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Telephone '17 Too 1 LI.“ k The guests entertained at dinners given by Mrs. Yoe, Mrs. Brown 3and Mrs. Chapman were: Misses P9018, ‘7 Day, Cnrutbers, Hosmer, Greeley, A Bush,Dana, Ayer. Messrs: Cary, Remington, Miller, Noreose, Hender- After these more formal exercises there was dancing till the small hours and all went home having bada most delightful evening. Out of the Fourth who went to the front there were twenty-nix members of the Red Men, twonty-nine K. P’s, and forty-one Odd Fellowa. Some belonged to two or all of the orders so all told there were seventy-Si; in- dividual members of the fraternal orders at the front. But one oftvtbe seventy-six died while about thirty are now in the hospitals in various parts of the country. as ‘A short address was also ‘made by Judge Snell,of Chicago, who although dwelling a great deal upon the bene- ficial results of fraternal orders. more especially directed his remarks to- wards the ladies. He praised them over and over again for their great work in all lines and endeavored to thoroughly impress the men vyith their importance. Grand Representative Schwartz and James Starr were there from the Banner Lodge, while Waukegan sent some sixty representativos and many went up from this city, Evanston and all the North Shore towns and some even from Chicago. 5 President Hogan, as usual, did all in his power as chief official of the city, to see that the guests were hand- somely entertained. The prettiest dance of the season was the German at the Highland Park Club, given by the Misses Brown. Chapman, Boulton and Van Schaich. on Thursday evening. The dance was in honor of Miss Whitenide of Boston a guest of the Misses Brown and Miss Brookunier of Virginia, 8 guest of the Misses Yoe. The german was led by Mr. Clarence Chapman. The Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, Red Hen Ind Daughters of Rebekka of Highwood gave a re. caption to their comrades at the Fort who participated in the late war in Cuba. may met at the several halls and wenLower to the Sheridan Park pavilion. after the regular entertain- ment of the evening had closed, and held their exercises. C. T. Heydecker of ‘Vankegan, a member of all theselodges and many more. was present and delivered one of his patriotic and stirring speeches Judge Snell of Evanston spoke ad- mirably. The speeches ware fre- quently applauded and greatly en joyed. The rooms were beautifully decor- ated with autumn leaves. Johnny Hand furnished the music. ' 8011, Fisher. Lowe. Hubbard, K} y. Hamlin, Berlin Jr, and Mr. and £3 Thomas Dyer. _ A partial examination of Aldermarr Phillips’ newly built house revealed some very excellent features; his bike ment is well divided by solid brick walls, so there can be no sagging of sills; the main beam or girderE for supporting the lower floor joisté is a “091 girder. The dining room is large, Very light and airy But the '00“! Which takes our eye is the lib- VOL IV. GRAND Racer-non AT THE CLUB. A 0000 HOME. The Highland Park N ews. “Some fifteen years ago eastern railroads had adopted _ the summer excursion as a feature of their‘ busi~ ness. A year_or two after locating here, I went to the general ticket agent of the Northwestern with a proposition looking tothe same thing here, and he scouted the idea. But he has been succeeded by a younger man, and the excursion business is a regular part of the traflic. It seldom starts one in Chicago, but going out 10 or 15 miles into the suburbs. and then along a stretch of country say 40 miles, making one uniform low rate for the roundtrip. Thutbeooe to Madison, Wis, a few weeks agoâ€"â€" the average distance to the capital of Badgertown was 150 miles. making a total round trip of 280 miles. and the fare was only $1.50. and it was the same from any station along the “excursion belt." The train leftafter breakfast, reached Madison for din- ner and remained till night and home an hour before midnight. How much money they make out of it I don’t know: they had probably two hund red and fifty cash paying passengers that day, seven coaches and, a bag- gage car, into which the excursionists put their lunch baskets, bicycles and any other traps. There is no post- ponement on account of the weather, and the managers are very strict in seeing that every passenger has a seat and then he can stand up if helikes. THE NORTHWESTERN. Here is what the Chicago corres- pondent of the Springfield. (Mass) Republican, says of our great and good Northwestern railway company and its excursions. “'8 wish to add, he has a very su» perior poultry house. not so large and elaborate as some, but very superior for his two score hens. rary, north of dining room. The win- dows are half depth, set high in the wall so all the light comes in over your head and shoulders as you sit on a broad, easy. stationery divan. with a big open grate on the other side of the room. We forgot to say there is a magnificent. big. deep fire place in the dining room; but the library invites to