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- | THIS ISSUE--Glen View, Ranks High in Golfdom--P age 13 WINNETKA TALK = Published weekly by Lloyd Hollister, Inc., §64 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Illinois. March 8, 1912, at the post office at Winnetka, Illinois, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Entered as second class matter VOL. XVI, NO. 19 WINNETKA, ILLINOIS, JULY 16, 1927 Subscription price $2.00 a year. ------ --_------ "PRICE FIVE CENTS WINNETKA DAY PROGRAM ANNOUNCED BY C. OF C. Committees Arrange Full Day of Celebration; Stores to Be * Closed All Day Winnetka Day, Winnetka's big an- nual holiday, will be held on August 4th--two weeks from next Thursday. The event is sponsored by the Winnet- ka Chamber of Commerce, and under the leadership of a large group of the local business men. The plans for the day's program are being formulated and all necessary preparation and ar- ranging is well under way. The day's program will be full of fun anl entertainment for the whole family, and in accordance with the custom in previous years, residents should plan to attend by families, and enjoy the fun together. The program this year will be bigger and better than in for- mer years, and the general chairman of the day, Mr. Robert Doepel, says that it will be a calamity if any Win- neka family should .miss the holiday program. y All stores will be closed for the day, and residents, merchants and employ- ees will have an opportunity to frolic together. The program for the day, as an- nounced by the committee in charge, is as follows: Morning Events The parade will form on Elm street, west from Linden, at 9:30 and will be headed by Band, Police and Fire Departments, Village of Winnetka, Winnetka Chamber of Commerce, and club or organization cars. Floats, trucks and passenger cars will line up in the order that they arrive." At 10:15 the parade will start, covering the fol- lowing routes: South on Linden to Hill Road, East on Hill road to Church street, south on Church to Winnetka avenue, East on Winnetka avenue to Woodland, North on Woodland to Willow Road, West on Willow Road to Walnut street, North on Walnut to Elm street, West on Elm street to Lin- coln Avenue, North on Lincoln to Tower Road, west on Tower Road to Green Bay Road, North on Green Bay to Fairview, East on Faicview to Greenleaf (Glencoe), North on Green- leaf to Park Avenue, West on Park Avenue to Greenwood, South on Greenwood to Scott Avenue, Hubbard Woods, East on Scott to Linden, South on Linden to Tower Road, East on Tower to Center street, South on Cen- ter to Elm street, West on Elm to West End Park opposite Skokie School. The parade is not limited to passen- ger cars. Prizes will be offered to trucks and floats 'as well as passenger cars. Residents of the North Shore are invited to 'have their cars in the parade. 11:30 Horse-Shoe Tournament, sm- : gles and doubles, or Winnetka Cham- ber of Commerce Trophies (Silver Cup). : - ©" Aftérnoon Program al 1:00 p. m. the children's parade will form on Center street and march to the park' on"*West Elm 'street. "Chit: Committee Making Progress on C. of C. Winnetka Book Progress was reported to the Cham- ber of Commerce at its meeting Mon- day evening relative to the matter of printing a booklet on Winnetka, as suggested at a meeting of the Chamber on the evening of June 13. The matter at that time was referred to the Pub- lic Affairs committee. Vic Killian, chairman, recommended an issue of 3,000 copies, containing a street'map of the village, important his- torical sketches and pictures, the publi- cation designed as a high grade piece of work. It will be distributed free to village residences and the plans as sug- gested would make it an annual issue, with the necessary changes made in each edition. The names of the mem- bers of the Chamber, classified as to their business, will be included in the booklet. Cost of the publication will be de- frayed by a classified directory sec- tion, the rate for each ad to be in the neighborhood of $5.00 to $10. A book of this nature it was pointed out would be especially valuable to newcomers to the village and it was suggested that real estate firms could use them advantageously by distributing them to clients when coming to the village to purchase or lease property. The committee will continue develop- ment of the publication plans. Legion Drum Corps in Market for Drummers The Winnetka American Legion Post drum corps is progressing rapidly, with eight snare drummers at present. A bass drummer and cymbal player are still needed, it is explained. . The corps meets Thursday nights at 7:30 o'clock throughout the summer, and members may usually be found in the Legion rooms on Monday nights, also. The Legion anticipates getting the bugle corps going immediately, and members who are interested in it are asked to get in touch with A. Lee Adams. Mr. Adams is looking for someone to take charge of the bugle corps. dren are invited to decorate their bicy- cles, wagons, small automobiles, baby carriages and enter the parade. Prizes will be offered for the best decora- tions. 