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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1901
Page
7
Full service decorating and paper hanging including burlaps tints crepes tapestries and more. Call or write. First class work at low prices. SCHULZ & PHTERS Lake Avenue and Jackson Street River Forest Mil.
The column lists residents and visitors in Oak Park including Mrs. Frederick Nfiés from Grand Rapids returning home, Mr. Luther Alter seeking treatment in Peoria, and Miss Kate Condon returning from opera tours. It covers engagements, bridal party entertainments, theater outings, summer apartment bookings, and club gatherings with names and addresses across North Scoville, South East, Euclid, Taylor, and Elmwood avenues.
Postmaster Howard Robertson moves into a house on Ontario street recently purchased from P. W. Castle. Local happenings include the Badger-Hilton bridal party dinner, travel to the Pan-American Exposition, and lectures by Swedish-American and Soul Culture Club leaders. Miss Emma Noyes speaks on thought power. Miss Hattie Alling returns from Japan. Lucille Badger and Richard Hilton announce a May wedding. A. W. Casa and wife celebrate their twentieth anniversary with a large gathering featuring performances by local talents.
On Monday evening May 20 the fifth annual symphony concert by the Austin Philharmonic Club will be held in Library Hall. The 35-member group features soloists Miss Francisca Falk soprano Miss Edna Earl Crum violinist and William Kennard Barradell baritone.
The Beethoven Club holds its fourth annual May festival on Friday May 31 1901 at Library Hall. The program features club chorus mixed voices and the ladies chorus with forty voices plus works by prominent members. Guests include soprano Mrs Lolo Gailey Chace tenor Frank A Collins pianist F W Metz and renowned artists Jan van Ordt violin and Franz Wagner cello. Van Ordt a Hague Conservatoire graduate and pupil of Cesar Thompson is praised for his technique. Wagner is celebrated as a leading cello virtuoso.
On and after May 4, 1301 we move to the Calumet building at 189 La Salle street occupying the entire sixth floor. Our phone number remains Central 368 as before.
Vindicator items for 52d street and vicinity left at Justice Price's office will receive our attention.
Guaranteed first mortgages offered in amounts from 500 to 2500 dollars at 6 percent interest. Principal and interest guaranteed and payable in gold coin by Harlem Savings Bank located at 105 Madison St. Harlem Illinois.
A Boston Transcript note recalls a man in an electric car who paid three fares to stop the vehicle for a woman. He then threw an umbrella to a little gray whiskered man, angering both the whiskered man and the conductor who disliked the altruistic act.
A J Witt & Co Renting Agency invites inquiries for house or flat rentals at 118 North Oak Park Avenue.
Without commission by the school trustees oflcero Geo A Philbrick treasurer room 916 Stock Exchange building 108 La Salle street Chicago offers money to loan on real estate with no commission listed for the borrowing district or school entity.
Austin area churches announce sermons and services across denominations. Rev C E Lapp preaches on conscientiousness and Holiness topics. S M Chrisman returns at Five churches hold morning and evening services with listed pastors and events.
The Austin Swedish Lutheran Church notes the death of trustee Albert Wennerstrom of North Park avenue. He died April 28 and was buried May 1 at 2 pm from the corner Towar Street and Waller avenue church. Rev. J. N. Brandelle officiated. Wennerstrom, 39, left a wife and child and a brother in Washington. He was a devoted member and will be missed by many. May 5 Confirmations saw ten catechisms recited by Rev. Brandelle as a large audience filled the aisles with extra chairs and plants and palms decor.
In Iowa only a small socialist showing existed with Eugene Debs polling 1,643 votes statewide. Scott County residents cast 540 for Debs, including Davenport’s German community. Prohibitionist Woolley in Scott County earned 66 votes.
The Bond County Board of Supervisors switched control after a dice game, changing from Democratic to a Republican majority of one. The move alters local governance dynamics in the county.
A Chicago Journal opinion asserts labor and capital are not enemies and should remain allied for mutual benefit, urging friendship between workers and owners. The piece argues cooperation serves both sides' interests and benefits society.
The Philadelphia Sunday Item notes the Pawnee Bill's Historical Wild West opens its sixth week of a successful season. The shooting is remarkable and other features are exciting. Miss May Lillie is highlighted as a wonder.
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