Austin locals feature births sales and notices
Local brief items include L Nissen as a new baby’s father, Fred W Hess new barber on Robinson avenue, Mathew Bros selling fresh meats and produce, J H Hathaway buying an oil business and taking possession Feb 1, and a push to renew subscriptions to the Vindicator. Also items on school opening date corrected, a $5,000 payment by National Union officers to Mrs. O C Smith, a Norden Sextette ball January 15 at Breth Hall, and a show card from the Race Mineral Water Co. plus loan offers and letter nonclaims lists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cicero
L. Nissen
Fred W. Hess
F. W. Schulz
Robinson Avenue
Mathew’s Bros
J. H. Hathaway
J. 5. Mills
Austin
National Union
O. C. Smith
Race Mineral Water Company
Austin Building and Loan Association
John D. McLean
Sec'y
la Salle St
Chicago
D. H. Roath
Earlville
J. D. Roath
N. Waller Avenue
Fowest
IF. H. Zander
North Park Ave
Austin P. CO
Yeo, Brown
Lucy C. Drumon
Agnes Franson
M. Hill
L. C. O'Brien
Rolf Wheaton
Lewis H. O’conor
P. M
Buge’s
Lake St
P. O
Austin Buildings and Loan Association
John DD. Maclean
Sec
Wm. Henry
Indiana Street
Henry
Bert P. Biggs
Mr. Gould
Mr. Biggs
Lillian Bontecou
Edith Wallace
Farnham
Milwaukee
Nellie Shurtleff
Bessie Hall
Mamie Adams
Messrs
C. J. Stratford
L. Dockstaeder
Oberlin
Oak Park Locals Recap of Community Notes and Visits
Oak Park locals report resumed public schools on Monday. Notices include defeats of typhoid death, dance classes, obituaries, weddings, and weddings. Address changes, club events, forthright items, and local business ads fill the week. The piece covers residents, travel, and civic matters in January 1898.
Hawthorne Notes and Local Society Highlights
Mrs Dr Lloyd is fully recovered from illness Edwin St Peter of Kankakee stays with Albert Morgan Ford Whitch barber entertained his Dwight brother Foresters at the Auditorium welcomed the new year Ludwig Zawincki will save his sight Dr Lloyd attending physician Creighton Park Exchange engaged William Stavenger old settler since 1862 Dearborn Tent 207 K O T M to hold second annual ball February 11 at Vorwaerts Turner Hall Morton Park Council 14 NA Union wins 85 prize in 1897 with strong member insurance feature
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin St. Peter
Kankakee
Albert Morgan
Ford Whitch
Ludwig Zawincki
Dr. Lloyd
Creighton
William Stavenger
Creighton Park Exchange
Mr. Stavenger
Lawndale
Dearborn
Hawthorne
Vorwaert
Turner Hall
Twelfth Street
Western Avenue
Morton Park Council
North American Union
Chicago
Dr King’s New Life Pills Offer Free Sample Box
Send your address to H E Bucklen Co in Chicago to receive a free sample box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The ad touts ease of action and benefits for constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles with a vegetable, non deleterious formula. Regular 25c per box, sold at Lovell’s drug store Oak Park and Traill’s drug store Auatla.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Bucklen & Co
Chicago
Dr. King
Lovell
Oak Park
Traill
Auatla
James Jones
Jones & Son
Cowden
la Grippe
Pana
River Forest Community Notes and Memorials
River Forest opens with full attendance at the start of the school week. Mrs. M. E. Schmitt’s cigar stock is noted in village. Mr. A. Selbach and wife spent New Year’s with northern relatives. A new sidewalk on Madison near Lathrop is laid. Cora Griffin leaves for Sycamore school work. Presbyterian church week of prayer attracts members. A telegram from Austin cures a temporary ailment and prompts joking calls for telephones. Village board reports routine business. sidewalk on Chicago avenue near Wisconsin Central tracks approved. Henry E. Broughton dies at Thatcher Avenue home, honored elder of River Forest. Funeral rites held by ministers Reynolds, Johnson, and Fawcett. Wiriam Commandery assists at the grave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River Forest
M. E. Schmitt
A. Selbach
North Side
City
Austin
Chicago Avenue
Wisconsin Central Railway
Henry E. Broughton
Thatcher Avenue
Reynolds
Third Presbyterian Church of
Chicago
Johnson
Unity Church
Oak Park
Fawcett
Wiriam Commandery
C. B. Larber
Minnie Heldman
Nee Wachter
Peru
Maywood News Highlights Local Life and Events
Maywood community notes cover skating, church revival meetings, social clubs, a new ice boat, school moves, and a health infirmary plan. Local residents, including Miss Gray and Mr. Tucker, move or visit Hyde Park, West Virginia, and Seventeenth avenue.
