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- WINNETKA WE A Clean Neuspaper for a Clean Com -_ 1 IA a wLdlus VOL. XIV, NO. 12 TALK PRICE FIVE CENTS HUBBARD WOODS PLANS JUBILEE Merchants Arrange Great Festivity to Celebrate Opening of Streets DATES ARE JUNE 10-11 Variety of Events Included on Program Hubbard Woods business men are planning the greatest celebration in the history of the community, which will be held Wednesday and Thursday, June 10 and 11, in connection with the formal opening of the new concrete streets in the business district. Pres- ent plans call for a two-day street opening celebration, which will include special sales by all the merchants, mu- sic, games, sports in the park and a street dance on Thursday night. It is also expected to have a speaker and perhaps other features.. A meeting of Hubbard Woods busi- ness men was held Wednesday after- noon of this week, at which plans for the occasion were outlined and com- mittees appointed to carry them through. An informed and temporary organization designated the Hubbard Woods Street Opening association was formed, and G. L. Zick, proprietor of the Zick drygoods store was elected chairman. Plan Special Sales It is planned to have a special sales day on Wednesday, the first day of the celebration. All the merchants will cooperate and offer many special bar- gains in their various lines of mer- chandise. The second day of the cele- bration 'will be marked by a more fes- tive spirit. It is hoped to have the Winnetka Chamber of Commerce band in concert and in the late afternoon and early evening there will be games and sports for children and grown-ups in the Station park. A speaker will be obtained for the occasion, 'probably some well known Winnetka man, and there may be some special features such as community singing and entertainment if these can be arranged upon such short notice. There will be a dance orchestra and a street dance will be held in the evening. The orchestra will probably be lo- cated at the edge of the park. Rejoice at Improvement Business men of the district point with pride to their new streets, which have been under construction for ape. proximately two months. Work was started on tearing up the old brick pavement about March 25, and the streets have been entirely blockaded for vehicular traffic since that time. The streets are of the most modern construction and are said to be the finest in Cook county. They are of concrete, 11 inches thick, and 40 feet wide, except in the case of Tower road, which is 54 feet wide. The con- tractors. were the Kapschull-Davis company of Chicago. The work was done under the personal supervision of Charles C. Kapschull, president of the company. It was completed well with- "in the time limit specified, although the actual paving work was held up many times by other work on the street lighting system which was being done at the same time, and by work on the sewers and water mains, according to Mr. Kapschull. New Lights Aglow The new lighting system has also béen completed, and has been turned on. This will make the Hubbard Woods district one of the most attractive business districts on the north shore, or anywhere else for that matter, in the opinion of the local merchants. All residents of Winnetka and Glen- coe, as well as of the immediate vi- cinity, are invited to atend the open- ing celebration. Cars with banners attached to them will parade the streets of both villages in advance of the event announcing further details and inviting all to attend the celebra- tion. The streets in the business dis- trict will be decorated with flags and streamers and merchants will make a special effort to see that everyone who attends has a good time. CHILDREN GUESTS AT PARTY Two hundred children from the mis- sion kindergartens of Chicago will be the guests of the Junior class of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college at the annual Children's party to be held in Washington Park on Friday morning, June 5. The children are looking forward with blissful an- ticipation to the bus rides, ice-cream, and balloons, but the crowning glory of the day is "real grass you can walk " on. Playfield Course Open The Skokie Playfield Golf course will be formally opened today--Decoration Day. The course is in excellent condi- tion, especially considering the trouble last year, and people have been playing on it for some weeks. A recurrence of the flooded condition of last year has been made impossible by the mile- long ditch, 15 feet wide, which has been completed by the Park board since last season. The prospect is for a fine, long playing season this year. Walter Stelzell, the profes- sional, and his brother are back again and are very much on hte job. From now on anyone want- ing to play must apply for a license and pay the fee before doing so. The fees for playing are the same as last year, with this exception, that those who paid for a license last year will have to pay only half- price this year. ISSUE CALL TO OPERA PATRONS Winnetka Ravinia Commit- tee Selling Tickets "On June 27 Ravinia will open its gates for Summer opera," writes Mrs. John Vennema, Winnetka chairman for the sale of subscription books for the current season. "With the assurance that every effort possible is being put forth to eliminate the mosquitoes, the season should be the most successful from every viewpoint that Ravinia has ever known." "From the standpoint of operas and artists," she continues, "Ravinia will witness an array of the greatest stars now appearing in this country. Some- one has referred 'to Ravinia as 'one of the seven wonders of our life here- about." With Martinelli, Raisa, Schipa, Bori, Chamlee, Felsatyau, Danise, Ri- mini, Lazzari, Basiola, Ananian, Tre- visau, Sundelius, Maxwell, Alcock, Poreto, Bourskaya, and the others the season promises much. "With