Oak Park social notes and local gatherings listed
Mrs. David Brown returns from Ver mont while Miss Minnie EB plans Christmas at Cherry Valley Illinois. Mrs. Huntling visits McGregor Iowa and family news, the Oaks host a euchre party with dancing, and musical events feature the Beethoven Club and Oak Park School of Music. A Royal League meeting, club entertainments, and a children's Christmas party are announced with officer elections and a long list of unclaimed letters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Brown
Vermont
Minnie EB
Post
Cherry Valley
Ill
Lottie Mather
Ontario Street
la Grippe
Thomas Duncan
North Central Avenue
Laguppe
Sarah Sprague
J. W. Clapp
The
Oaks
C. E. Huntling
McGregor
Iowa
N. A. Lacy
Mra
H. H. Haines
Indiana Avenue
O. Gillette
Lake Geneva
Wis
L. Hollenbeck
Waller Avenue
Frank Peake
B. H. Ellsworth
George B. Charles
Austin
Spencer
George C. Grimm
Century Crokinole Club
Amy Gilman
Alma
Superior Street
Viola-Smith
Franklin Avenue
Sacramento Avenue
Montreal
Grand Trunk Railway
Beethoven’ Club
Handel
Presbyterian Church
Louis Falk
Carom Club
Chas. Gallup
Cicero Town Board Debates Water Crisis and Rail Plan
At a recent Cicero Town Board meeting Aldermen Hunter and Race pressed for immediate water main work for Van Buren Street residents whose wells were condemned. The board, treating it as a financial matter, deferred the request as discussions on Chicago Oak Park expansion continued. The session also reviewed site offers for a town hall and a Lake Street Elevated Railway ordinance with a final vote set for December 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
Ald - Thomas
M. Hunter
Yan
Hunter
FL. Race
van Buren Street
Mandell
Chicago
Oak Park
Austin
Jones
C. B. Scoville
Lake Street
Euclid Avenue
Lombard Avenue
Kenilworth Avenue
W. H. Austin
Forest Avenue
Chicago Suburban Term Company
Lake Street Elevated Railway Company
South Boulevard
Messrs
Knot
Niles
Bliss
Watts
Fractured Notice Records Local Meeting and Train Incident
Fragmented text shows a meeting of a local society with officers named and a separate report of a man falling from a moving train near Kinzie Avenue. Injuries described as lacerations and the rail incident referenced alongside election notes and charitable aims.
Merchants consider early closing pact in Austin
At an adjourned meeting on Wednesday evening 1801, a petition outlined preferred closing hours for each merchant. The plan aims to unify hours, allow merchants to choose their times, and gain public support for a majority agreeable schedule. Some may refuse, but representative houses may adopt a plan benefiting the city.
Opinion on the Water Question in Chicago Ward
A letter dated November 26 1900 from W M Arthur, acting Corporation Counsel, states the city of Chicago may tap city water mains on Fifty-second Avenue to supply residents on Fifty-second Avenue between Kinzie and Augusta Streets in the Thirty-fifth Ward. The ruling references the Cicero Water Gas and Electric Light Company contract and says no provision prevents city supply to the annexed portion of Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Race
Thirty-fifth Ward
Chicago
City of
Fifty-second Avenue
Kinzie
Augusta Streets
Thirty-fifth
Cicéro Water, Gas and Electric Light Company
Austin
Oak Park Woman Missing Since December
Mrs. Ehrhart nee Moses of 221 South Euclid Avenue has been missing since December 11 after visiting her Chicago aunt. Her husband believed she stayed with relatives but found she was gone the next morning. Chicago police are quietly searching but have not located her. Oak Park families are leaving no stone unturned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ehrhart
Royal Arcanum Election Delivers Officers At Cicero
The Dec 14 meeting of Cicero Council No 500 Royal Arcanum featured speeches and the election of officers. Members reported lively discussion and chosen officers to serve the coming year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
R.A
Woman’s Club of Austin Civics Meeting Postponed Program
Bulletin for December notes a December 27 meeting at 2 30 PM for the Civics and Sociology department at Mrs Sisson 315 North Pine Avenue The program titled Social Problems by Mary O Page is postponed from November Key items include Municipal Sanitary Lane and Berlin Chicago comparison by R Abbie Carr Parliamentary drill
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Civics and Sociology
Sisson
Pine Avenue
Municipal
Josephine
Comparias Berlinp
Berlin
Chicago
R. Abbie Carr
Secret Cleaning Plans Stir Tailors Across Town
Oscar Johanson begins a discreet cleaning preparation marketed for ladies. The venture attracts eager tailors seeking access to the process and garments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oscar Johanson
Géxit
Fragmented OCR Note on Work and Attire
The readable text hints at a discussion about dogs wearing clothes and a rule about work being inconsistent. It is fragmentary and does not provide clear entities, events, or a coherent narrative.
