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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 22 Dec 1923, p. 11

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1 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1923 Sissors Zoo-Man Will Make Day Nursery Kiddies Joyful HE kiddies of the Matheon Day Nursery of Chicago Commons, are anticipating with great glee the party which is planned for them on Fri- day morning, December 28. Mr. Ever- ett Davis, the "Scissors Zoo-Man" of Evanston, will delight the children with his cut-out animals. Mr. Davis will produce any animal the children ask for, and while he cuts them out, he recites happy little tales and jingles about each one. He can cut out two or three a minute, and by the time he has finished his entertainment he has dozens and dozens of the little creatures hanging on a black curtain. Santa will be there to greet the chil- dren, and carols will be sung around the Christmas tree. Mrs. Theodore Coyne of Winnetka, and Mrs. Charles Pardee of Highland Park, have arranged this party for the youngsters. --0-- Cooper Lawley, tenor will appear in recital at the Winnetka Woman's club on Thursday afternoon, December 27, at 3 o'clock. Miss Margery Winslow, pianist, will assist him, and he will be accompanied by Mrs. Ernst von Ammon. Mr. Lawley will sing numbers of Liszt, Salvatore Rosa, Wolf-Ferrari, Hageman and Giordano. Miss Wins- lgw will play compositions of Gluck, Respigli, Chopin, and Debussy. The program is in charge of the Music committee of which Mrs. Norman Har- ris is chairman. ay On Christmas night, Mr. George Owsley of 720 Prospect avenue will leave for Arizona. - On Saturday, December 29, Mr. and Mrs. Lon C. Hill and their children, who have been with the Owsleys, will depart for their home in Texas. Mrs. Owsley will go to Evanston after her daughter leaves, to stay with her father, Mr. A. F. Dean, until the middle of February when she will join Mr. Owsley in Coronada, California. BE On New Year's Eve, Mrs. Frederick Hossack Scott of Hubbard Woods, will entertain twelve guests at dinner at the Blackstone hotel for her daugh- ter, Miss Isabel. Later in the evening they wilt all attend the Princeton Triangle club play to be given at the Aryan Grotto. --_-- The Gamma Phi Beta sorority of Northwestern university held a bazaar in the Evanston Woman's club on Wednesday. Food and Christmas gifts were on sale in the afternoon, and in the evening, a bridge party was held. The benefit was given to raise funds for a new sorority house. --_---- Mr. and Mrs. L. T. Woodcock and their daughter Lindsay of Oak Park, Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Woodcock and family from Hinsdale, and Mr. George Leach of Oak Park, will be the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert 1. Smith, 341 Ridge avenue, on Christmas day. ---- The Misses Alice and Geraldine Fitzgerald, who have been residing in their new home at 638 Linden avenue, Hubbard Woods, for about six weeks, have left to spend their Christmas| vacation with their sister, Mrs. A. B. Crowe of Sullivan, Missouri. i Mr. and Mrs. William M. Crilly will entertain twenty-four dinner guests at their home, 606 Provident avenue, on New Year's Eve prior to the Sub- urban Neighborly dance to be given at the Woman's club that evening. Sey Mr. and Mrs. John P. Booth of 69 Abbottsford road, are expecting their daughter, Miss Jessie Louise, to re- turn from the University of Illinois today to spend the holidays with them. ---- Miss Marcella Mettler and Miss Car- olyn Case returned Thursday from Smith college to spend the Christmas holidays with their parents in Hubbard Woods. --_---- Miss Dorothy Marion Hartman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Hart- mann, 755 Lincoln avenue, is home from Wellesley college for the holi- days. ---- Miss Beatrice Ripley who attends school at Bradford academy, returns today to spend the holidays with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Ripley of Indian Hill road. --0-- Mr. and Mrs. Edwin J. Thompson and daughter, Annette, and Miss Mil- dred Joeckel of 1057 Oak street, will spend Christmas at Lake Mills, Wis- consin. pair Mr. and Mrs. T. Milton and family, 238 