the splendid town committees at work and the cooperation of the general public assured, Winnetka must help in every way possible to keep Ravinia for our people. "When the committee workers call at your home or write you, please do not feel that you are giving for charity. Subscribers are getting tickets for opera, which, for the price, is not equalled anywhere. If the tickets are not used kindly turn them back to the town chairman by communicating with Winnetka 554, in order that they may be made available to worthy music students and others, who, though fond of opera, cannot afford the cost. "Last vear the chairman needed many tickets for the Park Ridge school for girls, and this year will need many more than were obtained last season. The matron there has appealed for reservations for 100 girls who plan to attend the opera through the kindness of the Winnetka committee early in July." Sunday Evening Club to Elect Officers Sunday The program of the Winnetka Sun- day Evening club on Sunday, May 31, will consist of a musical program and the election of officers for the coming year. It is a very important meeting and should be attended by all the mem- bers, the officers emphasize. The club last Sunday evening ob- tained through the Rev. James A. Rich- ards some suggestions as to how the club might direct its activities in the future. Sunday evening's meeting will be held in the Camp Fire room of the Community House at 6:30 o'clock. Supper will be served. Lower Grades to Visit Skokie School Next Week Next week will be visiting week at Skokie school, it was announced by Willard W. Beatty, principal. All sixth grade pupils of the Horace Mann, Greeley and Hubbard Woods schools will spend a part of one day viewing activities at Skokie. Children from the Horace Mann school will go Monday, Greeley pupils on Tuesday and a group from Wednesday: | Rubinstein. NOTED RUSSIAN PIANIST COMING Alexander Brailowsky Appear in Second Artist- Recital Next Autumn to MUSIC CLUB SPONSORS Edward Johnson Secured for First Recital Alexander Brailowsky, the young Russian pianist, will appear in the sec- ond of the Artist Recitals next No- vember at New Trier auditorium, under auspices of the Winnetka Music club. Musicians returning from Europe for several years past have spoken of him as the most phenomenal pianist since Brailowsky was born in Alexander Brailowsky Kiew, Russia, 27 years ago. Wealthy relatives, recognizing the great talent of the boy, sent him to Vienna in the summer of 1911 to study with the great Leschietizky. He was, in fact, Leschet- izky's last pupil, and becante the great star of that school. Brailowsky soon began to make a stir in Paris and has since become the sensation of Kurope. His concerts in Paris have always been to packed houses. Out of the 26 recitals he has given there, he repeated a program but once and that was upon a special re- quest. Not once did he even repeat a number, so great is his repertoire. He has frequently toured Europe. In fact all his European appearances have be- come return engagements. Captivates New York He made a sensational debut at Aeolian Hall, New York, on Novem- ber 20, 1924, where he captivated the audience by his playing which brilliant- ly proclaimed itself to be of the first order. Mr. Brailowsky, in short, is a piano personality. He is looked upon as one of the great men of the future rising to take the place of the splendid veterans who dominate the field of piano virtuosity today. The young pianist has something in addition to impressive technical mas- tery and high musical intelligence. In (Continued on Page 6) Not always expensive. Here's a North Shore home that you can rent cheaply. FOR RENT -- KENIL- worth 5-room house; screened porch; 1 block to station; $100 a month. 320 Richmond road, Ken- ilworth. .Phone Kenil- worth 1854 or Ravens- wood 2759. Find Your Home In Our Want Ads WANT AD DEAD LINE THURSDAY NOON the Hubbard Woods school on COMMENCEMENT JUNE 5 The North Snore Country Day High school luncheon will be held Wednes- day, June 3, at 1 o'clock. This is a gala event, where each class gives a stunt, speeches are made, and the ann- ual, The Mirror, is formally dedicated. On Friday, June 5, the Commencement exercises will take place in the girls' gymnasium at 3:30 o'clock. Rev. James Austin 'Richards of the Winnetka Con- gregational church will deliver the Commencement address. The year's festivities will close with the Senior Prom on the evening of June 6. A large crowd witnessed the combi- nation May Day and Field Day at the North Shore Country Day school Wed- nesday. The May Day events began at 10:30 o'clock when the Queen's her- alds called all the merrymakers to the green. The whole school, in many col- ored costumes, formed a picturesque procession led by the Kindergarten goat which was harnessed to a two- wheeled cart for the occasion. As each group of children came within hearing of the spectators they sang one of the traditional May Day Songs, "Come, Lassies and Lads," "Summer is icumen in," and many others. Helen Shimmin, a senior was chosen May Queen, then came to her coronation, attended by maidens bearing flowers. There were many old village dances and games, archery and wrestling contests, and an elaborate may-pole dance with ribbons unwound to a triumphal conclusion be- fore a breathless audience. After a picnic lunch on the green, there was a community sing, which everyone seemed to enjoy. At 2 o'clock the Field Day events began, the whole school divided into sides, Purples and Whites. From the first grade through the senior high school the children took part, the scores mounting upward throughout the afternoon. The Purples finally car- ried off the victory with 175% to the Whites' 148. PLAN READY FOR N. T. EXPANSION May Start New Building Project Soon Work on the new buildings: for New Trier high