Austin Suburban News Highlights Local Visits and Events
Mr. William Gross moves to Kansas City. Miss Mamie Wilson visits in St. Charles. Lillian Schaubel guests in town. Miss Florence Fellows of Harvey AL visits Edith Hollenbeck. Protracted union meeting led by Joseph Jamison draws crowds. Austin May Festival plans underway with musical societies. Austin Day convocation by the Woman's Club on April 12. several residents noted visiting relatives and changes in local addresses. Thieves break into A. Burner's paint store at 149 North Park avenue stealing brushes. Gen. Walter S. Payne of Fostoria OH moves to 5001 Erie Street. his daughter Miss Payne a pipe organist.
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William Gross
Kansas City
David Manny
North Pine Avenue
Mamie Wilson
St. Charles
Ada McGuffin
Lillian Schaubel
Lucie Amerson
Florence Fellows
Harvey, AL
Edith Hollenbeck
W. P. Jenkins
Orangeville
Ind
Alfred Barrow
Detroit
Mich
A. F. Barrow
J. D. Haggard
Mason, II
H. N. Curtis
L. Hollenbeck
Waller Avenue
Marie Clifford
Kansas City, Mo
S. B. Denison
North Fifty-second Avenue
Burt Eddy
Chenoa
Walter S. Payne
Knight Templar
Prohibition Party
Fostoria, O
Erie. Street
Miss Payne
Austin Woman's Club
Austin
Mattie Schwall
Furlong
Harvey Avenue
Marie Hall
South Scoville Avenue
Jease Spitzer
Oak Park
Antioch
Miller
Prairie Avenue
East End
Cinch Club
Mrs. Gallagher
Dr. Tope
Helen
Mt. Vernon Seminary
Washington, D. C
Geo. Charlton
North Scoville Avenue
Chattanooga
Tenn
Eugene Stewart
Englewood
Harold Rositer
Ed Goodwillie
Harry Dunmore
North Cuyler Avenue
Lafayette
Union Carpenters
Oak Park Social Notices and Local Happenings
Oak Park residents share news of travel illness and visits while community groups meet. Updates include Misses Schwall and Furlong hosting, Edward Charlton hosting and the East End Cinch Club gathering, and plans for a $20 000 Forest Home Cemetery entrance.
Victory for Garner and Race in Thirty-fifth Ward
The Thirty-fifth Ward election produced a clear win for Alder man Race and Central Committeeman J P Garner. Garner earned praise for fairness and leadership while supporting Race, with both candidates praised for a clean campaign and voter support.
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Central
J. P. Garner
Alderman Race
Garner
Race
Pinafore in Austin Opens April 11
The most elaborately staged production in Austin for some time will be presented next Tuesday evening April 11. The management spared no expense to ensure success and has arranged reserved seating for an extra 10 cents at Moore's store, 107 North Park avenue.
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Austin
Moore’s
North Park Avenue
Victory in Cicero puts full Republican slate in office
The entire Republican ticket won in Cicero Tuesday with majorities between 300 and 500. Observers expect capable officers and little criticism in the coming year, noting the party’s strong showing this year and resilience after last year.
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Cicero
Nineteenth Century Club Meets in Oak Park Literature Talk
The Nineteenth Century Club Oak Park will hold a meeting on Monday April 8 at the Institute under the literature department. Mrs Annetta S Waterman will present a paper on Evolution in Literature. The annual meeting is scheduled for April 22.
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Nineteenth Century Club
Institute
Annetta S. Waterman
Old Cicero Town Board to Retire in April Meeting
The Cicero town board held its regular session April 4 1901 with outgoing members praised and new officers to assume power. The board criticized the drainage report discussed Oak Park canal connections and approved warrants totaling 15267 65 for various expenses. An April 1 adjourned meeting saw the finance committee push for bills to be signed by the public works commissioner and a resolution to cut volunteer firefighters at each station to eight men in line with the year’s appropriation.
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Special Drainage Committee
Central Avenue
Ogden Ditch
Oak Park
Cicero
State Board of Health
H. N. Norton
E. M. Cole
W. P. Utley
Mr. Norton
Commissioner of Public Works
R. A. Carpenter
Norton
Austin Woman's Club to Present Miss Lizzie Leaton
The Austin Woman's Club hosts an entertainment at Library Hall on Tuesday April 9 at 8 PM. Miss Lizzie Leaton, famed European and American character artist, will lead a tableaux d art evening with music readings and an orchestra and harpist.