Ridge avenue, will move to their new home on the corner of Willow and Poplar streets on the last of the month. --_--O-- Friday night, the Forty club held their monthly dance at the Winneka Woman's club. ue Mrs. Forrest A. MacGibbon of 738 Lincoln avenue, left Thursday for a month's trip in the east. | their son, Mr. D. W. Beck, 306 Forest Following a popular custom of the college lads of New York and Boston, Chicago undergraduates at home for the holidays will inaugurate this year a Christmas intercollegiate ball, which it is hoped will become an annual af- fair hereafter. It will take place at the Drake Friday evening, December 28, from 9 until 2 o'clock, and is to be arranged by representatives of various colleges, including William McElwain of Northwestern, George Olmsted, jr., of Williams, David Dyche and Frank Coffin of Dartmouth, James Pyott of Chicago, Harold Grange and Earl Britton of Illinois, and Homer Hatten- dorf of Michigan. --C-- At a meeting of the Ravinia Club last week at the Blackstone hotel, the following officers were elected: Mrs. Ralph H. Poole of Lake Forest, presi- dent; Mrs. Frank R. Greene of Win- netka, Miss Caroline Kirkland of Lake Forest, Mrs. George Lytton of High- land Park, and Mrs. Williams Suther- land of Glencoe, vice presidents; Mrs. Arthur F. Byfield of Highland Park, recording secretary; Mrs. George S. Parker of Winnetka; corresponding secretary; Miss Juliette Brown of Ev- anston, treasurer; and the new mem- bers of the Thursday afternoon com- mittee : Mrs. William Sutherland, chairman; Mrs. Laird Bell, Mrs. An- hatte Jones, and Mrs. Maurice Mande- ville. ' --0-- Miss Ashton Wilson, who returned Friday night from the Principia school in St. Louis, to spend her vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Wilson of 17 Indian Hill road, will entertain a number of her friends at an informal Sunday night supper on December 23. --_---- Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Beck, 389 Ridge avenue, will spend Christmas with avenue. The Becks are newcomers in Winnetka, having only lately mov- ed here from Hyde Park. --_---- Miss Rosamond Coffin, who is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. Spauld- ing Coffin of Indian Hill road, has returned for the holidays from Miss Hale's school at Lennox, Massachu- setts. --_---- Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Ostrom are residing at 320 Richmond road, Kenil- worth, for the winter. Their daughter Mrs. David Stuart Jones, and small son of Oakland, California, will be their guests. ---- . Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Burkhardt of 1163 Asbury avenue, and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry W. Rothchild, 1173 North avenue, returned last Saturday from a trip of seven weeks in Honolulu and California. --Q-- Miss Harriet Houghteling returned recently to her home in Winnetka after having spent several months in Labrador where she was connected with the Grenfell mission. ---- Mrs. Basil Thompson, who formerly was Miss Rebecca Brown, arrived in Winnetka on Tuesday from New Orleans to visit Miss Virginia Bu- chanan, 591 Cherry street. --(-- A large affair of this past week was the musical which Mrs. Hamilton Daughaday gave at 3 o'clock on Thursday afternoon at Indian Hill club. --C-- Mrs. Noe returned on Thursday of last week from the Evanston hospital where she underwent an operation three weeks ago. She is now con- valescing at her home, 989 Ash street. --O-- Mr. 'and Mrs. "J. Endicott Brad- street, 962 Pine street, announce the birth of a son, John Endicott, Jr. born on December 15, at the Evanston hospital. -- Upon returning from their wedding trip, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Copeland will make their home at 1082 Spruce street. --0-- Boyden is giving a dinner tonight at the Churchill, for her daughter, Margaret. Later th- guests will attend the Thorne bal. -- Sperry Butler came home Thursday from Amherst to spend the holidays at his home, 100 Green Bay road. Mrs. William Hats Hats Hats | All velvet hats reduced to cost Grace Forbes Shop Room 216 Hoyburn Bldg. 615 Davis St, EVANSTON Phone 7467 | Mr. and Mrs. S. F. McKenney, 752 Foxdale avenue, left Saturday to be away