Hawthorne News Roundup Highlights Local Social Happenings
July incidents cover Naperville Stone Company adding fifteen workers at the quarry Monda y July 20 and a Milwaukee trip by J T Rolf and companions Sunday July 18. Polish community picnics Creighton Park July 18 and planned Riverside Desplaines outing July 22 are noted along with various local names and events.
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Naperville Stone Company
J. T. Rolf
Milwaukee
Lyons
John Campbelle
Freeport
Peter Br. Kolf
Logan Monument
Creighton Park
Clydeites and neighbors drift through a busy Clyde period
Local notes detail illnesses and recoveries, vacations in Michigan and North Dakota, and plans for Clyde high school sewer work. Returns from Desplaines camp meeting, a wheel from Jank Young toward Electorine, hobos hiding aboard a freight bound west, moonlight hayride to Colemans grave, and a large group outing led by Ruth Corneil and friends.
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I. Hr. Merwin
Joliet
Lulu Drolet
Robert Sheehan
Rand McNally
Kankakee
Norah Turney
Will
Joe Matson
Robisha
A.T. Palmer
Iain
Lakes
Mable Perrault
Hdna Drolet
Chicago
Tlorence Drolet
Jank Young
Electorine
Henry Schweiz
Alma Sanatorium
Michigan
J. Corneil
Clyde
Corneil
A. B. Whitney
Desplaines
Berwyn
Clyde High School
Board of Education
McDonald
Clyde Avenue
Klondyke
Alaska
Nellie Whitney
Frank McClintock
Claude Prager
Berwyn Vindicator notes local events and promotions
The Berwyn Vindicator reports church Sunday school plans at Garfield Park and a goal to distribute sample copies house to house. It notes local residents traveling to Canada, business updates, new sidewalks, a birth, health updates, and praises for Berwyn’s streets, stores, and picnics. It mentions Epworth League activities in Toronto and a sale offer from Johnson & Justman.
Aldermen in Belgium Public Officials and Exports
In Brussels and Ghent, aldermen and mayors hold high social status and oversee public affairs with reformist aims. A US observer notes aldermen of public instruction and civic leaders tied to universities, law, and labor reports, contrasting with American stereotypes of thieves.
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Wehool
America
Brussels
Normal
Ghent
United States Department of Labor
University At
Liege
Starper’s
Variations of Fear Across 5456 Types Revealed
A recent study described by President Stanly Hall lists thunderstorms as the most feared, followed by reptiles, strangers, and darkness. The report ranks many fears from fire and death to ghosts and insects by degree of fear, noting a broad spectrum of public anxieties.
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Stanly Hall
Italian picnic crowds and village happenings in Melrose Park
The report details a large Italian picnic with about 10 000 attendees, a street parade and festivities. other items include theft of $40 from a musician, a baseball win by the Melrose Park Alerts, a buggy accident injuring Mrs J Barker, and local civic updates such as fountain erection and street paving on St Charles Road.
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I. W. Richter
Conroy
Davison
Rockefeller
Loomas
Jerry Wright
Libonati
Chicago Mandolin Orchestra
Raven's Place
Lake Street
Fifteenth Avenue
Young Sandow
Melrose Park
Redfords
Centrals
Wak Park
Bohlander
Railroad Avenue
Nineteenth
Eighteenth Avenue
J. Barker
Sixteenth Avenue
K. of P. Hall
Scott
Maywood Community News Tells Of Local Plans And Life Events
The village board plans to sink a well for waterworks on Eighteenth avenue and Lake street. Residents report summer trips, vacations, a July 21 marriage at the Lutheran church, and a baby born at Mrs Langrin’s home. A family death on July 17 is noted, and Schmidt property sale at 57 Dearborn Chicago set for July 30. Proviso Land Association clears roadside weeds as a civic effort. A world-traveling bicycle tourist passes through July 20 with Elgin registration. New home for Billingheimer on Twentieth avenue marked by a July 22 housewarming. A seven-year-old boy son of Mr. Leonard dies and is buried at Concordia cemetery. The Gotch family celebrates rejoice at Twenty-fifth avenue home late last week.
