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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1900
Page
5
Co R La Mena and party returned Monday. A G Bayley is the proud papa of a baby boy born the 5th. Various residents and guests travel to Colorado, New York, Iowa, Albany, Helderberg mountains, and Kenosha. Many local addresses and summer plans appear, with church outings and preparations for July.
Phinney's Band will give the Second Concert of the Seventh Series at Oak Park this Friday evening following an inaugural Austin town hall park concert last Monday. Despite rough beginnings the Oak Park series has built a steady following, with self funding years of chair rentals program income and subscriptions funding improvements and a growing attendance.
A dog wandered near Division and Sixty-fourth streets last Wednesday and was taken to the detention hospital after being found in the prairie area near Nelson Road. Charles Powell reports his porty stolen on Tuesday. William Ladewig, once a clerk at Young’s Grocery, returned from Michigan City July 3 on embezzlement charges. the father repaid the $30, and the case was dropped. This second such incident in weeks prompts caution with employers’ money. Kenilworth wheel was at 12:30 p m.
W F Furbeck of Oak Park entertained his Sunday school class Tuesday at his Buena Vista summer home on Lake Geneva. The party rode Furbeck's launch The Idler, visited camps, then returned to Buena Vista for a sumptuous repast before departing for home at 6 by the Chicago and North Western.
Free lecture for parents and educators at the Austin M E Church on July 17 at 3 pm. Dr. Sarah E. Sprague of New York will speak on Childhood's Ideals, with music by Mabel Angela Clapp and Edith Coolidge. The event is under the primary department of the M E Sunday school.
All stores in Oak Park and Austin will shut next Thursday July 19 for the Business Men's picnic. Local merchants join the community event with closures to observe the day.
A collection of quips on fate, racing, vanity, labor, and perception. The author muses on clouds, play versus work, trimming life, and the paradox of color photography revealing mood beyond reality.
A Chicago report claiming Mr. Zander was seen in Paris and had a beard shaved is false. Rev White has not reached Paris, and Mrs Zander denies knowledge of his whereabouts. She notes she only has a Philadelphia letter from him, while speculation continues. The defalcation total is not expected to exceed 8000 dollars.
Workmen clearing a barn foundation for Mr. E. S. Conway at 226 Maple Avenue unearthed a ground hog. The frightened crew dispatched the animal, believed to be an escaped captive from about two years ago.
The Methodists of Moreland issue a neatly compiled directory listing church members and a history of the Moreland church from its start to the new church and parsonage under construction. It includes well arranged advertisements and serves as a directory to local business concerns.
In a chatty Boston scene Mrs Gray and Mrs Greene discuss a young man named Stoughton who visits saloons yet claims not to enjoy them. Uncle George remarks on bread and milk as Johnny notes opinions change with perspective while warning about infant curiosity.
Nearly 2,000 people are expected to attend the fifth annual Business Men's picnic at National Park Elgin next Thursday. Oak Park merchants sponsor prizes including a gold watch in a 35 mile bicycle handicap from Austin to the grounds.
Mrs Esther M Orton age grandparent of F O Wetmore of 308 North Harvey avenue fell while attempting to light gas at the Kenton Oak Park. She suffered a hip injury likely a fracture and was moved to her grandson's home for care though recovery is doubtful given her age.
The Library Board voted to place delivery station on the pay list starting July 1 1900 provided a rear partition blocks view of the barber shop. W B Wickersham Secretary acknowledges Woman's Club of Austin support for Abbott block location.
The Oak Park union announces a summer series of talks at local churches. July 15 Kirkland Mission at the Methodist Church followed by Dr Rasmus July 22 at the Presbyterian Church, Dr Gunsaulus July 29 Baptist Church, Dr Rowley August 5 Congregational Church, Pacific Garden Mission August 12 Presbyterian Church, Dr Conley August 19 Methodist Church, and YMCA August 26 Congregational Church.
At the corner of Franklin avenue and Lake street 125 boys and girls with their mothers enjoy camp life. They swing in hammocks, play games on the green grass. The camp features thirty tents a bath tent a cooking tent and an assembly tent with a piano and is described as thoroughly sanitary with cleanly appearance and high spirits.
IN A NUTSHELL reports a militia order renaming British infantry battalions as regiments. It notes Spain’s sunshine leads Europe with about 3 000 annual hours versus England's 1 400. Greece liberalizes mining concessions, Attica Thessaly Milo and Boeotia mines now active.A New York funeral sees sixteen year old girl mourned by eight schoolmates in white with lilies. The British consul in Amsterdam is instructed to buy Dutch books for the Boers at St Helena, allotted 600 florins. A quote from Irving Towne about faults in the Other Fellow is cited.
Local residents attend gatherings and travel for summer breaks. Engagement announced between Nellie Scott and Winthrop K. Howe of Chicago. Oak Park couples plan outings to Little Cedar Lake and Lake Geneva with various trips to Barrington and Waukesha.
A column on remedies and diet notes how hot milk at night helps sleep and lists digestible meats mutton venison roast beef and chicken. It also cites onions boosting child health and notes green vegetables and fruit carry salts and acids as nature’s medicine with a physician’s quote on laughter and doctors.
Scraps note many claims from history and science are mentioned. It lists a variety of facts from education to industry, including Harvard Law entry for Li Hung Chang’s son, England receiving most champagne solii from France in 1898, U.S. New Mexico court costs, Munster high school age, borax consumption in the United States, Hamburg wildlife trade, UK railroad accidents, language borrowings, Signor Crispi’s cataract remission, Carmen Sylva name for a Danube delta town, Davy’s electric lamp birth, Rome nail relics, a shoe maker father of sixteen, Yale graduates in Silliman family, and Carnegie library funding in Oklahoma City.
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