Illinois", starts with a dance of the winds and waves. and then in order come the siv episodes of the dramatic spectacle. The first episode shows the Pilgrims in Hol- land, unhappy in that foreign countrv. determining to eo to America where they can find freedom. The second episode pictures the life of this groun in Massachusetts, the méetine with the Indians, the burying of John Carver, the dispelling of the revellers at Merrymount. The third episode deals with the Puritan during the period of the Revolution, the call to arms, the sur- render of Cornwallis. the thirteen states leaving Britannia to enlist un- der Columbia's banner. The fourth episode treats of the period of ad- venture and progress in the west. giving elimnses of Marauette and Joliet. La Salle and the early pioneers in Illinois. / Pilgrims and Illincis The fifth enisnde brines the Pil- grim spirit into the day sof the Civil war in Illinois. Throneh incidents in the life of Lincoln. from the vears of his earlv struoole cntil the final ALI BABA OPERETTA SHOWS HERE MAY 21 Children of Christ Church to Present Famous Production at Winnetka Woman's Club At the Winnetka Woman's club on Saturday evening, May 21, a real treat is in store for Winnetka. The children of Christ church parish will take you back to the days of your childhood when you revelled in the riches of the robbers cave when Ali Baba discovered it and you shivered in excitement at their capture. The robbers' cave will be the setting of an act and the magnificant palace of Ali Baba will be another. And that is not all. The young people who are taking the principal parts are David delay, Beulah Stixrud, Katherine Bersac, Elizabeth Clore, Charles McKinney, Pearson Williams, John Davies and Webster Jackson. There will also be three chorus groups--Ali Baba's children, the Slave group who will will sing most alluringly for you, and the robbers, the fiercest boys in Win- netka, who have a special dance. Expert Direction The sponsors of the operetta are indebted to some of Winnetka's best talent in staging and directing. Mrs. Philemon Kohisaat, who is known to all Winnetkans, has selected the songs and music from some of the old folk songs and some of the mu- sic from the beggar's opera, and she is training the chorus. Mrs. Ernst Von Ammon and Miss Chester, dra- matic teacher, and Miss Schaeffer, playground director, are helping to make this performance one of the best amateur theatricals of the seas- on. The North Shore. Country Day school orchestra will play at both the afternoon and evening performances. The evening performance opens / t ; { promptly at 8 o'clock. triumph of his ideals in the surrender | Women in charge of preparations of re i isod s | i Dti af Lee to Cant, his OE € runs for the operetta include: Mrs. Otis 4 Po H bi <1: : its conree, ie sixth enisode is inlguinner general chairman; Mrs. tahlean form presentine the Pilorim | E snirit of 1917, givino a olimpse of the! old spirit of natrioticm in the great national at that time. Throucshout the different scenes of the naceant are dances. generally svmhaolical character. songs crisis in dramatic effects. The music will be furnished entirelv b vthe Hich School orchestra snd Glee clubs. has heen rcarefnllv selected to bear out the spirit of the enisodes. Two nrominent fionres, the Chron- | icler and the Grav Chamnion anpear throuchout the paceant. The Chron- | the operetta icler voices the sentiment hefare each | episode. and the Grav Champion | club s play presented by t ! comes in the various episodes as the children of Christ church is being spirit of the Puritan ideal which never | given in the afternoon so that the deserts the nation and which apnears to guide or approve in moments of its crises. All Departments Co-operate This pageant to be the most elaborate representation of its kind ever given hy New Trier. Every de- partment of the school is co-onerat- is ing to make it a success which will bring honor to the township, as well as to the school. Nearly four hundred persons will take part in the six episodes of the pageant. It organize, drill, costume and perfect a dramatic production of this kind.! {ier and | tahleanx which add their charm to the | which | is a tremendous task to 'arnest Ballard, dramatic chairman, assisted by Mrs. Walter Strong; Mu- |sic and Dancing chairman, Mrs. Harve | Badgerow, assisted by Mrs. Kohl- Miss Chester and Miss Schaef- Music for the play, Mrs. Victor Elting; Evening dancing, Mrs, How- ells Coffin; Costumes, Mrs. Cornel- ius Lynde; Tickets, Mrs. Charles McKinney and Mrs. Godfrey