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WINNETKA WEEKL Nearly Everybody in Winnetka Reads the Talk VOL. VI, NO. 52. WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1918 SIX PAGES PRICE FIVE CENTS CITIZENS' PARTY HAS CANDIDATES IN FIELD Announces Nominating Committee Prospective Candidates Caucus Held at Woman's Club before See no Opposition But Make Ready For Regular Fight The "Citizen's Party and ticket are in the field prepared to do battle at | the coming 'Village election, slated for Tuesday, April 2. committee announced the names of prospective candidates before the Village Caucus, at a meeting in the | Woman's club, Tuesday evening, and the campaign was formally launched. Though they had scanned the poli- | tical horizon, far and wide, the com- mittee was prepared to state, it could determine no signs of an opposing ticket. That fact, however, in no wise, lessened the preparations for | a regular fight ir the event unfor- seen opposition might spring up. The candidates selected by the Committee and endorsed at the Cau- cus were as follows: Village Clerk, William A. Haire. Village Treasurer. H. C. Seymour. . Marshall and Collector, Theodore Flynn. Village Trustees, Clarence E. Cook, Mrs. W. E. Davis, Walter F. Wallace. Library Trustees, W. A. Hadley, W. A. Oldfather. J. R. Leonard, was elected as 3 treasurer of the campaign, and E. J. Rummler, Walter F. Wallace and Frederick W. Burlingham were ap- pointed a committe to fill possible vacancies in the list of candidates. They were also vested with the nd TO GI DRIVERS FOR RESERVES Volunteer Training Corps to recruit at Patten Gymnasium 3 An open meeting and patriotic ral- koe ly for the purpose of recruiting drivers for the motor transport companies of the! Illinois Reserve Militia, will be conducted in Patten gymnasium, Northwestern Universi- ty, Evanston, next Wednesday even- ing. @ Residents of the north shore have been invited to attend. A Jackie band from the Great Lakes training station, will appear in a concert i and Captain J. W. Macey of the crack Evanston Company E, of the Illinois Reserve Militia will put his men through some exhibition maneu- vers. Speakers for the occasion will be Major Lathrop Collins, commander of the Illinois Volunteer training corps, and Sergeant Roland More, ambulance driver in France during the past 18 months, who has a fund ,of thrilling experiences to relate. The actual purpose of the rally will be to enlist car owners, at least 120, along the north shore, as transport drivers for the Volunteer training corps. These men are to receive the rank of sergeant and will be subject to immediate call for the purpose of ushering their cars into transport service for the Reserve Militia in cases of emergency. BEVY OF STARS WILL 3 BE SEEN AT HOYBURN A splendid variety of pictures are to be displayed for the benefit of movie fans at the Hoyburn theater in Evanston, during the week begin- ning tomorrow. Francis X. Bushman and Beverly , Bayne, long time favorites, will open ' the series with "Brass Checks" a film full of plots and interesting si- tuations. Mary Miles Minter will 3 head the bill on Monday while Billie f Burke will be seen in the screen on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mary Garden will be the headliner over the balance of the week in the wonderful film her popular vehicle. PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE A nominating | ber- RELIEF WORK IS BIG JOB Dr. Alice Barlow Brown, war wor- ker in French towns, has penned a remarkable letter to north shore friends, which represents an accurate and detailed account of the splendid work being done among the French and Belgian war refugees, as well as the disabled fighting men who are thrust back upon the communities, unable longer to fight with the Al- lied forces. The letter, in its entirety, reads as follows: 80 Rue Stanilas, Nancy, France. | January 7th, 1918. | The bags are all packed, one with | medicine, gauze etc. and the other | with aprons, handkerchiefs, socks and mittens, these are the gifts of a Chicago friend for some of my | children. The poor children's hands and feet are so swollen and cracked | {with chilblains--they never have had | { mittens to wear--I wish I had 500 | | pairs instead ot ten. Indeed we all | | suffer from chilblains. I took five children to Toul yester-: {day. While there I received my two | Christmas packages from you and | Jessie. Each day now seems full of | surprises. To-night on coming home |I found a nice letter and cheque | from Winnetka as a result from last | summer's gardening; also a cheque from Mrs. B. of Winnetka and a package from C. W. Our ambulance | when we start out every morning | looks like a Santa Claus pack. The | Girton Girls have written and many | of the Winnetka women. I had a letter from a French patron, telling how much our Christmas meant to her children. I dearly love her boy, I gave him a handkerchief and a pair of woolen gloves; his older brother of eight takes care of him, and brings him now always clean their equipment on thej ter them came the R work- ers with stretcher en the cuisine and countl s. Every day and every ey march by on the mai where I am living. I suppose decrease but nsary work will will continue to visit our villa as long as any of the civilians are left. During the month of January we took care of 1300 persons. I have made the dis- pensary work the first consideration and there is great satisfaction in knowing that we have brought re- lief to many a poor, sick, soul. I wish I could myself speak to them and comfort them, they are so grate- ful for everything, and"when I have given them money, as I have oc- casionally, when necessary, the tears in their eyes and the joy in their faces makes one feel