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Nearly Everybody i in Winnetka Reads the Talk VINNETKA WEEKLY TALK . VI, NO. 30 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1917 FOUR PAGES "AL MEN PICKED FOR DRAFT SCHOOL p Grant Officials Will Give Honor MRS. B. E. JACQUES TO SPEAK AT LOCAL CLUB The program for the next meeting of the Winnetka Woman's club will be in charge of the art and literature | Hs ! committee. The meeting will be held a Men Instructions in Officers' Thursday afternoon, October 18, at 5839 School at Rockford. |3 o'clock. 3 | Mrs. Bertha E. Jacques, secretary SH | E: Te |of the Chicago Society of Etchers, ARM Y NEEDS NON-COMS will speak. Mrs. Jacquen is an etcher I BR] ; of experience and an authority on 8 ae the subject of "Etching," and in her URS for finy Men of District No. 3 Selected | lecture at the Woman's club she will made in 107 Now Courses. include a detailed description of the lers andi process of making an etching and En the printing of an etched plate. LER a ents of Wilmette boys in train- ) : at Camp Grant need not fear that ir sons will not have an oppor- ity to advance in the service. ver before has an army been or- NTH nized where there is such a demand : officers as there is in the first na- nal army. 'he first officers' training camps plied the army with sufficient com- ssioned officers to direct the work aining for the men now in train- fg, but even the supply of commis- foned officers from the second of- fers' training camps will not pro- fice as many as the army will need fhen the complete draft quota of the intry ih mobilized. } Need Non-Coms. fEven now the lac kof non-commis- HTH i R al 5 Ny Ald RR NK ned officers is one of the problems rrying the men in charge of the =frious regiments. At Camp Grant fone 400 non-coms were sent in to 3 Be er the squads and companies, but n the very first it was necessary name temporary corporals and eants from the selected men to the lower offices, this, in many s, being done after the selected pn had been in camp hut a day or he artillery regiments have felt 'shortage more than the other nches of the service, as the artil- 'work is more intricate and takes higher grade of men to instruct n is true with the infantry. Non-Com School. fo overcome the shortage of lower cers, Col. Phillip R. Ward, com- inder of the 333d field artillery reg- nent, has decided upon opening a hool for non-coms, and he has ob- ined the approval of General Barry. | fhese men will undergo a six weeks' urse of intensive training, such as given in the officers' training fmps. During the life of the school v wil have very little to do out- | e of their studies. In battery E, ich is composed exclusively of forth shore men, twenty-six have fen selected for this special work. esides the course of studies, there be lectures by the officers of the ghest rank in the regiment. Those 0 make good in the school prob- | ly wil be selected for appointment e third officers' training camp, 'personnel of which will be com- sed mostly from the national army. he north shore men oi Battery E ommended by Lieut. Richard Bull, ttery commander, for the non-com ool are Ames, Watson, . Tyrrell, lters, White, Alilng, H. C. Ander- n, G. M. Anderson, Bunce, Brun- r Clampitt, Branch, Duncan, Du- d, Cartis, Doble, Hellstrom, -Hunt- ton, Hutchinson, Jordan, Kelley, sher, leatsch, Lange, Marxsen, chardson, Rose, Ross, Robertson, wn, Taylor, Traxler and. Turner. ere is abundance of material in amp Grant from which to create of- ers for the Eighty-sixth division fore it starts for France. at is the conclusion at headquar- |. . following the compilation of the statistics taken from .the.bio- aphical cards of the 27,202 selected en. More officers will be needed d the war department has an- unced they will be chosen from the nks. The cards of 12,588 enlisted men so r "examined showed 234 of the men te college graduates and that 969 r cent are graduates of high hools or their equivalent. If the jo continues, as is expected, the al tabulation will show more than 00 high school graduates. Of course," said Maj. Paul C. Hunt, 'man doesn't have to be a high h 00] graduate to win a commission. ny without that advantage will requests to have all the members of the Woman's club who are intending to attend the first gallery talk on "American Paintings" at the Art In- stitute to send their names to Mrs. E. N. Rhodes. The program has been announced for next week, and final