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Newspaper
Oak Park Reporter Argus
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1905
Page
2
Partial readable fragment notes a sale item and lists locations Oak Park Avenue Speedie Street and Larke Street with names Robert Angts Wid and Mitchieus. No clear event date or complete entities available.
Oak Park residents plan river, lake, and mountain trips as the NW excursion to Geneva is announced. Local social life features band concerts, cadet camping at hot lakes, church notices, and updates on residents travel, marriages, and weather impacts on games and gatherings.
The twelfth season opening band concert drew about 2500 chairs sold with thousands outside as Prof. Novak led the American Band through a full program. Slayton Jubilee Singers and Weldon’s Second Regiment Band joined July 1 and 2 performances with works by Gounod, Puccini, and Rimsky-Korsakov amid festive crowd scenes and local notices.
The Delta Kappa Phi Sorority pledged eight freshman girls Mayme Fasset Hazel Thain Harriet Todd Katharine Mortenson Marie Brucker Katharine Seymour Winifred Webster Ruth Robins. The Gamine Sigma Fraternity pledged six freshman men George Lang Lloyd Smith Marle McHugh John Jamusel Willard Roberts Henry Wheeler. A rush party was held Wednesday evening at the fraternity house followed by a hayrack ride and refreshments. The chapter’s outlook for next year is bright but depends on the new members maintaining the group’s reputation.
A devotional meditation on Christ as the ultimate authority and highest good. The speaker cites Saul of Tarsus and Joseph Cook to describe how fear yields to holy love in Christ, and how the light of Christ redeems doubt, despair, and longing. The passage urges following the gleam of faith beyond passion toward spiritual peace.
The 89th birthday celebration for Deacon E F Robbins occurred Wednesday night at the Second Congregational Church. It blended with the regular church meeting featuring a period of old favorite songs and a customary service portion.
Remarks by Mr. Robbins and club members shaded to happiness and life’s spiritual side. Floral gift from Joseph Van Epps and a pansy ship from Mrs. C K Mackadden and Mrs. Geo Travis. A nutmeg, locked, gifted by John Van Bergen after eighty nine dollars were slipped inside. Robbins seated on platform, roses decorate chair. Rece tion followed with about a hundred people congratulating the guest and sharing refreshments by W F Van Bergen Georgiella Lay and W E Longley.
Company D of Oak Park has orders to move to Camp Lincoln on July 22 for ten days of drills sham battles exercises and rifle range practice. Members are paid by the state during camp and await the outing. The Desplaines grounds annual camp meeting starts July 19.
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