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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1898
Page
5
Oak Park and surrounding town items report residents visiting Rochester Aurora Montreal and Michigan._excavation for a new Masonic Hall progresses as local clerks association thanks churches. Oak Park baseball club beats Illinois Cycling Club 4 3. Local students and families plan vacations and moves with many social events and notices.
Co. N. Hutchinson of Seattle, just back from a year in Dawson City, visits his father in law Henry Kellington of Berwyn. He once ran a saw mill, owns a mine, and believes gold regions hold further opportunities though cautions against going. Hutchinson wears a watch chain of fourteen bean sized nuggets. He left home for a death in the family and plans to stay until next summer. Last week’s high heat contrasts Alaska’s 54 degrees below zero last winter.
The Austin Woman's Club, freeing vacation time for extended work, aims to broaden its community reach. Members embrace the motto the world is my neighbor and seek closer touch with village and township interests for physical moral and aesthetic betterment. The piece urges parent and child study in tandem with a regulated curriculum.
A noon fire on Willow avenue near North avenue totally destroyed a two story frame house owned by Mr. Coony. Firefighters lacked water and equipment north of Augusta street until a Chicago company aided with a hand pump, saving the barn and sidewalks. Insurance covered 1400 on the house and 400 on household goods. the fire began from a gasoline stove explosion.
James A. Condon, who left for the Civil War in 1861 as a boy and was long believed dead, has reestablished contact with River Forest relatives Mrs. P. W. Dunn and brothers W. H. and P. P. Condon. A responding letter brought him back for a visit, following an invitation.
Fox and Henry have taken possession of their new store in the Abbott block with preparations ongoing. A formal opening will be announced later. In the meantime they continue serving patrons as usual and aim to rival Chicago suburbs in quality.
Oak Park develops as a publishing hub with over 200000 copies mailed monthly. Excluding purely local papers, a complete list includes Week's Current, Intelligencer, Easy Lines, Sense Reader, Teacher's Magazine, Fresh Lines, Young Wide Awake, Educational Reporter, Message and Deaconess' Advocate, The Star, Life Insurance Courant, Schleswig Holstein, The Sentinel.
New information casts doubt on the claim that William Buckingham and Charles Elliott of Austin found $10,000 each in the Klondike. They did travel to the Klondike and returned, but the large fortune report is misleading and they are not planning a return to their mines.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces a postal service exam in Oak Park Tl to be held between October 1 and 15, 1898. Applications must be filed in complete form before close of business September 1. applicants will be notified of the exact exam date.
Cicero town board sessions discuss Oak Park arc lighting, outfall sewer work, and the Robin Son Avenue contract. Suspensions of Officers Czmock Lee Mahoney and J P Hohmann are set for hearings, licenses issued, bids approved for West Side Fifty second Street work, and various street and sewer projects ordered or continued.
In Maywood, Katherine Sulevich was arrested by a Chicago constable for riding a bicycle without a fight. The arrest occurred before Police Magistrate John A. McGowan, whose lenient village marshal prompted sharp criticism from citizens. Officials discussed a possible removal petition, but no action was reported.
The British American Club of Chicago will host a peace jubilee picnic and harvest home at Laurelwood Park on Saturday August 27. Trains stopping at Austin and Oak Park from 9 a m to 2 p m. Fare is 50 cents.
Howard Skimp and Hallie Merrill return from trips to Wisconsin and six weeks at Waukesha. Lucy Hart to attend Normal at Normal NL next year. Alfred Adams back from two weeks yachting on Lake Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Westcott visiting Michigan with Oak Park friends. Fanthams home from two weeks at a Wisconsin summer resort. Miss Zackler returns from Chicago schools vacation. Knights of Pythias from Melrose Park and the village on a trolley party. An illustrated lecture on the Hawaiian islands by Rev. G. W. Jackman at the Congregational church this Friday. Chester Hart hosts son Bonell and Chicago bride at Tuesday reception. Boys Cottage Home Assembly in session at Sixth Ave and Madison. Cottage Home aids children of dependent mothers. Rain shortens opera benefit for Company 1 First Wilneis volunteers. Day’s impersonations and Oak Park orchestra praised. Harris, Chicago Record Rough Riders correspondent, back in Maywood after Hot Springs recovery. Rev. Strong expected home by Sept 1. W T Adking adds a new refrigerator before meat market opening. Christian Rye goes Kansas City for schoolhouse furniture contract. Local cricket match Davis Wanderers vs Fletcher Ridgeland. Hotfoot Bicycle Club tours weekly. last ride to Lincoln Park to view electrical fountains. Sayles and Strong families plus Mrs Firman touring Boston historic sites. They visited Plymouth Rock and Lexington battlefield.
Local work crews began the new Yerts building project on Lake street. Figures include architect H G Fiddelke coordinating plans for a two story brick structure with stone foundation and modern utilities.
Valher Campbell of Austin reports returning from Europe by the Campania route used by the ill fated La Bourgogne. They witnessed wreckage and floating life preservers including a child's body, and the Campania did not stop to aid.
Miss Foster to teach in South Evanston schools. Harmony society picnic trip planned. Harlem Maennerchor annual excursion to Pottawatomi Park, round trip 50 cents, children 25. Roos and Schrade offer mortgage loans. John Long builds a saloon on Circle and Harlem. Edwin Owen reports 100 new books added to the library, totaling about 1,100 volumes.’
Yesterday afternoon Mrs. A F Hartley and Mrs. Sumner Smith hosted a surprise birthday gathering for Mrs. Hartley at Dr Lizzie W Charles home in Oak Park. About seventy five friends attended as Miss Maybell Smith sang and gifts including a gold watch a guard and a silver trimmed purse were presented.
Miss Hr. Taylor of 4637 Lake Street Austin will open her dressmaking establishment August 29. She runs an extensive business throughout Cicero. Trails and Cooling advertise ice cream sodas and violet soap for hydrant water.
Fare of 26.00 to Boston and return on certificate plan via Nickel Plate Road offered for the Street Railway Association of America meeting held September 6 to 9, 1898. Inquiries directed to J Y Calahan 111 Adams St Chicago. Depot at Van Buren Street Passenger Station on the Loop.
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