Dawson’s World Exaggerated Views Clarified by Klondike Visitor
A tall Klondiker visiting Arlington registers his San Francisco ties and a claim Dawson offers modern comforts. He describes Dawson as a growing, well governed city with daily steamship links from Seattle, future Yukon Valley growth, and notable Allied Canadian governance while noting American mine regimes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson
Klondiker
Jeremiah Lynch
Arlington
San Francisco
California
Alaska
Europe
Washington Post
Seattle
White Pass
Yukon
Paris
Canada
Prices Rise Sharply For London Coffee Housekeepers
Mr William Alstrom of Kimberley Road Nunhead, secretary of the London Coffee and Eating House Keepers Association, reports widespread price hikes over the past year. Meat flour sugar tea eggs bacon currants raisins sultanas butter lard and crockery all up. jam remains the only cheaper item as coal and gas costs soar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Alstrom
Kimberley Road
Nunhead
London Coffee and Eating House Keepers’ Association
London Mail
Small Men Live Longest and centenarian traits
A British Medical association commission found centenarians tend toward small stature and spare build with feeble voices and worn teeth yet strong digestion. Most enjoyed long health, exercised outdoors and drank little alcohol while remaining moderate eaters and placid by nature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Medical Association
Territorial Growth of United States Across Centuries
In 1300 the U S territory covered 815 244 square miles and by 1900 it reached 3 768 521 square miles. This marks an expansion of almost 3 000 000 square miles in a single century. The record highlights rapid national territorial growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nation
Enormous Round Mushroom Found Near Rickmansworth
A large mushroom discovered in Rickmansworth England was perfectly round and measured nine inches across and twenty seven inches in circumference. It weighed ten ounces without the stem and drew attention from locals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Rickmansworth
River Forest Social Roundup and Local Incidents
The column reports illnesses including scarlet fever and typhoid among local families. It notes Chas Sullivan visiting from Suwanee, Tennessee, a gifted deer head for blacksmith L. E. More, and social gatherings at the Young Married People’s Card Club and a local Art League meeting. A bridge accident injures a passerby, and church choirs plan Christmas morning performances with multiple Masses and soloists. Community meetings cover art, education, and discussion topics with refreshments provided.
East Oak Park Christmas Roundup of Local Figures
Mrs E A Cummings suffers a severe la grippe attack. Birth announced for Frank and Lindop on Washington boulevard. Mrs Paul Blackford returns from the east. Robert Caughie expected home for holidays. J H Clark stricken with paralysis after loco motor ataxia. Mr Wright home for holidays after work in New York. Mrs Wright hosting out of town guests. Harry Scoville to return tomorrow for the holidays. Miss Catherine Condon at home. travelling with Savage-Gray Opera Company for next week’s Auditorium show. Ewing Street Mission invited to Second Congregational Church Christmas exercises. Local students home from college for holidays: Emily Pitkin, Catherine Pitkin, Stella Hitchcock, Alice Ensign, Louis Ensign, Ernest Chamberlin, Fred Chamberlin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. A. Cummings
Frank Lindop
Washington Boulevard
Paul Blackford
Robert Caughie
Henderson Shoe Co
J. H. Clark
North Tayler Avenue
Wright
North Taylor Avenue
New York
Harry Scoville
North Sixty-fourth Avenue
Chicago
Catherine Condon
Savage-Gray Opera Company
Ewing Street Mission
Second Congregational Church
Emily
Catherine Pitkin
Wellesley College
Stella Hitchcock
Rockford
Ill
Alice Ensign
Champaign
Louis Ensign
Beloit
Ernest Chamberlin
Oberlin
Fred Chamberlin
Three Oaks
Mich
Harlem Evening Card Club Hosts Social Hour
The Evening Card Club met at Mrs Hoffman's on Elgin Street. Mrs Arche spent the week with her daughter Mrs Wonder Lee. Lewis Kolgow and Frank Hart hunted rabbits near Bucking Til last Wednesday. Roos Co. launches calendars for the new century. Emil Stermér starts a private dancing school for shy young men. Geo C Andregg and family return to Pasadena via New Orleans after a summer visit with Ferdinand Haase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoffman’a
Elgin Street
Lewis Kolgow
Frank Hart
A., Roos & Co
Emil Stermér
South Marengo Street
Geo. C. Andregg
Ferdinand Haase
Pasadena
Cal
New Orleans
Also Mentioned on This Page
Francis Hemington
Oak Park School of Music
Oak Park Club
E. N. Perrine
Home Avenue
H. A. Taylor
Grove Avenue
L” ‘Road
Harrison P. Young
Amy Young
North
A. W. Gilea
Royal League
C. E. Wai
J. W. Langston
A. Pexton
E. H. Be “Otledtoe
D. T. Foley
Hi. Owens
Jaura
Jaura Andersons Mrs. Jen Bradford, W. Cah, J. C. Daniels
H. J. Dickinson
Furgus P. Dobbs
W. Drake
Robert’ Flick
Henri Geist
Hannah
Hafner
Odgmen
Geo. Huffmann
L.B. Howe
Edward F. Hurst
F. B. Bea Witte
A. Seale
Albert
Turner
ROYAL
Angi Ou
Benj. N ' Stoluhoun
I R
J Mis
France
FGIL
Dr. Avenue
Oak
Ataley
Avenue
Park Avenue
Rob Misa Finshorth
Ran- Ban Alarm
Bfore
Arcanum
Ry _. Bilis
C. S
Frank Moeller
Cen
Royal Arcanum
Woman's Club OF
Dear
Putnam | Clothing House
Clark Street
Madison Street
M. Babbitt
Prop
River Forest
Winslow
Chas. Sullivan
Suwanee, Tenn
D. A. Thatcher
Presbyterian Hospital
Florence and
Marion Homer
George W. Homer
L. E. More
Colton
Young Married People’s Card Club
Parker
Ashland Avenue
Harry Thompson
Carqueville
Orvill T. Bright
Marion Foster Washburn
F. J. Retchmann
J. F. Goodman
Hellen Pierce
St. Luke's Church
McDougall
Mozart
Lambillotte
J. B. Sherwood
East Oak Park
Harlem
S. Bae
Ge Tk Aan Day
Anes Paar
Ian
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