News Of The Town Highlights Local Movements And Meetings
J C Lasson and family move today to Naperville Ill for farming. Mrs Bassett returns from Bloomington Ill. Several locals ill with grippe Measles affect a child at 5904 Ohio St Austin baseball team to play at Evanston Apr 16 Oak Park News includes church fund, club meetings, and new business ventures with multiple local figures and venues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Lasson
Naperville
Ill
C. E. Bassett
Bloomington, TH
Cicero Town Board pauses vote on city incorporation issue
Cicero trustees met March 4 1899 at town hall reviewing minutes finances and reports. They referred water and street projects to committees and directed bids for arc lights and water service work. A special election to decide incorporation as a city was ordered for April 4 1899 with notices to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Trustees
Town of
Cicero
Austin
Emerson
Gunthorp
Howell
MacDonald
Rearden
Traill
James A. Martin
T. N. Vallins
L. Brundage
N. Spofford
Fiftythird
Augusta Street
Thomas Jennison
North Central Avenue
Thomas Street
Jasner Street
Committee On Fire and Water
Walter D. Creighton
Creighton Court
John Lewis
H. D. Pierce
C. S. Pellet
John M. Roach
Chicago Consolidated Traction Company
Cicero and Proviso Street Railway Company
Ogden Street Railway Company
Cicero & Harlem Railway Company
Cicero and Harlem Railway Company
John Price
Committee On Finance
E. F. Brown
J. S. Warren
Charles Holm
Mathias Holm
J. H. Lofgran
Fred Stevens
Frank L. Race
Ontario Street
Central Avenue
Waller Avenue
Austin Boulevard
Twenty-second Street
Twelfth Street
Erie Street
Austin Avenue
Cicero Water, Gas and Electric Light Company
Maple Avenue
Lake Street
Taylor Avenue
Sixty-fourth Avenue
Bratt & Pruden
J. W. Barker
Twenty- Sixth Street
Risley Avenue
J. R. Drent
G. L. Deming
Berwin
Oak Park welcomes new pastor Dr Barton from Shawmut Church
Rev W E Barton D D arrives in Oak Park to lead First Congregational Church with his wife and family. A welcome address by Prof William B Chamberlain and a Te Deum by the church quartet open his reception and Sunday services. Installation program includes sermons, charges to pastor, and greetings from Shawmut Church and local clergy. A March 14 reception is planned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. E. Barton
D. D
First Congregational Church
Shawmut Congregational Church
Boston
Barton
William B. Chamberlain
Chicago Theological Seminary
Louis Falk
H. W. Stough
N. Boynton
Detroit
F. A. Noble
F. W. Fisk
Sydney Strong
E. D. Eaton
Shawmut Church
W. B. Chamberlain
J. W. Conley
Search Ostranders’ House in Austin Yields Plunder
Chicago detectives with warrants searched the Ostrander home on Waller avenue and Randolph street late yesterday. They recovered valuables hidden in floor joists, including gold plate silverware opera glasses and costly revolvers. The Ostranders, long in Austin and regarded as respectable, were reported by Chicago papers as church members a mistake. Mrs Ostrander belonged to the church and to the Woman's Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Austin
R. L. Ostrander
Waller Avenue
Randolph Street
Wallens
Ostranders
Ostrander
Presbyterian Church
East End Men's Club Supper and Entertainment
The East End Men's Club held a supper and program on March 7 at the Second Congregational Church. Mr Bicknell's $1,000 class of young ladies organized serving and decorations in red. The program featured piano and vocal solos, banjo performances, mandolin, duets, and encores, with the event raising about $30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East End
Second Congregational Church
Georgiella Lay
Chopin
Lewis Belknap
Emily Anthony
Dr. Metheven
Miss Lay
Messrs
Belknap
Schuehmann
Anna Merrill
Mr. Bicknell
Oak Park Magazine Club Meets For Kipling Talk
The Oak Park Magazine Club met March 6 at 129 South Scoville Avenue with good attendance. ER M Pratt read The Modern Newspaper and Kipling life and works were discussed. Mrs Tassett, Mrs Pringle and Miss Edith Cooke read Kipling prose and poetry including The Recessional and The White Man's Burden. The next meeting is set for March 20 to discuss Trusts Objections and Benefits if Any.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Magazine Club
F. W. Pringle
South Scoville Avenue
ER. M. Pratt
Pringle
Rudyard Kipling
Kipling
Musicale at Moreland Honors Minnie Watton Pupils
Friday evening March 3 at 2205 Huron street Miss Minnie Watton led a delightful musicale at the home of Mr and Mrs Watton. About fifty parents and friends attended with a quartet and solo numbers by Mrs Curts Miss Lillie Thorsen and others. The pupils performed piano and vocal pieces to general acclaim.