Atkin; Properties. Mrs. Lawrence Howe; Publicity, Mrs: iF. S. Barber. On Saturday atternoon at 3 o'clock there will be a special performance of "Ali Baba and the Forty the Winnetka Woman's the saat, hieves" at This | friends of all the boys and girls tak- ing part will have an opportunity of | | living over again the wonderful story | { of childhood. | rn ] : APPRECIATION ] i . : . [ Tn accordance with its policy 4 of aiding in the furtherance of 8 every pood cause The Weekly RB Palk has "been "pleased 'to g ~nen its columns to the Arden Shore association in a compre- hensive and extensive fund cam- Old Boys Play ""Kids" | Three O'clock Today Ex-College Stars to Stack up Against Triangle Club Nine in Season's Opeenr Chances are you'll be out Skokie field way this P. M. at or before 3 o'clock, and seated in the front ranks of spectators' row prepared to wit- ness the most comical pastime ever staged within the corporate lim- its of our fair hamlet. As you may have heard, our Win- netka Triangle aggregation is to college athletes who are expected to stack up against a pack of stars of other days, namely, a group of ex- display interesting flashes of the old time pep. : These are the old boys: Theodore Brown, Lawrence Howe, William D. McKenzie, William S. Miller, George Kelley, Samuel White, Preston Boy- den, Griscome Bettle, Morgan IL. Da- vies, "Long Tom" Hughes (a man of mystery), Dr. Ralph C. Hamill and Allan Withers. The Triangles will lineup as fol- lows: Hanselman, Eckart, Anderson, Deily, Curran, Walker, Bailey, P. Lu- chessi, C. Peterson. Remember the game starts prompt- ly at 3 o'clock. Bring out the family. Proceeds from the "hat" will help de- fray the expenses of adequately equipping the Triangle club nine. BOOST COALITION TICKET AT COMMUNITY MEETING In Opposition to Thompson Machine Candidates, Leading Villagers Actively Working Leading Winnetkans who have consistently supported and actively en do:359 good government are | working diligently in the interest of | the election of the Coalition Ticket | in the forthcoming Judiciary elec-| tion to be held Monday, June 6, con- | sidered the most important Judiciall election inemany years. These leaders invite the voters in i the village to attend a meeting at | Community House Wednesday even- ring May 18 at 8:30 o'clock when the | issues in the campaign are to be dis- I cussed. The Coalition ticket comprising ten | Republican and ten Democratic can- didates, fourteen of whom are now sitting, is in direct opposition to the ticket placed in the field by the so-| called Thompson Machine. The Coalition Ticket is |as standing for: "Independence of the Judiciary". "Re-election of the sitting judges". "Non-partizanship in Judicial elec- | tions". | "Opposition to control of our Ju- diciary by the Thompson machine". | | described | CAMP FIRE CEREMONIAL | HELD THIS AFTERNOON | ibers of the six Camp Fire groups in | One hundred Winnetka girls, mem- | i the village, are to appear at Commun- ity Honse this afternoon at 4 o'clock | lin the annual Grand Ceremonial of | the Winnetka Camp Fire groups. Many ceremonies are held during the year but this occasion is the only! nublic demonstration of the year. Every resident of Winnetka is invit- | ed to witness the picturesque formal- lities in the gymnasium of Communi- | ity House. i Perhaps the most beautiful and im- "PRO" AND "STARTER" ON PLAYFIELD COURSE Everything Ready for Banner Season on Skokie Field: Memberships Only One Dollar The Winnetka Park Board, con- vinced that the Skokie Playfield Golf course should, as rapidly as possible, develop along the lines of other golf clubs in the opportunities afforded Winnetka residents to improve their game, has engaged Cameron Trent in the capacity of "club pro". Trent was formerly with the North Shore Golf club at Kenilworth and during the past winter has been with the Bartow Golf club at Bartow, Flor- ida. teaching and is a player of exception- al ability. A complete line of clubs and supplies at the same price asked in Chicago will be carried by him at the Skokie Playfield. Frank E. Leslie has been engaged as "starter" at the first tee and will assume the duties and responsibili- ties customarily assigned to such a position. This will permit Mr. Rum- feldt to devote his entire time to keeping the course in the best possi- ble condition, which work has been naturally increased by the comple- tion of the additional nine holes opened for play last fall. Build "Concession" Stand The Park Board has approved the erection of a small building near the present field house