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14 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Telephone ............ Winnetka 388 Telephone ............ Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnet- ka, Illinois, as mail matter of the sec- ong class, under the act of March 3, £ 9. SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1923 Depress the Tracks. Give the Business Men Fair Play. Build a New Village Hall. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Muzzle the Dogs. WINNETKA PARKS Twenty-one parks in Win- 'netka! 118.57 acres. Eighty acre golf course. $150,003.22 spent in year end- 'ing March 31, 1923. $20,310.30 balance at same period. Doubtless the best known of this remarkable group of parks is the Village Common, scene of many celebrations. Among its most attractive features are the ten elms, commemorating Win- netka boys who fell in the late war. In the southwest corner of the Common stands the Christ- 'mas tree around which Winnetka people sing on Christmas Eve. | The most popular parks are the "Skokie Playfield and the Lake front and Elder lane parks with their bathing beaches. The golf course at Skokie is guiore than popular; at times it is 'so congested that special rules have been made for its proper use. Winnetka's greatest blessings end of these summer days 'are the beaches. Old and young appreci- ate them. The seventeen acres, bounded by Willow, Sunset, Euclid, and "Glendale avenues, an area known Z7as Crow Island, is a wooded tract sheltering our wild flowers and #song birds. 4 The newest of our parks is In- "dian Hill station Park, a piece of land rescued just in time from stores and shops. Its beauty re- sides in its restful expanse of fresh greensward. On its eastern edge is a very pretty fountain, gift of the Indian Hill Improve- "ment association. The gratitude of Winnetka is due Morris L. Greeley and Arlan ~U. Converse, past and present 'presidents of the Winnetka Park Zboard, and to all others who have :given so liberally of their time and energy to agencies that ; recreate us in body, mind and ; soul. 7 Now, just one suggestion which "we think will be approved by ;every local golfer. In the pamph- 'let which the Park Board recent- ly issued, the summary of re- /ceipts and expenditures shows Zone interesting little fact. The receipts from the Skokie % Playfield for the past four years amount to $26,446.31 while the 7 expense of upkeep for the same i period has been $24,312.89. This "means that something over $2,000 ~ has been collected from the golf 7 course in excess of the amount i spent for maintenance of the 4 grounds. * Let us presume that the Park "Board spent a great deal in ex- "cess of $2,000 on the grounds "prior to 1920 and that no revenue ; was received, so we will not say + anything about the $2,000. But ; we believe that from mow on 2 every cent of money 'received "from the grounds fees and dues cin addition to the Skokie Play- : field's share of the $25,000 col- lected annually from the tax pay- "ers should be spent on the course. 2 There are plenty of things :which could be done. The greens XN NR Winnetka 2 and tell him why. could use a lot of fertilizer; the fairways would be improved by a good rolling; the hazard in the first fairway could be finished; two or three drinking fountains on the course would be appre- ciated. This is merely a suggestion and we hope that the Park Board will take it in the spirit which it is given. CAPTAIN MARTIN Do you know John Martin? Lives on Woodland Avenue not far south of Willow? You'd have to get up early to bid him Good- morning. And he didn't reach his home in the evening until well after six. He was a real worker, day in and day out. His holidays at home he spent in mowing the lawn or working in his shop. And now he's been "ordered south." Sickness has interrupted his quiet, persistent, daily rou- tine. The commanding officer of Chicago's traffic squad awaits in St. Joseph's hospital the return of his old-time vigor, temporarily retired by anaemia. When, blood was needed for transfusion into their captain's veins, every last man in the traf- fic squad of 500 officers offered himself for the operation. He'll come back again! PUNCH AND JUDY Years and years ago we saw our first Punch and Judy show. With what a mysterious delicious flavor the memory arises! We can't de- scribe it, except to say that it is something like that elusive feel- ing that accompanies the smell- ing of some old