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Riverside
Desplaines
John T. Kolf
Paul Krones
P. G. Nanvert
Texas
Klondyke
Hawthorne
Eldorado
Order of Things
May Graf
Page Buckley
Cincinnati
Little Kingdom
Poland
L. Hoope
Winsor Avenue
McHenry
Vindicator Printing Office
Stevens
Berwyn
Hireslis
Hubbell
Thirty Fifth Street
Berkly Avenue
Waconda
J. W. Roath
Hariville
Til
Garfield Park
Gloss
Proviso Land Association
Tanton
Wilson
Chicago
Twelfth Avenue
Madison Street
N. B. Reynolds
Oddfellows
Ilinois
Burlington Park
Maywood Lodge
M. Knapke
John Maas
Nineteenth Avenue
St. Charles Road
West Maywood
Village Board
Fifth Avenue
Welch
Annie Brown
Ashland Avenue
Frank Rutherford
Northwestern Railway
Messrs. Thatcher and Burns
W.S. Jordan
North Eighth Avenue
Tennessee
Cumberland
I. R. Vosburg
Twentieth Avenue
North School
Mokena
Durkin
Seventh Avenue
Fourth Street
Lizzie Wies
Tenth Street
George L. Cross
Twenty-first Avenue
Chicago and Northwestern Railway
Melrose Park
Schmidt
Real Estate Board
Dearborn Street
M. H. Bormann
Sixth Avenue
Lake Street
Milwaukee
Billingheimer
Leonard
South Fifth Avenue
Concordia Cemetery
Bormann
Irvin Gotch
Gale plans cheap rental houses on East and Scoville
THOS. H. GALE offers long term leases for houses to rent or sale on East and Scoville avenues in the first block south of C. N. W. R. KR. He lists Room 702 at 84 La Salle street, Chicago.
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East
Scoville Avenues
Cicero Seekssealed Proposals for Cement Walks
The Town of Cicero invites sealed proposals in duplicate for cement walks in the east half of Section 8 and west half of Section 9. Bids due 7:30 p m Monday August 2 1897 with a $100 certified check. Town reserves right to reject all bids. J R Drent Town Clerk July 20 1897 Austin N
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Cicero
Board of Trustees
J. R. Drent
Austin
Proposals Wanted for Cicero Pipe Sewer Contract
Sealed proposals in duplicate for construction of a pipe sewer on Madison Street Cicero from Willow to Pine Avenue. Bids due 7:30 p m August 2 1897 with 10 percent certified check to Town Clerk. Town reserves right to reject. Austin Ill July 20 1897.
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Madison Street
Willow Avenue
Pine Avenue
Cicero
Board of Trustees
J. R. Drent
Austin
Ill
Arizona hunter finds ancient Aztec mummy in Verde Canyon
John McCarthy, Phoenix lion hunter, reports discovering a desiccated mummy in a prehistoric Arizona ruin about 75 miles north of Phoenix. He describes a six by twelve foot chamber where his dogs tracked a lion before he entered, drawing national attention and potential ownership disputes.
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McCarthy
Phoenix
John McCarthy
Ariz
Adam’s
Garden of Eden
Verde Canyon
San Fran Cisco Examiner
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South Cicero
Haw Thorne
Schultize
Louis Kimmel
Byron, HI
Palmer
Patsy Ruch
Aurora
H. 2. Smith
Hancock
Alare
New York
Anna Hanson
North Dakota
Luce
Tidiana
Coleman
Ruth Corneil
Lillie Drolet
Lilie Mongriegh
Louie Smith
Sadie Palmer
Gertie Conway
Lulu Hall
Jessie Goodhue
Amy Hanson
Jennie Young
Jennie L Douglass
Florence Drolet
Hattie Hangon
Debbie Smith
Mable Carter
Maud West
Maud Muir
Wiii West
Frank O’brien
Frank Young
Bud
M. BE
James
George Robinson
Canada
N. M. Rogers
Morrison
W. C. Rigby
I. M. Lackey
Carlson & Olson
Aney
Berwyn Waterworks
Geo. Thompson
Berwynites
W. R. Porter
Piper
Dro Sehell
Toronto
Johnson & Justman
C. BE. Piper
Ipworth League
Prescott and
Brockville
St. Lawrence
Belgium
Teag
E. Paonebecke
Bader
Bromo Seltzer
Edith Stearns
Grace Case
Seventeenth Avenue
Maywood
Elgin
Diana
Lake Michigan
Rush Street Bridge
Whitelar
J.G. Kern
Pana. Agort
Linito Bldg
Chicago, Ill
Sue and Benton Rarbor
Graham Transpo
Rorton Tation CO
Trumers
City OF
City OF Milwaukee
Louisville
St. Joseph
Benton Harbor
Wabash Avenue
River St
Wabash Ave
J. H. Graham
Pres
Mich
Prospectus
Daily Vindicator
Aim
Proviso
Daily
Cicero Publishing
Per William Halley
Clinton Street
Oak Park
Hunter of
Arizona
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