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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 22 Jan 1927, p. 12

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mn WINNETKA TALK January 22, 1927 FREE! FREE! One $45.00 Quaker Oil Burning Garage Heater Or One $61.75 | | 8 Gas Incinerator Absolutely Free With Each OL oMATIC OIL BURNER Purchased during the month of January For further information phone or write NORTH SHORE ] WILLIAMS Ti A LOMAT] DEWEY HOKE 706 Vernon Ave. Ph. Glen. 1000-101 GLENCOE Building Permit Records Belie Frigid Temperature A. B. Krieg, Winnetka building in- | spector, issued permits for three new 'residences in the village the past week, regardless of the fact that the ground is covered with a nine inch snow. The three permits totalling $36,000 | were issued to the E. T. Leonard com- pany, for a two-story frame and brick veneer residence of eight rooms and attached garage at 512 Orchard lane, | costing $14,000; to Harry Bengston, for a two-story frame and brick veneer residence at 1503 Edgewood lane, cost- ing $14,000, and to Edgar Crilly, of 375 Sheridan road for a brick residence with garage attached, the residence for servants' quarters and the improve- ment, as shown by the permit, costing $8.000. South African Educator Addresses Church School John L. Dube spoke at both sessions of the Church school of the Winnetka Congregational church, Sunday, telling of his work in South Africa. Mr. Dube is a grandson of a powerful Zulu chief. He is a graduate of Oberlin college land for more than twenty-five vears has been at the head of Ohlange In- | stitute, Natal, South Africa, a school | for native boys and girls. Mr. Dube is in America now in the interest of his school which he hopes may ultimately become the Tuskegee of South Africa. ENJOY SLEIGH PARTY The Young Men's class of the Win- | netka Congregational church and the Winnetka Sunday Evening club joined in a sleighing party Friday night which left the Community House at 8 o'clock. After the ride the group was enter- tained at the home of Mrs. Stanley Simpson of 1040 Starr road. Winnetka Woman Is Author of Article on Ex-Service Men | Josephine Feuchtinger of Winnetka |is the author of an article in the Men- {tal Hygiene magazine for October, 1926 on disabled ex-service men. The [subject in full of the article is: "The | Mental Factor in the Economic Ad- |justment of 500 Disabled Ex-Service Men." Miss Feuchtinger is a psychiatric so- [cial worker, formerly "executive sec- | retary of the special employment bu- reau for ex-service men of the Chi- cago Woman's club. She is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Feucht- inger of 947 Oak street. Mr. Feucht- inger is a well known professor of music. The article deals with the individual examination and treatment of this type of ex-service men, which Miss Feuchtinger cites as one of the most important of the problem groups that has arisen since the war--the group of men who are mentally or physically handicapped, who are not ill enough to be permanently institutionized, yet apparently are not well enough to re- [adjust themselves to normal economic land social life unaided Miss Feuchtinger records her ex- |periences in endeavoring to apply the [pressure necessary to bring each man [to face reality for himself. The author's writings appear under the name of Josephine Feutinger. GIVE TEA WEDNESDAY | Mrs. Frederick K. Copeland, Mrs. | Frederick W. Copeland and Mrs. Na- thaniel H. Blatchford are giving a tea Wednesday afternoca, Jan. 26, at the home of Mrs. Frederick K. Copeland, 665 Prospect avenue, in honor of Mrs. | Morris C. Allen of 872 Pine street. Sleigh Ride Parties May We Request An Advance Notice of 24 to 48 Hours on Orders for Sleighs For Details-- Phone Winnetka 32 "When You Are in a Hurry" Winnetka Teaming & Supply Co. Lawrence J. Hayes Private Drives Road Material Building Material Excavating WINNETKA BUILDING NEWS Vol. 1 Winnetka, 11. 44 We love to see the becoming more popu- you buy everything snow come down lar every year. The at your own risk. In little feathery prices are reasonable No standard prices flocks, too. on anything. How It's beautiful but, ie would you like that gosh, we hate The wicked Lave system? Neither To shovel it off the walks. We have just com- pleted arrangements with Mr. A. R. Clark of the A. R. Clark Co. 30 No. Michigan Ave., to furnish all lumber on the new Glencoe Methodist church, to be located at Hazel and Green- leaf. "Why don't you photograph your bank roll?" suggests Lee Adams. "Then you can have it en- larged." We have just re- ceived a new supply of Cabinet Ironing Boards, Telephone Cabinets, and Break- fast Nooks. These specialties are a real convenience, and are no monopoly on this business of standing in slippery places. We proved it yes- terday--ice on the sidewalk! During the past week we delivered from seventy-five to eighty tons of coal per day, and under weather conditions that were anything but favorable. How - ever, that's our busi- ness, to serve this community at all times, under any conditions, with the best fuel we can buy. A man in Winnet- ka sent for an ap- pliance guaranteed to keep electric bills down. They sent him a paper weight. Over in Asiatic cities would we. The Cadenhead Co. are making some acd- ditions, and remod- eling Mr. Wm. H. Hale's residence at 900 Willow St. Win- netka. Mr. John Odh of 933 Linden Ave. 1s remodeling his shop into an up-to-date upholstering store. Mr. Emil Melhorn is doing the mason work. ..o-- We've always no- ticed that a small boy and a puddle of water are natural affinities. OUR OWN WEATHER-- Warmer (If this is not right, we'll make it right!) Winnetka Coal - Lumber Cn, 823 Spruce Street Winnetka 734

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