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WINNETKA TALK A Weekly News-Magazine for Winnetka VOL. XV. NO. 28 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926 PRICE FIVE CENTS CENTER STREET JOB PROGRESSES RAPIDLY Paving May Be Completed by De- cember 1; New Fire Station Also Nearing Completicn Work on the new Center street im- provement, which is to be a part of the porposed through highway along the north shore, is progressing rapidly, ac- cording to Village Manger H. L. Wool- hiser, and will probably be completed by December 1, the date set in the contract. This new road will extend west of and parallel with the Chicago and North Western railroad right-of-way from Winnetka avenue on the south to Oak street on the north, where it will connect with the new strip of pav- ing in front of the Village hall. Later the new paving will continue on Cen- ter street north of Elm street to Tow- er road, where it will connect with the new paving through the Hubbard Woods business district, which is also a part of the through highway. The grading at the south end of the present Center street improvement, north of Winnetka avenue, is complet- ed. The contractors are working north with the grading and most of the drainage and sewer work is well under way. The work on the Willow street pedestrian subway is being pushed rapidly. This job is being han- dled on a subcontract by Paul Reske, local contractor. Another important improvement in the village which is progressing rapid- ly toward completion is the new fire station. The roof of this structure is beginning to take shape, so that an idea may be gained of its appearance. The fire station is remodeled from the old village hall, from plans drawn up by S. S. Beman, a local architect. It will be in harmony with the Win- netka plan of buildings and will be large enough to house the fire depart- ment comfortably for some years to come. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy, although not entirely completed by October 15. During the construction of the new fire station the fire department is be- ing housed in a temporary structure to the east. When the new Center street improvement is completed the driveway from the fire station will run east through the park and connect with Center street. Public Works Department Completes Street Program The public works department of the Village has practically completed the year's program of street resurfacing, it was announced this week. During the season more than 150,000 square yards of macadam pavement was re- surfaced under a plan whereby prop- erty owners paid about forty per cent of the cost by special assessment and the remainder was paid from the vehicle tax fund. The public works department is also rebuilding two blocks on Chestnut street from Ash street to Oak street with a penetra- tion bituminous top, as an experiment to determine the best method of re- constructing the remainder of the asphaltic concrete streets in the west section of the village. imuch attention throughout the nation HIGH SCHOOL OPENS Enrollment Will Exceed Last Year's; Football and Other Activities Start Next Week | With a registration of approximate- ly 1450 pupils, New Trier high school | began its school year last Monday | morning and was busy all the week with the organization of classes. This registration indicates an increase of more than fifty pupils over last year, when the total was about 1,395. It is expected that pupils will have settled into the regular routine of school by the beginning of the coming week. The first issue of the New Trier News, the school paper, will be pub- lished next week, it was announced by R. N. Carpenter, English instructor and faculty adviser on the paper. Members of the Girls' club sold sandwiches to pupils and teachers on the opening day of school, when, be- cause of short sessions, the school lunchroom was not in operation. The money derived from this sale goes to the club fund which is used to help pupils through school, it was said. Begin Grid Practice Football practice was begun last Friday and Coach Walter Aschenbach reports that a squad of sixty men turned out for opening drill. Assist- ing the coach this year will be Grater, Caten and John May, track coach. Hardly any. of last year's team will be back this year except some substi- tutes, it was said. Burrows and the two Pallettis look good for the back- field. The squad is practicing hard as the first game is scheduled for Satur- day, October 2. Proviso will be the opponent and the game will be at the New Trier field. No club meetings were scheduled during the first week of school but these will begin to get under way next week it is said, when the regular acti- vities will be in full swing. Japanese Educators Study Winnetka's School System The reputation of the Winnetka | school plan which has attracted so} in recent years, has extended far be- ond the confines of this country. ednesday of this week, two din- tinguished professors from the higher institutions of learning in Japan, vi- sited the Winnetka schools to learn more of the Winnetka school system, regarding which they carried with them a good sized pamphlet printed in the Japanese language. They were guests of Superintendent Carleton W. Washburne, at lunch, while here, and from whom they obtained much valuable information regarding school work locally. One of the visitors is a professor of the University of Korea and the other is head master of a common school in Japan. They are making a study of school conditions, in general, in this country. HOLD FIRST MEETING The Young People's club of the Winnetka Congregational church will hold the first meeting of this season, the first Sunday in