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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1899
Page
5
John C. Perle serves on the March grand jury in Austin while locals report arrivals, illnesses, and social events. Residents travel, host clubs, and attend birthdays, weddings, euchre games, concerts, and dances as brass bands, churches, and clubs animate community life.
Maywood lodge initiated three new members this month. Cicero lodge granted a third degree Thursday. The Old Folks Home at Mattoon to open March 21. About twenty five lodges meet in Cook county nightly. Cicero lodge offers hall for Oak Park lodge formation. Royal lodge of Clyde plans Washington birthday anniversary. Ivy Leaf Rebekah in Oak Park held an initiation with social time and refreshments. Brother Swangren of Maywood, Suburban Circuit secretary, ill with la grippe and compiling a member directory. Brother Halley, Suburban Circuit president, named Grand Master Berry lecturer and to tour the state.Missing facts in source but preserved entities and actions.
Arthur Wyman of Chippewa Falls Wisconsin once a prominent dry goods dealer and Congregational church worker vanished after converting to Catholicism. He reportedly destroyed his former faith writings and left Austin with his sacred items, last heard from in St Paul. Mrs Wyman has returned to Austin to reside with relatives.
The Oak Park Magazine Club met Monday evening at 216 South East Avenue with Mr. and Mrs. George D. Bills. Attendance was large and discussions on superstition were led by J. W. Langston. Members read papers and Miss Edith Lindop recited, as Mrs. F. W. Pringle gave performances. Next meeting with Mrs. Babcock at Elmwood Avenue and Washington Boulevard on February 20 will be Patriotic Night celebrating Lincoln and Washington birthdays, with program by W. H. French and H. C. Cook.
The River Forest Woman's Club prepared a Washington Day program for Tuesday evening the 21st featuring instrumental solo Star Spangled Banner, Mrs Fawcett Speed Our Republic, Oak Park Ladies' Choral Quartette Evolution of the American Flag a paper with illustrations, recitation by Mrs Alice M Titus Who Gave You the Name of Old Glory and Flower Song by Mrs Lattan. St Luke's church also gave an entertainment at Maywood Opera Hall Tuesday evening with two short plays and several musical numbers. the hall was well filled.
On Tuesday evening February 21 Rev. S. M. Johnson will present an illustrated lecture at the Presbyterian Church on Cliff Dwellings. The talk will feature new slides and aims to inform and engage thoughtful audiences with the subject.
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Rumor says Rev. J F Bartlett plans to resign as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Austin. He preached in Philadelphia last Sunday and is expected to make an important announcement during the morning service next Sunday.
In Library hall on Tuesday night the Austin High School team defeated Chicago’s North Division High School 6 to 3 after a tense nine innings. The Austins rallied in the seventh, sparking enthusiastic support as tempers flared with Price and the catcher leading to a hair grab before order was restored by a bluecoat. Music and dancing followed well past eleven.
Mr and Mrs Welchman of Harlem avenue and Twelfth street report their 18 year old daughter Helen disappeared Wednesday evening. She says two masked men seized her within two blocks of her home, one man recognized as a former friend. They forced a morphine pill, she lost consciousness, and hair was cut from her head. She later recovered at home. No arrests yet as police investigate the case.
George Toughyé, newly elected regent of Cicero Council No. 690 Royal Arcanum, hosted a reception for council members and families Friday evening. Refreshments preceded a refined music and literary program featuring Mrs. Mary Wood Griffiths piano, Prof. Wallett readings and songs by Master Robert Purvis, with readings by G Charles Griffiths. The event closed with the spoken tribute to The Royal Arcanum by TE and Past Regent E J Whitehead.
Mr Mead of 5429 Ontario street was struck by an express wagon in the city heart on Tuesday. Two ribs were broken and he is bedridden but recovering. His deafness and downtown driver recklessness are noted as contributing factors.
The literature and civics departments met at Mrs James Wilson home. Papers on Bacon and Shakespeare were read by the literature group and a paper on the government of London plus a talk on settlement work by the civics group. Miss Lathrop of Chicago will speak on The Needs of a City next Monday.
