Republican Caucuses Convene to Select Delegates in Oak Park
Oak Park Republican Club calls caucuses for precincts to choose delegates and alternates to county and sanitary district conventions. Meeting set for 8 pm on Tuesday June 20 1905 at locations listed for eight precincts with specified delegate and alternate counts. W R Moss president and O B Barker Jr secretary announce the action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republican Club
Oak Park
Precinet
Engine House
Marion Street
Oak Park Machine Co
Randolph Street
Kenilworth Hall
Kenilworth Avenue
South Boule
Ridgeland Depot
W. H. Fox
Seoville Avenue
W. RR. Moss
O. B. Barker, JR
Nec’y
Water Company Converts to Daylight Power and Lower Rates
New Day Current reports that since June 1 new owners have installed daylight current, running light lines day and night like the Yaryan lines. Cicero Light Heat Power Co will also deliver light and power all day at reduced rates with two prices 25 percent off residences and 50 percent off businesses per 1000 kilowatts. Poles and fines are being renewed in Austin and Oak Park with green painting. Maywood plant to become a central plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Company
Cicero Light, Heat & Power Co
Austin
Oak Park
Maywood
Oak Park Horse Show Association outlines planning efforts
The Oak Park Horse Show Association reports organized preparations for an expanded show. Officers and committees are appointed, with a 50 member auxiliary to recruit female volunteers from Austin River Forest and Oak Park clubs. Multiple local clubs including Oaks of Austin and Nakama Club will participate.
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Oak Park
Austin
River Forest
Oaks of
Westward Ho Gelf Club
River Forest Woman’s Club
Oak Park Club
Nakama Club
Nineteenth Century Club
Colonial Club
Phoenix Club
Associated Charities
Strawberry Social At Oak Park Church Raises Parsonage Funds
The Ladies Aid Society of the First M E Church hosted a Tuesday evening strawberry social in the church parlors. Mrs John Clemenger chaired arrangements while Rev Mr Williams and Mrs J B White sang duets. Nellie Kouns and Ruth Simmons performed solos and piano duet. Oak Park quartet played twice. Mrs Belle Watson Mellville delivered an enthusiastic reading about shipwrecks. The event supported the parsonage fund with plans to raise a specified sum.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
M. E. Church
John Clemenger
Mr. Williams
J. B. White
Nellie Kouns
Ruth Simmons
Oak Park
Belle Watson-Mellville
Fund Grows Through Socials and Entertainments Tuesday
Two thousand dollars, and recourse is to be had to socials and entertainments of various kinds. The fund was increased quite a bit Tuesday evening.
Packard Property Sells For 40000 On Wabash Avenue
Samuel W. Packard’s building on 206 Wabash Avenue sells for 40000 to HK F Straus. The ground lease runs eighty five years more. The land is valued at 70000 in the latest sale with a 20 by 171 foot lot just north of the Auditorium. John C. Fetzer-linked syndicate now holds 310 feet of frontage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel W. Packard
Wabash Avenue
HK. F. Straus
John C. Fetzer
Packard Holding
B. P. Hutchinson
Board of Trade Fame
Mr. Packard
Packard
Corner-stone Laying for Mt Carmel Baptist Church
Public invited to Mt Carmel Baptist Church corner-stone ceremony at 127 Williams Street Uoak Park on Sunday June 18. Rev H W Knight delivers morning sermon Rev J F Thomas gives corner-stone address at 2 30 with other pastors. Grand United Order of Odd Fellows to lay stone at 3 30 with band music. Evening service at 7 40 by Rev J H Qdom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mt. Carmel Baptist Church
Williams Street
Uoak Park
A. L. Harris
Provident Baptist Church
H.W. Knight
J. F. Thomas
Ebeneezer Baptist Church
Grand United Order of Odd Fellows
J. H. Qdom
Lake Street
B. F. D. Zimmermann
H. C. Wirukrspoon
City Drug Store Receives Elegant Interior Makeover
John D. Suydam proprietor of City Drug Store shows a refined upgrade with decorators paper-hangers painters and joiners at work for days. The store now features a first-class finish and a large up-to-date stock plus a new soda fountain with ice cream fruits and syrups to serve patrons.
