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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1900
Page
8
News from Austin lists mail schedules with East and West routes, closing times, and arrival scans. It notes Postmaster Howard Robertson and mentions advertised letters for residents. Social items report Avaton Cinch Club gathering with prizes and a postponed Whatsoever Circle event for charity at Kings' Daughters.
The Young Men's Non-Partisan Republican Club of Oak Park reorganizes with E. T. Malone as president and J. E. Hunt as secretary. Next meeting at Avenue Hall, 115 Oak Park Avenue. Ivy Leaf Rebekah Lodge hosts a recital by Mrs Minnie Dillon and a music program on Friday evening January 26 1900 with admission 25 cents and children 10 cents. A list of unclaimed letters includes L. W. Atkinson Grace Baker T. W. Baldwin E Clark C D Cox F Fairbank 872 West Madison Street Fr Henry R 8 Hopkins Martha Laurence George I Lewis William Mosis James Mulholland Alma Peterson Betty Petterson C Schick Jimeline Schwast Mattie Smith J J Snyder J P Whyte William Wiser. Austin office of the Vindicator 5602 South Boulevard Oak Park office Miller's Drug Store 206 Lake St.
In a testimonial from D H Turner of Dempseytown Pennsylvania he says taking one nightly dose for two weeks restores his vigor and youth. The pills are advertised as liver stomach and bowel aids, vegetable and non gripping, priced 26 cents at Trail and Cooling’s and Chas P Millers drug stores.
First Methodist Episcopal Church in Austin lists services Sunday morning at 9:30 with class meetings at 10:30 and a noon sermon at 12:00. Sunday school at 12:00, evening services at 6:15 with Seventh Street Epworth Jr. League devotional at 7:30, evening sermon follows. Wednesday prayer service at 7:45.
First Congregational Church at Waller avenue and Midaway park led by Pastor W. L. Demorest. Residence at 6459 Iowa street corner North Pine. morning service at 30:30, Sunday school 12:15, Junior Co. Ey 3:30, Intermediate 4:15, vesper 5 to 6.
Early communion 7 30 a m morning service 10 30 Sunday school 12 m evening service 7 30 Rev L Mitchell rector 6731 Ohio street Waller Avenue and Ohio Street Austin Texas
The Rev. Clarence Elgine Lapp, pastor, invites all with no regular place of worship to attend services at Pine avenue and Ohio street. Schedule includes 10:30 a.m. sermon, 12 p.m. Sunday school, 4 p.m. Junior B Y P A, 6:30 p.m. Senior B Y P A, and 7:30 p.m. preaching.
The Chicago Driving Club completed its track last summer but delayed opening due to weather. It offers what experts call the finest half mile speedway with plans for a grandstand and club house. About $15,000 has been spent on track, stables, and facilities. Willard Cave and Dick McMahon, among others, are slated to train or race there with numerous owners showing interest. The location near downtown allows easy street car and elevated access, with Twelfth Street cars to the main entrance and Metropolitan Elevated planned.
Business personals note Austin is famed for pure milk and cream from natural wells. Call to test at 222 North Park Avenue. Also, Austin Coal Company now manages Oak Park Coal Company located at Austin Avenue and Lake Streets.
Local Miller's Drug Store offers Lazell's Choice perfumes, Allegretti chocolates, and a wide selection of cigars from Key West and domestic brands. Prescriptions filled and perfumeries in plain and fancy bottles are advertised at popular prices under Charles P. Miller, druggist.
M W Fisher of Liberty West Virginia endorses Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy as the best cough remedy and a sure cure for croup after years of use. The medicine is offered for sale by Yraill and Cooling druggists.
The Rev J D Collins pastor announces Sunday services at 10 30 am and 7 30 pm with Sabbath school at 12 noon. Midweek prayer meeting is Wednesday evening and ladies prayer meeting Thursday at 2 30 pm at Old Presbyterian Church on South boulevard.
The Austin Christian church relocates from the Masonic building to 207 North Park Avenue in the Abbott block. Sunday school begins at 10 o'clock led by M. K. Mizenheimer of Oak Park, followed by a 11 o'clock sermon by Pastor Geo A. Campbell. Prayer meeting is Wednesdays at 8, and the Ladies' Aid Society meets Thursdays 2 to 4.
The Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church on Waller Avenue and Iowa Street in Austin offers Sunday school at 9:30 a.m. and morning service at 10:30 a.m. An evening service is at 7:30 p.m. Pastor J. N. Brandelle resides at 725 North Waller Avenue.
The Soul Culture Club held its second season entertainment at Ada Hoggins art studio. Evanston lecturer O Boring spoke on The Message of the Spirit to the Body advocating dress reform and broad thought. Miss Mabel Angela Clapp sang two solos with Mrs. Clara Page Ongawa on piano to a large cultured audience.
Vermontville editor J. C. Sherman touts Electric Biders as a remedy keeping elders young by stimulating kidneys aiding digestion and improving appetite. He claims it helped his wife and himself and endorses nearby druggists Traill & Cooling and Chas. P. Miller. Pain Balm from Chamberlain’s eases rheumatic pain after other medicines failed says J A Dodgen. Thousands reportedly cured. one application relieves.
Miss Sco ville at 223 Sixty-fourth avenue Oak Park offers all day Thursday lessons in China painting using the Aulicht method. Firing is complete and prizes will be awarded for all occasions.
The notes survey Lottie Collins in a London ballet and Marie Corelli’s Thelma adapted by Clayton Lesge with possible production soon. Ellen Beach Yaw’s Rose of Persia failed in London, Paderewski headlines New York, and Israel Zangwill drafts a new play The Mantle of Elijah. Daly era talk dominates as critics note a commonplace theater scene with rising sales hopes and legal dramas backstage.
English Lutheran preaching and Sunday school announced at 5735 West Chicago avenue Austin. Sunday school at 2 30 p m and preaching at 3 15 p m. Public invited to attend these services. W C Seidel pastor.
At 9 30 a m Sunday school led by Superintendent H Goodyear with P R Tick as chorister. At 11 a m preaching by the pastor. At 12 m class meeting. At 3 p m Junior Epworth League and at 6 45 p m Senior Epworth League.
The Oak Park Methodist Church at Lake Street and Forest Avenue is led by Pastor Irving Rasmus D D. Morning preaching at 10:50. Evening service at 7:80. Sunday school at noon. Epworth League meets at 6:30 p m.
River Forest Methodist Morning service at 10 30 Junior League at 3 Epworth League at 6 30 Evening service at 7 30 Wednesday prayer at 7 45 Sunday school at 12 Robert Odell superintendent Rev William Fawcett pastor
At Oak Park First Congregational Church the Men’s Club hosts a Sunday evening program featuring Dr. Barton preaching on "The Ladder and the House." Musical items include Dr Louis Falk organ overture, Pontius Quartet "God of Abraham, Praise," Schneecker violin pieces with Walter Schultze, and Mrs. Furbeck performing an alto solo. An organ fantasie pathetique closes the program.
Readers muse on the challenge of choosing a baby name for their own child, noting that naming a neighbor’s infant seems easier and more playful, with humorous anecdotes about style and significance.
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