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Newspaper

Oak Park Vindicator

Location

Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Sep 08, 1899

Page

5

NEWS OF THE TOWN

Biographical items list residents traveling and returning from trips or visiting relatives across Wisconsin Illinois and Michigan. Notes mention church calls hunting trips school attendance medical updates and local social outings among Austin area families and visitors.

Corner Stone Laid for Austin Methodist Church Edifice

The Austin Methodist Episcopal Church held a 2:30 p.m. corner stone ceremony with sermons prayers and a list of project materials. Ground breaking occurred in 1871 and the current building plan cites a $23,000 initial subscription toward a total estimated cost near $37,000 with a 400 member local church roster by 1899.

Abel M. White Brother Marsh Our Society S. R. Badgley Cleveland Ohio Johnson Earle Austin W. J. Herring Downers Grove Ill Andrew Lindsay

Oaks Club to Add Bowling Alley and Redevelop Clubhouse

The Oaks Club will break ground next week for a new bowling alley and the clubhouse will be redecorated before the October opening. Prof. Peak will direct dancing classes. The club has about forty new members and expects to hit the limit by October 1.

Oaks Club Peak

Kindergarten at Oak Park Opens October Second

A kindergarten will open Monday October 2 at the residence of Mrs Frank Wright at the corner of Forest and Chicago avenues. For terms and other details contact Miss Kate Gerts 333 Lake Street. Tenement life is full of flat contradictions.

Frank Wright Corner Forest Chicago Avenues Kate Gerts Lake’ Street

Scoville Institute Library Notes Highlights

Apprentices begin Monday September 11 with four young ladies. Miss Marvin visits with fifteen library science students from Madison. Fall and winter announcements include many novels to be dramatized such as When Knighthood Was in Flower and A Tale of Two Cities. Reproductions of E A Burbank Indian portraits on display in the children's room are noted for accuracy and educational value with several Indian curios loaned for a time.

Marvin Madison Major Burbank Far West

Sylvan Beach crowd returning from Michigan resort

Austin visitors to Sylvan Beach Michigan came back refreshed and loud in praise of the resort. Mr A C Collings visited last week bought two lots and plans a $2500 cottage next year. The group includes the Pillingers and their families.

Austin Sylvan Beach Mich A. C. Collings Pillingers

Methodist Church Trustees Elected at Annual Meeting

At the annual meeting held September 6, the following gentlemen were elected trustees for one year W R Millholland H S Date F H Zander J H Kemper G W Smith Edward Ladd A H Clement S H Brooks C W Dunfee.

Our S. M. Merrill D. D LL. D C. E. Mandeville Chicago Northern District Abel M. White L. K. Whitcomb Andrew Lindsay Date S. H. Brooke F. H. Zander Russell Hall N. V. Waugh Frank Honeywell S. H. Bolton H. Brooke H. S. Date Howard Ladd A. H. Clement A. E. Hawes Epworth Mission Epworth lLeague David S. Mamy R. Ladd F. H. Niger George H. Smith Feaing W. K. Millholland F. E. Pray Charles H. Burkholder H. A. Emerson Louis K. Whitcomb The Methodist Church W. R. Millholland J. H. Kemper G. W. Smith Edward Ladd H. Brooks C. W. Dunfee

Cicero Town Board Holds Sept 4 1899 Meeting in Austin

Cicero Town Board meets at Town Hall in Austin on Sept 4 1899. President Lewis and seven trustees present. no absentees. Resignation of Sanitary Commissioner Louis Didier accepted. Water company requests arc lamps substitute. terms noted. Cattle grazing near residences declared public nuisance. Minutes from Aug 14 approved. Various reports referred to committees.

Board of Trustees Town of Cicero Austin Lewis Attridge Frink Hafner Linn MacDonald Traill Utley Louis Didier C. J. Linden Berwyn Thirty-third Wood & Oakley Cicero Water, Gas and Electric Company Philadelphia Yeas James A. Martin

Local notes of travel and events from Maywood area

News briefs list residents traveling to Mackinac Island Hopkins Iowa New York City and Montreal engagements marriages and social events. Local families visit relatives move to new jobs and plans for a Maywood bank receive initial interest and public attention.

W. F. Haffner Gale Avenue Twin Lakes E. J. McAdams Keystone Avenue Mackinac Island L. E. Moore New York Richard Marble Grove Street Hopkins Iowa Lenox College

Club women plan first meeting of year on Sept 18

Nearly all members stay at home awaiting the club year start with a Monday gathering at 2 o'clock. The program, led by the music art and literature department chaired by Nelly H. Abbott, features talks on The Short Story by Maud K Alden, The Historical Novel by Charlotte M Burras, and Some Phases of American Literature by Nelly H Abbott.

Nelly H. Abbott Maud K. ‘Alden Charlotte M. Burras

Harlem News Roundup Returns and Local Events

Mr B Meain returns from a Wisconsin hunting trip. Albert Roose comes back from a Lake Delavan vacation. Dr Hemmingway and family depart for Waloon week long trip. Edward Owen the librarian returns from an Iowa bicycle tour. Woman's Club opens season at Harlem Library Hall. Herman Lake and Tillie Klanofsky wed at 2:30 PM Sunday in the Roman Catholic Church.

B. Meain Wisconsin Albert Roose Lake Delavan Wis Hemmingway Waloon Edward Owen Iowa Woman's Club Harlem ‘Library Herman Lake Tillie Klanofsky Father Dunn

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