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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1900
Page
6
Austin residents and visitors appear in this town column with updates on illnesses travels and social events. Entries mention Mr F A Hire Mrs Ruth Wallenburg Mrs K O Molony Mrs Silsbee and many others with moves birthdays and gatherings across Austin and nearby Wisconsin Illinois and Indiana.
Cicero town trustees meet at 122 North Oak Park Avenue with President Lewis and six trustees present. They approve minutes, receive multiple communications on scrap locomotives, franchise ordinance for railway, and Garfield avenue work. Reports and resolutions favor cement sidewalks, sewer and street improvements, and financial authorizations.
The Austin post office moves to shift a sub station to Chicago and retain Wai joni as superintendent. Free delivery will expand with more frequent mail from the east by rail cars, improving service for the public. The new superintendent salary will be 1800 dollars annually.
In Austin Bertie Finch killed his father at the Wisconsin Central station on Central avenue and Taylor street while defending his mother. The mother and sister fled with Bertie as the father lunged with a knife. Police arrived, the man lay dead, and the weapon and trio were taken to the station for inquiry.
The piece profiles Mr. HoN Norton as a popular Republican candidate for a three year trustee term in Cicero. It notes he is not a politician but well regarded by neighbors, a loyal domestic family man from Forest Avenue Oak Park, and a Chicago business figure trusted to lead large interests. Voters are urged to back Norton on April 3rd.
The Austin Woman's Club met on March 19 with Eve lyn Frake of the West End Woman's Club speaking on Domestic Science in the Public Schools. She cited progress in New York Chicago and urged access for all classes. Upcoming programs featured Napolean topics Empress Josephine and Les Miserables with lectures and a March 26 history meeting and April 9 music program. The article also notes Werchojansk Siberia as the coldest inhabited area with a daily mean 2.74 degrees below zero.
The coroner's jury exonerated a boy from all blame after an affair at a local station. The mother and sister were allowed to depart and the boy had station freedom until morning. George Finch, formerly a school janitor at the old Presbyterian Church, is described as a wife beater and drunkard.
Prof Hemington of Oak Park School of Music gave a piano recital Friday night March 16 in honor of pupils Miss Verona Pratt and Master Norman Baldwin assisted by Galil Martin the boy soprano from the Church of the Epiphany. Forty attended due to cold weather. The program featured choir selections performed by children nine summers old with excellent phrasing and technique. Both were presented with flowers and praise. Gotham joke and Yonkers Statesman quip follow.
Master Bliss falls ill as East End Euchre Club hosts Saturday gathering with Mrs. Shiffman. Miss Pratt visits at Mr. Brink’s Taylor Avenue home while Mrs. Cummings heads to Colo to visit son. Jennie Kinninment to wed William Tompkins at bride’s mother’s home April 10. Donation party at Second Congregational Church boosts a new kitchen. C Wright leaves Booth Packing to work in Davenport Iowa fish trade. Household moves planned for North Lombard Avenue residents Wright and Marshall. F J. away on business to Ann Arbor. Several residents travel and host gatherings around town. River Forest village approves a regular ordinance granting Chicago Telephone Company wires access. Hard Times Party by River Forest Fire Club proves lively. Woman’s Club inaugurates new officers with social hour and music.
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