arrangements for the entertainment cannot be made unless the committee has the names of twenty-five mem- bers and their friends. MRS. I. C. WOOD RESIGNS FROM DEFENSE COUNCIL Mrs. Ira Couch Wood, 1154 Pine street, one of the best known women welfare workers in the country, re- signed last week as executive secre- tary of the'woman's committee of the Council of National Defense, the os- tensible reason being her acceptance of a directorship of the Elizabeth McCormick Institute in Chicago. The woman's auxiliary to the de- fense council was launched to en- league every woman in the country with the government's prosecution of the war. To this end, Mrs. Wood lent her efforts, devoting particular at- tention to the organization of state branches of the auxiliary. Mrs. Wood will return to Winnetka this week. SEARCH FOR MISSING GIRL IN MOUNTAINS i North Carolina's mountains are be- |ing searched in an effort to find Miss Grace Stewart Potter, who has. a number of relatives on the north shore. Two years ago Miss Potter disappeared from Chicago, and after a nine days' search along the north | shore, she appeared at the home of Mrs. Scott Durand in Lake Bluff. Winnetka people were greatly in- terested in the search for Miss Pot- ter two years ago, when two of the books which she carried from her Chicago home were found on the lake shore at the foot of Pine street. Miss Potter disappeared from a sani- tarium in South Carolina, October 1. BENEFIT DANCE WILL BE HELD AT WOMAN'S CLUB The Royal' Neighbors of America wil lhold a benefit dance on Thurs- day, October 18, at the Winnetka Wo- 'man's club. The proceeds of the dance will go to a fund to be used by Donald Knox, a Winnetka boy, for medical treatment at a sanitarium. The committee dn charge of the ar- rangements for the dance includes Mrs, E. E. Adams, chairman; Mrs. Cora IL. Thorsen, Mrs. A. Pearson and Mrs. Alice Blackstone. Subscrip- tions will be received by this com- mittee, providing you are unable ito | attend the dance. ILLINOIS MEN GIVEN : HONORS IN NEW YORK The Rainbow division, 27,000 strong, paraded in review on the Mineola Fair grounds .in' New York on Sun- day before Maj. Gen. W. A. Mann, the division's commander, and 50,000 spectators, including United States Senator Oscar W. Underwood. i Henry J. Reilly's One Hundred and Forty-ninth regiment had a shade on the rest of the brigade, which places them first, so far as the honors of the review were concerned. Many boys of the north shore are in the Win- netka officer's regiment. Elm Circle. The East El mStreet circle will meet with Mrs. Charles M. Thomson, 576 Ash street, on Tuesday, October 16, at 2:30 o'clock. The art and literature committee | Press dispatches stated that Col. BEGIN CAMPAIGN TO SELL SECOND BONDS Woman's Club Committee and Census Committee of War Emergency Union to Direct Canvass. NAME DISTRICT CHIEFS Village Is Divided in Sections for the Big Campaign. Liberty bond workers are now or- ganized for a complete canvass of Winnetka and Hubbard Woods which will start this week by a large com- mittee of men and women. The can- vass will be directed by captains, and each captain will have a certain num- ber of solicitors. assigned to his di- vision. The solicitors have spent considerable time in studying the bond question in order to be able to answer all inquiries regarding this issue of Liberty bonds. The meeting of the Liberty bond solicitors at the Community House, on Monday evening, October 8, was addressed by Mr. William S. Miller. There were over seventy-five mem- bers of the civics and philanthropy committee of the Winnetka Woman's club present. Mrs. Allan I. Wolfe is the chairman of this committee. The canvass of the village is to be made under the direction of the civics and philanthropy committee of the Woman's club, and of the census committee of the War Emergency Union. The purpose of the canvass is to give every man, woman and child, through personal solicitation, the privilege of subscribing to this second issue of the liberty bonds. The men and women who are as- sisting in this work have been sup- plied with subscription blanks and sufficient information to overcome any reason that may be put up as to why the individual should not enter a subscription, if any such individual can be found. erously offered their co-operation in this canvass, and they will do all in their power to assist the committees working to boost this bond issue. The banks will accept subscriptions for