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Newspaper
Oak Park Vindicator
Location
Oak Park, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1898
Page
2
The passage notes Cicero’s hesitation to join Chicago, contrasting with Austin. It cites a misquote of Rev. J. F. Bartlett on Hawthorne racing and reports the pastor’s view that racing can be halted. Trustees work six nights weekly for a year, triggering talk of annexation and ongoing vigilance.
President H A Emerson presented a significant communication urging expense cuts. He argued no town officer on stated salary should receive extra pay for legally defined duties and called for recovery of excess funds drawn by the town clerk assessor and supervisor. He asked finances to halt bills for trustees services as the law caps at 140 dollars annually.
Oak Park defeated Proviso Land Association 5 to 2 on Saturday. Neither team scored until the fifth inning when Oak Park took the lead and held it. Pitchers Roach and Bassett impressed. Captain Kennedy of Chicago University played first base for Oak Park and was ousted in the fourth. Sullivan of Proviso made a sensational running foul catch and a quick long throw to catcher Kennedy.
The remains of William Lemke of Harlem and Company C Second Princis volunteers will be brought home tomorrow. He died at the Jacksonville Florida army camp of typhoid fever at eighteen after working for Warder Bros. before enlistment. Funeral services will be Sunday afternoon with interment at Forest Home cemetery.
Stockholders met Monday to elect a seven member board M J C Isgrig A J Strum K E Munsinger K E Y Robinson W G Davis W O Cline and Bern P L Biggs. The year end report shows a strong showing with growing popularity and rising phone demand noting 215 phones in use.
Charles F. Dreschler announces a removal sale as he closes his Lake Street store next to Masonic Hall. He will move to a new building by January 1 to focus on undertaking and storage, selling his entire furniture stock regardless of cost before removal.
The notice offers a general salve claimed to heal cuts bruises sores and skin eruptions including piles with a money back guarantee. Sold by Lovett & Traill in Austin.
Mails arrive from the east and west with set times. The new engine house will be at 125 N Waller avenue. Residents report travels and visits including Lake Marie Delavan Marietta Ohio and Ireland. Local events include a Moonlight excursion, a Masonic hall repair, new dry goods store plans, and a city dance at Lake Geneva. News covers arrests reinstate officers and residents’ updates.
Oak Park notes advertise Moth balls at 10c a pound and Home Bakery bread at local grocers. Property inquiries go to I. D. Cogswell at 111 Marion. A birth is recorded at 126 Harlem avenue, a girl born Sept 3. Unclaimed post office letters list numerous names. Navy service updates mention Oak Park youths aboard Fern Indiana Montgomery Hawk and Herrick with Cuba combat memories. Oak Park newsdealer W W Oaks offers book covers with school books.
Tickets on sale for trains leaving Chicago September 16 through 18 at 19 dollars round trip with return until September 30. Also cheap rates to all East points. Vestibuled sleeping cars to Boston and solid trains to New York. Rates lower than competing lines. For information contact J Y Callahan General Agent 111 Adams Street Chicago.
Classified advertisement note offering one cent a word float insertions with special monthly rates. Promotes large Cicero paper circulation and free help wanted notices per insertion.
Notice of a $26.00 round trip to Boston on the certificate plan via Nickel Plate Road. Issued in connection with the Street Railway Association of America meeting, to be held September 6 to 9, 1898. Inquiries directed to J. Y. Calahan at 111 Adams St Chicago Depot Van Buren Street Passenger Station on the Loop.
Carl Kellogg died Sunday after a short illness at his parents home on Willow Avenue. Rev. M. W. Satterfield conducted services and he was laid to Forest Hlame cemetery. Kellogg, popular with many friends, worked in Maywood for the Provyvn o Land association. Neighbors contributed for a cemetery dot and monument. The funeral was well attended and the family shared widespread sympathy.
Nickel Plate Road offers round trip tickets to Boston Massachusetts at one third fare on certificate plan for the Street Railway Association of America meeting September 6 4. Two through trains daily provide service comparable to any line. J Y Callahan 111 Adams St Chicago will supply sale dates and information from Depot Van Buren Street Station Loop.
Property listings detail two modern eight and nine room houses on South Pine and cottage on South Willow with 60 foot lot, two cottages on North Central with desirable lots, two elegant houses on South Prairie, a North Austin lot, farm lands in Illinois and Nebraska, and a creamery bargain in Sycamore HL. Also eight room rental on South Pine with gas range and carpets for 25 dollars monthly. contact Rena S. Tuthill at 428 North Central Avenue Austin JH.
Mrs. R S Rogers of 817 North Robinson Avenue will start a sewing school at her home this Saturday September 10. Special classes for small children Saturday at 2 pm and for misses Tuesday at 2 pm. All kinds of sewing taught with styles direct from London. Terms five cents per day? 25 cents per week or 1 per month pupils must bring own material.
The Austin Fair at 218 N Park Avenue offers to furnish servants and help of any kind on short notice. Call for service. Terms are 50 cents. Proprietor Co M Burdick announces the service.
The Town of Cicero invites sealed duplicate proposals for building a fire engine house within two blocks of Town Hall in Austin. Proposals due 7 30 p m September 16 1898 with 10 percent bid bond. The Board may reject any or all bids. J R Drent Town Clerk Austin Ill Sept 7 1898.
A collection of humorous maxims and paradoxes offered in a punchy, rhymed style. Each quip links common sense with irony, highlighting social quirks and contradictions in everyday life through pithy one liners. The lines blend wry observations about money, appearances, fortune, and human behavior.
The advertisement claims Electric Bitters restore tired gut nerves and vigor. It says the vegetable medicine tones nerve centers in the stomach, stimulates liver and kidneys, purifies blood, and improves appetite and digestion. Sold at Lovett & Trail's Drugstore in Austin for 50 cents or one dollar.
Original to the Town Clerk and duplicate to the President of the Town invite bids for cement walks in the east half of Section 8 and west half of Section 9 in Cicero Town. Payments from Special Assessments. Bids due September 18 1898 by 7 30 p m. with a $100 certified check.
Travelers may ride the Nickel Plate Road to Boston from September 16 to 18 for $19 round trip with return allowed through September 30, 1898. Tickets available at agent desks and special excursion trains will operate on the dates.
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