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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 15 Dec 1928, p. 14

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12 WINNETKA TALK December 15, 1928 Busy Filling Stockings --and don't forget-- Right now--when you think of it--is the better time to make your holiday appointments for The Comfort Shop 797 Elm St. For 200 Needy Children Pupils of the Hubbard Woods school have been busy this week filling 200 stockings for children attending the Perry school in a poor section of the south side, Chicago. The names and needs of the Perry school pupils have been obtained, and the contents of each stocking have been arranged to fit the individual needs of each child. The stockings will be delivered next Wed- nesday by several mothers who have donated cars to take them down. Beauty Needs TO CAROL DAILY AT SCHOOL Christmas carols will be sung every morning at 9:15 o'clock from Monday to Friday at the Horace Mann school next week. Various groups in the school will do the singing, while the others will open the doors of their rooms to listen. MiSs JENNIE ANDERSON Winnetka Telephone 933 AA III II II III ITI ITI ITIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII III III I IIIA XXX X 2 II III I I I II I EEE III IIIaIIIIIIIIIIxI II IIIIXIXX SEXXXXXXXXXXXXX CONFIDENTIAL CHRISTMAS INFORMATION FOR HUSBANDS XII I I I I I I I I II I III IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZI ZI I IIIT IIIIIIII III III ZI II ZI ZI I I I I II ZI I ZI IX XXX XX) JOU can gel a HOOVER FOR ONLY 5050 - Maybe your wife thinks that a Hoover is expensive. Don't let this misconception sway you. For you can get this finest, most efficient of electric cleaners for a price as low as $59.50. . What 1s more, this new popular- priced Hoover has the same amazing cleaning principle found 'in the de luxe Hoover-- "Positive Agitation." "Positive Agitation's" effectiveness begins where the ordinary vacuum cleaner leaves off. It gets not only the surface dirt, the surtace lint, but it vibrates to the surface to be suctioned away all the deeply-embedded grit. Because of its ability to reach this "unreachable" dirt the Hoover outranks all the usual cleaning methods, re- moving more 4irt per minute than any other cleaner. If you will drop in, we will gladly show you this re- markable machine. Incidentally, we will explain our con- venient terms, by which you pay only $6 25 down, the balance 1n easy monthly amounts. Liberal allowance for your old cleaner. "Open Evenings til Christmas" |. PORTER'S ELECTRIC SHOP O. L. Porter 797 Elm St. Ph. Winn. 44 "GIVE HER A HOOVER AND YOU GIVE HER THE BEST" Kindergarten School Announces Numerous Holiday Affairs The Christmas festivities of the Na- tional Kindergarten and Elementary college will open with the Christmas vespers, to be held in the dormitory Sunday evening, December 16, with candle-light carol service and the Christmas story. Tuesday afternoon the chapel serv- ice will open with a candle processional, followed by the Legend of the Christ Child told by Miss Baker with the musical accompaniment by Francis M. Arnold. This legend first told in the. college many years ago by Miss Eliza- beth Harrison, the former president, has become an integral part of the Christmas celebration, The Town Girls' association will hold their first Christmas banquet Tuesday evening, and arrangements are under way for an elaborate affair. The dormitory students will hold their Christmas party on Wednesday night, with turkey dinner, presents, tree and Santa Claus, and early Thursday morn- ing the girls in Avilla hall will awaken the students in the other dormitories with their carol singing. The Christmas festival, in which all students of the college and children of the demonstration school participate. will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock in Harrison hall. The presenta- tion of gifts for children in the mission schools of Chicago will be followed by a cantata, of the nativity, "There was one who 'gave a lamb". The college will close Thursday for the Christmas vacation, re-opening Tuesday, January 8. Hubbard Woods Principal Gives Tea for Teachers Miss Marion Elwell, principal of the Hubbard Woods school, gave a tea yesterday afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock for teachers of that school, supervisors, and those directly connected with the work of the school. Mrs. Robert Brown, president of the Parent-Teach- er association in Winnetka, and Mrs. Seth Shepard, social chairman for the Hubbard Woods building, poured. Christmas Seal Sale Nets $34.99 at Hubbard Woods The sale of Christmas seals at the Hubbard Woods school closed on Thursday. A total of $34.99 worth of seals was sold. The sale was conducted for one week by members of the stu- dent council, and was held in the halls of the school in the morning and again in the afternoon just before the open- ing of classes. Miss Doris Ferry, who attends Vas- sar, will arrive home next week for the holidays. Miss Ferry is the daugh- ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Montague Ferry of 326 Ridge avenue. Latest Albanian Rugs For Boys' rooms or sun porches. Couch covers, Albanian gold embroidered jackets for fancy dress. To be shown at Lindwall's, 808 Oak St., Winnetka Mrs. Robert B. Gregory To benefit the Albanian Agricultural School

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