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WINNETKA TALK January 28, 1928 In the North Shore Country Day school's basketball games last Satur- day, the Boys' team was defeated by the Milwaukee Country Day school team, 31 to 19, and the Girls' team was defeated by the Y. W. C. A. quintet, 28 to 23. BEAUTY SHOP Phone Winnetka 2176 Everything Pertaining to BEAUTY CULTURE Correct Care of the Hair and Skin MARCELLING PERMANENT WAVING FINGER WAVING Ethel M. Taylor, R.N. 818-A Elm St. | Englishman with literary ideas, who || home stood the first Congregational WINNETKA LIBRARY HAD HISTORIC BEGINNING Launched 47 Years Ago as Out- growth of Small Social Club; Grows with Village By Marjory Windes "Don't forget the next meeting of the Winnetka Reading and Social club!" "When will it Le held?" "Tomorrow night at Charles F. Sedgwick"s on Maple street. And did you hear, my dear, that Mr. Artemus Carter (you know he lives down there on Sheridan road), gave us his Clas- sical library! Yes! There are about twenty-five volumes in it, and its just wonderful. Plato, and Aristotle and all those things" This conversation took place 47 years ago, between two Winnetka residents, two young girls now well-advanced in vears, and it concerned the formation of what is now the Winnetka Public library. The Social club was formed for the purpose of exchanging books and magazines, and met in the homes of its members. However, when Mr. Carter so generously gave his gift to the club it felt that rooms must be procured. Charles F. Sedgwick, an lived on Maple street, just south of Cherry, offered one of his rooms. The club grew. Its members became in- terested in acquiring books and hav- ing a place to store their magazines. Next door north to Mr. Sedgwick's church. A room in the basement was converted into a reading room. The books increased. The members in- creased. It was necessary to move again. So in 1881 the Social club took over two rooms in the schoolhouse, lo- cated at Walnut and Elm streets. In this school house worked Win- netka's first librarian, Miss Mary Dix- on, who kept the library open every Saturday night. (It has been said that in 1881, many a romance started by meeting at the library on: Saturday night.) Three years later after the state library law had been passed, a refer- endum vote was taken, a board of trustees elected and the Winnetka pub- lic library was created a municipal body under state law. The president of the first board was Sanford S. Burr, Mrs. Carrie Prouty's father, and serv- ing on his board were Robert S. Moth, Max K. Meyer's father-in-law, and Mrs. Frank A. Windes' uncle. An- other member of the board was Mr. Burnham, always interested in town affairs. With the money coming in yearly now, toward the library cause, it was decided to make another move to larger quarters, so rooms were taken in the Dormitory Building, adjoining the Village Hall. Here it was that Miss Grace Sloat acted as librarian for twenty-five years. Miss Sloat's salary would make us laugh and groan, for she received the astonishing amount of $25 a year for several years! And when the faithful Miss Sloat left Win- netka the generous library board wished to do something fitting and ap- preciative for her, so they awarded her a bonus of $25. Now the history approaches the pres- ent library. After the death of Henry D. Lloyd, a resident of Winnetka, writ- er, socialist and nationally known man, in 1909, his widow wished to erect a library in his memory. The lot was bought, and plans made and ready to be carried through, when she died. Following her death, her four sons, William Bross, Henry D., Jr., John Bross, and Demerest, carried out their mother's wishes and in 1910 'gave the village the lot and the library. During the 47 years that Winnetka has had an organized library, there have been only five librarians, Miss Dixon, Miss Sloat, Miss Carolyn Aiken, Miss Jessie McKenzie (Mrs. Arthur Filkins) and Miss Mary Hewes, the present librarian. Among the assist- ants were Miss Fannie Hewes (Mrs. Walpole), and the Misses Gertrude and Bertha Thorne, (Mrs. T. G. Windes, and Mrs. Gertrude Ellison). These willing assistants received the handsome sum of 25¢ an evening with visiting and a social hour afterward thrown in. This next week, the library will be open for the inspection .of residents, the final changes in the building be- ing nearly completed. The building is planned for twenty-five years ahead, arranged to accommodate 50,000 vol- umes. A staff of four librarians head- ed by Miss Hewes cares for the li- brary. Two adult reading rooms on the first floor, a large children's room, and a large adult reading room on the ground floor will be used by visitors. A well-equipped, modern, yet homelike library Winnetka has now, while the memory of the weekly meetings. of the Winnetka Reading and Social Club slips away with the growing com- munity. Father of I. J. Wilson Dies at Ripon, Wisconsin Mr. and Mrs. Ira J. Wilson, 325 Ridge avenue, Winnetka, were sudden- ly called to Ripon, Wis., by the death of Mr. Wilson's father, Fred J. Wilson, who had been failing rapidly since Christmas. While the Wilsons are away, Mrs. Wilson's mother, Mrs. E. F. Holbrook, will remain with their daughter, . Jane. Mrs. Holbrook is from Haddonsfield, N. J., and will stay with the Wilsons for several months. Phones Winnetka 1869--1870 1871--1872 RAPP BROS. 522 Center St. Winnetka Illinois SPECIALS FOR SATURDAY, Pork Loin Roast, whole or half, Ib. : ~ Basy Bread JANUARY 28 FREE! 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