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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1898
Page
6
Oak Park residents host and attend many events. Mrs F D Webb and Mrs King entertainments mark a busy week while Felix T Evers to open a Heard store meat market. Community groups like W C T U M E church activities arts and lectures fill the town schedule with receptions, concerts and planning for new buildings and church leadership.
The town board approved two ordinances cutting fares on the Madison Street and Chicago Avenue lines effective immediately. The elevated extension to be built from Lake Street to Harlem with stations at Central, Austin, Sixty-fourth, East Oak Park, and Wisconsin avenues is set to operate by July 15. The Cicero and Harlem Railway Company will hold the franchise, with bonds and foundations due by April 15, and the Lake Street line expected to be deeded to the LL Company after construction.
The score stood 28 to 21 in favor of the Cuban players after a lively game at Library hall last Monday night. Spectators enjoyed the roaring action and bright costumes as Dick Traill and Jo Kampp delivered memorable moments while the crowd filled the Austin Business Men's Association coffers.
Hawthorne's Chicago Portland cement works in the south end were gutted by a Sunday morning fire. Origin undetermined, 4 to 5 am. $100,000 loss, insured for $50,000. Company to rebuild with four times capacity, creating further local jobs.
A teacher tests Robert with a subtraction riddle about seven boys wanting to play football. Two boys are kept home by parents, leaving five who may play. Robert answers seven, showing confusion over counting rules.
William O Moody waived exam and was bound over to the grand jury in a $29 000 embezzlement case from the Oak Park Building and Loan Association. The accused, once a trusted bookkeeper for Simpson Dunlop and Dunlop Lpros, reportedly diverted funds through bucket shops and bogus mining schemes. Dunlop covered the shortage to protect the association’s integrity and stockholders.
After John Twohey’s arrest for illicit liquor, the force uncovers a hidden underground grog shop beneath his Chicago and Austin avenue store. A stock of wine and liquor is seized for disposal at the town hall. Capt. Hansberg and three appraisers led the search. two officers tied to the place are retired from duty.
The Oaks Club presents its first all female minstrel in Austin next Tuesday night with Mrs V Titus as interlocutor and a cast of well known local performers. The program features songs dances jokes and a burlesque on modern fads with cake walks and a buck and wing by young dancers. Manager H W Rearden and rehearsal lead Henry W Brown praised. advance seat sales indicate strong audience demand.
Residents of the Twenty-Eighth Ward are invited to Morrison’s Academy to honor Alderman McCarthy and the ward rector for their work on removing railroad tracks along Fifty-second Avenue and Lake Street. The event on November 19, 1898 includes music, speeches by Jno M Harlan and others, refreshments, and no expense to attendees.
London officials declare underground railway workers enjoy superior health with the atmosphere said to cure quinsy and bronchitis and aid lung troubles, claiming better conditions than any line in England.
The Oak Park Republican Club held a thirty-person quarterly meeting at Temperance Hall. W H Wood was reappointed president. R P Parker and George Sawyer became first and second vice presidents. Channing Taylor as secretary. W A Hutchinson treasurer. The group changed meeting night to the third Tuesday monthly and urged support for postal savings banks. An executive committee was named with changes replacing J D Everett and Elmer D Pierce. substitution for Bartlett and Gormley noted.
The Woman's Club hosted a Monday Valentine afternoon for members' children with recitations and music led by prominent women. A Tuesday reception at Mr and Mrs A T Evans on Central Avenue featured songs by Miss Lindley, a Venice talk by Dr Malloy, and recitations by Mr and Mrs O’Neil, enjoyed by all.
Capt Honsberg dismissed Wall and Houren from the Austin police for non performance of duty. Wall joined in May 1893 and Houren in October 1890 previously a Oak Park lieutenant. Houren had been reduced to patrolman last spring and assigned to Austin station.
About forty fourth grade teachers from Cook county gather at Laurel Avenue School in Austin to discuss schoolwork and methods under County Superintendent Bright's supervision. Miss Goodraw leads the grade and has earned high praise for her work. The forenoon focuses on regular schooling. the afternoon covers discussions by attendees.
Thieves broke into Nissen Bros grocery by a broken glass transom and into A H Loomis news depot by removing a back door panel. No losses found and police notified with no arrests yet.
A travel report from Dallas to Austin, dated February 4 to 6, highlights optimistic views of Oklahoma and Texas prosperity. The writer notes mild winter in Dallas, thriving Kansas City stockyards, and vast Texas and Oklahoma ranches. The Texas capitol building in Austin is praised as a grand monument.
Mary I Stone notes the death of Mrs Frank Maccoy of Austin in Chicago and Austin circles. She was a mother wife sister and friend with wide influence and aid across cities. Funeral was Friday February 11 with Dr Bartlett tribute and hymns Asleep in Jesus and Abide With Me at Forest Home cemetery. A husband and three children survive.
The Christian Church rents Morrison’s Academy hall on Fifty second street south of Lake street and holds Sunday services at 3 p.m. They plan to gather members from other places and establish a church home. Next Sunday F G Strickland of Garfield Park church will preach From What Are We Saved.
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