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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1898
Page
14
Oak Park ads and society notes list Miller's drug store offerings and moving services at 110 Lake street C F Drechsler. J R Johns merchandise and rentals on Lake street. Charity euchre, church concerts, Miss Lay performances, and local appointments mark a active community week with unclaimed letters and civic announcements.
Ridgeland items report Mrs. DeWitt Akin visiting Elgin and a Ridge land Pharmacy ad for The Vindicator. A three year old in Ridgeland is ill with diphtheria and several locals sign to join the volunteer army. Others sell homes, rent houses, and a theft of tools occurs during a lunch break at a carpenters’ site. An upcoming wedding and rental listings are noted amid church activities and neighborhood shifts.
Town residents report progress from illnesses including bronchitis and grippe while several travel and living updates fill the page. Miss Pauline Hatch returns from New York. Mr. Hoyt Barber moves to Washington for a Treasury job. Mrs. Coombs aged 82 sustains a hip fracture with slow recovery. The union services open with Rev W Fassett speaking. Proviso Sunday-school meeting outlines officers and talks. A funeral for George Mackness is noted with burial at Forest Home. Mr and Mrs Willard wed in Cantlan and plan to reside with Mrs Tracy on Oak Avenue.
Harlem residents hear of additions and rebuilds including Lehman refreshment stand project and Troost store reconstruction by Hillmer Bros. A new sidewalk on Desplaines avenue aids cemetery visitors as the election season marks record turnout with unopposed village president and clerk races. August Quandt reports sighting a white blackbird while pursuing it toward the Klondike.
In Harlem village annual election the Independent Citizens party slate won all posts. George Schrade was re elected president by unanimous vote, Henry C. Meier kept village clerk. Trustees elected were Chas Meseke Chas Hillmer and John P Furlong new trustee. Lange opposed with 215 votes.
Maywood section recaps last weeks omissions and this weeks items. Mentions illness of Mrs Frank Moore and Mr Harrison Nichols, local license debates, Diamond Rule cigars, residents visiting Aurora and Baltimore, and moving plans for Rev S P Dunlap. Includes social events, a Wing’s Daughters convention, a protest march, and community notices.
The First Baptist Church will have morning preaching on A Discouraged Prophet and evening on Unworthy Views of Life. Unity Church hosts an organ recital Sunday at 4 pm April 24 with Mrs B F Stout presiding and the High School Glee Club assisting. All welcome with free seats.
The St Luke's congregation gathered for a highly solemn Good Friday service led by Rev J F Lynett of Toronto Canada. The Passion sermon followed The Way of the Cross devotion and urged repentance and renewal with the risen Savior on Easter morning.
Harvard receives a 20000 gift for a lectureship in memory of a graduate. James B Angell resigns as minister to Turkey to return for the University of Michigan presidency. Loubat of Paris bequeaths 1100000 to Columbia for library endowment. Colby secures 50000 for 300000 conditional gift. two college buildings to be built. Frances Willard commencement for Alabama Normal College girls. Julia Tutwiler urges noble example for the 1898 class.
A playful dictionary of satirical definitions contrasts terms like Millionaire One man in a million and Egotist A man who can't disguise the interest he feels in himself. It pairs social labels with wry, pointed character sketches and moral twists across brief lines.
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