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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1900
Page
9
A diary excerpt from Mrs. Lybbe Powis describes 1776 gentleman fashion. Mr Harger is said to wear sky blue paduasole with gold seamwork cuffs waistcoat velvet muff cheneal blonde streamers and a large feather. Mrs Powis notes Mr Bousfield at Exeter races in a blue coat trimmed with Devonshire paint and shoes valued at £800.
German plantation experts assert the Samoan islands have a bright future in coffee tea tobacco cotton and related crops. They single out Upolu island as especially suitable due to its favorable position fertile soil and good climate for cultivation.
Masonic Nall solicits continued patronage of his First-Class Drug Store inviting others in need of Pure Drugs and standard drug store articles to call on him.
Miss Bess Welch visits Aurora while Mr. and Mrs. Stallwood welcome a daughter born March 4. The Cinch Club and Pearce Club meet. H. E. Rocklidge returns from Salt Lake City with a gold bar. Stage rehearsal of Pinafore under Kenneth Barradell aims for an April production to aid St Paul’s Choir fund. High School minstrels race to April readiness with Vernon Biggs as interlocutor. Banquet planned for March 14 with speakers on religious progress and a discussion on the twentieth century church.
The notice promotes reduced prices now that the trust is dissolved. It invites readers to see new designs and have work estimated by W. E. Turner at 224 North Waller Avenue, Austin.
Guaranteed first mortgages offered in amounts from 500 to 2500 dollars with principal and interest guaranteed and payable in gold coin by Harlem Savings Bank located at 15 Madison Street Harlem Lh.
An experienced instructor advertises private lessons in Latin German and other school studies. Apply at once to 6706 Ohio Street, Austin.
Principal John Calvin Hanna plans a summer trip for Oak Park High School students and alumni across the St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, and Lucern to Interlachen. Oak Park churches met with Dr. J Wilbur Chapman delivering Let No Man Take Thy Crown. Nakama Club outlined officers, and Estelle Harrington and Clarence Pellet announced a March 19 wedding with Chicago Underwriters chief Pellet as groom.
Jw Price's office will receive items left at 62d Street vicinity. C Kampp & Son undertakers announce improvements. Miss E Williams, hatter at 5641 Lake Street, returns from New York and plans a fine season. Col J W Bennett opens office at Central Ave and South Boulevard for real estate renting insurance and notary services. Don Rosado reports a customer mistakenly paid with two five dollar bills. contact him to reclaim one.
Mr. George Langston of Butler Langston returns from Havre Montana where he has been employed by the House Camp Outfitting Company for six months. Walter Mayne of Oak Park reports his wallpaper business improving with many contracts in hand.
The New York Fifth Avenue stage service will abandon horse-drawn coaches for electric stages. Vehicles from New Haven will carry twenty two passengers and replace aging dray horses. Each electric stage costs 5500 dollars and promises higher speeds, ending a long era of historic horse drawn transport on a famed city thoroughfare.
John C. Webber, a popular young New York social figure on the East Side, died recently and his many organizations sent lavish floral tributes. A committee chose a rose pillow on immortelles with the words He was a brick in large purple letters.
The Areh mt a CoN on Euclid Avenue M E Church in Col. Washington Boul hosts Sunday activities. 9:45 a m Sabbath School and 11 a m sermon with special quartet music. Fellowship at noon followed by Junior Epworth League at 2 30 p m and Vesper service 5 p m. Senior Epworth League at 6 p m. Wednesday prayer meeting at 8 p m.
Lake Street church listings outline Sunday services with preaching at 10 30 a m Sunday school at noon M Y P S C E at 6 30 p m and evening service at 7 30 p m Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 45 p m Reverend William E Barton pastor residing at 228 North Oak Park Avenue Oak Park Illinois.
The pastor Clarence E. K. Lapp will speak next Sunday night on Blackboard Sketches of Some Famous Generals. Initials J N D D B I D P R refer to a grandfather father and son family. Special Anthem by the Choral Union.
Morning sermon at 10 45 on The Holy Spirit. Evening sermon titled Lessons from the Life of Jonathan. Two church families mourn losses in Forest Home Cemetery. Mrs Mary F Bubb sustained a hip dislocation. Five more members joined last Sabbath, twenty four additions in weeks. Ladies Society starts a missionary department to expand duties.
Rev George A Campbell will speak Sunday morning. The church youth plan a sociable at 5500 Washington Blvd this Friday evening hosted by Mr and Mrs J H Stark. A church supper is set for next Wednesday 5 30 to 7 30 with a prayer meeting at 8. Since R J Whitson moved to Hiawatha Kansas the Hiawatha Church has gained 125 members.
First Baptist Church Oak Park announces services at 1030 a m and 730 p m with Sunday School at noon on Sunday. Uncle Boston W Smith of Minneapolis will lead all services and illustrate the Chapel Car work with a stereopticon in the evening. He is described as remarkable and his Oak Park visit is billed as highly interesting.
Dr Barton preaches Sunday at 10 30 on The Divine Tax payer The evening sermon theme is The Price of Peace District Oak Park church notices announce worship and topics for the day
John Norris Hall leads at First M. E. Church Oak Park with Sunday School at noon Junior League at 3 p m Epworth League at 6 30 p m Morning topic A Family Worth Belonging To Evening topic An Interdict and an Invitation Music praised and a welcoming atmosphere noted.
Mr Robert Quayle superintendent machinery and motive power of the C and N W Ry Co will speak at the vesper service at Euclid Avenue M E Church. On the second Sunday each month at 5 p m an address by a prominent layman is planned Miss Mae Olds will sing.
Mt Carmel Colored Baptist Church located at 127 Lake Street Oak Park with Rev W W Russell pastor residence 204 Marion Street preaches at 10 30 a m and 7 30 p m Sunday School 12 m B Y P U 6 p m prayer meeting every Wednesday evening everybody welcome to all services
At the Second Congregational Church in Oak Park Lake and Scoville next Sunday is "Decision Sunday" with a 9 30 Teachers Prayer Meeting and a 10 30 morning service where the pastor speaks on Weighed in the Balances Pilate's Decision Day and a ten minute children's sermon on A Mountain Mover Faith A 12 Sunday School and a 5 o'clock vesper service follow along with a neighborhood prayer meeting on Wednesday night Additional Sunday School activities at Upper Cicero and the Lombard Randolph elevated station point to a growing religious effort Prof F E C Rossiter was elected superintendent with several teachers named and a call for all in the neighborhood to join next Sunday
Rev R F Johonnet and Thomas Taylor Drill lead worship at 10 30 a m and 7 p m Morning topic The Great Need of Modern Life Evening The Bible as a Help Sunday School at noon.
Corner Marion and Ontario streets in Kew hosts Hintze pastor with Sunday School at 9:30 a.m. Morning service at 10:45. Young People Alliance meets at 7 p.m. Evening service at 7:30 p.m.
Health note explains moles and warts are removable without danger. It describes destroying hair with an electric needle, piercing the base to puff the growth, forming a brown crust that dries and falls away. Some cases need multiple treatments. caustics are cautioned to avoid scarring.
In Topeka Kansas a young woman went to buy her wedding trousseau with several hundred dollars but found a poker game at a friend's house in progress and left broke after a couple of hours. The article notes women in Topeka gambling at a fearful rate and highlights the incident.
A Chicago capitalist negotiates with Kansas farmers by buying heifer calves and placing them on shared farming. After six years the farmer must return for each calf one 2 year old steer and one dollar in cash. Projected returns show about six animals per original calf.
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