Local notices and social updates from Maywood period
Mr and Mrs Hubert Hall visit Hall family in Western Illinois. Several residents ill with grippe quinsy and colds. Mrs Stevens hosts sister from Aurora. Miss Willard at home to nurse mother. Lucid notes on visits, entertainments, society meetings, and local business plans across Maywood and Oak Park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs
Hubert Hall
Mr. Hall
Western
Illinois
Harry Scoville
North Ridgeland Avenue
Woodford
William Stevens
North Humphrey Avenue
Aurora
Helen Willard
Alfred Chamberlain
Harry McAvoy
Chicago
Robert Doughie
North Taylor Avenue
Kek
H. Pitkin
Pitkin
Wellsley College
Edgar N. Goodwichhe
North Lombard Avenue
Katherine Condon
John A. Drake
Kenwood
Ridgeland
Art Institute
Second Congregational Church Building Fund
F. W. Pringle
Scoville Avenue
Sydney Strong
Europe
England
Beleton
Franté
Woman's Benevolent Society
Jacob Bohlander
Mexico
Knights of Maccabees
St. Patrick’s
Maywood Hall
Starling
Oak Park
Baptist Church
Norton Bros
George Cameron
South Second Avenues
Angus Cameron
Denver
Colo
Roberts
Tenth Avenue
S. Berkowitz
Woman’s Club
Township of Proviso
Maywood Opera Hall
Mother Hubbard
Opera House
Maywood Dancing Club
Richard Day
5Th Avenue
Harvey
River Forest Notes Include Socials and Infrastructure
River Forest residents report Mona Dunne's scarlet fever and several local visits illness updates. A Friday reception, a Presbyterians Church social, and a Belles Lettres meeting are noted alongside plans for street car fare pressure and residents’ water meter ordinance requiring meters by May 1. Costs for water and meters are listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yerkes
Chicago Avenue
Thatcher Park
Crown
Worthington
River Forest
Gateman Charles Geitz Ends Life at Maywood Crossing
Charles Geitz, a gateman at the Fifth avenue Maywood crossing of the Northwestern Railroad, hanged himself early Saturday. His wife, calling him to breakfast, found his lifeless body suspended from a rafter. Authorities cite domestic troubles and sunstroke illness from two years ago as causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Geitz
Fifth Avenue
Maywood
Northwestern
Bigamist Arrested in Cicero Police Action
Ross B. Guthrie of Nashville Illinois was arrested by Cicero police on a warrant from the Logansport Indiana sheriff. Guthrie had reportedly been married multiple times, exceeding legal limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ross B. Guthrie
Nashville
Ill
Cicero
Logansport
Ind
Guthrie
Harlem notices and events briefed for community readers
Harlem community items detail upcoming events and local notes. The Dye Letters plan a masquerade at Thode's Hall March 25, Agassiz Club concert April 4 with Walker and Mead, and Easter concert by Harlem Mannerchor Society April 2 at Thode's Hall. Local deaths include Mrs. Louis Lobstein and Mrs. Bergman. Housing, theatre, and club activities fill the week with repairs and rehearsals noted. health updates cite Mrs. Sinn and Mrs. Hintze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harlem
Christ Sinn
Beloit Street