for two months. They will spend Christmas with their son who is in college in Washington, D. C. Later they will be the guests of their daughter, Dr. McKenney, who is in Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania. i Miss Virginia Wallace, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Wallace, 815 Mt. Pleasant road, returned last eve- ning from the Principia school in St. Louis, to be with her parents during the Christmas holidays. a Miss Harriet Nichols, 315 Ridge ave- nue, will leave the first of January for Coronado, California, where she will spend a month at the home of her grandmother. --_-- Mr. and Mrs. A. lL. Clifton, 274 Ridge avenue, will spend Christmas day in Rogers Park, at the home of Mrs. J. B. Crawford. --_---- A number of Winnetka boys and girls will attend the Junior Assembly dance which will be given at the Balden hotel on New Year's Eve. ga Whitwell and Robert Wales came home Thursday from Princeton, to spend the holidays at their home, on 840 Sheridan road. --C---- Mr. C. C. Weeks of Urbana, Illinois, will spend the holidays at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Weeks, 535 Fir street. --Q-- Dr. H. H. Hurd of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, will be the guest over Christmas of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Barker, 557 Fir street. Rn Ay Mrs. G. F. Middleton, 378 Ridge avenue is convalescing after a serious iliness. Kenilworth Happenings The Nativity Play and Glee club concert given at the New Trier High school on Sunday was an altogether delightful entertainment and exceed- ingly well done. After the concert luncheon was served in the dining hall and Mr. Clerk announced that there would be a meeting of the New Trier Alumni on Saturday, December 22. After various entertainments, speech- es, etc., there will be a basket ball game between the Alumni and the New Trier teams. mn Misses Beatrice and Florence Pease] are giving a great deal of time and energy to the training of the young people for the Christmas play to be given by the children on Friday after- noon, December 28. There will also be a Santa Claus with his Christmas tree and dancing for the older chil- dren from the Fifth grade up, from 4 until 6 o'clock. ---- The Little Symphony Orchestra gave a delightful program of Christ- mas music Monday evening at the close of which announcement was made that the next concert would be given on January 22 instead of January 14 owing to the fact that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has an engagement for the latter date. A. W. ZENGELER CLEANER AND DYER A trial order is respectfully solicited 810 ELM STREIT ee Phone 144 me avy 4 CRE EEE EEE EEE Mr. and Mrs. Inslee Adrian Ben- nett of 1641 Sheridan road will receive on Wednesday evening, December 26 at the Kenilworth club for Miss Dorothy Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. How- ard W. Knight and Mr. and Mrs. i Mr. and Mr¢. Grant Keehn will come from New York to spend the holidays with Mrs. Keehn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Burchard on Oxford road. --Q-- Little Betty Breit had a birthday party for twenty little tots Friday. Political Clubs Raise Money for Campaign IS near women of. Chicago and the north shore took over the Harris theater in Chicago Tues- dav, when the proceeds from the two performances of ways and means committee campaign for the state work of the Illinois Re-, publician woman's clubs and the Wom- an's Roosevelt Republican club. Flow'rets) (Mascagni) In Italian > In Italian Where the Rainbow Ends (Mozart) (Schumann, Op. 41, No 1) Bright Moon--Waltz Hawaiian Guitars Hawaiian Nights--Waltz Hawaiian Guitars Friend o' Mine Dear Old Lady Lindy Lady Mean Blues--Fox Trot . § (8 [] [4] [| Q [] ® ' ! ® | [J ] [J] [1 J [1 ® 1 ® [] ® 1 : i $ I Never Had a Mammy--Fox Trot ® (from "Topsy and Eva') [] You--Fox Trot © Do You, Don't You, Will You, Won't ® You Love Me Too--Fox Trot ] ® ] J | [ [1 [ J [] i [] a 554 Center St. WINNETKA Phone 1793 L'Amico Fritz--Non mi resta che il pianto (Must I } Ever Thus Be Sadly Crying) (Mascagni) ] ® ] ® 1 ® [1 [ J [| [ 1 Ed 4 ] [] 1] [] [ 1] ae |) > [ ] 7 Z ' . 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