2:00 p. m. Races and games at the west Elm Street Park for which 125 prizes will be given. 4:00 p. m. Climbing of greased pole. 4:30 p. m. John Hartnett, formerly of the Indian Hill Riding Club, with two or three other experienced riders will give an exhibition of jumping. The horses that will be used are trained to jump fences, gates and other obstacles five feet high. The riders will' be dressed in scarlet uniforms. 7:00 p. m. Open air dance on new platform. 11:30 p. m. New Imperial Chevrolet Sedan given away. There will be all kinds of refresh- ments on the grounds. Numerous games of skill have been arranged for and there will be a Merry-go-round and~pony rides "for "the children: ~~ Town Manager George R. Young of the city engi- neering staff at Milwaukee assumed his new position as Village Manager at Glencoe this month. He succeeds H. H. Sherer, recently resigned. Mr Young is a graduate of the University of Michigan, school of engineering in 1912. He was in the service of the government before taking up munici- pal work in Kenosha and later in Milwaukee. School Additions to Be Completed Before November Work upon both the addition to the Skokie school and the finishing of the three rooms in the upstairs of the ad- dition to the Greeley school, is now un- der way and should be completed by fall, it was announced this week. Excavation for the Skokie addition, which is to be located immediately to the south of and adjoining the old structure, is well along and will be completed within the next few days. The new structure will constitute an- other wing of the regular school build- ing and will be much the same as the north wing, which was built at the time the Skokie school was first erected. It will cost $37,000 and will be completed by November first. The work being done at the Gree- ley school is to finish up the upstairs of the addition to the original building which was constructed some time ago. The work is to cost about $10,000 and will be completed during the summer. Both projects were authorized in the special election, which 'was held on July 2, by a vote of 14 for and only 1 against the Greeley project and by a unanimous vote of 14 ballots for the Skokie addition. ILL WITH FLU For the past two weeks Miss Ruth Forberg, secretary of the Wilmette Chamber of Commerce, has been ill with influenza at her home, 960 Linden aventre, Hubbard Woods. WOULD MAKE SKOKIE BIG WORLD AIRPORT Reclamation of ive _ North Shore be Fd Salar Lr i =3 : The prediction by t Hoover, Secretary of commerce, that Chicago is destined to bc the -aviation center of the United States, and a sugges- tion from Hal Burnett, 'of 724 Vernon avenue, Glencoe, that the United States government convert the gredt Skokie Valley into the largest an Sok avr nys % ated airport in the world,#{s meeting with approval by many noth shore _ citizens who have been conggffrediior se eral yeats with the solution gif kie devel- 1 opment problent. ! Here, in the Skokie Valley, it is pointed out, is a vast area eight or ten miles in length. and a:mile or more in width, in which modern vehicles of the air may find an ideal spot for de- parture and landing. Mosquito Breeder : At present, the Skoki& Valley is cov- ered ,with. swamp grass, and is notori- ous for its mosquito hordes matter of its reclamation h: cussed at more conf other 'one subject per be the League of Nations. And still no solution has been reached, unless the one which Mr. Burnett now brings forth should prove to be feasible and popular, The latest move to reclaim the Skokie was taken a short time ago, just a few days be- fore the adjournment of the state leg- islature, when it was attempted to have the state take some action to bring about a comprehensive draining and development plan of the valley. i . _ Ideal Airport? ; As an airport, the location of the Skokie is pointed out as ideal. Lying as it does at the very threshold of Chi- cago, on the north shore between two excellent lines of transportation, the Chicago & North Western, and the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee railways on, the .east and the Skokie Valley line of the latter road on the west, it is readily accessible to the great metropolitan center. For mail planes both arriving and departing on trans-continental trips the location is said to be ideal, and partic- ularly so, for passenger planes. That the development of the Skokie area for this purpose is feasible, is also stressed by Mr. Burnett, based on previous reports of engineers in con- nection with what preliminary work has already been done with a view pf building through the valley a perma- nent drain, a super highway, a nes , except it area_of forest preserve developmeht and even subdigfisions of many of the present acres ioe omsices. 4 Most Av able Tract i Mr. Burnett says it would be difficult, if at all possible, to find a tract the size of the Skokie Valley so close to the city and bordered as it is by such excellent transportation lines for the conveyance of mail, passengers, and express, both to and from the airport The matter of the space in providip ee fContinned-oncpage 4d mm