that so little brings so great a return. The child- ren are marvellous, they let me do {anything for them--treat their eves, | life for the ears, pull their teeth. They are seldom afraid, and if one is I win his confidence first before doing what is necessary, sometimes by giving a white, sugar-coated pill as I used to with the Winnetka babies. The French people are very kind to me. To-morrow, Sunday, I am going to spend the day with Mme. Jalard. I will take along my French dictionary: she speaks no English and I no French, except medicine di- rections and questions. Can you see what we shall be doing in the way of conversation? Mme. Jalard has asked me to spend a month with her when the strawberries are ripe and if the boche is not here I will. We gave a lift on Wednesday last with his handkerchief clean and his )' on. had colds and every one of us cculh- ing. You see we never are able to have an even temperature to work in, and the only time we are thor- oughly warm is when we are in bed. To-day the weather moderated and the cold tension has disappeared on- ly to. make the men in the trenches suffer more. I am sending you a French paper to read, also a copy of all the cases we have taken care of since the be- ginning. I feel that I am privileged to be working here and that I am only-the instrument of the Winnetka people. One of the Winnetka signs is up over our Dispensary, and when we have a clear day I will have a picture taken of it. : What a move for Government ownership--the Federalizing of the railroads. February 2nd. Your letter written January 10th, I received February 1, and would have had it three days sooner had I been in Paris as it came on the fast steamer "Es- pagne". I am so glad that you and the other good friends heard Mrs. Lathrop. She is a charming woman and has done a great work in France. I am still writing from Nancy, but to three soldiers on their way to P--. on " we took him. He told us that he was returning from London where he had heen on "permission", and that the soldiers everywhere are going to keep at the war until the boche is beaten. "The allies are in this war to a finish, and it is the cause: of democracy that is at stake." It is very gratifying to know that this work is appreciated at home and that those at home who have worked so untiringly have heard about it directly. Dr. Lovejoy, who has vi- sited most of my clinics with me, can tell you more, and, as I wrote you, Winnetka should secure her for a Sunday evening. She is a good talker and a brilliant woman and strictly under the Red Cross. I make a report weekly to Dr. Ladd and he incorporates it in his report of the Meurthe et Moselle District; then I make a monthly financial report to Miss Vail, Treasurer of the A. F. F. W. The money which she gives me I use with discretion. The money sent me by the two Winnetka gardeners I have used to start a dental clinic, and you should see the children come in to have their 'teeth cared for. This is our these are troublous days and I do not know how long I shall be doing | so. The past week our work has been more gloomy--so many sad tales of necessary evacuation, the people must leave to go beyond the war zone and they have nowhere' to go and little to go with. The first six weeks of our work, the war did not seem so near to us but during' the past six weeks the intense pre- parations bring it nearer. For a week the roads have been constantly' packed with Colonials and Poilus marching to the Front. This morning I saw what would have been a beau- tiful sight if one would not think of the future. From the window where I work I looked down a long street. nearly a mile in lenght, and I saw coming towards me company after | company of the French Poilus in their horizon blue which disappeared in the dense fog in the distance. La- |ter more companies came and with {them a band playing a stirring march. I opened the window and waved at them as they marched past. version of "Thais", | Some were young but most of them | 'were middle-aged, and all carrying first real constructive and preventa- tive work. You see the French child- ren's breakfast always consists of coffee and a piece of bread soaked in it, nothing to build up the teeth. If we could only feed them oatmeal and milk; but there are few cows. By the way, is bread wrapped in Ameri- ca now? You should see it here; loaves in the shape of an immense cookie with a hole in the middle, three or four of them at a time borne on the arm of a child or a woman, maybe it rolls in the dirt, the army buys wagon loads. This is what we eat and we thrive. I wonder sometimes if the microbe theory is still in existence. With the money sent by one Winnetka woman I helped a pitiful refugee family, who were sent out of Germany without sufficient clothing to cover their bodies. If you could only see how heroically the French women meet the situation {being, as they were, totally unfit for service, taking the place of men everywhere. Where you see men working, they have only one leg or (Continued on page four.) Winnetka Honors Slain War Hero | Village Joins to Pay Respect to | Lieutenant Philip Comfort Starr Who Died in Flanders. By E. 1:S. 0. On Sunday, March Tenth, in the evening, at Community House, was held the Memorial Service for Philip Comfort Starr, who died in action in Flanders, February 20. | Many almost dreaded the meeting, | shrinking from the task of beginning the list of golden stars, which might {grow to such proportions right here in our village. Every one wanted to | honor the brave young fellow, who | had been the first of our boys to give | his life for the glorious cause of right, democracy and justice, and {there was only one thought | gathering. With whatever timid !feelings one approached the