Harlem Community Notes Include Birth and Events
A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Ernst Seeck on January 5. The Platt Deutsche Guilde will host an entertainment January 16. The Jolly Five Orchestra saved New Year with a social and financial success. Chas Lueker from Concordia College visited Henry Buchholz. Deutcher Freund-Schaft held a ball at Hintze Hall. Harlem Turning School begins the new year with strong attendance. The volunteer fire company plans its first masquerade carnival with twenty four prizes and music by Prof. Rossow. Admission is 50 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tucker
Seventeenth Avenue
Maywood
Gordon Macdonald
Young People’s
Gray
Hart
Warner
David Ballard
University of Illinois
W. P. Ballard
Maywood Twentieth Century Club
Parrish
Papa Lambert
Lysle E. Adams
Fostoria Glass Company
West Virginia
Masonic Temple
Home Bakery
Lake Street
Oak Park
I. O. O. F. Lodge
Maywood Hall
Kenneth Harris
Kemp
Olé Santa Claus
Merrill
Maywood Sub-Division
Sonny
Proviso Land Association
John
W. L. Gifford
Congregational Church
Ernst Seeck
Platt Deutsche Guilde
Jolly Five Orchestra
Chas. Lueker
Concordia College
Milwaukee
Henry
Fred Buchholz
Deutcher Freund-Schaft
Berwyn News Roundup Reflects Community Happenings
Berwyn residents attend visits and illnesses as Lilian Colvard recovers from scarlet fever while J H Ehile and Henry Wachter visit. New Year receptions, church meetings, and a Bah revival draw large attendance. A kitchen range explosion causes damage at Mrs A B Chandler home. A school board plan reorganizes grades at LaVergne and Hmerson schools.
Clyde Locals Report Brief Community News
Mrs. C B Bartlette is well again and Mrs. Maxwell has been absent four weeks. Mr. Pearson and family moved to the city. Ed Drolet visited his mother in Kankakee on New Year's. Judge Lantz returns from attending his sick mother. A concert at the M E Church tonight with admission 25 cents. Readable items include local movements and a grand ball advertised for Mars O. in has recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Steeler
Ann Arbor
Hart
Hyde Park
Kehoe
Twining
C. B. Bartlette
Cparaay
Chestra
A. B. Whitney
Greater New York
Robert Palmer
Maxwell
Chapin
Anderson
Indiana
Crompton
Bemis
Community notices and social events recap
An orchestra will provide music and lunch for 50 cents admission. A card party and dance are planned in the hall tonight. Various local residents are noted as recovering or visiting, with details on illness, travel, and family events. The Union Club seeks town board permission to flood a five acre lot near the M Church for winter skating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Lawler
A. P. Palmer
Robert H. Muir
Joe Collender
Ed Palmer
Union Club
Grant Works News and Community Notes
Mrs Albert Steinhouse slowly recovers from a serious operation. Mr Marion Bruner badly smashed two fingers at the Grant Works. A gospel meeting series is held in the school house. A Thursday Grant House meeting organized a mutual improvements association led by M B Nelson and Mrs Bosch. Dr Archer has an office at Mrs M B Nelson’s residence with telephone link and quick bedside access. About 30 Catholic families form a budding parish with plans for mass, Sunday school, and a resident pastor as a church edifice may be erected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Steinhouse
Marion Bruner
Grant Works
Grant House
M. B. Nelson
Mirs. Bosch
Archer
Fourteenth Street
Grant Avenue
Local Notices and Retailer Updates in City Life
Real estate agent J J Jolledon recovers from illness and Mrs Lutter runs her late husband's market. Lutter had a $1000 life insurance. Voters in the 14th precinct press for better postal service. Heinrich opens new quarters at 536 Forty-eighth avenue for tailoring. A Bus reports improving business next to Metropolitan L at 504 Forty-eighth avenue. Medora Council of the Royal Arcanum to hold public installation at Metropolitan Hall on January 18 with T H Clarisey as regent and other officers listed. Lunch at 8 and a dance to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Jolledon
Medora Council
The
Royal Arcanum
Metropolitan Hall
T. H. Clarisey
J. P. Viair
H. W. Wanna
M. E. Farrell
A. F. Pierce
A. G. Calkins
H. B. Walters
Mr. Jones