school may start this sum- mer, it was announced this week. Al- though no contracts have been let as yet the plans have been drawn up and everything is ready to go ahead with the first part of the work. The new building plans include a comprehensive plan for a combination gymnasium and auditorium. The girls' gym will serve as the stage for this auditorium. There will be per- manent seats in the galleries, accomo- dating 1,800 people, while on the main floor there will be placed movable seats to the extent of 2,000. In the boys' gymnasium three basket- ball courts will be laid out while in the girls' gym there will be one regulation court and two smaller courts. The basement of the gymnasium will have a dirt floor upon which it is planned to develop an indoor track. The natatori- um is to have seating facilities for 1,200 spectators. Within the building will be located the offices of the instructors; special exercise rooms; locker rooms; storage rooms, rest rooms, etc. The plans for this immense project are being worked out on the basis of a school population of 2,500 persons. This is building for the future. At present only such parts of the gymnasium- auditorium will be finished as can be completed with funds now available. Heavy Trucks Object of Intensive Police Drive Winnetka streets have been so dam- aged by heavy trucks and so much trouble with the drivers has been ex- perienced recently that a special drive against violations of this nature has been started by Village officials. More than a dozen arrests have been made the past few days by Constable Wal- ter F. Gregory. Most of the arrests have been made on a charge of operat- ing overloaded trucks, which is a vio- lation of a state law, specifying the load which may be carried by these vehicles. Other arrests were made on charges of driving without a chauffeur's license and having no rear vision facilities. Constable Gregory has been assisted in his work by a state highway in- spector armed with a portable scale which is used to weigh the trucks by means of jacking up the rear axle. The drive will continue until this nuisance is abated, it was said by the Police de- partment. VILLAGE HONORS [TS HERO DEAD Memorial Observances to be Held on Common Today at 3 O'clock LEGION HAS CHARGE Citizens Summoned to Sol- emn Ceremonies Winnetka's Legionnaires will sum- mon the citizens of the village this afternoon to the annual community Memorial Day observances on the Vil- lage Common where the solemn rites in honor of our heroic dead are sched- uled to begin at 3 o'clock. be Edward R. Lewis, judge advocate can Legion. Activities of the day will begin promptly at 2 o'clock when the Win- netka Chamber of Commerce band ap- pears in concert on the Common. Meanwhile the legionnaires will as- semble with veterans of the Spanish- American and Civil wars at Commun- ity House prepared to proceed in a body to the scene of the Memorial ob- servances. Assembly is scheduled for 2:30 o'clock. Rites Begin at 3 o'clock Memorial rites proper will begin at 3 o'clock when the veterans arrive, ac- companied by a fife and drum corp. Citizens are asked to be at the Com- mon promptly so that no undue con- fusion may mar the ceremonies. The program will open with the sing- ing of "America" by the assembly. Rev. E. Ashley Gerhard, chaplain of Winnetka Post, invocation, which is to be followed im- mediately by the singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic." The address of the day will be next in order with Edward R. Lewis as the speaker. Commander Thomas J. Lynch of the Winnetka Post will read the Roll Call, Past Commander J. M. Dickinson, Jr., responding. A salute will then be fired by the American Legion firing squad, after which Taps will be sounded from the bandstand and echoed by a Boy, Scout bugler stationed four blocks from the Common. Tribute to the Dead All faces will then be turned to the east in silent tribute to the Winnetka men and their comrades from through-: out the land who laid down their lives in the great struggle to preserve the liberties and rights of humanity. The closing song will be "The Star Spangled Banner." Rev. James Austin Richards will pronounce the benedic- tion. The Chamber of Commerce band will play as the closing feature of the pro- gram. Coran T. Davis to Head Indian Hill Association Coran T. Davis was elected presi- dent of the Indian Hill Improvement association at its final meeting of the season, held last Monday evening, May 25, at New Trier High school, Other officers elected were William Bennett, vice president and William S. Nordburg, secretary and treasurer. Reports of the year's activities were read at the meeting and much enthusi- asm was expressed by members over the work accomplished during that period, which included the improve- ment of train service and many other matters. The association had the largest membership of its history during the past year, 513 altogether and more than $500 was left in the treasury at the end of the season. The show stag- ed last winter, "The Indian Hill Jol- lies", proved a great success both fin- ancially and otherwise, it was said. Following the business meeting a program of music was offered as en- tertainment. Among other features was the New Trier Trio, comprising violin, 'cello and piano, and several solos by William Snyder, a member of the organization, Turn on New Lights in Hubbard Woods Section The new ornamental street lighting svstem in the Hubbard Woods business district was turned on for the first time Thursday night. The paving of the streets will be completed in a short time, according to Village Man- ager H. I.. Woolhiser, who expressed pleasure with the expeditious manner in which the work was done. The principal speaker of the day will' of Winnetka Post No. 10, of the Ameri- will next deliver the Immediately following the address. .