bonds to be paid for on the install- ment plan, and they will also keep bonds in their vaults upon the request of a subscriber who has no facility of safeguarding them. The plan inaugurated by the Chi- cago banks, which is to be followed as closely as possible by the Win- netka banks, is the plan to accept the subscritpion for a fifty dollar | bond with the payment of one dollar and the buyer is permitted to pay for the bond, by paying the bank two dollars a week for twenty-five weeks. . On the bulletin board of the Win- netka War Emergency Union at the Chicago & North Western Railway station a map, has been posted. on whic his kept, from day to day, a rec- ord of the number of subscriptions received in the village, according to districts. letin board will help promote a friendly rivalry between the captains in charge of the districts, and this will swell the subscription list for Bonds in Winnetka. EVENING CLASSES WILL {/ BE GIVEN IN WINNETKA| ! The members of the Winnetka Friendship circle will include class work as part .of their evening pro- grams for the coming season. The first classes will be held next Tuesday evening at 8:30 o'clock. This organization is to promote en- tertainments for girls who are work- ing in Winnetka, and every girl is welcome to attend these meetings and take part in the circle's program this winter. , The classes, which were conducted by Mrs. Frederick Copeland under the auspices of the Red Cross this summer, will be continued during the winter months. The membership list in these classes is made up mostly of girls working in the village. The first meeting for this season will be held Tuesday evening at the Com- munity house, and girls who can knit will be provided with wool to help in the war work of this society. The banks of Winnetka have gen- | It is hoped that this bul-| WINNETKA MEN WANTED IN NEW ARMY SERVICE Capt. Lathrop Collins, 1239 Scott avenue, will have charge of the re- cruiting in Winnetka for the newest and most interesting branch of the army. The new branch of the serv- ice is for the purpose of making oh- servations from captive balloons. To the men who were unable to gain admission in the officers' train- ing camps, for one reason or another, have this new opportunity of being of service to the United States. The government wants men of the calibre of officers, between the ages of 25 and 35 years. The lowest rank in this service is first lieutenant, with pay of $2,000 per year and fifty per cent extra when in active service. Capt. Collins, who is the local branch chairman of the Military Training Camps association, will fur- nish applications to local men desir- ing to get into this service, and in- formation concerning this division will be given. WINNETKA WOMAN SEES MEMBERS OF THE 149TH Mrs. George Hufton, Provident ave- nue, returned last week from New York, where she has been visiting her son, George Hufton, Jr. He is a corporal with Col. Reilly's 149th Regi- ment, stationed at Camp Mills, Gar- den City, 1. L Mrs. Hufton reports that all the Winnetka boys, members of this prize division, are in the best of spirits while stationed in the east waiting for sailing orders. During Mrs. Hufton's visit to the camp one afternoon, Harry Smith of Winnetka was the envy of all the boys. He had received a beautiful and warm sweater coat from a young woman "somewhere in Winnetka." The way the men in the military camps appreciate gifts from home is beyond description, according to Mrs. Hufton's reports. NIGHT SCHOOL WILL BE HELD FOR FOREIGNERS A free night school for foreigners will be opened at the Horace Mann school on Monday evening, October 15, at 8 o'clock. The school will be in session three nights a week, Mon- day, Wednesday and Friday, for twelve weeks. The purpose of this school is to | teach foreigners to read, write and speak English. There will also be instruction in certain matters per- taining to citizenship, taking out of citizen papers and the advantages derived from such steps. Mr. Francis I. Walker of New Trier High school, a member of the Eng- lish department, will have charge of the school. GIVE MILITARY DINNER FOR RESERVE OFFICERS Capt. Lathrop Collins, 1239 Scott avenue, gave a military dinner Mon- day evening to the mustering officers of the 1st Regiment of the Illinois Reserve Militia. Among the guests were e Major Lu- cius A. Hine, Capt. Walter T. Stock- ton, Lieut. Ww. Spencer Crosby, Jr. and Lieut. Noble Ebérhart. The din- ner