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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1898
Page
8
City notices list mail arrival and departure times for east and west routes at Austin Post Office. Local items mention loans, club events, store openings, renovations, social gatherings, and several residents' health and travel notes amid a busy community page.
Berwyn residents report several illnesses including Mrs. Kirkland Mrs. A H Clayton and Officer Townsley who is improving from the grip Dederick loses a horse and L G Blossom returns from Champaign Illinois Tracy recovers from illness Edith Calvard aged seven has scarlet fever and P C Obermaier adds toilet articles at 182 Windsor Avenue plus the school board meets tonight The Berwyn Whist club relocates to Morrison s drug store rear parlors and Tracy receives honey from Jailville as priginal.
Local items report absences in New York illness recoveries and birthday parties. Movements include Clarence Gilbert moving to Garfield avenue and George Wilson moving to a new Cicero avenue home. Religious and social events feature a M E church reception, an oyster supper, Odd Fellows card party, dime social, and a surprise party for Frank O’Brien.
Maywood society notes cover a busy sequence of club meetings and charity entertainments. The Woman's Twentieth Century club discusses cigars and social offerings while the King's Daughters promote a Washington’s Birthday program to aid suffering humanity. Several performances feature Miss Hilton, Mr. Smith, the Moore twins, Miss Andrews, and a Pythian quartet, with strong audience reception noted despite poor turnout.
Morning and evening services listed for Oak Park churches with diverse sermon topics. Notable speakers include Dr J W Conley at First Baptist and Rev Thomas Bowman at M E church, plus Union services at First Presbyterian. Frances Willard commemoration noted. final note on Morri son s Academy evangelist Darst Sunday afternoon.
A social calendar fills Cicero with plans for a new cinch club and a Fedora Pleasure club masked ball led by Harry Miller Yan, John Axem, and Ed Wareham. Mrs. Richard Powers of the Michigan house has been bedbound a week. A city government meeting, led by Wifield, gathered twenty to thirty residents to discuss Cicero’s future, with an adjourned session to report. The Ladies' Excel sior B and A society hosted a lively event last Saturday with twenty numbers, lunch at midnight, and a strong financial showing. The new organization appears set to succeed, with The Vindicator promising to report the net result.
Barr and Collins announce a new branch office for lumber and coal sales at the corner of Lake and Marion streets in Oak Park and vicinity, inviting friends and neighbors to visit.
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