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18 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1923 Bell T elephone News Comments on Winnetka WINNETKA BRANCH OF THE TELEPHONE FAMILY Miss Eleanor Scully, Cashier Above at left Miss Florence Burgdorf. Operator Left to right--Rudolph Peterson, Repairman; J. J. Sauer, Jr., Wire Harry Deily, Installer. (At left) Left to right-- Misses Hattie Saas, Marie Christian, Evelyn Lingle, Gladys Holland and Elea- nor Bartlett, Operators. Chief: Left to right Misses Mary Kucera, Midlini Troiani, Margaret Taiser, Marie Dunham and Lillian Matson, Operators. Left to right--Mrs. Lottie Trudell, Miss Irene Mrs. Margaret Ware (left) and Ida Rideout, Night Op- erators. Rioux, erators. Mrs. Wood, Esther Dolly and Amanda Toscani, Op- Nora Russell, Misses . » ] Katherine Miss Cecelia Schieber, Senior Supervisor, (left) and Miss Mabel Lapp, Central Office Instructor. WY WN 24 T2720 2% nn You don't need heat now--but how about next win- V2 ter? / 1097 Oak Street Q Eg a & (0°) [e} Qo = o o wn = o € bel Qo Qo 3 © = a = = @ 2 Qo c w ® 4 227/77 7777 Keep Warm The Year 'Round With a HART & CROUSE Royal Boiler or Furnace A good heating plant is the most important item in your home. Install the best and end your heat troubles and cut your coal bills. For particulars consult any of the leading heating contractors --or R. C. Meleney North Shore Agent Winnetka 614-M Hart & Crouse Co. 1446 S. Canal St., Roosevelt 2070 7702222 2227777777777 7 77720707 770 727% 22222 22% IARI Music School Students Give Recital Thursday Pupils in the Columbia School of Music, Winnetka Branch, appeared in recital Thursday evening June 21, at 7:30 o'clock at the Winnetka Wo- man's club. The recital was given under the direction of Clare Osborne Reed. Pupils who contributed to the pro- gram include: Joan Walker, Jane Dement, Doris Benson, Jahe Mcln- tosh, Barbara Hobart, Robert Harding, Peggy Sargent, Betty Gillies, Fred- erick Barnes, Margaret Pick, Bar- bara Ann Sargent, Marjorie Trues- dale, Caroline Veeder, Janet Sanford, Frances Copthorne, Ada Reasner, Margery Raub, Helen Walcott, Jane Copthorne, Adalaide Atkin, Virginia Ross, Virginia Loco, Helen Whitney, | Eleanor Cheney, Jean May Patterson, Jean Miller, Barbara Ballenger, Betty MacReach, Selma Flesham, Betty Dunlap, Antoinette Brown, Jeanette Hill, Marjorie Friedman, Jane Gillespie, Ruth Weil, Virginia Hobart, Mary Miller, Leila Withers, Priscilla Guth- rie, Barbara Boyles, Barbara Burling- ham, Joy Fairman, Eleanor Sherman, Evelyn Olsen, Jane Portis Bernice Carlstrand, Elisabeth Sanford, Jane Wilson, Helen Bell, Ashton Wilson, Margot Atkin, Virginia Wallace, Mary Miller. Fellers, Here's Chance to Get into a Real Band "Bring your instrument and join the band!" is the challenge of the Elks' club at Evanston to north shore musi- cans. The club, which has a large membership in the villages of the north chore, is organizing a band to supple- ment its orchestra. Village Is Praised For Its Progressive Community Spirit Winnetka has a prominent place in the June 1923 issue of the Bell Tele- phone News, official organ of the Illi- nois Bell Telephone company. In a profusely illustrited article with the interesting heading, "Win- netka An Indian Expression Signify- ing " 'Beautiful Land" the magazine has the following to say about our fair village: " One cannot but recognize the name Winnetka as one of Indian ori- gin, and it is most happily chosen as the name of a village just a few miles north of Chicago. In the Pottawa- tomie language this euphonious word signifies "beautiful land." "Long before the white man came to this place, it was the camping ground of a Pottawatomie tribe which spent its summers here and in the fall migrated as far south as the Ohio River, camping, hunting and fishing as they moved south to a milder winter climate, always returning to their "Winnetka" in the early sum- mer. "It was about seventy years ago when Charles E. Peck took steps to have the present town of Winnetka platted and recorded as a village, and it was his wife, who, wishing to per- petuate the Indian title and romance, gave the town the name it now so ap- propriately bears. "Mr. Peck and his wife had come here in 1853, and the following year the 'Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad' was built from Chicago to Winnetka. There were four stations on this road; namely, Chittenden, since renamed Calvary, Evanston, Wilmette and Winnetka, which for quite a while, was the northern terminus of the road. It would seem as if the old "turntable," just north of the present depot, stood as a kind of mute wit- ness of the time when all the loco- motives running into Winnetka had to be turned around and headed for Chicago. A Did we say all the locomotives? All--was not many, for there were but two trains a day, each way, and no great flock of engines were needed to the traffic of that day and date. "The first timetable was printed in 1855, and the first engines were wood burning type. "At the same time, this twenty-mile, five-station railroad was being built, another and a similar project was started in Milwaukee, building south- ward under the name of "The Mil- waukee and Chicago Railroad." These two roads were ultimately extended and united into the present Chicago and Northwestern Railway. "At this time the Winnetka area was largely a dense natural forest of great oaks, most of which were felled for lumber and firewood, the trees of to- day being for the most part second growth timber. One of the early settlers was one John Garland who bought the old Patterson tavern or roadhouse just south of North Avenue, on what is now known as Sheridan road. "We, of to-day, must not misunder- stand the meaning of roadhouse, as applied to the tavern of sixty years ago. Then the roadhouse was usually a stage coach terminal or transfer station and as such, perfectly respect- able. "We are impelled to mention this particularly because the proprietor of this North Avenue roadhouse, Mr. 'Garland, was of a pious turn of mind and it was he who gave the ground for and erected a chapel at his own expense right where that pretty stone church now stands in the northeast corner of the village. "You have doubtless seen the beau- tiful ivy-covered church on Sheridan Road in Winnatka. That's the place. Of course, this isn't the original structure, but we wish to call our reader's attention to this church be- cause it was chosen as the place for taking .a moving picture wedding scene in the photo-play known as 'The Telephone Romance," written, produced, phatographed and shown entirely by employes of our company just befose the war. "Many Chicago citizens, encourag- ed by Mr. Peck, had come to Win- netka and invested in real estate for their future homes and this was at a time when a Winnetka lot was a near- farm--not a city lot, 25x125, but a reg- ular "landed estate." "Right after the great Chicago fire of "71, there was quite a migration of peop'e to Winnetka. Railway service back and forth had improved, and Winnetka began to be a regular suburb of Chicago. "Then it seemed to stop growing for awhile or at least grew rather slowly until about 1890, when another period of steady and healthy growth began that has never slacked up to any appreciable extent. Until this time * (1890), there were no paved streets. It was a town of mud roads. But now unpaved streets are hard to find within the limits of the village. "Get into the band wagon!" "And village it still is, since it has never sought a city charter, evidently Tok |