was given at Capt. Collins' home lin Hubbard Woods. | ART CLASSES ARE HELD AT CLUB ON SATURDAYS The Art Institute of Chicago opened its extension school for drawing and design, Saturday, October 6, at the Winnetka Woman's club. ; The classes meet every Saturday morning from 9:30 to 11:30 o'clock. The classes are open to adults as well as children, and a small fee is charged for the course of instruc- tion. Miss Mathilde Klemm is in charge of the classes. Lincoln Circle. The Lincoln Avenue circle will meet at the home of the Misses Gem- mell, 812 Lincoln avenue, on Monday, October 15, at 2:30 o'clock. Willow Circle. The East Willow Street circle will meet at the home of Mrs. J. V. Stix- rud, 607 Willow street, on Tuesday, October 16, at 2:30 o'clock. REPORT GIVES R.R. ADVANCE IN FARES North Shore Authorities Receive Re- port from Men Appointed to Investigate Raise. NEW RESTRICTIONS MADE Committee Reserves Right to Recall Decision. The various counsel for the north shore municipalities have submitted a report to the Public Utilities com- mittee of the Association of North Shore Municipalities, which is a synopsis of the findings of the Public Utilities Commission relative to the application of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Electric Railway for advancing their passenger rates. An increase of rates was allowed the company and the new rate schedule will net them approximate- ly 5.6 per cent on their investment, according to the counsel for the municipalities. Following is the report of the re- sults of the hearing: 3 On September 5, 1917, the Public Utilities - Commission handed down its decision, consisting of 110 type- written pages, in the matter of the petition of the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee Electric Railroad com- pany for an increase in rates. Under all of the circumstances, we regard the decision as eminently sat- isfactory to the municipalities. Throughout the hearing the munici- palities labored under many disad- vantages, with which your commit- tee is alread yfamiliar. The railroad company had the assistance of its own corps of accountants and engi- neers, and in addition employed a number of high-priced experts, all of whom had made careful studies with reference to the properties and the books and data pertaining thereto, before the trial. On our side, there were about fifteen municipalities. The attorneys for some of these did not appear at all; the attorneys for others appeared only occasionally, while a few attended practically all of the hearings. This threw an un- just burden upon the few who did at- tend the trial and they were obliged to get along without any expert tes- timony or assistance until a short time before the end of the hearing, when a few hundred dollars was ap- propriated by some of the munici- palities and expert advice secured. Of course no attempt was made to have a valuation prepared or the books of account examined by the municipalities. However, the defense which we were able to make resulted not only in keeping the rates within reason- able limits, but in obtaining a num- ber of findings by the commission which will be of value in any future rate litigation with this company. The findings to which we refer are as follows: 1. The company claimed for its properties in Illinois a valuation of something over $7,000,000. The value fixed by the commission is $5,100,000, or over $2,000,000 below that claimed by the company. This reduction was secured in the following manner : (a) By the elimination of large tracts of land purchased by the road for its right-of-way, but not now used or useful in its operation. (b) The elimination. of other large tracts, such as the Libertyville gravel pit, which do not form part of the operating unit. not entitled to appreciation in land values. in establishing a rule which we be- lieve is new in Illinois, that a rail- | road is a public highway, exercising the right of eminent domain and de- riving its powers and privileges from the public, and that there is no more reason why it should be permitted to: increase its rates because the value of adjacent property has appreciated, than there is that charges for the use of other public highways should be fixed upon that basis. (d) The exclusion of the so-called west side line, extending from Lake (Continued on page two) PRICE FIVE CENTS - (¢) A finding that the company 3s On this subject we succeeded Bluff to North Chicago, and the elim- =