meeting, | after the fine and simple speeches, |there was only one thought that was | carried away. That, as this brave | young man had so willingly given his world's good, so we at | home must give our best and dearest too, and keep on doing our little ut- | most till the reign of greed and | cruelty and treachery had vanished | from the earth. It was especially impressed upon [those present that this meeting was not only a memorial to the first life given. by the village on the battle field of Europe, but was an express- ion of appreciation of brave deeds to come as well as those already ac- complished. The evening's program had nothing of that emotionalism that often, at such a time and place, is so trying. The singing by the quartette, com- posed of Mrs. George Ogan, Mr. Sherman Orwig, Mrs. Albert Fraw- ley and Mr. Thomas Ratcliffe, while excellent, had this same restrained men. : With Reverend J. W. L. Davie's benediction: "The Lord bless thee and keep the, the Lord make his face to shine upon thee and give thee peace," you felt too how his whole soul was put in the wish and hope, in those earnest words, that com- fort might come to those upon whom the blow had fallen hardest. Mr. William Boyden read a part of the ninety-first psalm which was a favorite-of young Starr's. Then Mr. Horace Tenney and Mr.Thomas Tay- lor each made fine, simple and im- pressive addresses. Mr. Tenney dealt more with the meeting of the dreadful problems that confronted, not the young hero whom we are honoring, but the prob- lems that confront us all today in "this troublous life, where the shad- ows lengthen". Mr. Taylor spoke more of the per- sonal side of Philip Starr and ex- tracts from his letters, which were full of a brave and manly spirit, a spirit which rounded out for us the life, which Mr. Taylor har sketched so well. CAMPBELL FUND GETS BIG BOOST AT PLAY More than $1500 was raised Thgrs- day evening at the Kenilworth club for the Andrew Courtney Campbell Jr., memorial * fund. A three act play entitled, "All in the Family", was presented by the members of the Chicago Dramatic club. At the conclusion of the first act a voluntary contribution by those in attendance 'amounted to $550. At the ring of the curtain another voluntary contribution net- ted $1,150. MORTON GROVE HEADS FREED OF INDICTMENTS Conspiracy charges against Mor- ton Grove officials were dismissed on the motion of Assistant State's At- torney Case yesterday. August F, Poehlmann, president, and Louis Reimer, John Haas and Henry Lutch, were accused of failing to enforce the Sunday closing law. Since the indictments were voted they have revoked the licenses of the Sunday violators. SPECIAL BALLOT FOR SCHOOL BOND ISSUE Ask Voters to Decide on Proposition to Issue School Bonds Valued at $34,500 WILL NOT RAISE TAXES Superintendent Rhodes Dislllusions Doubtful Residents. Winnetka voters, men and women, will go to the polls on Saturday, March 23, to decide whether bonds to the value of $34,500 shall be issued for the appropriation of more school property and erection of additional rooms in the Skokie school. Land which the Board of Educa- tion contemplates adding to the school property consists of 12 acres and is located at Elmwood street and Glendale avenue. Its purchase would represent $18,000. The balance of the money received from sales of the bonds would be ap- propriated to the construction of the proposed additional school rooms in the Skokie school. Serious objection to the proposed bond issue is not expected by the school officials, though rumors have gone about to the effect that some voters were reluctant about favoring the proposition, on the grounds that such a bond issue would increase their taxes, which they naturally consider ample enough in war times. To such persons as have any doubt in that regard, the information has gone out from Superintendent of Schools, E. N. Rhodes, that the pro- posed bond issue would not affect the taxes in any way. The bond is- sue would come within the regular nt allote hools. ich is | D Y + a considerable appropr purchase and improvement of s property. i The bond election is special, and not within the jurisdiction of the Vil- lage but under the sole direction of the Board of Education. NEW TRIER SERVICE FLAG TO BE DEDICATED MONDAY Next Monday morning when the students of New Trier assemble for their chapel exercises at ten o'clock, they will see, suspended from the proscenium, a large service flag re- cently purchased for the school by the senior class. The flag will be presented by F. I. Walker, head of the English department, who will speak on, "Democracy versus Auto- cracy". The flag contains 202 stars, which represent former New Trier boys who are now engaged in helping win the war. Two gold stars in the center, are in memory of Lieutenant Philip Starr, who was recently killed in action on the French front, and Andrew Court- ney Campbell, one of the "aces" of the famous Lafayette Escadrille, who met his death last fall. Parents and friends Trier boys, as well as others in- terested in them, are cordially invited to be present at the exercises. of all New TERRIFIC HAIL STORM BATTERS NORTH SHORE IL.oud thunder peals, flashes of lightning, and a terrific 15 minute hail storm ,marked a fitting climax to Wednesday's siege of" rain. Hail stones as big a peas, beat upon the north shore with exceeding fury, tearing branches from trees and shattering window panes in residenc- es and stores. The ice storm was followed by a heavy rainfall which continued through the night and turned to snow on Thursday . Police received no reports of serious damage. Mission Class Meets The Home Mission Study class met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. J. W. Davies, 1004 Pine street. / il EE