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John D. Suydam
Suydam
Unity Church Lawn Party At 823 North Euclid
The Unity Church ladies plan a lawn party on June 24 at D. G. Trench’s grounds 823 North Euclid avenue with Oak Park avenue entrance. Afternoon focuses on children with games and treats and a baby show for under three. Supper at six, Y P C U entertainment in evening. ground admission ten cents and supper twenty five cents to aid rebuilding treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies of Unity Church
D. G. Trench
North Euclid Avenue
Oak Park Avenue
Pennsylvania Railways Shrug Off Competitors in 905 Mile Run
The Pennsylvania Railroad challenges rivals by aiming to shorten the Chicago to New York distance of 905 miles. Trains and automobiles race to reduce travel time, with the railroad seeking a faster route than rivals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Chicago
New York
Pennsylvania Folks
Proclamation Limits Fireworks Use in Oak Park on July Fourth
The President grants discretion to allow fireworks only on July Fourth from 4 AM to midnight in Oak Park. Cannon, guns, pistols and dynamite crackers are prohibited with a ten dollar fine per offense. Police are ordered to enforce the peace and quiet until the holiday.
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Oak Park
Speedy train era hints at future airship travel
In eighteen hours flat beginning last Sunday at two o'clock Mr and Mrs John Farson arranged for apartments in this speedy way train. The flyer train will soon be followed by airships traveling rapidly through the air. Traveling has become a luxury and is enjoyed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Farson
Mary McGay to Wed John Todd Stuart at First Baptist
Invitations announce the marriage of Miss Mary McGay and Mr. John Todd Stuart on Wednesday June 28 at 8 30 PM in the First Baptist Church with Dr Theo G Soares presiding. Edith Templeton of Buena Park will be maid of honor with Edward Stuart as best man. Bridesmaids include Jessie Nicol Irma Walz Edith Kellogg Louise Melum Callie Rauboldt. Ushers include Dr Norman McGay Thomas Heald Arthur Melum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary McGay
John Todd Stuart
First Baptist Church
Theo. G. Soares
The
Baptist Church
Edith Templeton
Buena Park
Edward Stuart
Jessie Nicol
Irma Walz
Freeport
Edith Kellogg
Chicago
Louise Melum
Callie Rauboldt
Norman McGay
Shiloh
Ohio
Thomas Heald
Arthur Melum
Bridal party named for Greenwood Nicol wedding
Mr. Joseph Greenwood and Mr. William V.R. Nicol will have four children join the ceremony as the bridal party. Theodore Nicol, Miss Alice McCay, Leslie Heald and Walter McCay will complete the entourage and stretch the ribbons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Greenwood
William V.R. Nicol
Theodore Nicol
Alice McCay
Leslie Heald
Walter McCay
A Gospel Wagon Service At Second Congregational
A Gospel Wagon service will be held Sunday at 5 on the lawn in front of the Second Congregational Church. Mr Meeker the Ewing Street Church pastor from Chicago will conduct the service assisted by his singers. The wagon is furnished by several members of the Second Church and the event acts as a dedication of the wagon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Congregational Church
Meeker
Ewing Street
Chicago
Union Sunday School Picnic to Glenwood Park
Sunday school unions from Unity Methodist Congregational and Presbyterian churches plan an excursion and picnic at Glenwood Park along the electric line on June 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Unity, Methodist, Congregational and
Presbyterian
Glenwood Park
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Jassic A. Baldwin
A. W. Bryant
T.S. BaTrlie
H. C. Hansen Grover Eckart
Dr. J. W. Tore
Northwestern Gas Light and Coke CO
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Oak Park, Illinois
W. W. Neice’s
Oak Park Road
George Baldwin
A. L. Caron
William St
Oak Park, Hl
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O. W. Herrick
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E. A. Cummings
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