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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1900
Page
7
Austin town notes detail mail arrival and departure times from the East and West routes. The schedule lists morning and afternoon pickups and closings, indicating when mails are accepted and sent for each direction. Howard Robertson is listed as postmaster.
IRA GEORGE SIBLEY aged 90 from Vermont died March 30 at his daughter’s Austin home. Funeral at Forest Home with Rev. Johnson. DANIEL CARVER aged 68 died March 31 at 1248 Willow Ave Austin. funeral with Rev. Fifield at Sacramento Church. interment Forest Home. MARY BOOMER’s remains moved from Brookfield Missouri to Garden Prairie for interment. HERMAN M GILLETT aged 45 died April 1 at 5915 Iowa Street. Masonic funeral with Rev. A M White. Forest Home burial. FRED YALE a Montana civil engineer for Union Pacific Railroad age 25, funeral at Haggard residence. burial Forest Home with Rev. Johnson. HIRAM S UTLEY born in Vermont, 57. died, funeral at 5820 S Boulevard Austin. burial Forest Home. EDWARD CLAYTON CRAFTS aged 21 months and SERENA CLEMENSON aged 4 both died of illnesses. parents express sorrow.
Roath Bros report better hay and grain sales at Austin and Oak Park while The Donaldson Worswick Printers expand their quarters to Ohio street locations 6634 and 5636. They add binding machinery and aim to run a large suburban printing plant alongside city work.
Miller's drug store features Lazell's choice perfumes and Original Allegretti chocolates. Prescriptions can be filled at Miller's, with eye exams and glasses by W. Wilsnach, 208 Lake street, Oak Park. Cigars in Key West and domestic brands at popular prices. Charles P. Miller, druggist.
On South boulevard Oak Park the Woman's Exchange offers coffee cake and all home made culinary items at reasonable prices. Light dinners are served at noon.
Fred Stanley is now employed at 185 North Park Avenue Austin and offers personal attention to all repair jobs. All work warranted and promised on time at reasonable prices. Call and bring in your repair work. Mrs. L. A. R. Stanley urges customers to call.
A reflective line extolling mercy over vengeance, suggesting the highest triumph is showing kindness to the wounded rather than inflaming injury. It frames mercy as a greater victory than any harsh response.
The article lists social entertainments by Mrs. F Adams and others on 340 Wisconsin avenue and 333 Wisconsin avenue and details visits by Mrs. McMurphy from Morgantown West Virginia after lecturing on ancient and modern art. Unclaimed letters include numerous names. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society held a meeting with a musical program. Miss Katherine Sharpe tours libraries with her class and visits Scoville Institute. The George Rogers Clark Chapter will sponsor a debate at Scoville Institute on April 19 comparing Boer and British war aims with admission 25 cents.
The Oak Park First Congregational Church choir performs The Redemption a four part cantata with words by Rev William Barton and music by Louis Falk Palm Sunday April 8 Good Friday April 18 Easter morning. The Easter evening service unites the four parts.
W L Gookins of 208 Lake street Oak Park sells his interest in the jewelry and optical business to W R Wilsnach who has been his partner and longtime employee. Gookins cites fifty one years in the business and wishes his successor success with upright service. Westmark the faithful workman trained in Europe continues to service watches and clocks with home delivery included.
Advertising copy claims the pills stop headaches by purifying blood and boosting health. Sold by Traill & Cooling and Chas P. Miller druggists for 25 cents with no money back guarantee.
If your watch or clock has been repaired time and again and you fear frauds, bring your troubles to W. R. Wilsnach at 208 Lake Street Oak Park where repairs will be set right or no charges made.
Personal attention offered at the Millinery Parlors of Mrs. C Efla Taylor located at 121 N Park Ave Austin Texas Phone 1472.
Mr. D. N. Sinks of Troy Ohio reports rapid relief from a severe arm and shoulder rheumatism after using Chamberlain's Pain Balm. He was advised by George F. Parsons & Co. to try the liniment and found it best for muscular rheumatism. Sold by J. P. Garner & Co. Austin, George Koch & Co. Moreland.
Ambitious call to self improvement through body and mind training and serving others.
A Mor ganton Tennessee mother describes a severe scalp outbreak on her young daughter. Bucklen's Arica Saive was claimed to fully cure the sores, eczema, tetter, salt rheum, pimples, and ulcers at a quarter a bottle sold by local merchants Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller.
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