Thode’s Hall
George Lehman
Agassiz Club
Walker and Mead
Oak Park
Louis
Lobstein
Waldheim
Capt. Dreyfus
Gaden’s Hall
Herman Ziebell
Marengo Street
Madison Street
C. Behr
Bergman
Chris Bergman
Elm Street
Harlem Mannerchor Society
Thode's Hall
Fred Hintze
North Desplaines Avenue
Presbyterian Hospital
Chicago
Hemingway
Harlem News
Harlem Turnverein
Turnverein
Labor Men Visit Waldheim Graves In Chicago Ceremony
Journeymen Bakers and Confectioners International Union members in Chicago voted to visit the graves of anarchists at Waldheim cemetery. They carried flowers for decoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journeymen Bakers’ and Confectioners’ International Union In Convention
Chicago
Waldheim
New Telephone Exchange Opens in Austin on Lake Street
The Chicago Telephone Co began work this week with a crew of men wiring to connect to a new exchange on Lake Street Austin. Much wiring near the exchange will be underground and the company expects to install as many as 100 phones next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Telephone Co
Lake Street
Austin
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H. Traill
Trails & Cooling Prescription Druggists
Central Ave
South Boulevard
Northwestern Station
Kirk
News OF the Town
M. M. Merrick
South Park Avenue
Fred
George Yale
Shepard
Osgood Flats
Ontario‘street
T. J. Mapes
Faulkner
O. G. Furman
North Park Avenue
Clare Kimball
Ohio Street
Mary Stanley
Milwaukee
C. F. Bonney
Jay Freeman
California
Austin High
University of Illinois At
Evanston
Charlotte Mapes
Washington
Grand Rapids
Mich
W. F. Raymond
South Waller Avenue
Malcolm Love
Rockford
Flanders
Abbott Flats
Friends
Methodist Church
John Harper
Fifty-third Street
E. E. Roberts
William H. Condon
D. A. Hanson
S. B. Hopkins
M. A. Perce
L. K. Whitmore
G. D. Kendall
Batavia
S. H. Woodbury
Ruth Griswold
Augustus Griswold
Clara Wilson Kretzinger
Chicago Woman's Club
Soul Culture Club
C. Blanche Gould
Chicago Training School For Missions
J. A. Hammett
Baird Avenue
Studebaker
Kreitzinger
Austin Woman’s Club
D. D. Ward
Wood
A. Jackson
Wesley Avenue
Harlem Avenue
Oak Park Argun
Oak Park News
University of Iinois
Wells
Kenilworth Avenue
Pasadena
Cal
Association
Edith Conant
Geneva
Switzerland
Fimes-Herald
Westward Ho! Golf Club
Indiana Mineral Springs
Licenia Hilton
Hervey Booth
Clinton Avenue
Pleasant Street
J. E. Brown
Third Congregational Church
Dearborn Street
van Keuren
Oak Park Club
Nakama Club
Masonic Hall
T. J. Hymen
F. W. Wilcox
Ired Lee
Park House
Marion Street
L. S. Ingham
Garfield Park Sanitarium
Kenosha Sanitarium
Frank C. Smith
George B.woodward
South Euclid Avenue
Louisville
Fairbanks, Morse & Co
Woodward
Oak Park Orchestra
Robert Many
Banjo Club
Cicero Town Board
Ter
MacDonald, Rearden
OAK Park Magazine Club
Moreland
John Cortopassi
Italy
Judge Dunne
Mona
F. D. Thompson
Gale Avenue
John Barrett
North Lathrop Avenue
Village Hall
FF. D. Leonard
Keystone Avenue
Belles Lettres Jr. Society
Fred Smith
Thomas Beck
South Franklin
St. Paul
Northern Pacific Railway
NEW Telephone Exchange
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