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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1900
Page
3
In the April 6 1900 issue The Vindicator lists subscription details and arrearages for readers and notes paper cessation on request. It reports May primaries upcoming and local races in Cicero West Town and Chicago council elections with results and commentary on ward representation and aldermanic contests.
The speaker endorses Mr. Hunter as a capable alderman hopeful and asks him to give attention to local needs. The message expresses confidence in his ability and anticipates broad backing from all factions.
The GOP urged Cicero town board to defer a new Aurora street railway ordinance until after the election. Some candidates show indifference to who passes it. Austin resists being moved to the Twenty-eighth ward in Chicago redistricting. aldermen could help keep status quo.
Residents of Berwyn and Clcero learn that Ek Cole, elected trustee, is regarded for strong ability and influence on the board.
Mr. Jas. A. Martin thanks friends who assisted in the late campaign. The result is disappointing, but all feel the lack of fault lies with Mr. Martin for not being elected.
The Republicans misstepped by bringing Lot Brown to Oak Park to speak. Brown addressed Oak Parkers as if they needed his advice, and Cicero has tried him in several places, finding him wanting.
The Tuesday aldermanic contest shows that running as a poor candidate is impractical in this precinct. It isn’t only vote buying feared but the heavy election expenses that deter financially limited men from seeking office.
The Thirty-fifth ward election opened at 4 30 a m with carriages and workers. Both sides hired teams and traveled between polling places all day. By noon independents led and ultimately won the race with all available votes cast.
A pithy aphorism notes that a clear conscience aids sleep and that luck rarely arrives on cue. It also suggests that self-tatters lead to a hopeless case for a man who tires of himself.
Mr. Chas A Gordon and department heads from Chicago arrived in Austin last Saturday night to take possession of the Austin post office. Inaugurated changes include district wide mail delivery and earlier daily mail collection and delivery. Chicago leadership secured earlier morning service, promising better overall mail handling and improved service.
Mrs John Sherman of Chicago gave an exhibition in parliamentary law before the club. The next meeting on April 16 will include the annual business meeting and officer election at 10 o clock with reports and luncheon. On April 9 the Music Art and Literature department will be entertained at the Aldens home.
A March 29 Oak Park concert at Second Congregational Church drew praise as one of the best. Soloists Mr. Dick, Miss Brathnober, and Miss Lay impressed with refined technique, expressive tone, and strong stage presence despite throat trouble and winter weather.
The Second Congregational church held a dedicatory supper on Friday March 30 with over three hundred people at fourteen tables. Eighty waiters served abundant food as toasts by notable gentlemen featured a witty program led by Toastmaster S S Rodgers and assisted by Graham Taylor and others.
Mr. B. A. Kinney of Iowa street created window displays about Austin last week advertising Orangerie. The tasteful work and Easterlike colors give the town a festive spring appearance.
Cicero town board approves saloon licenses after bonds filed. Trustees Attridge Frink Hafner MacDonald Traill vote yes with Linn Utley absent. Warrants issued for multiple special funds and salaries as committees review street and sewer projects and Oak Park district sidewalks.
Miss Nelly Cummings hosted a Thursday afternoon reception from 2 to 6 at W Lom bard avenue in Ridgeland honoring Mrs Wright and Miss Marshall who depart April 10 for Davenport Iowa. Mrs Bliss and Miss Lay provided music while over one hundred ladies attended the event with La France roses and ferns in the decor and red and white flowers in the dining room.
Paris exposition officials arrange 12 564 electric lamps for grounds and buildings. Reports note Scarborough England names Ladysmith avenue, and a marriage with a deceased wife's sister bill passes first reading in the Isle of Man parliament. Egypt posts 1899 revenue and expenditure with a small deficit. Hamburg plans a university centered on existing observatory labs and collections. Over 100 Finnish families leave Liverpool for Canada, swelling a recent total to over 2 500. Police in Paris to be mounted on bicycles. New Zealand protests Pacific cable concessions to Britain. Naples debates a colossal Christ statue visible from the bay with site changes from Castellamare to Camaldoli.
The passage muses on love and sense shaping life, the ease of pleasing others versus self-satisfaction, enduring cheerfulness, hopeful journeys casting burdens ahead, and the minor discomfort of conscience compared to toothache. It reads like contemplative musings from a reflective voice.
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