repose. ease and study. The parlors are large, the hell up to date, and the porch is superb. wide', long and roomy. \Ve congratulate Mr. Phillips on his ideal home. These trains make extraordinary good time. for the road bed is perfect, double tracked to Milwaukee and rock ballaeted all the way. They used to say no one could get a posi tion on the Burlington road who was not a Harvard graduate; even the office boy must be able to scan Vir- gil and interpret the Vedas. Another tradition, based on facts by the way; is that the Chicago and Milwaukee division is the “crack" division of the Northwestern system, and when east- ern or European railway magnates come here to see the system. they hitch up a special of parlor coaches and the “Minnesota” dining car with "Billy,” whom President Hughitt brought West a few years ago from the Grand Union at Saratoga as chef and make a trip to thé Cream City. The grades are light, the curves few, and one of their high speed passen- ger moguls will cover those 85 miles ina very short time. Be all this as it may, these excursions are models. I did not see a drop of. beer from start to finish: no one the worse for liquor and not an obscene or profane ivord." HIGHLAND PARK. ILL. SEPTEMBER 30 1898 Thomas McCraren was born in Ireland. about 1820. and came to this country in 1840, landing at Quebec and making his way thence to Burlington, Vermont. where he hired to a neighbor of Mr. Van Sicklen, working for $8.00 per month, for three months. July. August and September. His em- ployer would go into the field, throw off his hat. boots and socks. and work his farm bareheaded and with bare feet. he set Mr. Me- Craren at hoeing corn, work he did not understand, and charged him particularly to cut up all the weeds. which he ilid including the young pumpkins. The other farm help were mostly Canadian French. The work was so hard and new to him that at the end oftwodays he quit. leaving his wages unpaid. and went down to Shelburne. the next town south, where his young wife found a home in the familyof Ezra Meech. the most noted fam- ily in that country. There he met a Mr. Barton of Charlotte. the second town south of Burlington and hired to him. Afterwards he worked on Shelburn Point. in a brick yard. and on a farm some five years; when his employer vis- ited Galena, Ill, and told him such stories of these western prairies that he came here in 1847. He and his mph“, Job-gloomy, Went to work on some land near the new Mooney brick yard and got lost in the brush trying to go home. After spending some time here and using up his little capital. with only ten cents in his pocket he walked to Chicago. got a job in the tunnery of Mr. Gurnee. the man who used to own all Highâ€" land Park. and some besides. ()3 and on. he worked in that (‘hieago tannery twenty years. scraping hides. hence his stooping form. Subsequently he got the farm where he now lives. west of the slough, 185 acres and has secured quite a handsome little fortune. \Vhen he caine here there were no roads. only wagon tracks through the timber. one through the Park and another out west both from Chicago to Milwaukee. and when the nits got too deep in one place. they would clear the brush and make a new road. on one side or the other of the old one. Someone built a pier and laid out a little town up north, just into the military reservation. and named it St Johns. A small schooner ran thence to Chicago and carried wood which the set. tlers sold for $1.00 a cord up on the St Johns pier“ Mr. Monahan opened a little store at St Johns so these pioneers. like Mr. Me- Craren, when they sold their load of wood for a dollar, could lay in a supply of tea and tobacco. print for wife's dress and a pound or two of brown, and not over clean Muscovado sugar. After working in the taunery three or four years and getting a little money ahead, Mr. Mchren would come out here on his land and farm it till his money was LOCAL REHINISCENCES. Mr. McCraren in about 77 years iold and moat of these years he has given to hard manual labor. and if 'there is a working man in this town '0! Deerfield, thlt mania Thomas Mo. lCraren. He married when he was i 18 yearn uld. or about a year behin- {he came to this country. He has :been married three times. and can [tell more iuterefiliug nuirim of early :Highland Park than any man we : have hoard yet. Last Sunday morning was the opening of rally week at the Presby~ teriun church and Pastor Planetiehl delivered an unusually able and prac- tical sermon on real eflective and lC‘hristlike service. the last half only iwe heard. Ht‘ noticed the fact that :the bulk of our popular Christian lactivitiee ol the day were performed lhy proxy. People give so much mon- toy to the church or some society and {say “There is my money, use it for ithe best good." and go about their 1 men handise. their yokes of oxen etc. lBut that is not the way: there must ; be personal touch and oontactand he linstanced so many cases like Glad- stone. the Earl of Shaftesbury and others who went