time perfume. "And O the smell of that jasmine flower!" . That's the way we feel whenever we hear about a Punch and Judy show. In those early days we thought the actions of Punch im- mensely entertaining. His nasal tones and the way he laid abour him' with his club--we never tired of them. His treatment of Judy was, to be sure, nothing. short of brutal; but boys always love such things. There was a Punch and Judy show at Ravinia on August 2. We couldn't go! Think of the 2,000-acre--Skokie Park! Three and one-eighth square miles! President Peterson of the County board says that in twenty years it will look as beau- tiful as Jackson Park, and the first move towards buying these acres was made when the board recently voted a bond issue of two million dollars. We never saw peat burn. (Not Pete Burn.) Maybe it burns like old-fashioned fourth of July punk. Sounds like beginning of an Irish tale. "Children dear, d'ye recollect the day whin auld Skokie peat bog caught fire, all by itself?" Winnetka Teachers! Septem- her 4, Tuesday, must see you at your desks. This eall 1s 'for new teachers. Children! Don't come to school until Sept. 10, no matter how much you may long to end your vacation. Thirteen hundred families re- sponded with two dollars each to the call for Memorial Day and Independence Day funds! More than two-thirds of all the fami- lies in the village. Quite a con- tribution! If you play an honest-to-good- ness instrument from bass drum] to piccolo, call up Lee Adams at ESTABLISHED 1854 ROOFING || g JORDAN & COMPANY over the Old Shingles FUNERAL DIRECTORS FOR 69 YEARS ESTIMATES 612 Davis Street, Evanston, Ill. Phone Evanston 449 FREE 164 N. Michigan Ave. Phones Randolph 1346-1347 NOeRIH SHOR ROOF CRAFTERS = WILLYS-KNIGHT--OVERLAND | Incorporated 3201 342 Emerson St. Park Ave. $1,235 F. O. B. Toledo $525 Evanston Glencoe SALES-ROCM SERVICE-STATION Phone 7026 Phone 166 1540 SHERMAN AVE. 1324-26 SHERMAN AVE. one vanston one te 745 L C. H. BRIGGS , ' Don't Worry About Coal But bid good-bye to the ashes, dirt and extra work, by having installed the most quiet and ef- ficient and economical Electrol Oil Burner (for- merly Scott-Newcomb) Automatic -- the last word in oil burning. Can be attached to any type of heating plant. No dangerous pilot light, but instead a patent spark plug ignition, insur- ing the most perfect and inexpensive combustion, being indorsed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. As much improvement over old style heating as electricity is over kerosene lamp lighting. Every burner is inspected and warranted to heat a house 70 degrees at zero weather. Demonstration plant shown and all information furnished by H. A. Whitman 930 GREENWOOD AVE. Tel. Wil. 852-M Wilmette, IIL. Wanted General Agent who is a personal producer to sell our old line, legal reserve, par- ticipating and non-partic- ipating policies, the ordinary (annual, semi-annual and quarterlv plan) ages 2 to 60. Standard as well as sub- standard policies. Liberal commission, contract with furnished office to the right party. Address Old Colony Life Ins. Co. at its Home Office, 166 West Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Illinois. Automatic Heat Mach Co. 726 SO. MICHIGAN AVE. Tel. Wab. 8141, Chicago, IIL Lake Geneva Busses Meet North Shore Trains at Kenosha After the interesting train trip along the beautiful North Shore, the big, comfortable leather-upholstered busses take you through Southern Wisconsin's superb lake country. There are many delightful resorts en route, at Twin. Lakes, Powers Lake, or one of the smaller lakes, with pictur- esque lake Geneva at the terminus of the trip. These resorts af- ford the utmost in summer resort comforts and recreations, in- cluding golfing, fishing, tennis and other outdoor sports. Procure information from your local ticket office, or more dé- tailed information about resorts and summer trips way be Three cheers for the Winnetka Brass Band! ' The end of 1923 will see the] settling of the question of North- western and North Shore track] depression. We suggest to Presi- dent Finley and President Budd that they say, "We'll depress!" The beach guards are teaching our boys how to box. Better take lessons, fathers, if you ex- pect to remain in control of home sweet home. had from the Traffic Dept, 72 W. Adams Street, Chicago. Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee R. R. RTH SHORE Winnetka Passenger Telephone Winnetka 963 Station N Elm Street rT Mim,