to house the golf supplies and to provide space for the "concessions", as it is the plan to make it possible for golfers dnd oth- ers to obtain a light lunch, cigars, ice cream and cracker jack, or the like, right on the grounds. The Board is endeavoring to make a real village recreation center with baseball diamond and its new perma- nent "bleachers", the soccer field, and the golf course as now enlarged to 18 holes. The increasing attendance at the games and interest 'in other sports indicates the growing appreciation of these opportunities by | kans. All Residents Eligible Membership in the Winnetka Playfield association is one dollar a vear. Fvery resident of Winnetka is eligible to membership and urged to take advantage of the opportuni- ties provided by the great Municiple playground. It is the aim of the Playfield offivials to increase the membership to 500 this spring. A. T. Weinstock, treasurer of the associa- tion, will be pleased to place your name on the membership roll in re- ceipt of the crisp dollar bill. It's an opportunity few can afford to over- look CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH TO HAVE SECOND MISSIONARY At the close of services morning there will be a special meet- ing of the Congregational churhc to adopt Miss Charlotte I. Belknap as the second Foreign Missionary of the church. He has made a specialty of | estimates, Winnet- | Sunday Miss Belknop is to be mar- INDIAN HILL PARK BIG ACHIEVEMENT Indian Hill Station Wins Almost Unanimous Approval from South Winnetka Residents Project PARK BOARD GETS .BUSY Starts Actual Procedure to Acquire Three Acre Tract; Small Burden on Property Owners The Winnetka Park Board has started the actual procedure for ac- quiring about three and one-half acres of land just east of the Indian Hill railroad station for a public park. It is expected that by next spring the landscape architect will be in a position to start the planting of trees and shrubbery, with all the other improvements necessary to make of the tract a place of beauty out of what is at present a barren expanse dotted here and there with unsightly and dilapidated barns and sheds. The Park Board is acting in com- pliance with a petition which has al- ready received the signatures of more than 200 householders and property owners of south Winnetka. More names are daily being added to the petition as the lists are circulated, and it is a remarkable fact that the entire section from Willow street south is according practically unani- mous approval of the park project. What Individual Pays Some misunderstanding arose at the start regarding the amount of the property assessment and the me- thod -of apportioning it. This has since been explained. Those owners near the new park will pay nearly twice as much as those farthest from the tract, the different zones running from about $1.20 per frontage foot down to ahout 80 cents'per frontage While these figures are only it is asserted they are based on the best authority obtain- able. The assessment will be spread over ten years, making the install- ments so small as to be almost neg- ligible to the average lot owner. Then, it is pointed ont, if the property is sold at anytime within ten years, the new owner pays the balance. "Any property owner in south Win netka who has not added from $2350 to $1,000 to the selling value of his lot since this park became a certainity is making a mistal-=", declares J. D. Pierce, President ~° the Indian Hill Improvement association and a Vil- lage Trustee. "There is only one distinction between a high grade residential district and a low grade. It is not the expensive residence, necessarily; it is the amount of open spaces, green trees and grass, flowers and neatness. All Winnetka is re- markable for these characteristics and the new park will place Indian Hill station on a par with the rest of the village, and with any other north shore town. Greater Winnetka "A short time ago southeast Win- foot. ried ito; the Rey. Paul R. Reynolds netka had its streets paved. The cost whom the church adopted as its first | was great and the assessments are missionary some months ago. The] gift burdensome, but is there any- Commissioning Service the Missionaries has been set for the evening of May 30. for both of] one who now regrets that it was done, or doubts that much of the increased value of property is due to good streets? It will be the same regard- RS I CTT Te : . : 7 | 3 : ing ark, although the cost "MERELY MARY ANN" poipn which Sarminnted bw (pressive ceremony of the program is| N. T. MAN