October, at o'clock in the evening. This club is limited to members of the high schoel. Miss Emma Rummler is president of the club. 7 | vitalizing. It aims to show that suc- Christ Church Nears Its 50th Anniversary The fiftieth anniversary of the inception of the parish of Christ church will be observed with im- pressive deremony in the village Sunday, October 3, and Tuesday, October 5, it was announced this week by the Rev. E. Ashley Ger- hard, rector of the church. Arrangements for the golden jubilee celebration, now in process of formation include plans to have many notable clergymen, including Bishop C. P. Anderson, of the Chi- cago Diocese of the Episcopal church, and Suffragan Bishop S. M. Griswold, also of the Chicago diocese. The anniversary service is sched- uled for Sunday morning, October 3, at 11 o'clock, and observance on Tuesday will be in the nature of a Parish reception in the evening. Detailed plans for the anniversary event are to appear in the colu ns of WINNETKA TALK. 5 0iié Ee Winnetka Hockey Club Begins Fall Season Next Week Anyone who has played hockey re- members the good words, "Ground stick ground--ground stick ground-- ground stick ground stick ground stick strike !" It sounds like a strange ritual. but it is a welcome one now that fall is here, and "life begins all over again when it is cool and crisp.". The Winnetka Hockey club will be- gin its fall season on Monday, Sep- tember 20, at 3 o'clock at the Skokie Playfield. If you haven't played hockey, and are anxious to dash after the little ball that proves so elusive when a practiced player dribbles it, you arc as welcome as a veteran. With the excellent record the club made last year, another intercsting season is promised this fall. The Club will be directed under the management of Mrs. Louis Taylor, president, Mrs. Thomas McLaren, 1004 Pine street, manager, and Mrs. Robert Green, sec- retary-treasurer: Miss Marian Mont- gomery, 15 Green Bay road, was elect- ed captain of the first team for this next year, but has resigned because of work she will take at Columbia uhiver- sity, in New York. Rev. Q. L. Dowd, Former Pastor, Author of Book Rev. Quincy L. Dowd, who was rec- tor of the Winnetka Congregational church forty years ago and who, dur- ing a recent visit to the village de- livered an interesting sermon at this church, is the author of a new book, "Increasing Values in Jesus," which is being published by the Stratford com- pany, of Boston, Mass. Mr. Dowd now resides at Lombard, TIL The purpose of his new book, ac- cording to the announcement by the publishers, "is to indicate afrzsh the intrinsic values in Jesus so vital aad cessive generations evaluate Jesus anew so that this constant revaluation of everything in His gespel proceeds inevitably." WOMEN VOTERS' BOARD HOLDS SESSIONS HERE Leaders From Every Section of United States in Conference at Hibbard Residence With only three strictly social af- fairs scheduled for the National board of the League of Women Voters, which met this past week at the home of Mrs. William Gold Hibbard, the board brought a busy and successful six-day session to a close today. On Wednesday, September 15 the local presidents in Cook county were invited to tea at Mrs. Hibbard's, to meet the National board. The next day, Mrs. Frank Hixon of Lake Forest, deputy director in place of Mrs. Hibbard en- tertained at dinner followed by a re- ception for the Lake Forest league, and Friday, September 17, the Win- netka league met them at a tea at Mrs. William Browne Hale's. There are fifteen women from Cali- fornia to Maine, holding three daily sessions, 9 to 12:30, 2 to 5, and 7 to 10, laboring over national policies and methods of carrying on their work of education of women to the problems of administration and government. Make Voters Think Each one is vitally interested in the league as a national influence by non- partisan education, and, of course, in their particular locality. Mrs. James E. Cheesman, first regional director, of Rhode Island, who has six states within her territorv, for four years was president of the Rhode Island league. From that position she advanced to regional director with Connecticut, Maine. Massachusetts, New Hamp- shire, Rhode Fsland, and Virginia un- der her jurisdiction. The daughter of a well-known educator in the east, Mrs. Cheesman admitted that when the league began she was unconvinced as to its worth. But she read about it, studied about it, and has become one of its most valuable members. "To make American women, think- ing women, to make voters, thinking voters, is our intention," Mrs. Chees- man said. "Our purpose is not to dic- tate what to think but what to think about," she added. Mrs. Cheesman feels that the league is not trying to do awav with parties in politics as many think, but to bet- ter those necessary parties by adding women to their ranks who understand the meaning of a vote, who are fol- lowing the bills presented to congress, who are thinking. Conducts Citizenshio School Miss Treeworthv White, civic di- rector, of Boston, Mass., an able cam- paigner for the league, conducts a short citizenshin schoo! at Radcliffe in the East, and is opening one short- ly at Smith college. Mrs. Cheesman expressed the thought that by means of these citizenship sehools, young women voters will not he confused bv terms, sneeches and misleading ideas about officers, and their offices. A charming person to meet, Mrs. Chees- man is one of the most youthful of the League board in her hopeful attitude that thinking American women are the answer to our political puzzle. Miss Katherine Tudington, treasurer of the league. had the distinction to preside over the eVening meeting held (Continued ou page 5)