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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 22 Dec 1928, p. 47

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WINNETKA TALK December 22, 1928 ctdd- FOVNIAIN SQVARE - EVANSTON Telephone for Gift Books! Greenleaf 7000 Wilmette 3700 Winnetka 520 Rogers Park 1122 A compact list-- for many tastes: The Soul of the Bantu Jurgen The Story of France New York Nights James the Second The Last Twelve Years of Joseph Conrad Bonnet 8 Shawl The Cruise of the Northern Light Dostoevsky Disraeli The Childermass Ludwig's Goethe More Pious Friends and Drunken Companions The Fourth Musketeer Through the French Provinces The Strange Necessity The New Russia The Star Spangled Manner In Lambskin Bindings at $3 a Volume: Vanity Fair Martin Chuzzlewit A Tale of Two Cities Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge David Copperfield Oliver Twist Bleak House In the $1 Collection: Excellent reprints of success- ful works: Lorna Doone Balisand The Moon and Sixpence But Yesterday Mr. Waddington of Wyck LORD'S--BOOKS Just Inside the West Davis Street Door HOME FOR HOLIDAYS Albert and James Peirce who attend Hill school in the east, have returned home for the holidays. Miss Agnes Peirce, a student at Ratcliffe college, arrived home Thursday, and her sis- ters, Susanna and Charlotte, who have been at Kemper. Hall in Kenosha this year, will also spend the holidays with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert E. Peirce, 656 Ardsley road. The members of the Y. W. C. A. branch of the Northwestern university are dressing 300 dolls for the children at the Northwestern University settle- ment, 1400 Augusta street, Chicago, as their donation for Christmas. Each girl who wishes may take a doll to dress. There is no restriction as to type, but baby dolls seem to be pre- ferred. About 3000 stockings made of Tarlatan sewed up with green wool and filled with candy are also being donated. Groups of children are ( : : : «guests in the various sorority and fraternity houses with Christmas parties. ---- Mrs. Charles A. Klotz, 88 Indian Hill road, returned home from Cali- fornia last Tuesday. Miss Catherine Klotz returned last Sunday from St. Catherine's school at Richmond, Va. to spend the holidays. --_--O---- The Sunday School of the Union Church of Kenilworth has postponed their party which was to be tomorrow evening at the assembly hall. It is postponed indefinitely on account of the prevalence of so much illness. The younger children will have their party as planned. ---- Miss Anita Watson, 116 Woodland avenue, Kenilworth entertained her Sunday school class at tea last Sun- day evening, December 16. ; (OVERLAND ROUTE Route of Romance to all the West. Short, scenic (1) transcontinental route California Tropic land of d fancies. Palatal steam- ers, frequent sailings. Ask "You bet Iin poing by he' 4 ngeles Limited Business men and globe-trotters . choose the finer things of travel. That's why they prefer the Los Angeles Limited. more than extra fare implies. Lv. Chicago - - - 810p.m. Dining Car Meals that Appeal and Observation Cars on all trains. Gold Coast Limited No finer no-extra-fare train, 68 hours. All-Pullman, paid, barber, peti valet Open ol tion car t Ep California. Lv. Chicago - - - 8:30 p.m. Continental Limited Standard and tourist Pullmans, chair hour train--extra fare and about escorted cars--only 68 hours. allespouse Cal Lv. Chicago » « - 2:30 p.m. Hosmias All trains leave C. & N. W. Terminal TH VALLEY tra ANew Side Trip Hime. Ticket En route Cali- B. VW. Molige, Ast: fornia. Bee its v Phone Ontrerity S301 | mysterious «FP. grand suth Phone Dnivarsity 1587 comforta H. J. McConnell, Agt. radimotor rip. lie et Station Overland RoutesWest Chicago & North Western-Union Pacific North Western Choristers to Sing Carols Saturday Christmas carols will be sung in thg Chicago and North Western terminal this Saturday afternoon from 2 until 6 o'clock on the balcony of the main waiting room by the Chicago and North Western Choral club. The mixed chorus of fifty voices is composed en- tirely of employes of the railway com- pany. Handel's Hallelujah Chorus will be sung at 3 o'clock and at 5:50. Other numbers on the program will be: "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing," "Joy to the World," "Holy Night, Silent Night," "Hail Smiling Morn," "We Three Kings of Orient Are," "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," "The First Noel," "God Rest You Merry Gentle- men," and "Good Christian Men Re- joice." Christmas trees brought down from the Northwoods of Wisconsin will be lighted both inside and outside the terminal Saturday night, before the Hallelujah Chorus is sung the second time. There will be two in the main concourse, one in the ladies' parlor, one in the nursery, and two in front of the building on the corners of Madison and Canal streets. They will stand until after New Year's night. The Corn King Limited and the North Western Limited also will carry lighted and decorated Christmas trees. HERE FROM SPAIN Mrs. Robert Grinnell and her son, Robert, Jr. of Barcelona, Spain, are spending the holidays with Mrs. Grin- nell's sister, Mrs. Tuthill Ketcham, 38 Briar street. Mrs. Grinnell, a former Chicago girl who has lived in Spain for the past nine years, has many friends on the north shore. Mrs. Joanna Schwartz, her daughter, Mrs. Frances Farrell, and her grand- daughter, Gladys, are spending the winter with Mrs. Schwartz' son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Schwartz, 187 Ridge avenite. Clifford Schwartz, the Charles Schwartz' son, arrives home today from Carleton col- lege for the holidays. ---- William Pancoast, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Pancoast, returned yester- day from the University of Michigan to spend the Christmas vacation at his home at 637 Hill road. --_--( Miss Jean Marx, 522 Essex road, Kenilworth returned from Boston to- day for the Christmas holidays. By the Author of the Famous Novel THE GREAT HUNGER THE NEW TEMPLE By JOHAN BOJER A nln tory 1% Everywhere $2.50 THE CENTURY CO. Ftd edd dededededed de Lolo LL LLL LT Don't miss BROOK EVANS By Susan Glaspell Of which the New York Evening Post says: "A simple, direct beau- tifully powerful novel such as you may happen on less than three or four times a year." Frederick A. Stokes Co., N. Y. ---------------------- Sr ---------- sind Tw A

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