The Woman's Club of River Forest plans a village library funded by a gift from Mr. Watson Thatcher who donated a Keystone avenue lot between Lake Street and the Northwestern railroad for the project. A $3,000 library building must be erected within three years as a condition.
A drunken West Side Suburban Express driver in Austin crashed onto the Madison street railway trestle at eight thirty Wednesday night. The horses fell through and were shot to end the accident. Passengers were moved to safety while workers cleared the bridge. Maywood Herald.
The Fortnightly Club will meet next Friday evening at the home of Mr. H. W. McFarlane at 810 Ohio Street. The topic for discussion is The Relation of the Church to Public Questions, with speakers Rev. W. L. Demerest, Mr. O. M. Donaldson, and Mr. McFarland presenting.
Leslie's Weekly notes the Scapa, a society aiming to curb advertising on trolley cars and landscapes. In New York a branch fights streetcar and elevated rail ads, arguing they exceed corporate rights and divert funds from legitimate advertising. The movement cites losses of over two million dollars annually to disfiguring ads nationwide.
A Yokohama letter reports that three cooperating Bible societies sent a copy of the Scriptures to the Japanese emperor after a prior promise by the prime minister. The book reached the emperor last summer and was accepted, signaling a favorable view of the Bible and the societies by Japan's ruler.
M Jules Claretie recounts how each Academician has a beggar who asks for alms at meetings. A former beggar was a secretary of Alexander Dumas pere, now a courteous man who once offered to lend Claretie money when he had none.
Reports describe violent lightning discharges along wires used for flying scientific kites. In some cases the flash burned and destroyed thousands of feet of wire. One observer noted a column of fire a foot in diameter tracing the wire. The mild disturbance from Franklin's wet kite-string was trivial beside these dangerous discharges.
Mr I A Porter recently purchased a ranch near Houston, Texas. The item lists other local notices including business changes, events, concerts, lectures, club activities, library hours, and community updates with many named residents and venues in Ridgeland and Maywood areas.
Harlem items report Herman Hann recovering from typhoid fever and Amalgamated Wood-Workers meeting at Thode's hall on Saturday February 18. A Paris views program at Library hall raised funds for the Woman's Club charity. Hann Bros. return to Desplaines and Madison street. tax collection schedule by William Glos at Ross Shrade Bank. Girls' Club concert March 1 to fund library books. Mrs. Hintze ill at Presbyterian hospital, slight recovery expected in two weeks. Emel Colberg, 20, dies after brief illness, Turner Society funeral, Forest Home cemetery. pallbearers listed. Colberg worked at Arlington Heights and fell ill from bowel inflammation.
John Hofman known as Frank Schmidt operated last week in Harlem posing as a Christening goods seller. He collected money in advance, was arrested Saturday, and tried before Judge Lehman. Found guilty of obtaining money under false pretenses, he was sent to the county jail after being held to the grand jury. Victims were located in Elmhurst Lombard and Melrose Park.
The late Mrs. George Busch of Austin left 1000 dollars to Austin Methodist Church and to the W C T U, 1000, 500 for a Chicago Woman's Temple building, 1000 for a monument, and 1 dollar to her husband. Friends wonder at the provisions. The Busch property came through Mr. Busch from relatives and was formerly in his name. It is reported he may break the will. They had no children.
The River Forest village board will meet Monday evening the 20th. Mr and Mrs Boyd hosted friends at their Park avenue home Tuesday. Andrew Cobb of Keystone avenue lost in the Chicago warehouse fire Tuesday. The 60th wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Daniel H Horne was celebrated at 114 Grove avenue Monday the 13th. First Methodist church services Sabbath morning and evening with Sunday school at noon. Epworth League at 6 30 pm. The Ladies of the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society plan a tea at Rev Dr Fawcett's home Thursday the 23d with an anticipated enjoyable program. All are invited.
A pithy reflection argues that lasting fame comes from thoughts and deeds rather than lineage, urging merit as the true passport to recognition.
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