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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 12 May 1928, p. 47

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WINNETKA TALK May 12, 1928 WIN HIGH HONOR Miss Eleanor Thayer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Thayer of the Linden Crest apartments, and Miss Frances Howard, daughter of Mrs. A. H. Howard of 1005 Wilmette avenue, have been awarded membership in the Torch, the highest honor which can be awarded to Junior girls at the Uni- versity of Illinois. The membership is given as a reward for scholastic and athletic attainment. Both girls are graduates of New Trier, class of 26. BRIDGE TEA SUNDAY Gamma Mu sorority is holding a bridge tea at the North Shore hotel Sunday afternoon. Annual Garden Market in Evanston May 19 The annual market conducted by the Evanston Garden club will be held as usual this year in Raymond park, that triangular plot in Evanston surrounded by churches between Chi- cago and Hinman avenues and Grove and Lake streets. The market day is Saturday, May 19, with its hours from 10 in the morning until 5 in the after- noon. The event this year, according to the plans of the committee for decorations, will be a colorful affair. The booths and their chairmen are an- nounced as follows: accessories, one of the most popular each season, with THE ROAD OF UNUSUAL SERVICE "best vacation we ever had" So wrote one of last summer's Rocky Mountain vacationists who joined a Rock Island all-expense tour. Many have written similarly--enthusiastic over the trip and the unusual indi- vidual service enjoyed. All expense ColoradoTours Lowest Cost Highest Class Combination rail-auto -- personally conducted or independent--"Go as you please." Finest hotels and lux- ury features to please the most fas- tidious. All the best scenery--best of everything everywhere -- leisurely, restful, yet not a dull moment. The only road operating separate di- rect lines and through service to both Denver and Colorado Springs__a great advantage in time and convenience to Colorado tourists. ROCK ISLAN For full particulars, phone or mail this coupon Rock Island Vacation Travel Service Bureau 723 La Salle Street Station Phone Wabash 3200 Please send me free booklets descriptive of Colorado and various all-expense Rocky Mountain tours. Name. Addr 149 its array of garden pottery, um- brellas and gay porch furniture, and other garden equipment, is in charge of Mrs. Carman Lutkin and Mrs. John E. Blunt, Jr.; bird houses, Mrs. William C. Evans and William C. Evans, Jr.; donations, a booth where plants especially cultivated by garden club members are on sale, is in charge of Mrs. Charles G. Rhodes; grounds, Mrs. Walter D. Steele: decorations, Mrs. A. Clement Wilde; luncheon committee, Mrs. John H. S. Lee; prizes, Mrs. Chester D. Tripp; pub- licity, Mrs. Frank W. Kingsley and Mrs. William C. Evans, co-chairmen; vegetables, Mrs. William H. Colvin; Mrs. Alfred H. Gross and Mrs. K. M. Baird are in charge of the specialties, roses, vines, and shrubs, and will work with the donations committee. The whole market will take on a festive air, with its gayly colored tents, its ice cream, hot dog and pie wagons, and its coffee carts. Relative to the show a poster contest is being held by students of Roycemore School for Girls and the Haven school. Proceeds from the affair are used for civic purposes, one of which is the landscaping the Garden club is doing of the lawn of the New Evanston N. T. Sophomores Enjoy a Sports Entertainment The Sophomore class of New Trier High school held a sports party and dance Saturday, May 5, in the mess hall of the school. Gay lanterns, colorful decorations of crepe paper, added to other gay decorations of the hall and the bright and springy dresses of the girls and the cool attire of the boys, all combined to transform the mess hall into the loveliest of ballrooms. Curtis Tatham and his six musically mad comrades supplied the gay and peppy music of the evening. NEXT WILLETT LECTURE Dr. Herbert Willetts next talk on Wednesday evening, May 16, will be on "Isaiah: Problems of a City." This is the last of the series of lecture-studies on "Ancient Prophets and Modern Problems." Everyone is cordially in- vited to attend these lectures at the Union church, Kenilworth, at 8 o'clock. High school as a memorial for ex- service men. oy It's like Did you ever stop to think that when you that the original user paid for one mile? The USED CARS offered by dependable local dealers through the are good money! 9 drive a good USED CAR --you get two miles of transportation at the same depreciation cost CLASSIFIED COLUMNS READ THE ADS finding used cars

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