Maywood notes June bugs and local happenings
June bugs have arrived. Rev G H Kemp of Rhinelander Wis visited briefly. A small beer garden operates on the Maywood side of Lake Street bridge. Tomato plants for sale at 306 Keystone Ave River Forest. The French Cinch club met at William Green's residence South Fifth Ave. Mr Brown and wife were sent to Buffalo N Y due to the death of Mrs Browns mother. President McKinley after reviewing Merritts case ordered more troops to the Philippines. An all day meeting of the Congregational Sewing Society will be at Mrs Chas Wescott's next Thursday June 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. H. Kemp
Rhinelander
Wis
Maywood
Lake Street Bridge
Keystone Avenue
River Forest
William Green
South Fifth Avenue
Brown
First Avenue
Buffalo
N. Y
McKinley
Merritts
Philippines
Congregational Sewing Society
Chas. Wescott
Harlem Community News Highlights Local Happenings
Harlem reports paint on Hugo Hesse house Beloit street and illness notes for Mrs Emil Braneninger. An active calendar includes fort city events, school entertainments, veterans memorial service, blaze of decorations, baseball game results, and a Windsor parade.
Ridgeland Notices and Social Roundup
Convalescence for Thomas Butler follows a brief illness. Mrs. Brink returns from a week at Elgin. Mrs. Short at North Taylor avenue is ill. Mrs. Stevens visits Aurora. The Condon family moves into the old McNaught home. The Wright children recover from tonsillitis. Dramatic Club rehearses Friday with Willie Pratt. Magazine Club meets Saturday with Rastus Kemp. Second Congregational Church to receive new members next Sunday. Mrs. Pearce hosts visitors from Jackson and family. Mrs. McFadden’s party returns from Geneva. Sister of Mrs. Perkins departs for South Haven due to her father’s illness. Memorial exercises at the church featured drumming and the song Marching Through Georgia. Miss Bessie Bevington celebrates her sixteenth birthday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Butler
D. E. Brink
Elgin
Short
North Taylor Avenue
Stevens
North Humphrey Avenue
Aurora
Condon
McNaught
C. M. Wright
Dramatic Club
Willie Pratt
N. Seoville Avenue
Magazine Club
Rastus Kemp
North Harvey Avenue
Second Congregational Church
Pearce
Jackson, Mich
Georgia
Bessie Bevington
South
Harvey Avenue
River Forest News Briefs Highlight Local Events
In River Forest and nearby areas a series of notes report C. G. Jones visiting Decatur, road extension hopes to River Forest, home repainting on Keystone Avenue, new houses rising, and ongoing improvements. Community notices cover church services, a stroke patient under Dr. Ruggles care, Fred Scharenberg finishing 18th in a Chicago road race, a Decoration Day sermon, a leg injury at Ewel Printing Co., baseball ties and rematches, a May feast at the Catholic Church, a Belles-Lettres tally-ho party, sidewalk needs along Chicago Avenue, and a Madison Street accident injuring several children with two horses killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. G. Jones
Decatur
River Forest
Presbyterian Church
D. A. Horn
Hatch
Ruggles
Oak Park
Fred Scharenberg
Chicago
Fred
M. FE
Fawcett
Harry Thompson
Ewel Printing Co
Ridgeland
Ridgelands
Father McShane
Belles-Lettres Society
Jackson Boulevard
Lincoln Park
Oak Park Avenue
Thatcher Avenue
Chicago Avenue
Werstone Avenue
Madison Street
Desplaines
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ledard
Lombard Ave
Lake St
IGN
Neshelroth
Cicero
North Park Avenue
Austin
Starritt & Robertson
J. W. Senne & CO
Lake Street
Ils
IR. Peterson
P. G. Biggs & Son
North Park Ave
McAvoy Brewing CO
H. Barrenschbeen
Franklin St
Harlem
P. D. Oak Park
Fred H. Blase
Albert Burgess
Che Ice
Ikce Bakery
Tholesale and
Park St
Hugo Hesse
Beloit Street
Emil Braneninger
Kidd
Annie Smith
South Elgin Street
Emil Beckstein
Harlem Avenue
Washington Boulevard
Forest Home
Waldheim
Roos & Schrade
Harlem Bank
Adv
Alexander Stuart
Atlanta
James French
King
Norton’s
Fifth Avenue Grounds
Sadie Copeland
Sixth Avenue North
J. L. Otis
J. F. Hemenway
Greenwood Camp
British Columbia
Proviso Land Association
St. Charles
Nineteenth Avenues
Ilinois Cycling Club
Board of Education
Lawson
Michigan University
Chicago University
Eighth Avenue
Joe O'Hare
Fred Tracy
Miss Smythe
Miss Townsend
Swedish Singing Society of
Melrose Park
Maywood Presbyterian Church
Hilton
Wing
Adams
Rodger
Henry Licht
Harlem Maennerchor
Wm. Schoen
Concordia Cemetery
Twenty-fourth Illinois
Sheridan and Kilpatrick
Library Hall
Thatcher’s Woods
Harlem Public Schools
Board of Education of
Father Dunn
Cinch Pleasure Club
Gaden’s Grove
Madison and
Desplaines Avenue
Calvary Mission
Conrad Knudson
Albert Swanson
Second Baptist Church of Chicago
Harlem Woman's Club
Congregational Church
Chicago Commons
Hull -House
Fair Oaks Grove
E. Lindberg
Marion
Gak Park
F. Simmons
W. Cake Street
I. R. Richton
Mgr
First Church of Christ (Scientist
Avenue Hall
Jesus
Steiner Block
Marion and Lake
OAK Park Tailoring CO
North Blvd
Oak Perk
W.H. Drechsler
August Terneak & CO
Oak Park, Ill
Nicholas Armbrust
Daw Park
Oxford Bldg
la Salle
W. A. Bunge
Hugh Gair
Magee
Gookins & Wilsnach
Wilsnach
Chicago Opthalamic College
Chas. Loheit
Avrena
Mrs. Carmichael
Ems
Rae
Chas
P. Miller
Vak Park
Marion Street
Bell
T. G. Irving
Jobbling
Ake Street
Bivll Forest
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