Arthur Griffin
Jeremiah Hefferman
Little Jokes From A Pocketful Of Puns
A collection of quips about birds, noses, athletes, nurses and others. Jokes touch on a jeweler’s shop, an army officer, a pantry mouse, a mustard plaster, Arctic explorers and more in light humorous vignettes.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve Ad Offered in Oak Park Store
An 19th century ad markets Bucklen's Arnica Salve as the best remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers and other skin eruptions. It promises guaranteed satisfaction or money refunded at 25 cents per box sold by Lovell's drug store Oak Park Teailea Dene Stare Austr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lovell
Oak Park
Teailea
Numerous Churches Offer Services Across City
A long list of congregations outlines church locations and pastors with service times. From First Baptist on North Pine to Unity Church on Wisconsin, offerings include morning and evening services, Holy Communion and varied denominations across avenues and parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Baptist
North Pine Avenue
J. J. Bartlett
Waller Avenue
Midway Park
W. L. Demorest
Fifty-second Avenue
Lake Street
Morrison's Feneniy
Thos. Westerdale
M. I
Central Avenue
Ohio Street
M. W. Saterfield
Frink Street
John Clark Hill
LD. MD
Louis A. Campbell
H. P L. Coughlin
Leander Turney
W. E. Stedberg
Geo. BK. Mead
Wlw
Mel Lannen
Ila. Om
Tia Op
Tia Op. Om
Priesbyterian
Ceorzre Witliam Wright
Pirst
Pleasant Street
Wisconsin Avenue
West A
Mair Qaks Avenue
Sidney Strone
Log A
Mars Church OF Citirist Ascientists
Avenue
Oak Park Ave
Grace Episcopal
Forest Avenue
Ontario Street
Ander Son
Chauroch
Weliarns
P.O
Leivery Peay Ghors
Notable authors and their famed writing spans
Hood finished The Bridge of Sighs in a single afternoon while Bulwer Lytton typically spent six months on a novel. Bryant is said to have penned Thanatopsis in a week and De Foe supposedly wrote Robinson Crusoe in six months. Mrs. Clark took sixteen years to prepare the Concordance to Shakespeare, Thomson spent three years on The Seasons, and Swift toiled over two years on Tale of a Tub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomson
Swift
Also Mentioned on This Page
Zimmerman
No. Boulevard
C. S. Pellett
Nellie Ainslie
St. Mary’s
Knoxville
Scoville Institute
Dr. Lackey
Robert
Los Angeles
Cal
Spencer
Scoville Place
Seeley Tompkins
Alfred Hemmingway
Albert W. Giles
Frank C. Caldwell
South Oak Park Avenue
William O'Rourke
Oak Park Club
Crawford
Dixon
Grand Jury
Chamberlain
Geo. M. Woodward
Howard Adams
Seattle
Alaska
Phil Sheridan Post
Walter S. Dale
Marian Dreier
Arnold
Luke St
H. C. Worthington
C. H. Drechsler
Mr. Winter
Oak Park Club Banjo Company
Katherine Wells Kennedy
P. F. Burk
John P. Famre
Sara A. Hubbard
Leiford
Maria Lyons
Jas. McInerney
Annie M. Marshall
Minna Wiesse
Krogman Bros
East Avenue
Walter Gerts
E. W. Wood
California
Chas
TH. Zldmmerman
Zimmerman & Roath
Boulevard Ave
J. Wallace
N. Nissen
Ned Hill
Maude Lurch
Moreland
Wm. Wallace
Grand Junction
Colo
8. Nissen
Jennetta Nissen
H. W
Illinois
Dominion Company
Dept. Y
Caliago
Paul Kolb
Stewartson
Henry Lucker
Altamont
Gaden
Justice of the Peace
Lehmann
Euchre
Herbert Luetke
Houser
H. Scherenberg
Kistenbrocker
Wm. Haase
August Thode
Thode
Mannerchor
Melrose Park
Henry Beling
Henry Gehrke
Mr. Daniels
A. Roos
Harlem
Roos
Knopf
Berwyn
Taggart
Achenbach
Dreut
Lilian Colvard
C. E. Knapp
Alma
Kneiss
Charles Tustin
J. H. Ehile
Johnson & Justman
S. C. Brown
May
Anne
A. B. Chandler
Giles Hubbard
Episcopal
Baptist
LaVergne School
Hmerson
CLYDE
Mandel
Nottingham
Bucklen
Dixon Street
Harlem Avenue
Jacob Pillmann
Lass A. Om. Mane Tigo
ST. Qouns
Methodist
Keystone Avenue
William Fiwcett
Welsa. Om
Tyyp. Ma
First Presbyterian
First Congregational
Fifth Avenue
J Dunlap
Wo A. m
Th P
Second Street
Colin Tate
S A. m
Perst
Sixth Avenue
Fifth Street
AL Read
Tia P.m
Nineteenth Avenue
Tenth Street
Revo M. Cushington
Gookins & Wilsnach
Opticians
Wilsnach
Chicago Opthalmic College
Geo. B. Burns
S. Prairie Ave
Cicero Telephone
Walnut Av
Austin, Ill
Oxford
Simonis & Sunisne
Dona
Simonis
Shlis
Park
C. Vaga
Austis
F. A. Bruce
Bruce & Bunge
T. G. Irving
Chas. Loheit
Madison Street
Oak Park, Ill
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