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Library Hall
Lizzie Leaton
Delsdrtean
Miss Leaton
Austin
Woman's Club
Europe
Leaton
Oak Park Magazine Club postpones lecture to April 8
The Oak Park Magazine Club announces that Mr W Life cannot attend as planned and the meeting is postponed to Monday evening April 8 at 8 p m at the High School. Life will present the promised tab on Science.
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OAK Park Magazine Club
W. &. Life
High School
Life
B. L. Bevington
Fred Gerlach
River Forest Ladies Plan Rummage Sale and Elections
The River Forest community schedules a rummage sale by St Luke's Ladies Guild and an Aejor Club dance at Town Hall on April 13 to fund athletic meets. Village elections set for April 16 at Waterworks with a president trustees clerk police magistrate and library directors to be chosen.
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Ladies’ Guild
St. Luke's Church
Aejor Club
River Forest
River Forest Dancing Club
River Forest Woman's Club
J. W. Broughton
Thatcher Avenue
Harlem notices and events brief in 1901 era
Miss Lilly Becker is critically ill with brain fever in Harlem. Jacobi Earnest plans a $5 000 store near Harlem Bank. The Noach family reports a diphtheria case at 70 Dixon. A calico hop benefits Evergreen Lodge at Beling's Hall on April 6 with 15 cent admission. A $250 fire harms Thode's saloon from old rags. The Harlem Fire Company hosts a ball April 13 and a testimonial concert with Theodore Lorenz April 14 at Baden Hall. J Moser, long at Judge Lehmann’s, disappeared with wife and children. debts at Ruchel bakery and local grocers.
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Thode's
Theodore Lorenz
Baden’s Hall
Madison Street
Desplainés Avenue
J. Moser
Frank Lehmann
Harlem
A. Ruchel
Lehmann
Moser
Oak Park Public School Meeting Set for April 9
Citizens of school district No 1 Oak Park will meet at the High School Tuesday April 9 at 8 p m A report of the educational board for the past year will be read Nomination of a president to succeed H D Pierce and two board members to succeed S Rogers and Dwight Jackson will be made A following Township High School district meeting will nominate two board members for election April 13 to succeed J H Heald and F J Griffen
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Oak Park
Educational Board
H. D. Pierce
S. Rogers
Dwight Jackson
Citizens of Township High School
Township High School
J. H. Heald
F. J. Griffen
Unpaid Officials Leave Ludington as Night Watchman
On election night April 2 R. S. Ludington city attorney served as janitor pro tempore at Town Hall. With no paid janitor present and officers gone, he stayed to guard the silent hall on a special police commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. S. Ludington
Ludington
Mr. Ludington
Robbery on Doorstep in Austin
Mr. E. M. Marble of 308 South Park avenue Austin was held up on his doorstep Saturday evening just as he was about to leave home. A diamond shirt stud, a gold ring, a gold watch and chain, and $8 in cash were taken between 8:30 and 8:32 p m.
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E. M. Marble
South Park Avenue
Austin
Governor Veto Blocks Sale of Davis Mansion in Montgomery
Governor Samford vetoes the bill authorizing Alabama to purchase the Jefferson Davis mansion in Montgomery and preserve it as a Confederate museum, halting plans to make the site a state historic landmark.
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Davis
Samford
Alabama
Jefferson Davis
Montgomery
Patti Visits Arditi in London to Celebrate Recovery
Mme Patti and her husband called on maestro Arditi during a London visit to congratulate him on recovering from a severe illness. She sent letters and inquiries, and at the end of the visit she performed his famed valse song I Bacio, leaving the elderly composer in a happy mood.
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Fetti
Mme
Patti
Arditi
London
Inches Long Revolver Gift to Jamaica Man
Stephen M. Van Allen of Jamaica Maine an expert shot has received as a gift the smallest revolver ever made. It measures an inch long and is perfect in detail. Self acting, the chamber holds six cartridges and bullets pierce a half inch pine board. Van Allen has tested it and found it accurate.
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Stephen M. van Allen
Jamaica
van Allen
Yale Bicentennial Plans for October Torchlight Procession
A Yale bicentennial celebration committee has been formed to organize alumni attendance for October events in New York. The group will operate from the Yale Club, coordinating a monster torchlight procession with costumes allegorical and historical floats and illuminations.
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Yale
Yale Club
New York
Volunteer Surgeon's Name Identified Among Surgeons
Among acting assistant surgeons in the volunteer army service is Najib Tariy-ud-Deen who has just been ordered from Washington to the barracks at Columbus Ohio.
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Najib Tariy-ud-Deen
Washington
Columbus, O
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