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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1899
Page
2
Local items discuss readers notifying the Austin office about missed papers, policing leadership under President Lewis, and questions about Kalamazoo Gas Company amid excitement. Community details cover snow, sleighing, barbed wire fences by the elevated company, and notable residents like Wm. Hally at the Odd Fellows Home.
The Thirty-fifth Ward Republican Club formed to gain a county committeeman. Harry Strickler and Robi F Linn were appointed but both were rejected by the Cook County organization. The group keeps O W Nash of Oak Park as committeeman with spring election to settle the issue.
Report notes Austin joins Chicago Board of Education and considers offering French in the new term if six or more parents apply. The Paris 1900 exposition stirs eagerness, prompting officials to respond to demand swiftly.
Maude N Evans died at 106 South Park Ave Austin Illinois on December 6 1899 after a brief illness leaving a husband and unborn child a daughter and sister. She was active in First Congregational Church Sunday school Ladies Society Christian Endeavor and the Austin Woman's Club her loss mourned by many friends and the club adopted in memoriam resolutions praising her charity zeal and cheerful spirit.
The body of George F Haven who died in Cuba a year ago while serving as a corporal in an Illinois regiment was brought to Oak Park and buried at Forest Home cemetery. The Rev J W Conley of First Baptist Church officiated. Mrs John Utpalal died at her Desplaines Avenue home in her 34th year after recent hospital treatment.
On December 11 the chartered Thirty-fifth Ward Republican Club met at the engine house on Waller Avenue to elect ward officers and a central committeeman. Elected: President C H Burras. vice-presidents J H Cooper Geo F Hulseburg T E Pray C W Mills. secretary H F Coffin. assistant secretaries Dr W C Brown and H H Hendricks. treasurer E J Whitehead. sergeant at arms John Parks. assistant sergeant at arms L S Pinney. ward central committeeman Robert F Linn Jr.
Miss Lucy Page Gaston head of anti cigarette work in the Young People's Christian Union leads a meeting in Library Hall next Sunday at 2 30 p m All Sunday schools are invited and any others may hear her speak on anti cigarettes.
The committee reports on locating the collector's office in the downtown district and refunds in a plumbing case. It adopts resolutions to rent an office not exceeding 250 dollars and to issue a 13 dollar refund for Peterson. It also directs filing of funds and an ordinance for plank sidewalks and fire alarm boxes, with next meeting set for December 15, 1899.
Simmons fifty second street ex pressman was put under two hundred dollar bonds to keep the peace in Justice Eberhardt's court. His wife had charged him with attempt to intimidate and the business, once run by him, passed to his wife by division and alimony granted about two years ago. The venture, now managed by C C Dickerson, will be conducted reliably by Mrs E J Simmons.
The Woman's Club highlights decorating public school rooms with art pictures. An special fund has grown for the effort, with the first picture to be installed in a building by the coming Christmas. The piece urges other clubs to join and form a cooperative movement.
On Tuesday December 5 the Union Relief Society met with Mrs Haggard and discussed urgent business. Mesdames Bryning and Cleverdon were appointed delegates to confer with the Associated Charities of Chicago.
S C Higginson secretary announces a special United States civil service examination for post office clerk and carrier in Austin on January 6 1900. Inquiries directed to the secretary. The St Louis police object to sending dead bodies in trunks, noting that living people must look out for themselves.
Mrs Bell Anderson of Blue Island visited family here last week. Mr and Mrs J Harn of Chicago called on Mrs H P Bennett at 719 North Fourth Avenue. Will Kemlock recently returned from Cook County Hospital where his leg was amputated. Village leaders from Oak Park Harlem Maywood River Forest and Melrose Park met at Maywood Town Hall on December 12 to discuss extending the park and boulevard system, forming a committee. A new skating rink has been flooded and frosty weather is coming for winter skating.
The Austin W C T U will meet next week Friday December 22 at 2 30 p m at Mrs A Lindsey 311 North Central Ave. Subject Peace Day and Crusade Day Leader Mrs A S Gardner Full attendance urged.
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