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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1898
Page
2
Election hype fills the Austin Vindicator with notices about registration day March 22 and primaries March 18. Citizens urged to vote, register, and back practical legislation while addressing local issues from street conditions to city governance.
A new feminine poet from near Twelfth Street in Austin sent a touching no try on the Maine disaster to the Chicago Evening Journal. The Journal will print any old thing, but Cicero advances and patriotism is discounted in towns of our size.
A rallying voice asks candidates for office in Sicero to unite and form a regiment to oppose the Spaniards. The plea aims to reassure timorous townsfolk fearing a clash with the Don and emphasizes that these candidates are natural fighters ready to defend the country.
Mrs Hi Rocklidge hosted a Monday luncheon at her sister Mrs Whitlock’s home with Windemere guests. The Few Friends met Mrs Bassett for an eleven, and Mrs Kress hosted a private euchre at Howard Ave. Beethoven Club meets at Beeson residence. A progressive luncheon featured Mrs Denniston, Mrs Baker, Mrs Whitlock, and others serving courses as guests and hostesses. More luncheons followed at Hood and Craft homes with euchre for twenty six.
The text extols unyielding defense and bloodless endurance as defining soldiers. It contrasts bold courage with a chaotic slate of candidates, calling the current field a confusing condition not conducive to clear thought.
The towns name H H Robertson at Austin and W A Hutchinson at Oak Park as new postmasters. Both appointments are praised as creditable and capable. Austin pays 2100 dollars and Oak Park 2300 dollars annually. The paper expects improved service and more carriers under the new officials.
A Western paper recalls an epoch in Montana mining camps with no money or credit. Prices of food rose as a de facto medium, with matches bought for a watermelon and muskmelons received as change. Sidelined by barter, a man used turnips for suspenders and carrots as change. Potatoes and onions paid for party entry and post event exits, illustrating barter currency in a harsh frontier economy.
The Abyssinian alphabet contains 208 distinct characters. The Sandwich Islands have 12 letters, Burmese 19, Italian 20, Bengalese 21, Hebrew Syrian Chaldee and Samaritan 22, Greek 24, Latin 25, German Dutch and English 26, Spanish Slavonic 27, Arabian 28, Persian and Coptic 82, Georgian 85, Armenian 88, Russian 44, Old Musroyvite 43, Sanscrit and other Oriental scripts 50 each, Ethiopian and Tartarian 202.
A Wednesday evening lightning flash caused about fifty Cicero telephone instruments to stop working. The company replaced fuses the next day with no further loss. Subscribes were unaware of the outage until they tried to ring a call.
The spring term expiry names are J. Se. Cleveland and S. S. Rogers not Mr. Moore. The annual meeting to hear the president's report and nominate candidates for president and two board members will be Tuesday evening March 29.
A fragmented notice states Barr & Collins will sell twelve inch boards cut from ends in front of their office at Lake and Marion streets for 1.75 dollars each.
Funeral notices for Mrs. W. A. Douglass of Coronado California at 417 North Kenilworth avenue with burial at Forest Home. Also notices for Frank Garbers widow of J. W. Senne age 44. August Karsten of Harlem. Christian F. Oldenberg of Harlem age about 86. and Mrs D E Ellis dying March 4 at 418 North Central avenue and to be buried in Belvidere.
The River Forest Woman's Club held a Tuesday afternoon election to choose officers. Elected were Mrs. Thos. L. Jackson president, Mrs. James Goodman first vice president, Mrs. Anna Titus second vice president, Mrs. Gee L. Towendsen secretary, Mrs. John Hoitt recording secretary, and Mrs. Anna Collins treasurer.
Town items report Mrs I Hiller returning home from Stroudsburg after seven weeks with daughter in law, plus J W Strackbein selling hydrants to Cleveland for $45,000. Local changes include C P Randall family moving to Denver, W G Lloyd and M T Lyons returning from the Pacific coast, and J Lowey house relocation to Cedar Street. Also notices of mail schedules, dressmaking, cleaning services, lawn seed, and a quiet wedding of Louis M Thompson and Marguerite Halth in Chicago.
Mr James Jones of Jones and Son Cowden declares his wife nearly died from la grippe evolving to consumption. After using Dr King’s New Discovery she improved from the first dose and healed after several bottles. Free trials at Lovell’s and Traill’s drug stores.
A meeting at the office car PL outlines forming a new Austin tennis club with eight to ten turf and city courts and a shelter. Many notable Phivers signaled intent to join and an invitation tournament is planned for summer.
The Vindicator offers 1 cent a word rates for ads with free one insertion for help wanted notices. It promotes wide reach as Cicero’s largest paid circulation paper and lists sale points and news depots across Austin and Oak Park.
Real estate transfers listed across Austin and Oak Park include C Ehminger to B B Bell on Austinville and Austins additions, L A Norris to TD O Jones, S Dunlop to JL T Smith, David N Elanson and wife to Oliver M Garson, J H McGill to R A Perkins, J K Baldwin to B D Colby, and March transfers in Berwyn and La Vergne. Advertisements offer stores on South Boulevard, apartments, flats, offices in Masonic Hall and Abbott Block, and numerous rental homes with steam heat. hiring notices and local sales sections accompany the real estate page.
Wants a nine room house for one or more years in central Austin for a small family of good care. Respond to C. Groscurth at 96 Lake Street Chicago.
A pair of gold spectacles was found on Park avenue Wednesday. The owner may claim by visiting G. B. Cogdal's and paying for the advertisement to recover the property.
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