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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1897
Page
5
Windsor resident Bernard Casey ill for two weeks. Edible specials offered by Carlson Olson’s. Families return from Lake Marie and St Paul visits. The town records dog bites, wheel accidents, and a near canal fall. Obituaries, church socials, and Klondike fever talk fill the week’s notices.
South Cicero notes Hawthorne Stars defeated Grant Juniors 48 to 0 on Sunday. Reports of arrests for a streetcar hold-up misidentifies Sid Regan and Jack Goodman, while a family dispossession on Thirteenth Street and Euclid Avenue draws sympathy. Alpha Connoisseurs hold Creighton Park picnic with 450 attendees and a variety of races and music. St. Dionysius church prepares for a Creighton Park picnic expected to draw about 1,000 with races for all ages and a Zouave parade.
Clyde Mrs T H Germond stays in Binghamton New York. A K E B Roberts visited Chicago hosts Mr and Mrs Cullinan for two weeks. Mr and Mrs J Robisho and daughter depart for St Anne today returning next Thursday. Rev Mr Stranahan takes a two week vacation and reports his mother’s health improving. W Giles family relocate within town. Mrs A B Whitney heads to Devil’s Lake Wisconsin for a few days rest returning Thursday. Aug 12 Ed Moore and Frank Maxwell departed.
In River Forest the Lake street and Harlem avenue corner gains redevelopment with architect EB Roberts directing a residence project. The Junior League lawn fete at Partridge town near Lake street and Thatcher avenue drew praise as growth and improvements forecast a busier year. The village board, led by President T M Jackson, adopted a cycling ordinance similar to Chicago’s taxing bicycles at 1 a year and extending vehicle taxes.
James Jones of Jones & Son Cowden HL reports his wife suffered la grippe that progressed to Hasty Consumption. After using Dr King’s New Discovery, she improved from the first dose and fully recovered after several $1 bottles. The medicine is guaranteed to help Coughs Colds and Consumption with free trials at Lovell's Oak Park and Traill’s Austim stores.
A Caribou farmer uses a movable portable fence to surround a stump, places two large hogs inside, then digs holes around the stump and fills them with grain. The hogs root the soil away, enabling the stump to be tipped and removed in days. The method is noted by the Kennebec Journal.
Old people needing medicine to regulate bowels and kidneys may find Electric Bitters effective. The tonic acts mildly on the stomach and bowels, strengthens organs, aids digestion, and supports Nature in function. Price 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle at Lovell's Oak Park store and Traill's Austin drugstore.
Melrose Park reports include Dunnebecke authorized to receive Windicater subscriptions, births and burials, new Baby at the Storey home, Diamond Rule cigars sold, and building on Twenty-first avenue. The village plans a waterworks project with an $1800 well and $1250 lot, to be funded over ten years, with trustees set to advertise for bids.
A grooved green slate stone ax, four inches long and five and a half ounces, was found while digging a well two miles northeast of New London Ohio. The relic, recovered from blue clay beneath thirteen feet of silty strata, is cited by Prof EK W Claypole as evidence that glacial man inhabited North America over 10,000 years ago.
Prof. Claypole analyzes a decayed ancient axe unearthed in deep clay and gravel, arguing it dates from the late glacial era. He notes weathering, glacial deposition, and a 10 000 year timeline, concluding relics of Neolithic man were real not mythical.
A partial bank report lists loans and discounts, overdrafts secured, from banks, furniture and fixtures, current expenses including taxes, collections dates, and liabilities such as paid-in capital, surplus, undivided profits, and various deposits. It mentions demand certificates of deposit and individual deposits in a damaged ledger fragment.
River Forest Illinois invites sealed proposals for Forest avenue from Lake street to Chicago avenue including grading curbing and paving with cedar blocks. Bids due 7 30 p m August 9 1897 with 2 percent certified check. Bid to be addressed to village clerk and village president. Board may reject all bids. GEO W SHEARBURN Village Clerk River Forest Ill July 27 1897
The Cicero board of trustees ordered a pipe sewer on the north side of Chicago avenue from Prairie to Austin in Cook County Illinois. An assessment of cost by benefits has been filed with the Cook County court and a final hearing is set for the August term starting August 9 1897. Interested persons may appear to present defenses.
The town of Cicero in Cook County Illinois has applied for an assessment of costs for improving Franklin Avenue from Lake Street to Chicago Avenue and related segments. The county court will hold a final hearing in August 1897 to consider the assessment for benefits and any defenses.
Notice to all ordered that house drains be constructed in Euclid avenue from Lake street to Superior street in the town assessment of the cost. Hearing therefor will be had at the on the 9th day of August, A. D. 1897. Dated the 30th day of July, A. D. 1897.
Special Assessment No 603 reports the Kenilworth avenue improvement from Chicago avenue to Augusta street in Cicero Cook County Illinois under the June 29 1897 town ordinance. The town board filed the ordinance and the County Court of Cook County is asked to assess costs according to benefits. Dated July 30 1897.
Indiana street will be improved from Pine to Willow avenues and from Willow to West Fifty third street and to Robinson avenue in Cicero Cook County Illinois. An assessment of cost by benefits was made and returned to Cook County Court. The final hearing begins August 9 1897 with defenses allowed. Dated July 20 1897.
An old advertisement promotes Bucklen's Arriva Salve as the best cure for cuts, bruises, sores, ulcers, rheum, fever sores, eczema, chapped hands, chilblains, corns and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. Sold by Craill's Drug Store in Austin for 25 cents a box.
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