lwr‘wnally among Ithe sick and poor and fallen and sought their salvation. The sermon had the true tone and went straight lto the mark. l ‘ull gone, and then he would go lback to the tnnnery again for a item of m. In that way hegot ihit; farm into shape and improwd lfor permanent (xcupancy. He sells lots of wood now. Tln' Park ythen was a howling wilderness. [saw horn and the‘l’f‘ a shanty; the population was chiefly old bachelors. and very migratory at that. Can-l- ly a shanty. perhaps 12 feet square. i was owned and occupied by two men. {who ate their meals and slept in it. land an they kept a pig or um. Ind lperhaps as many cows. thv pigs gen- lerally kept house during the day. lwhile the men view out on thnir lfarm. tilling the‘llud or chopping All the merchants and trades people of all kinds in Antioch, ad- vertise in their local paper and consequently they sell goods won- derfully M. A. thc‘olootric can; don’t go toAntiocb we give you a few prices. It is advertising that makes goods cheap W'aulte- gan has three weekly. one \er} weakly. two daily papers; one steamboat line , steam and electric cars: her business men all adver. tise. and those who don't fail. and they sell goods up there as cheap as dirt. that is some kinds of dirt. But here are those Antioch prices who ever saw the like. because their merchants advertise. Starch. per pound,‘~ - ,(IR ltlhars of Family Soapâ€" - 27) Mustard Sardines. per box.- (to Best Ginger Snaps, per lb. . (Hi Soda (‘raclters - - . (Ni (‘orn Starch- . . . (l4 Ankoria Coffee. - . 12 Arm and Hammar Soda- . 00') Best ()veralls < - - 3‘.) Corduroy Pants - - JAN) Cottonade l’ants - . 032' Ladies” Rilnlicd l'ndcrw ear - l7 wood as all the timber mm public prupen). cu; where and much none liked. The house was Very elaborately RALLY WEEK. SEE HERE. 06 (DO) 1 t-t est of the fight “'heu you think of a thousand young men. like him. mostly clerks or in business in doors with comfortable homes and all the “modern conveniences" of life. socie- ty. lnoks. culture and refinement. transplanted at once. in the. twink ling of an eye as it were, into a mil- itary camp. into tents and sleeping on the ground and with army cook- ing and mnveuienees. and the won- ‘der is not that some of the boys fell sick. but rather that nomany of them escaped. “'e know the vitality and energy, the surplus of life's forces .nnd the rebound will go a great way ‘to tide 0‘ er these dangers. but there Mm even to youthful vitality. Mr. Jennings Went first toSpring- field where the regiment was in camp in few weeks. incoming inursd to army life. and when M m gettingtli'lo ordir. fin be down to Chicksmsugu, for not“ term of a month or so. where the camp was destitute of a good water 1supply. so they had to go a mile and a half for all their water for drinking mnd culinary purtvses and as he said ' “When you come to cook and care for a company of l‘ZUmen, the bring- ing of all water that distanceboooxnes Immethiug of a job." After they got settled down and into shape their food supplies Were fairly good. and they always had plenty of hard tack land bacon. But when he puts the “wet face on it all for he is not a chronic croaker or grutnhler,-- it was hard and wore silently and stealthily into his strength From (‘hicka- mauga they Went toTanipa for a few M‘eeks and thence to (Volta. for San- tiago. Leming the knap sacks and ‘ blankets in camp. they were marched into the trenches with loaded ammu- ‘nition belts filled and there remain- ed for some time. four hours in the 1trenches and eight 03 in the bushes. lw ith bullets “histling over their ‘heads all the time, with frequent ,visits of shrieking shells to reliete the monotony. Much of the time in {the trenches it rained and they stood ethane hours in water half wayto‘their knees in mud and water and then lwith no change of apparel or shelter lor hush to sleep and rest in all their 1 set clothes as best they could. l l l The pastor and his people are making careful, thorough prepari- tion for I fruiflul winter" work and we devoutly hope they will not be diuppoinwd. We dropped in yeotnrdlyto-pond a half hour with John H. Jenningl who came home from the war a lei days ago. He shows the wear Ind (eat of the campaigu.thougb his rogi~ men! was not in the first and hard- Now is it any wonder he became sick, two weeks later. with fever and malaria everywhere. The wonder is that he is alive. From Cubs he went to Montauk thence toahospital in Brooklyn and thence to Chicago on the hospital train in charge of Chicago physicians and nurses, snd than home. He is weak. but is doing Well, under tender home treatment. But he says he would not give up his experience, though he wants no more of it. A half hours talk with him makes one feel the eoslff and meaning of war as we “stay-at-home rangers" had not realized it befor'é. decorated with sheafn of grain and stacks of com just as they came from the fialds. a sort of bone oflering befom the Lord. Some one has a gran! deal of patience and willing- ness to Work. WHAT WAR MARS. NO 18.