STATE SUPERVISOR a Mn Sl he *K. | Ee Pro g abou ne camp tire talrow, @ a ih : # TOS AT COMMUNITY HOUSE | Mrs. Corl R. Latham, pres- [ine ros Ae ay Sol ELAR Fluate af 1900, | 27 looking 9 the fire 20) gw | ident of the Arden Shore asso- i The Grand Ceremonial is in charge | who has been director of the Ani isin jhe yy fii very The managers of the Community| ciation exnresses the anprecia- {of Mrs. John Moody of Chicago, head |riculture department of the Fair- | ORG ON hoa duiside Sams Tony House Motion Pictures announce ¥ tion of that organization for {of the Camp Fire Guardians' associa- | mount, Minnesota High school, has | viper Br or CA or Ben a | that Shirley Mason in "Merely Mary | this assistance in tHe accont- tion, been made state supervisor of ag-| vot what we Noth for and "Gnd helps | Ann" will he the feature for next] anvng Sc sage directed te | Other features of the afternoon will | rjcultural education in Minnestoa. He hose wha help thersiclyce The { Friday evening, May 20. | Erwin W. Weber, editor: (be the singing of camp fire songs, !took over his new duties May 1, with new park will I a turning point Mary Ann, the poor little London, -- | with motions. Many of the girls| offices in the Minnesota Historical |; | a history of sratit Winnett "slavey," is a character that micht! North Shore Hotel, 1iare to take ranks as well as achieve |puilding, on the State Capitol grounds. : § : have been created especially for Miss | Evanston, Nlinois. honor beads. T-- Rn rr | BUILDING PERMITS TOTAL $45,000 FOR TEN DAYS | TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY | The Winnetka State Bank cele- {brates its twelfth anniversary Tues- | day, May 17. Henry Hale is presi- { dent of the banking house at Lin- | coln avenue and Elm street. Mason, so well does it fit her quaint] charm. The story of her adventures is told on the screen in a manner that | brings out all the emotional force of | the play's situations. No more de-| lightful love story than that of Mary Ann and Lancelot has been told. In addition to this a special comedy "Mixed Pickles" and a Selznick News will be shown. There will be two shows, the first at 7:15 and the second at 8:45 o'clock. . May 8, 1921. My dear Mr. Weber: -- I wish to send yiu a message of appreciition from the Board of Directors of the Arden Shore Association for all you have done for our cause in the Wil- mette, Winnetka and Glencoe papers. The fine publicity you have afforded us has been of the oreatest possible help in bring- ing our cause before the public, and so has materially aided in raising the funds to carry on | NOT AGAINST SCHOOL BILL Building permits, totaling proner- ty valuation of approximately $45.000 | were issued by the Winnetka Depart- | ment of Public Works since May 1. | The permits issued for residences | follow : | | [] | | ---------------- : Howard P. Castle, represent- § ative in the Illinois General As- I sembly from the Seventh Dis- L] * . : : g trict, including New Trier I Township, has something to say 3 in answer to an alleged state- I ment made at a Winnetka meet- | | | | | | | ] L} SMALL FIRES A chimney fire at the home of Carl Mack, 630 Willow street, Wednesday resulted in damage estimated at $30 {to the 'roof of the structure, * Fire | Monday at the home of H. S. McLeod, H. Tenny, 193 Chestnut avenue, $12,- 1000: Fred Swall, 797 Cherry street, $ | $8,000; Frank Kristof, 1103 Cherry | street, $6,000: G. F. Dougall, 459 Sun- ing, in which it was asserted that he was against Senate Bill LEGION MAY DANCE Winnetka Post of the American this work for Chicago's unfor- 015 Elm street, caused no damage. 78 previling Hor ace eri set road, $12,000. : fea . - erty ributable i § Legion announces its annual May tunates. A letter from Reprod 000,000. bre sentative Oasis sppsars Done Mrs. Charles Ricks; Cherry ond Dg of this Issue of the Week} Birch streets, wife of a village em- | pag 1 ploye, died Thursday, May 12, at the ! " : ly Talk. : residence following a protracted ill- r Dance to be held Saturday evening, MRS. CHARLES RICKS DIES May 28, at the Winnetka Woman's club. Tom Brcwn, expert at the task, is chairman of the committee in char~e of ar-ar~erents for th~ 2n- nual event which promises to inter- est scores of villagers. On last Tuesday evening a charity card party was given at the Ouil- mette Country club for the purpose »f raising funds with which to furnish a bed in the new addition at the Ev- anston hospital. With many thanks, Most sincerely yours, Helen B. Latham, Pre-ident, Arden Shore Asso- ciation. Fem meses ssa cm seemed [1€SS.